User:RJFJR

Write to the target audience

• Audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or other people who are not familar with a topic. What is obvious and irrelevant to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear and important to a high-school student or someone who is thinking of returning to college. Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well. The lists make it accessible to a much broader audience. excerpted from a comment by an anon who signed his message: The Phantom Avenger for SE

Summary:

• K.I.S.S. - Keep It Sweet and Simple.
  • Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard)...
  • ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
• If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
• Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
• Eschew argot, technicality and cant.

Spelling/Grammar checking

'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

That and that I can't spell. I also can't capitalize, but that's a different matter.

Very useful wiki pages that I use a lot

• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Wikipedia:Glossary
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Cleanup resources Clean up templates

Cute

monthly statistics

'Evolution of Heavy Metal Umlaut' video

• techblog

Tools

User:Anomie/linkclassifier

With the default rules, a link to a redirect like foo will appear in green as foo, a link to a disambiguation page like bar will appear with a yellow background as bar, and all the pages in Category:Articles for deletion should appear in a pinkish color.