Difference between revisions of "Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Help"

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The Lexicanum is a free encyclopaedia containing information related to Warhammer 40,000 and other game settings created by Games Workshop and its subsidiaries. The following articles provide information about using and contributing to the Lexicanum.

Quick reference guide

Practice and learn here: The Immaterium
Lexicanum Interface	Article writing	Images
User buttons - Overview of the user buttons in the top right of the page User pages - How to use the user pages Preferences - How to use the preferences page Watchlist - How to use the watchlist Contributions - How to use the contributions list Action buttons - Overview of the action buttons at the top of every article Navigation buttons - Overview of the navigation buttons on the left Navigation - How to use the navigation buttons Categories Recent changes Lexicanum wikis Community - Where the Lexicanum community hangs out Sister sites Search - How to use the search feature Tools - How to use the toolbox pages What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information to do most important tools to do Editing buttons - Overview of the editing buttons found when editing an article	to do General article structure - How a page should be structured in general. Categories/Categorisation - How are article structures arranged? Citations - How to correctly add sources and footnotes. to do Articles - Guides to how to write articles for the Lexicanum. to do On-line manual - A detailed reference guide to the Wiki coding language. to do Guidelines - Advice on the formatting of Lexicanum articles Content: Allowed content - Material and content allowed on the Lexicanum Forbidden content - Material and content not allowed on the Lexicanum to do Templates - Templates used for various articles on Lexicanum Redirects - How to decide when to use and how to implement a redirect Internal link External link	Image upload help - How to upload images to correct standards to do Image use help - How to use images once they are uploaded
		Users
		to do How can I contribute? - General ways to help the site Most wanted sources to do First steps - Great for beginners to do Second steps - Slightly more advanced information for beginners to do Tutorial - General assistance primarily on Wiki markup language to do FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions to do Helpful articles - List of all articles in the category Help. to do Lexicanum maintenance to do System image dump to do Online sources dump

Alphabetical quick reference guide

A

Abbreviations
Administrators
- Super-Administrators
Advanced search
Age of Sigmar wiki
API sandbox
Article structure:
- General article structure:
  - "See also" section (also known as "Further reading" section)
    - "Related articles" section
    - "Related products" section
  - "Trivia" section
  - "Sources" section
  - Article categories
Atom

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

Lexicanum:
- other Lexicanum wikis
Links:
Lists:
Login / create account
Logs:
- all public logs
- Block log
- Content model change log
- Deletion log
- Import log
- Interwiki table log
- Merge log
- Move log
- Patrol log
- Protection log
- Tag log
- Tag management log
- Upload log
- User creation log
- User rights log

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

Search
- Search for duplicate files
- Search and filter files by MIME type
"See also" section
Signature
Sister sites
Special characters (as in symbols/ letters)
Special pages tools
Sources:
- Accepted sources
- Conflicting sources
- How to source
- Most wanted sources
- Book sources (as in where to find them)
Statistics
- File/ media statistics
Super-Administrators
Sysops
System messages

T

U

Undelete pages
Upload an image or other file
- Upload log
"Normal" Users
User name
User account:
- Request account
- Log into account
- Create account (only for Administrators and Bureaucrats)
- User creation log
User rights log

V

W

X

Y

Z

To do

Alphabetical quick reference guide
Check and list special pages, attention to what pages are available to which user group

Other

Attention Adept of the LEXICANUM!

This article is being created or revised.
Please consider this before you edit this text!

To include somewhere

Overhauled:

To overhaul/ rewrite/ create/ fuse/ delete

Page history
Special pages
Main page
Community portal
disambiguation, use only Template: "ambiguous", not "otheruses"
upper and lower case problem/capitalization - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Spelling and grammar
where to include the thing about how names are sorted by their last names into categories?
Page move
Internet Archive
Sources section
Quotes section
Immaterium
elaborate on the difference between "lore" and product pages
Useful_Links and Category:Websites_and_Forums
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tables Help: could be useful
QuoteBox formatting
Warhammer_40k_-_Lexicanum:Codex_Lexicanum - will be created at the very end as a handy reference
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Contributing
Category:Lexicanum maintenance
Category:Format
Category:Template documentation
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:FAQ
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Galactic Map: Map not available for download anymore
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:General Article Structure
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:General disclaimer
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Getting started
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Guide to Article Writing
Warhammer_40k_-_Lexicanum:Guidelines --> will become Codex:Lexicanum
Lexicanum:Image Categories: this will be a nightmare.
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Image Use Help
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Image Upload Help
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Lead section: probably not needed.
Main Page
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Requested articles: Keep or kill?
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Spacecraft Article Design: uhhhmmm, I don't know where to stick this kind of stuff
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:First Steps: check for useful elements and delete.
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Second Steps: check for useful elements and delete.
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Stub
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial: check for useful elements and decide if to delete.
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 1)
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 2)
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 3)
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 4)
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 5)
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 6)
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 7)
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Vandalism
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User:Digganob/Index: Salvage useful items, then delete.

Items to include somewhere

Lists

Items for SPECIAL attention

Checked templates to include

Template:Dont Delete This Line (Immaterium)

Templates to check/ overhaul

Template:NoCat

This article lacks proper categorization.
For help on the subject please see the category guidelines.
You can help Lexicanum by fixing it.

Template:In-universe

This article mixes in-universe style and non-fictional perspective. Please rewrite it according to the to fiction or not to fiction guideline.

Template:Copyright infringement

This namespace contains material taken directly from a copyrighted source.
Please rewrite it in form of a summary in order to respect the GW Copyright. Failing to do so will result in a deletion of the article.

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 **[[Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Pages with the most categories|List of pages with biggest number of categories]]
 **[[Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Most transcluded pages|List of most used templates]]
+*[[Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Login / create account|Login / create account]]
 *[[Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Logs|Logs]]:
 **''all public logs''