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[edit] What is a revert?

A revert, in this context, means undoing, in whole or in part, the actions of another editor or of other editors. This can include undoing edits to a page, deleting content or restoring deleted content, undoing page moves (sometimes called "move warring"), undoing administrative actions (sometimes called "wheel warring"), or recreating a page.

An editor does not have to perform the same revert on a page more than three times to breach this rule; all reverts made by an editor on a particular page within a 24 hour period are counted.

Exceptions

There are some exceptions to the three-revert rule; however, since edit warring is considered harmful, exceptions to the rule will be construed narrowly.

Reverting without edit warring

   * Consecutive reverts by the same user with no intervening edits by another user will be counted as one revert.
   * Reverting your own actions ("self-reverting") will not count as a revert.

Unwanted edits

The following edits are agreed to be unwanted and may be reverted without counting towards the 3RR.

   * Simple and obvious vandalism.
         o Simple vandalism constitutes edits which any well-intentioned user would immediately agree constitute vandalism, such as page blanking, adding bad language, etc.
         o Content changes, adding or removing tags, edits which are against consensus, and similar items are not exempt.
         o Other venues to report vandalism are Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
   * Addition of copyright violations or content violating the non-free content policy.
   * Addition of libelous material or biased, unsourced, or poorly sourced controversial material which breaches Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons.

Other exceptions

   * Reverts performed by a user within his or her own user page, user subpages, provided that such reverts do not restore copyright or non-free content criteria violations, libelous material or biased, unsourced, or poorly sourced controversial material about living persons.
   * Reverts to conform with community consensus on geographic names which fall within the scope of the Gdansk Vote.[2]
   * Undoing actions performed by banned users.

[edit] What generally should not be linked

In general, do not create links to:

   * Plain English words, including common units of measurement[2].
   * Subsidiary topics that result in red links (links that go nowhere) to articles that will never be created, such as the names of book chapters.
   * The same link multiple times, because redundant links clutter up the page and make future maintenance harder. It is not uncommon to repeat a link that had last appeared much earlier in the article, but there is hardly ever a reason to link the same term twice in the same section. (Table entries are an exception to this; in general each row of a table should be able to stand on its own).
   * Individual words when a phrase has its own article. For example, link to "the flag of Tokelau" instead of "the flag of Tokelau". Such a link is more likely to be interesting and helpful to the user, and almost certainly contains links to the more general terms, in this case, "flag" and "Tokelau".
   * A page that redirects back to the page the link is on. These circular redirects are frustrating to readers.
   * Words in a disambiguation entry other than to the disambiguation target itself. The general rule is "one link per entry" on a disambiguation page; additional links tend to confuse the reader.

What generally should be linked

In general, do create links to:

   * Relevant connections to the subject of another article that will help readers to understand the current article more fully (see the example below). This can include people, events and topics that already have an article or that clearly deserve one, as long as the link is relevant to the article in question.
   * References to a page with more information, e.g. "Relevant background can be found in Fourier series." Linking items in a list of examples makes them easier to reference as well.
   * Technical terms, unless they are fully defined in the article and do not have their own separate article. Sometimes the most appropriate link is an interwiki link to Wiktionary.
   * Word usage that may be confusing to a non-native speaker (or in another dialect). If the word would not be translated in context with an ordinary foreign language dictionary, consider linking to an article or Wiktionary entry to help foreign language readers, especially translators. Check the link for disambiguation, and link to the specific item.
   * Geographic place names, since many places have similar names, and many readers may be from a distant place. Link to the most specific available article, or create a stub or redirect if the place deserves a new article (check similar nearby places for naming conventions and category tags).


[edit] Article titles and section heads:

  1. Only the first letter of the first word, letters in acronyms, and the first letter of proper nouns are capitalized; all other letters are in lower case
  2. Spaces above and below headings are optional. Only two or more line-spaces above and below will change the appearance by adding more white space.Use this instead of <br tag

Highway/road names{

  1. The official name is to be used when writing about the road in an article; only use the article title in another article if the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. Never use a colloquial title other than those listed above, unless you are mentioning that it exists in the article.
  2. Official nicknames for highways (i.e. Golden State Freeway,) may be used if the DOT uses it.

When to create red links{

  1. Only make links that are relevant to the context. Do not create links for subsidiary topics that result in red links (links that go nowhere) to articles that will never be created, such as the titles of book chapters. Do create red links to articles you intend to create, technical terms that need to be explained, or topics which should obviously have articles.
  2. In general, try not to link to subsections, as the reader will arrive mid-article without context. However, sometimes there is a relevant discussion in a subsection that should be linked to. The format for a subsection link is name of link. For example, to link to the "Culture" subsection of the Oman article, type culture of Oman.


Naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once'

To give a footnote a unique identifier, use <ref name="name"> ... </ref>. You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name. The name cannot be a number, or the extension will return an error. The ref name need not be placed within quotes unless it consists of more than one word (the wiki parser converts single word quoteless attribute values into validly quoted XHTML). Note that any quotation marks placed around the ref name must be straight quotes (") rather than curly quotes (“ or ”).

Named references are used when there are several cases of repetition of exactly the same reference, including the page number for booksbe used t; they should not cite different pages in the same book. Named references in wikitext serve a purpose similar to loc. cit. or ibid. in printed media.

Only the first occurrence of text in a named ref will be used, although that occurrence may be located anywhere in the article. You can either copy the whole footnote, or you can use a terminated empty ref tag that looks like this: <ref name="name" />. Such forward-slash-terminated named tags may precede the definition of the named reference.[4]. In subsequent uses of the named tag the use of <ref name="nam /e"> is encouraged rather than copying the whole footnote again, as whole footnotes tend to reduce the readability of the article's text in edit mode, which makes finding specific parts of the text when editing tedious.

[edit] Bird Names

Summary of naming guidelines - common names

   * The name of a particular species is always capitalised; Common Blackbird, Metallic Starling, Emu, Ostrich, Western Marsh Harrier.
   * The word immediately following a hyphen in a species name is not capitalised; Red-winged Blackbird, Black-faced Butcherbird, Splendid Fairy-wren.
   * The name of a group of species is not capitalised; birds, thrush family, kingfishers, turtle doves, marsh harriers.
   * Alternative names should be mentioned where appropriate; with bold type in the opening line of the article if they are in wide use, elsewhere in the article (with or without the bold type) if they are less-used. This is usually a matter for individual judgement.


[edit] Vandalism

To report a user, you should use the {{vandal}} template. Your report should look something like:
*{{vandal|Example user}} concise reason eg vandalised past 4th warning. ~~~~
This will appear as


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