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Distance to horizon
editThe distance to the horizon (in miles) is equal to 1.23 times the square root of the height of your eyes above sea level (in feet). So, if you're sitting on the beach, 5ft above sea level, the horizon is 2.75 miles away.
Useful links
edit- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
Personal reference section
editCommenting out
edit(see source)
Plagiarism
editDon't copy and paste from references without proper block quoting and attribution to the source. WP:PLAG
Examples of linking
editreliable sources
guilt by association
BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
editQuotes
editNo original research
editcite quote - cite this quote template, citation needed.
Words to avoid
edithttp://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:WTA
External Links
edithttp://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:EL
Dispute resolution
editDispute resolution......Request for mediation
Practices to avoid and how to deal with
editDisruptive editing, Tendentious editors
Dealing with unsourced material
editIf an article is unreferenced, you can tag it with the
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template, so long as it is not nonsensical or a biography of a living person, in which case request admin assistance.
- If a claim is doubtful but not harmful, use the [citation needed] template, which will add an inline tag, but remember to go back and remove the claim if no source is produced within a reasonable time.
- If a claim is doubtful and harmful, remove it from the article. You may want to move it to the talk page and ask for a source, unless it is very harmful or absurd, in which case it should not be posted to the talk page either. Use your common sense.
- All unsourced and poorly sourced contentious material about living persons must be removed from articles and talk pages immediately. See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and Wikipedia:Libel.
- If a statement can't be verified in the source, use the Failed verification [failed verification] template.
Examples of references:
edit"{"{"cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = | publisher = | series = | volume = | edition = | date = | location = | pages = | language = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = | mr = | zbl = | jfm = "}"}"
The Sun is pretty big,[1]
but the Moon is not so big.[2]
References with a name which can be referred to multiple times[3]
Future instances of same reference: [3]
See Wikipedia:Bare URLs for templates showing how to deal with websites as references.
For references with author credit (view source)
{{cite web}}: Empty citation (help)
{{cite web}}: Empty citation (help)
For references without author credit (view source)
{{cite web}}: Empty citation (help)
{{cite web}}: Empty citation (help)
Full parameter set in horizontal format (view source)
{{cite web}}: Empty citation (help)
See Citation templates for all kinds of proper templates.
An example of the cite web reference template.[4]
An example of the cite news reference template[6]
Photos uploading
editTemplate:Non-free use rationale
References
edit- ^ Miller, E: "The Sun", page 23. Academic Press, 2005
- ^ Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 51(78):46
- ^ a b Author, "Title", page no. Publisher, year of publication "Quote contents...."
- ^ Patañjali (2001-02-01). "Yoga Sutras of Patañjali" (etext). Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Vernon Reid - Guitar World interview (part 3) Cult Of Personality". youtube. 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2011-05-02.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Paul Tatnell and AFP (2010-08-10). "Raging flight attendant makes his own emergency exit". Sydney Morning Herald.