FamilySearch Wiki:Improving the Help content/Needed How To Articles
For a list of all current help documents, click on the category Help link at the bottom of this page.
Suggested How-to Articles
Search
Suggestions for search-related articles are included below:
Authoring
How to author is currently a requested page. This subject may be answered in part by the following articles:
Articles being considered for inclusion in this topic of discussion are:
- How to Format an article
- How toCite sources
- What you need to know before authoring
Categories
- How to Create categories
- How to remove a category from a page
- When should a category be removed from a page
Images
- When does an image qualify to be added to a page?
- How to add sufficient metadata to images and submit for review
- How do I know when review of an image is complete?
Miscellaneous
- How to add boxes to a portal page
- How to write "Did you know?" and "News Items" articles
- How to write a News and Events article for the Main Page
How-to Articles Already Written
Please visit "Getting Started" to view existing articles.
Proposed How-to Articles
Proposed How-to Articles Related to Portal Pages
- Edit a portal page
- Add to the directory of portals
Proposed How-to Articles Related to Flagging
- Flag duplicates
- Flag title ambiguity
- Flag an article that’s not in English
- Flag a page needing expert attention
- Flag bias
- Flag a stub
- Flag for verification
- Build list of articles flagged as duplicates
- Discuss merger of flagged articles
- Merge the articles flagged as duplicates
- Edit flagged titles
- Adjudicate flagged articles based on policy
- Build list of titles flagged for ambiguity
- Libel or Copyright Infringement.
- Flag for libel or copyright infringement.
- Generate list of articles flagged
- Record research notes on articles flagged
- Speedy Deletion
- Flag for Speedy Deletion: Regular users can’t delete an article. (Only Administrators can.) Regular users need to be able to flag articles for speedy deletion.
- Find Speedy Deletion policy speedily.
- Discuss articles flagged for Speedy Deletion. (It may not be obvious whether the article should be deleted; discussion is sometimes necessary.)
- Adjudicate flagged articles according to policy.
- Delete articles flagged for Speedy Deletion.
Additional Proposed How-to Articles
- Undo archive or delete
- How non-image files are reviewed
- Redundancy: Finding & Merging Duplicate Articles
- Recategorize an article
- Quickly find guidelines for article merging
- Print or copy an article or screen
- Disambiguation of titles
- Quickly find disambiguation guidelines
- Page Blanking
- Lock Pages
- Know where to start
- Communicate new issues (give feedback)
- Define terms used on pages
- Define tabs and what they are used for
- Toolbox selections
- Join a discussion group
- Explain permanent link
- Create a subpage
- Communicate new issues (give feedback)
- Nominate a good article
- Apply for featured article status
- Add a section
- Merge pages
- Move a page
Note: For definitions of any of these functions, see Wikipedia.org.