Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Help

One of the best places to get started after reading this page is Wikipedia:Introduction. Also be sure to stop by our friendly Wikipedia:Teahouse

What would you like help with?

WikiProject Film

General information ( v t e )
Main project page	+ talk
→ Discussion archives
Style guidelines	talk
→ Multimedia	talk
→ Naming conventions	talk
→ Copy-editing essentials	talk
Notability guidelines	talk
Announcements and open tasks	talk
→ Article alerts
→ Cleanup listing
→ New articles	talk
→ Nominations for deletion	talk
→ Popular pages
→ Requests	talk
Spotlight	talk
Film portal	talk
Fiction noticeboard	talk

Project organization
Coordinators	talk
Participants	talk
Project banner	talk
Project category	talk

Departments
Assessment	talk
→ B-Class
→ Instructions
Categorization	talk
Core	talk
Outreach	talk
Resources	talk
Review	talk
Spotlight	talk
→ Spotlight cleanup listing
Topic workshop	talk

Task forces
General topics
Film awards	talk
Film festivals	talk
Film finance	talk
Filmmaking	talk
Silent films	talk
Genre
Animated films	talk
Christian films	talk
Comic book films	talk
Documentary films	talk
Marvel Cinematic Universe	talk
Skydance Media	talk
War films	talk
Avant-garde and experimental films	talk
National and regional
American cinema	talk
Argentine cinema	talk
Australian cinema	talk
Baltic cinema	talk
Belgian cinema	talk
British cinema	talk
Canadian cinema	talk
Chinese cinema	talk
French cinema	talk
German cinema	talk
Indian cinema	talk
Israeli cinema	talk
Italian cinema	talk
Japanese cinema	talk
Korean cinema	talk
Mexican cinema	talk
New Zealand cinema	talk
Nordic cinema	talk
Pakistani cinema	talk
Persian cinema	talk
Southeast Asian cinema	talk
Soviet and post-Soviet cinema	talk
Spanish cinema	talk
Uruguayan cinema	talk
Venezuelan cinema	talk

Templates
banner
DVD citation
DVD liner notes citation
infobox
invite
plot cleanup
stub
userbox

Questions about using and contributing to Wikipedia
Your question might already be answered in the Frequently Asked Questions, otherwise:

Getting started is a page that lists some brief introductions on all the basics of Wikipedia.
If you place {{helpme}} on your talk page, an editor will visit you there!
Help Desk is the main place to ask a question and also where to turn when all else fails.
Tips is a listing of all the "how to pages" on using Wikipedia.
Requests is a page that lists all the services and assistance that can be requested on Wikipedia.
WikiProject Film talk and/or Editor assistance/Requests is a place to ask for help regarding content issues and disputes.
Dispute resolution requests details the various different methods used at each of the various dispute resolution pages.
The Village Pump is the forum for discussion of more complex project-wide technical issues, policies, proposals, and operations of Wikipedia.
Media copyright questions covers the use of images and other media on Wikipedia.
Need help starting a new article? The article wizard will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia....Or

Some pages of helpful information to get you started:

Introduction to Wikipedia

The five pillars of Wikipedia

Editing tutorial

How to edit a page

Manual of style

The basics of Wikicode

How to develop an article

How to create an article

Help pages

What Wikipedia is not

Some common sense Do's and Don'ts:

Do be bold

Do assume good faith

Do be civil

Do keep cool!

Do maintain a neutral point of view

Don't spam

Don't infringe copyright

Don't vandalize

Don't get blocked

Tips

I. Use common sense, appropriate etiquette and assume good faith on the part of others.
Be bold with your additions in a fair and accurate manner, because perfection is not required. See Wikipedia:Editing policy for more information.

II. Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability for more information.

III. Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include references listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you have used to write or expand articles. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability for more information.

IV. Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary or thesaurus.
Stay on topic as many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this. See: Wikipedia:Writing better articles and Wikipedia:The perfect article for more information..

V.

Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See: Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for more information.

Tools & sister projects

WikiProject Film automated pages

Article alerts - List of deletions, featured & good article candidates, requests for comments, peer reviews etc.
Article log - List of "Moved (renamed)" articles and recent assessments.
Cleanup listing - List of articles that have multiple maintenance/cleanup tags
Popular pages - Listing of the most viewed pages that should be improved (if need be) and watched over closely for vandalism.

Tools

Wikipedia:Tools - Contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.
Google book tool - Converts bare url's into {{cite book}} format.

Watchlist