Wikipedia:Lessons (Pynts ti mind)
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This airticle is pairt o the Wikipaedia Lessons |
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There are a puckle things ti mind whan editin Wikipaedia.
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[edit] Behaviour
Wikipaedia encourages an air o freendliness an candour. O course, in practice there are disagreements frae time ti time, and een the ae fight nou an then, but members o the community are expecked ti behave in a fairly ceivil manner.
The mast important thing ti mind is that ye maun aye think the best o ither editors. Dinna assume that oniebodie is acting oot o spite or malice. Gin somebodie daes something that fashes you, pit a poleite message on the particlar airticle's collogue page or on the uiser's collogue page, and speir whit wey they've daen it. Ye micht finnd that ye've evyted a misunderstandin an saufed yersel some embarrassment.
[edit] Editorial policies
[edit] Neutral Pynt o View
Wikipedia's editorial policy is the "neutral pynt o view", aften shortened til "NPOV". This policy says that we accept aa the signeificant pynts o view on an issue. Stead o juist statin the ae perspeckive, we try ti shaw aa relevant pynts o view athoot juidgin which ane is richt. Oor aim is ti be informative, nae persuasive. Oor policy DISNA ettle that oor airticles are expecked ti be "objective", sith in onie dispute baith sides think that their ain view is "objectively true".
It's fine ti state opeinions in airticles, but they maun be presented as opeinions, nae as fact. Forbye, it's a guid idea ti attribute thir opinions, for exemplar "Supporters o this sey that..." or "Notable commentator X believes that..."
Ye micht see Wikipedians referrin ti an airticle as "POV". This is Wikipedia slang for a biased airticle, or ane plainly written frae the ae perspective. Advertising wad faa in this category, as wad a poleitical diatribe. In a less extreme case, an airticle micht hae "POV" problems gin it pits a lot mair time intil discussing ae view nor anither, een gin ilka view is written neutrally.
Gin ye're aboot ti spend time on controversial airticles in subjecks like releigion or poleitics, it's important that ye read the neutral pynt o view policy page as suin as ye can. Ye shuid probably read Keepin a calm sough an aa. Gin ye be spendin yer time on less emotional subjecks like maths or video games, ye shuid read the policies een sae, but it's a less pressin concern. Mind the advice gien here, an read the full policy gin an NPOV issue comes up.
[edit] Subjeck matter
Wikipaedia is an encyclopedia. Sae airticles shuid be encyclopaedic information aboot "notable" subjecks. Whit exackly maks for notability is aye a subjeck o debate on Wikipaedia, but there's nae monie thinks that there shuid be airticles aboot ilka chiel on Earth, ilka company that sells oniething, or ilka street in ilka toun in the warld.
This is nae the place forbye for "oreiginal research"—in ither words, new theories, an aa that, that haena bin supported bi peer review. For mair details aboot whit Wikipaedia shuid hae, see Whit Wikipaedia isna, Criteria for inclusion o biographies an Whit's in, whit's oot.
We dinna encourage authors ti screive aboot themsels or their ain works, sin this is a conflick o interest. Gin ye hae amazin feats til yer name, some ither bodie will screive an airticle aboot ye suiner or later. Wikipedia:Autobiography haes mair detail on this.
[edit] Citin soorces
Wikipedia disna force ye ti cite soorces for the wittins you contreibute, but we'd liefer that ye cite them gin ye can. Gin ye're uisin a beuk (or beuks) ti help screive the airticle, leet them in a section cried "References". Gin ye're uisin a wabsteid, mak an "External airtins" section and airt til it. This helps oor readers ti check whit ye've written an finnd mair wittens. See Wikipedia:Cite soorces for mair wittins on this.
[edit] Spellin an Graimmar
Sin Scots spellin an graimmar isna as strickly formulated as in English, we're nae gaun ti fash wirsels ower muckle gin ye uise yer ain spellin whan ye contreibute. Aifter aa nane o us wis taucht Scots spellin at the schuil, sae we can hardly be expeckit to ken onie mair nor we've gotten throu wir ain readin o Scots.
Houaniver ye shuid tak tent that we div hae the aim o standardisin the spellin o the Scots Wikipaedia ti mak it follae the recommendations o the Report an Recommends o the Scots Spellin Comatee, the RRSSC in the lang run. Sae it micht be that fowk div chynge yer spellin ti match the recommendations suiner or later. On the ither hand gin ye want ti fix yer spellin yersel aforehand, ye micht want to hae a read o the report ti see whit it seys.
Mynd forbye that twa oot o three words in a staundart airticle are words that are commoun ti English an Scots. Gin yer airticles haes less nor that, ye may be evytin words juist because ye jalouse they micht be English. That can mak yer airticles mair difficult ti read sith ye may be uisin a literary Scots word in place o a weel kent ane. Sae tak tent. Dinna evyte a word juist cause it's uised in English as weel as Scots. The English words that ye shuid evyte are thae that are nivver uised in Scots.
[edit] Copyrichts
Dinna submit copyrichted material athoot permeission. The best airticles are maistlins screiven either frae yer ain knowledge, or frae pittin research thegither frae monie soorces. For a mair detailed collogue on copyrichts, see Wikipedia:Copyrichts.
[edit] Renamin airticles
Gin ye finnd an airticle that ye think is mis-named, please dinna cut & paste the contents o the auld airticle intil a new airticle -- amang ither things, it pairts the aulder contributions frae their edit history (that we maun keep track o for copyricht reasons). The richt method is ti muve the page ti the new name. Gin it's yer first muve, we'll thank ye ti read the warnings on the muve page carefully, sin there are a wheen o issues ti conseider afore muving a page. For a mair detailed collogue, see Wikipedia:Whit wey ti rename (muve) a page. Gin a "disambiguation" page is involved, it is best ti review Wikipedia:Disambiguation.
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