Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Contributing

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Advice on how to contribute

Read And Improve Articles

When you notice mistakes in an article or an article that needs content improvement, please contribute! Even small improvements help and increase the quality of Lexicanum as a whole. Please register and log in, just click the "EDIT" link and improve the text right away.

Adding new information

Recently read something and are looking on the Lexicanum for more information but cant find anything? Add any and all information you can or are willing to a new or existing relevant page. As long as you follow the correct formatting and sourcing guidelines then you addition will be welcomed!

Improving Sources

Every so often during your reading of the Lexicanum, you will inevitably come across a page which is not sourced properly, with either little or no footnotes or even wrong footnotes. This can apply to all elements of an article, from text to images to list items etc. Depending on the case at hand you can now fulfill different very valuable tasks:

If an article has no sources whatsoever please report the corresponding article to an Administrator so that it can be deleted.
If some paragraphs, sentences or other elements have no sources proceed as follows:
- If you happen to know the (or a) source for the element in question please add the source. See the Help article on citations for more details.
- If you do not know the/a source please proceed to quarantine the unsourced elements.
If you come across a footnote that references a source that is no longer available (normally that is only the case for websites) proceed as follows:
- Try to find an archived version of the broken link via the Wayback Machine or similarly well-established archiving projects.
- If that fails use the procedure for "Inactive, non-archived sites" described here.

Instead of just waiting to come across missing sources by coincidence you also have the options to specifically look for such cases. If you want to do that, you have the following options:

All pages containing quarantined content (i.e. content missing sources) are automatically listed here.
All pages that contain elements that have been marked already as missing sources are automatically listed here. Note that all elements marked with "Cite this" are subject to a potential quarantining procedure.
Pages and files for which it is already known that their original source(s) is/are unfortunately no longer available are automatically listed here.

Contribute Text!

Many of you may have already written texts similar to those in the Lexicanum. Maybe for themselves, for friends or even for school (eg. reviews). If you have all the rights to this text, ie. you have written the text all by yourself and there is no other person with rights on your work, then you can contribute it to LEXICANUM. This way the text can be viewed by everyone including you and is protected from legal claim from third persons.

If you have already published your text elsewhere in the internet, eg. on your private homepage, please add a small comment identifying you as the author. This is necessary, because some users copy texts from copyrighted sources, which we have to delete in case of doubt.

Link orphaned pages!

For beginners it is a good exercise to link orphaned pages to make them accessible from other pages. You can find these pages under Orphaned Articles. Find articles that fit to an orphaned page and add a link to the unaccessible page. The easiest way to accomplish this is to add an internal link:

   ''See also:'' [[Article 1]], [[Article 2]]

Adhere to copyrights

Sometimes users just copy text from copyrighted sources. If you find such a text (eg. with help of a search machine), please add it immediately under Deletion Candidates. Articles listed there will be edited or deleted.

Never use copyrighted material without permission of the proprietor!

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