Editing Guide

The following is a helpful guide to explain how certain website sections are constructed, as well as stylistic aspects unique to ; as the site design differs from other public encyclopedias.

General Style Guide

 * APA style format is typically (if not always) used throughout the site, and probably should be used to preserve consistency.

General Coding Guide
The following is a general coding guide showing to aid in editing. For more advanced formatting, see the Help sections at Mediawiki or Wikipedia. For basic table formatting, see the List Page Structure section. Areas on this page with details on formatting not mentioned here, including tables and images are ''' bolded in red. '''

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Typical Page Structure
The following is the typical page structure used, although this will vary for certain page types (e.g. Categories, which look better with just a minimal description and no references section).

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Helpful Advice
The following is information you may find useful for improving research and editing efficiency:


 * You can resize multiple internet windows to see multiple pages and programs at once.
 * Keyboard shortcuts will greatly improve your efficiency; including CTRL+X to cut, CTRL+C to copy, CTRL+V to paste, CTRL+A to select all, CTRL+Z to undo, CTRL+Y to redo, CTRL+T to open a new tab, CTRL+N to open a new window, tab to alternate between webpage sections, etc.
 * It helps to work on tasks of the same type while doing CTRL+C/CTRL+V copy/paste.
 * You can easily replicate all content on a page by editing one page, clicking in the edit box, using CTRL+A to select all content, CTRL+C to copy, and then creating a new page and pasting in everything using CTRL+V. This could be used to copy all content from a list of alleged contradictions, paste it to create a new list as a new page, and then simply edit everything, replacing content as needed.
 * If you need to Google for information, you can go to Tools on the right-hand side below the search bar (only works on a computer or if using Desktop view on a phone) for additional search features, including searching by date range, which is useful for checking news articles within a certain time period. Use double quotes around a phrase to search for that exact phrase or a hyphen/minus sign in front of a word or phrase to exclude it from search results. There are more features in Google's Advanced Search which can be accessed through Settings, which is just to the left of Tools, including site-specific searching. For science articles, if you do not have access to JSTOR or other databases, you can search at Google Scholar. Nature and Pubmed have some free articles that are publicly visible as well.