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{{Community Portal}}
[[Image:Barnstar.png|thumb|reward Lord of the Rings wiki contributors for hard work and due diligence by awarding them barnstars. To give the award to someone, just place the image on their talk page, and say why you've given it. Don't hesitate: be bold!]]
 
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'''[[LOTR:Jobs|Job list]]'''- The job list provides users with editing ideas if you're stuck for something to do. It gives examples like:
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*[[:Category:Stub|Stubs]], where we always have small articles that need more information and research.
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*[[:Category:Rewrites|Rewrites]], where you can help add eloquent prose to tacky articles.
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*[[:Category:Cleanup|Cleanup]], where you can tidy up a page's appearance, and make overblown edits more concise.
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*[[Special:Lonelypages|Orphaned Pages]], where you can help lonely pages make new friends. Interlink these pages with complementary pages and check that they are in all appropriate categories.
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''' Other Useful Links:'''
 
*[[Featured pictures]]
 
*[[Featured article]]
 
*[[Collaboration of the Month]]
 
*[[Articles for Deletion]]
 
*[[DidYouKnow]]
 
*[[LOTR:Project Missing encyclopedic articles|Missing encyclopedic articles Wikiproject]]
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*[[LOTR:Latin Characters|Latin Characters Wikiproject]]
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*[[LOTR:Wanted Pages|Wanted Pages Wikiproject]]
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*[[LOTR:Requests for page protection|Requests for page protection]]
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*[[LOTR:Requests for adminship|Requests for adminship]]
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[[Image:Barnstar.png|thumb|reward Lord of the Rings wiki contributors with this barnstar]]
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You can use the <nowiki>{{welc1}}</nowiki> template to welcome newcomers who have signed in: just place it on their talk page. This template can be edited [http://lotr.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:Welc1&action=edit here] or you can copy it to make your own personalised welcome. Newcomers NOT signed in can be welcomed instead with [[Template:welcIP]] or the newer [[Template:Welc3]].<br /><br />
 
For information on Sysops see [[LOTR:Administrators]].
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'''Statistics:'''<br />
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See our basic [[Special:Statistics|Statistics]]" page. Get much more detail at [http://wikistats.wikia.com/EN/TablesWikiaLOTR.htm Wikistats], and see which contributors are really helping and how long they have been with us!
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*[http://lotr.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=3 List of all User Talk pages]
 
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*[[Talk:Main_Page]] to discuss the Main Page
 
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*[[LOTR_talk:Community_Portal]] to discuss this page
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*[[LOTR:Project Missing encyclopedic articles|LOTR Project Missing encyclopedic articles]]
 
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The One Wiki to Rule Them All is an ongoing project. As such, its policies are also an ongoing project. Below is a list of currently proposed policies, which we observe until they are changed by consensus. Please look over them and leave any thoughts you have about them on their talk pages.
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<br>'''Proposed Policies'''
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*'''[[LOTR:Canon|Canon policy]]'''
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*'''[[LOTR:Copying_from_Wikipedia|Copying from Wikipedia]]'''
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*'''[[LOTR:Dates|Dates]]'''
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*'''[[LOTR:YouTube|YouTube policy]]'''
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<small>The full list of proposed policies can be found [[:Category:Proposed Policies on LOTR|here]]</small>
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:''Main Project Page: [[LOTR:Article Attack]]''
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'''This month's article is: '''[[List of Minor Battles in Middle-earth]]'''<br />
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<small>The article attack award is a new way to encourage contributors to enhance pages in great need of work and detail. The user who contributes the best edits will be awarded the [[Template:Medal AAA|Article Attack Award]].</small> <br />
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:''Main Help Page: [[Help:contents|Help Contents]]''
 
 
As with many other MediaWiki projects, "Help" has a separate namespace (and related talkspace) all to itself. Start at [[Help:contents]], and if any subject is getting a bit long move it (leaving link) to another "Help:..." page (easier to type than "LOTR:Help:..."). There may be a corresponding page at Central Wikia or [[w:c:starter:|the Starter Wikia]], which may be copied or linked to.<br />
== re-writing/re-organising ==
 
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Feel free to re-write and re-organise the articles here as you see fit, especially those articles which have come from wikipedia. Be bold in making changes to the articles here. Much of the content has come from wikipedia, where it is written to be an encyclopedia entry, whereas this is a middle earth encyclopedia, which is completely different.
 
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==Merging==
 
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<small>''see the old community portal [[LOTR:Community_Portal/archive1|here]]''</small><br />
The template <nowiki>{{merge}}</nowiki> can be added to articles which need merging - if a duplicate article exists. We should have different pages for places and people with different names, for instance there should be separate articles on [[Minas Morgul]] and [[Minas Ithil]]; and on [[Aragorn]] and [[Strider]] (which makes us different to wikipedia), however there are some articles which should be merged, such as where it is exactly the same subject, for instance [[Fangorn Forest]] and [[Fangorn forest]] is the same thing with a different case letter. When merging, try to preserve content which has been contributed by LOTR wiki contributors, at the expense of that which has been copied from wikipedia. See [[LOTR:Merging and moving pages]]
 
 
==Purpose of this page==
 
The name of this page suggests that it should be a doorway to all main parts of this wiki. Initially, the Main Page has had much of that. Please "Discuss this page" if you have any ideas for what should be here.
 
 
[[Image:Argonath.jpg||centre|]]
 
 
==Making new articles==
 
See [[Help:creating articles]].
 
 
==Dealing with spam==
 
Most of our responsible contributors look at the list of Recent Changes. Spam is removed when seen. It should then be reported at http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Talk:Spam_Blacklist.
 
 
 
==Guidelines for copying articles from Wikipedia to LOTR-Wiki==
 
#Copy as much as possible.
 
#Do not just copy an article from [[wikipedia:Wikipedia]] and paste it on top of one of our articles. Adding a few words copied from Wikipedia may be OK, but if it is more than a few words you have to say exactly which Wikipedia page it came from.
 
#See [[LOTR: copying from Wikipedia]].
 
 
Also check [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth/AfD|WikiProject Middle-earth/AfD]] which has information about Middle-earth related articles which are currently or were previously listed for possible deletion. Wikipedia's policy towards Middle-earth articles has been discussed [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Middle-earth items|here]]
 
 
=="Help" pages==
 
As with many other MediaWiki projects, "Help" has a separate namespace (and related talkspace) all to itself. Start at [[Help:contents]], and if any subject is getting a bit long move it (leaving link) to another "Help:..." page (easier to type than "LOTR:Help:..."). There may be a corresponding page at Central Wikia, which may be copied or linked to.
 
 
Particular pages that may be useful are:
 
*[[Help:creating articles]]
 
*[[Help:editing]]
 
 
==Middle-earth dates==
 
At this moment we have at least 40 links written in the form "xxxx T.A.". But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Arda Wikipedia] uses "T.A. xxxx" and there could be value in following that.
 
 
For less typing, long-term, however, we could (on the analogy of the modern "AD xxxx") remove the full stops and say "TA xxxx" for the Third Age and "FA xxxx" for the Fourth.
 
 
Please use this page's discussion page for questions and opinions.
 
 
 
[[category:help]]
 
 
==Administrators==
 
See [[LOTR:Administrators]].
 
 
 
== Projects ==
 
There are several lists at Wikipedia for Middle-earth related articles. These have been copied to [[List of Middle-earth articles]] and [[List of Middle-earth characters]]. Help turn all these red links blue!
 
 
 
== Encyclopedia of Arda ==
 
The [http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/ Encyclopedia of Arda] has lists of middle earth articles. We should try to have an article for every article they have. Information must not be copied directly, since it is copyrighted (unlike Wikipedia) but the lists there (which claim to have nearly 5000 headings) can serve as a guide to creating articles. [http://www.glyphweb.com/ARDA/latest.asp here] is their list of most recently updated articles, and they say they have 3014 entries currently.
 
 
 
 
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Revision as of 00:21, 30 November 2008

Arda.Tengwar

The One Wiki to Rule Them All
Community Portal
Links

Job list- The job list provides users with editing ideas if you're stuck for something to do. It gives examples like:

  • Stubs, where we always have small articles that need more information and research.
  • Rewrites, where you can help add eloquent prose to tacky articles.
  • Cleanup, where you can tidy up a page's appearance, and make overblown edits more concise.
  • Orphaned Pages, where you can help lonely pages make new friends. Interlink these pages with complementary pages and check that they are in all appropriate categories.


Other Useful Links:


User Information
Miscellaneous
Policy

Article Attack
Main Project Page: LOTR:Article Attack

This month's article is: List of Minor Battles in Middle-earth
The article attack award is a new way to encourage contributors to enhance pages in great need of work and detail. The user who contributes the best edits will be awarded the Article Attack Award.



Help
Main Help Page: Help Contents

As with many other MediaWiki projects, "Help" has a separate namespace (and related talkspace) all to itself. Start at Help:contents, and if any subject is getting a bit long move it (leaving link) to another "Help:..." page (easier to type than "LOTR:Help:..."). There may be a corresponding page at Central Wikia or the Starter Wikia, which may be copied or linked to.


see the old community portal here

J.R.P.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium