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Wikipedia:Training/core/Specialized help pages

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There is much more help material available on Wikipedia, much of it specialized for very specific types of articles or specific editing tasks. Here are a few help pages that are particularly relevant to students working on Wikipedia:

  • How to edit medical topics — Medical topics have particularly stringent rules for the proper use of sources, so if you're going to work on medicine-related articles (including psychology), this is a helpful primer. You can also read a pdf primer on editing medical topics, or for editing in psychology or sociology.
  • Citing books — If you're working primarily from books as your sources, citing different pages at different points in the article, this guide shows how you can format the citations. We also have a .pdf you can use as a reference.
  • Here are some helpful do's and don't's for choosing an article.
  • Module 5: Background — If you want to learn more about Wikipedia and its history, you can check out the optional fifth module of this orientation.