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Welcome, aspiring editor! This work-in-progress guide will hopefully help you get your bearings on the wiki.

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===Be bold===

{{Hatnote|See also [[w:Wikipedia:Be bold|the Wikipedia policy]].}}

If you have an idea for an edit or page, but you're not sure whether others will like it, just do it! Everyone can easily bring a page back to a previous version, so it's impossible to permanently "ruin" anything. [[mw:Help:Patrolling|Patrolling]] ensures that every edit will be inspected by at least one other person.

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===Source what you can===

Unlike topics covered by Wikipedia, there aren't many public reliable sources for Toki Pona. (In fact, this very wiki was made to fill that gap!) As such, it's fine if an article doesn't have any citations, though they're always appreciated (and encouraged for [[Project:lipu pona|{{tp|lipu pona}}]] status). Primary sources are fine, and are even preferable in many cases, such as when tracking the history of a subject.

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Resources with open submissions, such as [[Tatoeba]] and [[Glosbe]], often attract overconfident beginners and so should be treated with care.

See also {{sect|#Citations|#Formatting#Citations}}.

===Red links are not bad===

{{Hatnote|See also {{w|Wikipedia:Red link}}.}}

{{w|MediaWiki#Wikilinks|Red links}} point to [[Special:WantedPages|wanted pages]] that don't exist yet. This is good:

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===Italics===

Mark emphasized text with <code><nowiki>emphasized text</nowiki></code>.

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===Language===

Mark the language of non-English text with [[Template:lang]].

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==={{tp|sitelen pona}}===

Display {{tp|[[sitelen Lasina]]}} or [[UCSUR]] codepoints as {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} with [[Template:sp]].

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===Citations===

Citations are wrapped in <code>[[mw:Help:Cite|<nowiki><ref>…</ref></nowiki>]]</code> tags. Any page with citations should have a references section at the end:

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===Notice templates===

~~Several~~ [{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Notice|namespace=10&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} notice templates] that should be used to tell the reader about the nature of an article's topic, such as if it pertains to an unusual [[style of Toki Pona]]. We don't want to mispresent nonstandard features as common if they aren't widely understood or accepted.

There are several [{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Notice|namespace=10&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} notice templates] that should be used to tell the reader about the nature of an article's topic, such as if it pertains to an unusual [[style of Toki Pona]]. We don't want to mispresent nonstandard features as common if they aren't widely understood or accepted.

===Maintenance templates===

If you find an issue with an article and can't fix it yourself, or not immediately, add a maintenance template. These include:

*[[Template:citation needed]]

*[[Template:dead link]]

*[{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Issue|namespace=10&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} All templates derived from Template:Issue]