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If, in this framework, you link from an article to a Wikipedia page outside the main namespace, use external link style to allow the link to work also in a site with a copy of the main namespace content.

[编辑] Think about print

Don't forget, we want to make the creation of a print version of Wikipedia as easy as possible, so try to use terms such as "this article" as opposed to "this website", and certainly don't use terms such as "click here" (which make no sense when using a screen reader, for instance). You may also find it helpful to imagine you're reading the article in another encyclopedia.

[编辑] Community and website feature references

While we're often inclined to mention the Wikipedia community that we are all part of, as well as the website features we use in creating the articles, these confuse readers of derivative works. In particular, do not refer to the fact that the page can be edited, do not refer to any Wikipedia project page or process, do not use specialized Wikipedia jargon (e.g. "POV" in place of "biased"), and do not refer to any link in the sidebar or along the top of the screen, such as the talk page, What links here, or history. Remember, articles are part of an encyclopedia, not part of the Wikipedia project being used to create them.

However, there are exceptions to this. In particular, an article which is still in its initial development or under dispute often will include tags such as {{stub}}, and {{npov}} to help editors further develop the article, and the text in these templates include self-references. Try, however, to limit such self-references, even in templates.

[编辑] Neutral references

References which exist in a way which assumes the reader is using an encyclopedia without reference to the specific encyclopedia (Wikipedia), or the manner of access (online), are acceptable. For instance, the article on Kobe Bryant's accuser, before her identification, said that "Due to concerns over privacy the name of the alleged victim is not being included in this article or at this time." That is a reference which makes sense on a mirror or a fork, makes sense in print, and makes sense in a copy of Wikipedia which contains only the article space. A more common example is the disambig message This article is about X. For Y, see Z. and all of the See Also links.

[编辑] In the Template and Category namespaces

Limited use of self-references are sometimes found in the Template namespace and the Category namespace, such as with disambiguation and stub notices. Expanding this to other areas is not encouraged due to the need of third party users to either delete those templates or modify them to remove the Wikipedia references.

When forced to use templates like this, you should use them in a way such that the article still makes sense when the template is removed, in order to facilitate automated removal.

Wikipedia project coordination pages should be under Category:Wikipedia, not in categories which contain main-namespace articles by topic. (A small number of articles about Wikipedia are in the mainstream categories, and this is OK.) User pages may be categorized under Category:Wikipedians, but not under Category:People.

[编辑] List of self-references

The following is a list of self-references in Wikipedia's article namespace. They should at least be acknowledged or marked as self-references but not necessarily be deleted as they serve their purpose here on Wikipedia.

• Articles that self-reference
  • Any article in the article namespace that links to one in the Wikipedia namespace
  • Any article in the article namespace that redirects to one in the Wikipedia namespace
  • Articles that mention or are named "article" rather than "topic" and may also refer to Wikipedia itself. For example, "List of articles" rather than "List of topics".
• Categories that self-reference
  • Category:Wikipedia and its subcategories in the article namespace
  • User categories such as Category:User en and Category:Wikipedians
• Use of templates in the article namespace that self-reference because they link to articles in the user, talk, or Wikipedia namespace or that are special articles.
  • Various stub messages
  • Template:NPOV, Template:long NPOV
  • Template:Disputed, Template:TotallyDisputed
  • Template:Afd, Template:Cfd, Template:Rfd
  • Template:Merge, Template:Mergeto, Template:Mergefrom
  • Template:Disambig (Also the text only makes sense online)
  • Template:Wrongtitle
  • Template:Uncyclopedia
  • Template:Fact
  • Templates used to advertise sister projects and other versions of itself
    • Template:Interwiki
    • Template:Wikiquote
    • Template:Wiktionary
    • Template:Wikibooks
    • Template:Wikisource
    • Template:Commons
    • Template:Wikinews
    • Template:Meta

[编辑] Self-reference tools

Self-reference templates such as Template:Selfref, Template:In Wikipedia and Template:In this project provide a way to contain all the self-references as tags. This gives the ability to programatically remove all such references or transform them into external links. Thus, the end product can have all of its self-references removed automatically for users such as forks and mirrors.

Template:Userspacelink can mark articles that redirects to one in the user namespace.

[编辑] See also

• List of stubs without msg
• Click here
• User:Wmahan/Articles with self-references, fixes external links in articles that should be internal