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This page is an essay; it contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more Commons contributors.
It is not a Commons policy or guideline, and editors are not obliged to follow it. Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.
This page is an essay; it contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more Commons contributors.It is not a Commons policy or guideline, and editors are not obliged to follow it. Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.
Welcome, fellow Wikipedian. Do you wish to get started on contributing to Commons, but are struggling to find your way around? Well, look no further. This page lists the similarities and differences between enwiki and commons.
Community Venues
[edit]Adminboards
[edit]- w:WP:AIV - This has a direct analogue, COM:AIV, which resolves to Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism. Also known by aliases COM:ANV and COM:AVI. Although there is no Twinkle here, the page has a button to create a report with a preloaded template.
- w:WP:ANI - There is the almost drop-in COM:AN/U or COM:ANU, Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems. This also covers eidt warring,
- w:WP:AN - You'll find the general purpose adminboard at COM:AN, Commons:Administrators' noticeboard.
- w:WP:RFPP - Helpfully COM:RFPP exists, but Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections is better known as COM:AN/B or COM:AN/P. This board also handles non-vandalism block requests (mostly repeated copyvio cases).
Village pumps
[edit]- COM:VP is the general purpose village pump, aka Commons:Village pump. A mix of VPM and VPP back at enwiki.
- COM:VPR, the proposals pump. Better known by aliases COM:VPP or COM:VP/P, since there's no policy village pump.
- COM:VPT, aka COM:VP/T. Run of the mill technical village pump.
- COM:VPC, aka COM:VP/C. A village pump for discussing copyright issues - seeing as commons mostly handles media.
Deletion process
[edit]- COM:DEL, COM:DR, or COM:RFD. This is the deletion requests page - AFD, TFD etc all rolled into one. Nomiations are best through the "Nominate for deletion" option in your toolbox - Twinkle lite.
- COM:CSD aka COM:SPEEDY. Criteria for speedy deletion. There's some similarity with enwiki, but also many differences.
- COM:UNDEL, or COM:DRV (other aliases exist). All requests for undeletion go here, WP:REFUND and WP:DRV rolled together.
Templates
[edit]You're not going to find infoboxes here, but what about utility templates?
- {{Ping}}, {{Re}}, {{Reply to}} all work.
- {{Tl}} works for you template minded folks. {{Tlu}} is replaced with {{Tlr}}. Tlu is tlr with example invocation. {{Para}} works as normal.
- {{Copyvio}} - Copyvio speedy deletion template. 1st parameter is reason, takes an optional
|source=parameter. - {{Speedy}} (redirect to {{Speedydelete}}), generic speedy deletion template. There's no handy option for "criteria" for speedy deletion, just explain.