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| * [[Bulbapedia:Policy|Bulbapedia policy]]
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| * [[Bulbapedia:Manual of style|Manual of style]]
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| | <span style="font-size: small;">[[Bulbapedia:Getting started|Getting started]] | [[Bulbapedia:Browsing|Browsing]] | [[Bulbapedia:Policy|Policy]] | [[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted]] | [[:Category:Stubs|Stubs]] | [[Special:Allpages|Alphabetical index]] | [[:Category:Top-level categories|Categorical index]] | [[Special:Userlogin|Login]]</span> |
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| *''' Only the first instance of a term in an article's actual text (excluding sidebars, lists, etc) should be linked to that term's matching article.'''
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| *Keep up the good work! It seems like every day, there's less and less conflict and more and more cooperation.
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| *So long as you include the Pokémon Infobox with a Pokémon article (see the [[Template_talk:PokémonInfobox#Usage|talk page]] for usage notes), you may go ahead and fill in all ____ (Pokémon) articles, but don't make them too expansive. Any more information than what we currently have in {{p|Geodude}} or {{p|Bulbasaur}}'s entry would be overly much. Please use the <nowiki>{{p|(name of Pokémon)}}</nowiki> macro to link to Pokémon pages, as we may choose to change the article titles for Pokémon species pages in the future.
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| *Elements pages should still look like the [[Grass (type)|Grass-type]] page.
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| *There are still many articles that need worked on! Consult the [[Special:wantedpages|list of wanted articles]] to see what people most want filled in.
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| Welcome to Bulbapedia! All of the instructions on use, semantics, and the like can be found either below in '''Getting Started''' or via one of our quick links in the green toolbar to the right.
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| The staff of Bulbapedia has worked very hard in getting it to this point, but there's only so far any one small group can expand an encyclopedia, and after it tops out in size from our knowledge base or ability to work on it, the public is of more help than the staff in expanding and growing. That's the philosophy of a Wiki-based encyclopedia, and we're taking that to heart. We know there'll be differences of opinion, we know there'll be hard times and heated arguments, but we're going ahead with this project anyway, because it is our goal to compile the best, most comprehensive Pokémon database on the planet.
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| We're not there yet, but we're working on it, and you can help us. The staff of Bulbagarden.net and Bulbapedia hope you enjoy, contribute to, and use our newest service!
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| ==Getting started==
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| To register an account, go to [[Special:Userlogin]]. Enter your desired username and password, and click on the 'Create new account' button.
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| After you register, first consult the [[Bulbapedia:Policy|policy page]] for information on all of the policies, rules, and regulations of Bulbapedia. If you're not interested in reading through everything quite yet and just want to start writing articles, you can visit our tutorial on [[Bulbapedia:How to create an article|how to create an article]]. After that, you can start contributing!
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| If you wish to familiarise yourself with Bulbapedia guidelines on how articles are written, consult [[Bulbapedia:Manual of style|the Manual of style]].
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| If you're unsure of a good place to start, simply click on the [[Special:Randompage|random page]] link on the left toolbar; if you see a red link on a page, it means that there is no content on that page. You can make it blue by adding content to that page.
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| A more direct method is to consult the [[Special:Wantedpages|list of wanted articles]] -- these are articles that have been linked to but have no content. Alternatively, if you don't like starting from scratch, there are numerous [[:Category:Stubs|stub articles]] that could use more content.
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| A list of all pages which currently have content on them can be found at [[Special:Allpages]], and a list of categories can be found at [[Special:Categories]].
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| Instructions on using MediaWiki, of which Bulbapedia is an instance of, can be found [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Index here].
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| ==Administrative Information==
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| To grant sysop or bureaucrat privileges, go to [[Special:Makesysop]]. This is available to bureaucrats only.
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| What does MediaWiki think an article is? The MediaWiki code is as follows:
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