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| | *If the photographer/site hosting the image restricts the use or viewing of the image, then it cannot be show on this site, however a simple link to the image is allowed. | | *If the photographer/site hosting the image restricts the use or viewing of the image, then it cannot be show on this site, however a simple link to the image is allowed. |
| | *External images must conform to this sites policies and may not be of a spam/advertising nature. | | *External images must conform to this sites policies and may not be of a spam/advertising nature. |
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| − | ==Article Naming, Renaming, and Redirects==
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| − | Asylum Projects is not like other wikis like Wikipedia where they continually change the names of articles whether because the subject of the article has changed it's name or by consensus votes. The institutions that are the subjects of this site do not change their names too often, thus our article should not have to see renaming all that often.
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| − | ===Naming New Articles===
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| − | When naming new articles, take into account the other names of the subject if you can. Then select either the most popular name (usually the name that gets the most search hits) or then subjects/institutions most current name. Either name will do and should be used. Try not to use nick names and names that were not officially used.
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| − | ===Renaming Articles===
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| − | Because the subject of the articles rarely change their names, we should not use that as a criteria to rename an article. If the subject does rename itself, then it's better to just add that new name to the alternate names section of the article's infobox. The only reasons an article should be renamed is because the name had spelling errors or was a name that the institution had never used.
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| − | Instead of renaming the article, it is better and easier to just create a redirect and using the new name to redirect back to the original article. That way if someone types in the new name, they'll go to the article that has the information they were looking for. Plus, it allows for more then one name to direct to one article. Article redirects should be based off of the names in the alternate names section of the infobox.
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| − | Asylum Projects uses a reference system that is both easy and relatively unobtrusive. If an editor can cite where they got the information, then they are highly encouraged to do so. References can be as simple as a link to as complex as the MLA/DLA reference style guides.
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| − | ===Referencing News/Blog Articles===
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| − | When using a news article as a reference, then the basic information that should be included are:
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| − | *Writer's name.
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| − | *Publishing newspaper/blog.
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| − | *Date published.
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| − | *Link to the article.
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| − | ===Referencing Online/Offline Essays and Historical Papers===
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| − | Offline essays can be everything from an in house historical reports to term papers. While online essays are everything from historical web pages that have history sections to blogs who chronicle the subject's history.
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| − | Some basic information that should be included with these types of references:
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| − | *Writer's name.
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| − | *Publishing institution/blog/web site (if known).
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| − | *Link to the essay (If from an online essay.).
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| − | ===Historical Research===
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| − | Historical research is the act upon researching archives, libraries, and historical associations. Usually the information is from original reports from the institution itself. Referencing these types of sources can be rather hard. If you know the source where the information came from, then please reference that source with as much information as you can.
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| − | ===Reference Coding===
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| − | To code a reference in Asylum Projects is very easy:
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| − | #To add a reference to a section and/or article, the coding that is used will be <nowiki><ref>text of reference</ref></nowiki>. Place the reference information within the Ref tags. Also remember that if you are citing a specific fact or section, you need to place these tags and reference immediately after the cited section. (Also on a side note: if this reference is used for more then one fact/section that you need to cite then within the front Ref tag include this: name=text. For example: <nowiki><ref name=first></nowiki> Then include all the reference information in the first instance of that reference. Then for every time after that that you want to use the same reference, just copy and paste the first ref tag after every use of that reference.)
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| − | #Near the bottom of the article place a heading titled References: <nowiki>==References==</nowiki> and immediatly under that title include this bit of coding: <nowiki><references/></nowiki> and that's it.
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| − | #Hit save page and then within the article you will see a small reference link that looks like this: [1] right after the section you placed the reference. If you click that small number, you will be sent down to the bottom of the page where you placed the Reference heading and see the cite you created.
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | When adding external links to an article be mindful of our [[AP:LINK|link]] and [[AP:SPAM|spam]] policies. To sum up both policies: make sure the link is directly related to the subject of the article and is not of promotional nature (For example: a hospital link from a web site that just contains the hospital address and very little else. These types of links are trying to sell hospital services and not any relevant information to this web site.).
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| − | When adding external links make sure to take into account these points:
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| − | *What is the primary focus of the web site? Is the site's primary focus history or something else?
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| − | *Is the site/link directly related to the subject of the article?
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| − | *Does the site ask for money to view something or services?
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| − | *Is the site working/online?
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| − | *Does the site help better explain/expand upon the subject matter?
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| − | '''Note:''' To those who are thinking of adding their site link to this site for advertising, search engine rankings, or to increase your web page traffic, this site uses nofollow tags. What this means is that adding your link to Asylum Projects will in no way increase your search engine ranking or increase your site traffic through internet search engines.ease
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| − | To add an external link to an article follow these simple steps:
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| − | #Go to the bottom of the article and look to see if there is a link section. If there is skip this step. Otherwise, edit the article and add this heading: <nowiki>==Links==</nowiki>
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| − | #Then add your link under the links heading using this format: <nowiki>*[the complete link and description of link]</nowiki> for example: <nowiki>*[http://www.mylink.com/linktosomething.html This is a link to something]</nowiki>.
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| − | #Now hit save and a link with the description you typed will appear under the link heading.
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | *[[AP:TUTOR]]
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| − | *[[template:infobox institution]]
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| − | *[[:Category:Help]]
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| − | [[Category:Policy]]
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