User:Desertborn/What I use

What I use when working on pages

These are the references and tools that I have found quite helpful. I kind of use them as my personal toolkit for working here on Simple English Wikipedia.

References

The basics

• How to write simple English pages
• How to copy from another Wikipedia

For quality writing

• Active Voice
• Plain Language Guidelines
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk
• First Things First: The Lost Art of Summarizing

Everything else

• Auntof6's list of things for editors to know
• Useful pages list

Tools

• User warning templates
• reFill 2 (Help) – for fixing bare URLs
• IABot Management Interface – for rescuing dead links in a semi-automated way

Great essays

• Death by template