Northern Exposure Wiki:Community Portal

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How to help out

 * If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
 * Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
 * To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
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Want to discuss stuff?

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 * For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum.

Things to do

 * General
 * Help expand some article stubs.
 * Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article stubs.
 * Create links to some orphaned pages.
 * Upload and add some images. Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[:Category:Images ]].
 * Write a new article that's on the wanted list.
 * Fix any double redirects by redirecting the first page to the third page.
 * Check for broken redirects and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
 * Consider splitting up very long pages into different pages or subpages.
 * Create some links on dead end pages.

Northern Exposure-specific

 * Use   to substitute the episode template (has infobox and section headers) onto new episode pages.
 * Copy episode and  onto appropriate character pages.
 * Don't add particularly mundane, uninteresting, insignificant, and/or non-noteworthy quotes; funny, quirky ones are fine--especially ones that are philsophical and make you think (which is a big part of what Northern Exposure is about). Things Chris Stevens says and Ed's movie references are particularly good.
 * Keep quotes in order from beginning of episode to end.
 * Use existing references when adding episodes and don't add redundant episode names in the article already used in references.
 * Place a short, half-width horizontal rule (line) between quotes--there's a classic editor toolbar button for it--and use linebreaks (  ) between speakers in the same quote block.
 * Italicize actions inside parentheses (like this)
 * Verify episode music, specifically:
 * "Get Your Life" by Livingston?
 * "Imperial Hotel"
 * "Tea with Alice"
 * "English Tea Room"
 * "Layin' Back"
 * Keep existing references in place.
 * Verify.


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 * Special:WantedCategories
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