Recessipedia:User Guide

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Sign up for an Account

Contributors and editors of the Recessipedia are required to have an account to track who made changes to articles and when. To create an account click on the “Log In / Create Account” link on the top right of the homepage. This link will take you to a form that asks for a valid email, a username and a password.

How to Submit an Article

In the search box near the top right of a page, type the title of the new article, then click Go. If the Search page reports "No page with that title exists" then you can click the red "Create the page" link to start editing your article.

How to Edit an Article

Editing most Recessipedia pages is easy. Simply click on the "edit this page" tab at the top of a page (or on a section-edit link). This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the original page. If you add information to a page, please provide references if they are available. When you are finished with an edit, you should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit box.

To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the "Show changes" button. If you're satisfied with what you see press the "Save page" button. Your changes will immediately be visible to all Recessipedia users.

You can also click on the "Discussion" tab to see the corresponding talk page, which contains comments about the page from other Recessipedia users. Click on the "New section" tab to start a new discussion, or edit the page in the same way as an article page.

There are several things that a user can do to ensure that edits are performed smoothly. Before engaging in a major edit, a user should consider discussing proposed changes on the article discussion/talk page. Once the edit has been completed, the inclusion of an edit summary will assist in documenting the changes.

Undoing an Edit

Keeping bad content off the wiki is just as important as adding good content. That's why it's important to know how to revert back to a previous version of an article.

Every edit made is stored in a history page. That means it's easy to go back to an old version if an edit is a mistake or vandalism. To change an edit for an article, go to the article's history page. Each date/time listed on the history page is a link to a different version of that article. Just click the version you want, then click edit, followed by the save button.

Recent Changes

“Recent changes” is a list of every edit that's made, tells you who made the change, and shows you what edit summary they added. So, it's a great way to get an idea of what's going on in your wiki and what pages are most active.

You can get to the recent changes page by clicking on the "Recent changes" page in the toolbox on the left or by going to Special:RecentChanges. You can get to “Recent changes” on any Recessipedia article by typing Special:RecentChanges after the URL of the article.

Knowing when a Page is Changed

You can "watch" any page by adding it to a list of pages kept for your username. To do this, click the "watch" link at the top of the article you want to watch. You can set your preferences to have an email sent to you each time a page on your watchlist is edited.

Dispute Resolution Policy

The most important first step is to focus on content, and not on editors. Recessipedia, like Wikipedia, is built upon the principle of collaboration and assuming that the efforts of others are in good faith.

When you find a passage in an article that you find is biased or inaccurate, improve it if you can. If that is not easily possible, and you disagree with a point of view expressed in an article, don't just delete it. Rather, balance it with what you think is neutral or talk it over on the discussion page.

Always explain your changes in the edit summary, because other people can agree with you through that. If an edit is potentially contentious, explain why you made the change and how it improves the article if you can.

Articles about People

Unlike Wikipedia, Recessipedia contains personal narratives that can not be independently verified. As these articles can not be verified, Recessipedia does not allow the community at large to edit them. Contributors may submit stories anonymously. To maintain the integrity of Recessipedia, these narratives are flagged as categorically different articles from those on issues, institutions and events.

These personal narratives are also different from articles on key players. Articles about key players contain verifiable information on people who have had a significant role in association with the recession. Administrators of the Recessipedia reserve the right to edit or take down articles if they contain defamatory statements.

Code of Conduct

The integrity and usefulness of Recessipedia depends on contributors and editors participating with:

• Respect for each other’s view points. Edits should not be taken personally. And an open mind should be kept as revisions are made.
• Vigilance against vandalism. Vandalism is any addition, removal or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Recessipedia. Both Recessipedia administrators and the community of contributors should act with haste to remove vandalism.
• An encyclopedic perspective. Articles should be comprehensive, balanced in opinion (neutral if possible) and should contain citations as much as possible.

Style Guide

While no one standard template is recommended for these articles, a number of questions should be kept in mind when submitting to and editing within the Recessipedia:

• What role did the subject at hand play in causing, catalyzing or managing the recession?
• What types of risks either were or are associated with specific investment tools or classes of assets?
• What was the nature of regulation over the subject at hand?
• What decisions did you or someone you observed make related to recessionary pressures?
• What were the cause and effect relationships between two or more events?