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'''Community reviews are an integral part of [[AboutUs]] and we encourage people to post appropriately worded, [[constructive_edits|constructive]], and informative information.  While positive and negative reviews alike are appreciated, profanity and personal attacks are not.  In order to better serve the [[AboutUs]] [[Portal:AboutUsCommunity|community]] it is preferred that previous reviews not be deleted, but that they stay to represent the entire review discussion.'''
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< [[Help FAQ]]
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{{HelpPageAmbassadorKristina}}
  
'''Please use the following as a formatting guideline for where reviews should go and how they should look...'''
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[[CommunityReviews|Community Reviews]] are an integral part of [[AboutUs]] and we encourage people to post appropriately worded, [[constructive_edits|constructive]], and informative information to better build the sense of community and wealth of practical information that can be found here on [[AboutUs.org]]. (See [[Community Reviews Guidelines]] for more information.)
  
'''A typical page will have the following headers:'''
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Please use the following as a '''formatting''' guide for where reviews should go and how they should look...
  
'''*Title'''
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==Getting Started==
  
'''*Description'''
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A typical page will have the following headers:
  
'''*Languages'''
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*Title
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*Description
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*Languages
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*Address
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*Contact
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*Additional Information
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*(Discussion)
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*(Community Reviews)
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*Related Domains
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*External Links
  
'''*Contact'''
 
  
'''*Address'''
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The "Community Reviews" and "Discussion" sections are optional and are typically not present until their need arises, so if there is not already a "Community Reviews" section simply add it below the "Additional Information" header and above "Related Domains."  If somebody has already posted a review on a particular page, all you need to do is enter 2 lines below theirs and begin writing your review.
  
'''*Additional Information'''
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==Examples==
  
'''*Related Domains'''
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====[[Why_create_an_account%3F|Logged-in User]] Example Review:====
  
'''*External Links'''
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If you are a [[Why_create_an_account%3F|logged-in user]] you can sign your name with a link to your [[PersonalPage]] as well as the date and time by leaving four tildas (~) after the <nowiki>*posted by</nowiki>.  An example review from [[Why_create_an_account%3F|logged-in user]] would be formatted like this:
  
'''Although some of these headers may be removed or changed by the community, the review section should be placed directly below the "additional information" header, and above "related domains".  When writing a review, please format as show in this example from the  [[A4StockPhotos.com]] page:'''
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==Community Reviews==
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===Great Site!====
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<nowiki>I really love [[AboutUs.org]] because...</nowiki>
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<nowiki>*posted by ~~~~</nowiki>
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'''...which looks like this on the page:'''
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==Community Reviews==
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====Great Site!====
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I really love [[AboutUs.org]] because...
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*posted by [[User:KristinaWeis|Kristina]] 13:11, 10 May 2007 (PDT)
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====Anonymous User Review Example====
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When a review is from an anonymous user (an IP address) it will be formatted like this example from [[A4StockPhotos.com]] (with three apostrophes (') around Anonymous to make it bold and the date and time manually added):
  
 
  ==Community Reviews==
 
  ==Community Reviews==
 
  ====At last, images that aren't all from the US!====
 
  ====At last, images that aren't all from the US!====
  Some great images on this site, good value too considering they are all full size. All the one's  I've  used have  
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  Some great images on this site, good value too considering they are all full size. All the one's  I've  used have
 
  been exactly as described, professional, high quality.
 
  been exactly as described, professional, high quality.
  * posted by '''Anonymous''' on Dec 1, 2006, 2:47 pm
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  <nowiki>* posted by '''Anonymous''' on Dec 1, 2006, 2:47 pm</nowiki>
  
 
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'''...and look like this:'''
 
 
'''This will display as:'''
 
 
==Community Reviews==
 
==Community Reviews==
 
====At last, images that aren't all from the US!====
 
====At last, images that aren't all from the US!====
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* posted by '''Anonymous''' on Dec 1, 2006, 2:47 pm
 
* posted by '''Anonymous''' on Dec 1, 2006, 2:47 pm
  
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==What to do?==
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*If you come across reviews that are incorrectly formatted or in the wrong place, feel free to fix them or let us know by placing the following category tag in the body of the article: <nowiki>[[Category:Reviews Need Patrolling]]</nowiki>.  On the flipside, if you would like to edit messy reviews for fun click [[:Category:Reviews Need Patrolling]] to see ones that are awaiting some [[wiki]] TLC.
  
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==See also==
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* [[Create Community Reviews Guidelines]]
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* [[Thoughts On Negative Reviews]]
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* [[Template:Review]]
  
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[[Category:AboutUs:Glossary|C]]
  
'''If somebody has already posted a review on a particular page, all you need to do is enter 2 lines below theirs and begin writing your review.  If you come across reviews that are incorrectly formatted or in the wrong place, feel free to fix them or let us know by sending a link to any of our [[RecentChanges patrol|recent changes patrollers]].'''
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