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HelpThing was written by members like you, with some help from LibraryThing staff.

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The first rule of HelpThing is "be bold!" If you can add or edit it, go ahead. We also have a HelpThing Style Guide.

1 What is HelpThing?
2 Sample Pages
3 Start Helping

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[edit] What is HelpThing?

HelpThing is this wiki-editable, member-written, contextual help for LibraryThing's features, concepts and culture. HelpThing was opened to all members on July 22, 2009.

See the HelpThing Style Guide

[edit] Sample Pages

These pages are a little farther-on than the others.

[edit] Start Helping

Pages that we need - click on one of the red ones and help us out! "DONE" markings were stripped as of Oct. '08 - live links without a DONE marking need to be re-checked for completeness and accuracy to reflect recent changes.

Home (new)
Your Profile (needs checking for up-to-date-ness and information on blocking other members)
- Connections
  - Connection News
  - Edit/view connections (also in Edit Profile)
  - Author Connections
  - Also On
- Recommendations (All subsections revised and ready for review by others)
- Your Reviews (needs updating with language of reviews/tweet your reviews)
- Statistics
- Clouds
  - Tag Cloud (done, except for confirming # of tags in LT cloud)
  - Author Cloud (done, except for confirming # of authors in LT cloud)
  - Tag Mirror
- Author Gallery
- Edit Profile (main listing needs to be deleted; information contained on sub-pages):
- Find Friends
- Widget

Your Library (needs a big ol' overhaul, not least to add collections info.)
- Edit Display Style (out of date; needs to redirect to Editprofile/Styles)

Work (Needs updating to reflect collections, customizeable pages, etc.) Also needs to be streamlined with moving some information to the relevant subpages

Author page
- LibraryThing Authors
- Combine all works
  - Combination confirmation
  - Separation confirmation
  - Separated works page
  - More combining pages here?
  - Author split

Common Knowledge
- CK clouds
- Change Log
- CK search results
- Series page
- Character page
- Book Award page
- Places page
- MORE HERE??

Tags (Needs revision - and possibly moving - to deal with collections and in-catalog streamlining)

Add Books (needs checking and updating)
- Manual Entry
- Import
- Library Sources (This info probably needs to be added in to the main Add Books entry, since it no longer has its own page)

Talk (needs more on "Your Books" and "Search", and some more linking, updates for "Hot Topics", others?)
- Talk topic page needs to be moved to Topic page -- info copied over (couldn't get it to "move")

Groups Needs a better way to distinguish between the main Groups page and an individual Group page, both of which have the URL /groups.
- Groups list
- New Group