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Where to ask questions or make comments
You can find the answers to many of your questions at the following places:
Finding information
e.g. To find the capital of South Africa, type South Africa in the box on the left and click Search.
- Reference Desks — for knowledge questions (about anything other than how to use Wikipedia) you can ask our volunteers.
e.g. "What country has the world's largest fishing fleet?"
- Computing - Entertainment - Language - Humanities - Mathematics - Science - Miscellaneous
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How to use Wikipedia
- FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia
- Advice for parents - information about Wikipedia for parents and guardians.
- Help:Contents — information about using Wikipedia.
e.g. "How do I add an image to an article?"
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Asking questions or making comments
- Each article has a Talk page — click on the article's discussion link at the top of the page — for questions, reporting vandalism or discussions about the article.
- Village pump is the discussion forum for many technical and policy issues.
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IRC — help chat
You are also welcome to ask questions in one of Wikipedia's IRC channels. If you have an IRC client installed you can join a channel by connecting to #wikipedia-en-help (a help channel for English Wikipedia users) or #wikipedia (for general chat about Wikipedia). Wikipedia's IRC channels are found on the freenode network.
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Important notes:
- Wikipedia is a volunteer-operated site.
- There is no "documentation service" nor are there any paid staff to process inquiries about the content of articles (sources, accuracy, etc.).
- Please write all inquiries to the relevant reference desk or talk page; see above.
- We will not respond to email inquiries.
- Please do not email Wikipedia about finding more documentation, contact addresses for celebrities or companies, or similar requests.
Please do not post your question on this page.
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