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If this is your first visit to Ballotpedia, welcome! If you haven't seen it yet, check out the Ballotpedia Quickstart, which will fill you in on the basics.

Be sure to visit our Library of Tutorials, which provide written instructions, screenshot tutorials, and video tutorials.

The Index of Help Contents provides an overview of all help-related articles.

Finding your way around

• How to search for an article.
  
  
  

• How to explore Ballotpedia.

Getting ready to edit

• Read the article guidelines to see how we write.
• Want to get your feet wet on some easy stuff? Find out how you can help.

Editing

• Basic editing screenshot tutorials

• How to edit a page. Anyone, including you, can edit a page!
• Quick guide to editing.

• How to start a new page.

• Screenshot tutorial on How to start an article

• How to contribute to Ballotpedia FAQ.
• Read how to use talk pages to communicate with other Ballotpedia users on improving and adding to articles.

• Screenshot tutorial on How to use your talk page

• How should I use categories?
• Adopting a page on Ballotpedia.
• After you save a page, read it again. That is, recheck your work.

See also

• See our help page for more information.
• View all articles in the Editing Help category.

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