Policies

The Encyclopedia of Wisconsin Environmental History consists of three main kinds of entries: Articles, Essays, and Sources. Additionally, there are pages for Contributors and for encyclopedia policies.

Contributing to the Encyclopedia

Contributors help create the encyclopedia in several ways:

• Creating and authoring new pages (see the Article Template)
• Contributing to existing pages by adding additional information
• Participating in Discussion of content
• Fact checking
• Originality checking
• Source checking
• Proofreading (and editing for style)

Guidelines

• Articles
• Article Template
• Essays
• Sources
• Finding and Uploading Images
• Citations
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Citing Images
• Recommended Labels for Referring to Racial and Ethnic Groups