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The following is a draft working towards a proposal for adoption as a Wikipedia help page.
The proposal must not be taken to represent consensus, but is still in development and under discussion, and has not yet reached the process of gathering consensus for adoption. Thus references or links to this page should not describe it as policy, guideline, nor yet even as a proposal.

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Writing an article

Learn how you can create an article.

This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia articles follow certain guidelines: the topic should be notable and be covered in detail in good references from independent sources. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia – it is not a personal web page or a business directory. Do not copy content from other websites even if you, your school, or your boss own them. If you choose to create the article with only a limited knowledge of the standards here, you should be aware that other editors may delete it if it's not considered appropriate.

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Creating an article is one of the more difficult tasks on Wikipedia, and you'll have a higher chance of success if you help us out with other tasks first to learn more about how Wikipedia works. You can always come back to create an article later; there is no rush!

Welcome to Wikipedia! Before starting a new article, please review Wikipedia's notability requirements.^[a] In short, the topic of an article must have already been the subject of publication in reliable, secondary, entirely independent sources that treat the topic in substantive detail, such as books, newspapers, magazines, peer-reviewed scholarly journals and websites that meet the same requirements as reputable print-based sources. Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable; if no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have a separate article. Please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject.

An Article Wizard is available to help you create an article through the Articles for Creation process, where it will be reviewed and considered for publication. Please note that the backlog is long (currently, there are 3,338 pending submissions; it often takes months) and articles are reviewed in no specific order. The ability to create articles directly in the mainspace is restricted to editors with some experience. For information on how to request a new article that can be created by someone else, see Requested articles.

Please consider looking at our introductory tutorial or reviewing contributing to Wikipedia to learn the basics about editing. If you are game-oriented, try The Wikipedia Adventure, and learn while you play. Working on existing articles is a good way to learn our protocols and style conventions; see the Task Center for articles that need your assistance and tasks you can help out with.

The basics

All new articles start by an editor researching a topic using high-quality, published sources. High-quality sources include books by reputable publishers, respected newspapers, peer-reviewed scientific and academic journals, and other sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This may include some high-quality websites, but excludes personal websites, blogs, social media, and any site where you can publish your own material, like blogs, forums, and even Wikipedia itself.

We summarize such high-quality, published sources in Wikipedia articles. That is all we do! Please make sure that anything you write on Wikipedia is based only on such sources, and be sure to include inline citations along with the content you write.

Before you start writing

Are you closely connected to the article topic?

If you are closely connected to the article topic, it might be better to let it be, and find some other topic. Wikipedia has special guidelines for editors who have a connection to a topic. These guidelines are intended to prevent biased articles and maintain the public's trust that content in Wikipedia is impartial and has been added in good faith. Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, and if that describes you, then find another topic to write about.

Search for an existing article

The English Wikipedia already has 6.8 million articles. Before creating a new one, try to make sure there is not already an article on the same topic, perhaps under a different spelling, or even a different name.

Search for articles with this name:

If your first try does not find the topic, consider broadening your search to find existing articles that might include the subject of your article. For example, if you want to write an article about a band member, you might search for the band and then add information about your subject as a section within that broader article.

If you're sure that there is no article available for your topic, then there are just a couple of more things to do before you start writing your first article: you have to establish its notability and gather references about the topic. Let's look at each of these.

Notability – should this topic have an article?

Your article topic must be notable in order to be able to write an article about it at Wikipedia; articles on non-notable topics will get deleted. Notability is a bit tricky to define, but in a nutshell, if there are lots of published reliable sources about a topic, then it is notable; and if it's hard to find any reliable sources about the topic (important: unreliable ones like blogs and social media don't count!) then it isn't. In between "lots of sources" and "hardly any" there's a large gray area, and the General Notability Guideline gives a more details on how to tell if a topic is notable or not. If you're not sure if your topic is notable, ask for help at the Help desk or Tea house.

A large part of the task of evaluating your topic for notability, is finding references to reliable sources, and you can read the next section to find out how to do that.

Find references

References are sources for the information you will be writing about. They must be sources that are published, either in print, or online, and could be books, academic journal articles, magazines, newspapers, and reliable web sites. You will use references for two purposes:

to establish the notability of the topic of the article (see above), and
to cite the particular facts you write about, to the reference where you found it.

As noted, the sources you use must be reliable: they must be sources that exercise some form of editorial control and have some reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Print sources (and web-based versions of those sources) tend to be the most reliable. Examples include: books published by major publishing houses, newspapers, magazines, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, websites of any of the above, and other websites that meet the same requirements as a reputable print-based source.

In general, sources with no editorial control are not reliable. These include (but are not limited to) books published by vanity presses, blogs, web forums, Reddit discussions, personal social media, fan sites, and other similar venues. If anyone at all can post information without anyone else checking that information, it is probably not reliable. Similarly, an opinion column in an otherwise reputable newspaper cannot help establish notability.

Many web sources feature user-generated content. This anyone can sign up and create content. All wikis are like this, including Wikipedia. Also IMDB, Goodreads, YouTube, LinkedIn, and social media such as Twitter and Instagram. Except for a few specific exceptions, these sources cannot be used.

This section should be about as long as what's above this bar. All the rest of it is still here; hit show.

A good resource for determining the quality of a source is WP:RSP. This does not list things like books, or extremely reputable sources which are never questioned, like the Associated Press. It does list many sources that have been debated frequently. If your source is listed on that page as "generally unreliable" or "deprecated", you should not use it in your article.

Sources used to establish notability must additionally be independent: they must not be connected to the subject. A company's own website cannot help establish notability. An interview with someone cannot help establish notability, as these can bought. A press release repackaged as a news item (churnalism) cannot help either, and is sometimes more difficult to spot. Articles in Forbes magazine whose author is listed as a "Forbes contributor" are the equivalent of an opinion column, usually paid for by a business or individual with the intent of self-promotion.

Sources used to establish notability must additionally demonstrate significant coverage: they must discuss your subject for awhile, at least multiple paragraphs. A mention in one or two sentences, or the appearance of your subject in a table or list is not enough to help establish notability.

Sources that are not independent of the subject or do not demonstrate significant coverage can still be used in your article to support factual claims, but do not count towards notability. Sources that are not reliable should not be used at all.

If there are reliable independent sources (such as newspapers, journals, or books) with extensive information published over an extended period about a subject, then notability is established: the subject is notable. You must cite such sources as part of the process of creating a Wikipedia article as evidence of notability for evaluation by other editors. If you cannot find such sources, the subject is ineligible for an encyclopedia article.

If none of your sources are reliable and independent while providing significant coverage, it doesn't matter how many you have. No amount of these is enough to establish notability. Adding many inadequate sources will not help your article get approved, and will delay review as reviewers struggle to check them all.

So your first job is to go find reliable sources to cite. There are many places to find reliable sources, including your local library, but if internet-based sources are to be used, start with books and news archive searches rather than a web search.

Once you have references for your article, you can learn to place the references into the article by reading Help:Referencing for beginners and Wikipedia:Citing sources. If you are using the Visual Editor, it can automatically generate citations for you if you tap the quotation mark icon and feed it a link to a webpage. Please double check these, as they sometimes contain errors or lack important information, such as author and publication date. You can toggle between the Visual and Source editors by tapping the pencil / eyeball icon in the upper right corner of the editing area.

The main thing is to get reliable references into the article, even if they are not perfectly formatted.

Look at similar articles

Prior to creating your draft article, it's a good idea to look at several existing Wikipedia articles on subjects similar to yours to see how such articles are formatted. The quality of our existing articles varies, so try to pick good ones. The Talk page of the article may have a quality rating in the shaded box at the top. If an article has been assessed as B-class, or as a Good Article or Featured Article, it is safe to use as an organizational template for your article. You can also consult Wikipedia's Manual of Style to see how articles are supposed to be structured.

Writing your draft

Once you've taken care of the preliminaries, verified that there isn't already an article out there about your topic, and found and researched sources, you're ready to start writing!

Where to start writing

When you have § gathered the source references you will need, and § have established notability, then you need to decide where you want to develop your draft. There are several possiblilities:

in "Draft space" – this is a special area of Wikipedia dedicated to creating new articles, and is a good choice. Other editors can find your draft here and help out.
in your sandbox – this is a page you can always easily find, by clicking 'Sandbox' at the top of any page at Wikipedia. Downside: you can only create one article at a time there, and it's not so easy for other editors to find.
in a User subpage. You can find more information about subpages here.

It's always a good idea to create a draft of your article before adding it to the main article space, and it's required for very new contributors.

How to create content

Note: I think maybe we need a brief section here, about reading the sources, assessing what the most important points are in the sources, and how to summarize it here, while avoiding WP:PLAGIARISM and WP:COPYVIO (briefly!), and adding citations. Then some mechanics, like, how to save with the Publish button; that they don't have to write it it all at once. Someone expert in VE vs wikitext editor might add a sentence about that, and a sentence about writing on smartphones.

One way to create content, is via the Article Wizard. The article wizard will guide you through the steps of creating a draft.

Article wizard

Writing tips

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This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: duplicates Do's and Dont's section below. Please help improve this section if you can; the talk page may contain suggestions.

Here are some writing tips. Note that this is not necessarily a full list, so use common sense when applying these rules. If you break these rules or game the system, your edits are likely to be reverted, and the article(s) and your other edits may get extra scrutiny from other Wikipedia editors.

Things to avoid	Great ways to contribute
Don't add non-neutral content, whether it is promotional or disparaging Don't engage in original research or personal essays Don't remove text from an article solely because it's negative or critical Don't make a "group" account for multiple people to share Don't neglect to disclose your affiliation on the article's talk page if you have a conflict of interest (paid or otherwise) Don't write about topics that are not considered notable by Wikipedia Don't rely on pre-existing articles on any Wikipedia project (including other languages) to determine if your subject would be considered notable by Wikipedia Don't speculate about content that has not happened yet Don't copy material that is copyrighted into articles Don't use AI programs like ChatGPT to write or verify information Don't write about events that will not remain notable far into the future	Do make minor edits/corrections to articles (e.g., typos, fixing links, adding references to reliable sources) Do use the talk page to suggest new article text instead of adding it to the article yourself if you have a conflict of interest. Do disclose your relationship to the client/topic Do edit using personal accounts. Do ask for help: Seek out someone who has worked on similar articles, or submit ideas for article topics via Requested articles. Do cite independent, reliable sources (e.g., a major media article) for any new statements you add appropriately – even if you are confident a statement is true (e.g., it is about your work); make a statement only if it has been already published in a reliable source Do exercise caution when editing articles about living (or recently deceased) people Do write about a subject rather than the term itself; definitions should go to Wiktionary

Local-interest articles: These are articles about places such as schools or streets that are of interest to a relatively small number of people such as alumni or people who live nearby. There is no consensus about such articles, but some will challenge them if they include nothing that shows how the place is special and different from tens of thousands of similar places. Photographs add interest. Try to give local-interest articles local colour. Third-party sources are the only way to prove that the subject you are writing about is notable.

Pre-publish review

Review your draft to see if it meets the criteria required for a Wikipedia article.

Say something about what to look for, maybe three minimum independent refs, a defining sentence and WP:LEADPARAGRAPH, maybe link Afc criteria; etc. Could be a bullet list.

Publish your draft

When you feel that the article is ready, you can submit it for review by an experienced editor. If there isn't already a "Submit for review" button on the draft, you can add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the draft to submit it. A reviewer will then look at your draft and move it to the main article space or give you feedback on how to improve it. You can always edit the page, even while waiting for a review. This may take a long time. There may be additional delay if your sources are not written in English. Non-English sources are fine, but many of us cannot read them to verify the statements in your article. Please have patience. We are all volunteers.

Autoconfirmed users can publish their drafts to mainspace as Wikipedia articles via a pagemove, as explained in Wikipedia:Drafts#Publishing a draft.

Post-publication

Congratulations, you created an article! But, you're not quite done; nobody will be able to find it, if there are no links to it.

Add stuff about adding categories and how to find them, and especially about adding inlinks from related articles. Maybe something about appendixes like WP:SEEALSO, and WP:EL; maybe portals and nav bars would be too much, but we could add those to the #See also down at the bottom of this page. Adding a Talk page header, with WP:WikiProjects listed.

Still need help?

Help desk

For a list of informative, instructional and supportive pages, see Help directory.
The best places to ask for assistance are at the Teahouse and at the main Help desk.
Click here to ask for help on your talk page. A volunteer will visit you there shortly!
For a list of the services and assistance that can be requested on Wikipedia, see Request departments.
Alternately you can ask a question through the Wikipedia #wikipedia-en-help ^connect on IRC chat.
Wiki Education offers a library of trainings for novice Wikipedia editors and students.

^ Should this page be sufficient? That is, should it be written in a way that you have a working knowledge of notability (i.e. enough to write a single article)? Or are we going to have to send them to the actual policy pages (as opposed to a "if you want more information, see here").

[1] Should this page be sufficient? That is, should it be written in a way that you have a working knowledge of notability (i.e. enough to write a single article)? Or are we going to have to send them to the actual policy pages (as opposed to a "if you want more information, see here").

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+* '''Don't''' add non-neutral content, whether it is promotional or disparaging
+* '''Don't''' engage in [[Wikipedia:No original research|original research]] or personal essays
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 * '''Don't''' make a "group" account for multiple people to share
 * '''Don't''' neglect to disclose your affiliation on the article's talk page if you have a conflict of interest (paid or otherwise)
+* '''Don't''' write about topics that are not [[Wikipedia:Notability|considered notable by Wikipedia]]
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+* '''Don't''' rely on pre-existing articles on any Wikipedia project (including other languages) to determine if your subject would be considered notable by Wikipedia
-* Maintain a [[WP:NPOV|neutral, objective point of view]] in any content you add or edit
+* '''Don't''' speculate about content that has not happened yet
-* Cite [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|independent, reliable sources]] (e.g., a major media article) for any new statements you add – even if you are confident a statement is true (e.g., it is about your work); make a statement only if it has been already published in a [[Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources|reliable source]].
+* '''Don't''' copy material that is [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|copyrighted]] into articles
+* '''Don't''' use [[Wikipedia:LLM|AI programs like ChatGPT]] to write or verify information
+* '''Don't''' write about events that will not remain notable far into the future
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 * '''Do''' [[Help:Using talk pages|use the talk page]] to suggest new article text instead of adding it to the article yourself if you have a [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]].
-* '''Do''' [[WP:DISCLOSE|disclose]] your relationship to the client/topic.
+* '''Do''' [[WP:DISCLOSE|disclose]] your relationship to the client/topic
 * '''Do''' edit using personal accounts.
 * '''Do''' ask for help: Seek out someone who has worked on similar articles, or submit ideas for article topics via [[WP:RA|Requested articles]].
+* '''Do''' cite [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|independent, reliable sources]] (e.g., a major media article) for any new statements you add appropriately – even if you are confident a statement is true (e.g., it is about your work); make a statement only if it has been already published in a [[Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources|reliable source]]
+* '''Do''' exercise caution when editing articles about [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|living (or recently deceased) people]]
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-:If you or someone or something you are personally involved with ''is'' suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia, let someone else add that article. You will have to ignore all your own knowledge and all your own feelings in order to create an article that is appropriately sourced and [[WP:NPOV|neutral]].
-; Do not advertise or promote anything
-:Please do not [[Wikipedia:spam|try to promote your product or business]]. Please do not post [[wikipedia:External links|external links]] to your commercial website. An article will be considered [[WP:PROMO|promotional]] if it describes its subject in wholly positive terms, or uses excessive [[MOS:PUFFERY|puffery]], even if it is not an overt advertisement. Keep in mind that if you or your business or a product or friend you care about has a Wikipedia article, you will not be able to control its contents. Negative material may appear there if it is [[WP:DUE|appropriate to add]] from an encyclopedic perspective. [[WP:ABOUTME|An article about yourself is not necessarily a good thing]]. Don't write an article about yourself. Focus your brand building on platforms where you control the messaging, and when you become eligible for an encyclopedia article, someone else will write one.
-; Do not attack people or organizations
-: Material that violates our [[WP:BLP|biographies of living persons]] policy or is intended to threaten, defame, or harass its subject or another entity is not permitted. Unsourced negative information, especially in articles about living people, is quickly removed, and [[WP:Attack page|attack pages]] may be deleted immediately.
-; Don't engage in [[WP:OR|original research]] or personal essays
-:Wikipedia surveys ''existing'' human knowledge; it is not a place to publish new work. Do not write articles that present your own [[Wikipedia:No original research|original theories, opinions, or insights,]] ''even if'' you can support them by reference to accepted work. A common mistake is to present a novel synthesis of ideas in an article.
-; Avoid non-notable topics
-: People frequently add pages to Wikipedia without considering [[Wikipedia:Notability|whether the topic is really "notable" enough]] to go into an encyclopedia. Wikipedia includes articles on many topics, but not ''every'' topic. A particularly common special case of this is articles about people, companies, or groups of people that do not establish notability through significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. "Notability" is not the same as popularity, success, or fame. There are many successful entrepreneurs, wealthy businesses, well-known scholars, bestselling books, and popular media personalities with no encyclopedia article. [[WP:NOT|Wikipedia is not]] a directory of everything in existence.
-; Do not speculate about the future
-: A film that has not been released yet, a sports season that has yet to begin, or a book that has not yet been published are all examples of topics that may be suitable for an encyclopedia article in the future, but not yet. Wikipedia [[WP:NOTCRYSTAL|cannot see the future]].
-; Avoid single-sentence [[WP:STUB|stubs]]
-: Articles need to have real content of their own. Short articles are welcome, but the article content should be at least several sentences. A good rule of thumb is if you cannot find ten separate facts about your topic in your sources, there might not be enough information for a standalone article.
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-: Please research with the [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|best sources available]] and [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|cite them]] properly. Summarize what they say {{em|in your own words}} to avoid any possibility of [[plagiarism]]. Do not use [[WP:LLM|AI programs like ChatGPT]] to compose text or to verify information. These are not reliable, and can make things up.
-; Add citations as you write
-: Adding a citation to each important statement as you write the article is much easier and quicker than the opposite, where you write the article and then try to find sources to verify the information you added. This is called [[WP:BACKWARD|writing articles backward]].
-; Articles or statements about [[WP:BLP|living persons]]
-: As with all topics, articles written about living persons must be referenced so that they can be [[WP:V|verified]]. This requirement is enforced far more rigorously for any statements about a living (or recently deceased) person, and reviewers are supposed to remove immediately any unreferenced material before discussing. Add your references as you write the article to avoid this immediate removal.
-; Advocacy and controversial material
-: Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on politics, religion, or anything else. Understand what we mean by a [[Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view|neutral point of view]] before tackling this sort of topic.
-; Assuming your subject is notable because of similar articles
-: Wikipedia's quality control has increased over time. There are old articles that were created when standards were lower that would no longer be considered acceptable today. [[WP:OSE|The existence of these articles]] does not mean we should approve more articles that do not meet current standards. Instead, the old, unsuitable articles should be improved or [[WP:AFD|removed]]. Also, there are many Wikipedias in other languages, and the English Wikipedia has the strictest standards for inclusion. If your subject has an article in a different language Wikipedia, that is not a guarantee of inclusion in the English Wikipedia. The only sure criterion for inclusion is significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. These sources [[WP:NONENG|do not need to be in English]].
-; Articles that contain different definitions of the topic
-: Articles are primarily about what something '''is''', ''not'' any term(s). If the article is [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary|just about a word or phrase]] and especially if there are very different ways that a term is used, it usually belongs in [[Wiktionary:Main Page|Wiktionary]]. Instead, try to write a good short [[MOS:LEAD|first paragraph]] that [[WP:GOODDEF|defines]] one ''subject'' as well as some more material to go with it.
 ; Local-interest articles
 : These are articles about places such as schools or streets that are of interest to a relatively small number of people such as alumni or people who live nearby. ''There is no consensus'' about such articles, but some will challenge them if they include nothing that shows how the place is special and different from tens of thousands of similar places. Photographs add interest. Try to give [[Wikipedia:Places of local interest|local-interest articles]] local colour. [[Wikipedia:Third-party sources|Third-party sources]] are the only way to prove that the subject you are writing about is [[WP:N|notable]].
-; Breaking news events
-: While Wikipedia accepts articles about [[WP:NEVENT|notable recent events]], articles about breaking news events with no enduring notability are [[WP:NOTNEWS|not appropriate for our project]].
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