Help:Your first article
Overview of the guidelines, requirements, suggestions for the newbie editor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Welcome to Wikipedia! Before starting a new article...
- Please review Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. 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. They might be books, newspapers, magazines, peer-reviewed scholarly journals and similarly high-quality sources.
- Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable; if no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have an article.
- Search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject.
Writing an article
Learn how you can create a new article on Wikipedia.
Newcomer tip: You might want to build up your skills doing smaller tasks first at Wikipedia:Task Center.
This is an information page. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting. |
An article should follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especially:
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:
Consider looking at our introductory tutorial or reviewing contributing to Wikipedia to learn the basics about editing. 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.