Wikipedia:Articles for creation

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Unregistered users: Submitting an article Registered users: Reviewing submissions

Follow these directions to submit an article for creation.

  1. Check whether the article already exists by searching for it.
  2. Ensure that your topic meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, including ones for:
  3. Ensure that your article is verifiable and based on published sources.
  4. Click the "Start Here" link below.
  5. Keep in mind that there are a lot of article submissions, and established users may not have time to immediately review your article. Sometimes, due to a large backlog, a submission may not be rejected or accepted for some time.

Registered Wikipedians should follow these detailed directions to review article proposals and (where appropriate) create a new article from an article proposal.

Quick directions (for more experienced reviewers):

  • Pending article requests can be found in Category:Pending Afc requests.
  • Pending redirect requests can be found in Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects.
  • Reviewing an article:
    • Verify that the submission is not a copyright violation and meets applicable notability guidelines.
    • If the article looks suitable for Wikipedia:
      1. Create the article by moving it into mainspace and removing the {{AFC submission}} tag, as well as any AFC related comments or content from earlier, declined submissions.
      2. Add {{subst:Afc talk|Article Name}} to the talk page user who submitted the article, to inform them that their submission was successful.
    • If the article does not look suitable for Wikipedia:
      1. Change the {{AFC submission}} tag to {{AFC submission|D}}.
      2. Remove any copyright violations, personal attacks, or patent nonsense from the submission.
      3. Obvious bad-faith submissions may be tagged for speedy deletion if appropriate.
      4. Include a decline reason in the submission template ({{AFC submission|D|reason}}). Write a custom reason with {{AFC submission|D|reason|Your reason here}}, or choose from the list of standard messages as described in the template's documentation page.
  • Reviewing a redirect:
    • If the redirect is appropriate for Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:Redirects):
      1. Create the redirect as you normally would.
        • Consider adding a redirect template message to the redirect page, when appropriate.
        • Add {{subst:WPAFC}} to the talk page of the redirect to flag it as part of the AFC WikiProject.
      2. Add {{subst:afc redirect}} to the bottom of the section containing the request.
      3. Add {{subst:afc a}} to the top of the section, and {{subst:afc b}} to the bottom, below {{subst:afc redirect}}.
    • If the redirect is not appropriate for Wikipedia:
      1. Add the reason for declining the redirect to the bottom of the section containing the request, or add {{subst:afc notarget}} if the submitter failed to specify a target for the redirect.
      2. Add {{subst:afc r}} to the top of the section, and {{subst:afc b}} to the bottom, below the decline reason.

Article submissions

There are 32 pending submissions in Category:Pending Afc requests.

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Redirect requests

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Old submissions

Declined submissions can be found in Category:Completed Afc requests.

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