User:David FLXD/NPPGuidelines

Special:NewPages

Other issues

 * Stubs, which are the beginnings of meaningful and encyclopedic articles but which need a little help (a little wikifying, as it were). The basics of wikifying stubs:
 * Bold face the article title.
 * Link relevant terms.
 * Phrase the article in complete sentences, including the first.
 * Place an appropriate stub notice at the end of the stub.


 * Style problems. First, try to fix any style problems yourself. If you cannot, add one or more specific cleanup tags for pages which need tidying up. In particular, the following tags are common:


 * -- for general problems
 * -- for articles that need appropriate formatting or linking
 * -- a variant of wikify for pages that are properly formatted, but need linking to other related topics.
 * -- for articles that conspicuously lack references


 * Mistitled articles. Usually it's straightforward to move a page to a more appropriate title (WP:Name) using the "move page" function. Sometimes you'll find that an article under the other title already exists, in which case you should try to merge any new material from the newly created article into the old one, leaving a redirect in place of the new page.
 * Categorization Check that the article has been assigned to a useful category and if not, either tag it with uncat or try to find a category for it. If the article links to other Wikipedia articles, you can check their categorizations for ideas, or assign the article to one of the fundamental categories.
 * Orphaned articles Checking the "What links here" link will tell you if any other page points to the newly created article. Sometimes orphans result from a mistitled article (see above). Other times you'll want to find a related article and link the new one to it. It may be helpful to search for mentions in other articles. If none are found, an Orphan tag can be placed.
 * Articles without sources The best time to ask for sources is when an article is fresh and the contributor is still around to ask about the origin of the information in it. Tag articles with unreferenced and let the contributor know with, or try to find some yourself.  If there aren't any, it might need to be deleted.
 * Foreign language articles. Tag the page with notenglish and list it at Pages needing translation into English. Do not run the page through an online translator and submit the results.

Moving new content to other projects

 * Dictionary definitions. These can be transwikied to Wiktionary or converted into disambiguation pages. Many may be redeemable as Wikipedia articles, if sufficiently refactored, rewritten, and expanded.
 * Primary source texts. These should be transwikied to Wikisource.
 * How-tos or instructional materials. In some cases, these can be transwikied to Wikibooks; however, it's often possible to turn these into meaningful articles by rewording the text to make it more descriptive and less prescriptive. Try to improve an article by adding some more material before resorting to moving it out of Wikipedia.

New pages that may require deletion

 * Speedy deletion candidates. Read and be familiar with the speedy deletion criteria, then if you see any such pages created, tag them with, so that they can be deleted by an administrator. You may want to use one of the following, which provides the reason from the criteria automatically: db-empty, db-bio, db-repost, db-attack or db-music, db-spam, or db-nonsense. You might also want to consider placing test on the creator's user talk page to help point him or her in the right direction. If you tag an article for deletion as a non-notable bio, you may opt to notify the user who created the article with nn-warn. Many of the speedy delete templates suggest a readily formed tag that appears at the bottom of the resulting speedy deletion box and can be easily copied and pasted into the creator's user talk page. When leaving messages for new editors, consider using firstarticle rather than the usual warnings.

Speedy deletion is a tool which can easily be overused. Since speedy deletion removes a page without discussion, an article should not be tagged for speedy delete if there is any plausible reason that the article should be kept. In particular, an article should not be tagged for speedy delete using A7 for not being notable (in your opinion): an article does not have to prove that its subject is notable, it only has to pass the much lower test of asserting importance or significance (whether it actually is notable is a subject for an AfD discussion, not a speedy deletion). Consider using a Notability tag instead of a speedy delete tag. Also, an article should not be tagged for speedy deletion if it's possible that it might be improved into an article which should be kept. Pay attention to the guideline "Contributors sometimes create articles over several edits, so try to avoid deleting a page too soon after its creation if it appears incomplete." It is not a rule of Wikipedia that an article has to be perfect the instant it's first posted; that's why we have edits.

Unreferenced BLPs New unreferenced Biographies of Living People can be tagged for deletion with, which gives ten days to add a reliable source to the article. This is only for literally unsourced articles, not for ones that have a poor source that mentions the subject, nor is it for articles such as rock groups that mention living people, only for biographies of living individual humans. Please remember to inform the author, especially if they are a newbie.


 * Unsuitable pages. Pages about individuals, places, or things which generally don't merit an encyclopedia entry should be tagged with Your reason here or, if someone could reasonably defend its existence (or if a prod has been added and removed already), listed at Articles for deletion. What exactly qualifies as encyclopedic is debatable, though, so it's best to err on the side of caution and not delete or nominate for deletion too hastily.
 * Copyright violations. One way to check for a possible copyright infringement is to do an internet search; however, not all text is on the internet; search engines do not index all the internet's text, and some texts available through search engines are public domain and thus suitable for import into Wikipedia. These public domain texts include the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. You might also like to use this handy tool.
 * Blank the page and replace the text with ~
 * Go to [ today's section] of the copyvio page and add PageName from [insert URL here] ~ to the bottom of the list. Put the page's name in place of "PageName". If there is no URL, use a description of the source. (The template you used to blank the article will generate this code and the following one in the bottom right hand corner.)
 * Please also add PageName to the article creator's talk page.


 * Blatant copyright infringements may be speedily deleted. If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from a website which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia, and the uploader does not assert permission, you may use  instead of the standard copyvio notice, and an admin will decide whether or not to immediately delete the article. Notify the creator using Nothanks-sd or a similar message.


 * Be hesitant to list articles on Articles for Deletion if there's a chance they could be improved and made into a meaningful article. Tag them for cleanup instead.  Try not to step on people's toes. Users will often start an article as the briefest of stubs, and then expand it over the following hours or days.


 * Use of the prod tag may be more suitable in these situations. This tag may be removed by any editor, thereby averting the proposed deletion. This way, if the creator is serious about improving the article to meet Wikipedia's standards for inclusion, s/he may remove the tag and improve the article in the coming days. But if the creator subsequently abandons his/her attempts to construct the article, and it just sits, it will automatically be deleted in seven days. Regardless, it is a good idea to notify the creator of this tag placement, following the instructions on the template itself.


 * If you believe the article will probably meet Wikipedia standards one day and has a chance of improvement by someone else, you do not want to prod-tag it, but rather place other appropriate improvement templates on the page.


 * In any case, if you are unsure whether a page will be improved in the coming days, you may want to place it on your watchlist. The construction tag may be placed on a new page by a creator to inform new page patrollers and other editors that the article is still being constructed, and its early revisions may not meet Wikipedia's standard for inclusion. If the creator has not placed it there him/herself, you may want to place it there yourself. Many editors, especially newbies, are not familiar with this tag. The construction tag does not make a new page totally immune from deletion; see Deletion of pages under construction for details on when a page under construction can be deleted.


 * You may want to contact the creator on his/her talk page to ascertain the creator's intentions regarding future construction of the page prior to taking any such action. If you do so, try to learn from the creator about the purpose of the new page and any sources that may be used to establish notability and verifiability, two of the most important aspects regarding suitability for a page's inclusion. It may be helpful to discuss one-on-one with the creator some possible ways to make the page more worthy of inclusion or otherwise improving it, and if this is not possible, to name one or more articles the topic can be merged or redirected to.


 * Always check the history and the talk page. A new page might be a recreation of a previously deleted article. With other articles, someone may have removed a tag. The talk page may contain a notice that indicates that the article has already survived an AfD.