User:Joegrohens/FindingATopic

Read Wikipedia Guidelines for Articles  Read the following Wikipedia help pages, and then propose two possible topics for a Wikipedia article that you might like to write.  Wikipedia:Your first article  Wikipedia: A good article  Criteria for topics  Wikipedia articles must meet the following criteria.   Notable - significant, and of interest to a broad audience See: Wikipedia: Notablity    Verifiable - all facts in your article must be backed up by citations to reliable published third-party sources See:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V" target="_blank"> Wikipedia: Verifiability</a> </li> <li> No original research - your article will be based on reliable published third-party information, not on information that you collected first hand, or happen to "know" from experience See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" target="_blank">Wikipedia: No Original Research</a> </li> </ul> How to find a topic that isn't in Wikipedia yet. You might want to browse existing Wikipedia articles to look for red links, which indicate a page that hasn't been started yet. Or you might search through some of the (enormously long) lists of stub articles: <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stub_categories">Wikipedia Stubs </a>  Verify that your topic isn't already in Wikipedia by searching for it.