User:MacGyverMagic/Bootcamp

The Article Creation Bootcamp is a voluntary training course for users who want help with creating new articles. The course is run with a limited number of enrollments at set times throughout the year to give each entrant the advantage of close contact with a small group of instructors and other trainees.

Course material

 * 1) Subject selection
 * Why does one thing make for a better article subject than another. When is it better to edit an existing article. (WP:N)
 * 1) Information gathering
 * What basic info should any article have? Where do I get information? (WP:RS)
 * 1) Article writing
 * Why you should start a new article in your userspace and how to avoid immediate deletion.
 * What is the tone you should be using? How to structure your writing. (Summary style, WP:NPOV, WP:JARGON)
 * A word on copyright.
 * 1) Article layout
 * Bolding, subheadings, infoboxes and other templates.
 * How to format references and external links (WP:FOOT, WP:CITET)
 * 1) Making it look and sound nice.
 * Images, infoboxes, videos, animations and soundfiles (spoken articles and pronunciations).
 * 1) Aiming for the bigtime
 * How to get an article to become a good article or featured article.

Instructors

 * 1) MacGyverMagic | my talk page

Trainees

 * 1) Be the first.