User:Natureium/checklist

Starting from most obvious:

Check the history.


 * 1) Blank page?
 * 2) Blanked by author? [G7]
 * 3) Blanked by other? Revert
 * 4) In English?
 * 5) Exists on other wikipedia? [A2]
 * 6) Does not? [Move to draft or tag with Not English (debated on NPP talk page(?))]
 * 7) Understandable?
 * 8) Nonsensical? [G1]
 * 9) No context? [A1]
 * 10) Appropriateness of content?
 * 11) Attack page? [G10]
 * 12) Entirely promotional/spam? [G11]
 * 13) Vandalism/hoax? [G3]
 * 14) Made-up by creator? [A11]
 * 15) Topic already exists? [A10 or redirect]
 * 16) Copyvio? [G12]
 * 17) Claim of significance?
 * 18) Insignificant people, individual animals, organization/company, web content, organized event, band? [A7]
 * 19) Insignificant musical recording (for example, musical recording of a group which does not have an article)? [A9]
 * 20) Insignificant anything else? PROD/AfD
 * 21) Cleanup/tags
 * 22) BLP without sources? [BLPPROD or Move to draft]
 * 23) Other topics without sources? [Tag]
 * 24) Categories? [Tag]
 * 25) Stub? [Tag]

The extra mile (but not required):
 * Stub sorting
 * Adding to categories
 * Classifying by wikiproject
 * Copyedit

Things that are always considered notable as long as they do exist (or so I've been told in the past):
 * Species of organisms
 * Experimental drugs at phase II of clinical trials
 * Genes
 * Train stations
 * Human settlements
 * Mountains, rivers
 * Listed buildings
 * Provincial/state legislative districts