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First, please be aware that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by volunteers. Our mission is to share reliable knowledge to benefit people who want to learn. We are not social media, a place to promote a company or product or person, to advocate for or against anyone or anything, nor a place to first announce to the world information on topics that have not already been the subject of reliable publication. Please keep this in mind, always. (This is described in "What Wikipedia is not".)

We find "accepted knowledge" in high quality, published sources. By "high quality" we mean books by reputable publishers, respected newspapers, peer reviewed scientific and academic journals, literature reviews and other sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means generally not using random personal websites, blogs, forum posts, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter content, self-published sources like open wikis (including other Wikipedia articles), etc. We summarize such high quality, published sources in Wikipedia articles. That is all we do! Please make sure that anything you write on Wikipedia is based on such sources – not on what is in your head.

Here are some tips that can help you with your first article:

~Register an account. All you need is to choose a username and password. This will give you various powers. After a few days of editing articles, it will give you the power to create a new one.

~Practice first. Before starting, try editing existing articles to get a feel for writing and for using Wikipedia's mark-up language—we recommend that you first take a tour through the tutorial or review contributing to Wikipedia to learn editing basics.

~Biographies of living people are among the most difficult articles to get right. Consider starting with something easier.

~Search Wikipedia to see if an article already exists on the subject, perhaps under a different title. If an article already exists, feel free to make any constructive edits to improve it, while citing the sources that verify your changes.

~No article on the subject exists? OK, now you need to try to determine if the subject you want to write about is what we call "notable" on Wikipedia. The question we ask is: does this topic belong in an encyclopedia?

•More than 200 articles are typically deleted from the English Wikipedia every day, mostly because of lack of notability. Please make sure your topic is notable by our definition before you spend time and effort on it. An article on a non-notable subject will be rejected or deleted. No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability. We generally judge this by asking if there are at least three high-quality sources that a) have substantial discussion of the subject (not just a mention) and b) are written and published independently of the subject (so, a company's website or press releases are not OK). Everything here is based on high-quality independent sources, and without them, we generally just cannot write an article. By far, the largest cause of frustration for a writer of a new article is caused by lack of notability. Anything else can be corrected by improving an article, but lack of notability means the article will not remain on Wikipedia, regardless of how well written it is. To avoid frustration, start by determining notability before you spend any effort on an article. If you are not sure if the subject you want to write about is "notable", you can ask questions at the Wikipedia Teahouse. If those sources exist, we also ask that you demonstrate that notability of the topic, by citing these reliable, secondary, independent sources that treat the topic in substantive detail. Doing so for all significant factual statements in an article is also necessary to meet another core content standard: verifiability of information. We cannot stress enough how important citing your sources is at Wikipedia – it is at the heart of all of our core inclusion policies and guidelines. In order to learn about how to do so, we suggest starting with Help:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing, and then seeing Wikipedia:Citing sources for a more involved treatment, noting that each contains see also sections linking to additional help pages, guides, and tutorials. There is also a visual guide and a screencast available to walk you through aspects of citing your sources, as well as a screencast demonstrating the referencing features of Wikipedia's editing toolbars. Please be mindful of conflict of interest editing. If you have one, you will probably have a hard time writing a good enough Wikipedia article (this is not about you, it is just human nature). However, if you insist on trying, you need to disclose your conflict of interest, and try very hard not to allow your "external interest" to drive you to abuse Wikipedia. Please try hard to hear the feedback from independent people who review any draft you create before it is published and made available in the main encyclop.•