User talk:Alexispik/sandbox

Below are a set of instructions that will allow success in creating a “good” Wikipedia article.

1.	Identify the appropriate article category for your certain Wikipedia article, meaning anything from art, geography, mathematics, or even music.

2.	Within the appropriate article category, you have to find the right article type. This ranges from anywhere from restaurants under agriculture, food, and drink to the history of rock and roll under music.

3.	Make sure that everything has some sort of correlation to one another.

4.	 Always make sure that your sources have significance to the article you are creating. This means don’t have a source that has nothing to do with the article itself.

5.	Have enough sources to support your article. 6.	Make sure that your sources are reliable. 7.	Do not leave any sources out, do this because you want to avoid plagiarism at all costs and you want to be able to help people trace back to where exactly you got this information from. 8.	Make sure that when you are creating your Wikipedia article make sure that you make good claims and that you can support your claims when needed. 9.	Make sure that you analyze everything you put into your article to ensure that you will have the greatest possible success when doing so.

Here is an example of what numbers 8 & 9 should look like: This article would be considered in my opinion decently researched. This article was first created in October 2012. There have been about 27 edits since the last edit made in March 2018. The majority of the minor edits were made in 2018 and about 25% of them were made in 2013. No edits were made worth noting about. Regarding the talk page there is nothing in significance besides external links modified throughout the article.

10.	Take note of while you are creating your masterpiece that you keep note of the word count.

11.	Be open to edits at all times, do not get offended when someone makes an edit to your article, the only thing that someone is trying to do is improve the article in order to make it enjoyable for everyone to read.

12.	Use the talk page as a good resource, this allows you to take feedback from people that are reading your article.

13.	When creating the article keep in mind that you need to be non-bias at all times, remember that you are just putting information out not giving your opinion out.

14.	The final thing when creating a good Wikipedia article is making sure that everything makes sense and it has a nice “flow” to it throughout the piece. The reason being is so that nobody has to stop learning about the information you are putting out there just because it doesn’t flow well enough.

If you follow all of these instructions, I guarantee that you will be successful in your small, but important Wikipedia career in the ongoing future of your writing career.