Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation

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Welcome to WikiProject Articles for creation! This is the project page for editors interested in working on Articles for creation, Redirects for creation, Categories for creation and Files for upload.

Introduction
Only editors with Autoconfirmed and confirmed user levels are allowed to create mainspace articles directly, so Articles for creation, or AfC, opens a path for new users. Experienced editors can help develop and create drafts, and decline submissions that are not ready to be published.

An article may be unsuitable for many reasons. Submissions can be declined based on having insufficient context, containing copyright violations, not asserting notability, not being properly sourced, promotional language, and for other reasons.

A dedicated team of editors is needed to review the requests. There is often a backlog, so ensure submissions meet Wikipedia guidelines to avoid repeated declines.

Brief history
On 5 December 2005, in response to the Seigenthaler incident, unregistered users were stopped from creating new pages on the English Wikipedia (read about it in the Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost).

Consequently, the page Articles for creation was set up by and others, to allow unregistered users to submit articles for registered users to create on their behalf. The first page to be created was the redirect Fox Latin America requested by. The first article created was Horsea Island by.

Following huge backlogs, Kwsn and others WikiProject Articles for creation on 2 June 2007.

Project goals

 * 1) Promote awareness of the WikiProject.
 * 2) Review requests at
 * Category:Pending AfC submissions (or WikiProject Articles for creation/Submissions)
 * 1) *Articles for creation/Redirects and categories
 * 2) *Files for upload
 * 3) Promote, monitor and improve the articles and images created through the project.

How to get involved
We need you! Any editor who meets the criteria below can apply to be a reviewer. Reviewers must have:
 * a Wikipedia account at least 90 days old.
 * a minimum of 500 undeleted edits to articles.
 * read and understood the reviewing instructions.
 * a demonstrated understanding of the policies mentioned in the reviewing instructions, including the special notability categories.
 * evidence of understanding the deletion policy (experience in areas such as CSD/AfD/PROD or page curation are beneficial).
 * a willingness and ability to respond in a timely manner to questions.

Submissions must be reviewed in accordance with Wikipedia's established content policies and guidelines — become familiar with them. The reviewing instructions cover reviews of article drafts, redirects and categories, and file requests.

If you are unsure, ask for help! Some helpful places are the Reviewer talk page, the live chat in Wikipedia's Live Help Channel, or the #articles-for-creation channel in the NPP Discord.

To join, follow the instructions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants. Administrators and New Page Patrollers are automatically able to use the helper script and thus do not need to request access or add their name to the list.

Welcome template
This template is used to welcome new participants to the project. It can be added to a new participant's talk page by adding {{subst:AfC welcome}} to the bottom of the page:

Advertisement and reviewer recruiting
Put this template on your user page and talk page to help promote this WikiProject!

Code:

You can also use one of the following userboxes.

Drop this on a prospective reviewer's user talk page to help recruit new reviewers.

Code:

To add an AFC icon to the top-right corner of a page, use:

Chat rooms

 * Wikipedia's IRC Live Help Channel
 * channel in IRC
 * #articles-for-creation channel in the NPP Discord

Article Alerts
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