Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Tips

=Tips for creating new COVID-19 articles=
 * Follow all the standard best practices for articles, as outlined at Help:Your first article. See the Help:Introduction tutorials for general editing advice.
 * Rigorous sourcing is extremely important for medical articles. Ideal sources include literature reviews or systematic reviews in reliable, third-party, published secondary sources (such as reputable medical journals), recognised standard textbooks by medical experts, or medical guidelines and position statements from national or international expert bodies. See WP:COVID-19/Sources and WP:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) for more information, and WP:COVID-19/Reference sources for a list.
 * When drafting, follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles.
 * Optionally, add the COVID-19 sidebar, COVID-19 pandemic sidebar, and/or navbox COVID-19 pandemic, to the page. If the topic is significant in the scope of the pandemic as a whole, edit the sidebar and navbox to add it to them.
 * Add the COVID-19 portal (below any navboxes) by inserting.
 * Mark the page as within the scope of this wikiproject by adding  to the talk page. Also add  there.
 * Don't forget the normal finishing touches, such as categories, a short description, and the stub tag if needed.
 * Ensure that the article is not an orphan by linking to it from other COVID-19 pages where it is relevant, possibly COVID-19 pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019, Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2024, one of the country-specific articles on the pandemic, or one of the articles on the pandemic's impact. Also, add a few relevant redirects (such as swapping "coronavirus" and "COVID-19").
 * When you're done, give yourself a pat on the back, then go wash your hands!