User:A diehard editor/RDT/Journey of an Article

(Summary) The Journey of a Wikipedia Article

Account created

Searching and searching...

An article on the topic exists already. Make a redirect.

An article on the topic doesn’t exist

Finding

reliable sources

Writing

Putting it on your subpage or somewhere else

Article gets speedy deleted

You keep on submitting it and you get blocked

Submitted as a draft

Draft submitted

Draft declined, then edited and re-submitted

Draft accepted

You may lose motivation to work on the article

Unpublished

Published

You just publish it without drafting (skip if you went via "Draft accepted")

Might get deleted by

New Page patrol

Nice editors add sources, expand the article, and make it even better!

Doesn’t get vandalized

It gets vandalized (could get protected)

To being a

good article

and beyond!