Wikipedia:Articles for creation
The Articles for creation (AfC) process is designed to assist any editor with creating a new page as a
Writing an encyclopedic article from scratch is not easy. It is recommended that you first
Creating an article
Before you start writing, here are some things you should have in mind:
- Make sure that the topic is notable enough for an article. Is it already covered in an existing article? If not, there is a very good chance that the topic is not notable and will never be accepted as an article. If yes, have you improved that coverage? Improving existing content is a much more successful way of contributing to Wikipedia.
- Articles should reflect only what reliable sources have said about the topic, and all articles need referencesto reliable sources.
- If you have a disclose it on the draft's talk page.
- If you are being paid to contribute to Wikipedia, you must—under the disclose who is paying you, who the client is, and any other relevant affiliation.
- The draft should not have category declarations on it that cause it to be categorized as a finished article. If and when the page is accepted by a reviewer, it will have categories added to it at that time; however, categories present on the page while it's still in draft form will be either removed or disabled per WP:DRAFTNOCAT.
- If you have an idea for the title of an article, but no content for the article itself, you can make a suggestion at Wikipedia:Requested articles.
Your article title will have "Draft:" in front of it until it is accepted as an article. To start a new draft, click the button below:
If anyone contacts you in order to solicit any "premium" or "paid" Wikipedia services, assistance, or support to you, or if anyone attempts to persuade you to pay (or "donate") any amount of money or provide compensation of any amount or of any kind in exchange for assistance with publishing your article, it is a scam.
- Do not reply or respond to them - even if to tell them that you know or are aware of their attempts to scam you. Stop all communication with them immediately.
- Do not agree, promise, plan, arrange, or attempt to send any kind of payment or compensation to them.
- Do not follow any of their directions or instructions.
- Do not believe anything they tell you as being truthful or legitimate.
- Do not give them any of your personal information or account information.
- Do not click on or follow any website links or URLs that they send or give to you.
If anyone attempts to contact or solicit you in this (or a similar) manner, please forward a copy of the entire email conversation, including email headers, to paid-en-wpwikipedia.org. After you have done so, delete all correspondence that you've received from them. See this scam warning for detailed information.
Submitting for review
Submit your draft for review by clicking the button "Submit for review". If you don't see this button, you can add the code {{subst:submit}}
to the top of your draft (remember to switch to the
Getting a review can take a while, but your draft will be reviewed eventually. Attempting to bypass the process by moving the page, or cutting and pasting it into a new mainspace article, may lead to the page being moved back into draftspace again,
Old drafts
Old drafts, drafts that have been unedited for more than six months, are routinely deleted (see
Some old drafts have been identified as "promising", but without any active editor actually committing to working on them. See Category:Promising draft articles and Category:AfC postponed G13. Consider browsing these drafts for topics that you would like to improve and move to mainspace. If it reasonably appears that {{Promising draft}} or Category:AfC postponed G13 are not merited, you may remove them but consider first discussing the matter with the original placer of the template or category.
Reviewers
Experienced editors are always needed to review the AfC submissions! The guide for doing so can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewing instructions.
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- There are 1,964 pending submissions in Category:Pending AfC submissions. The ages of the various submissions are as follows:
- Declined submissions can be found in Category:Declined AfC submissions.
- Archives from before September 2008 can be found here.
- Submissions are archived by date in Category:AfC submissions by date: