Demystifying Wikipedia: How to Create A New Page

Learn the step-by-step process of creating a new Wikipedia biography article from scratch. This example focuses on the overall structure of a Wikipedia page by using a biography as an example. The same general structure applies to all Wikipedia articles. Before creating a new Wikipedia page, its is best to learn the foundation policies of Wikipedia - notability and reliability.

Wikipedia article are published in different places of the online encyclopedia - these different namesapces are important to understand when creating a new article. All new editors must use draftspace.

Wikipedia is also separated into 321 different languages. Consider writing articles that are relevant to the the region covered by that language.

For more in-depth examples of specific types of editing:
Wikipedia Editing Basics Playlist
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Helpful links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Yo...
Notability - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Article wizard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Userspace draft - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Us...
Information on drafts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...


To request an article for creation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Chapters
0:00 Languages
0:33 Policy Foundations
0:53 Common Problem
1:07 Check before starting
1:21 Namespaces
2:45 Starting a draft
3:06 Using a red link
3:41 Page Creation Blocked
3:50 Writing a New Page

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