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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 and Categories for creation and Files for upload.
Introduction
Currently, only registered users are allowed to create articles on Wikipedia. Often, an unregistered user would like to create an article but does not want to register in order to do so. We do not judge an editor who does not want to register, and AfC is a process by which their contributions can become Wikipedia articles. AfC works as a peer review process, where registered editors either accept and create an article submitted by an anonymous editor or decline the article because it is unsuitable for Wikipedia.
An article may be unsuitable for Wikipedia for a number of reasons. AfC submissions can be declined based on having no content whatsoever, consisting of vandalism or personal attacks, consisting of copyrighted material, failing to provide sufficient context, not asserting notability, and most often for not being properly sourced. Articles that already exist, sometimes under another name, are also declined.
A lot of articles are posted at AfC and a dedicated team of editors is needed to review the requests. AfC was once Wikipedia's oldest backlogged project, with incomplete archive pages over two years old. Through the work of this WikiProject, this backlog was eliminated on 21 February 2008 during a project-wide drive. Continuing efforts ensure that the backlog does not return.
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 Signpost).
Consequently, the page Wikipedia:Articles for creation was set up by Creidieki (talk · contribs) 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 140.247.23.58 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). The first article created was Horsea Island by Chemstud (talk · contribs).
Following huge backlogs on the page, Kwsn and others started WikiProject Articles for creation on 2 June 2007.
Statistical data
The following data sets show the comparison of the last three months and a year ago for the number of submissions per day:
Project goals
- Promote awareness of the WikiProject.
- Review requests at
- Category:Pending AfC submissions (or Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Submissions)
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Categories
- Wikipedia:Files for upload
- Promote, monitor and improve the articles and images created through the project.
How to get involved
WikiProject Articles for creation needs you! Any editor who meets the criteria below can be a reviewer for the project. Reviewers must:
- Have a Wikipedia account at least 90 days old
- Have a minimum of 500 undeleted edits to articles
- Have thoroughly read and understood the reviewing instructions
- Have a good understanding of the policies mentioned in the reviewing instructions, including the various special notability guidelines
AfC submissions must be reviewed in accordance with Wikipedia's established content policies and guidelines. If you are unfamiliar with these policies and guidelines you should become familiar with them before conducting AfC reviews. Before you start reviewing requests, please ensure you have read the reviewing instructions thoroughly and ask an experienced reviewer, if you are unsure about anything. The reviewing instructions cover reviews of article drafts, redirects and categories, and file requests. You can ask for help and advice at the Reviewer talk page. You can also get help in the live chat in Wikipedia's Live Help Channel.
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:
Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Articles for creation! We are a group of editors who work together on the Articles for creation and Files for upload pages.
A few tips that you might find helpful:
- Please take time to fully read the reviewers' instructions before reviewing submissions.
- The reviewers' talk page is the best place to ask for help or advice. You might like to watchlist this page, and you are encouraged to take part in any discussion that comes up.
- Article submissions that need reviewing can be found in Category:Pending AfC submissions and there is also a useful list which is maintained by a bot.
- You might wish to add {{AFC status}} or {{AfC Defcon}} to your userpage, which will alert you to the number of open submissions. There is also a project userbox. If you haven't done so already, please consider adding your name to the list of participants.
- Several of our members monitor Wikipedia's help IRC channel, and you are welcome to join in to ask Wikipedia-related questions.
- The IRC channel #wikipedia-en-afc connect is used occasionally for internal discussion regarding the Articles for Creation process, and also serves as a recent changes feed, displaying all edits made in the Articles for Creation namespace.
- The help desk is the place where new editors can ask questions about their submissions. You are welcome to help in answering their questions.
Once again, welcome to the project. ~~~~
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Awards
The AfC barnstar is granted for meritorious contributions relating to Articles For Creation and consists of a green cross on a star composed of five capital letter As. The A signifies new Articles, which is what this project is all about, the grey signifies the neutrality of Wikipedia, and the green cross signifies the Articles for Creation project. There is also a companion ribbon Image:AFC Ribbon 2.png, consisting of a thick blue center stripe surrounded by two narrow grey stripes surrounded by two wide green stripes. The blue center recollects the new color of former red links. | |||
The ribbon may be displayed by any user who has been awarded the barnstar. |
To present this award to a user, place the following code on their talk page: {{subst:AFC barnstar|message ~~~~}} |
Article Alerts
This page shows current alerts for articles within the scope of WikiProject Articles for creation, courtesy of the AAlertBot.
- Articles for deletion
- 29 Apr 2016 – Dublin Bus Route 33 (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Nordic Dragon (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 29 Apr 2016 – Dublin Bus Route 41 (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Nordic Dragon (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 29 Apr 2016 – Dublin Bus Route 43 (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Nordic Dragon (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 28 Apr 2016 – Digiment (talk · · hist) was AfDed by AdrianGamer (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 25 Apr 2016 – Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana (talk · · hist) was AfDed by DGG (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 24 Apr 2016 – Majesco (insurance software company) (talk · · hist) was AfDed by SwisterTwister (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 21 Apr 2016 – MCskill ThaPreacha (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Duffbeerforme (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 19 Apr 2016 – Thunder2D (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Thparkth (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
- 18 Apr 2016 – Dual-phase evolution (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Ruud Koot (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 17 Apr 2016 – Karen Fukuhara (talk · · hist) was AfDed by PRehse (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
- (6 more...)
- Proposed deletions
- 27 Apr 2016 – Chad Brunsvold (talk · · hist) was PRODed by Satisfied23 (t · c): Almost all source links are expired and prove to provide no information contributed to the article
- 26 Apr 2016 – Andrew Edlin (talk · · hist) was PRODed by Escape Orbit (t · c): Fails notability. Only notability seems to be as founder of gallery, which half of article is about. Only one live cite, which never mentions him.
- Redirects for discussion
- 26 Apr 2016 – National Public Alert System (talk · · hist) →Alert Ready was RfDed by CoolCanuck (t · c); see discussion
- Files for discussion
- 01 Mar 2016 – File:Tesla Motors logo.svg (talk · · hist) was FfDed by Stefan2 (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Feb 2016 – File:Zimmber logo.png (talk · · hist) was FfDed by Jo-Jo Eumerus (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Apr 2016 – File:The Life of Pablo (Tidal Front Cover).png (talk · · hist) FfDed by IndianBio (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- Miscellany for deletion
- 25 Mar 2016 – Draft:DJ JY (talk · · hist) was MfDed by LaMona (t · c); see discussion
- Good article nominees
- 11 Apr 2016 – Archie vs. Predator (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Argento Surfer (t · c); start
- 24 Feb 2016 – Wave 1 (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by EditorE (t · c); start
- 08 Jan 2016 – Grace Poe (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Shhhhwwww!! (t · c); start
- Requested moves
- 24 Apr 2016 – Bhumi Pednekar (actress) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved by Jonesey95 (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Apr 2016 – Conor O'Brian (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved by Feedback (t · c); see discussion