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Project page describing article ideas that usually end up in articles for deletion
Essay on editing Wikipedia
Taking a
selfie and posting it online is fun for you and your friends. Doing the equivalent on Wikipedia—creating an article about yourself—is strongly discouraged.
The following is a list of
article ideas that show up repeatedly in
Articles for deletion (AfD). Please think twice before creating an article about any of the following:
Yourself or your
organization – including a
band of which you are a member or employee, even if either is
notable ! (See:
Conflict of interest ,
Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause , and
An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing .)
A topic on which no published, reliable, third-party sources exist – see
Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything and
Wikipedia:Verifiability .
A person, place or
idea that you or your friends made up.
Anything about which you are not going to write at least
one complete sentence .
The
street you live on (unless it meets accepted standards of
"notability" ).
A second article on an
existing topic ; you can just
edit the existing article . Use the
Search button to find out where it is.
Your dormitory building (unless it's a
heritage-listed building )
Something that doesn't exist, even as something fictional, legendary, or hypothetical.
Your club, society, fraternity, sorority, or any other school/college group (unless it's
famous and covered by independent sources , but even then see
conflict of interest ).
Secret societies that are truly secret, and other secret information that is being revealed for the first time. (See:
No original research )
Extremely specific details which only a dedicated few care about.
Subjects that cannot be studied , or the knowledge of which amounts only to the fact that it relates to another topic.
Any article in which you want to present a single point of view on a topic when multiple points of view exist. Expect all points of view, even critical or negative ones, to appear in any article you make! See
WP:NPOV
A new article to supplement an already existing one that you think is
not putting your point across forcefully enough.
Any subject that can be documented only by
reference to the original , be it film, recording or picture. An example would be an article about movie characters when the only information about these characters exists in the movie in which they are featured.
The new great thing you
made up in school today .
Your résumé or a thinly disguised version thereof.
Any article devoted solely to announcing that someone or something is awesome , beast , the bomb , cool , swag , or the man, the myth, the legend . See
WP:PEACOCK .
Any article devoted solely to announcing that someone is
gay ,
lesbian , a man, a woman, married, divorced or in other words, soap opera of any kind (see
Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles ).
Any article that calls any Wikipedian the worst ever. See
WP:NPA and
WP:ATP .
Any article about another article.
Any article about a particular millisecond in history. With
a
few
exceptions .
Any article articulating other articles' articulation when articulating another article.
How many
edits you have made in Wikipedia. (This includes contributions, you know!)
citation needed
Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create , for a more humorous version of the above
Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
Wikipedia:Deletion policy
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion , or, the list of article ideas that are really, really really bad; so bad that administrators are allowed to delete them on the spot.
Wikipedia:Fart
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not , list of "prohibited" items
Wikipedia:Starting an article
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents
Wikipedia:Your first article
Missing encyclopedic articles , use your time well and effectively
Wikipedia:Most ideas are bad
Adminitis
Akin's Laws of Article Writing
Alternatives to edit warring
ANI flu
Anti-Wikipedian
Anti-Wikipedianism
Articlecountitis
Asshole John rule
Assume bad faith
Assume faith
Assume good wraith
Assume stupidity
Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
Avoid using preview button
Avoid using wikilinks
Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
Barnstaritis
Before they were notable
BOLD, revert, revert, revert
Boston Tea Party
Butterfly effect
CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
Complete bollocks
Counting forks
Counting juntas
Crap
Don't stuff beans up your nose
Don't-give-a-fuckism
Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
Don't delete the main page
Editcountitis
Edits Per Day
Editsummarisis
Editing Under the Influence
Embrace Stop Signs
Emerson
Fart
Five Fs of Wikipedia
Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
Go ahead, vandalize
How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
How to get away with UPE
How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
How to vandalize correctly
How to win a citation war
Ignore all essays
Ignore every single rule
Is that even an essay?
Mess with the templates
My local pond
Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
Legal vandalism
List of jokes about Wikipedia
LTTAUTMAOK
No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
No one cares about your garage band
No one really cares
No, really
No sorcery threats
Notability is not eternal
Oops Defense
Play the game
Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
Please bite the newbies
Please do not murder the newcomers
Pledge of Tranquility
R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Requests for medication
Requirements for adminship
Rouge admin
Rouge editor
Sarcasm is really helpful
Sausages for tasting
The Night Before Wikimas
The first rule of Wikipedia
The Five Pillars of Untruth
Things that should not be surprising
The WikiBible
Watchlistitis
Wikipedia is an MMORPG
WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes
Why not create an account?
Yes legal threats
You don't have to be mad to work here, but
You should not write meaningless lists
About essays Policies and guidelines