Template:AFC submission/helptools
Where to get help
- If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
- If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.
How to improve your article
- Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
- Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
- Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
- Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
- Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
- Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources
You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.
Improving your odds of a speedy review
To improve your odds of a faster review, try searching for a relevant WikiProject. For instance, if you wrote about a Kenyan astronomer, you might want to search for "Biography", "Astronomy" or "Kenya" to find WikiProject Biography, WikiProject Astronomy, and WikiProject Kenya. You can then add
{{WikiProject Topic}}
at the top of the talk page of this draft, like this. This will normally* let the WikiProjects know a new draft has been submitted. Before saving, preview your edit; if you did it right, it will look like this. If you see a red Template:WikiProject Topic link like this, verify the spelling and casing. It is also possible the project does not have a banner, in which case omit it or ask for help. Adding the 2–3 most pertinent WikiProjects is plenty. For example, if you add {{WikiProject Physics}}
, you do not need to also add {{WikiProject Science}}
. If you need help with this, see Where to get help above.
- ^* This will usually be the case, but assumes the WikiProjects in question are active, have a corresponding banner, and are subscribed to the Article Alerts system of notifications.
Editor resources
- Find sources: Google (books · news · newspapers · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · NYT · TWL
- Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix ambiguous links · Fix bare URLs · Fix broken links