User:LowLevel73/talk-top

These are the two most common questions that have been asked to me so far. If you are a new editor (Welcome!) and you want to improve the chances of seeing an article published and kept in Wikipedia, here follow some useful suggestions for you! They include links to important Wikipedia guidelines that you should read. If you have any further question for me, just leave it at the bottom of this page and, please, click the "New section" button above if you are starting a completely new topic. Cheers!

1. If you are somewhat connected to the subject/topic discussed in the article, you are strongly discouraged to edit it. This is called conflict of interest and experience shows that it's nearly impossible to have a neutral point-of-view (which is a strict requirement) when writing an article about something that we have an interest to promote. If it applies to you, please see also Advice for editors who may have a conflict of interest.
2. Before creating an article, check if the subject/topic matches with the very specific Wikipedia definition of "notable". If it doesn't, there is no point in writing an article about it because sooner or later an editor will point out the lack of notability and the article will be deleted. The key aspect here is that the article needs to give evidence of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
3. Sometimes, brand new articles are quickly deleted because they are so short that they don't give enough evidence of the notability of the topic, yet. If you need more time to write an article, you can create it as a draft under your user space and then move it to the "main space" only when you think that it provides evidence of notability.
4. Writing for an encyclopedia can be a bit complex and Wikipedia provides Articles for creation, a section curated by experienced editors who would help you to create an article compatible with Wikipedia guidelines. See also their Article wizard.
5. Articles should be written from scratch. You can use pieces of other Wikipedia articles, if you want, but you can't copy any content from other websites or other kind of sources (even if that content was created by you) unless it meets the criteria for acceptable contributions explained in Wikipedia:Copyrights.