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Wikipedia:Article Guidance

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This page contains various outlines for the Article guidance feature that will be enabled on this Wikipedia. This is part of an experiment in collaboration with this Wikipedia to expose the new guidance to a set of users and, in an A/B test, evaluate whether their articles are more likely to survive the reviewing process.

Article outlines are community-curated guidance with suggested sections, tips, and recommended source types for various article topics on Wikipedia. They are offered to less experienced editors through a feature, currently in a test environment in English, that will be iterated on a set of initial example outlines. This feature is designed to help them create well-structured, policy-compliant articles on this Wikipedia.

The Article Guidance team is working with Wikipedia communities to create and adapt outlines in their languages. Experienced editors can continue to improve these outlines according to local editing practices and policies. Once deployed, we will be able to test how the community-adapted outlines support article creation.

All sub-pages of this page have been adapted from the curated version at:https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_article_guidance. Editors are also welcome to adapt more outlines from the curated page.

How to adapt an outline for this Wikipedia

  • Pick an outline from this list (for example: Project:ArticleGuidance/Musician).
  • Create a page in the Wikipedia namespace using a name that matches the outline (for example, for the Musician outline, use: Wikipedia:Article Guidance/Musician).
  • Access the outline content through the 'Edit source' mode
  • Copy the outline content from 'Edit source' mode into your new page. Ensure all tags are included exactly as in the original.
  • Adapt the content to meet Simple English Wikipedia's standards, practices, and policies. Do not remove or change the tags and the content enclosed in tags (eg."<instructions>....</instructions>"), as they are required for the feature to function. Refer to the 'Quick guide to markups used in outlines' section of this page to understand what the markup elements mean.
  • Publish the page when you are finished.

If you have any questions, please share them on this talk page.