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Welcome to the Wikiproject Articles for Creation! This is the project page for editors interested in working on [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]].
Welcome to the Wikiproject Articles for Creation! This is the project page for editors interested in working on [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]].

Revision as of 17:43, 29 February 2008

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Shortcuts

Welcome to the Wikiproject Articles for Creation! This is the project page for editors interested in working on Articles for creation.

Articles for creation

The shortcut to access the page is WP:AFC. 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 choose not to make a judgement on why an editor does not want to register. Editors are permitted to feel this way, and Afc is a process by which their contributions can be processed into 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 due to unsuitability for Wikipedia.

Unsuitability for Wikipedia occurs in a number of ways. A list of common reasons with templates for notification is available at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/templates. Afc submissions can be denied based on having no content whatsoever, consisting of vandalism or personal attacks, consisting of a copyright violation, 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. Afc is rather strict about the sourcing requirement, which makes it a more strenuous effort than registering an account in order to create an article. Since many anonymous users have submitted articles to Afc after putting a lot of effort into creating an encyclopedia article, we believe that each of these requests should be evaluated.

Project Goals

  1. Promote awareness of Afc.
  2. Review requests at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Today.
  3. Repair format issues that occur on the Afc page that prevent easy resolution of requests.


Why is this important?

A lot of articles are posted at AfC and many requests go unanswered. Without a dedicated team of editors working on the requests, this process has a great tendency to become backlogged. AfC was once Wikipedia's oldest backlogged project, with incomplete archive pages over two years old. Through the work of the AfC WikiProject, this backlog was eliminated on February 21, 2008 during a project-wide backlog drive. Continuing efforts ensure that the backlog will not recreate itself.

The AFC Barnstar

The AFC Barnstar

The AFC Barnstar is granted for meritorious contributions relating to Articles For Creation. The award was proposed in July 2007. The winning design was created by Hersfold 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,[1] and the green cross signifies the Articles For Creation project.

Hersfold also designed a companion ribbon AFC Barnstar, 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 award was first granted to Counterpart0 and Hersfold on 2007-07-23 for their work clearing the AFC backlog after meeting criteria set a week earlier by Hdt83.

To present this award to a user, place the following code on their talk page: {{subst:AFC Barnstar|message ~~~~}} The ribbon may be displayed by any user who has been awarded the barnstar.

Sources

Parent WikiProjects

Wikipedia:Maintenance

Discussion Room

If you are having trouble deciding whether to accept or decline an article, you may want to pop in to our Discussion Room for some advice.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/header

Shortcuts

If you want to participate in this WikiProject, please click the button below, and an admin will review your request to see if you meet the qualifications.

     Apply to become an AFC reviewer     

Participants who have not carried out any reviews in more than 6 months, or have not edited at all in the last two months, are considered inactive and may be moved to the inactive reviewers list.

Active reviewers

Please add usernames in alphabetical order. Please note that administrators and New Page Reviewers do not need to add their name to the list in order to review drafts. If you were formerly on this list and are having trouble using AFCH, please either purge your cache or check your common.js file as one of these are likely the cause of the problem.

Probationary members

Inactive reviewers

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants/Inactive reviewers

Users who have not reviewed a draft for more than six months will be moved from the "Active" list above to the linked list of inactive reviewers. Users on that list are welcome to request restoration to active membership on the talk page.

Bots

The following is a list of automated programs (bots) which help to organize and administer the project.

Active bots

Inactive bots

Templates and userboxes

If you are participant in this WikiProject, you can add {{User AfC}}, {{User RfC}}, and/or our topicon at {{User:Hi878/AfC Icon}} to your userpage to list yourself under Category:Wikipedia Articles for Creation reviewers, which also provides you with a nice userbox/topicon. There are also {{AFC status}} and {{AfC Defcon}} which will keep you informed about the number of pending submissions. If you are the quiet type, you can just add the category manually.

Userbox

If you are a part of this WikiProject, you could (and probably should) add {{User:Hersfold/Userboxes/AFC}} to your userpage to list yourself under Category:WikiProject Articles for creation participants, which also provides you with a nice userbox. If you are the quiet type, you can just add the category manually.

Script

Henrik created a JavaScript helper that facilitates the management of submissions. To install it, follow these instructions:

  1. Copy the following code:
 importScript ('User:Henrik/js/afc-helper.js');
  1. Go to your monobook.js.
  2. Click "edit this page", paste the code, and click "save".
  3. Bypass and reload your cache.
  4. Go to WP:AFC and tackle the backlog!


Screenshot of the script once installed.


Screenshot of the script with colors.

References

  1. ^ I made this up
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