Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation

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 strenous 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. Improve the project page.
2. Promote awareness of Afc.
3. Review requests at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Today.
4. Repair format issues that occur on the Afc page that prevent easy resolution of requests.
5. Clean up the backlog.

Why is this important?

A lot of articles are posted at AfC and many requests go unanswered. Afc has an extensive backlog, extending more than one year. Afc is also an area where new users make contributions and decide to register accounts based on their experiences.

Parent WikiProjects

Wikipedia:Maintenance

Participants

• 24fan24
• AnonGuy
• Banana
• Boricuaeddie
• ConMan
• delldot
• Draicone
• Firefoxman
• Flubeca
• GrooveDog
• Hdt83
• Henrik
• Hersfold
• Kwsn
• LtPowers
• Maelwys
• Neranei
• Ozgod
• Qst
• ShinmaWa
• Xnuala
• FM07GOD

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.