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How to Write a Wikipedia Article

Last Updated: January 13, 2023 References Tested

Proposing a Draft

Writing an article, choosing a topic, using wikipedia standards.

This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Nicole Levine, MFA . Nicole Levine is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. She has more than 20 years of experience creating technical documentation and leading support teams at major web hosting and software companies. Nicole also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and teaches composition, fiction-writing, and zine-making at various institutions. There are 19 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article's instructions and verified that they work. This article has been viewed 606,810 times. Learn more...

This wikiHow will teach you how to write and publish an article on Wikipedia. Anyone can create a Wikipedia page, but it's important to follow their writing guidelines and choose topics that fit their standards. Your topic should be "notable" (it should be a subject covered elsewhere in reasonable detail), and your article should be verifiable with authoritative sources. Once you've decided what you want to write, we've got you covered! The steps below will walk you through the whole process.

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  1. Help:Your first article

    Before starting, try editing existing articles to get a feel for writing and for using Wikipedia's mark-up language – we recommend that you first take a tour through the tutorial or review contributing to Wikipedia to learn editing basics

  2. Wikipedia:Write the article first

    Wikipedia editors should write a new article before they create links to that article in list pages, disambiguation pages, "See also" sections, or templates in the encyclopedia. This is an exception to the

  3. 4 Ways to Write a Wikipedia Article

    The beginner's guide to publishing your first Wikipedia article This wikiHow will teach you how to write and publish an article on Wikipedia. Anyone can create a Wikipedia page

  4. Category:All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English

    This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject

  5. Wikipedia

    Welcome to Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. We want to make over 100,000, so let's get to work--anyone can edit any article--copyedit

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/New religious movements work group/Writing NRM articles

    Wikipedia's Identifying reliable sources guideline demands that articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means that we only publish the opinions of reliable authors

  7. Wikipedia:Requested articles

    You may have been looking for Wikipedia:Requests, a general directory of Wikipedia request pages, or Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request for requesting copies of articles in paywalled publications