Wikipedia:Simple guide to creating your first article: Difference between revisions

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Click "Save page". It will appear as it does in the box below. Adapt it by adding info, sources, and by replacing "your topic" with the name/title of your new topic. When you're done, copy and paste theits contents into the redpage linkyou withwant theto namecreate for your new topic. To doget thatthere, just 1) clicktype onin the new redarticle's topic linktitle in yourthe Wikipedia search sandboxbar. Then 2) pasteclick on the contentred inlink and removeafter the bracketspart <code><nowiki>[[]]</nowiki></code>that aroundsays "''You may create the titlepage...''" Then 3) paste the content in, leave an edit summary like "new article", and click "Save page" at the bottom and you're done!</br>

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{{quotation|'''[[Your topic]]''' and then define it in the first sentence if you can.<ref>Add a reliable source people can find to verify your info here.</ref> Say something important about the topic.<ref>Add another reference here.</ref><ref>Add even another important looking reference here so people can see this topic is actually important and worthy of Wikipedia's attention.</ref>