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

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To create your first article, you can follow these simple steps. Copy and paste the following box of text into [[Special:MyPage/sandbox|your sandbox]] as a starting point – as long as you're [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]] with an account.</br>

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{{quotation|<code><nowiki>'''[[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></nowiki></code></br></br>

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<code><nowiki>==References==</nowiki></code>

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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 its contents into the page you want to create for new topic. To get there, just 1) type in the new article's title in the Wikipedia search bar. Then 2) click on the red link after the part that says "''You may create the page...''" 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>

==References==

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