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

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*'''Another note''': Your topic should be [[WP:N|notable]] (i.e. it should have some detailed coverage in [[WP:Reliable sources|good references]] from [[Wikipedia:Third-party sources|independent sources]]). Wikipedia is an [[encyclopedia]] – [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|not something else]]. Please respect [[WP:Copyright|copyright]] law and [[WP:Biographies of living persons|avoid defamatory content]]. Feel free to [[WP:be bold|be bold]] and create the article with a limited knowledge of norms here, but other editors might [[Wikipedia:Deletion process|choose to delete it]] if it's not seen as belonging.

*'''Complications''': You don't have to make the beginning of your article an exact text match of your title. See [[electrical characteristics of dynamic loudspeakers]], for example. And the title you may type into the search bar ''might'' turn out to be a [[WP:REDIRECT|redirect]] that [[Wikipedia:Merge#Reasons_for_merger|should be]] a separate article. If you think it is best for the encyclopedia (see the arguments listed at the previous link on "should be") to turn a redirect like [[UK]] into an article, you need to click on the "UK" where it says "(Redirected from...)" Then you can paste your content in there after you click "Edit source". In this case, there really isn't a good reason to start an article off the redirect UK.

*''Yet another note'': Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia, and if you need more detail, see [[WP:Your first article in more detail]], thanks.

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