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{{info|While this page explains a fast method you might find helpful, please note the caveats at the bottom. Thanks!}}
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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. You might need to click "Edit source" once at your sandbox to open the page for editing.</br>
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*'''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
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