Help:Adding Articles

This help article is part of a series, "Getting Started" Adding articles is a straightforward process, and helps to make the Wiki more comprehensive. If, when searching for something, you discover it has not yet been covered, then clicking the red "create this page" will create the page. The page will appear just as when editing, except that it will be blank. Although "creating an article" is very simple, you should not leave placeholder information or provide insufficient details to briefly cover the topic; other users visiting the page should be able to add to what has already been written.

When first adding articles it is better to create an extended lead than to try and cover the topic with headers that have no information. While editing an article in such early stages, you may want to let others know that it is being worked on, in which case you should use the "Under-construction" template:

If you want to create an article and work on it substantially without the risk of it being deleted in its early stages, then you can create it at a subpage of your userpage. To do this:
 * 1) Put "User:" in the "Search" box
 * 2) Put your username after this
 * 3) Add a forward slash ("/")
 * 4) Add a name which specifies a subpage (i.e. "Workpage") (So in the "Search" box you may have: User:Username/Workpage)
 * 5) Create the page as usual

Note: Try to keep subpages to a minimum, as they take up space and can often be forgotten and mismanaged.