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Many new articles are deleted because people don't know what should and should not be in an encyclopedia, and the place to find out is at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not"><i>What Wikipedia is not</i></a>. If your work gets deleted, please don't be disappointed or take it personally: many of our best editors have had some of their articles deleted.</li> <li><b>Help clean up</b>. Because it's easy to edit the encyclopedia, some people think it's funny to do silly things to it. We don't think it's funny, and we call it <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">vandalism</a>. 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So if you enjoy finding spelling mistakes and fixing them, do that; if you enjoy removing vandal edits and reporting vandals, do that. If you enjoy spending some time in the library to find <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">material to add</a> to an article, do that.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Working_on_articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Working_on_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Working_on_articles"></span>Working on articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Working_on_articles"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Working on articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_(1890)_-_c06543_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_%281890%29_-_c06543_03.jpg/170px-John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_%281890%29_-_c06543_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_%281890%29_-_c06543_03.jpg/255px-John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_%281890%29_-_c06543_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_%281890%29_-_c06543_03.jpg/340px-John_Tenniel_-_Illustration_from_The_Nursery_Alice_%281890%29_-_c06543_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="2000"/></a><figcaption>And Wikipedia has many rules.</figcaption></figure> <p>Wikipedia has many policies for articles. These are especially important: </p> <ul><li><b>Biographies</b>. We have many articles about people, some are about dead people and some are about living people. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">We have to be very careful when we write about living people</a>. You need to cite <b><a href="/wiki/Reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Reliable sources">reliable sources</a></b>, such as trustworthy newspapers, when you add facts about people. Wrong information can hurt a person's image. Some private information is not interesting even if it is true: there's not much point in mentioning the names of people's children or their dogs. If you're not sure if something should be included, talk about it with another editor first. How to quote information in articles is explained at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS"><i>Reliable sources</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Cite"><i>Citing sources</i></a>. Most importantly, <b>do not write a biography about <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography" title="Wikipedia:Autobiography">yourself</a>!</b></li> <li><b>Notability</b>. All articles <i>must</i> be about subjects that are <b>important enough</b>. We call this <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTABILITY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTABILITY"><b>notability</b></a>. If the subject is not notable, its article may get <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DELETION" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DELETION">deleted by an administrator</a> – and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7._No_indication_of_importance_(people,_animals,_organizations,_web_content,_events)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">sometimes rather quickly</a>! For example, we have a lot of articles about bands. <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> were a very famous and important band because their songs left their mark on society forever, but the band that practices in your neighbor's garage is not likely to be ready for a Wikipedia article for a long time, even if they played at the school prom.</li> <li><b>Some parts of Wikipedia can be inappropriate for you</b>. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CENSOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CENSOR">Wikipedia is not censored</a> and we might have some material that your guardians may not want you to work on, so talk about it with your guardians.</li> <li><b>Copying stuff from other places</b>. We call this <a href="/wiki/Plagiarism" title="Plagiarism">plagiarism</a>. Like using other people's photos, the use of stuff that other people wrote somewhere else is not allowed, even if you change one or two words. Copied text will be deleted if we don't have <i>very</i> special permission for it. It's like copying your friend's homework.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Working_with_other_editors" data-mw-thread-id="h-Working_with_other_editors"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Working_with_other_editors"></span>Working with other editors<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Working_with_other_editors"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Working with other editors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:People_icon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/People_icon.svg/170px-People_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/People_icon.svg/255px-People_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/People_icon.svg/340px-People_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100"/></a><figcaption>Getting along with your fellow editors is very important.</figcaption></figure> <p>All articles will end up getting edited by other editors. Working together with others is very important. Remember that these other editors are also trying to do their best and in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">good faith</a> just as you are. Don't be mad at people if you don't like what they changed or added; just discuss your concerns with them on the article or page's <a href="/wiki/H:TALK" class="mw-redirect" title="H:TALK">talk page</a> and in a nice way. </p> <ul><li><b>Be polite and discuss concerns with other editors.</b> When problems or concerns arise, always discuss them with the others involved and try to work things out. Don't begin the pattern of changing the article back-and-forth versus one another. We call that an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit war">edit war</a>, a behavior that will result in being temporarily <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">blocked</a>. Do not make snarky comments in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Edit summary">edit summaries</a> or make any kind of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPA">personal attacks</a> toward other editors. Always remember that there are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">plenty of ways</a> to ask for help if a discussion between the editors involved don't come to a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CON">consensus</a>.</li> <li><b>Take advice.</b> If someone points out a mistake you made, thank them for telling you and don't take it as a bad or negative conversation. If someone is concerned about an edit you made, you should explain as best as possible why you felt it was necessary or appropriate. It's okay to make mistakes — everyone makes them, and we've all learned from mistakes and how not to repeat them by simply listening to the comments, feedback, and criticisms from others.</li> <li><b>Warnings.</b> If you receive a warning, think carefully about what it says. You may have done something wrong. If the warning is correct, avoid making the same mistake again. If you think the warning is wrong, politely discuss it with the person who warned you or ask another editor you trust.</li> <li><b>Problems.</b> <i>Always</i> be polite and nice toward others. If someone is being <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CIV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CIV">uncivil</a> toward you, and continues to do so after you've asked them to stop, do not start behaving rudely toward them back Instead, either ask an administrator for help, or report it to a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTICEBOARD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTICEBOARD">noticeboard</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Wikipedia_projects" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_projects"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikipedia_projects"></span>Wikipedia projects<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikipedia_projects"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Wikipedia projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many topics have a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">Wikipedia project or "WikiProject" page</a>. A WikiProject is a group of editors who share the same interest in a subject, and they've gotten together to keep an eye on the articles and improve them. There are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Film" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Film">WikiProject Film,</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games">WikiProject Video games</a>, and many more. Don't hesitate to join the project of your favorite subject; it's one of the first places you can get help and advice! </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Recognition_for_your_contributions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Recognition_for_your_contributions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Recognition_for_your_contributions"></span>Recognition for your contributions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Recognition_for_your_contributions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Recognition for your contributions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Four_Award.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Four_Award.svg/110px-Four_Award.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Four_Award.svg/165px-Four_Award.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Four_Award.svg/220px-Four_Award.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="753" data-file-height="736"/></a><figcaption>Icons for how good an article is</figcaption></figure> <p>There are lots of ways that Wikipedians recognize each other's good work. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Assessment_FAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ"><b>Articles are</b></a> judged based on trust that experienced editors will provide their honest opinions in evaluating another editor's work. Many articles start as short '<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stubs" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Stubs">stubs</a>', and some are reviewed and become <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GA">Good Articles</a>. Some even become <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FA">Featured Articles</a>, meaning that they are among the best articles in all of Wikipedia. A new or expanded article with an interesting fact can be listed in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DYK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DYK"><i>Did you know?</i></a> section of the <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">main page</a>.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikilove2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wikilove2.png/85px-Wikilove2.png" decoding="async" width="85" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wikilove2.png/128px-Wikilove2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wikilove2.png/170px-Wikilove2.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Barnstars</b>. You might be given a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars" title="Wikipedia:Barnstars">"barnstar"</a> in recognition of some <i>especially</i> great contributions you made to articles, or for a special clean-up work. Barnstars should not be handed out lightly; they are a recognition of achievement.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilove" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikilove">WikiLove</a> can be used more freely to give each other a big hug for being nice and helpful.</li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Administrators" data-mw-thread-id="h-Administrators"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Administrators"></span>Administrators<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Administrators"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Administrators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Administrator.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wikipedia_Administrator.svg/170px-Wikipedia_Administrator.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wikipedia_Administrator.svg/255px-Wikipedia_Administrator.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wikipedia_Administrator.svg/340px-Wikipedia_Administrator.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200"/></a><figcaption>The administrator's "mop"</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADMIN">Administrators</a> are users who can use special tools and are trusted by other editors, but this does not make them more important than anybody else. It's like being entrusted with a janitor's bunch of keys, especially the key to the cupboard where the mops and buckets are kept, and then going around cleaning up the mess. Sometimes it means <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROTECT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROTECT">locking articles</a> to stop people coming back to make a bigger mess, and sometimes even <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">blocking users from editing.</a> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Mentorship" data-mw-thread-id="h-Mentorship"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Mentorship"></span>Mentorship<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Mentorship"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Mentorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Mentorship" title="Wikipedia:Mentorship">Wikipedia:Mentorship</a></div> <p>You can ask other editors to teach you how to edit Wikipedia. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user" title="Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user">Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user</a> is where you can find someone to be your teacher. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Don't_get_blocked" data-mw-thread-id="h-Don't_get_blocked"><span id="Don.27t_get_blocked"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Don't_get_blocked"></span>Don't get blocked<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Don't_get_blocked"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Don't get blocked"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many young editors forget our purpose and obsess over popularity, fame, attention, and more. They forget that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, first and foremost, and engage in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTHERE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTHERE">behaviors contrary to the purposes of Wikipedia</a>. Common mistakes made by some young editors include: </p> <ul><li>Fixating in project space: While proposals that improve the encyclopedia or how things work on the encyclopedia are encouraged, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SNOW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SNOW">outlandish proposals</a> contrary to our expectations are not. You may not understand how a page works until you have had experience interacting with that page.</li> <li>Excessive chatting unrelated to Wikipedia or its purposes: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social network. Your goal should not be to hang out with as many friends as possible. The best way to make friends on Wikipedia is to improve the encyclopedia; other editors will notice and be willing to work and chat with you.</li> <li>Fixating with templates: Templates help save time by preventing copying and pasting across multiple pages. Templates can be useful, but templates not helpful to the project will be deleted. A more appropriate place to experiment with templates would be the <a href="https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="testwiki:">Test Wikipedia</a>, which exists solely for ensuring code does not break other projects.</li> <li>Bad redirects: Redirects need to be plausible. A redirect from an implausible spelling or title will be deleted. If a redirect is too long to be typed or is too obscure to be known it probably is not plausible.</li> <li>Fixation on user pages: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTWEBHOST" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTWEBHOST">Wikipedia is not a place to have a personal website</a>. User pages exist to facilitate interactions with other Wikipedia editors. While you can customize your user page, creating unrelated user pages without making productive edits elsewhere is not permitted, see also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UPNOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UPNOT">WP:UPNOT</a>.</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UW">Warnings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">blocks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BAN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BAN">bans</a> are only instated when a user poses a risk of disruption. They should not be taken personally. If you were blocked, it is because of a problem with your behavior, not necessarily with you. As soon as an administrator or the community thinks a problem with your behavior is resolved, they will lift the block. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Finally" data-mw-thread-id="h-Finally"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Finally"></span>Finally<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Finally"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Finally"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some people think our younger editors do not have the maturity, knowledge, skills, or attitudes needed to work on Wikipedia. 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