Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation

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Welcome to the Wikiproject Articles for Creation! This is the project page for editors interested in working on Articles for creation and Images for upload.

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Our best content

The Penelopiad by 24.224.176.150 (talk), brought up to featured article status by Maclean25 (talk · contribs).
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Image:M777 Light Towed Howitzer 1.jpg by Jonathanmallard, a featured picture.

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Background

Currently, only registered users are allowed to create articles on Wikipedia. Often, an unregistered user would like to create an article but does not want to register in order to do so. We choose not to make a judgement on why an editor does not want to register. Editors are permitted to feel this way, and AfC is a process by which their contributions can become Wikipedia articles. AfC works as a peer review process, where registered editors either accept and create an article submitted by an anonymous editor or decline the article due to unsuitability for Wikipedia.

An article may be unsuitable for Wikipedia for a number of reasons. AfC submissions can be declined based on having no content whatsoever, consisting of vandalism or personal attacks, consisting of a copyright violation, failing to provide sufficient context, not asserting notability, and most often for not being properly sourced. Articles that already exist, sometimes under another name, are also declined. AfC is rather strict about the sourcing requirement, which makes it a more strenuous effort than registering an account in order to create an article. Since many anonymous users have submitted articles to AfC after putting a lot of effort into creating an encyclopedia article, we believe that each of these requests should be evaluated.

A lot of articles are posted at AfC and a dedicated team of editors is needed to review the requests. AfC was once Wikipedia's oldest backlogged project, with incomplete archive pages over two years old. Through the work of this WikiProject, this backlog was eliminated on 21 February 2008 during a project-wide drive. Continuing efforts ensure that the backlog does not return.

Brief history

On 5 December 2005, in response to the Seigenthaler incident, unregistered users were stopped from creating new pages on the English Wikipedia (read about it in the Signpost).

Consequently, a page Wikipedia:Articles for creation was set up by User:Creidieki and others, to allow unregistered users to submit articles for registered users to create on their behalf. The first page to be created was a redirect Fox Latin America requested by 140.247.23.58. The first article created was Horsea Island by User:Chemstud.

Following huge backlogs on the page, User:Kwsn and others started WikiProject Articles for creation on 2 June 2007.

Project goals

Promote awareness of the WikiProject.
Review requests at
Promote, monitor and improve the articles and images created through the project.

How to get involved

WikiProject Articles for creation needs you! Any autoconfirmed user (a status which is required to move pages and upload files, usually conferred on accounts which are four days old and have made ten edits) can be a reviewer for the project. There are full reviewing instructions for reviewing articles; these may take a little time to read and follow. Experienced users may wish to look at the shorter version. There are also instructions for reviewing image requests.

If you are not sure, it may be a good idea to get someone to check your first few reviews. The following users are currently active in the WikiProject and have agreed to help out new participants: The Earwig · Graeme Bartlett · MSGJ · Someguy1221 · Tnxman307

Statistics and Assessment

There are currently 4,709 pages, files and articles created by the project.

Since the beginning of September 2008, there have been

2409 new articles created;
6375 declined submissions.

Assessment

When pages are created through Articles for creation they should be assessed according to the quality scale. This is achieved by passing a parameter to the {{WPAFC}} template which is placed on the talk page of articles (full instructions can be found on the template's documentation). Similarly, the talk pages of files uploaded through Images for upload should also be tagged with {{WPAFC}}. Articles are then placed in the appropriate subcategory of Category:AFC articles by quality. The number of articles we currently have of each class are:

**WikiProject Articles for creation** articles by quality Refresh
???	Image	Template	Project	Category	Disambig	Redirect	NA	Portal	List	Stub	Start	C	B	GA	A	FL	FA	Total
0	142	35	0	25	53	1,692	0	0	35	1,324	1,238	117	70	2	0	0	1	4,699

The WP 1.0 bot visits AfC articles and compiles statistics about them:

Version 1.0 Editorial Team/AFC articles by quality - for a full list of articles with their assessment
Version 1.0 Editorial Team/AFC articles by quality statistics - for the number of articles in each class
Version 1.0 Editorial Team/AFC articles by quality log - the twice-weekly log of any changes to the class of articles

Category:Unassessed AFC articles contains the articles with no quality rating. It is currently empty.

Submissions in recent months

AfC submissions in June 2009
Date	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Submissions	27	28	36	23	27	15	13	23	28	22	25	19	15	17	27	17	34	22	23	21	11	27	42	23	23	27	14	20	21	29

AfC submissions in July 2009
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Submissions	18	30	17	20	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Recent activity

Proposed deletion

2 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from Pearce Flannery (talk).

Copyright problems

1 Jul 2009 – Richard H. Driehaus Museum (talk) has been deleted.

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Awards

The AfC Barnstar

The AfC ribbon

The AfC Barnstar is granted for meritorious contributions relating to Articles For Creation and consists of a green cross on a star composed of five capital letter As. The A signifies new Articles, which is what this project is all about, the grey signifies the neutrality of Wikipedia, and the green cross signifies the Articles for Creation project.

There is also a companion ribbon Image:AFC Ribbon 2.png, consisting of a thick blue center stripe surrounded by two narrow grey stripes surrounded by two wide green stripes. The blue center recollects the new color of former red links.

To present this award to a user, place the following code on their talk page:

The ribbon may be displayed by any user who has been awarded the barnstar.

Participants

Current participants

Former participants

If you are a part of this WikiProject, you can add {{AfC user}} to your userpage to list yourself under Category:WikiProject Articles for creation participants, which also provides you with a nice userbox. If you are the quiet type, you can just add the category manually.