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Bharatpedia:Articles for creation
Welcome to Articles for Creation!
The Articles for Creation (AfC) process is intended to assist editors who cannot (e.g. non-registered or non-autoconfirmed users) or should not (e.g. people with a conflict of interest), create new articles directly into mainspace. AfC creates new pages as drafts which are then submitted for review.
Writing an encyclopedic article from scratch isn't easy, and we recommend that you first get some experience by adding material to articles that already exist or helping out with other tasks. You should read the page Help:Your first article to avoid classic mistakes and save your hard work from being deleted.
Creating an article
Before you start writing, here are some things you should have in mind:
- Make sure that the topic is notable enough for an article. Is it already covered in an existing article? If not, there is a very good chance that the topic is not notable and will never be accepted as an article. If yes, have you improved that coverage? Improving existing content is a much more successful way of contributing to Bharatpedia.
- Articles should reflect only what reliable sources have said about the topic, and all articles need references to reliable sources.
- If you have a conflict of interest with the topic you are writing about, you should disclose it on the draft's talk page.
- If you are being paid to contribute to Bharatpedia, you must—under the terms of use—disclose who is paying you, who the client is, and any other relevant affiliation.
- If you have an idea for the title of an article, but no content for the article itself, you can make a suggestion at Bharatpedia:Requested articles.
Your article title will have "Draft:" in front of it until it is accepted as an article.
To start a new draft, click the button below:
Submitting for review
When you are finished, you can submit your article for review by clicking the button "Submit for review". If you don't see this button, you can add the code {{subst:submit}} to the top of your draft (remember to switch to the source editor first). If you see a yellow box saying "Review waiting, please be patient", you have successfully submitted your draft for review. If you don't see this box, you can ask for help at the Article for Creation help desk.
Please note that getting a review can take several weeks, but that your draft will be reviewed eventually. In the meantime, we hope that you expand some of our already existing articles.
Reviewers
Experienced editors are always needed to participate in reviews. Reviewing instructions can be found here.
Article submissions
- There are 33 pending submissions in Category:Pending AfC submissions. The ages of the various submissions are as follows:
- Declined submissions can be found in Category:Declined AfC submissions.
Old drafts
Old drafts, drafts that have been unedited for more than six months, are routinely deleted (see BP:CSD#G13). Once deleted, they can be recovered at BP:REFUND/G13. A bot reports pages eligible for deletion daily Bharatpedia:Database reports/Stale drafts. These can be reviewed and nominated for deletion or improved for mainspace.
Some old drafts have been identified as "promising", but without any active editor actually committing to working on them. See Category:Promising draft articles. Consider browsing these drafts for topics that you would like to improve and move to mainspace. If you disagree with the tag, discuss its removal with the editor who placed it. Another Category:AfC postponed G13 contains articles that someone deemed as having too much potential to allow G13 deletion. These can often be improved for mainspace.