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'''Welcome to Wikipedia!''' This is a guide to some important things you should know before creating your first encyclopedia article.
# [[Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages|Be bold]].
# [[Special:Userlogin|Sign in]] with your account name. If you do not have an account, you should [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup create one]. (Unregistered users can write articles using the [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]] process, but users who register and sign in can create articles much more easily.)
# Please don't create pages about yourself or your friends, pages that advertise, or personal essays.
# Be careful about: copying things, controversial material, redundant articles, extremely short articles, and local-interest articles.

==Things to avoid ==
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{{related|[[Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles]]<br>[[Wikipedia:The perfect article]]<br>[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]]<br>[[Wikipedia:Lead section]]}}

; Articles about yourself, your friends, your website, a band you're in, your teacher, a word you made up, or a story you wrote : If you ''are'' worthy of inclusion in the encyclopedia, let someone else add an article for you. Putting your friends in an encyclopedia may seem like a nice surprise or an amusing joke, but articles like this are likely to be [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|removed]]. In this process, feelings may be hurt, which can be avoided by a little forethought on your part.
; [[Wikipedia:spam|Advertising]] : Please don't try to promote your product or business.  Please don't insert external links to your commercial website unless a neutral party would judge that the link truly belongs in the article; we do have articles about products like [[Kleenex]] or [[Sharpie (marker)|Sharpie]]s, or notable businesses like [[McDonald's]], but if you are writing about a product or business be sure you write from a [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]]. 
; Personal essays or [[Wikipedia:No original research|original research]] : Wikipedia surveys ''existing'' human knowledge; it is not a place to publish new work. Do not write articles that present your own original theories, opinions, or insights, ''even if'' you can support them by reference to accepted work.
; A single sentence or only a website link: Articles need to have real content of their own.
:''See also:'' 
:*[[Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas|List of bad article ideas]]
:*[[Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes|Avoiding common mistakes]]
:*[[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|What Wikipedia is not]]

== And be careful about...==
*'''Copying''' things. '''Do not violate copyrights.''' To be safe, do not copy more than a couple of sentences of text from anywhere, and [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|document any references you do use]]. You can copy material that you are ''sure'' is in the [[Wikipedia:public domain|public domain]], but even for public domain material you should still document your source.  Also note that most Web pages '''are not''' in the public domain and most song [[lyrics]] '''are not''' either. In fact most things written since January 1, 1978 are automatically under [[copyright]] ''even if they have no copyright notice or © symbol.'' If you think what you are contributing is in the public domain, ''say where you got it,'' either in the article or on the discussion page, and on the discussion page give the reason why you think it is in the public domain (e.g. "It was published in 1895...") If you think you are making "[[fair use]]" of copyrighted material, please put a note on the discussion page saying why you think so. For more information: [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|Copyrights]].
*'''Good research''' and '''[[WP:CITE|citing your sources]]'''. Articles written out of thin air are better than nothing, but they are hard to [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verify]], which is an important part of building a trusted reference work. Please research with the [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|best sources available]] and [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|cite them]] properly.  Doing this, along with not copying large amounts of the text, will help avoid any possibility of [[plagiarism]].
*'''Advocacy''' and '''controversial material.''' Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on politics, religion, or anything else. Understand what we mean by a [[Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view|neutral point of view]] before tackling this sort of topic.
*'''Redundant articles.''' Wikipedia already has a lot of articles. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article, perhaps under a [[Wikipedia:Searching|slightly different name; you can search for it here;]] check the [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions|Wikipedia naming conventions]]. If an article on your topic '''is''' there, but you think people are likely to look for it under some different name or spelling, learn how to [[Wikipedia:Redirect|add a redirect with that name]]; adding needed redirects is a good way to help Wikipedia. Also, remember to check the article's deletion log in order to avoid creating an article that has already been deleted.
*'''Extremely short articles''' that are just definitions. Try to write a good short paragraph that says ''something'' about the subject. We welcome ''good'' short articles, called "[[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|stubs]]", that can serve as launching pads from which others can take off. If you don't have enough material to write a good stub, you probably should not create the article. At the end of a stub, you should include a "stub template" like this: <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>. (The catch-all <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki> template is now deprecated in favour of multiple stub categories: see the list of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types|stub types]].)  Stubs help track articles that need expansion. Definitions belong on [[Wiktionary:Main Page|Wiktionary]].
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| A '''close-up''' is a shot in a movie taken with the camera close to the actors. || A '''close-up''' is a shot in a [[Film|movie]] taken with the [[camera]] close to, or zoomed in on, the [[actor]]s. Close-ups are typically brief, and are used to draw attention to the actor's expression. Close-ups are an important part of [[film grammar]]. [[D. W. Griffith]] invented the close-up as we know it. <br> 
<nowiki>{{film-stub}}</nowiki>
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*[[Wikipedia:Places of local interest|'''Local-interest''' articles]]. These are articles about places like schools, or streets that are of interest to a relatively small number of people such as alumni or people who live nearby. ''There is no consensus'' about such articles, but some will challenge them if they include nothing that shows how the place is special and different from tens of thousands of similar places. Photographs add interest. Try to give local-interest articles local colour. [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|Third-party references]] are good!
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| The University of Notre Dame is located near [[South Bend, Indiana]]. It has an undergraduate enrollment of 8000. Its president is Edward A. Malloy. Its school colors are gold and blue. || The '''University of Notre Dame''' is a [[Catholic]] [[university]] located near [[South Bend, Indiana]]. It had an undergraduate enrollment of 8000 in 2003. Its president is Edward A. "Monk" Malloy. It is famous for its [[football]] team, the "Fighting Irish," and for its landmark Golden Dome. The school colors worn by its sports teams are gold and blue.
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| Canal Street is a street in New York. || '''Canal Street''' is a major street in lower [[Manhattan]]. It is a ramshackle but bustling commercial district. Tourists and locals pack the Canal Street sidewalks every day to frequent its open-air food stalls, and its bare-bones stores selling items such as [[perfume]], [[purse]]s, [[hardware]], industrial [[plastic]]s, and [[pirated]] [[DVD]]s.
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| Louis' Lunch makes the best damn hamburgers in New Haven. || '''Louis' Lunch''' is a restaurant in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], famous for its [[hamburgers]]. The proprietors claim that Louis' Lunch was, in [[1895]], the first place in the [[United States]] to serve hamburgers as we know them today. The [http://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress] has [http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/CT/ct-3_h_delauro6.html material] apparently supporting this claim.
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==Related pages==
*[[Wikipedia:Drawing board]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]
*[[Help:Starting a new page]]
*[[:Category:Wikipedia how-to|First article]]

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