User:MacGyverMagic/Bootcamp

The Article Creation Bootcamp is a voluntary training course for users who want help with creating new articles. The course is run with a limited number of enrollments at set times throughout the year to give each entrant the advantage of close contact with a small group of instructors and other trainees.

Course material

1. Subject selection

   Why does one thing make for a better article subject than another. When is it better to edit an existing article. (WP:N)

2. Information gathering

   What basic info should any article have? Where do I get information? (WP:RS)

3. Article writing

   Why you should start a new article in your userspace and how to avoid immediate deletion.

   What is the tone you should be using? How to structure your writing. (Wikipedia:Summary style, WP:NPOV, WP:JARGON)

   A word on copyright.

4. Article layout

   Bolding, subheadings, infoboxes and other templates.

   How to format references and external links (WP:FOOT, WP:CITET)

5. Making it look and sound nice.

   Images, infoboxes, videos, animations and soundfiles (spoken articles and pronunciations).

6. Aiming for the bigtime

   How to get an article to become a good article or featured article.

Instructors

1. MacGyverMagic | my talk page

Trainees

1. Be the first.