User:Natureium/checklist

Starting from most obvious:

Check the history.

1. Blank page?
   1. Blanked by author? [G7]
   2. Blanked by other? Revert
2. In English?
   1. Exists on other wikipedia? [A2]
   2. Does not? [Move to draft or tag with Not English (debated on NPP talk page(?))]
3. Understandable?
   1. Nonsensical? [G1]
   2. No context? [A1]
4. Appropriateness of content?
   1. Attack page? [G10]
   2. Entirely promotional/spam? [G11]
   3. Vandalism/hoax? [G3]
   4. Made-up by creator? [A11]
   5. Topic already exists? [A10 or redirect]
   6. Copyvio? [G12]
5. Claim of significance?
   1. Insignificant people, individual animals, organization/company, web content, organized event, band? [A7]
   2. Insignificant musical recording (for example, musical recording of a group which does not have an article)? [A9]
   3. Insignificant anything else? PROD/AfD
6. Cleanup/tags
   1. BLP without sources? [BLPPROD or Move to draft]
   2. Other topics without sources? [Tag]
   3. Categories? [Tag]
   4. Stub? [Tag]

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The extra mile (but not required):

• Stub sorting
• Adding to categories
• Classifying by wikiproject
• Copyedit

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Things that are always considered notable as long as they do exist (or so I've been told in the past):

• Species of organisms
• Experimental drugs at phase II of clinical trials
• Genes
• Train stations
• Human settlements
• Mountains, rivers
• Listed buildings
• Provincial/state legislative districts[1]