Hi, welcome to my talk page. Feel free to leave messages for me here! OffbeatFly (talk) 05:27, 9 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

edit
 
Hi OffbeatFly! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

-- 06:33, Saturday, May 8, 2021 (UTC)

The review process

edit

Drafts submitted to Articles for Creation go to reviewers. There is a backlog of more than 5,000 drafts. The system is not a queue. Reviewers select what they want to review. So, could be days, weeks, or (sadly) months. If accepted, a draft becomes an article. In not, can be Declined with comments (meaning the reviewer thinks there is potential) or Rejected. (Or Speedy deleted if fatal flaw, such as containing copyright protected content.) There is a period during which accepted articles can be found via a search within Wikipedia, but not via external search engines. This is 90 days, or sooner if one of the New Page Patrollers gets to it an approves it. Drafts that are declined can be improved and resubmitted. One of the most common errors by new-to-the-process editors is to include content they know to be true, but neglecting to provide reliable source references for validation. David notMD (talk) 12:04, 8 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

edit

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Views/Day Quality Title Tagged with…
28   Micromechanics (talk) Add sources
104   Molecular mechanics (talk) Add sources
8   Paleostress inversion (talk) Add sources
12   United States Council for Automotive Research (talk) Add sources
25   Fiat Chrysler Australia (talk) Add sources
66   Global Electric Motorcars (talk) Add sources
49   Electronic structure (talk) Cleanup
179   Strengthening mechanisms of materials (talk) Cleanup
36   Marathon Motor Works (talk) Cleanup
248   Street & Racing Technology (talk) Expand
138   Commer (talk) Expand
1,322   Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (talk) Expand
61   Chrysler minivans (S) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
37   Chrysler minivans (NS) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
751   Plymouth (automobile) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
43   Ocean chemistry (talk) Merge
136   Spin glass (talk) Merge
41   Euclidean plane isometry (talk) Merge
29   Deformation mechanism (talk) Wikify
52   Physical organic chemistry (talk) Wikify
84   Radiation damage (talk) Wikify
2   André Zaoui (talk) Orphan
3   Microplane model for constitutive laws of materials (talk) Orphan
4   Dimitris Drikakis (talk) Orphan
170   Semantic Scholar (talk) Stub
111   Microsoft Academic (talk) Stub
59   LAMMPS (talk) Stub
3   Anthony Rollett (talk) Stub
18   Isotropic solid (talk) Stub
88   VLF Automotive (talk) Stub

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 17:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)Reply