WikiAfrica Incubator Rules
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Welcome to the WikiAfrica Incubator.
The WikiAfrica Incubator is designed to support new authors as they create their first articles in Wikipedia. If you have any questions related to writing articles, you can ask them on WikiAfrica Help desk. If you have any ideas for the development and improvement of WA-Incubator, you can write them on WikiAfrica Village pump. |
General rules
- Once you have created a user page, identify yourself as part of the WikiAfrica project by copying this banner {{WikiAfrica member}} and pasting it on to your discussion page. This allows us to track how many articles have been added or edited.
- The maximum time given to new authors to write an article is two months. If an author is sure their article is ready, they can mark the article using a special template, and the participants of the project will check it. If an author forgets about the article for a month, it will automatically be marked as forgotten by the bot and nominated for review by participants of the project.
- Each article should contain the template {{WA new}}.
General guidelines
Remember to abide by the Wikipedia Guidelines (see box for more details). An article can only be moved to the main namespace if it contains no:
- vandalism;
- lies or untruths living persons;
- glaringly doubtful statements;
- copyright violations;
- conspicuously advertisements, PR or spam;
- content forking, or multiple separate articles giving details on the same subject.
Your article will be deemed appropriate if it:
- has contemporary information, or does not only consist of old information;
- fits into at least one category;
- has no grammar mistakes and if the text is formatted using Wiki markup.