Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Tips
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Tips for creating new COVID-19 articles
- Follow all the standard best practices for articles, as outlined at Help:Your first article. See the Help:Introduction tutorials for general editing advice.
- Rigorous sourcing is extremely important for medical articles. Ideal sources include literature reviews or systematic reviews in reliable, third-party, published secondary sources (such as reputable medical journals), recognised standard textbooks by medical experts, or medical guidelines and position statements from national or international expert bodies. See WP:COVID-19/Sources and WP:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) for more information, and WP:COVID-19/Reference sources for a list.
- When drafting, follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles.
- Optionally, add the COVID-19 sidebar, {{COVID-19 pandemic sidebar}}, and/or navbox {{COVID-19 pandemic}}, to the page. If the topic is significant in the scope of the pandemic as a whole, edit the sidebar and navbox to add it to them.
- Add the COVID-19 portal (below any navboxes) by inserting
{{Portal bar|Coronavirus disease 2019|''other portals, such as "Medicine"''}}
. - Mark the page as within the scope of this wikiproject by adding
{{WikiProject COVID-19}}
to the talk page. Also add{{Current COVID-19 consensuses}}
there. - Don't forget the normal finishing touches, such as categories, a short description, and the
{{COVID-19-stub}}
stub tag if needed. - Ensure that the article is not an orphan by linking to it from other COVID-19 pages where it is relevant, possibly COVID-19 pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019, Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2024, one of the country-specific articles on the pandemic, or one of the articles on the pandemic's impact. Also, add a few relevant redirects (such as swapping "coronavirus" and "COVID-19").
- When you're done, give yourself a pat on the back, then go wash your hands!