Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas/Sandbox
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The following is a list of article ideas that show up repeatedly in Articles for deletion. Please think twice before creating an article about any of the following:
- Yourself or your organization.
- A band of which you are a member or employee.
- The street you live on (unless it is internationally famous).
- The nursery school you used to attend.
- Another article on an existing topic (you can edit the existing article). Use the Search button. It's there for a reason.
- Your dormitory (unless it's on the Historic Register).
- Your club, society, fraternity, sorority or any other school/college group (unless it's famous).
- Secret societies that are truly secret, and other secret information that is being revealed for the first time. (See Wikipedia:No original research)
- Anything which you cannot be bothered to write one complete sentence about.
- Extremely specific details which only a dedicated few care about.
- Subjects that cannot be studied, or the knowledge of which amounts only to the fact that it pertains to another topic.
- Any article written while in a highly emotional state or reflecting personal opinions (Wikipedia is not a blog).
- A new article to supplement an already existing one which you think is not putting your point across forcefully enough.
[edit] See also
- Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create, for a more humorous version of the above
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy,
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, list of "prohibited" items
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, You should not write articles about a subject in which you have a strong bias.
- Wikipedia:Vanity guidelines
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents
[edit] Contra
- Missing encyclopedic articles, A better use of your time.
