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User:MacGyverMagic/Bootcamp

The Article Creation Bootcamp is a voluntary training course for users who want help with creating new articles. The course is run with a limited number of enrollments at set times throughout the year to give each entrant the advantage of close contact with a small group of instructors and other trainees.

Course material

  1. Subject selection
  2. :Why does one thing make for a better article subject than another. When is it better to edit an existing article. (WP:N)
  3. Information gathering
  4. :What basic info should any article have? Where do I get information? (WP:RS)
  5. Article writing
  6. : Why you should start a new article in your userspace and how to avoid immediate deletion.
  7. :What is the tone you should be using? How to structure your writing. (Wikipedia:Summary style, WP:NPOV, WP:JARGON)
  8. :A word on copyright.
  9. Article layout
  10. :Bolding, subheadings, infoboxes and other templates.
  11. :How to format references and external links (WP:FOOT, WP:CITET)
  12. Making it look and sound nice.
  13. :Images, infoboxes, videos, animations and soundfiles (spoken articles and pronunciations).
  14. Aiming for the bigtime
  15. :How to get an article to become a good article or featured article.

Instructors

  1. MacGyverMagic | my talk page

Trainees

  1. Be the first.