User:Joegrohens/FindingATopic

Read Wikipedia Guidelines for Articles

Read the following Wikipedia help pages, and then propose two possible topics for a Wikipedia article that you might like to write.

• <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article">Wikipedia:Your first article</a>
  
• <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_a_good_article%3F">Wikipedia: A good article</a>

Criteria for topics

Wikipedia articles must meet the following criteria.

• Notable - significant, and of interest to a broad audience
  See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N" target="_blank">Wikipedia: Notablity </a>
  
• Verifiable - all facts in your article must be backed up by citations to reliable published third-party sources
  See:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V" target="_blank"> Wikipedia: Verifiability</a>
  
• No original research - your article will be based on reliable published third-party information, not on information that you collected first hand, or happen to "know" from experience
  See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" target="_blank">Wikipedia: No Original Research</a>
  

How to find a topic that isn't in Wikipedia yet.

You might want to browse existing Wikipedia articles to look for red links, which indicate a page that hasn't been started yet.

Or you might search through some of the (enormously long) lists of stub articles:

<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stub_categories">Wikipedia Stubs </a>

Verify that your topic isn't already in Wikipedia by searching for it.