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.

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 is not an indiscriminate collection of information.
• 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

Contra

• Missing encyclopedic articles, A better use of your time.