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Exemplars

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Wikipedia's Assessment and Grading System

Earlier articles that began in the Northeastern archives include:

Sample start-class article:

Sample stub-class article:

Sources for research in Boston history

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Markup Resources

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Comments and Discussion

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Patrol

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Some folks have had their pages marked as "patrolled", which can sound sort of threatening. But it's actually a good thing: there's a large group of Wikipedians that look at all new content and provide a baseline check to make sure content isn't objectionable (pornography, copyright violation, etc.) They don't review the content from a quality standpoint, but provide assurance that there's nothing nefarious in your new pages. Your "patrolled" pages therefore show up as cleared. You can read more about the new pages patrol here. See in particular the guidelines for the new pages feed -- these are the guidelines other editors use when looking at your initial articles, once you move them out of the sandbox. AmandaRR123 (talk) 20:25, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

General review comments, week of 10/23

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Good work so far! Just a few initial comments:

  • When interacting on talk pages, if you introduce a new subject you should start a new section on that talk page. If you are commenting on an existing topic, you can comment within that section. If you are starting a new subject, then start a new section.
  • I think most folks could work on tightening up their leader section (the intro that's before the main part of the article.) Remember, this is where you highlight what's most notable about the person, organization, or event. The leader doesn't need to be terribly long, and with our shorter start articles should probably only be 1-2 sentences long.
  • Some folks are already getting suggestions via templates being placed within the article -- the ones I've seen most commonly are suggestions to add categories, or link to other pages in the encyclopedia.
  • As always, let me know if you have any specific questions about this! AmandaRR123 (talk) 21:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]