Notes related to how people arrive at Wikipedia and what information they have available to them as they attempt to create their first article.

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Raw, unsorted collection of navigation paths leading to the first article creation.

Left menu

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  • Main page — Front page. read-only. Does not address contributing or policy.  Y
  • WP:Contents — How to find other things. read-only. Does not address contributing or policy.  Y
  • Help:Contents — Main entry point for the new editor or the confused
    • There is no clear Help link above the TOC — WP:HELP is Help:Contents. What should it be ...?
  • WP:About — A general introduction for visitors about WP itself.

LH menu does not have:

  • Create an article   Seek to add "Create an article" to the LH menu
  • Request an article   Seek to add "Request an article" to the LH menu
  • FAQ   Seek to add "FAQ" to the LH menu

Information sources — one click in

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Information sources — more than one click in

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  • FAQ
    • Sort of help-ish, but not quite
    • Main FAQ – Main FAQ about using and contributing to Wikipedia
      • #2 is How do I create a new page? — leads to Help:Your first article (refs the Article wizard and includes direct Create Page form) and the the Article wizard (twice)
    • Contributing FAQ – Why you might want to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and how you can do it.
      • part duplicates Main FAQ
  • IRC
  • Article wizard
  • Wikipedia:Requested articles
    shortcuts WP:REQ as well as WP:SUGGEST
    • Combines instructions for requesting an article and the TOC of subjects of articles already requested
      • Needs to be split into Wikipedia:Requesting an article and Wikipedia:Requested articles  
      • If you have written an article, you can submit it for creation. links to the Article wizard — This is confusing - the wizard creates an article, but the user has already written one? Clarify.  
  • List of Guidelines
    • Defines Notability — Only subjects that have received significant outside attention warrant being included on Wikipedia.
    • Does not link to GNG  
    • Does not link to SNG  
  • WP:SNG — links to a category
    • There is no SNG article  
    • Category page does not state what SNG stands for or give any definition  

Doors

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