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Latest comment: 12 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

This is not the place to create an article

You are editing a help page about creating articles. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox.

To actually create an article, try the Article wizard.

I've noticed that this page is getting a large number of misplaced articles. Roughly half of the edits to this page are misplaced articles or reverts of misplaced articles. I hope that an editnotice might stem the tide of misplaced edits slightly. Hence, I would like to propose the above editnotice. Comments are welcome. Feel free to make amendments to the notice above if you feel it could be improved. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 21:48, 29 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Good idea! Your wording is almost the same as Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Starting an article - either will do. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:07, 30 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Okay. I've requested that an admin create the editnotice at Template talk:Editnotices/Page/Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Creating a New Article#Page creation request. I looked at about three different editnotices to get an idea of how to word the notice. The 'Starting an article' page was one of those that inspired me. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 22:42, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Done --Redrose64 (talk) 11:48, 3 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

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