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I created this in response to an essay written by NewYorkBrad User:Newyorkbrad/Newyorkbradblog#Notes on notability. This essay submitted below is for consideration for the next Signpost.

I have decided to withdraw this submission. Z1720 (talk) 15:04, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Notability and significant coverage

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I came into AfD discussions less than a month ago. Before I voted on any AfDs I read all of the policies I could find and analysed arguments in archived AfDs. Often WP:GNG was cited as a reason to keep or delete an article. The first GNG criteria is, "Significant coverage: addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." What should we do if an article seems like it should have significant coverage, but editors cannot find it?
One of my favourite games is The Legend of Dragoon. When I joined Wikipedia in the 2000s, there were many articles on the lore and fiction of the game, like the game's main character [1] or a major event in the game's mythology [2]. Back then, when I wanted to learn cool information about these characters, I would go to Wikipedia which would have the lore and detailed plot summaries that reminded me of what I loved about the game. Recently, I have a lot of free time because of COVID, so I played the game again. This time, when I wanted information about the characters or the story, I started at Wikipedia. However, the articles I read 10 years ago about the lore and insignificant details had long ago been deleted, including the articles above. When I wanted a refresher of the lore of the game, I closed my Wikipedia tab and went to a fan-made Wikia site.
The MOS:PLOT states, "Because works of fiction are primary sources in their articles, basic descriptions of their plots are acceptable without reference to an outside source" By itself, this sentence means Wikipedia can have an article without reference if the article is about a work of fiction with only the plot in the article space. However, Wikipedia is not WP:INDISCRIMINATE, which says "Wikipedia articles should not be...Summary-only descriptions of works" so Wikipedia articles can't just be about the plot. This is where editors need to engage. Many articles with notability issues were created in the 2000s before these policies and guidelines were set up. Editors need to find sources to add and expand upon these articles. The two articles I cited above only contained fictional information from the game when they were deleted and redirected to the game's article; no development info, no reception, no analysis from secondary sources, no citations. Deleting these articles means fewer clicks for the site, but Wikipedia kept its dogma that information on its cite is verified. It was correct to delete these articles because the likelihood of finding significant coverage on the main character of a cult-like video game is pretty low, and even lower for a video game's mythological event. Wikipedia didn't get my click, but it did keep my trust that whatever I read on the site about the game would be true.
I voted "delete" in the Just Peck AfD cited in NYB's essay. Before I vote in any AfD I look for sources on Google, JSTOR and ProQuest. Google found articles that mentioned the movie, but mostly in relation to the actor's career or as a question in an interview with an actor. I made a judgement call based on WP:GNG and WP:NFILM that these sources did not significantly mention the movie, and thus the movie did not have significant coverage to warrant its own article. My major concern about the sources I found was that they did not provide significant coverage of the plot, creation or development of the film. I thought instead that the information in the sources should be included in the actor's article. Yes, I believed significant coverage on the movie could be found eventually. But since I could not find it, and I assumed the nominator of the AfD could not find it because of WP:BEFORE, I thought it was better to follow Wikipedia's policy and vote delete. However, maybe delete isn't the best outcome for articles that could become notable and encyclopedic in the future. Maybe NYB is right in his instincts that this article has encyclopedic value, and we need to acknowledge this.
Here's a proposal: A bot should draft articles that have 0 citations or references, with a redirect on the article page to the draft. Draft pages would also have a different colour background by default (like a pale blue or green) to distinguish it from Mainspace articles. This would make it clear to the reader that this article is unverified and does not meet our standards. NYB said in his essay, "[M]y encyclopedic instincts have some value too, and they tell me that deleting would be a mistake." Although editors can re-create an article that is deleted once they find appropriate references, NYB also notes, in speaking about recreating articles about Wisconsin judges, that, "There can be obstacles to such re-creations, including...The reasonable fear that even if the new article isn't G4'd, the fact that it's been deleted once suggests that it's at risk of being deleted again, so why risk doing the work for nothing; and [t]he greater "barrier to entry" when instead of adding text to an existing, perhaps well-formatted article, one starts with the blank screen." Deleting an article makes it daunting for some editors to re-create an article from scratch. Moving unreferenced articles to drafts, but still making them easy to find, gives readers and editors the chance to fix them and get them back to the mainspace. This process would not stop editors who, after a thorough search for references, determine that an article will probably never be encyclopedic and nominate it for deletion. Editors can then find consensus on if the article can ever become notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia.
Looking at the AfD, commentators have found sources for Just Peck that I was unable to find. I will take a look at them, and consider changing my vote. If this bot is ever created, I think Just Peck would be ignored from this drafting bot. But for now, I'm going to spend some time playing The Legend of Dragoon. Z1720 (talk) 23:23, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

This page is a draft for the next issue of the Signpost. Below is some helpful code that will help you write and format a Signpost draft. If it's blank, you can fill out a template by copy-pasting this in and pressing 'publish changes': {{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}}


Images and Galleries
Sidebar images

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This will create the file on the right. Keep the 300px in most cases. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes.

Inline images

Placing

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(link) will instead create an inline image like below

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Galleries

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Each line inside the tags should be formatted like File:Whatever.jpg|Caption). This creates:

If you want it centered, remove tstyle="float:right;" from the first line.

Quotes
Framed quotes

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Pull quotes

To insert a pull quote like

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Long quotes

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use this template (link):

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Side frames

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A caption

Side frames help put content in sidebar vignettes. For instance, this one (link):

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gives the frame on the right. This is useful when you want to insert non-standard images, quotes, graphs, and the like.

Example − Graph/Charts
A caption

For example, to insert the {{Graph:Chart}} generated by

{{Graph:Chart
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in a frame, simple put the graph code in |1=

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler frame-v2
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to get the framed Graph:Chart on the right.

If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes.

Two-column vs full width styles

If you keep the 'normal' preloaded draft and work from there, you will be using the two-column style. This is perfectly fine in most cases and you don't need to do anything.

However, every time you have a |fullwidth=no and change it to |fullwidth=yes (or vice-versa), the article will take that style from that point onwards (|fullwidth=yes → full width, |fullwidth=no → two-column). By default, omitting |fullwidth= is the same as putting |fullwidth=no and the article will have two columns after that. Again, this is perfectly fine in most cases, and you don't need to do anything.

However, you can also fine-tune which style is used at which point in an article.

To switch from two-column → full width style midway in an article, insert

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where you want the switch to happen.

To switch from full width → two-column style midway in an article, insert

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
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where you want the switch to happen.

Article series

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Related articles
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VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
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HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
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VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
29 April 2015

Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
4 February 2015


More articles

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or

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will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. A partial list of valid |tag= parameters can be found at here and will decide the list of articles presented. |seriestitle= is the title that will appear below 'Related articles' in the box.

Alternatively, you can use

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at the end of an article to create

For Signpost coverage on the visual editor see the visual editor series.

If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet.

Links and such

By the way, the template that you're reading right now is {{Editnotices/Group/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue}} (edit). A list of the preload templates for Signpost articles can be found here.