Help:Unreviewed new page
 | New page review Wondering why an article has not been reviewed or was changed to a draft? This guide provides you with answers and links to important policies and guidelines. |
 | This page in a nutshell: All new articles are reviewed for suitability for the encyclopedia. This includes drafts, redirects, and articles created from drafts and redirects. Articles that have not been reviewed can be seen within the encyclopedia, but they are hidden from external search engines. |
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New articles are reviewed by experienced editors who check whether they conform to Wikipedia's core content policies and identify material that is not suitable for inclusion.
You will receive a notification when a page you have created has been reviewed. Once an article is reviewed, it will be visible to external search engines (indexed). New page reviewers are volunteers and articles are not reviewed in any specific order. An article may remain unreviewed for several months. An article free of potential issues is usually more likely to be reviewed promptly. Sometimes reviewers add "maintenance" banners to flag problems with the article, instead of marking it as reviewed.
If articles are not quite ready for publication, they may be moved to "draft" space where it can be improved. Articles that are entirely unsuitable for the encyclopedia will usually be listed for deletion.
What can you do if an article has not been reviewed, was tagged for more attention, or moved to a draft?
Let's take a look
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- Conflicts of interest and what Wikipedia is not
- We are here to build an encyclopedia. Many kinds of articles are not permitted. If you have written most or all of an article's content and it receives a "This article contains promotional content" tag, you probably have a conflict of interest. We do not allow articles that are promotional or spam. To know what kind of articles are unacceptable, check out What Wikipedia is not.
- Sources and references
- Facts matter: An article's content might be true, but it must be proven to be the case in order to gain the trust of our readers. If an article has a "This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations" tag, then some of the content must be supported by references to reliable sources; check out the Referencing Help page. If it has a "This article relies excessively on references to primary sources" tag, it needs more independent sources. You also can't write about your own research, so check out No original research and remove anything that has not been written somewhere else.
- Deletion and drafts
- Clearly unsuitable articles are listed for very quick deletion. If an article is possibly acceptable but the issues are not easily fixable, it could be moved to the Draft space where you can continue to improve it for a while without worrying about immediate deletion. You can also consider moving the article yourself. Please do not remove any tags without fixing the problem, doing so will likely be counter-productive. Some articles will be discussed by other editors before they are deleted. Many articles are simply written too soon and you will just need to wait for more published sources to become available.
- Notability
- Articles must be written about notable topics. Our definition of notability may not be what you expect. The topic must have been written about in reliable sources, and with some detail. Two or three sources that each have at least several paragraphs about the subject will likely show that it is notable. If all that is written are trivial mentions, a large number of sources will not help, the topic will still not be notable. If an article has a "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline" or a "This article does not cite any sources" tag, you must add more or better sources.
- 'Borrowing' text and images from other sources
- You must not use text or images from other websites, books, or newspapers etc. Articles should be written in your own words based on a variety of sources. Copied text or images will be deleted. Even close paraphrasing is a copyright violation. If you have uploaded images, ensure that they comply with © licencing requirements. Check out copyright violations for more details.
- Getting help
- If you've read through this page and are still confused about what needs to be done to fix an issue and remove a maintenance template, ask at the Teahouse, where our experienced volunteers are quick to answer questions from new users. Ask us a question! Alternatively, you could try the more general Help desk, or seek live assistance at the IRC channel: #wikipedia-en-help connect.