How to create a new page

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General Principles

• Search to see whether someone has written a similar page before you start one yourself. Choose the title carefully.
• Review conventions of the project you are working in regarding e.g.:
  • Naming conventions.
  • If the text is not very long it may be better to add the text to a related page; that page can always be split later, after it has grown.
  • You can check out the Sample page for an example of good page structure. Click edit on the sample page, copy and paste the sample Wikitext into your new page and edit content as needed.
  • You can check out the [How to write a great article] link for guidance.
• While creating the page and before saving it, check the What links here link on the creation page (look in the toolbox section of the nav on the left side of the page). Align the new content with existing links, or change the new title, or fix the other links.
• If nothing points here, the page is isolated. Links to it will need to be added on other pages. You can make your contributions accordingly.

Fast and easy way to create new pages:

• From a Search (preferred): The simplest way to start a new wiki page and avoid duplicating existing pages is to perform a search for the new title. When the search finds nothing, click on the link at the top of the page where it says "You searched for your search term". This takes you to edit mode of the non-existing blank page, which allows for page creation. If the search returns a page that already exists you should consider adding content to that page or renaming your new page.
  
• From a Link: To start a new page, you can click a link to the new page. This takes you to edit mode of the non-existing blank page, which allows for page creation. You might not be able to create a new page unless you are logged in. Notably this applies to the English Wikipedia.
  • To create a link in an existing page, click edit then place the text to be linked inside double brackets, or highlight the text to be linked and use the Internal Link button to create the new link.
    
  • Note that the name of the new page will be same as the linked text (for example, the page you are viewing now was created by making a link on the Home Page around the text "How to create a new page")
• From a URL: Using the browser address bar to enter a URL to a new page is an easy way to start the new page process. Easier still is editing the pagename part of a URL for an existing page. Using the URL for the new page displays the default 'no article' message. The default page has the usual Edit this page link, which can be used to begin adding content. You should be careful using this method, however, as it is easy to duplicate pages with similar content.

Notes

• Regardless of which method of page creation you use you will begin on the same blank Editing Screen:
  
• Links to non-existing pages are common. They are typically created in preparation for creating the page, and/or to encourage other people to do so. Links are not only convenient for navigation, but also make people aware of the new page (those who read a related page and also those who watch the related page). New page links are not really broken, as long as the name correctly identifies the intended content. (A new page link with a "wrong" or misspelled name, or that duplicates content found under another name is "broken", but in a different sense.)