Help:Adding open license text to Wikipedia/creating articles

Creating an article from an open license source

The process for creating articles from publication text is:

Copy: Add the text from the open access source into Wikipedia.

Edit: Fix any formatting issues with the text, add headings and subheadings, change any wording not suitable for Wikipedia.

Add media: Add graphics from the publication by uploading them to Wikimedia Commons (where the license on the graphics allows) and add in tables (this may be made easier by using Tabula if the table is very large).

Add attribution: Add the Free-content attribution template for the publication in a section called Sources (explained above).

Cite: Add the publication as a reference at the end of every paragraph or more if needed. Find references used in the publication and add them as citations in the article.

Publish: Publish the article on Wikipedia.

Link: Create links to the new article from other articles, including adding hatnotes. The find link tool allows you to easily find and create links from other articles.

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