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== Identifying potential topics for your articles == You will need to create a new article on Wikipedia with your teams. But how can you find a topic that is worthy of an article and also not already covered on Wikipedia? As it turns out, there are many resources to help you with this created by Wikipedia editors! A few suggestions and examples follow below. In general, we recommend picking topics that more experienced Wikipedia editors have already identified as meeting the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability notability criteria] for inclusion in the encyclopedia. When someone identifies a topic as potentially worthy of an article on Wikipedia, but no article exists, the text will appear as a red hyperlink (the red means that a page does not exist with that name). When you find red links, you have a hint that at least one other person thinks an article is worth creating on that topic. However, just because you or really anyone thinks a topic merits an article does not mean that it automatically will meet the notability criteria. Sometimes, it can be a struggle to convince other Wikipedia editors that a topic is sufficiently notable! We'll discuss all of this later, but suffice to say it's something to consider as you brainstorm topic ideas. It's also worth noting that you can absolutely come up with topics on your own without using any of the lists below. If you have some knowledge about a topic that you and your group members agree to be notable and worthy of a Wikipedia article we encourage you to propose it as a topic! === Suggested lists of potential article topics === [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red "Women in red" (WiR)] is an initiative across Wikipedia that seeks to create and populate articles on notable women to address their disproportionate underrepresentation in the encyclopedia. The WiR project maintains a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index redlist index], which is an index of mostly red links for potential article topics that you might pursue. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists WikiProject Women Scientists] is also a great source for potential article topics. Emily Temple-Wood, the Wikipedia editor who Aaron mentioned in his introductory lecture, maintains a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana/Female_scientist_list list of notable women scientists], many of whom do not yet have articles about them. Check out her list and investigate any of the names in red (hint: you'll need to look them up somewhere other than Wikipedia!) for ideas. There is a general [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles requested articles list] as well. Again, dig through some of these topic areas and check out topics listed in red. Last, but not least, you might get good ideas from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/List_of_stubs list of "stub" articles"]. Stubs are very short, very incomplete articles. For the purposes of the assignment, it's the only kind of existing article the teaching team will consider you working on. Please note that if you want to work on a stub, the teaching team will need to approve this and you'll be expected to expand any stub article substantially.
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