Help:Starting a new page - davidar/scholarpedia GitHub Wiki

The simplest way to start a new article is to perform a search for the new title with the 'Go' button (as you should have done before). When the search finds nothing, Scholarpedia offers the option 'create new article'. Press this link (to launch the edit window), type in some text, then press 'save this page' button (Scholarpedia will not save an empty page). New article is created.

Links to non-existing articles are common (they have red color by default). These links are typically created in preparation of creating the article, and/or to encourage other people to do so. New articles can be started by following such links, which launches the edit page.

There are a few general principles a scholar should follow when creating a new article:

• Search to see whether someone has written a similar article before you start one yourself. Choose the title carefully.
• Review conventions of the project you are working in regarding e.g.:
  • naming conventions used by other authors.
  • whether a separate article is justified; perhaps it is better to add the text to a related article (especially if the text is not very long); that article can always be split later, after it has grown.

This page was adapted from Wikipedia’s help page.