Notes related to how people arrive at Wikipedia and what information they have available to them as they attempt to create their first article.

Navigation routes

Raw, unsorted collection of navigation paths leading to the first article creation.

Left menu

• Main page — Front page. read-only. Does not address contributing or policy. Y
• WP:Contents — How to find other things. read-only. Does not address contributing or policy. Y
• Help:Contents — Main entry point for the new editor or the confused ⇒
  • There is no clear Help link above the TOC — WP:HELP is Help:Contents. What should it be ...?
• WP:About — A general introduction for visitors about WP itself.

LH menu does not have:

• Create an article Seek to add "Create an article" to the LH menu
• Request an article Seek to add "Request an article" to the LH menu
• FAQ Seek to add "FAQ" to the LH menu

Information sources — one click in

• Help:Contents — Several clear sections
  • There is no clear Help page above the TOC — WP:HELP = Help:Contents. What should it be ...?
    • Move FAQ search into Stuck? section under the ref to the FAQ
    • Add Request a new Article under Create a new article
    • Links to WP:Your first article which is just a red to Help:Your first article — why WP?
• WP:About
  • Lead
    • refs editing a page
    • refs WP:V and WP:RS
    • does not ref WP:N
  • Section Contributing to Wikipedia
    • refs Help:Editing
    • refs WP:BRIEF — WP:NPOV, WP:V, WP:OR
    • refs WP:NPOV, WP:V, WP:OR, WP:RS, WP:MOS
    • does not link to WP:N Link use of notability term to WP:N

Information sources — more than one click in

• FAQ
  • Sort of help-ish, but not quite
  • Main FAQ – Main FAQ about using and contributing to Wikipedia
    • #2 is How do I create a new page? — leads to Help:Your first article (refs the Article wizard and includes direct Create Page form) and the the Article wizard (twice)
  • Contributing FAQ – Why you might want to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and how you can do it.
    • part duplicates Main FAQ
• IRC
  • Wikipedia:IRC help disclaimer — Entry point to the IRC system, so probably should be named just IRC Help Create IRC Help as a redirect?
  • Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help
• Article wizard
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
  shortcuts WP:REQ as well as WP:SUGGEST
  • Combines instructions for requesting an article and the TOC of subjects of articles already requested
    • Needs to be split into Wikipedia:Requesting an article and Wikipedia:Requested articles
    • If you have written an article, you can submit it for creation. links to the Article wizard — This is confusing - the wizard creates an article, but the user has already written one? Clarify.
• List of Guidelines
  • Defines Notability — Only subjects that have received significant outside attention warrant being included on Wikipedia.
  • Does not link to GNG
  • Does not link to SNG
• WP:SNG — links to a category
  • There is no SNG article
  • Category page does not state what SNG stands for or give any definition

Doors

• Just editing
• Wikipedia:Article wizard
• Help:Contents Help TOC
  • Help:Your first article from Help TOC
• Wikipedia:IRC help disclaimer badly named IRC entry point — defines Notable
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• ((Article start request))
  • Suss side-effects, logs created — if any at all yet
  • Born from Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_157#Spitballing:_article_proposals? 10 May 2020
  • Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Article_start_request_template
• More doors