The Mock AfD Series is a group of mock articles that have been written, and are under indefinite proposal for deletion. The purpose of the Mock AfD Series is to determine how a similar article would fare in mainspace.
In the Mock AfD series, a group of mock articles have been constructed. Each article is "proposed for deletion," but the accompanying AfD is indefinitely open, and the article will not be deleted. Anyone is welcome to comment as they normally would on an AfD discussion, citing existing policies, guidelines, or essays that support their views either favoring or opposing deletion or some other outcome.
Though the comments given in mock AfDs do not automatically become standing policy, the discussions held
Guidelines
Guidelines for writing a mock article are as follows:
- Anyone can create or edit a mock article. Same rules apply as when a regular article is written.
- The discussion pages of the mock articles can be used in the same manner as real discussion pages.
- Mock articles should be about subjects that, if they were real, would have borderline notability or for which inclusion guidelines are otherwise unclear.
- Mock articles are to be about fictional subjects that in reality do not exist. In order to ascertain that a real subject with such a name does not exist, it is recommended to do a Google search of the name, and if there are any Ghits, not to use that name.
- Mock articles written about people should be given a name that sounds like a human name, but that it is unlikely a real person anywhere in the world would have, or that has been given to any fictional character in any published work.
- Place names in mock articles should not be real places, and should not share the names with real places or those used in any known works of fiction.
- Mock articles about companies and organizations should not match or even closely resemble known real ones.
- When using dates, it is recommended to use dates that are way in the future, but describe them as if they were in the past.
- Footnotes using the <ref></ref> formatting can be used as mock references.
- Unlinked text serving as a references can be inserted between the tags (for example, citing a non-existent book)
- Links to the URLs of other Wikipedia pages can be inserted in this place. It is permissible to create a mock news or magazine article in user space to use for this purpose, provided that there are no conflict-of-interest violations.
- No links to external sites should be used.
- Mock articles are to be written at a neutral point-of-view, and are not to be used for:
- Spam, self-promotion, or promotion of any subjects to the editor's own interest
- Promotion of one's own personal beliefs or views
- Personal attacks
- Passing off a hoax as truth
- Test-editing and format experimentation as one would in sandbox
- Vandalism of mock articles is not permitted.
