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{{Wikipedia:Article wizard/Content|title=Common mistakes|content=There are a lot of common mistakes that new editors will make while writing a draft article. Here are a few that you must watch out for and avoid: * '''Writing about yourself, someone else, or something in which you have a personal, or professional relationship'''<br/>Whether it is yourself, a family member, a friend or mentor, a colleague, employer, or business partner, something you invented, a book you wrote or a business that you're associated with, writing about topics with which you have a conflict of interest is discouraged, as the article may not be neutral.<br/> * '''Copy and pasting material from other sources'''<br/>The article must be written in your own words. It cannot contain any content that's directly copied from elsewhere or even copied and then slightly-modified. Articles that contain this will likely be deleted.<br/> * '''Not citing your sources'''<br/>Articles without references to independent reliable sources are usually discovered and deleted quickly.<br/> * '''Overly promotional language'''<br/>Terms like ''"leading expert"'' and ''"ground-breaking technology"'' sound great when advertising or promoting a product or service, but they do not belong on Wikipedia or in an Encyclopedia. Let the facts and the information speak for themselves.<br/> * '''Using AI to write articles'''<br/>Large language models like ChatGPT can create articles that appear to look okay, but often contain untrue or hallucinated information. Ideally, ''they should not be used at all''.<br/> |other_buttons= <div style{{=}}"padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; text-align:center">{{Clickable button 2|Wikipedia:Article wizard/HowToDisclose|I'm paid to edit or I'm writing about my employer|class=mw-ui-progressive}}</div> <div style{{=}}"padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; text-align:center">{{Clickable button 2|Wikipedia:Article wizard/HowToDiscloseCOI|I'm writing about myself, or a close person/subject|class=mw-ui-progressive}}</div> <div style{{=}}"padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; text-align:center">{{Clickable button 2|Wikipedia:Article wizard/CreateDraft|I'm not connected to the subject|class=mw-ui-progressive}}</div> <div style{{=}}"padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; text-align:center">{{Clickable button 2|Wikipedia:Article wizard|Start over}}</div> }}
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