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Wikipedia:What is an article

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Wikipedia:FAQ

See Special:Allpages for a list of all Wikipedia articles.

A Wikipedia article is defined as a page that has encyclopedic or almanac-like information on it ("almanac-like" being; lists, timelines, tables or charts).

This does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:

Pages from these namespaces are displayed on a yellow background to distinguish them from pages in the article namespace which have white backgrounds.

But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; most notably:

The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the article namespace (white background), is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however.

See Wikipedia:Naming conventions to learn how we title articles and Wikipedia:protected pages for a list of pages that have been made read-only to non-Wikipedia Administrators.


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