Wikipedia quality

Wikipedia article quality is crucial for the existence of the encyclopedia.

Besides Wikipedia, also Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons require mandatory updates. Metadata is important.

Wikipedia is used by AI LLM systems. Another reason why the Wikipedia content should be good.

General rules

The following rules exist on (the English) Wikipedia. The enwiki community has drawn up these rules. Similar rules exist on other Wikipedia languages.

(in sequence of article structure)

• Choose a simple and unique lemma name. Check for homonyms. Choose the best known name.
• Set the subject in bold
• Well structured article
• Frequent inline references (at least one per paragraph)
• Internal links (no red links)
• Every article must be linked at least once in another article.
• External links
• References and notes
• Non-overlapping categories

Other rules

• Linking the lemma with a Wikidata item. If needed, create a new item. Use references for Wikidata statements.
  • Wikidata is important for machine search.
  • Amend the Wikidata item; add new statements, labels, descriptions, or aliases. Don't forget the mul language.
  • Add (related) images to Wikidata
  • Add external identifiers
• Describe the media files on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Backlink the Wikidata item via SDC depict statements.
  • Add other image specific metadata, descriptions, and labels
• Add the best matching infobox (occupation, function, type of object).
• Add other images, or other media files. Possibly add a gallery.
• Add an authority template. This will display more reference material from Wikidata.
• No original research, neutrality, objectivity, clear language (avoid filler words, or confusing words).