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.
• Subject in bold
• Well structured article
• Frequent inline references
• Internal links
• Every article must be linked at least once in another article.
• External links
• Non-overlapping categories

Other rules

• Linking the lemma with a Wikidata item. If needed, create a new item.
  • Wikidata is important for automated machine search.
  • Amend the Wikidata item; add new statements, labels, descriptions, or aliases.
  • Add (related) images to Wikidata
• Describe the media files on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Add Wikimedia Commons depict statements.
• Add an infobox.
• Add other images, or other media files. Possibly add a gallery.
• Add an authority template. This will search more reference material from Wikidata.
• No original research