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Tips for Creating a Wikipedia Article about Community Newspapers

Wikipedia has some excellent articles on to create new articles for the first time and forms of editing.

For newspapers in particular, we acknowledge that many will not be considered of highest priority to publish for some editors. However, we want to increase general knowledge about Ontario Community Newspapers.

What is helpful for every Wikipedia article created about newspapers is including an infobox (see the next section).

When researching to add new sources or create a new article, it is to use sources that are easily accessible online from quality sources, to help editors verify the article more quickly.

What will also help in terms of notability is connecting the newspaper to a significant person and/or event. For instance, the ''The Markdale Standard'' has connections to Agnes MacPhail, who was Canada’s first female Member of Parliament.

Templates

How to Create an Infobox (via WikiProject: Newspapers)

The Infobox newspaper is used to show the basic data about a newspaper and appears at the top of the article. In general, an article about a newspaper should include all of the following {{Infobox newspaper}} template elements:
{{Infobox newspaper
| name =
| foundation =
| founder =
| editor =
| publisher =
| owners =
| headquarters =
| publishing_city =
| publishing_country =
| circulation =
| circulation_date =
| circulation_ref =
| type =
| oclc =
| ISSN =
| website = {{URL| }}
}}

The text portion of the article should contain

At least one inline reference citation about the newspaper from a source that is not in direct relation to the newspaper. Use websites, other newspapers or news sources, or books, for example.
Previous names of the newspaper and dates they were published.
Notable awards the newspaper has received
Whether the newspaper is still being printed and whether there is a digital version of the newspaper

If this information is not available after search, find the best alternative -- an old circulation number, the earliest known date published. If the publisher is not known, make sure the owner is listed.

Resources

OurDigitalWorld provides access to digital copies and indexes of local community newspapers based in Ontario. You can fully explore them at http://news.ourontario.ca/.