Template talk:Start an article

Here's what I wrote elsewhere. Use as much as you like.

Starting a new article
First see if there is a red link with the name you want, somewhere in an existing page (eg Special:Wantedpages). Click it if there is.

If no sign, try the next paragraph.

Signed-in users can easily combine article-creation with making a list of articles they have started. See the top line of lotr:User:Robin Patterson for the idea. Here's the code to add to the top of your User page (with your exact username replacing the dots):

Some of the articles I started or plan to start soon

Then on your new "My articles" subpage you paste or type two headings: ==Planned== and ==Started==; under the former you paste or type (in double square brackets) the page name you want, save, then click the new link and off you go. Next time you are editing that page, move links from the "planned" category to the "saved" category as appropriate.