 | New Page Review Wondering why your article has still not been reviewed or was changed to a draft? This plain and simple guide provides you with answers and links to important policies and guidelines. |
 | This page in a nutshell: All new articles are reviewed for suitability for the encyclopedia. This includes drafts, redirects, and articles created from drafts and redirects. Articles that have not been reviewed can be seen within the encyclopedia, but they are hidden from external search engines |
 | Legitimate Wikipedia editors will never offer to remove the 'not reviewed' message in exchange for money. See the paid editing scam warning for more information. |
- Who are the new page reviewers?
- What is Articles for creation?
- What Wikipedia is not
- Notability guidelines
- What is 'verifiability'?
- Reliable sources
- Simple guide to conflict of interest
- Copyright violation
- Original research
- Spam
- What is 'mainspace'?
- What is a 'draft'?
- Why might an article be deleted?
New articles are reviewed by new pages patrollers, experienced editors who check whether they conform to Wikipedia's core content policies and identify material that is not suitable for inclusion.
Review includes articles created directly in mainspace (the encyclopedia proper), or moved there from draft or user space (including sandboxes). It includes articles replacing a redirect that had existed at the same title and new articles created at a title that was previously deleted, whether or not the content is new or taken from previous or existing content. Some articles created via the Articles for creation process will also be reviewed again by a new page reviewer after acceptance.
You will receive a notification when a page you have created has been reviewed. Once an article is reviewed, it will be visible to external search engines (indexed). New page reviewers are volunteers and articles are not reviewed in any specific order. An article may remain unreviewed for several months. An article free of potential issues is usually more likely to be reviewed promptly. Sometimes, articles have been patrolled but have not been marked as reviewed. They may have some banners on top explaining what is wrong and including links on what to do.
In some cases, if articles are not quite ready for mainspace, they may be moved to Draft space where you can work on it undisturbed for a while until it is ready. Articles that are not suitable for the encyclopedia will usually be listed for deletion.
- What can you do if your article has still not been reviewed and/or has been tagged for more attention or moved to a draft?