Project page describing article ideas that usually end up in articles for deletion
Essay on editing Wikipedia
The following is a list of article ideas that show up repeatedly in Articles for deletion (AfD). Please think twice before creating an article about any of the following:
Any article in which you want to present a single point of view on a topic when multiple points of view exist. Expect all points of view, even critical or negative ones, to appear in any article you make! See WP:NPOV
A new article to supplement an already existing one that you think is not putting your point across forcefully enough.
Any subject that can be documented only by reference to the original, be it film, recording or picture. An example would be an article about movie characters when the only information about these characters exists in the movie in which they are featured.
Your résumé or a thinly disguised version thereof.
Any article devoted solely to announcing that someone or something is awesome, beast, the bomb, cool, swag, or the man, the myth, the legend. See WP:PEACOCK.
Any article devoted solely to announcing that someone is gay, lesbian, a man, a woman, married, divorced or in other words, soap opera of any kind (see Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles).
Any article that calls any Wikipedian the worst ever. See WP:NPA and WP:ATP.
Any article about another article.
Any article about a particular millisecond in history. With a few exceptions.
Any article articulating other articles' articulation when articulating another article.
Hoax articles. For every one that slips through the cracks, there are 100,000 that get caught. You're not special.
Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, or, the list of article ideas that are really, really really bad; so bad that administrators are allowed to delete them on the spot.