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Give the template a meaningful name. Usually one would try to only have the initial character upper case.  Do not use abbreviations for an article title.  Your article title should be spelled out. If an abbreviation is commonly used, you may create a separate page consisting of the abbreviated title and a page redirect, which will refer the reader back to your main article.
Give the template a meaningful name. Usually one would try to only have the initial character upper case.  Do not use abbreviations for an article title.  Your article title should be spelled out. If an abbreviation is commonly used, you may create a separate page consisting of the abbreviated title and a page redirect, which will refer the reader back to your main article.


You can also create an article as a subpage to your user page if you know that you will be working on the article a bit now and then, but do not want to leave an unfinished article in the article namespace.  You can create a subpage to your user page by giving it the name '''User:''User name''/''Article name'''''.  To make it easier to find you can make a link to it on your user page.  When you are more or less done, you can then move this page to the article space.
You can also create an article as a subpage to your user page if you know that you will be working on the article a bit now and then, but do not want to leave an unfinished article in the article namespace, in essence creating a sandbox page.  You can create a subpage to your user page by giving it the name '''User:''User name''/''Article name'''''.  To make it easier to find you can make a link to it on your user page.  When you are more or less done, you can then move this page to the article space.


=== Search and create ===
=== Search and create ===

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