This is a guide to starting your first medical billing encyclopedia article. We will explain some of the DOs and DON'Ts, then show you how to create an article.
Medical Billing Wiki covers only subjects related to medical billing. If the topic is likely to be related to the billing industry in some way, go ahead; if you're unsure, or the article is about you or something you are closely connected to, you can ask an administrator by email at admin@medicalbilling.wiki. You can only create a new article once you've registered an account – you need to only choose a username and password. Before starting, try editing existing articles to get a feel for writing and for using Medical Billing Wiki's mark-up language. Also search Medical Billing Wiki first in case an article already exists on the subject, perhaps under a different title. If the article already exists, feel free to make any constructive edits to improve it. Gather references both to use as source(s) of the information you will include and to demonstrate the notability of your article's subject matter. References to blogs, personal websites, Facebook and YouTube are unsuitable – we need reliable sources. There are many places to find reliable sources, including your local library, but if internet-based sources are to be used, start with books and news archive searches rather than a simple web search. Extra care should be taken to make sure that articles on living persons have reliable sources – articles about living people without reliable sources may be deleted, especially if they include negative or controversial content. Consider requesting feedback. You can request feedback on articles you would like to create in a number of places, including the talk page of a related WikiProject or the Teahouse. Consider creating the article first in your user space. As a registered user, you have your own user space. You can start the new article there, on a subpage; you can get it in shape, take your time, ask other editors to help work on it, and only move it into the "live" part of Medical Billing Wiki once it is ready to go. To create your own subpage, see here. When the new article is "ready for prime time", you can move it into the main article space. (Notes. The Article Wizard has an option to create these kinds of draft pages. Even in user space, unacceptable articles (see below) are liable to be nominated for deletion.)
Remember that if the article is not acceptable, it will be deleted quickly. Medical Billing Wiki is patrolled where admins check new articles shortly after creation.
Articles that do not meet notability guidelines and do not cite reliable published sources are likely to be deleted.
Do not create pages about yourself, your company, your band or your friends, nor pages that advertise, are personal essays or other articles you would not find in an encyclopedia, unless the page is directly related to medical billing, medical coding, or health information in some manner.
Be careful about the following: copying things, controversial material, extremely short articles, and local-interest articles.