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Contributing new content

Editors are encourages to review the research guidelines listed below before contributing a new material or a new building to this project. While you may not have all the information when you start a new article, you will create a framework that will allow others to easily edit your contribution.

Material contribution

Follow the material research guidelines to contribute a new material to the MaterialProject.

Add a new material in 5 steps

1. Create an account at MaterialProject.org, verify your e-mail address, and log into your account.
2. Check to see if your material already exists at MaterialProject.org. If a page for your material exists, consider enhancing the article's content with your knowledge.
3. Create a new page for your material.
   1. Use all lowercase letters for your material's page name unless the trade name for the material includes capitol letters. (e.g. use "concrete block" not "Concrete Block")
   2. Create a new page by typing your material name in the search box to the left and then click Go.
   3. On the search results page, click the create this page link to create your new page.
4. Copy and paste the code below into your new page.

   {{subst:contribute material}}

5. click Save Page

Building contribution

Follow the building research guidelines to contribute a new building to the MaterialProject.

You may also find the following useful if you are not ready to contribute a new material:

• review the building wish list to see if your building has already been suggested
• review the suggest a building guidelines to see how to request a new building

Editing

Popular topics

• Starting a new page
• Citing sources
• Adding footnotes
• Adding links
• Adding images

General Editing

• Editing pages
• Starting a new page
• Formatting
• Footnotes
• Links
• User pages
• Talk pages

Advanced editing

• Images
• Tables
• Categories
• Managing files
• Moving a page
• Redirects
• Deleting a page

• Templates
• Variables
• Namespaces
• Interwiki linking

• Special pages
• External searches
• Patrolled edits

Reading

• Navigation
• Searching
• Tracking changes

Personal customizing

• Preferences
• Skins

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