wikidoc:What is an article?

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A Wikidoc article is defined as a page that has encyclopedic or medical reference-like information on it(i.e. containing differential diagnoses, imaging etc.).

An "article" does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:

• the WikiDoc namespace for material about meta subjects related to Wikidoc(example, Policies & Guidelines and its talk page);
• the talk namespaces for discussing what the content of pages should be (for example, Talk:Abdominal Pain)
• the special namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand (see Special:Special pages);
• the user namespace for pages that are used by individual Wikidoc writers (example, User:CMichaelGibson).
• the image namespace which is used for describing and attributing images (example, Image:Anatomy.jpg)
• the MediaWiki namespace which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Wikidoc (example MediaWiki:Disclaimers)

But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; the most notable exceptions are:

• the Main Page;
• articles which contain no internal links;
• thousands of disambiguation pages which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
• thousands of "redirect" pages which are used to re-route one page to another page;