Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
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This is a guide for subject experts who have worked as a researcher, scholar, or academic. Experts without an academic background may prefer Help:Wikipedia editing for non-academic experts.
If you are a professional researcher, engineer, mathematician, scholar, graduate student, or other academic, you are very likely already familiar with writing survey articles and survey sections of research articles. Writing a Wikipedia article is almost the same, but there are a few differences that it might be helpful to know about before you start.
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