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'''Article''' may refer to multiple things:

* in [[grammar]]: a specific particle of speech. See [[grammatical article]].
* in [[medicine]]: a [[joint]] between two [[bone]]s (as in "articulation").
* In a [[journal]], [[magazine]], or [[newspaper]], an article is a piece of writing or [[essay]] on a topic.

A '''Wikichristian article''' is defined as a page that has [[encyclopedia|encyclopedic]] or [[almanac]]-like information on it ("almanac-like" being; lists, timelines, tables or charts).

See [[Special:Allpages]] for a list of all Wikichristian articles and [[Wikichristian:Statistics]] for statistics on Wikichristian and its growth.

An "article" does not include any pages in any of the specified [[Wikichristian:namespace|namespace]]s that are used for particular purposes, such as:
* the ''Wikichristian'' namespace for material about meta subjects related to Wikichristian (example, [[Wikichristian:Statistics]] and its talk page, [[Wikichristian talk:Statistics]]);
* the ''talk'' namespaces for discussing what the content of pages should be (for example, [[Talk:Mathematics]])
* the ''special'' namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand (see [[Wikichristian:Special pages]]);
* the ''user'' namespace for pages that are used by individual Wikichristian writers (example, [[User:Jimbo Wales]]).
* the ''image'' namespace which is used for describing and attributing images (example, [[:Image:Great Horned Owl.USFWS.jpg]])
* the ''MediaWiki'' namespace which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Wikichristian (example [[MediaWiki:Disclaimers]])

In the Monobook (default) skin, the type of page is shown in the currently selected tab and non-article pages have a light blue background. In the Classic skin, pages from these namespaces are displayed on a yellow background to distinguish them from pages in the article namespace.

But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; most notably:
* the [[Main Page]];
* All "[[Wikichristian:find or fix a stub|stub]]" pages that may not be considered real articles yet;
* All [[Wikichristian:Disambiguation|disambiguation pages]] which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
* All "[[Wikichristian:redirect|redirect]]" pages which are used to re-route one page to another page;

The automatic definition used by the software at [[Special:Statistics]] is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a [[Wikichristian:Redirect|redirect page]] and contains at least one wiki link. '''''The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregard Stubs and Stublists (lists templates with little or no content)'''''.

See [[Wikichristian:Naming conventions]] to learn how we title articles and [[Wikichristian:protected pages]] for a list of pages that have been made read-only to non-[[Wikichristian:Administrators|Wikichristian Administrators]].

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