User:A diehard editor/RDT/Journey of an Article

(Summary) The Journey of a RetroWikipedia Article
Account created Searching and searching... An article on the topic exists already. Make a redirect. An article on the topic doesn’t exist Finding reliable sources Writing Putting it on your subpage or somewhere else Article gets speedy deleted You keep on submitting it and you get blocked Submitted as a draft Draft submitted Draft declined, then edited and re-submitted Draft accepted You may lose motivation to work on the article Unpublished Published You just publish it without drafting (skip if you went via "Draft accepted") Might get deleted by New Page patrol Nice editors add sources, expand the article, and make it even better! Doesn’t get vandalized It gets vandalized (could get protected) To being a good article and beyond!