Follow these steps to create a wikiHow page that will be less likely to be nominated for deletion.

[edit] Steps

Read the following pages:
Use the search box to look for articles that may already exist on your planned topic. Read more here about how to run a thorough search for articles which may be just like the one you are about to write.
- If your intended topic has not yet been covered in wikiHow, please plunge forward and write it!
- If the topic you want to write about is covered in other articles, consider adding your ideas to one of the other articles. Be bold in your editing. If you need to dramatically edit the existing page to make it better, go ahead and do so. But keep in mind that someone else is free to change it back.
- If you want to write about something that is already covered in wikiHow, but your technique uses a totally different method you can create an "alternate method" such as those seen on the page on how to Cure Hiccups. Alternatively, you can create a new page with a new title that clearly explains how your version is different.
Remember that wikiHow articles should help people solve their everyday problems. We believe that profanity, sexually explicit or sexually charged topics, mean-spirited or hate based, recreational drug focused, joke topics, societal instructions, and vanity pages are inappropriate for wikiHow. Topics that pose very high odds of injury or death or are universally illegal will also be deleted.
Make a nice complete article. While this is not required, and someone may come along and make your skeleton of article better, completeness does help. Often a very brief article will get a stub tag because one of our readers thinks it is a bit skimpy. And then NFD (nomination for deletion) might be just around the corner. So be sure to flesh out your article nicely if you want it to stay around awhile.
Add photos. If your topic is hard to understand, maybe a photo of the trick you may be describing will tell the thousand words needed to keep it off the chopping block. A nice photo having something to do with the topic makes the article look much more complete.
WikiLink your article. Check the "Related wikiHows" box down at the bottom and find five other articles right here at wikiHow which run along the lines of your subject. Again, we are going for completeness here. A nice full article, fully linked and illustrated, is much more likely to stay around for awhile and become a standby of wikiHow.

[edit] Tips

Avoid new articles on topics related to How to: 'be hot', 'be cute', 'be popular', 'be a prep', 'be emo', 'be goth', 'get a guy' and 'get a girl', or any variation on these topics. There are dozens of existing articles on these topics. New articles are likely to be either merged with the existing articles or nominated for deletion as 'no new content'.
Don't write articles about how to use the toilet, regardless of how serious you try to make them sound, these articles are considered 'potty humor' and will be deleted.
Avoid writing articles that consist of things which are instinctive for humans. For instance, an article about how to 'eat something' that consist primarily of the steps 'put in mouth', 'chew' and 'swallow'. Articles containing these 'steps' are often nominated for deletion as 'useless' because these steps are done instinctively by humans. No one needs to be told to do it, they just do it.
Sarcasm really doesn't work in a 'how-to' manual. The purpose of a 'how-to' manual is to provide instructions on doing something to someone who has never done it before. In order to properly appreciate sarcasm, you need to have some experience with the subject. Sarcasm in a 'how-to' is likely to be missed or not understood by the intended reader, even if the rest of us get a good chuckle out of it. Sarcastic articles are likely to be nominated for deletion as 'joke pages'.
Joke articles are always deleted from wikiHow. If you have an overwhelming desire to write a joke article, consider submitting your article to The Uncyclopedia. They have a special section for joke how-to articles.
If you are writing an article about how to be like a character from a TV show, movie or book, try to include the name of the show, movie or book in the title. Also, be sure to provide some information about the show, movie or book in the summary. This will help others see that it isn't a vanity page.
Do not plagiarize. If you copy and paste text from another copyrighted online source without permission, your article will be flagged for copyright abuse and deleted.
If you are the author of subject matter that you have hosted elsewhere on the web, and you want to post a copy of it here, please:
1. Register a username before you post.
2. Read and have a basic understanding of the Creative Commons NC-SA License.
3. On your author page, indicate that you are the original author of the material you post.

[edit] Warnings

Do not remove 'NFD' tags from articles just because you disagree with the nomination. Nomination for Deletion is a process, if you disagree with the deletion - state your opinion on the articles discussion page.