The first thing you're going to do is choose an article to write. As a new nominator, one of the most important things to remember is not to pick something too overwhelming for your first nomination. Maybe Luke Skywalker is your favorite character, maybe the Millennium Falcon is your favorite ship, or maybe the lightsaber is your favorite weapon, but those topics are all gargantuan in size and are unsuitable for good article status because of their high word counts (GAs can only have up to 3,000 words). Furthermore, you're going to have to scour every single source—that means every novel, movie, television show, comic book, sourcebook, etc.—in which your subject of choice appears for information in order to write your article, and articles such as Luke Skywalker appear in hundreds of sourc