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 call everywhere instead, so it isn't exposed to that removal whenever it
 happens in a later 4.0 build.
 
+## TODO
+
+Ideas not yet built, practical and speculative alike: [`docs/TODO.md`](docs/TODO.md).
+
 ## Contributing
 
 Contributions are welcome!
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+# TODO
+
+Ideas not yet built, practical and speculative alike.
+
+## Article creation templates
+
+Right now a new article always starts blank. Offer a starting-point picker
+when creating an article:
+
+- **Blank** — today's behavior, an empty edit form.
+- **Generic (Wikipedia-style)** — pre-fill the message body with a common
+  encyclopedia-article skeleton (e.g. an intro paragraph placeholder,
+  `Overview`, `History`, `References` section headings) so new articles
+  don't start from a truly empty box.
+
+Not scoped further yet — open questions include whether templates should be
+admin-configurable/extensible beyond these two, and whether template choice
+belongs on the overview page's quick-create box or only on the edit form
+itself.