It's easy to find thousands of 'stub' to 'start'-class articles that obviously need lots more content and/or citations. They may be less 'important' or trendy,

It's easy to find thousands of 'stub' to 'start'-class articles that obviously need lots more content and/or citations. They may be less 'important' or trendy, and hopefullly less 'opinionated', and unlikely to be on 'watch list's. There you'll run into less-to-no helicopter parents, and stand a much-better chance of creating most of a great article before they show up. Load up on good citation prospects for solid content. Over to the left on any page you can see how many visits/day it's been getting - that can help you stay away from them.