Wikipedia:WikiProject Cemeteries

Welcome to WikiProject Cemeteries. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Cemeteries and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.

Goals

Our goals are aligned with the Wiki Cemeteries User Group:

• Improve quality of articles and Wikidata entries related to cemeteries
• Collaborate around the scope of cemeteries with existing Affiliates
• Connect with new partners and editors, specifically in the field of traditional genealogy
• Understand cultural sensitivities around the theme of cemeteries
• Explain cemetery culture, including the role of caretakers and specific items (e.g., flags for veterans, flower wreaths, coins placed on gravestones), across Wikipedia Projects

Editing advice

Find a Grave is not considered a Reliable source for article text content. (It is usually removed by editors as a source citation.) As an WP:External link it may be included if it has additional information or a photo of the gravesite only available on Find a Grave. Also, cemeteries listed with Find a Grave links may be included in the Template:Infobox cemetery and/or External links section of articles. In all cases WP:COPYVIO applies.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Shushugah (talk) I am interested in documenting cemeteries in my area (Berlin), including taking photos. I have done so at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens) in the past already. Am excited for this new WikiProject 20:17, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
2. FULBERT (talk) (I am interested in improving the inclusion of cemeteries from across the globe on Wikipedia)
3. Darwin ^Ahoy! (I am interested in working on working with cemeteries on the projects Commons and Wikidata, mostly)
4. Maor X (I am mostly interested in documenting lesser-known cemeteries, especially but not only Jewish cemeteries)
5. Rosiestep. I'm interested in the junction of society+cemeteries, the junction of history+cemeteries, and the junction of art+cemeteries. I'm interested in the integration of Wikipedia, Wikidata, WikiCommons, and cemeteries. I'm interested in AI as a tool to support this WikiProject, e.g. using AWB to tag all the cemetery talkpages with the WikiProject cemeteries talkpage banner, and e.g. using ORES to review and help us rate all the cemetery articles. I'm interested in how m:Wiki Cemeteries User Group could support this work, e.g. collaborating with external organizations (e.g. developing new editors), collaborating with geography-based Affiliates (e.g. holding photo events). --Rosiestep (talk) 18:15, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
6. Srich32977 – I've been digging graves for a few years/decades now.
7. Daniel Case I have written a number of articles about listed cemeteries and graveyards for WP:NRHP that remain on my watchlist. Daniel Case (talk) 14:16, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
8. Chongkian interested in cemeteries/mausoleums of Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia. Chongkian (talk) 00:50, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
9. Darwinek interested in old cemeteries of Europe, particularly Central Europe.
10. Maile66 I'm fascinated by old cemeteries in the United States, and I've written a few articles on them - both NRHP and non-NRHP. It's interesting to me how these old cemeteries give testimony to populations that may have long ago vanished. — Maile (talk) 20:07, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
11. GlenTheYid I created the page for our local cemetery, Enfield Crematorium, where my father works, and have been helping to clean up the whole category as a whole.
12. Dwkaminski I've created and updated several articles on cemeteries in the greater Philadelphia region. Working through updating/improving the notable burials of Laurel Hill Cemetery. Up to "S"...
13. Medarduss Not created any pages for cemeteries yet, but going to start editing and creating some now! Especially interested in cemeteries in Germany and Oxford. Medarduss (talk) 19:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Articles

Featured content

Candidates

• Westminster Abbey- Looking for peer reviews to help it get through FAN

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Cemeteries-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• South Dakota Veterans Cemetery
• German Italian Memorial Cemetery
• Atlantic Gardens Veterans Cemetery
• U.S. Naval Cemetery
• Brigadier General William C. Doyle Memorial Cemetery
• Broadway Cemetery Historic District
• Old San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District

Review and assessment

Current ratings

Cemeteries articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2		12			14
FL				1			1
GA		4	4	23			31
B	4	11	9	152		1	177
C	4	23	70	757			854
Start	4	19	105	4,338		6	4,472
Stub			2	322		1	325
List	1	3	28	192			224
Category				1	2,749		2,750
Disambig				27	135		162
File					6		6
Project					31		31
Template					49		49
NA				3	716		719
Other					7		7
Assessed	13	62	218	5,828	3,693	8	9,822
Total	13	62	218	5,828	3,693	8	9,822
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 28,319			Ω = 4.82

To manually update this table, enter Cemeteries in the WP 1.0 tool.

Assessment

Assessment

Peer review

Peer review

Templates

• This very WikiProject
• Infobox for cemetery articles

Resources

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Death
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture