Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-03-23

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Maintain : Portal:Contents/Lists
Update : Article rating systems in banners of existing WikiProjects to give more than just "list class" ratings for lists

Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.

GoalsEdit

In cooperation with WikiProject Outlines and WikiProject Indexes, make a comprehensive navigation system of Wikipedia that lists every page in the encyclopedia.
Make all lists titled "List of " conform to the standards of Featured list criteria
- Note that outlines, indices, glossaries, timelines, and tables have their own standards. See their respective WikiProjects for details.
- Note also that some "List of " pages are misnamed, and are actually outlines or indices, and fall within the scope of those two WikiProjects. Most of the misnamed lists include "topics" in their titles.
Check through Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists
Disperse Category:Lists into their proper subcategories
Create Wikipedia:Most wanted articles#List of <anything>
Reduce the number of inappropriate laundry lists
Maintain Wikipedia:Contents and its subpages
Make more lists to better organize Wikipedia articles
Maintain and develop the list guidelines and help pages.

ScopeEdit

The project covers most articles that are (or contain) lists. The lists that are intended as navigation aids are covered by WikiProject Outlines and WikiProject Indexes.

ToolsEdit

List-friendly search results enhancementsEdit

SearchSuite.js provides menu items to modify your search results. Some of the features include sort, hide details (listify), and even format your search results for easy copying and pasting into lists, with a click of your mouse. And more.

GuidelinesEdit

General

Help

Help:List
Help:Contents/Resources and lists
Help:Table. External links section has free HTML-to-wiki converters.
Wikipedia:When to use tables
Help:Sorting. All about automatic sorting of table rows.

Rejected proposals

Essays

Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Listcruft
Wikipedia:Write the Article First - one solution to cruft-y red links in lists
Creating A Better List - A User Essay
Wikipedia:Lists within articles

AssessmentEdit

The assessment department gives details of our Quality and Importance statistics. This project will use only FL, List, and Stub for articles. Quality Classes such as Image, Template, Portal, Disambiguation, Category and Project will only be included in order to conform with the predefined Wikipedia:Namespace.

Currently, this project uses the Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot for article statistics. Therefore, it has become necessary for the project create a Custom mask for Quality class. The Custom mask for WikiProject Lists limits class to FL, List, and Stub for articles, and automatically changes incorrect class codes.

Article statistics

List articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL	1	13	91	1,164		558	1,827
Stub				95			95
List	19	201	1,819	36,508	2,329	65,833	106,709
Book				1			1
Category				19	13,150		13,169
Disambig	1			12	473		486
File					1		1
Portal					327		327
Project		1			51		52
Redirect			1	131	1,345	1	1,478
Template			3	5	1,330		1,338
NA		1			2		3
Other					76		76
Assessed	21	216	1,914	37,935	19,084	66,392	125,562
Unassessed			3	249	3	535	790
Total	21	216	1,917	38,184	19,087	66,927	126,352
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 570			Ω = 6.00

After adding our Project template to a talk page, you may run our Assessment bot by clicking Run the bot right away on the bot's User page. Type the word List, then click Submit.

Lists of Wikipedia listsEdit

Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

ArticlesEdit

New articlesEdit

A list of recently created list articles can be found at User:AlexNewArtBot/ListsSearchResult. This list is updated daily.

When reviewing new articles, be sure to perform the following tasks, where appropriate:

Tag the talk page with {{WikiProject Lists}}
Add the article to the appropriate list category
Tag incomplete lists with {{expand list}} or {{dynamic list}}
Nominate interesting articles at Did you know?

Article alertsEdit

Articles for deletion

06 May 2021 – List of schools in Itahari (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Nirmaljoshi (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
04 May 2021 – List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pontificalibus (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
04 May 2021 – List of people from Waxahachie, Texas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Love of Corey (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
03 May 2021 – List of Easter eggs in Tesla products (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by My name is not dave (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
03 May 2021 – Covid hospitals in india (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CommanderWaterford (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
02 May 2021 – List of production battery electric vehicles (table) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 力 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
01 May 2021 – DART First State New Castle County bus routes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ajf773 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
30 Apr 2021 – List of MiniDisc releases (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Richard3120 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
30 Apr 2021 – List of RTC Transit routes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ajf773 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
30 Apr 2021 – List of Transit Authority of River City bus routes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ajf773 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

(81 more...)

Proposed deletions

04 May 2021 – List of financial institutions that invest in infrastructure (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by SimonP (t · c): concern
03 May 2021 – List of metaphors for languages (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dudhhr (t · c): concern
02 May 2021 – List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Pontificalibus (t · c) was deproded by Thryduulf (t · c) on 03 May 2021
28 Apr 2021 – List of place names in Poland of German origin (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Euor (t · c) was deproded by Liz (t · c) on 05 May 2021
28 Apr 2021 – List of FC Basel players (2) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Nehme1499 (t · c) was deproded by Huligan0 (t · c) (author) on 01 May 2021
18 Apr 2021 – List of Fables characters (other characters) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by TTN (t · c) was deleted
18 Apr 2021 – List of Fables characters (Literals and Part-Literals) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by TTN (t · c) was deleted
16 Apr 2021 – List of Romanian websites by number of unique visitors in 2009 (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Victor P. (t · c) was deleted
15 Apr 2021 – List of largest contract manufacturing companies by revenue (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Kstern (t · c) was deleted
14 Apr 2021 – List of ancient Armeno-Phrygian peoples and tribes (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Skeptical1800 (t · c) was deproded by Bird Vision (t · c) (author) on 20 Apr 2021

Categories for discussion

25 Apr 2021 – Category:Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2011 (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Love of Corey (t · c); see discussion
02 Apr 2021 – Category:Lists of city nicknames (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

03 May 2021 – Fear the Hunters (talk · edit · hist) →List of The Walking Dead episodes was RfDed by Gonnym (t · c); see discussion
02 May 2021 – Arboretum Oaks Apartments (talk · edit · hist) →List of mass shootings in the United States in 2021 was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
03 Apr 2021 – Francis Henry Fee (talk · edit · hist) →List of mayors of Melbourne, Florida RfDed by Devokewater (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Incomplete listsEdit

Main category: Category:Incomplete lists

Because of Wikipedia's role as an almanac and a gazetteer as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the list of U.S. state birds, are typically complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Some lists, however, cannot be considered complete, or even representative of the class of items being listed; such lists should be immediately preceded by the {{Expand list}} template, or one of the topic-specific variations that can be found at Category:Hatnote templates for lists. Other lists, such as List of numbers, may never be fully complete, or may require constant updates to remain current – these are known as "dynamic lists", and should be preceded by the {{Dynamic list}} template.

It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it closer, if not to completion, then at least to a mature state in which only minor updates are required as times change. Of course, it's not clear for all lists what should or shouldn't be on it, and so completion may never be clear for these lists, but there should at least come a point where most representative and widely agreed upon entries are present.

To display all pages, subcategories and images click on the "►":
► Incomplete lists‎ (167 C)

Members and userboxEdit

Userboxes

{{User WP Lists}}

This user proudly participates in WikiProject Lists

{{User WPLISTS}}

This user proudly participates in WikiProject Lists.

{{User WP Lists 1}}

This user is a member of
WikiProject Lists.

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Lists participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage:

[[Category:WikiProject Lists participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WPLISTS}} or {{User WP Lists}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Member listEdit

To display all pages, subcategories and images click on the "►":
► WikiProject Lists participants‎ (106 P)

TemplatesEdit

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:Hatnote templates for lists

ProjectEdit

Place the {{WikiProject Lists}} banner on all talk pages of list articles using the following code:

{{WikiProject Lists|class=list|importance=}}

which produces the following box:

WikiProject Lists

(Rated List-class)

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
List	This article has been rated as List-Class on the project's quality scale.

and includes the article in the project.

Requests for article improvementEdit

Below are examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

General list templatesEdit

{{Delsort |Lists}} - to add an AfD to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists. Produces:
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.
{{Dynamic list}} -
{{Expand list}} or {{Inc-list}} -

Content type list templatesEdit

{{inc-alumni}} -
{{inc-lit}} -
This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
{{inc-musong}} -
This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
{{inc-sport}} -
This sports-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
{{inc-transport}} -
{{inc-video}} -
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.
or one of its sub-categories:
- {{inc-film}} -
  This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
- {{inc-tv}} -
  This television-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Stub templatesEdit

Stub templates are placed at the end of articles, below the categories. If the article's content consists of only list material, please use a Request for improvement template rather than a stub template.

TagsEdit

{{Notability|Lists}} -

{{List missing criteria}} -

NavboxEdit

{{List navbox}} <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.

(Discuss the List navbox Template)

Talk headerEdit

Below is template code that can be pasted at the top of a list talk page, for stand-alone lists where inappropriate subjects are often added. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

{{stand-alone list}}

This is a stand-alone list that meets list notability criteria. Please only add items that meet the selection criteria established in the lead.

Related WikiProjectsEdit

External watchlistEdit

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Lists