Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast

WikiProject BELFAST


Scope and Motivation

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This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Belfast. On top of this, it aims to get the main Belfast article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Northern Ireland Portal.

Articles and categories relating to Belfast are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do"s.

Recent developments

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  • Belfast has been successful as the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography's collaboration of the month. For anyone who's interested in helping to get the article up to FAC standard, there are many resources and a guide available on the UK Geography Project page.

Major pending tasks

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  1. Update all {{infobox Belfast place}} templates to use include the new mapping function.
     
  2. Add the new {{WikiProject Belfast}} template to all Belfast-related articles' talk pages.
    N.B. - please do not substitute the template, as any future changes to the template will not be updated automatically. On top of this, a substituted inclusion will not appear on the Belfast list of links that provides a gauge for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages). Do not continue to use the old version {{WPBelfast}}
     
  3. Add new {{Belfast history}} navigational template to the top of all Belfast-history related articles.


  • Completely overhaul this page into a more coherent format.
    • Insert templates on talk pages of Northern Ireland-related articles referring to new MOS (yet to be created) page.
    • Create project space Manual of Style article and template.
    • Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as per WP:WPF)
  • Implement a "Series on Belfast" template along the lines of {{Christianity}}

Manual of Style (conventions)

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See Wikipedia:Northern Ireland Manual of Style

Templates

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Templates

Creation of articles

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Done

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For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Log.

To do

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To request articles on subjects, people or places (etc.) that do not yet exist, please place a request for them on the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Missing articles.

Categories

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Done

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To do

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  • Locate non-categorised Belfast schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.

Substance

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Done

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To do

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  • The main Belfast article needs to achieve featured status.
  • The Greater Belfast article needs at least a 500-character count, but should be aiming for at least a B-class.
  • Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
  • All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
  • Template:Infobox Belfast place (talk · links · edit) needs to be added to all Belfast district articles

Belfast articles that have been tagged with templates

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List individual Belfast related articles that have been tagged (with, for example, reqphoto) here.

Tagged with WikiProject Belfast template

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Articles from the following categories have been tagged with the WikiProject Belfast assessment template or the older WPBelfast template.

Photographs

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Wikimedia Commons has a wide range of Northern Ireland related photographs which can all be used freely to accompany articles in Wikipedia. See:

If you have any Northern Ireland-related photographs you could load them up to Wikimedia Commons for all to use.

To do

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Participants

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Please register your participation in the WikiProject by adding your name to the list below (in alphabetical order). You can also add the userbox {{User WPBelfast}} to your user page.

It is recommended that you keep this page and the talk page on your watchlist so that you remain informed about updates etc.

Article assessment (long)
Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.

The {{WikiProject Belfast}} template has a class= parameter that provides an article assessment ratings:

Example: {{WikiProject Belfast| class=??? | importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the parameters. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

Article quality

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If a rating is not assigned when the {{WikiProject Belfast}} is added, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed Belfast-related articles by default. If assessing the article, the class should be assigned according to the grading scheme. A list of Unassessed and In dispute articles can be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Article assessment.

See also: List of Belfast-related articles by quality | Log (updated daily).

Article importance

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If an importance rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unknown-importance Belfast-related articles by default.


Legend

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Article progress grading scheme
  FA Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Example: Algorithm
  A The article provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a Great Article. It includes a well-written introduction to the topic, and an appropriate series of headings to break up the article. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from textbooks or peer-reviewed papers rather than websites. It contain illustrations where apropriate (with no copyright problems). It should be at the stage where it meets the criteria for or is a Good article. Example: Ammonia (as of Oct 2005).
B The article is "almost there" but it may be missing one of the following: references, balance of content, or an important section. Alternatively, the English may need a comprehensive rewrite to make it flow, or it may need to be edited to follow standard English spelling and conventions. For maths articles, articles which are overly technical and fail to explain the basics would often end up here. Example: Antarctica (as of Oct 2005) is a good start but contains too many lists, and it needs more prose content & references.
Start The article has a good amount of content, but it is still weak in certain areas, and may lack a table. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Example: Arithmetic (as of Oct 2005).
Stub The article is either a very short article or a stub that will need a lot of work to bring it to A-Class level, although there may be a significant amount of material in the article.

Need: The article's importance, regardless of its quality

Top Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia
High Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid Subject fills in more minor details
Low Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial

Quality: current article quality as per the grading scheme

  FA Featured article
  A Article is well written, reasonably complete and referenced; possible featured article candidate.
  GA This is a good article
B We have a decent article, but it needs further editing
Start Significant cleanup or expansion needed.
Stub Article missing or miserable, or a stub.


Useful categories

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The following Belfast-related topics can be turned into an encyclopaedic article called List of Belfast topics which is part of Category:Topic lists.

Reference

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Here are some open WikiProject Belfast tasks:
Places:
Landmarks:
Parks and gardens:
Events:
People: Max Clendinning, Paul Charles (novelist), Paula Clamp, Colin Cooper (academic), Damien Dempsey, Brian Downey, Glen Hansard, H Douglas Keith, Charles Michael Lavery QC, Henry Lavery, Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, Robert MacDonnell, Jim Malley, Gerry McAvoy, Lou Martin, Francis Maginn, Gary Moore, Zane Radcliffe, Gayle Williamson
Newspapers:
Streets:
Rivers:
Organisations: Our Lady and St Patrick's College, Belfast Boy's Model School
History:
Buildings:
Major topics:
Edit or discuss this list.

Structure

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Parentage

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The parent of this WikiProject are the WikiProject Cities and the WikiProject Northern Ireland projects.

Associated pages

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Similar Wikiprojects

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Australian cities
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney
Canadian cities
Montreal, Ottawa, St. John's*, Toronto, Vancouver
European cities and regions
Bedfordshire, Belfast, Belgrade, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Kent, London, Munich, North East England, Porto, Rome, Sheffield, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Vienna, West Midlands, Zagreb
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External resources

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Tools

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Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.