Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
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Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.
Goals
[edit]- 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.
Scope
[edit]- 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.
Tools
[edit]List-friendly search results enhancements
[edit]- 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.
Guidelines
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General
Help
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Rejected proposals:
Essays
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Assessment
[edit]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 | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FL
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6 | 30 | 137 | 2,039 | 1,742 | 3,954 | |
| Stub | 93 | 87 | 180 | ||||
| List | 60 | 465 | 2,490 | 64,686 | 331 | 64,024 | 132,056 |
| Category | 18,554 | 18,554 | |||||
| Disambig | 229 | 229 | |||||
| File | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Portal | 8,347 | 8,347 | |||||
| Project | 148 | 148 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 42 | 3,931 | 7,286 | 11,260 | ||
| Template | 1,627 | 1,627 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Other | 7 | 103 | 110 | ||||
| Assessed | 66 | 496 | 2,669 | 70,757 | 36,635 | 65,853 | 176,476 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 4 | 210 | 801 | 1,016 | ||
| Total | 66 | 497 | 2,673 | 70,967 | 36,635 | 66,654 | 177,492 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 1,080 | 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 lists
[edit]Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.
See also Wikipedia:Contents.
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Articles
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New articles
[edit]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 alerts
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The report page has exceeded the page size limit and I couldn't deliver the report.- This happens when a lot of pages (>2000) are reported at once. The report will return to normal once the number of nominations drops.
Notable list categories
[edit]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 complete and unlikely to change for a long time.
Other lists are missing entries and are called incomplete lists. Incomplete lists should be immediately preceded by the {{Incomplete list}} template, or one of its topic-specific variations.
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Dynamic lists
Some lists, such as List of numbers, are intentionally inexhaustive, as they are only meant to list notable examples from a given category. These are known as "dynamic lists" and should be preceded by the {{Dynamic list}} template. Some dynamic lists require updates: for example, a list of notable alumni from a given university, or Lists of plants may need to be updated as clades and classifications are debated by botanists.
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It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it, if not to completion, 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 them, and 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.
Members and userbox
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{{User WPLISTS}}
{{User WP Lists 1}}
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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 list
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Template uses
[edit]Project
[edit]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:
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and includes the article in the project.
Requests for article improvement
[edit]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 templates
[edit]- {{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}} -
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
Content type list templates
[edit]- {{inc-lit}} - This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
- {{inc-musong}} - This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
- {{inc-sport}} - This sports-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
- {{inc-transport}} - This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
- {{inc-video}} -
or one of its sub-categories:This list related to film, television, or video is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.- {{inc-film}} - This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
- {{inc-tv}} - This television-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
- {{inc-film}} -
Stub templates
[edit]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.
Tags
[edit]- {{Notability|Lists}} - The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for stand-alone lists.
- {{List missing criteria}} - This list has no precise inclusion criteria as described in the Manual of Style for standalone lists.
Navbox
[edit]{{List navbox}} <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.
(Discuss the List navbox Template)
Talk header
[edit]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 WikiProjects
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- WikiProject Indices
- WikiProject Outlines
- WikiProject Discographies
- WikiProject TV's Lists of episodes task force - see also Template talk:Episode list
