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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Southern California. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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[edit] Map of Southern California


[edit] Scope

Counties:

South of the San Gabriel/San Bernardino mountains
North of the San Gabriel/San Bernardino mountains

Note: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties are also in the Central Coast region of California, which also included Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

[edit] Participants

If you are also interested in statewide issues, please visit WikiProject California.
  • Evrik - Soy un angeleno nativo. ¿Que tienes que hacer? --evrik 04:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • JesseW 1 July 2005 19:07 (UTC) - I've worked on starting a few LA neighborhood articles, and some category cleanup - that would be one really good thing to improve, the categorization for So Cal articles.
  • Willmcw July 1, 2005 20:49 (UTC).
  • — Catherine\talk 5 July 2005 00:18 (UTC)
  • Antandrus (talk) 6 July 2005 03:24 (UTC) -- I've written a lot of articles on places in Santa Barbara County, and a few in San Luis Obispo County as well (that one's sort of borderline I suppose, but it is on the map ...)
  • Zzyzx11 (Talk) 7 July 2005 03:50 (UTC) - will occasionally help with it
  • --fpo 13:19, July 26, 2005 (UTC) - I've done (and will continue with) famed golf courses in the area, and more stuff.
  • Stevey7788 - will occasionally help with L.A. neighborhoods, cities, and freeways
  • theshibboleth - I'm going to try to upload photos of the LA area.
  • Lan56 I'd love to help out. I can occasionally add some photos, too. --Lan56 02:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
  • Howcheng I'll fill in what I can in Ventura County and LA places that I know about. --Howcheng 16:18, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Jeshii I'll find any pictures I have and work on parks and hiking and stuff. Jeshii 13:29, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • Glowimperial I've worked on articles related to San Pedro in the past, and I take a lot of photos around Los Angeles. Count Me in. Glowimperial 21:12, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
  • -- NatsukiGirl\talk I live and work in the Los Angeles Fashion District/Little Tokyo area, I'll help out wherever I can for those.
  • epolk—I'm in the Long Beach area and work in north Orange County so I can get pics of things in that area as well as working on articles.
  • Lucky 6.9 here in the Coachella Valley. I've written and expanded a number of SoCal-related articles mainly relating to the Los Angeles area and the desert region. Three were elevated to featured status, namely Wigwag, Felix the Cat and Ridge Route. Disneyland Railroad recently passed peer review except for a lack of photos. Getting some on my next swing through Anaheim.
  • avnative obviously Antelope Valley related articles, as I have available time. Mojave Desert articles, too. --avnative 14:04, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • andrewphelps I would like to be a part of this. I am a 20-year San Diego native, now living downtown. --Andrew Phelps 02:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
  • User:SAUNDERSI am particularly knowledgeable of Southern California Transportation. Where ever needed as time allows.
  • Rockero 05:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)I'll throw my name in the hat. I've already contributed to some city articles and created one an article for one Southern California landmark (Chicano Park). I've lived in Ontario, Upland, Pomona, Claremont, West Covina, East Los Angeles, Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and Goleta. I've done some research, too.
  • jengod 21:47, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • —Kenyon (t·c) 01:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC) - I'm in Del Mar. Recently worked on Cardiff-by-the-Sea, which needs a lot more work.
  • 3bulletproof16 06:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC) I've recently made numerous contributions on improving quality of socal sports venue articles.
  • Slambo, born on Sunset Blvd, raised in Manhattan Beach (although now living in Wisconsin); specialize in railroad history and rail transport topics.
  • Decafpenguin New to SoCal and a new contributor to wikipedia, I'm a student at UCLA and if I have time I'll try to work on LA+surrounding area neighborhoods topics, and overall readability/grammar issues.
  • AlexTheMartian. I was born and raised in the middle of the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. I am now in West L.A. (near Santa Monica) for college, and I am an Eagle Scout so I enjoy the local outdoors. My main focus is the San Gabriel Valley, and recently the improvement plans of its rivers.
  • Morven Living in Anaheim and working near Downtown LA.
  • Hezzy 00:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Simi Valley.
  • The American Eagle of LA, 26 September 2006.
  • Justin Live and work in Long Beach, and hike many local mountains. Will contribute content, photos and random edits to these and other areas.
  • Alex LaPointe 18:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC) I currently reside in Orange County and teach Geology at a local HS, I would like to create and edit any articles about the Geology of SoCal and OC history.
  • Moreau36 02:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, lived part of my life throughout Southern California. Work mostly on city/town/unincorporated community articles.
  • Whyaduck 06:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC) Though I've lived in Northern California for twenty years, I lived twice as long in my native San Gabriel Valley. I'll probably concentrate mostly on articles about the western SGV and downtown Los Angeles.
  • Arspickles17 02:56 29 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Agoura Hills, California and now living in Downtown LA
  • --TorriTorriTalk to me! 08:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC) Moved to the I.E. a few years ago, can contribute about San Bernardino and surrounding areas
  • Gohiking 19:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, California and now living in Norwalk, California. I am slowing making edits on more and more pages within LA County as I have time.
  • Minnaert 00:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Fairly new contributer. Moved to West Hollywood, California about 1 year ago. Interested in contributing wherever I can.


[edit] Goals and projects

[edit] Goals

Please see the talk page for more discussion of the goals for the SoCal WikiProject.
  1. Make sure that every Southern California county and city article meets Wikipedia guidelines
  2. Add at least one quality picture for:
    1. every Southern California city and community
    2. every State Park in SoCal
    3. every County Park in SoCal
    4. every major landmark in SoCal
  3. Improve and enlarge every stub article on SoCal topics
  4. Create new articles on SoCal topics to eliminate any red links in SoCal articles
  5. Improve major articles related to Southern California so that they can be first taken to Peer review, then nominated as a Featured article candidate, and finally featured as a Featured article.

[edit] Projects

[edit] Photography projects

[edit] Cleanup projects

  • Create Merged-Consolidation articles for landmarks: Many of the SoCal city and community articles, as well as articles such as Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard, have long lists of landmarks that are either red links or links to stubs that will probably not grow much larger. It would be much better to create some consolidation articles such as Landmarks of Sunset Boulevard that would have brief descriptions of all of the landmarks with links to the much smaller number of landmarks that deserve full-fledged articles.

[edit] Featured article projects

[edit] Missing articles projects

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles

In most cases, these lists need to be created on Wikipedia and then articles created for the subtopics, where appropriate

[edit] Requested photos

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-RP
Los Angeles County
Long Beach-area
Orange County
San Diego County
  • Chicano Park - some beautiful art there, someone just needs to photograph it!
See also

[edit] Missing articles and Stub articles

To update these sections, click here to purge the cache.

[edit] Los Angeles County

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-LAC

Articles needed:

Articles that need to be check
See also

[edit] Long Beach-area

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-LBA

This is for Long Beach-area cities, including the Gateway Cities (which is roughly the same area as the 562 area code and the coverage area for the Long Beach Press-Telegram). Also included are the adjacent areas near the Port of Los Angeles (including Wilmington, Harbor City, San Pedro and the cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula).

[edit] Orange County

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-OC

see also:

[edit] San Diego County

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-SD

see also:

[edit] Imperial, Kern, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-IC


see also:

[edit] Southern California Schools

Shortcut:
WP:WPSC-S

Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools


{{Cleanup-school}}


{{US-school-stub}} & Category:US school stubs


{{wikify}}


Survived WP:VFD


National Register of Historic Places


See also:

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] New Wikipedia articles on SoCal topics

Please feel free to list your new Southern California-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Articles, Templates, Categories, Lists, and Images

[edit] Articles

[edit] Overview articles

[edit] Disambiguation pages

[edit] Los Angeles

[edit] Non-LA

[edit] Templates

To see examples of all the templates, see WikiProject Southern California Templates
see also Category:Southern California templates

[edit] User page templates

{{User Californian}}

This user is from California.


{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_California/Userbox}}

Wikiproject:WikiProject_California This user is a member of
WikiProject California.


[edit] Infoboxes and navigation boxes

[edit] Stub templates


[edit] Other Templates

  • {{PD-CAGov}}
    "work of a State of California employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties,...is consequently in the public domain."
  • {{WikiProject Southern California}}
    Add {{WikiProject Southern California}} to any Wikipedia article's talk pages that are receiving special attention from the SoCal WikiProject
This article is part of WikiProject Southern California, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Southern California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality, if possible.
Wikipedians in California may be able to help!
This template is misplaced. It belongs on the talk page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southern California.


[edit] Categories

For a list of all the sub-categories of Category:California as of the June 23, 2005 database dump, see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/categories. Below is a selected list of Southern California-related categories.

[edit] Lists

Also see Wikipedia:WikiProject California#Lists for statewide lists such as List of California state parks

[edit] Images

Also see commons:Category:California, commons:Category:PD California Government and commons:Los Angeles, California

[edit] Assessment

Southern California
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Class
Featured article FA 2 5 7
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 1
B 5 12 4 21
Start 1 9 26 5 41
Stub 3 27 4 34
Unassessed 2 1 1 31 35
Total 3 8 26 63 40 140

[edit] Peer review, Featured articles, and Collaborations

[edit] Article improvement drive

For improving articles larger than a stub.

[edit] Collaboration of the week

For non-existent articles or stubs.
  • American Old West (July 14)
    Nominated on 7 July 2005 18:53 (UTC); needs 5 votes by July 14.
    • California connections:
      • Film industry
      • Filming locations
      • Gold Rush themes

[edit] Failed COTW's

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Current Peer reviews

[edit] Past Peer reviews

[edit] Featured article candidates and Former featured articles

[edit] Current featured article candidates

[edit] Failed featured article candidates

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured articles with Southern California connections

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Other WikiProjects and Collaborations

[edit] Articles for deletion

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/California

[edit] Relationships with other projects

[edit] Parentage

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

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Alberta, Ottawa, Prescott-Russell, Toronto, Vancouver
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US Cities
Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Louisville, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Shreveport, Syracuse
See also: List of U.S. WikiProjects

[edit] WikiPortals

Related WikiPortals
Similar WikiPortals

Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, Puerto Rico, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin

[edit] Related Collaborations

For more information on Collaborations, see m:Wikimedia COTW, Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, Category:Wikipedia collaborations and {{COTWs}}.

Related collaborations
Similar collaborations
U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, North Carolina is the US Collaboration of the Week.  (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW  +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.
The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person: Mel Hancock Seal of Congress
Place: Missouri's 7th congressional district
Thing: Establish boilerplate for congressional district articles

Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or Red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold!
This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations; See past collaborations)

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Southern-California-area meetups

  1. Monday, July 25, 2005 Meetup/LA/1 - Philippe's, Chinatown - 6 attendees
  2. Monday, August 22, 2005 Meetup/LA/2
  3. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Meetup/SD1 - San Diego
  4. Saturday, April 8, 2006 Meetup/Santa_Barbara
  5. Saturday, 24 June 2006 Meetup/LA/3 (proposed LA meetup)
  • Invitation template:
    You can invite people to the next SoCal-area meetup by adding the template {{Meetup/LA/Invite}} to a person's Talk page, or to the Talk page for a SoCal-area article.

[edit] User categorisation

According to Wikipedia:User categorisation, instead of adding their name to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/California, California Wikipedians should add the following to their User page:

[[Category:Wikipedians in California|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

or

[[Category:Wikipedians in Southern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]

This will put your User page into either Category:Wikipedians in California or Category:Wikipedians in Southern California.

[edit] External resources

[edit] General Wikipedia links

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Article votes for deletion

[edit] WikiProject maintenance

[edit] Southern California WikiProject subpages

Subpage shortcut comments
/to do
/Los Angeles County to do WP:WPSC-LAC
/Long Beach-area to do WP:WPSC-LBA
/Orange County to do WP:WPSC-OC
/San Diego County to do WP:WPSC-SD
/Other Counties to do WP:WPSC-IC
/Schools to do WP:WPSC-S
/Requested photos WP:WPSC-RP
/Template examples
/Assessment WP:WPSC/A on article assessment for WP:1.0 program
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