Wikipedia:WikiProject Piers

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This project is about articles related to piers.

Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about piers, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.

Scope: This project is related to articles about specific piers, types of piers, lists of piers, pier categorization, and related templates.

If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention. Feel free to include yourself to the list of participants.

Contents

[edit] Membership Template

Template for members to include on their user page: {{WikiProject Piers}}, or the userbox form: {{user piers}}.

[edit] Participants

  • Paul E. Ester
  • Lynbarn (chief interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier railways)
  • KieranT (not much help beyond the south coast of England, but willing to help out :)

[edit] To Do

  • Expand the guidelines for pier articles
  • Nominate articles for good or featured status
  • Add infoboxes to articles
  • Standardize categorization for piers - discuss on the talk page
  • Add latitude and longitude information to articles (either using a template or {{Geolinks-US-streetscale}})
  • Expand Category:Piers (structure) stubs articles.
  • Expand Category:Piers by country
  • Advertise using {{PiersProject}} on Pier related talk pages.
  • Infobox location switching

[edit] Change log

Add Major edits to the

[edit] Guidelines

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The and serve as good models.

[edit] Introduction

The introduction sentence should include what type of pier it is, what it spans (river, lake, ocean, etc.), and where it is located:

'''pier''' is a [[pier type]] that spans [[body of water/land]] between [[city, state]] and [[city, state]]. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].

[edit] Images and media

Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.

[edit] Templates and infoboxes

Template:Infobox Pier is the prefered template and works best for users if it is at the top of the page.

[edit] Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of pier that it is (example Category:Amusement Piers). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Piers in the United Kingdom

There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all pier articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of Pier articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Piers in Japan), or small countries with relatively few Piers (Category:Piers in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Piers in New York). If these categories are further divided amongst subcategories, the articles will remain included within the larger category (For example: all the piers in Category:Toll piers in New York and Category:Piers in New York City will be included in Category:Piers in New York). This makes the category pages the easiest to navigate at the price of adding slightly redundant categories on the individual articles. This has been found to be the best solution until MetaWiki supports the inclusion of subcategory articles within parent category pages.

[edit] Infoboxes

  • Template:Infobox Pier is the prefered infobox for individual Piers. There are instructions on how to use it on the template page. Template:PierTypePix should be used for Pier design types.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists


[edit] Articles (Pier types and related topics)

  • Pier
  • Industrial Pier
  • Amusement Pier
  • Victorian Pleasure Pier
  • Fishing Pier
  • Pier Master
  • Pier Masters house

[edit] Articles (specific Piers) in need of attention

These are the past winners of "Pier of the Year", they all could use some editing

[edit] Pages needing attention

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Piers

[edit] Useful websites

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the day

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