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[edit] Goals

One of the goals of this project is to make articles about retailing companies and chains consistent, using existing style guides such as Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information as guidelines, and devising new ones when needed. For entries on retail companies, this project will create a content structure guide since none exists currently. This would have to be done early on since the scope of this project includes so many retail chain articles.

Also, we intend to make the definitions of stores consistent with each other. By this, we mean readers should be able to disciminate between a discount store from a department store, since it isn't possible to do so with the current articles.

We also aim to bring mature articles that are within this project's scope to featured article status. For example, although the entries on Target Corporation and Wal-Mart are currently not featured articles, it is indeed this project's goal to improve them with the ultimate intention to bring them there.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project covers articles of retailing companies (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.), chains (existing and defunct), topics (department store, hypermarket, etc.), and people (John Geisse). See the article list below for articles that are within our scope.

[edit] Members

  1. Tuxide (t·c)
  2. Caldorwards4
  3. J.reed (t·c)
  4. Yankeyfan315
  5. SchuminWeb (Talk)
  6. Wackymacs
  7. DrCash
  8. Kamikaze Highlander
  9. — Deckiller
  10. Jake

[edit] Open tasks

Here is what needs to be done, and I'll try not to keep you guys too bored. The first task for this project is to expand the list of articles as much as possible, taking the subcategories of Category:Retailers as a starting point. I estimate that about 95% of the current list are defunct chains that were in the United States.

Second, for every article that you add to this list, the template {{WikiProject Retailing}} needs to be added to its talk page. There are probably some good bots out there to make this task less boring, and I don't know what WP:AWB does. The reason this needs to be done is to actively recruit new editors: If WikiProject Retailing is unable to recruit new members to make up for attrition, then it will fail.

Third, for every article listed on this page, it needs to be properly tagged and documented here. I've been tagging a lot of articles as either {{unreferenced}} or {{citation style}}, you have no idea how many articles about defunct chains don't even cite from anything!

That is all I have now for a start. Feel free to edit this section as you see fit and discuss on the talk page the road that we are interested in taking.

WikiProject Retailing to-do list | edit | history | watch | purge


Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Subpages

[edit] Newsletters

[edit] Articles

WikiProject Retailing article list | edit | history | watch | purge
Project changes (watchlist)
Retail topics
Retail chains
Biographies

[edit] Categories

[edit] Templates

  • {{WikiProject Retailing}} should be placed on the top of every article's talk page within this project's scope. It produces the following, with the collapsable to-do list. Also when using this template, remember to add the name of the article to articles list if it isn't listed there already. This template also has parameters:
    • sec=SYMBOL where SYMBOL is the ticker symbol as registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. For example, you would use sec=SHLD for Sears Holdings Corporation. This will create a blue box on the bottom of the template, providing a link to the SEC's website with entries on the company, and is intended to assist in research, and not for endorsment.
Antique cash register This article is part of WikiProject Retailing, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to retailing companies and topics on Wikipedia. You can help out by editing the article attached to this page, and by visiting the project page where you can join the project and/or contribute to discussion.
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