Wikipedia:WikiProject Treaties

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Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Tasks to do 4 Tasks completed

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject applies to articles about international treaties. There are three primary goals to this project.

• To provide, enhance, and expand a comprehensively terse list of signed treaties. Any information pertaining to a treaty's enforcement or expiration is to be placed in the "Summary" section provided on the list. Even if a treaty never comes into force, the fact that a diplomatic document was signed is more than enough for it to qualify being placed on the list.

• To verify and augment the quality of all listed and unlisted treaty articles. Each treaty article requires sources, external links, content refinement, and (if possible) comparative analyses between mainstream and non-mainstream perspectives.

• To encourage users to create new treaty articles. If a new treaty is written and no sources are provided, then the creator of the article is obligated to notify members of this project so that essential research can be conducted. Proliferation of treaty stubs that lack sources/references is deemed a questionable practice in nearly all Wikipedia policy circles. However, a treaty stub without sources/references should be merely a starting point for all users on Wikipedia to expand into a proper treaty article. Consistent deletion of treaty stubs without the proper notification of this WikiProject is detrimental to the expansion of human knowledge pertaining to treaties in general. It is important that all users on Wikipedia retain a decent degree of open-mindedness in order for both the Treaties Project and Wikipedia to prosper in the long-run.

[edit] Participants

• Rad Racer
• Jdhowens90
• Deucalionite
• 220.240.10.83 09:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tasks to do

• Finish Template:Treatybox.
• Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances: Clean up dead links; migrate references to endnotes format similar to Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

[edit] Tasks completed

• Add notice to Talk:List of treaties, Talk:Treaty, and Category talk:Treaties.
• Create macro to wikify long lists of parties. -> User:Mozzerati says that he has such a script.
• Added many treaties from the 17th century that required for a separate chronological section to be created (i.e. 1600 - 1699).
• Added many treaties from the 16th century that required for a separate chronological section to be created (i.e. 1500 - 1599).