Wikipedia:France-related topics notice board

[edit] French Collaboration Project

The French Collaboration Project (WP:FCP) is an effort to fill gaps in the English Wikipedia (on any topic, and not specifically France-related topics) through translation of high quality articles from the French Wikipedia and, generally, to improve the quality of articles in the English Wikipedia. The French Collaboration Project maintains both a list of High Priority Translations (that anyone is encouraged to work on at any time) and (chosen from this list) a selected Translation of the Month.

Articles selected for translation may be chosen from the French language Wikipedia Quality Articles or more generally from any French language articles judged solid, accurate, and free of copyright issues, and having no article or a basic stub page on the English Wikipedia. The aim is to develop, through widespread co-operative translation, featured-standard articles, or at least ones of high quality, on subjects which may not otherwise have been addressed on the English Wikipedia.

Note: as of December 2006, translations from French will be dealt with at Wikipedia:Translation/_fr. The French Translation of the Week, however, will stay in a separate, renamed version of the French Collaboration Project page. This section will be modified accordingly, as these changes are implemented.

[edit] Translation/Missing Articles

Article requests can now be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Article requests.

[edit] France current events

You can contribute to the wikinews:Portal:France page on wikinews. This page catalogues key events in France.

[edit] Categories and category sorting

• Category:French writers - this is currently huge. Authors need to be placed on sub-pages and some categories made need to be created.
• Proposal A new Category:French-language media which could possibly include the current sub-cats for

French-language films, French-language newspapers, French language songs, French-language literature, as well as containing article on French-language TV shows and radio programmes which currently have no home. Kevlar67 04:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs and stub sorting

There are many stubs at Category:France stubs that could use completion. Stubs may also be sorted into the French categories found at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Stub templates.

[edit] France-related articles with disputes or other problems

The following articles have alleged problems with factual accuracy, copyright, lack of citations or neutrality. Articles based on the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 are particularly problematic, due to their Victorian aesthetic pronouncements, outdated references and frequent Francophobia (please add {{1911POV}} to indicate that it is substantially a copy of 1911, with a serious POV problem). See also Category:NPOV disputes. Note to contributors: summarize, in a neutral manner, the nature of the dispute here, but please keep the discussion on the talk pages.

• Napoleon I of France - see the discussion on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Napoleon I of France/archive1
• Views of the French military - POV article about the french military, originally a section entitled "View of French military in the United States" in Military history of France. Entry was deleted through AfD Equendil Talk 21:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Cannes Film Festival - dispute on mention of 1930 creation as in reaction to German fascism; article also includes an expansion tag.
• Anti-Sacrilege Act - recently created; does "elected under restricted census suffrage" express a POV, given that most 19th century French governments were elected in this way? Requests for mediation initiated.
• Encyclopédie -neutrality problems in the history section of the article (from the Britannica 1911) which tries to portray the Encyclopédie as essentially an English work pirated by evil Frenchmen using dubious legal proceedings to dispossess innocent English editors.
• 2005 civil unrest in France
• Front National (France)
• Economy of Paris - see discussion at Talk:Economy of Paris as well as this notice board's talk page. The dispute concerns use of the expression "Paris metropolitan area" vs. the actual city limits of Paris; accusation of possible original research.
• Foreign relations of France Middle East section
• Jules Janin - issues with 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica judgements
• Peerage of France - issues with copyvio
• Constantine Andreou - some users have argued that this article has POV issues. I'm the main, and pretty much only, author and as such should not be the judge on this. See the article's Talk page and the AfD discussion (decision was keep).
• Palace of Versailles - Needs fact-checking because of previously missed vandalism. See Talk:Palace of Versailles
• Two articles in the "allegations of apartheid" series, which France has gotten swept up in, are currently up for deletion: Allegations of Chinese apartheid and Allegations of Saudi Arabian apartheid.--G-Dett 20:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] France-related articles with cleanup tags

The following articles have been tagged for cleanup (ungrammatical, poorly formatted, confusing, etc.). This may require some copy editing, wikifying and correction of English usage; sometimes a major rewrite is needed. Articles based on the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 are particularly problematic, due to their outdated English (please add {{Update-eb}} to the page to indicate that it is substantially a copy of 1911, and needs to be updated). Please add to the list, and include the clean-up date if indicated. See also Category:All pages needing cleanup.

• Antoine de la Sale - August 2005
• French rock - November 2005
• Human rights in France - December 2005
• Alexis de Tocqueville - April 2006
• Nice - October 2007

[edit] France-related articles needing expansion

The following articles are in need of expansion. See also Category:Articles to be expanded. Feel free to add to the list:

• Vichy - could be expanded by translation from fr wiki
• Iran-France relations
• French literature of the 18th century
• Contemporary French literature
• Economic history of France
• French culture
• French art - (all centuries)

[edit] Templates

• Template:French literature (small) - needs to be placed on French author/lit pages

[edit] Requests for pictures

• Requests can now be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Photo requests

[edit] User boxes

• Template:User French history - "This user is interested in the history of France"
• Template:User Napoleon interested - "This user is interested in Napoleon"

[edit] Related Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes - This WikiProject is an attempt to formulate a template for the French communes and to eventually create an article for each of the 36,782 communes.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets - A project to create a small article (if possible) for every notable street in Paris, including a description of its creation date, name, past names, mouths (from/into what street), visual description (new constructions, old, winding, narrow, cobblestoned, etc) with (if possible) a photo.
• Quebec Wikipedians' notice board - includes a Quebec Collaboration of the Week, to do lists and translation requests.

[edit] Members

The following is a list of Wikipedians who are either French, or speak French, or live in France or in a Francophone country, or are working on France-related articles. Feel free to add or remove yourself from this list. It is recommended that you add this page to your watchlist.

There are also category lists of Wikipedians in France, French Wikipedians and French speaking Wikipedians. You can join these list by inserting one of the relevant templates on your userpage.

[edit] Active Members

• NYArtsnWords (talk)
• Durova raised Joan of Arc to FA, raised Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc to FLC (in progress) Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc.
• MPD01605 (talk) very interested.
• Nicobrown4589 (talk)
• User:kessler
• Brian
• ThePromenader
• Dangherous
• Jackaranga 21:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inactive Members

• None