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WikiProjects
Here, I'll be putting information about various WikiProjects that I'm involved in for my own easy access. This will also serve as a "launchpad" for WikiProject work. This page probably won't be of mush use to you, but feel free to take a look around.. For now, this page will simply be a mish-mash of parts from the WikiProject articles: I'm simply cannabilizing the project pages and taking what I need.
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WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks
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Wikipedia:Good articles (shortcut WP:GA) is a list of articles which are well written, broad, referenced, neutral and accurate, beyond those which have been rigorously reviewed and identified as the very best of Wikipedia by the featured article process. As the list should eventually contain many thousands of articles, this project has been formed to assist in the maintenance of the page. Tasks which members of this project may wish to assist with include:
- Keeping the list at WP:GA in sync with Category:Wikipedia good articles
- Updating the numbers in the table on WP:GA
- Sweeping through listed entries to ensure they meet the criteria for listing
- Reviewing nominations at WP:GAN and adding them to the list if they meet the criteria
- Encouraging Wikiprojects to review articles for accuracy where expert input is desirable
- Identifying good content and nominating it to WP:GAN
- Organizing GAN backlog elimination drives
- Maintaining and updating the Good Article Collaboration of the week
- Promoting the Good articles list
- Reviewing articles listed at WP:GAR and give recommendations for consensus
Templates for use by WP:GA include the following:
- {{GA}} - added to the talk page of listed articles; automatically places them in Category:Wikipedia good articles
- {{DelistedGA}} - added to the talk page of delisted articles. An explanation of why an article has been delisted should always be left as well.
- {{DelistedGAbecause}} - a more subtle version of {{DelistedGA}}, with the syntax {{DelistedGAbecause|reason}}
- {{FailedGA}} - for articles that fail the self nomination
- {{ArticleHistory}} - combines the features used by the aforementioned templates into one, single template, which is also designed to work with the peer review and featured article processes as well.
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 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Companies: |
edit · history · watch · refresh |
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Requests: See Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/Businesses and Organizations
- Wikify: 80/20 (company), AED Oil Limited
- Expand: Cameco, Japan Steel Works, Mrs. Fields, BW Gas, BAE Systems Information Technology
- NPOV: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, written almost entirely by a news and public affairs employee at ACES, so needs some neutral eyes to give it a going over to check for both neutrality, and layout/content inclusion, etc.
Cardinal Health, user Gdowdy constantly re-adds promotional information about this company.
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- Tag the talk pages of any company articles with the project banner
- Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them if they would like to join our efforts
- Contribute to discussions on project guidelines and lists
- Identify companies for which articles could be created and either create them or list at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/Businesses and Organizations
- Identify articles for improvement and list here
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in order to change the Importance scale or Quality level of an article in our banner, do the following:
- delete the standard {{WikiProject Companies}} tag.
- replace it with {{WikiProject Companies| class=X | importance= X}}. The X should be replaced with whatever importance or quality level is needed.
Article importance grading scheme
| Label |
Criteria |
Examples |
| Top |
Companies of top importance are major, international corporations. Their actions influence the global economy on both a longterm and day to day basis. These companies are both famous and established, often times spurring major cultural shifts and changing the way people run their daily lives. Some companies may not have achieved the global scale of these companies, yet have heavily influenced our way of life and set the standard for a particular field of business may also be included as top companies, Example: Southwest Airlines. These may also include defunct companies such as Bell or TWA. |
Walmart, Ford, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft |
| High |
Companies in the high category are still very important, and are usually found on the Fortune 500 list. These companies are less international then many top companies, but are still very well known and extremely influential on a national level. |
Walgreens, Halliburton, EA Games, Jet Blue, and Hallmark |
| Mid |
Companies of a mid-level importance are large, profitable corporations which exist on a regional level; Or they may be national companies which mainly function in the background and aren't commonly known outside of financial circles. |
Wegmans, Buffalo News, and Conrail. |
| Low |
Companies in this catagory are minor subsidiaries or local small businesses. |
Mighty Taco |
New, current, and defunct companies should all be tagged and ranked. Some of the companies above are of mid importance, some high, and some top. Just because the final, current company is of top importance (att), does not make all of its predecessors such a level.
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- Basic usage
{{cvgproj|class=|importance=}}
- Standard usage
This should cover recently started articles.
{{cvgproj
|class= Stub
|importance= Low
|screenshot= yes
|cover= yes
}}
| Required parameters |
| class |
Set to FA, A, GA, B, Start or Stub to rate the article on the Wikipedia 1.0 assessment scale. For templates or other non-article pages, set class=NA. |
| importance |
Set to Top, High, Mid, or Low to rate the article's importance within video game articles. |
| Optional parameters |
| peer-review |
Set to yes if the article is undergoing a WikiProject Video games peer review. |
| tf |
Set to Devil May Cry if the article is supported by the the Devil May Cry task force. There are several different task forces, such as Animal Crossing, Command & Conquer, Silent Hill, and Suikoden that can also be used. If an article falls into multiple taskforces (up to 3) use tf2 and tf3 as additional parameters. |
| old-peer-review |
Set to yes if the article has an archived WikiProject Video games peer review. If the peer review is under a different name due to a page move, set this parameter to the old name. For example, if Super Foo has an old peer review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/Bar, set old-peer-review=Bar. |
| old-GCOTW |
Set to yes if the article was previously selected for the Gaming Collaboration of the week. |
| screenshot |
Set to yes to flag as needing a screenshot of the game. It will add the page to Category:Video game articles requesting screenshots. |
| cover |
Set to yes to flag as needing either the game's box art, icon or logo. It will add the page to Category:Video game articles requesting identifying art. |
For a generic stub about computer and video games, use {{videogame-stub}}. This will put the article into the Video game stubs category.
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For a more specific stub by genre, use:
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Or for stubs by company, use:
Other stub types include:
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Our daughter projects have also created the {{Doom-stub}}, {{MortalKombat-stub}}, {{Poke-stub}} (Pokémon), {{FinalFantasy-stub}}, and {{Warcraft-stub}} templates. These will also put articles into the corresponding stub categories.
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Grading scheme
Article progress grading scheme [ v • d • e ]
| Label |
Criteria |
Reader's experience |
Editor's experience |
Example |
 FA
{{FA-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. |
Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. |
No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. |
Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007) |
FL
{{FL-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured lists" status, and meet the current criteria for featured lists. |
Definitive. Outstanding, thorough list; a great source for encyclopedic information. |
No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. |
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008) |
A
{{A-Class}} |
Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard. |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. |
Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage. |
Durian (as of March 2007) |
 GA
{{GA-Class}} |
The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise acceptable. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class. |
Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, or excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job. |
Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time. |
International Space Station (as of February 2007) |
B
{{B-Class}} |
Commonly the highest article grade that is assigned outside a more formal review process. Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article. Nonetheless, it has some gaps or missing elements or references, needs editing for language usage or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles. |
Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work. |
Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with. |
Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) has a lot of helpful material but needs more prose content and references. |
Start
{{Start-Class}} |
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following:
- a particularly useful picture or graphic
- multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
- a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
- multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
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Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded. |
Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage. |
Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
Stub
{{Stub-Class}} |
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. |
Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. |
Any editing or additional material can be helpful. |
Coffee table book (as of July 2005) |
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