Wikipedia:WikiProject Adelaide

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The WikiProject Adelaide is a project aims to organise and improve articles related to Adelaide.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Adelaide articles by using the Adelaide=yes parameter within the {{WP Australia}} template.

Usage: {{WP Australia|Adelaide=yes}}

Contents 1 Parentage 2 Similar WikiProjects 3 Participants 4 Tasks 4.1 Places 4.2 Roads 4.3 Landmarks 4.4 Government 5 Useful templates 6 Useful categories 7 Pictures 8 Watchlist

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Australian places (WP:AUSTPLACES).

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Asian cities and city-states

Dubai, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore

Australian cities

Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Geelong, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Townsville

Canadian cities

Montreal, Ottawa, Prescott-Russell, Toronto, Vancouver

European cities and regions

Bedfordshire, Belfast, Belgrade, Brighton, Bristol, Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Kent, Frankfurt, London, Munich, North East England, Porto, Sheffield, Somerset, Surrey, West Midlands, Vienna

New Zealand Cities

Auckland

US cities and regions

Austin, Atlanta, Bluegrass Region (KY), Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia (MO), Cumberland-MD-WV-PA, Dallas-Fort Worth, Erie, Houston, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, KYOVA Region (KY, OH, WV), Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Miami, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara County (CA), Seattle, Shreveport, Southern California, Syracuse, Tampa Bay Area, Youngstown

See also: List of U.S. WikiProjects

[edit] Participants

• Aaronhill (talk · contribs)
• AdelaideRandel (talk · contribs)
• Adelphia (talk · contribs)
• Afrotrance (talk · contribs)
• Alcoholichamster (talk · contribs)
• Alphax (talk · contribs)
• Anklepants (talk · contribs)
• AtD (talk · contribs)
• Avochelm (talk · contribs)
• Babij (talk · contribs)
• Badbilltucker (talk · contribs)
• Beneaththelandslide (talk · contribs)
• Bilby (talk · contribs)
• Bkingshott (talk · contribs)
• Blnguyen (talk · contribs)
• Cyberjunkie (talk · contribs)
• Dally Horton (talk · contribs)
• Daniel.Bryant (talk · contribs)
• Davtra (talk · contribs)
• Darkcraft (talk · contribs)
• Diceman (talk · contribs)
• Disco Volante (talk · contribs)
• Donama (talk · contribs)
• Enigmatical (talk · contribs)
• Emmanuellives (talk · contribs)
• Empty2005 (talk · contribs)
• FionaBlinco (talk · contribs)
• GK1 (talk · contribs)
• HyDeckar (talk · contribs)
• Jasrocks (talk · contribs)
• Jen Powell-Psmith (talk · contribs)
• Jorcoga (talk · contribs)
• Kathleen.wright5 (talk · contribs)
• Kevin1243 (talk · contribs)
• LukeNE (talk · contribs)
• Maggas (talk · contribs)
• maelgwn (talk · contribs)
• Maestrosync (talk · contribs)
• Marionlad (talk · contribs)
• Mazzone (talk · contribs)
• Mikelake (talk · contribs)
• Muzzamo (talk · contribs)
• Nitchell (talk · contribs)
• normangerman (talk · contribs)
• Oliyoung (talk · contribs)
• Patricknoddy (talk · contribs)
• Paul foord (talk · contribs)
• Peripitus (talk · contribs)
• Pingku (talk · contribs)
• Riana (talk · contribs)
• runger_999 (talk · contribs)
• Scharks (talk · contribs)
• ScottDavis (talk · contribs)
• SauliH (talk · contribs)
• shenki (talk · contribs)
• Shiek (talk · contribs)
• Shiftaling (talk · contribs)
• SmileyFella (talk · contribs)
• The Chairman (talk · contribs)
• Timeshift9 (talk · contribs)
• Tobes00 (talk · contribs)
• tony.rc (talk · contribs)
• Vaughano (talk · contribs)
• Yeti Hunter (talk · contribs)
• ytgy111 (talk · contribs)
• zzymurgy (talk · contribs)

[edit] Tasks

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to Adelaide. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Also visit the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard for collaboration on Australian articles in general.

Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Adelaide:

• The current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight article is Murrumbidgee River.

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• Places and landmarks: Southern Vales, Science Park, Sir Samuel Way Building, Cummins House Adelaide Central School of Arts
• Parks and rivers: Henley Square, Peace Park
• Events and people: Carnevale in Adelaide, Come Out Festival, SALA Festival, Ian Gilfillan, Edmund Wright, Sir Edward Hayward
• Streets: East Terrace, Hutt Street
• History: The Chronicle (South Australia), Adelaide Observer, Adelaide Steamship Company, History Trust of South Australia, Electoral reform in South Australia
• Other: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in South Australia, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Adelaide
• Assess: Category:Unknown-importance South Australia articles, Category:Unassessed South Australia articles, Category:Unknown-importance Adelaide articles, Category:Unassessed Adelaide articles
• Maintain: Portal:South Australia

[edit] Places

Suburbs Main article: List of Adelaide suburbs Category: Suburbs of Adelaide Completed suburbs: 17% finished Of 478 articles, 85 are counted as complete. All existing articles (326) are in their appropriate category. Featured suburbs: 0% finished Of 478 articles, 1 are counted as featured.

Parks and gardens Main article: List of Adelaide parks and gardens Category: Parks in Adelaide Being Developed - 37% complete Of 52 articles, 19 exist as either basic stubs or full articles. Reservoirs Main article: List of reservoirs and dams in Australia Category: Reservoirs and dams in Australia Being Developed - 41% complete Of 17 articles, 7 exist as either basic stubs or full articles. Railway Stations Main article: List of Adelaide railway stations Category: Railway stations in Adelaide All exist, most as stubs About 119 articles exist as either basic stubs or full articles.

[edit] Roads

Freeways and highways Main article: List of Australian highways 0% finished Of unknown number of articles, unknown number exist and unknown number are detailed. All existing articles have an appropriate category and list.

Major streets and thoroughfares See: Category:Roads in Adelaide This subpage does not yet exist. Please feel free to create it.

[edit] Landmarks

Landmarks This subpage is new. Please feel free to add to it.

[edit] Government

Local government areas Local Government Areas of South Australia Category: Category:Local Government Areas of South Australia 53% finished Of 68 articles, 36 exist and an unknown number are detailed. All existing articles have an appropriate category and list.

State electoral districts South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts Category: Category:Electoral districts of South Australia 8% finished Of 47 articles, 4 exist and an unknown number are detailed. All existing articles have an appropriate category and list.

State MPs Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2002-2006 Category: Category:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly 17% finished Of 47 articles, 8 exist and an unknown number are detailed. All existing articles have an appropriate category.

[edit] Useful templates

• {{WP Australia|Adelaide=yes}} - talk-page notice for Project related articles - replaces {{WPANotice}}
• {{Adelaide-stub}} - Adelaide-related stub notice
• {{Adelaide-geo-stub}} - Adelaide geography stub
• Template:Adelaide tasks - the open-tasks list shown on page
• Template:LGASA - Local Government Areas of SA navigation box
• Template:Electoral districts of South Australia - South Australian Electoral Districts navigation box
• Template:Premiers of South Australia - Premiers navigation box
• Template:Geolinks-AUS-suburbscale links to various types of maps for the External links section
• Template:Infobox Australian Place for all places including towns, suburbs, and LGAs.
• Template:Adelaide Hills to be placed at the bottom of articles concerning the Adelaide Hills.
• Template:Infobox Australian Road - infobox for articles about roads, streets, highways, etc.

[edit] Useful categories

The following Adelaide-related topics can be turned into an encyclopaedic article called List of Adelaide topics which is part of Category:Topic lists.

[edit] Pictures

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Adelaide for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

[edit] Watchlist

We have a list of all of our articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Adelaide/Watchlist, for the purpose of being able to see how they have recently been changed through the recent changes list.