Wikipedia:WikiProject Beauty Pageants

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Mrs Texas crowned in beauty pageant
Mrs Texas crowned in beauty pageant

This WikiProject has been created to better organize information in articles related to Beauty pageants. 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.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject will cover the creation, editing, and organization of articles related to state, national and international beauty pageants, their delegates and winners. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on beauty pageants in a fair and accurate manner and to achieve some level of consistency between articles.

[edit] Participants

This user is a member of the WikiProject Beauty Pageants.


Here is a list of members of WikiProject Beauty Pageants. If you would like to join, please add your name to the bottom of the list, and perhaps list where your main interest lies.

If you want you can add the Template:User WikiProject Beauty Pageants userbox to your userpage by pasting: {{User WikiProject Beauty Pageants}}

[edit] General tips

  • Try and keep article formatting similar to others if they are in a series. Look at other related articles for tips on how to format.
  • As with any article, cite reliable sources for any facts in the article. Ideally, they should be indepent sources (not just what the pageant or contestant says about themselves, which is often promotional). Also, independent coverage is a good indicator of notability, which helps justify inclusion in the encyclopedia.

[edit] Pictures

  • Always include a picture for an article, if a suitable one exists that is not under a "non-free" copyright.
  • Before uploading anything, read Wikipedia's image use policy.
  • Try to obtain images that are public domain or freely licensed (e.g. GFDL). If possible, take an image yourself, which you can make free. When searching for free images, a common source is U.S. military web sites[1]. Unfortunately, most images on the internet can not be used, due to copyright.
  • All "free" images (e.g. public domain, GFDL) should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This means they can be shared between different languages and projects. Note: fair use images are allowed, but they can't be uploaded to Commons, and their usage is severely restricted in Wikipedia.
  • If you have obtained a free image of a contestant, be sure to add the image to the Commons article for the person in Wikimedia Commons. If it doesn't exist, please create it, and add it to Commons:Category:Beauty pageant contestants and Commons:Category:People by alphabet (making it easy for others to find).

[edit] Non-free and fair use

  • Occasionaly nonfree images can be used in Wikipedia, based on our fair use policy, but this is very exceptional, and most such images that were uploaded, have been deleted for violating current policy.
  • Images by wired services that make money by selling the image as a product (such as AP, AFP, Getty Images) should never be used, as our use would compete with the copyright holder.
  • Nonfree images that are deemed "replaceable" can not be used, as they don't qualify for "fair use". So while it might be ok to use a TV screen shot of a special/unique moment, fully discussed in the article, that captures a one-time/non-repeatable moment as "fair use"; it's not ok to use an image that merely shows what a person looks like, without doing more. Almost all promotional images of living persons have been, or will be, deleted.

[edit] Contestant specific tips

  • Include a sucession box at the bottom of the article, using {{start box}},{{succession box}} and {{end box}}.
  • When naming an article, use the name the person is most widely known by (as opposed to their full legal name, if different), unless there is potential for ambiguity or conflict with others of the same name. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)

[edit] Pageant specific tips

  • Include a list of all the winners. If the article is too long, and it is a major pageant, you may wish to spin it off to a separate article.
  • Mention non-winners who are otherwise notable.
  • Check any blue links to make sure they refer to the correct person. If they do not, rather than de-linking them, you may create a link to an alternate title. For example: [[Jane Doe (pageant contestant)|Jane Doe]]
  • If there are related "free images" included them in a Commons article/gallery. For instance there is a Commons:Miss America and Commons:Miss USA.

[edit] Article Collaboration

This section is designated for an article that will be temporary featured for article improvement. Please nominate articles that are of significant importance that you feel need to be revised to meet higher standards.

[edit] Nominations

The following are nominations for future article collaborations.

There are currently no nominations for future article collaborations.

[edit] Templates

[edit] General

  • {{WikiProject Beauty Pageants}} - Use to identify an article as part of the wikiproject. Place on Talk Pages, not article pages. (If anyone can improve this, they are welcome to!)

[edit] Userbox

[edit] Article/Pageant Specific

See also Category:Beauty pageants templates

[edit] Categories

[edit] Commons

Categories and top-level article/galleries:

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles and Lists

Here is a section of pageant-related articles and lists that need either creation or revision. Please add to this list any articles that fit that description.

Article Creation

  • Miss Scotland needs created.
  • There is a strong need for articles on the Miss America state pageants, and the majority of the existing articles need reformatting.
    • I suggest using Miss Alabama as a template, listing the winners in a table with:
      • name
      • hometown (or local title)
      • placement at Miss America
      • special awards etc. won at Miss America
      • "notes" - check Pageant Almanac to see whether state winners have competed at Miss USA or Miss Teen USA and link accordingly, also make a note of the significance of any blue-linked winners (who are notable outside their participation at Miss America).
    • Don't forget to include the state's website and the Miss America state template: {{tl:Miss America state}}.
    • If one local pageant has won a number of state titles, it may appropriate to mention this (as per Miss Alabama).
    • Note that the title is post-dated, so the year the delegates compete is not the year of their title (subtract one year from the competition year). Pageant Almanac -- Miss America Parade of States is a good place to keep track of this)
    • The best sources of information are:
      • Miss America contestant profiles (available for 1997-2005 titleholders
      • State websites (some of whom have either local title or hometown information)
      • Miss USA Magic -- Miss America contestants gallery (the best source for placements/awards info, but watch the years!)
      • Pageant Almanac -- Miss America Parade of States (lists delegates for each state - best resource to make sure you have the dates correct).
            • >>>>>Update on this, still many articles need creating, I've done my best and am at the point where I'm just creating articles with the lists from 2006-1997 as this information is readily available on the Miss America website. Ugly redlinks are scattered through many articles and are leading to confusion about the various pageants.

Article Revision:

  • Miss Universe - could do with more pictures and information about national pageants, etc. per Joey80's comment on the article's talk page.


List Revision:

  • Miss Universe delegate lists need checking to make sure "excess names" are removed... we only want common names on the list.

List Creation:

[edit] Requests

Things to do

  • Place {{WikiProject Beauty Pageants}} on talk pages of all articles relating to beauty pageants. This is essentially busywork and any assistance is much appreciated.
  • Place succession boxes on titleholder articles where appropriate
  • Place MUO titleholders template on articles where appropriate (most post-1980s have been done, but earlier ones still need completing).
  • Note project-relevant articles that are in need of revision or creation and place them in the Requests category

[edit] Resources

Useful resources are: