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[edit] Scope and motivation

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to London. On top of this, it aims to get the main London article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the London Portal.

  • Greater London is one of the world's historic conurbations with a population of more than 10 million. This is spread across a large area with varying structures and geo-political boundaries, and it is important that these unique structures are linked and explained where necessary.
  • The London area is formed through countless urban villages and small towns, and each of these villages and towns has its own identity to be described and explained in the Wikipedia.
  • London is home of some of the cultural treasures of the world, such as the British Library and the British Museum, as well as four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Like much of London, these areas are of historical importance, and require suitable articles.
  • London is also the home of three great public transport networks of historic importance: the bus, tube, and railway networks. These should be cross-linked into the other London articles (see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Underground).

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[edit] Participants

See Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Participants

Remember to add your name to the list of participants in alphabetical order. Also, it is a good idea to keep the main page of this project on your watchlist so that you remain informed about updates

Please register your participation in this WikiProject by adding the userbox {{User WPLondon}} to your user page.

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[edit] Major pending tasks

  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Assessment - assessment of article quality and importance using {{WPLondon}}
  2. Add new {{London history}} navigational template to the bottom of all London-history related articles. Done! --Midx1004 10:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  3. Updates to this page:
    1. Create sub-articles with Manual of Style info for areas such as "Transport", "Geography" etc.
    2. Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as per WP:WPF)
    3. Implement a "Series on London" template along the lines of {{Christianity}}
I tried to make a template for the london series. It is on the right, feel free to change the content as seen fit (Pi 19:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC))
I've taken it off this page to avoid taking up too much space, but you can still see it here — alex.muller (talkpage • contribs) 15:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Naming conventions

See Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Naming conventions

[edit] Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Templates

A number of edits have bastardized the London Boroughs infobox and produced delinked and non-standard ones without adding any extra info or functions (Corrected on Westminster, K&C, Lambeth and Kingston).

[edit] Creation of articles

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

[edit] Requested articles

  • London First

[edit] Categories

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

  • Locate non-categorised London schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.

[edit] Substance

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

  • The main London article needs to achieve featured status.
  • The London borough articles need improving, and should have the same structure.
  • Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
  • All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
  • Every London Underground line, and the DLR, should have an article of the same level of quality of, say, the East London Line article, but the list of stations should be the same quality as the Central Line.
  • Schools of London need to have their own pages, with at least 500 words. The Greater London and City of London sections in List of schools in the United Kingdom also need to be completed, and all London schools should be properly categorised within Category:Schools in London.
  • A number of tourist attractions such as Museums and Art Galleries need to be improved, especially the National Portrait Gallery and the Science Museum
  • {{London stations}} needs to be added to all London station articles (tube/rail/DLR)
  • {{Infobox UK place}} needs to be added to all London district articles

[edit] London on Wikipedia

  • London is the 27th most referenced article on the English Wikipedia. It was registered with 25,211 incoming links in January 2006, making it the most-referenced city of the entire world. It is above articles such as Europe, India and China, and comes 11th when excluding US Census-related references. Read more here.
  • London was the 160th most visited article on the English Wikipedia in February 2004. It scored 4105 hits, making it the second most-visited city after New York. Read more here.
  • London has an article in at least 82 different languages on Wikipedia, making it one of the most widely available articles in the entire encyclopedia. See the full list here.

[edit] Featured content on London

Featured article star

8 articles and 11 pictures on London topics (as well the London Portal) have been elevated to featured status, meaning that they represent the best of what Wikipedia has to offer.

[edit] Reference

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Cities & WikiProject England.

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