Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast
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The current Northern Irish Collaboration of the Month is WikiProject Belfast. Every month a different NI-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the WikiProject Belfast|nomination text and improve the article any way you can. |
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WikiProject BELFAST
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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 Belfast. On top of this, it aims to get the main Belfast article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Northern Ireland Portal.
- Greater Belfast has a population of approximately 647,120 (2005 data). Also known as the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area, the area includes parts of the two counties Down and Antrim, Lisburn and Castlereagh.
- One of the greatest aids in this project for assessment and improving of articles, are the Mathbot logs found here Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Belfast articles by quality/1 and here Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Belfast articles by quality/2. Please take a look at the entries there as it will guide you on which articles need assessed, and will also guide you as to what might be necessary to improve individual articles.
Articles and categories relating to Belfast are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do"s.
[edit] Recent developments
- Belfast has been successful as the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography's collaboration of the month. For anyone who's interested in helping to get the article up to FAC standard, there are many resources and a guide available on the UK Geography Project page.
- The Northern Ireland Project is currently being re-vamped in line with this one.
- Belfast has been nominated as the UK geography project's collaboration of the month. Please feel free to comment and add your vote of support.
[edit] Major pending tasks
- Update all {{infobox Belfast place}} templates to use include the new mapping function.
- Add the new {{WPBelfast}} template to all Belfast-related articles' talk pages.
- N.B. - please do not substitute the template, as any future changes to the template will not be updated automatically. On top of this, a substituted inclusion will not appear on the list of links that provides a guage for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages).
- Add new {{Belfast history}} navigational template to the top of all Belfast-history related articles.
- Completely overhaul this page into a more coherent format.
- Insert templates on talk pages of Northern Ireland-related articles referring to new MOS (yet to be created) page.
- Create project space Manual of Style article and template.
- Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as per WP:WPF)
- Implement a "Series on Belfast" template along the lines of {{Christianity}}
[edit] Manual of Style (conventions)
[edit] Templates
[edit] Creation of articles
[edit] Done
For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Log.
[edit] To do
To request articles on subjects, people or places (etc) that do not yet exist, please place a request for them on the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Missing articles.
- Expand the sub-articles relating to the Belfast postal districts, which should all be cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district.
- Articles on notable Belfast tourist attractions such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum should be put in the same format as other Belfast place articles.
- Maintenance of Northern Ireland Portal.
[edit] Categories
[edit] Done
[edit] To do
- Locate non-categorised Belfast schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.
[edit] Substance
[edit] Done
[edit] To do
- The main Belfast article needs to achieve featured status.
- The Greater Belfast article needs atleast a 500-character count, but should be aiming for atleast a B-class.
- 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.
- Template:Infobox Belfast place (talk, links, edit) needs to be added to all Belfast district articles
[edit] Belfast articles that have been tagged with templates
List individual Belfast related articles that have been tagged (with, for example, reqphoto) here.
[edit] Tagged with WPBelfast template
Articles from the following categories have been tagged with the WPBelfast assessment template.
- Category:Belfast - done
- Category:Belfast built ships - done
- Category:Buildings and structures in Belfast - done
- Category:Railway stations in Belfast - done
- Category:Historic buildings in Belfast - done
- Category:People from Belfast - done
- Category:Politics of Belfast - done
- Category:Schools in Belfast - done
- Category:Sport in Belfast - done
- Category:The Troubles in Belfast - done
- Category:Transport in Belfast - done
- Category:Queen's University Belfast - done
- Category:University of Ulster - done
[edit] Reqphoto
In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Belfast 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] Participants
Please register your participation in the WikiProject by adding your name to the list below (in alphabetical order). You can also add the userbox {{User WPBelfast}} to your user page.
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It is recommended that you keep this page and the talk page on your watchlist so that you remain informed about updates etc.
[edit] Article assessment
[edit] Useful categories
The following Belfast-related topics can be turned into an encyclopaedic article called List of Belfast topics which is part of Category:Topic lists.
- Category:Belfast
- Category:Culture in Belfast
- Category:Sport in Belfast
- Category:History of Belfast
- Category:Parks and gardens in Belfast
- Category:Education in Belfast
- Category:Electoral Wards of Belfast
- Category:Suburbs of Belfast
- Category:Transport in Belfast
- Category:Images of Belfast
- Category:Northern Ireland
[edit] Reference
| Here are some open WikiProject Belfast tasks: | ||
| Places: | Belfast Lough | |
| Landmarks: | Belfast City Hall, Giants Ring, Cavehill, Albert Clock, St. Peter's Cathedral, Queen's University Belfast | |
| Parks and gardens: | ||
| Events: | ||
| People: | Sir Arthur Chichester | |
| Newspapers: | Belfast Telegraph, Belfast Newsletter | |
| Streets: | Falls Road, Shankill Road, Malone Road, Sandy Row, Whitewell Road | |
| Rivers: | River Lagan | |
| Organisations: | ||
| History: | History of Belfast | |
| Edit or discuss this list. | ||
[edit] Structure
[edit] Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject are the WikiProject Cities and the WikiProject Northern Ireland projects.
[edit] Associated pages
[edit] Similar Wikiprojects
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- Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore
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- Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Geelong, Lake Macquarie, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Townsville, Gold Coast
- Canadian cities
- Ottawa, Prescott-Russell, Toronto, Vancouver
- European cities
- Belfast, Belgrade, Brighton, Bristol, Frankfurt, London, Munich, Porto, Sheffield, Vienna
- US cities and regions
- Bluegrass Region (KY), Boston, Chicago, Columbia (MO), Dallas-Fort Worth, Erie, Pa., Houston, Kansas City, KYOVA Region (KY, OH, WV), Las Vegas, Louisville, Miami, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Shreveport, Southern California, Syracuse, Tampa, Youngstown
- See also: List of U.S. WikiProjects
