Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists

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Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.

Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 3 Guidelines 4 Assessment 5 Lists of Wikipedia lists 6 New articles 7 Incomplete lists 8 Templates 8.1 Project 8.2 Requests for article improvement 8.3 Navigation Template 8.4 Participant Userbox 8.5 Talk header template 9 Related projects

[edit] Goals

• Make all lists conform to the standards of Featured list criteria
• Check through Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists
• Clean out Category:Lists that should be categories
• Disperse Category:Lists into their proper subcategories
• Create Wikipedia:Most wanted articles#Lists
• Reduce the number of inappropriate laundry lists
• Maintain Wikipedia:Contents and its subpages
• Make more lists to better organize Wikipedia articles
• Maintain and develop the list guidelines and help pages.

[edit] Scope

• The project covers all articles that are (and contain) lists. That includes those that are intended to aid in navigation through Wikipedia, and all articles whose intent is to gather disparate articles and info into useful groups.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Assessment

List articles		Importance
		High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1				1
	FL		1	2	4	7
	B			1		1
	Start			1		1
	Stub			1		1
	List			5	21	26
	Assessed	1	1	10	25	37
	Unassessed		1		510	511
	Total	1	2	10	535	548

After adding our Project Template to a talk page, you may run our Assessment bot by clicking Run the bot right away on the bot's User page. Type the word List in the Category field, then click Submit.

[edit] Lists of Wikipedia lists

Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

See also Wikipedia:Contents.

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Lists-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

• List of sled dog races
• List of environmental topics
• List of Smithsonian Museums
• List of forts in Tennessee
• List of bands with more than one lead vocalist
• Lists of reservoirs and dams
• Lists of waterways
• List of places named after Barack Obama
• List of mountains in Switzerland
• List of David Bowie awards and nominations
• List of firefighting topics
• List of history topics
• List of films that received the Golden Film
• List of tallest buildings in Sacramento
• List of tallest buildings in Dubai
• List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
• List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
• List of tallest buildings and structures in Las Vegas
• List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington
• List of tallest buildings in San Diego

[edit] Incomplete lists

See also: Category:Incomplete lists.

Because of Wikipedia's role as an almanac as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the primary pigment colors or the states of the United States of America, are typically complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Some lists, however, are either not yet fully filled out or are difficult to keep current because the list is constantly changing. These are both referred to as incomplete lists. It's important that our readers understand that these lists should not be considered complete, or even representative of the class of items being listed. As such, we recommend inserting the {{Expand list}} tag either before or after any incomplete list.

It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it closer, if not to completion, then at least to a mature state in which only minor updates are required as times change. Of course, it's not clear for all lists what should or shouldn't be on it, and so completion may never be clear for these lists, but there should at least come a point where most representative and widely agreed upon entries are present...

[edit] Templates

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:List notification templates

[edit] Project

{{WPLISTS}} <---Place this code on all talk pages of List articles.

{{WPLISTS
|class = 
|importance = 
}}

Produces the following box, and includes the article in the project.

ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles	WikiProject Lists
	Lists portal v • d • e This page is part of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, you can edit the page attached to this talk page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

[edit] Requests for article improvement

Below are a couple examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

• {{Expand list}} -
  This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{Dynamic list}} -

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with sourced additions.

• {{inc-lit}} -
  This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{inc-musong}} -
  This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{inc-video}} -
  This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
  or one of its sub-cats:
• {{inc-film}} -
  This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{inc-tv}} -
  This television-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{inc-sport}} -
  This sports-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{inc-transport}} -
  This transport related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
• {{Delsort |Lists}} -
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.
  to add an AfD to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists

[edit] Navigation Template

{{List navbox}} <---Place this at the footer of articles, just above categories.
Discuss the List navbox Template

v • d • e Lists Style Manual of Style (lists of works) • Stand-alone lists • Embedded list • Pro and con lists • Naming conventions (long lists) Content What is a featured list? • WikiProject Lists • Portal:Lists Philosophy Categories, lists, and navigational templates • Categories vs lists • Lists in Wikipedia • Listcruft Existing lists Wikipedia:Featured lists • List of lists • List of lists of... Templates Template messages/Lists • Category:List templates Technical assistance Help:List • IRC channel: #wikipedia-en-FL

[edit] Participant Userbox

User WPLISTS This user is a participant of WikiProject Lists

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Lists participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage.

[[Category:WikiProject Lists participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WPLISTS}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

[edit] Talk header template

Below is template code that can be pasted at the top of a list talk page, for stand-alone lists where inappropriate subjects are often added. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

• {{stand-alone list}}

This is a stand-alone list. Please only add subjects that have a Wikipedia article or evidence of notability.

[edit] Related projects

• WikiProject Discographies
• WikiProject TV's Lists of episodes task force - see also Template talk:Episode list

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