Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast

WikiProject BELFAST

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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.

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.

Major pending tasks

1. Update all {{infobox Belfast place}} templates to use include the new mapping function.

    

2. 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 gauge for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages).

    

3. 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}}

Manual of Style (conventions)

See Wikipedia:Northern Ireland Manual of Style

Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Templates

Creation of articles

Done

For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Log.

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.

Categories

Done

To do

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

Substance

Done

To do

• The main Belfast article needs to achieve featured status.
• The Greater Belfast article needs at least a 500-character count, but should be aiming for at least 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

Belfast articles that have been tagged with templates

List individual Belfast related articles that have been tagged (with, for example, reqphoto) here.

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:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from Belfast constituencies - done
    • Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from Belfast constituencies (1801-1922) - 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:People associated with Queen's University Belfast - done
  • Category:Academics of Queen's University Belfast - done
  • Category:Alumni of Queen's University Belfast - done
• Category:University of Ulster - done
  • Category:Alumni of the University of Ulster - done

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.

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.

This user participates in
Wikiproject Belfast.

It is recommended that you keep this page and the talk page on your watchlist so that you remain informed about updates etc.

• Dom0803
• Keithology
• Mal
• MichiganCharms
• Traditional unionist
• Tsumo9
• Patricknoddy

Article assessment

Article assessment (long)

Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.

The {{WikiProject Belfast}} template has a class= parameter that provides an article assessment ratings:

Example: {{WikiProject Belfast| class=??? | importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the parameters. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

Article quality

Belfast-related articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 2 GA 1 4 9 2 16 B 2 16 20 21 29 88 C 2 12 30 64 51 159 Start 2 27 81 176 241 527 Stub 4 24 66 170 264 List 2 4 3 1 6 16 Category 146 146 Disambig 1 3 4 File 2 2 Project 12 12 Template 5 5 NA 1 1 12 57 71 Other 5 5 Assessed 7 66 160 354 231 499 1,317 Unassessed 10 10 Total 7 66 160 354 231 509 1,327 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 5,151 Ω = 4.88

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Belfast-related articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Belfast-related articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Belfast-related articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Belfast-related articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Belfast-related articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Belfast-related articles)
• Cat (Belfast related categories Category:WikiProject Belfast categories)
• Dab (Disambiguation pages relating to Belfast, Category:Disambig-Class Belfast pages)
• Template Belfast related templates, Category:WikiProject Belfast templates)

If a rating is not assigned when the {{WikiProject Belfast}} is added, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed Belfast-related articles by default. If assessing the article, the class should be assigned according to the grading scheme. A list of Unassessed and In dispute articles can be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast/Article assessment.

See also: List of Belfast-related articles by quality | Log (updated daily).

Article importance

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Belfast-related articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Belfast-related articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Belfast-related articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Belfast-related articles)

If an importance rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unknown-importance Belfast-related articles by default.

Legend

Article progress grading scheme
FA	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Example: Algorithm
A	The article provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a Great Article. It includes a well-written introduction to the topic, and an appropriate series of headings to break up the article. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from textbooks or peer-reviewed papers rather than websites. It contain illustrations where apropriate (with no copyright problems). It should be at the stage where it meets the criteria for or is a Good article. Example: Ammonia (as of Oct 2005).
B	The article is "almost there" but it may be missing one of the following: references, balance of content, or an important section. Alternatively, the English may need a comprehensive rewrite to make it flow, or it may need to be edited to follow standard English spelling and conventions. For maths articles, articles which are overly technical and fail to explain the basics would often end up here. Example: Antarctica (as of Oct 2005) is a good start but contains too many lists, and it needs more prose content & references.
Start	The article has a good amount of content, but it is still weak in certain areas, and may lack a table. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Example: Arithmetic (as of Oct 2005).
Stub	The article is either a very short article or a stub that will need a lot of work to bring it to A-Class level, although there may be a significant amount of material in the article.

Need: The article's importance, regardless of its quality

Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia
High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details
Low	Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial

Quality: current article quality as per the grading scheme

FA	Featured article
A	Article is well written, reasonably complete and referenced; possible featured article candidate.
GA	This is a good article
B	We have a decent article, but it needs further editing
Start	Significant cleanup or expansion needed.
Stub	Article missing or miserable, or a stub.

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:Railway stations in Belfast
  • Category:Images of Belfast
• Category:Northern Ireland
  • Category:Geography of Northern Ireland
    • Category:Regions of Northern Ireland
    • Category:Rivers of Northern Ireland
    • Category:Towns in Northern Ireland
    • Category:Parks in Northern Ireland
  • Category:Government of Northern Ireland
    • Category:Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland
  • Category:Transport in Northern Ireland

Reference

Here are some open WikiProject Belfast tasks:
Places:
Landmarks:
Parks and gardens:
Events:
People:	Max Clendinning, Paul Charles (novelist), Paula Clamp, Colin Cooper (academic), Damien Dempsey, Brian Downey, Glen Hansard, H Douglas Keith, Charles Michael Lavery QC, Henry Lavery, Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, Robert MacDonnell, Jim Malley, Gerry McAvoy, Lou Martin, Francis Maginn, Gary Moore, Zane Radcliffe, Gayle Williamson
Newspapers:
Streets:
Rivers:
Organisations:	Our Lady and St Patrick's College, Belfast Boy's Model School
History:
Buildings:
Major topics:
Edit or discuss this list.

Structure

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject are the WikiProject Cities and the WikiProject Northern Ireland projects.

Associated pages

• Belfast postal districts
• Template:Infobox Belfast place
• Template:Wards of Belfast

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External resources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK