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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Southern California. 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.

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Map of Southern California

Map of Southern California.


Scope

The parent project for this page is the California WikiProject. Other projects for California areas are

The following are the California counties that can be considered as parts of Southern California, the categories related specifically to them, and recent changes to those articles (by clicking "RC".)

Regions:

*Southern California category article RC category RC
*Greater Los Angeles Area category article RC category RC
*Inland Empire article RC


Counties:

South of the San Gabriel/San Bernardino mountains
*Imperial category article RC category RC
*San Diego category article RC category RC
Riverside category article RC category RC
*Orange category article RC category RC
*Los Angeles category article RC category RC
*San Bernardino category article RC category RC
North of the San Gabriel/San Bernardino mountains
*Ventura category article RC category RC
*Santa Barbara category article RC category RC
*San Luis Obispo category article RC category RC
*Los Angeles category article RC category RC
*Kern category article RC category RC
*San Bernardino category article RC category RC


Note: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties are also considered part of the Central Coast region of California, which also included Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. Kern County includes the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which makes it also part of California's Central Valley.

Participants

If you are also interested in statewide issues, please visit WikiProject California.
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  1. Evrik - Soy un angeleno nativo. ¿Que tienes que hacer? --evrik 04:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. JesseW 1 July 2005 19:07 (UTC) - I've worked on starting a few LA neighborhood articles, and some category cleanup - that would be one really good thing to improve, the categorization for So Cal articles.
  3. Willmcw July 1, 2005 20:49 (UTC).
  4. Catherine\talk 5 July 2005 00:18 (UTC)
  5. Antandrus (talk) 6 July 2005 03:24 (UTC) -- I've written a lot of articles on places in Santa Barbara County, and a few in San Luis Obispo County as well (that one's sort of borderline I suppose, but it is on the map ...)
  6. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 7 July 2005 03:50 (UTC) - will occasionally help with it
  7. fpo 13:19, July 26, 2005 (UTC) - I've done (and will continue with) famed golf courses in the area, and more stuff.
  8. Stevey7788 - will occasionally help with L.A. neighborhoods, cities, and freeways
  9. theshibboleth - I'm going to try to upload photos of the LA area.
  10. Lan56 I'd love to help out. I can occasionally add some photos, too. --Lan56 02:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
  11. Howcheng I'll fill in what I can in Ventura County and LA places that I know about. --Howcheng 16:18, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Jeshii I'll find any pictures I have and work on parks and hiking and stuff. Jeshii 13:29, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
  13. Glowimperial I've worked on articles related to San Pedro in the past, and I take a lot of photos around Los Angeles. Count Me in. Glowimperial 21:12, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  14. NatsukiGirl\talk I live and work in the Los Angeles Fashion District/Little Tokyo area, I'll help out wherever I can for those.
  15. epolk—I'm in the Long Beach area and work in north Orange County so I can get pics of things in that area as well as working on articles.
  16. Lucky 6.9 here in the Coachella Valley. I've written and expanded a number of SoCal-related articles mainly relating to the Los Angeles area and the desert region. Three were elevated to featured status, namely Wigwag, Felix the Cat and Ridge Route. Disneyland Railroad recently passed peer review except for a lack of photos. Getting some on my next swing through Anaheim.
  17. avnative obviously Antelope Valley related articles, as I have available time. Mojave Desert articles, too. --avnative 14:04, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  18. andrewphelps I would like to be a part of this. I am a 20-year San Diego native, now living downtown. --Andrew Phelps 02:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  19. User:SAUNDERSI am particularly knowledgeable of Southern California Transportation. Where ever needed as time allows.
  20. Rockero 05:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)I'll throw my name in the hat. I've already contributed to some city articles and created one an article for one Southern California landmark (Chicano Park). I've lived in Ontario, Upland, Pomona, Claremont, West Covina, East Los Angeles, Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and Goleta. I've done some research, too.[reply]
  21. jengod 21:47, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Kenyon (t·c) 01:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC) - I'm in Del Mar. Recently worked on Cardiff-by-the-Sea, which needs a lot more work.[reply]
  23. 3bulletproof16 06:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC) Expanding and improving the quality of Socal sports venue articles.[reply]
  24. Slambo, born on Sunset Blvd, raised in Manhattan Beach (although now living in Wisconsin); specialize in railroad history and rail transport topics.
  25. Decafpenguin New to SoCal and a new contributor to wikipedia, I'm a student at UCLA and if I have time I'll try to work on LA+surrounding area neighborhoods topics, and overall readability/grammar issues.
  26. AlexTheMartian. I was born and raised in the middle of the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. I am now in West L.A. (near Santa Monica) for college, and I am an Eagle Scout so I enjoy the local outdoors. My main focus is the San Gabriel Valley, and recently the improvement plans of its rivers.
  27. Morven Living in Anaheim and working near Downtown LA.
  28. Hezzy 00:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Simi Valley.[reply]
  29. The American Eagle of LA, 26 September 2006.
  30. Justin Live and work in Long Beach, and hike many local mountains. Will contribute content, photos and random edits to these and other areas.
  31. Alex LaPointe 18:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC) I currently reside in Orange County and teach Geology at a local HS, I would like to create and edit any articles about the Geology of SoCal and OC history.[reply]
  32. Moreau36 02:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, lived part of my life throughout Southern California. Work mostly on city/town/unincorporated community articles.[reply]
  33. Whyaduck 06:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC) Though I've lived in Northern California for twenty years, I lived twice as long in my native San Gabriel Valley. I'll probably concentrate mostly on articles about the western SGV and downtown Los Angeles.[reply]
  34. Arspickles17 02:56 29 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Agoura Hills, California and now living in Downtown LA
  35. TorriTorriTalk to me! 08:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC) Moved to the I.E. a few years ago, can contribute about San Bernardino and surrounding areas[reply]
  36. Gohiking 19:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, California and now living in Norwalk, California. I am slowing making edits on more and more pages within LA County as I have time.[reply]
  37. Minnaert 00:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Fairly new contributor. Moved to West Hollywood, California about 1 year ago. Interested in contributing wherever I can.[reply]
  38. Carpet9
  39. guyzero | talk 21:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Westchester[reply]
  40. User:Oreos 06:40, 13 January 2007
  41. Rmannion 19:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC). I've been adding infoboxes to various Southern California cities. I'd be interested in helping standardize what and how information is presented in the articles as well as giving any other help I can provide.[reply]
  42. Brien Clark 07:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)—Interested mostly in geography articles, particularly in the Inland Empire[reply]
  43. Askbros 11:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  44. M&NCenarius 04:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  45. Cygnus 04:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC) I'm mostly working on the San Emigdio Mountains and nearby mountains, but if I can contribute to any other areas in SoCal, I will.[reply]
  46. Takwish 17:46, 30 January 2007 (UTC) — Native denizen of the Inland Empire.[reply]
  47. Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 19:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC) For anything related to SoCal on Wikipedia, I work almost exclusively with Orange County articles. Native of Vancouver but my summer home is Irvine in OC.[reply]
  48. GOLAASTL24 06:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC) I live in Southwest Riverside County, so I can deal with issues specific to there.[reply]
  49. Eric Bekins 06:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC) I'm in the South Bay region of San Diego, (National City) and I'm working on little local things bit by bit.[reply]
  50. Patricknoddy
  51. Dysepsion I've already created stubs/pages on several So. Cal places and schools. I might as well make it official. --† Ðy§ep§ion † Speak your mind 18:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  52. Emesselt
  53. Miss Mondegreen
  54. szyslak
  55. FastLizard4 (Talk|Contribs) 00:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC) -- I live in Sierra Madre, California, which is one of the project pages[reply]
  56. PKM 20:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC) History of the San Fernando Valley, have worked on Rancho Los Encinos and Campo de Cahuenga[reply]
  57. Gmatsuda - Manzanar, Los Angeles Kings
  58. Grassfire
  59. Dureo - Live in the Central Valley in Kings County, below Fresno and above Bakersfield.
  60. DeathRattle101 - LA Born and Raised.
  61. Agtaz - I was born in southeastern Los Angeles County who has interest in moving to the City of Los Angeles.

Goals and projects

Goals

Please see the talk page for more discussion of the goals for the SoCal WikiProject.
  1. Make sure that every Southern California county and city article meets Wikipedia guidelines
  2. Add at least one quality picture for:
    1. every Southern California city and community
    2. every State Park in SoCal
    3. every County Park in SoCal
    4. every major landmark in SoCal
  3. Improve and enlarge every stub article on SoCal topics
  4. Create new articles on SoCal topics to eliminate any red links in SoCal articles
  5. Improve major articles related to Southern California so that they can be first taken to Peer review, then nominated as a Featured article candidate, and finally featured as a Featured article.

Projects

Photography projects

Cleanup projects

  • Create Merged-Consolidation articles for landmarks: Many of the SoCal city and community articles, as well as articles such as Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard, have long lists of landmarks that are either red links or links to stubs that will probably not grow much larger. It would be much better to create some consolidation articles such as Landmarks of Sunset Boulevard that would have brief descriptions of all of the landmarks with links to the much smaller number of landmarks that deserve full-fledged articles.

Featured article projects

Missing articles projects

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles

In most cases, these lists need to be created on Wikipedia and then articles created for the subtopics, where appropriate

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Requested photos

Missing articles and Stub articles

To update these sections, click here to purge the cache. Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Los Angeles County to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Long Beach-area to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Orange County to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/San Diego County to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Other Counties to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Schools to do

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

New Wikipedia articles on SoCal topics

Please feel free to list your new Southern California-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 Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

Articles, Templates, Categories, Lists, and Images

Articles

Overview articles

Disambiguation pages

Los Angeles

Non-LA

Templates

To see examples of all the templates, see WikiProject Southern California Templates
see also Category:Southern California templates

User page templates

{{User SoCal}}

SoCalThis user lives in, hails from or is associated with Southern California.


This userbox adds users to the Wikipedians in Southern California category.

If you prefer not to use userboxes, but still want to be listed in this category, place the following tag at the bottom of your user page:

[[Category:Wikipedians in Southern California|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]



{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Userbox}}

This user participates in the
Southern California
task force.


This userbox adds users to the WikiProject Southern California participants category.

If you prefer not to use userboxes, but still want to be listed in this category, place the following tag at the bottom of your user page:

[[Category:WikiProject Southern California participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Infoboxes and navigation boxes

Stub templates


Other Templates

  • {{PD-CAGov}}
    "work of a State of California employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties,...is consequently in the public domain."
  • {{WikiProject Southern California}}
    Add {{WikiProject Southern California}} to any Wikipedia article's talk pages that are receiving special attention from the SoCal WikiProject
This article is part of WikiProject Southern California, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Southern California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

For California-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=California}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.


  • {{portal|California|WPCF.svg}} to be placed in the "See also" section of articles produces:
  • flagCalifornia portal

Categories

For a list of all the sub-categories of Category:California as of the June 23 2005 database dump, see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/categories. Below is a selected list of Southern California-related categories.

Lists

Also see Wikipedia:WikiProject California#Lists for statewide lists such as List of California state parks

Images

Also see commons:Category:California, commons:Category:PD California Government and commons:Los Angeles, California

WikiProject Award

Image What to type Description
The California Star {{subst:The California Star|message ~~~~}}

The California Star is awarded for excellence in editing California related articles. It is also the WikiProject Award for California, WP San Francisco Bay Area, WP Southern California, WP Santa Barbara County, WP California State Highways and WP California County Routes.

This award was suggested by Ronbo76; it was designed by thuglas. It was introduced on March 6, 2007.

Assessment

Southern California articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 9 10 5 27
FL 1 1 3 1 6
FM 4 4
GA 1 6 12 55 30 104
B 7 35 63 117 159 381
C 7 47 139 393 531 1,117
Start 2 25 141 957 1 1,369 2,495
Stub 4 35 599 6 725 1,369
List 1 2 9 49 67 128
Category 687 687
Disambig 6 6
File 20 20
Project 4 4
Redirect 3 2 5 30 182 222
Template 211 211
Other 7 7
Assessed 21 125 414 2,213 1,128 2,887 6,788
Unassessed 3 49 52
Total 21 125 414 2,216 1,128 2,936 6,840
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,508 Ω = 4.83


Article improvement drive

For improving articles larger than a stub.

Collaboration of the week

For non-existent articles or stubs.

Failed COTW's

Peer review

Current Peer reviews

Past Peer reviews

Front page articles

fr:Los Angeles and de:Los Angeles are Featured articles on the French and German Wikipedias respectively.

Current Featured article candidates

Other WikiProjects and Collaborations

Articles for deletion

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/California

Requested Moves

Greater Los Angeles Area → Greater Los Angeles (Discuss)

Relationships with other projects

Parentage

Descendant WikiProjects

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WikiPortals

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For more information on Collaborations, see m:Wikimedia COTW, Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, Category:Wikipedia collaborations and {{COTWs}}.

Related collaborations
Similar collaborations

Template:USCOTW Template:USCongressCOTW

Southern-California-area meetups

  1. Monday, July 25, 2005 Meetup/LA/1 - Philippe's, Chinatown - 6 attendees
  2. Monday, August 22, 2005 Meetup/LA/2
  3. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Meetup/SD1 - San Diego
  4. Saturday, April 8, 2006 Meetup/Santa_Barbara
  5. Saturday, 24 June 2006 Meetup/LA/3 (proposed LA meetup)
  • Invitation template:
    You can invite people to the next SoCal-area meetup by adding the template {{Meetup/LA/Invite}} to a person's Talk page, or to the Talk page for a SoCal-area article.

User categorisation

California Wikipedians should add the following to their User page:

[[Category:Wikipedians in California|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

or

[[Category:Wikipedians in Southern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]

This will put your User page into either Category:Wikipedians in California or Category:Wikipedians in Southern California.

External resources

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Article votes for deletion

WikiProject maintenance

Southern California WikiProject subpages

Subpage shortcut comments
/to do
/Los Angeles County to do WP:WPSC-LAC
/Long Beach-area to do WP:WPSC-LBA
/Orange County to do WP:WPSC-OC
/San Diego County to do WP:WPSC-SD
/Other Counties to do WP:WPSC-IC
/Schools to do WP:WPSC-S
/Requested photos WP:WPSC-RP
/Categories WP:WPSC-C A page showing Southern California categories
/Template examples
/Assessment WP:WPSC/A on article assessment for WP:1.0 program
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