User:Dicdoc/Sandbox

Welcome to WikiProject Northern Ireland! Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Northern Ireland. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; 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 and see the to-do list there.

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Scope & Motivation
The vast majority of this project was unashamedly ripped from another project: WikiProject The Beatles, and the creator of this project extends recognition for the tireless work involved in formatting, text, policy and many other aspects by Kingboyk, Lar and himself.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProjects and WikiProject best practices.

This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to Northern Ireland, and to help with the creation of needed articles. It aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Northern Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the main Northern Ireland article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Northern Ireland Portal.


 * One of the greatest aids in this project for assessment and improving of articles, are the Mathbot logs found here Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Northern Ireland articles by quality/1 and here Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Northern Ireland articles by quality/2. Please take a look at the entries there as it will guide you on which articles need to be assessed, and will also guide you as to what might be necessary to improve individual articles.

'''Articles and categories relating to Northern Ireland 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.'''

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Recent developments

 * The Troubles discussion page. Not particularly recent, but its not something many people have been made aware of. The only references to it are on an archived deletion discussion and a user page.


 * Belfast has been successful as the 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.


 * This Northern Ireland Project is currently being re-vamped in line with the Belfast 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.

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Participants

 * Dicdoc
 * Dom0803
 * G e  n  eral
 * theKeith
 * Mal
 * Martin
 * Ben W Bell
 * Ardfern
 * Mr.Kennedy1
 * Traditional unionist
 * MichiganCharms
 * Helenalex
 * user:SE7User_talk:SE7/Special:Contributions/SE7 18:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * EJF (talk) 17:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fribbler
 * Coolhawks88
 * Denzell393

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Major pending tasks

 * 1) Modify WPNI template so that it follows the hierarchy structure found in WikiProject Australia.
 * 2) Update all infobox Northern Ireland place templates to use include the new mapping function.
 * 3) Add the new WPNI template to all Northern Ireland-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).
 * 1) Add new Northern Ireland history navigational template to the top of all Northern Ireland-history related articles. 
 * 1) Add new Northern Ireland history navigational template to the top of all Northern Ireland-history related articles. 
 * 1) Add new Northern Ireland history navigational template to the top of all Northern Ireland-history related articles. 
 * 1) Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - see WikiProject Northern Ireland/Missing articles


 * 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 Northern Ireland" template along the lines of Christianity

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Manual of Style (conventions)

 * See WikiProject Northern Ireland/Northern Ireland Manual of Style

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]]Policies
For geographic articles, project contributors developed this interpretation of the policy on What Wikipedia is not and the guidelines for style and notability.

The Troubles in location x
Coverage of the Troubles on locality pages should be in proportion to the history of that place, ie a page on a 500 year old town should not have half its content on the Troubles. Where this does occur, the Troubles history should be reduced to an appropriate length and the remaining content moved to the appropriate 'The Troubles in...' page (The Troubles in Dungiven, The Troubles in Newry, etc).

On 'The Troubles in...' pages, events are notable and should be included if:

1. Two or more people were killed

2. The event was the first of its kind (first attributed to a particular group, first bombing death etc); first killing of a particular kind of person (first RUC officer killed, first republican paramilitary etc); or is otherwise a significant 'first'.

3. The victim was inherently notable in his/her own right (ie worthy of a page of their own).

4. The event had a significant effect - ie directly led to a breakthrough in or breakdown of the peace process etc.

A series of relatively minor events can be included if they had significant impact on the area. For example individual arson attacks are not normally notable, but an apparent arson campaign which drives most of the local Catholics/Protestants out of an area is. The campaign (as opposed to individual attacks) and its effects must be properly documented and sourced.

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Creation of articles
Done For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see WikiProject Northern Ireland/Log.


 * Stub templates - Created two stub templates for articles in WikiProject Belfast. There is a (for general Belfast-related articles) and a  (for Belfast geographical stubs).    Keithology   Talk!  10:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Counties of Northern Ireland - I noticed this article wasn't yet created, and it is a rather large one in terms of importance in my opinion. Got cracking and there's the outcome. --Dom0803 14:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Interface area - just created this. Would appreciate help expanding it. Cordless Larry (talk) 23:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

To do
 * 1) To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
 * 2) To improve the standard of articles relating to Northern Ireland in general.
 * 3) To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistancy throughout.
 * 4) To examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and to determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7) Maintenance of Northern Ireland Portal.
 * 8) Continue rollout of Template:Infobox UK place to replace Irish infobox per WP:UKCITIES

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px]] Categories
Done

To do
 * Locate non-categorised Northern Irish schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.

Substance
Done

To do
 * The main Belfast article needs to achieve featured status.
 * 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.
 * Infobox NI place needs to be added to all Belfast district articles

Tagged with WPNI template
For a complete list of the progress of categories that have been manually searched and from which articles have been tagged with the project template, see WikiProject Northern Ireland/WPNI tagging progress.

Reqphoto
In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Northern Ireland 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.

Useful categories
The following Belfast-related topics can be turned into an encyclopaedic article called List of Northern Irish topics which is part of Category:Topic lists.


 * Category:Northern Ireland
 * Category:Northern Irish culture
 * Category:Sport in Northern Ireland
 * Category:History of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Parks in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Education in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Local Government Areas of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Transport in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Railway stations in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Images of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Northern Ireland
 * Category:Geography of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Regions of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Rivers of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Towns in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Government of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland
 * Category:Transport in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Churches in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Hospitals in Northern Ireland

Tasks

 * 1) Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Northern Irish related edits in the past
 * 2) Fix templates to talk pages
 * 3) Construct /Article Classification by following the category 'tree'


 * 1) Assess articles at /Article Classification

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.
 * Example article: User:Example

Lists
See Category:Northern Ireland-related lists

WikiProject Deletion sorting
WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Northern Irish articles-related articles at VFD are listed at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Northern Ireland.

Requests
I'd like to request help on a Sport in Derry City or Sport in County Londonderry page. If you are interested in assisting, leave me a message on my talk page.Ryannus 00:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I've added the WPNI to two articles I am currently editing because they have a strong connection to Northern Ireland. If anyone would like to examine these and see if they have any advice to offer I would appreciate it. They are 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars and Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.GDD1000 (talk) 12:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Parentage
This project is categorized under the Category:Regional WikiProjects (see also WikiProject UK subdivisions).

parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Ireland

Sister projects would be WikiProject UK geography and WikiProject Irish literature.

Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject are:
 * WikiProject Belfast
 * WikiProject UK subdivisions (Northern Ireland)

Similar WikiProjects
No similar WikiProjects have been named.

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject UK geography
 * WikiProject UK subdivisions (Northern Ireland)
 * WikiProject Irish Football

Related Wikiportals

 * Portal:Northern Ireland

Related Collaborations
No related Collaborations have been named.

Related Regional notice boards

 * Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board

Related groups of Wikipedians

 * Category:Wikipedians from Northern Ireland
 * Category:Wikipedians in Northern Ireland

Related pages in Sister projects

 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles
 * Northern Irish articles

External resources

 * Familia: find information about places in the UK

Archives

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