Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Piers

This page is about articles related to piers.
 * Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about piers, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.
 * Scope: This page is related to articles about specific piers, types of piers, lists of piers, pier categorization, and related templates. If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention.

Membership Template
Template for members to include on their user page: user piers.

Former project participants

 * Paul E. Ester
 * Lynbarn (chief interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier railways)
 * KieranT (not much help beyond the south coast of England, but willing to help out :)
 * davellandudno (main interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier pavilions)
 * Dthomsen8 New Jersey piers, and American piers in general
 * Stuffed cat Interested in the pleasure piers of the UK/Yorkshire coast
 * Willrocks10- Project Re founder.

To Do

 * Expand the guidelines for pier articles
 * Nominate articles for good or featured status
 * Add infoboxes to articles
 * Standardize categorization for piers - discuss on the talk page
 * Add latitude and longitude information to articles (see WP:GEO)
 * Expand Category:Piers by country
 * Infobox location switching

Change log
Add Major edits to the


 * Project Changelog

Guidelines
The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The and  serve as good models.

Introduction
The introduction sentence should include what type of pier it is, what it spans (river, lake, ocean, etc.), and where it is located:


 * pier is a pier type that spans body of water/land between city, state and city, state. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type).  It was built in year by agency responsible for construction and was designed by notable engineer or firm.

Images and media
Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.

Templates and infoboxes
Template:Infobox pier is the preferred template and works best for users if it is at the top of the page.

Categorization
The article should be included in the category for the type of pier that it is (example Category:Amusement Piers). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Piers in the United Kingdom

There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all pier articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of Pier articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Piers in Japan), or small countries with relatively few Piers (Category:Piers in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Piers in New York (state)).

Infoboxes

 * Template:Infobox pier is the preferred infobox for individual Piers. There are instructions on how to use it on the template page.

Categories

 * Category:Piers (Recent changes)
 * Category:Piers by country (Recent changes)

Good articles
• Birnbeck Pier, 2 February 2013 (Review page)

•  North Pier (Blackpool), 5 March 2012 (Review page)

•  Brighton Palace Pier, 16 August 2017 (Review page)

•  Clevedon Pier, 22 December 2012 (Review page)

•  Lytham Pier, 1 January 2018 (Review page)

•  Rhyl Pier, 5 September 2021 (Review Page)

•  Southend Pier, 2 August 2021 (Review Page)

•  Southport Pier, 14 December 2017 (Review page)

•  St Anne's Pier, 3 October 2011 (Review page)

•  West Pier (Brighton), 11 May 2015 (Review page)

Piers of the Year
These are the past winners of "Pier of the Year": • Eastbourne Pier, 1997

• Brighton Palace Pier, 1998

• Clevedon Pier, 1999

• Cromer Pier, 2000

• Grand Pier, 2001

• Southwold Pier, 2002

• Southport Pier, 2003

• Blackpool North Pier, 2004

• Llandudno Pier, 2005

• Worthing Pier, 2006

• Southend Pier, 2007

• Deal Pier, 2008

• Saltburn Pier, 2009

• Boscombe Pier, 2010

• Grand Pier, 2011 (2nd award)

• Swanage Pier, 2012

• Clevedon Pier, 2013 (2nd award)

• Penarth Pier, 2014

• Cromer Pier, 2015 (2nd award)

• Cleethorpes Pier, 2016

• Hastings Pier, 2017

• South Parade Pier, 2018

• Worthing Pier, 2019

• Clacton Pier, 2020

• Clevedon Pier, 2021 (3rd award)