Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast

WikiProject BELFAST

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 Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Belfast articles by quality/1 and here 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 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 WikiProject Belfast 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 Belfast 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). Do not continue to use the old version WPBelfast
 * 1) Add new Belfast history navigational template to the top of all Belfast-history related articles. 
 * 1) Add new Belfast history navigational template to the top of all Belfast-history related articles. 
 * 1) 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 WikiProject Belfast/Templates

Done
For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see 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 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.

To do

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

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.
 * Infobox Belfast place 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 WikiProject Belfast template
Articles from the following categories have been tagged with the WikiProject Belfast assessment template or the older WPBelfast template.


 * Category:Belfast - done
 * Category:Ships built in Belfast - done
 * Category:Buildings and structures in Belfast - done
 * Category:Railway stations in Belfast - done
 * Category:People from Belfast - done
 * Category:Politics of Belfast - done
 * Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (1801–1922) - done
 * Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (since 1922)
 * 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

Photographs
Wikimedia Commons has a wide range of Northern Ireland related photographs which can all be used freely to accompany articles in Wikipedia. See: If you have any Northern Ireland-related photographs you could load them up to Wikimedia Commons for all to use.

To do

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Belfast

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.

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


 * Agadant
 * Ardfern
 * Chromenano(talk) 01:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Dicdoc
 * Dom0803
 * FlyingToaster
 * Keithology
 * Keys
 * Mal
 * Leahtwosaints -focus in upon biographies of musicians and photographs for those articles
 * MichiganCharms
 * Transient Lunatic
 * Traditional unionist
 * Tsumo9
 * Patricknoddy
 * Pollack man

Article assessment
Article assessment (long) Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.

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

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

External resources

 * Familia: find information about places in the UK

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.