Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Mosques task force

This is a task force of WikiProject Islam.

Mission objectives
To organise all mosque articles in a consistent fashion. More precisely:


 * Agree on a consistent format for mosque article titles.
 * Include basic info. on a mosque at the start of each mosque article (usually in a template - maybe infobox?). This has already been done for many mosque articles, but the task is by no means complete.
 * is added to the top of the talk pages of any articles relevant to this project. This will make them appear on the Category:Mosques task force articles.

Top of my head generic tasks

 * Populate the subcategories of Category:Mosque-related articles by quality with all mosque related articles by adding the above talk page template.
 * Add basic info. templates to all mosque articles.
 * Update mosque categories.
 * Standardise mosque article titles (e.g. Masjid al-Haram and Al-Aqsa Mosque appear inconsistent); there may be issues here with the most common English term for any given mosque.
 * Create 'Mosques in ...(name of country)' templates for each country.
 * Add quality and importance notices on talk pages of all mosque articles (not just those which describe the mosque, but any article whose main content is about mosques - e.g. Siege of Lal Masjid); update the corresponding Mosque articles by quality table. See here for assistance.
 * Get a photo of each mosque for which there is an article - I know this isn't necessarily very easy.

Page moves
Capitalise the m in mosque in the following: TBA

Categories still to be analysed
Make sure that all articles in the following categories have WPISLAM tags in their talk pages:


 * Category:Mosques in Iraq - also need to update the Iraq mosques template.

Mosque by country templates
Although all countries may not have mosques (yet), the following are templates that potentially need to be created:


 * Template:Mosques in Andorra
 * Template:Mosques in Angola
 * Template:Mosques in Antigua and Barbuda
 * Template:Mosques in the Bahamas
 * Template:Mosques in Belarus
 * Template:Mosques in Belize
 * Template:Mosques in Bhutan
 * Template:Mosques in Bolivia
 * Template:Mosques in Botswana
 * Template:Mosques in Brazil
 * Template:Mosques in Burma
 * Template:Mosques in Burundi
 * Template:Mosques in Burkina Faso
 * Template:Mosques in Cameroon
 * Template:Mosques in Cape Verde
 * Template:Mosques in the Central African Republic
 * Template:Mosques in Chad
 * Template:Mosques in Chile
 * Template:Mosques in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
 * Template:Mosques in Comoros
 * Template:Mosques in DR Congo
 * Template:Mosques in the Republic of the Congo
 * Template:Mosques in Costa Rica
 * Template:Mosques in Côte d'Ivoire
 * Template:Mosques in Croatia
 * Template:Mosques in Cuba
 * Template:Mosques in the Czech Republic
 * Template:Mosques in Dominica
 * Template:Mosques in the Dominican Republic
 * Template:Mosques in East Timor
 * Template:Mosques in Ecuador
 * Template:Mosques in El Salvador
 * Template:Mosques in Equatorial Guinea
 * Template:Mosques in Estonia
 * Template:Mosques in Ethiopia
 * Template:Mosques in Fiji
 * Template:Mosques in Finland
 * Template:Mosques in Gabon
 * Template:Mosques in Gambia
 * Template:Mosques in Grenada
 * Template:Mosques in Guinea-Bissau
 * Template:Mosques in Honduras
 * Template:Mosques in Iceland
 * Template:Mosques in Jamaica
 * Template:Mosques in Kenya
 * Template:Mosques in Kiribati
 * Template:Mosques in Kyrgyzstan
 * Template:Mosques in Latvia
 * Template:Mosques in Lesotho
 * Template:Mosques in Liberia
 * Template:Mosques in Liechtenstein
 * Template:Mosques in Luxembourg
 * Template:Mosques in Madagascar
 * Template:Mosques in Malawi
 * Template:Mosques in Malta
 * Template:Mosques in the Marshall Islands
 * Template:Mosques in Mauritius
 * Template:Mosques in Mexico
 * Template:Mosques in Micronesia
 * Template:Mosques in Moldova
 * Template:Mosques in Monaco
 * Template:Mosques in Mongolia
 * Template:Mosques in Mozambique
 * Template:Mosques in Namibia
 * Template:Mosques in Nauru
 * Template:Mosques in New Zealand
 * Template:Mosques in Nicaragua
 * Template:Mosques in North Korea
 * Template:Mosques in Paraguay
 * Template:Mosques in Senegal
 * Template:Mosques in Sudan
 * Template:Mosques in Suriname
 * Template:Mosques in United Arab Emirates

Templates needing updating:

Categories needed

 * Category:Mosques in Andorra
 * Category:Mosques in Angola
 * Category:Mosques in Burkina Faso
 * Category:Mosques in Gambia
 * Category:Mosques in Paraguay

Unresolved issues and standardisation
There are presently many inconsistencies in mosque articles, many concerning standardisation.


 * If not at the beginning of a sentence, should al- or Al- be used (as in al-Aqsa)?


 * Should all known mosques be listed or just the notable ones ? I prefer the former option, but I can see that articles on local, small mosques will probably be quite stubby.


 * Change name of Masjid-e-Aqsa (Not The Aqsa) - this one is an Ahmadiyyah mosque in Pakistan! - to something else ?


 * Should Benposta be in the category Category:Mosques in Spain ? I think it is a very tenuous link to the category in question.


 * Should the (distinct!) articles Shahjahan Mosque and Shah Jahan Mosque be renamed to avoid confusion ?


 * Some mosques use Mosque in their proper noun name and some use Masjid

Membership and duties
Please list below your username with the usual four tildes and what you would like to help out with (e.g., adding basic info. templates to all Uzbekistan mosques, or updating a category).


 * MP (talk•contribs) 15:25, 6 August 2008 (UTC) — everything at the moment.
 * Bless sins (talk) 03:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC) — I am at your service.
 * Yenemus (talk) 11:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC) — I'd be glad to help out with templates and article standardisation. At the moment, I'm trying to standardise the "Mosques in (country)" templates (e.g. see Template:Mosques in Bangladesh and Template:Mosques in Sweden); I've also been thinking that a Mosque infobox would be a good idea, maybe we could get together and design one? Oh, also, I made this "list of the largest mosques in the world" template, with information from this article, so if you find a good place to put it please feel free.
 * Al Ameer son (talk) 20:49, 20 July 2009 (UTC) —Worked extensively with the mosques of Palestine and Israel (including bringing al-Aqsa Mosque and the Great Mosque of Gaza to a GA rating).
 * —  Melofors   TC  21:59, 11 March 2020 (UTC) — I work extensively on Islam-related articles in the United States, created several Islam-related articles, templates, and categories for the United States. Plan to fix several messy articles.
 * Chongkian — write new mosque articles, add infobox, add coordinate, add proper categorization, update navbox template, add wikiprojects, rate wikiprojects, tidy up sequence and naming of article contents, re-write things in a more objective manner, add defaultsort, add short description, write verified facts and only verified facts.
 * Ahendra (talk) 17:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC) - In Sha Allah will help to improve articles about mosques

Standards
A typical mosque article should (?) have the following information as an absolute minimum:


 * A template giving info. about the mosque. I think there are presently 3 such templates that are used in mosque articles: Template:Asian mosques, Template:Chinese mosques and Template:Infobox religious building. I believe the last one is used most often (this infobox covers many things).
 * I recently created a specific infobox for mosques. Please check it out at Template:Infobox mosque and see if you want to use it to standardise all mosque pages. I've already implemented it into the Masjid al-Haram and London Central Mosque articles. --Yenemus (talk) 19:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I think its better to keep the old one (Template:Infobox religious building) since its more flexible. If you change all the mosque pages over to this new template, you'd be doing alot of unnecessary work just for the 'Leadership' section, which in most cases you won't even be able to fill in. ~ Toushiro 「 話 」  04:58, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, and I partly agree with you but I just think it needs some adjustments and is still a good idea. The religious building infobox is far too vague and it seems redundant to mention "Architectural type: mosque" and "Religious affilition: Islam" all the time when the word Mosque is in the page title. This is being discussed further at the talk page. --Yenemus (talk) 09:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Place of mosque (city/town etc. + country) (geographic coordinates too).


 * Architecture (minarets, style etc.)


 * A mosque by country template at the bottom of the page (e.g. Template:Mosques in Egypt).

Categories checked
The following categories have been analysed to check that all mosque articles in that category have the WPISLAM tag on their talk pages. Please add to this list if ) and once you have checked. Please also update the Quality and Importance table above:


 * Category:Mosques in Afghanistan
 * Category:Mosques in Albania
 * Category:Mosques in Algeria
 * Category:Mosques in Armenia
 * Category:Mosques in Australia
 * Category:Mosques in Austria
 * Category:Mosques in Bahrain
 * Category:Mosques in Bangladesh
 * Category:Mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * Category:Mosques in Brunei
 * Category:Mosques in Bulgaria
 * Category:Mosques in Canada
 * Category:Mosques in China
 * Category:Mosques in Colombia
 * Category:Mosques in Cyprus
 * Category:Mosques in Denmark
 * Category:Mosques in Egypt
 * Category:Mosques in London
 * Category:Mosques in France
 * Category:Mosques in Germany
 * Category:Mosques in Gibraltar
 * Category:Mosques in Haiti
 * Category:Mosques in Hong Kong
 * Category:Mosques in Indonesia
 * Category:Mosques in Israel
 * Category:Mosques in Japan
 * Category:Mosques in Jordan
 * Category:Mosques in Kenya
 * Category:Mosques in Kuwait
 * Category:Mosques in Lebanon
 * Category:Mosques in London
 * category:Mosques in the Republic of Macedonia
 * Category:Mosques in Malaysia
 * Category:Mosques in Mali
 * Category:Mosques in Mauritania
 * Category:Mosques in Mauritius
 * Category:Mosques in Morocco
 * Category:Mosques in the Netherlands
 * Category:Mosques in Niger
 * Category:Mosques in Nigeria
 * Category:Mosques in Oman
 * Category:Mosques in the Philippines
 * Category:Mosques in Portugal
 * Category:Mosques in Romania
 * Category:Mosques in Scotland
 * Category:Mosques in Senegal
 * Category:Mosques in Serbia
 * Category:Mosques in South Korea
 * Category:Mosques in Spain
 * Category:Mosques in Sweden
 * Category:Mosques in Switzerland
 * Category:Mosques in Syria
 * Category:Mosques in Taiwan
 * Category:Mosques in Tanzania
 * Category:Mosques in Thailand
 * Category:Mosques in Tunisia
 * Category:Mosques in Turkey
 * Category:Mosques in the United Arab Emirates
 * Category:Mosques in the United States
 * Category:Mosques in Uzbekistan
 * Category:Mosques in Yemen