Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists

Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.

Goals

 * In cooperation with WikiProject Outlines and WikiProject Indexes, make a comprehensive navigation system of Wikipedia that lists every page in the encyclopedia.
 * Make all lists titled "List of " conform to the standards of Featured list criteria
 * Note that outlines, indices, glossaries, timelines, and tables have their own standards. See their respective WikiProjects for details.
 * Note also that some "List of " pages are misnamed, and are actually outlines or indices, and fall within the scope of those two WikiProjects. Most of the misnamed lists include "topics" in their titles.
 * Check through WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists
 * Disperse Category:Lists into their proper subcategories
 * Create Most wanted articles
 * Reduce the number of inappropriate laundry lists
 * Maintain Contents and its subpages
 * Make more lists to better organize Wikipedia articles
 * Maintain and develop the list guidelines and help pages.

Scope

 * The project covers most articles that are (or contain) lists. The lists that are intended as navigation aids are covered by WikiProject Outlines and WikiProject Indexes.

List-friendly search results enhancements

 * SearchSuite.js provides menu items to modify your search results. Some of the features include sort, hide details (listify), and even format your search results for easy copying and pasting into lists, with a click of your mouse. And more.

Guidelines
General Help
 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates
 * Notability
 * Stand-alone list notability
 * Lists
 * Lists (stand-alone lists)
 * Embedded list
 * Manual of Style (lists of works)
 * Naming conventions (long lists)
 * Notability (organizations and companies)
 * Pro and con lists
 * Help:List
 * Help:Contents/Resources and lists
 * Help:Table. External links section has free HTML-to-wiki converters.
 * When to use tables
 * Help:Sorting. All about automatic sorting of table rows.

Rejected proposals: Essays
 * Overlistification
 * Proposed guideline for lists of people by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural categorizations
 * Lists in Wikipedia
 * Listcruft
 * Write the Article First - one solution to cruft-y red links in lists
 * Creating A Better List - A User Essay
 * Lists within articles

Assessment
The assessment department gives details of our Quality and Importance statistics. This project will use only FL, List, and Stub for articles. Quality Classes such as Image, Template, Portal, Disambiguation, Category and Project will only be included in order to conform with the predefined Namespace.

Currently, this project uses the Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot for article statistics. Therefore, it has become necessary for the project create a Custom mask for Quality class. The Custom mask for WikiProject Lists limits class to FL, List, and Stub for articles, and automatically changes incorrect class codes.


 * Article statistics

After adding our Project template to a talk page, you may run our Assessment bot by clicking Run the bot right away on the bot's User page. Type the word List, then click Submit.

Lists of Wikipedia lists
Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

See also Contents.


 * Articles
 * List of lists
 * List of lists of lists


 * Categories:
 * Category:Lists
 * Category:Lists of lists


 * Alphabetical index:
 * Special:Allpages/List of...


 * Featured:
 * Featured lists
 * Featured list criteria
 * Featured list candidates
 * Featured list removal candidates
 * Featured list log
 * Former featured lists

New articles
A list of recently created list articles can be found at User:AlexNewArtBot/ListsSearchResult. This list is updated daily.

When reviewing new articles, be sure to perform the following tasks, where appropriate:
 * Tag the talk page with WikiProject Lists
 * Add the article to the appropriate list category
 * Tag incomplete lists with expand list or dynamic list
 * Nominate interesting articles at Did you know?

Notable list categories
Because of Wikipedia's role as an almanac and a gazetteer as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the list of U.S. state birds, are complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Other lists are missing entries and are called incomplete lists. Incomplete lists should be immediately preceded by the Incomplete list template, or one of its topic-specific variations.

Some lists, such as List of numbers, are intentionally inexhaustive, as they are only meant to list notable examples from a given category. These are known as "dynamic lists" and should be preceded by the Dynamic list template. Some dynamic lists require updates: for example, a list of notable alumni from a given university, or Lists of plants may need to be updated as clades and classifications are debated by botanists.

It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it, if not to completion, at least to a mature state in which only minor updates are required as times change. Of course, it's not clear for all lists what should or shouldn't be on them, and completion may never be clear for these lists, but there should at least come a point where most representative and widely agreed upon entries are present.

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User WP Lists

User WPLISTS

User WP Lists 1
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A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Lists participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage:

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add User WPLISTS or User WP Lists to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Template uses

 * See: Template messages/Lists and Category:Hatnote templates for lists

Project
Place the WikiProject Lists banner on all talk pages of list articles using the following code:

which produces the following box:

and includes the article in the project.

Requests for article improvement
Below are examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

General list templates

 * - to add an AfD to WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists. Produces:
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.
 * Dynamic list -
 * Expand list or Inc-list -

Content type list templates

 * inc-lit -
 * inc-musong -
 * inc-sport -
 * inc-transport -
 * inc-video - or one of its sub-categories:
 * inc-film -
 * inc-tv -

Stub templates
Stub templates are placed at the end of articles, below the categories. If the article's content consists of only list material, please use a Request for improvement template rather than a stub template.

Navbox
List navbox <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.

(Discuss the List navbox Template)

Talk header
Below is template code that can be pasted at the top of a list talk page, for stand-alone lists where inappropriate subjects are often added. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.


 * stand-alone list

[[Image:Community.png|25px|WikiProjects puzzle]] Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Indices
 * WikiProject Outlines
 * WikiProject Discographies
 * WikiProject TV's Lists of episodes task force - see also Template talk:Episode list

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Lists