Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Tasks

This is WikiProject Louisville's list of tasks.
 * Being on our participant list is not required for working on our tasks.

Regular project tasks
This is the ongoing work of our project. Please feel free to suggest additional tasks or changes to existing ones in our project talk.

Project Articles Needing Action
In December 2015, a front page list which is now called "Project Articles Needing Action" was created, starting with 5 rows (with 4 entries each). As of June 2024, it has 7 rows. These are, by statistics and/or editorial judgment, articles needing the most action right now.

Following are explanations of the action categories:
 * Priority with Most Issues – These are priority articles (articles graded by quality/importance ranging from C/High to FA/Top) which have the most cleanup issues. Generally ordered by number of identified issues, descending. These are revised as cleanup issues are addressed or new cleanup issues are identified. The issue statistics these are based on are updated once weekly.
 * Non-Priority with Most Issues – These articles are ones not meeting the priority criteria which have the most cleanup issues. Generally ordered by number of identified issues, descending. These are also revised as cleanup issues are addressed or new cleanup issues are identified. The issue statistics these are based on are updated once weekly.
 * Popular Stubs – These are stub articles which have more views (presumably readers) than other stub articles in our project. Therefore, they should have a higher priority for expansion. Ordered by views, descending. These are revised as stubs are expanded/de-stubbed or the popularity (by views) of stub articles fluctuates. The popularity statistics these are based on are updated once monthly.
 * Popular with Old Issues – These are well-viewed articles which have old cleanup issues (from 2013 or earlier). Ordered by views, descending. These are revised as old cleanup issues are addressed or the popularity statistics change.
 * Missing Here – These are Louisville area-related subjects which seem to be the ones most needing an article. These are decided and ordered entirely by editorial judgment. These are revised as articles in the list are created or upon a realization of a more important subject that needs an article.

If any project participants want to join the editorial staff that selects the entries for these action items, please add your username in the list at this link.

Article development and project inclusion
Wikipedians and especially WikiProject Louisville participants are encouraged to create or edit any Louisville area-related articles (including articles about people from the Louisville area) that are (or should be) included in our project.

Please also help us ensure that Louisville area-related articles (new or old) are included in our project by adding the following project template to their talk pages if it's not there already: 

The above yields:

Other ways you can help in the development of articles include:
 * Creating new articles from suggestions, or suggesting articles to be created
 * Expanding stub articles you can find in various stub categories (currently stubs; see full list)
 * Improving articles, by:
 * Addressing various requests from article's talk pages (e.g., to-do lists, photos/infoboxes/maps needed, immediate attention)
 * Cleaning up many kinds of issues
 * '''Connecting our articles with links, categories, etc.
 * Staying tuned to our project alerts when Wikipedia-wide attention is called to any of our articles. Examples include when an article is nominated to upgrade to good status or when an article is submitted for a deletion discussion.

What constitutes a Louisville area-related article
Per our goal and scope, WikiProject Louisville provides comprehensive coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area. But to decide what articles/pages to include can sometimes be a bit fuzzy. So following are aspects to look at in determining whether an article/page should be included in our project:
 * Is the article in (or should be in) a category that descends from Category:Louisville metropolitan area, Category:Hardin County, Kentucky, Category:LaRue County, Kentucky or Category:Scott County, Indiana (combined what we're calling the Louisville area)?
 * Note 1: these categories (i.e., category pages) are themselves also included in the project.
 * Note 2: this aspect alone does not guarantee that an article/page should be included (see below).
 * Is the subject clearly about the Louisville area, its history, its economy, its infrastructure, or its culture in some way?
 * If the article covers a (usually Kentucky) statewide subject or is another broad subject:
 * Does the article include coverage of a Louisville area-related subject that is substantial and not just one of many like things?
 * If the subject is a person:
 * Was the person born or raised* in the Louisville area? (*typically meaning "spent formative years")
 * Did the person maintain a significant period of residence in the Louisville area?
 * If they attended or played sports for, or was in the faculty, staff or administration of, a Louisville area college or university:
 * Did they attend, play or work for the school for at least two academic years, or barring that, did they graduate from the school?
 * If not, did they achieve anything notable for the college/university or win any major awards during their time here?
 * If they played sports for or managed a Louisville area professional sports team:
 * Did they play for a (usually historical) major league team based in Louisville?
 * If they played for a minor league, did they play for at least a significant portion of a season (they weren't in and out quickly) or in multiple seasons?
 * If not, did they achieve anything notable for the team during their time here?
 * Did they manage the team for at least two seasons?
 * If the subject is a company or organization:
 * Was the company/org headquartered in the Louisville area for a significant period of time?
 * If the subject is a product:
 * Was the product primarily or majorly manufactured or otherwise produced in the Louisville area?
 * If the subject is a cultural or culinary thing:
 * Was the thing introduced (or maintains a reliably sourced claim for having been introduced) in the Louisville area?
 * If the subject is an event:
 * Did the event take place in the Louisville area?
 * Did the event majorly involve a notable Louisville area subject (e.g. a championship game involving a Louisville Cardinals team)?
 * If the article is a list, does it contain at least several subjects related to the Louisville area?
 * If the page is a disambiguation page, does it contain two or more subjects related to the Louisville area?
 * If the page is a redirect, does it represent a Louisville area subject and is:
 * a redirect "with possibilities" (i.e., it could reasonably become an article on its own)?
 * a redirect reflecting a hot search term thereby conducting a lot of traffic to a Louisville area-related article (e.g., Louisville)?
 * a redirect representing a key area topic that has been purposefully folded into a broader topic (e.g., Louisville Business First)?
 * If the page is a template or file (usually image), does it represent a subject above determined to be included?
 * Is it a WikiProject Louisville project page or subpage?

Note: Typically, any person, horse or other entity that has won a Louisville area race or contest is not included in our project unless it was an inaugural or otherwise very special event, or they have an otherwise strong connection to the area.

Article assessment
We continually assess our articles for quality and for importance to our project.


 * General assessment tasks
 * If not already there, place the  banner on the talk pages of Louisville area-related articles and assess according to our instructions.
 * Assess the quality of Louisville area-related articles that aren't currently assessed.
 * Assign the project importance of Louisville-area related articles that aren't currently assigned.
 * Change the class or importance if the quality level changes or importance to our project changes.

Addressing article requests
On the talk pages of articles, Wikipedians can request immediate attention, as well as particular things to add to an article, such as images, infoboxes, maps, or various content additions/changes from a to-do list..Go to the "Louisville articles needing attention" category (and subcategories) to see which articles need various kinds of attention. Addressing these matters is also a great way to contribute.

Check out the articles with... • Photo/image requests

• Geocoordinate data requests

• Infobox requests

• Map requests

• To-do lists

Article cleanup
There are many approaches to cleaning up Wikipedia articles, and cleanup activity on our included articles is a great way to contribute to our project. Obviously, issues such as typos, incorrect grammar and ambiguous links can be corrected manually, but many tools exist to aid in this effort.

In addition, various cleanup issues* for our project (totaling as of ) are scooped up by a weekly-run automatic process and are listed by cleanup category and alphabetically by article title (sortable by assessment class or project importance, or number of issues in the alphabetic list) by for your convenience. For example, if you just want to work on articles with cite date errors, the "by cleanup category" list has those sorted out for you.

For cleanup issues identified over a decade ago and are still yet to be addressed, check out our list of articles with old issues.

* Note: these lists don't comprise all possible cleanup issues in articles—just the ones that have been tagged by editors or internal processes (and thus listed in hidden categories). Issues like spacing, typos, grammar, readability, and minor structural nits will normally not be included—sometimes you just have to read an article or review its wiki source to see where its problems lie.

Helpful cleanup hints
 * 1) In your Preferences (Appearance/Advanced options), check "Show hidden categories" so you can see the cleanup categories that articles and other pages are included in.
 * 2) Regarding citation-related issues, include the following in your common.css (style file) so that these issues will be clearly visible in every article:


 * 1) To fix articles listed in the category "Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls", use the FindArgDups script.
 * 2) To address "Orphaned" articles, see WP:Orphan.
 * 3) To address articles listed in the category "Notability unclear", you basically have two, maybe three choices: 1) Find more reliable, independent sources to bolster the article subject's notability; or 2) if there's no hope for establishing the article subject's notability, submit the article for Deletion. However, sometimes there is a middle ground, 3) merging the article's cited content into an established, clearly notable subject, and then converting the problematic article into a redirect.

Change patrol
To ensure that all changes to Louisville area-related pages are sound, and any vandalism reverted, here are "recent changes" pages to aid in that endeavor:
 * ALL PROJECT PAGES: Recent changes to all pages included in WikiProject Louisville, along with associated talk pages (page list updated by a bot on )
 *  ALL PROJECT ARTICLES : Just the articles in the above (mainspace pages minus redirects and disambiguation pages) and no associated talk pages, in case you don't care about changes to anything else
 *  ALL PROJECT CATEGORIES : Just the categories in the above (no associated talk pages), including page categorizations (view what pages are added to or removed from our included categories)
 *  ALL PROJECT TALK : Just the talk pages in the above
 *  POPULAR ARTICLES : Recent changes to the top 1,000 most viewed articles included in WikiProject Louisville (page list updated )
 *  FEATURED ARTICLES : Recent changes to featured articles included in WikiProject Louisville (page list updated )
 *  ALL RECOGNIZED ARTICLES : Recent changes to all recognized articles (FA, GA, DYK, ITN, etc.) included in WikiProject Louisville (page list updated )
 *  PRIORITY ARTICLES : Recent changes to WikiProject Louisville's most important articles closest to being ready to take to the Good or Featured stage, that is, high or top-importance articles with a GA-class (good), B-class or C-class quality. (page list updated )
 * MOST EDITED: 100 most edited articles in the past 30 days. Monitor major changes taking place over many edits. (page list updated )
 * MOST VOLATILE: 100 most volatile articles (by size) in the past 30 days. Monitor major changes taking place size-wise. (page list updated )
 * MAIN ARTICLE LINKS: Recent changes to all pages linked to from the Louisville, Kentucky article

Collaboration
Whenever you get stuck while working on an article, there are several approaches available for you:
 * Ask questions at the Help desk, Reference desk, or if you're new to Wikipedia, the Teahouse.
 * Ask on the article's talk page, especially if the article has many watchers.
 * Look in the article's history to find an editor who is/was a major contributor, and ask for their thoughts or assistance on their user talk page, or ping them from the article's talk page.
 * Given the article is included in our project, ask on our project talk page.
 * If other WikiProjects cover the article, ask on their project talk page. (In some cases, it may even be useful to boldly add the article to other applicable WikiProjects, understanding that sometimes they will disagree with the addition.)
 * Seek site-wide peer review.

Connecting our articles (links, categories, etc.)
Since we want the world to discover our work and all that is notable about the Louisville metro area, we should continuously connect Louisville area-related articles internally and externally. More specifically, we should:
 * Have our articles link well to each other, per WP:LINK.
 * Ensure that our articles are linked to by any other article, navbox, disambiguation page, etc. inside or outside our project scope that reasonably should, also per WP:LINK (outgoing internal links are also useful, but are a lower priority).
 * See "500 articles least linked to from mainspace" in our lists, logs and query results section.
 * "De-orphan" articles that have no incoming links from other articles per WP:Orphan (current list of orphans).
 * Fully categorize our articles, per WP:CAT (HotCat is very useful in this endeavor).
 * To work on our most likely categorizing needs, view our list of possibly undercategorized articles.
 * Articles not on the list of undercategorized may still need more or better categories, of course.
 * Maintain and sometimes build upon the Louisville area-related category structure, also per WP:CAT.
 * Link to articles in our project from external websites; this is technically not in our project's scope, but nevertheless, this helps people to find our articles (making them more popular) and ultimately, this WikiProject (outgoing external links to Louisville-related websites (per WP:EXTERNAL) are also useful, but are a lower priority).

Specific connecting tasks

 * As there is an ongoing problem of Louisville area-related articles generally being undercategorized, categorize articles as much as reasonable, especially using chronological categories (e.g., when something is established). Add or adjust categories as necessary in the process.
 * Do more diffusing of Category:People from Louisville, Kentucky (journalists (child of writers), academics, lawyers (judges), filmmakers, military personnel). Ensure that any new subcategory is appropriately categorized.
 * Do more diffusing of Category:Sports in Louisville, Kentucky to more thoroughly cover various types of sporting activities.
 * Create more Louisville metropolitan area-related categories where feasible (e.g., Transportation, Economy and "Companies based in..."). Perhaps have "Companies based in..." categories for nearby Indiana counties/cities.

Image creation and placement
Louisville area-related articles, like all Wikipedia articles, need photos and other images for illustrative purposes, and many of our articles lack them.

Following are suggestions for needed images:
 * Requested photographs in:
 * All Louisville area
 * Louisville, Kentucky
 * Henry County, Kentucky
 * Clark County, Indiana
 * Floyd County, Indiana
 * Harrison County, Indiana
 * All lists and other articles in the National Register of Historic Places in the Louisville metropolitan area category tree. Many items in the lists don't have articles yet but need images anyway (e.g., National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Kentucky).

Louisville disambiguation
On a regular basis, editors use the link Louisville when they really mean to use University of Louisville or Louisville (or a link to Louisville Cardinals or a more specific Cardinals sports program). This is corrected by changing the link to the most accurate article per the context.


 * —Use this to find instances to disambiguate.

Main article focus
Louisville, Kentucky is arguably the most important article we will work on, as it gives the first impression to many about our metro area, and it's the gateway to many other Louisville area-related articles. Following are related tasks:
 * Keep the article as compact as possible, moving as much details into sub-articles as is reasonable.
 * Add more citations where needed. The article currently has too few references, especially in particular sections.
 * Bring the article back to good status, and ultimately, featured status.
 * Address items in its to do list:

Neighborhoods initiative
Neighborhoods are key to explaining the Louisville area, especially Louisville itself. Their geographical connections to encyclopedic subjects (articles), and their locations relative to each other is important to document. Here are tasks necessary to complete:
 * Ensure all neighborhood articles contain the Adjacent communities navigation template.
 * Create categories for Louisville neighborhoods which could contain 10 or more articles as a rule of thumb. Some of these categories (e.g., The Highlands, Louisville and Downtown Louisville) will likely contain subcategories. Ensure that historic properties are categorized this way as a priority.
 * Other possible changes to discuss the Louisville area in the context of ts neighborhoods.

Priority articles
Priority articles are articles our project is currently targeting to take to good or featured status. Only top or high-importance articles with a GA-class (good), B-class or C-class quality are included.

See our compiled list of priority articles (as of ).

Template development

 * Improve Universities and colleges in the Louisville metro area to break down universities/colleges by category within the template; see discussion.
 * Develop new Louisville area-related infoboxes and navigational templates where currently lacking.

Meta project tasks
In addition to tasks related to work on our project's included pages in the Wikipedia (such as articles), we have tasks related to maintaining and enhancing the project itself, which means its pages and any tools within.

Watchall maintenance for Change patrol
Our Watchall page (technically now Watchall2) contains the complete list of pages included in our project along with their corresponding talk pages. This page is used in Change patrol, where Wikipedia's Recent changes tool is used to see recent changes to pages linked in the Watchall, and that can be used to police vandalism or otherwise review changes. The Watchall is updated daily by a bot due to the continual churn of new pages being added to the project, pages being deleted from the project, and pages being renamed (moved).

Higher priority

 * Improve the project's appearance on mobile web browsers.
 * Articles requested for creation:
 * Go through all the red links on Louisville's main article and major subarticles and add them to this page.
 * Weight article ideas perhaps using the Encyclopedia of Louisville as a guide (best for topics notable in the 20th century and earlier).
 * Figure out ways to encourage the creation of stubs (at the very least) for listed articles.
 * Figure out if there is a way to show who created the articles in our Nursery and if so, whether it would be beneficial to the project.
 * Maybe show the latest articles/pages included no matter their age in a format easier to grasp than the assessment log.
 * Start tracking project milestones (see how WP Military history does it).
 * Find a way to better show which articles need maps, infoboxes and images. Include instructions on how to request them for a specific article.
 * Maybe expand upon the current "Project Articles Needing Action" approach for prioritizing project work (e.g., collaboration of the week, top ten lists).
 * Maybe create project content focused on new Wikipedia users but oriented to working for this WikiProject.
 * Maybe show the top ten popular articles on the front page, either carved out from the previous month's list or freshly generated from the past week.
 * Add more outreach ideas to "Participation and outreach" such as tips on how to encourage people to get involved as well as ways to highlight our achievements and notable goings-on with our included subjects.

Lower priority
The following should await increased participation returning to the project:
 * Articles requested for creation:
 * Provide a way to vote on which articles should be created next.
 * Maybe create a list of users who have fulfilled requests, along with a leader board.
 * Maybe have a task force for University of Louisville-related articles. It would get its own project page and potentially its own barnstar and ad.
 * Maybe establish a "Photography" or "Imageworks" department focusing on making/taking the best pictures, the process for uploading them and inserting them into articles, and keeping track of where they are needed. We could even use this department as a platform for showing off the best images in use in our project's articles. Perhaps this could be coordinated somehow with Wikimedia Commons.
 * Create a prospectus to list subjects covered in major works about the Louisville area (e.g., The Encyclopedia of Louisville). Other WikiProjects have done this already. List the subjects alphabetically, linking them to existing articles if they already exist. If it's a direct match, link the subject itself (with a pipe if necessary); if partial, list the link beside it. In parentheses, list the works the subject is found in. Examples:
 * Direct match: Subject (EncLou)
 * Partial match: Subject (EncLou) – Article related to Subject