Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City



WikiProject New York City is a project to better organize information in articles related to New York City. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all. To help, please inquire on the discussion page and see the to-do list there.

Some suggestions for NYC-specific sources can be found at /Sources.

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Cities, and WikiProject United States whose relevance is somewhat limited vis-a-vis documenting a single very large city and the many communities within it. At a state level, the parent of this project is WikiProject New York (state).

Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject are:
 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation
 * WikiProject New York City/Theatre
 * WikiProject Chinese in New York City
 * WikiProject Columbia University
 * WikiProject City University of New York

Task Forces

 * 400th Anniversary Task Force
 * Environment of New York City Task Force
 * Housing and Tenant Rights Task Force

Members
Anyone who is interested in improving any New York City-related articles can join this project. Please feel free to add your name to the project here.

Naming conventions

 * subway stations - see the subway WikiProject

Goals
Tentative:
 * 1) Standardization, building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles.
 * 2) Standardization of articles relating to the New York City Subway.

General strategy and discussion forums

 * WT:NYC

Article assessment
In an effort to assess NYC articles for possible inclusion in 1.0, an assessment page was started for this project. Details about how to assess an article and how to request an assessment are on the /Assessment page. Information on articles is tabulated by a bot, resulting in a worklist and the table we see at the right.

Templates

 * NYC-stub for use at stubby NYC-related articles.


 * NYC-struct-stub for use at New York City building and structure stubs.


 * NYC-transport-stub for New York City transportation stubs.


 * NewYork-geo-stub, for stubs relating to the geography of NY State in general (including the city).


 * Bronx-geo-stub, BrooklynNY-geo-stub, Manhattan-geo-stub, QueensNY-geo-stub, StatenIsland-geo-stub. New York City geography stubs are being sorted into categories by county if possible, following this pattern. See Category:New York City geography stubs for a full list of new stub templates.




 * Project Banner, WikiProject New York City, with shortcut WPNYC. To be placed on article talk pages.

Userboxen, WP:NYC/userbox, User WPNYC or User:Roosterrulez/Wikiproject New York City. If they wish, users may add a userbox to their userpage to identify themselves as members of this Wikiproject. Adding the userbox will automatically add your userpage to Category:WikiProject New York City participants.

Requested photos
If you have an article about a NYC subject that needs a photo, and you think one of our members may be able to take that photo themselves, add a request to the list of wanted photos here. Note that this is not for all NYC articles needing photos, but requests that need someone local who may be able to take the picture.

Collaboration of the Month
Starting in June 2021, WikiProject New York City and Wikimedia New York City have selected articles or topics for focused monthly collaborations. Learn more about past outcomes and suggest future topics at the monthly collaboration page.

The collaboration for February 2023 is: Anthony Janszoon van Salee

Similar WikiProjects
Other WikiProjects covering individual cities can be a good source of mutual inspiration: