Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland

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WikiProject Poland / Poland-related Wikipedia notice board

This project is designed to gather Wikipedians interested in Poland-related content, tools designed to help them, and offer a centralized place for relevant announcements and discussions. If that sounds useful or fun, please watchlist this page and add your name to the participants list below.

'''This project prefers the English language. Please see the talk page for the noticeboard and ongoing discussions.'''

Our articles
We take care of the tens of thousands of articles, about 88,000 at last count – that's close to 2% of all articles on the English Wikipedia! Here is a breakdown by quality and importance:

You are welcome to add more articles we missed to our project, and assess them. See for how to add articles to that list, WikiProject Poland/Assessment for information on assessment, and WikiProject Poland/Reviews for current requests for a B-class review.

High quality
This is a list of our Featured, Good, DYK and ITN content.

Most popular
Most popular (number of visits) Poland-related articles are here.

Our Portal
You can visit our Portal:Poland.

Naming conventions
For guidelines on article naming and style, see the Manual of Style (Poland-related articles) page (shortcut WP:MOSPOL).

Image copyright guide
If you want to upload a possibly public-domain Polish image, see here for a guide on what is in the public domain, and which license templates to use.

Articles in need of improvement
Articles tagged with various issues are listed in a sortable list at here (the on-wiki listing is no longer actively maintained). As of December 2010, 12570 or 18.7% were marked for cleanup. As of September 2012 that grew to 14790 or 20.3 % of (the also growing) total.

A frequently updated list of unreferenced biographies of living persons is here. As of September 2011, we have eliminated the backlog there, and as of September 2012, the list usually has between 0 to 2 articles. Adding referencing to living person bios is one of Wikipedia's priorities.

Article alerts

 * Generic Poland-related


 * Polish military history

Deletions
While deletions should also be available in the article news feed, you can also check and watchlist this dedicated page: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland

New articles announcements
Newly created Poland-related articles are announced here (that page can be watchlisted). Click here for archival entries

Templates

 * Template:WikiProject Poland (short: WPPOLAND, full syntax: ) is our assessment template. Please add it to the talk pages of all Poland-related articles, it is a key template that enables the article to be included in our article news, popularity ranking, project watchlist deletion discussion notifications the nifty quality and importance tables we have at the top of this page and other tools.
 * Use lang for Polish words or phrases, thus: Gmina Świnice Warckie will produce Gmina Świnice Warckie
 * The IPAc-pl template can be used to produce representations of Polish pronunciation.
 * When marking sources in Polish language, use In lang to produce
 * There is also a Portal:Poland/Welcome message box that can be used to notify new users about this noticeboard and our related projects. Just slap  --~  on their usertalkpage – it has its own heading.
 * use Wikiquotelang to link Polish language wikiquote pages (often found on Polish Wikipedia articles). The full syntax is (yes, it seems you need to use the article's name twice), for example
 * use Wikisourcelang just like Wikiquotelang above but for linking to Polish Wikisource articles.
 * Various other, less used templates are listed at Category:Poland templates

Userboxes
Please note we have three functioning userboxes:

You may also want to check the following userboxes:

You can also declare your knowledge of the Polish language with the WP:BABEL templates, such as: For non-native speakers of Polish, just use User pl-1 (beginner) to pl-5 (professional)

Awards
In the spirit of kindness and recognition we strongly encourage the use of the following barnstars, awards and assorted goodies:

See also pl:Wikipedia:Odznaczenia Wikipedii for other awards designed on Polish Wikipedia!

We also encourage the use of other awards for non-Poland specific contributions to Wikipedia!

Other tools

 * Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Poland – the top edits to articles that have talk pages transcluding
 * As part of the WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/biographies project, we have the list of Poles from the Polish Biographical Dictionary.
 * WikiProject Intertranswiki/Polish – WikiProject Intertranswiki Polish, a collaborative effort to improve English Wikipedia by importing and translating content from Polish Wikipedia
 * Newsletter
 * Are they stubs? Articles in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Stub-class without stub tags and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Stub-tagged but not stub-class need reviewing
 * Are they B-class? We are providing small reviews for all B-class articles. See WikiProject Poland/Reviews for outstanding review requests. Check Category:Poland articles with an incomplete B-Class checklist for an article missing a review, assess whether it is a B-class or not, and leave a note on its talk page. It is quite simple, see an example.
 * Polish Wikipedia has a guide on the notability of the Polish noble families

Historical (no longer actively maintained):
 * Polish Collaboration of the Week
 * The WikiProject Poland/to do

Related WikiProjects
Active:
 * WikiProject Countries (parent)
 * WikiProject Eastern Europe (region)

Semi-active:
 * WikiProject Military history/Polish military history task force (military history)

Former:
 * WikiProject History of Poland (history; inactive)
 * WikiProject Geography of Poland (geography; inactive)
 * WikiProject European history/Polish history task force (history)