Wikipedia:WikiProject Prince Edward Island

[[Image:Nuvola apps kpdf.png|20px|Introduction]]Introduction
This WikiProject aims to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information in an established, community-driven, Wikipedia standard for the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and its related articles, such as cities, geography, transport, culture, education, history &c. The importance of these articles for new users, researchers, students, and educators, in the pursuit of accumulated knowledge will be accomplished through our efforts in providing a consistent format and standard to our articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to participate, please follow the instruction on the to do list.

Help
We need your help! If you are a resident, expat, or have some knowledge about Prince Edward Island or a related article, YOU can:

[[Image:Nuvola apps edu miscellaneous.png|20px]]Structure
Please use Banners, Templates (with rankings), Categories and User boxes.

For general guidance on article structure
 * 1) always start articles with a standardized template; see Infobox template
 * 2) create the relevant sections in the article
 * 3) add a photo
 * 4) below any See also and External links sections, insert (don't subst!) the appropriate navigation bar
 * 5) below the navigation bar, if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
 * 6) * PrinceEdwardIsland-school-stub
 * 7) * PrinceEdwardIsland-geo-stub
 * 8) * PrinceEdwardIsland-politician-stub
 * 9) * PrinceEdwardIsland-bio-stub
 * 10) * PrinceEdwardIsland-road-stub
 * 11) * PrinceEdwardIsland-stub
 * 12) lastly, at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
 * 13) on the very top of the article's talk page, use the template     For more information and categories: Wikiproject Canada Template
 * 14) Create an article introduction which summarizes the content of the whole article, and every section.

[[Image:Gnome-fs-blockdev.svg|20px|Wikiproject Prince Edward Island pages]]For Wikiproject Prince Edward Island pages
Prince Edward Island articles are rated via the article's talk page template used in this manner:  
 * Please check the Wikiproject Canada Template directly when adding the PEI WP template to the talk page of PEI articles, to add any related work groups such as cangov, ppap, riding, canlaw, education, tvshow, music, road!
 * For articles needing photos to improve the quality use the banner.

Nuvola apps edu languages.svg Templates

 * See WikiProject Prince Edward Island/Templates

Try to add a Prince Edward Island Canadian Template to each article. Where one of the above is not available use a generic topic template.
 * All settlements in Prince Edward Island should use Infobox Settlement. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Prince Edward Island  and to settlements in the other parts of Canada like Toronto, Montreal, St. John's, and Edmonton.  The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc.  Infobox Settlement also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Prince Edward Island.
 * for example use the infobox road template for your new Prince Edward Island Road article creations.

[[Image:Nuvola devices print class.png|20px|Tips]] Tips
'''To get an article to featured article status, make sure to follow these steps to ensure all articles we submit to Featured article candidates meet the FA criteria. All of these apply to almost any good article, so keep them in mind when editing even outside of Prince Edward Island articles. The suggestions are:'''

[[Image:Nuvola apps kate.png|20px|To do]] To do
1.  Expand articles listed in:

1a. *Category:Prince Edward Island stubs

1b. *Category:Prince Edward Island geography stubs

2. Organize list structure and add to list of needed articles:

2a.*WikiProject Prince Edward Island/Article requests

3. Check for and do needed articles at:

3a.*WikiProject Prince Edward Island/Article requests

3b. Establish collaborations and improvements for Prince Edward Island related articles

4. Photo Requests.

5. Map Requests Use on talk page of articles needing maps which will list maps needed at: Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Prince Edward Island. As an alternative to a map use the decimal version of Coordinates: 52°8'25"N  106°34'17"W and place such into this formula; for example this code  at

6. Update census demographic information to the 2006 Census version on community pages and remove. This is a template for this; just modify the appropriate variables for the community profile in question.

7. Review existing assessment of articles and reassess following Assessment guidelines. Clarify assessment criteria at Assessment guidelines

8. Place banners on talk pages and rate Prince Edward Island articles via the banner placed upon the article's talk page template this way:   For more information see the Prince Edward Island wikiproject Assessment page.

9. Articles which contain the word Prince Edward Island or are Prince Edward Island related which have error template tags on them. To Do listing Please clean up articles, remove tag, and remove from both lists on page.

10. Here are some of the many PEI categories (drill to sub and parent categories as well) where you can look for untagged articles and articles to expand:

Category Tree

 * [+] Prince Edward Island - Articles which are stubs
 * [+] Prince Edward Island - Articles finished or categories

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px|Featured Content]] Featured Content
Moved this section to the new Assessment page!

Did you know?
If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created or substantially expanded article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.|

Recognition and awards
Awards and Barnstars: To award a WikiProject Prince Edward Islandn Barnstar add to the user's talk page.


 * (Where type=red, type=silver, or type=gold)

Resources
The following sources obtainable from subscription databanks for the periods indicate contain information relevant to this project. The specific material may be in citation, abstract, or full text format. To obtain information, send me an e-mail indicating the e-mail address to send to, as well as either the specific subject or the titles and dates requested, and I will forward what I find. John Carter (talk) 19:52, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Acadiana, Inc. (1985)
 * Acadiensis (2000-on)
 * Arts Atlantic (1989-2004)
 * Atlantic Advocate (1988-1992)
 * Atlantic Books Today (2001-on)
 * Atlantic Business (1985-1989)
 * Atlantic Business Magazine (2000-2001)
 * Atlantic Geology (2000-on)
 * Atlantic Insight (1988-1989)
 * Atlantic Provinces Book Review (1982-1992)
 * Atlantic Report (2000-on)

Parent project:

 * WikiProject Canada

Overlapping WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
 * WikiProject Endangered languages
 * Wikipedians for Local History
 * WikiProject Rivers
 * WikiProject Lakes
 * WikiProject Trains
 * WikiProject Biography
 * WikiProject Sports
 * Wikiproject City

[[Image:Gtk-redo-ltr.svg|20px|See also]] See also

 * Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Prince Edward Island
 * Portal:Canada
 * Category:Prince Edward Island

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.