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

Contents

Goals

Scope

  • The project covers all articles that are (or contain) lists. That includes those that are intended to aid in navigation through Wikipedia, and all articles whose intent is to gather disparate articles and info into useful groups.

Guidelines

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 Wikipedia: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.


List articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
Featured list FL 2 7 49 537 7 602
List 7 34 322 4,555 7 2,931 7,856
Category 440 440
Disambig 3 3
File 1 1
Portal 2 2
Project 24 24
Redirect 89 89
Template 1,512 1,512
NA 1 1
Assessed 9 42 371 5,092 2,078 2,938 10,530
Unassessed 19 1,515 1,534
Total 9 42 371 5,111 2,078 4,453 12,064


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 Wikipedia:Contents.

Articles

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:

Article alerts

Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
Categories for discussion
Templates for discussion
(1 more...)
Featured list candidates
(7 more...)
A-Class review
Featured list removal candidates
Requests for comments
Peer reviews
Requested moves

Incomplete lists

See also: Category:Incomplete lists.

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

Some lists, however, are either not yet fully filled out or are difficult to keep current because the list is constantly changing. These are both referred to as incomplete lists. It's important that our readers understand that these lists should not be considered complete, or even representative of the class of items being listed. As such, we recommend inserting the {{Expand list}} tag either before or after any incomplete list. Provided, some lists may not be able to be fully complete, e.g. the list of numbers, but you may also add explanation where necessary such as that put at the top of the list of numbers.

It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it closer, if not to completion, then 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 it, and so 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.

Templates

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:List notification templates

Project

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

{{WikiProject Lists|class=list|importance=}}

which produces the following box:

WikiProject Lists  
WikiProject icon
Portal icon Lists portal
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
 ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.
 ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
 

and includes the article in the project.


Requests for article improvement

Below are a couple 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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
8thNote.svgThis list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Video-x-generic.svg This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
HD Television.svg This television-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
 The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for stand-alone lists. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "WikiProject Lists" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images
This list has no precise inclusion criteria as described in the Manual of Style for standalone lists. Please help by adding inclusion criteria.


Navbox

{{List navbox}} <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.
(Discuss the List navbox Template)
Style
Content
Philosophy
Existing lists
Templates
Technical assistance

Userbox

User WPLISTS
Text-x-generic.svg This user is a participant of WikiProject Lists.

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

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

[[Category:WikiProject Lists participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

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

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.

Text-x-generic.svg This is a stand-alone list that meets list notability criteria. Please only add items that meet the selection criteria established in the lead.

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