Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland-related articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 8 | 8 | |||||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
A | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
GA | 1 | 5 | 11 | 39 | 8 | 64 | |
B | 15 | 34 | 58 | 125 | 188 | 420 | |
C | 14 | 46 | 128 | 538 | 564 | 1,290 | |
Start | 8 | 63 | 214 | 2,148 | 3,794 | 6,227 | |
Stub | 5 | 52 | 1,771 | 4,375 | 6,203 | ||
List | 2 | 9 | 132 | 166 | 196 | 505 | |
Category | 1 | 4 | 4,922 | 4,927 | |||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 42 | 44 | |||
File | 31 | 31 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 1 | 22 | 23 | ||||
Template | 2 | 16 | 272 | 290 | |||
NA | 1 | 6 | 68 | 515 | 590 | ||
Other | 22 | 22 | |||||
Assessed | 40 | 165 | 606 | 4,885 | 5,827 | 9,125 | 20,648 |
Unassessed | 115 | 115 | |||||
Total | 40 | 165 | 606 | 4,885 | 5,827 | 9,240 | 20,763 |
WikiWork factors(?) | ω =74,903 | Ω =5.27 |
Welcome to WikiProject Northern Ireland!
Thisprojectexists to better organize information in articles related toNorthern Ireland.This page and its subpages exist to help us collaborate and share ideas related to improving Northern Ireland-related content. If you would like to help, please inquire on thetalk pageand see theto-do listthere.
Scope & Motivation[edit]
The vast majority of this project was unashamedly ripped from another project:Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles,and thecreatorof this project extends recognition for the tireless work involved in formatting, text, policy and many other aspects byKingboyk,Larand himself.
For more information on WikiProjects, please seeWikipedia:WikiProjectsandWikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to Northern Ireland, and to help with the creation of needed articles. It aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Northern Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the mainNorthern Irelandarticle tofeatured status,whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of theNorthern Ireland Portal.
- One of the greatest aids in this project for assessment and improving of articles, are theWP 1.0 botlogs found hereWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Northern Ireland-related articles by quality statistics.Please take a look at the entries there as it will guide you on which articles need to be assessed, and will also guide you as to what might be necessary to improve individual articles.
Articles and categories relating to Northern Ireland are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do" s.
Recent developments[edit]
- The Troubles discussion page.Not particularly recent, but its not something many people have been made aware of. The only references to it are on an archived deletion discussion and a user page.
- Belfasthas been successful as theWikipedia:WikiProject UK geography's collaboration of the month. For anyone who's interested in helping to get the article up to FAC standard, there are many resources and aguideavailable on the UK Geography Project page.
- ThisNorthern Ireland Projectis currently being re-vamped in line with theBelfastone
Article alerts[edit]
Categories for discussion
- 05 Jul 2024 –Category:Historic buildings and structures in Northern Ireland(talk·edit·hist)was CfDed byRevelationDirect(t·c);seediscussion
Redirects for discussion
- 07 Jul 2024 –Harry Patterson(talk·edit·hist)→Jack Higginswas RfDed byBD2412(t·c);seediscussion
Good article nominees
- 07 Aug 2023 –2022 Northern Ireland Open(talk·edit·hist)was GA nominated byLee Vilenski(t·c);seediscussion
Featured article reviews
- 07 Jul 2024 –1981 Irish hunger strike(talk·edit·hist)was put up for FA review bySchroCat(t·c);seediscussion
Requests for comments
- 04 Jul 2024 –Thomas Niedermayer(talk·edit·hist)has an RfC by78.147.140.112(t·c);seediscussion
Articles to be merged
- 12 Jun 2024 –EWAY(talk·edit·hist)is proposed for merging toCITI BelfastbyFork99(t·c);seediscussion
- 16 Apr 2024 –Northern Ireland flags issue(talk·edit·hist)is proposed for merging toFlag of Northern IrelandbyChampion(t·c);seediscussion
- 09 Mar 2024 –Stakeknife(talk·edit·hist)is proposed for merging toFreddie ScappaticcibyTGcoa(t·c);seediscussion
Articles for creation
- 07 Jul 2024 –Draft:Redbrae Massacre(talk·edit·hist)has been submitted for AfC bySharkzy(t·c)
- 01 Jul 2024 –Draft:Anna Kernahan(talk·edit·hist)has been submitted for AfC byMountSnake87(t·c)
- 28 May 2024 –Draft:Graffiti in Northern Ireland(talk·edit·hist)has been submitted for AfC byDr Ulster(t·c)
- 16 May 2024 –Draft:Northern Ireland Bureau(talk·edit·hist)has been submitted for AfC byPermaximumLumen(t·c)
- 23 Mar 2024 –Draft:Mid-Ulster English(talk·edit·hist)has been submitted for AfC byThat Northern Irish Historian(t·c)
- 16 Mar 2024 –Draft:Together UK Foundation(talk·edit·hist)has been submitted for AfC byTheHandsomeHistorian(t·c)
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Participants[edit]
Active participants[edit]
To join WikiProject Northern Ireland, edit this section and add theWikitext#{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also placeparticipant identificationon their user page.
- Ardfern
- Traditional unionist
- Fribbler
- Gr8opinionater
- Mooretwin(talk)09:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Fattonyni
- Mabuska(talk)11:57, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Pollack man
- Irockz
- GibCat
- samillar94
- Johannes (newby)
- Beginning
- Demonguy1990
- Maniasophy
- 1TWO3Writer
- Mspence835(talk·contribs) 23:23:31, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Former participants[edit]
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- theKeith
- Ben W Bell
- Coolhawks88
- Dicdoc
- B. M. L. PetersTransitioned to WikiProject UK
Participant identification[edit]
WikiProject Northern Ireland participants should place one of the following lines ofWikitexton theiruser pageto add it toCategory:WikiProject Northern Ireland participants.
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[[Category:WikiProject Northern Ireland participants]] | none | linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WP Northern Ireland}}
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For other Northern Ireland user templates seeCategory:Northern Ireland user templates.
Tasks[edit]
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this projectis available. See alsothe tool's wiki pageandthe index of WikiProjects.
- Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Northern Irish related edits in the past
- Fix templates to talk pages
- Construct/Article Classificationby following the category 'tree'
- Assess articles at/Article Classification
- Add images to articles inCategory:Wikipedia requested photographs in Northern Ireland
Major pending tasks[edit]
- Modify WPNI template so that it follows the hierarchy structure found inWikipedia:WikiProject Australia.
- Update all{{infobox Northern Ireland place}}templates to use include the new mapping function.
- Add the new{{WPNI}}template to all Northern Ireland-related articles' talk pages.
- N.B. - please do notsubstitutethe template, as any future changes to the template will not be updated automatically. On top of this, a substituted inclusion will not appear on thelist of linksthat provides a gauge for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages).
- Add new{{Northern Ireland history}}navigational template to the top of all Northern Ireland-history related articles.
- Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - seeWikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Missing articles
- Insert templates on talk pages of Northern Ireland-related articles referring to new MOS (yet to be created) page.
- Create project space Manual of Style article and template.
- Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as perWP:WPF)
- Implement a "Series on Northern Ireland" template along the lines of{{Christianity}}
Manual of Style (conventions)[edit]
Policies[edit]
For geographic articles, project contributors developed thisinterpretationof the policy onWhat Wikipedia is notand the guidelines forstyleandnotability.
The Troubles in location x[edit]
Coverage of the Troubles on locality pages should be in proportion to the history of that place, i.e. a page on a 500 year old town should not have half its content on the Troubles. Where this does occur, the Troubles history should be reduced to an appropriate length and the remaining content moved to the appropriate 'The Troubles in...' page (The Troubles in Dungiven,The Troubles in Newry,etc.).
On 'The Troubles in...' pages, events are notable and should be included if:
1. Two or more people were killed
2. The event was the first of its kind (first attributed to a particular group, first bombing death etc.); first killing of a particular kind of person (first RUC officer killed, first republican paramilitary etc.); or is otherwise a significant 'first' in the Troubles as a whole - NOT just in that particular area.
3. The victim was inherently notable in his/her own right (i.e. worthy of a page of their own).
4. The event had a significant effect - i.e. directly led to a breakthrough in or breakdown of the peace process etc.
A series of relatively minor events can be included if they had significant impact on the area. For example individual arson attacks are not normally notable, but an apparent arson campaign which drives most of the local Catholics/Protestants out of an area is. The campaign (as opposed to individual attacks) and its effects must be properly documented and sourced. Likewise, a series of individual killings, for example theShankill Butchersmurders, may be included if the killings as a group were demonstrably notable.
Where possible, the total number of Troubles-related deaths should also be included, broken down into faction responsible and other relevant divisions.
Creation of articles[edit]
Done
- Stub templates- Created two stub templates for articles in WikiProject Belfast. There is a {{Template:Belfast-stub}} (for general Belfast-related articles) and a {{Template:Belfast-geo-stub}} (for Belfast geographical stubs).<font= "center" color= "#FFFFFF" >KeithologyTalk!10:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Counties of Northern Ireland- I noticed this article wasn't yet created, and it is a rather large one in terms of importance in my opinion. Got cracking and there's the outcome. --Dom080314:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- Interface area- just created this. Would appreciate help expanding it.Cordless Larry(talk)23:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
To do
- To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
- To improve the standard of articles relating to Northern Ireland in general.
- To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistency throughout.
- To examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and to determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.
- Expand the sub-articles relating to theBelfast postal districts,which should all be cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district.
- Continue maintenance ofNorthern Ireland Portal.
- Continue rollout ofTemplate:Infobox UK placeto replace Irish infobox perWP:UKCITIES
Categories[edit]
Done
To do
- Locate non-categorised Northern Irish schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.
Subpages[edit]
- List ofall subpages of this page
Useful categories[edit]
The topics within the following Belfast and Northern Ireland-related categories can be added to the encyclopaedic outlines, calledList of Northern Ireland–related topicsandOutline of Northern Ireland,which are part ofCategory:Outlines of countries.
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WikiProject categories[edit]
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Substance[edit]
Done
To do
- The mainBelfastarticle needs to achievefeatured status.
- Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
- All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
Tagged with WPNI template[edit]
For a complete list of the progress of categories that have been manually searched and from which articles have been tagged with the project template, seeWikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/WPNI tagging progress.
Photographs[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has a wide range of Northern Ireland-related photographs which can all be used freely to accompany articles in Wikipedia. See:
- Media related toNorthern Irelandat Wikimedia Commons
If you have any Northern Ireland-related photographs you could load them up to Wikimedia Commons for all to use.
Adopt an article[edit]
Similar to theCollaboration of the week,but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- Example article:User:Example
Lists[edit]
WikiProject Deletion sorting[edit]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sortingis a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Northern Irish articles-related articles at VFD are listed atWikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Northern Ireland.
Popular pages[edit]
Requests[edit]
I'd like to request help on aSport in Derry CityorSport in County Londonderrypage. If you are interested in assisting, leave me a message on my talk page.Ryannus00:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I've added the WPNI to two articles I am currently editing because they have a strong connection to Northern Ireland. If anyone would like to examine these and see if they have any advice to offer I would appreciate it. They are8th King's Royal Irish HussarsandQueen's Royal Irish Hussars.GDD1000(talk)12:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia should not be biased towards one section of the community So seeing how Londonderry is the only official name of the city of Londonderry, the article should be called this. The High Court ruled that this is the only name of the City And until the name of the City is legally changed, wikipedia should only use official Names. Why not call the Mumbai article Bombay? Most citizens of Mumbai still call their city Bombay, but as the official name is Mumbai, the article is called this. So 'Derry' surely must be called Londonderry!
- Unbongo - without taking a side, I only want to point out that this is a long-running dispute in Wikipedia.Derry's talk pagehas plenty of it. Avotewas taken in 2005 to propose the article be renamed Londonderry/Derry, which failed. Then anothervotewas taken in 2007 to move it to Londonderry, and the result was no consensus. This is not to take a side, but just to let you know that this is a discussion which has spanned many years. If you'd like to get involved, I'd recommend doing so on the Derry talk page... but I warn you that there will be a long stewing pot of drama there.FlyingToaster22:09, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Disused railway stations in Northern Ireland[edit]
I'd like to request help adding latitude/longitude coordinates to the following articles on disused railway stations in Northern Ireland:
Abohill railway stationAghadowey railway stationAnnaghloughlan railway stationAnnaghmore railway stationAnnakeera Crossing railway stationArmagh railway stationArmoy railway stationAshfield Halt railway stationBarn railway stationBleach Green railway stationEden railway stationKilroot railway stationMount railway stationTemplepatrick railway station
--The Anome(talk) 23:46, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Done-- thank you! --The Anome(talk)16:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Disused railway stations in Northern Ireland, again[edit]
Thanks for your help with the railway stations above! I've now got a much longer list of stations that are missing coordinates, which you can find atUser:The Anome/Disused and heritage UK railway stations still lacking coordinates.I'd greatly appreciate any help projrct members can give to locating these. --The Anome(talk)16:44, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Healing Through Remembering[edit]
Hi there, the organisation above has recently had a page created for it, the content of which is of relevance to NI. Perhaps you could have a look, and consider assiting in the creation of the page
many thanks
would you mind also having a look at theDay of Private Reflectionpage
Structure[edit]
Parentage[edit]
This project is categorized underCategory:Northern Europe WikiProjectsandCategory:Western Europe WikiProjects.
Parent of this WikiProject isWikiProject Ireland.
Sister projects would beWikipedia:WikiProject UK geographyandWikipedia:WikiProject Irish literature.
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- WikiProject UK geography
- WikiProject Football/Ireland task force
- Wikipedia:British Isles Terminology task force
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- Main tool page:toolserver.org
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- Checklinks- Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver- Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer- Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.