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This page can be used to gauge support for potential WikiProjects before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page.

Proposing a project 
To propose a project, write a brief description, and add it along with your name to the list below (in alphabetical order by topic). Some boilerplate you can use:
== Name of project ==

; Description : [description here]

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [your name here]

; Comments
Expressing interest
If you're interested in any of the projects listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list and start contributing to the relevant articles.
Creating a project
If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects.
Requesting a project
There may be cases where you believe that there is a pronounced need for the creation of a project which does not yet exist which you may not personally feel qualified to join. Some examples might be certain countries, disciplines, etc. In the event you are aware of such a situation, please add the relevant name to the list of projects below and see if there are any individuals interested in creating such a project.

Contents

[edit] Admin Oversight Board

Description - To try to determine if it is feasible to create a board of administrators and non-administrators, possibly with wikipedia bureaucrats and staff as well, which could act in a judicial capacity to review behavior of administrators, specifically regarding the propriety of their actions, and how such a board could be specifically constituted. The existence of such a board composed of respected non-administrators and administrators alike may be sufficient to forestall questioning of whether a decision made by it is truly fair and independent, as opposed to being a group of administrators who might be seen as acting to reduce the possibility of being sanctioned for similar actions of their own. It also might be sufficient to preempt the possibility of disaffected editors from going so far as to bring civil complaints against wikipedia as an entity or against individual administrators in particular.

Temporary Project Page: User:Badbilltucker/Admin Oversight Board

Interested wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comments:

  • You might want to get some more feedback about this, even if others gain interest in the project. Maybe a note about this idea should be left on WP:AN? -- Ned Scott 10:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Africa

Description WikiProject Africa would be dedicated to improving the African related articles, such as, country pages and history pages, which are among the most lowely rated country pages. Wikiproject Africa will also address diputes over controversiel topics, for exapmle Ivory Coast vs. Cote-d'Ivoire. I am relatively new to Wikipedia and could use help setting up the temporary page and templates among other things that I am ignorant of. XYZ CrVo 02:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary Project Page: User:XYZ CrVo/WikiProject Africa

User: XYZ CrVo

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested) :

  • Badbilltucker 01:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - will probably help primarily in the assessment area.

Comments:

  • One noteworthy difference with this proposal is that, according to the project page, it expects to engage in assessments, which are generally not done on most of the articles in the Africa category. I too expect that editors would only work on articles within their own sphere of expertise. However, it may well be that one or more editors may be knowledgable in more than one field. Certainly, that is the case in the United States, where several editors work on articles from a variety of states, myself among them (Missouri and South Dakota, both of which I have resided in.) Also, the creation of one umbrella project does not rule out the creation of smaller projects later. In fact, if successful, it would probably make the subprojects more likely than they would otherwise be. Badbilltucker 01:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Australian maritime history

Description : as a sister project to Australian History project - to consolidate and link an array of articles that relate to ships, shipping companies, port histories and many other subjects that exist within Australian maritime history. It would be in tandem in with the Australian history project - but would also co-ordinate the creation of systematic appraisals of coastal shipping, ports, ships and conditions over the Australian history time range.

Temporary Project Page
None for now, although a sandbox is here.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Comments:

As a subcategory of Australian History, it should be a 'child' project to WikiProject Australian history structurally. Just as the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history is a child of WikiProject History. SauliH 15:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Austria

Description: This is to improve articles on Austria through an article improvement drive, translation from the German Wikipedia and an Article research drive for non existing articles and stubs.

Temporary Page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Austria

User:

Interested Wikipedians

[edit] Ballet

Description: WikiProject Ballet aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of ballet-related topics. We would like to bring the main Ballet article up to GA or FA status, clean up the articles important to ballet, and create many much-needed articles which (surprisingly) do not yet exist.

Temporary project page: User:Editor at Large/WikiProject Ballet

Users: Editor at Large and Keitei

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. Editor at Large (talk • contribs)
  2. Keitei (talk • contribs)
  3. Emmegan (talk • contribs)
  4. Ghirlandajo (talk • contribs)
  5. bibliomaniac15 (talk • contribs)--don't expect me to be too commited, I can do research on the music and CUPS editing.
Comments

If there aren't any objections, I'd like to move this wikiproject and its subpages into Wikipedia space. It's fairly finalized, has support, and I'd like to get right to the actual improvement of articles. :] --Keitei (talk) 17:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. We can bring it to the attention of more people as we progress. — Editor at Large(speak) 20:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Clearly, you are free to do so. Personally, for what it's worth, I might place a banner on a few of the most important or frequented articles right now, and wait until two or more people join. Four is a good number to start with, but you might want a few more than that do ensure that the project can start off running. Badbilltucker 20:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions! We have begun this already, and are trying to add our banner to the talk pages of the articles we edit from now on. Hopefully we'll be able to recruit a few more people to ensure we can expand and reach our goals! — Editor at Large(speak) 04:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBC Sitcoms

Description: This project aims to improve articles on all BBC sitcoms (well known and unknown) and also create smaller WikiProjects about specific sitcoms. This includes write plots for episodes of more well known sitcoms and improving and create pages on the characters starring in the sitcoms and even creating main pages on sitcoms.

Please post any comments on the following talk page. Mollsmolyneux's talk

Temporary project page: User:Mollsmolyneux/BBC Sitcoms

User: Mollsmolyneux 14:15, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.

Comments: Great idea, I've always wanted to see shows like Bottom, the Young Ones, My Hero etc. have more articles.

There already is an existing Wikipedia:WikiProject BBC, and it seems to me that maybe you could achieve the same goals as members of that project as you might in creating your own. It might also be better, because the definition of "sitcom" might not apply to all the shows you might want to include, while by definition all of them will be in the scope of the BBC project. Badbilltucker 15:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bionicle

Description: A WikiProject for Lego's toy line Bionicle. To maintain and expand all the Bionicle articles on Wikipedia.

Temporary Project Page: User:Torritorri/WikiProject Bionicle

User: TorriTorri

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Note: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lego already is already engaged in dealing with this subject. Badbilltucker 15:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you might just want to see about collaborating with the existing Lego WikiProject on this one. Maybe making Bionicle a sub page on their project as apart of their group but with a dedicated to do list and talk page. -- Ned Scott 17:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British Crime

Description This project aims to generally improve all pages relating to British crime to better categorise them and to create new articles on British crime not currently on Wikipedia. This project is based on the highly successful WikiProject: Australian crime. This has been very useful in cleanup and improvement generally of pages relating to Australian crime.
Temporary Project Page
User:Lucy-marie/WikiProject British Crime

User Lucy-marie

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below)

  • MadMax 19:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 10:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Cite

Description This project basically aims to find citations for articles in Category:Articles lacking sources with templates {{unreferenced}} and {{primarysources}}. Also, it would make a new template, ({{refformat}} or {{properref}} maybe) that would indicate an article with sources, but not in the proper references format. Many articles have their citations as external links like this [1]. This would put the article in a category and members of the this WikiProject could change it to the proper format. We could also work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations, a list of articles that woul be GA if they have citations.

Temporary Project Page
None for now.

User Nauticashades (talk • contribs)

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below)

[edit] Comedians

Description: This would be a specific type of Biography project, specifically for working with comedians, living and dead, from all countries, etc. This would not include things such as sketch groups or comedy clubs, etc...

User: --Twintone 16:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

[edit] Copyeditor's League

Description: This is a proposal for the creation of a centralized group of talented copyeditors for the purpose of eliminating the substantial backlog of tagged articles. This group will assume the responsibility of processing these articles and properly editing them for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, word usage, formatting and wikification. The copyeditor's job is largely thankless, but is necessary to ensure the viability of Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Trusilver/Wikiproject Copyeditor's League

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Trusilver 20:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  • IrisWings 21:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Rintrah 13:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Jaxhere 16:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Little Miss Might Be Wrong 03:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • EMT1871 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Aguerriero (talk) 03:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Cosmetics

Description: To improve information on cosmetics, especially from the points of view of history, industry, biography and science. To remove the advertorial copy that affects many cosmetic industry articles at present, create NPOV, and add citations. To ensure a fuller context for cosmetics articles, linking to issues including feminism, culture, animal welfare, religion, social history, medical ethics and so on.

User: TinaSparkle 14:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: available at my userpage, above.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Bobzchemist 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments: How do we protect against advertorial vandalism? Bobzchemist 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cue sports

Description: Goals: Coordination of the creation and maintenance of articles on cue sports. Establishment of a clean organization of all relevant articles and categories, including their relationships to each other. Fostering of article improvement. Promotion of terminology spelling conventions (within articles); e.g. "nine-ball", "nine ball", "Nine-ball", "Nine-Ball", "Nine Ball", "9 ball", "9-ball", etc., have historically been used completely randomly and interchangeably in this articlespace, resulting in confusion, ambiguity, and a sloppy feel.) Expansion of the number of articles available, to cover presently under-represented topics. Promulgation of a base article layout that is consistent and clean, with formatting conventions, for all cue sports articles (via article "templates"). Creation of useful Wikipedia templates for use in cue sports articles. Clear and logical article categorization [in progress already] Transition of main article (and category) from the grossly ambiguous Billiards, to Cue sports (presently a redirect to Billiards). Scope: The scope of this WikiProject may be relatively hands-off in the case of cue sports subtopics that already have their own WikiProjects (namely Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker, whom this WikiProject will necessarily work closely with. The scope of subtopics includes: Pocket billiards (pool) games, such as eight-ball, nine-ball and one-pocket; snooker and English billiards; carom billiards games, such as three-cushion billiards and straight-rail; and related ancestral, obscure and/or recently-invented games. The scope also includes articles on cue sports equipment, personalities, organizations, tournaments, etc. The project will be a child project of WikiProject Sports, and hierarchically a parent of WikiProject Snooker, though the latter is expected to operate pretty much independently, as it has already been around a while and developed a lot of templates and other resources (indeed, WikiProject Cue sports is deriving many of its materials from WikiProject Snooker at this stage.)

User: User:SMcCandlish. I've been doing a whole lot of this stuff already, individually, and I think the results are a vast improvement over the messy state of the cue sports articles and their categorization up until literally earlier this week. But I can't do it ALL myself; this topic needs a cadre of organized editors, and additional resources like infoboxes and other templates, improvement of articles with reference citations, photos, and so on, as well as creation of fill-in-the-blanks article "templates" for easy creation of consistent new articles.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. User:SMcCandlish
  2. Fuhghettaboutit

Temporary project page: User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject Cue sports and various subpages thereof; a lot's already been developed, including draft templates, a nomenclature convention essay, etc., etc.

Comments:

[edit] De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Description: This is a proposal to make articles on mathematical concepts more accessible to a general audience through the use of analogies, diagrams, and examples.

Temporary project page: User:Mistercow/De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Linus M. I personally think that this project would be excellent.

Comments:

  • How does this fit with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics? This may work better as a sub project of that, it should certainly be mentioned there. I think most members probably support making articles more accessable, as long as it does not compremise acuracy. --Salix alba (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Perhaps this should support the creation of seperate articles, such as those for both Theories of Relativity? superscienceman 16:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dedicated Article Maintenance

Description: A project that encourages users to "adopt" one or more articles. They would then participate regularly in the maintenance and expansion of these articles.

Temporary project page: User:Linus M./WikiProject Dedicated Article Maintenance

Interested Wikipedians: Linus M.


[edit] Endangered languages (and language revitalization)

Brief proposal and discussion of scope: User:Ling.Nut#Current_Projects

Skeletal project page: see top of page for links to lists of endangered languages that I have been working on:

User: User:Ling.Nut

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

[edit] Entourage

Description: The project will aim to improve the quality and quantity of Entourage related articles, and decide and implement uniform editing guidelines on pages related to Entourage.

Temporary project page: User:Argash/WikiProject Entourage

User: Argash

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.

  1. Sven Erixon (talk • contribs)

[edit] Fishing

Description: A WikiProject for Fishing, and the multitudinous articles related thereto. I think scope is dependent on participants. Some organization of the many articles is definitely needed, and this is where group participation is particularly valuable. Plenty of grunt work in fleshing out and cleaning up articles is, of course, possible, too.

Temporary Project Page: User:ENeville/WikiProject Fishing

User: ENeville

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below): User:CaptainXel

[edit] Fort Worth, Texas

Description: There is a need now for a WikiProject dealing with the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The article is of poor quality, as are all of the articles relating to it. (Look at History of Fort Worth, Texas for example. It is a recent article, and help is needed to improve its quality.) Dallas, Texas already has a WikiProject, and it's time Fort Worth got one as well.

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

Comments

  • A comment from an obvious outsider, but wouldn't it be possible to contact the people at the Dallas project and see if they would be willing to expand it to include the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area? Considering that the two projects would have a very high degree of overlap, maybe that would be the most effective way to go. Badbilltucker 02:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This has already been done, but it was voted to keep the article solely about Dallas itself. Stallions2010 02:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] France

There seems to me to be a very real need for a project dealing with France, including its geography, history, and people. This is a very large and very historically significant country whose articles are handled in a less-than-organized way, IMO, as things stand. Unfortunately, my own current task load seems to me to be such as to make it impossible for me personally to spend much time with the project. Please feel free to contact me in setting up such a project if you are interested in establishing it. Badbilltucker 19:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

STTW (talk) 13:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Badbilltucker 16:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Football (soccer) in the USA and Canada

Please offer suggestions for a better name. The scope of the project includes improvement of all the soccer leauges, such as the MLS and USL, in Canada and the USA. Also included would be their national teams. The project would also develope articles on players, coaches, and other influencial figures in the game. XYZ CrVo 02:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Temporary Project Page User:XYZ CrVo/WikiProject Football (soccer) in the USA and Canada
  • Interested Wikipedians (please your add name below)
  • Comments Feel free to leave any comments
  • Possibly name project WikiProject North American Football (Soccer) but suggest we just add a sub project to Wikipedia:WikiProject Football since it's already established. Jazznutuva 06:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ghost towns

Temporary Project Page: User:A.mcmurray/WikiProject_Ghost_towns

Description: To expand the database of knowledge on Wikipedia regarding ghost towns worldwide. Also to categorize and organize all such relevant information by categorizing or creating new sub categories.

Come on now. Don't be shy. This is going to be an interesting project, I swear it.

User: A mcmurray

Interested Wikipedians:

[edit] Golf Courses of the World

Description:The aim of this project is to add more articles on golf courses around the world, and expand existing articles. We will set up a standardised structure for all articles hopefully including an infobox. Articles on golf courses is a glaring gap in Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Grovermj/GolfCourses

User: Grovermj 09:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

  • If you guys go ahead and make this a full WikiProject then I would suggest simply calling it WikiProject Golf. It's ok if those of you who are currently in it just want to work on golf course articles, but this way people can use the same project page to also work out any other golf-related issues. If things like discussion traffic gets to high you can always make more than one talk page, etc. -- Ned Scott 10:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Half-Life

Description: To improve all Half-Life related articles, and maintain current FA articles such as Half-Life 2

Temporary project page: User:Selmo/WikiProject Half Life

[edit] Heroes

Description: Dedicated to maintaining and improving all articles related to the television show Heroes

Interested Wikipedians (Please add your name below.):

  1. EnsRedShirt

Comment: I know I'm here after you all, but I'm trying to organize an NBC Universal WikiProject and Heroes would be well within the scope of the project. If you are interested, just scroll down.--Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon) 22:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Historical People from Yellowknife

Description: The project will aim to create a category with working articles and links for active reference use on the history of Yellowknife, NT, Canada. It will contain a category page that "contains" all of the people that I/we have created articles on.

User:

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comment

  • I would be interested in Yellowknife instead of a specific topics about it. Kingjeff 23:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The HKLNA Project

Description: The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project is a seminal project for English language policy and planning around the world. Although focused on Hong Kong government and society, its theoretical foundation can be applied to most East Asian countries and many countries in other regions where the English language is promoted as a mandatory universal second language in public school systems. The HKLNA-Project is about language quality and language diversity and the preservation of both. The project combines a variety of scientific disciplines including economics, linguistics, political science, statistics, as well as anthropology, sociology, and history. The project took two years to assemble, contains many hundreds of graphs, charts, and tables and a large number of links. If it has an important drawback, then it is the outdated software with which it was produced and a need for software updating and online maintenance.

Comment

  • As the creator and promoter of the project I would be interested in helping to formulate its listing User:R. A. Stegemann 08:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Hotels

Description: I'm proposing this WikiProject as I feel that the hotel articles on Wikipedia could benefit from such a coordinated effort. The project would aim to collaborate and direct the efforts of editors interested in improving and building upon hotel articles. The primary aim of this WikiProject would aim to establish a structure and consistency with hotel-related articles. I'm aiming to keep this as broad as possible at this time - open to suggestions.

Any comments regarding the proposed creation of this project would be much appreciated.

Temporary project page: User:Luckyluke/WikiProject Hotels

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Luke! 05:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Idol series

Description: The project will aim to improve the quality of Idol series related articles, see Talk:Idol series for an earlier description of proposed project.

Users who have expressed an interest in the Idol series: Template:User Idol series, Category:Wikipedians who like American Idol

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

  1. Shimmera 16:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  2. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 23:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Another very narrow scope project, this could probably just as easily be done via the talk page of the main article. Unless there's a major cleanup needed, not sure what else should be expanded on those topics. See WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. -- Ned Scott 18:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iglesia ni Cristo

Description: This proposed WikiProject centers around Wikipedia articles about the religious organization known as Iglesia ni Cristo. We aim to create and maintain articles that are both well referenced and in a neutral point of view, keeping them at the level of quality Wikipedia intends all articles to be. The Wikiproject will also serve for centralized discussion and collaboration about such articles.

Temporary project page: User:Lbmixpro/WikiProject Iglesia ni Cristo

User: LBMixPro <Speak|on|it!> 09:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • --Ironbrew 08:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Saleem 01:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interbank networks

Description: This project is intended to expand Wikipedia's current coverage of the world's various interbank networks (a.k.a. ATM networks or ATM consortiums). This involves writing about these interbank networks, their services, as well as where they provide their services, whether on an international, national or regional level.

Temporary project page: User:Sky Harbor/Interbank networks

User: Sky Harbor 14:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

[edit] WikiProject Italy

Description: This is to improve italy related articles through consensus of various topics, article improvement drive and other projects that are in WikiProject. Temporary project page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Italy

User:

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

interested (primarily Naples) Jeffmatt 06:25, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
promoter (history, monuments, communes, geography) --Attilios 10:11, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
cheese, football, rivers, history… —Ian Spackman 14:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Southern Italy, Italian soccer, food, literature πίππύ δ'Ω∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 00:07, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Nehwyn (especially central Italy) --Nehwyn 05:29, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Comment:

  • Great. How do we get this started. Who wants to work on the templates and so on? Kingjeff 01:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IPA

Aim: To introduce IPA pronunciation guides to more articles, a feature that is currently sorely lacking on Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Poolkris/Wikiproject IPA.

Interested Wikipedians:

1) Kris 15:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Kansas City

Aim: To improve and create articles relating to Kansas City and the Surrounding Areas

Temporary Project Page: User:Geobeedude

Interested Wikipedians

1) User:Geobeedude

[edit] Kurds

Description: A project to encourage people to expand Kurdish related articles and to structure these articles on Wikipedia.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Ozgur Gerilla 01:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Khosrow II 22:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
  • D.Kurdistani 18:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Heja Helweda 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Conditional support. Should be named "Wikiproject Kurdish people" or something along that line. --Cat out 18:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

It should be renamed to "Wikiproject Kurdish people" as per naming conventions. --Cat out 15:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I say we name it Wikipedia: WikiProject Kurdistan, it’s a shorter name. And as far as naming conventions go Wikipedia’s policy clearly say’s, “it is important to note that these are conventions, not rules carved in stone”. --D.Kurdistani 18:41, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
"Wikiproject Kurdistan" would be fine however kurds in europe would be beyond the scope of such a wikiproject.
  • It would restrict wikiprojects to issues related to that geography rather than kurdish people as a whole. I'd in fact favor such a thing more as I dislike the "wikiproject for an ethnicity" idea somewhat.
  • Though Kurdistan is a contraversial term, s preferably something like "Wikproject Kurdish inhabited region" would be better.
Unless there is a good reason not to follow them, naming conventions need to be followed. Mind that I said "should" and not "must".
  • A wikiproject should not be named "plural". So it should be either "Wikiproject Kurd" or "Wikiproject Kurdish people", alternative suggestions are welcome.
  • A wikiproject's title preferably should be non-contraversial.
Why is "Kurdish people" bad as opposed to "Kurds"? Are kurds not people?
--Cat out 18:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
We currently have some options to go with, these are: Kurds, Kurd, Kurdish People, Kurdish inhabited region. The problem with naming it Kurdish People is that we will not only work on articles that are about Kurdish people but Kurdish food, region, religion, culture... which obviously is connected with the Kurdish people. I chose 'Kurds' thinking that the term Kurdistan is a controversial term. for, Kurdish inhabited region, it just is long for a WikiProject title. In conclusion I think it should be either 'Kurds' or 'Kurdish People' or 'Kurdish'. Let's wait a little longer for different opinions. Ozgur Gerilla 15:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Anything related to Kurdish people weather it is food or culture would be in the scope of a "Kurdish people" wikiproject asuming the article is significant enough to Kurdish people. --Cat out 15:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm happy with Kurdish people. Ozgur Gerilla 22:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Kurdish People, Kurd or Kurds, Kurdistan and Kurdish inhabited regions are all fine for names but let’s wait a little longer to get more people onboard and then we can choose a name amongst our selves. For now I think it’s more important to think about getting people together for this project rather than thinking about a name for it. --D.Kurdistani 06:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I should have a proper name from the begining. Name changes can be complicated. --Cat out 09:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I suggest Kurds & Kurdistan. The WikiProject should be both about people (Kurds/Kurdish people) and geography/history of the region(Kurdistan). Heja Helweda 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think we should go with Kurds. Ozgur Gerilla 23:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Heja Helweda, the name Kurds & Kurdistan is a good name for this project as it covers the Kurdish people in general and the region of Kurdistan. --D.Kurdistani 00:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MMORPGs

Description: MMORPGs are becoming increasingly popular these days. This project aims to expand, reorganize, and revise existing articles about MMORPGs, and to create new MMORPG-related articles.

Temporary project page: User:Schzmo/WikiProject MMORPGs

User: SCHZMO ✍ 22:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

--Destructo 087 00:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Munich

Description:

  • To help WikiProject Germany with articles specifically related to Munich.
  • To get free images under GNU Free Documentation License.
  • To create and edit of Munich-related articles.
  • To do translations from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia on Munich related articles.
  • It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Munich in a fair and accurate manner.

Temporary project page:

User:

  • Kingjeff 01:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians:

[edit] Musical Instruments

Description: The purpose of this project would be to organize and present in a standard form the data of the various musical instruments, guiding them to featured article quality.

Temporary project page: User:Akuyume#Proposed WikiProject:Musical Instruments

User: akuyumeTC 02:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] NBC Universal

Description: The purpose of this project would be to create, update, and organize articles related to the company and its many facits (such as the theme parks, television stations, movies, etc.).

Temporary project page:User:Farquaadhnchmn/Universal

User:Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon)

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Phydend 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments: A very narrow Wiki project. There is television and film projects already, there doesn't need to be a project for a certain company itself. RobJ1981 23:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

  • In my opinion, an NBC Universal wikiproject would not just be about the production company, but also the theme parks, films, etc. as stated above. Disney has its own project and this would be similar albeit in a smaller scale. Phydend 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wave music

Temporary Project Page: User:Krushsister/WikiProject_New_Wave_music

Description: The aim of this project would be to act as a central location for articles relating to New Wave music and genres that could be classified as "New Wave", e.g. synthpop, post-punk, and New Romantic music. This would lead to easier creation and maintenance of articles relating to this genre. New Wave is considered a part of the "punk" classification here on Wikipedia, but in all actuality is an offspring of punk rock, with New Wave artists being either directly or tangentially influenced by the varied aspects of punk.

User: krushsister

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. — Catherine\talk
  2. — Richard\talk
  3. — Matt\talk

[edit] NPOV Backlog Taskforce

Description A group to work on the NPOV backlog (the group at WP:CLEAN seems to be inactive). In a majority of cases the dispute has been resolved, or is nonexistent, and the tag can be removed without much time and effort. Method: letter by letter, or by date. Also see Wikipedia:POV Cleanup. Currently 3.000 pages, plus another few hundred in Category:Articles which may be biased. Participants should know WP:NPOV, WP:VERIFY, etc.

Temporary project page:' none

User: Steve Hart

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. NauticaShades 21:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pakistan

Description: Wikipedia at the moment has over a thousand Topics related to Pakistan A separate wiki project will not only help better organise such a vast database of projects but also help to improve their quality standards with collective inputs of the members of the project.


Temporary project page: User: HussainAbbas

Interested Wikipedians:

1) Hussain 14:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
2) Stallions2010 17:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
3) Awais 13:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
4) Mercenary2k 01:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
5) S Seagal S Seagal 23:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)S Segal
6) Afinebalance 15:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
7) Pepsidrinka 18:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
8) Fast track 14:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
9) Arun Reginald 20:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
10) Siddiqui 14:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
11) TinaSparkle 14:00, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments - I can't tell how many if any of the members overlap, but I believe that the Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan already exists. Badbilltucker 15:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Pharmacology (and/or Medicinal Chemistry)

While looking for information on Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry I found that Wikipedia was woefully lacking - just look at the two title articles. With lots of stub articles lacking essential information. This is not about drugs or medicines but the fundamental basics for pharmacological science and drug discovery that could do with some major input. Anybody want to help out - it is essential these articles get sorted as they are the foundations for modern therapeutics?

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Proposer: User:Lethaniol 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Psych

Description: This is a WikiProject to organize articles about the television show Psych, such as articles about episodes, places, characters, etc.

Temporary project page (incomplete): User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox2

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[edit] Radio

Right now we have only a project dealing with radio stations, no project dealing with the broader subject of radio itself. Would any of you be interested in taking part in such a project, which would probably deal with radio broadcasts, radio people, radio stations and networks, and the physical propogation of radio itself?

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Radio

  • Proposer: Badbilltucker 19:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Interested wikipedians: (please add your name below)
Zaphod Beeblebrox

[edit] Relativity

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.

Temporary project page: User:MathPhys/WikiProject Relativity

User: MP (talk) 12:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Harald88 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
ems57fcva 02:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
JRSpriggs 05:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

... Do you want us to put our names at both places? Harald88 13:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC) ... Yes. :) MP (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

This looks like a bad idea to me. I fear that splitting discussion of relativity-related issues away from the physics project will increase our chances of collectively missing something. A relativity article collaboration within the physics project might make more sense. -- SCZenz 16:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Good point! It makes sense to me, yes. Certainly open for discussion. Harald88 19:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Might be better to make this a task force of WikiProject Physics. See how the Military History WikiProject does it. --Aguerriero (talk) 22:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Russia

There seems to me to be a very real need for a project dealing with Russia, including its geography, history, and people. This is a very large and very significant country whose articles are handled in a less-than-organized way, IMO, as things stand. Unfortunately, my own current task load seems to me to be such as to make it impossible for me personally to spend much time with the project. Please feel free to contact me in setting up such a project if you are interested in establishing it. Badbilltucker 19:58, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Temporary Project Page: no such page yet.
  • Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name below)

[edit] Shipwrecks

Temporary Project Page: User:Esoltas/WikiProject_Shipwrecks

Description: Project goals include creating pages for shipwrecks. There are literally hundred left. See List of shipwrecks, it's absolutely ridiculuous how many need to be done. There are so many wonderful books on shipwrecks to use as well. The project will be an excellent project for users experienced with infobox usage as well as newcomers, who haven't learned, necessary, how to improve an already decent article.

User: Evan(Salad dressing is the milk of the infidel!) 23:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] South Dakota

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to South Dakota and hopefully add SD-related people, places and things not currently covered by Wikipedia.

Project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota

User: Lex 22:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Also add your name to the members list on the temporary project page.

  • Lex 22:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Badbilltucker 17:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC) - Added my name to project page list too. Kind of busy, but will help where and when I can.

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[edit] Sports Car Racing

Description: Expansion and combination of various elements of professional sports car racing series from around the world on a scale similar to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Formula One. This would involve finding and posting race results, history and details on the individual racing series, race reports, information on famous racing teams, as well as drivers.

Temporary project page: User:The359/WikiProject Sports Car Racing

User: The359 04:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Pc13 08:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC) : Total support. Sports car racing requires a level of dedication similar or even superior to that of Formula 1.
  • Cs-wolves 11:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC) : Support. I'm interested in motor racing, so this will do nicely for me.
  • FCYTravis 02:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Absolutely - great idea, The359!
  • Marc Lacoste 21:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC) definitely needs organisation.

[edit] Sports Venues

Description: There are a lot of sports venues without quality articles. The scope of this project would be to take stubs and start rated articles to a far superior quality. This shouldn't be a hard project since some stuff already exist like Football (Soccer) stadiums. But be aware, even though other projects have this stuff, that doesn't mean anything has been done about it.

User: Kingjeff 04:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Sports Venues

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[edit] Steely Dan

Description: This WikiProject is for (you guess it) Steely Dan. Right now, only is the Steely Dan article itself lacking infoprmation, but the albums articles are not formatted properly and disorganized. Finally, most songs are missing as articles (and the ones that do have articles don't have infoboxes and such), which is a shame, since most Steely Dan songs are quite deep and their unique lyrics make them interesting to analyze. So what do you say? All you Steely Dan fans out there sign up!

User:
Nauticashades (talk • contribs)

Temporay Page:
User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)
Sign up at User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan also

  1. BabuBhatt (talk • contribs)
  2. Daniel Case (talk • contribs)
  3. Theoldanarchist (talk • contribs)
  4. DrDevin (talk • contribs)
  5. Chadbryant (talk • contribs)

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[edit] Synthesizers

Description: This wikiproject aims to document synthesizers and their use in popular music. These instruments have played an increasingly important role in shaping the musical output of artists over the last 50 years. They have also spawned completely new genres of music as musicians work with electronic instruments exclusively. Unlike general classes of instruments, such as guitars, each model of synthesizer is engineered with the ability to create unique sounds and each is therefore a unique instrument in its own right.

User: Mperry 19:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: There is no page as of this moment.

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[edit] Taiwan

Description: I am not a separatist, but due to the fact that Taiwan was essentially separated away from China for the past hundred years (excluding the four year gap between 1945 - 1949), some of the contents (especially recent ones) may not be suitable to be put under WikiProject China.

Taiwan itself is a unique topic. As a native Taiwanese, I would like to add this specification to improve Taiwan-related articles.

Temporary project page: User:AQu01rius/WikiProject Taiwan

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[edit] Wiki Markup Standardization

The idea behind this is to develop standards for wiki markup. Hopefully, in order to offset the MediaWiki markup POV so rampantly prevalent here, we would be able to recruit a large number of users of other wiki software to provide their own input. I'd also be happy to accept ideas for shorter/more creative names for the project :)

Temporary Project Page: User:Dinoguy1000/Wikiproject Wiki Markup Standardization

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Comments:

  • I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "MediaWiki markup POV".. -- Ned Scott 11:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
    • I half-meant for it to be a joke, it was referring to the fact that WP uses the MediaWiki software, so that's the only wikimarkup that most editors here are exposed to, and it was also poking fun at the whole POV issue that is at the back of the minds of most serious contributors here. --Dinoguy1000 Talk 19:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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