Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland

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WikiProject Ireland is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Ireland. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Contents 1 Participants 2 Major pending tasks 2.1 Done 2.2 To Do 3 Manual of Style (conventions) 4 Templates 5 Creation of articles 5.1 Done 5.2 To do 6 Categories 6.1 Done 6.2 To do 7 Substance 7.1 Done 7.2 To do 8 Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates 8.1 Tagged with WPIE template 8.2 Request Photo 9 Departments 10 Useful categories 11 Reference 12 Projects 13 Tasks 14 Adopt an article 14.1 Stubs 15 General strategy and discussion forums 16 Other subpages 17 Red links 17.1 Missing articles 18 Lists 19 Articles 19.1 Wikipedia articles on Ireland 19.2 Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Ireland 19.3 New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland 19.4 Did you know? 19.5 Article improvement drive 19.6 Collaboration of the week 19.7 Peer review 19.8 Featured articles 19.8.1 Featured article candidates 19.8.2 Featured article review 19.9 Featured pictures 19.9.1 Featured picture candidates 19.10 Featured lists 19.10.1 Featured list candidates 20 Wikipedia surveys 20.1 Ad hoc surveys 20.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys 20.2.1 Deletion links 20.2.1.1 WikiProject Deletion sorting 21 Project-related alerts 22 Requests 23 Structure 23.1 Parentage 23.2 Descendant WikiProjects 23.3 Similar WikiProjects 23.4 Task forces of this WikiProject 23.5 Related WikiProjects 23.6 Related Wikiportals 23.7 Related Collaborations 23.8 Related Regional notice boards 23.9 Related groups of Wikipedians 23.10 Associated pages 23.10.1 Related pages in Sister projects 24 Resources 25 External resources 26 Archives 27 Sister Project links

This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to 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 Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the main Ireland article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Ireland Portal.

Articles and categories relating to 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.

[edit] Participants

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Members

[edit] Major pending tasks

[edit] Done

1. Modify WPI template so that it follows the hierarchy structure found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia.

[edit] To Do

[edit] Manual of Style (conventions)

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)

[edit] Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Templates

[edit] Creation of articles

[edit] Done

For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Log.

[edit] To do

1. To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
2. To improve the standard of articles relating to Ireland in general.
3. To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistency throughout.
4. 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.
5. Maintenance of Ireland Portal.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Done

Category:WikiProject Ireland members

[edit] To do

Create a category of Ireland related stubs

[edit] Substance

[edit] Done

• Separated article on the Siege of Smerwick 1580 as part of category Irish Battles.

[edit] To do

• The main Dublin article needs to achieve featured 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.
• The article on the Mahon Tribunal needs to be tidied up, verified, and fact-checked.
• Irish (Gaelic) words and phrases should be marked up using {{lang}}, thus: {{lang-ga|Páirc na hÉireann}}.

[edit] Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates

To list individual Ireland related articles need images fill in the "image-needed" parameter in the project tag {{WikiProject Ireland}} on the article talk page and it will be listed here

[edit] Tagged with WPIE template

For a complete list of the progress in tagging Irish related articles with the project template, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment and their current statistics.
Since July 2007, when 1,044 articles were tagged and many were unassessed or classified, much work has been done and as of 19 March 2008, 12,705 articles were tagged with none being unassessed and around 1,000 being unclassified, most being stubs. By 6 May 2008, 20,180 articles had been tagged, of which only were unassessed or unclassified.

[edit] Request Photo

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Ireland for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

To see a list of Irish articles tagged as needing images look at this category, print out the list and carry it with you when travelling in Ireland.

[edit] Departments

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment - the assessment department

[edit] Useful categories

Find articles of interest to edit or improve in the following categories:

[edit] Reference

[edit] Projects

1. Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Missing articles

[edit] Tasks

• To Do List

1. Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Ireland-related edits in the past
2. Fix templates to talk pages
3. Construct /Article Classification by following the category 'tree'
4. Assess articles at /Article Classification

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration 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

Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Adopt an article to see how this section is used.

[edit] Stubs

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

• /Article Classification
• /Log
• /To do
• /Missing articles (and article requests)

[edit] Red links

See /Red links for a full list.

[edit] Missing articles

[edit] Lists

See Category:Ireland-related lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Ireland

• Ireland

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Ireland

• w:Ireland
• meta:Ireland

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland

Please feel free to list your new Ireland articles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 5 day time limit from the creation of the article and must be 1500+ characters of prose.

• Dublin Pride
• Oliver Sheppard
• Lifestyle Sports
• Lutheran Church in Ireland. <flrn> 06:55, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

Here are some articles which are "good". Let's improve them and make them featured!

Ireland

Ireland King of Arms

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured article review

[edit] Featured pictures

• High Cross in Ireland at high cross, by Chmouel Boudjnah, edited by Fir0002

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Deletion links

• Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
• Deletion review (Article undeletion):
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Ireland-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ireland.

[edit] Project-related alerts

Article alerts

Proposed deletion 6 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from Timmy Adamson (talk). 2 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from Niall McDarby (talk). 1 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from David O'Connor (footballer) (talk). 1 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from Tom Egan (murder victim) (talk). 30 Jun 2009 – PROD tag removed from John Morris (footballer) (talk). 30 Jun 2009 – Grace (cryptid victim) (talk) has been deleted. 30 Jun 2009 – Irish Freedom Fighters (talk) has been deleted. 30 Jun 2009 – David Rankin (cricketer) (talk) proposed for deletion by Jpeeling. 30 Jun 2009 – Gareth McKee (talk) proposed for deletion by Jpeeling. 30 Jun 2009 – Gavin McKenna (talk) proposed for deletion by Jpeeling. (5 more...) Articles for deletion 5 Jul 2009 – Aengus Ó Maoláin (talk) nominated for deletion by Magnius; see discussion. 3 Jul 2009 – British Isles naming dispute (talk) nominated for deletion by SmackBot; see discussion. 1 Jul 2009 – Niall McDarby (talk) nominated for deletion by Jpeeling; see discussion. 30 Jun 2009 – David O'Connor (footballer) (talk) nominated for deletion by Jmorrison230582; see discussion. 29 Jun 2009 – Cathal Mac Coille (talk) was kept; see discussion. 28 Jun 2009 – Kealin Ireland (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. 13 Jan 2008 – LORAN-C transmitter Loop Head (talk) nominated for deletion by Saranghae honey; see discussion. Categories for deletion 25 Jun 2009 – Category:Irish surnames (talk) has been deleted. Featured article reviews 27 Jun 2009 – Samuel Beckett (talk) is demoted. Good article nominations 14 Jun 2009 – Fight Like Apes (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Candlewicke. 1 Apr 2009 – Paddy Bradley (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Derry Boi; see discussion. Peer review 24 Jun 2009 – Peer review opened for James Nesbitt (talk) by Bradley0110. 24 Jun 2009 – Peer review for Jack Murphy (Irish politician) (talk) closed. Requests for comments 14 Mar 2009 – RFC (history and geography) opened for British Military Intelligence Systems in Northern Ireland (talk). Requested moves 2 Jul 2009 – Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922 (talk) was not moved; see discussion. In the news 1 Jul 2009 – A news event involving Brucellosis (talk) appeared on the main page. 30 Jun 2009 – A news event involving 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race (talk) appeared on the main page. Did you know 5 Jul 2009 – A fact from Amilie, or the Love Test (talk) appeared on the main page. 26 Jun 2009 – A fact from How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? (talk) appeared on the main page. 25 Jun 2009 – A fact from Windmill Lane Studios (talk) appeared on the main page. Other news 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles. 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated. 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot. (1 more...)

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[edit] Requests

"Please post requests at Wikiproject Ireland/Requests

[edit] Structure

[edit] Parentage

This project is categorized under the Category:Regional WikiProjects. The regional parent would be Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union.

Until the creation of specific daughter projects, the project covers a wide range of subjects (History, Society, Geography, Politics, Biography etc.) and, as a result has no single parent to it.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gaelic games
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish literature
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast
• WikiProject Irish Republicanism

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

No similar WikiProjects have been named.

[edit] Task forces of this WikiProject

• Gaeilge task force
• Irish Music task force (temporary)

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Northern Ireland
• Wikipedia:British Isles Terminology task force
• Wikipedia:Ireland disambiguation task force

[edit] Related Wikiportals

• Portal:Ireland

[edit] Related Collaborations

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

• Irish Wikipedians' notice board
• Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

• Category:Wikipedians in Ireland
• Category:Irish Wikipedians
• Category:Northern Irish Wikipedians

[edit] Associated pages

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

• Commons:Ireland articles
• Wikibooks:Ireland articles
• Wikinews:Ireland articles
• Wikiquote:Ireland articles
• Wikisource:Ireland articles
• Wikispecies:Ireland articles
• Wiktionary:Ireland articles
• meta:Ireland articles

[edit] Resources

• Geograph photos of many locations in Ireland with usable license

[edit] External resources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK & Ireland

[edit] Archives

• #1

[edit] Sister Project links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ireland

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ireland

Look up Ireland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikinews has related news: Ireland

Wikinews has related news: Ireland

v • d • e WikiProject Ireland General Templates  • Members  • Assessment • Gaeilge task force • Irish Music task force Counties Republic of Ireland : Dublin  • Wicklow  • Wexford  • Carlow  • Kildare Meath  • Louth  • Monaghan Cavan  • Longford Westmeath  • Offaly  • Laois  • Kilkenny  • Waterford Cork  • Kerry  • Limerick Tipperary  • Clare  • Galway  • Mayo  • Roscommon  • Sligo  • Leitrim  • Donegal Northern Ireland : Fermanagh  • Tyrone  • Londonderry  • Antrim  • Down  • Armagh Useful Categories Ireland  • Irish Culture  • Sport in Ireland  • History of Ireland  • Education in Ireland  • Transport in Ireland  • Geography of Ireland  • Rivers of Ireland  • Towns in Ireland  • Churches in Ireland  • Hospitals in Ireland  • Transport in Ireland  • Government of Ireland Major Cities and Towns of Ireland Belfast  • Galway  • Dublin  • Cork  • Limerick  • Derry  • Athlone  • Drogheda  • Dundalk Other Ireland Related WikiProjects Deletion sorting (talk)  • WikiProject GAA (talk)  • WikiProject Irish Literature (talk)  • WikiProject Northern Ireland (talk)  • WikiProject Belfast (talk)  • WikiProject Irish Republicanism (talk) Deletion Links Articles for deletion  • Deletion review  • Templates for deletion  • Categories for deletion  • Images for deletion  • Redirects for deletion  • Deletion sorting/Ireland Requests Requested moves  • Requests for Comments  • WikiProject European Union Manual of Style Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)