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'''A [[WP:WikiProject|WikiProject]] is a group of editors who want to work together.''' A WikiProject is '''not''' a subject area, a group of pages, a banner on talk pages, or any of the infrastructure used to support the group. '''If you do not have a group of editors, you do not have a WikiProject.''' Successful groups normally begin with '''about 10 active, experienced editors.''' Experience with participating in and collaborating in an existing group is particularly helpful.
This page can be used to gauge support for potential [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProjects]] before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page.


== Proposing a WikiProject ==
; 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:
{{Shortcut|WP:COUNCIL/P|WP:WPPRO}}


In 2024, we are changing the proposal process. We are trying to reduce the number of failed attempts to start groups. While we re-structure the pages, please do not propose any new groups. In the meantime, please consider [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory|two thousand existing projects]] and/or try to [[Wikipedia:REVIVE|revive]] one of the many dormant WikiProjects. If your group can't wait for the new process, please only create group pages in the userspace of one of your members. '''Do not create new templates or categories. If your group only exists in userspace, do not 'tag' articles on their talk pages.'''
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== Name of project ==


You can use the [[Special:Search|search]] box below to locate existing WikiProjects and task forces:
; Description : [description here]


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== Proposing a task force ==
; Comments
Any existing WikiProject can create a [[WP:TASKFORCE|task force]] whenever it chooses, so the normal place to propose a task force is at the parent WikiProject's talk page. Announcing the task force elsewhere is permitted but neither required nor usually helpful.
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== Current proposals ==
; 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.
{{Warning|Please do not create any new proposals until the new process is in place.}}


==Closing proposals==
; 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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Starting up|instructions for creating new projects]].
Proposals are generally closed as successful if several active editors (aim for 6 to 12) are interested in starting and participating in the group. For help with setting up the infrastructure, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject]] or post at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Council|the WikiProject Council talk page]] to request help. Proposals can be closed as unsuccessful after a month or two of stalled discussion. To close a proposal, follow the instructions at [[:Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS WIKIPROJECT PROPOSAL|the template documentation]] and add the proposal link to the most recent archive page.


==See also==
; 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.
;Open proposals
*[[:Category:Open WikiProject proposals]] <small>(includes all current proposals, plus those pending re-categorization as abandoned or archived)</small>


;Abandoned proposals
*[[:Category:Abandoned WikiProject proposals]]


;Archived proposals
== A database with photos of people from all over the world ==
*[[:Category:Archived WikiProject proposals]]


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'''Description:''' Hi, I'm quite new at Wikipedia. I have noticed that there are lots of articles called ''SomeEthnicity''_People that explain how the different ethnicities of the World are. There is an article for [[French People]], [[Spanish People]], [[Chinese People]], etc. They explain the way of life of the people belonging to these ethnicities, their beliefs, religion, way of life, important people belonging to that social group, etc. But when I go to the page of, for example, Yanomami people, I don't find any picture of a Yanomami. I can't know through wikipedia how does a Yanomami look like. I have to look at google; and maybe with the Yanomamis is easy because they are a very specific ethnic group from the Amazonas and there are many studies about them, but for example, if I want to see how do a swede look like, how do I do it? Or a spaniard. I can go to the articles [[Swedish_people|Swedish People]] and [[Spanish people]], but they just provide me three or four old images, that in most cases are not even pictures (they use to be old black and white paintings) that do not help me to create in my mind an image of how do a swede or a spaniard look like. And I think this is very important: if Wikipedia's mision is to help the person who is reading Wikipedia to create himself a mental image of what he is reading, I think it this is much more easy with pictures. If the [[Spanish people]] article had associated another article called, for example, ''Spanish people pictures'', anyone who wanted to know "how are the spaniards", "how do a spaniard look like" could know it. And not only through words that explain him that spaniards come from the Iberians, the Celts, the Visigoths, etc, (which is the information anyone reading the Wikipedia can obtain today) but also with 100 pictures that helped him to create a mental image of the spaniards.
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So this is what I purpose. To coordinate it well, I think that this new idea should be introduced as a project. The own wikipedian users who took part on the project would take pictures in their cities, in their regions; the [[English Wikipedia]] is the only one able to do this, because it's the only wikipedia that has its users spread all over the world. The pictures should be rigorously taken to be real samples of the people of every part of the world. For example, if in Spain 40% of people has black hair, 45% dark brown hair, 10% fair brown hair, 4% blonde and 1% red-haired, the pictures should show this reality. The images would be close-up high resolution pictures of the different ethnicities of all over the world that could be made by the own wikipedians so that we could create a database with hundreds and hundreds of pictures from the people living all over the world; people from every country, from every '''region''' (because for example, Spanish people includes [[Basques]], [[Catalans]], [[Galicians]], [[Andalusian people|Andalusians]], etc, and I can assure you there is a '''big difference''' between a typical andalusian from the south who probably bears a lot of north african heritage, and a catalan who looks more like a french or a mountaineer living in the celtic mountains of the northern Spain who looks like a [[Scottish_Highlands|Scottish Highlander]]). These pictures would represent a sample of how does the people of everywhere in the world look like. I think that this collection of pictures, this database, would be much more valuable than many articles that talk about people, the ethnicities, etc, that in fact, can hardly help the wikipedian user to create himself a global image of the world in his mind. With this project we would literally give a face to every region in the world and it would help to humanize lots of regions that today a day, by many people, are considered distants (for example, the [[Middle East]], from the western eyes; specially if these eyes live in [[United States of America|America]]).
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When we study history, about the old civilizations, we not only want to read their books and their stories, we wanna know how they were, we would like to see pictures of [[Julius Caesar]], pictures of [[Atilla the Hun]]: how did he look like? Was he [[Asian]]? [[European]]? [[Turkic]]? So these are the same questions that anyone reading the wikipedia wonders when reading an article that talks about other peoples and cultures: ''how do they look like?''.

So that's it; post here what do you think, or post a comment in my talk page. This project is a great deal, but if it was successful, it would be amazing, and the database created would be extremely clarifier and it could be used by infinite articles.

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name if interested) :
Actually this is a project that I imagined today after reading some articles talking about the skin, hair and eyes color of the humans and some articles of ''Somewhere''_People, so for the moment I am alone.
# [[User:Onofre_Bouvila]]
# [[User:Laleena|Laleena]]<sup>[[User talk:Laleena|talk to me]] [[Special:Contributions/Laleena|contributions to Wikipedia]]</sup> 22:16, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
# [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 03:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[[User:Onofre Bouvila|Onofre Bouvila]] 00:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments'''

Feel free to comment this project.

* Really, this is not something for Wikipedia. Consider requesting it on Wikia instead. '''''[[User:Bibliomaniac15|<font color="black">bibliomaniac</font>]][[User talk:Bibliomaniac15|<font color="red">1</font>]][[WP:EA|<font color="green">5</font>]]''''' 23:02, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
**I disagree. A WikiProject to help gather free-use images is a great idea. Of course we shouldn't get excessive with images, but there are many articles about places and people who don't have any. Something worth exploring. -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 03:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

==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):
* [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 14:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Diez2|Diez2]] 14:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

'''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]]? -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 10:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)



== 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 controversial 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. [[User:XYZ CrVo|XYZ CrVo]] 02:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Temporary Project Page:''' [[User:XYZ CrVo/WikiProject Africa]]

'''User:''' [[User:XYZ CrVo|XYZ CrVo]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name if interested) :
*[[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 01:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - will probably help primarily in the assessment area.
*[[User:Chris5897|Chris5897]] <small>([[User_talk:Chris5897|T@£k]])</small> 17:08, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
'''Comments:'''
* I registered strong opposition to this idea in May [[Wikipedia talk:Africa-related regional notice board/Archive1#WikiProject Africa|here]]. While I certainly only spoke for myself, it may be worth making a post at [[Wikipedia talk:Africa-related regional notice board]] addressing some of these concerns. - [[User:BanyanTree|Banyan]][[User talk:BanyanTree|Tree]] 23:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
:*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. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 01:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

== African art ==
'''Description''' WikiProject African art would be dedicated to creating and improving a battery of articles on African art, art movements, artists, curators, collectors, and museums. The area's woefully undercovered on Wikipedia, and while I've been trying to put a few things together, there's only so much I can do. --[[User:AlbertHerring]] <sup>[[User_talk:AlbertHerring|Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!]]</sup> 19:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Temporary Project Page:''' [[User:AlbertHerring/WikiProject African art]]

'''User:''' [[User|AlbertHerring]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name if interested) :

'''Comments:'''

==The Animals of Farthing Wood==

'''Description:''' This WikiProject would aim at improving all of the pages related to the '''Animals of Farthing Wood''', including detailed information on all of the books in the series, the television adaption, the characters, and the author (Colin Dann). Character descriptions are aimed to be primarily about the characters in the books, with a brief blurb on their roles in the television adaption, and some differences between the two.
''Edit:'' To clarify, the ''Animals of Farthing Wood'' is a fictional novel series, and there was later an animated television adaption produced by the EBC and the BBC.

'''Temporary Project Page:''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject The Animals of Farthing Wood]]

'''User:''' [[User Talk:MelicansMatkin|MelicansMatkin]]

'''Interested Wikipedians:'''

'''Comments:'''

==Antarctica==

'''Description:''' This proposed WikiProject would deal with the continent of Antarctica. As, seemingly, most of the information available relating to the continent is tied closely to the geography of the continent, I believe that the project will deal primarily with the geography of Antarctica, and, to a lesser extent, the climate, the scientific research taking place in Antarctica, the wildlife of the area, and some geological history.

'''Temporary Project Page:''' [[User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Antarctica]]

'''User:'''
[[User:Robertjohnsonrj|robertjohnsonrj]]

'''Interested Wikipedians:'''
* [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] - Will help out where possible.
* [[User:Dentren|Dentren]]
'''Comments:'''

==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:'''
*[[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:36, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians'''
#
*[[User:Enlarge|Enlarge]] 18:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Bakterius|Bakterius]] 10:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] - Will help as time and circumstances permit.

==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. [[User talk:Mollsmolyneux|Mollsmolyneux's talk]]

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:Mollsmolyneux/BBC Sitcoms]]'''

'''User:''' [[User:Mollsmolyneux|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.''

*{{User|Mollsmolyneux}}
*{{User|Responsible?}}
*{{User|Berks105}}
*{{User|Jawr256}}
*{{User|Mr. Garrison}}
*{{User|Majorly}}
*{{User|Druss666uk}}

'''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. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 15:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
:The Young ones has to be the funniest sitcom I've watched to date, right up there with legends such as [[Only Fools and Horses]] and [[Open All Hours]]. I'm definatly interested! [[User:Druss666uk|Druss666uk]] 15:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

==Berlin==

; Description : This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of [[Berlin]], its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Berlin in a fair and accurate manner. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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

; Comments
*If someone can run this, it would be great. There are already a style for this project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for style. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

==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''': [[User:Torritorri|TorriTorri]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name below):

* --[[User:Torritorri|TorriTorri]]<sup>[[User talk:Torritorri|Talk to me!]]</sup> 14:21, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
* --[[User:Matau|Matau]] 20:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
'''Note''': [[:Wikipedia:WikiProject Lego]] already is already engaged in dealing with this subject. [[User:Badbilltucker|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. -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 17:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

== Bittorrent ==

'''Description''': A Wikiproject for the [[bittorrent]] protocol, related technology, and clients. To maintain and expand all related articles, keeping existing articles up-to-date, and possibly putting together a standard how clients are presented. There might be an expansion in to other p2p clients if there is enough support.

'''User''': [[User:Darthnader37|Darthnader37]] 06:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name below)

* [[User:Bernalj90|Bernalj90]] 23:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:k1ngyo|k1ngyo]] 21:55, 04 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments'''

==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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian crime|WikiProject: Australian crime]]. This has been very useful in cleanup and improvement generally of pages relating to Australian crime.<BR>
'''Temporary Project Page'''<BR>
[[User:Lucy-marie/WikiProject British Crime]]

'''User'''
[[User:Lucy-marie|Lucy-marie]]

'''Interested Wikipedians:''' (add your name below)
*[[User:MadMax|MadMax]] 19:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Fys|Fys]]. &#147;[[User:Fys|Ta]] [[Special:Contributions/Fys|fys]] [[User talk:Fys|aym]]&#148;. 10:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:England Gangs|England Gangs]] 19:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Lucy-marie|Lucy-marie]] 20:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

==Caribbean==

; Description - A project to deal with the nations and territories of the Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean Sea itself.

; Proposed Project Page: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean]]

; Interested Wikipedians (Please add your name below)
* [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]]
* '''[[User:Legis|Legis]]''' <small>([[User talk:Legis|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Legis|contributions]])</small>
* [[User:Vivenot|Vivenot]]
* [[User:Guettarda|Guettarda]]
* Slgr<font color="#228B22">[[WP:EA|@]]</font>ndson <small>([[User:Slgrandson|page]] - [[User talk:Slgrandson|messages]] - [[Special:Contributions/Slgrandson|contribs]])</small>
* [[User:Jwillbur|Jwillbur]]
* [[User:TaranRampersad|TaranRampersad]]
* [[User:TriniSocialist|Dave Smith]] 03:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

; Comments
Given the almost shocking outpouring of support on the first day of the proposal, the project is now becoming active and no longer a proposal. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 22:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

==Chicago==

; Description : A project about anything related to Chicago, including the suburbs.

; Interested Wikipedians
# [[User:Laleena|Laleena]] 18:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

; Comments
Chicago is a very important city, and so it really needs a project devoted to it. [[User:Laleena|Laleena]] 18:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
:Please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago]]. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 18:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

==Cold War History==

; Description : A project to foster better coordination and collaboration on articles relating to [[Cold War]] history.
; Interested Wikipedians
# [[User:Nobs02|Nobs02]] 21:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
# [[User:KarlBunker|KarlBunker]] 22:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

; Comments

* Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but wouldn't just calling it "WikiProject Cold War" be easier? [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 10:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
**Well, we are faced now with divergent schools regarding the roots of the Cold War [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_Cold_War]; we now find ourselves bringing in a large group of articles pre-1945 that had an important impact on policy decisions in whats called the early Cold War period. The two editors that have signed on are already working in this particular area. [[User:Nobs02|Nobs02]] 17:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
***Meh. I meant that "history" was implicit; the Cold War being over, everything dealing with it is by definition an aspect of history. It doesn't really matter too much, though. (In any case, it ought to be [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cold War history]], as WikiProject titles follow sentence case.) [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 19:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

== Crime ==

; Description : A project about information related to true-life crimes and criminals

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [[User:Remember|Remember]] 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
; Comments
While there are projects related to this one, I feel that there is no central project that has jurisdiction over all true-life crime articles.



==WikiProject Cite==

'''Description''' This project basically aims to find citations for articles in [[:Category:Articles lacking sources]] with templates {{tl|unreferenced}} and {{tl|primarysources}}. Also, it would make a new template, ({{tl|refformat}} or {{tl|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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]. 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'''<BR>
None for now.

'''User'''
{{user|Nauticashades}}

[[User:RICKistheBOSS|RICKistheBOSS]] 15:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

==Cologne==

; Description : This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of [[Cologne]], its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Cologne in a fair and accurate manner. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
#

; Comments
* If someone ca ntake this on it would be great. A style is already in use. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for the style. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
==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:''' --[[User:Twintone|Twintone]] 16:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
*{{User|Druss666uk}}

'''Comments''':

==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:''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
* [[User:Trusilver|Trusilver]] 20:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:IrisWings|IrisWings]] 21:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Rintrah|Rintrah]] 13:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Jaxhere|Jaxhere]] 16:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Little Miss Might Be Wrong|Little Miss Might Be Wrong]] 03:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:EMT1871|EMT1871]] 18 November 2006 (UTC)
* <font color="3300FF">[[User:Aguerriero|Aguerriero]] ([[User_talk:Aguerriero|talk]])</font> 03:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Editor at Large|Editor at Large]] 04:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments''': This project is now active. [[User:Trusilver|Trusilver]] 03:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

==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:''' [[User:TinaSparkle|TinaSparkle]] 14:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Temporary project page:''' available at my [[User:TinaSparkle|user page]].

'''Interested Wikipedians:''' (please add your name)
* [[User:Bobzchemist|Bobzchemist]] 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Sam195|Sam195]] 13:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:AliceJMarkham|AliceJMarkham]] 07:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments:'''
How do we protect against advertorial vandalism? [[User:Bobzchemist|Bobzchemist]] 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
::::I guess that's where we chemists come in, isn't it?--[[User:Sam195|Sam195]] 13:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::Yes, and we copyeditors too! I think diligence and a sharp eye are the best lines of defence, unless anyone has the skills to write a super cosmetics anti-vandalism bot. -- [[User:TinaSparkle|TinaSparkle]] 15:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

==Costa Rica==
'''Description:''' This is a proposal for a project aiming to the improving and expanding of Costa Rica-related articles. Articles such as [[List of schools in Costa Rica]] and [[Battle of Rivas]] (which are extremely important to understand Costa Rica's history and social structure) are left in a permanent stub condition and left with none or vague info. Other institutions, such as [[Saint Mary High School]], have taken of Wikipedia's lack of information about Costa Rica to set up personal web pages or biased articles about themselves. This project would aim to improve and radically change this articles until they are in a professional and unbiased format.

'''User:''' [[User:Bernalj90|Bernalj90]] 18:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Temporary project page:''' [[:User:Bernalj90/WikiProject Costa Rica]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
# [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] - will try to help as much as I can, which, regretably, may not be much.

'''Comments:'''

==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):
[[User:Linus M.|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. --[[User:Salix alba|Salix alba]] ([[User talk: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? [[User:Linus M.|superscienceman]] 16:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
** Yes, I agree that seperate articles, or at least seperate sections would be advisable. Otherwise, Wikipedia would suddenly become useless to math-nuts. -- [[User:Zanimum|Zanimum]] 18:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

==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:'''
#[[User:Linus M.|Linus M.]]

'''Comments''': This is an interesting idea, but I doubt that it would be very productive unless you had membership out the wazoo. How long would the article be "adopted"? How would you select which articles need to be adopted? Why can't we leave this for the Article improvement drive? [[User:Diez2|Diez2]] 14:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
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== Denmark ==

; Description : A project on Denmark, as there is not one.

; Interested Wikipedians
# [[User:Laleena|Laleena]]<sup>[[User talk:Laleena|talk to me]] [[Special:Contributions/Laleena|contributions to Wikipedia]]</sup> 22:15, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

; Comments

==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:Ling.Nut/ELLR|WikiProject endangered languages]] (and language revitalization)'''
'''User:''' [[User:Ling.Nut]]''

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):'''
* --[[User:Neofelis Nebulosa|<font color="#CC99FF">N</font><font color="#9370db">eo</font><font color="#6a5acd">fe</font>lis <font color="#CC99FF">N</font><font color="#9370db">eb</font><font color="#6a5acd">ul</font>osa]] [[User talk:Neofelis Nebulosa|<font color="#CC99FF"><small>(моє обговорення)</small></font>]] 16:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Maunus|Maunus]]

==Entourage==

'''Description:'''
The project will aim to improve the quality and quantity of '''''[[Entourage (TV series)|Entourage]]''''' related articles, and decide and implement uniform editing guidelines on pages related to ''Entourage''.

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:Argash/WikiProject Entourage]]'''

'''User:''' [[User:Argash|<b><font color="black">Argash</font></b>]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):'''
''Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.''
# {{User|Sven Erixon}}
# {{User|Davey4}}

== First Person Shooters==
The idea of this project is to show people just how many First Person shooters there are and how important it is to some people.

'''Temporary Project Page:''' [[User:Destructo_087/First Person Shooters]]

'''Interested Wikipedians:''' (please add your name):

'''Comments:'''

*Might want to work within [[WP:CVG]] on this one. -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 06:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)



==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''': [[User:ENeville|ENeville]]

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

==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):
*[[User:Stallions2010|Stallions2010]] 01:55, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:drumguy8800|<font color="navy">drumguy8800</font>]]&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Drumguy8800|<font color="green" style="font-size: 7pt;">C</font>]] [[User talk:Drumguy8800|<font color="green" style="font-size: 7pt;">T</font>]] 02:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

'''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. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 02:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
:This has already been done, but it was voted to keep the article solely about Dallas itself. [[User:Stallions2010|Stallions2010]] 02:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
::Not the *article*, the *project*. [[User Talk:Stevage|Stevage]] 22:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Sorry, my mistake. This is what I meant. On WikiProject Dallas, the vote differed between keeping the project about Dallas itself or Dallas and its suburbs. No one voted to expand the project to include Fort Worth as well, which was one of the options. --[[User:Stallions2010|Stallions2010]] 22:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

== 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. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 19:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

*'''Temporary Project Page''': [[User:SlaveToTheWage/WikiProject France]]
*'''Interested Wikipedians:''' (please add your name below)
: [[User:SlaveToTheWage|STTW]] <font color="green">[[User_talk:SlaveToTheWage|(talk)]]</font> 13:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
: [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 16:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
:[[User Talk:Stevage|Stevage]] 22:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
:[[User:Chris5897|Chris5897]] <small>([[User_talk:Chris5897|T@£k]])</small> 17:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
:[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 23:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:[[User:Stallions2010|Stallions2010]] 01:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
** Projects that could be merged
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject French régions]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements]]
**[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets]]

::Great idea, actually it is the purpose of this project to bring together all information pertaining to France and manage them meaningfully. [[User:SlaveToTheWage|STTW]] <font color="green">[[User_talk:SlaveToTheWage|(talk)]]</font> 18:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
:I guess that this Wikiproject would take control of [[Portal:France]] and [[Portal:Paris]]
::On second thoughts, since the concept of "parent" WikiProjects exists, perhaps WP France should just be a "parent" of the other, more specialised articles, but also manage all French related stuff that slips between the cracks. [[User Talk:Stevage|Stevage]] 06:55, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

::I'd love to contribute to this project (time permitting). It was quite a surprise for me to find out there wan't one already. There certainly ought to be one. Personally, I don't prefer the "parent" WikiProject idea. Having one big project feels better. That's the point of it after all. <span style="font-family:'palatino linotype'">'''[[User:LestatdeLioncourt|Lestat<span style="color:green">deLioncourt</span>]]''' <sup>[[User_talk:LestatdeLioncourt|talk]]</sup></span> <small>18:23, 30 November 2006 (UTC)</small>

:::I had requested technical help from the {{tl|WP India}} and {{tl|WikiProject Germany}} and the response was overwehlming. We would be able to use several tools available from them. If all goes well I would start the project in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to your support. [[User:SlaveToTheWage|STTW]] <font color="green">[[User_talk:SlaveToTheWage|(talk)]]</font> 18:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

== Football (soccer) in the United States of America and Canada ==
Please offer suggestions for a better name (preferably shorter.) 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. [[User:XYZ CrVo|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)
::*[[User:Jazznutuva|Jazznutuva]] 06:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
::*[[User:Bill Oaf|Bill Oaf]] 13:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
::*[[User:Canadiana|Canadiana]] 15:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
::*[[User:Minfo|м info]] 23:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
:*'''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. [[User:Jazznutuva|Jazznutuva]] 06:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
:::*I agree with the name suggestion. I'm not clear on the structure of WikiProjects - when a subProject is better, when it should be its own thing, etc., so I'll defer to the experts on that. [[User:Bill Oaf|Bill Oaf]] 13:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
::::*You don't want to say "the USA and Canada"; see guidelines at [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations]]: "When including the United States in a list of countries, do not abbreviate the “United States” (for example, “France and the United States”, not “France and the U.S.”)." I'm good with North America which you can easily defines as the United States and Canada. Existing articles on soccer specific to the United States and Canada use "soccer" rather than "football" and I think that is consistent with Wikipedia principles regarding spelling and usage, but that is certainly a good topic for discussion if we had a project page. [[User:Canadiana|Canadiana]] 15:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::*I think the title should definitley be '''Wikiproject North American Soccer''' as in North America [[football (soccer)|football]] is [[american football|football]]. [[User:Minfo|м info]] 23:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

==Greenland==

'''Description''': This project will serve to increase the overall scope of awareness and knowledge of the independant Danish island nation of Greenland and create and improve articles relating to it. It will serve, in an atmosphere of cooperation and diversity, as a guide and a model to assist fellow wikipedians who wish to improve the quality of their articles.

'''Temporary project page: [[User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Greenland]]
<br>
'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please your add name below)
* [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]]
*[[User:Maunus|Maunus]]

==Gulf Wars==
'''Description''': To create and improve articles relating to the Gulf Wars, spanning from the Iran-Iraq War, The First Gulf War (Operation Desert Sheild) and indepth work on the Second Gulf War (2003 War of Iraq) and the on-going conflict. Related topics include things such as the burning of Kuwaiti oil fields, Gulf War Syndrome and The Iraqi Republican Guard. Also included will be the improvement of related movies, documentaries and shows concerned with the Gulf Wars.

'''Intrested Wikipedians''' Add your names :::
1. --[[User:Sharz|Sharz]] 07:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
:You might contact [[WP:MILHIST|WikiProject Military history]] to see if one or more of its existing task forces already deal in detail with this subject. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 18:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
::Indeed. We don't have anything explicit at the moment, but setting up a new task force should be much simpler than creating an entirely separate new WikiProject. [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 18:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

==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]]
==Hamburg==

; Description : This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of [[Hamburg]], its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Hamburg in a fair and accurate manner. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [[User:LiangHH|亮HH]]

; Comments
*Itwould be great if someone ca ntake this on. There's already a format for the project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for format. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
*In this case, I could agree. However, I personally think it would make more sense if these subprojects focused on states of Germany, rather than simply individual cities. Considering Hamburg is both a city and a state, though, that wouldn't apply here. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 14:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

==Heroes==
'''Description''': Dedicated to maintaining and improving all articles related to the television show [[Heroes (TV Show)|Heroes]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (Please add your name below.):

#[[User: EnsRedShirt|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.--<font color="red">[[User:Farquaadhnchmn|Farquaadhnchmn]]</font><font color="green"><sub>([[User talk:Farquaadhnchmn|Dungeon]])</sub></font> 22:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

==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:'''
* [[User:Tyheal]] 01:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name below):'''
* [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Comment'''
*I would be interested in Yellowknife instead of a specific topics about it. [[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 23:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

==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)


== 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):
*[[User:Luckyluke|Luke!]] 05:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:MCB|MCB]] 06:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments'''



==Iceland==

'''Description''': The project is being created to create, improve and maintain articles relating to [[Iceland]], its geography, history, people, and culture.

'''Temporary project page''': [[User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Iceland]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''': (add your name below if you're interested):
*[[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]]
*[[User:D. Webb|D. Webb]]
*[[User:Wirthi|Wirthi]]
*[[User:Icelandic Hurricane|íslenskur]] '''''[[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Contributions|fel]][[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Esperanza|<font color="green">lib</font>]][[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Contributions|ylur]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Icelandic_Hurricane #12]''''' <sub>[[User talk:Icelandic Hurricane|(samtal)]]</sub>

'''Comments''':
I proposed this project earlier, though I only got one other person to join. [[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Wikipedia: WikiProject Iceland|Here's]] the original page, if you want to incorporate any of that stuff into your page. [[User:Icelandic Hurricane|íslenskur]] '''''[[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Contributions|fel]][[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Esperanza|<font color="green">lib</font>]][[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Contributions|ylur]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Icelandic_Hurricane #12]''''' <sub>[[User talk:Icelandic Hurricane|(samtal)]]</sub> 22:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
:I expect it will be incorporated in. I'll probably wait until the project is officially started before I do so, though. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 15:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

==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):

#[[User:Shimmera|Shimmera]] 16:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
#[[User:Icelandic Hurricane|íslenskur]] '''''[[User:Icelandic Hurricane/Contributions|fellibylur]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Icelandic_Hurricane #12]''''' <sub>[[User talk:Icelandic Hurricane|(samtal)]]</sub> 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]]. -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 18:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

==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:''' [[User:Lbmixpro|LBMixPro]] [[User talk:Lbmixpro|<sup>&lt;Sp</sup>]][[WP:EA|<font color="#0c0"><sup>e</sup></font>]][[User talk:Lbmixpro|<sup>ak|</sup>]][[WP:CCD|<font color="#0cc"><sup>o</sup></font>]][[User talk:Lbmixpro|<sup>n|it!&gt;</sup>]] 09:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
*--[[User:Ironbrew|Ironbrew]] 08:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[[User:Saleem Sinai|Saleem]] 01:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)<br>
Da'jhan 20:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

==Interbank networks==

'''Description:'''
This project is intended to expand Wikipedia's current coverage of the world's various [[interbank network]]s (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:''' [[User:Sky Harbor|<font color="#0066ff" ><b>Sky Harbor</b></font>]] 14:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):

==Interwiki==
; Description : To coordinate the use of interwiki bots, limiting database load and increasing coverage of the entire wiki.

; Temporary page : [[User:ST47/WikiProject Interwiki]]

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [[User:ST47|ST47]]<small>[[User talk:ST47|Talk]]</small>
# [[User:Nuno Tavares]] [[User talk:Nuno Tavares|talk]] 15:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
# Currently on a wikibreak, but would join on return. -- [[User:Sundar|Sundar]] <sup>\[[User talk:Sundar|talk]] \[[Special:Contributions/Sundar|contribs]]</sup> 08:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

; Comments

==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) [[User:Poolkris|Kris]] 15:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC) <br>
2) [[User:Jaxten|Jaxten]] 00:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

==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]]<br>
2) [[User:Stallions2010|Stallions2010]] 01:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)<br>

;Comments:
* This was discussed on [[Talk:Kansas City, Missouri]] and five or so people were interested, so [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas City|the project has been started]]. I did not Geobeedude had posted it here as well, but I will let him know. -- ''[[User:Nae'blis|nae]]'[[User_talk:Nae'blis|blis]]'' 20:12, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

==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):
*[[User:Ozgurgerilla|Ozgur Gerilla]] 01:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Khosrow II|Khosrow II]] 22:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:D.Kurdistani|D.Kurdistani]] 18:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Heja helweda|Heja Helweda]] 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
*Conditional support. Should be named "Wikiproject Kurdish people" or something along that line. --<small>[[User:Cool Cat|Cat]] [[User talk:Cool Cat|out]]</small> 18:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Stallions2010|Stallions2010]] 01:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:KazakhPol|KazakhPol]] 06:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Awat|Awat]] 13:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments: '''
:It should be renamed to "Wikiproject Kurdish people" as per naming conventions. --<small>[[User:Cool Cat|Cat]] [[User talk:Cool Cat|out]]</small> 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." --[[User:D.Kurdistani|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?
:::--<small>[[User:Cool Cat|Cat]] [[User talk:Cool Cat|out]]</small> 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. [[User:Ozgurgerilla|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. --<small>[[User:Cool Cat|Cat]] [[User talk:Cool Cat|out]]</small> 15:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
::::I'm happy with Kurdish people. [[User:Ozgurgerilla|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. --[[User:D.Kurdistani|D.Kurdistani]] 06:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
:::I should have a proper name from the begining. Name changes can be complicated. --<small>[[User:Cool Cat|Cat]] [[User talk:Cool Cat|out]]</small> 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). [[User:Heja helweda|Heja Helweda]] 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think we should go with '''Kurds'''. [[User:Ozgurgerilla|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. --[[User:D.Kurdistani|D.Kurdistani]] 00:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

==Macau==
'''Description:''' Just like Hong Kong Macau is famous as a torist area, this project aims to expand the articles related to the self administererd region.

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:Enlil Ninlil/WikiProject Macau]]

'''User:''' [[User:Enlil Ninlil|Enlil Ninlil]] 07:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):

==Mario==

'''Description:''' A WikiProject dedicated to improving Mario-related articles. Since there is a Legend of Zelda WikiProject, shouldn't there be one for Mario too?

'''Temprorary project page:''' [[User:Llama man/WikiProject Mario]]

'''User:''' &ndash;[[User:Llama man|The Gr]][[User:Llama man/Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">e</span>]][[User:Llama man|at Llama]]<sup>[[User talk:Llama man|<span style="color:red;">moo?</span>]]</sup>

'''Interested Wikipedians'''
#

'''Comments'''
*We have [[WP:CVG]] and [[WP:NES]]... you don't need to make a whole WikiProject just to work on Mario articles. -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 02:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

==MMORPGs==

'''Description:''' [[MMORPG]]s 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:''' '''''[[User:Schzmo#|<font color="#6495ed">SCH</font><font color="#3cb371">ZMO</font>]]''''' [[User talk:Schzmo|✍]] 22:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
*<font style="arial: ridge 2px #FF0000; background-color: #000000" color=#FF0000><big>'''&nbsp;[[User:Orfen|<font color=#ff0000><font face="arial"><b><i>Orfen]]&nbsp;'''</b></i></font></big><sup><small>[[User_Talk:Orfen|<font color=#FF0000><font face="arial"><u>User Talk]]</sup></u> 21:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
--[[User:Destructo 087|Destructo 087]] 00:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
<br>
Da'jhan 20:12, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
<br>
[[User:Greeves|Greeves]] 22:36, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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[[User:Cheeseyman|Cheeseyman]] 23:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

==Munich==
'''Description:'''
*To help [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany|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/WikiProject Munich]]

'''User:'''
*[[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 01:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians:'''
* [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 23:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC) - It'll be a few days before I can actually ''do'' anything, but I'll help out as I can.

== 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:''' <font color="green">[[User:akuyume|akuyume]]</font><sup>[[User_talk:akuyume|T]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions:akuyume|C]]</sub> 02:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians:'''
* [[User:NDCompuGeek|NDCompuGeek]]
* [[User:Fang Aili|Fang Aili]]
* '''''[[User:Bibliomaniac15|<font color="black">bibliomaniac</font>]][[User talk:Bibliomaniac15|<font color="red">1</font>]][[WP:EA|<font color="green">5</font>]]'''''
* <font color="dodgerblue"> [[User:EdBoy002|Ed]]</font><font color="red">[[User_talk:EdBoy002|Boy]]</font><sup>[[User:EdBoy002/Programming|[p]]] [[User_talk:EdBoy002/Programming/MakeUp|[m]]]</sup>
* [[User:Madder|Madder]]
* &nbsp;<small><span style="border: 1px solid green; -moz-border-radius:10px">[[User:Codu|'''<span style="background-color:White; color:FireBrick; -moz-border-radius-topleft:10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:10px">&nbsp;&nbsp;Codu&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>''']][[User talk:Codu|<span style="background-color:green; color:white; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:10px; -moz-border-radius-topleft:10px">&nbsp;&nbsp;talk&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Codu|<span style="background-color:green; color:white">&nbsp;&nbsp;contribs&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]][[Special:Emailuser/Codu|<span style="background-color:green; color:white; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:10px; -moz-border-radius-topright:10px">&nbsp;&nbsp;email&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small> 02:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

== 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:'''<font color="red">[[User:Farquaadhnchmn|Farquaadhnchmn]]</font><font color="green"><sub>([[User talk:Farquaadhnchmn|Dungeon]])</sub></font>

'''Interested Wikipedians:'''
# [[User:Phydend|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. [[User:RobJ1981|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. [[User:Phydend|Phydend]] 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
*I think the television and film aspect would be better served under the existing television and film projects. There is a real difference between the company/corporate infrastructure/physical assets and the creative assets, and they should be coordinated separately. --'''[[User:Ckatz|Ckatz]]'''''<small><sup>[[User_talk:Ckatz|<font color="green">chat</font>]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Ckatz|<font color="red">spy</font>]]</sub></small>'' 09:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

== 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 music|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''': [[user:Krushsister|krushsister]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''':
# &mdash; [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine]]\<sup>[[User_talk:CatherineMunro|talk]]</sup>
# &mdash; [[User:feduciary|Richard]]\<sup>[[User_talk:feduciary|talk]]</sup>
# &mdash; [[User:Human historian|Matt]]\<sup>[[User_talk:Human historian|talk]]</sup>

==Notability==

'''Temporary Project Page''': [[WP:WPNN|WikiProject Notability]]

'''Description''': This project is desprately needed in order to work on the [[CAT:NN|Wikipedia articles with unclear importance]] backlog, which holds a little over 4800 articles. It would centralize the effort to clear the backlog as well as recruit more people to help with it. Between the time periods of 11 P.M. and 9 A.M. EST (12/7/06) about 20 articles were added to the category while only 8 articles were sorted.

'''User:''' [[User:Diez2|Diez2]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''':

==NPOV Backlog Taskforce ==

'''Description'''
A group to work on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:NPOV_disputes 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_Cleanup Wikipedia:POV Cleanup]. Currently 3.000 pages, plus another few hundred in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_which_may_be_biased Category:Articles which may be biased]. Participants should know [[WP:NPOV]], [[WP:VERIFY]], etc.

''Temporary project page:''' none

'''User:''' [[User:Steve Hart|Steve Hart]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
# '''''[[User:Nauticashades|Nautica]]''<font color="black">[[User Talk:Nauticashades|Shad]]</font><font color="black">[[Wikipedia:Esperanza|e]]</font><font color="black">[[Special:Contributions/User:Nauticashades|s]]</font>''' 21:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
#[[User:Diez2|Diez2]] 14:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

== Lead Paragraph Cleanups ==

'''Description'''

The problem of lenthy [[lead paragraph]]s here on wikipedia is becoming very serious, perhaps 20% of all articles open with very long segemented and complicated lead paragraphs. I propose to manage a group to work on tagging and cleaning up a large number of the articles with lead paragraphs that are either to long or too short in accords to [[WP:LEAD]]. Tasks will entail, tagging, editing and bringing discussions to a consensus on the issues relevant to the topic. The appropriate length of a lead depends on subject of the article. This is an important matter since the "lead" immediately grabs the attention of the reader. to meet quality standards.

'''User:''' [[User:FrummerThanThou|Frummer]]

'''Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)'''
# [[User:FrummerThanThou|Frummer]]
#[[User:Filll|Filll]]
# [[User:Nishkid64|Nishkid64]]
'''Comments'''

==Orders, Decorations, and Medals==

'''Description'''

Wikipedia's coverage of national orders, decorations, and medals is pretty disjointed and disorganised. Some articles have had an awful lot of work put into them (eg. [[Order of the Garter]] and other British chivalric orders, most of these are now FA; famous medals such as the [[Victoria Cross]] and [[Medal of Honor]] also attract signficant attention), others have patchy coverage (eg Canada), and others have little meaningful coverage at all (eg Australia). Many editors have put in fine individual efforts in this topic, but one thing is certain, Wikipedia's coverage of this topic is far from definative.

Part of the problem, I think, is that there is no central, coordinating body. Looking through a few Orders and medals articles, we see some which are flagged up as under the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics|Numismatics WikiProject]], others under the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|Military history WikiProject]], and others under are the wing of individual, national WikiProjects. Orders and medals certainly come within the orbit of each of these, but it is a topic which is very much overshadowed by their main focuses, coins and banknotes, military history, and national topics respectively. As a result coverage is patchy, there is no consensus of style, medal-related categorisation is a mess, even simple things like pictures are overwhelmingly absent.

What I would like to propose is the establishment of a central project to deal solely with this topic, hiving off this area from these other WikiProjects. This would provide us with a means by which to evolve the consensus necessary to get some sort of uniformity of coverage. Any interest?

'''User:''' [[User:Xdamr|<span style="font-family: Times"><span style="font-size:18px">X</span><span style="font-size:14px">damr</span></span>]]<sup>[[User_Talk:Xdamr|talk]]</sup>

:Project now created - [[WP:ODM]]

:[[User:Xdamr|<span style="font-family: Times"><span style="font-size:18px">X</span><span style="font-size:14px">damr</span></span>]]<sup>[[User_Talk:Xdamr|talk]]</sup> 22:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)'''



== 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 see discussion at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine]]
Proposer: [[User:Lethaniol]] 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

#'''''[[User:Bibliomaniac15|<font color="black">bibliomaniac</font>]][[User talk:Bibliomaniac15|<font color="red">1</font>]][[WP:EA|<font color="green">5</font>]]'''''

; Comments
* I know nothing about medicime, but one thing that I think might work would be to contact [[WP:MED|WikiProject Medicine]] and see if they would be interested in creating a work group or task force to deal with this area. By making it a "subproject" of Medicine, it is more likely that the members of the Medicine project will be aware of it, and such a subproject arrangement might get more members of the Medicine WikiProject to join or contribute to articles in this field than a completely separate project would. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 15:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
*I will take that on board - thanks - have taken discussion to [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine]] [[User:Lethaniol|Lethaniol]] 14:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

== Place names ==

; Description : The idea of the project is to have a page where one might find the answer to questions like:
:*"How many places in the world are named XXXXX?" or
:*"What other places are called XXXXX?"

This is a little more complex than a simple category in which an article about a certain place would be given the tag, because when a person visited that Category list the intention would be to not only see a list of all the articles which are linked in Wikipedia, but also a brief note to aid the user in choosing the one which might be most useful or appropriate to their needs.

For example if one was interested in "[[Victoria]]" the name Victoria would be found in the list and it would carry brief information such as that found in [[Victoria#Place names]] for any and all places that have "Victoria" as part of their name.

Why not simply incorporate this information into new and existing articles so that it appears as it does in the article called Victoria? Although it would be great, there are reasons to have a separate alphabetical list of places:

#Because a searcher might not find an article which is simply based on the name he is seeking, or the main article which dealt with the term might not be about a place. (eg [[Hope]])
#Because the creator of a new article using a term which is a place name might not even be aware that it is a place name.


The project I imagine would show each name which had more than one location attached to it as an expandible link eg:
:'''+Place name''', which, when it was clicked would display all the names in the list together with their brief descriptions.
In addition, Place names could be included into sub groups, such as "Place names in Africa", or even Place names by other divisions, such as continent, country, etc.

Proposed by: [[User:Jaxhere|<font color="Blue">'''J'''</font><font color="Red">'''A'''</font><font color="Green">'''X'''</font><font color="Blue">'''HERE'''</font></span>]] | [[User_talk:Jaxhere|<font color="Blue">'''T'''</font><font color="Red">'''a'''</font><font color="Green">'''l'''</font><font color="Blue">'''k'''</font>]] 15:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


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

; Comments

==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]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
*-→[[User:Buchanan-Hermit|<font color="blue">Buchanan-Hermit</font>]][[WP:EA|<font color="darkgreen">™</font>]]/[[User talk:Buchanan-Hermit|<font color="red" size="1">?!</font>]] 04:30, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
* --[[User:Torritorri|TorriTorri]]<sup>[[User talk:Torritorri|Talk to me!]]</sup> 22:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)



==Relativity==

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

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:MathPhys/WikiProject Relativity]]'''

'''User:''' [[User:MathPhys|MP]] [[User_talk:MathPhys | (talk)]] 12:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):'''
:[[User:Harald88|Harald88]] 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
:[[User:ems57fcva|ems57fcva]] 02:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
:[[User:JRSpriggs|JRSpriggs]] 05:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

'''Comments''':

... Do you want us to put our names at both places? [[User:Harald88|Harald88]] 13:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
... Yes. :) [[User:MathPhys|MP]] [[User_talk:MathPhys | (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. -- [[User:SCZenz|SCZenz]] 16:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
:: Good point! It makes sense to me, yes. Certainly open for discussion. [[User:Harald88|Harald88]] 19:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Might be better to make this a task force of [[WP:Phys|WikiProject Physics]]. See how the [[WP:MILHIST|Military History WikiProject]] does it. --<font color="3300FF">[[User:Aguerriero|Aguerriero]] ([[User_talk:Aguerriero|talk]])</font> 22:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

==The Rolling Stones==

'''Description:'''
The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to the British rock band, The Rolling Stones.

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject The Rolling Stones]]'''

'''User:''' [[User:Robertjohnsonrj|robertjohnsonrj]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):'''

'''Comments''':

==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''': <small>[[user:Esoltas|Evan]]<sup>([[User_talk:Esoltas|Salad dressing is the milk of the infidel!]])</sup></small> 23:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):'''
*[[User:SatuSuro|SatuSuro]]
*&mdash;&nbsp;[[User talk:Moondyne|Moondyne]] 16:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)


==Shopping Malls==
'''Description''': To make/unstub articles about famous shopping malls, as well as making sure that shopping mall articles are directed into the ri9ght places.

I am not going to be able to lead a wikiproject, therefore I would like someone else (if at all possible) to do this.

:'''Comment''' - Actually, very few people "lead" projects, they simply help organize them. You might be very well qualified to do that. You can certainly find some suggestions of how to do so at the [[WP:PROJDIR|Project Directory]]. And, on a side note, there is an extant [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls]], which covers the rather more moribund malls exclusively right now. Maybe you could contact them and see if, possibly with some help from you, they would be willing to expand their project to cover the living malls, too. [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 22:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

==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:''' [[User:The359|The359]] 04:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):

* [[User:Pc13|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.

* [[User:Cs-wolves|Cs-wolves]] 11:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC) : Support. I'm interested in motor racing, so this will do nicely for me.

* [[User:FCYTravis|FCYTravis]] 02:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Absolutely - great idea, The359!

* [[User:Marc Lacoste|Marc Lacoste]] 21:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC) definitely needs organisation.

==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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Stadiums|Football (Soccer) stadiums]]. But be aware, even though other projects have this stuff, that doesn't mean anything has been done about it.

'''User:'''
[[User:Kingjeff|Kingjeff]] 04:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

'''Temporary project page''': [[User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Sports Venues]]

*'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):

'''Comments:'''

== Steely Dan ==

'''Description:''' This WikiProject is for (you guessed it) Steely Dan. Right now, only is the [[Steely Dan]] article itself lacking information, 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:'''<br>
{{User|Nauticashades}}<br>

'''Temporay Page:'''<br>
[[User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''': (please add your name)<br>
''Sign up at [[User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan]] also''<br>
#{{User|BabuBhatt}}
#{{User|Daniel Case}}
#{{User|Theoldanarchist}}
#{{User|DrDevin}}
#{{User|Chadbryant}}
#{{User|Fenrir2000}}
'''Comments:'''
*Very narrow project. Just ask on talk pages for help about Steely Dan. Wikipedia isn't a place to make fan clubs. Ask at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Music]] for help as well. If there was a project for every popular singer or band here, Wikipedia would be overrun with too many narrow projects. [[User:RobJ1981|RobJ1981]] 01:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

==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:''' [[User:Mperry|Mperry]] 19:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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

*'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):

* [[User:GreyCat|GreyCat]]: I'd like to join and help this project, starting with most basic theory about synthesizers - such as describing all major components, synthesis types, algorithms, then proceeding to individual pieces of equipment / software.

'''Comments:'''



== Theme Parks ==

; Description : A WikiProject which is dedicated to the updating and upkeep of new and existing Theme / Amusement parks across the world. A majority of theme park articles on Wikipedia are not up to standard and this project would fix the lack of information and quality of articles. --[[User:Lakeyboy|Lakeyboy]] November 30, 2006.

; Interested Wikipedians
# [[User:Lakeyboy|Lakeyboy]]
# [[User:Saberwyn|saberwyn]]
# [[User:Rehcsif|Rehcsif]]
; Comments

== Veterinary medicine ==
There are currently a number of projects dealing with specific species and kinds of animals. Almost by definition, many of these projects treat, at least peripherally, the health matters of these animals. Regretfully, there is no coordination of these efforts, and the number of true experts in the field who are best qualified to address the matters of veterinary medicine are thus often spread about among these groups. This project proposes to provide some degree of coordination of these editors, and more generally, to create, improve, and maintain articles dealing with matters of veterniary medicine.

'''User:''' [[User:Badbilltucker|Badbilltucker]] 23:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC) - Not one of the most qualified editors to address this matter, but will do what I can, probably primarily in support of the more expert editors.

'''Temporary project page''': [[User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Veterniary Medicine]] - yeah, once in a while my spelling sucks. It'll get corrected on the move.

*'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
#[[User:Joelmills|Joelmills]] - I'll do what I can as far as organizing and the actual writing.
#[[User:Montanabw|Montanabw]] 00:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Maybe, at least, I know where a lot of existing articles on various horse diseases are...
*'''Comments'''

== Wink club ==
*'''--[[User:Coallen|AVATAR_KYOSHI]] 12:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC):''' <!----~~~~-->

== 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]]

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):

'''Comments:'''

*I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "MediaWiki markup POV".. -- [[User:Ned Scott|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. --[[User:Dinoguy1000|Dinoguy1000]] <sup>[[User_talk:Dinoguy1000|Talk]]</sup> 19:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
***Ah, so basically a WikiProject that would come up with markup proposals for the [[MediaWiki]] software itself. -- [[User:Ned Scott|Ned Scott]] 04:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
**** Yeah, and possibly at least recommendations for other wiki software suites as well... --[[User:Dinoguy1000|Dinoguy1000]] <sup>[[User_talk:Dinoguy1000|Talk]]</sup> 05:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


== Wikiproject Arcade ==

; Description : Help bring more information on arcade classics, such as Pac-Man, Galaxian, DigDug, Rally X, their sequels, etc.

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [[User:pacmanfever|pacmanfever]]
# [[User:iguana_nirvana14|iguana_nirvana14]]
# pacman997

; Comments

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A WikiProject is a group of editors who want to work together. A WikiProject is not a subject area, a group of pages, a banner on talk pages, or any of the infrastructure used to support the group. If you do not have a group of editors, you do not have a WikiProject. Successful groups normally begin with about 10 active, experienced editors. Experience with participating in and collaborating in an existing group is particularly helpful.

Proposing a WikiProject

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In 2024, we are changing the proposal process. We are trying to reduce the number of failed attempts to start groups. While we re-structure the pages, please do not propose any new groups. In the meantime, please consider two thousand existing projects and/or try to revive one of the many dormant WikiProjects. If your group can't wait for the new process, please only create group pages in the userspace of one of your members. Do not create new templates or categories. If your group only exists in userspace, do not 'tag' articles on their talk pages.

You can use the search box below to locate existing WikiProjects and task forces:

Proposing a task force

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Any existing WikiProject can create a task force whenever it chooses, so the normal place to propose a task force is at the parent WikiProject's talk page. Announcing the task force elsewhere is permitted but neither required nor usually helpful.

Current proposals

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Closing proposals

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Proposals are generally closed as successful if several active editors (aim for 6 to 12) are interested in starting and participating in the group. For help with setting up the infrastructure, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject or post at the WikiProject Council talk page to request help. Proposals can be closed as unsuccessful after a month or two of stalled discussion. To close a proposal, follow the instructions at the template documentation and add the proposal link to the most recent archive page.

See also

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Open proposals
Abandoned proposals
Archived proposals
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