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WikiProject United Nations is a WikiProject under WikiProject International relations devoted to improving United Nations-related articles. Anyone can participate. Our discussion page is open for questions, comments, and suggestions. We aim to provide a centralized location for the discussion of standards for work on the United Nations articles on Wikipedia.
Goals
Provide a consistent theme for the articles relating to the United Nations.
Correctly categorize the articles relating to the United Nations in a coherent manner.
Improve the quality and create new United Nations articles .
Anyone can participate in this WikiProject. You may indicate your participation by signing the list shown below by clicking here. You may also add the userbox {{User WikiProject United Nations}} to your user page, shown on the right.
One, Rogue Monkey (talk·contribs) is the same person as Pahoran513. I've changed my name to one I like more (and isn't as religiously oriented). I'm the same person, so feel free to contact me (I have a bit of experience where the UN is concerned). Cheers.
Marialadouce (talk·contribs) 26 October 2006 (UTC) Available for translations to and from English, French and Spanish (as well as from Portuguese and Catalan).
Wikimancer (talk·contribs) 9 April 2008 (UTC) Hasn't anyone here read James Traub's "The Best Intentions"? Anyways, it's a good book, and there's a lot of good people in it for whom I think there should be articles here.
Problemsmith (talk·contribs) International Non-Governmental Organizations (iNGO)s, International Civil Society Organizations (iCSO)s, and Non-State Actors
This Wikipedia page needs to be updated. Please help update this Wikipedia page to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page.
Things you can do
To create: Index of thematic areas to help sorting out resolutions, see screen-scraped examples
To tag: Complete Category:United Nations General Assembly observers and find other categories, any articles that appear in the UN footer with project notice, pages that link to the UN Portal, stub tags to any short UN related articles that need them
The following is a list of templates that fall under our scope.
Templates
Footer
This footer is for use on all UN related pages. It should be expanded to include all the other UN entities (see United Nations System, but this may make it rather large. Using the following code:
{{Infobox UN}} may be used to summarize information about a body, organization, council or other group under the United Nations. Use the following code:
{{Infobox UN
| name =
| image =
| caption =
| type =
| acronyms =
| head =
| status =
| established =
| website =
| parent =
| subsidiaries =
| commons =
| footnotes =
}}
To get a (functional but somewhat unattractive) box like the one on the right:
Official documents
For citing official documents (resolutions, reports, verbatim transcripts) generated by the General Assembly or Security Council published under the UN masthead marked with a United Nations Document Code, use {{UN_document}} rather than direct URL links. Most documents on-line at the UN website are protected from deep linking by randomized URLs and session cookies, so your link will not work for anyone else.
{{UN_document}} citations are detailed enough to find on paper should you be fortunate to have access to a depository library. Meanwhile, many document codes can access documents through an independent website www.undemocracy.com which de-PDF-izes some of the meetings for web-friendliness. It is also able to serve individual PDF pages because some files are gigantic.
There are lots of establishments of mandates in Category:United_Nations_Security_Council_mandates and Timeline of United Nations peacekeeping missions which this needs to be applied to. It would be convenient if the above infobox could be extended to include further parameters, such as location, partners, better website link (e.g. as [http://blahblah {{{acronym}}} webpage]), latest status report, preceeded_by, suceeded_by, etc.
Portal link
This link is for connecting UN related articles to the UN Portal. Using the following code produces the box on the right:
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