Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists

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Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.

Goals

• Make all lists conform to the standards of Featured list criteria
• Check through Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists
• Clean out Category:Lists that should be categories
• Disperse Category:Lists into their proper subcategories
• Create Wikipedia:Most wanted articles#Lists
• Reduce the number of inappropriate laundry lists
• Maintain Wikipedia:Contents and its subpages
• Make more lists to better organize Wikipedia articles
• Maintain and develop the list guidelines and help pages.

Scope

• The project covers all articles that are (and contain) lists. That includes those that are intended to aid in navigation through Wikipedia, and all articles whose intent is to gather disparate articles and info into useful groups.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Lists of Wikipedia lists 3 New articles 4 Incomplete lists 4.1 Templates 5 Related projects 6 Participants

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Lists of Wikipedia lists

Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

See also Wikipedia:Contents.

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Lists-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

• List of firefighting topics
• List of history topics
• List of films that received the Golden Film
• List of tallest buildings in Sacramento
• List of tallest buildings in Dubai
• List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
• List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
• List of tallest buildings and structures in Las Vegas
• List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington
• List of tallest buildings in San Diego

[edit] Incomplete lists

See also: Category:Incomplete lists.

Because of Wikipedia's role as an almanac as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the primary pigment colors or the states of the United States of America, are typically complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Most lists, however, are either not yet fully filled out or are difficult to keep current because the list is constantly changing. These are both referred to as incomplete lists. It's important that our readers understand that these lists should not be considered complete, or even representative of the class of items being listed. As such, we recommend inserting the {{Expand list}} tag either before or after any incomplete list.

It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it closer, if not to completion, then at least to a mature state in which only minor updates are required as times change. Of course, it's not clear for all lists what should or shouldn't be on it, and so completion may never be clear for these lists, but there should at least come a point where most representative and widely agreed upon entries are present...

[edit] Templates

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:List notification templates

• {{WikiProject Lists}}

Below are a couple examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

• {{Expand list}}

• {{Dynamic list}}

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

[edit] Related projects

• WikiProject TV's Lists of episodes task force - see also Template talk:Episode list

[edit] Participants

User WPLISTS This user is a participant of WikiProject Lists

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Lists participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage.

[[Category:WikiProject Lists participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WPLISTS}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

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Style	Manual of Style (lists of works) • Stand-alone lists • Embedded list • Pro and con lists • Naming conventions (long lists)
Content	What is a featured list? • WikiProject Lists • Portal:Lists
Philosophy	Categories, lists, and navigational templates • Categories vs lists • Lists in Wikipedia • Listcruft
Existing lists	Wikipedia:Featured lists • List of lists • List of lists of...
Templates	Template messages/Lists • Category:List templates
Technical assistance	Help:List