TechInfoDepot:WikiProject Lists

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

Goals

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

Scope

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

Guidelines

 * General:
 * TechInfoDepot:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
 * TechInfoDepot:Notability
 * Stand-alone list notability
 * TechInfoDepot:Lists
 * TechInfoDepot:Lists (stand-alone lists)
 * TechInfoDepot:Embedded list
 * TechInfoDepot:Manual of Style (lists of works)
 * TechInfoDepot:Naming conventions (long lists)
 * TechInfoDepot:Notability (organizations and companies)
 * TechInfoDepot:Pro and con lists
 * Help
 * Help:List
 * Help:Contents/Resources and lists
 * Help:Table. External links section has free HTML-to-wiki converters.
 * User:Hyacinth/How to use tables
 * TechInfoDepot:When to use tables
 * Help:Sorting. All about automatic sorting of table rows.


 * Rejected proposals:
 * TechInfoDepot:Overlistification
 * TechInfoDepot:Proposed guideline for lists of people by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural categorizations
 * Essays:
 * TechInfoDepot:Lists in TechInfoDepot
 * TechInfoDepot:Listcruft
 * TechInfoDepot:Write the Article First - one solution to cruft-y red links in lists
 * Creating A Better List - A User Essay
 * TechInfoDepot:Lists within articles
 * Related projects:
 * WikiProject Bibliographies - collaborative effort to important bibliography lists

Assessment
The assessment department gives details of our Quality and Importance statistics. This project will use only FL, List, and Stub for articles. Quality Classes such as Image, Template, Portal, Disambiguation, Category and Project will only be included in order to conform with the predefined TechInfoDepot:Namespace.

Currently, this project uses the Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot for article statistics. Therefore it has become necessary for the project create a Custom mask for Quality class. The Custom mask for WikiProject Lists limits class to FL, List, and Stub for articles, and automatically changes incorrect class codes.

After adding our Project template to a talk page, you may run our Assessment bot by clicking Run the bot right away on the bot's User page. Type the word List, then click Submit.

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

See also TechInfoDepot:Contents.


 * Categories:
 * Category:Lists


 * Alphabetical index:
 * Special:Allpages/List of...


 * Featured:
 * TechInfoDepot:Featured lists
 * Featured list criteria
 * Featured list candidates
 * Featured list removal candidates
 * Featured list log
 * Former featured lists

New articles
A list of recently-created list articles can be found at User:AlexNewArtBot/ListsSearchResult. This list is updated daily.

When reviewing new articles, be sure to perform the following tasks, where appropriate:
 * Tag the talk page with WikiProject Lists
 * Add the article to the appropriate list category
 * Tag incomplete lists with expand list or dynamic list
 * Nominate interesting articles at Did you know?

Incomplete lists

 * See also: Category:Incomplete lists.

Because of TechInfoDepot's role as an almanac as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the list of U.S. state birds, are typically complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Some 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. Provided, some lists may not be able to be fully complete, e.g. the list of numbers, but you may also add explanation where necessary such as that put at the top of the list of numbers.

It is our hope that other TechInfoDepotns 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.

Templates

 * See: TechInfoDepot:Template messages/Lists and Category:List notification templates

Project
Place the WikiProject Lists banner on all talk pages of list articles using the following code:

which produces the following box:

and includes the article in the project.

Requests for article improvement
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.

to add an AfD to TechInfoDepot:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists
 * Expand list -
 * Dynamic list -
 * inc-lit -
 * inc-musong -
 * inc-video - or one of its sub-cats:
 * inc-film -
 * inc-tv -
 * inc-sport -
 * inc-transport -
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.

Navbox
List navbox <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories. (Discuss the List navbox Template)

Userbox

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

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

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

Talk header
Below is template code that can be pasted at the top of a list talk page, for stand-alone lists where inappropriate subjects are often added. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.


 * stand-alone list

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Outlines
 * WikiProject Bibliographies
 * WikiProject Discographies
 * WikiProject TV's Lists of episodes task force - see also Template talk:Episode list