View source for 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 ==
* In cooperation with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines|WikiProject Outlines]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indexes|WikiProject Indexes]], make a comprehensive navigation system of Wikipedia that lists every page in the encyclopedia.
* Make all lists titled "List of " conform to the standards of [[Wikipedia:Featured list criteria|Featured list criteria]]
** Note that outlines, indices, glossaries, timelines, and tables have their own standards.  See their respective WikiProjects for details.
** Note also that some "List of " pages are misnamed, and are actually outlines or indices, and fall within the scope of those two WikiProjects. Most of the misnamed lists include "topics" in their titles.
* Check through [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists]]
* Disperse [[:Category:Lists]] into their proper subcategories
* Create [[Wikipedia:Most wanted articles#List of <anything>]]
* Reduce the number of inappropriate [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat|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 most articles that are (or contain) lists. The lists that are intended as navigation aids are covered by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines|WikiProject Outlines]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indexes|WikiProject Indexes]].

== Tools ==

=== List-friendly search results enhancements ===

* [[User:The Transhumanist/SearchSuite.js|SearchSuite.js]] provides menu items to modify your search results. Some of the features include sort, hide details (listify), and even format your search results for easy copying and pasting into lists, with a click of your mouse. And more.

== Guidelines ==
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;General:
*[[Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates]]
*[[Wikipedia:Notability]]
** [[WP:NOTESAL|Stand-alone list notability]]
*[[Wikipedia:Lists]]
**[[Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)]]
**[[Wikipedia:Embedded list]]
*[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)]]
*[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists)]]
*[[Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)]]
*[[Wikipedia:Pro and con lists]]
;Help
*[[Help:List]]
*[[Help:Contents/Resources and lists]]
*[[Help:Table]]. External links section has free HTML-to-wiki converters.
*[[Wikipedia:When to use tables]]
*[[Help:Sorting]]. All about automatic sorting of table rows.
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;Rejected proposals:
*[[Wikipedia:Overlistification]]
*[[Wikipedia:Proposed guideline for lists of people by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural categorizations]]
;Essays:
*[[Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia]]
*[[Wikipedia:Listcruft]]
*[[Wikipedia:Write the Article First]] - one solution to cruft-y red links in lists
*[[User:Mike Cline/Conquering the Dilemma-Creating a Better List|Creating A Better List]] - A User Essay
*[[Wikipedia:Lists within articles]]
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== Assessment ==
The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject List/Assessment|'''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 [[Wikipedia:Namespace]].  

Currently, this project uses the [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/List articles by quality log|Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot]] for article statistics.  Therefore, it has become necessary for the project create a [[Template:WPBannerMeta#Custom masks|Custom mask]] for Quality class.  The [[Template:WikiProject_Lists/class|Custom mask for WikiProject Lists]] limits class to FL, List, and Stub for '''articles''', and automatically changes incorrect class codes.

::::::'''Article statistics'''
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/List articles by quality statistics}}

After adding our [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Project|Project template]] to a talk page, you may run our [[User:WP_1.0_bot|Assessment bot]] by clicking [http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/update.fcgi Run the bot right away] on the [[User:WP_1.0_bot|bot's User page]].  Type the word '''''List''''', then click  '''''Submit'''''.

== Lists of Wikipedia lists ==
Search google for [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikipedia.org+intitle:list intitle:list] or [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikipedia.org+intitle:comparison intitle:comparison], to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

See also [[Wikipedia:Contents]].
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;Articles
*[[List of lists]]
*[[List of lists of lists]]

;Categories:
*[[:Category:Lists]]
*[[:Category:Lists of lists]]

;Alphabetical index:
*[[Special:Allpages/List of]]...
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;Featured:
*[[Wikipedia:Featured lists]]
**[[Wikipedia:Featured list criteria|Featured list criteria]]
**[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates|Featured list candidates]]
**[[Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates|Featured list removal candidates]]
**[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log|Featured list log]]
**[[Wikipedia:Former featured lists|Former featured lists]]
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==[[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|25px|Books]] Articles ==
===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 {{tl|WikiProject Lists}}
*Add the article to the appropriate [[:Category:Lists|list category]]
*Tag incomplete lists with {{tl|expand list}} or {{tl|dynamic list}}
*Nominate interesting articles at [[Template talk:Did you know|Did you know?]]

===Article alerts===
{{/Article alerts}}

==Incomplete lists==
{{Main category|Incomplete lists}}

Because of Wikipedia's role as an [[WP:ALMANAC|almanac]] and a [[WP:GAZETTEER|gazetteer]] as well as an [[encyclopedia]], it contains a large number of [[Wikipedia:list|list]]s. 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, cannot be considered complete, or even representative of the class of items being listed; such lists should be immediately preceded by the {{tl|Incomplete list}} template, or [[Template:Incomplete_list#Templates|one of its topic-specific variations]]. Other lists, such as [[List of numbers]], may never be fully complete, or may require constant updates to remain current – these are known as "dynamic lists", and should be preceded by the {{tl|Dynamic list}} template.

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.

{{Category tree all|mode=all|Incomplete lists}}
{{Category tree all|mode=all|Dynamic lists}}

==[[Image:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|25px|2 people]] Members and userbox ==
<div style="float:right">
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<center>'''{{tl|User WP Lists}}'''
{{User WP Lists}}
'''{{tl|User WPLISTS}}'''
{{User WPLISTS}}
'''{{tl|User WP Lists 1}}'''
{{User WP Lists 1}}</center>
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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''':

<code><nowiki>[[Category:WikiProject Lists participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]</nowiki></code>

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

===Member list===
{{Category tree all|mode=all|WikiProject Lists participants}}

==Template uses==
:''See: [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists]] and [[:Category:Hatnote templates for lists]]''

=== Project ===
Place the {{tl|WikiProject Lists}} banner on '''all''' talk pages of list articles using the following code:

<pre>{{WikiProject Lists|class=list|importance=}}</pre>

which produces the following box: 

{{WikiProject Lists|class=list|importance=|category=no}}

and includes the article in the project.

===Requests for article improvement ===
Below are 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.

====General list templates====
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Delsort|Delsort]] |Lists<nowiki>}}</nowiki> - <!--Template:Delsort--> to add an AfD to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists]]. Produces:
** <small class="delsort-notice">'''Note''':  This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists|list of Lists-related deletion discussions]].</small>
* {{tl|Dynamic list}} - {{Dynamic list}}
* {{tl|Expand list}} or {{tl|Inc-list}} - {{Expand list|category = }}

====Content type list templates====
* {{tl|inc-lit}} - {{inc-lit}}
* {{tl|inc-musong}} - {{inc-musong}}
* {{tl|inc-sport}} - {{inc-sport}}
* {{tl|inc-transport}} - {{inc-transport}}
* {{tl|inc-video}} - {{inc-video}} or one of its sub-categories:
** {{tl|inc-film}} - {{inc-film}}
** {{tl|inc-tv}} - {{inc-tv}}

====Stub templates====
Stub templates are placed at the end of articles, below the categories. If the article's content consists of only list material, please use a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Requests_for_article_improvement|Request for improvement template]] rather than a stub template.

====Tags====
* {{tlp|Notability|Lists}} - {{Notability|lists}}
* {{Tlp|List missing criteria}} - {{List missing criteria}}

=== Navbox ===
{{tl|List navbox}} <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.

[[Template talk:List navbox|(Discuss the List navbox Template)]]
{{List navbox|category=no|state=uncollapsed}}

===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.

* {{Tl|stand-alone list}}
{{stand-alone list}}

==[[Image:Community.png|25px|WikiProjects puzzle]] Related WikiProjects ==
{{Commons cat|Lists}}
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indices|WikiProject Indices]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines|WikiProject Outlines]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies|WikiProject Bibliographies]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies|WikiProject Discographies]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Episode lists|WikiProject TV's ''Lists of episodes'' task force]] - see also [[Template talk:Episode list]]

==External watchlist==
*[https://toolserver.org/~legoktm/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+Lists Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Lists]

{{WikiProject Footer}}
{{Wikipedia policies and guidelines}}

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[[Category:Pagetype WikiProjects]]
[[Category:WikiProjects participating in Wikipedia 1.0 assessments]]