Wiki143:WikiProject Architecture/Piers
This page is about articles related to piers.
- Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about piers, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.
- Scope: This page is related to articles about specific piers, types of piers, lists of piers, pier categorization, and related templates. If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention.
Membership Template
Template for members to include on their user page: Template:Tl.
Former project participants
- Paul E. Ester
- Lynbarn (chief interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier railways)
- KieranT (not much help beyond the south coast of England, but willing to help out :)
- davellandudno (main interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier pavilions)
- Dthomsen8 New Jersey piers, and American piers in general
- Stuffed cat Interested in the pleasure piers of the UK/Yorkshire coast
- Willrocks10- Project Re founder.
To Do
- Expand the guidelines for pier articles
- Nominate articles for good or featured status
- Add infoboxes to articles
- Standardize categorization for piers - discuss on the talk page
- Add latitude and longitude information to articles (see WP:GEO)
- Expand Category:Piers by country
- Infobox location switching
Change log
Add Major edits to the
- Project Changelog
Guidelines
The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The and serve as good models.
Introduction
The introduction sentence should include what type of pier it is, what it spans (river, lake, ocean, etc.), and where it is located:
- '''pier''' is a [[pier type]] that spans [[body of water/land]] between [[city, state]] and [[city, state]]. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].
Images and media
Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.
Templates and infoboxes
Template:Infobox pier is the preferred template and works best for users if it is at the top of the page.
Categorization
The article should be included in the category for the type of pier that it is (example Category:Amusement Piers). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Piers in the United Kingdom
There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all pier articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of Pier articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Piers in Japan), or small countries with relatively few Piers (Category:Piers in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Piers in New York (state)).
Infoboxes
- Template:Infobox pier is the preferred infobox for individual Piers. There are instructions on how to use it on the template page.
Categories
Good articles
Template:Asof Template:Columns-list
Piers of the Year
Template:Sisterlinks These are the past winners of "Pier of the Year": Template:Columns-list