Wiki143:WikiProject New York City

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Project New York City

WikiProject New York City is a project to better organize information in articles related to New York City. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all. To help, please inquire on the discussion page and see the to-do list there.

Some suggestions for NYC-specific sources can be found at /Sources.

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Cities, and Wikipedia:WikiProject United States whose relevance is somewhat limited vis-a-vis documenting a single very large city and the many communities within it. At a state level, the parent of this project is WikiProject New York (state).

Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• WikiProject New York City Public Transportation
• WikiProject New York City/Theatre
• WikiProject Chinese in New York City
• WikiProject Columbia University
• WikiProject City University of New York

Task Forces

• 400th Anniversary Task Force
• Environment of New York City Task Force
• Housing and Tenant Rights Task Force

Members

Anyone who is interested in improving any New York City-related articles can join this project. Please feel free to add your name to the project here.

Structure

Naming conventions

• subway stations - see the subway WikiProject

Goals

Tentative:

1. Standardization, building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles.
2. Standardization of articles relating to the New York City Subway.

General strategy and discussion forums

• WT:NYC
• This page has been created to help fill in some of the gaps in Wikipedia's coverage of the city. Some are persistent red links or unfortunate obvious omissions, others have been requested elsewhere on Wikipedia. There is also a list of those hopeful articles that fall just short of full greatness, and await only some finishing touches.

Editors are encouraged to add new requests in the appropriate section.

Please also help answer a large set of implicit requests by expanding some of the File:Flag of New York City.svg NYC-stubs.

Requests for uncreated articles

• Russian Samovar (ru:Русский самовар, web), restaurant formerly owned by Joseph Brodsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov, meeting point of Russian literary and art circles in NYC) --Off-shell (talk) 10:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
• Darlington Hotel collapse, a 1904 disaster which killed 5 people. A nine-story building under construction at 6th Av and 46th St collapsed while it was under construction. An enquiry blamed flaws in the cast iron construction technique. Pburka (talk) 01:34, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
• Thomas F. Prendergast (railroad executive), former president of the Long Island Rail Road and later the entire Metropolitan Transportation Authority ---------User:DanTD (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
• Urban Assembly, a not-for-profit network of 21 schools (non-charter public) https://urbanassembly.org/ --Orange Mike | Talk 03:03, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
• New Visions for Public Schools, one of the myriad "education reform" outfits https://www.newvisions.org/ --Orange Mike | Talk 03:03, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
• German Americans in New York City - article on the history and culture of German-Americans in the city. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 23:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
  • If there is still interest in this subject I'd be happy to help contribute. German culture in NYC has some fascinating history, especially between the 1880s through 1920s! I'm not sure how best the article should be structured, but perhaps I can start working up a draft based on similar ethno-cultural articles. - Headphase (talk) 14:54, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

    era-neighborhood in chronological order, downtown to uptown to outer boroughs to further; churches; ... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 09:44, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

    • If this ever gets done, I suggest including a mention of The American Turners Club in the Bronx.[1]
• Brooklyn Academy of Photography
• New York City sewer system; or expand coverage of sewerage in the article on the New York City water supply system, which is currently 95% about water sources rather than treatment/disposal; or expand coverage of sewerage in New York City waste management system, which is currently 95% about solid waste. -- Avocado (talk) 14:37, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Articles needing photos

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New York City.

Requests for expansion or collaboration

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, Wall Street - 42nd Street (Manhattan) - 1939 New York World's Fair - New York City Council - Bloomberg Tower - New York City Hotels - Brooklyn Paramount Theater - New York City steam system - Michael Mukasey - Staten Island Technical High School - New York City Department of Correction - Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn) - College of Insurance - Ritz-Carlton Hotel (New York) - Toby Orenstein - The Girl Puzzle - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Requests for help with the near-featured or failed-featured

1964-1965 New York World's Fair - New York City Subway - Gowanus Canal - 7 Subway Extension

Article assessment

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/New York City articles by quality statistics}}

Assessment links Log, a bot-generated detail log for "New York City" articles. Popular pages, a bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles. Worklist Unassessed articles Request a reassessment

In an effort to assess NYC articles for possible inclusion in Wikipedia:1.0, an assessment page was started for this project. Details about how to assess an article and how to request an assessment are on the /Assessment page. Information on articles is tabulated by a bot, resulting in a worklist and the table we see at the right.

Templates

• Template:Tl for use at stubby NYC-related articles.

Template:Asbox

• Template:Tl for use at New York City building and structure stubs.

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• Template:Tl for New York City transportation stubs.

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• Template:Tl, for stubs relating to the geography of NY State in general (including the city).

Template:Bronx-geo-stub Template:BrooklynNY-geo-stub Template:Manhattan-geo-stub Template:QueensNY-geo-stub Template:StatenIsland-geo-stub

• Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl. New York City geography stubs are being sorted into categories by county if possible, following this pattern. See Category:New York City geography stubs for a full list of new stub templates.

• Template:Howtoreqphotoin

• Project Banner, Template:Tl, with shortcut Template:Tl. To be placed on article talk pages.

Template:WP:NYC/userbox Template:User WPNYC User:Roosterrulez/Wikiproject New York City Userboxen, Template:Tlu, Template:Tl or Template:Tlu. If they wish, users may add a userbox to their userpage to identify themselves as members of this Wikiproject. Adding the userbox will automatically add your userpage to Category:WikiProject New York City participants.

Recognized content

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/Recognized content}}

Requested photos

If you have an article about a NYC subject that needs a photo, and you think one of our members may be able to take that photo themselves, add a request to the list of wanted photos here. Note that this is not for all NYC articles needing photos, but requests that need someone local who may be able to take the picture.

Collaboration of the Month

Starting in June 2021, WikiProject New York City and Wikimedia New York City have selected articles or topics for focused monthly collaborations. Learn more about past outcomes and suggest future topics at the monthly collaboration page.

The collaboration for February 2023 is: Anthony Janszoon van Salee

Similar WikiProjects

Other WikiProjects covering individual cities can be a good source of mutual inspiration: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/List of city WikiProjects}}