WikiProject France

Welcome to WikiProject France. We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of France and Monaco related articles, through collaboration and cooperation. If you would like to join us, please add your username to the members list.

WikiProject France concerns coordination, creation, development, and organization of efforts on all articles related to France and Monaco.

1. Get this project organized.
2. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to France/Monaco. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
3. To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of France/Monaco in the English language.
4. Build all Top Importance France Articles to Good Article status, at a minimum (FA is preferred). Current progress: 7 out of 93 articles meet this criteria.

Departments

Departments

Contents 

The contents department develops and maintains the navigation pages that serve the subject "France", in collaboration with the various contents projects (OOK, Lists, Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries, and Index).

Assessment 

The assessment department assesses and tracks all project related articles. If you have made significant contributions to an article, feel free to list at this page.

Categorisation 

The categorisation department works toward increasing organisation of the project via placing articles in correct categories.

Cleanup

This department focuses on the clean up and copy editing of articles tagged in need of attention.

Outreach

Discussion and implementation of outreach strategies, including discussion of the next newsletter.

Photo requests 

Please add any requested photos to this list.

Review Department  

The Review department aims to create a centralized area for all project-related articles currently undergoing either formal review (Good Article, Featured Article) or informal review (Wikiproject France Peer Review). This is the place to get information about listing an article for review.

Task forces

French cinema task force 

Task force of WikiProject Films.

French military history task force 

Task force of WikiProject Military history.

Paris 

Task force aims to develop, maintain, and improve articles relating to the capital.

WikiProjects

WikiProject Balzac 

Related WikiProject.

WikiProject French communes 

Child WikiProject.

WikiProject Monaco 

Related WikiProject.

Work groups

Adelie Land work group 

Work group of WikiProject Antarctica.

French Africa work group 

Work group of WikiProject Africa.

French Guiana work group 

Work group of WikiProject South America.

French Polynesia work group 

Work group of WikiProject Polynesia.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon work group 

Work group of WikiProject Caribbean.

Article Alerts

Proposed deletion

• 4 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from Military history of Catalonia (talk).
• 27 Jun 2009 – Cedric Ingargiola (talk) proposed for deletion by Aktsu.
• 25 Jun 2009 – PROD tag removed from 2009 flu pandemic in France (talk).

Articles for deletion

• 1 Jul 2009 – Valéry Grancher (talk) nominated for deletion by Galassi; see discussion.

Categories for deletion

• 29 Jun 2009 – Category:20th-century French people (talk) nominated for deletion by Mayumashu.

Featured article reviews

• 27 Jun 2009 – Samuel Beckett (talk) is demoted.

Good article nominations

• 25 Jun 2009 – Puss in Boots (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Kathyrncelestewright.
• 25 Jun 2009 – Paris–Roubaix (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 23 Jun 2009 – Jean Michel Jarre (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Parrot of Doom.
• 8 May 2009 – Charvet Place Vendôme (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Kan8eDie.

Peer review

• 1 Jul 2009 – Peer review opened for 2008 French Grand Prix (talk) by Darth Newdar.
• 1 Jul 2009 – Peer review opened for List of Tour de France winners (talk) by The Rambling Man.
• 30 Jun 2009 – Peer review for The French Democracy (talk) closed.

Requested moves

• 4 Jul 2009 – Nellcôte (talk) was not moved; see discussion.

Did you know

• 1 Jul 2009 – A fact from Compagnies Franches de la Marine (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 24 Jun 2009 – A fact from Puss in Boots (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 24 Jun 2009 – A fact from Tonkin commemorative medal (talk) appeared on the main page.

Bounty board

• 24 May 2009 – Bounty for bringing Albertville (talk) to FA status: $20 donation by Hektor.
• 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing World War I (talk) to FA status: US$250 donation by Roger Davies (expires on 31 December 2009).

Other news

• 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
• 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.

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Quick Help

Style Guides

Do you need help with the proper format of France/French terms or translations? See the Manual of Style links below:

• The France & French-related Manual of Style covers:

1. General Rules
2. Orthography, covers accents, ligatures, and sorting.
3. Naming Conventions, including noble titles, works of art, and place names.
4. Administrative Conventions, covers political and geographic divisions within France.
5. Transportation Conventions, Rail/Tram naming and terms (inlcuding SNCF related guidelines)

Announcements and News

• Wikipedia Release Version 0.7 will soon be ported to DVD. Some articles relating to the project were selected to appear. A number of articles have various clean-up tags, listed here. Please help out by addressing the concerns.
• We are in the process of creating a new review department, in order to provide a central location for all France related reviews at Peer Review, Good Articles, or Featured Articles. The initiation of an A-class review departement has also been proposed.
• Daft Punk became a Good Article.
• Louvre Abu Dhabi became a Good Article.
• The Project banner template has been updated with a parameter allowing articles within the scope of the Paris task force to be tagged as such. To tag an article, add |tf=Paris to the banner.

Open Reviews and Assessments

See the Review Department for discussion and full-listing of articles under review, or for information about listing an article for review. Please check the article alerts page for any unincorporated updates.

• Featured Article Candidates:

1. AMX-30

• Featured List Candidates:
• Good Article Nominations:

1. 2006 UEFA Champions League Final
2. North Sea

• Peer Reviews:

1. John Calvin (review)

• Featured Article Review: French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools and Lazare Ponticelli were listed at Featured Article Review.
• Articles currently requesting assessment: None Listed
• Articles for Deletion: Tanit (yacht) has been nominated for deletion or merger. Comments appreciated.

• Categories for Discussion: None listed

Open Tasks

• Place {{WikiProject France}} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project.
• Monitor the recent changes for improvements which might raise the assessment level, damages to the articles, and vandalism
• Respond and ameliorate articles listed for cleanup, copyediting, citations, references, orignial research, etc.
• Respond in your area of expertise to editor's requesting Reviews of the project's articles.
• The following articles are in need of expert attention, if you can provide this, please do:
  • Basque language - Being and Nothingness - Girondist
• Maintain and update the Template:France tasks (after completing a task, please replace the old with a new one by editing this template):

Wikipedia:France-related tasks You can help! Vous pouvez aider! Here are some France related tasks you can do: Requests: Gérard Garouste - Émile Peynot - more... Translation from French: fr:Formation territoriale de la France métropolitaine to Territorial formation of France - Loi constitutionnelle du 23 juillet 2008 to French constitutional law of 23 July 2008 - fr:Arbel Fauvet Rail to Arbel Fauvet Rail - fr:Merir to Merir - more... Stubs: Category:France stubs Category sorting: Category:French writers - Category:History of France - Category:Uncategorised France articles Verify or Factual Accuracy: Gui de Ceriz - Rennes-le-Château - Simone Weil Update: Bischwiller - - NPOV : Foreign relations of France (Middle East section) - Torture during the Algerian War - François Mitterrand - Jean-Marie_Le_Pen - John Calvin - Marie Antoinette Wikify: Dida Diafat - French architecture Citations: Vichy France (section) - Falaise pocket - Charles de Gaulle - Vaux-le-Vicomte - Economy of France - Louisiana Purchase - Merge: - Bourbon Family Compact Copyedit, Style or Cleanup: Antoine de la Sale - Albert Camus - Breton language - Claude Debussy - French Revolution - French language - Jean-Paul Sartre - Napoleon III of France - Nicolas Sarkozy - Picardie - Rennes - Sarah Bernhardt - Toulouse - Girondist - Louis XIV Expand: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - Vaux-le-Vicomte - Basque Language - Being and Nothingness France-related Wikiprojects: Wikipedia:WikiProject France view • edit • discuss • history • watch

Article Status

Current Article Statistics

France articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	8	8	4	11	33
	FL	1			1		2
	A					1	1
	GA	3	6	13	7	29	58
	B	32	116	120	51	229	548
	C	15	38	78	45	111	287
	Start	9	108	309	661	3116	4203
	Stub	5	70	332	35647	13305	49359
	List		2	38	13	694	747
	Assessed	67	348	898	36429	17496	55238
	Unassessed	5	7	6	117	12635	12770
	Total	72	355	904	36546	30131	68008

Articles needing attention

See here for a complete list of France related articles that need attention. Please respond to these requests if you're able.

Featured Content

These Featured articles have been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. They have not necessarily been improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These articles may be chosen as "Article of the month" or "Personality of the month" on the France portal.

The Featured images are chosen by the Wikipedia community because they are beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. France-related featured pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Gallery. Note: This list includes images from Commons.

A Featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A featured topic represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other.

Current Featured articles

This list might be out of date! Category:FA-Class France articles shows the list in real time.

Education

• French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools

Landmarks

• Prince's Palace of Monaco

Transport

• TGV

History

• Battle of Austerlitz
• Italian War of 1521-1526
• Military history of France
• War of the League of Cambrai

Society and Politics

• Médecins Sans Frontières

Geography

People

• Alain Prost
• Blaise Pascal
• Honoré de Balzac
• James Joyce
• Joan of Arc
• Le Père Goriot
• Michel Foucault
• Natalie Clifford Barney
• Nostradamus
• Olivier Messiaen
• Ramón Emeterio Betances
• Samuel Beckett
• Sophie Blanchard
• Thierry Henry

Sports

• France national rugby union team

Former Featured articles

• Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (demoted 7/07)
• Battle of Alesia (demoted 3/07)
• Battle of Normandy (demoted 9/07)
• Battle of the Somme (demoted 2/07)
• Franks
• Louis XIV of France (demoted 10/06)
• Montparnasse
• Suzanne Lenglen

Current Wikipedia Featured images

Notre Dame de Paris.	The Arc de Triomphe.	The Louvre.	Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
Napoleon's exile to Elba	D-Day	Montgolfier Brothers' first balloon flight	Front page of Emile Zola's famous letter
Jean-Paul Marat's acquittal	Sophie Blanchard	Hélène Dutrieu

Former Wikipedia Featured images

Current Commons Featured images

The European Parliament at Strasbourg.	A Bridge at Strasbourg.	The Eiffel Tower at sunrise from the Trocadero.	The first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
Map of principal French Cities.	The Louvre.	A panorama of the Village of Socoa, Pyrénées Atlantiques,.	Male Capra aegagrus hircus, in Provence near Verdon.
Homeless man at Paris. 2nd Place at the 2006 Commons picture of the Year.	Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower.	Painting from the French Revolution.	A Solar eclips in 1999.
Train wreck at Montparnasse in 1895.	The Grande Arche at La Défense.	The Mont Saint Michel.	Illustration of the France-Prussian War.
Map of the Pyrenees.	The Mont Blanc.	Napoleon III after his death.	The Parisians go to man the barricades against Prussia after the death of Napoleon III.
The Louvre and its Glass Pyramid.	The Mont Blanc.	Again another image of the Mont Blanc.	The Luxembourg Palace and Gardens.
The Aiguille du Midi which is next to the ... Mont Blanc!	The Argentiere Glacier on the slopes of the ... Mont Blanc.

Former Commons Featured images

The Orangerie at Versailles Palace.

Featured sounds

A chantar m'er

A 12th century song by Comtessa Beatritz de Dia, "A Chantar" is the only existing song by a trobairitz which survives with its music.

Au Clair de la Lune

This 1860 phonautogram by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is the earliest known recording of the human voice, though it was never intended to be played back.

Le régiment de Sambre et Meuse

An 1870 French song about the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse by Robert Planquette and Paul Cézano. Sung by Pierre d'Assy.

Victimae Paschali Laudes

The 11th-century "Victimae Paschali Laudes", traditionally attributed to Wipo of Burgundy, is one of the few traditional Latin "sequences" still used by the Roman Catholic Church today.

Featured lists

• List of French monarchs

Featured topics

• none

Featured portals

• France Portal
• Basque Portal

Good articles

This list might be out of date! Category:GA-Class France articles shows the list in real time.

Education

Geography

• Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes

Landmarks

• Pavillon de Flore

Transport

History

• Betelgeuse incident
• Pied-noir

Society and Politics

War and military

• Battle of Amiens
• Battle of France
• Battle of Quebec (1690)
• Battle of Tours
• Battle of Waterloo
• Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe
• Fort Senneville
• Morea expedition
• NATO

People

• Alizée
• Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
• Charlemagne
• Charles Heidsieck
• Claude Vorilhon
• Émile Lemoine
• Eva Green
• Henri Brocard
• Jean-Claude Mézières
• John Calvin
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Marcel Lefebvre
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Tony Parker
• Trobairitz

Culture, Literature and the Arts

• Carménère
• Champagne (wine region)
• Eyes Without a Face
• French cuisine
• Great French Wine Blight
• Languedoc wine
• Louvre Abu Dhabi
• Pascal's Wager
• Valérian and Laureline

Sports

• 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Monaco Grand Prix

Peer review/Featured article candidates

Following is a list of France-related featured article candidates. Please contribute toward making them featured articles by voting and copyediting to remedy potential objections.

Recent featured article candidates:

• World War II
• Peugeot 205
• Marie Antoinette

Following is a list of France-related articles submitted for peer review (an important step toward becoming a featured article). Please contribute by copy editing to remedy potential objections.

• Angevin Empire - Jan 2007
• DADVSI
• Paris
• French people
• Battle of Amiens

Templates, Infoboxes, Userboxes, and Ads

Userboxes and medals

• Members can add one of the following userboxes to their userpage.
• There are at this time two barnstars, one for France and the other for French Guiana, which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles in their specific field. A template is available for awarding a barnstar to users, more information about it is available at WikiProject France/Barnstar.

				{{User WikiProject France}} This user is a member of WikiProject France.
				{{User WikiProject France-2}} This user is a member of WikiProject France.
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Resources

Resources

Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union
• Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements (completed)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/French cinema task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/French military history task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Balzac
• Wikipedia:WikiProject French dialects

Portals

• Portal:European Union
• Portal:France
• Portal:French and Francophone literature
• Portal:Military history of France
• Portal:Paris

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

External links

Directories

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - France's country page
• CIA - The World Factbook
• Official site of the French public service - Contains many links to various administrations and institutions
• Parks in France - National parks, nature parks, reserves and other protected areas in France

Tourism, history, gastronomy

• (French) The picturesque France

Maps and travel guides

• France travel guide from Wikitravel
• Highresolution maps of france

Photos

• Photos of Paris
• Photos of France (Paris, Rennes, Savoie, Annecy)
• Other photos of France...
• 2000 photos of the most important cities in France