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WikiProject Ireland is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Ireland. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Contents 1 Participants 2 Major pending tasks 2.1 Done 2.2 To Do 3 Manual of Style (conventions) 4 Templates 5 Creation of articles 5.1 Done 5.2 To do 6 Categories 6.1 Done 6.2 To do 7 Substance 7.1 Done 7.2 To do 8 Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates 8.1 Tagged with WPIE template 8.2 Request Photo 9 Departments 10 Useful categories 11 Reference 12 Projects 13 Tasks 14 Adopt an article 14.1 Stubs 15 General strategy and discussion forums 16 Other subpages 17 Red links 17.1 Missing articles 18 Lists 19 Articles 19.1 Wikipedia articles on Ireland 19.2 Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Ireland 19.3 New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland 19.4 Did you know? 19.5 Article improvement drive 19.6 Collaboration of the week 19.7 Peer review 19.8 Featured articles 19.8.1 Featured article candidates 19.8.2 Featured article review 19.9 Featured pictures 19.9.1 Featured picture candidates 19.10 Featured lists 19.10.1 Featured list candidates 20 Wikipedia surveys 20.1 Ad hoc surveys 20.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys 20.2.1 Deletion links 20.2.1.1 WikiProject Deletion sorting 21 Project-related alerts 22 Requests 23 Structure 23.1 Parentage 23.2 Descendant WikiProjects 23.3 Similar WikiProjects 23.4 Task forces of this WikiProject 23.5 Related WikiProjects 23.6 Related Wikiportals 23.7 Related Collaborations 23.8 Related Regional notice boards 23.9 Related groups of Wikipedians 23.10 Associated pages 23.10.1 Related pages in Sister projects 24 Resources 25 External resources 26 Archives 27 Sister Project links

This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to Ireland, and to help with the creation of needed articles. It aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the main Ireland article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Ireland Portal.

Articles and categories relating to Ireland are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do’s.

[edit] Participants

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Members

[edit] Major pending tasks

[edit] Done

1. Modify WPI template so that it follows the hierarchy structure found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia.

[edit] To Do

[edit] Manual of Style (conventions)

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)

[edit] Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Templates

[edit] Creation of articles

[edit] Done

For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Log.

[edit] To do

1. To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
2. To improve the standard of articles relating to Ireland in general.
3. To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistency throughout.
4. To examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and to determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.
5. Maintenance of Ireland Portal.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Done

Category:WikiProject Ireland members

[edit] To do

Create a category of Ireland related stubs

[edit] Substance

[edit] Done

• Separated article on the Siege of Smerwick 1580 as part of category Irish Battles. 31 Mar 08
• Wikified Historical Aviation Society of Ireland, added logo, updated WP; per no-footnote tag ({{nofootnotes}}. 28 Aug 09

[edit] To do

• The main Dublin article needs to achieve featured status.
• Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
• All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
• The article on the Mahon Tribunal needs to be tidied up, verified, and fact-checked.
• Irish (Gaelic) words and phrases should be marked up using {{lang}}, thus: {{lang-ga|Páirc na hÉireann}}.

[edit] Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates

To list individual Ireland related articles need images fill in the "image-needed" parameter in the project tag {{WikiProject Ireland}} on the article talk page and it will be listed here

[edit] Tagged with WPIE template

For a complete list of the progress in tagging Irish related articles with the project template, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment and their current statistics.
Since July 2007, when 1,044 articles were tagged and many were unassessed or classified, much work has been done and as of 19 March 2008, 12,705 articles were tagged with none being unassessed and around 1,000 being unclassified, most being stubs. By 6 May 2008, 20,180 articles had been tagged, of which only were unassessed or unclassified.

[edit] Request Photo

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Ireland for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

To see a list of Irish articles tagged as needing images look at this category, print out the list and carry it with you when travelling in Ireland.

[edit] Departments

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment - the assessment department

[edit] Useful categories

Find articles of interest to edit or improve in the following categories:

[edit] Reference

[edit] Projects

1. Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Missing articles

[edit] Tasks

• To Do List

1. Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Ireland-related edits in the past
2. Fix templates to talk pages
3. Construct /Article Classification by following the category 'tree'
4. Assess articles at /Article Classification

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• Example article: User:Example

Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Adopt an article to see how this section is used.

[edit] Stubs

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

• /Article Classification
• /Log
• /To do
• /Missing articles (and article requests)

[edit] Red links

See /Red links for a full list.

[edit] Missing articles

[edit] Lists

See Category:Ireland-related lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Ireland

• Ireland

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Ireland

• w:Ireland
• meta:Ireland

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland

Please feel free to list your new Ireland articles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 5 day time limit from the creation of the article and must be 1500+ characters of prose.

Many newly created Irish related articles appear on the Ireland search results

• Theobald Burke
• The Monks of the Screw
• Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin Hohenloh ⁺
• St. Bride's Church, Dublin Hohenloh ⁺
• Charles Smith (topographer) Hohenloh ⁺
• Walter Harris (historian) Hohenloh ⁺
• Irish Race Conventions
• Dublin Pride
• Oliver Sheppard
• Lifestyle Sports
• Lutheran Church in Ireland. <flrn> 06:55, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

Here are some articles which are "good". Let's improve them and make them featured!

Ireland

Ireland King of Arms

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

• Christian Conventions

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured article review

[edit] Featured pictures

• High Cross in Ireland at high cross, by Chmouel Boudjnah, edited by Fir0002

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Deletion links

• Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
• Deletion review (Article undeletion):
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Ireland-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ireland.

[edit] Project-related alerts

Article alerts

Proposed deletion 29 Dec 2009 – Seamus Ó Aodha (talk) has been deleted. 29 Dec 2009 – Tom Egan (Athenry) (talk) has been deleted. 20 Dec 2009 – Munster Junior League (talk) has been deleted. Articles for deletion 1 Jan 2010 – David J. Simms (talk) was kept; see discussion. 31 Dec 2009 – Ciaran Buckley (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. 24 Dec 2009 – Sugar fm (talk) nominated for deletion by Rapido; see discussion. 21 Dec 2009 – Sara Lou (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. 20 Dec 2009 – Crux Entertainment (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. 20 Dec 2009 – Five Peaks Challenge (talk) was kept; see discussion. Good article nominations 31 Dec 2009 – Ben Bulben (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Archanamiya. 16 Dec 2009 – Steorn (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Meco. 3 Dec 2009 – SS Irish Oak (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Mjroots; see discussion. 23 Nov 2009 – Cathy Davey (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Candlewicke. 22 Nov 2009 – The Frontline (Irish TV series) (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Cargoking. 18 Nov 2009 – Charles Stewart Parnell (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Fribbler; see discussion. 16 Nov 2009 – Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Cirt. 16 Nov 2009 – Van Morrison: No Surrender (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Cirt. Good article reassessment 19 Dec 2009 – Saint Patrick (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment by Tpbradbury; see discussion. 4 Dec 2009 – Christian Conventions (talk) is nominated for a community reassessment by Nemonoman; see discussion. Peer review 19 Dec 2009 – Peer review opened for 2009 European Cross Country Championships (talk) by Sillyfolkboy. Requested moves 31 Dec 2009 – Move requested from Sunday Bloody Sunday (song) (talk) to Sunday Bloody Sunday by Sceptre; see discussion. 28 Dec 2009 – Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border (talk) was not moved; see discussion. 25 Dec 2009 – Move requested from Families in the Oireachtas (talk) to Families in Irish Politics by Lostexpectation; see discussion. 24 Dec 2009 – Conradh na Gaeilge (talk) was not moved; see discussion. 24 Dec 2009 – Foras na Gaeilge (talk) was not moved; see discussion. 24 Dec 2009 – Seachtain na Gaeilge (talk) was not moved; see discussion. Today's featured article 21 Dec 2009 – Battle of Tory Island (talk) was featured on the main page. Did you know 27 Dec 2009 – A fact from 2009 European Cross Country Championships (talk) appeared on the main page. 25 Dec 2009 – A fact from 7 Up Christmas on Ice (talk) appeared on the main page. 25 Dec 2009 – A fact from Michael Gallagher (postman) (talk) appeared on the main page. 25 Dec 2009 – A fact from Victoria Mary Clarke (talk) appeared on the main page. 25 Dec 2009 – A fact from Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own (talk) appeared on the main page. 24 Dec 2009 – A fact from Morning Ireland (talk) appeared on the main page. 20 Dec 2009 – A fact from The Expulsion of the Déisi (talk) appeared on the main page. Other news 30 Dec 2009 – WikiProjects and Portals who want to have automatically-updated "Walls of Recognized Content" (see WikiProject Physics' WoRC) can go here and follow instructions. For details, contact JLaTondre. 28 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated. 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help. 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available. Archives (3 more...)

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[edit] Requests

"Please post requests at Wikiproject Ireland/Requests

[edit] Structure

[edit] Parentage

This project is categorized under the Category:Regional WikiProjects. The regional parent would be Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union.

Until the creation of specific daughter projects, the project covers a wide range of subjects (History, Society, Geography, Politics, Biography etc.) and, as a result has no single parent to it.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gaelic games
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish literature
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Belfast
• WikiProject Irish Republicanism

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

No similar WikiProjects have been named.

[edit] Task forces of this WikiProject

• Gaeilge task force

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Northern Ireland
• Wikipedia:British Isles Terminology task force
• Wikipedia:Ireland disambiguation task force

[edit] Related Wikiportals

• Portal:Ireland

[edit] Related Collaborations

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

• Irish Wikipedians' notice board
• Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

• Category:Wikipedians in Ireland
• Category:Irish Wikipedians
• Category:Northern Irish Wikipedians

[edit] Associated pages

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

• Commons:Ireland articles
• Wikibooks:Ireland articles
• Wikinews:Ireland articles
• Wikiquote:Ireland articles
• Wikisource:Ireland articles
• Wikispecies:Ireland articles
• Wiktionary:Ireland articles
• meta:Ireland articles

[edit] Resources

• Geograph photos of many locations in Ireland with usable license

[edit] External resources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK & Ireland

[edit] Archives

• #1

[edit] Sister Project links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ireland

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ireland

Look up Ireland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikinews has related news: Ireland

Wikinews has related news: Ireland

v • d • e WikiProject Ireland General Templates  • Members  • Assessment • Gaeilge task force Counties Republic of Ireland : Dublin  • Wicklow  • Wexford  • Carlow  • Kildare Meath  • Louth  • Monaghan  • Cavan  • Longford  • Westmeath  • Offaly  • Laois  • Kilkenny  • Waterford  • Cork  • Kerry  • Limerick Tipperary  • Clare  • Galway  • Mayo  • Roscommon  • Sligo  • Leitrim  • Donegal Northern Ireland : Fermanagh  • Tyrone  • Londonderry  • Antrim  • Down  • Armagh Useful Categories Ireland  • Irish Culture  • Sport in Ireland  • History of Ireland  • Education in Ireland  • Transport in Ireland  • Geography of Ireland  • Rivers of Ireland  • Towns in Ireland  • Churches in Ireland  • Hospitals in Ireland  • Transport in Ireland  • Government of Ireland Major Cities and Towns of Ireland Belfast  • Galway  • Dublin  • Cork  • Limerick  • Derry  • Athlone  • Drogheda  • Dundalk Other Ireland Related WikiProjects Deletion sorting (talk)  • WikiProject GAA (talk)  • WikiProject Irish Literature (talk)  • WikiProject Irish music (talk)  • WikiProject Northern Ireland (talk)  • WikiProject Belfast (talk)  • WikiProject Irish Republicanism (talk) Deletion Links Articles for deletion  • Deletion review  • Templates for deletion  • Categories for deletion  • Images for deletion  • Redirects for deletion  • Deletion sorting/Ireland Requests Requested moves  • Requests for Comments Parentage WikiProject European Union Manual of Style Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)