The Netherlands WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Netherlands.

Shortcuts: WP:NL WP:NETH WP:DUTCH

Our goals

• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Netherlands by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Netherlands.
• To help new Dutch editors learn the ropes of Wikipedia.
• To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Netherlands in Wikipedia.

Our scope

The Netherlands Wikiproject generally considers any article related to Netherlands as a valid topic. Having said that, we shall try to include all such articles in the Category:Netherlands.

Contents 1 Departments and subprojects 2 What you can do 3 Assessment 4 High quality content 4.1 Featured content 4.2 Good articles 4.3 Former featured content 4.4 Former good articles 5 Exposure 5.1 Previous Today's featured article 5.2 Did you know (DYK)s 6 Nominations for deletion and page moves 7 Participants 8 Templates 8.1 Stubs

[edit] Departments and subprojects

History of the Netherlands
Aim: to give a comprehensive overview of the History of the Netherlands
Related project Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Dutch military history task force
Politics of the Netherlands
Aim: to give a comprehensive overview of the politics of the Netherlands
Related project Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics
Military of the Netherlands
Aim: to give a comprehensive overview of the military of the Netherlands
Related project Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Dutch military history task force
Municipalities of the Netherlands
Aim: to better organize information in articles about municipalities in the Netherlands.
Related project Wikipedia:WikiProject Dutch municipalities
Football in the Netherlands
Aim: To better organize information in articles about Dutch football.
Related project Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Netherlands task force
Friesland
Aim: To better organize information in articles about Friesland.
Related project Wikipedia:WikiProject Friesland

Aruba

Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Aruba work group

Netherlands Antilles

Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Netherlands Antilles work group

[edit] What you can do

You can create and improve content within the scope of this project.

• Creation
  • Create new articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI/Dutch for articles missing from Dutch wikipedia.
  • Upload images for an article
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands/Article requests
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands/Image requests

• Improvement
  • Expand articles
  • Copyedit articles
  • Verify articles
  • Category:WikiProject Netherlands articles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands#Article Improvement Initiative
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands/New article announcements

• Assessment
  • Assess unassessed articles
  • Review articles
  • Category:Unassessed Netherlands articles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands#Assessment
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands/Assessment

• Association
  • Associate articles with this project
  • {{WikiProject Netherlands|class=}}

[edit] Assessment

The Assessment department focusses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Netherlands related articles.
This will aid us in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Everyone can help in assessing articles.

Assessing an article in easy steps

• Determine which article you want to assess. This may be any Netherlands article you notice, an unassessed article or an article with a specific assessment request. Please do not assess articles that you yourself have been a major editor on, as it is likely you will be biased.
• Have a thorough look at the article and relate it to the criteria from the grading scheme to determine which class to assign.
  • Stub, Start, C, and B class assessments can be made by every editor
  • A class assessment maybe awarded after formal review within this project
  • Good Article (GA) and Featured Article (FA) assessments require formal review procedures in the larger Wikipedia community (outside the project).
• Edit the talk page of the article add the "|class=???" section within the brackets of the Netherlands template: {{WikiProject Netherlands|class=??? (other tags may exist like this "|xxxx|yyyy")}}
  • Instead of the "???" fill in your assessment (Stub, Start, or B (or in special cases A, GA, or FA).
  • Write a brief edit summary.

[edit] High quality content

[edit] Featured content

• William III of England (5 October 2004)
• Anne Frank (10 February 2005)
• Adriaen van der Donck (24 January 2006)
• Battle of Ramillies (11 September 2007)
• List of films that received the Golden Film (18 November 2007)
• The Garden of Earthly Delights (28 May 2008)
• Tulip mania (18 August 2008)
• Design 1047 battlecruiser (14 April 2009)

[edit] Good articles

• Action of 24 October 1798
• Amsterdammertje
• Arjen Robben
• Batavian Republic
• Geert Wilders
• Golden Film
• Han van Meegeren
• Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
• Indonesian National Revolution
• International Criminal Court
• Janszoon voyage of 1606
• Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
• Pieter Nuyts
• Rembrandt
• SS Batavier II (1897)
• SS Batavier V (1902)
• SS Tubantia
• Tiësto
• Treaty of Butre (1656)
• USS West Lianga (ID-2758)
• Vincent van Gogh

[edit] Former featured content

• Fanny Blankers-Koen
• Franks
• History of the Netherlands
• Operation Market Garden
• Rembrandt
• William the Silent
• Zuiderzee Works

[edit] Former good articles

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Black Book (film)
• Coat of arms of Amsterdam
• Dutch Revolt
• Piet Mondrian
• Windmill

[edit] Exposure

[edit] Previous Today's featured article

See Category:Netherlands Todays FA

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

See Category:Netherlands main page DYK articles

[edit] Nominations for deletion and page moves

Important: If you're thinking about nominating an article for deletion (only articles, not templates or categories), please consider the following two alternative options:

• Does the article meet the criteria for speedy deletion? If so, just tag it with one of the speedy deletion tags and an administrator will delete it (as long as they agree).
• Is the deletion likely to be uncontested? If so then add a proposed deletion tag to it instead; if uncontested after seven days, the article will be automatically deleted.

Only if you think the deletion will be contested and debated is it necessary to go through AfD.

When listing a deletion nomination here, please copy-paste the relevant notice to the deletion discussion: *{{subst:delsort|Netherlands}}

Article/Category/Template	Nomination	Date	Bert Bolle Barometer	AfD	2009-06-22
SV AWC	AfD	2008-01-20
Groningen-related categories	CfR	2008-01-12
Utrecht-related categories	CfR	2008-01-12
AC Zwolle → FC Zwolle	RfD	2008-01-15

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in helping to improve the quality of articles in relation to the Netherlands, please add your name to the list.

1. Aecis ^{Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.} 18:33, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
2. SportsAddicted | discuss 21:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
3. jaco♫plane 13:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
4. C mon 14:01, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
5. Keesiewonder
6. Arnoutf 14:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
7. Adderbak 14:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
8. Spearhead 23:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
9. Frumentarius 12:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
10. Eugène van der Pijll
11. AgainErick 23:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
12. Mach10 19:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC) (special interest: articles related to Heerlen)
13. John Manuel 16:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
14. Salaskan 16:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
15. Goldenrowley 16:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
16. Evolauxia 22:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
17. NetherlandishYankee 00:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC) (special interest: articles related to Wassenaar
18. GB 01:19, 24 June 2007 (UTC) (Special interest Friesland and history)
19. Knurftendans 00:54, 29 June 2007 (UTC), Mainly sports related articles.
20. Daimanta 17:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC) Interests: Dutch Royal Family and articles related to Twente
21. Basvanhuut 17:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC) Interests: Sports
22. HeartofaDog 23.39, 2 October 2007 (UTC}
23. Erispre 19:57, 10 October 2007 (UTC) Special interests: Drenthe =D
24. Guido den Broeder 11:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC) Special interests: econometrics, economic policy, labour market, social security, ME/CFS, chess
25. Jeffpw 07:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
26. Ekki01 17:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
27. Staka 04:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC) Mainly adding images (around Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Schiphol Airport).
28. User:Amsterdamned 01:19, 01 January 2008 (UTC)
29. Mweites 13:05 22 Januari 2008 (UTC)
30. Peter Maas\^talk 14:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
31. Michel Doortmont (talk) 12:29, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
32. Ereunetes (talk) 21:08, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
33. Makeshift Thackery (talk) 10:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
34. Xbrouwer 23:58, 18 April 2008 (CET) (Special interest: anything related to Dutch History especially World War I)
35. Red4tribe(History) (Red4tribe (talk) 18:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC))
36. JacobH (talk) 10:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
37. Joowwww (talk) 22:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
38. Ewald (talk) 18:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
39. -The Bold Guy- 16:48, 21 September 2008
40. Tonkie67 (talk) 02:41, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
41. jonnie d smith (talk)
42. Jenever Spirit (talk) 11:51, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
43. Erebus Morgaine (talk) 18:48, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
44. Arteyu (talk) 15:55 16 December 2008 (UTC)
45. djflem (talk)
46. Rubenescio (talk) 20:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
47. Verena Köster (talk)
48. A ansems (talk) 11:48, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
49. Welbergen (talk) 10:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
50. Kwiki (talk) 04:56, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
51. Sitethief~_{talk to me}~ 13:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC) (Special interest: anything related to Zwolle)
52. Johfrael (talk) 09:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
53. Solejheyen (talk) 14:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
54. Typehigh (talk) 15:56, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
55. Antiphus (talk) 06:55, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

The following templates are available: {{WikiProject Netherlands|class=}} to be added to the talk pages of all articles within the scope of this project.

{{User WikiProject Netherlands}} looks like this:

and can be added to each member's userpage.

New project participants can be welcomed with: {{subst:Welcome to WikiProject Netherlands}} ~~~~

[edit] Stubs

The following stub templates are also available for use.