Consider looking for
related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse. If you are not currently a project participant and wish to help you may still participate in the project. This
status should be changed if collaborative activity resumes.
This
WikiProject is designed to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information on communities in Saskatchewan with help from community-driven
Wikipedia editors and members of the Saskatchewan communities WikiProject. Articles include cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rural municipalities, neighbourhoods, Indian reserves, etc.
To start and enhance articles on smaller towns that wouldn't have the chance otherwise.
To start and enhance articles on neighbourhoods all across the province.
To start and enhance articles on RMs all across the province.
To start and enhance articles on Indian reserves all across the province.
Members
If you want to become a member, please put at the bottom of the list with a # beside your name and the date you joined. You may also post where you are from and the departments that interest you within this WikiProject.
Fremte, joined 12 Aug 2007. Most interested in geography and history of geography of (mostly) Northern Sask. I may get into communties and Reserves also.
Drm310, joined 20 Sep 2007. Originally from
Regina, now residing in
Saskatoon. Mostly interested in Saskatoon and its
neighbourhoods, will likely expand that to include Regina as well.
Fill in the sections for your chosen Saskatchewan Community and save.
Add the appropriate WP templates and ratings to the talk page.
A Location map for Saskatchewan has been created, so the placename coordinates for new places are added to the template, and no need to upload a new image map for each place...see
Simpson for an example of its use.
13. Notable people - Names of notable people born, previously resided in, or residing in the community. Include only people with a Wikipedia article, see also
WP:NLIST. Note: Larger cities, with possibly thousands of notable individuals, usually do not include such a list, but may have a separate article ([[List of notable people from ...]]) that can be linked.
Closing sections should include:
14. See also - Related Wikipedia articles, if not already detailed in other sections
Coordinates - use {{
Coord|display=title|region:CA_type:city}} to geo-tag articles, but only if not already presented in infobox
Categories - don't over-categorize
Stub tags - for new short pages that should be subsequently expanded, see
available stub tags
¹ For larger cities, this should be little more a link to a separate "Media of City" article. This section should only list media which are locally based.
To get an article to
featured article status, make sure to follow these steps to ensure all articles we submit to
Featured article candidates meet the FA criteria. All of these apply to almost any good article, so keep them in mind when editing even outside of
Saskatchewan articles. The suggestions are:
I.
Write a good lead. Be sure to write a
lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subject.
II.
Use good spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. Many browsers support spell checking.
III.
Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See
Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV.
Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See
Wikipedia:Images for more information.
V.
Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. An article will not get accepted as a featured article candidate if it is missing references. See
Wikipedia:Verifiability,
Wikipedia:Cite_sources and
Wikipedia:References.
VI.
Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this.
VI.
Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII.
Use
common sense. You should know what
perfect articles look like. They cover everything they should without going on forever. Common sense could have told you almost all of the items mentioned above. Ultimately,
assume good faith,
be bold, and go out there and write some good
Saskatchewan community articles.