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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.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Parentage 3 Descendant WikiProjects 4 Similar WikiProjects 5 Participants 6 Recognized content 6.1 Featured articles 6.2 Good articles 6.3 Did you know (DYK)s 7 Formerly recognized content 7.1 Former featured articles 7.2 Former good articles 8 Structure 8.1 Naming conventions 9 Hierarchy definition 10 Goals 11 General strategy and discussion forums 12 Requests for uncreated articles 12.1 Photos needing articles 13 Requests for expansion or collaboration 14 Requests for help with the near-featured or failed-featured 15 Infoboxes 16 Templates 17 Article assessment 18 External links

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the Big Apple.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities / WikiProject U.S. cities, though its relevance is somewhat limited vis-a-vis documenting a single very large city and the many unofficial communities that it is made up of.

At a state level, the parent of this project is WikiProject New York.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• WikiProject New York City Public Transportation
• WikiProject New York Theatre

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[edit] Participants

• Mizu onna sango15—I am a native to Brooklyn, New York, and now attend University in Alaska.
• futurebird
• Pkazazes
• Pharos
• Andre (talk)
• RoySmith
• Ian Fortuno
• BernardM
• Decumanus
• Jleon
• Goatrider
• Howrealisreal
• —iFaqeer (Talk to me!)
• User:NYCfellow
• Quasipalm
• Richard I have been creating the borough templates. I just have The Bronx left to complete. Check out your neigborhood and you can navigate from there.
• Renata3 - can take pictures. Put request on my talk page!
• Bjelleklang - working on the Central Park article, with the goal of reaching FA status, can help out in other areas if nescesary.
• Alansohn - have worked on articles on highways and bridges in NYC
• Daniel (talk)
• Jimryan Picture taker, Concentration on Queens, Jamaica Bay
• Cantara
• --Aude
• Seidenstud - pictures too
• Drenched
• Gtr225 I have a camera and an unlimited metrocard, tell me what you need pictures of.
• UnderPressure
• DavidShankBone I am taking photographs mostly.
• Nikki Ragetti Currently living in Brooklyn. Studying photography.
• Jim Henderson Newbie photobug with bicycle.
• User:AnnaKucsma (talk). I've uploaded a few NYC photos of The Gates and my part of town.
• User:CoolGuy - doing what I can on individual streets too.
• Ruthfulbarbarity I've tried to flesh out some of the categories that have gaping holes in them, e.g. members of the New York City Council, state legislature, etc., while also creating a few articles on local subjects that I thought merited attention, e.g. Kings Plaza, Coliseum Books, New York Blood Center, New York media figures, such as Richard Brookhiser, among others, etc... Even though most of my effort is focused on politics I try to fill in some of the dead spots in other NYC-related areas as well.
• Herenthere (Talk) Major reorganization work in New York City Subway
• - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 21:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC) Hi, I've been doing some work on NYC articles for a while. Articles I've worked on include Chatham Square, Hanover Square, Marine Midland Building, Battery Park Underpass, Wall Street, and 23 Wall Street. Cheers.
• Patricknoddy
• Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c: Pictures or writing
• NYC JD
• Bernstein2291
• Padraic
• descent - architect and historian
• Indoles As a current and native New Yorker, I am available to request photographs from. Please inquire on my talk page.
• Baseballmes
• Psdubow, I am a native New Yorker and know a lot about the city.
• Plyhmrp I dont live there but i have visited. I lnow lots about transportation.
• Smokizzy
• JRWalko - Bay Ridge and Lower Manhattan
• James Luftan ^contribs Whatever possible, mostly history.
• Rob T Firefly
• mordicai
• Splittt
• Arnabdas 20:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
• Mitchazenia - All about the roads of New York City.
• User:Elakhna
• Gosgood (talk) 18:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC) Brooklyn parks, borough history.
• Trulystand700 - New Yorker.
• Roosterrulez
• Dwaipayan
• Dougie WII
• TravellingCari, currently all about the museums, clean up and expand. Our cultural assets are sorely underrepresented. I also may contribute some photos. TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 04:20, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• Vincent9679 17:10, 11 April 2008
• AltioraPeto (talk)
• abeg84
• Shakescene (talk) 04:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC) - Politics, elections, City government, expanding biographical stubs of public New Yorkers (e.g. Rhinelander Waldo, Ardolph Kline, Morris Hillquit), The Bronx (although I'm no New Yorker and have probably never set foot in the Bronx); making content more comprehensible to non-New Yorkers and non-Americans
• MOOOOOPS (talk) 03:53, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
• Noah03 (talk) 00:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
• DrGaellon (talk · contribs · count · email)
• II MusLiM HyBRiD II 20:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Wasrule, I have lived in Brooklyn all my life, I go to school in Manhattan. I know a fair amount about the different city schools, areas, and neighborhoods, and a lot about the transportation.
• LucilleBall--I'll try as best I can to improve the articles.
• Mynameinc (talk)
• Pastor Theo (talk) 03:20, 23 January 2009 (UTC) -- I am from The Bronx.
• Camelbinky (talk) 22:40, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
• IanFahey

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

see Category:FA-Class New York City articles

[edit] Good articles

see Category:GA-Class New York City articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

• ...that the Stillwell Avenue/Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station?

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

• Humphrey Bogart

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Structure

[edit] Naming conventions

• subway stations - see the subway WikiProject

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Goals

Tentative:

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

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/General
• Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/Strategy
• 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 NYC-stubs.

[edit] Requests for uncreated articles

West Side, Manhattan - J. J. Byrne Memorial Bridge - Wealth in New York City - Billionaires in New York City - Penthouses in New York City - Macdougal Street

• Nathaniel Woodhull - NY militia general killed in the Battle of Long Island

• St Francis of Assisi Church (New York City)

• History of New York City's Mayoral Elections because a well-informed, coherent narrative is needed to accompany all the numbers and shorter comments in the already-huge New York City mayoralty elections, now gradually approaching completion. Also separate articles or sub-articles about any Mayoral election before 1997 (particularly 1901, 1913, 1933, 1965, 1969, 1989 & 1993).

• Soundview Park (Bronx) and Ferry Point Park (Bronx), both built in 1937 by Robert Moses; basic info available at Your Park (NYC Dept of Parks & Rec); see also The Bronx#Parks and open space and Category:Parks in the Bronx

• Queens Plaza, Queens
• Commercial Field - home of Brooklyn Horsemen of first American Football League in 1926. The stadium existed then; it might not now. The Horsemen merged with the Brooklyn Lions of the NFL in 1926 and "folded" later that year.

[edit] Photos needing articles

Washington Cemetery

[edit] Requests for expansion or collaboration

Wall Street (Manhattan) - 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

[edit] Requests for help with the near-featured or failed-featured

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

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{subst:template}}

{{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}}

[edit] Templates

• {{NYC-stub}} for use at stubby NYC-related articles.

• {{NYC-struct-stub}} for use at New York City building and structure stubs.

• {{NYC-transport-stub}} for New York City transportation stubs.

• {{NewYork-geo-stub}}, for stubs relating to the geography of NY State in general (including the city).

• {{AlbanyCountyNY-geo-stub}}, and similarly for each county. New York geography stubs are being sorted into categories by county if possible, following this pattern. See Category:New York geography stubs for a full list of new stub templates.

For New York City-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=New York City}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New York City. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existance [sic] Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

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[edit] Article assessment

New York City articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 2 2 2 4 1 11 FL 1 1 2 GA 4 6 7 5 7 29 B 13 39 82 15 23 172 C 2 13 10 11 36 Start 2 29 172 80 107 390 Stub 1 195 111 479 786 List 1 4 1 22 28 Assessed 22 80 476 226 650 1454 Unassessed 3 702 705 Total 22 80 479 226 1352 2159

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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.

[edit] External links

• NYWiki

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