Wikipedia:WikiProject Westerns

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Welcome to the Westerns WikiProject! Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Westerns and the organisation of information and articles related to this topic. This page and its sub-pages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please feel free to join the project, or inquire on the talk page.

Goals

1. To improve and maintain all articles that fall within the project's scope.
2. To develop Western articles to meet GA or FA quality standards.
3. To provide an impartial review process for potential A-Class candidates.
4. To offer advice and support to Wikipedians, with regards to our work as a dedicated WikiProject.

Scope

Primary roles of the project

1. To identify and categorise all Western-related articles on Wikipedia.
2. To improve and maintain Western-related articles to excellent quality standards.
3. To develop practical standards that allow us to maintain high quality standards.
4. To ensure articles are written in accordance with Wikipedia's core polices:
   No original research, maintain verifiability, present a neutral point of view, and have no copyright issues.

What WikiProject Westerns is not

1. The project is not a Task force under WikiProject Film, but a WikiProject in its own right.
2. The project is not limited to articles based on traditional North American Westerns, but may also incorporate other Western formats, e.g Northern films and Space Westerns. Focus is largely on U.S. Westerns, including their actors and directors, due to the notability and popularity of the genre in American culture.
3. The project is not a historical project, it deals primarily with fictional Western themes. For the real American West, see: WikiProject American Old West. Exceptions may include real-life characters who were portrayed in Western productions, such as Billy the Kid, often shown as a folk hero in films, in reality a wanted outlaw.
4. The project is not limited to TV series' and Western films, it includes any media for which Westerns material has been produced, such as novels, comics and video games.

Members

Please feel free to join by adding your username to our members list. You can also use our member userbox on your userpage.

Assessment

To indicate an article lies within the scope of the project, add the {{Westerns|class=grade}} banner to the top of the talk page of any article concerned.

Please see assessment quality scale for further details of how classes should be reviewed.

Westerns articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 3 1 5 FL 1 2 3 GA 5 9 14 17 45 B 10 44 46 44 6 150 C 28 186 321 360 18 913 Start 1 62 385 2,029 61 2,538 Stub 2 814 3,635 57 4,508 List 6 27 61 94 Category 588 588 File 443 443 Project 21 21 Redirect 1 72 64 137 Template 65 65 NA 1 2 3 Other 2 4 6 Assessed 45 310 1,611 6,224 1,187 142 9,519 Total 45 310 1,611 6,224 1,187 142 9,519

Statistics As articles are assessed they are categorised in Category:Westerns articles by quality. From this, WP:1.0 creates a quality statistics table and a quality log of articles assessed using the project {{Westerns}} banner.

Templates

Template	Usage	Description	Subst?
Project templates
{{Westerns}} or {{WikiProject Westerns}}	Talk page	The project banner. Adding this to an article's talk page brings it into the project scope and into our article categories. See Template:WikiProject Westerns for full instructions on using this template.
{{Westerns invite}}	User talk page	This can be used to invite Wikipedians who appear to be actively editing related articles but may not be aware of the project. Use: {{subst:Westerns invite}} – this template should not be spammed indiscriminately.
{{User WikiProject Westerns}}	User page	Project userbox – this will identify you as a participant in the project.
Stub templates
{{Western-film-stub}}, {{1930s-Western-film-stub}}, {{1940s-Western-film-stub}}, {{Silent-western-film-stub}} or {{Western-novel-stub}}	Article page	Placed at the foot of an article page, a stub-template increases awareness that an article needs expanding and improving. An appropriate stub template should be placed last – after category tags and before any interlanguage links.

Resources

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject American Old West
• WikiProject United States
• WikiProject Film

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! Harej (talk) 15:18, 1 October 2014 (UTC)