Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture

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Hello! Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is importand to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

An important note for everyone to remember: This project develops ideas about how we might organize data in articles about architecture. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Scope

This WikiProject aims to

• Develop standards and templates for architecture-related articles
• Improve architecture-related articles
  • Lists: List of buildings, List of building types, List of architects
  • Wikipedia:Stubs: see Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/stubs
  • Portal:Architecture
• Organise Category:Architecture

Similar Wikiprojects

• Commons: Since 5th March 2006 there is a Commons Project, organising the files in the Commons. If you like to help you're very welcome: CommonsProject_Architecture
• DE: Since 27th July 2004 the german Wikipedia has a WikiProjekt Architecture and building industry. For coordination please look at the Discussion Page.

Participants

• Warofdreams
• Isomorphic
• Secretlondon
• KRS
• Pinkville
• Burschik
• DVD+ R/W 15:32, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• A Y Arktos 10:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• Dogears 21:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Justinc 10:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
•    GUÐSÞEGN   – UTEX – 05:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• TomAlt 10:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Templates WikiProject

Here are some templates for your use:

Help for authors

Create new articles

• Relevance: Is the Article you want to create relevant or importand for the Wikipedia? - see Wikipedia:Importance
• Naming: Generally: use the common name!
  • Buildings: common name, plus the City / country where necessary. Examples:
    • Eiffeltower (only one)
    • St Mary Aldermary, St Mary Woolnoth (many St Mary churches) - additions without comma or brackets (NOT: "St Mary, Aldermary" AND NOT: "St Mary (Aldermary)")
    • compare: wikipedia:Naming conventions (Western clergy)#Buildings named after people (outdated? maybe time to separate that paragraph from a NC guideline that's essentially on people and not on buildings, and start a new NC on buildings - and landmarks? - in general - which maybe could be rather related to the places NC's, see wikipedia:naming conventions#Places for a few links).
    • compare: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions/archive6#Mount, Mt., Mt and Saint, St., St and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#"Saint" / inconsistent use of "St" and "St."- discusses tangentially whether to use "St." or "St" in names of buildings (for persons not abbreviated: "Saint"; for places there is some prior practice to use "St." for places in the US, "St" for places in the UK, and mostly without abbreviation if there's no established practice in the country of origin, e.g. Saint Petersburg in Russia; St. Petersburg, Florida for the US city, St Albans in the UK - would that work for buildings too?).
  • Architects: Le Corbusier, not "Corbusier, Le" or even "Charles Edouard Jeanneret(-Gris))", compare:
    • Category:Architects
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (PS: Le Corbusier is used as an example on that page, as are Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch... - Architects maybe need no separate NC from the "people" NC, while there are probably no special rules that can be defined for "architects": e.g. "artist's name" occurs in many other professions, and is already covered by the "people" NC guideline)

Templates

• For writing an article about a structure or building please use the Template:Building
• For writing an article about an architect please use the Template:Building

Edit Articles

• Please use pictures and drawings in the article! You find many in the Category:Architecture in the Commons

Useful Sources

Pictures

• Category:Architecture in the Commons
• www.greatbuildings.com - Architecture database

Databases

• www.archinform.net - Architecture database archINFORM (en/de), here you can find many literature links
• www.structurae.de - Database Structurae with engineer buildings (en/de/fr)
• Online Catalogue of the Canadian Centre for Architecture - architects and architecture (photographs, prints, drawings)

Text

• aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms

The right Category

The Category:Architecture is the main Category for architecture-related articles. To get an overview and help to find the right category for your article please got to Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Categories

Pictures and Media Files

Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded not to any national Wikipedia, but to the Commons. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the Files in Commons:CommonsProject_Architecture#Naming_of_Files.

Pages needing attention

Template:Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Architecture

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