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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Southern California. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. Template:SoCalTasks

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Map of Southern California

Map ofSouthern California.


Scope

Counties:

South of the San Gabriel mountains
North of the San Gabriel mountains

note: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties are also in the Central Coast region of California, which also included Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

Participants

If you are also interested in statewide issues, please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject California.
  • JesseW 1 July 2005 19:07 (UTC) - I've worked on starting a few LA neighborhood articles, and some category cleanup - that would be one really good thing to improve, the categorization for So Cal articles.
  • Willmcw July 1, 2005 20:49 (UTC).
  • — Catherine\talk 5 July 2005 00:18 (UTC)
  • Antandrus (talk) 6 July 2005 03:24 (UTC) -- I've written a lot of articles on places in Santa Barbara County, and a few in San Luis Obispo County as well (that one's sort of borderline I suppose, but it is on the map ...)
  • Zzyzx11 (Talk) 7 July 2005 03:50 (UTC) - will occasionally help with it
  • --fpo 13:19, July 26, 2005 (UTC) - I've done (and will continue with) famed golf courses in the area, and more stuff.
  • Stevey7788 - will occasionally help with L.A. neighborhoods, cities, and freeways
  • theshibboleth - I'm going to try to upload photos of the LA area.
  • Lan56 I'd love to help out. I can occasionally add some photos, too. --Lan56 02:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)


Goals and projects

Goals

Please see the talk page for more discussion of the goals for the SoCal WikiProject.
  1. Make sure that every Southern California county and city article meets Wikipedia guidelines
  2. Add at least one quality picture for:
    1. every Southern California city and community
    2. every State Park in SoCal
    3. every County Park in SoCal
    4. every major landmark in SoCal
  3. Improve and enlarge every stub article on SoCal topics
  4. Create new articles on SoCal topics to eliminate any red links in SoCal articles
  5. Improve major articles related to Southern California so that they can be first taken to Peer review, then nominated as a Featured article candidate, and finally featured as a Featured article.

Projects

  1. 1992 Los Angeles riots#Fifth day (Sunday, May 3) This empty section serves as a vandal magnet and needs to be filled in.
  2. Category cleanup (Priority project?)
  3. Photography projects:
    1. The old photo project:
    2. Then and now photo project:
      For many of the old (pre-1923) photos, it would be nice to also have a more recent picture showing the changes over the years.
    3. Photography "expeditions":
      There are several areas and corridors in Southern California that are rich with targets for potential photos for Wikipedia articles. Especially with some careful planning, a half-day or one-day photo expedition for each area could help provide numerous photos for the wikipedia. For example, a casual trip down Sunset Blvd. will provide numerous photo opportunities, but by careful planning you can also catch many sights that are just off of, or not easily seen from Sunset Blvd (such as the old Charlie Chaplin Studio/A&M Recording Studios lot at Sunset and La Brea that is now home to Jim Henson Productions). Some potential photo expeditions would include:
      1. Sunset Blvd. (probably a minimum of two days to catch everything)
      2. Hollywood Blvd.
      3. Wilshire Blvd.
      4. Griffith Park
      5. Downtown Los Angeles/Chinatown/Little Tokyo
      6. Long Beach/Port of Long Beach/Port of Los Angeles/San Pedro/Palos Verdes Peninsula
      7. Pasadena/San Marino art museums and educational institutions
      8. Buena Park/Anaheim tourist attractions
      9. Huntington Beach/Newport Beach coastline
  1. San Diego County cities and neighborhoods renaming project
    The standard naming convention for places is [place, state] cities and unincorporated areas, and [district, city, state] for neighborhoods. Many articles places in this county (and especially city neighborhoods) have improperly formed names, like San Ysidro, Mission Beach, California, or Carmel Valley. See:
    1. Cities and towns in San Diego County
    2. San Diego neighborhoods
  2. Create Merged-Consolidation articles for landmarks:
    Many of the SoCal city and community articles, as well as articles such as Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard, have long lists of landmarks that are either red links or links to stubs that will probably not grow much larger. It would be much better to create some consolidation articles such as Landmarks of Sunset Boulevard that would have brief descriptions of all of the landmarks with links to the much smaller number of landmarks that deserve full-fledged articles.
  3. Peer review-->Featured article candidates-->featured articles
    1. Find at least one city or community article that is ready, or close to being ready for Peer review with the goal of turning it into a featured article.
      1. Suggestions: ???
    2. Find at least one regular SoCal article that is ready, or close to being ready for Peer review with the goal of turning it into a featured article.
      1. California Polytechnic State University
      2. Pan-Pacific Auditorium
      3. Bradbury Building
      4. Suggestions: ???
  1. Stubs:
    1. Many of the stub articles in Category:California-related stubs are actually geo-stubs, so they should be moved to Category:California geography stubs
    2. Category:California geography stubs is large enough that it should probably be subdivided into Northern and Southern California geo-stubs
  2. Lists of important topics
    There are numerous lists, both on the Wikipedia, and from external sources, that can be used as guides as to what should be covered
    1. National Trust for Historic Preservation's Most Endangered Places - California
      1. National Trust for Historic Preservation's Preservation Atlas - find all - centered on Los Angeles, California
    2. National Register of Historic Places#California official NRHP website]
      1. National historic landmark#California (130)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Requested photos

Missing articles and Stub articles

To update these sections, click here to purge the cache.} Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Los Angeles County to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Long Beach-area to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Orange County to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/San Diego County to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Other Counties to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Schools to do

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

New Wikipedia articles on SoCal topics

Please feel free to list your new Southern California-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

4 June 2005:...that the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs? [3] File:Grunion CF&G -2 100% -a .jpg

Articles, Templates, Categories, and Lists

Articles

Overview articles

Disambiguation pages

Los Angeles

Templates

To see examples of all the templates, see /Template examples

Infoboxes and navigation boxes

Stub templates

Please see /Template examples for a list of more general stubs which probably also have articles on Southern California.

Other Templates

  • {{WikiProjectNotice}}
    Add {{subst:Template:WikiProjectNotice|Southern California}} to any Wikipedia article's talk pages that are receiving special attention from the SoCal WikiProject

Soft redirect to:Module:WikiProject banner/doc
This page is a soft redirect.

Categories

For a current list of all the categories under Category:California, see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/categories

Lists

Also see Wikipedia:WikiProject California#Lists for statewide lists such as List of California state parks

Article improvement drive

For improving articles large than a stub.

Collaboration of the week

For non-existent articles or stubs.
  • American Old West (July 14)
    Nominated on 7 July 2005 18:53 (UTC); needs 5 votes by July 14.
    • California connections:
      • Film industry
      • Filming locations
      • Gold Rush themes

Failed COTW's

Peer review

Current Peer reviews

Past Peer reviews

Featured article candidates

Current Featured article candidates

Failed Featured article candidates

Other WikiProjects and Collaborations

Relationships with other projects

Parentage

Similar WikiProjects

For a list of US State Wikiprojects, see the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject California#Similar WikiProjects

Southern-California-area meetups

  1. Monday, July 25, 2005 Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/1 - Philippe's, Chinatown - 6 attendees
  2. Monday, August 22, 2005 Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/2
  • Invitation template:
    You can invite people to the next SoCal-area meetup by adding the template {{Meetup/LA/Invite}} to a person's Talk page, or to the Talk page for a SoCal-area article.

External resources

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Article votes for deletion

WikiProject maintenance

Southern California WikiProject subpages

Subpage shortcut
/to do
/Los Angeles County to do WP:WPSC-LAC
/Long Beach-area to do WP:WPSC-LBA
/Orange County to do WP:WPSC-OC
/San Diego County to do WP:WPSC-SD
/Other Counties to do WP:WPSC-IC
/Schools to do WP:WPSC-S
/Requested photos WP:WPSC-RP
/Template examples
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