Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture

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!

Project pages
Categories	WikiProject Architecture/Categories
Stubs	WikiProject Architecture/stubs
Infobox	WikiProject Architecture/infobox

Scope

This WikiProject aims to

Develop standards and templates for architecture-related articles
Improve architecture-related articles
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

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WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use:

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Usage

This user participates in
WikiProject Architecture.

WikiProject Architecture userbox

Template:User architecture

Userbox for those interested in architecture

Template:User Architecture

Another userbox for those interested in architecture

This user is an architect.

Userbox for architects

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  - compare: wikipedia:Naming conventions (Western clergy)#Buildings named after people (outdated?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 architecture, buildings, structures, an architect or anything else related to this Wikiproject put this Template at the top of the articles talk page. Template:Architecture

Infoboxes

For writing an article about an architect please use the Template:Infobox Architect.
For writing an article about a structure or building please use the Template:Infobox Modern building or Template:Infobox Historic building.
If that building is a Skyscraper then use Template:Infobox Skyscraper as well or instead.
If the structure is a Bridge please use Template:Infobox Bridge.

Stubs

If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

{{architecture-stub}} for architecure stubs
{{architect-stub}} for architect stubs.
For Building and structure stubs please refer to Category:Buildings and structures stubs or it's subcategories for a precise locational stub.
For Urban studies and planning stubs use:-
- {{UK-planning-stub}}

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.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro - SPIRO, an image database, from the Architecture Visual Resources Library at UC Berkeley
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.

Tasks

Pages needing attention

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

See also the page history of Wikipedia:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.