Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists

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Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.

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Goals

Scope

Tools

List-friendly search results enhancements

  • SearchSuite.js provides menu items to modify your search results. Some of the features include sort, hide details (listify), and even format your search results for easy copying and pasting into lists, with a click of your mouse. And more.

Guidelines

Assessment

The assessment department gives details of our Quality and Importance statistics. This project will use only FL, List, and Stub for articles. Quality Classes such as Image, Template, Portal, Disambiguation, Category and Project will only be included in order to conform with the predefined Wikipedia:Namespace.

Currently, this project uses the Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot for article statistics. Therefore, it has become necessary for the project create a Custom mask for Quality class. The Custom mask for WikiProject Lists limits class to FL, List, and Stub for articles, and automatically changes incorrect class codes.

Article statistics
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List articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FL 6 32 142 2,126 1,833 4,139
Stub 128 564 692
List 64 494 2,562 67,804 331 99,306 170,561
Category 20,505 20,505
Disambig 239 239
File 3 3
Portal 8,373 8,373
Project 156 156
Redirect 4 45 4,168 8,087 12,304
Template 1,583 1,583
NA 1 1
Other 1 18 163 182
Assessed 70 530 2,750 74,244 39,441 101,703 218,738
Unassessed 3 789 792
Total 70 530 2,750 74,247 39,441 102,492 219,530
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 4,152 Ω = 6.00
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After adding our Project template to a talk page, you may run our Assessment bot by clicking Run the bot right away on the bot's User page. Type the word List, then click Submit.

Lists of Wikipedia lists

Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

See also Wikipedia:Contents.

Articles

New articles

A list of recently created list articles can be found at User:AlexNewArtBot/ListsSearchResult. This list is updated daily.

When reviewing new articles, be sure to perform the following tasks, where appropriate:

Article alerts

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Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

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Categories for discussion

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Templates for discussion

  • 01 Apr 2026 – Template:TonyAward RegionalTheatre footer (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Gonnym (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

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Files for discussion

Featured list candidates

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Featured topic candidates

Good topic candidates

Featured list removal candidates

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

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Articles to be merged

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Articles to be split

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Articles for creation

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Notable list categories

Incomplete lists

Main category: Incomplete lists
"WP:Incomplete" redirects here; not to be confused with WP:Work in progress.

Because of Wikipedia's role as an almanac and a gazetteer as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the list of U.S. state birds, are complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Other lists are missing entries and are called incomplete lists. Incomplete lists should be immediately preceded by the {{Incomplete list}} template, or one of its topic-specific variations.

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Incomplete lists (221 C)
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Dynamic lists

Main category: Dynamic lists

Some lists, such as List of numbers, are intentionally inexhaustive, as they are only meant to list notable examples from a given category. These are known as "dynamic lists" and should be preceded by the {{Dynamic list}} template. Some dynamic lists require updates: for example, a list of notable alumni from a given university, or Lists of plants may need to be updated as clades and classifications are debated by botanists.

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Dynamic lists (2 C, 13,275 P)
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It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it, if not to completion, at least to a mature state in which only minor updates are required as times change. Of course, it's not clear for all lists what should or shouldn't be on them, and completion may never be clear for these lists, but there should at least come a point where most representative and widely agreed-upon entries are present.

Members and userbox

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Lists participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage:

[[Category:WikiProject Lists participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WPLISTS}} or {{User WP Lists}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Member list

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Template uses

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:Hatnote templates for lists

Project

Place the {{WikiProject Lists}} banner on all talk pages of list articles using the following code:

{{WikiProject Lists|class=list|importance=}}

which produces the following box:

WikiProject iconLists NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on the project's quality scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

and includes the article in the project.

Requests for article improvement

Below are examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

General list templates

  • {{Delsort |Lists}} - to add an AfD to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists. Produces:
  • {{Dynamic list}} -
    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.
  • {{Expand list}} or {{Inc-list}} -

Content type list templates

Stub templates

Stub templates are placed at the end of articles, below the categories. If the article's content consists of only list material, please use a Request for improvement template rather than a stub template.

Tags

{{List navbox}} <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.

(Discuss the List navbox Template)

Talk header

Below is template code that can be pasted at the top of a list talk page, for stand-alone lists where inappropriate subjects are often added. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

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