Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes

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WikiProject Lakes
ShortcutWP:LAKES
CategoryWikiProject Lakes
Portalimage Lakes
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Lakes Lakes
Parent
project(s)		Geography
Project banner template{{WikiProject Lakes}}
Userboxes{{User WikiProject Lakes}}
{{User WP Lakes}}
Has goals?Yes
AssessmentWikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes/Assessment
Popular pagesWikipedia:WikiProject Lakes/Popular pages
Lakes articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 4 6
FL 1 1
GA 1 6 6 32 45
B 8 26 23 77 10 144
C 5 49 92 335 101 582
Start 7 89 217 2,367 1,402 4,082
Stub 1 33 156 5,145 1 6,271 11,607
List 7 135 124 262 2 66 596
Category 2,470 2,470
Disambig 1 1 133 135
File 134 134
Portal 1 1
Project 43 43
Redirect 7 55 973 1,035
Template 131 131
Other 9 9
Assessed 29 338 628 8,279 3,897 7,850 21,021
Unassessed 11 11
Total 29 338 628 8,279 3,897 7,861 21,032
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 92,902 Ω = 5.64

This WikiProject Lakes aims to consolidate and unify pages relating to lakes, lochs, reservoirs, and similar inland bodies of water around the world. This page includes guidelines and a number of resources that can be used to achieve our goal. All editors are welcome to join this project; if you wish to participate, please add yourself to the list of participants below.

Title[edit]

WikiProject Lakes

Scope[edit]

This WikiProject aims primarily to describe the Earth's lakes, lochs, reservoirs, and similar inland bodies of water in a consistent and complete fashion and to add the {{Infobox body of water}} template to each lake oriented article.

Guidelines[edit]

Please remember that these are only guidelines and may not apply in every situation. However, the {{Infobox body of water}} template should be included on every lake oriented article. In addition, please add the {{WikiProject Lakes}} project banner to the talk page of any lake articles that you may encounter (see templates below), allowing other editors to find this project and adding the talk page to Category:WikiProject Lakes.

Notability[edit]

To start, see WP:GNG and Notability (geographic features) most specifically the named natural features section: WP:GEOLAND.

New Page vs New Section[edit]

The guidelines to read first: WP:PAGEDECIDE.

Related WikiProjects[edit]

Parentage[edit]

The parent of this project is WikiProject Geography.

Collaborations[edit]

Currently proposed & under consideration: Reservoir Task force with WikiProject Dams.

Related WikiProjects[edit]

Complementary projects:

Projects covering other geographical features:

Open tasks[edit]

Backlog Dashboard[edit]

Backlog progress overview

Lakes needing attention[edit]

See also: Category:Lakes articles needing attention
See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes/Assessment § Requesting_an_assessment

(Please flag an article by adding attention=yes on the Wikiproject Lakes template as you come across them. This will add them to the Category:Lakes articles needing attention (53). Leave a comment on the article talk page specifying the attention is needed. For articles under active development needing attention there is the table below as added visibility.)

Lakes needing immediate attention[edit]

Apply the attention parameter as stated above and add to the table below. The table below currently contains the legacy articles which were posted prior to converting to the table, but not all have comments which specify an actionable comment. Those without an actionable comment may be removed if how they need to be brought up-to-spec is not identifiable or will be switched to the attention=yes flag.

A comment should be actionable and not just "expand" or "stub", but provide direction of why that article should be a priority over others. There are many articles that are stubs and need expansion generally.

Cleanup listing[edit]

A range of tasks are available at Cleanup listing.

Complementary Geo Templates[edit]

WikiProject Articles specifically around bodies of water with geographic coordinate should also make sure that the talk page also includes the WikiProject for that geographic area if it is in the scope for the project. For example Lake Michigan's talk page should include all the WikiProject for the states bordering the lake (WikiProject Illinois, WikiProject Indiana, WikiProject Michigan, and Wikiproject Wisconsin). Dual tagging lakes and local region helps to provide visibility to the article for maintenance and development. Additionally this may encourage topical and local expertise in assessment the article importance and identification of locally or topically known resources.

You can view a PetScan configuration of current projects with just WikiProject Lakes and no regional WikiProject template. It is possible new region templates have been added or missed, please add them to the "Templates&links" tab at the end of the "Has none of these templates:" list and update the PSID for the link or post to the talk with the missing WikiProject templates for PetScan.

Adding Infoboxes[edit]

Lake articles in need of an infobox: Category:Lakes articles needing infoboxes (171)

Adding photos[edit]

Find a photo with a compatible license or donate a photo you have taken and help with the backlog. Finding photo tutorial.

Lake Nyos – Galleries

WikiProject Banner Flag[edit]

Articles where the WikiProject Lakes banner explicitly has been flagged needs-image=yes appear in Category:Wikipedia requested images of lakes (38)

Infobox Body of Water Missing Images or Maps[edit]

The infoboxes can feature an image, this may include more than lakes, lochs, and static bodies of water without photos or pushpin maps. These are tracked via:

Linking with WikiData[edit]

WikiData helps track facts across languages and enables automatic import or suggestion of facts for inboxes. Help make a comprehensive lake database to link to articles and enable more maintenance tools to be developed.

Accessibility Review[edit]

Help check that articles, tables, and infoboxes are configured for accessibility. The accessibility features benefit not only humans, but search engines and automation tools too.

Article Accessibility[edit]

See Manual of Style on Accessibility for article best practices and tips. See Alt text Manual of Style for specific guidelines.

Infobox Accessibility[edit]

The Body of Water Infoboxes should have a descriptive "Alt" tag for every Image or Map.

Lists and Tables Accessibility[edit]

Use of scope= in tables, and selection and use of colors can affect the ability to read a table. Wikipedia guidelines on list accessibility and guidelines on Table accessibility.

Articles with Lakes To Do list[edit]

Articles with {{todo, lakes}} with items to coordinate development and refinement: Category:Lakes articles with to-do lists

Assessment[edit]

Improve the article quality assessment by reviewing pages and setting priorities. The criteria for each is found on the Assessment page of WikiProject Lakes.

Quality of Articles[edit]

  • 3.5% List-Class
  • 68% Stub-Class
  • 23.9% Start-Class
  • 3.4% C-Class
  • 0.8% B-Class
  • 0.3% GA-Class
  • 0% FA-Class
  • 0.1% remaining



Importance of Articles[edit]

???
Low
Mid+







Article alerts[edit]

Articles for deletion

  • 09 Apr 2024 – Barby Storage Reservoir (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JMWt (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
  • 01 Oct 2023 – Third Lake (Fulton County, New York) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by PaulGamerBoy360 (t · c) was closed (deleted) by Sjakkalle (t · c) on 24 Oct 2023; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

Redirects for discussion

Good article nominees

Good article reassessments

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

New articles for "waterbodies":[edit]

AlexNewArtBot/WaterbodiesSearchResult

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