Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Piers

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If you feel this project may be worth reviving, please discuss with related projects first. Feel free to change this tag if the parameters were changed in error.

This page is about articles related to piers.

Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about piers, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.
Scope: This page is related to articles about specific piers, types of piers, lists of piers, pier categorization, and related templates. If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention.

Membership Template

Template for members to include on their user page: {{user piers}}.

Former project participants

Paul E. Ester
Lynbarn (chief interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier railways)
KieranT (not much help beyond the south coast of England, but willing to help out :)
davellandudno (main interest: UK seaside pleasure piers - pier pavilions)
Dthomsen8 New Jersey piers, and American piers in general
Stuffed cat Interested in the pleasure piers of the UK/Yorkshire coast
Willrocks10- Project Re founder.

To Do

Expand the guidelines for pier articles
Nominate articles for good or featured status
Add infoboxes to articles
Standardize categorization for piers - discuss on the talk page
Add latitude and longitude information to articles (see WP:GEO)
Expand Category:Piers by country
Infobox location switching

Change log

Add Major edits to the

Project Changelog

Guidelines

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The and serve as good models.

Introduction

The introduction sentence should include what type of pier it is, what it spans (river, lake, ocean, etc.), and where it is located:

'''pier''' is a [[pier type]] that spans [[body of water/land]] between [[city, state]] and [[city, state]]. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].

Images and media

Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.

Templates and infoboxes

Template:Infobox pier is the preferred template and works best for users if it is at the top of the page.

Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of pier that it is (example Category:Amusement Piers). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Piers in the United Kingdom

There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all pier articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of Pier articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Piers in Japan), or small countries with relatively few Piers (Category:Piers in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Piers in New York (state)).