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Northern Ireland-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				8			8
FL			1				1
A			1	1			2
GA	1	5	11	39		8	64
B	15	34	56	122		188	415
C	14	46	130	523		569	1,282
Start	8	66	213	2,128		3,800	6,215
Stub		5	50	1,758		4,167	5,980
List	2	9	132	166		192	501
Category		1		4	4,893		4,898
Disambig			1	1	42		44
File					31		31
Portal					1		1
Project		1			22		23
Template			2	16	274		292
NA		1	6	69	509		585
Other					20		20
Assessed	40	168	603	4,835	5,792	8,924	20,362
Unassessed						184	184
Total	40	168	603	4,835	5,792	9,108	20,546
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 73,458			Ω = 5.26

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This project exists to better organize information in articles related to Northern Ireland. This page and its subpages exist to help us collaborate and share ideas related to improving Northern Ireland-related content. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

The vast majority of this project was unashamedly ripped from another project: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles, and the creator of this project extends recognition for the tireless work involved in formatting, text, policy and many other aspects by Kingboyk, Lar and himself.

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

This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to Northern Ireland, and to help with the creation of needed articles. It aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Northern Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the main Northern Ireland article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Northern Ireland Portal.

• One of the greatest aids in this project for assessment and improving of articles, are the WP 1.0 bot logs found here Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Northern Ireland-related articles by quality statistics. Please take a look at the entries there as it will guide you on which articles need to be assessed, and will also guide you as to what might be necessary to improve individual articles.

Articles and categories relating to Northern Ireland are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do"s.

• The Troubles discussion page. Not particularly recent, but its not something many people have been made aware of. The only references to it are on an archived deletion discussion and a user page.

• Belfast has been successful as the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography's collaboration of the month. For anyone who's interested in helping to get the article up to FAC standard, there are many resources and a guide available on the UK Geography Project page.

• This Northern Ireland Project is currently being re-vamped in line with the Belfast one

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

1. Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Northern Irish related edits in the past
2. Fix templates to talk pages
3. Construct /Article Classification by following the category 'tree'
4. Assess articles at /Article Classification
5. Add images to articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Northern Ireland

For geographic articles, project contributors developed this interpretation of the policy on What Wikipedia is not and the guidelines for style and notability.

Done

• Stub templates - Created two stub templates for articles in WikiProject Belfast. There is a {{Template:Belfast-stub}} (for general Belfast-related articles) and a {{Template:Belfast-geo-stub}} (for Belfast geographical stubs).  <font="center" color="#FFFFFF"> Keithology  Talk!  10:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Counties of Northern Ireland - I noticed this article wasn't yet created, and it is a rather large one in terms of importance in my opinion. Got cracking and there's the outcome. --Dom0803 14:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Interface area - just created this. Would appreciate help expanding it. Cordless Larry (talk) 23:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

To do

• Socratic Club (Queen's University Belfast)

1. To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
2. To improve the standard of articles relating to Northern Ireland in general.
3. To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistency throughout.
4. To examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and to determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.
5. Expand the sub-articles relating to the Belfast postal districts, which should all be cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district.
6. Continue maintenance of Northern Ireland Portal.
7. Continue rollout of Template:Infobox UK place to replace Irish infobox per WP:UKCITIES

Done

To do

• Locate non-categorised Northern Irish schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.

Done

To do

• The main Belfast article needs to achieve featured status.
• Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
• All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.

Wikimedia Commons has a wide range of Northern Ireland-related photographs which can all be used freely to accompany articles in Wikipedia. See:

• Media related to Northern Ireland at Wikimedia Commons

If you have any Northern Ireland-related photographs you could load them up to Wikimedia Commons for all to use.

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.

• Example article: User:Example

I'd like to request help on a Sport in Derry City or Sport in County Londonderry page. If you are interested in assisting, leave me a message on my talk page.Ryannus 00:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I've added the WPNI to two articles I am currently editing because they have a strong connection to Northern Ireland. If anyone would like to examine these and see if they have any advice to offer I would appreciate it. They are 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars and Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.GDD1000 (talk) 12:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia should not be biased towards one section of the community So seeing how Londonderry is the only official name of the city of Londonderry, the article should be called this. The High Court ruled that this is the only name of the City And until the name of the City is legally changed, wikipedia should only use official Names. Why not call the Mumbai article Bombay? Most citizens of Mumbai still call their city Bombay, but as the official name is Mumbai, the article is called this. So 'Derry' surely must be called Londonderry!

Unbongo - without taking a side, I only want to point out that this is a long-running dispute in Wikipedia. Derry's talk page has plenty of it. A vote was taken in 2005 to propose the article be renamed Londonderry/Derry, which failed. Then another vote was taken in 2007 to move it to Londonderry, and the result was no consensus. This is not to take a side, but just to let you know that this is a discussion which has spanned many years. If you'd like to get involved, I'd recommend doing so on the Derry talk page... but I warn you that there will be a long stewing pot of drama there. FlyingToaster 22:09, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi there, the organisation above has recently had a page created for it, the content of which is of relevance to NI. Perhaps you could have a look, and consider assiting in the creation of the page

many thanks

would you mind also having a look at the Day of Private Reflection page

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