English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:WikiProject Saskatchewan communities

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Introduction

This WikiProject is designed to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information on communities in Saskatchewan with help from community-driven Wikipedia editors and members of the Saskatchewan communities WikiProject. Articles include cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rural municipalities, neighbourhoods, Indian reserves, etc.

Scope and motivation

• To enhance articles like Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Regina, Qu'Appelle and Fort Qu'Appelle.
• To start and enhance articles on smaller towns that wouldn't have the chance otherwise.
• To start and enhance articles on neighbourhoods all across the province.
• To start and enhance articles on RMs all across the province.
• To start and enhance articles on Indian reserves all across the province.

Structure

This template was created with help from standards set by Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Biography. Just follow these 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article

• Create an outline for the Saskatchewan article you started or selected from the Articles needed listing:
  • Add {{subst:Saskatchewan Communities}} into your article page and save.
  • Fill in the sections for your chosen Saskatchewan Community and save.
  • Add the appropriate WP templates and ratings to the talk page.
• A Location map for Saskatchewan has been created, so the placename coordinates for new places are added to the template, and no need to upload a new image map for each place...see Simpson for an example of its use.

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Tips

To get an article to featured article status, make sure to follow these steps to ensure all articles we submit to Featured article candidates meet the FA criteria. All of these apply to almost any good article, so keep them in mind when editing even outside of Saskatchewan articles. The suggestions are:

I.	Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subject.
II.	Use good spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. Many browsers support spell checking.
III.	Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV.	Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images for more information.
V.	Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. An article will not get accepted as a featured article candidate if it is missing references. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References.
VI.	Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this.
VI.	Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII.	Use common sense. You should know what perfect articles look like. They cover everything they should without going on forever. Common sense could have told you almost all of the items mentioned above. Ultimately, assume good faith,be bold, and go out there and write some good Saskatchewan community articles.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Similar WikiProjects

Parent projects

• WikiProject Canada
• WikiProject Saskatchewan
• WikiProject Cities

Descendant WikiProjects

• WikiProject Saskatchewan
• WikiProject Cities
• WikiProject Canada

Related WikiProjects and collaborations

• Canadian Collaboration of the week
• Canada notice board
• Saskatchewan collaboration

Related U.S. WikiProjects

No related WikiProjects to do with the United States have been identified yet.

Overlapping WikiProjects

• WikiProject City