Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels

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This project is about articles related to Bridges.

Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about bridges, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.

Scope: This project is related to articles about specific bridges, types of bridges, lists of bridges, bridge categorization, and related templates.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or check the to-do list.

Membership Template

Template for members to include on their user page: {{Template:WikiProject Bridges}}

Participants

Cacophony
Ghirla, responsible for all the stuff contained in Category:Bridges in Russia
Lar will help out when he can.
Leonard G.
Rob — associated with Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Chicago, Illinois bridges
Joturner
SamuelWantman

To Do

Create guidelines for this Wikiproject
Add infoboxes to articles
Standardize categorization between east/west coast bridges-comment on the talk page
Add introductory paragraphs to bridge category pages (defining the category)
Update the List of bridges in the United States with info from Cat:Bridges in the US
Add latitude and longitude information to articles (either using a template or {{Geolinks-US-streetscale}})
Expand Category:Bridge (structure) stubs articles.
Create a Wikiproject template.

Guidelines

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Pulaski Skyway serve as good models.

Introduction

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

''']''' is a ] that spans ] between ] and ]. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in ] by ] and was designed by ]

Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of bridge that it is (example Category:Suspension bridges). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Bridges in New York

There has been much discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all bridge articles in a category based on location (by Nation for small countries with few bridges (Japan), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Bridges in New York). If these categories are further divided amongst subcategories, the articles will remain included within the larger category (For example: all the bridges in Category:Toll bridges in New York and Category:Bridges in New York City will be included in Category:Bridges in New York). This makes the category pages the easiest to navigate at the price of adding slightly redundant categories on the individual articles. This has been found to be the best solution until MetaWiki supports the inclusion of subcategory articles within parent category pages.

Lists

Articles (bridge types)

Bridge

Articles (specific bridges) in need of attention

Mountain Creek Lake Bridge was copied fron an external source and needs to be rewritten.
Niagara Cantilever Bridge Needs review. I expanded it a lot but it still could use more work. ++Lar 05:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Peoria, Illinois bridges needs to be broken into individual articles.
Triborough Bridge needs to be reworked, possibly to include 3 infoboxes, more images, diagrams, etc.
Hampton Bridge is marked with a cleanup template

Infoboxes

Template:bridge (depreciated)
Template:bridge2 (depreciated)
Template:bridge3 (depreciated)
Template:Infobox BridgeSpecificWithMap (deprecated and deleted)
Template:Infobox Bridge (the map is optional)

The last infobox is currently in use at San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge. Additional bay area bridges need appropriate maps, and location maps would be useful for all specific bridges. The maps should generally be at a regional or city level. Note that the "connects" is not intended to specifiy cities or neighborhoods for those bridges carrying regional traffic such as SFOBB or GGB, while city specific (or even neighborhood) would be appropriate in other cases - e.g. High Street Bridge, connecting East Oakland (a neighborhood, not a city) and the city of Alameda Leonard G. 20:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Note: there is as of this writing some cleanup that could be done to replace redirects of Template:bridge with direct imbeds of {{Infobox_Bridge}}... see Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_Bridge for some fixup candidates. ++Lar: t/c 15:19, 20 January 2006 (UTC)