Wikipedia:WikiProject Nova Scotia in Encyclopedia

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Nova Scotia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Goals

This WikiProject main goal is to ensure that Wikipedia has concise and detailed articles about every subject relating to Nova Scotia, including but not limited to the implementation standardised side bars and adding depth and utility to the NS categories. It is also to provide a consistent level of high quality information for all counties, towns, and incorporated municipalities in Nova Scotia, as well as related sub or specialty pages. Ultimately, this will result in Nova Scotia articles being put forward for Featured Article status.

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 Nova Scotia 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 articles.

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Structure

Article title

Following Wikipedia standard, article titles should relate to the best-known name in most cases. It has become standard that communities and place names in Canada be followed by the name of the Province, thus Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia.

General

Redirects should be created for commonly-used nicknames, and for place names without the province following the name, where possible.

County Pages

Town/Municipality Pages

Article format

If you are only able to get a few details for a particular article, please add the appropriate stub at the bottom of the page.

Ensure that appropriate county and hrm community categories are added, as detailed below.

Categories

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Hierarchy definition

Images without articles

Images of places and things in Nova Scotia which do not yet have articles, but potentially could.

Image:Halifax boardwalk.JPG|The Halifax Boardwalk Fortunately, a stub has been started

General strategy and discussion forums

Infobox

All settlements in Nova Scotia should use . This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Nova Scotia and settlements in the other parts of Canada like Toronto, Montreal, St. John's, and Edmonton. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc. also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Nova Scotia. Click on the examples below for different types of usage.

For use with the Counties of Nova Scotia

For use with the Towns in Nova Scotia

For use with the Villages of Nova Scotia

For use with the Communities - Areas of HRM

Politics of Nova Scotia

Subdivisions of Nova Scotia

Stub templates

Focus template

Talk page template

The tag should be added to the top of the talk page of all articles maintained by this WikiProject.