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Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Architecture Manual of Style Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Architecture/Architecture_Manual_of_Style

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Construction is the use of stone, wood, and concrete to build houses and palaces. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in..." Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, 1923


Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then, we would like to invite you to help us in this project.

This project develops ideas about how we might organize data in articles about architecture. First and foremost, we simply invite you to write articles.These ideas are only suggestions that do not necessarily need to be followed, but these guidelines can be helpful if you do not know what to write or where to begin.

Scope

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This WikiProject aims to:

  1. Thoroughly explore architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
  2. Improve articles about architecture, architects, buildings and construction.
  3. Provide a place to discuss common issues on architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
  4. Organise and categorise Category:Architecture
  5. Ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
  6. Develop standards and templates for architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
  7. Manage editing of the icon Architecture portal

How to contribute

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Improve Outline of architecture

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The outline of architecture is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of architecture. It is intended to summarize the entire subject of architecture and Wikipedia's coverage of it. In turn, it is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics and pictures. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While browsing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

  1. What's missing? (Among other things: pictures! Showcase the best buildings!)
  2. Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
  3. Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is intended to be a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for this WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise architectural articles. It is a hub from which to organize architecture-related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Improve articles

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Expand articles

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Create new articles

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Communicate

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Help for authors

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Create new articles

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Using starter templates

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The starter templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings and infoboxes in your article. To use them follow this procedure:

  1. Create a blank article having first considered the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
  2. Copy one of the following templates and use it to start the article:
    1. Architect template for articles about architects
    2. Modern building template for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
    3. Historic building template for articles about buildings begun before 1900
  3. Save the article
  4. Edit the article again, and add the text for your article under the headings that are created.

Infoboxes

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The starter templates above are embedded with the following infoboxes than can be inserted separately into an article - this is not compulsory - often architecture articles are better first illustrated by other means:

Templates to organise a series of articles

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Use these series box templates for articles about:

WikiProject iconArchitecture Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Expand stub articles

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If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

Selecting the right category

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Main topics are listed in Category:Architecture. Please place your article in the appropriate sub-category, not in the main architecture category, to reduce clutter

Useful resources

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Article alerts are available, updated by AAlertBot. More information...

External picture, drawing and media resources can be found here: here.

WikiProject Tasks

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Develop overview and navigation pages

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Architecture Peer Review

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WikiProject Architecture has its own peer review process for articles:

Machu Picchu
Manor House, Sleaford
Endeavour House
Taliesin (studio)

Featured Article and Featured List Candidates

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Submit or comment on articles and lists under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates and Wikipedia:Featured list candidates.
Current Featured article and Featured list nominations :

Nominate articles here.


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Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured image candidates.
Current Featured Image nominations :Current Featured image candidates:


Monitor articles for deletion

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It is important to monitor and add your feedback to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Architecture. This is a special page for incomplete articles about Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space articles that may be removed, which needs to be maintained, updated.

Pages needing attention

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Categories and articles for cleanup, expansion needed, expert attention, Wikification, neutrality in question and articles to be merged or split

Top-level articles that fail to provide an adequate overview of the subject. Most of these are hopelessly incomplete and / or unbalanced, and fail to provide even a competent guide to coverage of the subject elsewhere in Wikipedia. Wide-ranging expert knowledge and some research would be needed to get these to a decent standard.

Structural elements articles, relatively easy to put right and very much in need of attention:

Article assessment

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WikiProject: Assessment Department - Instructions and FAQ

Architecture articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 6 22 58 85 171
FL 12 20 63 95
FM 292 292
A 1 1 2
GA 9 54 219 889 27 1,198
B 126 247 633 1,562 1,032 3,600
C 135 462 1,484 7,378 3,430 12,889
Start 78 750 3,378 25,883 9,263 39,352
Stub 66 846 17,968 6,180 25,060
List 8 47 194 5,353 383 5,985
Category 57,411 57,411
Disambig 162 162
File 1,349 1,349
Portal 8 8
Project 127 127
Template 2,316 2,316
NA 1 4 7 1,898 1,910
Other 271 271
Assessed 362 1,661 6,837 59,189 63,834 20,315 152,198
Unassessed 1 12 117 130
Total 362 1,661 6,838 59,201 63,834 20,432 152,328
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 411,767 Ω = 5.01

See also: {{Template:Architecture}}, above.

New articles

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Please feel free to add new architecture related articles to the list (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles, or articles with more than 1,500 characters of editing, that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page.

New article announcements:Articles related to architecture over the past two weeks are listed automatically by AlexNewArtBot. This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-06-27 19:09 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.


Members

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We welcome new members for WikiProject Architecture. Please put your name on the list here.

WikiProject user boxes

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Here are some templates for your use:

Code Result Usage
{{User WP Architecture}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Architecture.
 WikiProject Architecture userbox
{{User:Evan C/Userboxes/User Architecture}}
This user works in and/or appreciates Architecture
 Userbox for those interested in architecture
{{User:Feureau/Userboxes/User Loves Architecture}}
This user does not work in but appreciates Architecture.
 Userbox for those who do not work in the field of architecture but have a love for the subject.
{{User architect}}
This user is an architect.
 Userbox for architects
{{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/History}}
I enjoy architectural history.
 Userbox for architectural historians
{{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/Photog}}
I am an architectural photographer
 Userbox for architectural photographers

Featured content

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Current Featured articles:

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Architects:

Buildings:

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Grade I listed buildings in:

List of tallest buildings in:

Listed buildings in:

Good articles

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Architects:

Buildings:

Castles and fortifications:

Religious buildings:

Cities, countries and regions:

Did you know (DYK)s

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Please feel free to add new DYKs to the list (newer articles at the top with date, please).


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Similar WikiProjects

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Parent project

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Sister projects

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Daughter projects

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There is a task force on Historic houses

Former projects

Proposed projects

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  1. WikiProject Architectural heritage
  2. WikiProject Construction
  3. WikiProject Interior architecture and design
  4. WikiProject Interior decorating
  5. WikiProject Landscape architecture
  6. Wikiproject Developers