Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Tasks

What constitutes a Louisville area-related article

Per our goal and scope, WikiProject Louisville provides comprehensive coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area. But to decide what articles/pages to include can sometimes be a bit fuzzy. So following are aspects to look at in determining whether an article/page should be included in our project:

Addressing requests

On the talk pages of articles, Wikipedians can request immediate attention, as well as particular things to add to an article, such as images, infoboxes, maps, or various content additions/changes from a to-do list..Go to the "Louisville articles needing attention" category (and subcategories) to see which articles need various kinds of attention. Addressing these matters is also a great way to contribute.

Problem cleanup

There are many approaches to cleaning up Wikipedia articles, and cleanup activity on our included articles is a great way to contribute to our project. Obviously, issues such as typos, incorrect grammar and ambiguous links can be corrected manually, but many tools exist to aid in this effort.

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

In addition, various cleanup issues* for our project (totaling 3,750 in 2,397 articles as of October 27, 2026) are scooped up by a weekly-run automatic process and are listed by cleanup category and alphabetically by article title (sortable by assessment class or project importance, or number of issues in the alphabetic list) by for your convenience. For example, if you just want to work on articles with cite date errors, the "by cleanup category" list has those sorted out for you.

For cleanup issues identified over a decade ago and are still yet to be addressed, check out our list of articles with old issues.

*Note: these lists don't comprise all possible cleanup issues in articles—just the ones that have been tagged by editors or internal processes (and thus listed in hidden categories). Issues like spacing, typos, grammar, readability, and minor structural nits will normally not be included—sometimes you just have to read an article or review its wiki source to see where its problems lie.

Helpful cleanup hints

1. In your Preferences (Appearance/Advanced options), check "Show hidden categories" so you can see the cleanup categories that articles and other pages are included in.
2. Regarding citation-related issues, include the following in your common.css (style file) so that these issues will be clearly visible in every article:

   :root .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint {display: inline;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */

   :root .mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error {display: inline;} /* display hidden Citation Style 1 error messages */

3. To fix articles listed in the category "Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls", use the FindArgDups script.
4. To address "Orphaned" articles, see WP:Orphan.
5. To address articles listed in the category "Notability unclear", you basically have two, maybe three choices: 1) Find more reliable, independent sources to bolster the article subject's notability; or 2) if there's no hope for establishing the article subject's notability, submit the article for Deletion. However, sometimes there is a middle ground, 3) merging the article's cited content into an established, clearly notable subject, and then converting the problematic article into a redirect.

Specific connecting tasks

• As there is an ongoing problem of Louisville area-related articles generally being undercategorized, categorize articles as much as reasonable, especially using chronological categories (e.g., when something is established). Add or adjust categories as necessary in the process.
• Do more diffusing of Category:People from Louisville, Kentucky (journalists (child of writers), academics, lawyers (judges), filmmakers, military personnel). Ensure that any new subcategory is appropriately categorized.
• Do more diffusing of Category:Sports in Louisville, Kentucky to more thoroughly cover various types of sporting activities.
• Create more Louisville metropolitan area-related categories where feasible (e.g., Transportation, Economy and "Companies based in..."). Perhaps have "Companies based in..." categories for nearby Indiana counties/cities.

Watchall maintenance for Change patrol

Our Watchall page (technically now Watchall2) contains the complete list of pages included in our project along with their corresponding talk pages. This page is used in Change patrol, where Wikipedia's Recent changes tool is used to see recent changes to pages linked in the Watchall, and that can be used to police vandalism or otherwise review changes. The Watchall is updated daily by a bot due to the continual churn of new pages being added to the project, pages being deleted from the project, and pages being renamed (moved).

Higher priority

• In progress Improve appearance of the project in dark mode. The following areas are to be reworked for this purpose:
  •  Done Top navigation
  •  Done Front page
  •  Done Departments and report pages
  • Pending Banners and userboxes
  • Maybe Project alerts (dropdowns with the color-coded backgrounds)
• In progress Find a way to better show which articles need images, maps and infoboxes. Part of this is fully including and better encapsulating the needs across the metropolitan area.
• In October 2024, an IP editor (using various IP addresses) removed large chunks of largely unreferenced copy from Louisville, Kentucky, claiming it was "non-notable", without any explanation or having done the work to find any citations. Make a detailed checklist of these chunks so they can be reviewed on an ad hoc basis, with perhaps some of it being reintegrated into the article with proper citations.
• Requested articles:
  • In progress Go through all the red links on Louisville's main article, major subarticles, and Louisville area-related lists and templates, and add them to this page.
  • Create a process for triaging requests and keeping logs of entries that are rejected for having no hope of satisfying notability criteria.
  • Build a report of requested articles ranked from most to least incoming links from mainspace, to be used as an indication of how much the article is needed. In reverse, it indicates which entries have the greatest necessity to be added as red links to articles that already include or refer to them textually.
  • In page directions (near the intro), encourage project participants to red-link requested articles where practicable and give pointers on how best to do it.
  • Denote entries as having prior encyclopedia coverage using The Encyclopedia of Louisville (for 20th century and earlier topics) and other encyclopedias as guides. Note which have full chapters (encyclopedia entries) or otherwise have so many paragraphs or sentences dedicated to the topic.
  • Figure out ways to encourage the creation of stubs (at the very least) for listed articles.
• Improve instructions on how to request images, maps and infoboxes for a specific article.
• Maybe create project content focused on new Wikipedia users but oriented to working for this WikiProject. This could include having a list of actions that inexperienced editors can assist with, such as adding links to underlinked articles.
• Maybe show the top ten popular articles on the front page, either carved out from the previous month's list or freshly generated from the past week.
• Add more outreach ideas to "Participation and outreach" such as tips on how to encourage people to get involved as well as ways to highlight our achievements and notable goings-on with our included subjects.
• Figure out a way to coordinate development of Louisville area-related articles in Wikipedias of other languages. A starting point would be having a report of our articles that have counterparts in other languages. Review how WP New York City handles this.

Lower priority

The following should await increased participation returning to the project:

• Start having a "Collaboration of the week/month".
• Requested articles:
  • Provide a way to vote on which articles should be created next.
  • Maybe create a list of users who have fulfilled requests, along with a leaderboard for such.
• Maybe have a task force for University of Louisville-related articles. It would get its own project page and potentially its own barnstar and ad.
• Maybe establish a "Photography" or "Imageworks" department focusing on making/taking the best pictures, the process for uploading them and inserting them into articles, and keeping track of where they are needed. We could even use this department as a platform for showing off the best images in use in our project's articles. Perhaps this could be coordinated somehow with Wikimedia Commons.
• Create a prospectus to list subjects covered in major works about the Louisville area (e.g., The Encyclopedia of Louisville). Other WikiProjects have done this already. List the subjects alphabetically, linking them to existing articles if they already exist. If it's a direct match, link the subject itself (with a pipe if necessary); if partial, list the link beside it. In parentheses, list the works the subject is found in. Examples:
  • Direct match: [[Article for Subject|Subject]] (EncLou)
  • Partial match: Subject (EncLou) – [[Article related to Subject]]