Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Asia

Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia

Description[edit]

As a potential cover-all project for the possible meeting of and mediation between all the sub projects - a way of dealing with inter-sub project issues (scope and boundaries) and the possible cleaning up of asia wide categories and templates - as there appears to be no central point for co-ordinating or establishing guidelines with the whole of asia in perspective. Also the improvement of the main asia articles and sub articles - also possible over time the devolution of some asia-wide categories and templates to the sub projects, as well as re-activating interest in sub projects that go defunct like south asia project. Satu Suro 10:51, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Satu Suro 10:51, 30 August 2010 (UTC) I would be very interested in the project tagging and general going through the categories and templates over time - as a way of project management.[reply]
John Carter (talk) 23:54, 30 August 2010 (UTC) - Not a bad idea. There is a definite possibility that one or more of the extant subprojects may become inactive, and having a parent to take over content is a good idea. There is also the matter of articles and topics which are directly relevant to Asia but not so directly relevant to individual countries or areas.[reply]
Sounds sensible and useful Nick-D (talk) 05:21, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds reasonable, though I think all the major regions of Asia should also have projects. (I think the only one missing is East Asia, if you count WP:RUSSIA as North Asia). 76.66.192.49 (talk) 13:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Canon Law Junkie §§§ Talk 22:57, 2 September 2010 (UTC) Would definitly join. Interested in Asian histoy.[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Most of the sub projects already exist - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Geographical/Asia - the idea is to have the wider articles/categories/templates belong to a project to be managed over time - and where possible to be able to improve their coverage and weight/balance of the regions within asia Satu Suro 10:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Should this WikiProject be created, it might consider absorbing South Asia as a workgroup/taskforce. (keeping the WikiProject template intact) 76.66.194.106 (talk) 06:30, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Volcanism_of_Asia is for me a classic example of why I have proposed this project - the geological variance enclosed in this category is so disparate, it is close to nonsensical - it is my belief the volcanism should be separated into the sub-projects - so that they might have more semblance to meaning and relevance - and that the asian project should have those as sub-categories in this particular example - in other words no article should have 'volcanism in asia' as a category - but only a sub category (volcanism in central asia, volcanism in southeast asia etc). And when one looks at the categories with xxx in Asia - there a lot of categories to split into sub-categories so as to make some more logical schema Satu Suro 00:12, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.