Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/Scope workshop

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The discussions which led to this workshop can be found here. This workshop is now concluded and the new Scope Guidelines have been implemented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History. See Members' final comments here.


This is a workshop to redraft the Scope section on Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History. Please use the talk page to discuss proposals and achieve consensus.

Preliminaries[edit]

Some relevant guidelines from the WikiProject Council (The full set guidelines can be found here)
  • What distinguishes a successful WikiProject is not the function of calling it a "WikiProject"; rather, it is that a WikiProject functions more as a grouping of editors than of articles.
  • Having considered the probable size of the scope, ask yourself, "Is this a 'natural' scope?" Will other people be able to easily understand what kind of articles the group is working on? If the scope seems strange, arbitrary, or unpredictable, consider adjusting or expanding the scope to be more sensible.
  • A WikiProject's members have the exclusive right to define the scope of their project, which includes defining an article as being outside the scope of the project. Similarly, if a WikiProject says that an article is within their scope, then you may not force them to remove the banner.
  • All editors should avoid tagging an article with a disruptive number of WikiProject banners.
  • WikiProject banners should not be used to duplicate the category system or portals. If an article is only tangentially related to the scope of another WikiProject, then please do not place that project's banner on the article.
  • For projects involved in the WP:1.0 assessment program, every banner placed is a demand for an assessment according to the project's guidelines. It is more friendly to omit outside WikiProjects that you think will rate the article as low importance relative to their specific field.
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