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Wikipedia:WikiProject Retailing
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WikiProject Retailing is now active! Welcome!
Goals
One of the goals of this project is to make articles about retailing companies and chains consistent, using existing style guides such as Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information as guidelines, and devising new ones when needed. For entries on retail companies, this project will create a content structure guide since none exists currently. This would have to be done early on since the scope of this project includes so many retail chain articles.
Also, we intend to make the definitions of stores consistent with each other. By this, we mean readers should be able to disciminate between a discount store from a department store, since it isn't possible to do so with the current articles.
We also aim to bring mature articles that are within this project's scope to featured article status. For example, although the entries on Target Corporation and Wal-Mart are currently not featured articles, it is indeed this project's goal to improve them with the ultimate intention to bring them there.
Scope
The scope of this project covers articles of retailing companies (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.), chains (existing and defunct), topics (department store, hypermarket, etc.), and people (John Geisse). See the article list below for articles that are within our scope.
Members
- Tuxide (t c)
- Caldorwards4
- J.reed (t c)
- Yankeyfan315
- SchuminWeb (Talk)
- Wackymacs
- DrCash
- Kamikaze Highlander
- — Deckiller
- Jake
- TenPoundHammer
- Pafcool2
- Skeezix1000 (t c)
- rickster77
- johnandbob
- BizMgrt,c
- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) I am particularly interested in cooperatives
- Xde 13
- 68DANNY2
Open tasks
Here is what needs to be done, and I'll try not to keep you guys too bored. The first task for this project is to expand the list of articles as much as possible, taking the subcategories of Category:Retailers as a starting point. I estimate that about 95% of the current list are defunct chains that were in the United States.
Second, for every article that you add to this list, the template {{WikiProject Retailing}} needs to be added to its talk page. There are probably some good bots out there to make this task less boring, and I don't know what WP:AWB does. The reason this needs to be done is to actively recruit new editors: If WikiProject Retailing is unable to recruit new members to make up for attrition, then it will fail.
Third, for every article listed on this page, it needs to be properly tagged and documented here. I've been tagging a lot of articles as either {{unreferenced}} or {{citation style}}, you have no idea how many articles about defunct chains don't even cite from anything!
That is all I have now for a start. Feel free to edit this section as you see fit and discuss on the talk page the road that we are interested in taking.
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Copyedit: Target Corporation, Wal-Mart - to be used as an examples for ideal page structure
- Cleanup: T.J. Maxx reads like advert; see talk page discussion
- Expand: Store manager, List of articles on project page, image gallery on project page, Hypermarket (history section), Category killer - This is very US/Canada centric - Ikea exists elsewhere, too.
- Stubs: Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, Archer Farms, ClearRx
- Other: Department store - discriminate between itself and Discount store. Category killer - If a Category Killer dominates its area, why are there many stores listed per category? There should be clear criteria for when a store is included, otherwise this just becomes an advertising page.
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