Wikipedia:WikiProject Circus
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Welcome to WikiProject Circus!
A group of Wikipedians have formed this collaborative group that is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage and organization of circuses and circus related topics. This page along with the corresponding subpages contain suggestions and various resources to improve and organize these articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians interested in this topic. If you would like to help, please add your name to the list of participants, inquire on the talk page where help may be needed or see the to-do list below.
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[edit] Userboxes
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A variety of userbox options have been created for members to display on their user page.
The links for these userboxes are:
- Template:User WikiProject Circus (tent)
- Template:User WikiProject Circus (aerial)
- Template:User WikiProject Circus (flame)
- Note - Brackets {{}} must be placed around the link to display properly .
[edit] Infobox
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| Origin | |
| Circus name | {{{circus_name}}} |
| Country | {{{country}}} |
| Founder(s) | {{{founder}}} |
| Year founded | {{{year}}} |
| Information | |
| Operator(s) | {{{operator}}} |
| Fate | {{{fate}}} |
| Ringmaster(s) | {{{ringmaster}}} |
| Director(s) | {{{director}}} |
| Traveling show? | {{{traveling}}} |
| Circus tent? | {{{tent}}} |
| Number of companies | {{{number}}} |
| Winter quarters | {{{winter}}} |
| Type of acts | {{{acts}}} |
| Other information | {{{other}}} |
| Website | {{{website}}} |
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[edit] Goals
- To help create better articles on the aspects of the circus.
[edit] Scope
- The scope of this project is all articles relating to circuses, circus performers, and related subjects. All of these articles should be included in the Category:Circuses or one of its subcategories.
[edit] Guidelines
[edit] Open tasks
edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Circus: | |||
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[edit] Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, (using {{user|User name}}) and indicate areas of particular interest.
- Hailey C. Shannon (talk · contribs) - I feel this needed to be started!
- GUllman (talk · contribs) - I like circuses
- Byshee (talk · contribs) - I'm in and am already adding new articles
- Circusandmagicfan (talk · contribs) - I have particular interests in the impalement arts (knife throwing etc.) and also magic or illusion acts. I dislike animal acts so I will probably refrain from involvement in articles on that subject.
- joeyness (talk · contribs) - I am a massive fan of circus and I make it my duty to see as many as I can in a year.
- spookydel (talk · contribs) - Am a specialist on Sideshow performers (Freakshow) from 1880's to around the 1950's.
- Shinerunner (talk · contribs) - general interest in circuses.
- AtticusX (talk · contribs) - professional circus composer/musician and former theater student with a special fascination for the contemporary circus movement.
[edit] Articles
[edit] Featured content
[edit] Candidates
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new Circus-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
[edit] Collaboration and review
[edit] Version 1.0 assessments
| Circus articles | Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 GA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| B | 1 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 31 | ||
| C | 14 | 26 | 8 | 48 | |||
| Start | 28 | 56 | 22 | 106 | |||
| Stub | 8 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 44 | ||
| List | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Assessed | 1 | 62 | 121 | 46 | 3 | 233 | |
| Unassessed | 2 | 3 | 27 | 32 | |||
| Total | 1 | 64 | 124 | 46 | 30 | 265 | |
For more information about Version 1.0 assessments, see WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP.
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[edit] Featured content
[edit] GA-content
[edit] Did you Know (DYK)
The following articles appeared on the Main page in the Did you know section:
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