Wikipedia:WikiProject Chennai

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Shortcut: WP:CHENNAI

The WikiProject Chennai is a project aims to organise and improve articles related to Chennai.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Chennai articles by using the Chennai=yes parameter within the {{WP India}} template.

Usage: {{WP India|Chennai=yes}}

Contents 1 Project pages 2 Parentage 3 Similar WikiProjects 4 Participants 5 Tasks 5.1 Places 5.2 Roads 5.3 Landmarks 5.4 Government 6 Useful templates 7 Useful categories 8 Pictures 9 Watchlist

[edit] Project pages

• New articles is bot-generated page that contains article that may be Chennai-related. Please add this page your watchlist and monitor.
• Requested articles, contains Chennai-related requested articles
• Useful links, contains Chennai-related external links

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Indian cities.

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[edit] Participants

• Ganeshk (talk · contribs)
• Wikiality123 (talk · contribs)

[edit] Tasks

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to Chennai. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Also visit the Noticeboard for India-related topics for collaboration on Indian articles in general.

Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Chennai:

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• Places and landmarks: Add line
• Parks and rivers: Add line
• Events and people: Add line
• Streets: Add line
• History: Add line
• Other: Add line

[edit] Places

Suburbs Main article: List of Chennai suburbs Category: Suburbs of Chennai Completed suburbs: 0% finished Of 0 articles, 0 are counted as complete. Pending Featured suburbs: 0% finished Of 0 articles, 0 are counted as featured.

Neighbourhoods Main article: Neighbourhoods of Chennai Category: Neighbourhoods of Chennai Completed suburbs: 0% finished Of 0 articles, 0 are counted as complete. Pending Featured suburbs: 0% finished Of 0 articles, 0 are counted as featured.

Parks and gardens Main article: List of Chennai parks and gardens Category: Parks in Chennai Being Developed - 0% complete Of ? articles, ? exist as either basic stubs or full articles. Reservoirs Main article: List of reservoirs and dams in India Category: Reservoirs and dams in India Being Developed - 0% complete Of ? articles, ? have content. Railway Stations Main article: List of Chennai railway stations Category: Railway stations in Chennai Being Developed - 0% complete Of ? articles, ? have content.

[edit] Roads

Freeways and highways Main article: List of Indian highways 0% finished Of unknown number of articles, unknown number exist and unknown number are detailed. All existing articles have an appropriate category and list.

Major streets and thoroughfares See: Category:Roads in Chennai This subpage does not yet exist. Please feel free to create it.

[edit] Landmarks

Landmarks This subpage is new. Please feel free to add to it.

[edit] Government

Local government areas Local Government Areas of South India Category: Category:Local Government Areas of South India 0% finished Of 0 articles, 0 exist and an unknown number are detailed. All existing articles have an appropriate category and list.

[edit] Useful templates

• {{WP India|Chennai=yes}} - talk-page notice for Project related articles
• {{Chennai-geo-stub}} - Chennai geography stub
• Template:Chennai tasks - the open-tasks list shown on page
• Template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction for all places including towns, suburbs and neighbourhoods.

[edit] Useful categories

The following Chennai-related topics can be turned into an encyclopaedic article called List of Chennai topics which is part of Category:Topic lists.

[edit] Pictures

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Chennai for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

[edit] Watchlist

We have a list of all of our articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chennai/Watchlist, for the purpose of being able to see how they have recently been changed through the recent changes list.