Wikipedia:WikiProject Indexes

Welcome to WikiProject Indexes (Indices), dedicated to providing resources and guidance for improving the development, organization and maintenance of indexes on Wikipedia. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and other resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the work. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the Tasks list, below.

• For the current alphabetical indexes on Wikipedia, see and Wikipedia:Contents/Indices and Category:Wikipedia indexes.

• Or, go to the following templates and click "What links here" on the toolbox menu on the sidebar on the left side of the screen: Template:compactTOC8

Goals

• Develop and maintain alphabetical index articles on Wikipedia.
• Develop standards for indexes in the encyclopedia.

Project scope

• This project covers all alphabetical index articles on Wikipedia, and all links leading to them.

Members

To join, please add your user name at the end of the list, using four tildes: ~~~~

1. The Transhumanist
2. -- Quiddity (talk)
3.  Buaidh  20:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
4.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  01:49, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
5. Satanhhh (talk) 06:56, 27 November 2019 (UTC) Satanhhh
6.   // Timothy :: talk  23:27, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
7. OctaviusSlockpit (talk) 16:58, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
8. Julius177 (talk) 17:26, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
9. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 15:25, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Note: To keep this list up-to-date, inactive editors will be periodically removed.

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Tasks

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Expand : Index of dance articles

Add links to all indexes to the index list

The index list is at Wikipedia:Contents/Indices.

Fix tables of contents

Many index pages have sections that don't show up on their tables of contents (TOCs).

These need to be fixed using a TOC template. {{Compact TOC}} works great for this.

The hunt for index pages that aren't called "Index of"

They hide in two ways:

1. By not being included in Wikipedia:Contents/Indices, or
2. By not having "Index of" in their titles

When you find them, please add them to the list below.

Those marked renamed have been renamed. Those marked placed have been added to Wikipedia:Contents/Indices.

New Indexes

• Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War - created March 14, 2020

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 10 Feb 2022 – Index of Myanmar-related articles (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Geschichte (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 10 Feb 2022 – Index of Albania-related articles (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Geschichte (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 03 Feb 2022 – Index of Afghanistan-related articles (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Geschichte (t · c) was closed as delete by Eddie891 (t · c) on 10 Feb 2022; see discussion (7 participants)

Featured list candidates

• 28 Dec 2021 – List of female chess grandmasters (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Sportsfan77777 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 30 Dec 2021 – List of current Warner Records artists (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of former Warner Records artists by Pburka (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Dec 2021 – List of current Interscope Records artists (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of former Interscope Records artists by Pburka (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Dec 2021 – List of current Atlantic Records artists (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of former Atlantic Records artists by Pburka (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Oct 2021 – List of villages in Missouri (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of cities in Missouri by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Aug 2021 – List of astronauts by name (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of astronauts by year of selection by Beland (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Aug 2021 – List of space travelers by name (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of space travelers by nationality by Beland (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jul 2021 – List of villages in West Virginia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of towns in West Virginia by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jul 2021 – List of towns in West Virginia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of cities in West Virginia by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jul 2021 – List of cities in West Virginia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of towns in West Virginia by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jul 2021 – List of towns in South Dakota (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of cities in South Dakota by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion

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Categories

Indexes

Aggregation websites

Benchmark crude oils

Bibliographic databases and indexes

Citation indices

Death indexes

Indexers

Internet search engines

Social science indices

Web directories

• Below is a second category showing all articles with the {{WikiProject Index}} tag:

WikiProject Index articles

Indexes articles needing attention

Pages using WikiProject Indexes with unknown parameters

Templates

• {{compactTOC8}} - full featured table of contents template for use on alphabetical index pages. Many options.
• {{cto}} - linkbox for the See also section of articles.

Userboxes

Code	Result
{{Template:User WP Indexes}}	This user is an active member of WikiProject Indexes	Usage

Resources

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Related projects

• WP:WikiProject Bibliographies
• WP:WikiProject Contents
• WP:WikiProject Glossaries
• WP:WikiProject Outlines
• WP:Help Project