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How do you read an article? Start to finish without skipping, or do you survey the article before delving in deeper? Captions, together with their images, help the reader survey the article and lead the reader into the article. This project aims to improve captions in Wikipedia articles with pictures, in accordance with Wikipedia:Captions.
== Scope ==
This project aims to improve articles by writing good captions for images accompanying articles. Guidance can be found at Wikipedia:Captions.
== Participants ==
* ke4roh
* GeneralPatton
* Zefram
* Neutrality
* Emsworth
* Noldoaran
* ALargeElk
* Deepak
* AdamH
* Frecklefoot
* Che Fox
* P. B. Mann
* ··gracefool
* epolk
* WBredefeld
== Examples of good captions ==
* Tank
* Disney-MGM_Studios
* Olympics
* History_of_computing_hardware
* Bioinformatics
* Royal_Assent
* Kasparov_versus_The_World
===Before and After===
This project reviews and improves captions, below are some examples of improvements to pages through improved captions, following listing on this page.
*Bryce Canyon National Park (before), following review -> Bryce_Canyon_National_Park
*Humpback Whale (before), following review -> Humpback_Whale
== Articles needing review ==
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Various articles need their captions reviewed. Mention here doesn't mean the captions are bad, just that someone should look at them with an eye towards the guidance at Wikipedia:Captions.
=== Regular features ===
To keep Wikipedia looking its best, feel free to check on articles referenced from these pages, visible from the Main_page:
* Wikipedia:Tomorrow's_featured_article
* Template:Did_you_know
* Template:Feature
* Template:In_the_news
* Template:{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}_{{CURRENTDAY}}_selected_anniversaries
=== The list ===
List articles here to have a participant review it and write/improve captions as needed.
After review please strikethrough the reviewed article, noting who reviewed it and when. In the edit summary plese include a link to the reviewed article. After a week, reviewed article entries should be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_Captions/Reviewed_log.
Last review cleanup: epolk May_27 2006
This list began as all unreviewed featured articles with images. Since captions are relatively new on the featured article criteria, it seems reasonable to review feature articles early in the process. Featured article candidates should also be systematically added to this list.
*Byzantine_Empire
*Charles_Graner
*Charles_Ives
*Che_Guevara
*Chew_Stoke
*Chinese_language
*Chinatown,_San_Francisco
*Choir
*Chola_dynasty
*Cleveland,_Ohio
*Coronation_Street
*Daniel_Brandt
*Danse_Macabre
*Democratic_Party_(United_States)
*Dog
*Du_Fu
*Edward_R._Murrow
*Elvis_Presley
*English_language
*Enigma_machine
*European_Union
*Felice_Beato
*Ferdinand_Magellan
*Finland
*First_Battle_of_the_Stronghold
*Ford_Mustang *
*Francis_P._Fleming
*Frankfurt_School
*Freemasonry
*French
*Freyja
*Fujiwara_no_Teika
*Global_warming
*Golden_Gate_Park
*Gough_Whitlam
*Government_of_France
*Greek_art
*Greys
*H._P._Lovecraft
*Hanuman
*Heavy_metal_music
*Heliocentrism
*History_of_Burnside
*History_of_Germany
*History_of_the_Netherlands
*History_of_the_Peerage
*Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson
*Richard Taylor
*Human
*Hurricane_Irene_(2005)
*Idaho
*Idolatry
*Ike_Altgens
*Intelligent_design
*Irish_fiction
*Irish_Houses_of_Parliament
*Irish_poetry
*Irish_theatre
*Isaac_Newton
*I_Want_To_Hold_Your_Hand
*James_Bulger_murder_case
*James_Dole
*Japan_general_election,_2003
*Japanese_funeral
*Japanese_grammar
*Jefferson_Davis
*Jet_engine
*Jimi_Hendrix
*Joseph_Stalin
*John_Carmack
*Julia_Set
*Julius_Caesar
*Korean_name
*Labour_economics
*Lake_Erie
*Lakshmi
*Lamy
*Lee_Lawrie
*LEGO
*Leo_Corbett
*Leonardo_da_Vinci
*Leopold_and_Loeb
*Liberal_Democrats_leadership_election,_2006
*Light-emitting_diode
*Lisbon
*Lollapalooza
*Louis_XIV_of_France
*LSD
*Luis_Muñoz_Marín
*Magic:_The_Gathering
*Mains_power_plug
*Mandarin_(linguistics)
*Mandelbrot_set
*Manila_Light_Rail_Transit_System
*Margaret_Thatcher
*Mark_Antony
*Mariner_Moose
*Martha_Stewart
*Mary_I_of_England
*Mary_I_of_Scotland
*Medieval_literature
*Menstrual_cycle
*Michael_Woodruff
*Microsoft
*Middle-earth
*Miles_Davis
*Milk
*Miranda_Otto
*Moncton
*Montreal_Canadiens
*Mordechai_Vanunu
*Mount_St._Helens
*Muhammad_Iqbal
*National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association_(Philippines)
*Nauru
*Nella_Larsen
*Newark,_New_Jersey
*Nicholas_II_of_Russia
*Nicolas_Sarkozy
*Nikola_Tesla
*Norse_mythology
*Oceanic_Whitetip_Shark
*Ohio
*Operation_Downfall
*Operation_Ten-Go
*Orca *
*Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War
*Orson_Welles
*Oxyrhynchus
*Parliament_and_the_Peerage
*Pedro_I_of_Brazil
*Phonograph_cylinder
*Photoresistor
*Pikachu
*Poetry_of_the_United_States
*Poker
*Pope_John_Paul_II
*Portuguese_language
*President_of_Ireland
*Prince-elector
*Propaganda
*Prostitution
*Provinces_of_Thailand
*Psychosis
*Punk_rock
*Quantum_computer
*Ralph_Yarborough
*Ramakrishna_Paramahamsa
*Rembrandt
*Richard_Nixon
*Ridge_Route
*Rights_and_privileges_of_peers
*Right_whale
*ROC_presidential_election,_2004
*Rogers_Locomotive_and_Machine_Works
*Rook_(chess)
*Roy_Orbison
*Royalty_and_the_Peerage
*Russian_language
*Saint_Petersburg
*San_Jose_State_University
*Sarajevo
*SEALORDS
*Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
*Sex_Pistols
*Schabir_Shaik_Trial
*Shakers
*Shiva
*Shotgun_house
*Sid_McMath
*Single_malt_Scotch
*Sino-Soviet_split
*Skewer_(chess)
*Soap_bubble
*Something_(song)
*Spacecraft_propulsion
*Sperm_Whale
*Star_Trek
*Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith
*Steel
*Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents'_Association_Dinner
*Styles_and_titles_of_peers
*Submarine
*Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race
*Superman
*Sverre_of_Norway
*Swami_Vivekananda
*Switzerland
*Synapse*
*Taiwanese_(linguistics)
*Tea *
*The_Birth_of_a_Nation
*The_KLF
*The_Ramones
*The_Rolling_Stones
*Toronto
*Transhumanism
*Transit_of_Venus
*Treaty_of_Devol
*Trench_warfare
*Triangle
*Tynwald_Day
*U.S._Electoral_College
*Unreal_Tournament_2004
*Vietnam_War
*Virtual_band
*Vishnu
*VW_Type_2
*Vulgar_Latin
*Warsaw
*Windows_XP
*Western_movie
*Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
*World_War_I
*World_War_II
*Zionism
*Zoophilia
*Zuiderzee_Works
* This article is also listed at Template:Opentask as needing captions.
== See also ==
* Wikipedia:Captions
* Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial
* Wikipedia:WikiProject_Illustration
* Template:Legend
Writing Captions
Writing Captions