Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions

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

Examples of good captions

• Tank
• Disney-MGM Studios
• Olympics
• History of computing hardware
• Bioinformatics
• DOOM
• Royal Assent
• Charles Graner

Articles needing review

List articles here to have a participant review it and write 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.

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.

• 1964 New York World's Fair
• Action potential -- Richard Taylor Jul 28 2004
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- 81.168.80.170 19:51, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Apollo 11 -- ke4roh 17:21, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Ariel Sharon--Neutrality 05:04, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Aryan invasion theory -- no pictures ke4roh 18:33, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Assassin -- 81.168.80.170 18:17, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Assisi embroidery
• Attack on Pearl Harbor -- 81.168.80.170 19:28, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Auto rickshaw -- ke4roh 01:23, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Baroque
• Batman -- —Noldoaran (Talk) 04:07, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)
• Battle of Aljubarrota
• Belgium
• Bible code -- ke4roh 01:36, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Bob Dylan
• Book of Kells -- 81.168.80.170 20:05, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Bread
• British East India Company -- 195.167.169.36 11:22, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Brolga -- 195.167.169.36 11:11, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Bruno Kreisky
• Bryce Canyon National Park
• Buckinghamshire
• Buddhism
• Bullfighting
• Byzantine Empire
• Calvin and Hobbes -- Done. EagleOne 02:59, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Carl Sagan *
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• Chariot racing
• Charles Graner
• Charles Ives
• Che Guevara
• Chess
• Chinese language
• Chinatown -- ke4roh 17:41, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Chinatown, London -- 195.167.169.36 11:26, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Chinatown, Los Angeles
• Chinatown, Manhattan
• Chinatown, San Francisco
• Cladistics -- ke4roh 17:41, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Coca-Cola -- Johnleemk | Talk 13:18, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Comet -- ke4roh 13:58, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Congo Free State
• Copyright -- 195.167.169.36 11:09, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Crushing by elephant -- 13:56, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Damascus steel -- ke4roh 17:07, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Dmitri Shostakovich -- ke4roh 21:44, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Ebola
• Economics
• Edward R. Murrow
• Electronic amplifier
• Elvis Presley
• Emacs *
• Emperor Norton -- ke4roh 23:50, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• End times
• English poetry
• Enigma machine
• Eureka Stockade
• Euro
• European Union
• Father Damien
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Finland
• First Battle of the Stronghold
• Ford Mustang *
• Foundation Series
• Fractal *
• Francis P. Fleming
• Frankfurt School
• Free will
• Freemasonry
• Freyja
• Giotto mission -- ke4roh 13:58, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Galileo Galilei -- ke4roh 16:55, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Galileo probe
• Garry Kasparov
• Gene-- Richard Taylor Jul 28 2004
• Geology of the Bryce Canyon area
• Geyser *
• glass -- 81.168.80.170 21:51, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Golden Gate Park
• Gough Whitlam
• Great Mosque of Djenne
• Greek art
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Heavy metal music
• Hebrew calendar
• Helium -- 81.168.80.170 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Hinduism
• History of Germany
• History of Scotland
• History of the Netherlands
• history of the Peerage
• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
• Horseshoe -- 81.168.80.170 21:08, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Humpback Whale
• Humphrey Bogart
• Hutton Inquiry
• Ian McKellen
• Igor Stravinsky
• Io (moon) -- ke4roh 13:02, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Irish fiction
• Irish Houses of Parliament
• Irish poetry
• Irish theatre
• Isaac Asimov -- ke4roh 01:42, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
• ISO 8859
• James Bulger murder case
• James Dole
• Japan general election, 2003
• Japanese grammar
• Java programming language
• Jazz * -- Kamukwam 18:36, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
• Jesus -- ke4roh 17:28, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Jet engine
• Jim Thorpe
• Jimi Hendrix
• Joseph Stalin
• Julius Caesar
• kitchen -- ke4roh 02:26, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Kitsch
• Korean name
• LEGO
• Light-emitting diode
• LSD
• Labour economics
• Laika
• Lawrence v. Texas
• Leet -- ke4roh 21:09, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leopold and Loeb
• life peer -- already great! ke4roh 21:11, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
• Linus Pauling -- ke4roh 13:02, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Lisbon
• Lollapalooza
• London Congestion Charge
• London Underground
• Lord Mayor of London -- Great! ke4roh 18:33, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Louis Armstrong
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Luis Munoz Marin
• MKULTRA
• Mail *
• Mains power plug
• Mandarin (linguistics)
• Margaret Thatcher
• Mark Antony
• Markup language
• Marshall, Texas -- ke4roh 13:17, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Martha Stewart
• Medieval literature
• Menstrual cycle
• Middle-earth
• Miles Davis
• Mitochondrial Eve -- ke4roh 17:08, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Monopoly (game)
• Montparnasse
• Montreal Canadiens
• Mordechai Vanunu
• Mount St. Helens
• Nella Larsen
• Newark, New Jersey
• Nicholas II of Russia
• Nikola Tesla
• Oceanic Whitetip Shark
• Olympic Games -- ke4roh 13:19, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Operation Downfall
• Operation Market Garden
• orca
• Order of the Garter
• Origins of the American Civil War
• Oxyrhynchus
• Pac-Man -- 81.168.80.170 20:45, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak -- ALargeElk | Talk 14:20, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Parliament and the Peerage
• Parthenon
• Paul Is Dead
• Paul Martin -- ke4roh 16:59, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Paul Morphy -- ke4roh 13:17, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
• PaX (Linux)
• Peerage law
• Peloponnesian War
• People's Republic of China
• Phonograph cylinder
• Poetry of the United States
• Poker
• Pope John Paul II
• Portuguese language
• President of Ireland
• Prince-elector
• Propaganda
• Prostitution
• Provinces of Thailand
• Psychosis
• Pufferfish
• Punk rock
• Quantum computer
• ROC presidential election, 2004
• Radar -- ke4roh 14:28, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
• Rainbow
• Ralph Yarborough
• Rembrandt
• Ridge Route
• rights and privileges of peers
• Road transport -- ke4roh 17:53, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Robert Mugabe
• Rock, Paper, Scissors -- ALargeElk | Talk 10:08, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Roy Orbison
• royalty and the Peerage
• Rudyard Kipling -- ke4roh 10:53, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
• Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 -- ke4roh 12:53, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Russian language
• San Jose State University
• Sarajevo
• Search engine
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome
• Sex Pistols
• Shakers
• Sid McMath
• Siege -- ke4roh 13:32, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)
• Simon and Garfunkel Johnleemk | Talk 10:25, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Single malt Scotch
• Sino-Soviet split
• Soap bubble
• Space elevator -- 195.167.169.36 09:48, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Spacecraft propulsion
• Speech synthesis
• Sperm Whale
• Split infinitive
• Star Trek
• steel
• styles and titles of peers
• Submarine
• Superman
• Synapse*
• Taiwanese (linguistics)
• Tea *
• The Beatles Johnleemk | Talk 10:25, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• The Scream
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Titan (moon) -- done GeneralPatton 22:00, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Tokyo
• Traditional counties of England
• Traffic light
• Transit of Venus
• treaty of Devol
• Trench warfare
• Triangle
• Trigonometric function -- ke4roh 16:52, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Tuberculosis
• Tynwald Day
• Typewriter
• U.S. Electoral College
• Vietnam War
• VW Type 2
• Vulgar Latin
• War elephant
• Warsaw
• Western movie
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• World War I
• XSL attack -- ke4roh 10:17, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yesterday
• Zeppelin
• Zionism
• Zuiderzee Works

* This article is also listed at Template:Opentask as needing captions.

See also

• Wikipedia:Captions
• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration