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CITY OF SYDNEY LIBRARY

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Examples of articles about Sydney

Here are some examples of different types of articles on Sydney in various stages of development.

Lists

List of public art in the City of Sydney (This is one of many "list" articles.)
List of Australian diarists of World War I

Historic and contemporary events

1877 Henri L'Estrange (This is a Good Article (GA) )
1907 Sydney bathing costume protests (This article contains links to Wikisource, a free library of original source documents.)
2014 Sydney hostage crisis (This article developed out of an unfolding and controversial event. Such articles need great care with editing.)

Buildings, structures and materials

St Philip's Church, Sydney (St Philip's is a "start class" article with much scope for development. It can be compared with St James' Church, Sydney, which is a Featured Article).
UTS Tower and Ian Thorpe Aquatic and Fitness Centre (These are articles that need to be developed. The section on "critical reception" in the second is useful in such articles.)
Bungarribee Homestead (This is an article about a demolished historic building in Sydney.)
Sydney sandstone (This article is about Sydney's specific variety of sandstone - there are other articles about other varieties.)

Art works and objects

Halo (sculpture) and Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall (These are two articles on public art works in Sydney.)
Cloud Arch (This is a stub-level article about a proposed public artwork in Sydney.)
The Bridge in Curve (This is an article about a specific painting with Sydney as its subject.)
Sydney punchbowls and Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ (The first article about a rare pair of art objects is well-developed and could be compared with the second which needs to be developed.)

Urban developments, policy and theory

Cogeneration (This article includes information on "Trigeneration" which could be developed into a daughter article.)
Sydney lockout laws (Policy topics such as this are subject to change and can therefore go out of date.)

Organisations

City of Sydney Library

Pinchgut Opera and Sydney Theatre Company (These are articles about Sydney artistic organisations. Such articles need free-to-use images and care with references.)

Biographies

Note: Biographies of living people have stricter requirements, especially biographies of living persons. New editors should be particularly careful editing these.

Norman Selfe (This is another Featured Article. It contains red links to specific Royal Commissions that can be made developed into their own articles.)
Florence Violet Mackenzie (This is an article about an significant female Sydney engineer.)

Relevant Wikipedia policies and projects

Editing and writing help

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
User Guide for "Visual Editor" (also includes section on editing images and media files)
Wikipedia: Training for students
Wikipedia: Teahouse
The "Talk/Discussion" pages of your own User page and/or the article page
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts
How to improve your writing

Some good sources

Dictionary of Sydney (has articles on buildings, people, events)
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Design and Art Australia Online
The Conversation (has articles on architecture, arts, cities, environment, society)