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WikiProject Brands Welcome to WikiProject Brands! This is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of products, brands, brand management and all brand-related topics. If you would like to contribute, please feel free to join the project, see the to-do lists below and discuss matters on the project's talk page. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects. v t e

Goals

This project is dedicated to improving the quality of writing and the amount of information for all brand and brand-related articles on Wikipedia. This includes:

1. Article coordination, organization and collaborations
2. Article creation, expansion and maintenance
3. Article categorization
4. Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in brand-related articles

Scope

The project covers all articles in the categories Brands, Products by brand and Brand management, and their sub-categories.

Article to-do list

To edit this list, click here.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : Add the project banner ((WikiProject Brands)) to the talk pages of suitable articles such as those listed at the categories Brands, Products by brand, Brand management and to brand-related articles, and provide article assessments Cleanup : Branded asset management Expand : Add to and better organize list articles linked at Category:Lists of brands • Brand management Infobox : Add ((Infobox brand)) and ((Infobox product)) to relevant articles • Develop additional infoboxes for other brand-related topics Maintain : Brand Photo : Upload brand product and brand-related images to Wikipedia for articles lacking images. Please be sure to first read and understand Wikipedia's Non-free content guideline in entirety. Also note that non-free and fair-use content is not allowed to be hosted at Wikimedia Commons. Stubs : Expand Stub-Class Brands articles • Chief brand officer Verify : Brand architecture • Brand aversion • Brand engagement • Brand implementation • Brand valuation • Corporate branding • Family branding • Private label • Store brand • Umbrella brand • Visual brand language

–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

Project tasks

To edit this list, click here.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : Articles tagged with the project's banner Other :  • Please invite editors to join the project  • Create a new brands portal at Portal:Brands  • Possibly create a collaboration of the month  • Create a project advertising banner (See Wikipedia ads)  • Create a New articles feed for this project page using AlexNewArtBot

–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

• Also see Deletion sorting/Companies, which may have additional brand-related articles nominated for deletion.

Article statistics
For detailed assessment statistics, see: (Index · Statistics · Log).

Brands articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			3	9			12
GA	1	8	21	98			128
B	19	62	99	219		201	600
C	21	157	331	1,009		632	2,150
Start	17	106	493	2,991	2	3,368	6,977
Stub	1	17	165	1,727	2	3,777	5,689
List	8	11	22	124	11	94	270
Category		1	9		804		814
Disambig				1	61		62
File					711		711
Project					9		9
Redirect		4	17	99	1,947		2,067
Template			1	3	52		56
Other					38		38
Assessed	67	366	1,161	6,280	3,637	8,072	19,583
Unassessed	1	1		3	2	2,378	2,385
Total	68	367	1,161	6,283	3,639	10,450	21,968
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 79,658			Ω = 5.12

Articles for cleanup

A comprehensive listing of articles for cleanup that are tagged with this project's banner is available here.

Article assessment

The project's article assessment page is located here.

• Quality assessment
• Importance assessment

Peer review and collaboration

This project has an internal Article collaboration page, in which articles that are worthy, solid candidates for improvement are identified, discussed and collaborated upon. Please list current articles at peer review below, to notify editors of their presence.

Current articles:

Articles needing attention

Please post requests for article improvements on the project talk page.

Recent article changes

• WikiProject Brands Watchlist (from Toolserver.org)
• Category:Brands
• Category:Products

General articles of interest

Feel free to add more articles that are highly relevant to this project.

List articles

• See Category:Lists of brands for lists of brand product articles
• List of automobile marques
• List of brand name food products

Books

• Book: Iconic Brands of the United States

This project encompasses articles within the Brands, Products by brand and Brand management categories, and all of the subcategories within them:

The following are templates used by WikiProject Brands.

Project banner

For articles within the scope of this project, please add this banner to the their talk pages by typing ((WikiProject Brands|class=|importance=)), which will produce:

Brands NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of brands on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BrandsWikipedia:WikiProject BrandsTemplate:WikiProject BrandsBrands articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Infoboxes

((infobox brand
| name           = 
| logo           = 
| image          = 
| caption        =
| type           = 
| parent         = 
| origin         = 
| introduced     = 
| discontinued   = 
| related        = 
| markets        = 
| previousowners = 
| trademarkregistrations = 
| ambassadors    = 
| tagline        =
| website        = 
))

((Infobox product
| title            = 
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| inventor         = 
| launch year      = 
| company          = 
| available        = 
| current supplier = 
| last production  = 
| notes            = 
| url              =
))

Stub templates

Feel free to add the following stub templates to relevant stub articles:

• ((Product-stub))
• ((Food-product-stub))
• ((Marketing-stub)) – particularly for articles about the branding of product and services, an aspect of marketing

User box

Type ((WikiProject Brands user box)) to place the project's user box on your user page, which produces:

This user is a member of WikiProject Brands.

Invitation

To invite editors to join the project, add the following to a new section on user talk pages: ((subst:WikiProject Brands invitation)), which automatically produces the following template, (including the talk page section header, the recipient's name and your signature):

Invitation to WikiProject Brands

	Hello, ((SUBST:BASEPAGENAME)). You are invited to join WikiProject Brands, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of brands and brand-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. ~~~~

To join the project, please add your name at the end of the list below with: # ~~~~

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
• Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

• Category:Branding companies
• Category:Branding organizations
• Category:Types of branding
• Wikipedia Collaborations

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Brands