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Welcome to the Wikipedia project for articles regarding the United States of America.


Mission

WikiProject United States was formed to unify and coordinate all things USA on Wikipedia and help to maintain The USA Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize USA related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the dozens of articles that would fall under the this project's watch. This project will also provide a place for U.S. Wikipedians and other editors to share information and resources. Here editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overseen articles and problems to the attention of other editors.

See also U.S. Wikipedians' notice board

To do

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Create/article requests

Article requests should be placed at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other categorization schemes#United States

Recruit

See the U. S. Matrix

Articles in need of attention






  • Transportation in the United States This article needs help. It is disorganized. The overview is basically a smaller (and different) article. It lacks resources, and requires copyediting and superficial changes for readability.

Sections in need of attention


Articles lacking references

| 1973 oil crisis | Alaska | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia (U.S. state) | Idaho | Indiana | Lousiana (needs population /economy references) | Maryland | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nevada | New Hampshire | New York | North Dakota | Pennsylvania | South Dakota | Utah | Virginia | Washington | Wyoming

Deletions

Deletion discussions will be held at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/United States of America

Special projects

Sometimes Wikipedians and WikiProjects combine their efforts to improve whole sets of related articles, using portals, info boxes, navigational aids and uniform templates for a specific topic area. Many of these are coordinated through WikiProject U.S. states. Please join the effort!

Categories By state: AL | AK | AZ | AR | CA | CO | CT | DE | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MD | MA | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NE | NV | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI | WY

Another related special project is the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which covers Native American nations as well as First Nations in Canada.


Timeline of United States history

The order which the original 13 states ratified the constitution, then the order that the others were admitted to the union

The List of U.S. states by date of statehood is a featured list. Check to see if Wikipedia has a "History of [My State]" article and a "Timeline of [My State] history". Examples:

See the Timeline of United States history

50 State Quarters and Infoboxes

State quarter

Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and some other states feature their commemorative state quarter on their main article. This special project is to discuss and decide on a uniform placement of each state's quarter and other ways to make {{Infobox U.S. state}} infoboxes a bit more complete and attractive

American Civil War

A state by state treatment of Civil War articles by state is being conducted by WikiProject Military history through the American Civil War task force. Check to see if your state has a "[My State] in the American Civil War" category and article. Some Examples:

If your state has National Battlefields or was host to significant events related to the American Civil War, Make sure it has a detailed accurate well-sourced article that covers those places and events in a comprehensive way.

Coordinate with WikiProject Biography to make sure that Key figures from your state are covered fairly and completely.

Tables of contents and indexes

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to United States-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:

Quality content

Featured articles

Manzanar

Minnesota

Oklahoma

United States Bill of Rights

United States Constitution

United States Marine Corps

2005 United States Grand Prix

Washington, D.C.

"A-Class" articles

Good articles

FA/GA Nominees

The following articles are currently being considered for either FA or GA article status.

Featured article nominees

Failed nominations

Good article nominees

Former GA/FA articles

Please help restore these articles to their former status:

Did you knows (DYKs)

Quality Scale

See the Assessment department for more information!

WikiProject article quality grading scheme
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
 FA The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:

A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.

  1. It is:
    1. well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard;
    2. comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
    3. well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate;
    4. neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias;
    5. stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and
    6. compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing.
  2. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of:
    1. a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
    2. appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and
    3. consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required.
  3. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly.
  4. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.
 Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. United States Constitution
 FL The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
  1. Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
  2. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
  3. Comprehensiveness.
  4. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
  5. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
  6. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.
 Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
(as of May 2018)
 A The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).
 Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. United States
 GA The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations.
More detailed criteria
A good article is:
  1. Well-written:
    1. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and
    2. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
  2. Verifiable with no original research:
    1. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
    2. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose);
    3. it contains no original research; and
    4. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.
  3. Broad in its coverage:
    1. it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and
    2. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
  4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.
  5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
  6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
    1. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
    2. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
 Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. Battle of Gettysburg
B The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.
More detailed criteria
  1. The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional.
  2. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing.
  3. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind.
  4. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously.
  5. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content.
  6. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.
 Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. Nevada
C The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup.
More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
 Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. Wing
(as of June 2018)
Start An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources.
More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
  • A useful picture or graphic
  • Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
  • A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
  • Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
 Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. Gibbons v. Ogden
Stub A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. Committee of the States
List Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States

Templates

These are the project-related templates.

Talk page banner

{{WikiProject United States}}

Use in articles

American WikiProjects' "Related projects" sections

{{US-related WikiProjects}}

Userbox

Template:User WikiProject United States

Barnstar

File:BoNM - USA2.0.PNG The WikiProject United States Barnstar of National Merit
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This is a Barnstar i have created especially for the project. Taifarious1 06:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ribbon Equivalent

Image:USA Ribbon.png

Ive created this ribbon for the Barnstar. ElectricalExperiment 15:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Collaborations

Template:USCOTW Template:USCongressCOTW

Members

Members of the project:

  1. Black Harry
  2. Aude (talk contribs)
  3. ClairSamoht
  4. (♠Taifarious1♠)
  5. CQ (talk · contribs)
  6. Editor19841 (talk)#Chili14
  7. Guinnog
  8. Jaxad0127
  9. Iolakana|T
  10. Richard
  11. Signaturebrendel
  12. Jumping cheese Cont@ct
  13. PenguinandTheHunter</Penguins rule!!>
  14. Mr.Weirdo
  15. sm8900
  16. SiriusFarm
  17. Richiar
  18. Francisco Smith
  19. ebmonkey2
  20. Emperor Walter Humala · ( talk? · help! ) 00:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Jet123
  22. Kimon (talk · contribs)
  23. Suryoye (talk · contribs)
  24. Daniel_Chiswick (talk · contribs)
  25. Geosultan4 (talk · contribs)
  26. Lmessenger 22:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Chiss Boy 09:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Mrzaius (talk · contribs)
  29. EfferAKS 21:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  30. EvertoExcel (talk · contribs)
  31. JPmaverick (talk · contribs)
  32. Kevinbrowning (talk · contribs)
  33. Bahamut0013 (talk · contribs)
  34. Twelsht (talk · contribs)
  35. Trulystand700 (talk · contribs) American citizen
  36. Nevermore27 (talk · contribs)
  37. IronCrow (talk · contribs)
  38. ComputerGuy890100 (talk · contribs · count)
  39. Ipankonin (talk · contribs)
  40. Arbër talk
  41. Leobold1
  42. DiligentTerrier and friends 19:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  43. Vinsfan368 (talk · contribs) American citizen
  44. AlexNebraska (talk · contribs)
  45. ElectricalExperiment
  46. WTGDMan1986 (talk · contribs)
  47. Chase I (talk · contribs)
  48. Conor69 (talk · contribs)

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject United States}} to their talk pages.

English speakers

Part of a series on
Community
Academic studies
Key concepts
Community development
See also


Welcome to the Community WikiProject!
Home of the Community Builders TaskForce and all things Community! • Communicate • join

Scope

This project's primary purpose is to build and manage Portal:Community (Wikipedia Community Reference) - a guide to articles that deal with the definitions of community and community development in general. The secondary purpose is to apply what we learn from that reference to the Wikipedia Community itself.

Even in cases where cooperation is intended, misunderstandings and personality incompatibilities can result in an extremely chaotic and hostile environment. Catalysts help prevent and resolve misunderstanding, calm the waters when users have difficulties dealing with each other and provide examples of constructive behavior in environments where such behavior might not otherwise be the norm.

Rob Levin, "Catalysts", freenode

Parentage

Descendant WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

Hierarchy definition

This project Community falls under The Social sciences as an Academic discipline in Sociology relating to Community, Community studies, Community development and other branches of Science such as Communications and Computational sociology.

The project scope branches and interfaces hierarchically to:

Goals

Primary (encyclopedic) Project Goals

  1. To apply higher standards for Wikipedia - the encyclopedia
  1. To develop a uniform reference for curriculum in community studies - the Wikipedia Community Reference
  2. To help in the Categorization of various kinds of Communities and Community-related topics
  3. To identify and promote articles that may serve to improve:

Secondary (applied) Project Goals

  1. To help catylize positive work on Projects within Wikipedia - the Community
  2. To help facilitate a tighter community with Wikipedia sister projects
  3. To improve interpersonal relationships between Netizens in general - Sense of community
  4. To invoke the Spirit of Community in the context of a free global Internet.

See /Communitas!

Articles

Community has been nominated as a "Good article".

It is was on COTF.

Portal:Community is also in the process of being aligned with the main article to provide easy navigation along the pathways of community topics.

The List of community topics provides a classification of much Wikipedia content related to community and is this project's tool for keeping things organised and handy.

Featured article candidates

These aren't nominated anywhere but here (so far):

Good article nominees

Needing attention

Key articles

These articles are (or will be ) referred to in sections and subsections of the main Community article and (or) the Community Portal:

Related articles

List of community topics: Community (disambiguation), Organizational learning, Community development, Community building, Community organizing, Meritocracy, Computational sociology, Communitarianism, Organizational Development, Ecovillage, Global Ecovillage Network, Cooperative, Collectivism, Collective, Commune, Sense of community, Network of practice, Communication, Plenary, Gathering place, Affinity, Group, Community Boards, Community garden, Global Village, Global village, World Community, World community, Gathering place, The Well, The Farm, ...

Types of communities

Category:Types of communities:

Types of cooperatives

Cooperatives:

Pages listed for deletion

Portals

Portal:Community - The Community reference - is under construction.

  • An outline of things to include can be found here.
  • Instructions for editing a portal can be found here

Related Portals

Tools

Community pages by quality
Quality
Total
Assessed 0
Total 0

This box shows a summary of Community articles by quality. The following sections outline the process we're using to gather and cite sources, rewrite and refine community-related articles, and develop topically arranged navigational aids for our readers and editors. We are continually in need of participants, whether they join this project or not.

WikiProject Community is designed to be a community of practice akin to those who produce professional academic journals. We take the subject very seriously as Wikipedians interested in sociology, and are taking the tools "up one level" to support WikiProject Sociology. These tools were first used by WikiProject Chemistry. WikiProject The Beatles and many other WikiProjects have been instrumental in improving them.

This project also extends to Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikia and other Wiki sites through the /Communitas! program.

Classification

The current classification of Wikipedia articles relating to community can be found at the List of community topics. This list is mirrored here in the Community WikiProject space on /Organization from which the following /Assessment subpage is built. The goal of this subpage is to organise all of the content, comprehensively, according to its importance and relevance. Once we finish that task, we will produce another subpage, /Classification.

Assessment

We're working with the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team to begin the process of pulling all community related articles up toward featured or at least good article status. The /Assessment page will contain Community articles by importance and Community articles by quality. We will be using the List of community topics and the main Community article as structural guides with a long-term goal of bringing Portal:Community up to Featured portal status.

See Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for more information.

Outreach

The local encyclopedic portal has counterparts on other sites:

Newsletter

/Newsletter • Sent out mainly when something significant is going on.

Infoboxes

Clicking on What links here reveals all articles linked to this WikiProject in this way. To discuss which Articles to add to (or remove from) the Articles list, please use our project's talk page. Please Don't place this infobox on an article page!

Tags

{{socio-stub}}: The socio-stub tag can be used on articles you'd like to "pull into" this project at the parent level. Consider our lineage:

Social sciences
Sociology
Community

Categories

These Categories yield articles that relate to Community, Communities and Community topics:

Community

Community • Top-level Category

Sociology

Category:Sociology:

Psychology

Category:Psychology

About Categorization

Category:Community — a Subcategory of Category:Sociology is the main category for this WikiProject. Our intent is to conform to the suggestions and guidelines of WikiProject Categories to create logical and complete category schemes without too much redundancy.

Please participate in the discussions here and / or here after reading some things like this.

Community Builders TaskForce

Welcome to the Community Builders Task Force

"Consensus is a partnership between interested parties working positively for a common goal." -- Jimmy Wales

Applied community development at Wikipedia

A community builder is a person that is committed to getting in and learning how a community is organized, who's who, what's what, where things are and how things are done. Our focus areas are User categorisation, Classification and Wikipedia Version 1.0.

Our approach is to build a sense of community upon our sense of place, our shared interests and our common work methods. Our goal is to initiate a community building culture that we call Communitas — the spirit of community.

We have put into place a structure of meaning that we believe is shared by a substantial number of Wikipedians. This structure is best seen by looking at the topics at Top-importance community articles. We are going to set up a massive collaboration effort in a program we call /Communitas!

The purpose of this project is to produce a professional quality community development journal focused from within online communities called Communitas!

Main table

WikiProjects:

The table below identifies some logical starting points from a WP:CBTF perspective. Feel free to add it to your User page and work with it.

discuss

Elsewhere on the Web

About the Wikimedia project:

Wikia:

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.



Participants

Part of a series on
Community
Academic studies
Key concepts
Community development
See also

Welcome to the Community community! To join: Register/Login to Wikipedia, [ edit source ], find a proper place of your username in the alphabetical order below, start a new line with *, three tildes ~~~, and an optional short note about yourself, Show Preview, Save Page, then scroll down to Now what? Thanks!

Now what?

Go out and play, stay and play, and/or/and both. Job #1: have fun. Job #2: while doing that, try to improve the quality of articles that relate to the community stuff we do. For example (f.e):

  • Improve the Community article - this is the main one - Needs Improvement. As of 11.29.15, I'd give it an F for Funny. [that's LeoRomero snarking. NB: No snarking on Wikipedia. Also, no pretending to be Roman by using NB, e.g., i.e, etc. Plain English versions: N!, f.e, t.i, a.so. (PS: PS is still PS)]
  • Improve any article in our Template (that box on the right); apply the template to the article you fixed (if it's not already there) by typing {{Community}} where it belongs in the article you improved
  • Improve the template: this will be the Table of Contents to The Encyclopedia of Community on Wikipedia
  • Improve this Community Project Page
  • Improve the Outline
  • Improve Community portal
  • Spellcheck, copyedit, dejargonificize - clear and simple as the truth
  • Talk among yourselves
  • Kick back and watch Community come to life
  • Do whatever you like
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