Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota

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Welcome to the South Dakota WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to South Dakota.

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to South Dakota, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to South Dakota.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of South Dakota, its history, geography, and people. Specific examples of the articles that will fall under this project's scope can be found at this list.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Members 4 Articles 4.1 Featured articles 4.1.1 Education 4.1.2 Geography 4.1.3 History 4.1.4 Landmarks 4.1.5 Notable South Dakotans 4.2 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 4.3 Good articles (GA) 4.4 New articles 4.5 Did you know (DYK?) 5 Formerly recognized content 5.1 Departments 5.2 Collaboration and review 6 Templates 6.1 Stubs 6.2 Other templates 7 Categories 8 Resources 8.1 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Other: Add the names of people from South Dakota to the "Notable natives" sections of the pages of the appropriate towns. *Help select the Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Assessment/Top-importance articles.

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Superlex (talk • contribs) (General South Dakota stuff, concentrating on Southeastern SD)
2. Badbilltucker (talk • contribs) - will try to help out with some biographies and otherwise SW area articles
3. HirschiDude (talk • contribs) - will try to add whatever I can
4. Spiesr (talk • contribs)
5. Destructo_087 (talk • contribs)
6. Rosseloh (talk • contribs) - Currently a student at Great Plains Lutheran High School... will attempt to 'un-stub' the article dealing with it.
7. Doc1410 (talk • contribs) - Professor at NSU; am having my students update page as part of English 101 course assignment
8. Akr88 (talk • contribs) - Student of Doc1410, Forced to do this project to prevent re-taking the course.
9. Mikang is (talk • contribs)- Student at NSU
10. Halo2 Gamer (talk • contribs) - Student at NSU and also currently determined to ruin Spiesr's life.
11. ACB18 (talk • contribs)NSU student
12. meredithjo3 (talk • contribs) college student in South Dakota working on a final project
13. TRM18 (talk • contribs) - Student of Doc1410
14. Tuba777 (talk • contribs) - Student of Doc1410 at NSU
15. Rhstokes (talk • contribs) - Student at NSU
16. RJASE1 (talk • contribs) - Milbank native currently in USAF, concentrating on SD politicians
17. AlexiusHoratius (talk • contribs) - SD native in Minneapolis, focusing on Sioux Falls article

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject South Dakota}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on South Dakota-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

[edit] Education

[edit] Geography

[edit] History

[edit] Landmarks

• Mount Rushmore

[edit] Notable South Dakotans

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Art, architecture and archaeology

Economics and business

Culture and society

• Chicago and North Western Railway;
• Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad;

Engineering and technology

Food and drink

Geography

History

• Ghost Dance

Language

Mathematics

Music

Politics and government

Religion

War and military

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new South Dakota-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for South Dakota, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

John H. Lawrence - born in Canton, South Dakota, he pioneered the field of nuclear medicine. I'm going to work on the article over the next couple days and then submit to Did you know?. Feel free to help.

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

• Huron University - May 8, 2006.
• Terry Forster - September 3, 2006.

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

• Big Stone Lake
• Battle of the Little Big Horn

[edit] Departments

[edit] Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

{{SouthDakota-stub}}

{{SouthDakota-politician-stub}}

{{SouthDakota-school-stub}}

{{SouthDakota-geo-stub}}

{{SouthDakota-struct-stub}}

{{SouthDakota-radio-station-stub}}

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Other templates

{{WikiProject South Dakota}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject South Dakota}} looks like this:

	This page is within the scope of WikiProject South Dakota, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on South Dakota on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

[edit] Categories

• Category:South Dakota

[edit] Resources

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