Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware

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CREATOR'S NOTE: Please realize this is still a work in progress, but I'm putting it up now so interest could be generated. Please feel free to help with anything you see wrong!

WikiProject Delaware is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the U.S. state of Delaware.

Contents 1 Best of WikiProject Delaware 1.1 Featured Articles 1.2 Featured Lists 1.3 Featured Images 1.4 Good Articles 2 Articles 2.1 Lists 2.2 Article assessments 3 Templates 3.1 Common templates 4 Categories 5 Images 5.1 Maps 5.2 Requested photos 6 Stubs 7 To do 8 Wikiportal 9 Project notice template 10 Related WikiProjects 11 Participants 12 Credit where it's due

[edit] Best of WikiProject Delaware

Articles, lists and images relating to Delaware (the creators of whom are encouraged to join this WikiProject; if grandfathered into this project, marked with *) will be showcased as being some of the finest works on Wikipedia. The following categories will be honored with inclusion among Wikipedia's Featured Articles, Featured Lists, Featured Pictures and Good Articles:

[edit] Featured Articles

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware*

[edit] Featured Lists

List of Delaware hurricanes*
List of Governors of Delaware*

[edit] Featured Images

[edit] Good Articles

Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey)*

[edit] Articles

• Delaware uses the template Template:Infobox U.S. state. The information there needs to remain up-to-date.
• Delaware State Routes will be handled by this project until such time that a new sub-project can be created.
• see Category:WikiProject Delaware
• see Category:WikiProject Delaware articles

When you find an article that either needs cleanup/rebuilding, needs to be built altogether, or otherwise could be improved upon, please add it here, so we can all help!

[edit] Lists

• List of Delaware hurricanes*, featured list
• List of Governors of Delaware*, featured list
• Expand this list

[edit] Article assessments

Template:WikiProject Delaware/Assessment/Summary

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Assessment

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Delaware}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Delaware articles by quality, Category:Delaware articles by importance, Category:Delaware articles needing attention. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. There is also Category:Non-article Delaware pages) for things like redirect pages, templates, categories, images, etc.

[edit] Templates

The main templates page is located (temporarily) at /templates. This section lists the most commonly used and most general templates. For commenting, reference, and more in-depth template information, see the main template page.

[edit] Common templates

Delaware

• {{Delaware}} (to go at the bottom of Delaware–related pages)

WikiProject Delaware

• {{Project Delaware}} (to go on the tops of the talk pages of Delaware–related articles)

Delaware State Parks

• {{Delaware Parks}}

U.S. Senate

• {{DE Senate}}

U.S. House

• {{DE Congress At-large}}

[edit] Categories

Category hierarchy starts at Category:Delaware. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Categories for full list and proposed changes.

There is also a category of Wikipedians called: Category:Wikipedians in Delaware.

[edit] Images

Here are some images that were either created by/for this Project, or would just be handy for this Project. Please add more!

Flag of Delaware

Seal of Delaware

• Lots of images found at commons:Category:Delaware. Please consider uploading free licensed works here so that they can be easily used by projects besides the English language wikipedia.

[edit] Maps

If someone knows of any places to find or create maps for Delaware, please feel free to tell us here!

[edit] Requested photos

You can use the {{reqphotoin|Delaware}} template to add talk pages to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Delaware. Please add free content photos for these articles where possible.

[edit] Stubs

To avoid unnecessary redirects and reverts, please discuss any new stub type you wish to create at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals prior to its creation and placement in articles or tables.

• A general-purpose Delaware stub was created on 10/15/2005. It is {{Delaware-stub}}. There are redirects {{DEL-stub}} and {{DE-stub}}. The corresponding category is Category:Delaware stubs. Example:

• DE location/geography stub is {{Delaware-geo-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware geography stubs. Example:

• DE Politician stub is {{Delaware-politician-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware politician stubs. Example:

• DE School stub is {{Delaware-school-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware school stubs. Example:

• DE road stub is {{Delaware-road-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware road stubs. Example:

This article related to roads in Delaware is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and the Delaware WikiProject by expanding it.

• DE building and structures stub is {{Delaware-struct-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware building and structure stubs. Example:

• DE radio station stub is {{Delaware-radio-station-stub}}, with no DE-specific category. Example:

[edit] To do

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Wikiportal

This project now has a portal: Portal:Delaware.

[edit] Project notice template

Delaware-related articles should have the following link (Template:Project Delaware) inserted at the top of the talk pages:

{{Project Delaware}}

It will come out looking like this:

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Delaware, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Virginia 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.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Delaware is one of the United States WikiProjects.

General	United States | Regions | States | Counties | Cities | Special districts
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Assets	U.S. Armed Forces | U.S. roads | U.S. highways | U.S. Interstate highways | National Register of Historic Places
People	Asian Americans | Indigenous peoples

Other related wikiprojects: None yet, please feel free to come up with ideas here!

[edit] Participants

Userbox for WP:WPDE This user is part of the Delaware WikiProject. This user lives in Delaware. This user grew up in Delaware, but now lives elsewhere and has to pay sales tax on almost everything.

Current participants include: (an * indicates a administrator. If there is a need for administrative assistance — article and category deletion and undeletion, page protection and unprotection, remedy vandalism, movement of articles and redirects, user or ip address block and unblock, enforcement of arbitration rulings — please contact that person through his or her user discussion page.)

• EaglesFanInTampa, project coordinator and founder
• Hgebel
• Eleigh33
• John Carter 15:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - doing a little to try to fill the shoes of the project's proposer

[edit] Credit where it's due

This Project is clearly a blatant rip-off of WikiProject New Jersey, which in itself is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Massachusetts, which, in turn, is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Vermont, for which the creator of WP:WPDE (as I'm sure the other usurpers, as well) is eternally grateful, yet remoseful all at once.