Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to improve organisation and standardised look and feel of articles related to the Indian state of Maharashtra.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Contents 1 Participants 2 Scope 2.1 Goals 3 General Strategy & Discussion 4 Tasks 4.1 Creation 4.2 Expansion 4.3 Revamp 4.4 Deletion 4.5 Merger 4.6 NPOV 4.7 Wikify 4.8 Others 5 Parentage 6 Descendant WikiProjects 7 Similar WikiProjects 8 Naming conventions 9 Structure 10 Templates 10.1 Userbox 10.2 WikiProject Maharashtra notice 10.3 Stubs 10.4 District Articles 11 Articles Status 11.1 Featured articles 11.2 Articles currently in FAC 11.3 Articles currently in PR 12 Portal 13 Maharashtrian Wikipedians

[edit] Participants

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• Mannoj (talk • contribs)
• New_Rock_Star (talk • contribs)
• Mahawiki (talk • contribs)
• Mahitgar (talk • contribs)
• Eukesh (talk • contribs)
• Mskadu (talk • contribs)
• Utcursch (talk • contribs)
• Rama's Arrow (talk • contribs)
• Arya_Rajya_Maharashtra (talk • contribs)
• maihu_don (talk • contribs)
• Fleiger (talk • contribs)
• Vishal1976 (talk • contribs)
• Shishir Rane (talk • contribs)
• Mohammed Malvankar (talk • contribs)
• MlleDiderot (talk • contribs)
• dmpendse (talk • contribs)
• FreeSpiritNomad (talk • contribs)
• saurabhb (talk • contribs)
• Shivap (talk • contribs)

[edit] Scope

The scope of this article fundamentally is loosely defined as all articles and sections relating to Maharashtra. Almost all of these will be (eventually) categorised under Category:Maharashtra and Category:India

[edit] Goals

1. Creation of a generally standard look and feel for all Maharashtra-related article
2. To produce as many Featured Articles as possible related to Maharashtra.

[edit] General Strategy & Discussion

• Discussion
• To Do List
• List Of Created Articles as per WP:MAHA
• Strategy

[edit] Tasks

Below are the list of tasks that needs to be done. Do not add all the tasks here. Add them to the To Do list, after which, those items can be periodically added here -

[edit] Creation

NOTE : After creating the articles listed here, add the articles created to the list of created articles here. Also, don't forget to strike out the article name from the list below and/or the To Do list by adding the "<s>...article name....</s>" tags and give a very brief summary of the creation.

• Pandharpuri buffalo
• Khillari Bull
• Dog breeds of Maharashtra
• Ranoji Shinde or Ranoji Sindhia
• Bharat Jadhav created a stub; needs expansion
• Soyarabai created a stub with basic information; needs expansion.
• Yesubai created a stub with basic information; needs expansion.

[edit] Expansion

• Marathi
• Sambhaji
• Jejuri
• Deekshabhoomi
• Bharat Jadhav
• Soyarabai
• Yesubai

[edit] Revamp

• Daulatrao Sindhia

[edit] Deletion

[edit] Merger

• Scindia and Scindia Family of India

[edit] NPOV

[edit] Wikify

• Shrigonda (Done)

[edit] Others

[edit] Parentage

• Wikipedia:WikiProject India
  • Indian states

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject West Bengal
• WikiProject Kerala
• WikiProject Tamil Nadu

[edit] Naming conventions

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)

[edit] Structure

Refer to

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_states#Sections for state articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_districts#Sections for district articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities#Sections for city articles

[edit] Templates

These templates for the WikiProject can be used at appropriate places -

[edit] Userbox

Userbox enthusiasts can put this {{User WikiProject Maharashtra}} to show that you are a member of this project.

[edit] WikiProject Maharashtra notice

Place this WikiProject notice Template:WP India at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the WikiProject Maharashtra for guidelines.

To use it, place {{WP India|maharashtra=yes}} at the top of an article's Talk page.

[edit] Stubs

For stubs about the geography of Maharashtra, use {{Maharashtra-geo-stub}}. This will go into the Category:Maharashtra geography stubs category.

[edit] District Articles

• {{Districts of Maharashtra}}

[edit] Articles Status

[edit] Featured articles

This is a list of Featured articles related to Maharashtra:

• Mumbai
• Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport

[edit] Articles currently in FAC

• None at the moment

[edit] Articles currently in PR

• None at the moment

[edit] Portal

• The Portal for Maharashtra - Portal:Maharashtra
• Related Portals - Portal:India, Portal:Tamil Nadu, Portal:Gujarat, Portal:Kerala, Portal:West Bengal, Portal:Hyderabad, Portal:Goa, Portal:Himalaya region

[edit] Maharashtrian Wikipedians

• Alternative User Templates Options
  • Alternatively you can add template {{User_interwiki_infoboard_mr}} to your talk page and receive information and co-ordiantion with Marathi Language Wikipedia.

• • You may also add {{User wikimr}} to your page to categorise and explain that you know Marathi Language.