Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland

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Useful links
Cat:WPMD - MD Stubs - Geography stubs - Politician stubs - School stubs - State highway stubs
MD-related VFD

Project news edit
If you have any important news about the project, please add it below. Starting a project related to Maryland? Make sure to add it as a subproject here! Members, make sure to check back here often. Even though the project is slow, things are still regularly being added to this page and the talk page.
Portal news
A new "on this day" section is being prepared, to help, just go to Portal:Maryland/On this day and add events to the page for the dates they happened on. Portal:Maryland has been created, it's still looking pretty empty, so go help out!
News from the subprojects
Roads in Maryland
A cleanup template has been created at {{cleanup-mdrd}} If you know of any Maryland state highways that can be added to List of state highways in the United States shorter than one mile, please do. A list of B-class articles is on the project page, right now these are the project's best articles, try to improve them as best you can to create our project's first good article. edit · history · watch

Welcome to WikiProject Maryland! The purpose of this project is help editors who are interested in editing articles related to Maryland. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and tools to help editors contribute to Maryland-related articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. You may also wish to add your name to #Participants. This project serves as a hub for all other projects related to Maryland, see the child projects below for more detailed information on contributing to Maryland-related articles. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Related WikiProjects 3.1 Descendant WikiProjects 4 Related Collaborations 5 Related Regional notice boards 6 Related groups of Wikipedians 7 Participants 8 Projects 9 Tasks 10 Adopt an article 11 Templates 11.1 Infoboxes 11.2 Stub templates 11.3 Other templates 12 Categories 13 Lists 14 Articles 14.1 Wikipedia articles on Maryland 14.2 New Wikipedia articles related to Maryland 14.3 Did you know? 14.4 Article improvement drive 14.5 Collaboration of the week 14.6 Peer review 14.7 Featured articles 14.7.1 Featured article candidates 14.8 Featured pictures 14.8.1 Featured picture candidates 14.9 Featured lists 14.9.1 Featured list candidates 15 Wikipedia surveys 15.1 Ad hoc surveys 15.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys 15.2.1 Deletion links 16 Resources 17 Sister Project links

[edit] Title

WikiProject Maryland

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to cover all articles related to the U.S. state of Maryland. It should also serve as a hub for other more specific projects related to Maryland (such as Roads in Maryland). From this project, contributors will find links to the subprojects, and information for contributing to topics that do not yet have a subproject. This project is also responsible for the maintenance of the Maryland portal.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Maryland is one of the United States WikiProjects.

General	United States | Regions | States | Counties | Cities | Special districts
Government	Congress | Presidents | Governors | Politicians | State capitols | Government agencies
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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

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland

[edit] Related Collaborations

No related Collaborations have been named.

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

• Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board
• Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

• Category:Wikipedians in Maryland
• Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Maryland

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add yourself here if you plan on participating, the more the merrier. You may also wish to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}} to your userpage. Which looks like this:

• Jeff02 - I live in QA county, and am pretty knowledgable on roads in Maryland
• Tomf688 - I've written many of the articles about Maryland Congressmen, Governors, Senators, etc.
• IAMTHEEGGMAN - I live in Harford County, have edited some Maryland related articles...
• Tuf-Kat - I have a Maryland connection I'd rather not elaborate on in a public forum, I worked music of Maryland into a FA and have always meant to get around to some other MD-related stuff
• Lady Aleena - I can make templates when needed, user template for this project is done.
• Cliffie97 - I am a native Baltimorean, since moved away, knowledgable about pop culture and down-home aspects of the city and surrounding suburbs.
• WTGDMan1986 - Remove vandalism. I have cousins that live in this state. --D.F. "Jun Kazama Master" Williams 17:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
• Jacob1207 - A native of the 7th state, I have started and/or significantly contributed to several articles on Maryland. Main interests vis-a-vis the Free State are history and government.
• bwyche - a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Edited articles on Johns Hopkins the person and Johns Hopkins, the institutions, its faculty, and other fgures,including patients.
• Wildwose - Working artist and long time Maryland resident currently relocating to the Mount Savage, Maryland area.
• Mocko13 - new to this, and happy for suggestions / putdowns / etc. Am working on articles relating to state and local politics.
• Mato2 - I have some information on Baltimore. Hope i can help!
• ~~Magistrand~~ - I live in Montgomery County, and go to Lakelands Park Middle School
• DroEsperanto – Resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, and former student at Montgomery Blair High School.

[edit] Projects

1. Portal:Maryland

[edit] Tasks

1. Finish/clean up this page

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Mount Savage, Maryland adopted by WildwoseWildwose.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Stub templates

{{Maryland-stub}}

{{Maryland-geo-stub}}

{{Maryland-politician-stub}}

{{Maryland-school-stub}}

{{Maryland-state-highway-stub}}

This article relating to state highways in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and the Roads in Maryland WikiProject by expanding it.

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 Maryland}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

This article is part of WikiProject Maryland, an attempt to better organize and improve articles related to the U.S. state of Maryland. 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.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}} is this project's user template.

[edit] Categories

• Category:Maryland
• Category:WikiProject Maryland

[edit] Lists

• List of counties in Maryland

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Maryland

• Maryland
• History of Maryland
• Province of Maryland

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Maryland

Please feel free to list your new Maryland-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 on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• Gathland State Park
• Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Severn River Bridge)
• Baltimore mayoral election, 2007
• Russett, Maryland
• Gibson Island, Maryland
• Chestertown Tea Party

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

• George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
• Government of Maryland
• Music of Maryland

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Deletion links

• Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
• Deletion review (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for discussion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] Resources

• State website

[edit] Sister Project links

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