Wikipedia:WikiProject Shreveport

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Contents 1 About the project 1.1 Administration 1.2 Participants 2 Collaboration and review 3 Project Template 3.1 To-do items 3.2 Portal: Shreveport

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Welcome to WikiProject Shreveport. This is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Shreveport, Louisiana and the greater Ark-La-Tex / Shreveport-Bossier City Metro Area. The project was established on December 10, 2006. Editors who are interested in contributing, please sign up below and post any ideas and suggestions on the talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need work or that you feel require attention below in the tasks section.

[edit] About the project

Mission

Establish Wikipedia as one of the premier online information resources on the Shreveport/Ark-La-Tex metropolitan areas.

Goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of the city of Shreveport and the surrounding metropolitan area.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Shreveport by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles and related portal.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Shreveport in Wikipedia.

Scope

• Geographically-related articles in the Shreveport/Ark-La-Tex metropolitan area.
• Articles about persons who have had a significant presence or relationship to the area.

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities. At the state level, there also is WikiProject Louisiana. Additional nearby cities with projects include Dallas, Houston and New Orleans.

[edit] Administration

Code	Result
{{User WikiProject Shreveport}} Userbox, placed on user page	This user is a member of WikiProject Shreveport.
{{WikiProject Shreveport member}} Placed on user or user talk page	This user is a member of WikiProject Shreveport, which seeks to expand information about the state. Please feel free to join us.

[edit] Participants

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

1. ShreveNewsMan (talk • contribs)
2. Gelston (talk • contribs)
3. Postoak (talk • contribs) Let me know how I can help!
4. EvKnight13 (talk • contribs)
5. Patricknoddy (talk • contribs)

[edit] Collaboration and review

[edit] Project Template

The following template should be used to tag pages cared for by the WikiProject:

Code	Result
{{WikiProject Shreveport Article}} Placed on article talk page (all Shreveport-related articles)	This article is part of WikiProject Shreveport, a WikiProject related to the city of Shreveport in the U.S. State of Louisiana.

[edit] To-do items

Tasks

• Really need someone to do some of the neighborhoods especially Highlands, Broadmoor and Downtown, those are all historical and should have a wealth of info. Riverfront should be easy to do. ShreveNewsMan 21:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• I am starting the transportation page this week. ShreveNewsMan 21:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• We are having a lot of problems with people advertising their businesses on the Shreveport page.

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Peer review

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Articles that need cleanup

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New project articles grouped by category (review for expansion, categorization, etc.)

Need categorization

Shreveport neighborhoods

Transportation in Shreveport"

• Need article on SporTran System

Shreveport, Louisiana

[edit] Portal: Shreveport

Portal:Shreveport is a sub-project of WikiProject Shreveport. The portal is designed to help readers and/or editors maneuver their way through Shreveport and related topic areas through pages similar to the main portal page.

• Candidate articles