Wikipedia:WikiProject United States

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Welcome to the Wikipedia project for articles regarding the United States of America.

[edit] Mission

WikiProject United States was formed to unify and coordinate all things USA on Wikipedia and help to maintain The USA Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize USA related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the dozens of articles that would fall under the this project's watch. This project will also provide a place for U.S. Wikipedians and other editors to share information and resources. Here editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overseen articles and problems to the attention of other editors.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject United States 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
States	Alaska \| Arizona \| Arkansas \| California \| Colorado \| Connecticut \| Florida \| Georgia \| Hawaii \| Idaho \| Illinois \| Indiana \| Iowa \| Kansas \| Kentucky \| Louisiana \| Maryland \| Massachusetts \| Michigan \| Minnesota \| Mississippi \| Missouri \| Montana \| Nebraska \| New Hampshire \| New Jersey \| New York \| North Carolina \| North Dakota \| Ohio \| Oklahoma \| Oregon \| Pennsylvania \| South Carolina \| South Dakota \| Tennessee \| Texas \| Utah \| Vermont \| Virginia \| Washington \| West Virginia \| Wisconsin;\| Wyoming List of State-level WikiProjects American Samoa \| Puerto Rico There are also portals to content about several US states.
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] To do

Expand:

Project page

Create:

Templates for this project
A lot of the presidential election articles

Recruit:

Wikipedians in the United States

See the U. S. Matrix

[edit] Articles in need of attention

Allegations of state terrorism by United States of America - has been put up for deletion
US Democratic Party-Iranian fundraising controversy - has been put up for deletion
Standard of living in the United States (POV conflict)
Health care in the United States (no refs, possible OR)
Human rights in the United States (POV conflict)
Poverty in the United States (failed GA, only two editors maintain the article)
Social issues in the United States (POV conflict)
Social structure of the United States (OR-three unreferenced sections remain)
General Motors (POV conflict, many editors complain of PR fluff)
United States technological and industrial history (Article has been abandoned as a stub despite being linked on "UShistoryFooter", beginning drive to improve)
Plymouth Colony This article is up for featured article nomination, but is in need of some extra copyediting. Most of the work on it was done by a single editor, and several reviewers have asked that some additional work be done, in order to increase the eyes on the article, and to copyedit it.

[edit] Sections in need of attention

Intro to United States (see Talk:United States#Changes, Talk:United States#Superpower or not.3F The point is that the world is changing and it's subsections)

[edit] Articles lacking references

[edit] Special projects

Sometimes Wikipedians and WikiProjects combine their efforts to improve whole sets of related articles, using portals, info boxes, navigational aids and uniform templates for a specific topic area. Many of these are coordinated through WikiProject U.S. states. Please join the effort!

Categories By state: AL | AK | AZ | AR | CA | CO | CT | DE | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MD | MA | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NE | NV | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI | WY

[edit] Timeline of United States history

The order which the original 13 states ratified the constitution, then the order that the others were admitted to the union

The List of U.S. states by date of statehood is a featured list. Check to see if Wikipedia has a "History of [My State]" article and a "Timeline of [My State] history". Examples:

See the Timeline of United States history

[edit] 50 State Quarters and Infoboxes

State quarter

Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and some other states feature their commemorative state quarter on their main article. This special project is to discuss and decide on a uniform placement of each state's quarter and other ways to make {{Infobox U.S. state}} infoboxes a bit more complete and attractive

[edit] American Civil War

A state by state treatment of Civil War articles by state is being conducted by WikiProject Military history through the American Civil War task force. Check to see if your state has a "[My State] in the Civil War" category and article. Some Examples:

Category:Florida in the Civil War | Florida in the Civil War
Category:Illinois in the Civil War | Illinois in the Civil War
Category:Kentucky in the Civil War | Kentucky in the Civil War
Category:Ohio in the Civil War | Ohio in the Civil War
Category:Pennsylvania in the Civil War | Pennsylvania in the Civil War
Category:Vermont in the Civil War | Vermont in the Civil War
Category:West Virginia in the Civil War | West Virginia in the Civil War

If your state has National Battlefields or was host to significant events related to the American Civil War, Make sure it has a detailed accurate well-sourced article that covers those places and events in a comprehensive way.

Coordinate with WikiProject Biography to make sure that Key figures from your state are covered fairly and completely.

[edit] Quality content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] FA/GA Nominees

The following articles are currently being considered for either FA or GA article status.

[edit] Featured article nominees

[edit] Good article nominees

[edit] Former GA/FA articles

Please help restore these articles to their fomer status:

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

List of freshman class members of the 110th United States Congress - 16 January 2007

[edit] Quality Scale

See the Assessment department for more information!

**Article progress grading scheme** **[ v • d • e ]**
Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible.	Supernova (as of February 2007)
A {{A-Class}}	Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points.	Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage.	Durian (as of March 2007)
GA {{GA-Class}}	The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise good. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class.	Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job.	Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time.	International Space Station (as of February 2007)
B {{B-Class}}	Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.	Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.	Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.	Munich air disaster (as of May 2006) has a lot of helpful material but contains too many lists, and needs more prose content & references.
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following: a particularly useful picture or graphic multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded.	Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage.	Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Coffee table book (as of July 2005)

[edit] Templates

Template:USProject

[edit] Use in articles

[edit] Collaborations

U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, Junior State of America is the US Collaboration of the Week. (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.

The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person	Beryl Anthony, Jr.
Place	Alabama's 8th congressional district
Thing	List of United States Representatives from California
Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.)

[edit] Members

Members of the project:

Aude (talk contribs)
ClairSamoht
CQ (talk • contribs)
Editor19841 (talk)#Chili14
Guinnog
Jaxad 0127
Iolakana|^T
Richard
Signature^brendel
Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct
PenguinandTheHunter</Penguins rule!!>
Mr.Weirdo
sm8900
SiriusFarm
Richiar
Francisco Smith
ebmonkey2
~ Flame viper
Emperor Walter Humala · ^{( talk? · help! )} 00:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Jet123
Kimon (talk • contribs)
Suryoye (talk • contribs)
Daniel_Chiswick (talk • contribs)
Geosultan4 (talk • contribs)
Lmessenger 22:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Chiss Boy 09:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject United States}} to their talk pages.

[edit] English speakers

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