Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Government Agencies

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Welcome to the United States Government Agencies Wikipedia Project. This project was created to help improve the quality of articles about Agencies of the United State Government. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, add youself to the participant list, and post a note on the Talk Page.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to United States Government Agencies. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; 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 and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject on United States Government Agencies

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project is to provide comprehensive information on all of the United States Government's Agency.

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[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

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[edit] Participants

Add your name here to join this project

CuBiXcRaYfIsH (Founder)
markles
--Aude (talk | contribs) 18:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
DCmacnut 18:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Yaanch^Speak! 19:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

Each article, needs to provide the basic information on the agency. It should atleast include

Agency's Name
If it is part of a Department or if it's an independent agency
Agency Template(See below)
Link to the Agency's Webpage
What the Agency does
History and why if it was created(If Possible)
Why it's important
The purpose it serves

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Goals

This is a very expansive project, see the list of government agencies [List of All Government Agencies] Our goal is not time oreinted or creating a small stub for each agency. The goal of the project is to create high quality, useful articles on Government Agencies.

[edit] Projects

Update List of United States federal agencies
Update Independent Agencies of the United States Government Very Incomplete

[edit] Tasks

No Assigned Tasks Yet

[edit] Adopt an Agency

Each Month, A new Government Department(EX. Department of Defense will be selected. The group will focus on reviewing and editing the articles in there. Though, each user may choose whatever governemtn articles to work on

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

For the time being, use the Talk Page for disscussion

[edit] Wiki Project Notice

For each article that falls within the domain of the project, and that you have worked on, please add this notice to the talk page {{USGOV}}

It will produce this:

This article is part of WikiProject United States Government Agencies, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to Agencies and Departments of the United States Government. 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.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

e.g.{{USGOVINFO}}

**{{{Agency Name}}}**
{{{ Logo}}}
Established:	{{{Date and Year Established}}}
Director:	{{{Director's Name}}}
Budget:	{{{Budget and year}}}
Employees:	{{{#of Employees}}} (2004)

Use this info box for each agency, it will provide a standard format for the basic info.

[edit] Stub templates

TBA

[edit] Categories

Category:Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Government Agencies

[edit] Articles

Once you complete an article add it to the list here, so that others can offer advice and get ideas

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