Wikipedia:WikiProject United States

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



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.

See also U.S. Wikipedians' notice board

To do
Expand:
 * Project page

Create:
 * Templates for this project
 * A lot of the presidential election articles

Recruit: See the U. S. Matrix
 * Wikipedians in the United States

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.

Sections in need of attention

 * Intro to United States (see Talk:United States, Talk:United States and it's subsections)

Articles lacking references

 * 1973 oil crisis | Alaska | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia (U.S. state) | Idaho | Indiana | Lousiana (needs population /economy references) | Maryland | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nevada | New Hampshire | New York | North Dakota | Pennsylvania | South Dakota | Utah | Virginia | Washington | Wyoming

Deletions
Deletion discussions will be held at WikiProject Deletion sorting/United States of America

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

Timeline of United States history
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:
 * Category:History of Michigan | History of Michigan | Timeline of Michigan history
 * Category:History of Kentucky | History of Kentucky | Timeline of Kentucky history

See the Timeline of United States history

50 State Quarters and Infoboxes
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

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 American Civil War" category and article. Some Examples:
 * Category:Florida in the American Civil War | Florida in the Civil War
 * Category:Illinois in the American Civil War | Illinois in the Civil War
 * Category:Kentucky in the American Civil War | Kentucky in the Civil War
 * Category:Ohio in the American Civil War | Ohio in the Civil War
 * Category:Pennsylvania in the American Civil War | Pennsylvania in the Civil War
 * Category:Vermont in the American Civil War | Vermont in the Civil War
 * Category:West Virginia in the American 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.

Featured articles

 * Manzanar
 * Minnesota
 * United States Bill of Rights
 * United States Constitution
 * United States Marine Corps
 * 2005 United States Grand Prix

Good articles

 * American middle class
 * Education in the United States
 * Household income in the United States
 * Illinois
 * North Carolina
 * Passenger vehicles in the United States
 * Rhode Island
 * United States
 * Washington, D.C.
 * New Zealand-United States relations

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

Featured article nominees

 * United States


 * Failed nominations
 * Household income in the United States
 * Plymouth Colony

Former GA/FA articles
Please help restore these articles to their fomer status:
 * Passenger vehicles in the United States
 * Labor unions in the United States

Did you knows (DYKs)

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

Quality Scale
See the Assessment department for more information!

Templates
These are the project-related templates.

Talk page banner
WikiProject United States

Use in articles

 * US topics (navigation box; very large, covers everything; don't over-use)
 * United States (navigation box; political divisions; for use on state & territory articles)
 * Life in the United States (navigation box; does not include history or geography; more limited than the demographics one)
 * Demographics of the United States (navigation box; fairly comprehensive on the topic)
 * usculture (small sidebar; just the major topics)
 * US state (infobox for states and territories)

American WikiProjects' "Related projects" sections
US-related WikiProjects

Userbox
Template:User WikiProject United States

Collaborations

 * U.S. Collaboration of the Week
 * Congressional Collaborations of the Week

Members
Members of the project: All members should feel free to add User WikiProject United States to their talk pages.
 * 1) Black Harry
 * 2) Aude (talk contribs )
 * 3) ClairSamoht
 * 4) (♠ Mur chy ♠)
 * 5) Editor19841 (talk)# C hi  li  14 
 * 6) Guinnog
 * 7) Jaxad  0127
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 * 9) Richard
 * 10) Signature brendel 
 * 11) Jumping  cheese  [[Image:Misc-tpvgames.gif|18px]] Cont @  ct
 * 12) PenguinandTheHunter
 * 13) Mr.Weirdo
 * 14) sm8900
 * 15) SiriusFarm
 * 16) Richiar
 * 17) Francisco Smith
 * 18) ebmonkey2
 * 19) Emperor Walter Humala  · ( talk? ·  help! ) 00:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Jet123
 * 21) Lmessenger 22:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|20px]] Chiss Boy     09:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Effer AKS 21:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Lmessenger 22:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|20px]] Chiss Boy     09:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Effer AKS 21:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|20px]] Chiss Boy     09:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Effer AKS 21:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Effer AKS 21:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

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