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[edit] About Me
As a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, I have a particular interest in local area and New Jersey governmental topics. I have been gathering information about New Jersey and its municipalities, and I am looking to create a structure to load this information (e.g., form of government, federal / state / county legislator details) into pages for all of New Jersey's 566 municipalities.
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I have always been a firm beleiver in giving credit where credit is due. MR. Sohn I'm also a Teaneckian and have watched your work on Wikipedia with wonder and amazement. I give you this tirless worker barnstarfor dedicated editing to all information concerning New Jersey history and government. |
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[edit] Areas of Focus
- Teaneck, New Jersey is my home town for the past dozen years, and has been my entry point into Wikipedia. I have tried to expand the original stub that only had geographic and demograhic info to include as much useful information as possible. The thought has been percolating that this could be a model for other municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey and elsewhere across the state.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey I kicked this off, after realizing that there were similar efforts in other states.
- Municipalities in New Jersey: The pages exist, but 80-90% are mere stubs. The ones that have been updated have a melange of useful and useless information with no standardization whatsoever. As part of WP:NJ, I would like to identify kindred spirits who would coordinate each individual county (and the municipalities therein) in an agreed upon format. My idea is to send this template to local libraries and public schools, with the goal of encouraging local resources to do the mind-numbingly tedious task (for an outsider, but not a native) of data gathering and entry tasks.
- New Jersey Forms of Government: See Faulkner Act (New Jersey) for a starting point into a web of pages that descibes New Jersey's 11 forms of government (5 traditional and 6 modern). There are still two outstanding pages in this ring, for City (New Jersey) and Town (New Jersey) that I will get to when I have a chance.
- Template:New Jersey is an effort to tighten up the template for the State of New Jersey and make it more similar to the Template:United States found on each of the individual state pages.
- Board of Chosen Freeholders was a page referenced in many places that just didn't exist. I went through web pages for all 21 counties and found almost all of the relevant information. I will follow up to verify what I have found and fill in any missing details.
- New Jersey Legislature has been updated to list all 40 legislative districts and the municipalities included in each one. This may not be the best place, but it does allow for a link to view what is included in each district.
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