Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Presidents

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There have been 42 presidents over the history of the United States (Grover Cleveland served twice but is counted once). We cover all of their biographies, and five more articles relating to the president.

Contents 1 Goal 2 Members 3 Related WikiProjects 3.1 Other related WikiProjects 4 Assessment 5 To-do 5.1 Article improvement 5.2 Project maintenance 5.3 Collaborations 6 Templates 6.1 Naming conventions

[edit] Goal

The goal of this project is to edit articles on Presidents of the United States of America, and bring them to A-Class or (preferably) Featured Article standard. It is also to expand Wikipedia's knowledge of U.S. Presidents.

[edit] Members

(just add your name)

1. Ray-Ray 00:41, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
2. Eisenhower ▲ ▼ (at war or at peace♥) 00:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
3. D-Day^{(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?}) 15:22, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
4. ConDem^Talk 17:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
5. User:LKLIII 23:04, 15 May 2006 (CDT)
6. President GangstaEB
7. HereToHelp 21:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
8. TheGodEmperor 01:14, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
9. Sam 15:10, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
10. Mr. President 13:00, 3 June 2006 (PST)
11. - KB 06:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
12. Shane ^{(talk/contrib)} 19:23, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
13. CylonCAG 17:27, 13 October 2006 (PST)

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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[edit] Other related WikiProjects

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[edit] Assessment

See what is good and what needs work. Edit this at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Presidents/1.0 Rankings.

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Article	Date	Assessment	Comments
List of Presidents of the United States	June 15, 2005	FA	Date is date featured.
President of the United States of America	May 17, 2006	A	Formerly featured but still good.
Seal of the President of the United States	May 19, 2006	Start	Some good sources but where's the beef? (It's never going to be as big as some others, though.)
White House	May 17, 2006	B	Many short sections give a "hodgepodge" feel.
Air Force One	October 12, 2004	FA	Date is date featured.
Marine One	July 20, 2006	Start	Expansion Needed.
George Washington	May 16, 2006	A	Has good basic information, but needs serious cleanup as to undersourcing and bad statements to be removed.
John Adams	May 17, 2006	A	Good, but a few short sections.
Thomas Jefferson	May 17, 2006	A	Needs to be NPOVified towards the bottom and shortened.
James Madison	May 19, 2006	B	Needs more information.
James Monroe	May 19, 2006	B	Needs more life info.
John Quincy Adams	May 19, 2006	B	Needs more information, especially on the life part. Table does too much about presidency.
Andrew Jackson	May 18, 2006	A	Needs only tweaking before an FAC.
Martin Van Buren	May 16, 2006	B	Close to a GA but not official; particularly needs info on post-White House political activities.
William Henry Harrison	May 19, 2006	B	Could use expansion, but will still be on the short side.
John Tyler	May 19, 2006	B	Red links and lists make up too much for the article. Needs more images and actual text.
James Polk	February 27, 2005	FA	Date is date featured.
Zachary Taylor	May 19, 2006	B	Not enough meat, poor visual formatting with huge pictures.
Millard Fillmore	May 19, 2006	B	Needs more work in describing graphs and needs major expansion.
Franklin Pierce	May 19, 2006	B	Needs expansion.
James Buchanan	May 19, 2006	B	Needs expansion and probably some NPOVifying: if we're going to trash him , do it with sources.
Abraham Lincoln	March 20, 2005	FA	Date is date featured.
Andrew Johnson	May 17, 2006	B	Not doing well; needs more expansion
Ulysses S. Grant	May 20, 2006	A	Needs expansion under presidency and a few general tweaks.
Rutherford Hayes	May 20, 2006	B	Needs serious expansion under presidency.
James Garfield	May 20, 2006	B	Needs expansion, and more detail about assassination (it is likely to be of interest to many casual readers).
Chester Arthur	May 20, 2006	B	Too many redlinks, needs expansion.
Grover Cleveland	May 20, 2006	B	Needs organization and formatting, and Cabinet for second term.
Benjamin Harrison	May 20, 2006	B	Expand and organize..
William McKinley	May 20, 2006	B	Needs expansion under presidency.
Theodore Roosevelt	October 13, 2005	FA	Date is date featured.
William Taft	May 20, 2006	A	Needs better organizing, formatting, subsections for the presidency, and some more good text or source won't hurt (I've promoted this to A Class - I think it's better than most of the Bs - Sam 15:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)).
Woodrow Wilson	May 20, 2006	B	Needs section on private life, otherwise very good. Going over text wouldn't hurt, either.
Warren Harding	May 20, 2006	B	References! Inline notes! And perhaps some NPOVing is needed.
Calvin Coolidge	May 20, 2006	B	Cut out quote section (work them into the article), and get references. Expansion is nice.
Herbert Hoover	May 20, 2006	B	The info is there, it just needs to be presented well. More inline sources would be nice.
Franklin D. Roosevelt	May 24, 2006	FA	Date is date featured.
Harry Truman	May 20, 2006	A	Uses too many subheaders of too low values.
Dwight Eisenhower	May 20, 2006	A	Maybe trim sections towards bottom, they aren't that important. Needs inline notes, but has good general refs.
John Kennedy	May 20, 2006	A	Feels like sections were just annexed on towards the bottom, better formatting is nice.
Lyndon Johnson	May 20, 2006	A	Superb, should be FACed soon.
Richard Nixon	May 17, 2006	B	Headers need to be looked at and section on quotes should be trimmed or eliminated.
Gerald Ford	April 8, 2006	FA	Date is date featured.
Jimmy Carter	May 19, 2006	A	Needs only tweaks before an FAC.
Ronald Reagan	May 18, 2006	A	Needs shortening, especially in lead
George H. W. Bush	May 19, 2006	A	Need expansion of events under presidency
Bill Clinton	May 17, 2006	A	Only slight tweaking is needed.
George W. Bush	May 17, 2006	B	Needs serious NPOVifying and size control. Must be kept updated.

[edit] To-do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Presidents:	edit · history · watch · refresh
[edit] Article improvement Keep the assessment of all relevant articles updated. Get all B-Class articles A-Class. Get all A-Class articles featured. The only Start-Class article, the presidental seal, is of a lower priority than the biographies. [edit] Project maintenance Define nuances of our scope. Advertise project and get more committed members.

[edit] Collaborations

The current Presidental Collaborations are:
Refine:	George Washington
Shorten:	Harry S. Truman
Expand:	Martin Van Buren
This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Presidents. Every week, three different articles from a pool assessed with Version 1.0 standards are chosen. Some articles (usually B-Class) need to be expanded with more information. Others (usually A-Class) need to be shortened using summary style (try not to delete good content, just move it). A few (FAs and a few A-Class) just need to be refined and generally tweaked, often before a featured article candidacy. The articles are chosen using the comments made during the assessment. There is no formal bureaucratic way of choosing them, there's no point templating their talk pages over it, and they are not done by week but by need. For instance, an article being evaluated for featured status may stay under the "refine" slot as long as it is a candidate. The color scheme above is meant to generally illustrate the quality of the article, but it's not binding. It does not change when the articles change.

[edit] Templates

Use this	To get this	For this purpose
{{USPresidents}}	Presidents of the United States of America Washington | J Adams | Jefferson | Madison | Monroe | JQ Adams | Jackson | Van Buren | W Harrison | Tyler | Polk | Taylor | Fillmore | Pierce | Buchanan | Lincoln | A Johnson | Grant | Hayes | Garfield | Arthur | Cleveland | B Harrison | Cleveland | McKinley | T Roosevelt | Taft | Wilson | Harding | Coolidge | Hoover | F Roosevelt | Truman | Eisenhower | Kennedy | L Johnson | Nixon | Ford | Carter | Reagan | GHW Bush | Clinton | GW Bush	On the bottom of biographical pages
{{USP-Article}}	This article is part of WikiProject U.S. Presidents, a project to improve the quality of the biographies of U.S. Presidents and related articles to meet the criteria for Featured Article status. You are invited to view our progress.	On the talk page of articles. Use {{USP-Article|Class=FA/A/B}} to add the quality level. Don't add to pages yet until we have everything ranked and template design finalized.
{{User WikiProject U.S. Presidents}}	This user is part of WikiProject U.S. Presidents.	On your userpage (optional)

[edit] Naming conventions

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