Wikipedia:WikiProject Arizona

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Arizona with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the participants section.

Recent changes in Arizona-related articles (list)(edit)

Contents 1 Scope 2 Related WikiProjects 2.1 Child WikiProjects 3 Participants 4 Project divisions 5 Adopt an article 6 Templates 7 Infoboxes 8 Categories 9 Articles 9.1 New Arizona-related articles on Wikipedia 9.2 Arizona-related articles up for deletion 9.3 Arizona-related articles for peer review or featured article candidates 9.4 Arizona-related articles assessment 9.4.1 Statistics 10 Requests 11 Resources

[edit] Scope

This project is intended to pull together interested and knowledgeable editors to improve all articles about Arizona. Thus, it covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Arizona, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, people, history and traditions. The aim is to build a broad and deep collection of solid articles about Arizona and Arizonans. All editors are welcome. Ways you can join in include the following:

1. helping create the templates necessary for the project
2. reading over articles and giving your suggestions in the article's talk pages
3. copyediting for grammar and clarify
4. adding photos
5. reverting vandalism
6. citing sources
7. fact checking
8. minor or major research and contributions
9. advertising the project by posting the WikiProject template in relevant talk pages.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Arizona is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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[edit] Child WikiProjects

• Arizona State Routes
• Missing articles on Arizona newspapers
• New category: Category:Performing arts (Arizona)

[edit] Participants

• Kukini (talk • contribs) Founding member
• Wikibofh (talk • contribs)
• Miwasatoshi (talk • contribs) working on wikifying our glorious and expansive State Highway System!
• Ned Scott (talk • contribs) count me in (update:I don't plan on being very active do to my busy schedule and other WikiProjects, but I will drop in from time to time)
• ONEder Boy (talk • contribs) I actually tried proposing one a little while ago. Didn't seem like a whole lotta interest so I kinda forgot about it. I'll try to pass it on though.
• Darksasami (talk • contribs) Why not?
• Ars Scriptor (talk • contribs) Have been contributing to the Casa Grande article here and there.
• Panchitaville (talk • contribs) I've done some work on this and so I might as well put my name here.
• Nebular110 (talk • contribs) Might as well. I'd also like to get Lowell Observatory featured eventually.
• User:Pahoran513 I live in AZ and love our state. I'd be interested in working on any project--just let me know
• TrackerTV (talk • contribs) I am in west Chandler and would love to help with expanding bits and pieces related to our wonderful state. I will also be adding Arizona television stations to this project (to become a co-op with WP:TVS, several state projects do this already).
• Solarapex (talk • contribs) I'll contribute pictures as Arizona is my favorite destination.
• Ridan (talk • contribs) I'm an Arizonan - I guess I could help with this.
• Bjweeks (talk • contribs) I also live in Arizona, I mostly edit education related articles but willing to help with anything. I live in the east valley area, so if anybody needs any photos just leave me a message.
• Dklangen (talk • contribs) why not
• EntChickie (talk • contribs) Officially adding myself.
• Tonker83 (talk • contribs) I live in Mesa and love Wiki so why not help out a bit where I can. I like to take pics so let me know if we need anything.
• Kynn (talk • contribs) Count me in. I live in Tucson.
• Mavarin (talk • contribs) I've worked on some Tucson-centric articles, also Gila Bend, Arizona because it needed help. I'll be glad to take photos as well.
• Illyria05 (talk • contribs) I lived in Arizona for 7 years, plus it's my favorite state, so why not?
• cascadia (talk • contribs) I live in Tempe, and have access to most of the metro area. I might be able to get some additional photos of places, if given enough time.
• Uagent (talk • contribs) Count me in. It seems I'm destined to live in Phoenix, Arizona forever, so I might as well tell people about it, right?
• Patricknoddy (talk • contribs)
• Ixnayonthetimmay (talk • contribs) My main focus is adding the {{Infobox city}} template to articles for Arizona cities, towns, unincorporated areas, et cetera. I am also trying to create .svg maps for all Arizona counties and include these maps in city articles.
• Derek.cashman (talk • contribs) Currently living in Flagstaff, Arizona. Working primarily on that article, as well as articles related to Flagstaff.
• Mosamiazaz (talk • contribs)Living in Tucson, Arizona. I write and contribute to articles about Arizona's state parks and National Park Service sites. I take lots of photos and have used a number of them in my Wikipedia articles.
• Arkyan (talk • contribs) Been doing work relating to List of Arizona State Routes as well as communities in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. May as well put my name here :)
• ceemo (talk • contribs) I have updated Peoria, AZ because its my hometown and its awesome!!!!

[edit] Project divisions

• Cities (talk) — Cities, towns, villages and counties
• Physical geography (talk) — Regions, parks, climate, physical features, (buildings?)
• Transportation (talk) — Roads, trails and rails in and around Arizona
• Culture (talk) — Music, art, icons, mass communication
• Education (talk) — Schools, Colleges, Universities and other educational articles.
• People (talk) — includes Arizona natives and those residents who have shaped Arizona
• Government (talk) — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Arizona
• History (talk) — history of Arizona during and prior to statehood

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Adopt an article to see how this section is used.

[edit] Templates

• {{Arizona}}
• {{WikiProject_Arizona}} advertise in talk pages of articles that this article is part of WikiProject Arizona.
• {{Arizona-geo-stub}}
• {{Arizona-State-Route-stub}}
• {{User WikiProject Arizona}} - a smaller version of the WikiProject member template, Babel-style.
• {{AZ Parks}}
• {{AZ State Parks}}

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Categories

• Category:Arizona
• Category:Arizona geography stubs

[edit] Articles

[edit] New Arizona-related articles on Wikipedia

Please feel free to list your new Arizona-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Arizona-related articles up for deletion

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Arizona for an up-to-date listing of Arizona-related articles which have been listed for deletion. You are encouraged to take part in any discussions which interest you.

[edit] Arizona-related articles for peer review or featured article candidates

The following are some Arizona-related articles that have listed on Wikipedia:Peer review or Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. You can edit and watch this list together with the list of newest articles (above).

[edit] Arizona-related articles assessment

We now have article assessment for the Arizona WikiProject. To take a look at it and view the progress see Arizona articles by quality or Arizona articles by importance.

To asses an article simply modify the template as follows:

{{WikiProject Arizona |class= |importance= }}

[edit] Statistics

Arizona articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	2	1			5
	A
	GA	1	1				2
	B	4	32	10	5	12	63
	Start		41	49	39	179	308
	Stub		7	14	38	274	333
	Assessed	7	83	74	82	465	711
	Unassessed	0	0	0	0	300	300
	Total	7	83	74	82	765	1011

[edit] Requests

Do you have any requests for project members? Add them here.

• Sedona, Arizona is one of the hottest tourist locations, second only to the Grand Canyon. I want more info included about my hometown, and its Majestic qualitys.

Anything specific that needs elaborating? I could research things a bit more if I had examples of what should be included. I read the article and it seems fairly thorough. Emphasising a town's "Magestic qualities" will make an article cross from encyclopedic to a Chamber of Commerce brochure. Cascadia^TALK|HISTORY 22:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Just noticed that two historic hotels in Flagstaff did not have articles, so I created stubs for them. Please check out the Weatherford Hotel and Hotel Monte Vista articles and add to them in any way that you can. Dr. Cash 18:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resources