Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware

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WikiProject Delaware is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the U.S. state of Delaware.

Contents 1 Best of WikiProject Delaware 1.1 Featured Articles 1.2 Featured Lists 1.3 Featured Images 1.4 Good Articles 1.5 Did You Know (DYK)s 2 Formerly recognized content 2.1 Former featured articles 2.2 Former good articles 3 Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release selections 4 Tasks 5 Articles 5.1 Lists 5.2 Article assessments 6 Templates 6.1 Common templates 7 Categories 8 Images 8.1 Maps 8.2 Requested photos 9 Stubs 10 To do 11 Wikiportal 12 Project notice template 13 Related WikiProjects 14 Participants 15 Credit where it's due

[edit] Best of WikiProject Delaware

Articles, lists and images relating to Delaware (the creators of whom are encouraged to join this WikiProject; if grandfathered into this project, marked with *) will be showcased as being some of the finest works on Wikipedia. The following categories will be honored with inclusion among Wikipedia's Featured Articles, Featured Lists, Featured Pictures and Good Articles:

[edit] Featured Articles

• Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware
• Hurricane Esther (1961)
• Hurricane Floyd
• Tropical Storm Henri (2003)

[edit] Featured Lists

List of Delaware hurricanes*
List of Governors of Delaware*

[edit] Featured Images

[edit] Good Articles

• Bob Marley
• Counties in Delaware
• Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey)
• Tropical Storm Barry (2007)
• Tropical Storm Doria (1971)

[edit] Did You Know (DYK)s

• 1903 Vagabond Hurricane - 8 April 2007.
• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 2 January, 2007.
• Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 - 29 November 2006.
• James Dillet Freeman - 19 October 2006
• John T. Chain, Jr. - 6 April 2006.
• Late November 2006 Nor'easter - 25 November 2006.
• List of Delaware hurricanes - 3 August 2006.
• Tropical Storm Henri (2003) - 16 June 2006.

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

• Amtrak
• Pennsylvania Railroad
• U.S. Route 40

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release selections

The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.

• Bob Marley
• Hurricane Floyd

[edit] Tasks

• Add all new articles by category to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Articles.
• Use the recent changes function to monitor these articles for improvement, vandalism, and other changes.

[edit] Articles

• Delaware uses the template Template:Infobox U.S. state. The information there needs to remain up-to-date.
• Delaware State Routes will be handled by this project until such time that a new sub-project can be created.
• see Category:WikiProject Delaware
• see Category:WikiProject Delaware articles

When you find an article that either needs cleanup/rebuilding, needs to be built altogether, or otherwise could be improved upon, please add it here, so we can all help!

[edit] Lists

• List of Delaware hurricanes*, featured list
• List of Governors of Delaware*, featured list
• Expand this list

[edit] Article assessments

Delaware articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1	2		4	7
	GA	1		1		3	5
	B	7	11	9	28	146	201
	Start	2	11	58	4	365	440
	Stub		1	2	17	502	522
	List		1			47	48
	Assessed	10	25	72	49	1067	1223
	Unassessed					23	23
	Total	10	25	72	49	1090	1246

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Assessment

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Delaware}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Delaware articles by quality, Category:Delaware articles by importance, Category:Delaware articles needing attention. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. There is also Category:Non-article Delaware pages) for things like redirect pages, templates, categories, images, etc.

[edit] Templates

The main templates page is located (temporarily) at /templates. This section lists the most commonly used and most general templates. For commenting, reference, and more in-depth template information, see the main template page.

[edit] Common templates

Delaware

• {{Delaware}} (to go at the bottom of Delaware–related pages- only with strong geographical content)
• {{DEGeneral}} (to go at the bottom of Delaware–related pages)

WikiProject Delaware

• {{Project Delaware}} (to go on the tops of the talk pages of Delaware–related articles)

Delaware State Parks

• {{Delaware Parks}}

U.S. Senate

• {{DE Senate}}

U.S. House

• {{DE Congress At-large}}

[edit] Categories

Category hierarchy starts at Category:Delaware. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Categories for full list and proposed changes.

There is also a category of Wikipedians called: Category:Wikipedians in Delaware.

[edit] Images

Here are some images that were either created by/for this Project, or would just be handy for this Project. Please add more!

Flag of Delaware

NonFreeImageRemoved.svgImage:Delaware state seal.png Seal of Delaware

• Lots of images found at commons:Category:Delaware. Please consider uploading free licensed works here so that they can be easily used by projects besides the English language wikipedia.

[edit] Maps

If someone knows of any places to find or create maps for Delaware, please feel free to tell us here!

[edit] Requested photos

You can use the {{reqphotoin|Delaware}} template to add talk pages to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Delaware. Please add free content photos for these articles where possible.

[edit] Stubs

To avoid unnecessary redirects and reverts, please discuss any new stub type you wish to create at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals prior to its creation and placement in articles or tables.

• A general-purpose Delaware stub was created on 10/15/2005. It is {{Delaware-stub}}. There are redirects {{DEL-stub}} and {{DE-stub}}. The corresponding category is Category:Delaware stubs. Example:

• DE location/geography stub is {{Delaware-geo-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware geography stubs. Example:

• DE Politician stub is {{Delaware-politician-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware politician stubs. Example:

• DE School stub is {{Delaware-school-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware school stubs. Example:

• DE road stub is {{Delaware-road-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware road stubs. Example:

This Delaware road or road transport-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• DE building and structures stub is {{Delaware-struct-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware building and structure stubs. Example:

• DE radio station stub is {{Delaware-radio-station-stub}}, with no DE-specific category. Example:

[edit] To do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Wikiportal

This project now has a portal: Portal:Delaware.

[edit] Project notice template

Delaware-related articles should have the following link (Template:Project Delaware) inserted at the top of the talk pages:

{{Project Delaware}}

It will come out looking like this:

	WikipediaWikiProject Delaware is part of WikiProject Delaware, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Delaware.	Delaware Portal
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Delaware is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.

Other related wikiprojects: None yet, please feel free to come up with ideas here!

[edit] Participants

Userbox for WP:WPDE This user is part of the Delaware WikiProject. This user lives in Delaware. This user grew up in Delaware, but now lives elsewhere and has to pay sales tax on almost everything.

Current participants include: (an * indicates a administrator. If there is a need for administrative assistance — article and category deletion and undeletion, page protection and unprotection, remedy vandalism, movement of articles and redirects, user or ip address block and unblock, enforcement of arbitration rulings — please contact that person through his or her user discussion page.)

• EaglesFanInTampa, project founder
• Hgebel
• Eleigh33
• John Carter 15:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - doing a little to try to fill the shoes of the project's proposer
• VerruckteDan
• User:Stilltim- written and continuing to edit articles on all Delaware Governors an US Senators & Representatives
• Littledrummrboy
• Dough4872
• Elpiseos - this day in Delaware history portal pages
• Epimethius
• User:Ceyockey (talk to me)^* — I live in Delaware. My contributions are primarily in the form of news citations to support or introduce relevant facts in Delaware-related articles.

[edit] Credit where it's due

This Project is clearly a blatant rip-off of WikiProject New Jersey, which in itself is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Massachusetts, which, in turn, is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Vermont, for which the creator of WP:WPDE (as I'm sure the other usurpers, as well) is eternally grateful, yet remoseful all at once.