Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa
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This WikiProject was formed to improve and create articles related to the U.S. state of Iowa with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on the formatting, layout, and improvement of such articles. Any questions you have can be asked at the talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the member section below.
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Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History |
- Urgent:
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- To Improve to Featured standard: Iowa
- Collaboration:
- To Expand: Blank Park Zoo
- To Clean up:
- To Merge:
- To Destub: See: Category:Iowa stubs
- To Deorphan:
- To Categorize:
- To Create: Create state park articles, County courthouses
- Lists to de-redlink:
- Lists to complete:
- Wanted Pics/Graphics:Pictures are needed for each of the members of the Iowa General Assembly.
- Wanted New Pics: See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Iowa
- AfD: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Iowa
- Maintain: add {{Project Iowa}} to the talk pages of Iowa-related articles and add the articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Iowa recent changes so related changes link works.
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[edit] Project collaboration
Iowa – This is our main article, and is in great need of improvement. Let's try to improve it to at least Good Article status, aiming for Featured Article status. A suggested model is the article on Minnesota, which has achieved Featured Article status.
[edit] Project divisions
- Communities (talk) — Cities, towns, villages and boroughs
- Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features
- Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Iowa
- Culture (talk)— Music, art, icons, mass communication
- People (talk) — Includes Iowa natives and those residents who have shaped Iowa
- Government (talk) — Federal, state and local politics and politicians related to Iowa.
- History (talk) — History of Iowa during and prior to statehood
- Economy (Talk) — Major Iowa industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Iowa
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Iowa is one of the United States WikiProjects.
Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.
[edit] Child WikiProjects
[edit] Assessment
| Iowa articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 GA |
1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||
| B | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 34 | |
| Start | 2 | 9 | 8 | 28 | 77 | 124 | |
| Stub | 2 | 9 | 18 | 256 | 285 | ||
| List | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Assessed | 4 | 17 | 25 | 50 | 359 | 455 | |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2483 | 2486 | ||
| Total | 4 | 18 | 26 | 51 | 2842 | 2941 | |
To assess an article add {{Project Iowa}} to the talk page of the article if it isn't there already. Then fill in the |class= parameter. Please read the complete directions over before you start assessing. If you have any questions go to the talk page. If you do assess an article consider adding it to an appropriate workgroup and put it in one of the tables on the workgroup's page.
[edit] Members
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Userboxes for WP:IOWA
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Project members: you can also add {{User WPIowa}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project, and/or {{User Iowa}} to show Iowan-ness in general. Additionally, you can use {{User Iowa Flag}} to add the Flag of Iowa to the upper right corner of your user page.
- . Philosopher Let us reason together. (founder) - Keeping the project's recent changes link reasonably up-to-date. Also working on Iowa Politicians articles.
- . Arch O. La Grigory Deepdelver 07:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC). Out of Oskaloosa, IA.
- McMillin24 contribstalk 21:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Firsfron of Ronchester 22:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC) (lived all over Eastern Iowa)
- Iowahwyman 22:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC) Currently in Des Moines; lived all of my 30 years in Iowa
- —Ben Brockert (42) 23:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Lini – Have lived in Eastern Iowa for the past 20 years :)
- Ted 16:23, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- Josh 21:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- Brent Butler contribstalk 17:12, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- • master_sonLets talk - Founder of Iowa State Highway WP
- Allen Huffman 18:18, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Iowacrusader 03:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC) - SE Iowa student
- DBQer 20:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC) - Student living in Dubuque
- ObtuseAngle 04:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC) Not living in the state currently, but very much an Iowan. You can change where you are, but you can't change where you're from!
- bigcurrens 19 March 2007
- Wingman1331 14:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- drmartini- 16:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
- SpoonThief 21:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC) - Currently Living in Dubuque, and planning to go the the University of Iowa in 3 or so years
- Ecombmiami
- Psychless Type words! 20:35, 9 June 2007 (UTC) - Want to help you guys out in the assessment area of the wikiproject
- Presidentman
- Sultec 16:51, 30 July 2007 (UTC) I've lived most of my life in Earling.
- Captain panda 02:41, 8 September 2007 (UTC) I live in Sioux City and I edit Iowa articles sometimes.
- Mookie89 22:16, 16 October 2007 (UTC) - Formerly of Burlington and University of Iowa alumni
- Iamanadam Born in Davenport, live in Georgia.
- Ctjf83Talk Live in Davenport
- Knoethe 9:49, 11 January 2008
[edit] Infoboxes
[edit] Templates
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| {{Project Iowa}}
Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles. After tagging an article, you can add it and its talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Iowa recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update. |
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| {{Iowa-stub}}
Stub notice for Iowa articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Iowa-bio-stub}}
Stub notice for articles dealing with people from or related to Iowa; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Iowa-geo-stub}}
Stub notice for articles dealing with Iowa locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Iowa-politician-stub}}
Stub notice for Iowa politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Iowa-school-stub}}
Stub notice for Iowa schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages |
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For Iowa-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Iowa}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Iowa. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons. |
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[edit] Link to Stubs
If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.
[edit] Find a photograph
Many Iowa articles lack photographs: some of these can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Iowa. If any are located near you, you can help Wikipedia by uploading a freely licensed photograph to Wikimedia Commons.
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