Wikipedia:WikiProject Mississippi

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WikiProject Mississippi is a project to help create and improve Wikipedia articles about the U.S. state of Mississippi. This WikiProject was started on December 27, 2006.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mississippi:

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Mississippi Governor's Mansion
Copyedit: Vicksburg, Mississippi for organization
Verify: Tupelo, Mississippi
Expand: infoboxes on articles for Mississippi's 30 largest cities (see Template:Mississippi)
Other: Tag all Mississippi-related articles with the WikiProject Mississippi template by following the usage instructions found here.
Visit Portal:Mississippi!

1 Members
2 Mississippi Barnstar award
3 Project Templates
4 Mississippi Article and Talk Page templates
5 Current assessment summary
6 Articles for Deletion
7 Descendant WikiProjects
8 Related WikiProjects
9 Related

Members

To join this WikiProject or see a list of current members, see /Members.

The following templates are available for members to use on their user pages:

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{{User WikiProject Mississippi}}

Userbox, placed on user page

This user is a member of WikiProject Mississippi.

{{WikiProject Mississippi member}}

Placed on user or user talk page

This user is a member of WikiProject Mississippi, which seeks to expand information about the state. Please feel free to join us.

Mississippi Barnstar award

The Mississippi Barnstar is an award given to users who have significantly contributed to this Project and/or Mississippi related articles on Wikipedia. Any user, whether a member of this project or not, can award the barnstar to any other user, whether the other user is a member of this project or not.

To see the barnstar and instructions on how to use it, visit WP:MSBS.

To see a list of Mississippi Barnstar recipients, visit Category:WikiProject Mississippi Barnstar Recipients.

Project Templates

The following templates should be used to tag article and category pages cared for by the WikiProject:

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See Assessment Instructions on how to implement this template including its Quality and Importance ratings.

Placed on article talk page (all Mississippi-related articles)

Mississippi
Portal

Wikipedia:WikiProject Mississippi is within the scope of WikiProject Mississippi, an open collaborative effort to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of Mississippi and related subjects in the Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, and even become a member.
[Watch Project Articles] • [Project Page] • [Project Talk] • [Template Usage]

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This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale.

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This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's importance scale.

Please explain ratings on the ratings summary page.

{{WikiProject Mississippi category}}

Placed on category talk page (all Mississippi-related categories, i.e. all descendents of Category:Mississippi)

Mississippi
Portal

Category

This page is a category and does not require a rating on the Project's quality scale.

Please explain ratings on the ratings summary page.

Mississippi Article and Talk Page templates

The following templates should be used to tag article and category pages cared for by WikiProject Mississippi.

When you find a stub article about Mississippi, tag it with the most specific template below. It may also be appropriate to tag the article with another stub template that is not Mississippi-specific, such as {{US-business-bio-stub}}.

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{{Mississippi-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi-related articles) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Mississippi stubs

This Mississippi-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-geo-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi location-related articles such as towns, cities, lakes, etc.) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Mississippi geography stubs

This Mississippi state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-NRHP-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi registered national historic place-related articles such as the Governor's Mansion, ole Capitol building, etc.) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:National Register of Historic Places stubs

This article about a Registered Historic Place in Mississippi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-politician-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi politician-related articles such as a governor, lt. governor, mayor, etc. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi politician) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Mississippi politician stubs

This article about a Mississippi politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-school-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi school/college-related articles such as a Ole Miss, Clinton High School, Pearl Elementary School, etc. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi school) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Southern United States school stubs

This Mississippi school-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-struct-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi building or structure-related articles such as a bridge, dam, Indian mound, building, etc. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi building or structure) at the bottom.

This article about a building or structure in Mississippi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-airport-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi airport articles such as Jackson-Evers International Airport, Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport, Oxford Municipal Airport, etc. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi airport) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Mississippi geography stubs under Airports

This article about an airport in Mississippi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-sports-venue-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi sports venue-related articles such as Veteran's Memorial Stadium, Trustmark Park, Pirate Stadium (Pearl High School's stadium), any baseball stadium or hockey rink or soccer stadium, etc. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi sports venue) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Sports venues in Mississippi

This article about a sports venue in Mississippi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-newspaper-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi newspaper-related articles such as a The Clarion-Ledger, The SunHerald, Jackson Free Press, Mississippi Link, etc. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi newspaper) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Newspapers published in Mississippi

This article about a Mississippi newspaper is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-radio-station-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi radio station-specific articles. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi radio station.) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Radio stations in Mississippi

This article about a radio station in Mississippi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{Mississippi-tv-station-stub}}

Placed on article page (all Mississippi television station-specific articles. NOT pages that may include mentions of a Mississippi television station.) at the bottom. Causes articles to appear in Category:Television stations in Mississippi

This article about a television station in Mississippi is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{reqphoto|in=Mississippi}}

Placed on article's talk page (all Mississippi-related article talk pages, NOT main article pages. The text This template is misplaced... in the example to the right won't show up if placed in the correct place, that correct place being on talk pages only. Causes articles to appear in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Mississippi. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

This template is misplaced. It belongs on the talk page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mississippi.

	It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality. Wikipedians in Mississippi may be able to help!
	The Free Image Search Tool (FIST) may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Current assessment summary

Mississippi articles		Importance
Mississippi articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2					2
	GA	3		1	1	1	6
	B	15	7	12	9	4	47
	Start	31	36	163	113	15	358
	Stub	13	31	138	288	40	510
	List	4	1	29		1	35
	Assessed	68	75	343	411	61	958
	Unassessed					437	437
	Total	68	75	343	411	498	1395

Assessment links

Articles for Deletion

Please list any known Mississippi-related articles or categories that have been listed for deletion from Wikipedia, here.

None currently - which is a good thing.

Descendant WikiProjects

Articles about Mississippi can brush up against many other subjects: for instance, an article about a U.S. Senator from Mississippi is about Mississippi as well as about the U.S. Senate. Therefore, before working on an article, it is recommended to check the list of WikiProjects to see whether another WikiProject exists that may have established guidelines about the subject of the article in question.

(Of course, it is also good to be familiar with Wikipedia-wide policies and guidelines.)

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