Wikipedia:WikiProject Nebraska

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Nebraska 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 member section below.

1 Outline
2 Project Divisions
3 Related WikiProjects
- 3.1 In state projects
4 Tasks
5 Members
6 Infoboxes
7 Templates
8 Link to stubs
9 Find photographs

[edit] Outline

This WikiProject was created to organize, format, expand, and exemplify Nebraska-related articles on Wikipedia. Our to-do list is located to the right, and is in a constant state of flux.

[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 Nebraska
Culture (talk)— Music, art, icons, mass communication
People (talk) — Includes Nebraska natives and those residents who have shaped Nebraska
Government (talk) — Government: federal, state and local politics in relation to Nebraska
History (talk) — History of Nebraska during and prior to statehood
Economy (Talk) — Major Nebraska industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Nebraska

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Nebraska is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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[edit] In state projects

WikiProject Omaha

WP:WikiProject Nebraska Highways

[edit] Tasks

Urgent:
To Nominate at WP:FAC:
To Improve to Featured standard:
Collaboration:
To Expand:
To Clean up:
To Merge:
To Destub: See: Category:Nebraska stubs
To Deorphan:
To Categorize:
To Create: Articles in: Category:Newspapers published in Nebraska, Category:Libraries in Nebraska, Category:Churches in Nebraska
Lists to de-redlink:
Lists to complete:
Wanted Pics/Graphics:
Wanted New Pics: See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nebraska
Maintain: add {{WikiProject Nebraska}} to the talk pages of Nebraska-related articles and add the articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Nebraska/Nebraska recent changes so related changes link works.

[edit] Members

Userboxes for WP:Nebraska

This user is a member of WikiProject Nebraska.

This user lives in Nebraska.

Project members: you can also add {{User WPNebraska}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project, and/or {{User Nebraska}} to show Nebraska-ness in general.

Nenstiel ^talk (founder)
Swid ^{(talk | edits)} Finally! I didn't even have to start it!
MONGO
Rayc, Yey! Finally!
Freechild
w00tfest99
Badbilltucker May not be able to do much, but will do what I can.
Czj - Lifetime Lincoln resident.
Bryse 19:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC)-Beatrice Neighbor.
New4325
The4532 (talk) 06:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
AlexNebraska (talk) 20:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)This is great Now all we need is a Lincoln and Omaha wikiprojects
Nice or in evil (talk) 19:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Finalnight
Sdegner

[edit] Infoboxes

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{{Nebraska}}

Infobox for use on regions, cities, and boroughs; placed at the bottom of article pages.

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State of Nebraska

Lincoln (capital)

[edit] Templates

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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 Nebraska/Nebraska recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update.

	This article is part of WikiProject Nebraska, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Nebraska.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.

Template to categorize different periods in Nebraska's history; placed toward the top of history-related article pages.

Template:Nebraska-hist-stub

Stub notice for Nebraska articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages

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

Stub notice for articles dealing with Nebraska locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages

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

Stub notice for Nebraska politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages

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

Stub notice for Nebraska schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages

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

For Nebraska-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Nebraska}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nebraska. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality, if possible.
Wikipedians in Nebraska may be able to help!

[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 photographs

Many Nebraska articles lack photographs: some of these can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nebraska. If any are located near you, you can help Wikipedia by uploading a freely licensed photograph to Wikimedia Commons.