Wikipedia:WikiProject New Hampshire

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WikiProject New Hampshire is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Live Free or Die!

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[edit] Requested Deletion Notices

Articles, templates, images, and redirects having to do with New Hampshire currently up for deletion.

[edit] Current Articles Being Improved By WP:NH

[edit] Places

White Mountains National Forest, needs more pictures, text,and organization
Crawford Notch, needs more history, info, and pictures
Merchantsauto.com Stadium, needs PICTURES and more content.
Cannon Mountain Ski Area, has most vertical in NH needs more content and pictures.
Nashua, New Hampshire, among other NH towns, cities and unincorporated places. It's almost to FA status. Someone should nominate it for GA status.
Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in NH
Concord, New Hampshire, the capital of NH
Appalachian Trail
New Hampshire
Pinkham Notch, Reached GA status and was a FA candidate. Peer Review.
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, being completely redone
Bristol, New Hampshire needs some copyediting and revision
List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire needs development including photos.

[edit] Schools

Pinkerton Academy, Biggest high school in NH. Produced some notable alumni. Needs to be copyedited and could use some recent photos.
Phillips Exeter Academy, Boarding school that produces many notable alumni.
Concord High School, could use another photo and needs to have more information added.
Lin-Wood High School, this article has been nominated for deletion. [1] Please vote to keep this article. Also please help improve the article.

[edit] People

Dan Brown, author.
Robert Frost, poet. This article needs to be referenced.
John Lynch, current governor of New Hampshire.
Franklin Pierce, former President of the United States.
Alan Shepard, first American astronaut in space. The article need sources.
Daniel Webster, politician — a FA, appearing as Today's Featured Article on April 8, 2006.

[edit] State government articles

[edit] Culture

add more New Hampshire related articles here!

[edit] Collaborations

U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, United States is the US Collaboration of the Week. (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.

[edit] Review, Assessment & Statistics

WikiProject New Hampshire Assessment Guide - rates project related articles for quality.

[edit] Templates

Template:New Hampshire is a box to go at the bottom of all New Hampshire-related articles.
Template:Project New Hampshire is a box to go at the top of the talk pages of all New Hampshire-related articles.
Template:NewHampshire-stub - We have a Stub! See below for more info.
Template:User New Hampshire - A Userbox for Wikipedians in NH. Automatically adds your page to the Wikipedians in NH category.
Template:User WikiProject New Hampshire

[edit] Government infobox

The look of the Government section of the Shrewsbury article is a start for a MA infobox. The infobox used is Template:Infobox Mass Town Govt. It gathers information about the town, county, state, and federal elected officials.

I started an NH Government infobox... feel free to check it out and make changes as needed.

Expand this list.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Categories to be included in this project

Category:New Hampshire

[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 New Hampshire

Seal of New Hampshire

Stylized Emblem of New Hampshire

The grave (1777) of Col. John Hart in the North Cemetery in Portsmouth, NH

[edit] Required photos

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

[edit] Maps

Map of Portsmouth in Rockingham County

All towns, cities and unincorporated places in NH have maps, such as the one pictured right, at the Wikipedia Commons at Category:Maps of New Hampshire. The maps are located in the categories for their respective counties.

Each town or city or unincoporated place should have a map image in the {{Infobox City}} template. For Portsmouth, New Hampshire the file would be Image:Rockingham-Portsmouth-NH.png (County-City-NH) The image would be placed in the following fields as shown:

|image_map       = Rockingham-Portsmouth-NH.png
|mapsize         = 250px
|map_caption     = Location in [[Rockingham County, New Hampshire|Rockingham]], [[New Hampshire]]

[edit] Stubs

It's Template:NewHampshire-stub. Its corresponding category is Category:New Hampshire stubs.

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

The secondary stubs have all been updated with the state emblem featuring the Old Man of the Mountain. Here are what they look like:

New Hampshire Geography - {{NewHampshire-geo-stub}}

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

New Hampshire Politicians - {{NewHampshire-politician-stub}}

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

New Hampshire Highways - {{NewHampshire-road-stub}}

This New Hampshire road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

New Hampshire School - {{NewHampshire-school-stub}}

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

[edit] Proposing/Using new stubs

Here is a quick link to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals page, so the Stub Sorting people don't get mad and we don't have 3 different versions of the same stub. When new stubs are created they should be updated onto this page for quick reference.

[edit] To Do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject New Hampshire:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Nashua, New Hampshire is near Featured Article Status according to what it seemed like at its last Peer Review. It failed getting FA status according to it's FA candidate page. Let's put NH on the front page! If someone has the time: help expand Portal:New Hampshire! Keeping track of all New Hampshire town/city articles and improving them. More info can be found at /muncarticlewatch Map of Municipalities Start a list of articles regarding NH Culture Add information for the New Hampshire court articles. If anyone's interested List of New Hampshire county name etymologies could probably use the love and affection of a native. Making an Alphabetical List of all the New Hampshire Historical Markers. Photographs are required for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Hampshire (currently underpopulated) The article, New Hampshire, uses the template, Template:Infobox U.S. state. The info there needs to remain up-to-date. Taxes and property tax overview image Find a non-Fair Use version of the State Seal for the project page. Find out the copyright status of all City and Town Seals Assess Sam Fuld Expand and create new articles relating to state government; make sure to include pictures of relevant buildings.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject New Hampshire:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Nashua, New Hampshire is near Featured Article Status according to what it seemed like at its last Peer Review. It failed getting FA status according to it's FA candidate page. Let's put NH on the front page!
If someone has the time: help expand Portal:New Hampshire!
Keeping track of all New Hampshire town/city articles and improving them. More info can be found at /muncarticlewatch
Map of Municipalities
Start a list of articles regarding NH Culture
Add information for the New Hampshire court articles.
If anyone's interested List of New Hampshire county name etymologies could probably use the love and affection of a native.
Making an Alphabetical List of all the New Hampshire Historical Markers.
Photographs are required for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Hampshire (currently underpopulated)
The article, New Hampshire, uses the template, Template:Infobox U.S. state. The info there needs to remain up-to-date.
Taxes and property tax overview image
Find a non-Fair Use version of the State Seal for the project page.
Find out the copyright status of all City and Town Seals
Assess Sam Fuld
Expand and create new articles relating to state government; make sure to include pictures of relevant buildings.

[edit] Project Notice Template

New Hampshire-related articles should have the following link inserted at the top of the talk pages.

If you wish to add an assessment to the article, please follow the directions here.

It will come out looking like this:

	This article is part of Project New Hampshire; an effort to create, expand, and improve New Hampshire-related articles to a feature-quality standard.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a priority rating on the priority scale.

For personal talk pages, users can place the following into thier respective talk pages:

It will come out looking like this:

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

New - WP:NH Userbox for those that like userboxes.

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This user is a member of WikiProject New Hampshire.

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