Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Maryland portal
This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.
Shortcut:
WP:WPMD

Welcome to WikiProject Maryland! For more info see the Introduction section below.
Project navigation: Maryland - Roads - Cumberland - Baltimore
Links: Assessments - Category - Stubs - Commons - Project watchlist (view) - New articles - Articles with unclear notability - Deletion discussions - Requested photos - Unassessed articles (class) - Unassessed articles (importance)


WikiProject Maryland news edit
If you have any important news about the project, please add it below.

This box can also be added to your userpage by adding {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/News}} to it.

  • History of Baltimore City College is today's featured article for October 20, 2008.
  • Don't forget to participate in discussions. Current things being discussed include a project barnstar and a request for comments on Maryland politician articles.
  • There are still articles left to assess. Help out where you can!
  • You can add any articles that you would like to see created or fixed to "Wanted articles" and "Articles to fix" on the project page.
  • Please take care of any pending article requests that you can.
  • Starting a project related to Maryland? Make sure to add it as a subproject here!
Portal news
  • The portal has officially launched, it still needs some work to improve it further
  • Roughly 55% of dates have events listed for On this day....
  • The portal was recently overhauled, come help improve it further!
Subproject and task force news
Roads in Maryland
edit · history · watch
Cumberland
Baltimore task force

Contents

[edit] Introduction

Welcome to WikiProject Maryland! The purpose of this project is help editors who are interested in editing articles related to Maryland. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and tools to help editors contribute to Maryland-related articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. You may also wish to add your name to #Participants. This project serves as a hub for all other projects related to Maryland, see the child projects below for more detailed information on contributing to Maryland-related articles.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to cover all articles related to the U.S. state of Maryland. It should also serve as a hub for other more specific projects related to Maryland (such as Roads in Maryland). From this project, contributors will find links to the subprojects, and information for contributing to topics that do not yet have a subproject. This project is also responsible for the maintenance of the Maryland portal.

[edit] Departments



[edit] Related projects Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Maryland is one of the United States WikiProjects.

National United States | US regions | US states | History
State Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
List of US State-level WikiProjects and their sub-projects
Territorial District of Columbia  | American Samoa | Puerto Rico  | Caribbean (US Virgin Is. + non-US is.) | Micronesia (Guam, etc. + non-US is.)
Regional US State capitols | US cities | US counties | US special districts
Government US Government | US Presidents | US Congress | US Government agencies | US Governors | US politicians | US Armed Forces
Assets US Interstate Highways | US Highways | US Roads | Historic Places
Culture Cinema 

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

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

[edit] Task forces

[edit] Related Collaborations

No related Collaborations have been named.

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add yourself here if you plan on participating, the more the merrier. You may also wish to add this project's userbox, {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}}, to your userpage. The userbox looks like this:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.


[edit] Active

  • Jeff02 – I live in QA county, and am pretty knowledgable on roads in Maryland
  • Tom – I've written many of the articles about Maryland Congressmen, Governors, Senators, etc.
  • 1msulax 17:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC), I live in Baltimore, happy to help.
  • Neutralhomer – I actively update the Radio and Television stations in Maryland.
  • Littledrummrboy 21:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Originally from Delaware and a UMBC grad.
  • «Marylandstater» «reply» 13:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • John Carter 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC) – may not be of much use, but will help when when I can
  • Pilch62 – I was born and raised in Worcester County, as most members of my family have been for nigh unto 300 years--we came to America and stopped dead. My family have also been involved in state politics.
  • Vpuliva – I live in Washington County and I think I can be of help for Western Maryland related articles.
  • Esskater11 – I live in Parkville and are currently trying to get Andy Nelsons BBQ better ForeverDEAD 23:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
  • bwyche – a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Edited articles on Johns Hopkins the person;Johns Hopkins, the institutions, including the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orhanage, the hopkins' faculty, and other figures,including patients, african americans at hopkins.
  • User:Toddst1 – writing on mostly colonial or maritime related stuff Toddst1 (talk) 09:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Sallicio – I live and work in the Baltimore-DC corridor and write and edit mostly on political content. Go 'Skins! Sallicio (talk) 23:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Sallicio
  • Lady Aleena – I can make templates when needed, user template for this project is done.
  • User:cheezisyum21
  • Kevinadavid – Is a former resident of Montgomery County and likes to help out with pages involving the schools and cities in that county.
  • Wikipedian1234 – I am a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland. I can help out with any articles affiliated with that area.
  • Dgreco – new resident of Rockville, MD. I can help with Maryland colleges. I have done a lot of work with other college pages and am working on setting up a universal mold for small colleges without the history of large institutions.
  • Joe Sperrazza – I grew up in Maryland, living in Harford County and then Baltimore City
  • Deanlaw – in the Baltimore area
  • Adavidb
  • Ted A. - native and resident of metro Baltimore
  • Geasterb
  • Eplack - born and raised in Timonium and now live between Towson and Baltimore city. Graduate of Towson University in Geography
  • Wildthing61476 - born and raised in Baltimore, lifelong resident. Contributor to local neighborhood and school articles.
  • America69 (talk) 13:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC) - live in Maryland
  • Eleoopy – grew up in Glen Burnie area and now live in Washington DC.
  • Pubdog – President of the Cool Spring Terrace Civic Assn, Adelphi, MD (Prince George's County) and archivist at the National Archives at College Park.
  • GcSwRhIc (talk) 13:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC) – born and raised in Baltimore.
  • Yachtsman1 - Annapolitan, and I have lived here since I was very young. Contributor to school and history articles, Loyola College in Maryland alumnus, B.A. in History.
  • Persnicketyfits - I work in a library in Carroll County, Maryland
  • Levineps - I live in North Potomac in Montgomery County, Maryland. I am a native of this great state and have been here my whole life, save for college. I am a big Baltimore Orioles and Maryland Terrapins fan and love politics.
  • Sallicio - I live in AA and work in PG.
  • Jo7hs2 (talk) 16:44, 24 December 2008 (UTC), Natural and historical features, particularly of Western Maryland. History and Legal education.

[edit] Inactive

These are project participants who are believed to be inactive, if you see your name below (click "show" to see the list) and believe it was put here by mistake, please move it back to the "Active" list

[edit] Projects

  1. Portal:Maryland
  2. Portal:Cumberland, Maryland

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Wanted articles

If there is a Maryland-related article that you would like to see created, add a request for it below:

[edit] Articles to fix

If there is a Maryland-related article that already exists but you would like to see it cleaned up or expanded, add it below

[edit] Ongoing tasks

This section is for ongoing tasks


Please help me work on Abingdon, Maryland, currently there is too little info on it online.

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes


[edit] Stub templates

Template Output
{{Maryland-stub}}
This Maryland-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-geo-stub}}
This Maryland state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-politician-stub}}
 This article about a Maryland politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-school-stub}}
This Maryland school-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-road-stub}}
This Maryland road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-newspaper-stub}}
This article about a Maryland newspaper is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
{{Maryland-radio-station-stub}}
 This article about a radio station in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-sports-venue-stub}}
 This article about a sports venue in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Other templates

{{WikiProject Maryland}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

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

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}} is this project's user template.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

Maryland
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 4 3 2 9
Featured list FL 1 2 1 2 6
A-Class article A 1 1
Good article GA 2 3 7 4 16
B 17 30 47 21 28 143
C 4 8 5 12 29
Start 19 179 509 526 210 1443
Stub 1 214 335 753 951 2254
List 3 3 13 15 16 50
Assessed 41 438 920 1327 1225 3951
Unassessed 1 1 231 233
Total 42 438 920 1328 1456 4184

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Maryland

[edit] Growth of selected WikiProjects of other states since Oct. 2007

(table only includes the total number of articles in each state's project at the beginning of the yearly quarter indicated.)

State 10/07 1/08 4/08 7/08 10/08 1/09
Maryland 749 1692 2688 3005 3967 4178
New Jersey 1039 1597 1752 2154 3343 4098
Arizona 1206 1473 1528 1808 1948 2018
Pennsylvania 3768 6205 6829 7159 9338 9717
Delaware 1179 1225 1243 1256 1296 1305
Massachusetts 1279 1974 2408 2927 6427 6696
Hawaii 1811 1900 2072 2319 2396 2462

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Maryland

Please feel free to list your new Maryland-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

  • ...that the only man to fly both atomic bomb missions over Japan during World War II was a Marylander? (see: Jacob Beser) Marylandstater 12:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3/17/08 DYK

[edit] 4/25/08 DYK

[edit] 5/15/08 DYK

[edit] 6/6/08 DYK

[edit] 6/25/08 DYK

The Legg Mason Building is the tallest building in Baltimore

[edit] 7/11/08 DYK

[edit] 7/21/08 DYK

  • ... that Edward P. Hurt, who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games?

[edit] 9/10/08 DYK

[edit] 12/14/08 DYK

[edit] Article improvement drive

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Deletion links

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Maryland

[edit] Resources

Find more about Maryland on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews

Learning resources from Wikiversity
For instance, from January 1, 2008 to June 21, 2008
WikiProject Maryland was viewed 2,157 times
Featured articleCurrent members of the Maryland House of Delegates: 3,023 times
Featured articleMusic of Maryland was viewed 6,442 times
Martin O'Malley was viewed 37,850 times
Featured articleRoyal Blue (B&O train) was viewed 53,373 times
Featured articleEdgar Allan Poe was viewed 1,339,916 times

WikiProject Maryland is one of the United States WikiProjects.

National United States | US regions | US states | History
State Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
List of US State-level WikiProjects and their sub-projects
Territorial District of Columbia  | American Samoa | Puerto Rico  | Caribbean (US Virgin Is. + non-US is.) | Micronesia (Guam, etc. + non-US is.)
Regional US State capitols | US cities | US counties | US special districts
Government US Government | US Presidents | US Congress | US Government agencies | US Governors | US politicians | US Armed Forces
Assets US Interstate Highways | US Highways | US Roads | Historic Places
Culture Cinema 
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maryland"
Personal tools