Wikipedia:WikiProject Atlanta

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WikiProject Atlanta

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the Atlanta, Georgia and the Atlanta Metro area. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

If you would like to help, please add your name to the List of Participants below, and see what you can do. We'll be happy to have your help!

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Announcements

Have you added or expanded an article? Have you submitted an article for peer review, good article, or featured article status? Tell us about it! (Please keep announcements concise. Anything that is up for discussion should be placed on the talk page)

June 11 - Coca-Cola Top importance!

This is a former featured article.SweetMelissaGT (talk) 17:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

June 9, 2008 - Piedmont Park submitted for GA status!

Please add any additional cited and reliable information that you have.SweetMelissaGT (talk) 20:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

June 9, 2008 - WikiProject Atlanta is getting a facelift!

Check out the new template and look soon for more ways you can help.

February 5, 2008 - MARTA up for peer review!

Biomedeng (talk) 03:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

February 11, 2008 - Peachtree Road Race article Expanded!

This article was expanded beyond stub status and submitted the fact that it is the world's largest 10K to did you know. Currently it is on the front page. Please feel free to edit the article to provide additional information. I would also like to get the article assessed from someone from Wikiproject Atlanta. Biomedeng (talk) 13:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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Current Collaboration

The Atlanta collaboration for the week ending June 15, 2008 is:
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Last week's article was [[]] (see improvements)

Nominate for next week

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Current tasks

General Tasks

Assess Atlanta articles that are currently unassessed.

see assessment

Prioritize Atlanta articles that are not currently prioritized.

see assessment

Raise quality of current articles (place an announcement in the box above when you do!)
Create new articles related to Atlanta

Specific Tasks

Clean up Atlanta neighborhood naming conventions: districts, subdistricts, neighboorhoods

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Our goals

Get Atlanta, Georgia up to Featured status
Get History of Atlanta up to Featured status

Suggest a Goal!

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Things to do

Wikipedia:WikiProject Atlanta/To do

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Assessment

Atlanta articles		Importance
Atlanta articles		Top	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1	1
	A		1	1
	GA	2	3	5
	B	4	16	20
	Start	10	64	74
	Stub	4	83	87
	Assessed	20	168	188
	Unassessed	2	358	360
	Total	22	526	548

Wikipedia Statistics
Featured Articles	2079
Good Articles	4287

Shortcut: WP:ATL/A

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Atlanta! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Atlanta related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the Version 1.0 program for publication of a stable version of Wikipedia, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Any WikiProject Atlanta member may assess an article, with the exception of two levels: FA-class and GA-class. These two levels can only be awarded after passing the corresponding candidacy WP:FAC for Featured Article class, and WP:GAC for Good Article class. The complete level breakdown is explained in detail below.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Atlanta}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Atlanta articles by quality, Category:Atlanta articles by importance, Category:Atlanta articles needing attention, Category:Atlanta past collaborations, and Category:Atlanta past selected articles. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. There is also Category:Non-article Atlanta pages for things like redirect pages, templates, categories, images, etc.

Be Part of the Assessment Process

Click the "Edit" link for this section for full instructions and then go to the Article assessment page.

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Image Requests

Prominent historical figures and places such as Atlanta mayors, etc.

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Orphan Images

These pictures are in need of a home :( Please help them find a nice article to hang out with. You can also add images here if you find one that is lonely.

Note: Please check the copyright status of images before use.

More images from the Wikipedia Commons Atlanta, Georgia category >>.

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Templates

General template

{{WikiProject Atlanta|nested=|class=|importance=}}

nested=no - shows the WikiProject Atlanta box

nested=yes - hides the WikiProject Atlanta box so that it nests with other WikiProjects and saves space. (Useful when a talk page is extremely long)

class - See Assessment for class ratings.

importance - See Importance for importance scale. For the WikiProject Atlanta, ratings are relative to the importance of the item in the history or current state of Atlanta.

WikiProject Atlanta is within the scope of WikiProject Atlanta, dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Metro Atlanta. For more information see the project page.

Stub Templates

{{atlanta-stub}}, which looks like this:

This Atlanta, Georgia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Userboxes

{{User Atlanta}} if you live in the city of Atlanta, which looks like this:

ATL

This user lives in or hails from Atlanta.

{{Wikiproject Atlanta Participant}} if you are a participant of this project.

WP
ATL

This user is a participant of WikiProject Atlanta.

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Related projects

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Deletion notices

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Georgia (U.S. state)

Marked for Deletion

June 9 - Lee County High School (Leesburg, Georgia)

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How can I contribute to this project ?

No matter how experienced you are, we could use your help!

If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:

If you're looking to join the project or for something to do, try the following:

Add your name to the list of participants (optional)
Contribute to an existing article; there is a list of articles below (or click here)
1. Have a look at this week's collaboration (on the left).
2. Consider starting with a topic you're familiar with, and working out from there.
3. Every article in the project has a "to do" list with suggestions and helpful links for that article. If you can think of something the article needs, or have completed one of those tasks, feel free to edit that list!
4. Be on the lookout for tags such as {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{expand}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions.
Start a new article!
1. There's a list of requests below (or click here).
2. Be sure to add {{WikiProject Atlanta}} to the talk page.
Add an image to an article!
1. Check the image requests below and to the left (or click here)...
2. Or look at project articles for somewhere a picture you've taken might look good.
3. Image uploading and licensing is difficult, so don't be afraid to ask for help!
4. If you upload an image you've taken, licensing it under Creative Commons cc-by-2.5 (or a similar license) will reduce the chance that it will be deleted.
  1. cc-by-nc and cc-by-3.0 licenses are considered "unfree";
  2. If you upload an image, you have to swallow the fact that any person or corporation (including the institute) can (and will) use your image.
5. Add images you upload to Category:Atlanta, Georgia. If you upload them to Commons, add them to the category on both Commons and Wikipedia. (Yes, you can categorize a Commons image on Wikipedia.)