Wikipedia:WikiProject Cumberland, Maryland

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Shortcut: WP:Cumberland-MD-WV-PA

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. Attention all project members! There is once again a huge backlog of articles left to assess. Help out where you can! A project newsletter has been proposed. Discuss. 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 40% 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
Maryland Route 36 has been submitted to WikiProject Highways for peer review. Xerol is planning to visit all major Maryland state highways and has offered to upload some photos from the trip. See WT:MDRD#Maryland Road Trip/Crawl for the discussion. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge article failed its GA nomination, please help fix it up based on the suggestions given. edit · history · watch
Cumberland
Baltimore task force
The Baltimore Task Force has been created.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Participants 3 Requests 3.1 Requests for Articles 3.2 Requests for Pictures 4 Templates to use 5 Recognition 6 Other City WikiProjects

[edit] Introduction

WikiProject Cumberland, Maryland was started on May 27, 2007 to coordinate and build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related Cumberland, Maryland and surrounding tristate area of Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The main portal for the project is Portal:Cumberland, Maryland.

This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

To help out, we encourage you to find an article to write or to improve that is related to the project, or inquire on the discussion page and see the to-do list there. Also, please add your name to the participants list below and briefly describe your specialty and what you hope to contribute to the project.

[edit] Participants

• Neutralhomer (talk · contribs) - editor/regional TV & Radio wikification
• Lasersnake (talk · contribs)
• CambridgeBayWeather (talk · contribs) - editor
• potomacbase (talk · contribs)
• Truce_m3 (talk · contribs) -- copy editing, focus on arts/music/entertainment
• krautboy (talk · contribs) - community resources and references

[edit] Requests

[edit] Requests for Articles

• <insert your request here>

[edit] Requests for Pictures

• <insert your request here>

[edit] Templates to use

You may like to use the following templates if you are writing an article about or relating to one of the following topics.

• Category Browser — {{Cumberland browser bar}}
• Companies — {{Infobox Company}}
• Mayors — {{Mayors of Cumberland, Maryland}}
• Schools — {{Infobox School}}
• wikiproject — {{Catwikiproject}}
• Citation — See Wikipedia:Citation templates
• Image-tags — See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags

[edit] Recognition

• Barnstar Awards

[edit] Other City WikiProjects

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Austin, Atlanta, Bluegrass Region (KY), Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia (MO), Cumberland-MD-WV-PA, Dallas-Fort Worth, Erie, Houston, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, KYOVA Region (KY, OH, WV), Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Miami, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara County (CA), Seattle, Shreveport, Southern California, Syracuse, Tampa Bay Area, Youngstown

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