Wikipedia:WikiProject District of Columbia

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WikiProject District of Columbia This WikiProject is about the federal district of the District of Columbia Shortcuts: WP:WPDC, WP:WASDC Wikimedia Commons: Washington, D.C. Parent project: U.S. states Project notice template: {{WikiProject DC}} Participant userbox: {{User WikiProject District of Columbia}} Has goals Yes

WikiProject District of Columbia
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General Information
Main project	talk
Members	talk
Requested articles	talk
Requested Images	talk
Articles up for deletion	talk
Departments
Article Improvement and Requested Help	talk
Article Assessment	talk
Outreach	talk
Peer review	talk
Statistics
District of Columbia articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 2 2 5 2 11 A 1 1 2 GA 2 4 4 6 16 B 1 8 16 21 32 78 Start 2 8 25 73 968 1076 Stub 3 6 50 111 2268 2438 List 1 1 5 7 Assessed 7 27 98 215 3281 3628 Unassessed 2 4 1 1800 1807 Total 7 29 102 216 5081 5435

Welcome to the District of Columbia WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Washington, D.C..

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Washington, D.C., by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to the District of Columbia.
• Increase the number of Washington D.C. related Good articles and Featured articles.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to the District of Columbia, its history, geography, and people.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Membership 3.1 Active members 3.2 Semi-active 3.3 Inactive 4 Articles 4.1 Featured articles 4.2 Featured lists 4.3 Peer review/Featured list candidates (FLC) 4.4 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 4.5 A-Class articles 4.6 Good articles (GA) 4.7 New articles 4.8 Did you know (DYK?) 5 Formerly recognized content 5.1 Departments 6 Templates 6.1 Stubs 6.2 Other templates 7 Categories 8 Resources 9 Related WikiProjects

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

[edit] Membership

(Feel free to add your name and area of interests.

(If you feel that you are in the wrong section feel free to change it.)

[edit] Active members

Users who are still active among this project or Wikipedia.

1. Dinosaur puppy (talk · contribs) Guess I'm the only member.
2. SchuminWeb (talk · contribs)
3. Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs)
4. Taifarious1 (talk · contribs)
5. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk · contribs)

[edit] Semi-active

Users who make the occasional edit here and there.

• John Carter 14:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC) - Primarily in assessment and review, unfortunately, but try to create and/or edit existing pages as the opportunity arises. John Carter 14:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
• Drewcifer3000 17:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC) - I'll see what I can do about the assessment backlog. Also involved in editing a number DC-related music articles, such as The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, and Ian Svenonius.
• Jvv62 13:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC) - I will try to get more active about dealing with schools in DC, as well as some of the neighborhood pages.

[edit] Inactive

Users who have left Wikipedia or have not been active editing DC-related articles.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on District of Columbia-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

• United States Congress
• United States Senate
• Michael Jordan
• Moe Berg
• Georgetown University

[edit] Featured lists

• Washington Redskins seasons
• List of Washington Redskins first-round draft picks
• List of Washington Redskins head coaches

[edit] Peer review/Featured list candidates (FLC)

The following articles are in review as Featured list candidates:

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

[edit] A-Class articles

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

• Reel Affirmations
• The Make-Up
• Metrorail (Washington, D.C.)
• Adrian S. Fisher
• Old Stone House (Washington, D.C.)

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new District of Columbia-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 the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for the District of Columbia, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject District of Columbia/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

• Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America
• Hotel Monaco Washington
• Hotel Palomar Washington
• Hotel Rouge
• Hotel George (Washington, D.C.)
• John Paul Jones Memorial
• Embassy of Senegal in Washington, D.C.
• Embassy of Albania in Washington, D.C.
• Embassy of Portugal in Washington, D.C.
• Embassy of Colombia in Washington, D.C.
• Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Washington, D.C.
• White House Conference Center
• United States Office of National AIDS Policy
• Washington Harbour
• Madison Place
• Jackson Place
• Embassy of Mali in Washington, D.C.
• Embassy of Cameroon in Washington, D.C.
• Thomas T. Gaff House
• Topaz Hotel
• Embassy of Serbia in Washington, D.C.
• Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building
• Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Klingle Valley
• Building at 3901 Connecticut Ave., NW
• International Temple
• Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C.
• Daniel Webster Memorial
• Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C.

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

• Daniel Webster Memorial - 13 June 2008
• International Temple - 13 June 2008
• Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building - 12 June 2008
• Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. - 11 June 2008
• Topaz Hotel - 10 June 2008
• Thomas T. Gaff House - 10 June 2008
• Hotel Monaco Washington - 24 May 2008
• Jewish War Veterans of the United States - 24 May 2008
• Old Stone House (Washington, D.C.) - 4 May 2008
• Arlene Holt Baker - 10 November 2007
• National Federation of Federal Employees - 7 November 2007
• Capital Pride (Washington) - 4 November 2007
• Reel Affirmations - 1 November 2007
• Whitman-Walker Clinic - 30 October 2007
• Linda Chavez-Thompson - 21 September 2007
• Cyrus S. Ching - 3 August 2007
• Roger Putnam - 23 July 2007
• Nathan Feinsinger - 15 July 2007
• George W. Taylor (professor) - 13 July 2007
• Eric Johnston - 22 June 2007
• Defense Production Administration - 19 May 2007
• Office of Defense Mobilization - 19 May 2007
• Victor Kamber - 27 January 2007
• Nelson Cruikshank - 13 January 2007

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

[edit] Departments

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

{{WashingtonDC-stub}}

{{Washington-Metro-stub}}

{{WashingtonDC-geo-stub}}

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 DC}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject DC}} looks like this:

	This article is supported by the District of Columbia WikiProject. This project provides a central approach to District of Columbia-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.
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[edit] Categories

• Category:Washington, D.C.

[edit] Resources

• Official Website
• Washington, D.C. Convention and Tourism Corporation
• Listing of Washington D.C. services
• Memorials and Monuments
• USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Washington, D.C.
• The L'Enfant and MacMillan city plans for Washington DC
• Washington D.C. travel guide from Wikitravel
• Washington Monument Capitol Building Webcam
• Washington Monument Capitol Building Potomac River Webcam
• Locations of boundary stones
• Washington, D.C. Crime Map
• Washington, D.C. School map

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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