Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)

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Welcome to the Georgia WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Georgia.

Goals
  • The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Georgia, by expanding articles on people, places, and things related to Georgia.
Scope
  • This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Georgia, its history, geography, and people. These articles should all be included in the Category:Georgia (U.S. state) or one of its subcategories.

Contents

[edit] Guidelines

Articles stemming from Wikiproject Georgia are not exempt from Wikipedia deletion policies. Any article may be included in Wikiproject Georgia that is

[edit] Subpages

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state): edit · history · watch · refresh

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    • Use the GA criteria on Ty Cobb to improve the article even more.`

    [edit] Members

    Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

    1. Gladtohelp 16:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)Gladtohelp - Looking forward to working on this Georgia project. I've already been making various updates.
    2. PTO 20:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC) - Just here until this project gets on its feet.
    3. Jon Holly
    4. Reb 22:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC) - Born and raised in Claxton, Evans County, Georgia. I'm generally interested in the government and history of Georgia and more specifically interested in southeast Georgia (mainly Evans County, Bulloch County and Georgia Southern University but also anything to do with Georgia regiments during the War Between the States).
    5. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 02:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC) -- Wikipedia from Georgia, born and raised. Currently living in Columbus, Georgia area.
    6. Mikieminnow 16:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC) -- Born and raised in Georgia. Degree in History from Georgia State. Mostly familiar with Metro Atlanta, but also most of N. Georgia.
    7. Steevo714 21:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Lifelong Columbus resident, interested in historical structures of Georgia and those who inhabited them. Also interested in Georgia's role in the War Between the States.
    8. HowardSF-U­-T-C- 00:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC). Georgia State Routes, State Parks, Geographical features.
    9. Maniwar 03:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)--just here to hangout. Big fan of Boortz and Clark Howard. Also just added Pernell Roberts but I don't have any preference.
    10. Patricknoddy
    11. Mjrmtg 16:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC) I've been adding Infobox County templates to Georgia Counties, started with southern counties as I'm from Lowndes County and added surrounding counties then started doing alphabetical. Recently, today, notice that the infoboxes are showing two maps of Georgia instead of one showing the county in Georgia and the second being Georgia in the US. I don't know why they aren's showing the USA map correctly. Infoboxes are displaying maps correctly now.
    12. Rob C (Alarob) 17:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC). History, Creek Indians, Houston County, Grady County.
    13. Zroberts 05:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC) History, suburban atlanta (gwinnett county in particular), economy
    14. Majoreditor 02:23, 11 March 2007 (UTC). Primary interests are northern Georgia; Georgia Outdoors; metro Atlanta.
    15. Nfreader 18:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC). Located in Decatur/East Atlanta with a focus on photography (I've got pictures of every commercial building in Decatur. Need anything?)
    16. Akubhai 15:05, 9 April 2007 (UTC) Native Georgian living in Atlanta.
    17. KickTheDonkey 12:45, 23 April 2007 (UTC) Native Georgian living in Acworth, Georgia
    18. Justinlwilson 08:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC) A software developer and noted skeptic, I am interested in science and research. Forsyth County, Georgia
    19. JD Lambert 10:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC). I'm a native of Rome and have been working on multiple articles touching on Rome and Georgia history.
    20. Jhortman 14:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC) - Lived in Georgia almost all my life, currently in Watkinsville (Athens-area).
    21. WTGDMan1986 --DFW 16:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC) - have relatives(?) that live here, working to revert vandalism.
    22. tantoi12 19:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC) Born in Atlanta, GA, currently live in Powder Springs, GA and go to school at Georgia State University and work in Atlanta. I have an interest in the Accuracy of the history of the city of Atlanta and of Georgia State University.
    23. CharlesM 13:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC) Born in South Georgia, and soon to go to Georgia Southern University. I have an interest in all of Central and Southern Georgia.
    24. DorothyBaez 13:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC) Born and raised in Augusta!
    25. Jaxfl 22:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC) Born and raised in Brunswick.
    26. Johnandbob Sandy Springs GA
    27. Dawg1279 09:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC) Born in Macon and now live in Statesboro and am intersted in the South and Middle parts of Georgia.
    28. Ronaldedwarddaniels 04:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC) Born in Rhine currently a student at Georgia Southwestern University in the fields of Political Science and History; primarily interested in rural History and Politics.
    29. Nikki311 00:00, 11 October 2007 (UTC) - Interested in assessment.
    30. Saget53 19:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC) Born in Cumming, GA.
    31. RandorXeus 19:17 20 October 2007 (UTC) Born in Roswell, GA. Have Lived all over Metro Atlanta and I attend Piedmont College in Demorest, GA. Interested in helping to make this project better.
    32. Matthew R. Lee 8:08, 19 November 2007 (UTC) - Native Georgian, resident of Tucker, Georgia. Areas of interest: Dekalb, Gwinnett, Fulton, Cobb, and Cherokee county. Religion in Georgia, and early 20th Century documents and photographs.
    33. THE evil fluffyface 04:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC) - I just love me some Paula Deen, y'all.
    34. live in Augusta Iamanadam (talk) 23:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
    35. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC) - My mother lives in Statesboro, Georgia and teaches at GSU. I will work on this area along with Georgia highways.
    36. sirkevinalot 10:35, 27 December 2007 - Area's of interest: Southern Polytechnic State University, Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta, Cobb. Resident of GA since 1986, alumnus of CTC, current student of SPSU.
    37. --Pupster21 Talk To Me 13:12, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Hey, I'm a Georgian! Thought I might help out on articles on my local towns.
    38. Bubba73 Born in Georgia, lived in GA all my life except three years, lived in five widely-different places in GA. I've edited articles on several things in Glynn County, plus several other things scattered around. Bubba73 (talk), 00:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
    39. torq (talk) 20:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC) I've been working on articles on Georgia's barrier islands for a while now. I will continue to improve articles on Georgia's excellent coastline in the near future.
    40. - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 18:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
    41. Aylad (talk) 21:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC) - small-town Georgia educator
    42. Deelzbub -Specializing in communities on the Southside of Atlanta
    43. SweetMelissaGT - 22:21, 4 June 2008, Early Atlanta history, Georgia Insitute of Technology.
    44. Lemcke (~Lemcke (talk) 03:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)) - All around Georgia, specifically the Roswell, Georgia area.

    All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Georgia (US)}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

    [edit] Collaboration and review

    Collaboration of the week
    Peer review
    Assessment

    [edit] Images

    WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) uses Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles needing images to monitor all Georgia articles needing images. In addition, Wikipedian photographers living in Georgia use the subcategories at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state) to locate those subjects near where they typically take photographs. The "imageneeded=" and "in=" parameters of {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} populate both these categories.

    • To request an image for an article, use the "imageneeded=yes" parameter in the {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} article talk page template. Please use the "in=" parameter in the {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} template to specify the Georgia county where the photograph may be taken. Up to three locations may be specified, such as {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS|class=Start|importance=Low|imageneeded=yes|in=Fulton County, Georgia|in2=Putnam County, Georgia|in3=Taliaferro County, Georgia|nested=|unref=yes}}
    • If you need to specify four or more locations (such as a road passing through eight Georgia counties), use {{reqphoto}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.

    [edit] Articles

    [edit] FA Featured articles

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

    [edit] FAC Featured article candidates (FAC)

    The following articles are Featured article candidates:

    [edit] Peer review

    The following articles are under review:

    [edit] GA Good articles (GA)

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

    Art, architecture and archaeology
    Economics and business Economics and business
    Culture and society Culture and society
    Engineering and technology Engineering and technology
    Food and drink Food and drink
    Geography Geography
    History History
    Language Language
    Mathematics Mathematics
    Music Music
    Politics and government Politics and government
    Religion Religion
    War and military War and military

    [edit] New articles

    Please feel free to list your new Georgia-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 Georgia, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

    [edit] Did you know (DYK?)

    [edit] Formerly recognized content

    Former featured articles Former featured articles
    Delisted Good Articles Delisted Good Articles

    [edit] Departments

    [edit] Collaboration

    [edit] Review and assessment

    Georgia (U.S. state)
    articles    		 Importance
    Top High Mid Low None Total
    Quality
    Featured article FA 3 3 3 9
    Featured list FL 3 1 4
    A 1 2 1 4
    Good article GA 4 2 6 9 4 25
    B 10 9 14 32 4 69
    Start 112 160 264 897 400 1833
    Stub 25 94 220 1017 570 1926
    List 2 18 30 45 95
    Assessed 157 286 539 2005 978 3965
    Unassessed 551 551
    Total 157 286 539 2005 1529 4516

    [edit] Task Forces and Work Groups

    The advantages of establishing a new group as a task force or work group within an existing project are that generally, task forces require fewer members to be effective and do not have the same degree of required project maintenance, as much of that is taken on by the parent project.

    [edit] Proposed projects

    Several new task forces have been proposed. The purpose of this section is to guage user interest in each of these areas of the project before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page. If you're interested in any of the projects listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list and start contributing to the relevant articles.

    [edit] Regional task force

    Description 
    This task force would focus on specific regions of the state (i.e. North Georgia Mountains, "The Coastal Empire", etc.). The task force will focus on improving the articles from their particular area (cities, attractions, etc). Please sign your name and region of interest below.
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Reb - Main interest is the Historic South region.
    2. Jaxfl - Main interest is the Colonial Coast region.
    Comments

    [edit] Georgia cities task force

    Description 
    This task force will focus on improving and standardizing (where possible) articles about Georgia cities. Assistance may be available from WikiProject Cities.
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Jaxfl - Main interest is Brunswick and its metropolitan area.
    2. dawg1279 - Main Interest would be Statesboro and Macon.
    3. Mjrmtg - South Georgia area along the I-75 corridor is where I work. Live in Georgia. I'd love to see standardization on Georgia Cities.
    Comments

    [edit] Georgia Education Task Force

    Description 
    This task force would focus on Georgia educational article to include colleges, universities, high schools, Georgia Board of Regents, local boards of education and other related articles. Please sign your name and area of interest to the following list
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Absolon - Georgia's Historically black colleges and universities
    2. Reb - All schools in Evans County, Georgia and the surrounding counties
    3. Jaxfl - All schools in Brantley County, Georgia and the surrounding counties.
    4. Nikki311 - University of Georgia related articles.
    5. Aylad - Articles related to high school education and/or Haralson County, Georgia and nearby counties.
    Comments
    • I'm also a member of WikiProject Schools, so I urge everyone to in this task force to read WP:SCHOOL, which is a proposed notability guideline about what schools should be included on Wikipedia. High schools are automatically notable and should be included, but middle schools, elementary schools, etc. have much stricter guidelines which can be found on that page. Nikki311 21:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Georgia Military Task Force

    Description 
    The topics covered by this task force is include military units based in Georgia, Georgia bases, and history of military operations and battles in Georgia
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Reb - The War Between the States; specifically Georgia commanders, battles in Georgia and units from Georgia. Also willing to work on Georgia in the American Revolutionary War
    2. Ach, all of it... --Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
    Comments

    [edit] Georgia Transportation Task Force

    Description 
    This task force will maintain Georgia's highway and interstate pages
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Jaxfl - Mainly interested in Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 17.
    2. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC) I have family in Statesboro, but I'm interested in most highways & Interstates.
    Comments

    [edit] Georgia history task force

    Description 
    This task force will maintain pages related to the history of Georgia
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Reb - Interested in Georgia history in general and my area specifically.
    2. Mainly conflict history... --Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
    Comments

    [edit] Georgia culture task force

    Description 
    Focusing on the culture of Georgia specific work groups in this task force will include Georgia musicians, Georgia actors/actresses and Georgia authors (among other articles).
    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. User:Pineclaw (talk) 14:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC) Can help with the authors section.
    Comments

    [edit] Georgia geography task force

    This task force would focus on Georgia's geography articles, including geology, ecology, climate, protected areas and other related articles. Please sign your name and area of interest to the following list. Assistance may be found at WikiProject Geography

    Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
    1. Reb (talk) 14:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC) - have a general interest in the State's geography and have begun several geography articles.
    2. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC) Interested in lakes, rivers, state & federal parks and forests and other protected areas.
    3. --Pupster21 Talk To Me 12:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC) I won my school's Geography Bee! I should be of some help...
    Comments

    [edit] Proposing a Work Group or Task Force

    If you would like to set up a new group specifically to function as a task force of this project, please list it in the Proposed Projects section above as this area is used to gauge support for potential task forces. Please write a brief description (including links to the related Wikipedia articles), and add it along with your name to the list below (in alphabetical order by topic). Some boilerplate you can use:

    ==== Name of project ====
; Description : [description here]

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [your name here]

; Comments

    If your proposal gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit the WikiProject as a Task Force or Work Group. If you want to start a page before you have 5-10 active Wikipedians, consider setting up the page on a subpage of your user page until it is active, while leaving the posting here with a link to the user page.

    [edit] Archive

    In the event a given proposal does not receive sufficient support within 4 months of posting here to create a task force, it should be moved to this listing.

    [edit] Templates

    [edit] Stubs

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


    {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} looks like this:
    Georgia (U.S. state) Portal
    This article is part of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state), an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Georgia (U.S. state) on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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    [edit] Categories

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    [+] Buildings and structures in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Communications in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Georgia (U.S. state) culture
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    [+] Education in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Environment of Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Geography of Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Government of Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] History of Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Images of Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Landmarks in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Georgia (U.S. state) law
    [+] Georgia-related lists
    [+] Military in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Native American tribes in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Organizations based in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] People from Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Politics of Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Sports in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Transportation in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state)
    [+] Georgia (U.S. state) stubs


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