Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine
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Welcome to the Maine WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Maine.
- Goals
- The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Maine, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Maine.
- Scope
- This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Maine, its history, geography, and people.
All these articles should be included in the Category:Maine or one of its subcategories.
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[edit] Guidelines
[edit] Open tasks
 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine: |
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- All articles should be added to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine/Articles list by category.
- 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] Members
- Badbilltucker
- Ventric
- icelandic hurricane #12 (talk)
- Lostvalley
- John Carter 15:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - Trying to fill the shoes of the project's proposer.
- Tikuko
- Mr Mark Taylor
- SarekOfVulcan - Brewer resident
- Doug.(talk • contribs) 22:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC) - Maine law, Maine history, Maine geography
- Thomas.macmillan
- Fleetflame (talk) I live in the Rumford/Mexico area, willing to help out wherever.
- Doctuh
- Rigby27
- Jasynnash2
- FeanorStar7 (talk) 00:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC) - At my job I work with a lot of Maine historical material so have gotten interested in history of the state; also have access to genealogy tools for Maine.
- wvfd14
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Maine}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.
[edit] Articles
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Featured articles
Articles on Maine-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.
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Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)
The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
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Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:
- Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New York and New England
- February 2007 North America winter storm
- Howie Day
- North American ice storm of 1998
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new Maine-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 Maine, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.
- Christopher Levett created on 2008-03-19
- Julie N. created on 2008-02-07
- Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, created on 2008-02-09
- Casco Bay Bridge, created on 2008-02-06
- Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, created on 2008-02-05
- Maine Constitution, created on 2007-05-27
- Penobscot River Bridge, created on 2007-08-24
[edit] Did you know (DYK?)
[edit] Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles
[edit] Departments
[edit] Collaboration and review
- Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Stubs
- {{Maine-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Maine. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
- {{Maine-school-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to schools in Maine. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
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 Maine}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.
{{WikiProject Maine}} looks like this:
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This article is part of WikiProject Maine, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Maine. |
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[edit] Categories
[edit] Resources
- Live webcams from Maine
- State of Maine official website
- USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Maine
- Maine State Facts
- Maine Information
- Maine Genealogy
- MaineToday.com - Information, recreation, blogs, breaking news
- myMaineToday.com - Maine news, written by Mainers
- MEPages.NET - Maine Yellow Pages
- WikiProject Maine travel guide from Wikitravel
- U.S. Census Bureau quick facts on Maine
- Local histories of towns and counties in Maine
- County Maps of Maine
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Maine is one of the United States WikiProjects.
