Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts

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WikiProject Massachusetts

Welcome to WikiProject Massachusetts. This is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce, develop, and expand articles, templates, and other content relating to the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

If you would like to discuss new ideas for the Project, feel free to do so on on the Project's Talk Page. If you are interested in joining the project, simply add your username to the Participants list below.

Contents

[edit] Assessment

Project Massachusetts
Project Massachusetts
Massachusetts
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 9 9
A 3 3
Good article GA 8 8
B 110 110
Start 265 265
Stub 949 949
Assessed 1344 1344
Unassessed 1483 1483
Total 2827 2827

[edit] Articles

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts: edit · history · watch · refresh

This is a tentative To-do list; feel free to add to it.

and add newspapers and other publications that are not on the list. Mostly done -- see below.

  • Assess articles.

Assessment Requested:

  • William Stacy - Submitting for review as WikiProject Massachusetts A-class. The article received an A-class rating via a military history assessment here, and also via WikiProject Ohio. Additionally, the article is currently undergoing a biography A-class review here. The article has also undergone a biography peer review here. The article is currently rated as GA-class under WikiProject Massachusetts. Thank you in advance for your time and effort in reviewing this article. Thank you, ColWilliam (talk) 19:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Current Featured Articles:

Current Featured Candidates:

Current Good Articles:

Newly created articles can be found here if they are not Massachusetts related articles do not tag them and take them of the list if they are Massachusetts related tag them with {{Project Massachusetts}} and rate them. Thank you Colchicum for setting up the bot.

[edit] Business articles

[edit] Culture articles

[edit] History articles

[edit] Local town articles

[edit] Military articles

[edit] Newspapers

See also List of newspapers in Massachusetts for a complete list

See also List of newspapers in Massachusetts for a complete list

[edit] Organization Articles

[edit] People articles

[edit] Places/geography articles

[edit] Religion articles

[edit] State government articles

Note: This project is not specifically a government project.

[edit] Templates and Infoboxes

[edit] Templates

Template Result
{{Project Massachusetts}}

Use this template to show an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. This should be placed at the top of talk pages, not articles.
Flag of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Portal
WikiProject Massachusetts is part of WikiProject Massachusetts, an effort to create, expand, and improve Massachusetts-related articles to a feature-quality standard. For more information on this project or to get involved see the WikiProject Massachusetts project page.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.
{{Massachusetts-stub}}

Use this to identify an article as a stub, but only if the article cannot be classified with one of the below stub templates. It goes at the bottom of an article.
This Massachusetts-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Massachusetts-geo-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to locations (regions, towns, cities, etc.) or geographical features in Massachusetts as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article.
This Massachusetts state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Massachusetts-politician-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to Massachusetts politicians as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article.
 This article about a Massachusetts politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Massachusetts-school-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to a Massachusetts school as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article. (NOTE: Colleges and Universities are not included in this category.)
This Massachusetts school-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Massachusetts-road-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to roads in Massachusetts as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article.
This Massachusetts road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{reqphotoin|Massachusetts}}

For Massachusetts-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Massachusetts}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Massachusetts. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
This template is misplaced. It belongs on the talk page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Massachusetts.
 It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality.

Wikipedians in Massachusetts may be able to help!
The Free Image Search Tool (FIST) may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

[edit] Infoboxes

Template Result
{{Massachusetts}}

Infobox Use this infobox in articles relating regions, counties, cities, towns, villages, and CDPs of Massachusetts. It is placed at the bottom of article pages.
Flag of Massachusetts
v • d • e

 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Boston (capital)
Topics
Regions
Counties
Cities
(See All
Municipalities)
{{Infobox Mass Town Govt}}

Infobox Use this for all Government sections of cities & towns. It gathers information about the town, county, state, and federal elected officials.
County government: [[{{{county}}} County, Massachusetts|{{{county}}} County]]
Clerk of Courts: {{{clerk_courts}}}
District Attorney: {{{da}}}
Registrar of Deeds: {{{deeds}}}
Registrar of Probate: {{{probate}}}
County Sheriff: {{{sheriff}}}
State government
State Representative(s): {{{state_rep}}}
State Senator(s): {{{state_sen}}}
Governor's Councilor(s): {{{gov_councilors}}}
Federal government
U.S. Representative(s): {{{fed_rep}}}
U.S. Senators: Ted Kennedy (D), John Kerry (D)

{{Infobox Mass Area Code}}

Infobox Use this for all atricles relating to area codes within Massachusetts. It contains all pertinent information and some nice maps of the town that are covered by each code.


Area code {{{area_code}}}
All Massachusetts area codes
All Massachusetts area codes
Statistics
Created
Time zone {{{timezone}}} (UTC{{{utc_offset}}})
{{Infobox Mass Prison}}

Infobox Use this for all articles relating to jails and prisons in Massachusetts. This includes including county and local jails.		 See Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center for an example of this Infobox used in an article.
{{Infobox Settlement}}

Infobox Use this for articles relating to Massachusetts cities, towns or any other type of settlement. Most fields are optional - see the template page for more details. (Also known as "Infobox City" or "Infobox Town")		 See Plymouth, Massachusetts for an example of this Infobox in use for a town and Pittsfield, Massachusetts for an example of this Infobox in use for a city.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Categories to be included in this project

Category:Massachusetts

[edit] Categories to which this Project should refer

[edit] Images

Here are some images that were either created by/for this Project, or would just be handy for this Project. Please add more!

I (Markles) took this photo with the Project in mind.
Flag of Massachusetts
Seal of Massachusetts
Outline of Massachusetts towns/cities

[edit] Maps

In the Infobox Template:Infobox City, there is a place for an image showing the town's place in the state. Can someone advise the rest of us on creating such images?

Yes. I just added an image file showing the outlines of Massachusetts towns and cities. When you add the Townbox to an article, download this image, fill in the town's borders with pure red color (using a program like Photoshop or any other that can handle .png files), and then upload the file with the name "Ma_towns_TOWNNAMEHERE.png" replacing "TOWNNAMEHERE" with the name of the town.
I got this image from a Massachusetts government web site, so I assume that it is public domain.--AaronS 16:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wikiportal

Perhaps, someday, this project can grow into a Wikiportal!

[edit] Project Notice Template

Massachusetts-related articles should have the following link inserted at the top of the talk pages:

We now have an "improved version" with the assessment system. {{Project Massachusetts}} It looks like this:

Flag of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Portal
WikiProject Massachusetts is part of WikiProject Massachusetts, an effort to create, expand, and improve Massachusetts-related articles to a feature-quality standard. For more information on this project or to get involved see the WikiProject Massachusetts project page.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.



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Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.

[edit] Descendants

[edit] Participants

Userboxes for WP Massachusetts
Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts This user is a member of the Massachusetts WikiProject.

This user lives in or is from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


Fell free to also add {{User WikiProject Massachusetts}} to indicate you are a member of this project, and/or {{User Massachusetts}} to indicate former and/or current residency in Massachusetts. The appearance of the userboxes is shown to the right.