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WikiProject North Carolina
WikiProject North Carolina
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to North Carolina. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you want to join, simply help out and add your name to the Participants.

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This WikiProject is aimed at improving and adding quality articles about and relating to the people and State of North Carolina. The ultimate goal is to get articles nominated as Good Article or Feature Article Status.

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

Feature Article drive: (see FA quality standards)

Good Article drive: (see GA quality standards)

Articles to be expanded/improved:

Articles to be started:

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[edit] Members

  1. GWatson • TALK (Founder)
  2. Justin &#149 (talk) — Appalachian mountains, The Triangle, OBX
  3. Triadian — Piedmont Triad and beyond (also part of WikiProject North Carolina State Highways)
  4. Shanedidona Linkification and Categorization
  5. Brownings - specialize in Western NC and some coastal
  6. Morphh - Working to expand the project and top priority NC articles
  7. Nimur, also contributing to the State Highway project and Wildlife of North Carolina.
  8. Awbeal - interested in history, politics, etc.
  9. WhiteMage33 - Working to improve school pages.
  10. NCSUPiMaster - Will try to improve sections on SE coast
  11. nationalboard
  12. BobbyAFC - Working on anything from lakes to sports venues
  13. Evets70 - interested mainly in the history, archaeology, and folklore of the Piedmont of NC
  14. JordeeBec - The Triangle as well as state symbols, etc., maybe some history
  15. AceKingQueenJack - The Piedmont, also some athletics, History.
  16. Davidals - Primary interests: cities, towns & metropolitian areas statewide; arts (film, writers, music); also storms and related research.
  17. WikiMedia457 - Working to improve and expand the Porter Ridge High School and Indian Trail pages.
  18. Asynja - Working to improve and expand articles about media and media outlets.
  19. WTGDMan1986 - Working to improve info on hardcore punk movement in the state, remove vandalism.
  20. KTM Jared 683 Expert on motorcycle and Nascar racing in NC
  21. Dankstick - Expert in Watauga and Ashe County History, working to improve articles in this locale
  22. Patriarca12 - Working to improve and expand coverage of the Charlotte area
  23. Smartdude123 - Working to improve information on history (especially schools and Orange County)
  24. Zanter - Working on State Parks
  25. MalkavianX - Field of knowledge mostly regards NC reptiles & amphibians
  26. 5minutes - Alamance County area and general history, waterfalls
  27. Patricknoddy
  28. PGPirate - Eastern Carolina Aficionado - from ECU to HI
  29. LaraLove - Expanding Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, creating expanding Forsyth Medical Center, expanding Nicholas Sparks and his works.
  30. teh_roflmaoer - Working to improve school pages
  31. RaiderTarheel - Willing to help improve anything that needs it with concentration on the Sandhills area.
  32. User:Ikanreed Triangle area, particularly Chapel Hill and Orange County.
  33. Folic Acid - The Triangle and Triad (particularly Alamance County), NC politics.
  34. Dincher - List of North Carolina State Parks
  35. Link0612 - Onslow County and maybe parts of Duplin?
  36. anidnmeno - Wilmington, NC and the surrounding area
  37. Geologik - Western NC, Boone, Appalachian State, Triad
  38. Rufous-crowned Sparrow - anything
  39. naytchrboy - Surry County, Campbell University
  40. Doslad, esq. - NW North Carolina
  41. Vbofficial 00:51, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
  42. Theanphibian - Raleigh, and possibly mountains and coast. Did you know... NC has an official state Tartan to celebrate the Scottish heritage of much of the state called The Carolina Tartan and is shared with South Carolina. See List of U.S. state tartans for more information or to contribute.
  43. Mr.crabby - Mostly Durham/Orange County stuff
  44. Acidskater 06:03, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
  45. Lawikitejana - Community college system, the Triangle
  46. Rob110178 - Working on Assessment and cleanup of various areas to include Coastal NC and WP:NCSH
  47. - DiligentTerrier (and friends)
  48. K. Scott Bailey 04:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC) I can help with information pertaining to Wilkes County, and have written an article on Tom Dula, the Wilkes County, North Carolina man behind the famous folk song.
  49. Erich Fabricius - Triad to Triangle - available to photograph for article illustration
  50. Bms4880 - Western North Carolina, especially the Great Smoky Mountains
  51. Mikenucklesii - Greensboro, High Point, High Point University-related pages, Big South Conference-related pages
  52. Toddst1 - History, North-east NC.
  53. AgnosticPreachersKid - eastern NC, parks, Raleigh, Wake County, etc. I created the Cherry Hospital and Yates Mill articles, but since I'm new to editing and creating, feel free to look over them for corrections.
  54. From-cary - Cary, other areas around Raleigh, schools, etc.
  55. John Lee - Raleigh, NC State, general history of NC, eduation
  56. JamesLJR - Concord, NC and surrounding area, local government
  57. Mark Turner - Raleigh history. Also interested in old airports and railroads. Photography.
  58. User:Dank55 - Active in article reviewing in general, and live in Randolph County
  59. User:Chad01 - Charlotte/Gastonia Area
  60. User:Jayron32 - added to list per request to receive newsletter.
  61. User:Glovejr WCU, Western NC, Jackson County

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[edit] New articles

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is given the {{Project North Carolina}} banner on its talk page as this will put it into the appropriate project category. The template supports the class parameter so you can add its assessment there too.

[edit] Wikipedia articles on North Carolina

[edit] Requests

  • Expand North Carolina section of Watauga River article with text and dphotos - please see Talk:Watauga River page for further details.4.129.71.185 15:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Development of North Carolina info boxes by state listing border counties/cities in neighboring states.4.129.71.185 15:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Create an article on the magazine Our State Down Home in North Carolina
  • Create userboxes for specific metro areas or cities in the state.
  • Starting/researching articles that could fall within the "North Carolina Culture" subcategory: the NC film industry and community is uncommented upon, music and literature could similarly be fleshed out, and all linked via category.
  • Take a picture of the historic marker marking the first NASCAR "Strictly Stock" (now NEXTEL Cup) race at the former Charlotte Speedway [1] Royalbroil 15:36, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Review Article for Creation on C.D. Spangler Jr. (submitted 10-23-2007) to see if it's up to snuff. (Apologies if this isn't a good place to ask.)
  • Delete Wood Brothers Racing as irrelevant to the North Carolina WikiProject as it belongs solely in the Virginia WikiProject.Devilchef01 (talk) 20:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
  • For two years, the team occupied a shop in Mooresville, North Carolina before moving to the current facility in Harrisburg, North Carolina. I don't see how it is irrelevant to the project. Seems relevant enough to me. I oppose the project template delete. Morphh (talk) 1:21, 03 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pending deletions

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/North Carolina

[edit] Recognized content

Featured articles
Article Promoted Main Page
James K. Polk 2/17/05 6/13/05
Hurricane Floyd 3/08/06 6/17/06
Hurricane Irene (1999) 7/15/06
Duke University 7/21/06 11/26/06
Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina 12/29/06
Hamlet chicken processing plant fire 3/20/07 9/3/07
Featured lists
Good articles
Did you know?

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