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I would like to help the WikiProject Maryland.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Brandinian (talk • contribs)

Sure, go ahead, everyone is welcome to join and help out. The best way to help is to spread the word so more people can join. Also you can edit pages related to Maryland, this page lists some templates that can be useful when editing these articles (it mostly lists stub templates for now but as the project matures we'll get some more listed). Oh yes, and don't forget to add your name under participants! And one more thing, don't forget to sign your comments with ~~~~ -Jeff (talk) 23:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Roads in Maryland Inclusion

Have the members of this WikiProject ever considered adding some of the more notable roads, bridges, tunnels or other road-related articles currently part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland? The Baltimore-Washington Parkway is currently the only article I've come across that has tags from both projects. -TheOneKEA

We could probably put some of them in both projects, so long as they are significant to the state as a whole. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge article, given the bridge's status as a major state landmark should probably be included in this project as well as the roads one for example. Same goes for the B/W parkway given its important historical significance. The best thing to think about when deciding whether to include an article or not is if it is more than "just another road or bridge". Also consider the size of Category:WikiProject Maryland articles, we don't want to add too many.-Jeff (talk) 18:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Emerson Harrington

The lead photo at Emerson Harrington may not actually be of him. I could use a few more eyes to help. Thanks. --tomf688 (talk - email) 21:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

He does look awfully different here.-Jeff (talk) 04:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal

Anyone interested in starting Portal:Maryland? As you may have noticed, I listed it under Projects on the main page, but didn't intend to start it until we got some more members. I don't have any experience in creating WikiPortals and only skimmed through WP:P, so I'm hoping that there's someone here that has more experience with this, and could help get this started.-Jeff (talk) 17:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I think a portal would be a fine idea. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
It's started, still needs work though, in particular it needs a selected article and picture as well as some "did you know?" items. They can all be discussed at the appropriate pages there.-Jeff (talk) 05:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I've added a few suggestions for the "Did you know?" section on the talk page. I'll try to find some good pictures as well. --tomf688 (talk - email) 20:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Let People Know About the Project

I strongly recommend that the project get itself listed on the Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects, and that you place the project banner on every talk page that relates to your project. I will help in the latter by placing the banner on all the cities in Maryland and people from those cities that I come to in the course of my own activities. Badbilltucker 19:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing the list of wikiprojects to my attention, I didn't know about it before. Thanks for your help with the banners too.-Jeff (talk) 20:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Wanted to let you know that WP:BIOGRAPHY has added a "work group" called Politics and government, and so wanted to invite you to participate on any biography-type articles. The section for MD is here and if there's interest, we can beef it up to look like the newly-created Virginia one plange 05:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to new WikiProject

A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baltimore mayor's race

Hi all-

Just thought I'd let you know that I've created a page for the upcoming Baltimore mayor's race, which should be something of a doozy, at Baltimore mayoral election, 2007. I added the template for the MD WikiProject to that talk page ... hope that's OK! --Jfruh (talk) 03:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll go ahead and add this to the new articles section.-Jeff (talk) 20:32, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maryland's 1st congressional district

Just FYI, I've finished the biographies for all the Congressmen who have represented Maryland's 1st congressional district. I finished the 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 8th districts a while ago, so all that is left to do is the 3rd, 4th, and 5th districts. --tomf688 (talk - email) 04:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:11, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Mount Savage, Maryland

Hello, I am new to Wiki editing and still learning so bear with me. I am relocating to Mount Savage and am willing to adopt the article. Let me know if I screw up. Wildwose 1/11/07

[edit] Copyright status of state seal image

I noticed OrphanBot has been going around removing images of the state seal. If anyone knows the copyright status of it, please add it.-Jeff (talk) 16:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, seems it's been taken care of-Jeff (talk) 01:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request deletion of the United States Naval Academy from Wikiproject Maryland

While editors are correct that the Naval Academy is physically located in Maryland it is improper to include it WikiProject Maryland. 1) It is deliberately a national university. 2) it is a military base, essentially. No more than Fort Benning is part of "Wikiproject Georgia" should any of the military academies be part of their states. So neither should West Point nor the Air Force Academy be part of the states where they happen to be located. One academy was in fact moved to another state for a time! Please delete these from Wikistate Projects. Student7 21:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New information added on a Maryland Politician

Hi. The wiki section on Maryland caught my eye and I decided to try to create a page for my boss, Delegate Curt Anderson. I am not sure if I did everything right, but I just wanted to post this note to let you all know it has been added.Marylandstate 22:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow, nice start. I'll go ahead and add the project templates for this project and Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography to the talk page. Also, it's usually a good idea to link to the article you'd like to direct other editors to in your talk page comments (Curt Anderson in this case). It just makes it easier for us. Anyway welcome to Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland, hope you enjoy editing!-Jeff (talk) 04:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Maryland-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/MarylandSearchResult. Colchicum 14:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Adding this to the useful links box. Thanks!-Jeff (talk) 22:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I have added articles on two Jewish Marylanders who served with distinction in World War II, Isadore S. Jachman(medal of honor) and Jacob Beser.(Enola Gay)Marylandstater 17:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC).

I added Laurel's page to this project. —Adavidb 13:17, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New pages added on Maryland Politicians

FYI, after taking a look at the articles on members of the House of Delegates I noticed that all of the Republican members had articles but only a small percentage of the democrats. So I started articles on Joseph F. Vallario and Hattie N. Harrison. I welcome any constructive criticism or things I have overlooked.1msulax 19:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I have added articles on judges Robert I. H. Hammerman and Thomas S. Baer, as well as state delegates Gerron Levi, Talmadge Branch, Nathaniel T. Oaks, and former Senator Julian L. Lapides. Additionally I started an article on Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and news director at WBAL-TV, Ron Kershaw. Feel free to expand these articles.Marylandstater 17:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Who is the current leader of this Wikiproject?? Please, if you know, respond on my talk page.

Politics rule 01:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, per your request I posted this on your talk page, but for anyone else who wants to know, here's what I said there: There really is no leader of WikiProject Maryland. I see WikiProjects as more of a collaborative effort by a group of members. As the founder of both WikiProject Maryland and the roads subproject, I'm usually responsible for alot of the maintenace work, so I guess that makes me the closest thing to a leader. But since this is a wiki, everyone is pretty much on the same level. If you want to make a minor change to the project, go ahead and do it, and if you want to make a major change, get consensus from the other members and do it. That's pretty much how it works.-Jeff (talk) 21:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BCPL historical image archive - copyright status?

While looking for some information about Hunt Valley, I found this page: http://external.bcpl.lib.md.us/hcdo/lw_home.html. It has a large amount of photographs of places in Baltimore County, but I cannot find any copyright status on the images. I would like to think they're public domain, but can't be certain. This leads to two questions:

  1. Does anyone have any idea what the copyright status on these images is?
  2. Would I be able to at least source the pages of the images (which contain some historical information about the image as well) at the very least to provide links to them?

Wikipedia's changed a lot since I first started editing (I've got many more edits than my history shows, mostly due to forgetting to login) so hopefully someone more versed in the current regulations can set me straight. Xerol 08:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

It looks like many of the images are still copyrighted. You could try figuring out which ones are public domain using the Hirtle table.[1] As for your second question: there is no problem with linking to the pages or using them as sources as long as the copyrighted image is not displayed on Wikipedia. If there any genuinely unique totally irreplaceable historic photos, you might be able to upload them to Wikipedia as long as their use conforms to WP:NONFREE. Best, nadav (talk) 23:18, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
FYI: I wrote an email to the BCPL and asked for the use of some pictures pertaining to Bloede's Dam, I was told that it is fine to use them so long as you give proper credit to BCPL. I'm not saying that's a global allowance, Id still recommend writing to them and asking, explain which images that you want to use they seem to be very cooperative. Most of the images I used were nearly 100 years old but they do have some more recent. --Dp67 | QSO | Sandbox | UBX's 11:26, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All Maryland lighthouses have articles

I have written articles for all remaining lighthouses listed for Maryland in the Lighthouses in the United States list. Please check Category:Lighthouses in Maryland to see them. Note that the range lights for the Baltimore Harbor channels have their own navbox. Mangoe 00:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New feature added

I've added a project watchlist, which is really nothing more than a list of links to articles that we can track changes to via Special:Recentchangeslinked, which you can do by clicking the "Check project watchlist link" on the project page. This is similar to what I've done at the roads project. Unlike that one however, since there are way too many Maryland-related articles to put them all in one list we should only add links to articles that should be monitored, for example, Kent Island, Maryland which has been the target of linkspam lately. I also added Maryland since it's an obvious high-profile article. If you want to add an article, you can view the list via the "View project watchlist" link on the project page.-Jeff (talk) 19:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of state symbols of Maryland

... is languishing at the bottom of featured list candidacy and doesn't have the votes right now to be promoted. Take a look, and please support if you think it's deserving. Geraldk 13:22, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] WikiProject District of Columbia

I just revived Wikipedia:WikiProject District of Columbia and was wondering if anyone whose scope of interest overlapped with Washington, D.C. wanted to join. T Rex | talk 21:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I've set up the project for assessments. John Carter 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Great! I've been wanting to do this for a while, but never got the chance. Glad someone finally did it. I'll be sure to add all the relevant links to the project page so other editors can easily find them.-Jeff (talk) 22:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Baltimore?

Would anyone be interested in a WikiProject Baltimore? There certainly seems to be plenty of Baltimore-related articles, and other major cites have their own WikiProjects, so it makes sense. Also, considering WikiProject Baltimore City College is pretty much dead, this would give us a more specific place to merge it to should we decide to merge it.-Jeff (talk) 03:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maryland State Parks

I just did a reorganizing of the List of Maryland state parks and noticed there are only a handful of parks that have an associated article. If anyone has the time to write an article or even start one with the bare facts to expand on later please do so. I am currently working on a Patapsco Valley article and a slew of other wikiprojects but I will try to contribute to the parks list as well. Cheers! --Dp67 | QSO | Sandbox | UBX's 11:20, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I've been planning Matapeake State Park and Sandy Point State Park. I'll go ahead and at least get a couple of stubs up.-Jeff (talk) 01:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image requests

I've noticed that there's been some issues getting free images for the article Hagerstown, Maryland. One solution might be to add the tag {{reqphoto|in=Maryland}} to the talk page. There is a maintenance category Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Maryland which members of this project may find useful - I was surprised to see there was no mention of it on the project page here. Perhaps it should be added to your list of useful links? Purgatorio 22:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Didn't even know about it, thanks for the heads up. I went ahead and added it.-Jeff (talk) 02:00, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
It's probably a bit late to suggest this now - but the article assessment drive would "dovetail" really well with identifying Maryland articles needing photographs. I wonder if there's a neat way to combine the two... Purgatorio 11:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image requests II

I'm looking for a picture of the Walters Art Museum-Building. Maybe someone from the Baltimore-area can help. --Rlbberlin 11:39, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion of roads article part 2

I found a solution to the inclusion of Maryland road articles. Ideally, they should all be included in this project since they are related to Maryland, so I added Category:WikiProject Maryland and the assessment cats to that project's banner. This allows us to only use the MDRD banner on those articles while still having the effect of also having the WPMD banner.-Jeff (talk) 12:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger of WikiProject Baltimore City College?

The creator of the above named project has recently proposed it for deletion, saying given the drop-off of membership he wanted the project either deleted or made a task force of this project. How would the members of this project feel about such a "taskforceization" of the above project? John Carter 15:23, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Personally I'd like to see it incorporated into a WikiProject Baltimore. I think there's definitely a need for such a project given all the Baltimore articles we have, but I haven't gotten any comments back on it, so it hasn't gotten off the ground. So as I see it, the options are to move it here, create WikiProject Baltimore and move it there, or stick with the status quo, but I don't think the project is going to go anywhere the way it is, so it would probably be better off as a task force.-Jeff (talk) 18:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, have you considered creating a Baltimore task force of WikiProject Maryland? I know that many of the other city projects were created as stand alone projects, but if the banner could be adjusted to permit Baltimore and Maryland assessments, as it could be, it would probably be a lot easier to maintain the Baltimore group. And there are at least a few precedents for such city subprojects. John Carter 13:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
A task force probably would be the best place to start for Baltimore. If it gets enough activity to function as its own WikiProject, then we can split it. Unless I get any objections, I'll merge the BCC project sometime next week.-Jeff (talk) 16:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
That being the case, it would probably make most sense to integrate the Baltimore City College project into the new Baltimore task force. John Carter 16:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible copyvio

Chestertown Tea Party was recently rewritten by an anon. It's unwikified, doesn't fit the tone, and appeared out of nowhere. If anyone's interested, see if you can find where it came from, and if it is a copy+paste job, revert it.-Jeff (talk) 00:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, the editor in question has now registered as user:bluestoneroad and cleared things up on the talk page. The style issues that raised red flags for me were due to the fact that this user is new to Wikipedia, and isn't familiar with the style guidelines here, it's just that unfortunately, the particular broken guidelines made the edits seem like a copyright violation.-Jeff (talk) 16:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)