Wikipedia:WikiProject North Dakota
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Category | North Dakota |
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Welcome to WikiProject North Dakota! We are a WikiProject dedicated to developing and expanding Wikipedia content related to the U.S. state of North Dakota.
If you would like to bring something to the attention of the project, please leave a comment at the project's talk page. If you would like to join the project, simply add your name below. Feel free to review the project's "to-do list" and check out the project templates we use. For a directory of North Dakota-related content on Wikipedia, visit the "List of North Dakota pages".
Since WPND is a collaborative effort, feel free to make edits to any of the project's pages.
Purpose and scope
editThe purpose of WikiProject North Dakota is to enhance and expand North Dakota-related content on Wikipedia. This includes improving both the quality and quantity of such content. Quality is improved by making appropriate additions to and revisions of existing articles. Quantity is improved by the sensible creation of new articles for worthy subjects. A list of pages currently monitored by WikiProject North Dakota can be found here.
Assessment
editNorth Dakota articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
FM | 2 | 2 | |||||
GA | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | ||
B | 6 | 11 | 14 | 32 | 14 | 77 | |
C | 4 | 10 | 17 | 75 | 56 | 162 | |
Start | 7 | 23 | 169 | 773 | 3 | 291 | 1,266 |
Stub | 2 | 4 | 44 | 1,539 | 573 | 2,162 | |
List | 2 | 9 | 39 | 1 | 84 | 135 | |
Category | 59 | 2,570 | 2,629 | ||||
Disambig | 2 | 6 | 8 | ||||
File | 16 | 16 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 35 | 35 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 3 | 35 | 276 | 316 | ||
Template | 1 | 3 | 286 | 290 | |||
Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 20 | 54 | 260 | 2,565 | 3,197 | 1,018 | 7,114 |
Unassessed | 2 | 131 | 133 | ||||
Total | 20 | 54 | 260 | 2,567 | 3,197 | 1,149 | 7,247 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 20,185 | Ω = 5.49 |
Criteria
editThe following is a rough outline of the criteria that is currently being used to rate the importance of articles. This outline is merely a suggested set of criteria and changes can be made.
Top importance
- North Dakota
- "X of North Dakota" (where X = things like music, politics, geography, etc.)
- Cities with pop. 30,000 or greater
- Missouri River and Red River (major rivers that played a key role in ND's development)
- UND and NDSU
- Highly notable areas (Badlands, Teddy Roosevelt National Park, RRV, etc.)
High importance
- Cities with pop. 10,000 to 30,000
- Larger counties
- Air Force bases
- Prominent elected government offices
- Lists of prominent politicians
- Other public colleges and universities
- Highly notable buildings/places (State Capitol, Peace Garden, etc.)
- Less notable areas (Prairie Pothole Region, etc.)
Mid importance
- Cities with pop. 1,000 to 10,000
- Smaller counties
- "X of [City]" (i.e. "History of Grand Forks")
- Prominent elected politicians (Governors, US Senators, US Representatives)
- State government departments, agencies, etc.
- All other elected and appointed government offices
- Lists of less prominent politicians
- Non-politicians highly associated with the state (Lawrence Welk, etc.)
- Notable buildings and structures (Engelstad Arena, airports, TV masts, etc.)
- Major media outlets
- Private colleges and universities
Low importance
- Townships
- Cities with pop. less than 1,000
- All CDPs, unincorporated communities, and defunct cities
- Most politicians and government officials
- Most non-politicians associated with the state
- Minor media outlets
- Elections
- Military units
- Most buildings
- Most organizations
- Most sports teams
Outreach
editWikiProject North Dakota now publishes a monthly newsletter. Read the current WPND newsletter.
To-do list
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Article alerts
editArticles for deletion
- 26 Jul 2024 – List of presidential visits to North Dakota (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
Articles to be split
- 23 Jan 2023 – Dakota War of 1862 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mr. Guye (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Nov 2020 – Aakers Business College (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Cilidus (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Apr 2020 – Louis L'Amour (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Steveprutz (t · c); see discussion
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Templates
editPlease add {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|ND=yes|ND-importance=Low}} to the talk pages of North Dakota-related articles, categories, templates, etc. This produces...
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Userboxes
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Stub templates
editPlease use the following stub templates on appropriate North Dakota-related articles:
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