Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana

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WikiProject Indiana

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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Indiana articles needing attention
Expand : Northern Indiana, Southern Indiana, Government of Indiana, Willard Library (particularly the famous historical ghost legends)
Featured article candidates : * No results were found.
Featured list candidates : No results were found.
Featured sound candidates : Project Content template contains the following errors:
- No content type parameters found
Unable to generate results. See documentation for help
Good article nominations : *
- Inland Steel Company
- WSJV
Geographical coordinates : Indiana articles missing geocoordinate data
Infobox : Indiana articles needing infoboxes
Map : Requested maps in Indiana
Photo : Requested photographs in Indiana, County courthouses (whole northeast is done), better picture of the Wabash River that shows off the natural beauty (maybe fall, near Fort Ouiatenon).
• Wanted New Pics: All South Shore Line railroad station articles that don't have them.
Stubs : Stub-Class Indiana articles
Unreferenced : Unreferenced Indiana articles
Other : *To Improve to Featured article:Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana in the American Civil War, History of Indiana
- To Improve to Good Article standard: Indiana, Evansville, Indiana, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Gary, Indiana
- Lists to de-redlink: List of Indiana rivers, List of Indiana state forests, List of Indiana railroads, List of school districts in Indiana, List of lakes in Indiana, List of battles fought in Indiana
- Lists to complete:: List of people from Indiana
- Standing orders: Find articles that belong in [[Category: Indiana]] or its subcategories but aren't and put them there; tag those articles as well as any new, untagged articles that might appear in one of those categories.
- Place the {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|IN=Yes|IN-importance=}} banner into Indiana related articles and assess

Indiana article statistics

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Indiana articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		6	9	15			30
FL	1	3	4	5			13
FM					13		13
GA	9	11	19	90		10	139
B	6	46	147	289	1	67	556
C	3	55	207	1,066		307	1,638
Start	3	49	370	5,729		1,110	7,261
Stub		3	138	6,582	3	1,148	7,874
List		14	34	274	5	139	466
Category					5,445		5,445
Disambig					57		57
File					488		488
Portal					169		169
Project					66		66
Redirect		2	19	272	689		982
Template					749		749
NA					3		3
Other					15		15
Assessed	22	189	947	14,322	7,703	2,781	25,964
Unassessed				7		278	285
Total	22	189	947	14,329	7,703	3,059	26,249
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 92,051			Ω = 5.26

This sidebar is based on WikiProject Michigan's

WikiProject Indiana is a WikiProject formed August 20, 2005 to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Indiana with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. If you are interested in contributing, please consider becoming a member.

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Scope

This WikiProject is centered around articles relating to the U.S. state of Indiana.

Subpages

All subpages of this project
/Alerts - provides members of WikiProject Indiana with information about new discussions or collaborations.
/Article Category Hierarchy
/Assessment - WikiProject Indiana's assessment summary page.
/Cleanup listing - WikiProject Indiana's automatically generated cleanup listing.
/Importance - a draft of WikiProject Indiana's importance scale
/Members - WikiProject Indiana's membership page.
/To do - Open tasks for the project

Current discussions

Please see discussion of Suggested Re-Assessments on the talk page.

Requested articles

Articles to be edited

Edward E. Moore. Needs biographical information, which can be had at "A Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly" vol. 2 1901-1984, and assessment, portal, etc. I am not doing it because I can't access the book from California. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 13:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Project Status

7 January 2008: First Indiana featured list/article: List of Indiana state symbols!!
21 November 2007: Created List of Indiana state symbols
4 September 2005: Created List of counties in Indiana by area.
28 August 2005: Created List of counties in Indiana by population.
28 August 2005: Finished tagging articles in Category:Indiana and its subcategories. Will need to periodically check for new articles in those categories, though.

Version 1.0 assessments

For more information about Version 1.0 assessments, see WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP.

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Templates

Project templates

To be placed at the top of talk pages of articles covered by the associated WikiProject:

{{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|IN=yes|IN-importance=}}

United States: Indiana B‑class High‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Indiana portal This article is supported by WikiProject Indiana (assessed as Top-importance).

Portal

Copy this text into see also or external links sections for an entrance to the Indiana Portal that looks like this.

Member banner

WikiProject Indiana is a member of the Indiana WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the U.S. state of Indiana. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

To place this banner, type:

{{Indianamember}}

Userbox templates

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{{Template:User citizen Indiana}}

This user is a citizen of the U.S. State of Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User from Indiana}}

This user is a native of the U.S. State of Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User Hoosier}}

This user is proud to be a
Hoosier !

linked pages

{{Template:User in Indiana}}

This user lives in the U.S. State of Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User interest Indiana}}

This user is interested in the U.S. State of Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User proud Hoosier}}

This user is proud to be a
Hoosier !

linked pages

{{Template:User visited Indiana}}

This user has visited the U.S. State of Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User WP Indiana}}

This user participates in
WikiProject Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User Indiana}}

This user lives in the U.S.
State of Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User Indiana born}}

This user was born in Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User WikiProject Indiana}}

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Indiana.

linked pages

{{Template:User WikiProject Indianapolis}}

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Indianapolis.

linked pages

Navigational templates

{{Governors of Indiana}}
{{Indiana county seats}}
{{Indiana government}}
{{Indiana history}}
{{... County, Indiana}}
Each county has a navigational template; see Category:Indiana county navigational boxes for a complete list.

Alert templates

{{WikiProject Indiana alerts}}
- Post this template on your talk or user page to keep up to date with project alerts.

Stub templates

See also Category:Indiana stubs or add your own at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types.

Award templates

The Indiana Barnstar, to be awarded to users who have made strong contributions related to Indiana.
{{The Indiana Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

Invite templates

{{WPIndiana Invite}}
{{INDPInvite}}

Tools

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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