Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida

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WikiProject Florida is a project to help create and improve Wikipedia articles about the U.S. state of Florida.

[edit] Members

To join this WikiProject or see a list of current members, see /Members.

The following templates are available for members to use on their user pages:

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{{User WikiProject Florida}}

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This user is a member of WikiProject Florida.

{{WikiProject Florida member}}

Placed on user or user talk page

This user is a member of WikiProject Florida, which seeks to expand information about the state of Florida. Please feel free to join us.

[edit] Project Templates

The following templates may be used to tag pages cared for by the WikiProject:

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{{WPFlorida}}

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WikiProject Florida

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[edit] Florida Article Templates

For a list of Florida-specific templates and their usage, see /Templates.

For a list of Florida-specific stub templates, see /Stubs.

For Florida-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Florida}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Florida. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existance [sic] Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

[edit] To do

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida:

- Tag all Florida categories with {{WPFlorida|class=cat|importance=cat}}
- Ensure all Florida categories have a brief text description (e.g. Stuff in the U.S. state of Florida.)
Find images for articles (see Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Florida)
Provide sources for unreferenced articles (see list at Cite sources)
Add county templates ({{Hamilton County, Florida}}, {{Jackson County, Florida}}, etc.) to appropriate cities.
Expand many, many articles and locate other articles that require expansion.

Open tasks:

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Requests: Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, Rubin Stacy, Fellsmere Frogleg Festival, John Vogt, El Sentinel Orlando, Larry D. Simpson, Ruth Eckerd, Florida Public Housing Projects, Bay District Schools (Florida), James C. Smith, Alan Sundberg, H. Lee Moffitt
Expand: Pottsburg Creek, Billy Donovan, Dorcas Drake, Cheeburger Cheeburger, University of Florida, Port Saint Lucie, Naples, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Margate, North Central Florida, Wayne Huizenga, Scott Barbour, Rosewood Massacre, Watson Island, Bruce Smathers, Courtney Campbell Causeway, Sun-Sentinel, Cape Romano, Ten Thousand Islands, Lincoln Road, Great Fire of 1901, Red Hills Parkway, Jones College (Jacksonville), Great Florida Birding Trail, more...
Copyedit, Cleanup or Wikify: Withlacoochee, Plant City and Boca Grande Railroad, Tampa International Airport, USF Soccer Stadium, Scott Camil, WDAE (AM), U.S. Route 92, Central Florida Research Park, Lawton Chiles High School, Rutherford High School
Cite sources: Ron Zook, Central Florida Krush, WVEN-TV, more...
Images wanted: Heathrow, Florida, ALLTEL Stadium, Fantasy Fest more...
SVGs to make Boca Raton and Tampa City Seals, Flag of Jacksonville, Maps of Lake Okeechobee and Everglades National Park, more...

[edit] Cleanup

[edit] Florida history

Here are some tasks you can do:

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1. Scrub Historical Societies of Florida webpage (Florida) & add eligible Historical Societies to List of Historical Societies
2. Scrub Helpful Agencies and Organizations by County webpage (Florida) & add eligible Historical Societies to List of Historical Societies
3. Scrub Historical Societies of Florida webpage (Florida) & add eligible Historical Societies to List of Historical Societies
Infobox: Add Template:Infobox Organization to all Historical Societies in List of Historical Societies

Above tasks could be added to above "To-do" info box.

[edit] Current Assessment Summary

Florida articles		Importance
Florida articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		5	5	3		13
	FL			1	4		5
	A			1			1
	GA	1	5	5	18		29
	B			2			2
	C	5	13	40	103	4	165
	Start		7	208	1236	61	1512
	Stub		2	24	1870	2290	4186
	List		1	2	4	156	163
	Assessed	6	33	288	3238	2511	6076
	Unassessed				9	459	468
	Total	6	33	288	3247	2970	6544

Assessment links

[edit] Articles for Deletion

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured Lists

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

...that the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901? (February 10, 2006)
...that during Jake Gaither's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships? (June 29, 2006)
...that the Florida mangroves are vital to an estimated 75 percent of the game fish and 90 percent of the commercial fish species in South Florida? (July 9, 2006)

...that "Octopus giganteus" (pictured) is the pseudoscientific name given to a large carcass, postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896? (October 10, 2006)
...that the Miami blue butterfly may be the rarest insect in the United States, and that its continued survival may depend on a captive breeding program at the University of Florida? (October 12, 2006)
...that snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead? (January 27, 2007)
...that Robert King High was mayor of Miami for ten years and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat in 1966? (February 5, 2007)
...that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida? (February 18, 2007)
...that William Cooley was a salvager and pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the New River Settlement near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States? (June 28, 2007)
...that the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968? (July 3, 2007)
...that the racially charged Escambia High School riots, which reached a climax in 1976, continued in various forms for five years? (July 11, 2007)
...that the Timucua Indians of the St. Johns culture left many large shell middens, including one estimated to be 75 feet high, even though shellfish were a minor part of their diet? (July 19, 2007)
...that model Albert Reed, selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars, admits that he cannot dance? (September 6, 2007)
...that Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida's first penitentiary? (October 9, 2007)
...that Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower? (November 22, 2007)
...that, before building the landmark Gandy Bridge, George Gandy was known for building a large successful theatre, originally derided as "Gandy's White Elephant"? (January 13, 2008)
...that Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida, and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida's medical benefits? (January 23, 2008)
...that the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish, a higher number than any other place on earth? (February 10, 2008)
...that Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades? (March 21, 2008)

...that, by the time the Florida Supreme Court finally ruled that William D. Bloxham had won the 1870 Lieutenant Governor election, it was 1872 and the term was effectively over? (April 6, 2008)
...that William Whitaker introduced orange groves to Florida? (April 15, 2008)
...that Commodore Cruise Line was the first Florida-based company to operate week-long cruises around the year? (April 23, 2008)
...that when the first indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southern Florida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape? (May 6, 2008)

... that Blue Tilapia (pictured) have become the most widespread foreign fish in Florida waters since their introduction in 1961, and are now a serious management problem in Everglades National Park? (3 July 2008)
... that the Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida and the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War? (July 28, 2008)
... that after a kitten named Lucky survived a fall from the 65-foot-high Granada Bridge at Ormond Beach, Florida, Lucky's owners changed her name to Timmy? (13 December 2008)

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

Hurricane Andrew, delisted on 25 January 2007.
Jacksonville, Florida delisted on 15 May 2007.
Miami, Florida, delisted on 4 March 2008.
Miami River (Florida), delisted on 8 October 2008.
Brothers to the Rescue, delisted on 12 May 2008.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

Articles about Florida can brush up against many other subjects: for instance, an article about a U.S. Senator from Florida is about Florida as well as about the U.S. Senate. Therefore, before working on an article, it is recommended to check the list of WikiProjects to see whether another WikiProject exists that may have established guidelines about the subject of the article in question.

(Of course, it is also good to be familiar with Wikipedia-wide policies and guidelines.)