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WikiProject Maryland
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  • History of Baltimore City College is today's featured article for October 20, 2008.
  • Don't forget to participate in discussions. Current things being discussed include a project barnstar and a request for comments on Maryland politician articles.
  • There are still articles left to assess. Help out where you can!
  • You can add any articles that you would like to see created or fixed to "Wanted articles" and "Articles to fix" on the project page.
  • Please take care of any pending article requests that you can.
  • Starting a project related to Maryland? Make sure to add it as a subproject here!
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  • The portal has officially launched, it still needs some work to improve it further
  • Roughly 55% of dates have events listed for On this day....
  • The portal was recently overhauled, come help improve it further!
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Roads in Maryland

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Contents

[edit] Introduction

Welcome to WikiProject Maryland! The purpose of this project is help editors who are interested in editing articles related to Maryland. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and tools to help editors contribute to Maryland-related articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. You may also wish to add your name to #Participants. This project serves as a hub for all other projects related to Maryland, see the child projects below for more detailed information on contributing to Maryland-related articles.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to cover all articles related to the U.S. state of Maryland. It should also serve as a hub for other more specific projects related to Maryland (such as Roads in Maryland). From this project, contributors will find links to the subprojects, and information for contributing to topics that do not yet have a subproject. This project is also responsible for the maintenance of the Maryland portal.

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[edit] Related projects Related WikiProjects

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[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

[edit] Task forces

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[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add yourself here if you plan on participating, the more the merrier. You may also wish to add this project's userbox, {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}}, to your userpage. The userbox looks like this:

Flag of Maryland.svg This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.


[edit] Active

  • Jeff02 – I live in QA county, and am pretty knowledgable on roads in Maryland
  • Tom – I've written many of the articles about Maryland Congressmen, Governors, Senators, etc.
  • Neutralhomer – I actively update the Radio and Television stations in Maryland.
  • Littledrummrboy 21:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Originally from Delaware and a UMBC grad.
  • «Marylandstater» «reply» 13:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • John Carter 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC) – may not be of much use, but will help when I can
  • Pilch62 – I was born and raised in Worcester County, as most members of my family have been for nigh unto 300 years—we came to America and stopped dead. My family have also been involved in state politics.
  • bwyche – a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Edited articles on Johns Hopkins the person;Johns Hopkins, the institutions, including the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orhanage, the hopkins' faculty, and other figures,including patients, african americans at hopkins.
  • User:Toddst1 – writing on mostly colonial or maritime related stuff Toddst1 (talk) 09:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Sallicio – I live and work in the Baltimore-DC corridor and write and edit mostly on political content. Go 'Skins! Sallicio (talk) 23:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Sallicio
  • Lady Aleena – I can make templates when needed, user template for this project is done.
  • Kevinadavid – Is a former resident of Montgomery County and likes to help out with pages involving the schools and cities in that county.
  • Wikipedian1234 – I am a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland. I can help out with any articles affiliated with that area.
  • Dgreco – new resident of Rockville, MD. I can help with Maryland colleges. I have done a lot of work with other college pages and am working on setting up a universal mold for small colleges without the history of large institutions.
  • Joe Sperrazza – I grew up in Maryland, living in Harford County and then Baltimore City
  • Deanlaw – in the Baltimore area
  • Adavidb
  • Ted A. – native and resident of metro Baltimore
  • Wildthing61476 – born and raised in Baltimore, lifelong resident. Contributor to local neighborhood and school articles.
  • America69 (talk) 13:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC) – live in Maryland
  • Eleoopy – grew up in Glen Burnie area and now live in Washington DC.
  • Pubdog – President of the Cool Spring Terrace Civic Assn, Adelphi, MD (Prince George's County) and archivist at the National Archives at College Park.
  • GcSwRhIc (talk) 13:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC) – born and raised in Baltimore.
  • Yachtsman1 – Annapolitan, and I have lived here since I was very young. Contributor to school and history articles, Loyola College in Maryland alumnus, B.A. in History.
  • Levineps – I live in North Potomac in Montgomery County, Maryland. I am a native of this great state and have been here my whole life, save for college. I am a big Baltimore Orioles and Maryland Terrapins fan and love politics.
  • Sallicio – I live in AA and work in PG.
  • Jo7hs2 (talk) 16:44, 24 December 2008 (UTC), Natural and historical features, particularly of Western Maryland. History and Legal education.
  • Strikehold – Focus on the University of Maryland and Maryland Terrapins.
  • User:Arverniking
  • MdDeptVitalStatistics born and raised in Maryland
  • Airplaneman – Among other random things, I'll try to clean up and expand articles as needed. Airplaneman talk 00:04, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
  • DinDraithou – I'm interested in the colonial families of Maryland, and have resided in four Maryland counties to date.
  • Clariosophic – I'm interested in historic buildings and churches, Carpenter Gothic architecture, colonial history, etc.
  • gohens84 – I live in Newark, DE; graduated from Mount St. Mary's, Emmitsburg, Maryland. Currently working with Garrett County Maryland History Museum to further develop Garrett County, Maryland Wikipedia articles.
  • Cenantua – Primarily focused on Washington County, Maryland interests (related to the C&O Canal, Civil War, Clear Spring area).
  • Asteuartw - Early History of Maryland, Colonial Maryland, Maryland in the Civil War.
  • RG104 - I live in Baltimore County. I like to contribute to articles about schools and education in Maryland.
  • Jmcgowan2 - Interested in Moses Rawlings and Rawlings, MD.
  • FlugKerl - Interested in recovering forgotten MD history.
  • DAK4Blizzard – Grew up in Potomac, Maryland. Most interested in schools and cities.
  • Eli Pousson I live in Baltimore and I'm very interested in architectural history, Baltimore history, and Baltimore neighborhoods.
  • acomas From Silver Spring. Interested in that region & general history.
  • Amit Parikh - I am a recent graduate of the University of Maryland and have lived in Columbia/Howard County for my whole life (23 years). I'm interested in local/regional topics (specifically for Howard County and Columbia), as well as local sports and education topics.
  • Folklore1 - Resident of Baltimore
  • Crislen - Born and raised in Maryland, most interested in schools in the state.
  • IndtAithir - Interested in western Maryland, from Sugarloaf to the border !
  • Wilford Nusser - Lifelong resident of Montgomery County, Maryland; chiefly Rockville. Working on Rockville history and Montgomery County archaeology articles.
  • Abc9100 -I live in Rockville. I am a kid and would like to contribute info about the civil war. Comment: Some google maps would help, too, but im a beginner and only contribute text :-)
  • Bardobro - I'm a long-term resident of Balt-Wash, currently living in Anne Arundel County. I'm interested in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, local history, culture, and environmental issues.
  • CommuterHell - I live in Baltimore County and work in DC. I have lived in Maryland just over 5 years. I follow politics, transit issues, history, and history.
  • Kristaoz - I live in Anne Arundel County and have been here all my life. Went to the University of Maryland, College Park and am an avid sports fan.
  • Nikki - Born in Frederick County and have lived in Allegany County for many years. Have attended Frederick Community College, Frostburg State University, and University of Maryland University College. Interested in helping out any local articles on Allegany County, including photos.

[edit] Inactive

These are project participants who are believed to be inactive; if you see your name below (click "show") and believe it was put here by mistake, please move it back to the "Active" list.

[edit] Projects

  1. Portal:Maryland

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Robust Maryland Economy and Development Pages

Robust economy sections pertaining to the State of Maryland's cities, towns and unincorporated areas. Many are lack luster or have none at all, a list of organizations would be a good start.


[edit] Wanted articles

If there is a Maryland-related article that you would like to see created, add a request for it below:

[edit] Articles to fix

If there is a Maryland-related article that already exists but you would like to see it cleaned up or expanded, add it below

[edit] Ongoing tasks

This section is for ongoing tasks

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project banner

{{WikiProject Maryland|class=|importance=}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

WikiProject Maryland (Rated NA-class)
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Portal icon Maryland portal
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Maryland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Maryland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
 NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.
 


[edit] Stubs

Template Output
{{Maryland-stub}}
Flag of Maryland.svg This Maryland-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-geo-stub}}
Flag of Maryland.svg This Maryland state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-politician-stub}}
Flag of Maryland.svg  This article about a Maryland politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-school-stub}}
School.svgFlag of Maryland.svg This Maryland school-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-road-stub}}
MD blank.svg
 This Maryland road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-newspaper-stub}}
Newspaper.svg Flag of Maryland.svg This article about a Maryland newspaper is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
{{Maryland-radio-station-stub}}
Radio icon.png Flag of Maryland.svg  This article about a radio station in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-sports-venue-stub}}
Flag of Maryland.svg This article about a sports venue in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Userboxes

Flag of Maryland.svg This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}}
Flag of Maryland This user lives in and hails from the U.S. State of Maryland.
{{User Maryland}}
Flag of Maryland.svg This user is interested in the U.S. State of Maryland
{{User interest Maryland}}

[edit] Categories

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[edit] Subpages

[edit] Articles

[edit] Statistics

Maryland articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 4 6 2 12
FL 1 2 1 7 11
A 1 1
GA 1 4 23 39 67
B 20 33 118 64 50 285
C 5 16 107 123 23 274
Start 18 185 638 1,201 259 2,301
Stub 2 493 380 2,556 578 4,009
List 3 3 71 82 159
Book 2 2
Category 2 17 26 1,120 1,165
Disambig 1 4 5
File 1 19 20
Portal 2 2
Project 3 3
Redirect 1 3 12 37 53
Template 13 1 124 138
NA 29 29
Assessed 50 744 1,377 4,115 1,340 910 8,536
Unassessed 1 1
Total 50 744 1,377 4,115 1,340 911 8,537


[edit] Growth of selected WikiProjects of other states since Oct. 2007

(table only includes the total number of articles in each state's project at the beginning of the yearly quarter indicated.)

State 10/07 1/08 4/08 7/08 10/08 1/09 4/09 7/09 10/09 1/10 4/10 4/11
Maryland 749 1692 2688 3005 3967 4178 5740 5902 6018 6084 6445 8228
New Jersey 1039 1597 1752 2154 3343 4098 4592 4873 5058 5286 6235 8953
Arizona 1206 1473 1528 1808 1948 2018 2137 2370 2524 2644 2838 4481
Pennsylvania 3768 6205 6829 7159 9338 9717 9983 10486 10866 19534 27345 30543
Delaware 1179 1225 1243 1256 1296 1305 1317 1369 1376 1383 1632 2572
Massachusetts 1279 1974 2408 2927 6427 6696 7356 7576 7743 8089 8833 11918
Hawaii 1811 1900 2072 2319 2396 2462 2518 2619 2683 2779 3543 4490

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Maryland

Please feel free to list your new Maryland-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

  • ...that the only man to fly both atomic bomb missions over Japan during World War II was a Marylander? (see: Jacob Beser) Marylandstater 12:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3/17/08 DYK

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[edit] 4/25/08 DYK

[edit] 5/15/08 DYK

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[edit] 6/6/08 DYK

[edit] 6/25/08 DYK

The Legg Mason Building is the tallest building in Baltimore

[edit] 7/11/08 DYK

[edit] 7/21/08 DYK

  • ... that Edward P. Hurt, who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games?

[edit] 9/10/08 DYK

[edit] 12/14/08 DYK

[edit] 1/22/09 DYK

  • ... that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League?

[edit] Article improvement drive

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[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

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    [edit] Featured lists

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    [edit] Wikipedia surveys

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    [edit] Deletion links

    See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Maryland

    [edit] Resources

    Find more about Maryland on Wikipedia's sister projects:
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    For instance, from January 1, 2008 to June 21, 2008
    WikiProject Maryland was viewed 2,157 times
    Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates: 3,023 times
    Music of Maryland was viewed 6,442 times
    Martin O'Malley was viewed 37,850 times
    Royal Blue (B&O train) was viewed 53,373 times
    Edgar Allan Poe was viewed 1,339,916 times

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