Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota
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 WikiProject South Dakota |
Welcome to WikiProject South Dakota. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the US state of South Dakota. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
- Goals
- The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to South Dakota, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to South Dakota.
- Scope
- This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of South Dakota, its history, geography, and people. Specific examples of the articles that will fall under this project's scope can be found at this list.
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[edit] Members
All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject South Dakota}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project. Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
[edit] Active
- Jrobb525 (talk · contribs) - currently living in South Dakota, hoping to help the state and articles grow (mainly the schools)
- Spiesr (talk · contribs)
- AlexiusHoratius (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls native in Minneapolis
- Atilla5 (talk · contribs) - resident of SD attending SDSU, focusing on the areas of transportation and the unincorporated communities of SE South Dakota
- Toonami Reactor (talk · contribs) Relatives all origionate from South Dakota
- SWMNPoliSciProject (talk · contribs) Preparation, modification and expansion of articles primarily relevant to government, politics and world affairs.
- Fact-of-the-matter (talk · contribs) - SD native (Rapid City)-would like to help where I am needed the most. I am good at proofreading, research, and culture.
- Renaissancee (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls, SD Native
- Sdgjake (talk · contribs) - SD Native, would like to work on taking pictures for SD articles.
- jvcdude (talk · contribs)-SD Native, from the Huron Area
[edit] Inactive
- Badbilltucker (talk · contribs) - will try to help out with some biographies and otherwise SW area articles
- HirschiDude (talk · contribs) - will try to add whatever I can
- Destructo_087 (talk · contribs)
- Rosseloh (talk · contribs) - Graduated from Great Plains Lutheran High School in Watertown, moving on to SDSU.
- Doc1410 (talk · contribs) - Professor at NSU; am having my students update page as part of English 101 course assignment
- Akr88 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410, Forced to do this project to prevent re-taking the course.
- Mikang is (talk · contribs)- Student at NSU
- Halo2 Gamer (talk · contribs) - Student at NSU.
- ACB18 (talk · contribs)NSU student
- meredithjo3 (talk · contribs) college student in South Dakota working on a final project
- TRM18 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410
- Tuba777 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410 at NSU
- Rhstokes (talk · contribs) - Student at NSU
- RJASE1 (talk · contribs) - Milbank native currently in USAF, concentrating on SD politicians
- Superlex (talk · contribs) (General South Dakota stuff, concentrating on Southeastern SD)
- Sumbawa (talk · contribs) - SD resident and USD student, interests in entertainent and music
- Lmielke359 (talk · contribs) - SD native attending Purdue University, focusing on the western half of SD
- David57437 (talk · contribs)-SD native and proud of it
- AlexNebraska (talk · contribs)
[edit] Articles
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Featured articles
Articles on South Dakota-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.
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Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)
The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.
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Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:
- 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash
- Brock Lesnar
- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad
- Geography of South Dakota
- Great Storm of 1975
- May 2007 Tornado Outbreak
- Sitting Bull
- South Dakota
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Did you know (DYK?)
- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad - January 7, 2005
- Doane Robinson - March 21, 2006
- Huron University - May 8, 2006
- Terry Forster - September 3, 2006
- Sue (dinosaur) - April 17, 2007
- Red River Trails - May 4, 2007
- Tony Dean - November 9, 2008
- Stratobowl - April 29, 2009
- Niels Ebbesen Hansen - September 8, 2009
- South Dakota Highway 87 - December 24, 2009
[edit] Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new South Dakota-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 Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for South Dakota, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.
Huron School District (South Dakota) new article could used some help building up
Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
List of birds of South Dakota - Should be complete, but another set of eyes would be nice.
Culture of South Dakota - Lots of room for expansion - authors, musicians, artists, festivals, cuisine, museums, etc.
Codington County Heritage Museum
Bramble Park Zoo - Previously deleted, I think, at least the talk page was, so may need some eyes and TLC for a bit.
List of mountains in South Dakota - Basics are there, but could use some expansion.
Yankton Treaty - Newish article, probably needs a bit more clean-up
[edit] Collaboration and review
- Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
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[edit] Stubs
For South Dakota stubs, see Category:South Dakota stubs
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.
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{{WikiProject South Dakota}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.
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