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WikiProject South Dakota

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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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Open tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh Stock post message.svg To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota:

Here are some tasks you can do:

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

[edit] Article alerts

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...

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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

  1. Jrobb525 (talk · contribs) - currently living in South Dakota, hoping to help the state and articles grow (mainly the schools)
  2. Spiesr (talk · contribs)
  3. AlexiusHoratius (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls native in Minneapolis
  4. Atilla5 (talk · contribs) - resident of SD attending SDSU, focusing on the areas of transportation and the unincorporated communities of SE South Dakota
  5. SWMNPoliSciProject (talk · contribs) Preparation, modification and expansion of articles primarily relevant to government, politics and world affairs.
  6. Renaissancee (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls, SD Native
  7. Sdgjake (talk · contribs) - SD Native, would like to work on taking pictures for SD articles.
  8. jvcdude (talk · contribs)-SD Native, from the Huron Area
  9. Buaidh (talk · contribs) - Black Hills
  10. Hutcher (talk · contribs), my father's family is from Spearfish

[edit] Inactive

  1. Badbilltucker (talk · contribs) - will try to help out with some biographies and otherwise SW area articles
  2. HirschiDude (talk · contribs) - will try to add whatever I can
  3. Destructo_087 (talk · contribs)
  4. Rosseloh (talk · contribs) - Graduated from Great Plains Lutheran High School in Watertown, moving on to SDSU.
  5. Doc1410 (talk · contribs) - Professor at NSU; am having my students update page as part of English 101 course assignment
  6. Akr88 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410, Forced to do this project to prevent re-taking the course.
  7. Mikang is (talk · contribs)- Student at NSU
  8. Halo2 Gamer (talk · contribs) - Student at NSU.
  9. ACB18 (talk · contribs)NSU student
  10. meredithjo3 (talk · contribs) college student in South Dakota working on a final project
  11. TRM18 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410
  12. Tuba777 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410 at NSU
  13. Rhstokes (talk · contribs) - Student at NSU
  14. RJASE1 (talk · contribs) - Milbank native currently in USAF, concentrating on SD politicians
  15. Superlex (talk · contribs) (General South Dakota stuff, concentrating on Southeastern SD)
  16. Sumbawa (talk · contribs) - SD resident and USD student, interests in entertainment and music
  17. Lmielke359 (talk · contribs) - SD native attending Purdue University, focusing on the western half of SD
  18. David57437 (talk · contribs)-SD native and proud of it
  19. AlexNebraska (talk · contribs)
  20. Toonami Reactor (talk · contribs) Relatives all origionate from South Dakota
  21. 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.
  22. Fred222 (talk · contribs)- CA resident, ready to help
  23. MatthewDPX (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls, SD Resident
  24. MillLocke (talk · contribs) - SD native, degrees from SDSU and USD, focuses on geography, government and law.

[edit] Articles

[edit] FA Featured articles

Articles on South Dakota-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

[edit] FAC Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

None at this time.

[edit] GA Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

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[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles Former featured articles
Delisted Good 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.

Renewable energy in South Dakota

St. Joseph Cathedral (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

South Dakota Army National Guard

Gettysburg Air Force Station

Pickstown Air Force Station

Harold J. Sykora

Neil Graff

Lewis Drug

List of South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Just got this started.

Central Baptist Church (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) - Needs some work

[edit] Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
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[edit] Templates

[edit] Project banner

{{WikiProject South Dakota}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

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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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[edit] Categories

South Dakota
Buildings and structures in South Dakota
Communications in South Dakota
South Dakota culture
Economy of South Dakota
Education in South Dakota
Environment of South Dakota
Geography of South Dakota
Government of South Dakota
Health in South Dakota
History of South Dakota
Images of South Dakota
Landmarks in South Dakota
South Dakota law
South Dakota-related lists
Military in South Dakota
Native American tribes in South Dakota
People from South Dakota
South Dakota society
Sports in South Dakota
South Dakota stubs
Transportation in South Dakota
Visitor attractions in South Dakota


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[edit] Resources

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The following periodicals are available in subscription databanks or other electronic resources for the period indicated. If you would wish access to such information, but do not yourself have access to the databanks or sources in question, please drop me an e-mail indicating which sources you want, and what subject or period you are considering, and I will forward to you the information I can find. John Carter (talk) 17:41, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

  • Aberdeen American News (2000-on)

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