Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Assessment
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| South Dakota articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | Total | |||
| Quality | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |||
| B | 2 | 6 | 24 | 21 | 53 | ||
| C | 1 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 31 | ||
| Start | 7 | 40 | 214 | 566 | 827 | ||
| Stub | 23 | 161 | 769 | 953 | |||
| List | 18 | 19 | 82 | 119 | |||
| Assessed | 12 | 97 | 429 | 1455 | 1993 | ||
| Total | 12 | 97 | 429 | 1455 | 1993 | ||
Welcome to the assessment department of the South Dakota WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about South Dakota or the people of South Dakota. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject South Dakota}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:South Dakota articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
[edit] Frequently asked questions
- How can I get my article rated?
- Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any member of the South Dakota WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
- What if I don't agree with a rating?
- You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
[edit] Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject South Dakota}} project banner on its talk page:
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The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class South Dakota articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class South Dakota articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class South Dakota articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class South Dakota articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class South Dakota articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class South Dakota articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article South Dakota pages)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed South Dakota articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
[edit] Quality scale
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
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The article has attained featured article status.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | L'incoronazione di Poppea (as of December 2009) |
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The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class.
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Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer review may help. | Cologne War (as of October 2009) |
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The article has attained good article status.
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Typhoon Elsie (1989) (as of November 2009) |
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| B | The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | KV55 (as of November 2009) |
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| C | The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and address cleanup issues. | Architecture of Denmark (as of November 2009) |
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| Start | An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources.
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Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. | Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
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| Stub | A very basic description of the topic.
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Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. | Geodia gibberosa (as of July 2009) |
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The article has attained featured list status.
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available. | Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3) (as of February 2009) |
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| List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of aikidoka (as of June 2007) |
[edit] Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of South Dakota.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
| Status | Template | Meaning of Status |
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| Top | {{Top-Class}} | This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information. |
| High | {{High-Class}} | This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge. |
| Mid | {{Mid-Class}} | This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. |
| Low | {{Low-Class}} | This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia. |
| None | None | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed. |
We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Assessment/Top-importance articles.
Additional criteria to use:
Top importance
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- South Dakota
- General "X of South Dakota" (where X = things like history, geography, demographics...)
- Sioux Falls, Rapid City
- Black Hills, Missouri River
High importance
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- Cities with pop. 8,000 to 50,000
- Counties with pop. greater than 20,000
- Ellsworth AFB
- More specialized "X of South Dakota" (Ecology, geology, courts...)
- Major parks and monuments (National parks, Mt. Rushmore, Custer SP)
- Rounds, Herseth, Thune, Johnson
- State flag, state seal, state capitol
- SDSU and USD
- Large reservations
- Interstates 29 and 90
- Historical events with a major, lasting impact (L&C expedition, Dust Bowl, Wounded Knee massacre, BH gold rush...)
- Major geographic regions and features besides those listed as "Top" (Great Plains, James River...)
- Census-defined Metropolitan Areas (SF & RC)
Mid importance
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- Cities with pop. 1,000 to 8,000
- Smaller counties
- "X of [City]" (e.g. "History of Sioux Falls")
- State government departments, agencies, etc.
- All other elected and appointed government offices
- Current major government officials (current secretary of X, Speaker of the House...)
- Widely known non-politicians (Tom Brokaw, Laura Ingalls Wilder...)
- Former governors, US senators, congressmen
- Notable buildings and structures (DakotaDome, other airports, Missouri River dams, etc.)
- Major media outlets (2 largest newspapers, affiliates of major TV networks, major regional radio stations, SDPB)
- Private and smaller public colleges and universities
- Interstates 190 and 229, US and SD highways of considerable length in the state
- Localized yet important geographic features (Harney Peak, Lake Oahe...)
- Smaller/less notable places managed by National Park Service, national wildlife refuges, state parks besides Custer
- Very limited number of companies with a major historical or large current impact (Milwaukee Road, Sanford Health...)
- Weather events of regional impact or great local impact (1993 floods, Rapid City flood...)
- Major tourist attractions (Wall Drug, Sturgis Rally, Crazy Horse monument...)
- Census-defined Micropolitan areas
Low importance
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- Townships
- Cities with pop. less than 1,000
- All CDPs, unincorporated communities, and defunct cities
- Most politicians and government officials (state legislators, mayors...)
- Non-politicians of lesser fame or notablility
- Minor media outlets
- Elections
- Military units
- Most buildings
- Most organizations
- Most sports teams
- Nearly all companies
- Community colleges, high schools, middle schools
[edit] Requesting an assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.
The Journey Museum and Gardens (Fact-of-the-matter (talk) 15:59, 7 August 2009 (UTC))
- I've gone ahead and re-assessed it as C class. Like I said in my edit summary, the article still has issues, but is much larger than stub class. AlexiusHoratius 20:02, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment log
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
| This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record. |
[edit] December 30, 2009
- South Dakota Highway 87 reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
[edit] December 22, 2009
- Sylvia Bacon (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- South Dakota Highway 87 reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Low-Class)
[edit] December 17, 2009
- Heat Wave of 1995 Derecho Series (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Heat wave of 1995 derecho series
- U.S. Route 16A (South Dakota) (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to U.S. Route 16A
- Needles Highway (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
- Henry A. Lardy (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] December 10, 2009
- Vermillion-Newcastle Bridge (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Vermillion–Newcastle Bridge
[edit] December 7, 2009
- South Dakota Highway 48 reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
- Codington County Heritage Museum (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- List of Superfund sites in South Dakota (talk) List-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] December 3, 2009
- Fanny Kelly (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
- Newton-Jenney Party (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Newton–Jenney Party
- Bramble Park Zoo (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Sidney Black Hills Stage Road (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Sioux Falls Seminary (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] November 28, 2009
- Dances with Wolves reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
- Maverick Junction, South Dakota (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Music of South Dakota reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Stub-Class (High-Class)
- Four Mile, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] November 22, 2009
- List of towns and villages in South Dakota (talk) List-Class (High-Class) renamed to List of towns in South Dakota
- Fanny Kelly (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] November 18, 2009
- List of people from Rapid City (talk) List-Class (Low-Class) renamed to List of people from Rapid City, South Dakota
- Music of South Dakota reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
[edit] November 12, 2009
- George W. Lilley reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- John W. Heston (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- William Tibertus McCarty reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- Harold Joseph Dimmerling (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- John Stariha (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Lead, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Tatanka Wind Farm (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- List of mountains in South Dakota (talk) List-Class (Mid-Class) added.
[edit] November 8, 2009
- Lake Alvin (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- George W. Lilley (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- William Tibertus McCarty (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] November 4, 2009
- Shane Van Boening (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) removed.
- Construction of Mount Rushmore reassessed from Stub-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- James Valley Christian School (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Doane Robinson (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- First Premier Bank (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] October 28, 2009
- List of cities and towns along the Missouri River (talk) List-Class (Low-Class) renamed to List of settlements along the Missouri River
- Cheyenne River Indian Reservation reassessed from Stub-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
- Eugene Luther Vidal (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] October 24, 2009
- Huron Wetland Management District reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- Roberto Lange (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
- Madison Wetland Management District reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
- Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
- Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Waubay Wetland Management District (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] October 19, 2009
- Morefield, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] October 14, 2009
- Great Sioux War of 1876-77 (talk) C-Class (High-Class) renamed to Great Sioux War of 1876–77
- Edith Green (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Theodore Schultz reassessed from Stub-Class (Mid-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
[edit] October 9, 2009
- South Dakota Highway Patrol reassessed from Stub-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- Jeffrey L. Viken (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Yankton Treaty (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- United States Senate election in South Dakota, 1998 (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- William Dougherty (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] September 30, 2009
- Wounded Knee Massacre (talk) B-Class (High-Class) added.
[edit] September 25, 2009
- Big Foot (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) removed.
- Lakota language reassessed from Start-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
- Dakota language (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Sioux language reassessed from Stub-Class (Mid-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- 67th Missile Squadron (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- 68th Missile Squadron (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Lincoln Borglum Museum (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Red Cloud Agency (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Spotted Elk (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Garrett Droppers (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] September 21, 2009
- Lee Ann Roripaugh (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
[edit] September 17, 2009
- Territorial evolution of South Dakota (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) renamed to Outline of South Dakota territorial evolution
- List of South Dakota county name etymologies (talk) List-Class (Low-Class) removed.
- Lambert Anthony Hoch (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
- JoAnn Tall reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- Lee Ann Roripaugh (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- William O. Brady (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] September 13, 2009
- Historical outline of South Dakota (talk) List-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Outline of South Dakota history
- Paul Vincent Dudley (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Bernard Joseph Mahoney (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- South Dakota Department of Education (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- KIKN-FM (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KKLS-FM (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KMXC (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KNWC (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KSQB-FM (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KTPT (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KTWB (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KXQL (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KZLK (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] September 8, 2009
- Dave Knudson (South Dakota) (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Dave Knudson (politician)
- Niels Ebbesen Hansen reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- Brandon Valley School District reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
- George Burr (United States Army) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KSQB (AM) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KWSN (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KXRB (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] September 4, 2009
- Niels Ebbesen Hansen (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
- Brandon Valley School District (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] August 28, 2009
- (No changes today)
[edit] August 24, 2009
- Jerry ver Dorn (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Jerry verDorn
- Ghost Dance reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- Sam Barry reassessed from B-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
- First State Bank Building (Revillo, South Dakota) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Ora McMurry (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Whittier School (Mitchell, South Dakota) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] August 19, 2009
- Jason Kubel reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- L. Adrien Hannus (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Moses Stranger Horse reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
[edit] August 14, 2009
- Gateway, Inc. reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
- Andrew Wendell Bogue (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Axel John Beck (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Fred Joseph Nichol (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- John Emmett Carland (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Lawrence L. Piersol (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Richard Howard Battey (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- KPGN-LP (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Moses Stranger Horse (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] August 10, 2009
- The Journey Museum and Gardens reassessed from Stub-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
- South Dakota Circuit Courts (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Gateway, Inc. (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
[edit] August 6, 2009
- KVAR (FM) (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Rushmore Cave (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
[edit] August 2, 2009
- John Jeremiah Lawler reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
- Joseph Francis Busch reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
[edit] July 30, 2009
- Alden Township, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Alden Township, Hand County, South Dakota
- Argentine Township, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Argentine Township, Fall River County, South Dakota
- Spink, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Spink Township, Union County, South Dakota
- Mammoth Site (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- East River (South Dakota) (talk) Stub-Class (High-Class) added.
- Carter, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Clearfield, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Ishtakhaba reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
- Jordan Junction, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Keyapaha, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Millboro, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Wewela, South Dakota (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
- John Jeremiah Lawler (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
- Joseph Francis Busch (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
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