Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota

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Welcome to the South Dakota WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to South Dakota.

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.

Open tasks

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.

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.

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. Sumbawa (talk · contribs) - SD resident and USD student, interests in entertainent and music
5. Lmielke359 (talk · contribs) - SD native attending Purdue University, focusing on the western half of SD
6. David57437 (talk · contribs)-SD native and proud of it
7. Superlex (talk · contribs) (General South Dakota stuff, concentrating on Southeastern SD)
8. AlexNebraska (talk · contribs)
9. Atilla5 (talk · contribs) - resident of SD attending SDSU, focusing on the areas of transportation and the unincorporated communities of SE South Dakota
10. Toonami Reactor (talk) 23:11, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Relatives all origionate from South Dakota

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 and also currently determined to ruin Spiesr's life.
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

Articles

Featured articles

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

Landmarks

• Mount Rushmore

Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.

Good articles (GA)

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

• May 2007 Tornado Outbreak

Art, architecture and archaeology

Economics and business

Culture and society

Engineering and technology

• Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad;
• 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash

Everyday life

• Brock Lesnar

Food and drink

Geography

History

• Ghost Dance
• Great Storm of 1975
• Sitting Bull

Language

Mathematics

Music

Politics and government

Religion

War and military

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.

List of South Dakota state symbols

Black Hills Playhouse

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Demographics of South Dakota - Split off from main South Dakota article. I could use some help categorizing this one.

Geography of South Dakota - Split off from the main South Dakota article, has plenty of room for expansion.

History of South Dakota - Split off from the main South Dakota article, has plenty of room for expansion.

John H. Lawrence - born in Canton, South Dakota, he pioneered the field of nuclear medicine. I'm going to work on the article over the next couple days and then submit to Did you know?. Feel free to help.

Silver City, South Dakota - is an unincorporated community in the Black Hills near Pactola Lake

Members of the South Dakota State Senate - tables listing all members of the South Dakota State Senate since 1889.

Did you know (DYK?)

• Huron University - May 8, 2006.
• Terry Forster - September 3, 2006.
• Sue (dinosaur) - April 17, 2007.
• Red River Trails - May 4, 2007

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• Mandan

Delisted Good Articles

• Big Stone Lake
• Battle of the Little Big Horn

Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Templates

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.

Other templates

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

{{WikiProject South Dakota}} looks like this:

Categories

• Category:South Dakota

Resources

Related projects

WikiProject South Dakota is one of the United States WikiProjects.