Wikipedia:WikiProject Rhode Island

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

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Rhode Island, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Rhode Island.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Rhode Island, its history, geography, and people.

All these articles should be included in the Category:Rhode Island or one of its subcategories.

Open tasks

• All articles should be added to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Rhode Island/Articles list by category.
• 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

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

• Crips r usCrips r us (talk) 20:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
• John Carter 23:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
• Phantombantam 05:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Nick Lima 08:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Moodyboy11 00:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Loodog 02:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Shunpiker 05:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC) (Political biographies, history)
• Analogdemon (talk) 00:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
• Raime 17:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
• SarekOfVulcan (talk · contribs) (grew up near P.C.)15:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
• Swampyank (talk) 06:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC) Rhode Island history and geography

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Rhode Island}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

Articles

Featured articles

Geography

• Providence, Rhode Island

Landmarks

• List of tallest buildings in Providence (Featured list)

Notable Rhode Island residents

• Lightning Bolt discography

Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates or Featured list candidates:

Good articles (GA)

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

Art, architecture and archaeology

• Gilbert Stuart

Economics and business

Culture and society

Engineering and technology

Food and drink

Geography

• Rhode Island

History

Language

Mathematics

Music

Politics and government

Religion

War and military

New articles

Cities

• Pawtucket, Rhode Island
• Cranston, Rhode Island
• Warwick, Rhode Island
• Woonsocket, Rhode Island
• Bristol, Rhode Island
• East Providence, Rhode Island
• Johnston, Rhode Island
• Westerly, Rhode Island

Please help organize and add these articles: These articles need to have the {{WikiProject Rhode Island}} tag inserted and be rated.

RI Rivers

• Beaver River
• Big River
• Blackstone River
• Branch River
• Carr River
• Chepachet River
• Chipuxet River
• Chockalog River
• Clear River
• Congdon River
• Flat River (South Branch Pawtuxet)
• Flat River (Wood)
• Green Fall River
• Hunt River
• Kickamuit River
• Maidford River
• Maiford River
• Maskerchugg River
• Mattatuxet River
• Mill River
• Millers River
• Mishnock River
• Moosup River
• Moshassuck River
• Moswansicut River
• Nipmuc River
• Nooseneck River
• North Branch Pawtuxet River
• Palmer River
• Pascoag River
• Pawcatuck River
• Pawtuxet River
• Peters River
• Pettaquamscutt River
• Pine River
• Pocasset River
• Ponaganset River
• Potowomut River
• Providence River
• Quaket River
• Queen River
• Runnins River
• Sakonnet River
• Saugatucket River
• Seekonk River
• Seven Mile River
• South Branch Pawtuxet River
• Stillwater River
• Ten Mile River
• Usquepaug River
• Warren River
• West River
• Wood River
• Woonasquatucket River

Please feel free to list your new Rhode Island-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 the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Rhode Island, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Rhode Island/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

Collaboration and review

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

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Templates

Stubs

• {{RhodeIsland-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Rhode Island. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{RhodeIsland-struct-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to buildings and structures in Rhode Island. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
• {{RhodeIsland-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Rhode Island geography. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.

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 Rhode Island}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject Rhode Island}} looks like this:

Categories

• Category:Rhode Island

Resources

• Official state website
• IslandSymbols.htm Rhode Island state symbols
• Secretary of State of Rhode Island
• Rhode Island State Library and Archives
  • Why Did Rhode Island Become a State? from the NSLA
• USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Rhode Island
• US Census Bureau
• Island.com/ County Maps of Rhode Island Full color maps. List of cities, towns and county seats
• Rhode Island State Facts
• Island.com/ Rhode Island Commission on Tourism
• Rhode Island's Summits
• ISLAND.htm Climate of Rhode Island