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Scope
The scope of this project is twofold:
- Any article relating to the geography, geology, ecology, etc. of the Appalachian Mountains
- Any article relating to the history or culture of the region of Appalachia
Goals
- To create, improve, and/or maintain articles relating to Appalachia or the Appalachian Mountains
- To categorize and create consistency for articles relating to Appalachia or the Appalachian Mountains
- To add sections or subsections to articles within the project's scope explaining the article subject's relation to the Appalachian region
Participants
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Articles in need of attention
Appalachian Mountains
- List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains — create list; see List of mountains of the Blue Ridge for an example
- Appalachian balds — expand
- Cove — expand
- Cove hardwood forest — create article
- Appalachian trail — add a small navigation box at the bottom of all A.T. points of note
- Richland Balsam — I created this article: but much expansion is necessary. TTS51207 (talk) 16:09, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- Tennent Mountain — create article
Appalachia
- Appalachia — overhaul (in progress — see Discussion page)
- Create section explaining states' Appalachian regions' relation to Appalachia:
West Virginia — add ARC section to Economy of West VirginiaEast Tennessee- Western North Carolina — "Cities and towns" may need to be pruned, expand Tenn. Valley section
- North Georgia — expand
- Western Pennsylvania — wikify/reorganize, add sources and ARC section
- Southwest Virginia — needs references
- Upstate South Carolina — add ARC section; cities section may have too many subsections
- Appalachian Ohio — clarify cultural vs. ecological definition in lede; overhaul history section with focus on Appalachian Ohio
- North Alabama — add ARC section
- Eastern Mountain Coal Fields (Kentucky) — expand
- Western Maryland — expand
- Music and musicians
- Appalachian music — needs more info on festivals; possibly more about instruments
- John Cohen — expansion. For his efforts in Appalachian Field Recordings
- String band — expand
- Roscoe Holcomb — expand (good lede already)
- Henry Reed (musician); expand
- Ola Belle Reed — expand
- Sarah Ogan Gunning — finally started article, could use expansion, discography.
- Jim Garland — expand
- Stoney Mountain Boys; create article
- Coal mining and labor
- Coal mining in Appalachia
- Battle of Matewan — clean-up
- Anthracite mining — add separate article
- Theodore Dreiser — add info. on investigation
- Harlan County War — expansion
- Other
- History of the Appalachian people in Chicago; create article
- History of the Appalachian people in Metro Detroit; create article
- Moccasin Gap article requires expansion to be relevant.
- Scotch-Irish American — mess; add section for Appalachia
- Melungeon — minor cleanup
- Tally War — create article
- Snake handling — overhaul
- Hezekiah Balch — article
- Glenmary Sisters — create article
- Ironweed Festival — create article
- Tennessee Valley Authority — Lede, overview, and facilities good; History section is poor (even though it was copied from TVA's website) and needs a complete overhaul; Controversies should be expanded to mention Ashwander and TEPCO, eminent domain cases, the Tellico mess in the 1970s, etc.
- Cold Mountain (novel) — expansion. Currently most of it is plot summary, needs criticism/analysis
- Granny women — move to Appalachian folklore or Appalachian folk medicine and do a major overhaul
Emma Bell Miles — create article- Shelton Laurel Massacre — Stumbled upon this new article, needs expansion. I added image.
- Tub mill — currently redirects to gristmill, but that article has inadequate coverage of tubwheel-powered mills
- Transportation in Appalachia — needs to be encyclopediafied (reads too much like a term paper) and needs references
Jesco White — badly in need of referencing
Clean-up, copyediting
- Check any of the 400 or so counties (see list on the ARC website) in Appalachia for basic copyediting and clean-up; ensure they are in order and consistent with other county articles, remove any copy-pasted information or insulting language, remove non-notables from notable residents lists, etc.
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Categorization
Articles in the Wikiproject are in Category:WikiProject Appalachia.
Related English-language Wikipedia categories:
- Category:Appalachia
- Category:Appalachian culture
- Category:Appalachian Mountains
- Category:Appalachian studies
- Category:Appalachian Development Highway System
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Watchlist
- Recent changes to articles included in this project
- Most-viewed pages included in the project
Resources
Web
- Digital Library of Appalachia
- Appalachian Regional Commission Online Resource Center
- Appalachian Studies Association Online Resources
- Appalachian Treasures Gateway
- Encyclopedia of Appalachia online edition
- Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell (editors). Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
- Richard B. Drake. A History of Appalachia. Lexington, Ken.: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
- John Alexander Williams. Appalachia: A History. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.