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WikiProject Massachusetts is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Project Massachusetts

Articles

Business articles

Culture articles

History articles

Local town articles

Military articles

Organization Articles

People articles

Places/geography articles

Religion articles

State government articles

Note: This project is not specifically a government project.

Templates

Infoboxes

Should other New England states use the same infobox? If so, should it change to "Infobox Town New England"?
Why not use Infobox Community - see Harvard, MA for an example. John 02:01, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
That doesn't seem to allow for some New England/Massachusetts-specific information, like town meeting format, etc. --AaronS 02:14, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I see. Maybe we can get them to add a government box with a free form "type" string to the Community one? Or would you expect more New England specific stuff? John 02:42, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have been using {{Infobox City}} for some cities in MA and it works nicely. --Jared
I heavily updated this infobox to contain more information and make it look like the Infobox City one. It still contains fields for local government and also has the feature that unused fields don't show up at all. See Westborough, Massachusetts and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. --Capital R 06:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent work on adding the templates. --AaronS 05:53, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I explained/complained in Action discussion that "settled" should link to an explanation of settlement as an event --something like settlement (event), what is dated by the settlement date?-- rather than to a general article on Massachusetts. I am too new to find the template for "Settled: yyyy, Incorporated: yyyy" much less its discussion. 64.48.73.24 00:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I just converted all towns to also use the Infobox City template for consistency. The Infobox City template has been recently modified to be general enough to handle all of the fields in the old Infobox Town MA template, so it made no sense to keep a duplicate template. --CapitalR 04:47, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Switch to Infobox City

Template: Infobox City can do everything that Infobox Town MA can do. We should start converting the pages to that. --AaronS 14:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would disagree. This may work for the cities, but it seems like it would be insufficient for the towns; for example, it doesn't appear to allow for selectmen. Sahasrahla 16:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • It does now. I just converted all towns; no information was lost in the converstion as the Infobox City template now is general enough to handle just about anything.--CapitalR 04:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Categories

Categories to be included in this project

Category:Massachusetts

Categories to which this Project should refer

Images

Here are some images that were either created by/for this Project, or would just be handy for this Project. Please add more!

Maps

In the Infobox Template:Infobox City, there is a place for an image showing the town's place in the state. Can someone advise the rest of us on creating such images?

Yes. I just added an image file showing the outlines of Massachusetts towns and cities. When you add the Townbox to an article, download this image, fill in the town's borders with pure red color (using a program like Photoshop or any other that can handle .png files), and then upload the file with the name "Ma_towns_TOWNNAMEHERE.png" replacing "TOWNNAMEHERE" with the name of the town.
I got this image from a Massachusetts government web site, so I assume that it is public domain.--AaronS 16:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Requested photographs

For Massachusetts-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Massachusetts}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Massachusetts. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

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Stubs

We have Stubs!

Stubs relating specifically to… ought to use… See…
Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-stub}} Category:Massachusetts stubs
Massachusetts geography {{Massachusetts-geo-stub}} Category:Massachusetts geography stubs
Massachusetts politicians {{Massachusetts-politician-stub}} Category:Massachusetts politician stubs
Massachusetts schools {{Massachusetts-school-stub}} Category:Massachusetts school stubs
Massachusetts state highways {{Massachusetts-State-Highway-Stub}} Category:Massachusetts State Highway stubs

And this is how they look:


To Do

See our To Do list.

Wikiportal

Perhaps, someday, this project can grow into a Wikiportal!

Project Notice Template

Massachusetts-related articles should have the following link inserted at the top of the talk pages:

{{Project Massachusetts}}

It will come out looking like this:

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