Wikipedia:WikiProject Appalachia

WikiProject Appalachia

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Category	Appalachia
Wikimedia Commons	Appalachia
Parent project(s)	U.S. regions
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Welcome to WikiProject Appalachia! This project was founded on March 4, 2009 to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of the region of Appalachia.

All users are welcome and can sign their name in the members section. Feel free to add any articles in need of creation or overhaul to the respective sections.

This page is currently under a large restructuring; please be patient in regards to broken links or incomplete features. The overhaul began on February 10, 2024 and currently has an unclear expected completion date. Please feel free to make comments on the talk page and join in the effort!

Our assessment department's scales, worklist, and FAQs can be found here

Scope

This WikiProject aims to coordinate development of and improvements to articles related to the Appalachia region.

Note: Do not assume that being in, occurring in, or originating from Appalachia inherently places a subject within this projects's scope. A certain amount of cultural and/or historical impact on the region is required. It is rather subjective, but use your best judgement; if any disagreement about relevance arises please make it known via this project's talk page so that discussion can take place and consensus can be reached.

The following subject matters fall under this project's scope:

• Any article relating to the geography, geology, climate, etc. of the Appalachian Mountains. (including locations and population centers)
• Any political/environmental activism of any kind in the Appalachia region, particularly those relating to conservationism, labor, feminism, civil rights, etcetera.
• Historic events, individuals, movements, or groups beginning in Appalachia or which had a specific effort/impact in Appalachia.
• Coverage of cultural and ethnic groups, activities, traditions, music, art, etc. in Appalachia.
• Most articles on flora and fauna do not fall under the scope of this project. Only those with a specific cultural or historic impact/significance do.
• Groups, individuals and events relating to Appalachian industry, activism, pioneering, exploration, Native Peoples and politics.

All of these only apply when there is a reasonably notable connection with Appalachia

Goals

• To initiate, update, and maintain articles with importance to Appalachia and the Appalachian Mountains.
• To create a more universal quality standard for Appalachian articles.
• To bring Appalachia to Featured Article status and keep it there.
• To subdivide and categorize Appalachian articles.

Participants

Active participants

To join the WikiProject Appalachia, edit this section and add *{{subst:me}} and your focus to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username.

1. Amcbride (talk · contribs)
2. AppalachianCentrist (talk · contribs)
3. Arx Fortis (talk · contribs)
4. Bluestrike12 (talk · contribs)
5. BrineStans (talk · contribs)
6. Bohemian Baltimore (talk · contribs)
7. Brooklaika (talk · contribs)
8. Caponer (talk · contribs)
9. Coal town guy (talk · contribs)
10. Deanrah (talk · contribs)
11. Dionysius Miller (talk · contribs)
12. Donatrip (talk · contribs)
13. Dwalls (talk · contribs)
14. Eastcote (talk · contribs)
15. FatCat96 (talk · contribs)
16. FloNight (talk · contribs)
17. Guerillero (talk · contribs)
18. J654567 (talk · contribs)
19. Ken Gallager (talk · contribs)
20. Ken Thomas (talk · contribs)
21. ktr101 (talk · contribs)
22. Littlelago123 (talk · contribs)
23. L.N.farm (talk · contribs)
24. MariAdkins (talk · contribs)
25. Mcg-2000 (talk · contribs)
26. Nicole21532 (talk · contribs)
27. Omarcheeseboro (talk · contribs)
28. Orlady (talk · contribs)
29. Redwing1234 (talk · contribs) I live in Appalachia and would like to join WikiProject Appalachia Thank!
30. SonPraises (talk · contribs)
31. Thriley (talk · contribs)
32. Triadian (talk · contribs)
33. TTS51207 (talk · contribs)
34. Vontheri (talk · contribs)
35. Willking1979 (talk · contribs)

Templates

The following are all templates directly serviced and sponsored by WikiProject Appalachia:

What to type / Why to use	What it makes
Articles
{{WikiProject Appalachia}} Designates a page as being part of WikiProject Appalachia. Placed on the page's Talk page.
{{Appalachia-stub}} Designates an article as an Appalachia-related stub. Placed at the bottom of the article.
Project members
{{User WP Appalachia}} and/or {{User WP Appalachia 2}} Designates a user as a member of WikiProject Appalachia. Placed on the member's user page and/or talk page. Can be used in addition to or instead of the banner below.	This user is a member of WikiProject Appalachia. This user is a member of WikiProject Appalachia.
{{WP Appalachia member banner}} Designates a user as a member of WikiProject Appalachia. Placed on a member's user page and/or talk page.
{{AppalachiaProjectInvite}} Placed on a user's talk page for the purpose of inviting them to participate in WikiProject Appalachia.
{{Appalachia Barnstar}} Recognizes an editor's efforts to improve articles concerning the Appalachian region, as well as WikiProject Appalachia. Just add "{{[[Template:Appalachia Barnstaressage ~~~~|subst:Appalachia Barnstaressage ~~~~]]}}" to an editor's talk page, filling in a message to let them know why they have received it.	The Appalachia Barnstar Your message here! Dionysius Millertalk 00:43, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Articles for creation

Appalachian Mountains & geology

• Cove hardwood forest — create article
• Tennent Mountain — create article

Culture

• Tub mill — create article

Art

• Music and Musicians
  • Stoney Mountain Boys; create article
  • Ironweed Festival — create article

History

• Tally War — create article

Industry

• Anthracite mining — add separate article

Articles in need of attention

Appalachian Mountains & geology

• Appalachian balds — expand
• Cove — expand
• 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.
• Moccasin Gap article requires expansion to be relevant.

Culture

• Cultural & ethnic groups
  • Scotch-Irish American — mess; add section for Appalachia
  • Melungeon — minor cleanup
  • Snake handling — overhaul
  • 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

Art

• Music & 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 — could use expansion, discography.
  • Jim Garland — expand

History

• Shelton Laurel Massacre — Stumbled upon this new article, needs expansion.

Locations & geographic features

• Create section explaining states' Appalachian regions' relation to Appalachia
  • 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

Industry

• Coal mining in Appalachia
• Battle of Matewan — clean-up
• Theodore Dreiser — add info. on investigation
• Harlan County War — expansion

Other

• Appalachia — cleanup, expansion and work always needed
• Transportation in Appalachia — needs to be encyclopediafied (reads too much like a term paper) and needs references

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.

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

Related categories at Wikimedia Commons:

• Appalachian Mountains
• Appalachia
  • Appalachian music
  • Coal mining in Appalachia
  • Moonshining in Appalachia

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

Print

• 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.