Wikipedia:WikiProject Boston

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Welcome to the WikiProject Boston Do you love the city of Boston – Do you want to assist us in cleaning up pages associated with Boston? Then this is the Project for you. We are open to ways to expand this Project so hop on board and add suggestions. Please add yourself to the Members section.

Members

Markco1 - I live in East Boston and am interested in culture and history of Boston. Markco1 02:24, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Caf3623 Caf3623 00:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Pjorg Pjorg 20:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Myersj Myersj 04:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Expos1225 Expos1225 08:05, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

CrimsonScholar CrimsonScholar 07:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Kester Teague Kester Teague 15:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

WAAFFan1073977 WAAFFan1073977 15:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Kevin Lowe Kevinmlowe 19:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Patricknoddy Patricknoddy

MBCF MBCF 06:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

DarkSun23c - I was born in Boston and have lived in Malden and Newton. I'm very interested in the transportation history of Boston, as well as other things. Darksun23c 19:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanach Although technically I'm from Brockton, I fit in better with Boston, and am told I sound like I grew up in a neighborhood of Irish Descent. Thanach 02:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Jeeny - Born, raised and schooled in Boston. Attended the very first public elementary school in the nation, the Mather School. I love it's rich history. Jeeny 19:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Tjl82090 - Though I live right outside of Boston, I know much about it. Tjl82090 20:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

EmCree - I'm a student of the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science, I want to help improve and maintain the excellence of Boston's wikipedia articles. 23:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

cwinder - I was born at what is now Brigham and Women's Hospital. Grew up in Charleston, have lived in the South End, the North End, Beacon Hill, and Jamaica Plain (currently). --Cwinder 15:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Raime - I have lived in Plymouth, and am very interested in Boston architecture and history. Raime 17:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

honds - Though I grew up in Connecticut, I attended Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston for four years. I work just outside of Boston. --honds 15:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Hiberniantears Hiberniantears 17:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

hellgirl13 hellgirl13 - Native and "townie", I have grown up and lived in many neighborhoods and cities that make up the "Greater Metro Area": southie (Old Colony), The Back Bay, Everett, Malden, JP, Somerville and Medford. I currently reside 5 miles from the North End, near Wellington, in Medford. I am most interested in the history of Boston's underworld.

MarkinBoston Grew up in Jamaica Plain, went to Boston Public Schools. I'm rewriting/expanding the Jamaica Plain page and modifying related articles MarkinBoston 00:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Fred sienkiewicz I live in JP and am a freelance musician in town. I'm interested in the classical music articles about Boston musicians and ensembles. Fred 03:04, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

SolarApex I live in Boston and have been contributing to this project here and there, but didn't have a chance to list my name here. Solarapex 18:40, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Zomic13 : I grew up and have lived in the Boston area my entire life.

Focusoninfinity Descend Copp's Hill's, Wm Copp b1589, Bewsall, Hatton, Warwick, England, dBoston 1670, wed 1634 Judith Itchenor (d1670) by son Johnathan Copp. William's parents were Thomas Copp (1539-1628) & Isabel Gunne. Desc. LtCol David Copp, Sr., of Dover, N.H., fought at "Bunker Hill" as Capt., Dover town fathers gave him three guineas money for first of three Dover militia companies to battle. As legislator, David fought the disenfrangement of Catholics.

Stormtracker94 Love that dirty water... STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 19:28, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Ktr101 I live on the Cape but I still am involved in this project.

Vhoscythe I live in Franklin, that's a town that is like, 30 minutes from Boston. I'd be glad to help! --Vhoscythe^chatter-sign 13:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

pmcyclist I live in Needham and work in Boston Pmcyclist (talk) 21:28, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

"Tinydr" I grew up outside Boston and lived all over town for a long while... I was a messenger 93-98 and cabdriver 01-03 so I know my way around and know the city pretty well.

Member Projects

Here you can find Boston related member projects that are in progress or finished.

• Member Projects

New Template

I hope this thing works. If you can improve go for it! {{Project Boston}}, which looks like

Assessment instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{Project Boston}} project banner: Place this on the talk page of the article

{{Project Boston| ... | class=??? |importance=??? ...}}

The following values may be used for importance:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Boston articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Boston articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Boston articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Boston articles)
• if not completed, the article is added to the Category:Unknown-importance Boston articles.

The following values may be used for class:

Label	Criteria	Articles	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles	FA-Class Boston articles	No further editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light.	Gilwell Park (as of January 2007)
A {{A-Class}}	Should only be used for articles that could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.	A-Class Boston articles	Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage.	Durian (as of June 2006)
GA {{GA-Class}}	Only used for articles currently listed as good articles) article must pass through the Good article nomination process.	GA-Class Boston articles	Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time.	Agriculture (as of June 2006)
B {{B-Class}}	Has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.	B-Class Boston articles	Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors.	Munich air disaster (as of May 2006) has a lot of helpful material but contains too many lists, and needs more prose content & references.
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas.	Start-Class Boston articles	Substantial editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage.	Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level.	Stub-Class Boston articles	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Coffee table book (as of July 2005)

Statistics

Boston articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	3		8			12
FL		1		2		2	5
FM					10		10
GA	3	14	14	35		13	79
B	13	42	40	60		71	226
C	4	50	93	225		235	607
Start	8	37	165	808	1	755	1,774
Stub		7	54	532		641	1,234
List		3	7	25		29	64
Category				7	330		337
Disambig		1			4		5
File				1	9		10
Project					9		9
Redirect		1	2	27	51		81
Template			1	1	85		87
Other					19		19
Assessed	29	159	376	1,731	518	1,746	4,559
Unassessed				5		130	135
Total	29	159	376	1,736	518	1,876	4,694
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 19,533			Ω = 4.97

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Goals

• Cleanup pages that are related to Boston
• Merge pages that should be merged
• Watch Boston pages for vandalism
• Create Pages for all Boston Neighborhoods
• Expand Pages for Boston Neighborhoods
• Expand and Create pages for Boston Personalities

Categories

Boston Neigborhoods

Looking for action items on the Neighboorhoods and discussion as to if they should be separated into major neighboorhoods and sub-neigboorhoods. For instance Kenmore Square, Fens and Fenway-Kenmore could all be considered part of the Fenway of which there is no section. Also should clean up Boston Neighborhoods adding a quick blurb about each section.

Allston Bay Village Back Bay Back Bay Fens Beacon Hill Brighton - Needs much of things. Charlestown Chinatown Downtown Crossing Dorchester Copley Square East Boston - Working on getting this article up to par. Fenway-Kenmore Financial District Government Center Hyde Park - This guy needs alot of work

Jamaica Plain Kenmore Square Longwood Mattapan - needs alot of work. Mission Hill North End Orient Heights Roslindale Roxbury Savin Hill South Boston South Bay South End West End West Roxbury - Needs Images

Others

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston needs descriptions, some photos
• List of Registered Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts needs descriptions, many photos
• Fort Point Channel - Thinking on expanding to include Fort Point neighborhood
• Opera Company of Boston - needs expansion
• New England Historic Genealogical Society - needs expansion
• Mytown - needs expansion
• Schraffts - this is a stub
• Jamaicaway - HouseOfScandal has started this page - HoC do you need us to help out?

People

• Lewis Hayden - needs to be wikified
• John Nelson (merchant) - needs to be wikified
• John Mayo - needs to be expanded
• Thomas Sims - needs to be expanded
• Shadrach Minkins - needs to be expanded
• Thomas Temple - article needs to be cleaned up
• The Hughes Brothers - needs to be expanded
• John F. Collins - needs to be expanded

Organizations

• Boston Vigilance Committee - anti slavery group - Needs expansion

Music

• Slapshot (band) - Clean up article on this local Hardcore Band

Articles that should be created

• Orpheum Theatre (Boston)
• Oxenbridge Thacher (reference)
• Samuel Cooper (clergyman) (1725–1783), a central figure in the Revolution in Boston, an associate of Samuel Adams and John Hancock

New articles of interest

• The Dorchesterway
• Children's Wharf
• Skinny House
• George Robert White
• Thomas Cass
• Maverick National Bank