Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware

WikiProject Delaware

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Shortcut	WP:WPDEL
Category	Delaware
Portal	Delaware
Wikimedia Commons	Delaware
Parent project(s)	U.S. states
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Delaware}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Delaware}}

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

Best of WikiProject Delaware

Articles, lists and images relating to Delaware (the creators of whom are encouraged to join this WikiProject; if grandfathered into this project, marked with *) will be showcased as being some of the finest works on Wikipedia. The following categories will be honored with inclusion among Wikipedia's Featured Articles, Featured Lists, Featured Pictures and Good Articles:

Featured Articles

• Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware
• Hurricane Esther (1961)
• Hurricane Hazel
• Tropical Storm Barry (2007)
• Tropical Storm Henri (2003)

Featured Lists

• List of Delaware hurricanes
• List of Governors of Delaware

Good Articles

• 2010 AAA 400
• Battle of Cooch's Bridge
• Bob Marley
• Delaware Route 6
• Delaware Route 71
• Delaware Route 82
• Delaware Route 299
• Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey)
• John D. Naylor
• List of counties in Delaware

Did You Know (DYK)s

• 1903 Vagabond Hurricane - 8 April 2007.
• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 2 January 2007.
• Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 - 29 November 2006.
• James Dillet Freeman - 19 October 2006
• John T. Chain, Jr. - 6 April 2006.
• Late November 2006 Nor'easter - 25 November 2006.
• List of Delaware hurricanes - 3 August 2006.
• Tropical Storm Henri (2003) - 16 June 2006.

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• Hurricane Floyd

Former good articles

• Amtrak
• Joe Biden
• Pennsylvania Railroad
• U.S. Route 40

4.0

• Bulleted list item

Tasks

• Add all new articles by category to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Articles.
• Use the recent changes function to monitor these articles for improvement, vandalism, and other changes.

Articles

• Delaware uses the template Template:Infobox U.S. state. The information there needs to remain up-to-date.
• Delaware State Routes will be handled by this project and WP:USRD.
• see Category:WikiProject Delaware
• see Category:WikiProject Delaware articles

When you find an article that either needs cleanup/rebuilding, needs to be built altogether, or otherwise could be improved upon, please add it here, so we can all help!

Lists

• List of Delaware hurricanes*, featured list
• List of Governors of Delaware*, former featured list
• Expand this list

Article assessments

Delaware articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			4	4			8
FL		3	1				4
FM					4		4
GA	1	4	41	46		2	94
B	9	15	64	140		8	236
C	2	6	37	157		38	240
Start	3	18	289	894		129	1,333
Stub		2	22	1,417		243	1,684
List		6	10	69		16	101
Category					2,177		2,177
Disambig					1		1
File					13		13
Portal					1		1
Project					21		21
Redirect		1	6	65	258		330
Template					158		158
NA					2		2
Other					8		8
Assessed	15	55	474	2,792	2,643	436	6,415
Unassessed						14	14
Total	15	55	474	2,792	2,643	450	6,429
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 18,625			Ω = 5.18

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Assessment

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Delaware}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Delaware articles by quality, Category:Delaware articles by importance, Category:Delaware articles needing attention. The quality and importance ratings serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Templates

The main templates page is located (temporarily) at /templates. This section lists the most commonly used and most general templates. For commenting, reference, and more in-depth template information, see the main template page.

Common templates

Delaware

• {{Delaware}} (to go at the bottom of Delaware–related pages- only with strong geographical content)
• {{DEGeneral}} (to go at the bottom of Delaware–related pages)

WikiProject Delaware

• {{subst:WikiProject Delaware}} (to go on the tops of the talk pages of Delaware–related articles)

Delaware State Parks

• Part of {{Protected Areas of Delaware}}

Userboxes

Code	Result
{{Template:User Delaware}}	This user lives in the U.S. State of Delaware.	Usage
{{Template:User Delaware export}}	This user grew up in Delaware, but now lives elsewhere and has to pay sales tax on almost everything.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Delaware|6}}	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Delaware.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Delaware|8}}	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Delaware.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Delaware|10}}	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Delaware.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Delaware|12}}	This user is interested in the U.S. State of Delaware.	Usage
{{Template:User WikiProject Delaware}}	This user participates in WikiProject Delaware.	Usage
{{Template:User WP Delaware}}	This user participates in WikiProject Delaware.	Usage
{{User:Dailynetworks/ubx/Delaware}}	This user has visited Delaware.	Usage

Categories

Category hierarchy starts at Category:Delaware. There is also a category of Wikipedians called: Category:Wikipedians in Delaware.

Images

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

• 
  Flag of Delaware
• 
  Seal of Delaware

• Lots of images found at commons:Category:Delaware. Please consider uploading free licensed works here so that they can be easily used by projects besides the English language Wikipedia.

Maps

If someone knows of any places to find or create maps for Delaware, please feel free to tell us here!

Requested photos

You can use the {{reqphoto|in=Delaware}} template to add talk pages to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Delaware. Please add free content photos for these articles where possible.

Stubs

• A general-purpose Delaware stub was created on 10/15/2005. It is {{Delaware-stub}}. There are redirects {{DEL-stub}} and {{DE-stub}}. The corresponding category is Category:Delaware stubs. Example:

• DE location/geography stub is {{Delaware-geo-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware geography stubs. Example:

• DE Politician stub is {{Delaware-politician-stub}}, with category Category:Delaware politician stubs. Example:

• DE School stub is {{Delaware-school-stub}}, with categories Category:Northeastern United States school stubs and Category:Delaware building and structure stubs. Example:

• DE road stub is {{Delaware-road-stub}}, with category Category:Northeastern United States road stubs. Example:

• DE building and structures stub is {{Delaware-struct-stub}}, with categories Category:Northeastern United States building and structure stubs and Category:Delaware stubs. Example:

• DE radio station stub is {{Delaware-radio-station-stub}}, with no DE-specific category. Example:

Project notice template

Delaware-related articles should have the following link {{WikiProject United States|DE=yes}} inserted at the top of the talk pages It will come out looking like this:

Other related wikiprojects: None yet, please feel free to come up with ideas here!

Events

Wikipedians are invited to the GLAM Café at the Chemical Heritage Foundation to meet, talk, and edit. We provide the space, the coffee, and the snacks: you provide ideas and enthusiasm! On the second Tuesday of each month. The next meetup will be Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Special guest speaker from Geophilly on GIS!

Participants

Active participants

To join WikiProject Delaware, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.

1. EaglesFanInTampa (talk · contribs), project founder
2. Hgebel (talk · contribs)
3. John Carter (talk · contribs) 15:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - doing a little to try to fill the shoes of the project's proposer
4. VerruckteDan (talk · contribs)
5. Littledrummrboy (talk · contribs)
6. Dough4872 (talk · contribs)
7. Elpiseos (talk · contribs) - this day in Delaware history portal pages
8. Ceyockey (talk · contribs) — I live in Delaware. My contributions are primarily in the form of news citations to support or introduce relevant facts in Delaware-related articles.
9. RevelationDirect (talk · contribs) - Focused on adding/improving Wilmington articles.
10. Superman7515 (talk · contribs) - Mostly focusing on towns and people in Sussex and Kent Counties.
11. SamHolt6 (talk · contribs) - Focused on anything related to the state. SamHolt6 (talk) 01:42, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
12. Heartmusic678 (talk · contribs) - anything related to DE. Heartmusic678 (talk) 16:11, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
13. BeanieFan11 (talk · contribs) – mainly Delaware sports
14. Keystone18 (talk · contribs) – Delaware geography, cities, towns, highways, politics, education, sports, and photos related to these topics.
15. Red0ctober22 (talk · contribs) 20:32:04, 6 January 2024 (UTC) 
16. Triphora (talk · contribs) — Primarily public transportation in NCC, incl. DART and SEPTA.

Former participants

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Eleigh33 - No edits since March 2008
2. Stilltim or Tim Westbrook- writing and continuing to edit articles on all Delaware Governors, U.S. Senators & U.S. Representatives - No edits since April 2010 - died October 5, 2010
3. Epimethius - No edits since April 2010
4. SuzukaISichigo100% - No edits since September 2008
5. User:Arverniking - Only 2 edits (in April 2011) since September 2010

Participant identification

WikiProject Delaware participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Delaware participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Delaware participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Delaware}}	This user participates in WikiProject Delaware.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Delaware}}	This user participates in WikiProject Delaware.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Delaware|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Delaware.	linked pages

For other Delaware user templates see Category:Delaware user templates.

Credit where it's due

This Project is clearly a blatant rip-off of WikiProject New Jersey, which in itself is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Massachusetts, which, in turn, is a blatant rip-off of WikiProject Vermont, for which the creator of WP:WPDE (as I'm sure the other usurpers, as well) is eternally grateful, yet remoseful all at once.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. --DThomsen8 (talk) 11:18, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Candidate's names on ballots in US states

We found in our research related to the 2016 historic election campaign (Hillary Clinton for US President) to the 2020 campaign that it's significant "in women's history" who is listed on the ballots in each of the states. This time in relationship to voter's choices and formal race withdrawals (now at Joe Biden will pick a woman VP; post withdrawal of Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris), and in 2016, to "historic Green Party candidate Jill Stein" on reported 33 ballots against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton (First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of US, "Pres. Obama's Secretary of State"). ````Julie Ann Racino 2020````

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.