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WikiProject Louisville
ShortcutsWP:Lou, WP:LOU, WP:WPLou, WP:Louisville
CategoryWikiProject Louisville
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Louisville metropolitan area Louisville metropolitan area
Parent
project(s)
Cities, Kentucky, Indiana, United States
Project banner templateSee Assessment department for details
Userboxes{{WPLouisville-Participant}}
{{User WPLouisville}}
Has goals?Yes
COVERAGE AREA

Map

  Louisville Metro (Jefferson County)
  Louisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN MSA
(inclusive of Louisville Metro)
  Trimble County, KY
(traditional part of Louisville MSA)
  Elizabethtown, KY MSA
PROJECT STATISTICS
  • 5,621 in-project edits over past 30 days (excl. talk pages & edits made by bots)
  • 7,255 included articles (0.1% of Wikipedia)
  • 16 featured articles (0.14% of all featured)
  • 70 good articles (0.16% of all good)
  • 2,318 stubs (0.1% of all stubs)
  • 23,800 total pages (incl. talk & all page types)
📰 PROJECT NEWS
Updated November 13, 2025
🗞️ November 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the 17th time in the past 23 months. Also interesting is we already likely know November's most popular article. UPS Airlines Flight 2976 has already received twice as many views so far in November than the article for Cruise received in all of October. This has been a very intense and horrifying period in Louisville's history, and the deadliest local aviation accident since 1953, leaving 14 people dead and many injured.
🗞️ October 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for September, the 16th time in the past 22 months.
🗞️ September 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the 15th time in the past 21 months. Interestingly, Lee Corso is a close second. Corso, head coach for Louisville Cardinals football from 1969 to 1972, recently retired from his longtime TV gig as an analyst on ESPN's College GameDay.
🗞️ August 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for July, the 14th time in the past 20 months.
🗞️ July 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the 13th time in the past 19 months.
🗞️ June 14, 2025
Battle of Corydon was demoted from being a featured article.
🗞️ June 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the twelfth time in the past eighteen months.
🗞️ June 6, 2025
There's now over 23,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ May 11, 2025
🗞️ April 11, 2025
🗞️ March 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the eleventh time in the past fifteen months.
🗞️ February 10, 2025
🗞️ January 9, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, the tenth time in the past thirteen months.
🗞️ December 9, 2024
Muhammad Ali is our most popular article for November.
🗞️ November 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the ninth time in the past eleven months.
🗞️ November 1, 2024
Big Four Bridge was delisted as a good article.
🗞️ October 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for September, the eighth time in the past ten months.
🗞️ September 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months.
🗞️ August 26, 2024
Aaron Hertzman becomes a good article. This brings us again to 70 in total!
🗞️ August 12, 2024
Basil W. Duke was delisted as a good article.
🗞️ August 10, 2024
Andy Beshear is our most popular article for July. Beshear, recently a contender for the nomination of Vice President of the United States in the Democratic Party, is the 63rd Governor of Kentucky, currently serving in his second term. He and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman are the only Democratic statewide elected officials in Kentucky.
🗞️ July 17, 2024
Breonna Taylor becomes a good article. This brings us to 70 in total!
🗞️ July 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months.
🗞️ July 9, 2024
WDRB becomes a good article.
🗞️ June 23, 2024
There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ June 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the fifth time in the past six months. Also of note are the rankings of articles related to local annual or special events, with Kentucky Derby at #4, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) at #6, Valhalla Golf Club at #9, 2024 Kentucky Derby at #16, Mint julep at #21, 2023 Kentucky Derby at #23, and 2024 PGA Championship at #36.
🗞️ May 24, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for April, the fourth time in the past five months.
🗞️ May 22, 2024
There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ May 7, 2024
🗞️ April 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months.
🗞️ March 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the second time in the past three months.
🗞️ February 29, 2024
There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ February 9, 2024
Lamar Jackson is our most popular article for January. Jackson, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner who played for the Louisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for the Baltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimous Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award.
🗞️ January 13, 2024
WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar, The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go.
🗞️ January 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time Golden Globe winner Cruise attended St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city.
🗞️ December 28, 2023
There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ December 12, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ December 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9.
🗞️ December 3, 2023
Check out WikiProject Louisville's new Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page.
🗞️ November 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for October. Lawrence, an Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro.
🗞️ October 24, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville.
🗞️ October 21, 2023
WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new.
🗞️ October 10, 2023
WikiProject Louisville's Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page.
🗞️ October 8, 2023
Deion Sanders is our most popular article for September. Sanders, a former NFL and MLB player and currently the head coach of Colorado Buffaloes football, played for the Louisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01).
🗞️ October 3, 2023
WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages.
🗞️ July 29, 2023
Sherman Minton was demoted from being a featured article.
🗞️ June 22, 2023
🗞️ May 13, 2023
Phil Simms was delisted as a good article.
🗞️ March 22, 2023
🗞️ November 23, 2022
🗞️ May 9, 2022
🗞️ March 13, 2022
🗞️ January 4, 2022
🗞️ December 28, 2021
🗞️ October 15, 2020

Archive of news items over 5 years old

🗞️ June 7, 2006
WikiProject Louisville begins.

WikiProject Louisville is an open collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006, to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky (a multi-county region in north-central Kentucky and Southern Indiana) and related subjects in the Wikipedia.

Front-burner project actions

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PROJECT ARTICLES NEEDING ACTION
Updated November 13, 2025
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1 Louisville Metro Police Department Quito (sister city) Deion Sanders Rebecca Broussard Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky
comprehensive subarticle for History of Louisville, Kentucky
2 Presbyterian Church (USA) La Plata (sister city) Lewis and Clark Expedition Brian McMahan SoBro, Louisville
neighborhood nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (incl. Columbia Gym)
3 University of Louisville Ford Explorer Joe Torre The Revisionist Columbia Auditorium / Columbia Gym
current Spalding University building w/ Muhammad Ali connections; part of NRHP's "North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area"
4 Humana Hand transplantation Louisville, Kentucky Louisville Fire Pegasus Parade
longstanding key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect)
5 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball Hillbilly Outfield: Kentucky Derby party Bourbon whiskey Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band Ehrler's Dairy
established 1867; local favorite ice cream parlor
6 Louisville, Kentucky Interstate 64 in Indiana Chris Hardwick Erin Wilhelmi Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon
also a longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect)
7 Belle of Louisville Jim Beam Fort Knox Joseph Ainslie Bear Traditions at the University of Louisville
similar to Traditions at the University of Kentucky
8 Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) UPS Airlines Quito (sister city) 2022 Louisville Cardinals football team St. Joseph's College (Kentucky)
former Bardstown college w/ notable alumni (convert from redirect)
9 Jeffersonville, Indiana WKMJ-TV Montpellier (sister city) 2025–26 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team Ballard & Ballard Mills
1880–1951; introduced refrigerated biscuits
10 Lewis and Clark Expedition Walden School (Louisville) Josh Hamilton Clifford Rozier Resthaven Memorial Park, Louisville
cemetery with multiple notable people buried there, including Pee Wee Reese
 
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  • 20 Oct 20252012 Southern Indiana tornado (talk · edit · hist) move request to 2012 Henryville Tornado by NomzEditingWikis (t · c) was moved to 2012 Henryville tornado (talk · edit · hist) by ModernDayTrilobite (t · c) on 06 Nov 2025; see discussion

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Current project backlogs

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ConcernTotal% of Articles
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Cleanup issues3,459 in 2,212 articles30.5November 11, 2025
Stubs needing expansion or reassessment2,31832Last cache*
Possibly undercategorized articles1,03114.2November 13, 2025
Articles possibly too isolated from mainspace1,01414November 12, 2025
Articles with old cleanup issues4916.8November 12, 2025
Photo/image requests (Breakdown)3344.6Last cache*
Stub-assessed articles without any stub tags3204.4November 12, 2025

* You may need to purge the cache to see the most up-to-date total.

Goal and scope

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The goal of our WikiProject is to encourage and provide comprehensive, reliably sourced coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area by creating, improving, connecting, assessing and monitoring articles, lists, templates and all other pages about the area and any subject/person well connected to it (usually identified from Louisville area-related categorization).

Our scope is Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, specifically the combined statistical area, consisting of multiple counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, as follows:

Kentucky

*Traditionally part of the Louisville MSA

Indiana

As of 13 November 2025, there are 7,255 articles within the scope of WikiProject Louisville, of which 16 are featured and 70 are good articles. This makes up 0.1% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.14% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.16% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 23,800 pages in the project.

Articles and other pages are included in this project by adding {{WikiProject United States|Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=}} to their talk pages.

Milestones

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(16/73)
(86/145)
(431/726)
(1338/1451)
(4837/5804)



Relations

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Parent WikiProjects

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WikiProject Louisville shares coverage with and sometimes supersedes coverage for the following projects:

  • Formatting/Structure (city articles only): Cities
  • State-level: Kentucky and Indiana
    • Oftentimes, WikiProject Louisville will supersede coverage by WikiProject Kentucky. The usual exceptions are subjects that are connected only to metropolitan counties outside Jefferson, or local subjects connected to a statewide purpose, such as state representatives/senators from Louisville Metro.
  • Country-level (project infrastructure): United States

Sibling WikiProjects

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  • Chicago (both Louisville and Chicago's metro areas include portions of Indiana)
  • Cincinnati (both Louisville and Cincinnati's metro areas include portions of Kentucky)
  • Indianapolis (department of WP Indiana; major city in Indiana)

Recent in-project activity

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Notes:

  1. Tagged bot edits are excluded. Known untagged bots: AAlertBot (daily report production); AnomieBOT (orphaned ref rescues); ClueBot NG (vandalism reverts).
  2. Rare updates to report mechanisms that build project page lists will be displayed.

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Discussions and assessments

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Insights

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Following are insights, that is, project-oriented lists, logs and query results you may find useful in your project work. They are automatically generated by bots or your clicks.

Concern List/Log/Results (Linked) Update Frequency Description/Usage
Assessment Activity log ~Daily This shows the latest project-included pages, page assessments/re-assessments, page renames and page removals/deletes.
500 largest stubs When clicked See if the largest aren't really stubs and deserve to be reassessed to Start or higher.
500 largest starts When clicked See if the largest deserve to be reassessed to C or B.
Change Patrol 500 last articles changed When clicked This includes all regular and list articles included in the project, but not all mainspace pages (i.e. redirects and disambiguation pages are excluded). Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol.
10 most edited articles over past 7 days Last time query was run This mimics the "Past Week's Hot Edits" list on our front page except that it also shows the maximum and minimum page sizes during this period as well as the article's importance. Click "Fork" and then "Submit Query" to get the most up-to-date results.
100 most edited articles over past 30 days Daily This is a more expansive view of "Hot Edits", going back roughly a month. This list can be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place over many edits.
100 most volatile articles (by size) over past 30 days Daily This list can also be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place size-wise.
500 last pages changed When clicked This includes subject (non-talk) pages of any type except File included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol.
500 last talk pages changed When clicked This includes all talk pages of any type included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol.
Cleanup All issues, categorized Weekly (Tues.) Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, separated into cleanup categories.
All Issues, alphabetic by article name Weekly (Tues.) Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, initially sorted alphabetically by article name. The list is resortable by quality, project importance and problem count.
Old issues, grouped by year Daily Articles in project with a cleanup tag/category dating over 10 years
Articles with old issues, alphabetic by article name Daily (same)
Articles with citation errors Daily Articles in project with at least one citation error. These denote issues that definitely necessitate editing citations to fix.
Articles with citation maintenance messages Daily Articles in project with at least one citation maintenance message. These messages may or may not denote an issue that necessitates editing the citation.
Connecting (Links, Categories, etc.) Top 500 articles with the lowest link density Daily Add useful links to listed articles per WP:LINK or see if an listed article has a peculiar issue that manifests itself with a low link density.
Articles possibly too isolated (least linked to) from mainspace Daily This concerns incoming links from other articles or mainspace pages in general. Use this to add links in articles or lists that go to the listed articles, preferably within prose but also from See also (don't go overboard on the latter). See WP:LINK. Also create useful redirects to these articles to enhance readers' ability to find them. Where plausible, add links from disambiguation pages or disambiguating article hatnotes.
Possibly undercategorized articles Daily Add pertinent categories to listed articles per WP:CAT. Caveats: 1) Make sure not to add parent categories for ones already there; 2) If you find a child category that more closely describes the article's subject, then use it to replace the existing more general one (WP:HOTCAT helps here).
Participation Leaderboard Daily This is a list of the top 100 editors of WP Louisville's included pages (articles + all other subject pages) in the past 30 days, excluding bots. Use this to discover other editors working on Louisville area-related subjects for the sake of collaboration, inviting to join our project as a listed participant, or just showing some WP:LOVE (including awarding our project's barnstar).
Potential Article Bloat or Undue Weight 500 largest articles When clicked Find articles that are overly verbose or cover aspects in an out-of-balance manner (noting that an article can be large without these issues) which can be reduced appropriately. Also, find articles which can be split or spun off into subarticles.
Producing Articles of Highest Quality Latest determined priority articles Weekly These are the project's most important articles closest to being ready to take to the Good or Featured stage, that is, high or top-importance articles with a GA-class (good), B-class or C-class quality, or classed as a List.
50 largest 'B' articles When clicked B-class articles that may be ready to be developed toward and achieve a Good rating.
50 largest 'C' articles When clicked C-class articles that may be ready to be re-assessed as B, or close enough to be improved to deserve a B rating.
Project Inclusion Determination and Early Article Improvement New articles/pages identified by project keywords ~Daily New articles/pages that are likely Kentucky-related (sometimes including Louisville-related ones). Use this to find articles to include in either WP Kentucky or WP Louisville. Also see if these articles need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization (esp. with respect to Kentucky or Louisville).
500 newest articles When clicked See if project-included articles newest to Wikipedia* need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization. (*but not necessarily newest to our project, as some articles are discovered for inclusion much later than they are created.)
Stubs / Building Up Small Articles 500 largest stubs When clicked Find articles that can be easily improved to become a Start or higher.
500 oldest stubs When clicked Find neglected articles that can be readily expanded or possibly merged into another article. Also, investigate aspects of neglected articles that made them stay neglected (under- or mis-categorized, too few incoming links, etc.).
500 smallest articles When clicked Find articles to expand, articles which could use a stub tag, or articles which have been incorrectly assessed as Start or higher.
Stub-assessed articles without any stub tags Daily Find articles our project assessed as Stub but don't have any stub tags at the bottom of the article.