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Revision as of 11:44, 25 February 2008
Welcome to the United States Government Agencies Wikipedia Project. This project was created to help improve the quality of articles about Agencies of the United State Government. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, add youself to the participant list, and post a note on the Talk Page.
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to United States Government Agencies. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Title
WikiProject on United States Government Agencies
Scope
The scope of this project is to provide comprehensive information on all of the United States Government's Agencies.
Related groups of Wikipedians
No related Wikipedians have been named.
Related pages in Sister projects
- Commons:United States Government Agencies
- Wikibooks:United States Government Agencies
- Wikinews:United States Government Agencies
- Wikiquote:United States Government Agencies
- Wikisource:United States Government Agencies
- Wikispecies:United States Government Agencies
- Wiktionary:United States Government Agencies
- meta:United States Government Agencies
Other related WikiProjects
Participants
Add your name here to join this project
- CuBiXcRaYfIsH (Founder)
- markles
- --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
- DCmacnut 18:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- YaanchSpeak! 19:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Drake Maijstral 19:28, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
- Cool Blue 13:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Structure
Each article, needs to provide the basic information on the agency. It should atleast include
- Agency's Name
- If it is part of a Department or if it's an independent agency
- Agency Template(See below)
- Link to the Agency's Webpage
- What the Agency does
- History and why if it was created(If Possible)
- Why it's important
- The purpose it serves
Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
Goals
This is a very expansive project, see the list of government agencies [List of All Government Agencies] Our goal is not time oriented or creating a small stub for each agency. The goal of the project is to create high quality, useful articles on Government Agencies.
Projects
- Update List of United States federal agencies
- Update Independent Agencies of the United States Government Very Incomplete
Tasks
No Assigned Tasks Yet
Adopt an Agency
Each month, a new government agencies (EX. Department of Defense) will be selected. The group will focus on reviewing and editing the selected. However, users may still choose to work on whatever government articles they prefer.
General strategy and discussion forums
- For the time being, use the Talk Page for disscussion
Wiki Project Notice
For each article that falls within the domain of the project, and that you have worked on, please add this notice to the talk page {{USGOV}}
It will produce this: Template:USGOV
Templates
Infoboxes
- e.g.{{USGOVINFO}}
Template:USGOVINFO
Use this info box for each agency, it will provide a standard format for the basic info.
Stub templates
TBA
Categories
Articles
Once you complete an article add it to the list here, so that others can offer advice and get ideas