Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan
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- Main Project Page
- Members
- Announcements
- Project category
- Michigan Portal
- Recent changes
- Recent changes (another method)
- Popular pages
- Assessment
- Collaboration
- Peer reviews
- Categorization
- Cities
- Physical geography
- Transportation
- Culture
- People
- Government
- History
- Collaboration:
- To Update:
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- To Improve to Featured standard:
- To Expand: Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Yellow Dog Plains, University of Michigan Biological Station, Andy Richter, Alexander Macomb, Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, Justus H. Rathbone
- To Clarify:
- To Clean up: Michigan State Police
- To Merge:
- To Destub: See:
- To Deorphan:
- To Create: Chief Mackinac, Mackinaw Fur Company, Hinduism in Michigan, Bulldog Lake, Ben Feigenson and Perry Feigenson (the founders of Faygo Beverage Company in Detroit), Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker (co-founders of Monroe-based La-Z-Boy), Sheryl James (Michigan-born 1991 Feature Writing Pulitzer Prize Winner), Richard Emil Braun (Detroit-born poet and Classical translator), Gwenneth Bean (Muskegon-born opera contralto), Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth
- Lists to de-redlink: List of Michigan rivers, Islands of Michigan, Wikipedia:U.S._cities_without_articles#Michigan, Lighthouses_in_the_United_States#Michigan, List of Copper Country mines
- Lists to complete:
- Categories to expand: Category:Architects from Michigan
- Maintain: add {{WikiProject Michigan}} to the talk pages of Michigan-related articles and add the articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Michigan recent changes so related changes link works.
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Michigan articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 17 | ||
FL | 2 | 2 | |||||
GA | 4 | 8 | 59 | 71 | |||
B | 10 | 52 | 67 | 94 | 1 | 15 | 239 |
C | 1 | 29 | 55 | 154 | 46 | 285 | |
Start | 8 | 82 | 523 | 618 | 191 | 1,422 | |
Stub | 2 | 28 | 132 | 990 | 1,286 | 2,438 | |
List | 1 | 50 | 18 | 51 | 45 | 165 | |
Book | 4 | 4 | |||||
Category | 1,691 | 1,691 | |||||
Disambig | 173 | 173 | |||||
File | 276 | 276 | |||||
Portal | 3 | 3 | |||||
Project | 1 | 1 | |||||
Redirect | 17 | 17 | |||||
Template | 274 | 274 | |||||
NA | 44 | 44 | |||||
Assessed | 23 | 256 | 806 | 1,970 | 2,484 | 1,583 | 7,122 |
Unassessed | 1 | 598 | 4,103 | 4,702 | |||
Total | 23 | 256 | 807 | 2,568 | 2,484 | 5,686 | 11,824 |
WikiProject Michigan is a WikiProject formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Michigan with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page To participate, simply add your name at the members page. To follow changes to Michigan-related articles, see Michigan recent changes and Michigan-related deletion requests.
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[edit] Scope
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Michigan, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Michigan in a fair and accurate manner.
[edit] Participants
You can find a list of participants here. Joining WikiProject Michigan is easy - just add your username to the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.
[edit] Articles
[edit] Featured articles
Articles on Michigan-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. Full list
[edit] Economics and Business
- Elderly Instruments - Featured March 21, 2008.
[edit] Education
- University of Michigan - Featured November 19, 2005, on main page January 11, 2006.
- Michigan State University - Featured January 19, 2006, on main page May 21, 2006.
- History of Michigan State University - Featured March 27, 2006.
[edit] Geography
- Ann Arbor, Michigan - Featured September 11, 2005.
- Detroit, Michigan - Featured May 31, 2006, October 3, 2006.
- Mackinac Island - Featured July 24, 2007.
[edit] History
- Bath School Disaster - Featured March 9, 2006, on main page March 22, 2006.
- Toledo War - Featured August 18, 2006.
- Pontiac's Rebellion - Featured May 7 2007
[edit] Landmarks
- Michigan State Capitol - Featured January 30, 2006, on main page July 10, 2006.
- List of tallest buildings in Detroit
[edit] Notable Michiganders
- Gerald Ford - Featured April 9, 2006 on main page May 6, 2006.
- Tyrone Wheatley - Michigan Wolverines football and track star who played with the New York Giants and Oakland Raiders.
- Michael Moore - Oscar winning documentary filmmaker
- Madonna (entertainer) - Grammy winning musician
[edit] Transportation
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald - Featured May 6, 2011 on main page November 10, 2011.
[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)
Articles on Michigan-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission.
[edit] Good articles (GA)
Articles on Michigan-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission
- Michigan Life Sciences Corridor - Promoted August 11, 2006.
- Sparty - Promoted August 11, 2006.
- Mackinac Island - Promoted March 25, 2007.
- Campus of Michigan State University - Promoted April 19, 2007.
- Michigan Republican Party - Promoted August 17, 2007.
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - Promoted August 22, 2007.
- Croton Dam (Michigan) - Promoted October 1, 2007.
- James Strang - Promoted October 23, 2007.
- Thomas Trueblood - Promoted March 20, 2008
- Whitefish Point Bird Observatory - Promoted January 25, 2009
- Depot Town - Promoted June 22, 2011
[edit] Did you know? (DYK)
Articles on Michigan-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section:
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald - on main page November 10, 2005.
- Campus of Michigan State University - on main page January 3, 2006.
- Michigan Life Sciences Corridor - on main page January 13, 2006.
- Biggie Munn - on main page March 7, 2006.
- Northland Center (Michigan) - on main page April 4, 2006
- Michigan State University academics - on main page May 12, 2006
- The Cold War (hockey) - on main page June 28, 2006.
- Muddy Waters (football coach) - on main page September 23, 2006.
- Artrain USA - on main page 22 June 2006.
- Thornapple River - on main page 24 December 2006.
- Ada Covered Bridge - on main page October 13, 2006.
- Madeline La Framboise - on main page December 26, 2006.
- Whites Bridge - on main page 29 December 2006.
- Fallasburg Bridge - on main page 5 January 2007.
- John Clough Holmes - on main page November 23, 2006.
- Air Zoo - on main page December 4, 2006.
- Croton Dam (Michigan) - on main page September 12, 2007.
- IXL Historical Museum - on main page January 5, 2010
- Heather Knight - on main page May 5, 2011
- Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum - on main page May 15, 2011
- Depot Town - on main page May 16, 2011
- Lake Shore Drive Bridge (Michigan) and Eagle River Timber Bridge - on main page January 14, 2012
- Houghton Fire Hall - on main page January 30, 2012
[edit] Assessment
- WikiProject Michigan Assessment page (talk) – Assessment of Michigan-related article quality and importance
- Article assessment worklist
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Popular pages - A list of project pages by number of pageviews.
[edit] Project divisions
- Assessment (talk) – Assessment of Michigan-related article quality and importance
- Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Michigan-related articles
- Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and counties
- Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
- Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Michigan
- Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
- People (talk) – includes Michigan natives and those residents who have shaped Michigan
- Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Michigan
- History (talk) – history of Michigan during and prior to statehood
[edit] Resources
[edit] Infoboxes
- {{Michigan}} - Infobox for Michigan regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages.
- {{Governors of Michigan}} - Infobox for Michigan territorial and state governors.
- {{Infobox Settlement}} - The standard infobox of WikiProject Cities to be used for all cities, towns, villages, or any other type of settlement. Also known as {{Infobox City}}.
[edit] Stubs
If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.
[edit] Templates
- {{WikiProject Michigan}} - Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
- {{Michigan-protected-area-stub}} - Stub notice for Michigan articles dealing specifically with protected areas in Michigan; placed at the bottom of article pages.
- {{Michigan-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for Michigan articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Michigan; placed at the bottom of article pages.
- {{Michigan-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Michigan articles; placed at the bottom of article pages
For Michigan-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Michigan}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Michigan. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.
The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.
[edit] Userboxes
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[edit] Websites
- Clarke Library Collection, Central Michigan University -- includes bibliographies (and general historical information) arranged by County.
- Michigan County Histories
- List of links to local government entities in Michigan
- Michigan Manual
- Directory of Local Government Resources
- Michigan Highways
[edit] Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Michigan is one of the United States WikiProjects.
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[edit] Other Michigan projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Michigan, the Michigan State Highways Task Force
[edit] Tools
A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...
- 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.
[edit] External watchlist
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