Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota
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Welcome to WikiProject South Dakota. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the US state of South Dakota. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
Goals
[edit]- The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to South Dakota, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to South Dakota.
Scope
[edit]- This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of South Dakota, its history, geography, and people. Specific examples of the articles that will fall under this project's scope can be found at this list.
Open tasks
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All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.
Article alerts
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Categories for discussion
- 14 Nov 2024 – Category:South Dakota Independents (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Jjamesryan (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 15 Nov 2024 – "SD" (talk · edit · hist) →South Dakota was RfDed by 1ctinus (t · c); see discussion
Good topic candidates
- 15 Nov 2024 – Tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007 (talk · edit · hist) was GT nominated by EF5 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 20 Nov 2024 – Gateway, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Gateway 2000 by Sceeegt (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 23 Jan 2023 – Dakota War of 1862 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mr. Guye (t · c); see discussion
Participants
[edit]Active participants
[edit]To join WikiProject South Dakota, 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.
- Jrobb525 (talk · contribs) - Growing Sports in SoDak
- AlexiusHoratius (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls native in New York State
- Koncurrentkat (talk · contribs) Improving articles related to government, education, and politics.
- SWMNPoliSciProject (talk · contribs) Preparation, modification and expansion of articles primarily relevant to government, politics and world affairs.
- Sdgjake (talk · contribs) - SD Native, would like to work on taking pictures for SD articles.
- jvcdude (talk · contribs)-SD Native, from the Huron Area
- Buaidh (talk · contribs) - Black Hills
- Hutcher (talk · contribs), my father's family is from Spearfish
- TCMemoire (talk) Former South Dakotan, focusing on history topics, particularly NRHP listings
- Runner1928 (talk · contribs) - Pierre native, grew up in the Midwest, interested especially in West River article
- shaneytiger (talk · contribs) Updating articles related to Sioux Falls, civil and organizational information, political candidates and parties
- KevinOKeeffe (talk · contribs) Resident of Sioux Falls since 2011, generally focused on history, geography, politics, and the southeastern part of the state
- AlanZhu314159265358979 (talk · contribs) Resident of Rapid City, generally focused on Rapid City.
- otr500 (talk · contribs): Varied interests including history.
- KLindblom (talk · contribs): Interested in history, science, and more.
- Brianhass (talk · contribs):Resident of southeast South Dakota; interests include history, geography, genealogy, astronomy, and science.
- Maxim Stoyalov
- Smarty0051 (talk · contribs)
- ERBuermann (talk · contribs) I live in Sioux Falls, and I love it!
- BrianHagan (talk · contribs) 17:29:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC) I just moved to Sioux Falls and will take some photos and such.
- Longestview (talk · contribs) Improvement and creation of articles in relation to politics and elections.
- Orangeiqdv (talk · contribs) 21:41:42, 18 March 2024 (UTC) South Dakota State Politics/Political Biography/non-governor constitutional officers
Former participants
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- Badbilltucker (talk · contribs) - will try to help out with some biographies and otherwise SW area articles
- HirschiDude (talk · contribs) - will try to add whatever I can
- Destructo_087 (talk · contribs)
- Rosseloh (talk · contribs) - Graduated from Great Plains Lutheran High School in Watertown, moving on to SDSU.
- Doc1410 (talk · contribs) - Professor at NSU; am having my students update page as part of English 101 course assignment
- Akr88 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410, Forced to do this project to prevent re-taking the course.
- Mikang is (talk · contribs)- Student at NSU
- Halo2 Gamer (talk · contribs) - Student at NSU.
- ACB18 (talk · contribs)NSU student
- meredithjo3 (talk · contribs) college student in South Dakota working on a final project
- TRM18 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410
- Tuba777 (talk · contribs) - Student of Doc1410 at NSU
- Rhstokes (talk · contribs) - Student at NSU
- RJASE1 (talk · contribs) - Milbank native currently in USAF, concentrating on SD politicians
- Superlex (talk · contribs) (General South Dakota stuff, concentrating on Southeastern SD)
- Sumbawa (talk · contribs) - SD resident and USD student, interests in entertainment and music
- Lmielke359 (talk · contribs) - SD native attending Purdue University, focusing on the western half of SD
- David57437 (talk · contribs)-SD native and proud of it
- AlexNebraska (talk · contribs)
- Toonami Reactor (talk · contribs) Relatives all originate from South Dakota
- Fact-of-the-matter (talk · contribs) - SD native (Rapid City)-would like to help where I am needed the most. I am good at proofreading, research, and culture.
- MatthewDPX (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls, SD Resident
- MillLocke (talk · contribs) - SD native, degrees from SDSU and USD, focuses on geography, government and law.
- Atilla5 (talk · contribs) - resident of SD attending SDSU, focusing on the areas of transportation and the unincorporated communities of SE South Dakota
- Spiesr (talk · contribs)
- Renaissancee (talk · contribs) - Sioux Falls, SD Native
Participant identification
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For other South Dakota user templates see Category:South Dakota user templates.
Articles
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Featured articles
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Articles on South Dakota-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.
Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)
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The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.
Good articles (GA)
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The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:
- 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash
- Amanda Clement
- Brock Lesnar
- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad
- Ernest Lawrence
- Flag of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Geography of South Dakota
- George McGovern
- Great Storm of 1975
- History of the Rove Formation
- May 2007 Tornado Outbreak
- Missouri River
- Sitting Bull
- South Dakota
Did you know (DYK?)
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- Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad - January 7, 2005
- Doane Robinson - March 21, 2006
- Huron University - May 8, 2006
- Terry Forster - September 3, 2006
- Fossil Cycad National Monument - February 6, 2007
- Sue (dinosaur) - April 17, 2007
- Red River Trails - May 4, 2007
- Traverse Gap - May 6, 2007
- Republic of Lakotah - January 4, 2008
- Missouri River Valley - February 11, 2008
- Black Hills Expedition (1874) - March 9, 2008
- South Dakota State Capitol - September 7, 2008
- Tony Dean (conservationist) - November 9, 2008
- Stratobowl - April 29, 2009
- Mammoth Site, Hot Springs - August 5, 2009
- Niels Ebbesen Hansen - September 8, 2009
- South Dakota Highway 87 - December 24, 2009
- Newton Hills State Park - September 4, 2010
- Theresa Two Bulls - July 18, 2011
- List of colleges and universities in South Dakota - June 18, 2012
- Sioux K. Grigsby - January 25, 2013
- Watson Parker - January 26, 2013
- Z. D. Scott - January 31, 2013
- Paleontology in South Dakota - February 8, 2013
- KXMZ - June 15, 2013
- Albert White Hat - July 6, 2013
- D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery - January 3, 2014
- Flag of Sioux Falls, South Dakota - August 5, 2018
- International Vinegar Museum - February 14, 2022
Formerly recognized content
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Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles
New articles
[edit]Please feel free to list your new South Dakota-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for South Dakota, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.
List of South Dakota legislative districts
Timeline of South Dakota - I would love project members' input on this article. In particular, it draws significantly on Doane Robinson's (public domain) text. Some of his language is no longer in use (e.g., "half bloods") and I'm faced with a dilemma of whether to keep the State Historian's language in quotations or modernize it or change nothing.
Renewable energy in South Dakota
St. Joseph Cathedral (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
South Dakota Army National Guard
List of South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Just got this started.
Central Baptist Church (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) - Needs some work
Collaboration and review
[edit]- Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
Templates
[edit]Project banner
[edit]{{WikiProject South Dakota}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:
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Stubs
[edit]For South Dakota stubs, see Category:South Dakota stubs
NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.
Userboxes
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{{User interest South Dakota}}
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Categories
[edit]Subpages
[edit]- List of all subpages of this page
Resources
[edit]Tools
[edit]- 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.
- SuggestBot - Personalized article edit suggestions, finding articles both tagged for work and similar to your edit history or your specified categories or pages
Academic publications
[edit]Periodicals
[edit]The following periodicals are available in subscription databanks or other electronic resources for the period indicated. If you would wish access to such information, but do not yourself have access to the databanks or sources in question, please drop me an e-mail indicating which sources you want, and what subject or period you are considering, and I will forward to you the information I can find. John Carter (talk) 17:41, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Aberdeen American News (2000-on)
External watchlist
[edit]Wikidata
[edit]- Don't forget to click the "Wikidata item" link on the left-hand menu when you edit an article. Check out the structured data item for the article you've contributed to, and see if there's any small work you can do there. Contributing to Wikidata improves all language editions of Wikipedia! It's a great complement to your work here. See the South Dakota item here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1211
