Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville

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WikiProject Louisville

Shortcuts	WP:Lou, WP:LOU, WP:WPLou, WP:Louisville
Category	WikiProject Louisville
Wikimedia Commons	Louisville metropolitan area
Parent project(s)	Cities, Kentucky, Indiana, United States
Project banner template	See Assessment department for details
Userboxes	{{WPLouisville-Participant}} {{User WPLouisville}}
COVERAGE AREA   Louisville Metro / Jefferson County   Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA (inclusive of Louisville Metro)   Trimble County, KY (traditional part of Louisville MSA)   Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY MSA   Bardstown, KY µSA   Scottsburg, IN µSA PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS Updated November 20, 2024 Edits Article Rating 36 James Kottak Start 29 Adam Dunn C 28 2024 Louisville Cardinals football team Start 15 Green Lantern (Six Flags Great Adventure) GA 14 Mitch McConnell B 13 Edwin Hubble B 12 Bobby Knoop Start 12 Deion Sanders B 10 Playa (band) Start 10 Muhammad Ali B PROJECT STATISTICS 7,079 articles (0.1% of Wikipedia) 17 featured articles (0.15% of all featured) 69 good articles (0.17% of all good) 2,356 stubs (0.1% of all stubs) 22,870 total pages (incl. talk & all page types) 📰 PROJECT NEWS Updated September 10, 2024 🗞️ 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 2024 Kentucky Derby appeared in the news as of May 6. 🗞️ April 9, 2024 Tom Cruise is our most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months. 🗞️ March 30, 2024 Walter A. Groves becomes a good article. (Category: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty) 🗞️ 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 2022 Fenway Bowl becomes a good article. 🗞️ May 13, 2023 Phil Simms was delisted as a good article. 🗞️ March 22, 2023 Kentucky Railway Museum was delisted as a good article. 🗞️ November 23, 2022 Patty Loveless becomes a good article. 🗞️ May 9, 2022 Claudia Riner becomes a good article. 🗞️ March 13, 2022 Johnny Marcum becomes a good article. 🗞️ January 4, 2022 Ben Geraghty becomes a good article. 🗞️ December 28, 2021 2016 Jim Beam strike becomes a good article. 🗞️ October 15, 2020 Lee Guetterman becomes a good article. 🗞️ September 5, 2020 Mark Prior becomes a good article. 🗞️ August 30, 2020 Irene Dunne becomes a good article. 🗞️ May 8, 2020 Kentucky Kingdom becomes a good article. 🗞️ April 23, 2020 Ryan Hanigan was delisted as a good article. 🗞️ April 16, 2020 Ryan Rowland-Smith becomes a good article. 🗞️ April 13, 2020 Russell Branyan becomes a good article. 🗞️ April 9, 2020 Moe Drabowsky becomes a good article. 🗞️ April 5, 2020 Martha Watts becomes a good article. Archive of news items over 5 years old 🗞️ June 7, 2006 WikiProject Louisville begins. 🗨️ PROJECT BUZZ Current discussions (6 threads) Most recent: I'm retiring from Wikipedia Photo/image requests Move of current major backlogs plus two new reports Past Week's Hot Edits list redesigned Thanks to everyone fixing issues in our articles! Hundreds of project articles with old issues

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

PROJECT ARTICLES NEEDING ACTION
Updated October 2, 2024

R a n k	Priority with Most Issues (Improve)	Non-Priority with Most Issues (Improve)	Popular with Old Issues (Improve)	Popular Stubs (Expand)	Missing Here (Create)
1	Louisville Cardinals football	Quito (sister city)	Deion Sanders	Rebecca Broussard	Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky comprehensive subarticle for History of Louisville, Kentucky
2	Louisville Metro Police Department	La Plata (sister city)	Diane Sawyer	Brian McMahan	Columbia Auditorium / Columbia Gym current Spalding University building w/ Muhammad Ali connections; part of NRHP's "North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area"
3	Presbyterian Church (USA)	WKMJ-TV	Fort Knox	Bobby Rascoe	SoBro, Louisville neighborhood nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (incl. Columbia Gym)
4	University of Louisville	Louisville Male High School	Josh Hamilton	Brent Booker	Pegasus Parade longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect)
5	Belle of Louisville	Spelling bee	Joe Torre	Erin Wilhelmi	Waterfront Botanical Gardens hot new attraction near Louisville Waterfront Park
6	Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)	Walden School (Louisville)	Presbyterian Church (USA)	Very Old Barton	Ehrler's Dairy established 1867; local favorite ice cream parlor
7	Louisville Cardinals	AssuredPartners NL	Louis Brandeis	Ethan Buckler	Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon also a longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect)
WikiProject Louisville Alerts have been posted: Check out our current Project Articles Needing Action (updated October 2, 2024) as well as our major backlogs Auto-generated alerts follow: Articles for deletion 05 Nov 2024 – Mount St. Francis, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mangoe (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 14 Nov 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted) 05 Nov 2024 – Duncan, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mangoe (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 18 Nov 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted) Articles to be split 29 Jun 2024 – Thomas Massie (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kodiak Blackjack (t · c); see discussion WikiProject Kentucky Alerts have been posted: Check out our current major backlogs. WikiProject Bluegrass Music? Talk to Anne Delong. Auto-generated alerts follow: Today's featured article requests 28 Jan 2025 – Lewis W. Green (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by PCN02WPS (t · c); see discussion Did you know 18 Nov 2024 – William C. Roberts (pastor) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by PCN02WPS (t · c); see discussion Articles for deletion 16 Nov 2024 – B & H Tool Works (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Hog Farm (t · c); see discussion (1 participant) 05 Nov 2024 – August 2023 mid-south U.S. floods (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tails Wx (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted) 12 Nov 2024 – Family of JD Vance (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Muboshgu (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 19 Nov 2024; see discussion (12 participants) 04 Nov 2024 – July 2023 Western Kentucky floods (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Tails Wx (t · c) was closed as merge by Voorts (t · c) on 11 Nov 2024; see discussion (2 participants) Categories for discussion 14 Nov 2024 – Category:Kentucky Independents (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Jjamesryan (t · c); see discussion 09 Nov 2024 – Category:People from Plum Springs, Kentucky (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Lost in Quebec (t · c) was closed; see discussion Redirects for discussion 07 Nov 2024 – Kentuchy (talk · edit · hist) →Kentucky was RfDed by TeapotsOfDoom (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 18 Nov 2024 – William C. Roberts (pastor) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PCN02WPS (t · c); start discussion 17 Sep 2024 – WKYT-TV (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sammi Brie (t · c); start discussion Requested moves 02 Nov 2024 – 2021 Western Kentucky tornado (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 2021 Mayfield tornado by Departure– (t · c); see discussion Articles to be split 29 Jun 2024 – Thomas Massie (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kodiak Blackjack (t · c); see discussion 19 Nov 2024 – Hurricane Helene (talk · edit · hist) proposed for splitting by Ponyo (t · c) was closed; see discussion WikiProject Indiana Alerts have been posted: Popular page listing Articles for deletion 20 Nov 2024 – Vine, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (5 participants) 19 Nov 2024 – Layton, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (1 participant) 19 Nov 2024 – Graham, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (5 participants) 15 Nov 2024 – Lochiel, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (1 participant) 13 Nov 2024 – Hewa S. Khalid (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aintabli (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted) 14 Nov 2024 – Handy, Benton County, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mangoe (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 21 Nov 2024; see discussion (4 participants) 13 Nov 2024 – Roy Shattuck (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Bearcat (t · c) was closed as delete by OwenX (t · c) on 20 Nov 2024; see discussion (6 participants) 13 Nov 2024 – Gravel Hill, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mangoe (t · c) was closed as delete by OwenX (t · c) on 20 Nov 2024; see discussion (3 participants) 13 Nov 2024 – Free, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mangoe (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 20 Nov 2024; see discussion (4 participants) 13 Nov 2024 – Foresman, Benton County, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mangoe (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 20 Nov 2024; see discussion (4 participants) (10 more...) Good article nominees 28 Sep 2024 – Henry C. Berghoff (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Henry Berghoff (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 03 Sep 2024 – Edwardsville Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Borden Formation by Allan Nonymous (t · c); see discussion 03 Sep 2024 – Spickert Knob Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Borden Formation by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion

Current major backlogs

Concern	Total	Data Freshness
Cleanup issues	3,417 in 2,157 articles	November 19, 2024
Stubs needing expansion or reassessment	2,356	Last cache*
Possibly undercategorized articles	1,014	November 19, 2024
Articles with old cleanup issues	422	November 12, 2024
Photo/image requests (Breakdown)	339	Last cache*

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

Goal and scope

See also: WikiProject Louisville Tasks and What constitutes a Louisville area-related article

The goal of our WikiProject is to encourage and provide comprehensive coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area by creating, improving, connecting, assessing and monitoring articles, lists, infobox/navbox 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

• Jefferson (Louisville Metro)
• Bullitt
• Hardin
• Henry
• LaRue
• Meade
• Nelson
• Oldham
• Shelby
• Spencer
• Trimble*

*Traditionally part of the Louisville MSA

Indiana

• Clark
• Floyd
• Harrison
• Scott
• Washington

Articles are cataloged for this project by adding {{WikiProject United States|Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=}} to their talk pages.

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Parent WikiProjects

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

• 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)