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Welcome to the United States WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States. This project was formed to unify and coordinate all things USA on Wikipedia and help to maintain The USA Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize USA related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the dozens of articles that would fall under the this project's watch. This project will also provide a place for U.S. Wikipedians and other editors to share information and resources. Here editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overseen articles and problems to the attention of other editors.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to the United States of America to be within its direct scope.

Our work covers:

  1. United States ...


Project statistics

Article statistics

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Project categories

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In the News

For your information

This section is for interesting phenomena observed related to United States articles

Project templates

Category:United States templates

General use templates
Template Example
{{WikiProject United States}}
WikiProject iconUnited States Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
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{{WPUS Invite}}

Hello, WikiProject United States/Main! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject United States, an outreach effort which aims to support development of United States related articles in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!

{{User WP United States}}
{{User WikiProject United States}}
{{User interest United States}}
This user is interested in the United States of America.
Portals

Category:United States portals

These portals may be placed in the See also or another appropriate section of related articles. There are other, topic specific portals available. See Wikipedia:List of U.S. state portals.
Template Example
{{Portal|United States}}
Navboxes
Template Example
{{United States topics}} (navigation box; very large, covers everything; don't over-use)
{{United States}} (navigation box; political divisions; for use on state & territory articles)
{{Life in the United States}} (navigation box; does not include history or geography; more limited than the demographics one)
{{Demographics of the United States}} (navigation box; fairly comprehensive on the topic)
{{US culture}} (small sidebar; just the major topics)
{{US state}} (infobox for states and territories)
Stubs

Category:United States stubs

Template Example
{{US-stub}}

Project awards

Barnstar

The WikiProject United States Barnstar of National Merit
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Ribbon equivalent

Image:USA Ribbon.svg

I've created this ribbon for the Barnstar. ElectricalExperiment 15:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grading scheme