Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
Its been a busy month with a lot of really exciting stuff happening for the project over the last few weeks.
WikiProject United States governors has joined the family of projects bringing more than 3300 more articles to the family, approximately 50 of which being featured.
A new class has been added to the assessment scale for Featured media. Over the next couple weeks this new class will be populated with the featured Pictures, sounds and video that relates to WikiProject United States.
Kumioko went through all the articles for the project and identified the ones that needed Infoboxes. Over the next couple months he will be adding infoboxes to the approximately 5000 articles that need them along with performing other edits that are performed with AWB. Any help with this project would be greatly appreciated.
Discussions are currently under way to include several more WikiProjects to the family of supported projects.
We have continued to collaborate with other US related projects to build up content relating to US topics. Most recently we have been talking with WikiProject NARA about collaborating with the National Archives to develop this months Collaboration of the Month.
For those that might be working on quality or importance assessments, Jj98 modifed {{WikiProject United States}} and created the categories so that the project now has the ability to see the Quality/Importance intersect much more easily. To see this just click on Category:United States articles by quality Then select the plus sign next to whichever class you want to see.
The Portal continues to improve and its only a matter of time now until we get it to featured status. Most of the major issues and suggestions have been completed. The only major roadblock remaining is to finish filling in the anniversaries.
Last month we had a very successful improvement to the Wall Street article. While the article was in collaboration 74 edits were made to it building it up from 24,234 to 91,912 and getting within stepping distance of GA.
This month the goal is to get the United States Bill of Rights article up to GA standards by the 4th of July. This article already has a lot of content but it needs a fair amount of work to get it there so if you are interested in this topic or have knowledge in this area please feel free to help out. Even minor edits to spelling and grammer are needed and welcome.
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