Wiki143:WikiProject Iowa

This WikiProject was formed to improve and create articles related to the U.S. state of Iowa with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on the formatting, layout, and improvement of such articles. Any questions you have can be asked at the talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the member section below.

Project collaboration

Iowa – This is our main article, and is in great need of improvement. Let's try to improve it to at least Good Article status, aiming for Featured Article status. A suggested model is the article on Minnesota, which has achieved Featured Article status.

Project divisions

• /GNIS cleanup — resources for dealing with the unreliability of GNIS data and the mess that has resulted
• /Communities (talk) — Cities, towns, villages and boroughs
• /Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• /Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Iowa
• /Culture (talk)— Music, art, icons, mass communication
• /People (talk) — Includes Iowa natives and those residents who have shaped Iowa
• /Government (talk) — Federal, state and local politics and politicians related to Iowa.
• /History (talk) — History of Iowa during and prior to statehood
• /Economy (Talk) — Major Iowa industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Iowa

Child task forces

• WikiProject U.S. Roads/Iowa task force

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Assessment

Template:WikiProject progression rainbow {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Iowa articles by quality statistics}}

To assess an article add Template:Tlx to the talk page of the article if it isn't there already. Then fill in the |class= parameter. Please read the complete directions over before you start assessing. If you have any questions go to the talk page. If you do assess an article consider adding it to an appropriate workgroup and put it in one of the tables on the workgroup's page.

Members

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Members}}

Templates

Code	Result
Template:Tlx Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles. After tagging an article, you can add it and its talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Iowa recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update.
Template:Tl Stub notice for Iowa articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages	Template:Tlu Template:Asbox
Template:Tl Stub notice for articles dealing with people from or related to Iowa; placed at the bottom of article pages	Template:Tlu Template:Asbox
Template:Tl Stub notice for articles dealing with Iowa locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages	Template:Tlu Template:Asbox
Template:Tl Stub notice for Iowa politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages	Template:Tlu Template:Asbox
Template:Tl Stub notice for Iowa schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages	Template:Tlu Template:Asbox
Template:Howtoreqphotoin	Template:Category handler

General navigation box

Code	Result
Template:Tl Navigation box for use on regions, cities, boroughs, and other general-Iowa articles; placed at the bottom of article pages. Category:Iowa navigational boxes has other, more specific, Iowa navigation boxes.

Userboxes

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Template:Tlu	Template:User interest Iowa	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]
Template:Tlu	Template:User interest Iowa	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]
Template:Tlu	Template:User interest Iowa	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]
Template:Tlu	Template:User interest Iowa	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]
Template:Tlu	Template:Template other	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]
Template:Tlu	Template:User WP Iowa	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]
Template:Tlu	User:Dailynetworks/ubx/Iowa	[{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Transclude|hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} Usage]

Iowa Barnstar

The Iowa Barnstar is the unofficial Iowa Wiki award.

Image	What to paste in the recipient’s Talk Page	Who deserves it
The Iowa Barnstar	Template:Tlsp	The Iowa Barnstar The Iowa Barnstar can be awarded to anyone who makes excellent contributions to Iowa-related articles. Feel free to share this award. User:Yourusername (talk) 12:00, today's date (UTC)

Link to stubs

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• Iowa stubs
• Geography stubs
• Politician stubs

Find a photograph

Many Iowa articles lack photographs: some of these can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Iowa. If any are located near you, you can help Wikipedia by uploading a freely licensed photograph to Wikimedia Commons.

Categories

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Tools

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.