Wiki143:WikiProject Rhode Island

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Welcome to the Rhode Island WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Rhode Island.

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Rhode Island by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident in or native to Rhode Island.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Rhode Island and its history, geography, and people.

All these articles should be included in the Category:Rhode Island or one of its subcategories.

Open tasks

• 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.

Members

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Rhode Island/Members}}

Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Templates

Userboxes

Template:Template otherTemplate:Ucat	Template:Tlx
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Template:User interest Rhode Island	Template:Tlx

Stubs

All stub templates are to be placed at the bottom of the article page.

• Template:Tl - Stub template for articles relating to Rhode Island.
  • Template:Tl - Stub template for articles relating to buildings and structures in Rhode Island.
• Template:Tl - Stub template for articles relating to Rhode Island geography.
• Template:Tl - Stub template for articles relating to FCC-licensed radio stations in Rhode Island.

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.

Other templates

{{WikiProject United States|RI=yes|RI-importance=}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them on the project's radar. When the template is added to the talk page it looks like this:

Resources

• Official state website
• IslandSymbols.htm Rhode Island state symbols
• Secretary of State of Rhode Island
• Rhode Island State Library and Archives
  • Why Did Rhode Island Become a State? from the NSLA
• USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Rhode Island
• US Census Bureau
• Island.com/ County Maps of Rhode Island Full color maps. List of cities, towns and county seats
• Rhode Island State Facts
• Island.com/ Rhode Island Commission on Tourism
• Rhode Island's Summits
• ISLAND.htm Climate of Rhode Island

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.