Wikipedia:WikiProject Cape Cod and the Islands

Welcome to the WikiProject Cape Cod & The Islands! Do you love the peninsula of Cape Cod, or are you an admirer of the Islands to the south? Do you want to assist us in cleaning up pages associated with the Cape and Islands? Then this is the Project for you. We are open to ways to expand this Project so hop on board and add suggestions. Even if you're not a heavy editor, you are still appreciated. Please add yourself to the Members section.

Recent news

 * May 9, 2010-102nd Intelligence Wing was promoted to A-class status.
 * December 19, 2009-Harry Connick, Jr. becomes the 1,000 article added to the project
 * February 21, 2009-Portal:Cape Cod and the Islands created
 * August 22, 2008-Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard along with the surrounding islands were added to the project
 * July 23, 2008-102nd Intelligence Wing was promoted to Good Article status.

Criteria
For an article to be part of this project, it must meet one of the following requirements:
 * It is/was located on the Cape and Islands
 * Ships must have sunk off the Cape and Islands within 175 miles of the shore
 * Ships can have been stationed near the Cape for a month or more (lightships)
 * It is/was important to the history of the Cape
 * The person must have lived on the Cape for over a year, been raised here, or vacationed more than a few times here.
 * The exception is if they did something here that advanced their career greatly (George H.W. Bush earned his wings in Hyannis)

Member userbox
You may place  on your user page to display the following userbox:

This template will add your user page to: For other Cape Cod and the Islands user templates, please see:
 * Category:WikiProject Cape Cod and the Islands participants
 * Category:Wikipedians interested in Cape Cod and the Islands
 * Category:Cape Cod and the Islands user templates

Member Projects
Here you can find Cape and Islands related member projects that are in progress or finished.
 * Member Projects

Assessment instructions
Basically since we have so few members, we really can't formulate a review process for everything. A general rule for this project is that if it works for other projects, then it works for us.

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the following project banner: The following values may be used for importance:
 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Cape Cod and the Islands articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Cape Cod and the Islands articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Cape Cod and the Islands articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Cape Cod and the Islands articles)
 * NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Cape Cod and the Islands articles)
 * if not completed, the article is added to the Category:Unknown-importance Cape Cod and the Islands articles.

Parent

 * WikiProject United States
 * WikiProject Massachusetts

Goals

 * Cleanup pages that are related to Cape Cod and the Islands
 * Merge pages that should be merged
 * Watch Cape Cod and the Islands pages for vandalism
 * Expand and create pages for Cape Cod and the Islands personalities