Wikipedia: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

 * Communities (talk) &mdash; Cities, towns, villages and boroughs
 * Physical geography (talk)&mdash; Regions, parks, climate, physical features
 * Transportation (talk)&mdash; Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Iowa
 * Culture (talk)&mdash; Music, art, icons, mass communication
 * People (talk) &mdash; Includes Iowa natives and those residents who have shaped Iowa
 * Government (talk) &mdash; Federal, state and local politics and politicians related to Iowa.
 * History (talk) &mdash; History of Iowa during and prior to statehood
 * Economy (Talk) &mdash; Major Iowa industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Iowa

Child task forces

 * WikiProject U.S. Roads/Iowa task force

Assessment
To assess an article add 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.

Iowa Barnstar
The Iowa Barnstar is the unofficial Iowa Wiki award.

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.

Subpages

 * List of

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.