Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the state of the United States known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk.


 * To join this project or see the current list of members, go to the Membership Department.
 * To see a list of good and featured articles maintained by this project, visit our Hall of Fame.

Scope
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Kentucky, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to improve and refine Wikipedia's resources on Kentucky in a fair and accurate manner and logically link them through a high-quality, well-maintained Portal:Kentucky.

Members
To join WikiProject Kentucky, add your username to our member list.

Tasks
Feel free to add any Kentucky-related articles that need to be addressed or improved, in addition to general tasks. When adding an existing article, ensure that the article is cataloged for the project by adding  to its talk page.

Categories
Kentucky | WikiProject Kentucky | Kentucky stubs | Kentucky geography stubs | Wikipedians in Kentucky | Kentucky articles with to-do lists | Wikipedia requested photographs in Kentucky | Wikipedia requested maps in Kentucky

Project

 * - use with |KY=yes to add the article to this WikiProject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. However:
 * If the article is related to the Louisville metropolitan area or WikiProject Louisville, use |Louisville=yes instead.
 * If the article is related to the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force or the related region of Kentucky, also include |Coal-fields=yes.
 * If the article is related to the Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia "tri-state" (KYOVA) region, use |KYOVA=yes instead.
 * WikiProject Kentucky alerts—This banner displays only if there is a current project alert. Normally placed on user talk pages or project pages.
 * WPKYInvite - placed (using subst) on talk pages to invite potential members to join the project.
 * WPKYWelcome - placed (using subst) on talk pages to welcome new members to the project.
 * Bluegrass Barnstar - The template to use the Bluegrass Barnstar. (Be sure to use subst.)

Navboxes

 * Kentucky - Navbox for Kentucky regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages.
 * Governors of Kentucky - Navbox for Kentucky Governors; placed at the bottom of article pages.
 * Lieutenant Governors of Kentucky - Navbox for Kentucky Lieutenant Governors; placed at the bottom of article pages.
 * USSenKY - placed at the bottom of article pages for Senators from Kentucky.
 * Kentucky Higher Education - Navbox placed at the bottom of Kentucky private and public university and college articles.
 * Protected Areas of Kentucky - Navbox for Kentucky's protected areas; placed at the bottom of article pages.

Stubs

 * Kentucky-geo-stub - Stub notice for Kentucky articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Kentucky; placed at the bottom of article pages.
 * Kentucky-politician-stub - Stub notice for Kentucky politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages.
 * Kentucky-school-stub - Stub notice for Kentucky schools; placed at the bottom of article pages.
 * Kentucky-stub - Stub notice for all other Kentucky articles (except those related to Louisville MSA; use Louisville-stub instead for those cases); placed at the bottom of article pages.

Sources and references
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives:
 * KDLA Home
 * KDLA Mission Statement
 * Citation/Permission Information -
 * Kentucky Virtual Library
 * Kentuckiana Digital Library

Library of Congress:
 * Library of Congress
 * Researchers Reference tools and services
 * Prints and Photographs Reading Room

Descendant WikiProjects

 * Cities: WikiProject Louisville
 * Facts and data: Kentucky facts and data
 * U.S. Roads: U.S. Roads/Kentucky

Task force

 * Eastern Mountain Coal Fields

Generated lists and logs

 * Categorized listing of articles with cleanup issues – all our articles with some sort of cleanup tag are listed here (updated weekly)
 * Newest potentially Kentucky-related articles and other pages (usually updated daily)
 * Log of newly included pages, page assessments and re-assessments, and page renames (usually updated daily)

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.