Wikipedia:WikiProject Lower Saxony

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the German state of Lower Saxony with a spirit of cooperation from members of this WikiProject. This page and its future subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

To participate, simply add your name to the members subpage.

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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the State of Lower Saxony and the districts, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Lower Saxony in a fair and accurate manner.

Notices
Thanks for joining up! We're in the very early days at the minute. The current focus is: Portal:Lower Saxony

How can you help

 * Help conform Lower Saxony-related articles to Wikipedia Policy.
 * You can get free Lower Saxony-related images under GNU Free Documentation License. For some reason, this particular license has become a big deal as of late. Is there anyone from Lower Saxony? You can really help this project's photo gallery.
 * You can create and edit Lower Saxony-related articles.
 * You can do translations from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia on Lower Saxony related articles.
 * You can help do assessments of Lower Saxony-related articles.
 * You can help expand articles currently in the Stub-class and Start-class.
 * You can help reference articles.
 * Since original research is against Wikipedia policy, you can research topics and help edit and reference articles.
 * You can help expand stubs to start-class articles and eventually to Featured article status.

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 * Article Improvement Drive(talk) - This is a drive in relation to existing Lower Saxony-related articles which WikiProject Lower Saxony members and other users can nominate, vote for and contribute to the improvement of an article.
 * Article Referencing Drive(talk) - This is a drive in relation to existing Lower Saxony-related articles which WikiProject Lower Saxony members and other users can nominate, vote for and contribute to the referencing of an article.
 * Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Lower Saxony-related articles
 * Boroughs (talk) – Lower Saxony boroughs
 * Physical geography (talk) – Region, parks, climate, physical features
 * Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Lower Saxony.
 * Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
 * People (talk) –People Task Force includes residents of the current city of Lower Saxony, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in Lower Saxony who have shaped Germany or Lower Saxony.
 * Government (talk) – Task Force related to Governance, as well local politics in relation to Lower Saxony
 * History (talk) – History of Lower Saxony and its predecessors
 * Photo Requests (talk) – List of requested photos.
 * Photo Gallery (talk) – Location of current photos that have GNU Free Documentation License.
 * /Task Force - A list of Task Forces in WikiProject Lower Saxony.

WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Germany
 * Holy Roman Empire task force
 * WikiProject Friesland

Others

 * German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board

Featured article star.svg Featured articles
Articles on Lower Saxony-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These should also be listed at Portal:Germany/Selected articles and pictures for their possible use as Selected articles on the Germany portal.

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The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates: The following articles are currently in the peer review process:
 * Portal:Germany is a Featured portal candidate, see Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Germany.

[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA]] Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps package graphics.png|22px]] Art, architecture and archaeology


 * [[Image:Nuvola mimetypes kchart chrt.png|20px|Economics and business]] Economics and business
 * Euro (A-class)


 * [[Image:System-users.svg|20px|Culture and society]] Culture and society


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps kcmsystem.png|20px|Engineering and technology]] Engineering and technology


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps kteatime.png|20px|Food and drink]] Food and drink


 * [[Image:Emblem-web.svg|20px|Geography]] Geography


 * [[Image:Stock alarm.svg|20px|History]] History


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps chat.png|20px|Language]] Language


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps edu mathematics-p.svg|20px|Mathematics]] Mathematics


 * [[Image:Video-x-generic.svg|20px|Music]] Music


 * [[Image:Vote.png|20px|Politics and government]] Politics and government


 * [[Image:Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg|20px|War and military]] War and military

Featured images
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Lower Saxony/Gallery.

Related Portals

 * Portal:Germany
 * Portal:Ancient Germanic culture

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Project Barnstar
The existing barnstar for contributions to Germany is the German Barnstar of National Merit'

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 * Category:Stub-Class Lower Saxony articles
 * Category:Start-Class Lower Saxony articles
 * Category:Top-importance Lower Saxony articles
 * Category:Unassessed Lower Saxony articles

Translation and style guides

 * Naming Conventions
 * Administrative divisions

Credit where credit is due
And vielen Dank to WikiProject Munich, who provided the basis for this page.