Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state)

Welcome to WikiProject New York (state) (WPNY), a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the U.S. state of New York. All editors interested in improving articles related to New York (state) are encouraged to join the project by signing up at Participants.

Scope and goals
WikiProject New York (state) covers all articles relating to the US state of New York. Our goal is to build the best free encyclopedia on New York (state) subjects by:


 * 1) Creating, improving, and maintaining articles that relate to the State of New York
 * 2) Categorizing, classifying, and organizing articles relating to the state.
 * 3) Providing recommendations and best-practices for editors working on the state's articles.
 * 4) Serving as as the central point of discussion for issues related to New York (state) on the English Wikipedia.

Member identification
Members of WikiProject New York (state) should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to .

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Guidelines and structure
Articles within the scope of this project shall use the article structure guideline laid out by the most relevant WikiProject for a given article. For example, an article on a school should use WikiProject Schools's guideline and structure, while an article on a state-maintained or state-designated highway should use WikiProject New York State Routes's guideline and structure.

Assessment
All of WikiProject New York (state)'s articles are assessed for quality and importance using the criteria outlined at this project's assessment department. These criteria supplement those developed by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. The current statewide assessment statistics are transcluded at right.


 * Quick links
 * Assessment log
 * Quality assessment category
 * Importance assessment category

Article alerts
The project subscribes to Article alerts, a service that automatically notifies the project when pages within WPNY's scope enter various Wikipedia workflows (such as deletion discussions, good or featured article nominations, peer review, and others). These notifications can be found below.

New articles
''See User:AlexNewArtBot/NewYorkSearchResult

Resources

 * displays recent changes to articles within WPNY's scope


 * Reflinks: Edits bare references; adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks: Edits and repairs external links
 * Dab solver: Quickly resolves ambiguous links
 * Peer reviewer: Provides hints and suggestions to improve articles

Infoboxes
Articles should have an infobox that concisely summarizes the article's content. See Category:Infobox templates for a raw list of infobox templates. Examples of infoboxes include:
 * Infobox road;: for long-distance roads, freeways, etc.
 * Infobox settlement: for all types of settlements in the state of New York such as (click for examples) hamlets, villages, towns, and cities
 * Infobox street: for city streets

Stub templates
Stubs should be tagged with an appropriate stub template. See WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types for a raw list of stub templates. Examples of New York-related stub templates include:


 * NewYork-stub: Generic template for New York (state)-related articles


 * NewYork-geo-stub: Template for articles related to New York (state) geography


 * NewYork-politician-stub: Template for articles related to New York (state) politicians


 * NewYork-road-stub: Template for articles related to roads in New York (state)


 * NewYork-school-stub: Template for articles related to schools in New York (state)

Project banner
WikiProject New York (state) should be placed on the talk pages of articles relevant to the state of New York. However, if the article is already tagged for WikiProject New York City, please tag only for Top-importance, High-importance, or select Mid-importance articles, as outlined in this project's importance scale. The project banner is shown below.

Portals

 * Portal:Hudson Valley
 * Portal:New York (state)
 * Portal:New York City

Taskforces

 * Capital District
 * Columbia University
 * Cornell University
 * Hudson Valley
 * Long Island
 * State University of New York
 * WikiProject Syracuse, New York
 * Western New York
 * Housing and Tenant Rights Task Force

Parent WikiProject

 * The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject United States

Sister WikiProjects

 * See WikiProject United States/State-level WikiProjects

Daughter WikiProject

 * New York City