Wikipedia:WikiProject Tampa Bay



WikiProject Tampa Bay was started originally started on November 18, 2006 as WikiProject Tampa to coordinate work on articles related to Tampa, Florida in the English Wikipedia. On April 18, 2008, it has since been renamed to include the entire Tampa Bay area.

Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up below and post any ideas and suggestions on the Talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need serious work or that you feel require attention below in the Open Tasks sections.

Scope
This WikiProject aims to coordinate improvement efforts on articles related to any city in the Tampa Bay Area, which includes, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Bradenton/Sarasota, Lakeland, the North Suncoast, and many more cities. It is also an aim of this project to bring the Tampa city article up to Featured Article status, in part by bringing it up to the standards defined by WikiProject Cities.

Members
Project members, please add TampaWikiProject-Member to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.

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Feel free to add any articles that need to be addressed or improved to this list. When adding a page, place TampaWikiproject on the article's talk page:

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 * Related Alerts: WikiProject Florida Alerts

Parentage
The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Florida.

To do
Here are some open WikiProject Tampa Bay tasks:


 * Turn Tampa into a featured article.
 * Cite sources.
 * Add photographs to Tampa-related articles.
 * Mention cultural features of the city beyond those that are immediately visible to tourists.
 * Improve the stub articles related to Tampa and identify and tag new Tampa-related stub articles.
 * Write articles on the notable skyscrapers in the Tampa skyline (Park Tower has already been completed).
 * Just what does "Palma Ceia" mean, anyway? - there's a book the Tampa Bay History Center published on the origins of local place names. I'll try to find it.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 16:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Improve and complete the neighborhood section.
 * Reduced article size by creating branch articles; e.g. Media in Tampa Bay.
 * Add information and citations to the Clearwater article.
 * Improve St. Petersburg article.
 * Assess all articles.
 * Again, cite sources.