Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/To do

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Maintenance
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Tables of contents and indexes
The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to United States-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:
 * List of basic United States topics - for its placement, see Lists of basic topics
 * List of United States-related topics - (for a similar index page, see List of Germany-related topics)

Special projects
Sometimes Wikipedians and WikiProjects combine their efforts to improve whole sets of related articles, using portals, info boxes, navigational aids and uniform templates for a specific topic area. Many of these are coordinated through WikiProject U.S. states. Please join the effort!

Categories By state: AL | AK | AZ | AR | CA | CO | CT | DE | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MD | MA | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NE | NV | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI | WY

Another related special project is the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which covers Native American nations as well as First Nations in Canada.

Timeline of United States history


The List of U.S. states by date of statehood is a featured list. Check to see if Wikipedia has a "History of [My State]" article and a "Timeline of [My State] history". Examples:
 * Category:History of Michigan | History of Michigan | Timeline of Michigan history
 * Category:History of Kentucky | History of Kentucky | Timeline of Kentucky history

50 State Quarters and Infoboxes


Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and some other states feature their commemorative state quarter on their main article. This special project is to discuss and decide on a uniform placement of each state's quarter and other ways to make Infobox U.S. state infoboxes a bit more complete and attractive.

American Civil War
A state by state treatment of Civil War articles by state is being conducted by WikiProject Military history through the American Civil War task force. Check to see if your state has a "[My State] in the American Civil War" category and article. Some Examples:
 * Category:Florida in the American Civil War | Florida in the Civil War
 * Category:Illinois in the American Civil War | Illinois in the Civil War
 * Category:Kentucky in the American Civil War | Kentucky in the Civil War
 * Category:Ohio in the American Civil War | Ohio in the Civil War
 * Category:Pennsylvania in the American Civil War | Pennsylvania in the Civil War
 * Category:Vermont in the American Civil War | Vermont in the Civil War
 * Category:West Virginia in the American Civil War | West Virginia in the Civil War

If your state has National Battlefields or was host to significant events related to the American Civil War, Make sure it has a detailed accurate well-sourced article that covers those places and events in a comprehensive way.

Coordinate with WikiProject Biography to make sure that Key figures from your state are covered fairly and completely.

Expand

 * Project page
 * Pollution in the United States
 * Conservation in the United States
 * Environmental issues in the United States - currently a redirect to Environment of the United States. See Environment of Australia and Environmental issues in Australia for a guideline. These articles are currently skeletons at present but they give the feel of how the two are different.
 * Children and adolescents in the United States needs a lot of work. Starting a history section to track the development of the American youth.

Create/article requests
Article requests should be placed at Requested articles/Other categorization schemes
 * Templates for this project
 * A lot of the presidential election articles
 * Irrigation in the United States - see Category:Irrigation in the United States and Irrigation in Mexico for inspiration.

Recruit

 * Wikipedians in the United States

New articles
Help to improve on the newest United States-related articles on Wikipedia.

Articles in need of attention

 * Territories of the United States, Insular area, Unincorporated territories of the United States, and Organized incorporated territories of the United States - overlap and redundancy between articles + prose & link clean-up
 * County (United States) - lacking references for almost all sections.
 * Allegations of state terrorism by United States of America - peer review requested due to disputes between editors
 * Standard of living in the United States (POV conflict)
 * Health care in the United States (possible OR)
 * Human rights in the United States (POV conflict)
 * Poverty in the United States (failed GA, only two editors maintain the article)
 * Social issues in the United States (POV conflict)
 * Social structure of the United States (OR-three unreferenced sections remain)
 * General Motors (POV conflict, many editors complain of PR fluff)
 * United States technological and industrial history (Article has been abandoned as a stub despite being linked on "UShistoryFooter", beginning drive to improve)
 * Plymouth Colony This article is up for featured article nomination, but is in need of some extra copyediting. Most of the work on it was done by a single editor, and several reviewers have asked that some additional work be done, in order to increase the eyes on the article, and to copyedit it.
 * Merger Request needs input for proposed merger of List of proposed states of the United States and Historic regions of the United States. All input welcome. GenQuest (talk) 14:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * : see Talk page there, § "Subsidiary agency" for benefits is local private organization. (Also posted to WikiProject Military history.)
 * : Redirect broken, see talk page.

Sections in need of attention

 * Intro to United States (see Talk:United States, Talk:United States and its subsections)

Articles lacking references
1973 oil crisis

Alaska

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia (U.S. state)

Idaho

Indiana

Lousiana (needs population /economy references)

Maryland

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nevada

New Hampshire

New York

North Dakota

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Utah

Virginia

Washington

Wyoming

Deletions
Deletion discussions will be held at WikiProject Deletion sorting/United States of America