Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Northern Virginia Task Force

{| border="0" align="right" Welcome to the Northern Virginia Task Force of WikiProject Virginia. We are dedicated to improving northern Virginia's Coverage on Wikipedia. Please place all requests for help at WikiProject Virginia's subpages.

Scope
Here is what we focus on: While they are within our project's scope, we do not focus on:
 * Northern Virginia Task Force covers any part of Virginia included in the Washington D.C Metropolitan Area and the surrounding counties. It does not cover any other parts of the Metro region. The area generally includes the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun,  Faquier,  Arlington, Prince William as well as the independent cities of Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, Manassas Park, and  Alexandria.
 * Geographical Locations
 * Politicians
 * Schools
 * Governments
 * Transit
 * Parks & Recreational Facilities
 * Major, Notable events
 * Landmarks
 * Biographies about anyone who is not a politician who lives/grew up in Northern Virginia
 * Companies Headquartered in Northern Virginia

To-do list (General)

 * Tag related articles
 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
 * Identify articles for creation
 * Identify articles for improvement
 * Review importance and quality of existing articles
 * Help with reviews and To-dos at WP:WikiProject Virginia

To-do list (Specific)

 * Take a Photo that has been requested
 * The actual Northern Virginia page needs cleanup badly. It has multiple issues including NPOV, Organization, basic grammar, and some irrelevant information.
 * The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) article is currently a stub and needs to be expanded badly. HOT lane controversy and budget problems should be addressed in NOVA as well as a better overview.
 * The Virginia HOT Lanes article is a stub. If anyone can expand on it, please do so.
 * The Alexandria, Virginia article needs more citations and re-wording, especially in the "neighborhoods" section

Tagging and assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Virginia. You should add to all of the banners. Please make sure that the articles are assessed to Virginia's Quality and importance standards.

Templates
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A class

 * Fort Jackson (Virginia)

GA class

 * Adam Birch
 * Seung-Hui Cho
 * Christopher Greenup
 * Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)
 * Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation and Werner Erhard
 * Parents Television Council
 * The National Conference Center
 * Washington Metro
 * Jim Moran

Photo requests

 * Former Colgan Air headquarters - Manassas Airport - 10677 Aviation Lane, Manassas, VA - File:Colgan Air Manassas VA.JPG
 * Former Independence Air headquarters - Dulles, VA - File:IndependenceAirheadquarters.jpg
 * Former Compass Airlines headquarters - 4501 Singer Court, Chantilly VA
 * The "Beacon Field Airport" historical Marker at the South end of the Beacon Hill Shopping center.
 * Leesylvania State Park in Woodbridge
 * Huntley Meadows Park in southern Fairfax County