Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota
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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in a NPOV and accurate manner.
This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.
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- 02 Dec 2024 – William Hamm Jr. (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Nov 2024 – The Minnesota Pioneer to its Patrons (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Nov 2024 – First Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Nov 2024 – Saint Peter's Church (Mendota, Minnesota) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Nov 2024 – Adrian Baril (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Nov 2024 – Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Nov 2024 – James Michael Reardon (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 05 Dec 2024 – Krishna Kishore (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Garudam (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 11 Nov 2024 – Kieran McNulty (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
- 28 Nov 2024 – Ryan LaPlante (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c) was closed as delete by Just Step Sideways (t · c) on 05 Dec 2024; see discussion (2 participants)
Categories for discussion
- 04 Dec 2024 – Category:People from Glyndon, Minnesota (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Lost in Quebec (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 02 Dec 2024 – Peter "Pete" B. Hegseth (talk · edit · hist) →Pete Hegseth was RfDed by QuicoleJR (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 05 Dec 2024 – Bobby Brink (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GhostRiver (t · c); start discussion
- 28 Nov 2024 – James M. Goodhue (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Darth Stabro (t · c); start discussion
- 27 Nov 2024 – Saint Peter's Church (Mendota, Minnesota) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Darth Stabro (t · c); start discussion
- 24 Nov 2024 – KVLY-TV (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sammi Brie (t · c); start discussion
- 03 Nov 2024 – Coon Rapids Dam (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Darth Stabro (t · c); start discussion
Good article reassessments
- 01 Dec 2024 – Greyhound Lines (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 04 Dec 2024 – UnitedHealth Group (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by 2600:100C:A218:9A7B:543B:670A:CC3:3375 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 04 Dec 2024 – Brian Thompson (businessman) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Killing of Brian Thompson by Alpacaaviator (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Dec 2024 – Tim Sheehy (businessman) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Tim Sheehy (American politician) by Needforspeed888 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Dec 2024 – Twin Cities hip hop (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Twin Cities hip-hop by SilverLocust (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Dec 2024 – Paper Tiger (hip hop producer) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Paper Tiger (hip-hop producer) by SilverLocust (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Dec 2024 – Felt (hip hop group) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Felt (hip-hop group) by SilverLocust (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 23 Oct 2024 – Patty Wetterling (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Murder of Jacob Wetterling by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 23 Jan 2023 – Dakota War of 1862 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mr. Guye (t · c); see discussion
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Current project
editPlease help with the category of Unassessed Minnesota articles. As of July 10, 2020, there are approximately 206 articles remaining to be assessed.
Core articles/High-level articles
editArticle | Class | Rationale | Quality | Comments |
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Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | Excellent - appeared on the Main Page May 11, 2007 |
Climate of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | C | Excellent - appeared on the Main Page February 17, 2011 |
Culture of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | Help! |
Demographics of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Economy of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Geography of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Flag of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | C | Needs much more work. Help! |
Geology of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
History of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | C | Appeared on the Main Page May 11, 2008, but failed feature article review and dropped all the way down to C-Class |
Minneapolis | Top | WP:CORE | FA | Excellent - appeared on the Main Page July 20, 2008 |
Minneapolis–Saint Paul | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Mississippi River | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Music of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | Demoted from FA. What needs to be done to improve it? |
Natural history of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | Start | Good but small, direct copy from Minnesota |
Politics of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Saint Paul, Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | GA | Not too shabby...FA, anyone? |
Sports in Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Transportation in Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
University of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness | Top | WP:CORE | GA | GA once again! |
Anoka County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Bloomington, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Dakota County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | C | Much improved, keep improving it |
Duluth, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | Delisted from GA :( |
Eugene McCarthy | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Fort Snelling | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Hennepin County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | C | A good one to work on |
Metro Blue Line (Minnesota) | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
History of Minneapolis | High | A High-level article | GA | Potential FA? |
History of Saint Paul, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Hubert Humphrey | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
I-35W Mississippi River bridge | High | A High-level article | GA | Good collaboration |
Iron Range | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Lake Minnetonka | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Lake Superior | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
List of Governors of Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
List of Minnesota state parks | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
List of Minnesota state symbols | High | A High-level article | FL | Fantastic, you betcha - appeared on the Main Page November 24, 2014 |
List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | |
List of people from Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Mall of America | High | A High-level article | B | Still needs some work. |
Mankato, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Mayo Clinic | High | A High-Level article | Start | Clinic and medical school needs work! |
Template:Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Template | This is good as-is |
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Minnesota State Capitol | High | A High-level article | GA | Potential FA? |
Minnesota State Fair | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
Template:Politics of Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Template | This is good as-is |
Ramsey County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Rochester, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Saint Anthony Falls | High | A High-level article | B | Help! |
St. Cloud, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
St. Paul Pioneer Press | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Star Tribune | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
United States congressional delegations from Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
University of Minnesota system | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
WCCO-TV | High | A High-level article | Start | A good one to work on |
Walter Mondale | High | A High-level article | C | A good one to work on |
Washington County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
Assessment
editMinnesota articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | |||
FL | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | |||
GA | 3 | 5 | 12 | 86 | 1 | 107 | |
B | 15 | 55 | 121 | 204 | 6 | 401 | |
C | 7 | 43 | 241 | 940 | 79 | 1,310 | |
Start | 1 | 43 | 541 | 6,330 | 227 | 7,142 | |
Stub | 3 | 105 | 5,351 | 885 | 6,344 | ||
List | 1 | 15 | 104 | 155 | 6 | 281 | |
Category | 5,149 | 5,149 | |||||
Disambig | 22 | 22 | |||||
File | 87 | 87 | |||||
Project | 20 | 20 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 118 | 1,572 | 1,692 | |||
Template | 705 | 705 | |||||
NA | 6 | 6 | |||||
Other | 19 | 19 | |||||
Assessed | 28 | 165 | 1,134 | 13,195 | 7,580 | 1,204 | 23,306 |
Unassessed | 1 | 4 | 73 | 78 | |||
Total | 28 | 165 | 1,135 | 13,199 | 7,580 | 1,277 | 23,384 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 80,431 | Ω = 5.25 |
Importance Scale
editThe criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Minnesota.
Label | Criteria | Examples | ||
Places | Things | People | ||
Top | Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for Minnesota, or is generally notable to people other than residents of Minnesota. They define and determine the subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. | Minnesota | University of Minnesota | Prince (musician) |
High | Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of Minnesota, but not necessarily outside it. | Bloomington, Minnesota | I-35W Mississippi River bridge | Amy Klobuchar |
Mid | Subject contributes to the total subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. | Apple Valley, Minnesota | Breck School | Ilhan Omar |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Minnesota, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. | Climax, Minnesota | Baldwin Lake | Charlemagne Tower |
Project divisions and current tasks
editUse these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.
New article patrol
editThe "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them
- The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
- Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
- If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template as {{WikiProject Minnesota}}.
- Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed
General Minnesota resources
edit- General — General information on Minnesota
- Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
- Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
- Identify articles needing images
- Recent changes — View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.
- Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.
Minnesota physical assets
edit- Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
- Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
- Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
- Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
- Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
- Provide missing geocoordinate data
- Transportation — Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota
- Improve Transportation in Minnesota
- Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas
- Nature and geography — Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals
Minnesota life
edit- People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
- Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
- Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
- Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
- Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
- Education — Education in Minnesota
- History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood
Members
editActive members
editTo join WikiProject Minnesota, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- User:Annwfwn - Twin Cities area, history and anthropology
- AsimovtheCat – Interested in Transport and fairly knowledgeable about Northfield and St. Olaf College in particular
- Aunva6 (talk) 23:35, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
- Axiom71 (talk) - Born in St. Paul, MN. Reside in Red Wing. Reading local history and interested in history of region and state.
- BenFranske
- Bobamnertiopsis - Minneapolis stuff, especially history in south Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Public Library branches.
- Bobak - urban planning, stadiums, misc. (I live in downtown Minneapolis and can get pictures in a jiff if people need them; I am also an administrator.)
- User:Botpo - Ecology
- User:Bradinator33 - History, Geography, and Mapping
- Calebrw (talk) - South Minneapolis. Rice County. Northfield and the surrounding area. I can take requests on my talk page for pictures in those areas.
- CamrynBell - 20th century history, biographies
- Cedar Tree - Western and rural Minnesota
- ClarityKTMpls - Midwesterner through and through. Happy to help with all that makes our state awesome.
- Comm260_ncu — Long-distance running in Minnesota; marathons, half-marathons, cross country, DIII sports
- Czycha (talk)
- Dane
- Dynamic Doyle (talk)- Wikipedia user since September 2013. Avid bicyclist and manufacturing engineering technology student in Minneapolis and Mankato. Works at Star_Tribune Fleet Garage. Also loves finance/accounting, R&D, design, art, fluids (gas/liquids), classical music, and advocating for education.
- Eamesheard (talk)
- ebbillings (talk) 22:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Editingwithcoffee (talk · contribs) 22:25:43, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
- Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
- ErikTheBikeMan (talk) I can help out with requests for pictures in the metro area.
- Erutuon — interested in Minnesota native plants and nature in general
- Gandydancer - Duluth and Iron Range and Minnesota state parks
- Gobonobo T C - Co-operatives, politics
- Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
- GreatLakesShips - Great Lakes shipwrecks.
- Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
- Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
- Mr. Guye - I live in Robbinsdale. I will likely focus on Minnesota politics and government. How am I not already a member of this WikiProject? I care about my state's articles!
- GWST11 - Athletes in Minnesota
- Hlodynn
- —innotata
- Iulus Ascanius - I like to clean, organize, and add basic info to articles on small cities and towns
- JayJay - Assesing and re-assesing articles
- JAYMEDINC
- Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
- Jordano53 - NRHP listings in Minnesota, as well as topics related to Morrison County
- Joseph507357 (talk Live in Minnesota.
- Jrt989
- KDTW Flyer - Wisconsin Native, working on airports
- Keeper 76. Born and raised. "over 30 years experience". NorthWoods or Northburbs, let me know where to help.
- kewlgrapes - I live in Rochester and frequently drive I-90 to Worthington. Happy to take pictures upon request.
- Kr0ndstat - Interested in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, the University of Minnesota, technological advancements in Minnesota, and copy editing. Creator of List of Minnesota State Fair grandstand shows
- Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
- Laflaneuse - Twin Cities, art, Lynx basketball, urban planning, transportation
- Legolover26- I live in Minnesota and am from Minnesota and will look for ways to be of help.
- User:Littlearmchairhistorian - Interest in Minnesota politics. New to Wikipedia!
- Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
- Malvoliox - Anything Minneapolis, twin cities, or statewide; government, neighborhoods...have been working on flag/seal stuff most recently.
- Marauder09 - I'll help out, I live in Minnesota.
- matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
- McGhiever - working mostly on parks
- Minnemeeples (talk) - Anything Minnesota but with a focus on Minneapolis history, geography, and current events.
- Moncoposig (talk) - Really anything related to Minnesota, but especially interested in Minnesotan ekistics and vexillology.
- Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
- Mrfeek - Politics, history
- Myotus - Museums and local history organizations, Minnesota history especially local histories, historical sites.
- Nathanm_mn
- Nsteffel - History, politics, beer.
- Nthyden - Minnesota Lynx, UMN School of Public Health
- Okabena EnAvant New user; interested in southwest Minnesota cities/history/geography, metro area, transportation history, natural history.
- Our Bold Hero
- User:Packerfan386 – The Cities and transportation stuff mostly.
- Palmejo (talk) - Born and raised in SW/WC MN, can focus there but assist wherever needed
- paul2520 (talk) - I live in Minneapolis; myriad of interests including local history/organizations, books, LGBTQ+ topics, general tasks, & helping new users
- Peter Beard (talk) - Mostly stuff in the metro area; history, photos - whatever's missing, really.
- User:RachelWex
- Rehcsif - Western 'burbs, parks, general misc.
- Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
- Ryan Vesey Currently working on some southwest Minnesota articles, trying to create articles for all of the Senators and Representatives from the region
- Sabiona
- Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
- SageSolomon Minnesota native, born and raised, living in the west-metro. Interested in the Cities and Towns, Geography, History and Politics.
- SeanNovack (talk) History, Politics, and sports
- Shaded0 (talk) 03:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Skyler13 (talk)
- User:SoAnactoria - Wide interest range, but primarily urban planning, West Central Minnesota (particularly the Red River Valley), art in MN, Indigenous history and culture.
- SunTunnels (talk) - Southeast and NRHP.
- SusanLesch (talk)
- SWMNPoliSciProject (talk) Preparation, modification and expansion of articles primarily relevant to government, politics and world affairs.
- Thesavagenorwegian - Elections mostly
- TickleMeTrotsky - Duluth area, geology, miscellany
- Tommie91 - I'm a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams. Also a Minnesota history fan.
- Trish Lewis - St. Vincent, Minnesota History
- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) - University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Law School, fifth-generation Minnesotan. Will look around for miscellaneous tasks mentioned on the project page.
- William E Ostrem - Wide interests, literature, sports, Twin Cities
- WTGDMan1986
- WxGopher - Almost exclusively editing weather articles, though occasionally Minnesota sports articles too.
- ZJH
- GM - Interest in Dakota County history, List of longest streams of Minnesota, List of rivers of Minnesota
- CptFulton - Interest in adding photographs of small towns in the Twin Cities area
- User:Zpro1408 00:16:49, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
Member identification
editMembers of WikiProject Minnesota should place one of the following on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Minnesota participants.
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For other Minnesota user templates see Category:Minnesota user templates.
Meetups
editAt least one Minnesota user meetup was held every year from 2005 to 2018. Users have suggested a meetup for 2024. See the meetup talk page to see planned meetups and discuss future events.
Edit-a-thons and additional events are also listed on Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota.
Templates
editU.S. city infobox
edit- {{Infobox City}} - Standard infobox template for cities.
U.S. county infobox
edit- {{Infobox U.S. County}} - the US County Infobox needs to be added to almost all MN counties.
Minnesota template
edit- {{Minnesota}} - Template for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages
Userboxes
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Barnstar
editThe Minnesota Barnstar | ||
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WikiProject Minnesota
edit{{WikiProject Minnesota |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA) |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA) |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No) |attention= (choose one: Yes No) }}
Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.
Cleanup listing
editStub notices
editPlease place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.
- {{Minnesota-stub}} - General Minnesota articles
- {{Minnesota-geo-stub}} - Minnesota locations or geographical features
- {{Minnesota-politician-stub}} - Minnesota politicians
- {{Minnesota-school-stub}} - Minnesota schools
Requested photos
editFor Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Minnesota}}
in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.
The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.
Child WikiProjects
editTask forces
editRelated WikiProjects
editTools
edit- Main tool page: Toolhub