Maryland portal

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Introduction

Welcome to WikiProject Maryland! The purpose of this project is help editors who are interested in editing articles related to Maryland. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and tools to help editors contribute to Maryland-related articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. You may also wish to add your name to #Participants. This project serves as a hub for all other projects related to Maryland, see the child projects below for more detailed information on contributing to Maryland-related articles.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

Scope

The purpose of this project is to cover all articles related to the U.S. state of Maryland. It should also serve as a hub for other more specific projects related to Maryland (such as Roads in Maryland). From this project, contributors will find links to the subprojects, and information for contributing to topics that do not yet have a subproject. This project is also responsible for the maintenance of the Maryland portal.

Departments

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Assessment - the assessment unit.

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Maryland is one of the United States WikiProjects.

Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.

Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cumberland, Maryland

Task forces

• Baltimore

Related Collaborations

No related Collaborations have been named.

Related Regional notice boards

• Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board
• Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

Related groups of Wikipedians

• Category:Wikipedians in Maryland

Participants

Feel free to add yourself here if you plan on participating, the more the merrier. You may also wish to add this project's userbox, {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}}, to your userpage. The userbox looks like this:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.

Active

• Jeff02 – I live in QA county, and am pretty knowledgable on roads in Maryland
• Tom – I've written many of the articles about Maryland Congressmen, Governors, Senators, etc.
• 1msulax 17:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC), I live in Baltimore, happy to help.
• Neutralhomer – I actively update the Radio and Television stations in Maryland.
• Littledrummrboy 21:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Originally from Delaware and a UMBC grad.
• «Marylandstater» ^«reply» 13:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
• John Carter 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC) – may not be of much use, but will help when when I can
• Pilch62 – I was born and raised in Worcester County, as most members of my family have been for nigh unto 300 years--we came to America and stopped dead. My family have also been involved in state politics.
• Vpuliva – I live in Washington County and I think I can be of help for Western Maryland related articles.
• Esskater11 – I live in Parkville and are currently trying to get Andy Nelsons BBQ better ForeverDEAD 23:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
• bwyche – a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Edited articles on Johns Hopkins the person;Johns Hopkins, the institutions, including the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orhanage, the hopkins' faculty, and other figures,including patients, african americans at hopkins.
• User:Toddst1 – writing on mostly colonial or maritime related stuff Toddst1 (talk) 09:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
• Sallicio – I live and work in the Baltimore-DC corridor and write and edit mostly on political content. Go 'Skins! Sallicio (talk) 23:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Sallicio
• Lady Aleena – I can make templates when needed, user template for this project is done.
• User:cheezisyum21
• Kevinadavid – Is a former resident of Montgomery County and likes to help out with pages involving the schools and cities in that county.
• Wikipedian1234 – I am a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland. I can help out with any articles affiliated with that area.
• Dgreco – new resident of Rockville, MD. I can help with Maryland colleges. I have done a lot of work with other college pages and am working on setting up a universal mold for small colleges without the history of large institutions.
• Joe Sperrazza – I grew up in Maryland, living in Harford County and then Baltimore City
• Deanlaw – in the Baltimore area
• Adavidb
• Ted A. - native and resident of metro Baltimore
• Geasterb
• Eplack - born and raised in Timonium and now live between Towson and Baltimore city. Graduate of Towson University in Geography
• Wildthing61476 - born and raised in Baltimore, lifelong resident. Contributor to local neighborhood and school articles.
• America69 (talk) 13:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC) - live in Maryland
• Eleoopy – grew up in Glen Burnie area and now live in Washington DC.
• Pubdog – President of the Cool Spring Terrace Civic Assn, Adelphi, MD (Prince George's County) and archivist at the National Archives at College Park.
• GcSwRhIc (talk) 13:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC) – born and raised in Baltimore.
• Yachtsman1 - Annapolitan, and I have lived here since I was very young. Contributor to school and history articles, Loyola College in Maryland alumnus, B.A. in History.
• Persnicketyfits - I work in a library in Carroll County, Maryland
• Levineps - I live in North Potomac in Montgomery County, Maryland. I am a native of this great state and have been here my whole life, save for college. I am a big Baltimore Orioles and Maryland Terrapins fan and love politics.

Inactive

These are project participants who are believed to be inactive, if you see your name below (click "show" to see the list) and believe it was put here by mistake, please move it back to the "Active" list

Projects

1. Portal:Maryland
2. Portal:Cumberland, Maryland

Tasks

[] Wanted articles

If there is a Maryland-related article that you would like to see created, add a request for it below:

• Montgomery County Commission
• Prince Georges County Commission
• Frederick County Commission

Articles to fix

If there is a Maryland-related article that already exists but you would like to see it cleaned up or expanded, add it below

• Anthony G. Brown
• Fulton, Maryland
• Josias Fendall - long article with zero references
• Frederick County Sheriff's Office

Ongoing tasks

This section is for ongoing tasks

• Make sure the talk pages of all relevant articles include {{WikiProject Maryland}}, and are assessed.

Please help me work on Abingdon, Maryland, currently there is too little info on it online.

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• J. Joseph Curran adopted by Marylandstater (talk) 16:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
• Mount Savage, Maryland adopted by WildwoseWildwose.
• Woodberry, Baltimore adopted by Marylandstater 14:48, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Templates

[] Infoboxes

Stub templates

Template	Output
{{Maryland-stub}}	This Maryland-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-geo-stub}}	This Maryland state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-politician-stub}}	This article about a Maryland politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-school-stub}}	This Maryland school-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and WikiProject Maryland by expanding it.
{{Maryland-road-stub}}	This Maryland road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-newspaper-stub}}	This article about a Maryland newspaper is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
{{Maryland-radio-station-stub}}	This article about a radio station in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Maryland-sports-venue-stub}}	This article about a sports venue in Maryland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

Other templates

{{WikiProject Maryland}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

	WikipediaWikiProject Maryland is part of WikiProject Maryland, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Maryland.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Userbox}} is this project's user template.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.

Categories

• Category:Maryland
• Category:WikiProject Maryland

Lists

• List of counties in Maryland

Articles

Maryland articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	4	3		2	10
	FL	1	2	1		1	5
	A			1			1
	GA		2	3	7	3	15
	B	17	30	47	20	28	142
	C		4	7	5	12	28
	Start	19	179	508	524	207	1437
	Stub	1	213	336	745	952	2247
	List	3	2	13	14	17	49
	Assessed	42	436	919	1315	1222	3934
	Unassessed				1	123	124
	Total	42	436	919	1316	1345	4058

Wikipedia articles on Maryland

• Maryland
• History of Maryland
• Province of Maryland

Growth of selected WikiProjects of other states (2007 and 2008)

(table only includes the total number of articles in each state's project at the beginning of the month indicated.)

New Wikipedia articles related to Maryland

Please feel free to list your new Maryland-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• Cathedral Hill Historic District
• St. Anne's Church (Annapolis, Maryland)
• Shrine of St. Anthony
• Savage Mountain
• Keyser's Ridge, Maryland
• Jeanne Dorsey Mandel
• Patricia Donoho Hughes
• Warrior Run (generating station)
• Deep Creek Dam
• Love Point, Maryland
• Joseph C. Howard, Sr.
• Bell v. Maryland
• Talbot County Courthouse
• Walter P. Carter
• Baltimore City Circuit Courthouses
• Lloyal Randolph
• Baltimore County Circuit Courthouses
• Wendell H. Phillips
• Caroline County Courthouse
• Howard County Circuit Courthouse
• Baltimore City Hall
• Queen Anne's County Courthouse
• Kent Fort, Maryland
• Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line")
• Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
• Chalk Point Generating Station
• Dickerson generating station (Maryland)
• Morgantown generating station, Maryland

Did you know?

• ...that the only man to fly both atomic bomb missions over Japan during World War II was a Marylander? (see: Jacob Beser) Marylandstater 12:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

3/17/08 DYK

• ...that the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team was the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?(new article and new expansion) Marylandstater (talk) 01:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

4/25/08 DYK

• ...that life-long Marylander Annie Armstrong, for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again? SonPraises (talk) (contributions) 04:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

5/15/08 DYK

• ... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed by a 22-year-old architect in 1867? (new article) Marylandstater (talk) 03:25, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

6/6/08 DYK

• ... that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father was African American, became the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland? (new article) Marylandstater (talk) 03:25, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

6/25/08 DYK

• ... that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason Building (pictured), which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height?

7/11/08 DYK

• ... that four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame?

7/21/08 DYK

• ... that Edward P. Hurt, who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games?

9/10/08 DYK

• ... that on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?

Article improvement drive

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

• Union Arch Bridge

Featured articles

• Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line")
• George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
• Government of Maryland
• Music of Maryland
• Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
• Royal Blue (B&O train)

Featured article candidates

• William Claiborne

Featured pictures

Featured picture candidates

Featured lists

• List of counties in Maryland
• List of sister cities in Maryland
• Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates

Featured list candidates

Wikipedia surveys

[] Ad hoc surveys

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

Deletion links

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Maryland

• Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
• Deletion review (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for discussion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:
• Proposed deletions:

Resources

Find more about Maryland on Wikipedia's sister projects:
	Dictionary definitions
	Textbooks
	Quotations
	Source texts
	Images and media
	News stories
	Learning resources

• State website
• Wikipedia article traffic counter:
  

For instance, from January 1, 2008 to June 21, 2008

WikiProject Maryland was viewed 2,157 times

Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates: 3,023 times

Music of Maryland was viewed 6,442 times

Martin O'Malley was viewed 37,850 times

Royal Blue (B&O train) was viewed 53,373 times

Edgar Allan Poe was viewed 1,339,916 times

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