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WikiProject Massachusetts
This WikiProject is about the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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CategoriesWikiProject Massachusetts, Massachusetts
Portalsflag Massachusetts
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Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Massachusetts Massachusetts
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project(s)		United States, North America
Project banner template{{WikiProject United States|MA=yes}}
Userboxes{{User WikiProject Massachusetts}}
{{User WP Massachusetts}}
Helps organise child projects?Yes
Has goals?Yes
AssessmentWikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts/Assessment

WikiProject Massachusetts

Welcome to WikiProject Massachusetts. This is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce, develop, and expand articles, templates, and other content relating to the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

If you would like to discuss new ideas for the Project, feel free to do so on on the Project's Talk Page. If you are interested in joining the project, simply add your username to the Members list below.

Articles

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Newly created articles can be found here if they are not Massachusetts related articles do not tag them and take them of the list if they are Massachusetts related tag them with {{WikiProject United States|MA=yes|MA-importance=}} and rate them. Thank you Colchicum for setting up the bot.

Business articles

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Culture articles

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History articles

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Local town articles

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Military articles

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Note that this is but a small part of the Massachusetts military articles as these are also mostly Revolutionary War era pages.

Newspapers

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See also List of newspapers in Massachusetts for a complete list

See also List of newspapers in Massachusetts for a complete list

Organization articles

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People articles

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Places/geography articles

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Religion articles

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State government articles

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Note: This project is not specifically a government project.

Templates

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Project banner and stubs

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Template Result
{{WikiProject United States|MA=yes|MA-importance=}}

Use this template to show an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. This should be placed at the top of talk pages, not articles.

WikiProject iconUnited States: Massachusetts
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
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This article is supported by WikiProject Massachusetts.
{{Massachusetts-stub}}

Use this to identify an article as a stub, but only if the article cannot be classified with one of the below stub templates. It goes at the bottom of an article.

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This Massachusetts-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

{{Massachusetts-geo-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to locations (regions, towns, cities, etc.) or geographical features in Massachusetts as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article.

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{{Massachusetts-politician-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to Massachusetts politicians as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article.

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{{Massachusetts-school-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to a Massachusetts school as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article. (NOTE: Colleges and Universities are not included in this category.)

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{{Massachusetts-road-stub}}

Use this to identify an article relating to roads in Massachusetts as a stub. It goes at the bottom of an article.

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This Massachusetts road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

{{reqphotoin|Massachusetts}}

For Massachusetts-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Massachusetts}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Massachusetts. 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.

Infoboxes and navboxes

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See also the categories Massachusetts infobox templates and Massachusetts navigational boxes
Template Result
{{Massachusetts}}

Navigation template Use this navbox in articles relating to regions, counties, cities, towns, villages, and CDPs of Massachusetts. It is placed at the bottom of article pages.
{{NAME County, Massachusetts}}

Navigation template Use this navbox in articles relating to regions, counties, cities, towns, villages, and CDPs of a specific county. Place it directly under the Massachusetts navigation box at the bottom of article pages. The example is for Middlesex.
{{Infobox settlement}}

Infobox Use this for articles relating to Massachusetts cities, towns or any other type of settlement. Most fields are optional - see the template page for more details. (Also known as "Infobox City" or "Infobox Town") 		See Plymouth, Massachusetts for an example of this Infobox in use for a town and Pittsfield, Massachusetts for an example of this Infobox in use for a city.

Assessment

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts/Assessment
Project Massachusetts


Massachusetts articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 5 8 36 3 54
FL 1 1 9 1 12
FM 36 36
A 1 2 3
GA 2 16 100 177 54 349
B 10 38 134 346 322 850
C 1 46 276 1,219 1,106 2,648
Start 2 32 439 5,453 3,815 9,741
Stub 1 194 3,657 4,524 8,376
List 5 22 188 2 170 387
Category 7,786 7,786
Disambig 21 21
File 443 443
Portal 99 99
Project 54 54
Redirect 10 187 1,121 1,318
Template 672 672
NA 6 6
Other 2 59 61
Assessed 19 143 1,184 11,276 10,299 9,995 32,916
Unassessed 11 342 353
Total 19 143 1,184 11,287 10,299 10,337 33,269
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 112,804 Ω = 5.12


Categories

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Categories to be included in this project

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Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Massachusetts

Categories to which this Project should refer

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Images

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Here are some images that were either created by/for this Project, or would just be handy for this Project. Please add more!

Maps

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In the Infobox Template:Infobox City, there is a place for an image showing the town's place in the state. Can someone advise the rest of us on creating such images?

Yes. I just added an image file showing the outlines of Massachusetts towns and cities. When you add the Townbox to an article, download this image, fill in the town's borders with pure red color (using a program like Photoshop or any other that can handle .png files), and then upload the file with the name "Ma_towns_TOWNNAMEHERE.png" replacing "TOWNNAMEHERE" with the name of the town.
I got this image from a Massachusetts government web site, so I assume that it is public domain.--AaronS 16:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
As a side effect of making a map for Scouting in Massachusetts, I now have an SVG map of the townships in Massachusetts. This is (a) easy to scale and (b) use as a basis for other maps. It is based on the [Libre Map project] and so should be ok on the copyright (BY-SA creative commons). Hope it might be useful.--Erp (talk) 21:47, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Massachusetts Townships

Wikiportal

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Perhaps, someday, this project can grow into a Wikiportal! That day has arrived.

Descendants

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Members and user boxes

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Put your name in Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts/Members.

Userboxes

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{{User WikiProject Massachusetts}}
This user participates in WikiProject Massachusetts.
{{User Massachusetts}}
This user lives in or is from the
United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
{{User interest Massachusetts}}
This user is interested in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Article alerts

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Articles for deletion

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Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Files for discussion

Good article nominees

Requested moves

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Tools

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Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.