WikiProject Michigan

General information (edit ·changes)

• Main Project Page
• Members
• Announcements
  • Article requests
  • Attention needed
  • New articles
  • Articles up for deletion
  • References needed
  • Image requests
  • Cleanup listing
• Project category
• Michigan Portal
• Recent changes
• Recent changes (another method)
• Popular pages

Departments

• Assessment
• Collaboration
• Peer reviews
• Categorization
• Cities
• Physical geography
• Transportation
• Culture
• People
• Government
• History

Task forces

• Detroit

Things you can do (edit)

• Collaboration:
• To Update:
• To Nominate atWP:FAC:
• To Improve to Featured standard:
• To Expand:Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge,Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore,Yellow Dog Plains,University of Michigan Biological Station,Andy Richter,Alexander Macomb (general),Michigan Women's Hall of Fame,Justus H. Rathbone,Sheryl James
• To Clarify:
• To Clean up:Michigan State Police
• To Merge:
• To Destub: See:
  • Category:Stub-Class Michigan articles
  • Category:Michigan geography stubs
• To Deorphan:
• To Create:Chief Mackinac,Mackinaw Fur Company,Hinduism in Michigan,Bulldog Lake,Ben Feigenson andPerry Feigenson (the founders of Faygo Beverage Company in Detroit),Edward Knabusch andEdwin Shoemaker (co-founders of Monroe-based La-Z-Boy),Richard Emil Braun (Detroit-born poet and Classical translator),Gwenneth Bean (Muskegon-born opera contralto),Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth
• Lists to de-redlink:Islands of Michigan,Lighthouses in the United States#Michigan,List of Copper Country mines,List of Michigan State Historic Sites,List of museums in Michigan
• Lists to complete:
• Categories to expand:Category:Architects from Michigan
• Maintain: add{{WikiProject Michigan}} to the talk pages of Michigan-related articles and add the articles toWikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Michigan recent changes so related changes link works.
  • By state topics

Michigan article statistics

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Michigan articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		3	4	15		12	34
FL	1	3	5	11			20
FM					17		17
A						1	1
GA		4	15	172		129	320
B	15	74	139	719		14	961
C	12	70	240	2,574		72	2,968
Start	5	105	733	9,077	1	274	10,195
Stub			65	5,071	1	275	5,412
List	1	58	44	382	11	41	537
Category					7,050		7,050
Disambig					183		183
File					481		481
Portal					1		1
Project					24		24
Redirect		2	7	173	2,737		2,919
Template					948		948
NA					8		8
Other				2	43		45
Assessed	34	319	1,252	18,196	11,505	818	32,124
Unassessed			1	9		197	207
Total	34	319	1,253	18,205	11,505	1,015	32,331
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =98,843			Ω = 4.97

WikiProject Michigan is aWikiProject formed to foster better articles on theU.S. state ofMichigan with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project'stalk page To participate, simply add your name at themembers page. To follow changes to Michigan-related articles, seeMichigan recent changes andMichigan-related deletion requests.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to theU.S. State ofMichigan, itscities,counties,geography, transportation, culture,history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Michigan in a fair and accurate manner.

• Michigan portal

You can find a list of participantshere. Joining WikiProject Michigan is easy - just add your username to the list. When joining the project, you shouldwatch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on thetalk page.

• WikiProject Michigan Assessment page (talk) – Assessment of Michigan-related article quality and importance
• Article assessment worklist
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Popular pages - A list of project pages by number of pageviews.

TheArticle alerts list nominations and discussions related to content from the project.

TheRecognized content page lists articles and other content that have been reviewed and recognized as some of Wikipedia's better work.

• Assessment (talk) – Assessment of Michigan-related article quality and importance
• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Michigan-related articles
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and counties
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Michigan
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes Michigan natives and those residents who have shaped Michigan
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Michigan
• History (talk) – history of Michigan during and prior to statehood
• Michigan Law – Michigan Courts, Laws, regulations, and people

• {{Michigan}} - Infobox for Michigan regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Governors of Michigan}} - Infobox for Michigan territorial and state governors.
• {{Infobox Settlement}} - The standard infobox ofWikiProject Cities to be used for all cities, towns, villages, or any other type of settlement. Also known as{{Infobox City}}.

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• Category:Michigan geography stubs
• Category:Michigan stubs

• {{WikiProject Michigan}} - Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages,not on article pages
• {{Michigan-protected-area-stub}} - Stub notice for Michigan articles dealing specifically with protected areas in Michigan; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Michigan-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for Michigan articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Michigan; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Michigan-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Michigan articles; placed at the bottom of article pages
• Category:Michigan templates

For Michigan-related articles needing a photograph, use{{Image requested|in=Michigan}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo toCategory:Wikipedia requested photographs in Michigan. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles toWikimedia Commons.

TheFree Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

TheImage Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

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• Clarke Library Collection, Central Michigan University -- includes bibliographies (and general historical information) arranged by County.
• Michigan County Histories
• List of links to local government entities in Michigan
• Michigan Manual
• Directory of Local Government Resources
• Michigan Highways

• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Michigan, the Michigan State Highways Task Force

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See alsothe tool's wiki page andthe index of WikiProjects.

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.