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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of Texas. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; 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 and see the to-do list there.

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• Wikipedia:Most wanted articles has many Texas-related articles listed.

• FA candidates: None

• Expand: Barton Creek, Geography of Texas, Geology of Texas, Politics of Texas, Texas literature, Texas state government, Galveston Island, University of Texas at Arlington

• Wikify/Cleanup: Balcones Fault, Economy of Texas, Edwards Aquifer, Natural Bridge Caverns, Odessa Meteor Crater, Rio Grande Valley, Santa Claus Bank Robbery

• Destub: Austin Chronicle, Caldwell Zoo, Cameron Park Zoo, Castle Peak (Texas), Handbook of Texas, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas caucuses, Texas Independence Day, Zilker Botanical Garden, More...

• Images required: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Texas

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to expand Wikipedia's resources on Texas and present Texas in a fair and accurate manner.

[edit] Goals

1. To improve the quality and quantity of Texas related articles, as exemplified by the featured articles Ike Altgens; Texas Ranger Division; Houston, Texas; 2005 Texas Longhorn football team; and Texas A&M University.
2. To present a holistic view of Texas rather than the view of one region of Texas.
3. To make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on Texas.
4. Contribute to the Texas portal: WP:Texas

[edit] Assessment Dashboard

Texas articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	11	9	17		39
	FL		3		3		6
	A	1	2	1			4
	GA	2	8	23	47	6	86
	B	19	72	214	417	33	755
	C	2	5	26	149	14	196
	Start	24	160	1195	5951	174	7504
	Stub		37	508	5702	389	6636
	List	1	10	20	133	2	166
	Assessed	51	308	1996	12419	618	15392
	Unassessed			2	28	481	511
	Total	51	308	1998	12447	1099	15903

Texas assessment procedures and worklists

Log

[edit] Article Alerts

Proposed deletion

• 5 Dec 2009 – Joe Marciano (talk) proposed for deletion by Scott MacDonald (endorsed on 7 Dec 2009 by Esradekan).
• 24 Nov 2009 – First Baptist Church (Houston, Texas) (talk) has been deleted.
• 24 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from Andrew Luck (talk).

Articles for deletion

• 7 Dec 2009 – Marble Falls Independent School District (talk) nominated for deletion by Theturtlehermit; see discussion.
• 4 Dec 2009 – Kimberly Freeman (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 3 Dec 2009 – List of Dallas gangs (talk) nominated for deletion by Phantomsteve; see discussion.
• 2 Dec 2009 – Messina Hof (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 16 Nov 2009 – List of schools in Harris County, Texas (talk) nominated for deletion by Karanacs; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

• 5 Dec 2009 – Denton, Texas (talk) is not promoted.
• 2 Dec 2009 – Post Oak Mall (talk) is nominated by Collectonian.
• 29 Nov 2009 – Convention of 1832 (talk) is promoted to FA status.
• 11 Nov 2009 – Hurricane Bret (1999) (talk) is nominated by Cyclonebiskit.

Good article nominations

• 5 Dec 2009 – History of Galveston, Texas (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Free State of Galveston (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 17 Nov 2009 – Galveston Bay Area (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Mcorazao.
• 22 Oct 2009 – History of the Galveston Bay Area (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Mcorazao.

Peer review

• 2 Dec 2009 – Peer review for Gulfton, Houston (talk) closed.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for List of Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons (talk) by NThomas.

Requested moves

• 3 Dec 2009 – Move requested from Babushka lady (talk) to Babushka Lady by PamD; see discussion.
• 3 Dec 2009 – Move requested for Barry Foster (talk) by PatGallacher; see discussion.

Did you know

• 28 Nov 2009 – A fact from Lottie Deno (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 27 Nov 2009 – A fact from Jetrail (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details.
• 30 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
• 6 Nov 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.

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[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Texas is one of the United States WikiProjects.

[edit] Child WikiProjects

• Dallas-Fort Worth
• Houston
• Texas A&M
• Texas State Highways
• University of Houston
• University of Texas at Austin
• Austin

[edit] Participants

Project members: you can also add {{User WikiProject Texas}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

[edit] Resources

• The Handbook of Texas Online

[edit] Templates

• {{WikiProject Texas}} - Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
• {{Texas-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for Texas articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Texas; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Texas-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for politicians; places at the bottom of article pages
• {{Texas-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Texas articles; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Texan Collaboration Notice}}
• {{Texas}}
• {{Texas History}}

[edit] Userboxes

This user is a member of WikiProject Texas.	{{User WikiProject Texas}}
This user lives in Texas.	{{User Texas}}
This user is a citizen of the U.S. State of Texas	{{User interest Texas}}

[edit] Other related efforts

Texas portal

• Assessment
• Texan Collaboration of the Month

[edit] Sister projects links

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