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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.

The flag of Minnesota
Location of Minnesota in the United States

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Articles for deletion

  • 22 Nov 2024 – Charles Taylor Jr. (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jdcooper (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
  • 11 Nov 2024 – Kieran McNulty (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
  • 14 Nov 2024 – Jordan Cockeram (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Grahaml35 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 21 Nov 2024; see discussion (6 participants)
  • 13 Nov 2024 – Macalester College Observatory (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Sdkb (t · c) was closed as redirect by Benison (t · c) on 20 Nov 2024; see discussion (3 participants)

Categories for discussion

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Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Current project

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Please 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

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Article Class Rationale Quality Comments
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

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/Assessment
Minnesota articles by quality and importance
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 55 120 201 7 398
C 7 43 241 929 77 1,297
Start 1 43 542 6,329 222 7,137
Stub 3 105 5,358 879 6,345
List 1 15 104 155 5 280
Category 5,102 5,102
Disambig 22 22
File 87 87
Project 20 20
Redirect 2 118 1,569 1,689
Template 672 672
NA 7 7
Other 18 18
Assessed 28 165 1,134 13,187 7,497 1,191 23,202
Unassessed 80 80
Total 28 165 1,134 13,187 7,497 1,271 23,282
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 80,351 Ω = 5.25

Importance Scale

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The 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.

Article importance grading scheme
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

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Use 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

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The "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

  1. The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
  2. Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
  3. If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template as {{WikiProject Minnesota}}.
  4. Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed

General Minnesota resources

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  • General — General information on Minnesota
  1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
  2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
  3. Identify articles needing images
  1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

Minnesota physical assets

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  • Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
  • Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
  1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
  2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
  3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
  4. Provide missing geocoordinate data
  1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota
  • Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

Minnesota life

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  • People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
  1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
  2. 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
  • History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood

Members

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Active members

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WikiProject Minnesota members inactive for 3+ years

To 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.

  1. User:Annwfwn - Twin Cities area, history and anthropology
  2. AsimovtheCat – Interested in Transport and fairly knowledgeable about Northfield and St. Olaf College in particular
  3. Aunva6 (talk) 23:35, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Axiom71 (talk) - Born in St. Paul, MN. Reside in Red Wing. Reading local history and interested in history of region and state.
  5. BenFranske
  6. Bobamnertiopsis - Minneapolis stuff, especially history in south Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Public Library branches.
  7. 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.)
  8. User:Botpo - Ecology
  9. User:Bradinator33 - History, Geography, and Mapping
  10. Calebrw (talk) - South Minneapolis. Rice County. Northfield and the surrounding area. I can take requests on my talk page for pictures in those areas.
  11. CamrynBell - 20th century history, biographies
  12. Cedar Tree - Western and rural Minnesota
  13. ClarityKTMpls - Midwesterner through and through. Happy to help with all that makes our state awesome.
  14. Comm260_ncu — Long-distance running in Minnesota; marathons, half-marathons, cross country, DIII sports
  15. Czycha (talk)
  16. Dane
  17. 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.
  18. Eamesheard (talk)
  19. ebbillings (talk) 22:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Editingwithcoffee (talk · contribs) 22:25:43, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
  22. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) I can help out with requests for pictures in the metro area.
  23. Erutuon — interested in Minnesota native plants and nature in general
  24. Gandydancer - Duluth and Iron Range and Minnesota state parks
  25. Gobonobo T C - Co-operatives, politics
  26. 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.)
  27. GreatLakesShips - Great Lakes shipwrecks.
  28. Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
  29. Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
  30. 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!
  31. GWST11 - Athletes in Minnesota
  32. Hlodynn
  33. —innotata
  34. Iulus Ascanius - I like to clean, organize, and add basic info to articles on small cities and towns
  35. JayJay - Assesing and re-assesing articles
  36. JAYMEDINC
  37. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
  38. Jordano53 - NRHP listings in Minnesota, as well as topics related to Morrison County
  39. Joseph507357 (talk Live in Minnesota.
  40. Jrt989
  41. KDTW Flyer - Wisconsin Native, working on airports
  42. Keeper 76. Born and raised. "over 30 years experience". NorthWoods or Northburbs, let me know where to help.
  43. kewlgrapes - I live in Rochester and frequently drive I-90 to Worthington. Happy to take pictures upon request.
  44. 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
  45. Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
  46. Laflaneuse - Twin Cities, art, Lynx basketball, urban planning, transportation
  47. Legolover26- I live in Minnesota and am from Minnesota and will look for ways to be of help.
  48. User:Littlearmchairhistorian - Interest in Minnesota politics. New to Wikipedia!
  49. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
  50. Malvoliox - Anything Minneapolis, twin cities, or statewide; government, neighborhoods...have been working on flag/seal stuff most recently.
  51. Marauder09 - I'll help out, I live in Minnesota.
  52. matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
  53. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
  54. Minnemeeples (talk) - Anything Minnesota but with a focus on Minneapolis history, geography, and current events.
  55. Moncoposig (talk) - Really anything related to Minnesota, but especially interested in Minnesotan ekistics and vexillology.
  56. Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
  57. Mrfeek - Politics, history
  58. Myotus - Museums and local history organizations, Minnesota history especially local histories, historical sites.
  59. Nathanm_mn
  60. Nsteffel - History, politics, beer.
  61. Nthyden - Minnesota Lynx, UMN School of Public Health
  62. Okabena EnAvant New user; interested in southwest Minnesota cities/history/geography, metro area, transportation history, natural history.
  63. Our Bold Hero
  64. User:Packerfan386 – The Cities and transportation stuff mostly.
  65. Palmejo (talk) - Born and raised in SW/WC MN, can focus there but assist wherever needed
  66. paul2520 (talk) - I live in Minneapolis; myriad of interests including local history/organizations, books, LGBTQ+ topics, general tasks, & helping new users
  67. Peter Beard (talk) - Mostly stuff in the metro area; history, photos - whatever's missing, really.
  68. User:RachelWex
  69. Rehcsif - Western 'burbs, parks, general misc.
  70. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
  71. Ryan Vesey Currently working on some southwest Minnesota articles, trying to create articles for all of the Senators and Representatives from the region
  72. Sabiona
  73. Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
  74. SageSolomon Minnesota native, born and raised, living in the west-metro. Interested in the Cities and Towns, Geography, History and Politics.
  75. SeanNovack (talk) History, Politics, and sports
  76. Shaded0 (talk) 03:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  77. Skyler13 (talk)
  78. User:SoAnactoria - Wide interest range, but primarily urban planning, West Central Minnesota (particularly the Red River Valley), art in MN, Indigenous history and culture.
  79. SunTunnels (talk) - Southeast and NRHP.
  80. SusanLesch (talk)
  81. SWMNPoliSciProject (talk) Preparation, modification and expansion of articles primarily relevant to government, politics and world affairs.
  82. Thesavagenorwegian - Elections mostly
  83. TickleMeTrotsky - Duluth area, geology, miscellany
  84. Tommie91 - I'm a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams. Also a Minnesota history fan.
  85. Trish Lewis - St. Vincent, Minnesota History
  86. WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) - University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Law School, fifth-generation Minnesotan. Will look around for miscellaneous tasks mentioned on the project page.
  87. William E Ostrem - Wide interests, literature, sports, Twin Cities
  88. WTGDMan1986
  89. WxGopher - Almost exclusively editing weather articles, though occasionally Minnesota sports articles too.
  90. ZJH
  91. GM - Interest in Dakota County history, List of longest streams of Minnesota, List of rivers of Minnesota
  92. CptFulton - Interest in adding photographs of small towns in the Twin Cities area
  93. User:Zpro1408 00:16:49, 30 September 2022 (UTC) [reply]
  • Pingnova (talk · contribs) 03:04:48, 22 October 2024 (UTC)  – Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, Dakota in Minnesota[reply]

    • Member identification

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    Members of WikiProject Minnesota should place one of the following on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Minnesota participants.

    Wikitext userbox where used
    [[Category:WikiProject Minnesota participants]] none linked pages
    {{Template:User WikiProject Minnesota}}
    		This user is a participant in
    WikiProject Minnesota.
    		 linked pages
    {{Template:User WP Minnesota}}
    This user participates in
    WikiProject Minnesota.
    		 linked pages
    {{Template:User WP Minnesota|invite}}
    This user invites you to join
    WikiProject Minnesota.
    		 linked pages

    For other Minnesota user templates see Category:Minnesota user templates.

    Meetups

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    At 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

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    U.S. city infobox

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    U.S. county infobox

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    Minnesota template

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    • {{Minnesota}} - Template for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

    Userboxes

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    		This user is a participant in
    WikiProject Minnesota.
    		 {{User WikiProject Minnesota}}
    This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Minnesota.
    		 {{User Minnesota}}
    This user is interested in the U.S. State of Minnesota.
    		 {{User interest Minnesota}}

    Barnstar

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    The Minnesota Barnstar
    Put your message here.

    {{subst:The Minnesota barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}

    WikiProject Minnesota

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    {{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)
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    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

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    Stub notices

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    Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

    Requested photos

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    For 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

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    Minnesota State Highways
    Minnesota Twins
    Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Deletion sorting

    Task forces

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    Tools

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    Main tool page: Toolhub
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