Wiki How:WikiProject Kentucky

WikiProject Kentucky

Shortcuts	WP:KY, WP:WPKY, WP:Kentucky, WP:KENTUCKY
Categories	WikiProject Kentucky, Kentucky
Portal	Kentucky
Parent project(s)	United States
Project banner template	{{WikiProject United States|KY=yes|KY-importance=}}
Userboxes	{{User WikiProject Kentucky}} {{User WP Kentucky}}
Descendant WikiProjects WikiProject Louisville Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the state of the United States known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky 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's talk.

As of 8 June 2024, there are 14,149 articles within the scope of WikiProject Kentucky, of which 62 are featured and 143 are good articles. This makes up 0.21% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.57% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.36% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 45,230 pages in the project.

• To join this project or see the current list of members, go to the Membership Department.
• To see a list of good and featured articles maintained by this project, visit our Hall of Fame.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Kentucky, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to improve and refine Wikipedia's resources on Kentucky in a fair and accurate manner and logically link them through a high-quality, well-maintained Portal:Kentucky.

To join WikiProject Kentucky, add your username to our member list.

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 8 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Kentucky articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	9	25	12		5	56
FL	1	2		2		1	6
FM					9		9
A						1	1
GA	2	19	48	59		15	143
B	17	63	137	158	1	127	503
C	12	78	238	366		349	1,043
Start	11	94	600	2,142	4	2,127	4,978
Stub	3	11	165	4,554	3	2,193	6,929
List		16	41	96	1	194	348
Category					6,033		6,033
Disambig				1	32		33
File			1	1	385		387
Portal					1		1
Project					98		98
Redirect	1		2	178	1,025		1,206
Template					707		707
Other				2	22		24
Assessed	52	292	1,257	7,571	8,321	5,012	22,505
Unassessed				23		130	153
Total	52	292	1,257	7,594	8,321	5,142	22,658
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 72,367			Ω = 5.30

Feel free to add any Kentucky-related articles that need to be addressed or improved, in addition to general tasks. When adding an existing article, ensure that the article is cataloged for the project by adding {{WikiProject United States|KY=yes|KY-importance=}} to its talk page.

Categories edit

Kentucky |WikiProject Kentucky |Kentucky stubs |Kentucky geography stubs | Wikipedians in Kentucky |Kentucky articles with to-do lists |Wikipedia requested photographs in Kentucky |Wikipedia requested maps in Kentucky

Templates edit

Project edit

• {{WikiProject United States|KY=yes|KY-importance=}} - use with |KY=yes to add the article to this WikiProject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. However:
  • If the article is related to the Louisville metropolitan area or WikiProject Louisville, use |Louisville=yes instead.
  • If the article is related to the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force or the related region of Kentucky, also include |Coal-fields=yes.
  • If the article is related to the Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia "tri-state" (KYOVA) region, use |KYOVA=yes instead.
• {{WikiProject Kentucky alerts}}—This banner displays only if there is a current project alert. Normally placed on user talk pages or project pages.
• {{WPKYInvite}} - placed (using subst) on talk pages to invite potential members to join the project.
• {{WPKYWelcome}} - placed (using subst) on talk pages to welcome new members to the project.
• {{Bluegrass Barnstar}} - The template to use the Bluegrass Barnstar. (Be sure to use subst.)

Navboxes edit

• {{Kentucky}} - Navbox for Kentucky regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Governors of Kentucky}} - Navbox for Kentucky Governors; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Lieutenant Governors of Kentucky}} - Navbox for Kentucky Lieutenant Governors; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{USSenKY}} - placed at the bottom of article pages for Senators from Kentucky.
• {{Kentucky Higher Education}} - Navbox placed at the bottom of Kentucky private and public university and college articles.
• {{Protected Areas of Kentucky}} - Navbox for Kentucky's protected areas; placed at the bottom of article pages.

Stubs edit

• {{Kentucky-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for Kentucky articles dealing specifically with locations or geographical features in Kentucky; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Kentucky-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for Kentucky politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Kentucky-school-stub}} - Stub notice for Kentucky schools; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Kentucky-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Kentucky articles (except those related to Louisville MSA; use {{Louisville-stub}} instead for those cases); placed at the bottom of article pages.

Userboxes edit

This user is a participant in WikiProject Kentucky.	{{User WikiProject Kentucky}}
This user participates in WikiProject Kentucky.	{{User WP Kentucky}}
This user lives in the United States Commonwealth of Kentucky.	{{User Kentucky}}
This user is interested in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.	{{User interest Kentucky}}

Sources and references edit

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives:

• KDLA Home
  • KDLA Mission Statement
  • Citation/Permission Information -
• Kentucky Virtual Library
  • Kentuckiana Digital Library

Library of Congress:

• Library of Congress
  • Researchers Reference tools and services
    • Prints and Photographs Reading Room

Descendant WikiProjects edit

• Cities: WikiProject Louisville
• Facts and data: Kentucky facts and data
• U.S. Roads: U.S. Roads/Kentucky

Task force edit

• Eastern Mountain Coal Fields

Generated lists and logs edit

• Categorized listing of articles with cleanup issues – all our articles with some sort of cleanup tag are listed here (updated weekly)
• Newest potentially Kentucky-related articles and other pages (usually updated daily)
• Log of newly included pages, page assessments and re-assessments, and page renames (usually updated daily)

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.