Wikipedia:WikiProject Rhode Island
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Welcome to the Rhode Island WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Rhode Island.
- Goals
- The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Rhode Island by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident in or native to Rhode Island.
- Scope
- This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Rhode Island and its history, geography, and people.
All these articles should be included in the Category:Rhode Island or one of its subcategories.
Guidelines
[edit]Open tasks
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- All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.
Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 13 Feb 2025 – Michelle Muscatello (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sammi Brie (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 05 Feb 2025 – Arthur D. Yaghjian (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Glane23 (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 13 Feb 2025 – Michelle Muscatello (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Sammi Brie (t · c) was deproded by Chipka (t · c) on 13 Feb 2025
Categories for discussion
- 01 Feb 2025 – Category:Mayoral elections in Providence, Rhode Island (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after populated places in Rhode Island (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Good article nominees
- 24 Oct 2024 – Macaroni Riots (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JJonahJackalope (t · c); start discussion
Articles for creation
- 12 Feb 2025 – Draft:W. Alton Jones Campus (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Littlecootinthehouse (t · c)
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Members
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Rhode Island, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- Phantombantam (talk · contribs) 05:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Nick Lima (talk · contribs) 08:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Moodyboy11 (talk · contribs) 00:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- John Carter (talk · contribs) 23:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- Loodog (talk · contribs) 02:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- Shunpiker (talk · contribs) 05:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC) (Political biographies, history)
- Analogdemon (talk · contribs) 00:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Raime (talk · contribs) 17:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- SarekOfVulcan (talk · contribs) (grew up near P.C.)15:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Swampyank (talk · contribs) 06:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC) Rhode Island history and geography
- Crips r us (talk · contribs) 20:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Risico001 (talk · contribs) 23:52, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Shakescene (talk · contribs) 04:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC) (politics, history, Providence, East Side, colleges)
- Doc Strange (talk · contribs) 16:58, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
- David.cormier (talk · contribs) 24 August 2008 (history)
- Toonami Reactor (talk · contribs) 23:09, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
- Juliancolton (talk · contribs) 03:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- GiselleRI (talk · contribs) 13.37, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
- innapoy (talk · contribs) 23:30, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
- jmcdaid (talk · contribs) 22:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Portsmouth
- Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs) 08:26, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
- Maunus (talk · contribs) 22:03, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- Breffni Whelan (talk · contribs) 29 Nov 2010
- Pawtucketray (talk · contribs) 27 December 2010 (UTC) (Pawtucket area history)
- Sarnold17 (talk · contribs) 13 Feb 2011 (History)
- Jones7224 (talk · contribs) 19:16, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- RedSoxFan2434 (talk · contribs) 20:45 11 April 2012
- Ultimoed (talk · contribs)04:51, 21 September 2012
- Rhododendrites (talk · contribs) 15:51, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
- Calidum (talk · contribs) 00:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- mikeu talk 14:54, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
- Kzirkel (talk) 15:22, 26 January 2016 (UTC): Mayors of Providence; Governors; Lieutenant Governors; and general 19th Century history
- LilRhody (talk) 20:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- Stereorock (talk · contribs)
- Dilidor (talk) 14:43, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
- Smt42 (talk · contribs) 01:30, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
- Durandman (talk · contribs) 11:32 23 November 2017
- Diogenes99 (talk · contribs) (talk) 13:30, 14 August 2018 (UTC) early settlers Robert Coles (settler)
- JasonJD48 (talk · contribs) (talk) 19 January 2019 (East Providence history, governance and officials}
- JKizzieHumanities (talk · contribs) 00:47:26, 5 September 2019 (UTC) (Arts and culture)
- Willconns (talk · contribs) 17:55:55, 19 October 2019 (UTC) (Journalism and Public Art)
- CosmicKanan (talk · contribs) 12:02, 24 September 2020 (UTC) Electoral history, election mapping
- Wingedserif (talk · contribs) 14:33:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC) art, indigenous history
- Bowser498 (talk · contribs) 17:20, 11 September 2021 (UTC) COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island
- RhodeIslandHistory (talk · contribs) 16:48, 23 January 2022 (UTC) Abraham Redwood, Kingston Pease
- Taxin609 (talk · contribs) 21:21:07, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- SusImposter49 (talk · contribs) 20:30:26, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- Frost.xyz (talk · contribs) 23:02:36, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- Seventeenseventeen (talk · contribs) 04:18 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Skipple (talk · contribs) 01:29:17, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thetreesarespeakingtome (talk · contribs) 09:50, 17 October 2022 (UTC) sports
- Erin1973 (talk · contribs) 01:47:37, 14 October 2023 (UTC) Washington County
- Liamlalaliam (talk · contribs) 19:46:35, 8 November 2024 (UTC) Bands and musical
Former members
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Rhode Island should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Rhode Island participants.
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For other Rhode Island user templates see Category:Rhode Island user templates.
Recognized content
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Featured articles
[edit]Featured lists
[edit]Good articles
[edit]1761 Milestone
John F. Adams House
Allenville Mill Storehouse
Joseph Kinnicutt Angell
Aza Arnold
Benedict Arnold (governor)
William Arnold (settler)
Art's Auto
Amanda Asay
Barrington Civic Center Historic District
Battle of Block Island
Benjamin Church House (Bristol, Rhode Island)
Bicknell–Armington Lightning Splitter House
Bristol County Jail
Bristol Customshouse and Post Office
Cable Car Cinema
Charles Payne House
John Clarke (Baptist minister)
Nicholas Colasanto
Susanna Cole
Robert Coles (settler)
Collyer Monument
John Collins Covell
Division Street Bridge (Rhode Island)
Mary Dyer
East Junction Branch
East Providence Branch
Equestrian statue of Ambrose Burnside
Anthony Esolen
Family Gay
Fifth Ward Wardroom
Fire Station No. 4 (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
First Ward Wardroom
Foster–Payne House
Fuller Houses
Green Jacket Shoal
Stephen Hopkins (politician)
Hurricane Bob
Harry Kizirian
Linda Laubenstein
Liberty Arming the Patriot
H. P. Lovecraft
Massie Wireless Station
Cormac McCarthy
Louis F. Menage
Moonrise Kingdom
Moshassuck Valley Railroad
Mount Hope Bay raids
Narragansett Pacer
Narragansett Pier Railroad
Newport and Wickford Railroad and Steamboat Company
Northup Avenue Yard
Susanna Paine
Potter–Collyer House
Public Universal Friend
Duchess Quamino
USS Rhode Island (BB-17)
Rhode Island Route 4
Rhode Island Route 37
Rhode Island Route 99
Rhode Island Route 403
Rhode Island banking crisis
Roger Mowry Tavern
Royal Rumble (1994)
Ethel Sands
Ida Silverman
Edgar Smith (pitcher/outfielder)
Statue of Christopher Columbus (Johnston, Rhode Island)
Gilbert Stuart
Valley Falls train collision
WNAC-TV
John Montgomery Ward's perfect game
Warwick Railway
Wickford Junction station
World War I Memorial (East Providence, Rhode Island)
Did you know? articles
[edit]1936 Northeastern United States flood
The Great Snow of 1717
John F. Adams House
Allenville Mill Storehouse
Joseph Kinnicutt Angell
Antinomian Controversy
Osceola Archer
Aza Arnold
Amanda Asay
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Mildred Barker
Barrington Civic Center Historic District
Edward A. Batchelor
Bellevue Avenue Historic District
Block Island Wind Farm
Ken Block (politician)
Bonded Vault heist
Anne Lynch Botta
Charles R. Brayton
Bristol County Jail
Brown Bears
Jumbo Brown
Cape Cod Expressway
Cards Pond
Culley C. Carson III
John Carter (printer)
Joe Cavanagh
Clarence G. Child
Robert Coles (settler)
Chris Cosentino
Damian Costantino
John Collins Covell
Cranston Public Library
Crimetown
James Diossa
Amasa Eaton
Rip Egan
Experiment (horse-powered boat)
Michael Flynn
Fuller Rock Light
J. A. Gammons
Louis Edward Gelineau
Nellie Gorbea
A. O. Granger
Green Jacket Shoal
Hannah Robinson Tower
Hard Scrabble and Snow Town
Rowland G. Hazard
Jason Healey
Robert J. Healey
Albert W. Hicks
Thomas Holden (general)
Stephen Hopkins (politician)
How to be a Redhead
Joe S. Jackson
Mark Jankowski
Joseph Jenckes Jr.
John Hay Library
Sissieretta Jones
Harry Kizirian
Linda Laubenstein
Wilbert E. Longfellow
Aaron Lopez
H. P. Lovecraft
Maschaug Pond
Sabina Matos
Barbara P. McCarthy
Russell McVinney
Louis F. Menage
Jo-Jo Morrissey
Moshassuck Valley Railroad
Robert Edward Mulvee
Musselbed Shoals Light
Narragansett Pier Railroad
Narragansett land claim
Narragansett turkey
Abraham Nathanson
Naval War College
Newport Historic District (Rhode Island)
Newport and Wickford Railroad and Steamboat Company
Ninigret Pond
Northup Avenue Yard
Old Colony House
David Olyphant
Oscar (therapy cat)
Palatine Light
Paleontology in Rhode Island
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Nick Principe
Providence (1866 steamboat)
Providence Grays all-time roster
Providence and Worcester Railroad
Railroads in New England
Ratification of the United States Constitution by Rhode Island
David Wallis Reeves
Tim Regan (ice hockey)
Kyle Regnault
Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Rhode Island Route 37
Rhode Island Soft Systems
Rhode Island banking crisis
Jackie Saccoccio
Ethel Sands
Ida Silverman
Snake Den State Park
James L. Swauger
Benjamin Franklin Tilley
Trustom Pond
Valley Falls train collision
WADK
WDOM
WNAC-TV
WNET (Rhode Island)
WNPE
Walsh-Kaiser Company
Wanton–Lyman–Hazard House
Alexander Warner
Warwick Railway
Ryan Westmoreland
Inez Whipple Wilder
William C. O'Neill Bike Path
Wood River Branch Railroad
Josephine Silone Yates
Featured portals
[edit]Good article nominees
[edit]Former featured articles
[edit]Former featured lists
[edit]Former good articles
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Collaboration and review
[edit]- Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
Templates
[edit]Userboxes
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Stubs
[edit]All stub templates are to be placed at the bottom of the article page.
- {{RhodeIsland-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Rhode Island.
- {{RhodeIsland-struct-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to buildings and structures in Rhode Island.
- {{RhodeIsland-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Rhode Island geography.
- {{RhodeIsland-radio-station-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to FCC-licensed radio stations in Rhode Island.
NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.
Other templates
[edit]{{WikiProject United States|RI=yes|RI-importance=}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them on the project's radar. When the template is added to the talk page it looks like this:
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Categories
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Resources
[edit]- Official state website
- IslandSymbols.htm Rhode Island state symbols
- Secretary of State of Rhode Island
- Rhode Island State Library and Archives
- Why Did Rhode Island Become a State? from the NSLA
- USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Rhode Island
- US Census Bureau
- Island.com/ County Maps of Rhode Island Full color maps. List of cities, towns and county seats
- Rhode Island State Facts
- Island.com/ Rhode Island Commission on Tourism
- Rhode Island's Summits
- ISLAND.htm Climate of Rhode Island
Related WikiProjects
[edit]Tools
[edit]- 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.