Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Cities

WikiProject Michigan

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Collaboration:
To Update:
To Nominate at WP: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 and Perry Feigenson (the founders of Faygo Beverage Company in Detroit), Edward Knabusch and Edwin 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 to Wikipedia: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
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		3	4	15			22
FL	1	3	5	11			20
FM					13		13
GA		4	14	160		1	179
B	14	73	131	679		8	905
C	8	73	232	2,427		49	2,789
Start	6	103	736	8,841		88	9,774
Stub			69	5,218	1	53	5,341
List	1	58	44	368	11	15	497
Category					6,131		6,131
Disambig					183		183
File					355		355
Portal					1		1
Project					24		24
Redirect		2	5	126	2,107		2,240
Template					900		900
NA					6		6
Other					25		25
Assessed	30	319	1,240	17,845	9,757	214	29,405
Unassessed			1	5	1	61	68
Total	30	319	1,241	17,850	9,758	275	29,473
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 95,135			Ω = 5.00

Subproject content begun by User:Bkonrad. Please feel free to modify.

Some Wikipedia lists and articles relating to cities, villages, townships, and CDPs in Michigan.

There may be items in Category:Michigan geography stubs that have not been further categorized (usually into Category:Unincorporated communities in Michigan).

At the least Wikipedia:U.S._cities_without_articles#Michigan and List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan should get cleaned up and made more consistent. There are countless unincorporated communities that have the same name as their township and should probably be made into a redirect (with a note in the township article). At present, most stubby articles on unincorporated communities can be merged into their township articles.

Somewhat related to cleaning up place articles, is to cleanup the corresponding list sections of the counties containing the places. They are in various stages of inconsistency.

Standardizing and updated articles

I have recently begun editing municipality articles in Michigan, especially the infoboxes, where I have worked to create location maps for the CDPs (when applicable), villages, townships, and cities. I have also attempted to standardize the infobox settings and formats to include listings for leaders, ZIP Codes, area codes, established dates when available, official websites, and a main image (either one of my own or another one floating around WikiCommons). Essentially, basic information in a standardized and aesthetic format that doesn't overload the infobox. Many articles I have come across have outdated or incomplete information. A random example of a finished infobox would be Benton Harbor (city), Higgins Township (civil township), Mackinaw City (dual-county village), Hubbard Lake (CDP), Paradise (unincorporated community), and Rawsonville (ghost town), where all available information is listed in a set format.

There doesn't seem to be much involvement in this subsection, but I've noticed a ton of municipality articles (particularly the lead section and infobox) are structured differently and in need of cleanup. Along the way, I've received very rare unexplained reverts or vague comments when it comes to editing particular articles, where another user might feel I'm overstepping their own personal edits and ideas in a single article and not the rest of the state as a whole. The formats used in the above articles are what I'm attempting to use in every single article, where all information is listed in the same format.

As far as the municipality maps go, I described them in my own subpage User:Notorious4life/Pending article, mainly so I can keep track of my own formats and progress.

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, feel free to add here for consensus or on my own user page for individual comments. If I do receive any petty complaints or have to re-revert unexplained edits, I will try to draw conversation here and involve other users in this project. —Notorious4life (talk) 23:25, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

External resources

Michigan Municipalities and Place Names 2002, a 182 page PDF file listing a LOT of place names in Michigan with the county and township and some number labelled as "Post".
Places in Michigan: Incorporated, Township and Unincorporated, a 54 page PDF