Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas/Austin task force

WikiProject Austin
Shortcut	WP:ATX, WP:AUSTIN
Category	Austin, Texas
Wikimedia Commons	Austin, Texas
Parent; project(s)	Texas
Project banner template	{{WikiProject United States\|TX=yes\|Austin=yes}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Austin}}

This geographical WikiProject is believed to be inactive.

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Welcome to WikiProject Austin. We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the city of Austin and the Greater Austin area. Editors who are interested in contributing, please sign up below and post any ideas and suggestions on the talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need work or that you feel require attention below in the tasks section.

Scope edit

Geographically related articles in the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
Articles about persons who have had a significant presence or relationship to the city.

Assessment Dashboard edit

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Notice: An Unreferenced BLP list for this WikiProject is available.

Austin articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL				1			1
GA		3	5	4			12
B	3	11	22	22			58
C	5	24	46	78		1	154
Start	3	41	171	360		2	577
Stub		4	64	335			403
List		4	6	12			22
Category					123		123
File					13		13
Project					6		6
Redirect			3	12	33		48
Template					38		38
Other				1			1
Assessed	11	87	317	825	213	3	1,456
Total	11	87	317	825	213	3	1,456
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,117			Ω = 5.08

Austin assessment procedures and worklists

Log

Note: This chart may not reflect recent edits and changes.

WikiProject Austin News edit

Good article nominees

07 Apr 2024 – McKinney Roughs Nature Park (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Morogris (t · c); start discussion
29 Feb 2024 – KEYE-TV (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sammi Brie (t · c); start discussion
30 Nov 2023 – Dazed and Confused (film) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lbal (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

21 Mar 2022 – Music of Austin, Texas (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyerise (t · c); see discussion

About This WikiProject edit

Parentage edit

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities / WikiProject U.S. cities. At the US state level, the parent of this project is WikiProject Texas.

Goals edit

To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of the city of Austin and the surrounding metropolitan area.
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Austin by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles and related portal.
To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Austin in Wikipedia.
Establish Wikipedia as one of the premier online information resources on the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

How can I contribute? edit

If you are reading this, then you probably know something about the Austin area...we welcome your contributions! If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:

If you are looking for something to do involving the project, the left-hand column contains information on special missions, on-going collaborations and specific requests. Also, look for tags such as {{cleanup}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions to the project articles.

To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:

Provide sources for your edits.
Patrol the project watchlist for recent changes

Related projects edit

Participants edit

Active participants edit

To join WikiProject Austin, edit this section and add # ~~~~ {{flagicon|USA}} and any comments to the bottom of the following list of members.

TheAustinMan

Sa hm editor 19:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC) [reply]
Bigr Tex 19:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
PopeFauveXXIII 19:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC) [reply]
Joe I 04:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Postoak
Dabomb87 17:09, 27 July 2007 (UTC) [reply]
Andrew Young
jkraybill
derekbd
Thane – 00:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC) [reply]
Guanako512
EagleAg04
TerraFrost
Dzahsh
Kumar Appaiah
Ray^Talk
Mabeenot
Liveon001
KotetsuKat
Mcorazao
Amplifiedlight
Dmartinaus
Clf99
gwickwire
Brainy J
Rubinkumar
Bryanrutherford0
Spiel
User:Blake675
User:Pixelsandbacon
A.T.S. in Texas (talk) 23:54, 19 December 2020 (UTC) [reply]
Demt1298 (talk) 16:03, 14 December 2022 (UTC) [reply]

Inactive participants edit

User:Blake675

Tasks edit

Get the core articles up to at least GA standards: Austin, Texas, History of Austin, Texas. Also Greater Austin, because it has such broad coverage, should be raised as well. --Mcorazao (talk) 22:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport needs additional citations for verification. (--TheAustinMan (talk) 20:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC))[reply]
WhisperToMe thought of an interesting idea to add an article on African American neighborhoods in Austin. --TheAustinMan (talk) 20:18, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You could make the page Williamson County, Texas a C class article by editing it. This article is a high importance article. --TheAustinMan (talk) 20:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The WikiProject Austin wants you to make good articles! We only have 1. WikiProject Austin encourages you to edit/clean our articles under the project's scope. --TheAustinMan (talk) 20:37, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please read the cleanup listing by CleanupWorklistBot for a complete listing of articles that can be edited to make it better. --TheAustinMan (talk) 20:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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