Sometimes Wikipedians and WikiProjects combine their efforts to improve whole sets of related articles, using portals, info boxes, navigational aids and uniform templates for a specific topic area. Many of these are coordinated through WikiProject U.S. states. Please join the effort!

Categories By state: AL | AK | AZ | AR | CA | CO | CT | DE | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MD | MA | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NE | NV | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI | WY

Another related special project is the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which covers Native American nations as well as First Nations in Canada.

= Timeline of United States history =

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The List of U.S. states by date of statehood is a featured list. Check to see if Wikipedia has a "History of [My State]" article and a "Timeline of [My State] history". Examples:

= 50 State Quarters and Infoboxes=

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Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and some other states feature their commemorative state quarter on their main article. This special project is to discuss and decide on a uniform placement of each state's quarter and other ways to make {{tl|Infobox U.S. state}} infoboxes a bit more complete and attractive.

=== American Civil War ===

A state by state treatment of Civil War articles by state is being conducted by WikiProject Military history through the American Civil War task force. Check to see if your state has a "[My State] in the American Civil War" category and article. Some Examples:

If your state has National Battlefields or was host to significant events related to the American Civil War, Make sure it has a detailed accurate well-sourced article that covers those places and events in a comprehensive way.

Coordinate with WikiProject Biography to make sure that Key figures from your state are covered fairly and completely.

To do

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Project page
Pollution in the United States
Conservation in the United States
Environmental issues in the United States - currently a redirect to Environment of the United States. See Environment of Australia and Environmental issues in Australia for a guideline. These articles are currently skeletons at present but they give the feel of how the two are different.
Children and adolescents in the United States needs a lot of work. Starting a history section to track the development of the American youth.

=Create/article requests=

Article requests should be placed at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other categorization schemes#United States

Templates for this project
A lot of the presidential election articles
Irrigation in the United States - see :Category:Irrigation in the United States and Irrigation in Mexico for inspiration.

=Recruit=

Wikipedians in the United States

=New articles=

Help to improve on the newest United States-related articles on Wikipedia.

=Articles in need of attention=

Territories of the United States, Insular area, Unincorporated territories of the United States, and Organized incorporated territories of the United States - overlap and redundancy between articles + prose & link clean-up
County (United States) - lacking references for almost all sections.
Allegations of state terrorism by United States of America - peer review requested due to disputes between editors
Standard of living in the United States (POV conflict)
Health care in the United States (possible OR)
Human rights in the United States (POV conflict)
Poverty in the United States (failed GA, only two editors maintain the article)
Social issues in the United States (POV conflict)
Social structure of the United States (OR-three unreferenced sections remain)
General Motors (POV conflict, many editors complain of PR fluff)
United States technological and industrial history (Article has been abandoned as a stub despite being linked on "UShistoryFooter", beginning drive to improve)
Plymouth Colony This article is up for featured article nomination, but is in need of some extra copyediting. Most of the work on it was done by a single editor, and several reviewers have asked that some additional work be done, in order to increase the eyes on the article, and to copyedit it.
Merger Request needs input for proposed merger of List of proposed states of the United States and Historic regions of the United States. All input welcome. GenQuest (talk) 14:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
{{slink|United States Department of Veterans Affairs|Benefits}}: see Talk page there, § "Subsidiary agency" for benefits is local private organization. (Also posted to WikiProject Military history.)
{{-r|Texas-sized}}: Redirect broken, see talk page.

=Sections in need of attention=

Intro to United States (see Talk:United States#Changes, Talk:United States#Superpower or not.3F The point is that the world is changing and its subsections)

=Articles lacking references=

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1973 oil crisis
Alaska
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia (U.S. state)
Idaho
Indiana
Lousiana (needs population /economy references)
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New York
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wyoming

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=Deletions=

Deletion discussions will be held at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/United States of America

To do