Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Northern Virginia Task Force
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Welcome to the Northern Virginia Task Force of WikiProject Virginia. We are dedicated to improving northern Virginia's Coverage on Wikipedia. Please place all requests for help at WikiProject Virginia's subpages.
Scope
- Northern Virginia Task Force covers any part of Virginia included in the Washington D.C Metropolitan Area and the surrounding counties. It does not cover any other parts of the Metro region. The area generally includes the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, Faquier, Arlington, Prince William as well as the independent cities of Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, Manassas Park, and Alexandria.
Here is what we focus on:
- Geographical Locations
- Politicians
- Schools
- Governments
- Transit
- Parks & Recreational Facilities
- Major, Notable events
- Landmarks
While they are within our project's scope, we do not focus on:
- Biographies about anyone who is not a politician who lives/grew up in Northern Virginia
- Companies Headquartered in Northern Virginia
Members
- {{User|Arhan2212}}
- {{User|226Trident}}
- {{User|Chuck369}}
- {{User|CsikosLo}}
- {{User|Fiftytwo thirty}}
- {{User|BLM Platinum}}
- {{User|arbogastlw}}
- {{User|Sadads}}
- {{User|Emmette Hernandez Coleman}}
- {{User|Quidster4040}}
To-do
=To-do list (General)=
- Tag related articles
- Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
Identify articles for creation- Identify articles for improvement
- Review importance and quality of existing articles
- Help with reviews and To-dos at WP:WikiProject Virginia
=To-do list (Specific)=
- Take a Photo that has been requested
- The actual Northern Virginia page needs cleanup badly. It has multiple issues including NPOV, Organization, basic grammar, and some irrelevant information.
- The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) article is currently a stub and needs to be expanded badly. HOT lane controversy and budget problems should be addressed in NOVA as well as a better overview.
- The Virginia HOT Lanes article is a stub. If anyone can expand on it, please do so.
- The Alexandria, Virginia article needs more citations and re-wording, especially in the "neighborhoods" section
Guidelines
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=Tagging and assessment=
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Virginia. You should add to all of the banners |northern virginia=yes
. Please make sure that the articles are assessed to Virginia's Quality and importance standards.
Article alerts
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Northern Virginia Task Force/Article alerts}}
Templates
For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Virginia
Project banner template
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=Userbox template=
Copy and paste into your user page!
=User Thank You Award template=
If you want to thank someone for their excellent work in this task force, you can use this award template to recognize their contributions. To use the template, paste {{
=Invite members template=
Use this template to invite users to the task force. Just add the text
{{Northern Virginia invite}}
Featured/Good Articles
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Photo requests
Former Colgan Air headquarters - Manassas Airport - 10677 Aviation Lane, Manassas, VA [http://web.archive.org/web/20010703101532/www.colganair.com/employ.htm]- :File:Colgan Air Manassas VA.JPGFormer Independence Air headquarters - Dulles, VA- :File:IndependenceAirheadquarters.jpg- Former Compass Airlines headquarters - 4501 Singer Court, Chantilly VA [http://web.archive.org/web/20070711185102/http://www.compassairline.com/html/aboutus.htm]
- The "Beacon Field Airport" historical Marker at the South end of the Beacon Hill Shopping center.
- Leesylvania State Park in Woodbridge
Huntley Meadows Park in southern Fairfax County