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WikiProject Maine

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Shortcut	WP:MAINE
Category	Maine
Portal	Maine
Wikimedia Commons	Maine
Parent project(s)	U.S. states
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Welcome to WikiProject Maine! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the state of Maine.

The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Maine, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Maine.

Scope

This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Maine or its history, geography, or people.

Active members

To join WikiProject Maine, 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.

1. Daniel H (talk · contribs)
2. 331dot (talk · contribs)
3. Arverniking (talk · contribs)
4. BMRR (talk · contribs) - Interested in all things Maine, but especially southern Maine cities and towns, Mount Desert Island, Maine railroads, and Maine politics.
5. Buskahegian (talk · contribs)
6. Calidum (talk · contribs)
7. Doug (talk · contribs) - Maine law, Maine history, Maine geography
8. FeanorStar7 (talk · contribs) - At my job I work with a lot of Maine historical material so have gotten interested in history of the state; also have access to genealogy tools for Maine.
9. fieldpolicer32 (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, Living in North Berwick, Maine interested in Maine Railroads and state fire department history
10. General534 (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, interested in Maine history, bridges, historical locations
11. Icelandic Hurricane (talk · contribs)
12. Jason Bluefire (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine
13. John Carter (talk · contribs) - Trying to fill the shoes of the project's proposer.
14. larsenault (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, employed by USM. General editing.
15. Liam987 (talk · contribs)
16. Mackenzie Andersen (talk · contribs)
17. maineshepp (talk · contribs) Interested in northern Maine, especially historic biography.
18. MarkHB (talk · contribs) I live in Portland (and was actually born here), and am something of a roadgeek (and major Sea Dogs fan). I'll try to help out wherever I can.
19. MattGagnon (talk · contribs) Grew up in Maine, still a Mainer at heart. I run the leading Maine political blog, Pine Tree Politics, and have a specific interest in the politics of Maine.
20. MEVocReentry (talk · contribs) 20 October 2022: No profile page created yet. Have been researching, and would appreciate some help researching, the tiny circles of the tightly woven legal and political landscapes of Maine and what the economic impact on Congressional District 2 has been because of that legal and political marriage's faustian bargain. Counter-vailing evidence to this theory is also welcome.
21. Moxhay (talk · contribs) -Resident of Maine, interested in Maine highways and transportation
22. MrRadioGuy (talk · contribs)
23. Widget-policyq229 (talk · contribs)Been to maine once and would like to go again, Interested in highways, places and architecture.
24. Namiba (talk · contribs)
25. Nammiller (talk · contribs)
26. Nickline4 (talk · contribs)
27. Oak Island Kid (talk · contribs)
28. Penbay (talk · contribs)
29. SarekOfVulcan (talk · contribs) - Eddington resident
30. Technical 13 (talk · contribs) — I'm am especially technically inclined and would love to help developing the inner workings of the project wherever need may arise.
31. Thegrandalliance (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, will try to help with anything I can
32. Thewellman (talk · contribs) - Geography & history of transportation.
33. Tikuko (talk · contribs) - Holden Resident
34. Ventric (talk · contribs) - Selectman in Milford, Maine
35. Voxlibra (talk · contribs) - Resident of Bangor
36. WestportWiki (talk · contribs) - Resident of Bath
37. Pugchump (talk · contribs) - Sanford, Maine resident, grew up in Kennebunk, Maine
38. BrikDuk (talk · contribs) - Lifelong resident of Portland
39. ClaudeDavid (talk · contribs) - Resident of Old Orchard Beach. Trying to create public domain images of township centers.
40. Tomorrow&tomorrow&tomorrow (talk · contribs) Maine politics, geography, public health policy
41. Acgarretson (talk · contribs) 04:20:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)  - Maine scientific institutions and universitiesReply[reply]
42. Kansatria (talk · contribs) 14:57:04, 7 March 2022 (UTC)  - Working on an article about 2021 Question 1 at my sandbox page.Reply[reply]
43. L'Mainerque (talk · contribs) - See my username? Maine citizen.
44. jake-jakubowski (talk · contribs) 17:10:19, 29 September 2022 (UTC) - Work in Brunswick, Live in Topsham, Interested in history of both towns.Reply[reply]
45. AverageEstoniaEnthusiast (talk · contribs) 16:43:01, 7 January 2023 (UTC)  - Freeport Gang #1, I mostly work on local articles.Reply[reply]
46. Eejit43 (talk · contribs) 02:52:27, 21 January 2023 (UTC)  - From southern Maine, want to finally get into editing more articles about this wonderful state!Reply[reply]
47. Akyyka (talk · contribs) 05:52:23, 15 December 2023 (UTC)  - Student in Bangor, from southern York CountyReply[reply]
48. Brindille1 (talk · contribs) 03:49:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)  - Raised in Maine, and living in BostonReply[reply]

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 16:41:43, 13 May 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.Reply[reply]
2. TheLastClassicist1750 (talk · contribs) 1:21:12, 23 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Maine should place one of the following on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Maine participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Maine participants]]	none	linked pages
((Template:User WikiProject Maine))	This user is a member of WikiProject Maine.	linked pages
((Template:User WP Maine))	This user is a member of WikiProject Maine.	linked pages
((Template:User WP Maine|invite))	This user invites you to join WikiProject Maine.	linked pages

For other MaineMaine user templates see Category:Maine user templates.

Welcome message for new users

Please copy this wikitext and put in talk page of any new members: ((Template:Maine project welcome))

Hello, and welcome to Wikiproject Maine! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. We're sure your input will be much appreciated.

If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can see a list of open tasks, and come to the Project talk page, where you can join in our discussions about Maine-related articles. The best place to start helping is upgrading our stub articles. Consider adding yourself to the The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge!

Have a wicked awesome time!

Requested articles

Several red links exist in Maine related articles, and there are also several other pages which have been requested to be created. They can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine/Requested articles.

Stubs

Stub articles can be found here.

• Category:Stub-Class Maine articles
• Category:Maine stubs

Recognized content

These of our recognized content for WikiProject Maine. Featured content and good articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are some of the best work on Wikipedia. Before being listed here, content must pass the appropriate featured or good article candidacy for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style.

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Maine articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Did you know? articles

Good article nominees

Former featured articles

Former good articles

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Parent Project

• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. States

Other Related Projects

WikiProject Maine is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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. Also, all new articles should be added to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine/Articles to ensure that they are included on the recent changes list.

• All articles should be added to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine/Articles list by category.
• 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.

Main tool page: WP:TOOLS

• Popular pages, updated monthly, an automatically generated list of the most visited WikiProject Maine articles
• clean-up listing for Maine

Resources

• "State of Maine official website".
• "USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Maine".
• "Maine Genealogy".
• "Local histories of towns and counties in Maine".