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WikiProject Tampa Bay was started originally started on November 18, 2006 as WikiProject Tampa to coordinate work on articles related to Tampa, Florida in the English Wikipedia. On April 18, 2008, it has since been renamed to include the entire Tampa Bay area.
Anyone who is 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 serious work or that you feel require attention below in the Open Tasks sections.
Scope[edit]
This WikiProject aims to coordinate improvement efforts on articles related to any city in the Tampa Bay Area, which includes, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Bradenton/Sarasota, Lakeland, the North Suncoast, and many more cities. It is also an aim of this project to bring the Tampa city article up to Featured Article status, in part by bringing it up to the standards defined by WikiProject Cities.
Members[edit]
Project members, please add ((TampaWikiProject-Member)) to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.
Active participants
- Zeng8r Help?!? I've been the only active member for a loooooong time.
- connorgrill New to the group - I am working on starting some new articles on the devleopment projects and developers in the Tampa-Bay community. Happy to help out with other articles too.
- Boomshadow I grew up here, and edit copy...lots of copy. I also have an extensive background in history dating back 30 years, and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, having grown up with the park.
- EaglesFanInTampa - helped to expand this article to include everyone, not just Tampa, and will work of Pinellas County
- The Bushranger - Grew up in the area, might be moving back, still visit from time to time, enjoy the area.
- Ebyabe
- Hornetman16 (Now TrueCRaysball)
- Adog104 - Since joining Wikipedia, I wanted to expand the Tampa Bay Area articles.
- Astronyte (talk) 04:20, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
- Thatchmomo - I am interested in expanding articles related to historical figures of Tampa/Florida - 2024
Inactive participants
- Moreau36; Retired since April 2014. – "working on Tampa related pages. Need help on the neighorhood page."
- Patricknoddy; Retired since June 2007.
- Blaze33541; Four edits since June 2015. – "Done deal. I did a lot on downtown Tampa and St. Pete already, and created the GaYbor article."
- TampAGS; Three edits since June 2014. – "Tampa resident (Seminole Heights), just making constructive contributions where I can..."
- Mike Halterman; One edit since March 2014.
- josh02 11; Three edits since April 2013. – "Grew up in Pinellas, extensive family history in Pinellas, just moved back and wanted to contribute to articles on the history of that area."
- Polis4rule; One edit since February 2010. – "Helping with Tampa related pages as well, mainly the schools."
- Shawn_Dude; Seven edits since October 2010. – "I'm a resident of Seminole Heights and Hampton Terrace. I'll help with the Hampton Terrace stub."
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Articles[edit]
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Feel free to add any articles that need to be addressed or improved to this list. When adding a page, place ((TampaWikiproject)) on the article's talk page:
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Assessment
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Tampa Bay articles by quality statistics
Article alerts[edit]
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- Related Alerts: WikiProject Florida Alerts
Parentage[edit]
The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Cities and WikiProject Florida.
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To do[edit]
Here are some open WikiProject Tampa Bay tasks:
- Turn Tampa into a featured article.
- Cite sources.
- Add photographs to Tampa-related articles.
- Mention cultural features of the city beyond those that are immediately visible to tourists.
- Improve the stub articles related to Tampa and identify and tag new Tampa-related stub articles.
- Write articles on the notable skyscrapers in the Tampa skyline (Park Tower has already been completed).
- Just what does "Palma Ceia" mean, anyway? - there's a book the Tampa Bay History Center published on the origins of local place names. I'll try to find it. Gamaliel (talk) 16:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- Improve and complete the neighborhood section.
- Reduced article size by creating branch articles; e.g. Media in Tampa Bay.
- Add information and citations to the Clearwater article.
- Improve St. Petersburg article.
- Assess all articles.
- Again, cite sources.
