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To-do: E · H · W · R Updated 2021-08-15 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Washington State Department of Health (see also Requested Articles and Draft articles) Assess : Assessed and tag unassessed articles Cleanup : Washington articles needing attention, *Add city infobox to all town/city articles missing one. *Add appropriate bio infobox to all Washington bio articles missing one. Fix articles: in our Cleanup Listing Copyedit : University of Washington School of Nursing Featured article candidates : * 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season Featured list candidates : * No results were found. Featured sound candidates : * Project Content template contains the following errors: No content type parameters found Unable to generate results. See documentation for help Good article nominations : * 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship Ken Anderson (animator) South Bellevue station Geographical coordinates : Washington articles missing geocoordinate data Infobox : Washington articles needing infoboxes Map : Requested maps in Washington (state) Photo : Requested photographs in Washington (state) Stubs : Stub-Class Washington articles Unreferenced : Unreferenced Washington articles Other : *Develop and promote: Washington, Puget Sound, and Mount Rainier up to FA status. Coordinate with Washington (state) Portal to provide quality articles for use. Place the ((WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|WA=Yes|WA-importance=)) banner into Washington related articles and assess.

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Washington and coordinate the efforts of users interested in topics related to Washington. Courtesy to WikiProject Oregon, from which this layout was partially copied.

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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Washington, including its cities, geography, history, etc. It aims to make Wikipedia the foremost online reference for all topics Washington.

It is important that as many users as possible with an interest in Washington topics know about new Washington related articles. Please announce new articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/New Articles.

Requested Articles

If you want to request an article, you can either start it up yourself or request help from the WikiProject membership it by going to WikiProject Washington/Requested Articles.

Requested Photos

Looking for a photograph for your article? Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/Requested Photos is the place for you. For a comprehensive list of articles needing pictures go here: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Washington (state)

WikiProject Washington is one of the United States WikiProjects.

Super-Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cascadia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject United States

Sub-Projects

Also, within Washington:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Okanagan
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle Mariners
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Seattle Sounders FC task force

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington State Highways

Task forces

• Eastern Washington task force

Overlapping projects

• WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
• WikiProject British Columbia
• WikiProject Mountains
• WikiProject Trains
• WikiProject Ships
• WikiProject Lakes
• WikiProject Rivers
• WikiProject Volcanoes
• WikiProject Glaciers
• WikiProject Cascadia

See also

• Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, a separate wiki.

To join WikiProject Washington, place your username on our participant list.

Project divisions

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Infoboxes

• ((Washington)) - Infobox for Washington regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

Templates

• ((Protected Areas of Washington)) - Navigational box for, well, protected areas in Washington.

Userboxes

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  • Recent changes – shows activity on talk pages of WikiProject Washington pages.

Category tree

Article assessment

Washington articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		6	9	27		3	45
FL		3	4	11		3	21
FM					9		9
A		1		3			4
GA		8	25	155		149	337
B	5	21	45	170		247	488
C	3	19	99	626	1	710	1,458
Start	5	29	176	4,181	1	3,007	7,399
Stub		7	78	3,199	5	3,689	6,978
List	1	10	69	183	2	96	361
Category			1		3,963		3,964
Disambig					21		21
File				3	63		66
Portal					1		1
Project					45		45
Redirect		2	9	150	850		1,011
Template					399		399
Other				1	34		35
Assessed	14	106	515	8,709	5,394	7,904	22,642
Unassessed				6	1	346	353
Total	14	106	515	8,715	5,395	8,250	22,995
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 86,807			Ω = 5.20

Assessment log

The logs on the linked page are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Washington articles by quality log

Article alerts

Did you know

• 04 Feb 2024 – Paleoallium (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Jan 2024 – Bob Bracken (settler) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Jan 2024 – Bow Lake (SeaTac, Washington) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DirtyHarry991 (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Jan 2024 – Seattle metropolitan area (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by SounderBruce (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Jan 2024 – Spring Lake (King County, Washington) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DirtyHarry991 (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Jan 2024 – Pipe Lake–Lake Lucerne (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DirtyHarry991 (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Jan 2024 – 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by PCN02WPS (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 05 Feb 2024 – Washington State Magazine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sdkb (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 02 Feb 2024 – College Access Now (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 29 Jan 2024 – Ryan Tudhope (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chris troutman (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 19 Jan 2024 – Barry Onouye (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 22 Jan 2024 – Randy Powell (author) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Boleyn (t · c) was closed as delete by The Wordsmith (t · c) on 30 Jan 2024; see discussion (6 participants)
• 18 Jan 2024 – KUSE-LD (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mvcg66b3r (t · c) was closed as redirect by Explicit (t · c) on 01 Feb 2024; see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 04 Jan 2024 – South Treatment Plant (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TheLongTone (t · c) was closed as keep by Geschichte (t · c) on 01 Feb 2024; see discussion (29 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 02 Feb 2024 – Theodore W. Houk (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Another Believer (t · c): Not finding much of anything via Google search
• 01 Feb 2024 – Fourth Corner Exchange (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Tooncool64 (t · c): Does not seem to meet WP:GNG. Coverage is sparse and not-notable.

Categories for discussion

• 25 Jan 2024 – Category:Seattle Sounders FC coaches (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Omnis Scientia (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 03 Feb 2024 – Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1955 (talk · edit · hist) →Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1955) was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• 09 Jan 2024 – 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by SounderBruce (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

• undated – Hanford Engineer Works (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

• 05 Feb 2024 – Town of Seattle Ordinance No. 5 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Generalissima (t · c); start discussion
• 23 Jan 2024 – South Bellevue station (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SounderBruce (t · c); start discussion
• 10 Jan 2024 – 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PCN02WPS (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Jan 2024 – Ken Anderson (animator) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrinceArchelaus (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

• 08 Oct 2023 – Kreielsheimer Promenade (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to McCaw Hall by SounderBruce (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 10 Dec 2023 – Western United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Peaceray (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Mar 2023 – Kemper Freeman (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fish bowl (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 02 Feb 2024 – Draft:Seattle All City Marching Band (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Red-tailed hawk (t · c)
• 31 Jan 2024 – Draft:God Committees (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Edcous (t · c)
• 19 Jan 2024 – Draft:Mahoney v. Sailors' Union of the Pacific (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mathieulalie (t · c)
• 19 Jan 2024 – Draft:Orin C. Smith Elementary School (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LibrariesStillRock (t · c)
• 13 Jan 2024 – Draft:Devan Chandler Long (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Suryakriz (t · c)
• 12 Jan 2024 – Draft:Mattachine Society of Washington (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Othsmay (t · c)
• 10 Jan 2024 – Draft:Rosalinda Guillen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mathieulalie (t · c)
• 10 Jan 2024 – Draft:Reliance, Washington (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SounderBruce (t · c)
• 30 Jan 2024 – Draft:Eric Lovern (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Tjh2004 (t · c) was declined by 94rain (t · c) on 31 Jan 2024

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