Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota

WikiProject Minnesota
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Minnesota User Group

WikiProject Minnesota

WikiProject Minnesota is a collaborative group within Wikipedia dedicated to improving, expanding, and maintaining articles related to the U.S. state of Minnesota. The project covers a wide range of topics, including Minnesota’s geography, history, government, culture, and notable people, and is part of the broader WikiProject United States. Members of WikiProject Minnesota come from diverse backgrounds and share a passion for the state, contributing by writing and editing articles, assessing their quality, providing photographs, and organizing related content.

The project also has ties to the Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group, which hosts local events and supports Wikimedia activities in the state. Whether you’re new to Wikipedia or an experienced editor, WikiProject Minnesota welcomes your skills and interests. By participating, you help shape Minnesota’s digital presence, ensuring that its diverse stories and communities are well represented.
In the area? You're invited to the Wiknic July 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting
July 19 — Minnesota State Capitol

Saturday July 19, 2025 the Minnesota User Group is having a Wiknic at the Minnesota State Capitol! We will be picnicing in the shade near the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial, so bring a picnic blanket, lawn chairs and a hot dish for the picnic if you like! We'll also be providing sandwiches for everyone but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share. All Minnesota Wikipedia editors and wanna-be editors are welcome!

Also...
The new "Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group" (DBA: Minnesota User Group) is up and running!
If you are a legacy member and already have joined, please reregister using the code in the Participants section of the page. If you have not yet joined please consider joining and helping out in Minnesota based Wikipedia projects!


Please RVSP on the event page.

Transit

  • Metro Green Line | LRT Stations: Capitol/Rice St. & Robert St.
  • Buses: 3,62,67,21,68
Look forward to seeing folks!

Did you know

Articles for deletion

  • 25 Jun 2025 – Mark Kendall (filmmaker) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Smartse (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
  • 21 Jun 2025 – Twin Cities comics artists (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
  • 16 Jun 2025 – Lilly Contino (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Momentoftrue (t · c); see discussion (20 participants; relisted)
  • 13 Jun 2025 – Sheraz Daya (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Onel5969 (t · c); see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
  • 15 Jun 2025Leland Wright (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Let'srun (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 22 Jun 2025; see discussion (4 participants)

Proposed deletions

  • 21 Jun 2025 – Twin Cities Academy (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Bearian (t · c): Tagged as Unreferenced and unimproved for over 15 years. Tagged for Notability concerns for over 7 years. Attractive nuisance for vandals. Zero evidence of notability.

Files for discussion

Good article nominees

Requests for comments

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles for creation

Anyone can help improve information about Minnesota on Wikipedia. Here are some ways to help.

Repetitive tasks

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Involved tasks

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Requested Media

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Possible Future Wikipedia projects

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(Remember good ideas are welcome but good plans are golden)

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WikiProject Minnesota articles by quality      Refresh

Welcome to the assessment department of the Minnesota WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles related to Minnesota, including its government, people, geography, and history. Much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, but the article ratings are also used within the project to recognize excellent contributions and identify topics that need further attention.

Ratings are conducted in a distributed manner using parameters in the {{WikiProject Minnesota}} project banner. This process categorizes articles into the appropriate subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by quality and Category:Minnesota articles by importance. These categories serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

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How can I get my article rated?
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles?
Any member of the Minnesota WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
What if I don't agree with a rating?
You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
Aren't the ratings subjective?
Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Instructions

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Minnesota}} project banner on its talk page:

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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Minnesota articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Quality scale

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Importance scale

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The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of the Minnesota.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Places Things People
Top Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for Minnesota, or is generally notable to people other than students of Minnesota. They define and determine the subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. Minnesota University of Minnesota Prince (musician)
High Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of Minnesota, but not necessarily outside it. Bloomington, Minnesota I-35W Mississippi River bridge Sunisa Lee
Mid Subject contributes to the total subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. Apple Valley, Minnesota Breck School Bob Dylan
Low Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Minnesota, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Climax, Minnesota Charlemagne Tower Judy Garland

Requesting an assessment

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If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

  1. First Avenue (nightclub) Request for B class in advance of seeking peer review. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:14, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment log

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Please help with the category of Unassessed Minnesota articles.

The logs in this section 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.

June 27, 2025

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Reassessed

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  • Mitch Reinke (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

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June 26, 2025

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  • Ash Hardell (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
  • SaveAFox Rescue (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

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June 24, 2025

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June 23, 2025

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June 22, 2025

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June 21, 2025

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Shortcut: WP:MINN
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Portal: {{Portal|Minnesota|left=yes|boxsize=128px}}

Project banner:
{{WikiProject Minnesota}}

Userbox:

{{User WikiProject Minnesota}}

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

General Minnesota resources

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  • General — General information on Minnesota
  1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
  2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
  3. Identify articles needing images
  1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

Minnesota physical assets

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  • Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
  • Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
  1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
  2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
  3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
  4. Provide missing geocoordinate data
  1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota
  • Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

Minnesota life

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  • People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
  1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
  2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
  • Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
  • Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
  • History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood



Child projects

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This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject United States, and has several descendant projects:

Task forces

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  • Minnesota Legislature — This task force is a sub-project of WikiProject Minnesota. The scope includes the sessions and elections of both houses of the Minnesota Legislature.
  1. ^ Prose at the Good Article level is not expected to be at a professional level like it is for Featured Articles. Minor grammatical or style issues that do not impact clarity are not prohibitive of GA status.

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