Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine
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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.
Goals
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.
- Daniel H (talk · contribs)
- 331dot (talk · contribs)
- Arverniking (talk · contribs)
- BMRR (talk · contribs) - Interested in all things Maine, but especially southern Maine cities and towns, Mount Desert Island, Maine railroads, and Maine politics.
- Buskahegian (talk · contribs)
- Calidum (talk · contribs)
- Doug (talk · contribs) - Maine law, Maine history, Maine geography
- 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.
- fieldpolicer32 (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, Living in North Berwick, Maine interested in Maine Railroads and state fire department history
- General534 (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, interested in Maine history, bridges, historical locations
- Icelandic Hurricane (talk · contribs)
- Jason Bluefire (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine
- John Carter (talk · contribs) - Trying to fill the shoes of the project's proposer.
- larsenault (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, employed by USM. General editing.
- Liam987 (talk · contribs)
- Mackenzie Andersen (talk · contribs)
- maineshepp (talk · contribs) Interested in northern Maine, especially historic biography.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Moxhay (talk · contribs) -Resident of Maine, interested in Maine highways and transportation
- MrRadioGuy (talk · contribs)
- Widget-policyq229 (talk · contribs)Been to maine once and would like to go again, Interested in highways, places and architecture.
- Namiba (talk · contribs)
- Nammiller (talk · contribs)
- Nickline4 (talk · contribs)
- Oak Island Kid (talk · contribs)
- Penbay (talk · contribs)
- SarekOfVulcan (talk · contribs) - Eddington resident
- 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.
- Thegrandalliance (talk · contribs) - Resident of Maine, will try to help with anything I can
- Thewellman (talk · contribs) - Geography & history of transportation.
- Tikuko (talk · contribs) - Holden Resident
- Ventric (talk · contribs) - Selectman in Milford, Maine
- Voxlibra (talk · contribs) - Resident of Bangor
- WestportWiki (talk · contribs) - Resident of Bath
- Pugchump (talk · contribs) - Sanford, Maine resident, grew up in Kennebunk, Maine
- BrikDuk (talk · contribs) - Lifelong resident of Portland
- ClaudeDavid (talk · contribs) - Resident of Old Orchard Beach. Trying to create public domain images of township centers.
- Tomorrow&tomorrow&tomorrow (talk · contribs) Maine politics, geography, public health policy
- Acgarretson (talk · contribs) 04:20:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC) - Maine scientific institutions and universities
- Kansatria (talk · contribs) 14:57:04, 7 March 2022 (UTC) - Working on an article about 2021 Question 1 at my sandbox page.
- L'Mainerque (talk · contribs) - See my username? Maine citizen.
- jake-jakubowski (talk · contribs) 17:10:19, 29 September 2022 (UTC) - Work in Brunswick, Live in Topsham, Interested in history of both towns.
- AverageEstoniaEnthusiast (talk · contribs) 16:43:01, 7 January 2023 (UTC) - Freeport Gang #1, I mostly work on local articles.
- 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!
- Akyyka (talk · contribs) 05:52:23, 15 December 2023 (UTC) - Student in Bangor, from southern York County
- Brindille1 (talk · contribs) 03:49:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC) - Raised in Maine, and living in Boston
- Smilax100 (talk · contribs) I love Maine and all aspects of the culture, and I'm interested in it's towns, arts, fiction, and culture.
- HESMaineLibrary (talk · contribs) - students of Hope Elementary School, dedicated to researching the history and updating the wiki page of Hope, Maine.
- Geardona (talk · contribs) 23:19:10, 23 February 2024 (UTC) Going to maintain Portal:Maine, feel free to reach out to me.
- Possiblegermany (talk · contribs) Hi, I'm Paige! I live in southern Maine and love the sea.
- Jantompkins (talk · contribs) 17:35:12, 27 July 2024 (UTC) Hello! I'm Ján, born in Blue Hill, grew up in Bangor, and I'm now living in Prague but still have a deep love for our beautiful state and sharing its wonders with others.
Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- Buaidh (talk · contribs) 16:41:43, 13 May 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.
- TheLastClassicist1750 (talk · contribs) 1:21:12, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Member identification
Members of WikiProject Maine should place one of the following on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Maine participants.
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Welcome message for new users
Please copy this wikitext and put in talk page of any new members: {{Template:Maine project welcome}}
Welcome to WikiProject Maine!

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!
Articles
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.
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.
Featured articles
Featured lists
Good articles
2009 Maine Question 1
Battle of Machias
Big Blood
Samuel Brannan
Brunswick Falls
Burning of Falmouth
Anthony F. Ciampi
Louis B. Costello
Desert of Maine
Fort Andross
Frank J. Wood Bridge
Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
John H. Hill
Robert Deniston Hume
Invasion of Quebec (1775)
Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Loring Air Force Base
Charles J. Loring Jr.
Battle of Machias (1777)
Grace Macurdy
Charles Mattocks
Herb Mitchell (actor)
Rachel Nichols (actress)
Not My Presidents Day
Oshima Brothers
Susanna Paine
USS Portland (CA-33)
Duncan Robinson
Leigh Saufley
WCSH
Did you know? articles
1936 Northeastern United States flood
2009 Maine Question 1
2011 New England tornado outbreak
Sharon H. Abrams
Daniel D. Badger
Bar Harbor Airlines
Frank Barbour
Mildred Barker
Sharon Barker
Linda Bean
Beech Hill Pond
Black Cap Mountain
Richard Bonython
Lyn Mikel Brown
William Robinson Brown
Brunswick Falls
John Bunker
George Burgess (bishop)
Charles Chauncey Burr
Buttermilk Sky
Ralph H. Cameron
Charles B. Carter
William Henry Chase
Anthony F. Ciampi
Cobscook Bay
Patricia M. Collins
Holly Coors
Louis B. Costello
Elizabeth W. Crandall
Daniel Webster (steamboat)
John F. Davis (lawyer)
Raymond Cazallis Davis
Desert of Maine
Daniel Dole
Edmund Pearson Dole
Wigglesworth Dole
Neal Dow
Shubael Dummer
Linda Smith Dyer
Kelsey Earley
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Eastern Promenade
Edwards Dam
Nicholas Emery
Stephen Etnier
Mary Farrar
Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal
Joseph Forbes (educator)
Laura Fortman
Fox Islands Electric Cooperative
Frank J. Wood Bridge
Ethel Wilson Gammon
Caroline D. Gentile
Caroline Duby Glassman
Ellen F. Golden
Gore (surveying)
Larry Gowell
Mary Louise Graffam
Lori Gramlich
Head Harbour Lighthouse
Dorothy M. Healy
Karen Heck
Nancy H. Hensel
John H. Hill
Frank M. Hume
Robert Deniston Hume
Judith Magyar Isaacson
John Johnson (inventor)
Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton
Theodora Kalikow
Anna Kendrick
Laurie G. Lachance
Katie Lachapelle
Joseph Leavitt
Sara Plummer Lemmon
Ruth Lockhart
Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar
Loring Air Force Base
Sharri MacDonald
Battle of Machias (1777)
Grace Macurdy
William MacVane
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers
Maine Diner
Maine Italian sandwich
Maine–New Hampshire men's ice hockey rivalry
Maine in the American Civil War
Charles Mattocks
Chauncey McCormick
Herb Mitchell (actor)
Dodge Morgan
Katherine O. Musgrave
Gilda E. Nardone
Olson House (Cushing, Maine)
Operation Head Start
Oshima Brothers
Paleontology in Maine
Portsmouth Naval Prison
Ida Sedgwick Proper
Tracy Quint
Railroads in New England
Lois Galgay Reckitt
Howard C. Reiche Community School
Jennifer Reid
Paul I. Richards
Duncan Robinson
George F. Robinson
Edith Nourse Rogers
Ninetta May Runnals
Patricia E. Ryan
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Saco Bay
Mildred Brown Schrumpf
Harvey B. Scribner
The Shaker Quarterly
Skolfield–Whittier House
T. J. Southard
Spednic Lake
C. J. Stevens
John L. Stevens
Marti Stevens (educator)
Thelma C. Swain
The Lewiston Daily Sun
Ruthie Tompson
Victoria Mansion
WCSH
WKZX (Maine)
WMEB-FM
WNSW (Maine)
WPMT (Maine)
Mabel Sine Wadsworth
Marshman Edward Wadsworth
Charlie Waitt
Waldo–Hancock Bridge
Ida Waugh
Pop Williams
Esther E. Wood
Wendall Woodbury
Barbara W. Woodlee
The Yankee
Former featured articles
Former good articles
Article alerts
Did you know
- 12 Feb 2025 – Roland L. Bragg (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by DMVHistorian (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 25 Feb 2025 – New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Change Action Plan 2001 (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 13 Feb 2025 – WJZF-LP (talk · · hist) AfDed by Chuterix (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 20 Feb 2025; see discussion (2 participants)
- 13 Feb 2025 – Roland L. Bragg (talk · · hist) AfDed by Mztourist (t · c) was closed as keep by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) on 20 Feb 2025; see discussion (38 participants)
Articles to be split
- 01 Jan 2024 – WTHT (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wcquidditch (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 28 Jan 2025 – Draft:Jacqueline Edmondson (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Emmakristoffy (t · c)
- 29 Dec 2024 – Draft:E. W. Merritt (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ALG Larch (t · c)
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Assessments
- Assessment - Our assessment department, where we assess the quality and importance of the Maine-related articles in Wikipedia.
Discussion
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Open Tasks
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.
Tools
- 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