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Welcome to the Alabama WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Alabama. This WikiProject was started on April 6, 2007, which was 17 years, 5 months and 7 days ago.

Goals
  • The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Alabama, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Alabama.
Scope
  • This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Alabama, its history, geography, and people.

Open tasks

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Participants

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Active members

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To join WikiProject Alabama, edit this section and add #{{subst:me}} and any comments to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username. Members should place member identification on their user page.
(Last updated on January 21, 2017)

  1. AlaGuy 00:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC), Decatur and Tuscaloosa areas[reply]
  2. Alarob 17:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Majoreditor 01:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Patriarca12 14:13, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Lkseitz 16:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC), Birmingham and Huntsville areas[reply]
  6. CC21560 21:51, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. LadyofShalott 16:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Realkyhick 16:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC), Birmingham area[reply]
  9. Ecjmartin, Dothan, Daleville and southeast Alabama
  10. Trilobitealive plants of Alabama, literature of Alabama, amateur astronomy
  11. Zigzig20s-listed buildings, churches, universities, GOP.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:10, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Timdwilliamson (talk) 04:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC) Loxley, Alabama[reply]
  13. Aabdullayev851 (talk · contribs) 21 January 2015
  14. Sedriskell 13:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC), Decatur, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa; geosciences, cartography, demography[reply]
  15. BrokeBox (talk · contribs) 17:00:52, 8 January 2019 (UTC) [reply]
  16. User:Ed. Jishnu 20 January 2019
  17. Remonds (talk · contribs) 18:03:46, 5 June 2019 (UTC)  13:02 (CST) 6 June 2019, Tuscaloosa area[reply]
  18. Dofftoubab, 21:58, 21 April 2020 (UTC), central Alabama[reply]
  19. Johnnie Bob (talk · contribs) 20:35:36, 20 October 2020 (UTC) , Pre-war and reconstruction periods. Jefferson and Coosa counties.[reply]
  20. WLet718 (talk · contribs) 23:18:15, 17 January 2021 (UTC)  History of Northern Alabama, Lauderdale, Colbert primarily; some knowledge of Lawrence and Winston Co.s[reply]
  21. RomeoEchoDelta (talk · contribs) 20:07:03, 1 September 2022 (UTC)  Primarily Pickens, Tuscaloosa, and Jefferson counties. Mainly images and road information.[reply]
  22. Fairlydaisy04 (talk · contribs) 31 January 2023 Interstates, Tornadoes, and State Parks. Jefferson, Shelby, Blount, and Cullman Counties
  23. Umberdown (talk · contribs) 19:35:07, 15 February 2023

Former members

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  1. TrojanRobert, Montgomery - retired journalist, broadcaster, state employee
  2. WTGDMan1986 - revert vandalism from all articles relating to this state.
  3. Ravenhull, Mobile area
  4. Rlm0710, Mobile area
  5. Izzy007 18:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Crkey 04:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC), Huntsville[reply]
  7. Dravecky 11:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC), radio stations, Huntsville, and structural issues (Died April 23, 2016)[reply]
  8. Wendell 03:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Вasil | talk 22:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Patricksewell 20:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  11. WayneRay 12:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC), Clay County[reply]
  12. Govtrust 13:08, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Diarmada 21:33, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Dailynetworks 13:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC), Colbert County, The Shoals Area, Cherokee[reply]
  15. Heatherfire 15:15, 20 June 2007 (UTC), Huntsville, Madison and Tuscaloosa, specifically the schools[reply]
  16. Robberex 17:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Deathgecko 18:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC), Huntsville, its high schools, and its local government[reply]
  18. MGSGNR 19:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC), Etowah County area and related topics[reply]
  19. Droliver 20:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC), native of Mountain Brook/Birmingham[reply]
  20. Helmsb 04:40, 16 September 2007 (UTC), Birmingham area[reply]
  21. Simplemindedted 12:12, 17 September 2007 (UTC), Auburn/Opelika, Lee County, constitutional reform and Alabama politics[reply]
  22. OEP 16:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC), Tuscaloosa, Local knowledge, film[reply]
  23. Facingthetrend, Birmingham area
  24. Civilengtiger, Birmingham area, transportation, geography, natural features
  25. Kmitchell19, Dekalb County, Telecommunications, Technology, Gaming
  26. Petti002, Monroe County, Southwest Alabama
  27. DocOctopus, Birmingham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Auburn; business and education, recreation and outdoors.
  28. Htmlinc, Wetumpka area
  29. Heath007 (talk) 03:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC), Dothan and Auburn areas[reply]
  30. Anivron (talk) 01:55, 21 October 2008 (UTC), Huntsville and state history[reply]
  31. Jo7hs2 (talk) 16:39, 24 December 2008 (UTC), Natural and historical features of Alabama, particularly Sipsey Wilderness and Bankhead National Forest, etc...[reply]
  32. Mistress of Awesome (talk) 19:06, 30 May 2009 (UTC), native of North Alabama; interested in Athens, Huntsville, and Birmingham[reply]
  33. Gray10k (talk) politics, state officials, south alabama
  34. Lgrace07, Pickens County
  35. Bamaweather statewide geography
  36. Frank MottleyAuburn, Opelika, and southeastern Alabama
  37. Dan Tromedlov 12:25, 5 February 2010
  38. JasonWeakley, Birmingham Area
  39. Leeannedy 22:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC), Current focus on prehistory and colonial history in the state[reply]
  40. Mickeydisneylover Huntsville, Madison, Athens, Florence, Birmingham
  41. Mbama7 (talk) 04:12, 4 July 2013 (UTC), Northwest Alabama[reply]
  42. DarthWyyrlok 9:09 9 March 2015 (UTC)
  43. AuburnPilot 06:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  44. Dystopos 19:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC), Birmingham District[reply]
  45. Mnemnoch 04:58, 3 August 2007 (UTC), Baldwin County, Alabama Educational System[reply]
  46. JodyB 14:24, 31 March 2007 (UTC), Southwest Alabama including Mobile and Baldwin County.[reply]
  47. Altairisfar 02:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC), South Alabama[reply]
  48. Poison the Well 01:10, 3 October 2007 (UTC), Mobile area[reply]
  49. Spyder Monkey (Talk) 05:21, 21 September 2008 (UTC), Montgomery and Huntsville[reply]
  50. Nhlarry, Huntsville area
  51. Saverivers, Auburn Area - Photographer, historian. 11:12, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  52. chakrakhan 11:07, 5 Nov 2014 (UTC)
  53. Gentlejackjones (talk)

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Articles

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The following Alabama-related articles have been recognized as featured articles:

  2005 Sugar Bowl
  2006 UAW-Ford 500
  Alabama Centennial half dollar
  Ben Paschal
  Birmingham campaign
  Bobby Eaton
  Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
  Hiram Wesley Evans
  Hurricane Carmen
  Hurricane Danny (1997)
  Hurricane Elena
  Hurricane Eloise
  Ozzie Smith
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Tropical Storm Bill (2003)
  Zelda Fitzgerald
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The following Alabama-related lists have been recognized as featured lists:

  Hurricane Katrina tornado outbreak
  List of Alabama Crimson Tide bowl games
  List of Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons
  List of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches
  List of Auburn Tigers head football coaches
  List of cities and towns in Alabama
  List of colleges and universities in Alabama
  List of counties in Alabama
  List of Governors of Alabama
  List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama
  List of tallest buildings in Mobile
  List of UAB Blazers football seasons
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The following Alabama-related lists have been recognized as featured media – files designated as featured pictures or featured sounds:

  File:Tuskegee airman2.jpg

  Good articles (GA)

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The following Alabama-related articles have been recognized as good articles:

  1892 Alabama Cadets football team
  2007 UAW-Ford 500
  2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak
  2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
  2010 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
  2011 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
  2011 LSU vs. Alabama football game
  2011 Super Outbreak
  2012 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
  Acer rubrum
  Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem
  Alabama State Route 73
  Appalachian Trail
  April 6–8, 2006 tornado outbreak
  Auburn High School (Alabama)
  Charles Barkley
  Birmingham Americans
  Hugo Black
  Canoe Fight (Creek War)
  Brodie Croyle
  Hugh Culverhouse
  Hiram Wesley Evans
  February-March 2007 tornado outbreak
  Charlie Fonville
  Grapico
  Great Storm of 1975
  Bob Holly
  Hurricane Florence (1953)
  Hurricane Florence (1988)
  Hurricane Isidore
  Interstate 359
  Debra Marshall
  Mark Matthews
  John Mitchell (American football coach)
  Mobile, Alabama
  Captain Munnerlyn
  Noel F. Parrish
  Dan Povenmire
  Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle
  Richard M. Scrushy
  Shenandoah (band)
  Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
  Harry Toulmin (Unitarian minister)
  Tropical Storm Arlene (2005)
  Tropical Storm Beryl (1988)
  Tropical Storm Matthew (2004)
  Utricularia inflata
  William Lowndes Yancey

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Rachel Morgan

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Rachel Morgan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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WP:BLP with no secondary sourcing. Fails WP:SIGCOV. Passing mentions. Book is notable and notability is not inherited. scope_creepTalk 21:52, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is not consensus. The author must be standalone notable as well. I've never seen that statement at Afd in more than 1 years. They are many many famous books where the author is virtually unknown, even in the modern period. They don't like the limelight, don't give interviews or readings or go to conferences or conventions. They are unknown and by any defintion they would fail WP:SIGCOV. scope_creepTalk 10:02, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NAUTHOR has wide consensus and has been stable for years. It reads:

This guideline applies to authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other creative professionals. Such a person is notable if [... t]he person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews, or of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series).

The subject of this article has written a significant work, Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology, which has been the subject of at least six independent reviews in periodicals (cited in the article). Hence, they meet WP:NAUTHOR.
I alluded to the logic behind this above: if we can write an article on a book, we can write an article on its author – even if the content is just John Smith is the author of Notable Book, a [remainder based on significant coverage of the book]. Whether to call this article "John Smith" or "Notable Book" barely affects the content and is a question of article titling and framing rather than notability or deletion. – Joe (talk) 11:22, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know what it reads and what it means. I've done 100's of book and author Afd's, over the years. I'm acutely aware of the policy. They are one of the most common article types that gets sent to Afd. The author must be notable on their own to have the article. Notability is not inherited. That is long-establised consensus. I could point to 1000's Afd's where the statement has been made, following established policy. The book is certainly notable, but the author isn't yet. You just have to look at how the industry is structured. If you followed They must be standalone notable. List of books review. By your logic every self-published author would have have an article on here. scope_creepTalk 11:42, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Scope creep, I think you're right about the outcome of AfDs, but I don't think that's an accurate conclusion about Joe's logic. Those self-published authors rarely get book reviews in reliable sources that would count for notability. Frankly, I think Joe's logic is perfectly correct (what does it matter if the article on a book is at the author's name or the book's title?), but it would be a really eccentric outcome for an AfD. -- asilvering (talk) 12:11, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would be strange outcome. I don't know what has changed in the 6 months-odd interim where I wasn't doing Afd. scope_creepTalk 12:33, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's quite a common outcome for academics, at least. A common objection to WP:NPROF is that it lets us have articles on people for whom there could be little or no biographical sources available. Which is true, but following the logic above it just means that the notable entity is John Smith's work not John Smith. But actually calling the article that would be dumb, so we don't do it. – Joe (talk) 12:43, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Odd that this long-established consensus followed in hundred of AfDs isn't written down anywhere, then, and that the notability guideline for authors explicitly contradicts it. – Joe (talk) 12:40, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you can find a handful of AfDs (or even one, honestly) for authors that have been kept on the grounds that an author has a single book with multiple reviews, I'd be very interested to see them. -- (talk) 13:36, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
asilvering, no specific AFD comes to mind right now but after closing hundreds (thousands?) of these discussions over the past 4 1/2 years, I'm sure that this has happened. There are authors, like Harper Lee, who, throughout most of her life, was notable for writing only onw book but it was a highly notable one. Also, many AFDs are sparsely attended and if there is a strong consensus that the book is notable and the reviews are prestigious, then it's likely that the article will be Kept. Liz Read! Talk! 19:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, Harper Lee is a good index case. I've used that exact example before when explaining to AfC submitters what kind of coverage one might need to be notable on a single book. (Though, obviously, she's rather extremely notable, so it's not exactly fair. Someone half as famous as Harper Lee is still going to pass any kind of AfD with flying colours.) This is an early career archaeologist with a well-reviewed book. They're very much not in the same league. -- asilvering (talk) 19:36, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to the book, our standard outcome for authors of only one book but one that is arguably notable. And while we're at it refocus the article on the book to say something about the book based on its published reviews instead of merely being a rehash of the author's back cover blurb, sourced only to that blurb. As for the argument above over whether authoring one book should be enough for the author to also be notable: see WP:BIO1E. —David Eppstein (talk) 14:03, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @David Eppstein: I knew the secret sauce was there somewhere. This settles it. scope_creepTalk 14:10, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

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Articles for deletion

  • 11 Sep 2024 – Rachel Morgan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
  • 10 Sep 2024 – T-Bag (Prison Break) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by OlifanofmrTennant (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
  • 18 Aug 2024 – Wayne T. Smith (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by BD2412 (t · c) was closed as keep by Liz (t · c) on 08 Sep 2024; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

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Assessment

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Alabama pages by quality
Quality
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  FA 16
  FL 12
  FM 13
  GA 104
B 397
C 1,003
Start 4,792
Stub 5,004
List 283
Category 4,526
Disambig 19
File 276
Portal 1
Project 21
Redirect 605
Template 444
NA 1
Assessed 17,517
Unassessed 55
Total 17,572
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 59,395 Ω = 5.25
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