Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky/Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force
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The goal of the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force is to provide a platform for improving articles relating to the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region.
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| Category | Kentucky |
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| Portal |  Kentucky |
| Wikimedia Commons |  Kentucky |
| Parent project(s) | Kentucky |
| Project banner template | {{WikiProject United States|KY=yes|Eastern Mountain Coal Fields=yes}} |
Scope
The Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force covers articles relating to the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region of Kentucky. The 31 counties covered by the region, defined by the University of Kentucky, include: Bell, Breathitt, Boyd, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, McCreary, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Powell, Rowan, Whitley, and Wolfe counties.
Tasks
Basic to-do list:
- Expand the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields article to at least B-class.
- Continue tagging talk pages within our jurisdiction with:
{{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|KY=yes|KY-importance=|Eastern Mountain Coal Fields=yes}}
- Expand articles on cities by creating a section on topics such as: Government, Education, Climate. Historical population tables also need to be added.
Assessment
| Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| FM |
1 | 1 | |||||
 GA |
1 | 1 | |||||
| B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | ||
| C | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 28 | |
| Start | 1 | 1 | 27 | 164 | 193 | ||
| Stub | 22 | 125 | 147 | ||||
| List | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Project | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Redirect | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Assessed | 1 | 4 | 6 | 56 | 24 | 317 | 408 |
| Total | 1 | 4 | 6 | 56 | 24 | 317 | 408 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 1,988 | Ω = 5.23 | |||||
Articles
Alerts
Articles to be merged
- 20 Feb 2026 – Southeast Kentucky floods of 2020 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tornado outbreak of February 5–7, 2020 by ~2026-11346-99 (t · c); see [[Talk::Tornado outbreak of February 5–7, 2020|discussion]]
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Please feel free to list your new Eastern Mountain Coal Fields-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hour time limit from the creation of the article.
- coal town YES, its new, but the category lists over 600+ coal towns, MANY in Eastern Coalfield region
Requested articles
- Paintsville Coalfield
- Kenova Coalfield
- Thacker Coalfield
- Elkhorn Coalfield
- Harlan Coalfield
- Hazard Coalfield
- The Dollmaker (book) (there is already an article for the movie; the Nevels family is from the Big South Fork region)
- FIVCO Area Development District
- Pikeville Independent Schools
Articles needing attention
- Night Comes to the Cumberlands (Harry Caudill book) (expansion)
- Harlan County War (expansion)
- Pine Mountain (expansion)
- Allegheny Plateau (add references)
- Cumberland Plateau (add references)
- Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site (expansion)
- Eastern Kentucky Expo Center (expansion)
- Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (expansion)
- Cumberland Falls (expansion)
- Breaks Interstate Park (expansion)
- Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex (expansion)
- Battle of Evarts (expansion)
- Mayor of Ashland, Kentucky (finish list of mayors to present)
- Eula Hall (general cleanup)
Photo requests
- Ashland Town Center
- Regional protected areas (National and State parks)
- Regional colleges and universities
- Hal Rogers Parkway
- Appalachian Wireless Arena
- Modern coal mine and mining photographs
- Pikeville Medical Center (exterior image)
- Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center (exterior image)
- East Kentucky Science Center
- Poage Landing Days
Participants
If you would like to join this task force, please add your name to the following list:
Active participants
Inactive participants
- L.N.farm - No edits since September 2010
- Pikecounty - No edits since October 2010
- allens - No edits since August 2012
- wvfunnyman - No edits since July 2013
- MariAdkins - No edits since 2023
- Willking1979 - No edits since 2011
- Steve03Mills
- Jcembree - No edits since 2012
- Randolph.hollingsworth - No edits since 2023
- Coal town guy
- J654567 - No edits since 2023
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Templates
Project
- {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|KY=yes|KY-importance|Coal-fields=yes|Coal-fields-importance=}} - Template stating this article is a part of this WikiProject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages.
- {{EMCF Invitation}} - placed (using subst) on talk pages to invite potential members to join the task force.
- {{WPKY/EMCFWelcome}} - placed (using subst) on talk pages to welcome new members to the task force.
Infobox
{{Eastern Mountain Coal Fields (Kentucky)}} - Infobox for Eastern Mountain Coal Field counties, cities, and statistical areas; placed at the bottom of article pages.
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