Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky

Shortcuts	WP:KY, WP:WPKY, WP:Kentucky, WP:KENTUCKY
Categories	WikiProject Kentucky, Kentucky
Portal	Kentucky
Parent project(s)	United States
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Descendant WikiProjects WikiProject Louisville Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the state of the United States known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk.

• To join this project or see the current list of members, go to the Membership Department. Also check out our leaderboard!
• To see a list of good and featured articles maintained by this project, visit our Hall of Fame.

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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. state of Kentucky, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to improve and refine Wikipedia's resources on Kentucky in a fair and accurate manner and logically link them through a high-quality, well-maintained Portal:Kentucky.

As of 18 February 2026, there are 15,654 articles within the scope of WikiProject Kentucky, of which 69 are featured and 160 are good articles. This makes up 0.22% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.59% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.37% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 50,092 pages in the project.

Articles are cataloged for this project by adding } to their talk pages.

Kentucky | WikiProject Kentucky | Kentucky stubs | Kentucky geography stubs | Wikipedians in Kentucky | Kentucky articles with to-do lists | Wikipedia requested photographs in Kentucky | Wikipedia requested maps in Kentucky

• } – This banner designates that an article is covered by WikiProject Kentucky. Placed on the article's talk page. Further:
  • If the subject of the article is connected to Louisville or the other Kentucky portions of the Louisville metropolitan area (per the scope of WikiProject Louisville), add |Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=
  • If the subject of the article is connected to Kentucky's Eastern Mountain Coal Fields region (per the scope of our corresponding task force, add |Coal-fields=yes|Coal-fields-importance=
• } – This banner displays project alerts if any currently exist. Normally placed on user pages or project pages.
• } – This banner is placed on talk pages to invite potential members to join our project.
• } – This banner is placed on talk pages of newly listed members.
• } – Members place this barnstar award banner on talk pages of Wikipedians who have done exemplary work on Kentucky-related articles and other pages or have provided assistance in WikiProject Kentucky.

• } - Navbox for Kentucky regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• } - Navbox for Kentucky Governors; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• } - Navbox for Kentucky Lieutenant Governors; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• } - placed at the bottom of article pages for Senators from Kentucky.
• } - Navbox placed at the bottom of Kentucky private and public university and college articles.
• } - Navbox for Kentucky's protected areas; placed at the bottom of article pages.

The following templates can be placed at the bottom of stub articles:

• } – Stub notice for all other Kentucky articles (except those related to the Louisville metropolitan area; use } or } instead for those cases)
  • } – Stub notice for buildings and structures in Kentucky
    • } – Stub notice for Kentucky churches
    • } – Stub notice for Kentucky schools
      • } – Stub notice for Kentucky universities or colleges
  • } – Stub notice for Kentucky elections
  • } – Stub notice for articles about locations or geographical features in Kentucky
    • } – Stub notice for properties and places listed in the National Register for Historic Places
    • } – Stub notice for Kentucky rivers
  • } – Stub notice for geologic formations in Kentucky
  • } – Stub notice for Kentucky politicians
  • } – Stub notice for Kentucky radio stations
  • } – Stub notice for articles about sports in Kentucky
    • } – Stub notice for Kentucky sports teams
      • } – Stub notice for Kentucky baseball teams
      • } – Stub notice for Kentucky basketball teams
      • } – Stub notice for Kentucky soccer teams
    • } – Stub notice for Kentucky sports venues
      • } – Stub notice for Kentucky baseball venues
  • } – Stub notice for Kentucky state judges
  • } – Stub notice for articles about transportation in Kentucky
    • } – Stub notice for Kentucky roads

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives:

• KDLA Home
  • KDLA Mission Statement
  • Citation/Permission Information -
• Kentucky Virtual Library
  • Kentuckiana Digital Library

Library of Congress:

• Library of Congress
  • Researchers Reference tools and services
    • Prints and Photographs Reading Room

• Cities: WikiProject Louisville
• Facts and data: Kentucky facts and data
• U.S. Roads: U.S. Roads/Kentucky

• Eastern Mountain Coal Fields

• Categorized listing of articles with cleanup issues – all our articles with some sort of cleanup tag are listed here (updated weekly)
• Newest potentially Kentucky-related articles and other pages (usually updated daily)
• Log of newly included pages, page assessments and re-assessments, and page renames (usually updated daily)

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.