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There have been 43 presidents over the history of the United States (Grover Cleveland served twice but is counted once here). We cover all of their biographies, and six more articles relating to the president.

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Goal

The goal of this project is to edit articles on Presidents of the United States of America, and bring them to A-Class or (preferably) Featured Article standard. It is also to expand Wikipedia's knowledge of U.S. Presidents.

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Assessment

See what is good and what needs work. Edit this at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Presidents/1.0 Rankings.

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Article Date Assessment Comments
List of Presidents of the United States October 30, 2008 List Defeatured on date given.
President of the United States of America May 17, 2006 B Formerly featured but still good.
Seal of the President of the United States May 19, 2006 Start Some good sources but Where's the beef? (It's never going to be as big as some others, though.)
White House May 17, 2006 B Many short sections give a hodgepodge feel.
Air Force One October 12, 2004 Start Needs cleanup.
Marine One July 20, 2006 Start Expansion Needed.
George Washington May 16, 2006 B Has good basic information, but needs serious cleanup as to undersourcing and bad statements to be removed.
John Adams May 17, 2006 B Good, but a few short sections.
Thomas Jefferson May 17, 2006 B Needs to be NPOVified towards the bottom and shortened.
James Madison May 19, 2006 B Needs more information.
James Monroe May 19, 2006 C Needs more life info.
John Quincy Adams May 19, 2006 C Needs more information, especially on the life part. Table does too much about presidency.
Andrew Jackson May 18, 2006 B Needs only tweaking before an FAC.
Martin Van Buren May 16, 2006 B Close to a GA but not official; particularly needs info on post-White House political activities.
William Henry Harrison March 7, 2009 FA Date is date featured.
John Tyler May 19, 2006 B Red links and lists make up too much for the article. Needs more images and actual text.
James Polk May 9, 2008 B Former featured article; date is date demoted.
Zachary Taylor August 7, 2009 C Not enough meat, poor visual formatting with huge pictures.
Millard Fillmore May 19, 2006 B Needs more work in describing graphs and needs major expansion.
Franklin Pierce May 19, 2006 C Needs expansion.
James Buchanan May 19, 2006 B Needs expansion and probably some NPOVifying: if we're going to trash him , do it with sources.
Abraham Lincoln March 17, 2007 B Former featured article.
Andrew Johnson May 17, 2006 B Not doing well; needs more expansion
Ulysses S. Grant August 7, 2009 B Needs expansion under presidency and a few general tweaks.
Rutherford Hayes May 20, 2006 C Needs serious expansion under presidency.
James Garfield May 20, 2006 C Needs expansion, and more detail about assassination (it is likely to be of interest to many casual readers).
Chester Arthur May 20, 2006 C Too many redlinks, needs expansion.
Grover Cleveland March 8, 2008 FA Date is date featured.
Benjamin Harrison January 3, 2009 FA Date is date featured.
William McKinley May 20, 2006 C Needs expansion under presidency.
Theodore Roosevelt June 27, 2008 C Former featured article; date is date demoted.
William Taft May 20, 2006 C Needs better organizing, formatting, subsections for the presidency, and some more good text or source won't hurt (I've promoted this to A Class - I think it's better than most of the Bs - Sam 15:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)).
Woodrow Wilson May 20, 2006 B Needs section on private life, otherwise very good. Going over text wouldn't hurt, either.
Warren G. Harding May 20, 2006 C References! Inline notes! And perhaps some NPOVing is needed.
Calvin Coolidge March 3, 2007 FA Date is date featured.
Herbert Hoover May 20, 2006 C The info is there, it just needs to be presented well. More inline sources would be nice.
Franklin D. Roosevelt May 24, 2006 FA Date is date featured.
Harry Truman June 11, 2010 B Overly long, needs focus.
Dwight Eisenhower May 20, 2006 B Trim sections towards bottom, they aren't that important. Needs inline notes, but has good general refs.
John F. Kennedy May 20, 2006 B Formatting issues.
Lyndon B. Johnson May 20, 2006 B Needs additional citations.
Richard Nixon January 25, 2009 GA Date is date promoted.
Gerald Ford April 8, 2006 FA Date is date featured.
Jimmy Carter May 19, 2006 B Needs to focus on neutrality and economic record.
Ronald Reagan February 6, 2008 FA Date is date featured.
George H. W. Bush May 19, 2006 GA Need expansion of events under presidency and additional citations.
Bill Clinton May 17, 2006 B Only slight tweaking is needed.
George W. Bush February 13, 2007 GA Date is date promoted.
Barack Obama August 12, 2004 FA Date is date featured.

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Collaborations

The current Presidental Collaborations are:
Refine: George Washington
Shorten: Harry S. Truman
Expand: Martin Van Buren

This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Presidents. Every week, three different articles from a pool assessed with Version 1.0 standards are chosen. Some articles (usually B-Class) need to be expanded with more information. Others (usually A-Class) need to be shortened using summary style (try not to delete good content, just move it). A few (FAs and a few A-Class) just need to be refined and generally tweaked, often before a featured article candidacy.

The articles are chosen using the comments made during the assessment. There is no formal bureaucratic way of choosing them, there's no point templating their talk pages over it, and they are not done by week but by need. For instance, an article being evaluated for featured status may stay under the "refine" slot as long as it is a candidate. The color scheme above is meant to generally illustrate the quality of the article, but it's not binding. It does not change when the articles change.

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