Wikipedia User:STinkeyC

Frequently use Wikipedia, (who doesn't). Some parts are real easy to navigate the links between articles to find the info you want. Other pages, not so much. This would irritate me, until finally I decided to do something about it.

I need to learn some stuff before I can really help, like how to use the editor, understand templates and their uses, and what level of wikiproject is appropriate to the change I want to make.

What I really want to do, first, is to make it easier to find out which North Carolina (NC) counties are part of which Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). These are defined by the US Congress, Office of Management and Budget. As things stand its pretty easy to find out which NC counties are part of which Combined Statistical Area (CSA). A CSA is an aggregation of more granular units like MSAs.

I am pretty sure it will not be that hard to find a document put out there by OMB that defines which counties are in each MSA I can cite.

There are already redirects for the MSAs I have looked for so far. All I need to do then is edit the sentence that mentions the MSA and CSA to add the MSA county names. Alternates: the County list might be organized by MSA; a color block matching the infobox legend to indicate the MSA might be part of each county entry, the infobox might include numbers as well as colors, with the numbers matching the numbered list of counties.

In fact, its likely that there is a template out there I should become familiar with before I change anything.

I found the North Carolina wikiproject, which is a subproject of the USA project. There may be one or more subprojects under North Carolina that might be appropriate. Also need to look for projects related to Federal statistics, perhaps.