Wikipedia:WikiProject Nevada

Welcome to the Nevada WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Nevada.


 * Goals
 * The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Nevada, by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Nevada.

All these articles should be included in the Category:Nevada or one of its subcategories.
 * Scope
 * This project proposes to work with all pages related to the state of Nevada, its history, geography, and people.

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Las Vegas
 * Nevada articles nominated for deletion

Active participants
To join WikiProject Nevada, edit this section and add the Wikitext   with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.
 * 1) John Carter 23:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Flatterworld 21:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC) I've created articles for each of the current Nevada State Senators - see Nevada State Senate
 * 3) Rik 09:59 2 June 2008 (UTC) I've done a lot creating and expanding articles for sports in Nevada - see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
 * 4) Leave Message or Yellow Evan home or User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox 03:51, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) BoldSolitude 7:02, 23 November 2008 (UTC) I'm currently working on creating pages for all casino's in Nevada, defunct and current. I have also created articles on Nevada landmarks associated with casinos.
 * 6) SchnitzelMannGreek-interested in Native-Americans and Las Vegas hotel related topics. Feel free to assign me stuff on my talk page but I'll start working at it by my self soon 03:50, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 7) WM-86 WM-86 Love the states (and this one) in the Mountain Time Zone. Looking to revert vandalism and fix grammar mistakes.
 * 8) User:DocOfSoc One of my fav states. Lived in "Obscure" Yerington, Reno and Las Vegas.08:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 9) Marlinite (talk) Contribute to all states. I'll contribute to towns and counties, and create articles for ghost towns.
 * 10) Nevadaresident Long-time resident of southern Nevada, 11 June 2011
 * 11) INeverCry 20:33, 21 July 2012 (UTC) Northern NV
 * 12) Shieldwolf, 60+ year resident of Las Vegas, specialty Newspaper & Politics of mid century Nevada (1940-1970)
 * 13) Jjfloyd Interest in the history, anthropology and archaeology of Nevada. Helping to run a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Nevada topics October 2015
 * 14) FloyFavorite, interested in Nevada history, Northern Nevada culture, accuracy, correct grammar and good citations.
 * 15) DJ Cane, mostly geographical features in northern Nevada.
 * 23:15:14, 12 January 2020 (UTC), geographical features and history
 * 04:04:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC) I've lived in so many places in Nevada, including Fallon, South Lake Tahoe, and Sparks.
 * 20:48:54, 21 August 2021 (UTC) Former Las Vegas resident in Virginia, interested in creating articles for communities, roads, and parks in Nevada.
 * 20:48:54, 21 August 2021 (UTC) Former Las Vegas resident in Virginia, interested in creating articles for communities, roads, and parks in Nevada.

Former participants
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
 * 1) Aaron Araujo 03:26, 30 March 2013 (UTC) I'm a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada.
 * 2) ThinkBlue 01:52, 09 June 2007 (UTC)

Participant identification
WikiProject Nevada participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to .

For other Nevada user templates see .

[[Image:Featured article star.svg|20px|FA]] Featured articles and lists
Articles on Nevada-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.
 * Hoover Dam
 * List of counties in Nevada
 * List of cities in Nevada
 * List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas
 * U.S. Route 50 in Nevada

[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA]] Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:
 * Beatty, Nevada
 * Interstate 80 in Nevada
 * Lunar Crater volcanic field
 * Nevada State Route 375
 * Vengeance (2005)
 * Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

 * Frank Sinatra
 * Nevada

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Nevada-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 the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Nevada, so that the articles will appear there. The following articles are listed by the bot:

Did you know (DYK?)

 * ... that although elk had disappeared from the Table Mountain Wilderness, they were reintroduced in 1979 and are now one of the largest herds in Nevada? 21 July 2011
 * ... that Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead (pictured) was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska? 30 July 2010

Formerly recognized content

 * [[Image:Cscr-featured-strike.png|20px|Former featured articles]] Former featured articles


 * [[Image:Symbol unsupport vote.svg|20px|Delisted Good Articles]] Delisted Good Articles

Collaboration and review

 * Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.


 * Collaboration of the week


 * Peer review

Stubs
'NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.'
 * Nevada-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Nevada. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
 * Nevada-struct-stub - Stub template for articles relating to buildings and structures in Nevada. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
 * Nevada-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Nevada geography. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.

County Templates
They should be placed in the matching county articles and cities located in the county.

Churchill County, Nevada Clark County, Nevada Douglas County, Nevada Elko County, Nevada Esmeralda County, Nevada Eureka County, Nevada Humboldt County, Nevada Lander County, Nevada Lincoln County, Nevada Lyon County, Nevada Mineral County, Nevada Nye County, Nevada Pershing County, Nevada Storey County, Nevada Washoe County, Nevada White Pine County, Nevada

Other templates
WikiProject Nevada should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

WikiProject Nevada looks like this:

Black Rock Desert

Protected Areas of Nevada

Categories

 * Category:Nevada

Resources

 * Official state website
 * Nevada state symbols
 * Secretary of State of Nevada
 * Nevada State Library and Archives
 * Why Did Nevada Become a State? from the NSLA
 * USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Nevada
 * US Census Bureau
 * County Maps of Nevada Full color maps. List of cities, towns and county seats
 * Nevada State Facts
 * Nevada Commission on Tourism
 * Nevada's Summits
 * Climate of Nevada
 * History
 * "The history of Nevada" (Davis, 1913) part 1, part 2
 * "A History of the State of Nevada: its Resources and People" (Wren)
 * "History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming (1540-1888)" (Bancroft)
 * "Mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada" (1923)
 * "Nevada Place Names" (Carlson)
 * Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Origin of Place Names: Nevada" part 1, part 2
 * "Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps" (Paher)

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * 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.