Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arizona/Archive 1

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Thank you thank you thank you! Consider me in. -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 06:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Welcome! Kukini 14:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Can people join that don't know tons about arizona? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thetruthbelow (talk • contribs).
 * Anyone can join any WikiProject at any time. "A WikiProject is a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific family of information within Wikipedia. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles, but a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing." In other words, although we use words like "join" and "members" and such, it's really just a place within Wikipedia to work on a family of information that can be applied to multiple articles.  Kind of like a collective talk page, but more.  "Joining" is usually just a way to show that you are interested in the project, and when people list their names or mention a Project on their user page, they're just spreading the word about the project.  So.. yes, yes you can join. -- Ned Scott 07:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * So if I have a tricky question about an incredibly obscure place in Arizona and the only place I found to talk about it before is the Talk page for an only marginally less obscure place in Arizona, would this be a good place to ask about it? See Talk:Desert Hills, Arizona. --Darksasami 19:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


 * If it's your question about Desert Hills, Arizona, I have no idea where to begin, but I am familiar with the existence of the Desert Hills area in Maricopa County. I wonder if, having been started by the cities bot, Rambot, it didn't distinguish the two areas.  Maybe a disambiguation would work, but I really can't say being new to all this and not even having signed on yet.


 * Do you have any more tricky obscure Arizona questions? I'm a fan of them, anyway!   Panchitavill  e talk 06:43, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Ajo, Arizona Picture Request
Hi! I'm Yassie, a Japanese Wikipedian who write articles about American cities on jawp. Would you someone please take picture(s) of Ajo, Arizona, post it/them onto commons or enwp, and release it/them as GFDL/PD? I'd love to use it/them on its translated article. Thanks! --Yassie 13:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

History buff needed
Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Arizona's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article. JEK   19:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Nominate articles for Portal:United States
I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to Arizona (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude ( talk contribs ) 23:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Review requested
Hey everyone! I noticed that the Phoenix Zoo article consisted of only one sentence, so being the big zoo fan that I am I thought that was a darn shame. I expanded it over the last two days - can anyone give me feedback on it? Let's make a goal of having the best zoo article in the US! -- Aguerriero  ( talk ) 22:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Just fixed a few spelling errors that I found. I know very little about zoos but based on a little browsing of the "Zoos in the United States" category, this is already one of the bettter written articles. Hard to believe this was only one sentence a few days ago, good work. --Nebular110 03:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fixes - I wish Wikipedia had a spellchecker. :) -- Aguerriero  ( talk ) 03:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I do my writing in Microsoft Word because it does have spell checking. When the article is finished, I paste it from Word into the new article. Seems to work great for me. Just a suggestion. CRKingston 06:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * This article looks Excellent!!!-- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 02:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Version 1.0 Editorial Team
WP:1.0 offers a good piece of technology to keep track of the status of all the articles that come under the project's purview, by offering Mathbot to create article assessment tables. These are very useful, or at least have been for articles managed by WikiProject Tropical cyclones. So, are you interested in having Mathbot work for you? There's a bit of legwork to do, but the results are certainly worth it. Tito xd (?!?) 00:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I will volunteer to get this effort underway if we want to start assessing AZ articles. -- Aguerriero  ( talk ) 00:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Meetup
Any Arizonans out there that might be interested in organizing a meetup? -- Aguerriero  ( talk ) 00:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to new WikiProject
A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Is this project still active?
Based on the project page history, sub pages, and associated talk pages and sub pages there has been no activity within this project since late August or early September. Is this project still active or does an inactive template need to be added to the project page? --Allen3 talk 17:36, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * As a week has gone by with no response, I have added an inactive template to his project. --Allen3 talk 19:55, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Just started working on some things here, not sure if I'm enough to keep it active though. &hArr; EntChickie  20:38, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It is alive. But not quite as active as I would like. Kukini 07:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Assessing articles?
Does anybody else think that we should have the articles assessed for quality and importance? Just wondering ONEder Boy 06:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Tell me...what do you mean, exactly? Kukini 07:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * One of these... Tito xd (?!?) 07:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. I learn something new on here every day, I tell you! Kukini 07:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Does anybody have a clue as to how one would go about doing all of the stuff needed? ONEder Boy 23:59, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Shhh! We're supposed to be inactive.  Just kidding.  I have set up article assessment for two other WikiProjects - would be happy to do it for this one.  I'll have some time on Monday.  Or you can read the article assessment FAQ and this assessment guide and figure out how to set it up.  Basically you have to create some categories, some subpages, modify the WikiProject Arizona project banner that goes on the talk pages, and maybe a couple other things.  If you are comfortable doing those things, it's cake.  Otherwise, I can do it on Monday.  Take care! -- Ars Scriptor  02:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Or you could have the bot do it for you, which I already did. See Category:Arizona articles by quality and Category:Arizona articles by importance. The last thing needed is to modify the WikiProject's banner template, by adding class parameter, and if importance assessments are going to be made, modify the template slightly. Tito xd (?!?) 03:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Man, that was fast!!! You guys are good. ONEder Boy 04:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Er, yeah, bot. I was gonna say that.  Well done, everyone. -- Ars Scriptor  15:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC) (formerly Aguerriero)
 * Is there a way to do that for article importance? ONEder Boy 20:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Settlements?
Do Arizonans think of their cities as settlements? Well, check out Category:Settlements in Arizona that's as of today in your category hierarchy. I reverted it out for Kentucky, and I recommend all states do it as well. Kentucky uses "Subdivisions" and Massachusetts uses "Administrative divisions" (both reasonable). "Settlements" are for pioneer days, not for contemporary political subdivisions. Stevie is the man! Talk &bull; Work 04:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Props
Should we have articles on props like Arizona Proposition 204 (2006) and Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)? Prop 204 doesn't even seem notable at all. BJ Talk 20:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Personally, I think having an article for every single ballot proposition is a bit much. If we do it, then all the other states are going to do it and you can have the same proposition number on the ballot year after year after year. Having an article for everyone of them means we're going to start have to creating disambiguation pages for each prop#. I would say just stick to those that are very notable, which BTW, I think both of the ones you listed are as both generated a fair amount of controversy here last year. --Nebular110 20:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I don't remember 2004 election very well but 204 this year was in the top 5 most talked about but not sure why it has an article and the other 4 don't. So right now we only have articles for the props the supporters come make articles for. I think we need to make some criteria for what props we want to keep.(only two exists as far as I can see) BJ Talk 20:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Would it be possible to have one article for the props for each election? The ones that are the most controversial could have more discussion, and possibly break out into a separate article if the one article gets too long. It seems more manageable to me to have a single prop article per election than many prop articles. And then you get into a discussion of what was important or controversial, and how do you decide, etc. CRKingston 02:09, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was thinking that but should we start next election or go back and do the last few years? BJ Talk 02:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There's a list at Arizona ballot propositions (2006). I think the article can be changed from a plain list, like it is now, to have maybe a paragraph/few sentences on each proposition. &hArr; EntChickie  12:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I know this topic is a little on the "dead" side as there's not been discussion here in weeks but just in case anyone comes looking, I recently made a List of Arizona Ballot Propositions modelled after the List of Oregon ballot measures page. It has a full listing of ballot propositions in recent years, done in sortable table by year.  It includes a summary section where the proposition can be, well, summarized :)  For the more notable articles as mentioned above, they can be given their own article, but I believe this to be the most succinct and navigable method of listing the propositions.  Any input is appreciated!   A r k y a n  &#149; (talk) 22:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Municipal Copyright
A member on the page mentioned that they are working on drawing up county maps. I have been wondering, what is the copyright on materials created/published by a municipal government, such as a county or a city? I know the U.S. federal government's publications (with some exceptions) are all public domain, so would the same apply downward based on the 14th Amendment? If so, that should make city, road, and county maps much easier, since most of them can be taken from the websites of the governments involved. Uagent 09:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * As you are asking this question at WikiProject Arizona, I assume you are are interested in Arizona specific information. The short answer is no.  Arizona law does not allow for free commercial use of any documents produced or supported by public funds (§ARS 39-121.03).  As Wikipedia is released under the GFDL, which allows for free commercial reuse, Arizona government documents are not available under a GFDL compatible license.  This of course does not exclude citing such documents as references or using them via fair use provisions. --Allen3 talk 10:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I read the statute you've cited, and it only outlines physical hard copies. CascadiaTALK 20:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, it still applies, as I found on the Secretary of State's AUP that the materials provided on their site are considered public record, and require a commercial fee when the intent is to use them commercially. Thanks for pointing that out Allen3. Uagent 07:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

New articles
Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Arizona-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/ArizonaSearchResult. Colchicum 14:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

GA: Passed
Congratulations, Flagstaff, Arizona has been listed as Good article status. See Talk:Flagstaff, Arizona for more information. LordHarris 11:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

County navigational templates
I've long worked with many Ohio articles, including (earlier this year) creating a navigational template for each of the 88 Ohio counties. Looking around at Arizona, I noticed that no county except Pima had a county navigational template, so I created one for Santa Cruz and Yuma Counties. My question is this: what would all of you think of creating such templates for the other twelve counties? Besides the design I used for those counties, you can see different designs for Franklin County, Ohio, Hancock County, Ohio, or Cimarron County, Oklahoma. If you'd like, I'd be interested in creating these templates (that's more along the lines of what I generally do on Wikipedia), although admittedly it will be a while before I can devote a bunch of time to such things — I did Santa Cruz and Yuma because there were so few towns there! Whoever first replies to this note, please do me a favor and just tell me on my talk page that you replied. Thanks! Nyttend 02:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm done with the navigational templates. Nyttend 02:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Arivaca
Would appreciate commentary from locals on a dispute with Arivaca, Arizona: is it incorporated? It's an edit war in which I've hit my 3RR. Nyttend 22:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Anybody around here...
...assessing articles? Yavapai people could sure use it. Murderbike 01:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation
The following was posted on Talk:Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, and I copy it here because I haven't a clue myself. Nyttend 13:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)"Is the pronunciation supposed to be English, or Navajo? It really isn't either. kwami 12:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)"

FA status for Flagstaff, Arizona?
We've recently received some good copyediting efforts by several members of the League of copyeditors, and I think the article may be very close to featured status. I think a few sections need some more details, and once that's done, it should be ready for WP:FAC. Anyone interested in helping this process? Dr. Cash 22:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

National Historic Landmarks in Arizona, and Registered Historic Places
Hi. I've edited List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona to include a link to a separate article on each of the 40 NHLs in AZ. This main list article, and those linked articles, could use some editing help. And, almost all need a photo! In the same vein, you could visit List of Registered Historic Places in Arizona, but there are way more NRHPs than there are NHLs. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated, on the talk page for the article, or here. doncram 02:21, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Meetup/Phoenix
I'd like to see if we can get a meetup organized for this winter. I've put up a very preliminary page at Meetup/Phoenix, which mostly consists of sections for people to suggests times, dates, places, etc. that work for them. Everyone is welcome. Please spread the word, and even if you can't make it, it would be great to create a central list of interested people in the area to contact for future events. Dmcdevit·t 03:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Lavender Pit, Bisbee
I'm having a disagreement with another editor on the correct spelling of the open pit at Bisbee: Lavender vs. Lavendar Pit. Some additional opinions on the Lavender Pit Talk Page would be most helpful. Thanks. Plazak (talk) 12:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Niggerhead cactus
Can anyone please create a page on this cactus native to Arizona?Zigzig20s (talk) 11:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Wayne Gretzky Featured Article Review
Hello, this article, which falls under the scoope of your project, is currently listed as a Featured Article. I felt that there is sufficient reason to revisit this assessment, so I have listed it for a Featured Article Review. My preference is to see the concerns addressed and have the article remain at its current level, but some work its needed. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion at Featured article review/Wayne Gretzky. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Article on South Phoenix
When I was a boy growing up in Phoenix--1940s and 1950s--I believe South Phoenix was an independent city with its own mayor, manager, and council. I believe it joined Phoenix in the late or middle 1950s. I do not think the South Phoenix article mentions this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjcayer (talk • contribs) 06:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Members of Congress
I was working on the Gabrielle Giffords page and noticed the page is ranked "mid" in importance.

I believe all of Arizona's congressional delegation deserves a higher ranking than that. Who is in charge of reviewing this?--Utahredrock (talk) 22:33, 13 July 2008 (UTC)


 * There is no one "in charge of reviewing", but if you look at various talk page histories you will notice a handful of people usually perform most of the work within any particular Wikiproject. As to the importance rating for this person within Project Arizona, in my opinion it appears to be a little high (probably due to Recentism) but not inappropriate.   This individual is a first term U.S. Representative with only minor measurable impact upon Arizona to date. Has she really had more impact on Arizona than people such as Wyatt Earp, Lute Olson, John Noble Goodwin, Fife Symington, Joe Arpaio, and Stewart Udall?  If her political career continues then it is likely that her impact upon the state will increase, but Wikipedia should not be predicting this impact in advance.


 * A significant percentage of currently rated article do seem to be somewhat arbitrarily assessed. Instead of dealing with individual articles a better course of action may be to start a discussion on creating a set of criteria to be used by this project for determining importance ratings. --Allen3 talk 00:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I updated the talk headers for all of the congress members and rated them high (just did Joe Arpaio as well). This project isn't really active improving articles so it doesn't really matter much. BJ Talk 00:56, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
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Active
Is this grop active ?  Beware  ofdog  00:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not really, but feel free to join anyways! :-) Tan   |   39  00:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm here, if that counts. BJ Talk 01:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * We should do a Wiki happy hour for whoever is in Phoenix. That's assuming a lot of people in this project are from Phoenix. Tan   |   39  01:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm in the "Phoenix-area". BJ Talk 01:12, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm working on Portal:Arizona and want to know if there is more than seven featured articles ?  Beware  ofdog  23:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not that we know about. BJ Talk 23:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I worked on Portal:Arizona and finished. Wish there were more featured articles relating to Arizona.  Beware  ofdog  02:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm also interested in Portal:Arizona. Hopefully, I'll make some contributions. Masterpiece2000   ( talk ) 07:55, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Anyone from Arizona State University?
(And/or) feel like taking a picture of John Alcock (the animal behavior one)? I'll be your friend... Richard001 (talk) 07:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, his picture will be helpful. Masterpiece2000   ( talk ) 07:49, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Arizona
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Phoenix Coyotes
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Arizona articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Arizona articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Arizona is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Looking for photographs in Scottsdale, Arizona
I'm looking for photographs of Congregation Beth Israel (Scottsdale, Arizona). Does anyone here have any, or can anyone here take any? Much appreciated. Jayjg (talk) 04:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Photo request
I request photos for Manzanita Speedway - the buildings, entrance, sign, ticket booth, etc. I ask here because the track will be closing in a month and the site will be leveled.  Royal broil  13:31, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Snowflake
The article about Snowflake Arizona has a link to the Mayor, Kelly Willis. Unfortunatly, the link links to the country music singer Kelly Willis. This is not the same as Mayor Kelly Willis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.221.173.4 (talk) 21:12, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Area code maps
They are out of date, New Mexico is no longer just 505. Zurqoxn (talk) 14:14, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
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Phoenix meetup
Let's see if we can get something going. Meetup/Phoenix. BJ Talk 02:10, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Photo request: US Airways headquarters in Tempe
It would be great if someone took a photo of the US Airways headquarters in Tempe WhisperToMe (talk) 14:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The request has been fulfilled; a user from Flickr relicensed his photo so it could be uploaded here. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:24, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

FAR
nominated History of Arizona for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 07:31, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Cortaro, Arizona
This town seems to be a suburb of Tucson, and seems to exist, but there's no article for it. I can find it mentioned in several other Wikipedia articles, it comes up in Google, and it's where something I ordered on amazon.com is being shipped from, but I can't find specifics about it. Is anyone familiar with this place and would care to write the article? Grand master  ka  19:51, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Is there a threshold for when geographic locations get articles? Cortaro is a "populated place" but it's not census-designated or incorporated. It has its own zip code and post office, much like Eleven Mile Corner, AZ or a million other places. I'm not sure there's anything to write about other than a stub listing the coordinates. -- Laser brain  (talk)  20:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In many ways Cortaro looks more like a housing development than an independent community. Doing some searches, it appears most, if not all, of Cortaro is located within the town of Marana, Arizona.  Maps showing current town limits are available at . --Allen3 talk 22:53, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, I guess it's not really an official settlement. Still, I think things like this are worth a stub for the people who are curious like me, similar to neighborhoods in large cities that get their own articles. Grand  master  ka  09:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I use to live on that side of town. Cortaro Farms was founded in the early 1900's as mostly cotton farms, and was known for its irrigation network that was still used until the 1990's (most of it has been removed anyway). The road, Cortaro Farms Road, runs west to east from the Tucson Mountains nearly to the Santa Catalina Mountains in Northwest Tucson. Several communities are named after Cortaro Farms, or just Cortaro, but other than the farming and irrigation history, there probably isn't enough information on the region to write an article about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.254.192.243 (talk) 04:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Courthouse Photos
I propose that photos of all Arizona county courthouses be added to their respective article, and possibly the corresponding county seat article. This would serve to beautify the article and serve as a visual representation of the county. Help is needed adding them to their respective county pages by adding the following to the County Infobox template


 * ex image     =   courthouse image filename.jpg


 * ex image cap =   xxx County Courthouse in xxxx, Arizona

The following counties do not have courthouse photos. Contributors may want to cross them off once a photo is taken and uploaded. -- Ichabod (talk) 23:02, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Factory in the background. This may need to be addressed. Dissapointing to see it, though. Thanks, CarpD, 17:45, July 13, 2007 (UTC)

Phoenix task force
Is there an interest in creating a Phoenix task force? It would focus on the Phoenix MSA (Maricopa and Pinal counties). WhisperToMe (talk) 04:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Biltmore Area, Phoenix
Need to Add Article on Biltmore Area (24th St. & Camelback). Article on "East Side, Phoenix" should be renamed and merged into new article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.159.162 (talk) 17:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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North/Northwest Phoenix
North/Northwest Phoenix is a very interesting article, but I believe it should be chopped up into a North (or Northeast, although I like North) Phoenix and a Northwest Phoenix. Except for work, I rarely go west of the Union Hills. I really don't have time to chop it up myself, but I fully invite someone else to do it, if they do. wilkyisdashiznit 19:35, 10 July 2008

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List of United States federal courthouses in Arizona
This page has been initiated - any help in filling in missing federal courthouses, or providing missing information on listed courthouses (especially pictures) would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Heard Building, Phoenix
Someone nominated Heard Building for deletion as spam. I decided to be merciful and userfied it to User:Jmappleton1/Heard Building. Anyone want to re-write it as a proper article? &mdash; RHaworth 19:41, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

FA for February 14, 2012
The centennial anniversary of Arizona's admission to the Union is a little under 18 months away. It would be nice to have an Arizona related FA appear on that day. Unfortunately the list of articles currently qualifying for consideration (i.e. already at FA status and having been listed as a TFA) related to the state is limited. Of the three FAs associated with Arizona that have not previously appeared on the Main Page, U.S. Route 491 is located entirely outside the state, half of Hoover Dam is in Nevada and the dam's construction was actively opposed by Arizona, and The Queen of Porn would not represent the state in a very good light. As a result, and given the long lead times involved in getting many articles up to FA status, I would like to call upon project members start thinking about appropriate subjects and begin the efforts needed to have at least one article available in time and which does a good job of representing Arizona. --Allen3 talk 00:38, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

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Please advise on appropriate name for article about a building in Phoenix
People with knowledge of Arizona might be able to shed some light on the topic of discussion at Talk:El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, which deals with the building in Phoenix that was built as the El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, was officially renamed the Polly Rosenbaum Building, houses the Arizona Museum of Mining and Minerals, and is now apparently slated to be converted a history museum. Thanks in advance for your advice! --Orlady (talk) 14:04, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

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