Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Colorado/Archive 1

Added article on original Elitch's
Although this project doesn't look extremely active (yet), I thought I'd let folks know I created an article on the original Elitch's, see Elitch Gardens. At this point it's based almost entirely on a book about Elitch's that's cited as a reference. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Great start, Rick Block, Vertigo700. Editor19841 00:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You could link to the article on the specific carousel that was at Elitch Gardens, and vice versa. Carousel article is listed within the List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado article. doncram 02:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Transport
should i put the wikicolorado banner on the talk pages for the SHs such as State Highway 15 (Colorado) ? atanamir 23:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that would definitely be appreciated. Vertigo700 01:34, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I started a talk page on the WikiProject Colorado/Transportation section. I think it would be good everybody who writes about transportation read it and give an opinion, so we have the Colorado articles looking better and also more standardized. Felipecbg 23:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

United States Collaboration of the Week
Just thought I'd let you know, Denver, Colorado is the United States Collaboration of the Week this week. Love to see all of you pitch in! PDXblazers 01:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd (?!? - help us) 06:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

CU Buffs
Created a new template for Buffs fans (I'm one). . Check it out. I'm not sure if I'm done working on it, let me know what you think. Editor19841 23:54, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

List of Colorado Wildfires?
List of forest fires just doesn't seem to cut it for North America, let alone Colorado does that fit under the ideas of what this project can or wants to do? EnsRedShirt 10:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

That would be a great project for someone who is interested in the topic. I'm not, but I would help edit. Vertigo700 16:13, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

need an article
How about Forney Transportation Museum? Chris 18:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Consider it done. I'll start work on that asap. Editor19841 18:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

USCOTW elections; Bill Ritter (politician)
I nominated the Bill Ritter (politician) aricle a few minutes ago, and am trying to gather support for the nomination. Please support the article. Happy Trails, Editor19841 22:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Law&Gov
Started Law and government of Denver, Colorado. Don't think I did to shabby, either. Editor19841 18:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Images of Denver
I'm going to start categorizing images of Denver. If anyone can, help me out. Editor19841 18:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Need some help
Hey, if anyone can help, the Bill Ritter (politician) article is in desperate need of a picture of Ritter. The article lost at USCOTW probably due to this ongoing issue. I'm not an uploader, but figured somebody at the project has to be. Ritter's campaign site (click here) should serve as a good scouting spot. The big election's coming up, and the article is the only one of the candidates lacking a pic. Anybody, any politics, thanks for the help. Editor19841 01:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sending an e-mail requesting use of an image right now! --Ginkgo100 talk · contribs 02:24, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

History buff needed
Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Colorado'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   19:42, 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 Colorado (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 ) 23:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

New "People from [city]" Categories
Hello, everybody. I am the bozo who just recently created the new subcategories in the "People from Colorado" category. I thought that some of you might want to know why they were created, and why they often have so few pages in them.

The majority of the states have "People from [state]" categories which have at least 200 entries, sometimes over 1,000. This is clearly an unworkably large number for anyone wishing to use the category for research purposes. In 8th grade in Rapid City, South Dakota, the social studies class asked us to write, over the course of the year, reports on two or three people who were or had been residents of the city. Because of that, I have reason to believe that they could be used and probably are used for research purposes. To make such research easier, I looked at the list of metropolitan statistical areas and basically entered in one new category for each metropolitan statistical area.

I know that many of these categories might well be, in the eyes of you who know more about the cities in question much better than I do, misnamed or otherwise faulty. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made along those lines, and I would welcome any corrections, including deletion, that any of the rest of you might choose to make. With that in mind, I have also generally populated the categories with only one or two names, to ease in the process of deletion or renaming.

I thought you all should know why these categories were created, and felt some degree of responsibility for letting your know. I wish you all the greatest good fortune in making the coverage of your state in Wikipedia of the greatest scope and quality possible, and I hope that I haven't annoyed too many of you by my recent actions. Badbilltucker 13:17, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Stegosaurus
Hey guys, I am from Wikiproject Dinosaurs, and have been chiselling away a bit at Stegosaurus, and noticed a colorado tag stuck on Stegosaurus. What would be really cool from some Colorado locals (I am in Sydney, Australia so a teeny bit far from the action), is some photos from Morrison museum on the Stegosaurus being dug out for display or of Dinosaur ridge near Morrison. Cheers Cas Liber 10:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just an update, Stegosaurus is being worked up to a Featured article candidate. Cas Liber 05:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Huh, that's just about a half an hour away from me and I'd never heard of it. I might make a trip down there this week sometime.  If I do, I'll take some pictures for ya.  &mdash; Laura Scudder &#9742; 20:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like you can expect some pictures by the end of next weekend. &mdash; Laura Scudder &#9742; 21:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Colorado-photo-stub up for deletion
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Images of Colorado
Everybody: I've been on a mission for a while now to tag every single image of Colorado on the English Wikipedia with Category:Images of Colorado/Category:Images of Denver/Category:Images of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Uploaders: Please help me in this task by tagging all images of Colorado you upload with one of these categories, appropriately. Thank you. Editor19841 (talk) 01:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Wait I am confused. You say here that all images of Colorado should be tagged with the categories listed above. But on Category:Images of Colorado you say, "Please do not list images which are only usable under the doctrine of fair use, images whose license restricts copying or distribution to non-commercial use only, or otherwise non-free images here."


 * Which is it?


 * The category I most have in mind is Category:Denver Public Library images, these are "fair use" with permission. (Besides the images in that category, most of the images on the page Category:Denver Public Library public domain images could be added to the list.)

Portal:Colorado?
I think a few members of this WikiProject should gather together and create a portal for Colorado; it'd be a nice boost for the WikiProject and all Colorado-related articles. Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin all have one; why shouldn't we? I was planning to start it, but I think it'd be a very difficult thing to get people to help out. Would any of you be interested in helping me? ;) &mdash; Webdinger BLAH 03:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I consider portal proliferation to be harmful. There are something like 200 countries.  If portals are created for each subnational entity (states in the US and India, prefectures in Japan, etc.) we'll have something like 20-100 portals per country.  Even assuming it's only 20, this means we'd have 4000 portals.  Um, no. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I definitely think there would be enough pages for such a portal, but it would take a lot of work/people to make that work, IMO, and I am not sure that we have enough editors for it. And Rick is right, there are a lot of portals, some of them kind of mediocre cause people just dont have enough time to maintain them. It's a thought though. Vertigo700 20:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

List of Colorado ballot measures
With the midterm elections coming up I started a new List of Colorado ballot measures, any help filling the list or expanding the linked articles would be appreciated! -Loren 08:22, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Template:Denver
I created this finally. What does anyone think, and can anyone help me perfect it? Editor19841 (talk) 18:49, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I added some striping so that the template matches the striping applied to the standardized U.S. state templates (all of which you can find at WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. &mdash; Webdinger BLAH 20:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I like it, although for some reason the closing tag is not working. --Ginkgo100 talk · e@ 20:32, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Beau Jo's Pizza
Considering writing an article about Beau Jo's Pizza(as it is a well known Colorado restaurant). Thoughts ? Jcam 16:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Let her rip! Beau Jo's has been a Colorado Insitution, and even though they have been closing shops in the Denver Metro area, they are still going strong in Idaho Springs, where I'm sure I'm not alone in saying, it's a favorite spot to wait out the Sunday evening traffic jam back to Denver. Do it!Throughthelens 17:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Go for it. Here is their website showing a bit of history: http://www.beaujos.com/aboutus.html/ Vertigo700 20:33, 11 October 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 19:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Let me second that, but also ask Colorado wikipedians to visit List of National Historic Landmarks in Colorado and see what you can add to there. The 20 listed National Historic Landmarks are, automatically, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Arguably they're more important than the other NRHP sites. doncram 02:46, 26 October 2007 (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 18:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Change Name to Pike's Peak Gold Rush
I recommend that this article Colorado Gold Rush be renamed and moved to Pike's Peak Gold Rush, the contemporary name of the gold rush. The name "Colorado Gold Rush" was not applied until the Colorado Territory was created in 1861, after the initial rush had largely subsided.

--Buaidh 20:10, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I moved Colorado Gold Rush to Pike's Peak Gold Rush

--Buaidh 23:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Leaving the Project
I am leaving Project Colorado because I am moving out of the state. I will likely want to free up time to work on local issues in my new location, but more to the point, I won't have access to the DPL nor will I be able to contribute photographs anymore, and I will also probably miss a lot of Colorado news. I love this state and will still contribute to related articles, but not enough to feel comfortable listing myself as a member. Best of luck to the Project's future! With regrets, Ginkgo 100 talk 19:57, 29 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)

Denver Zoo
I know it's short notice, but I'll be going to the Denver Zoo with my camera in about half an hour. Any requests for specific photos? I'll definitely get the entry area, anything else? --Ginkgo 100 talk 17:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Settlements?
Do Coloradans think of their cities as settlements? Well, check out Category:Settlements in Colorado 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 • Work 04:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmains apparently intends settlement to be the highest level category for any type of inhabited place:
 * city
 * town
 * unincorporated place
 * Census Designated Place
 * Combined Statistical Area
 * Metropolitan Statistical Area
 * Micropolitan Statistical Area

Category:Settlements in Colorado should not be included in any article, only categories.

--Buaidh 23:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * But it's not being used as just a parent category. The two articles in there now are an unicorporated town and a group of three communities.  They clearly belong elsewhere.  &mdash; Laura Scudder &#9742; 22:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

New articles
Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Colorado-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/ColoradoSearchResult. Colchicum 14:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey there...
Jimbo Herndan here. I am a member of Wiki-Projct Colorado, and think you should have a look at some of my userboxes that I made. You might like them... --Jimbo Herndan 16:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Calumet, Colorado
I've added an article about a ghost town that's in Colorado: Calumet, Colorado. It was hard finding information about it, but was wondering if there was anyone who lives in Colorado who could help expand it? -WarthogDemon 23:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Banner for Project

 * [[Image:Qxz-ad80.gif]]
 * Done.  Mi r a n da   01:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Colorado bootheel
I've deleted this article under WP:CSD G1: Patent nonsense. Please be on the lookout for further mischief in articles relating to Colorado. Firsfron of Ronchester 02:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

State template?
I've placed county templates on articles for communities in Baca and Conejos Counties, removing the templates from those communities because they're not on them. After doing this, I realised: is it a standard of your project to have the state template on all communities? Nyttend (talk) 16:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes it is. Improve navigation to other counties and state government.LanceBarber (talk) 18:52, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

"To do" addition
I have added a grouping just below "to create" on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Colorado/to_do called "to delete or rescue" which has as the content "see Colorado Deletion sorting". I hope this is ok with Project Members, as I did not see any link to a collection of information on articles that had been nominated for deletion on the Main page. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

bot needed
An auto bot is needed to scan appropriate wiki database to update the WikiProject Colorado/Colorado recent changes without the need for a manual entry, so we can expand our abilities to monitor changes and vandalism to Colo articles. Thank you. LanceBarber (talk) 18:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

2 Colo nav boxes, keep or merge?
We have 2 main Colorado navigation boxes: Colorado and ColoCol. ColoCol is part of the WikiProject Universities. Should there be a merge of the univ/colleges into Colorado? Good reasons for keep or merge. LanceBarber (talk) 20:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

The Denver Register
User:Mangoe has noted that the above publication regularly appears regarding a claim that George Washington had a deathbed conversion to Catholicism. He has requested that anyone who has any information regarding this publication please contact him at his talk page, so that an effort can be made to determine whether the source is a reliable one. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 02:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested articles
I've placed a list of some requested Colorado articles at WikiProject Colorado/Physical geography. If you're familiar with any of these mountain ranges, peaks, passes, rivers, or creeks, please create an article for it. --Buaidh (talk) 20:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

List of Colorado-related topics
Please add any missing articles of state-wide interest to the new List of Colorado-related topics. Thanks, Buaidh (talk) 17:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

DISPUTE, please review and comment/evaluate.
See: Talk:Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Resolution by 4/19/08. LanceBarber (talk) 00:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Is this place real? Albania Colorado
Anyone know if this place is for real? If it is, I guess moving to Albania, Colorado is the first step....Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:43, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The USGS Geographic Names Information System lists no such place, so if it ever existed, it must have been an obscure place indeed. Plazak (talk) 00:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

List of counties in Colorado
Myself and a group of other editors are working to bring List of counties in Colorado to Featured List standard. Hopefully, you'd agree that the article is pretty close. The main thing holding it back is the rather skinny lead section. Could people here take two minutes to have a quick look, and see if the can use their specialist knowledge of Colorado to add some interesting/relevant information? Every little helps. Tom pw (talk) (review) 13:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Meet-up?
Lets have a meet-up: WikiProject Colorado/Meetup 2008. -- Scarpy (talk) 00:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Coloradans are too good for meet-ups? -- Scarpy (talk) 00:43, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Diversity in Denver
Regarding the article "Diversity in Denver", I suspect this article might be misleading. Being a Coloradan, and having looked into diversity in Denver, I am surprised. Denver is one of the most ethnically diverse in America? Really? According to what? Relative to Los Angeles, Washington, New York, Miami, Boston, Richmond, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, etc etc ... ? (So, if it is less diverse than many other cities, is it really one of the most diverse in America?)  What is meant by "ethnically diverse", and how is it measured? Does this account for integration/segregation of demographics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spriggly (talk • contribs) 13:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know, but it doesn't have much to do with the meet-up. -- Scarpy (talk) 00:43, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 1954 articles are assigned to this project, of which 286, or 14.6%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

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Wikipedia 1.0 Bot
I noticed this project, while having tagged ~2000 articles, had not set up the bot to collect assessment statistics for this WikiProject. It is not set up and the table can be seen at the bottom of the main WikiProject Colorado page. Cheers. --Millbrooky (talk) 15:52, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Ralphie
As part of GA Sweeps, I am reassessing the Ralphie article. The talk page indicates that the article is within the scope of this project, so I am letting the editors know that the article will be on hold for seven days to allow for the improvements I have listed on the talk page. Thanks. Nikki 311  23:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Colorado
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Image needs replacement - Gates of Lodore
Hello all...

An image used in the article, specifically Image:Gateslodore.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.

You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 00:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Colorado Avalanche
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How do I Join?
I am interested i joining WikiProject Colorado. How would I go about doing so? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RaveRaiser (talk • contribs) 00:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Bench and bar in 1917
s:Index:Bench and bar of Colorado - 1917.djvu contains lists of everyone who was on the bench and bar in Colorado in 1917, including many portraits. Higher resolution is available by clicking on the image link at the top of each page. If you see an error in the text, please edit the page and correct it. Come grab me if you need a hand. John Vandenberg (chat) 08:02, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Colorado articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Colorado 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 Colorado is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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City nicknames
These are becoming a little ridiculous to me, and many don't appear to have any basis in fact. For instance, maybe I've missed it, but I've never heard anyone call Pueblo "P-Town" during my 26 years in the state. Also, calling Denver "D-Town" seems rare compared to the number of times I've heard references to "The Big D" (which isn't noted). And someone has even seen fit to label Thornton as "The town that eats their dead" (see the Thornton page for the explanation on that one).

I don't know of a good solution, or whether it's even that big of a problem - just figured I'd make the observation so others can chime in with their thoughts. Duncan1800 (talk) 06:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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For the picture of Cherry Creek, the caption says the river is highlighted in light blue. This would mean that there is a light blue "highlight" on a dark blue surface. Therefore, I cannot identify it. It should be highlighted in red, or some other color that isn't blue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dantheman223 (talk • contribs) 05:16, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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South Park Featured topic drive
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Merging the Blue River, Colorado and Breckenridge, Colorado articles
Because of the fact Blue River might be considered part of Breckenridge, Colorado, it would be a good consideration to merge the article about Blue river, Colorado into the Breckenridge article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.187.41 (talk) 00:52, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Denver
There is a Mormon temple in Denver. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 20:32, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Assessment
Hi .. can someone assess Rockies All Star Jason Marquis for importance on the WPColorado scale at ? Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 02:29, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Photo request: Frontier Airlines HQ
Would someone like to photograph the Frontier Airlines headquarters, Frontier Center One, at 7001 Tower Road in Denver? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 23:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Review of an Article
Could someone in this project take a look at the article Real estate in Colorado Springs? It is well written and referenced but does not appear to have any new information not contained in articles like Colorado Springs. It is orphaned in its present state. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! --Stormbay (talk) 02:07, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places in Denver
National Register of Historic Places listings in Denver, Colorado is much larger than desirable, and thus it needs to be split geographically into several sublist articles. As I don't really know Denver well, I'd like input at the talk page for how to split this article. Nyttend (talk) 01:27, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Fountain Creek article
The Fountain Creek article incorrectly states that Fountain Creek flows northeast to Cascade before turning southeast. In reality, Fountain Creek originates in Woodland Park and flows southeasterly all the way to Colorado Springs. Fountain Creek is joined by several tributaries flowing into it from the west and southwest, some of which indeed flow northeasterly before joining Fountain Creek. For verification, see Pikes Peak Atlas by Ormes and Houdek. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.121.157.112 (talk) 21:55, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Denver task force
Is there an interest in creating a Denver task force? A Denver task force would cover the Denver MSA. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Colorado Eastern Plains
Could someone please take a look at Colorado Eastern Plains? It's not clear to me what this article is supposed to be - an article about a physical geographical area, such as the Driftless Area, or an article about a political geographic area. It contains elements of both. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to have an article that covers the same elements of the Colorado state article, but just for the eastern part of the state. Suggestions, comments, and contributions are welcome. -- Sift &amp;  Winnow  01:37, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Denver FAC
Hey all. I know this probably isn't the right place to bring this up, but I've nominated 2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Denver for featured article, and I was hoping some of you would consider reviewing it? There have been only a few comments so far, and I'd hate to see if fail simply because of lack of reviewers... —  Hunter  Kahn  ( c )  14:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Merger of Governor of Colorado
It has been proposed here that Governor of Colorado be merged into the list of Governors of Colorado. Any opinions on the matter would be welcome on that page. Regards, Jafeluv (talk) 11:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Plain usefulness.
I wish someone would count the number of trails and put that number here. I didn't find it on the main page either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.161.223 (talk) 11:44, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

41
41 trails. HA.Ha..Ha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.161.223 (talk) 11:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of United States Air Force Academy
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as your project banner is on the article talk page. Unfortunately the poor state of referencing of the article meant that I immediately de-listed it as it fails to meet the GA criteria at present. When these concerns, which you can see at Talk:United States Air Force Academy/GA1, have been addressed you may renominate the article at WP:GAN. If you disagree with this re-assessemnt please take it to WP:GAR for community re-assessment. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 08:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Colorado
This list is largely complete, but has bits and pieces of information missing, and needs images filled in - any help in completing it would be much appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:41, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Denver
Denver needs a lot more sources, or else it will be delisted from GA. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:38, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Colorado articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Colorado articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Proposed changes to Dianna Degette page and questions about protocol
Hello,

I am new here and looking to help with Colorado pages.

One thing I am not sure about is when it's appropriate to just change something and when it's appropriate to post to discussion first.

As an example, I would like to change the following text from the article on Diana DeGette:

DeGette won in November 1996 with 57 percent and has been reelected six times against major Republican opposition. She won a fifth term in 2004 with a district-record 76 percent and did not face significant-party opposition in 2006 and 2008.

to proposed text:

DeGette won in November 1996 with 57 percent. She has been reelected six times, without major Republican opposition. A history of those races can be found at Colorado's 1st congressional district

questions:

1. Is "without major Republican opposition" accurate? I know "against major Republican opposition" is not accurate because, for example, there was no Republican candidate in 2006, but has there ever been a Republican candidate since 1996 who was considered "major opposition" for DeGette?

2. Is it appropriate to link to Colorado's 1st congressional district for a history of other races? I noticed a partial list was already being compiled there, so it seemed better than repeating.

3. In the future, is this the kind of change I should just make, or is it appropriate to discuss first, given the political nature of the page?

4. Is this the right place to discuss this? The discussion for the page seemed to link to this and some other projects.

Thanks for your help!

Mockingbird99 (talk) 21:48, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

New article: Baby Doe Tabor
I started an article on Baby Doe Tabor, because it was about time someone did. I am no authority on Baby Doe, so please check it out and make additions or corrections. Also, a photo of her would be great. Plazak (talk) 18:51, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 20:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:44, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Gov. John Evans
I would not in any way want to downplay the significance or the negative nature of the Sand Creek Massacre, but the entry for Gov. John Evans (governor) seems to careen off-topic and become a screed on Sand Creek rather than a discussion of its impact on his career and legacy. I would also question the phrase "his good friend John Chivington," given that Evans was likely also friends with some of the people with whom he founded DU and Northwestern.
 * Information is accurate but no source is given. He reflected the public sentiment in Denver and the mines. User:Fred Bauder Talk 04:12, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Is this project still active?
This project has had the Semi active tag since May 2010 but it doesnt appear that anyone is answering comments/questions on the talk page. Is this project still active? --Kumioko (talk) 21:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I could step up a bit. We might even organize a chapter. User:Fred Bauder Talk 04:06, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:06, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 01:39, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 01:39, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Colorado Sports Hall of Fame
I recently changed Colorado Sports Hall of Fame from a redirect page to an actual article. Your project might be interested in looking at and improving the article. Eagle4000 (talk) 04:56, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Request editor review of a few Colorado articles
Hello, I've written a couple of Colorado articles and am wondering if there's an editor who can take a look at a few of the articles and assess their quality status and either make or suggest edits to the article.

Here are the articles I've written or expanded for your consideration:
 * Anasazi Heritage Center
 * Frances Wisebart Jacobs
 * Society of Colorado Pioneers
 * Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
 * Clara Brown
 * Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone
 * Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

If there's a way I can recipricate, I'd be happy to - for instance, I created the Anasazi Heritage Center article that was on the project "to do" list. Thanks!!!--CaroleHenson (talk) 01:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, from the To Do List and from my 2008 talk request: Talk:Fort Collins, Colorado has been reviewed and proposed. Needs another review and items checked off so we can upgrade Ft. Collins to GA and future FA.  Carole, I would be glad to review you article. Cheers, Lance.... LanceBarber (talk) 05:12, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Dunton, CO
As a descendent of the Roscio family who once owned and operated Dunton Hot Springs Resort near Dolores, CO, I've been compelled to point out inaccuracies aired by The Travel Channel as well as those written by numerous tourism magazines and travel books regarding this resort's history. I appreciate the fact that Wikipedia has taken the time to present "historically accurate" information unlike the above mentioned media outlets. Thank you Wikipedia!!! Unfortunately, in an effort to make their resort more appealing, the present owners of Dunton Hot Springs have made repeated statements of having "revived an old west ghostown, dilapidated since 1918". While the present owners have certainly revived the town, Dunton was still fully functional and successful up until the 1970s. I wish editors and copy-writers would do a better job of checking facts prior to publication, just as Wikipedia has done Thanks again, Grady E. Wright Grand Junction, C0 (Great Grandson of Joe Roscio Sr.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.176.124 (talk) 20:34, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States
Someone recently suggested that this project be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have been some recent active discussion on the talk page and some updates to the main project page. The project has been added to the list of supported projects but before I fully implement this I want to ensure that the members of the project concur with this action. I will contact each of the active members of the project and ask them to comment as well. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 02:17, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Kumiko. Sorry it has taken me a couple of days to get back. I have not been more than passingly involved in this project, but if you feel that placing this under WikiProject United States would benefit Colorado-related topics, then you should go ahead and do it. Thanks for taking initiative! Awickert (talk) 20:58, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks - sounds logical. I'd be interested to know what you expect the implications of that would be for both projects. Should this be the default for all state projects?  ★NealMcB★ (talk) 15:47, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * To answer the second question first, no. Some state projects are very very active with multiple subprojects/taskforces (like California) and right now I am just focusing on the projects that are less active. Although if an active one wanted too then they can of course.


 * On the First question let me say that the project page with members stay basically as they are with the members able to dictate how things happen, scope of the project, etc. Its not going to be absorbed or dissolved in any way and the scope won't change unless the members want it too. The only change would be that the WikiProject banner would be replaced with the WPUS banner with WikiProject Arizona (and any other supported projects) embedded within it. You can take a look at Category talk:Visitor attractions in South Carolina to see an example. All the projects use a standard group of parameters (Needs infobox, image, attention, etc) it also reduces the number of banners cluttering up the talk page of the articles. All the projects use the same article classes (If the project doesn't want to though thats ok too but the rest do and I would like to try and keep it as standard as possible).


 * How it will be supported can depend on what the members of the project want but typically WPUS is a bigger project with a lot more members, it has a newsletter, a monthly collaboration, multiple bots that run actively through the articles for various things (as can be seen on the members page) with more being setup as we go along. This means that it will be seen by a lot of people in a lot of ways. Up till now we have mostly been concentrating on building up the project but soon we are going to be starting to do some drives to build up articles, create new ones, etc. I hope this helps.


 * Once were done determining which projects need or want to be supported by WPUS (which should be almost done) we can then start focusing on article improvement and creation although in many ways this has already started. --Kumioko (talk) 16:30, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not against this idea, but would like to propose an alternative. If we collaborate and update by merging in a condensed priority list of Buaidh's effort WikiProject Colorado AND submit this as a Colorado Priority Project to WPUS. (Sorry for not do more Project work this summer, but I am having a major sciatic problem with two bulging disks and this has affected all my activities.) Thanks, Lance...LanceBarber (talk) 05:31, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry I didn't see this sooner. The bot is almost done completing the conversion. The only difference to the project is that it replaces the Colorado template with WikiProject United States with Colorado=Yes. Other than that the project is staying the same so feel free to do as much as you want to do. We should still update the priorites and ongoing support page though. --Kumioko (talk) 00:42, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see why there was a rush to do this, not quite yet a week. We are not in a time crunch for anything. Editors can not always get online everyday. Family stuff, work, bills, medical stuff, computer problems and taking a few days break from wiki will delay responses in proposed changes... proposed deletions... proposed collaborations... and various article discussions. Let's not get trigger happy. I suggest write a bot to reverse the process when we get inactive editors back going again and get new editors to expand WP Colo support issues. In the future, let's wait for other to response and if it takes 7-10 days, or more, that's okay. How about when we make a proposal, we can list the active users that have been notified. Thank you. Lance... LanceBarber (talk) 04:48, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I tell you what. Three editors including myself thought this project was largely inactive and needed some support. Additionally this has been open for 11 days and I contacted every user that is a member of the project with many of them editing every day since I left the message on their talk page. Since knowone other than you has commented I am left to think that they are ok with it. Also, since the bot has already migrated all the articles and since the project is usually quiet from a project standpoint I am not going to reverse it yet and cause another 5000+ edits. But, if you or someone else gets the project going again at some point in the future and the members want to split away then thats fine. With that said. One of the things on my to do list is to tag untagged articles and recruit more participants to the various projects that WPUS supports including this one. I am also planning to make sure that certain bots are running for each project like article alerts so the members can be contacted about various article issues easier. In the future I will move more slowly though to give editors more time to comment. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Is this project still active? (from Archives)
This project has had the Semi active tag since May 2010 but it doesnt appear that anyone is answering comments/questions on the talk page. Is this project still active? --Kumioko (talk) 21:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, I could step up a bit. We might even organize a chapter. User:Fred Bauder Talk 04:06, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes it is. Please visit Meetup/Denver and ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado to see the current and interested Colorado editors for 2011. Thanks, Lance
 * We work more than we talk.  Buaidh  00:42, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 3500+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. If you do not want the bot to autoassess the articles for your project or if you have any comments or concerns please let us know. --Kumioko (talk) 14:13, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Requested move discussion for Plutonium contamination of the Denver metropolitan area
Hello, WikiProject Colorado editors. I would be most grateful if you could comment on the requested move discussion of Plutonium contamination of the Denver metropolitan area, which is being proposed to be moved to Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant. The discussion can be found here, and could definitely benefit from some more contributors. Thank you for your participation, and my apologies for using this talk page to advertise. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 14:47, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Source: self-published book
Hello, I've found a source with a lot of great information about the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, but it's a self-published book


 * Skopec, Eric. (2007). The Anasazi Guide. Self-published at www.lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4303-2648-9.

What are your thoughts about using a self-published book? Thanks!!!--CaroleHenson (talk) 15:01, 25 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Self-published books are seldom vetted, just as most web sites are seldom vetted. This particular book appears to be well written and I would have no qualms about using it for a reference.  Hopefully we will see more high quality self-published works.   Buaidh  20:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, great, thanks! I thought the same thing (generally avoid SP books, but this one seemed good) but have mostly held off, waiting for a "weigh in".  Thanks much!!--CaroleHenson (talk) 21:18, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Colorado Wiknic 2016
Who: All Wikipedia and Wikimedia users and their families and friends are invited.

What: The Great Colorado Wiknic 2016.

When: Sunday afternoon, August, 2016, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm MDT.

Where: The Wiknic will be held at our home in Arvada. Please contact Buaidh for further information or assistance.

Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many folks to expect. You can subscribe to our Wikimedia Colorado e-mail list to receive e-mail notice of future Wikimedia Colorado activities.

Sponsor: WikiProject Colorado

Your hosts: Buaidh & BikeSally (You can unsubscribe from future invitations to Wikimedia Colorado events by removing your name from the Wikimedia Colorado event invitation list.)

Forts in Colorado
As an FYI, I started the template Forts in Colorado and I am thinking of changing the redirect List of forts in Colorado into a table like List of forts in California. I am also looking to continue to expand existing articles about forts and perhaps add some addition new ones (e.g., recent new article is Fort Reynolds (Colorado).)–CaroleHenson (talk) 14:08, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Articles_for_deletion/Chicken_Lips
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles_for_deletion/Chicken_Lips. Scarpy (talk) 16:28, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

region groupings, and wikiproject redirects
Please consider participating at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Colorado, about possibly grouping NRHP listings and perhaps using the same scheme to group other Colorado places, organized by areas within Colorado.

Also, it has bugged me that Talk page banners of WikiProject Colorado, and for other states too, get redirected to WikiProject United States, where it is not reasonable to have local area discussions. Specifically the Wikiproject banner gets hijacked, leaving links to WikiProject US, leaving no link to this WikiProject Colorado talkpage. So I think potential traffic to here, potential discussion here, is diverted or just squelched. I know there may not be a lot of watchers here, but over time some slow discussion can happen and be helpful, if given a chance. Any support or opposition to seizing back some control, to getting all those redirects changed? --Doncram (talk) 21:18, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)