Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Columbia, Missouri

Sam Walton
Under the entry for Sam Walton it mentions that he was a member of Beta Theta Pi at Mizzou, the oldest fraternity chapter west of the Mississippi River. That is not true. The Alpha Delta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Westminster College (Fulton, MO) was founded in 1868. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.35.96.66 (talk) 16:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Available Images
Has anyone noticed that the link in the Available Images section takes you to the WikiProject Mizzou/gallery page. Is that right? Are we sharing the gallery with them because they are also in Columbia, MO, or is this just going there by mistake? HornColumbia (talk) 05:24, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * When I created the Columbia and Mizzou WikiProject there were very few pictures on Wikipedia of either one. The pictures that were there were almost exclusively of MU.  So I just created an MU one, hoping a Columbia one could be created someday.  I think now there are probably enough pictures for a Columbia specific gallery.  Hope that answered your question. Grey Wanderer (talk) 18:23, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Famous People
In addition to the already created category, I've made a list: List of people from Columbia, Missouri Grey Wanderer 05:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I stubbed in an article for Blind Boone because he was the only famous person on the Columbia page with a red link. It could use some help by someone who knows a little more about Boone. HornColumbia

History
Created History Article, and respective link on template, could use more work though, especially the 20th century and recent development sections. Grey Wanderer | Talk 09:14, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Names of Columbia
Created a redirect from the page Columbia, Mo also added a reference to the city on the disambiguation page for Como. Can you think of any other names that need adressing? Grey Wanderer 21:55, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Columbia Public Schools
The school pages, especially Rock Bridge and Hickman, need to be fleshed out quite a bit. and I are currently discussing enrollment size issues on David H. Hickman High School's article. Alums/students should update the pages constantly with new information. I don't know how in depth we want to be getting here, but I made up this article for my school. I kind of like the layout, but it can be changed to fit the needs if it so happens. I'd be willing to take on these pages; if anyone would like to assist me, just let me know. Genius00345 23:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I've been messing around with the Hickman High School page for some time now, you've probably seen me on there, as an alum its about time I got serious. Nice job with the South Callaway HS page, it blows the city schools out of the water.  Grey Wanderer 03:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
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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 22:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Major Employers
Hey all. I'm new here, so if I've broken any rules of edicate, let me know. I've added myself to this project. I'd like to eventually add to the Columbia, MO page a list of major area employers. Towards that goal, I've stubbed in pages for Shelter Insurance, MFA Oil, & Missouri Employers Mutual. We already have pages for the universities & links to the hospitals -all major employers. Can anyone think of any companies I've missed? There are some big employers that are subsidiaries of other companies: Watlow-columbia & Columbia Foods (oscar meyer), ect. I don't think they need there own page, but if a company is based in Columbia, I think we should see that they get at least a stub entry.

Badbilltucker2, I'm afraid I couldn't figure out how to add the above to your catagories (ps: is there some page that explains this whole catagory thing?  I was trying to figure this out in another area & was totally lost.  Any help is appriciated)  My last thought is that we could add pages for some local columbia things like the MKT link of the Katy trail, Shelter Gardens, and maybe Stevens Park. Any thoughts on that? HornColumbia 05:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, and welcome,


 * Yes and Economy/major area employers section is much need on the main page. Here is the page that explains categorization: Categorization.  On the main WikiProject Columbia page there is a list of articles that need to be created and ones that need to be revised, feel free to add as many as you want to it. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grey Wanderer (talk • contribs) 03:54, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

Wikipedia Assessment
Article can now be rated by quality and importance. See Category:Columbia, Missouri articles by quality and Category:Columbia, Missouri articles by importance for listings. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grey Wanderer (talk • contribs) 10:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

Wikipedia in the news
I got a kick out of this: http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24766 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grey Wanderer (talk • contribs) 21:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC).

Is this group active?
It seems like it isn't, the MKT trail collaboration didn't get much help from many people and it ended on May 30, but it continued to be the current collaboration for 3 months. The current collaboration that I put up ends today (August 30, 2007) and nobody contributed. I'm wondering if I should leave it or put up another collaboration. Me5000 00:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey Me, yeah I know sometimes it's discouraging that we seem to be the only active ones right now, and I've had to back off recently because of school, but the important thing is we keep making progress occasionally people show up create a few pages an leave, and thats fine and remember not everyone who helps out is a member of this project. I would put up a new collaboration at least as a symbolic gesture. Happy editing. Grey Wanderer | Talk 17:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Current collaboration time period
The current collaboration time period is generally set at a month, but I think we should set it at 2 weeks. All the collaborations get their edits from wikiproject participants within a week, so it seems silly to leave a collaboration up for so long. Anyone have any input on this? Me5000 20:47, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Articles ranking
I was wondering if the Ragtag Cinema article is still a 2 or if its now a 2.5(if it is, should I move it, or wait for consensus?). I guess I want to feel special and think its better now. I know the article isn't that long now, but I don't think it will ever be too much longer than it currently is. I need to upload a picture for it soon... --Breakyunit (talk) 10:44, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Looking at some of the articles in stage 2.5 I would say it's long enough to move. You can go ahead and move it, consensus isn't needed for something as simple as that. Me5000 (talk) 15:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks. --Breakyunit (talk) 20:14, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Popular pages
I made a request for a page with popular pages data. It would look something like WikiProject_Indiana/Popular_pages. I think this page will be useful in assessing article importance. See  and  for more info. If anyone has any thoughts or concerns about this let's discuss here. HornColumbia (talk) 03:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Columbia, Missouri to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Columbia, Missouri/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:30, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello...
I live in the mid-Missouri area now and have been for a long-time a contributor to articles in my previous home of the Capital District, New York. I was wondering if there were any articles and/or things to do with regard to articles in the Columbia area I could work on while I am out living here. My credentials I believe are pretty good: I'm the co-creator of the Capital District WikiProject, and with help from other editors I was able to do a complete rewrite of Capital District, I created Port of Albany-Rensselaer and got it to GA status, other particularly good articles I created and/or contributed greatly to and that may inspire ideas for Columbia-area articles are List of incorporated places in New York's Capital District, Timeline of town creation in New York's Capital District (still in progress, almost done), Streets of Albany, New York, and Tech Valley. I'm also a member of the Ports WikiProject where soon we will be implementing my idea for adding to the Geobox2 template information relevant to ports so we dont have to start from scratch creating a ports infobox. (I'm a big supporter of using Geobox2 as the infobox on articles as opposed to the older infobox|whatever that used to be used, such as infobox|settlement) I hope to collaborate with many of you on whatever you need me to do while I'm out here, I truly enjoy the area and have found the area's hospitality sincere and generous.Camelbinky (talk) 23:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey! nice to meet you. There is a list of articles that need work/attention in the to do list on the main page.  I know that Columbia, Missouri has been very close to FA status for sometime and only needs a bit more work to get there.  The University of Missouri article is in pretty poor condition right now.  There is also a list of articles that need to be created and pictures that need to be taken in the mainspace.  Again: glad to have you around, especially somebody with such good wiki experience.  Grey Wanderer (talk) 15:09, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Watching Articles
Does anyone know of any way to watch all the articles in a project short setting this up on each page in the project? As of today we have only 263 articles in our project. I would like to see all of them in my watchlist, but I don't want to have to visit ever page.HornColumbia (talk) 15:18, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

This seems to work: Recent Changes I think I'll work in a link to this on the project page.HornColumbia (talk) 18:27, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup Listing
I added a link to a bot generated page (see User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details) in the Assessment area. It should help if you work on general maintenance sort of things or if you are looking for something to work on. HornColumbia (talk) 04:48, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup listing


 * I'm also evaluating the Article Alerts page to see if this would be useful to this project. It lets you know if any pages in your project are up for discussions or deletions.  Our project is small enough that it is not currently finding any of these issues.  Let me know if you think this page or the "Cleanup Listing" above will be useful to our project. HornColumbia (talk) 05:18, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Columbia Missouri Article Alerts

This is how it works for a larger project: Project Biography Article Alerts

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Inactive
I noticed that user:Optigan13 put an inactive tag on this project. I'm on several projects, but I consider this one my main project. If you're reading this and you're a part of this project, give a yell here. Maybe we can get an idea about how many active members we have. ThanksHornColumbia (talk) 23:43, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm around as always. Grey Wanderer (talk) 21:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Columbia, Missouri articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
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Meetup/St. Louis
Short notice, I know, but if you are in town and interested in coming tomorrow evening, you're more than welcome.--Chaser (talk) 21:52, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
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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)

Fulton, Missouri
Anyone interested in working on Fulton, Missouri to get it up to at least GA status? Please contact me.Camelbinky (talk) 00:01, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
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WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
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2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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Up for deletion: List of tallest buildings in Columbia, Missouri
Needs moire and better sources. Several of the buildings on on NRHP. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:43, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The consensus was "Keep". If you contributed thank you. The article has been much expanded, but is still in need of pictures. Grey Wanderer (talk) 00:23, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

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GAR notice
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User script to detect unreliable sources
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Project-independent quality assessments
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