Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missouri/Archive 1

Article creation
Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Area created.Rt66lt 01:20, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Project Template
Project template is currently on all county talk pages.Rt66lt 00:39, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Started placing project template on city talk pages. Stopped at Exeter. Will be unable to work on anymore until April 16.Rt66lt 01:29, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

A couple of resources
There's a couple of excellent resources I would like to recommend to anyone involved with this project: Both are available online and have a lot of information. The Secretary of State's office will mail you a free, hardcover copy of the book (you may have to live in Missouri to get a physical copy for free). Rt66lt 20:15, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Moser's Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets in Missouri at the Springfield-Greene County Library website
 * Missouri Official Manual (aka "The Blue Book").
 * Thanks for the resources! i posted them on the main page. -- preschooler @  heart   my talk  -  contribs  06:34, 13 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) 06:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Tom Pendergast Collaboration

 * I used thier online form to ask a librarian. here is what I wrote.

Dear Librarian, I am writing you reperesenting en.wikipedia.org. The reason i am writing you is because i am assisting in the modification of an article on Kansas City mob boss Tom Pendergast. we would like to use your picture of Pendergast, which was found at the URL http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/popup.cfm?http://www.kclibrary.org/lhimgs/kcpl/regular/pendergast_reg.jpg#. According to your acceptable use policy, "1. U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code) prohibits the unauthorized reproduction or distribution of copyrighted materials, except as permitted by the principles of "fair use." Users may not copy or distribute electronic materials (including electronic mail, text, images, programs or data) without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Any responsibility for any consequences of copyright infringement lies with the user; the Library expressly disclaims any liability or responsibility resulting from such use." I am writing asking for explicit permission to use the picture on wikipedia. wikipedia is completly non-profit, and is an online free encyclopedia that anyone can write. the picture would be used solely for use on wikipedia, and we would "tag" it to state that it's use on wikipedia classifies as "fair use" and that reproduction elsewhere would be prohibited without the consent of the Kansas City Public Library. thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Austin Roberts Wikipedia user Preschooler.at.heart.

-- preschooler @  heart   my talk  -  contribs  06:02, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

What is the status of the picture? Have you heard back from them yet? Amalas  =^_^=  17:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Umm, images uploaded to Wikipedia are definitely not for use only on Wikipedia. Please read the image use policy.  Wikipedia's content is specifically meant to be copied and reproduced by anyone, even for commercial purposes.  Images with non-free licenses are not wanted.  Fair-use images are accepted only grudgingly since fair-use usually only applies to reproduction within the U.S.


 * To make sure that you are accurately representing how requested material may be used, you should use or adapt an example from Boilerplate request for permission in your request. --Kbh3rd talk  04:48, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Discussion from Project Page
Folks:

I need a little help. I'm a contributor to the Wiki St. Louis. We are having a debate over whether to include a quote by T.S. Eliot on the page. I'm the proponent of placing the quote as a sort of: preamble to the whole shebang.

I am pasting the current "controversy" here. What I am asking is, could we please get some more opinion on the subject? Or any other ideas. I'm trying to find a concensus here, but need your help. Many Thanks: Mark PrestonMark Preston 17:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear User:GT

If I don't hear from you at this page within 7 days from Friday April 7, 2006, I am moving the quote back to where it came from. It seems to me you were plenty "quick on the draw" to move it, but have nothing to say since Birgitte "corrected" your complaint.


 * If you do you'll be violating policy as well as breaking layout conventions. Making that quote the "preamble" to the article forces the article (and by extension, Wikipedia) to adopt the point of view that St. Louis is a wonderful city to live in and better than Boston, New York, or London. After all, the great T.S. Eliot said so and we must agree since we think that quote should represents the purpose or basis of the rest of the article (that is what a preamble is for, you know). However, placing it in a Quotations section is fine because then the quote is just presented as information relevant to the city. Additionally, the Wikipedia Guide to Layout prescribes quotations to be placed, if not embedded within the article text itself, in a Quotations section like I have created. And nowhere on that page or any other does it provide any provisions for articles having preambles. You won't find another article on Wikipedia that uses a preamble like what you're suggesting and certainly not one consisting of just a quote. GT 08:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think having a quote about St. Louis from an author "forces" a POV upon anybody or anything. It's a common practice in other neutral documents, such as ... encyclopedias. I am, however, concerned that we'd have this one article with a quote and no others that do, it's inconsistant. Having a little quote box is a common stylistic device to convey information in a more interesting and less academic and dry manner than rote categorization. Bjsiders 14:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I understand and if someone wants to create that box and insert it in part of the article where T.S. Eliot is discussed the same way a graphic would be inserted, I wouldn't have any problems with that whatsoever. However this was discussed and placed as a "preamble", which by its nature gives the impression that the opinion of the writers and of the encyclopedia agree with T.S. Eliot that one would be fortunate to grow up in St. Louis rather than the other big cities. Irrelevant as it is, I don't know if such things are acceptible in other encyclopedias, seeing as though I haven't opened a printed encyclopedia since high school, but on Wikipedia writers are not allowed to make such statements of opinion on the subjects they're writing about. So not only is it inappropriate as a preamble but such preambles don't even exist on Wikipedia. GT 21:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * GT Please note that niether Wikipedia:Describing points of view] or Wikipedia:Guide to layout are officail policy. I realize that you do not like the quotation, but please do not tell people they will be breaking policy. As I said before, this quote does not make the article POV. It is obviously an opinion. lets look at it again:


 * "The City of St. Louis has affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done, I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London." —T.S. Eliot. Letter to Marquis Childs quoted in St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 15, 1930.


 * The author says he feels "affected" and "fortunate." This is not POV about how great St Louis is, it is personal experience. The quote clearly states he was born in St. Louis which puts it in proper perspective. Anyone who reads it will give it the same weight they give anyone who was "born in thier favorite city." I don't mind having this one quote, but I really dislike a Quotations sections which will soon hold 5 or ten quotes.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 13:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * When I said policy I linked to WP:NPOV. Please don't misattribute statements to me that I didn't make. As far as the layout conventions, they may not be policy but I don't see a pressing reason to break them. And it is the selective usage of that particular, highly favorable quote that creates the "POV" that is not allowed. GT 21:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Quoting is not POV. Especially in this example, which is clearly his personal experience. Maybe if the quote said "St. Louis is a better city than New York," you could convince me. What is the bias here? Is it baised to say the city someone was born in has a greater affect on them than any other? Is biased to say a person feels lucky they were born in the city they grew up in? I don't know how else to explain it. This quote does not break policy, no one should worry on that aspect. Obviously you still don't like it. Many other people do like it. I certainly prefer it over a quotations section. Sorry about the misunderstanding above, I struck my comments. The layout conventions not closely adhered to and self-contradictory. They say that there should be a Quotation section and then stated it should be removed and replaced with a banner to Wikiquote. It looks like we can all agree on the graphic quote box though. I actually like that even better.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 22:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree, it's very common and unremarkable to be proud of the city you were born in. That's why I originally said I don't even think the quote should be in the article. But if the rest of you want it in the form of a quote box near discussion of famous natives or something, that's your decision to make, as it's not that big of a deal to me. The idea of a "preamble" in particular (and specifically, one that is overwhelmingly favorable about the city) is what I have problems with as I've gone into detail about already. GT 06:10, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The quote is an illustration from a notable native. The photos in this article are also illustrations. The photos are terribly POV in that they "promote" the city. Why not feature photos from inside the public toilets in the city's main train station? I think the way a city keeps its toilets serves as a strong indicator of a city's overall quality of life (seriously). Many would argue, however, that this article's photos are indeed encyclopedic and suitable. I won't argue the point. However, all the justifications these people would use in defending glamorous photos of the city should also apply to Elliot's quote. His quote provides a unique and beautiful tribute to the city. The fact that other encyclopedias occasionally introduce an article with a literary quotation simply adds weight to this and previous arguments. Please replace the preamble, provide some new justification for not using it, or start replacing the beautiful illustrations with those of more "typical" experiences. Rklawton 22:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * If you have better photos that more accurately and correctly represent the city then feel free to upload them and insert them in the article. As it stands, the current ones do a good job and I have no problems with them. I agree about the toilets and I encourage you to conduct a study of public toilets in every big city in America and report on the results (just not here). If St. Louis has interesting results then I'd support mentioning them here.
 * And, beautiful as you may find the quote to be, we are not here to make a tribute. That should give you an idea of why it's an inappropriate "preamble", as though such a thing were possible here. GT 06:10, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It would seem that you missed the point. 1) The photos provided are POV tributes to the city. 2) The photos provided are typical of photos that illustrate just about every city article (see East St. Louis, Illinois - and don't need to be replaced. 3) the quote is not atypical of articles about home cities of famous authors.
 * It's a fact that Elliot wrote what he did, and it is included as a fact, as a real illustration. The fact that Elliot's comments reflect his POV might disqualify them, except that folks tend to be interested in reading the comments of Nobel Prize recipients.
 * Lastly, why is it you seem to be the only one arguing for removal? Please stop and consider this. Rklawton 13:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Images and Maps
How do we tag images as being a part of WikiProject Missouri? Do we put it on the talk page, the same as for articles? I just want to check before I do some of those. Amalas 20:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Missouri State Highways
Since these are part of the WikiProject Missouri State Highways, a child of this project, would it be redundant to list these as part of the MO WikiProject also?Rt66lt
 * I would say so. --KHill-LTown 04:42, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Missouri railroads
Someone who knows more about this than I do should probably check over this category. There are some railroads categorized as Missouri railroads, but nothing in the articles states they are in Missouri. Conrail and Southern Pacific are a couple.Rt66lt 17:24, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Missouri History Stub
I would like to request that a Missouri History Stub be created. I recently add a Generic Missouri Stub to the St. Louis Arsenal page, but I think there should be a stub for history. The picture for the stub could be a picture of Lewis and Clark since they are important to Missouri History, since they travel across the state, and since St. Louis just had a big celebration about it two years ago.

MISSOURI STUB!!!!
There is a movement to try and elimanate the Missouri Generic Stub. Go to the Stub types for deletion page and scroll down to April 23rd. It is the second one down on the list. Vote to say our stub!


 * I have gone through a mess of Missouri Articles and added a stub tag to those that apply. The Category:Missouri stubs has gone for 3 entries to 20.  I will do more later. (Steve 17:24, 29 April 2006 (UTC))

Victory!
Thanks to our voting we have saved the Missouri Generic Stub. Viva la Missouri Project!

Just Remember to keep an eye out for mor Missuri related stubs. (Steve 00:07, 30 April 2006 (UTC))

Missouri State Fair needs rewriting
I just flagged Missouri State Fair as being a copyright violation from http://www.mostatefair.com/beginning.html. We need a new article there. I've invited the original author, who copied the material, to help contribute to an original article. Anyone else who wants to jump in, please do

By the way, folks, it was pretty durn obvious from the prose that that article was not the original work of a wikipedian. Please keep an eye out for such violations. To test, just cut the core of a unique-looking sentence and paste it into Google with quotes around it. In this case, searching on "prompts a Missouri farm family to load up the kids" immediately found the source.

--Kbh3rd talk 23:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Grant's Farm will need expanding
I just created this. It could use some expansion if anyone wants to have a go at it. --Gregh2k5 19:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Bob Holden page
I just reorganized (and added a little content to) the page for former Governor Bob Holden. It still needs a lot more info about his governorship, imo. Also, if someone could provide the year and/or a source for when he called the legislature into special session for higher ed funding, I'd greatly appreciate it. Cheers and happy editing! --Chaser (T) 05:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Crime and Social issues of St. Louis, Missouri
The section in the St. Louis, Missouri article on social and crime issues is not a summary of the main article Crime and Social issues of St. Louis, Missouri...it IS the main article. Either way, both of these need to be cleaned up. Could someone lend a hand in doing that? I'm not an expert on St. Louis, especially not its social/crime issues. So if soemone could pitch in with that, it'd be much appreciated. Metros232 14:32, 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 Missouri'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   19:53, 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 Missouri (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 ) 23:32, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Abraham McClellan Deletion Proposal
User:Somerset219 has proposed that the article I created on former Missouri State Treasurer Abraham McClellan (Missouri politician) be deleted. Assistance from my fellow Wikipedians on WikiProject Missouri is requested in order to improve the article and avoid deletion. Under the terms of the deletion tag used in the article, it could be deleted within five days of July 27, 2006. --TommyBoy 01:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Deletion has been averted. --TommyBoy 01:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Marlin Perkins
Marlin Perkins (Mo native) article is incorrect. He did not fake lemmings jumping off a cliff. If you read the article cited it is clear that the lemmings incident was about Disney not Perkins.

However for some reason I cannot edit the article or enter a discussion - all it shows is a reference to "WikiProject Missouri" so I came here to see if one of you would be so kind as to fix the article. Thanks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Perkins --J nc 23:26, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Invite
Wanted to let you know that WP:BIOGRAPHY has added a "work group" called Politics and government, and so wanted to invite you to participate on any biography-type articles. The section for MO is here and if there's interest, we can beef it up to look like the newly-created Virginia one plange 05:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Project banner
As I was browsing Category:WikiProject banners, I noticed that your WikiProject Missouri was incorrectly added to the talk pages. It appears that someone copied the code (after hitting the edit button on the template page) and then copied that into articles. As it is a project banner, it would probably be best not to substitute it, but if this project would prefer to have it substituted, the code would be {{subst:WikiProject Missouri}}. This keeps the category from being added to articles pages. -- Heav e n's Wrath    Talk  16:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how that happened. I know I always put  (without subst'ing).  I'll go through that Cat and clear out the Missouri stuff.  Thanks for the notification. ~ Amalas  rawr  =^_^=  18:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, they should all be fixed now. ~ Amalas rawr  =^_^=  18:58, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Thanks for fixing it so quickly.  -- Heav  e n's Wrath    Talk  19:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Miles Davis
Miles Davis is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 19:53, 16 September 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 19:49, 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 19:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Climate
Missouri lacks a climate section.

New proposed project
There is a new project proposal at WikiProject/List of proposed projects which some members of this project may be interested in. Badbilltucker 02:37, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, WikiProject Silver Dollar City could use at least one photograph, if anyone has any. Badbilltucker 00:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


 * WikiProject Kansas City is now started - Missourians may want to join the party/endeavour/workload. :) -- nae'blis 20:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Missouri Stubs
I just wanted to remind everyone of the various Stubs related to this group that needs to be expanded or rewritten.



Announcement
USS Missouri (BB-63) is currently undergoing a Peer Review as part of the ongoing effort by the Military history WikiProject to update older, FA status articles. Anyone wishing to leave a comment of suggestion is invited to do so. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:44, 25 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 22:13, 29 December 2006 (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) 03:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

wow
this wikipedia page info is cool--Jennifer Garnett 17:12, 19 February 2010 (UTC)Jennifer garnett —Preceding unsigned comment added by Babygirl100 101 (talk • contribs)

Brentwood, Missouri
I feel that the Wikipedia page for Brentwood, Missouri should be changed. Not only did Brentwood High school win the 2009 National Blue Ribbon of Excellence, so did one of Brentwoods elementary Schools. Mark Twain Elementary of Brentwood, Missouri won the the Missouri Gold Star School Honor and the National Blue Ribbon of Excellence for 2009. This is a very big Honor not only for Brentwood to have two schools ranked this high out of all united states schools, but also a huge Honor for Mark Twain, which is being overlooked!  Thank you, Jennifer Horton —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjhort (talk • contribs) 22:22, 10 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Please feel free to add this information yourself, you seem to know more about it then any of us here. Just make sure you provide references for the information you add. If you need any help feel free to contact me or ask here. Thanks. Grey Wanderer (talk) 02:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Missouri articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Missouri articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) 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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For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:20, 19 September 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) 19:57, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Totally fabricated Wikipedia contribution...The Westplex
The fabricated entry referencing 'The Westplex' regarding the origination of the term describing the growing western counties of the St. Louis, MO. metro area is disturbing. The verifiable true origination of the area's name follows. In November of 1991, radio station owners of Kaspar Broadcasting, Vernon John Kaspar and Steven Charles Kaspar put a new radio station on the air to service the west metro area of St. Louis...99.9 FM KFAV (All Hit V100). In September of 1991, preparing to put the station on the air (went on the air in early November, 1991) a decision was made to name St. Charles, Lincoln, Warren, and Franklin Counties "The Westplex"...as the Dallas, Tx. area towards Fort Worth is called "the Metroplex"... It is a well known fact with the mayors, businesses, community leaders, etc. that the term "Westplex" originated as stated...NOT some fictional "Zigmund" etc. etc. The general description of the area is correct, however the Wiki contributer committed a treacherous crime against historical accuracy, as the term "Westplex" has stuck as a term for 19 years (1991 to 2010), so will surely be a stable term into the future, making the historical accuracy critical. This blatant fictitious posting is most likely an attack against the Kaspars and their successful radio operation. I'm fairly certain I know the source, from a regional competitor of questionable integrity. There is no human being that "Westplex" was named after, and there is no source to prove it. I was present in the conference room at Kaspar Broadcasting when the term was given birth, and there is an abundance of proof and witnesses. Steve Kaspar, Kaspar Broadcasting Co. of Missouri. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radioguy999 (talk • contribs) 06:13, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Uhhm. Wow. Someone really needs more fiber in their diet. I checked the Westplex entry and see nothing that seems glaringly out of order. Not exactly sure what the Steve Kaspar guy is venting his spleen about. Seems like just some petty bickering between two radio stations that has no business here. Just my take on it. Sector001 (talk) 08:02, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

It's because I removed all unsourced content. Part of the article may have very well been made up. Hopefully this fixes the problem. Grey Wanderer (talk) 07:04, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I should have known Grey Wanderer would be "Johnny on the spot" on that. Pat on the back to ya! Oh, and GO MIZZOU! Sector001 (talk) 19:59, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Wine Project on Missouri wine articles?
Hello! For 2011 the Wine Project is doing a new Wine Improvement Drive where each month we focus on an area of articles that relate to a particular theme. In January, we are are ringing in the New Year with New World wine, with a focus on the wines of the Northern Hemisphere-Canadian wine, American wine and Mexican wine. I am going by related projects to see if there is any interest in collaboration between this project and the wine project on the subject of Missouri wine. Some suggestion on potential article creations include History of Missouri wine and Missouri Wine and Grape Program. Another idea would be creating articles on notable wineries such as Augusta Winery and Montelle Winery etc. On a smaller scale, there are Missouri wine related articles that could use some help with clean up or expanding beyond a stub such as the articles on Hermann AVA, Ozark Highlands AVA, Ozark Mountain AVA, Les Bourgeois Winery, Stone Hill Winery, Hermann Jaeger, etc. And, of course, of HUGE help would be the upload of free use photos of Missouri wineries, wines and wine regions to Commons that could be used to better illustrate Missouri wine articles. If you're interested in helping, please drop a note at the Wine Project's talk page with the article you're interested in helping with. Thanks and have a great New Year! AgneCheese/Wine 23:42, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Meetup/St. Louis
Short notice, I know, but if you all are in town and interested in coming tomorrow evening, you're more than welcome.--Chaser (talk) 21:49, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I almost came! I wish I could get one happening in Columbia. Grey Wanderer (talk) 22:30, 5 February 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) 19:15, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Relationship with WikiProject United States
People from a variety of WikiProjects have had concerns about the scope of WikiProject United States and its relationship with other WikiProjects. We have created an RFC and invite all interested editors to discuss it at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject United States. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I scanned through it -- and theres a LOT of back-and-forth there to go through (beware, may cause uncontrollable glazing over of the eyes!)-- and to me it all looks like needless drama. I suspect its more about "turf war" than anything of any real importance. How about devoting our time to working on the articles instead of childish bickering. Just my take. Sector001 (talk) 17:44, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Is there any real content debate? has a conflict about article content actually arouse? I guess I'm kinda with Sector on this one. Grey Wanderer (talk) 22:28, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Kinloch, Missouri
The template was missing and a great deal of history about this oldest of Missourian black communities was added. What I don't understand and would like some sources on was South Kinloch a municipality with it's own mayor or did that happen after Berkeley split away? My entire research and work came from just trying to answer a simple question: when was Kinloch founded? Kinloch Park and it's golf course, race track, balloon airfield, servant home zoning in the south seems to be founded in 1885 or abouts. The Kinloch School District was founded in 1902 as a break away from Ferguson. It seems technically with the election of a black school board member in 1924 that Kinloch was a racially mixed community and not officially a black community till the break away of Berkeley in 1938. Sources and analysis would be nice. Another source claims Kinloch to be grown by land purchasing similar to Brooklyn Illinois during it's formation in the 1830's. Alatari (talk) 08:12, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * BTW, who assesses the article to raise it from Start class? Alatari (talk) 08:13, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know anything about Berkeley. Anybody can raise the class of an article; if you think the article is a C-class or B-class then I'd say go for it. Only GA and FA require a nomination process. Grey Wanderer (talk) 22:28, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Well, this place seems to be slightly more active than WikiProject St. Louis, so let's give it a try. Growing American Youth was nominated for speedy deletion recently, but I untagged it because from an extremely cursory search it looked to have plenty of coverage in papers like the Post-Dispatch. However, I'm not a P-D subscriber (it's pay-per-view), so while I can tell that it has this coverage, I can't actually look at the coverage in order to add to the article. Can anyone with an online subscription help out? Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 22:03, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I can view articles on the main page. But I'm not a subscriber. Are these articles in the archives? Grey Wanderer (talk) 22:28, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. Here is one, which I can't access. Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 22:49, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * (responded ) / ƒETCH COMMS  /  15:27, 23 August 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) 02:14, 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) 02:14, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Meetup/St. Louis
^ for those interested, / ƒETCH COMMS  /  00:29, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Powersville,_Missouri
I'd be grateful for some help there. Also, if it is truly a city, your Wikiproject importance rating for the article probably needs revising. --Dweller (talk) 10:55, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed -- Changed description from city to village. Seems to me the OP could have personally changed it far quicker than the time it took them to complain about it both here and on the Powersville discussion page. Remember the Wkipedia motto "be bold". Sector001 (talk) 19:14, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm sad that you chose to repeat a variation of your snarky comment here, as well as at my user talk. My response can be found there. --Dweller (talk) 12:50, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Request for feedback
Hello Wikiproject Missourians, I recently listed History of St. Louis, Missouri for peer review at Peer review, and I would like your feedback on the article. If you feel up to it, any comments are welcome. Thanks, poroubalous (talk) 18:41, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Missouri
Someone recently suggested that this project may be inactive or semi-active and that it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there has been no active discussions in several months and very few edits made to the project oage. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 00:57, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I still actively patrol many of the WikiProject Missouri pages for vandalism. Several others, for example Grey Wanderer, do too. I've also created new Missouri-related Wikis and enhanced several others in recent months. Perhaps just not ones on the project "to do" list. Don't mistake a lack of discussions here as neccessarily a sign of dormancy. It just means we're going about our business without folks having many "beefs" that need resolved. I would not be in favor of any sort of "takeover" of WikiProject Missouri by you personally Kumioko or by WikiProject United States. I would be interested in knowing who this unnamed "someone" is that suggested our inactivity. All they have to do is post a message here as you did and it will be answered in a timely manner.Sector001 (talk) 02:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem I will take this one of the list. I have had several editors leaving me emails and notes at various discussions about different projects. Knowone's trying to make anyone do anything they don't wanna do. To be honest though I kinda wondered too but its all good now I know. Cheers and happy editing. --Kumioko (talk) 03:10, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

There are a few of us around. I'm not as active as I'd like to be though, hopefully that will change in the future. Grey Wanderer (talk) 03:18, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

wikipedia's missouri list of executions
Under the Wikipedia's Missouri's List of Executions, Leonard Marvin Laws,was executed for the Murders of elderly couple:Charles & Lottie Williams. Not: John S. You can google his name,and find his victims,he was executed for. Actually,he killed 3 other elderly people besides Charles & Lottie Williams. One elderly victim,was born without limbs,except one arm. I knew all of the 5 elderly vitims,and Laws's co-murdering Partners-George Clifton Gilmore,and Norman Gilmore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.11.130 (talk) 01:13, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Please see Wikipedia's policies on verifiable references. Maybe my brain is in low gear today but I'm having difficulty understanding exactly what you want done. If you can provide proof -- newspaper sources, tv news etc. to back up your claim, then go for it. Sector001 (talk) 17:45, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Proposed revisions to Peabody Energy history section
Hi, due to WP:COI concerns, I was hoping to get some feedback on revisions I have proposed to the St. Louis-based Peabody Energy article’s history section. I have discussed and posted a draft of my proposed revisions in a collapsible box on that article’s talk page, but as there seems to be a low level of activity there, I was hoping another editor from this project might be willing to help out and provide some feedback. JamesClyde (talk) 14:47, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm certainly not an expert by any means, but at first glance it looks good to me. No obvious bias problems. I can understand & appreciate you wanting to get several other sets of eyes on it, considering coal -- and Peabody in particular -- are controversial to some. Thanks for asking WP Missouri to participate. Have a great Wiki kinda day. Sector001 (talk) 17:42, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Sector001, thanks for your help and feedback on this material! After providing some additional time for other editors to weigh in, I have gone ahead and implemented the revisions to the history section. JamesClyde (talk) 16:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Strange assertion in Eldon entry
I was looking at the entry for Eldon, Missouri and found this strange assertion "The Eldon Advertiser is the only legal newspaper in Eldon." What in the world is a legal newspaper? Am I missing something?Lorenzodow11 (talk) 15:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. That IS a little unusual. Never knew of an illegal newspaper either except in some communist nation or 3rd world dictatorship. It appears the info was added about 18 mos. ago by a onw-time-only editor. I'm suspecting a bit of POV violation with it and will remove that particular sentence until someone can provide clarification and/or justification otherwise. Thanks Lorenzodow11 for catching that. Sector001 (talk) 17:12, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Legal probably refers to it being the "official" paper of the community for the publishing of legal notices (e.g., tax sale notices, zoning notices, etc.). That's a not a particularly notable item about a paper (only in small towns where there are competing papers will you see that made into an issue) so it's o.k. if you deleted it.Americasroof (talk) 17:31, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis
I noticed that WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis is currently in an inactive status and would like to add it under the supported projects list of WikiProject United States. Before I do that though I wanted to give you first dibs on adding it under your scope. Please let me know if you have any questions. Kumioko (talk) 18:03, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Since this has been here for 5 days now I am going to go ahead and add WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis to the supported projects list of WPUS. Please let me know if there are any comments. Kumioko (talk) 14:19, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikimedia events in Missouri and Kansas!
Hello Mossourians and anyone in the region! You're invited to 3 exciting events Wikipedians are planning in your area this month—a tour and meetup at the National Archives in Kansas City, and Wiknics in Wichita and St. Louis:

Weaubleau-Osceola structure
The Weaubleau-Osceola structure page needs some major edits. I have completed some of those edits today as it is currently known as the Weaubleau structure. The title still needs to be changed but I do not have the ability to do that as of yet since I signed up today. I would like to do a complete rewrite of the article in the future when I get more time. A lot of information is missing that has been published over the last few years. I understand why with the cost of the journals and articles. If there is anything specific anyone would like to see added please let me know. I will try to be as thorough as possible but I may still forget or overlook something.

Some issues I plan on addressing are: 38th parallel structures, serial impact hypothesis, breccias, age, and round rocks. I may included some information on local target lithology and a model for the formation of the structure. That last bit may have to wait for publication. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Userkv8031 (talk • contribs) 16:45, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed your link above. This discussion belongs on the talk:Weaubleau-Osceola structure page so editors who have that page watchlisted can comment. Also, you can request a page renaming or moving see Moving a page. Vsmith (talk) 21:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated Barbara McClintock 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer (talk) 16:39, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Roll Call!
Happy New Year fellow denizens and devotees of the greatest state in the Union. Hasn't been a whole lot of activity recently on here so I thought it might be good to take a roll call of who is still active on our projects. Please just give a brief shoutout below to let everyone know you're still alive and active. Have a great Wiki kinda day! Sector001 (talk) 17:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorta active with this project. My time for my several wiki projects is kinda slim right now but might pick up in a couple months.  Thanks,  HornColumbia   talk  17:45, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I haven't been as active as I used to be. Hopefully that will change in the near future. Grey Wanderer (talk) 08:17, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Clever, Missouri
Hello project

Could someone take a look at Clever, Missouri and in particular the edits by User:Prussian14 from November last year to date? They look a bit suspect to me. Regards Mcewan (talk) 22:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * WHEW! Thats quite a few individual edits to go through. I went through most, all the major ones in particular, and nothing really jumped out at me as being particular wrong or "stealth vandalism". There are some style issues, WP:Peacock, boosterism and such, but nothing too major. I'll do a little tune-up on it when time permits. Was there something of particular co cern to you? Sector001 (talk) 00:57, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for that. It was the pattern of this user's other contributions where there was some clear vandalism in other articles. And I could not verify much of what he added here, for example the list of churches the part about Jim Winn and the lack of references. Your nice job on the cleanup has dealt with all that. Thanks again. Mcewan (talk) 09:34, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

More than glad to help, & TY for the compliment. The Wiki sort of drew me in, since I'm a civil war buff. Learned some new things researching that section, which is always way cool. I pulled Jim Winn til a reliable ref can be found for it. Have a great Wiki kind of day! Sector001 (talk) 16:18, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Guibourd2855.jpg
file:Guibourd2855.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 23:20, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Metro St. Louis
There is a discussion about a redirect,, at Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 May 15. As part of that I have identified a probable need for disambiguation, but it would really benefit from editors with local knowledge and/or knowledge of articles about the Greater St. Louis area. Your comments are therefore invited at the linked discussion. Thanks, Thryduulf (talk) 10:36, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

BLT cocktail
BLT cocktail is undergoing a deletion discussion about whether to delete the article from Wikipedia.
 * BLT cocktail

Please see ongoing discussion at Articles for deletion/BLT cocktail.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Concerning the "Portage Des Sioux, Missouri" page
To whom it may concern,

I was reading up on the midwest and arrived at this article and disagree with some of its content; namingly the part that says: "The city was founded in 1799 by Spanish Lt. Gov. Zenon Trudeau and François Saucier in reaction to American plans to build a military post about twelve miles (19 km) downstream."

I can assure you that the names Trudeau and Saucier are very much French and not Spanish. I also believe that if the city was founded in 1799, in that location, then it must have been part of French Lousiana (under French not Spanish rule) before it got sold to the US in 1803 in what is known as the Louisiana Purchase... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acadien42 (talk • contribs) 17:03, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I don't know anything about the history of Portage Des Sioux.
 * The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso was concluded in 1800, so as of 1799 the territory was indeed Spanish.
 * The Spanish established no real presence in Upper Louisiana which remained overwhelmingly French in character during the ~36 years of Spanish political control. I could believe that the Spanish employed the local French establishment in the governance of that enormous area, though I have no citation for such at the moment.
 * Zenon Trudeau is listed as the Lieutenant Governor of Spanish Upper Louisiana at the time in question.
 * Without knowing more about Monsieur/Señor Trudeau, I would not make emphatic declarations as to his nationality or allegiance based solely upon his surname.
 * Questions and challenges such as this are more appropriately placed on the talk page of the article in question.
 * --Kbh3rd talk 19:34, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Kingdom City, Missouri
There is a discussion regarding an image that may be of interest to this project taking place at the above-named talk page. John from Idegon (talk) 01:17, 21 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for posting this here. Grey Wanderer (talk) 03:24, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Fulton, Missouri
If anyone is interested in working on Fulton, Missouri to get it up to at least GA status please contact me.Camelbinky (talk) 00:03, 25 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I would be interested, Where do you suggest starting? Grey Wanderer (talk) 03:24, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Pat Collins GAN – need sources
I'm currently trying to take the Pat Collins article to GA. He was a baseball catcher on the Murderers' Row team from Missouri. I was wondering if any of you know where I can find sources on his early life. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 20:47, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Have you tried the State Historical Society of Missouri? They have many many newspapers and geneological records on file. Grey Wanderer (talk) 03:24, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Never-mind, I see you achieved your goal! Grey Wanderer (talk) 03:29, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission Vida, Missouri
Draft:Vida, Missouri. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:25, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but as written the article doesn't seem to pass muster. The main issue is all the information about the convenience store, what it offers, and that the business is for sale. That sort of thing usually gets deleted ASAP for violating guidelines on advertsing, etc. Instead how about including information on when the village was founded, its history, anything unique or special about it, etc. Sector001 (talk) 02:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


 * If you were to find a source from a published history book (Perhaps a history of phelps county) and remove the laundry list of connivence store offerings this could go to print. Perhaps, you could mention the connivence store, but just that. Grey Wanderer (talk) 18:23, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Hawaiian delegation
While Prince David Kawananakoa did indeed lead the Hawaiian Delegation to the convention, there are several primary sources (including Honolulu Republican 31 August 1900, p1) that mention Native Hawaiian delegate John Henry Wise as the one who cast the deciding vote on the 16-1 measure mentioned. One source (Hawaiian Star, 1 July 1904) writes "The Washington Star confuses Wise with Prince David who was also a delagate."

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Southern Missouri
I've requested an article creation of Southern Missouri here. The southern third of Missouri is distinguishable from northern two-thirds by dialect, history, and culture. Compare Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana. Is anyone interested in this project? – Confession0791 talk 05:59, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Missouri county Politics sections
Currently, all Missouri counties have lengthy Politics sections, and it seems not one is referenced and they are also somewhat outdated. I propose removing any unreferenced Missouri county Politics section. - Gilliam (talk) 18:01, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Splitting the state into geographical areas
I've noticed that is oversized (pvwer 4 pages). The best way to deal with this problem, IMO, would be to devide the state into a few areas (by county) - and then sort the per-county stub tags into these areas - like we've done with Virginia and New York. Could someone please suggest a reasonable set of areas? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:31, 16 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The Conservation Department has divided the state into eight regions by county. The breakdown can be found in the List of Missouri conservation areas article.  Would that suit the purpose here? --Kbh3rd talk  19:00, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that should do. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Upcoming event at the WWI Museum in Kansas City
Hello all! I wanted to invite everyone to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Betty Cooper Hearnes-separate article
Betty Cooper Hearnes should have her article be brought back. She had a separate political career by serving in the Missouri House of Representatives. State legislators are consider notable. Betty Hearnes may had been First Lady of Missouri but that fact alone should not had her article be merged with that of her husband Warren Hearnes. She was in the Missouri General Assembly and therefore, notable in her own right. Thank you-RFD (talk) 14:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Just for the benefit of anyone reading this, it looks like this page was restored (and rightfully so).HornColumbia (talk) 00:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

State Parks
Hi everyone. I've taken up as a project to flesh out & expand some of the wiki entries on Missouri state parks. I need some advice / questions: 1) Does anyone know of a template for an infobox that could be standardized for all parks with a list of possible amenities (boating, cabins, equestrian trails, etc) then the ones available at each specific one could be checkmarked, etc. I'm not skilled at creating new infoboxes, so I'd like to just alter an existing template if possible. Make sense? 2) Would using pics of various state parks grabbed off of the official Mo. DNR websites be allowable for use in wiki entries under "fair use" doctrine or "public" yada yada? We have some beautiful parks here in our state, would be a shame to not show them off in the articles with some pics. Some of the Wiki Commons rules get so draconian and confusing it just makes my head spin! lol Sector001 (talk) 02:27, 20 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Sector, this really needs to be done; it's exciting to see someone take interest in it. I don't really know the answers to any of your questions at the moment, but I'd be willing to help. If you need anything don't hesitate to ask. Grey Wanderer (talk) 02:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll help--I just bought a huge book with all the parks listed; this could be big-time DYK material too! I'm sure there's some infobox park or other. Fair use does not apply there, though.  — fetch ·  comms   00:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * seems to be the standard.  — fetch ·  comms   00:53, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Conflicting Information
Ludwigsburg is cited as the sister city of St. Charles starting in 1996, while St. Charles is listed as the sister city in the Ludwigsburg article beginning in 1995. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.91.202.216 (talk) 01:22, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If possible, find a reliable source to verify the date, or just remove it from both.  — fetch ·  comms   19:58, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Missouri
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 18:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Out of bordem i looked up our wonderful town while i was deployed to Kandahar Afghanastan. My name is Logan Portell son to Kenneth "Butch" Portell and Faye Portell. Wish me luck! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.24.130.61 (talk) 18:53, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject St. Louis and WikiProject Kansas City
There haven't been some tecent edits to improve the wikipages in the WikiProjects. We need to start editting and organizing those pages so we can stay on top of them. (Jordan S. Wilson (talk) 04:46, 19 September 2010 (UTC))

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

James Shields listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for James Shields to be moved to James Shields (politician, born 1810). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:44, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers metropolitan area listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers metropolitan area to be moved to Northwest Arkansas. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:00, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Brown Derby (company) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Brown Derby (company) to be moved to Brown Derby (liquor company). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:01, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Kevin O'Malley listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Kevin O'Malley to be moved to Kevin F. O'Malley. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:20, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

BLP Missouri politician
I just found this article: Wes Shoemaker. I googled but found nothing and he isn't listed on any of the state's legislative lists. Could the article just be old, or is it wrong, or am I wrong? Any assistance would be great. Outback the koala (talk) 05:07, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * sorry, it just a double article. Here the actual one: Wes Shoemyer. Outback the koala (talk) 05:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that Outback. I've been reworking the correct one, Wes ShoeMYER, but nver knew there was an orphan out there with his last name spelled wrong. I don't have any experience with getting an entire Wiki deleted. Can someone on the WikiMissouri project help? Just make sure to delete Wes Shoemaker and NOT Wes Shoemyer lol! Much thanks! Sector001 (talk) 05:34, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I put it for afd at Articles for deletion/Wes Shoemaker. Outback the koala (talk) 05:46, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Problem solved. One of the head honcho editors deleted the Shoemaker wiki. All is well again.Sector001 (talk) 18:24, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Eminem
Eminem, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. <b style="color:#454545">Snuggums</b> (<b style="color:#454545">talk</b> / <b style="color:#454545">edits</b>) 05:17, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ RobTalk 01:16, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

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Requesting help to expand and update the Maritz, LLC article
Hello, I'm trying to expand and update the Maritz, LLC Wikipedia article on behalf of Maritz Holdings, Inc., which is based in St. Louis. More specifically, I am hoping to find neutral editors who can review the "Corporate overview", "Current subsidiaries", and/or "Former subsidiaries" sections proposed here. As I mentioned in the edit request, I know this is a lot of text to review, and I am fine with separating this one request into separate requests for each section, if necessary. This request is not to change existing text but to expand information about the company's overall structure and subsidiaries. All of the information is sourced, and I've made neutrality a top priority. I am happy to answer questions on my talk page or within the edit request on the article's talk page. Thanks for any help in advance. 71.91.238.194 (talk) 21:55, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:48, 30 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks, since I created Portal:Missouri I went ahead and listed myself as a maintainer of that portal. Grey Wanderer (talk) 05:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:47, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update. Grey Wanderer (talk) 06:52, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

GAR
Slackers CDs and Games has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 03:27, 7 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Noting that article was delisted. Grey Wanderer (talk) 16:13, 20 October 2022 (UTC)