Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/Archive 5

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma/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 16:17, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Tulsa World
Hello, I am a fairly new registered user and have been trying to clean up the Tulsa World page, as was on your list of pages to clean up. I found citations for some of the statements in it that were uncited, removed extra spaces and got rid of World references, replacing them with Tulsa World. I also tried to get rid of some biased wording like "highly personal" in a sentence. Please keep an eye on it, to move it out of the cleaning up category when you are happy with my improvements. Okiebradshaw (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Oklahoma Sooners football
I have done a GA Reassessment of the Oklahoma Sooners football article as part of the GA Sweeps project. My review is here. I have found problems with the article that will require work to maintain its GA status. I have placed the article on hold and I am notifying all interested editors and projects. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 17:58, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Archive
This page is now archived by a bot.-- Steam Iron  23:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Project Page Redo
I Would like to redo the Projects page in order to stream line and clean it up to make it more user friendly. I plan to make a user page in order for you guys to see the changes. I just would like to get some input.-- Steam Iron  00:21, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * That sounds good, not much has changed on the Projects page in years. Just provide a link to the user page when you have it up.  Narthring (talk  • contribs) 18:18, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree.—NMajdan •talk 18:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm just getting started but when I'm Finished I will provide a link for you all to take a look at to see if some things need to be added or removed.-- Steam Iron  23:52, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

If you would like to see what i have so far heres the link User:Dcheagle/WP:OK-- Steam Iron  13:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. I'd move the userboxes to the end of the section.—NMajdan •talk 19:19, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks great.Kiddo27 (talk) 06:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks I'm no way near done with it yet and I'm still trying some things out.-- Steam Iron  09:52, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm Just about done so if you Please Take a look Here.-- Steam  <font color="Black">Iron  21:36, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Very nice and streamlined. The only thing that I see missing is the OK article recent changes which I've found very useful. Kiddo27 (talk) 00:29, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed-- <font color="Red">Steam <font color="Black">Iron  00:44, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The Page is done so take a look Here and lets see when we can do the change over. Also if you see some thing wrong or missing go right ahead and fix it I Don't mind just use edit summary's to explain that your from here.-- <font color="Red">Steam <font color="Black">Iron  06:09, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * That looks very good in my opinion. I don't see anything missing.  Narthring (talk  • contribs) 18:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed Kiddo27 (talk) 03:08, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Could I then begin the the change over-- <font color="Red">Steam <font color="Black">Iron  06:22, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm cool with that. Kiddo27 (talk) 14:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

I have done the switch over if you see anything wrong let me know.-- <font color="Red">Steam <font color="Black">Iron  08:22, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

barnstar
I created an Oklahoma Barnstar. Feel free to use. Kiddo27 (talk) 21:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Newsletter
I plan to jump start the newsletter so if anyone would like to help. I hope to have an issue for the month of June-- <font color="Red">Steam <font color="Black">Iron  06:04, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Deletion sorting/Oklahoma
Some interested editors may not be aware that discussions of Articles for Deletion relevant to Oklahoma can be found at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Oklahoma. I added a link to this page in the OK navigation template, and interested editors may wish to add this page to their watchlist. --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:49, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok Thank you for the heads up.-- <font color="Red">Steam <font color="Black">Iron  01:43, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Ray Murphy, Jr.
Recent updates have beem made at Ray Murphy, Jr. but the article could use some more local input.--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:40, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

USS Oklahoma
In August I would like to start work on the USS Oklahoma page as its start class and deserves to be expanded to provided more information about its history and the men that lost there life's on Dec 7, 1941. If anyone would like to take part in this task let me know on my talk page.-- <font color="#ffffff">Steam <font color="#ffffff">Iron  12:58, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Oklahoma
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 21:25, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Oklahoma articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Oklahoma 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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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) 20:13, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Norman music festival
I recently created an article on the Norman Music Festival. It's probably as complete as it can be for now. I've noticed that most Oklahoma-related articles say that they are "within the scope of Wikiprojects Oklahoma." Not being entirely sure what that means I thought I would post here and make you guys aware of the new article. Okguy (talk) 04:32, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * All the that means is it has something to do with the State of Oklahoma. I will place the ok tag om its talk page.--<font face="Goudy Stout" color="Black">Steam <font face="Goudy Stout" color="FireBrick">Iron 02:45, 6 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) 19:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for this project to be supported by WikiProject United States
It was 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 very little activity on either the main project page or talk page. Before any action is taken I want to ensure that the members of the project concur with this action. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 17:28, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open for 11 days so far with no comment. Does anyone have any comments or concerns about this suggestion? --Kumioko (talk) 21:22, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There are only a few of us that remain in the project I will send out a project wide notice of this. Can you provide more information about this.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 00:08, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

First 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 and the scope won't change unless the members want it too. How it will be supported can depend on what the members of the project want. Typically though since 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.

The main change would be that the WikiProject banner would be replaced with the WPUS banner and would support the full range of quality and importance categories. You can take a look at Category talk:Visitor attractions in South Carolina to see an example of how it will look in the banner. All the projects support a standard group of parameters such as Needs infobox, image, map, attention, geo coordinates, references, etc. We also have categories for tracking which articles have to do lists and comments associated to them. We will also make sure that any applicable automation tools are setup such as article alerts, Recognized content, popular pages, etc. This also reduces the number of banners on the talk page of the articles and still allows various bots to do their business, etc.

This all means that the project and its articles will be seen by a lot of people in a lot of ways. It will allow the editors of the United States to work as one big team as well as in smaller groups in there projects rather than a bunch of individual projects with little contact between them. It will expand the projects current level of automation and expand its ability to categorize different problems in articles so they can be addressed.

Just for general info up till now we have mostly been concentrating on building up the project but by the end of the month we will have pretty much determined who needs or wants support and will be able to focus on other things like recruiting for the projects and article improvement some drives to build up articles, create new ones, etc. I hope this helps. With all that said if the project members aren't interested in support that.s fine. This is just a suggestion and no one is forcing anyone to do anything. --Kumioko (talk) 01:23, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your quick response, I have sent out a project wide notice. As soon as its received by all active users we'll begin talking about this.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 01:38, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Not a problem at all I appreciate you doing that. I would rather wait a bit longer to make sure everyone has had a chance to comment then go too soon and anger the members. --Kumioko (talk) 01:48, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to check back and see if there was anyone who had a comment? --Kumioko (talk) 00:24, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * My thoughts are the same as at the Kansas project. <b style="color:#009900;">Ks0stm</b> (T•C•G) 00:29, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I think its a good idea but I would like to see what other members of the project think.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 00:36, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, I agree. --Kumioko (talk) 00:43, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I didn't realize how inactive this wikiproject has been recently. Personally I cannot see any advantages of changing this wikiproject's template and would prefer not to join WPUS. WPUS already is the parent project of WPOK so further integration seems unnecessary. I can try to stir up more activity for WPOK when I'm not so busy (in two weeks). -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:09, 14 September 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * The project is active just not on the project pages all the members are actively editing. I did a purge of the members list a few weeks back just to check and everyone of them was editing. As for me I don't see any disadvantageous to merging its not like the project will just go away If anything it might pull members in. But with ether option its up to the project to decide in the end. Hints the message that was sent out today alerting the project to this.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 00:33, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

As a longtime participant in WikiProject Oklahoma, I strongly oppose the proposal to place it under the banner of WikiProject United States for three reasons:

(1)	As noted by other Wikipedians contributing to this discussion, WikiProject Oklahoma is already a “child WikiProject” of WikiProject United States which should render this discussion moot. (2)	One of reasons I have always liked WikiProject Oklahoma is its wider array of articles in comparison to other U.S. state WikiProjects, which could be subjected to even more deletion discussions and criticisms of non-notability or low-importance if the WikiProject were placed under the banner of WikiProject United States. (3)	Based upon my experience with WikiProject United States Government, another WikiProject that met the “fate” being proposed here, I saw a sharp decline in activity at that WikiProject following its placement under the “support” of WikiProject United States.

I hope that the arguments I have presented above will help convince my fellow WikiProject Oklahoma participants that this proposal should be soundly rejected. --TommyBoy (talk) 03:48, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Its really no problem to me if the members don't want to be supported but just for clarification being a child project doesn't = support. The bots, newsletter etc won't automatically go to the members and the bots won't run against the articles. As for US Government, that project was marked inactive when I added it to the list of supported projects (as well as several others such as Us governors and US state legislatures) and I would argue the definition of decline, more articles have been added to the project and more edits have been made to those articles. I'm not sure why the activity dropped off but it could also be contributed to the sharp decline in overall editor participation throughout Wikipedia. Which is part of the reason I am trying to see what projects want or need support. In general though I would say the editors just lost interest and moved on, which is a shame. These projects individually still need editor participation I am simply trying to take some of the pressure off so the editors can focus more on the articles and less on the projects. --Kumioko (talk) 13:17, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

I think for the time being, not at this time. I just don't see any real advantages overall and I like the autonomous of this project. Granted, the project itself has been lacking in vision and direction for some time on what needs to be done, but I don't see how incorporating into another project will help drive interest to edit articles about OK. Maybe when I see how other state projects turn out in the future I might change my feelings. --Crimsonedge34 (talk) 09:24, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok I'm going to take Oklahoma and Tulsa off the list. --Kumioko (talk) 11:17, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

A couple suggestions for the project
Since this project does not wish to be supported by WikiProject United States I'll leave these suggestions here if anyone wants to take them for action.
 * 1) I found quite a bit of content containing Oklahoma, Ok, OK and Tulsa that isn't tagged for the project yet. I created a page for that here with about 6000 pieces of content. There are quite a few redirects but there are a lot of articles as well. There may also be a few false positives but I haven't scrubbed it much yet.
 * 2) The project doesn't currently track the following things: needing infoboxes, needing references, containing comments, containing to do lists, the project doesn't have a to do list linked, needing geo coordinates, needing images, needing attention, needing maps. This will allow editors interested in that topic area to more easily focus there efforts.
 * 3) The project doesn't currently track non article content of: Category, Template, Book, Redirect, Project, Portal, Disambig, File and FM. I recommend adding these. This will allow Article alert bot to notify the project if any of these content types are suggested for discussion, deletion, review, etc without having to watch all the for discussion, deletion, review boards as closely.
 * 4) The University of Oklahoma project seems to be inactive and I recommend lookingn into adding it as a taskforce to the Oklahoma project. --Kumioko (talk) 14:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * How would I go about added the things listed on 2 an 3. As for WikiProject University of Oklahoma I would be Ok with that being brought down as a task-force heck it should have been a task-force in the first place.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 20:37, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Speaking as (last I checked) the only regularly active person in the OU WikiProject (and I only joined it a month or two ago), I'm all for its integration into the Oklahoma project. I can't do everything by myself. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 20:44, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it would be a great idea to see it integrated, Ill start messing with integration later tonight after I look at some things.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 20:53, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I can do some banner work on #1. AnnaJune (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:33, 15 September 2011 (UTC).
 * OK, the 20 random articles I looked at had the project banner on the talk page. Maybe I don't understand the task. AnnaJune (talk) 23:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The goal is to put the project banner on the talk pages of any of the pages listed here If Wikiproject Oklahoma's banner is already on a page then skip to the next one on the list.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 00:38, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I fixed the list, my apologies for that. --Kumioko (talk) 00:59, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Feel free to move that list to a subpage under my own user name as to not have to use up your own userspace.
 * Its really no problem but its moved as requested. --Kumioko (talk) 01:11, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * How would we go about setting up the things you listed under 2 an 3.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 01:20, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * First I would suggest creating a sandbox for the template and make sure they work before implementing on the live template. I would recommend creating the categories first and then adding the coding to the template. Then you'll need to populate the categories either by hand or by bot. There are several bots capable of doing this. If you would like I can do most of those changes pretty quickly since I have done it several times already. --Kumioko (talk) 02:01, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Is there any pages that explain this more indepth.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 02:14, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Unforunately, not really. There is some documentation but its pretty lacking in my opinion and rather hard to follow. Frankly working with the WikiProject banner template coding can make the head hurt. I went ahead and created the coding in the sandbox so you can see what it looks like. I have found that the easiest way to create all the categories and pages when adding multiple items like this is to add all the ones you want to a subpage and then just start from the top and work down. Some things can be easily templated like the class and importance categories because you usually only have to change one or 2 things from one category to the next. I created a subpage here to make it easier to determine what categories and project pages need to be created. I used the standard naming I have been using for the WPUS pages in case this project is supported at some point in the future. I hope this helps. --Kumioko (talk) 02:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow Thank you I will take a look at all of this and see what I need to do. Also thanks again your being mighty helpful.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 02:53, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. Ill help out with the categories and stuff tomorrow unless someone beats me too it. --Kumioko (talk) 02:59, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * All categories are built, most pages are created, I fixed the template code so you should be able to implement that whenever your ready. I also verified tulsa and UofOK were setup for Recognized content with JL-bot and Article alertbot so whenever those kick off they should be good to go. The only thing that still needs to be done is to update the projects to do lists and to populate the new categories with content. The other thing I didn't do was to consolodate the membership lists. What I recommend here is to create subpages under the projects for Active members, then put all the active members on the membership page of the Oklahoma project so that if a user adds their name in either place it updates both. Please let me know if you need any more help. Oh sorry you might want to update the template doumentation as well once its implemented. and deprecate the UofOK template. If you take a look at Template:WikiProject Arizona you can see how I did it in the history. --Kumioko (talk) 14:54, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok Thank you I will be spending the afternoon looking at everything.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 18:36, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject University of Oklahoma
It seems that there are maybe Three active Participants in the project, Im going to message them and ask if they care if the project is brought under this Wiki project as a Taskforce. If they don't I will merge the project into a task force.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 00:52, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * You have my blessing.»<font style="font:bold 11px monospace;">NMajdan ·<font style="font:9px sans-serif; color:#000;">talk 15:54, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Like I said above, I'm fine with it. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 16:10, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I will begin work on merging the project with this one.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 20:41, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject University of Oklahoma→Task-force OU
It seems that there is consensuses to bring the project under WikiProject Oklahoma I believe a name change is in order I plan to change it to Task-force OU. I However would like the input from the two members who gave the Ok as such I will leave a message on their talk pages.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 21:16, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Enh, I'd say just make the name "OU Task Force", but other than that sure. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 05:34, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ether one is good to me.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 05:45, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Merging the banners
Did you still want some help with merging the UOFOK banner with Oklahoma? If so I can probably start working on that in the next couple days. I just wanted to double check before I started working on it cause once it starts it'll be done within a couple hours. --Kumioko (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes there are 600 some odd pages that need the banners replaced.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 15:26, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks I'll get on that. --Kumioko (talk) 16:02, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, you have been a massive help with this. --<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 04:44, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Its no problem glad to be of help. I'm glad you are taking such an active role in the OK project. I wish all the others had the same kind of support. The bot is running right now and by morning it should have converted the majority. Ill sweep through and cleanup any it missed manually and let you know if I notice anything that needs to be fixed. --Kumioko (talk) 04:42, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * BTW the both is going to cleanup a bunch of other things too (banner names, invalid parameters, adding titled to untitled talk messages, add WikiProject banner shell, etc.) so if you have any questions or concerns about one of these secondary edits please let me know. I already see a couple things that Ill fix once its done tomorrow. Some pages will have 2 WPOK banners so Ill merge them and then a lot of the categories are marked as class=NA so Ill fix those tomorrow as well. Please let me know if you see anything else that needs to be fixed. --Kumioko (talk) 04:46, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok it should be all done. Please let me know if you need anything else. --Kumioko (talk) 23:57, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sweet thanks.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 08:37, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Gary England
Would anyone object if I were to offer a WikiProject Oklahoma barnstar at the reward board for getting this article up to GA or higher status? Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 04:07, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure go for it. That's why the barnstar was created for in the first place.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 04:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Pioneer Library System
An article on the Pioneer Library System is needed. You can use and their website as starting points. Thanks. 72.244.206.178 (talk) 08:56, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * If I have time in the future I'll take a look at it.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 19:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Bavinger House
More editors' eyes would be appreciated at the Bavinger House article. This important Bruce Goff house in Norman, a winner of the AIA Twenty-five Year Award, recently suffered serious damage of uncertain origin and is now closed; the article has seen a series of edits from a variety of IP addresses making a variety of changes, some of which delete reliable sources and replace them with unreliable ones, some of which have made unsourced accusations against the University of Oklahoma or persons connected therewith, and many of which appear to violate WP:NPOV, WP:OR, and/or (in some earlier versions) WP:BLP. (See this comparison showing the cumulative changes by the IP editors over the last week.)  Engaging constructively with the IP editor(s) has proven difficult. The situation could benefit from some fresh eyes. --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:35, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Oklahoma will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Oklahoma's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:32, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Mike Morgan (meteorologist) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mike Morgan (meteorologist) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Mike Morgan (meteorologist) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.
 * I nominated this article for deletion a week ago (it's been relisted) but I could really use input at the AfD from people in Oklahoma as to whether he's notable or not (living out of state I had still heard of Gary England and Rick Mitchell but I had never heard of Mike Morgan). Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 03:10, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I've thrown my two-cents in.--<font face="Georgia" color="DarkRed">Dch <font face="Georgia" color="Black">eagle 04:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Percent of indian by Counties of Oklahoma
Where I get Percent of indian by Counties of Oklahoma?--Kaiyr (talk) 14:34, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you mean percentage of Native Americans living in Oklahoma's counties. If so I would look at census data from 2010, that should give you the percentage.-- <font color="#000080">Dch <font color="#000080">eagle | <font color="#007DC4">GO TEAM USA </b> 21:35, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. Ok. Thanx--Kaiyr (talk) 10:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Your welcome.-- <font color="#000080">Dch <font color="#000080">eagle | <font color="#007DC4">GO TEAM USA </b> 11:46, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Westerns
Well, it's not particularly well worded for non-userpages, but yeah, this WikiProject is now setup and still in the early stages of building its project area before user-participation can really begin to function. Anyone interested, please feel free to join. Note, this project not only covers film and TV, but Western novels, comics, actors, directors and authors, etc who make the fictional-Wild West possible. Thanks, <font color="#001C56">Ma<font color="#B40000">&reg;&copy; usBr<font color="#B40000">iti sh {chat} 01:46, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

OK Digital Maps Collection
I was referred to this page after being reprimanded. I have gone through the process of asking permission to add an external link-http://www.library.okstate.edu/okmaps/ Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory- to wiki pages that are connected to the topics of oklahoma history and geography. I felt that one of the first editors I communicated with gave me permission to cautiously move forward. I am only adding this external link to pages that I feel are connected in some way to the maps that are in the map's collection housed in the Edmond Low Library at Oklahoma State University. However, other editors have told me to stop even after I have explained what I am adding and that I had previously asked permission. I'm not trying to degrade any of the pages when I add this link but rather I hope to strengthen them. I have reviewed at least 500+ pages related to Oklahoma and I understand that users sometimes add questionable links. I just would hope that someone would take the time to look at the link that I am adding and provide me with a decision on if I can continue or not? I feel I am running out of other options. Thank you for your time. Athiker99 (talk) 22:20, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hang on while I look into all of this before I give my answer. After looking into the discussions and your edit history and the articles that your placing this link on, I would say that you need to reframe from adding it to every Oklahoma related article as I considered that as link spam, however I see no issue when the link is added to "county articles, city articles, regional articles, historical articles" but I would use caution when placing the link by making sure the link actually is connected to the subject of the article ie if you place the link in Oklahoma County then there should be images of maps of Oklahoma County. Cause if there's no connection then why should there be a link for it. All in all use caution and make sure there's a connection and you should be fine in the eyes of this project.--  Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 01:27, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer and guidance. Athiker99 (talk) 22:05, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Your welcome, If you ever need to ask a question ask it here or on my talk page and I will be glad the answer it.-- Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 03:16, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Upcoming FAC: Creek Turnpike
I wanted to give everyone at WP:OK a heads-up that Creek Turnpike will be headed to FAC soon. It is a GA, and is currently undergoing A-Class Review at WikiProject Highways. As soon as that process is done, I'll take it to FAC. Any interested editors (especially those Tulsa/Broken Arrow-area) are invited to take a look and improve the article if you have anything to add! —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 01:41, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Creek Turnpike is now at FAC and awaiting reviews. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 00:33, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl FAC
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is currently undergoing a Featured Article Candidate review at Featured article candidates/Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl/archive1. I would invite anyone interested in going by, looking at the article, and if inclined, adding your comments. Regards. GregJackP  Boomer!   19:49, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Renominate Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl FAC
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GA nomination of Oklahoma City
Any interested editors are welcome to help address issues listed at Talk:Oklahoma City/GA1, where the original nominator is not responding. This is a key article which would be good to be a GA for your project. Please mark anything you fix on the page with an indented done. Thanks,  Rcsprinter123    (gimme a message)  @ 22:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Title name for Land Run of 1889
I wonder if you could help me out. I've had a question on Talk:Land Run of 1889 about whether the title should be Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 to be a little clearer.

This question would also apply to:
 * Land Run of 1891
 * Land Run of 1892
 * Land Run of 1893
 * Land Run of 1895

I have seen it used with and without "Oklahoma", but it seems if a number of articles are named "Oklahoma Land Run..." or "Oklahoma Land Rush...". Conversely, I wonder if the state is not included in the name because Oklahoma wasn't a state yet. Your insight would be very helpful!--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'><font color=' #4997D0'>CaroleHenson (<font color=' #4997D0'>talk ) 06:23, 12 May 2014 (UTC


 * Well the main reason why the first one is not named Oklahoma land run of 1889, is the simple fact that at the time Oklahoma didn't exist. Oklahoma territory wasn't established till a year later on May 2, 1890. As for the others its more along the lines of common name. Nearly all of the land runs had other names but most of them are mostly known as the Land Run of 1881 and so on. Also do to the fact that there have never been any other Land runs in the United States there seems to be no why that you can mistake these land runs for any others. If you fill other wise the fill free to request a move on any or all of them. If you have anymore questions please feel free to leave me a message here or on my talk page.-- Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 22:06, 12 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense! I don't think it warrants a move, particularly because of your explanation. I may create redirects using "Oklahoma Land...", though. Thanks again, that helps!--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'><font color=' #4997D0'>CaroleHenson (<font color=' #4997D0'>talk ) 22:16, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me glad I could help.-- Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 22:40, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirects Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, etc. are ✅. Thanks again for your insight!--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'><font color=' #4997D0'>CaroleHenson (<font color=' #4997D0'>talk ) 01:13, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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 ) 21:02, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Oklahoma At Wikimania 2014
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson
I'm wondering whether there is anyone in Oklahoma, perhaps at university with easy access to databases, who would be able to help me find some primary sources for this article. I'd like to take it to featured-article status, but the secondary sources are inconsistent, so I would need to read the primary sources for myself.

In particular I'm looking for the following:


 * 1) Confirmation of the date of death in Okemah, OK, of Deputy Sheriff George H. Loney; I believe he died on 2 May 1911.
 * 2) Any newspaper reports, or original legal papers, related to the murder charges, including the preliminary hearing for Lawrence Nelson, which I believe took place on or around 11 May 1911; I believe Lawrence was known as L.D. Nelson or L.W. Nelson.
 * 3) Front page of the Okemah Ledger, 25 May 1911; I believe the headline was "Lynchers Avenge the Murder of Geo. Loney, The Nelson Woman and Her Boy are Taken from the County Jail by Unknown Parties and Swung from Bridge Across North Canadian".
 * 4) The Omekah Independent, Vol. 7, No. 36, 25 May 1911: "Woman and Boy Lynched, A Mob Enters the County Jail Last Night and Take two Negro Prisoners Whom They Hang from a Bridge".
 * 5) The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Friday, 26 May 1911: "Woman Lynched by Side of Son, Okfuskee County Mob Takes Double Revenge for Officer's Death, Bridge is Gallows." That one appears to be available here.
 * 6) Tulsa World, 26 May 1911: "Mother and Son are Lynched at Okeemah, jailor is surprised and bodies later found dangling from a bridge".

I'd be willing to pay for expenses incurred in accessing the databases. If no one here is able to help directly, any suggestions would be appreciated too, e.g. the names of local historians who may be able to help. I've tried the Oklahoma Historical Society with no luck so far. Any advice gratefully received. SlimVirgin (talk) 03:53, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

GA review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Elizabeth_Warren/GA2#GA_Reassessment - You  really  can  21:37, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

RfC
Please see RfC on Battle of Doaksville talk page. Bruin2 (talk) 15:47, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Bell's Amusement Park
The former Bell's Amusement Park in Tulsa had a history of controversies when it was open, and so it is perhaps not surprising that the article also has had a contentious editing history, with recurrent POV issues, and edits removing large amounts of what other editors might deem to be properly sourced and relevant content. Input from additional Oklahoma-interested editors would be appreciated. --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:50, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Bradley Manning/October 2013 move request‎
Greetings! In accordance with the conditions set forth in the previous discussion of the Bradley Manning/Chelsea Manning title dispute, a new move request has been filed and is now underway. bd2412 T 20:52, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
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Proposal to merge Mayo Building (Tulsa, Oklahoma) and Petroleum Building
There are two articles that refer to the same building, Mayo Building (Tulsa, Oklahoma) and Petroleum Building. Both articles are within the scope of this WikiProject. I have proposed merging them at Talk:Mayo_Building_(Tulsa,_Oklahoma). Your comments on how to best handle the merger (i.e. which should be the canonical name and which the redirect) are appreciated. 0x0077BE ( talk ·  contrib ) 01:18, 19 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I oppose the merger at this time. I question whether these two buildings are identical. The NRHP summary (www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OK/Tulsa)/state.html lists them separately with two different NRIS numbers:
 * Mayo Building (#08001152) at 420 South Main.
 * Petroleum Building (#82003706) at 420 South Boulder.
 * The images look similar and both show a building adjacent to the Mayo Hotel. I think more investigation is needed to resolve whether they are the same building, before attempting to merge the pages.Bruin2 (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, we actually got this sorted out yesterday. They are indeed two separate buildings. The infobox for both buildings used to say 420 S. Main Street, but Petroleum Building is actually at 420 S. Boulder Ave. figured out the mistake. The buildings are a block away from one another, and when I was in Tulsa a few months back I went to take photos of the Petroleum Building (not knowing about the Mayo Building), went to the address in the infobox and found the Mayo Building, but since the Petroleum Building was later occupied by the Mayo furniture company, I figured they were the same building. Luckily, I had gotten a bit turned around and when I saw a building numbered "420" in the right general vicinity I took a photo of it, so by random happenstance I did manage to get a photo of the right building. Sorry for the confusion.  0x0077BE  ( talk ·  contrib ) 11:37, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Editing help needed for Oklahoma articles
Many (maybe most) of the articles related to WP:Oklahoma have citations for the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture (EOHC). All of these cited articles now have new URLs, so the old links do not work. There are no redirects to the new sites. The new general link for the EOHC on-line index is http://www.okhistory.org/publications/encyclopediaonline. Please help Wikipedia by replacing the old URLs with the new ones whenever you have the opportunity. Thank you. Bruin2 (talk) 16:54, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok thank for the heads up I will begin replacing links later today.-- Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 19:40, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Geographic map of Oklahoma
Hello! I made a geographic map of Oklahoma here. It may happen that there are some inaccuracies as I do not know the state well so please feel free to comment. If you have any ideas for improvement you are welcome. Thanks --Ikonact (talk) 09:26, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Help with Aubrey McClendon?
Hi Okies and interested non-Okies! I'm working to improve the article for Aubrey McClendon, current CEO of American Energy Partners, LP and founding CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corporation. McClendon is a local to Oklahoma City and has been heavily involved with many businesses and organizations in the area, so I thought to ask here to see if folks would be able to help.

Are there any editors active here who might be interested in helping me work through some proposed edits? I'm hoping to discuss changes here rather than making the edits myself as I have a conflict of interest. I've written a new draft for the article on behalf of Aubrey McClendon, as a paid consultant, while trying at all times to maintain a neutral tone in my writing. An editor has already reviewed the proposed draft and was mainly positive. While they did have concerns about one section, they've not been back online since I asked if they could clarify a bit so that I can work on updating the draft. It's now been a few weeks, so I'm hoping editors here can take a look. Looking forward to your feedback! Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 14:02, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Earthquake swarms draft
I am working on a draft at Draft:2009–15 Oklahoma earthquake swarms. I already notified WikiProject Earthquakes a few months ago. I just thought I should mention it. Dustin ( talk ) 15:00, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I have moved this draft to the article mainspace; it is now located at 2009–15 Oklahoma earthquake swarms. Dustin  ( talk ) 23:04, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Peer review request
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FLRC for List of birds of Oklahoma
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Justin Brown (wide receiver) listed at Requested moves
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United States v. Ramsey (1926) FA nomination
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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) 04:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Draft class
I started Category:Draft-Class Oklahoma articles for draft articles related to Oklahoma. It's worth including here somewhere. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:03, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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Alfalfa County
Since I have a family interest in the area, I have added an article for the town of Driftwood. In addition, I have added history to towns of Burlington and Byron. I have started to beef up the history of Alfalfa county and would welcome help - especially from natives of the county.Jsniessen (talk) 17:29, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Missing Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices
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Category:Oklahoma Women& has been nominated for discussion
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Category:Oklahoma Hall of Fame has been nominated for discussion
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Help on Oklahoma CEO article
Hi there! I'm looking for editors who might be interested to take a look at updates to an article about an Oklahoma company's CEO. On behalf LegalShield and The Pollack PR Marketing Group, and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I have drafted an updated and expanded Jeff Bell (executive) Wikipedia article, which currently has a warning banner saying it is written like a résumé and needs additional sources for verification. Due to my COI I won't edit the article directly, so I'm looking for neutral editors to review this draft. If you're interested, you can see my edit request on the article's talk page. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 19:49, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Back here with a quick update. The improvements to the Jeff Bell article have been completed. Related to this, I've written an updated draft for the LegalShield Wikipedia article. As noted above, this is an Oklahoma-based company and I'm reaching out here to find editors to review the proposed re-write and implement content appropriately. Any interested WikiProject Oklahoma members can view more details on the article's Talk page. I've placed the full draft into my user space, to give an idea of the updates as a whole, but I'm open to working through section-by-section if preferred. Thanks in advance for any help. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 02:57, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply I'll try and take a look at it later today. Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 20:45, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * If you're still able to take a look at the LegalShield draft, I'd love to get your feedback. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 20:58, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Please re-assess Leadership Square article
Please re-assess the Leadership Square article. I believe it no longer qualifies as a stub given its recent expansion. As an editor, I assume that I should not be involved with the assessment.--Rpclod (talk) 14:39, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for the expansion. Looks good. I would suggest sourcing for the lease rate quotes at the end of the history section. In my experience, an editor can self-assess up to start-class with little concern from other editors; it is wise to ask others for help. A b-class assessment should be performed by an uninvolved editor. BusterD (talk) 15:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Murder of Heather Rich
Could someone please look over the Murder of Heather Rich article please? (as for that tv episode about it being called A Murder before Homecoming, does anyone think that an episode about a same aged male victim would have been called A Murder before Flipping Burgers?). Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 09:57, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Image requested
Is a project member able to upload a photograph of the Ten Commandments Monument (Oklahoma City)? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:48, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

New Oklahoma userbox templates
New Oklahoma userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Oklahoma and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:03, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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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  07:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Tulsa flag
The flag of Tulsa has been changed and can be seen at http://www.tulsaflag.com the article will need to be updated. This would also be a good opportunity to level it out of stub class. My username is cloaker416, but I'm not signed in so I'll leave my IP aswell. Thanks! 202.169.105.192 (talk) 15:30, 8 July 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  15:46, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Requested move
There is a requested move at Talk:Tulsa race riot that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help!  Paine Ellsworth , ed.  put'r there  01:30, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Mount Saint Mary's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Mary_High_School_(Oklahoma) I have a few things I could add to the page but am not sure if it would make it sound too much like an advertisement. Firestarforever (talk) 01:10, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Different names same river
Beaver River (Oklahoma) and the North Canadian River are the same river with interchangeable names. I thought Beaver River might be about that part in Oklahoma but it does not appear to be the case. Otr500 (talk) 09:05, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * See: Talk:Beaver River (Oklahoma). Otr500 (talk) 09:29, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

FAR for Oklahoma
I have nominated Oklahoma 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. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  06:20, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Tulsa
I have nominated Tulsa, Oklahoma 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. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  00:41, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

New article on Oklahoma wrestling coach Port Robertson
I've written an article on Port Robertson, the wrestling coach at the University of Oklahoma in the 1940s and 1950s. I've rated him as low priority for this wikiproject, but I'd appreciate someone with a bit more knowledge of Oklahoma to correct that if necessary. Thank you!  C Thomas<sup style="font-size: x-small; color: brown;">3   (talk) 08:02, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Trail of Tears
A user has made significant changes to the lead of Trail of Tears, which is of interest to this WikiProject per the article's Talk page; members here may wish to review. Dmoore5556 (talk) 12:13, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Essential article needed
Posting this here as the article requests page for this project seems pretty abandoned. A page really should exist on Wikipedia about Julius Jones, the prisoner on death row in Oklahoma accused of murder. The case is receiving international attention, people like Kim Kardashian and others have drawn attention to it, and I am surprised it doesn't yet exist on Wikipedia. The current Julius Jones article is about an American football player, but a look at the talk page shows many users are assuming this is the man on death row, hence why this article should exist as it's causing confusion. Wondered if anyone in this project would be interested in creating this article? Thank you. Inexpiable (talk) 14:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I added this to the Article requests section at Portal:Oklahoma/Things you can do (diff). North America1000 03:38, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Draft:James E. Stewart (civil rights leader)
Can someone please look at this draft? It has been declined for reasons of tone. It is too obviously written to praise its subject. While its subject is notable, and should be praised for a distinguished career in civil rights, Wikipedia praises the great by describing them neutrally and trusting that the reader has common sense. Can someone take a look at neutralizing this draft? Robert McClenon (talk) 05:04, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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warden of the ok state prison in the 1920s the first self supporting prison -- growing/breeding roses head of the ok national guard

can't find tildes on this keyboard and don't remember my asci -- trouble even getting past the ??whatever trying to correct my spelling .......ck

Oklahoma Women in Red
Might I draw your attention to a new redlist of notable Oklahoma women who lack a wikipedia biography, in the form of WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - drawn from the

Right now, there are more than five times as many biographies of men as there are of women on wikipedia - see the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators page. I hope this project will lend its support to addressing this imbalance by creating biographies for women within your project's scope, and perhaps by adopting the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture redlist. More generally, WikiProject Women in Red has more than 300 redlists covering perhaps 100,000 notable women for whom we have no biography. thanks

Immaculate Conception Cemetery (Oklahoma City) at AfD
Immaculate Conception Cemetery (Oklahoma City) has been nominated for deletion, if any project members care to weigh in. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

LegalShield COI edit requests
Hi! I've posted some COI edit requests at Talk:LegalShield. LegalShield is headquartered in Ada, Oklahoma. Sharing in case anyone here is interested in taking a look. Thank you for any help or feedback! JZindler (talk) 19:35, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Le Flore County, Oklahoma
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Le Flore County, Oklahoma that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 20:36, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Help! Fighting for Oklahoma Institution
Folks, I need some help. I’ve been trying for some time to create a Wikipedia page on the Autry Technology Center. For those not familiar, that’s one of Oklahoma’s official CareerTech schools. Founded in 1967 and fully accredited, Autry currently has 22,724 students; it has two campuses and an on-line presence; and, since it works directly with employers as well as offering regular classes, it has been specifically cited by large employers as a reason they put their businesses in Autry’s home town.

But I’ve got a reviewer who keeps deleting the page, on the basis that the subject isn’t notable enough. I don’t know if he hates Oklahoma or what, but anyone who has used Wikipedia for any period of time knows much more trivial subjects (like small, hometown high schools) have scored pages. OF COURSE an institution of higher learning with 22,724 students is notable enough to have a page! But he just keeps deleting it.

If there is an official way that we can get Oklahoma’s arms wrapped around this page, that would be great. But if not, please contact anyone you know influential at Wikipedia to ask them what the frick is going on; or at least, drop by the page yourself (the Deletion page is referenced at the top of the current article), and add your two cents worth.

To be clear, the issue is whether the subject is worthy of a page. The reviewer has now added a charge that the article reads like an advertisement; but, the language about “innovative” and “award-winning’ was added specifically to address his ongoing complaint that the subject wasn’t worthy enough. I’m not defending every semicolon on the page, and I don’t really care if that language or any other wording comes out or not. Once the page is established, anyone can modify it. But I think a large educational institution in Oklahoma is CLEARLY worthy of a page, and that’s the principle I’m fighting for. Please help! TulGuy (talk) 15:01, 10 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I can take a look.  Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 21:55, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:CANVASS: a non-neutral message like this is highly inappropriate and may motivate an admin reviewing the AfD to throw out keep !votes that post-date this and similar canvassing comments. The assertion that the editor who initiated the AfD "hates Oklahoma" is further a personal attack. I already commented in the AfD so I consider myself WP:INVOLVED here and won't take these actions myself, but an uninvolved admin may see fit to sanction you if you don't retract or otherwise reign in the inappropriate canvassing and PAs. signed,Rosguill talk 17:14, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:30, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Tag agency
I created Tag agency as a redirect to Department of motor vehicles. If there is a better target, or it needs its own page, please improve it. I'm from New York and made the page because I was reading Terry O'Donnell (politician), couldn't tell what "tag agency" meant, and had to google it, and I'm still not sure I have it totally right. Apocheir (talk) 22:21, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * As an Oklahoman, a tag agency is basically the equivalent to a DMV. Thanks for the redirect! Explodicator7331 (talk) 14:30, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Apocheir I think the naming difference is because tag agencies are privately operated while Department of motor vehicles are government agencies. Oklahoma is weird and partially privatized our DMV service. It may be worth an independent article to explain the privatization aspect of tag agencies, but the redirect is probably fine and the best one. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 14:49, 9 May 2023 (UTC)