Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Utah/Archive 4

Coordinators' working group
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Utah NRHP list revamped, photos wanted!
The National Register of Historic Places listings in Utah (shortcut List of RHPs in UT), a list of NRHP-listed historic sites in Utah, has been greatly revamped and now accomodates photos and short descriptions. Any NRHP place is usually wikipedia notable, so separate articles can be created too. The NRHP application documents are great sources, are available for free upon request to the National Park Service. But, even without article or sources, you can help by taking pics of the historic buildings, sites, objects, historic districts near you! There are 1,838 places, all tabulated now, spread out across every county in the state. Separate photos for each one would be great! :) doncram (talk) 16:47, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Ogden
There is a Mormon temple in Ogden. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 18:41, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, so I added it. Ntsimp (talk) 20:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Does your WikiProject care about talk pages of redirects?
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt (talk) 02:29, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Utah Wikipedia Meetup - Take II
It's short notice, but we are having a meetup on Saturday, May 23. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Utah for more information. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:54, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

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

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GA Reassessment of Mormon Trail
I have done the GA Reassessment of the Mormon Trail article as part of the GA Sweeps project. I have found the article does not meet current GA Criteria and as such I have placed the article on hold pending work. I am notifying all interested editors that this article may be delisted if it is not improved. My review can be found here. If you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 23:41, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Mexican Flu: 2009 Swine Flu outbreak in Utah.png
File:2009 Swine Flu outbreak in Utah.png has a problem, it's been nominated for deletion because it's copyright status wasn't specified. 70.29.210.130 (talk) 08:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Park West Amphitheater
I'm working on an article in which one of the sources mentions the Park West Amphitheater in Salt Lake City. All I can glean from the internet is that it has probably been shut down or renamed (i.e. "the former Park West Amphitheater") and that it may have been in Park City rather than Salt Lake City. If someone can post a link or a bit more information about what happened to the venue, I would be very appreciative. Thanks! Easterhouse (talk) 05:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The current Canyons ski resort was formally named Park West. The Park West Amphitheater could be referring to the concert venue that was used during the off-season. My wife and I saw John Denver there in the mid-90s for The Wildlife Concert. &mdash; Zaui (talk) 20:59, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Statistics
I added a section for the statistics for this WikiProject in the main page, but if we don't want it in the main page, then we should add a link to the WikiProject Utah/Assessment page on the main page and clean up the info on the pre-built page. Tavatar (talk) 20:40, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

List of Utahns
There is an article titled List of people from Utah and another one titled List of Utahns. I think the List of Utahns should be added to the List of people from Utah, and then the List of Utahns can just redirect to List of people from Utah. How do you create a redirect? --Thelema12 (talk) 21:53, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * WP:R explains it, but you'll also want to read H:M before doing this. Ntsimp (talk) 22:52, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I tagged the two articles with the merge proposal and directed discussion to the talk page of List of people from Utah.--Thelema12 (talk) 04:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Reassess the article Silver Reef, Utah
I have done some improvements on Silver Reef that I think may change its quality. Can somebody reassess it? Thanks! --The Utahraptor (talk) 02:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

John F. Fitzpatrick (publisher)
Requesting comments on my new article John F. Fitzpatrick (publisher). All feedback appreciated.--Thelema12 (talk) --Thelema12 (talk) 16:20, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Interesting stub. Just a few things I see right off. The "early life" section says nothing of his early life. Where and when was he born, etc.? Needs more wikilinks, you need to italicize the titles of the newspapers, and don't say "the Mormon Church" (see WP:MOSLDS). Anyway, it's a good subject to cover; keep up the good work. Ntsimp (talk) 17:16, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I put in your suggestions.--Thelema12 (talk) 17:38, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Howard Stansbury
Hey all. I'm not at all sure how we made it this long without an article about Howard Stansbury, but I've finally gotten a chance to remedy the situation. I don't think I've even started to scratch the surface of his time in Utah. I think there is plenty of room for expansion here for anybody who is knowledgeable the expedition. CosmicPenguin ( talk• WP:WYOHelp! ) 06:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Utah Education Association
Should the stub Utah Education Association be part of Wikiproject Utah? Should I put that on its discussion page?--Thelema12 (talk) 22:34, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. Ntsimp (talk) 23:17, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Utah meetup this next weekend
Some of us are going to try to meetup at the CONduit art show this coming weekend (May 28-30). You are welcome to to come and meetup any time, though we can discuss a specific time here. You can see a great art show, too! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 03:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

New article John W. Gallivan
Seeking feedback on my new article John W. Gallivan - all comments appreciated. --Thelema12 (talk) 16:45, 21 June 2010 (UTC) After adding material at the suggestion of Bgwhite, I have moved the article to John W. Gallivan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thelema12 (talk • contribs) 04:51, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

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

We would like to ask you to review the Utah 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.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Roger I. McDonough
Seeking feedback on new article Roger I. McDonough - all comments appreciated. Thanks!--Thelema12 (talk) 19:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks pretty good to me. My only feedback would be that the category People from Park City, Utah would be more specific than the current People from Salt Lake City, Utah. Green Glass (talk) 00:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 20:32, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Anglo-Utahn at AfD
The article Anglo-Utahn has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is here. Ntsimp (talk) 08:27, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Request to modify widely used image in Utah articles
At the FAC for Thistle, Utah,(Featured article candidates/Thistle, Utah/archive2) a request has been made to modify the image File:USA Utah location map.svg to have an inset to show context, similar to this image File:US_30_(IA)_map.svg. This would affect about 200 articles, most of them articles on cities in Utah. I agree with the proposed change, are there any objections here? Dave (talk) 19:18, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds like an improvement. I'm good with that. Green Glass (talk) 19:42, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The previously-used map image had such an inset, but this one replaced it because the map had more detail (e.g., rivers and Utah Lake). I support the change, as long as it doesn't actually overlap part of the map the way the Iowa one does. Probably the southwest corner of Wyoming is the best place for the inset. Ntsimp (talk) 20:58, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. I know just about enough about inkscape to be dangerous, so if I've messed anything up please advise. Dave (talk) 06:40, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * That didn't go so well. A discussion has started at Dave (talk) 20:38, 12 December 2010 (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) 23:38, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Supertechguy
Hi Everyone, just made some major updates to the Washington County School District (Utah) page. Thought I'd come join the WikiProject Utah group.

Thanks, Supertechguy (talk) 20:59, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Welcome. Nice contributions. Keep up the good work! Ntsimp (talk) 21:10, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Utah flag
Utah flag is corrected after being wrong for 88 years Can anyone fix the flag picture? T@vatar (discuss–?) 03:28, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Category:Rail lines in Utah
Category:Rail lines in Utah has been nominated for deletion; please see the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:30, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Blue John Canyon
Just started this stub (having watched the movie and discovered we had only scrappy information about the place) - grateful if anyone could expand it.--Kotniski (talk) 21:17, 20 February 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) 02:43, 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) 02:43, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Photo request: El Capitan School, Colorado City, AZ
Hi! I have a new photo request:
 * El Capitan School - Colorado City Unified School District - 255 North Cottonwood Street Colorado City, Arizona, 86021

I would really appreciate it if someone could upload a photo of the school

While it is in Arizona, it's across the border from Utah, and Colorado City and Hildale, UT are twin cities.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 05:04, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Sam White Bridge
I just created a basic article for the Sam White Bridge since it's been covered in the news a lot recently (even outside Utah). Any help in expanding it is appreciated. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 08:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I need to remember to go take a picture of this bridge sometime soon. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 04:22, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Utah
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 page. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 01:08, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Seeing as how most other state WikiProjects are supported by WikiProject United States, I don't see any problems. The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 03:36, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * All states and territories projects should be listed as supported by (or at least listed as descended from) WikiProject United States. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 04:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Great thanks, I'll give it a few more days to see if there are any other comments and then Ill go ahead and add it. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. --Kumioko (talk) 20:23, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok since its been 5 more days and no more comments have been made I will go ahead and add this one to the supported projects list. --Kumioko (talk) 02:11, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:54, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Utah State Prison at night.jpg
This is a very ugly, low quality image. Does it really contribute anything to the article? S.G.(GH) ping! 14:08, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It has been removed. Bgwhite (talk) 20:57, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Utah will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Utah'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) 00:37, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:24, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

editor attention for some Utah County historic sites
I've started some new articles for Utah County historic sites, including Alpine LDS Church Meetinghouse andStagecoach Inn (Fairfield, Utah). Editor help developing these further would be welcomed. :) I myself have been through the county quickly, just once, and I thought it was spectacular! -- do  ncr  am  21:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Update: Have been adding NRHP nomination documents and other material to all existing articles, and starting new ones where missing, for all 172 NRHP-listed sites in Utah County, see List of RHPs in Utah County.  Up to 134 out of 172 now.  Help adding to these articles would be welcomed. :)


 * P.S. Are there any Utah editors watching this page?  -- do  ncr  am  20:59, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Just me, I think. I'll probably get around to working on those articles. But this project is deadish. Ntsimp (talk) 22:16, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've got it on my watchlist too, but I haven't been very active lately. And I'm sure the Utahraptor still checks in from time to time. Green Glass (talk) 02:50, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've got some sources on Fairfield's stagecoach inn. I'll add some content to that article later today. I'll also see what I can dig up about other Utah County NRHP properties. Regards, The Utahraptor Talk/Contribs 16:13, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Since we're all suddenly paying attention to this, I'd like to suggest that someone combines the article for the Stagecoach Inn with the article for Camp Floyd, and then move the whole thing to "Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum", which looks like it is the most correct name for both. Any thoughts? Green Glass (talk) 22:08, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Great! I've just been contributing, from afar, by adding the NRHP nomination documents and/or Utah State Historical site forms, and I don't know the local facts.  I should say there are already a lot of pictures available, contributed by several editors; editor Kaiguy817 has contributed a lot of the articles, but seems not active recently.  Glad to see the interest.
 * Sure, okay about the suggested merger ... have just merged the two and moved to Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum. Merged article could definitely be improved.  It was unclear to me what is the relation of the two items:  was the Stagecoach Inn near to, but not on, the original camp? Because it is stated that the camp floyd site had nothing left but its cemetery.  Are they both in or near what is now Fairfield, Utah, etc.  The NRHP nom forms that are linked from the articles are simply unclear on the locations and don't address the relative locations.  Some local knowledge should be used to fix the location descriptions etc, and IMHO does not need to be specifically sourced if it is not controversial info. -- do  ncr  am  04:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Any contributions of short descriptions in the List of RHPs in Utah County list-article, drawing any interesting point from the now-created, linked individual articles, would be most appreciated! -- do ncr  am  04:57, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposing to merge a few Utah town lists
I found a few lists of Utah towns that are potentially redundant: List of cities and towns in Utah, Largest cities in Utah by population, and Utah locations by per capita income. Please join in the discussion at Talk:List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Utah to figure out what to do with these pages. Thanks! Eric (EWS23) 02:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Take back control over WikiProject Utah talk pages
There are currently some Utah wikiproject members who watch this Talk page, and who would sometimes participate in discussions, if there were traffic. However all traffic is misdirected to the United States WikiProject or elsewhere, by WikiProject US talk page headers which have taken over the WikiProject Utah talk pae template.

First priority for WikiProject Utah: Take back control of WikiProject Utah talk pages, so that they steer interested reader/editors directly to wt:UTAH (here). -- do ncr  am  01:42, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

St. George, Utah
Hi. Could some of you please take a look at the above page? There has been a single IP editor that has added tons of unreferenced content over the past few months. I have tried to engage him, but he simply blanks his talk page and stops editing for a week or so. With the prodigious addition of unsourced content, there is no way the article is still a "B", and that is sad. Thanks in advance and good luck with your efforts to take your project back. Gtwfan52 (talk) 07:17, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow, you're right. That person is rather rude. St George wasn't even on my watch page, so I'll try to keep a closer eye on it. Green Glass (talk) 01:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Neighborhoods of Salt Lake City
I'd like to improve the list of NRHPs in Salt Lake City, to identify which neighborhood each one is in, in a sortable column (that would replace the unnecessary "City or town" column presently showing). Showing neighborhoods has been done in a number of other city-specific NRHP list-articles. I see there exists Category:Neighborhoods in Salt Lake City, Utah that currently has 14 neighborhood articles, but I don't think that's an exhaustive treatment.

There's a need for List of Salt Lake City neighborhoods (currently a redlink), similar to List of Boston neighborhoods, List of Denver neighborhoods, many others in Category:Lists of neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Is there an official source available, about Salt Lake City-defined official neighborhoods? -- do ncr  am  14:59, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I haven't lived in SLC for over a decade, but AFAIK they don't have any officially defined neighborhoods. I don't know of any city ordinance designating 600 North as the southern boundary of Rose Park, for example. I think organizing the NRHP list better is a worthy goal, but I expect it to be hard to get a definitive answer as to the neighborhood of many of the properties. Probably a minority of them have a neighborhood (again, not official) specified in their nomination forms, nearly all of which are online. That said, the best source I've seen for neighborhoods in Salt Lake is a Salt Lake City Weekly article found here. I think it has a few that don't have Wikipedia articles. Ntsimp (talk) 16:15, 14 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I see there is a "Neighborhoods" section within the Salt Lake City article and there also exists an odd-seeming-to-me article named Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City with a section "Neighborhoods and Councils". I think the latter section should be eliminated as a neighborhood is not a "building or a site", with the material moved to a new article.  And the SLC article's section can be linked to that new article as a main, separate Neighborhoods of Salt Lake City article, using the SLC Weekly article as a main source.  Hopefully to advance matters quickly, I am starting a draft new article at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/List of Salt Lake City neighborhoods.  Help developing there would be appreciated. -- do  ncr  am  04:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Could someone please move the drafted article to mainspace? Update: A reviewer at Articles For Creation deemed the drafted article to be inadequate, with comment "It is not clear how this article improves wikipedia more than putting each of these (mostly non-existent) articles in a category." That feedback was given in good faith, but the reviewer doesn't understand how Wikipedia works for list-articles and categories. There is good guidance at wp:CLT, to the effect that a list-article is complementary to a category. Obviously a list-article can contain red-links and provide a complete list, while a category cannot. I don't want to argue this with the reviewer. The article was developed adequately, IMO, by myself and Ntsimp. Could someone just move it to mainspace, so that we can proceed (e.g. link to it from the NRHP list-article? -- do ncr  am  17:27, 10 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Another Articles-For-Creation associated editor has responded to my further comments there, and it is in mainspace now. Additions to the article would be appreciated;  also there is some sorting out vis-a-vis the linked Salt Lake City article section and the somewhat odd-seeming-to-me Buildings and sites in Salt Lake City article. -- do  ncr  am  17:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Coalville? and Thomas L. Allen
The Summit Stake Tabernacle, also known as the Coalville Tabernacle, is a former building, apparently demolished, that listed on the National Register of Historic Places and later removed from NRHP listing. Is it in Coalville, Utah or not? The NRHP NRIS info lists the building's address as Summit Stake Tabernacle, 1st North and Main Sts., in Salt Lake City, UT, within Salt Lake County, but the Coalville article identifies itself as being in Summit County.

I wonder if there is an NRIS error, to be noted at wp:NRIS info issues UT, or whether the tabernacle was moved, or whether Coalville moved, or something else? It comes up, for me, because of mention in NRHP documents for the Thomas L. Allen House in Summit County, and I'd like to start an article for the tabernacle, if I can find some more info. Either way, the former listing should be properly identified in the "former listings" section of either the National Register of Historic Places listings in Summit County, Utah or List of RHPs in Salt Lake City list-article. Also is Thomas L. Allen an important person deserving of an article? I am not sure. -- do ncr  am  17:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh, now I have found my way to Summit Stake Tabernacle article, which identifies it as having been in Coalville, in Summit County. Hmm. -- do  ncr  am  17:20, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It was in Coalville. Somewhere in my box of old photos, I have pictures of it. Until the recent population explosion of Park City, Utah, North Summit and Coalville were used interchangeably. Dave (talk) 20:57, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

summary treatment of NRHP-listed archeological sites
Hi, i've been considering the plethora of NRHP-listed archeological sites in National Register of Historic Places listings in Duchesne County, Utah and in National Register of Historic Places listings in Carbon County, Utah. In particular there are 158 archeological sites in Nine Mile Canyon within Carbon County and 7 within Duchesne County, almost all of which are merely designated by a code such as "42Cb31". These are all or almost all currently redlink items.

There's an example in Hawaii, of Archeological Sites at Kawela, which is the redirect target for each of a bunch of separate NRHP listings within National Register of Historic Places listings in Molokai.

Here in Utah, I am thinking the way to go is to similarly redirect all the Duchesne and Carbon County sites (i.e. the code names) to Nine Mile Canyon. That article section could be slightly expanded with addition of a footnote mentioning every one of the specific codes. Comments? -- do ncr  am  16:41, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It used to be pretty much that way (with the codes in the Nine Mile Canyon article text rather than a foonote), but I changed it. I thought the list of so many Smithsonian trinomials with no further information added nothing to the article. The article is already linked in another column of the table. I'm pretty sure this was before the creation of WP:NRHPPROGRESS and before the consensus to use the AR images on the list. I guess if we're cheating to keep these counties from being blue on the illustrated map, we can also cheat to keep them from being blue on the articled map. Back when the first Nine Mile listings were added, I was pretty optimistic about getting info and photos of these sites, but as time goes by, my optimism wanes... Ntsimp (talk) 17:03, 27 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comment and for sharing the apparently proper term Smithsonian trinomial. Yes I rather agree about cheating one way being consistent with cheating the other way.  But, given the actual situation here, it seems that redirecting the NRHP names, the Smithson trinomial codes, to the Nine Mile Canyon article section, seems the right thing to do.  We don't actually want to have redlinks that are calling for readers to start articles.  Like the use of the AR image reflects that we don't want readers to contribute photos, for these items.  I think the treatment in the Nine Mile Canyon section is good in its current brief form, which I think is your good work.  I would add a long footnote listing the NRHP names / trinomial codes, so that those may show up in web searches, and to establish clearly that "this is where Wikipedia is covering" these items.  I could go either way about that being in a footnote or in the main text, but footnoting was what i was planning, and it seems to be a compromise between too much in main text vs. no mention.  For the Molokai example, I am responsible for much of how it appears, from editing a few years ago, but currently I don't really like the table of the NRHP names in the target article, as it doesn't carry much real info, so I am inclined to try lighter treatment in a footnote, here, now.  Thanks again.  Cheers, -- do  ncr  am  14:09, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:53, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:39, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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Utah family law source
Here is a source about Utah family law: WhisperToMe (talk) 20:38, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Gehrke, Robert. "Utah House OKs bill that would stop gender bias in custody cases." The Salt Lake Tribune. February 14, 2012.

Kleargear AFD deletion discussion notice

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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Utah gets a mention on the Main Page
At the current time, and for the next eight hours or so, Utah is mentioned on the Wikipedia Main Page. Enjoy. N2e (talk) 14:35, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Geology of the Capitol Reef area FAR
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Wind power in Utah
Wind power in Utah is new and needs expansion.Djflem (talk) 22:03, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Seeking offline sources, present in Utah libraries
Hello! I'm seeking to improve Ralph Vary Chamberlin to GA or FA status. The two sources below are apparently present at the libraries of Brigham Young University and/or University of Utah. If anyone has access, and could scan and email them, I would be much appreciative. Cheers, --Animalparty-- (talk) 22:17, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * (booklet)

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)

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List of Utah companies
For info, the article List of Utah companies has been listed at AfD. You can view the discussion here. Thanks.  Lugnuts  (talk)

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Missing Utah Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Utah Supreme Court Justices at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:07, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Another Language Performing Arts Company
I added the WikiProject Utah banner to Another Language Performing Arts Company because the article says the company is located in Salt Lake City. I'm wondering if anyone in this WikiProject has heard of this group and can help determine whether is satisfies WP:ORG. I Googled "Another Language Performing Arts Company", but didn't find much more than social media pages or other trivial mentions. Most of the information seems to have been added by a couple of SPAs, including one who is claiming to be a cofounder of the group. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:13, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

List of mountain peaks of Utah
The List of mountain peaks of Utah has been expanded and updated. We need articles for the following mountain peaks: "Bald Mountain, Box Elder Peak, Bruin Point, Circleville Mountain, Dry Mountain, Fish Lake Hightop, Flat Top Mountain, Fool Creek Peak, Frisco Peak, George H. Hansen Peak, Glenwood Mountain, Granite Peak, Ibapah Peak, Indian Peak, Loafer Mountain, Mine Camp Peak, Monroe Peak, Mount Dutton, Mount Hilgard, Mount Marvine, Mount Pennell, Mount Waas, Provo Peak, Raft River Peak, Rocky Peak, Salt Benchmark, South Mountain, South Tent Mountain, Spanish Fork Peak, Strawberry Peak, Thurston Peak, Wah Wah Mountain, West Mountain Peak, and Willard Peak" Information about these peaks can be found in their references on the List of mountain peaks of Utah. We also need good mountain photos for the articles and list gallery. Yours aye, Buaidh  03:00, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Wiknic 2016
Please come participate in the Great Wiknic of 2016. We are working on setting up a date, so we'd like your input. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:11, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:45, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:37, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Eccles Theater page
Hi everyone. Just FYI, I created a minimal start page to the new Eccles Theater in downtown Salt Lake City. While I hope to expand this page greatly, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Eric (EWS23) 06:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Blue Castle Project
I just finished this article (at least the basic beginning), and I'd appreciate eyes on it to assess it. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:14, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Roseanne Barr GAR
I've started WP:Good article reassessment/Roseanne Barr/1 and welcome input from others. Snuggums (talk / edits) 22:19, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

New Utah userbox templates
New Utah userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Utah and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:14, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

RfC at Roseanne Barr
There is an RfC at the Roseanne Barr talk page found here that members of this project might be interested in taking part in. -- ψλ  ● ✉ ✓ 01:58, 30 May 2018 (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.

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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.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  08:00, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

List of mountain peaks of Utah
List of mountain peaks of Utah has a problem with template inclusion. It simply has too many references by the look of it. There are only 50 or so mountains, in three lists, but each has four or five references, added by a template cmt. Looking at the references it really only needs one each; perhaps other sites could be added as external links. But this is not straightforward to try as a template does it all. Pinging who has worked on that template and is active in the project.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 14:40, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Mountains.  Buaidh  talk contribs 15:58, 13 October 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)

merger to reverse recent split
Please consider Talk:Bank of American Fork (financial institution). --Doncram (talk) 02:49, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Murder of Rachael Runyan
Just bringing your attention to Murder of Rachael Runyan. Whoever created the article decided to emhphasise Rachael's status as a toddler beauty queen. It's not as if she needed her female sex enhanced, not many little boys are called "Rachael" after all... Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 10:58, 26 January 2019 (UTC)