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 * I need more articles about current real estate status in Wyoming. What is the best route to approach. Thanks!

I'm not sure what is meant by this comment. If the individual is saying that they want information on the current costs/value of real estate in Wyoming, this probably isn't the best place to go. The Wyoming MLS would probably have that information. If he's asking about travel instructions, MSN has some good sites for that. John Carter 19:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Jackalope
Does Jackalope fall within the pursue of this project? Its unmistakably a Wyoming born phenomenon, but on the other hand, it might distract us from more serious articles. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 01:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I would say yes, based on the principle that people most familiar with the subject, which in this case includes people who know something about Wyoming, tend to be among the best people to edit the article. That doesn't necessarily mean that the article will be one we devote a great deal of attention to, just one that we deal with in the same way as any other article of similar importance. John Carter 22:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Assistance request
Hello everybody from Wyoming. I am IvoShandor and am working to push Rock Springs Massacre to FA. I was wondering if I could enlist this project's assistance with a relatively minor albeit tedious task. I was hoping I could get you folks to stub and or write articles for about four red links I have in my article, preferably with footnoted documentation. I will list the links below, all but one should be within the scope of the project, and I thank you for your assistance on this.


 * George Seward: A 19th century U.S. Minister to China
 * Red Canyon, Wyoming: a 19th century Wyoming mining town, Chinese gold miners were employed here. Most likely no longer extant.
 * Rock Springs Independent: Don't know if it still exists but in the 19th century it was the newspaper in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Probably notable for its stance on the Rock Springs Massacre.
 * Union Pacific Coal Company: operated (probably among others) the coal mines along the Union Pacific RR right-of-way, including those in Rock Springs, Evanston and Green River I believe.

Thanks again, let me know whether this is possible. IvoShandor 17:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I also added those links to our list of requested articles. I noticed your many edits to Rock Springs Massacre today - thanks for your work. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 17:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Your welcome, it's really nothing, I truly enjoy history and this article has been very interesting to put together, I have learned even more than I already knew on the topic beforehand, which I thought was a lot. It wasn't. Thanks for adding those, I can always create the stubs but with all the time I have been putting into the Rock Springs Massacre page it would be easier if someone else wouldn't mind doing it.


 * On another note, my expansion and work on Rock Springs Massacre is nearly complete. I have to expand the Diplomatic issues subsection a bit, and do some minor things but it is almost ready for WP:FAC, I think. What it really needs now is some outside copy editing (I have made one pass over the article as well as making minor changes here and there) and some outside input. This would act like a final peer review before FAC, keeping in mind WP:WIAFA, I would like people to add a section to the talk page and comment there (I decided against a peer review because my current peer reviews I have up are pretty much stale and/or useless). I recommend reading the talk page as well, I have kept regular updates on progress and thoughts there. Any help would greatly be appreciated as I have put a ton of work into this. Thanks everyone. IvoShandor 08:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, and I should add Bitter Creek to the list of red links above. It may need to be disambiguated as Bitter Creek (Wyoming), not sure though, might want to just because. IvoShandor 08:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Still wondering about this, should I just go ahead and do them, which isn't a big deal, just wondering. If you do start them, make sure to use refs, preferably in the footnoted style using tags, don't worry about formatting, I can clean these up. The idea here would be to start out the article at least at start class, just try to bear in mind that these will be linked from (hopefully) an FA. IvoShandor 12:12, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Sources request
I am in need of three journal articles that I cannot find in the libraries around here. They are probably much easier to find in Wyoming. Anyone with access to the various databases (Ebsco, ProQuest, JSTOR etc.) in Wyoming should be able to find them, at least as far as the Annals of Wyoming journal goes. If you could please, it would be greatly appreciated, these are must have articles as they discuss the topics that are not filled out in the article, Rock Springs Massacre.


 * Gardner, A. Dudley. "Chinese Emigrants in Southwest Wyoming 1868-1885," Annals of Wyoming, 1991, Vol. 63 No. 4, pp. 139-144, (ISSN 00034991).
 * Laurie, Clayton D. "Civil Disorder and the Military in Rock Springs, Wyoming: The Army's Role in the 1885 Chinese Massacre," Montana, 1990, Vol. 40 No. 3, pp. 44-59 (ISSN 00269891).
 * Carroll, Murray L. "Governor Francis E. Warren, The United States Army and the Chinese Massacre at Rock Springs," Annals of Wyoming, 1987, Vol. 59 No. 2, pp. 16-27, (ISSN 00034991).

Thanks, if you find them and can obtain an electronic copy that would be phenomenal as you could email it to me, I have email enabled on the Wiki. If not we could figure something out. Thanks again. IvoShandor 13:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Rock Springs
Not sure this project is very active but I have a request anyway. There is a specific request on the talk page for anyone with access to a good library in the state of Wyoming.

Well, it's been awhile but I have a few more tweaks to go and Rock Springs Massacre is ready for FAC. I have made a few last notes on what I see left as far as work and hoped you might be able to undertake a copy edit and/or brief look at the article one final time. Thanks. 11:05, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Rock Springs massacre
Rock Springs massacre, a GA class article within the scope of this project and tagged by this project on its talk page, is currently at featured article candidates. See its nomination at Featured article candidates/Rock Springs massacre. Read the article, compare it with the featured article criteria and voice your opinion. IvoShandor 12:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Wyoming
I've taken the liberty of starting Portal:Wyoming. It needs more content - I'm slowing adding things, but more help would be great. &mdash; Zaui (talk) 16:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I might remove the "State facts" section and shift the "biography" over to the right. John Carter 18:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Wally Wales
I added the Wally Wales article to the project. It is a really short article that could show some promise. I'm going to do some more research at the library and add to it.--DutchTower 14:33, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Wyoming Panhandle
I've deleted this article under WP:CSD G1: Patent nonsense. Please be on the lookout for further mischief in articles relating to Wyoming. Firsfron of Ronchester 02:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Charles Henry King
Charles Henry King who played an instrumental role in the establishment of Casper and Riverton as well as other settlements in Central Wyoming (and who built the Yellowstone Drug building) is in the midst of an article for deletion debate. The crux of the argument that he is not notable because he is the grandfather of President Gerald Ford and relatives of presidents are not notable! Please read the article and look at the citations including a full newspaper article on him as well as book references. Feel free to join in the debate. Even if he was not Ford's grandfather, he would be notable because of his achievements in Wyoming.Americasroof (talk) 04:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Kelly, Wyoming
I just did the Kelly, Wyoming article, and I was very much disappointed that there wasn't more reliable online sources discussing the Kelly flood. I put a call out on the talk] page, but I'll reiterate it here. If anybody has any good sources for the event, please update the article. CosmicPenguin (Talk) 20:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Articles flagged for cleanup
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Wyoming
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Wyoming articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Wyoming articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Wyoming is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:46, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Courthouse Photos
I propose that photos of all Wyoming county courthouses be added to their respective article, and possibly the corresponding county seat article. This would serve to beautify the article and serve as a visual representation of the county. Help is needed adding them to their respective county pages by adding the following to the County Infobox template


 * ex image     =   courthouse image filename.jpg


 * ex image cap =   xxx County Courthouse in xxxx, Wyoming

The following counties do not have courthouse photos. Contributors may want to cross them off once a photo is taken and uploaded. -- Ichabod (talk) 02:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Mummy Cave
Acroterion and I have begun to develop Mummy Cave, a cave and archaeological site near Yellowstone NP, and we'd appreciate help. The site is easily visible from U.S. Route 12/14/20 (highway from Cody to the eastern park entrance); is anyone able to get a picture of it? A photo is available here, and Google's Street View has this view of the site; note that the satellite view at that link goes to the site itself. Nyttend (talk) 05:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Rock Springs massacre featured article review
Removed notice for a FAR that was subsequently deleted. CosmicPenguin ( talk• WP:WYOHelp! ) 02:59, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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History of wolves in Yellowstone article challenge
The History of wolves in Yellowstone article is of direct interest to this project. An editor is challenging the lead sentence in the article History of wolves in Yellowstone as synthesis [here] and that discussion has been elevated to the No_original_research/Noticeboard. I would appreciate Wyoming Project editors familar with the topic assessing this allegation and providing whatever advice they can to resolve the matter and improve (if necessary) the article. Thanks--Mike Cline (talk) 14:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Wyoming
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 21:26, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Wyoming articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:03, 9 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) 20:36, 27 November 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) 23:42, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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

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

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

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

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

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:51, 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) 02:51, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Ragtime Cowboy Joe
The song was composed in 1912 in Brooklyn, NY. What year did the University of Wyoming adapt the song as their fight song? Thank you. Sincerely, Paul Aaron67.101.30.127 (talk) 18:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ragtime Cowboy Joe has been their fight song since the 1920's according to this link--MONGO 23:04, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semi active and 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 have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. --Kumioko (talk) 20:50, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It is semi-active...I have no problem making sure the WikiProject United States is aware of this project and it's extremely low key efforts, but can't support the abolishment of this project. I'm slowly working on getting Grand Teton National Park in better shape in a push to get it to FA level.--MONGO 01:58, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comment just FYI though knowones trying to eliminate the project. Take a look at what we did with WikiProject District of Columbia or U.S. Presidents for examples. Both projects are still active. --Kumioko (talk) 02:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * As noted, I've have added the JL-Bot and the article alerts to get the project going like WP:COLORADO and WP:LOUISIANA. I see no problem with that. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  02:37, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thats great that you added those. Even if the projects don't get going again those 2 tasks are both hugely helpful to any project. I'm not convinced that those 2 automation tasks will get the projects going again though. You need to get more members working on the articles, maybe a newsletter or collaboration of some kind, maybe beef up the portal a bit. In the case of Louisiana there is also WikiProject New Orleans that is basically inactive and it might be useful to pull that in as a subproject or task force of Louisiana. In any case its a lot of work to keep a project and all those things going...so why not do it in one place for multple projects to support and share rather than duplicate efforts across multiple projects and burn valuable time and energy quibbling about who owns what articles. Then more people can focus on the items that interests them rather than mundane project maintenance? All your efforts are extremely valuable and useful but those projects haven't been much more active than they were before.. No disrespect intended. --Kumioko (talk) 04:26, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, just my 2 cents Kumi, the project has little activity, the bots can take while, I see no problem with that, and also per comments by . JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  05:12, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, sorry if I was a little snappy there. I just reread my comments and they seem a bit negative and that wasn't my intention. Just offering some general comments and sometimes in text it seems a little snarky. I haven't yet mastered typing emotions into my statements. :-) Whether projects want to be supported by WPUS is strictly voluntary and mostly geared towards the low/no activity projects. --Kumioko (talk) 13:28, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, that's okay, I will add WP:WYOMING to the WikiProject United States banner myself. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  19:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok but I think we need to see how everyone else feels about it before we implement it. I just wanna make sure that the members of the project have a chance to voice their feelings on the matter. --Kumioko (talk) 20:23, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd say that's a good idea, pull it in under the US banner. IvoShandor (talk) 21:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Someone (not me) went and added this project to the list of project to the WikiProject United States template and I went ahead and added it to the supported projects list on the WikiProject United States main project page but I am not going to finish the process of adding it just yet until this discussion is finished. It seems like most of the comments so far support it but I want to make sure before I finish the process. At this point its easy to remove it from the list if needed. --Kumioko (talk) 02:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Lost in Lander
This page has a template problem I don't know how to fix... Can somebody have a look? TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  20:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Wyoming 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 Wyoming/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 22:49, 17 November 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) 19:55, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:54, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Hynds Lodge needs photo
Is there anyone that could take a good photo of this National Historic Landmark and upload it to Commons? many thanks. Pumpkin Sky  talk  02:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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

List of Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court
List of Justices of the Wyoming Supreme Court has been created as part of a series of lists of State Supreme Court Justices. This list may be incomplete or merit further formatting. Cheers! bd2412 T 13:50, 21 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:Wyoming will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Wyoming'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) 00:44, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Grand Teton National Park]
A request for peer review for Grand Teton NP has been placed here...(Hanks..MONGO 15:58, 18 April 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) 02:28, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

New WY aerial photos at Commons

 * File:Spring Creek, joins Middle Chugwater Creek WY.jpg, Albany County, see Chugwater Creek
 * File:Hatton, Wyoming 37.jpg, Albany County: no article
 * File:2012 08 04 bos-sfo wyoming 23.jpg, Elk Mountain, south of I-80, between Laramie & Rawlins.

More available at Doc Searls photostream, all CC-A. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 19:24, 30 December 2012 (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) 18:54, 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) 23:40, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

Web tools, to replace the ones at ~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.

If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man ) 05:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:53, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

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

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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

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

Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:58, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Wyoming mountains
The List of mountain peaks of Wyoming has been expanded and updated. We need articles for the following mountain peaks: "Bridger Peak, Carter Mountain, Deadman Mountain, Ferris Mountain, Glover Peak, Hoback Peak, Indian Peak, Lizard Head Peak, Mine Benchmark, Mount McDougal, North Breccia Cliffs, Observation Peak, Saddle Mountain, Shirley Mountains high point, Trout Peak, Two Ocean Mountain, Warbonnet Peak, and Windy Mountain" Information about these peaks can be found in their references on the List of mountain peaks of Wyoming. We also need good mountain photos for the articles and list gallery. Yours aye, Buaidh  03:17, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Missing Wyoming Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Wyoming 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 23:42, 3 October 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  15:39, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, — Delivered: 18:19, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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

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

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

Casper meetup
I will be staying in Casper for Astrocon the week before the August 21 total eclipse and would love to meet Wikipedians while there, perhaps for a casual, informal meetup to discuss editing Wyoming topics. I would also welcome suggestions on what to photograph while there. Any interest? Jonathunder (talk) 14:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Drafts for missing Wyoming Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for the following missing Wyoming Supreme Court Justices: Please help get these finished and moved to mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:41, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Draft:Charles E. Blydenburgh
 * 2) Draft:E.A. Thomas
 * 3) Draft:G. Joseph Cardine
 * 4) Draft:Gibson Clark
 * 5) Draft:Glenn Parker (judge)‎
 * 6) Draft:Harry Harnsberger
 * 7) Draft:Henry P. Ilsley
 * 8) Draft:Herman V.S. Groesbeck
 * 9) Draft:Homer Merrell
 * 10) Draft:John H. Howe
 * 11) Draft:John J. Rooney (judge)
 * 12) Draft:Joseph Cardine
 * 13) Draft:Kate M. Fox
 * 14) Draft:Keith G. Kautz
 * 15) Draft:Micah C. Saufley
 * 16) Draft:Norman B. Gray
 * 17) Draft:Richard H. Scott
 * 18) Draft:Robert R. Rose, Jr.
 * 19) Draft:Rodney M. Guthrie
 * 20) Draft:Samuel C. Parks
 * 21) Draft:Samuel T. Corn
 * 22) Draft:William A. Taylor
 * 23) Draft:William Ware Peck

New Wyoming userbox templates
New Wyoming userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Wyoming and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:20, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Help finding references for municipal laws in Wyoming?

 * I am planning on bringing List of municipalities in Wyoming to featured list status. I've completed the table, but I am wondering if anybody knows more than I do about the legal frameworks of municipalities (incorporation details, local government powers, etc..). If anybody is willing to help beef up the lead with that content, I believe the list can be nominated for featured list. Thanks in advance. Mattximus (talk) 13:03, 3 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.

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

The discussion about this can be found here.

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

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

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

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

So far, 84 editors have joined.

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

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

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

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad GA Sweeps: On Hold
I have reviewed Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

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  15:47, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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

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) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Archives?
How do we display Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wyoming/Archive 5 and other archive pages above? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:34, 1 February 2020 (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)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting
Wikipedia users in the United States Mountain West and High Plains will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, articles, or photographs of our region is encouraged to attend.

If you don't wish to receive these invitations any more, please remove your username from the Meetup/US Mountain West/Invitation list. Thanks.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:42, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting 05/09/2023
Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, May 9, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, geography, articles, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. Please see our meeting page for details.

If you don't wish to receive these invitations any more, please remove your username from the Meetup/US Mountain West/Invitation list. Thanks. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:14, 29 April 2023 (UTC)