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Welcome to the Missouri Wikiproject.

Welcome to WikiProject Missouri. We are a board of editors committed to the proper exposition of information about the U.S. state of Missouri throughout Wikipedia. Our primary goal is to research and provide the most accurate and detailed information about Missouri and its history, society, people, places, culture and spirit. This mission is accomplished in our writing without regard for our personal biases, professing an obedience to neutrality in language, ideas and thoughts while respecting the diversity of opinions on each article subject. Our end is to educate all visitors to this academic and encyclopedic forum. Through the creation of WikiProject Missouri, we aspire to improve and coordinate the efforts of subordinate projects such as WikiProject Columbia, Missouri, WikiProject Kansas City and WikiProject St. Louis among others.

If you are interested in participating in this ambitious and important work, we encourage you to join our board of editors and consider this your principal resource center for Missouri-related articles. To participate in WikiProject Missouri, please list your user information below. After you have done that, browse through the subpages and to-do lists provided and choose a project you can take upon yourself. You may also want to start a project of your own. Further inquiries about WikiProject Missouri will be welcomed on the discussion page.

[edit] Active participants

Participation in WikiProject Missouri is open to all people with Wikipedia user accounts. Participants need not be Missouri residents. Project participants are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missouri/Members. Add your name and join us! Signing the link will automatically add your name to the box below.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department estimates the quality of Wikipedia's Missouri articles using WP:1.0 ratings. Parameters in the {{WikiProject Missouri}} project banner place each article in a set of categories which creates an automatically generated worklist for the project.

Missouri articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		3	3	2		8
	GA	1		1	2	2	6
	B	5	12	20	15	59	111
	Start	9	29	171	390	166	765
	Stub		4	18	133	211	366
	List			1	5	3	9
	Assessed	15	48	214	547	441	1265
	Unassessed				1	3331	3332
	Total	15	48	214	548	3772	4597

[edit] Collaboration

This section is designated for an article that will be temporarily featured for article improvement. Nominate articles that are of significant importance that you feel need to be revised to meet higher standards. The Current Collaboration is Tom Pendergast.

The following proposals for collaboration have been made:

• The Day After - filmed in KC and Lawrence, a concerted effort is underway to make this a features article on the main page. Most of the film took place in Missouri. --KHill-LTown 04:41, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Very interesting and well written. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 22:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

• Since this is the Missouri Project shouldn't the article on Missouri be a feature article? After all, Missouri is what this project is all about. --(Steve 20:47, 27 April 2006 (UTC))

support. That's not a bad idea. however we'll need support from at least 3 people (or 3 more supporters than opposers) to get it approved. keep in mind that it's good to find articles that are well written and that most wouldn't have read otherwise. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 17:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• oppose I'd have to agree with Steve on this. While this is a good article, I don't think that it's the one we want to stand behind. I would much rather see something more related to Missouri make it to featured status. Amalas =^_^= 17:52, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment. wait, what are you referring to in your opposition? "the day after" or "Missouri"? --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 19:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Oops... I meant to say that I oppose The Day After. Amalas =^_^= 20:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• oppose OK, the unknown newbie chimes in. The Day After is a great article, but I don't think playing up a program about the end of life as we know it would necessarily be the best sort of advertisement for the state. I personally think playing up some other article which might need more work, like Lewis and Clark, Harry Truman, Louisiana Purchase, Branson, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Route 66, or even KMOX might function as a better advertisement for the state than an end-of-the-world story. Granted, any other would need improvements, but those could be made a priority of the group. My personal choice would be U.S. Route 66. There's a great exhibit at the Jefferson Expansion about the subject, and I could try to get some good photos and other items to upgrade the article. Of course, I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about. Feel free to heckle. Badbilltucker 01:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• Kansas City, Missouri Well written and interesting, perfect article to represent our cause. --Geobeedude 18:52, 15 November 2006 (UTC)Geobeedude

[edit] Overview

[edit] Scope

• This WikiProject has a two-fold mission. It primarily aims to provide information on the U.S. state of Missouri. Its secondary aim is to establish and document community guidelines and naming conventions for all Wikipedia articles dealing with Missouri.

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

The Missouri-related articles listed below were chosen by election of Wikipedians to be a featured article on the main page of Wikipedia. Featured articles are deemed to be of excellent quality and are considered the best works produced by Wikipedians. To nominate another Missouri-related article to become one of the featured articles, put it up for a vote at the featured articles candidate page.

Currently, our featured articles are:

• Barbara McClintock
• Daniel Boone
• Pioneer Zephyr
• Robert A. Heinlein
• Harry S. Truman
• USS Missouri (BB-63)
• Uncle Tupelo
• William Tecumseh Sherman

Other Missouri-related articles were presented on the main page of Wikipedia as a selected anniversary or Did you know? feature. These included:

• Harold G. Schrier - 24 January 2007
• Bearcat Stadium - 1 October 2006

[edit] Good articles

The following articles are good articles, articles better than regular ones but not as well written as featured articles, related to Missouri and WikiProject Missouri.

• 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak
• Columbia, Missouri
• Fifth Down Game (1990)
• General Pershing Zephyr
• Marcus Allen
• Randy Orton
• Steve Fossett

[edit] Templates

Missouri Infoboxes

• {{Missouri}} - For Regions, Counties and Cities; Place at bottom of article pages.
• {{WikiProject Missouri}} - Use to identify an article as part of the wikiproject. Place on Talk Pages, not article pages.
• {{User WikiProject Missouri}} - Userbox for use on user pages to identify yourself as a member of the WikiProject
• {{MOGovernors}} - For use on pages of Missouri Governors
• {{Infobox MO Route}} - For Missouri state and U.S. routes
• {{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate}} - For Missouri Interstate Highways
• {{Infobox U.S. County}} - standard United States county infobox

Stub Templates

• {{Missouri-stub}} - Generic Missouri Article Stub
• {{Missouri-geo-stub}} - Missouri Geographical Stub
• {{Missouri-politician-stub}} - Missouri Politician Stub
• {{Missouri-school-stub}} - Missouri School Stub
• {{Missouri-road-stub}} - Missouri road stub

[edit] Awards

		The Missouri Barnstar National of Merit -
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