Welcome to the WikiProject page for University of Missouri. These pages allow better collaboration for those interested in contributing to the Mizzou article series on Wikipedia. Please feel free to browse; we would be happy if you would contribute!

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Name Change

The recent action by the curators regarding the use of the name University of Missouri, has made a mess here at Wikipedia. Feel free to drop by the talk page for University of Missouri and let your opinions and ideas be known.Grey Wanderer | Talk 19:28, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Homecoming

There is quite a debate/revert war going on at Homecoming about the origins of homecoming. As you probably know, MU is one of the claimants to oldest homecoming tradition. Check it out if you like. Grey Wanderer | Talk 00:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Quality scale for articles

Please see the Wikipedia article quality scale; it is a good reference point.

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If you are reading this, then you proably know something about Mizzou. . . we welcome your contributions! If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Starting a new page
• Wikipedia syntax

If you're looking for something to do involving the Mizzou article series, there's a list of articles to the right. Also, look for tags such as {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{expand}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions to the article series. Finally, if you're a good photographer, have a look at the image requests below.

And remember, always provide sources for your edits.

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This area is for contributions to managing the Mizzou series. To contribute content to Mizzou articles, please see the "to-do" list to the right.

Recruit members, many people have expressed interest so it shouldn't be too hard. -- Grey Wanderer | Talk 05:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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Current goal

Organize and collect all Wikipedia pages relating to Mizzou in order to

1. encourage members interested in contributing/editing Mizzou articles to work through these pages, so we can combine our efforts
2. make all University of Missouri pages accessible through this page using category listings, so the entire sccope is visible to everyone
3. make all article to-do lists and tasks available from one place, so contributors can choose their area of specialty
4. centralize information/image/edit requests for all Mizzou series pages, so requests can be publicized and quickly fulfilled

Intermediate goal

Bring Mizzou article series to a respectable standard, where information about the University of Missouri–Columbia is reliable and of sufficient scope

Ultimate goal

Bring the University of Missouri–Columbia article to featured article status.

The path to a Featured Article Start a new article Develop the article Check against the featured article criteria Get creative feedback (Peer review) Apply for featured article status Featured articles

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• Francis Quad (The Quad)
• Ellis Library
• Jesse Hall
• The Columns
• Peace Park
• The Antlers
• Examples of Greek Housing at MU
• A.P. Green Chapel

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Click HERE to see/edit a gallery of images available for use in Mizzou articles

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Article assessment statistics

Mizzou articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			1			1
	GA			1			1
	B	2	3	2	3		10
	Start	2	22	21	43	2	90
	Stub		7	9	11	3	30
	Assessed	4	32	34	57	5	132
	Total	4	32	34	57	5	132

Table of articles

Explanation of article grading system

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Anyone who can assist in developing the article series, please add your name:

• Grey Wanderer (talk · contribs) - Student, class '10
• Tubahero (talk · contribs)
• Handprints (talk · contribs)
• Lazytiger (talk · contribs) - Alumnus, class of '01
• Genius00345 (talk · contribs) - Student, class of '12
• Osiris_Incarnate (talk · contribs) - Senior at MU
• mercurialmusic (talk · contribs) - Alumnus, class of '07
• Light-sama (talk · contribs)-Student, class '10
• NBINVDR1 (talk · contribs) - Staff
• Katydidit (talk · contribs) - Alumnus, class of '74
• C6Au79 (talk · contribs) - Student
• MadmanNova (talk · contribs) - Student
• Avatarcourt (talk · contribs) - Alumnus, class of '99, Staff
• AdamProcter (talk · contribs) - Alumnus, class of '05/Grad student, class of whenever
• Bjrwiki (talk · contribs) - Alumnus, class of '04 - MA

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This section attempts to focus members on one article in order to give it a concentrated effort at improvement.

The current Mizzou collaboration for the period ending January 30, 2008 is: University of Missouri The last collaboration article was University of Missouri Hospital — see improvements Nominate for next period

Next period's nominees:

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Articles to work on

About this section . . .

The goal is to bring articles from the bottom of the list to the top of the list. Once an article reaches Stage 4, we can focus on bringing it to Stage 5: featured article quality.

Click on the "to do" link beside each article to see its list of tasks. Ther eis also a link to each article's talk page.

Stage 5: Featured articles

None yet . . .

Stage 4: Articles of adequate length needing expansion and/or improvement

• University of Missouri (talk, to do)

Stage 3: Articles needing expansion, cleanup, and references

• Jesse Hall (talk, to do)

• Missouri Tigers (talk, to do)

• List of University of Missouri–Columbia alumni (talk, to do)

• MU Greek Life (talk, to do)

• Missouri School of Journalism (talk, to do)

• Memorial Union (University of Missouri) (talk, to do)

• Trulaske College of Business (talk, to do)

Stage 2.5: Articles that are painful to read and need improvement

• Border War (talk, to do)
• History of the University of Missouri (talk, to do)
• Mizzou Botanic Garden (talk, to do)
• University of Missouri TV (talk, to do)
• The Maneater (talk, to do)
• QEBH (talk, to do)
• The Antlers (talk, to do)

Stage 2: Stubs and very short articles

• McAlester Arboretum (talk, to do)
• KOMU-TV (talk, to do)
• Laws Observatory (talk, to do)
• Hearnes Center (talk, to do)
• Faurot Field (talk, to do)
• University of Missouri System (talk, to do)
• David R. Francis Quadrangle (talk, to do)
• Mystical Seven (talk, to do)
• A. P. Green Chapel (talk, to do)
• Ellis Library (talk, to do)
• James S. Rollins (talk, to do)
• Red Campus (talk, to do)
• University of Missouri Hospital (talk, to do)

Stage 1: Requests and ideas for future articles

Academic Hall

Discovery Ridge Research Park

East Campus (University of Missouri)

MU Power Plant

MU Research Park

MU Sports Park

Reynolds Alumni Center

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This section and its category listings serve to make all University of Missouri–Columbia pages accessible through this page, so the entire scope of the Mizzou series is visible to everyone. Please add pages to the correct category when appropriate.

Article series categories

User categories

WikiProject Mizzou categories

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Projects we admire:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornell University

Things you should know about WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Best Practices
• Article Quality Scale

We share some articles with these projects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Columbia, Missouri
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missouri

Parent project:

• WikiProject Universities