Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/Tulsa

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Welcome to the Tulsa Task Force, a group of editors dedicated to expanding Wikipedia's information of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and subjects related to it. Please feel free to get involved and post any ideas and suggestions on the talk page, as well as expand sections below. Everyone is welcome to contribute to any article.

Scope

• Geography and climate-related articles pertaining to the city of Tulsa, its suburbs, and its surrounding area
• Historical articles relevant to the Tulsa area
• Famous people from the Tulsa area
• Sports in Tulsa
• Architecture and buildings in Tulsa
• Economy-related articles
• Cultural articles

Wikiproject Oklahoma

The Tulsa Task Force is a "sub-wikiproject" operating "beneath" Wikiproject Oklahoma, and is designed to assist it by focusing specifically on Tulsa-related material. Editors who are interested in expanding knowledge of Tulsa on Wikipedia may wish to consider themselves part of Taskforce Tulsa as well as WikiProject Oklahoma.

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Editors may place important Tulsa Task Force announcements here. All other discussion should be limited to the talk page.

• A Template to signify that you work on Tulsa articles can now be used to put on your user pages if you wish. Nothing too fancy. "{{User Taskforce Tulsa}}" Okiefromokla•talk 03:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
• The article for the city of Tulsa will be featured on Portal:Oklahoma during the month of June. Okiefromokla•talk 19:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Article promotion

Recently promoted articles (Good Article or Featured Article)) should be announced here

• Tulsa, Oklahoma - Feature article candidate, nominated by Okiefromokla. Status: Promoted, May 12, 2007.
• List of tallest buildings in Tulsa promoted to Featured list on January 10, 2008. Rai-me 04:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
• Portal:Oklahoma - promoted to Featured Portals on March 14, 2008 nominated by CPacker.

Peer Review

Please insert any Tulsa articles that are currently up for Wikipedia:peer review under this heading

New articles

Please insert new articles that you have created under this heading, and sign your name

• List of Art Deco buildings in Tulsa, Oklahoma Dsmdgold 13:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
• Tulsa Fire Alarm Building Dsmdgold 03:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
• List of tallest buildings in Tulsa -- Rai-me 22:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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If you are reading this, then you probably know something about the Tulsa metro area...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 are looking for something to do involving the project, below you can find information about on-going collaborations and specific requests. Also, look for tags such as {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{expand}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions to the project articles.

And remember, always provide sources for your edits.

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Collaboration

Nominate Taskforce Tulsa articles to be improved by taskforce members here

There is currently no specified collaboration, please nominate an article

Past collaborations

• Tulsa Metropolitan Area
  • See Article's Talk Page for tips on improving article

Template

There is a template to place on any Tulsa-related article that is currently part of a collaboration: {{WPTULSAcollaboration}}

Current Tasks

• Create needed articles (listed below)
• Expand stub and start-class articles (listed below)
• Create new categories and sub-categories to place Tulsa-related articles under (see Tulsa category tree)
• Add "|tulsa-task-force=yes" to the Wikiproject Oklahoma banner at each talk page relevant to the city of Tulsa. The current number of articles tagged for the taskforce is just a skeleton. Remember to asses the article's importance and quality too.
• Maintain the Tulsa page and category at the Commons.

Articles needing creation

Please feel free to add to this list or to discuss this list on the talk page

• Tulsarama or Buried Plymouth Belvedere, Tulsa County Fairgrounds or Expo Square, Mohawk Park, LaFortune Park, Schusterman Center, OU-Tulsa, Eastland Mall (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Promenade Mall (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Articles to be expanded

• Stub-Class Tulsa articles

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Please place requests for images here.

• We need a picture of the new Tulsa City Hall for the main Tulsa article. If anyone goes by there, please take one! Okiefromokla ^questions? 18:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

• Would someone please take a picture of the "avenue of the sister cities" and the street sign there depicting distances to Tulsa's sister cities? It's at 5th and Main streets in downtown Tulsa. Okiefromokla•talk 19:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't find a sign showing distances, but here are a couple: http://flickr.com/photos/timothymorgan/572140269/ and http://flickr.com/photos/timothymorgan/571597150/ Let me know where the sign you're referencing is and I'll go back. Tim Morgan 23:17, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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This section and its category listings serve to make all Tulsa pages accessible through this page. Please add pages to the correct category when appropriate.

Article category tree

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• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of the city of Tulsa and the surrounding metropolitan area.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Tulsa by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To assist Wikiproject Oklahoma in creating, editing, and expanding Tulsa-related information.

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Okiefromokla (talk · contribs) - California transplant to the Tulsa area, works mainly on geography-related Tulsa articles.
2. Nmajdan (talk · contribs) - Born and raised Tulsan.
3. Dsmdgold (talk · contribs) - Tulsa resident from age1 through late 20's, currently live in Bartlesville and work in Tulsa. Interested in architecture and historical sites.
4. Kralizec! (talk · contribs) - Tourist who spent a week in Tulsa for work.
5. Tulsaschoolboard (talk · contribs)
6. Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆^{tell me about it} Born and raised Tulsan. Work on anything pertaining to Tulsa.
7. Philippe (talk · contribs) - Transplant to Tulsa, willing to work on whatever I need to.
8. Missmiaculpa (talk · contribs) - Born in Bartlesville, lives in OKC, huge interest in news, art and culture and its ties to Oklahoma
9. CPacker (talk · contribs) - Born in Tulsa and live in Tulsa, hope to help build up Tulsa Wikipedia articles.

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Assessment of articles within the scope of Task Force Tulsa

Tulsa articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1		1			2
	B	4	3	10	5	2	24
	Start	1	19	26	80		126
	Stub		6	40	140	2	188
	Assessed	6	28	77	225	4	340
	Unassessed				1		1
	Total	6	28	77	226	4	341

Assessment details: Log • List

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Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma, Portal:Oklahoma
• Oklahoma State Highways
• Missing articles on Oklahoma newspapers
• WikiProject University of Oklahoma

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