Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming
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Welcome to the Wyoming WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Wyoming.
- Goals
- The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Wyoming, by expanding and improving articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Wyoming.
- Scope
- This project comprises all pages related to the state of Wyoming, its history, geography, and people.
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[edit] Project Milestones
- September 3, 2007: Yellowstone fires of 1988 promoted to Featured Article status.
- July 30, 2007: Rock Springs massacre promoted to Featured Article status.
[edit] News
- September 9, 2007. In our short time here, two articles have been improved to Featured Article status. Congratulations to User:IvoShandor and User:MONGO for their hard work in leading the charge for improving Rock Springs massacre and Yellowstone fires of 1988 respectively. In honor of their efforts, I hereby award them the newly created Wyoming WikiProject Let 'Er Buck award for meritorious service to Wyoming related articles.
[edit] Guidelines
[edit] Open tasks
 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming: |
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[edit] Organize Wikiproject Wyoming
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[edit] Members
All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest or articles you are working on:
- Buaidh 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC) – Former Wyomingite now living in Colorado.
- --MONGO 07:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- CosmicPenguin (Talk) 00:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC) - Also a former Wyomingite living in Colorado. :)
- IvoShandor 13:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC): Fan of any U.S. state, they all have their splendor. Anyway I could be pretty helpful with Wyoming Registered Historic Places, as I am a duly contributing member of the NRHP WikiProject and also work on various Wyoming articles, especially Wyoming ghost towns.
- Retiono Virginian 16:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC). I love Wyoming, always helping out with it and related articles. Retiono Virginian 16:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- John Carter 14:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - Trying to fill the shoes of the project's proposer.
- Drumguy8800 (talk • contribs • count) I dearly dearly love Wyoming.. glad to help
- Laurapalooza 21 April 2007--I live in Wyoming! I make a few small contributions here and there but will try to do more for my adopted home.
- photomnt 24 April, 2007 -- Former resident, possible future resident, and all around lover of the state
- User:Ok! Like No Place On Earth.
- Wyorunner 14 June 2007 - Sports events and high schools.
- Dutchtower (talk • contribs • count) 17 May 2007 - I will take on Shell Falls and Shell Canyon.
- PokeNer 22 August 2007 - I have been cleaning up the University of Wyoming page and Wyoming Cowboys page.
- AlexiusHoratius 5 October 2007 - I hope to work on the general Wyoming article, along with smaller things as I find them.
- Milonica 18:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC) I live in Wyoming during the summer, an in Utah during the "college" school year.
- Ngs61 13 March 2008 - Visited Cheyenne,WY twice and like everything about Wyoming. Already have begun to contribute and will contribute to Wyoming State Routes and Major Highways in the great state of Wyoming.
- Aujourd'hui, maman est morte (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Wyoming}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.
[edit] Noted Articles
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Featured articles
Articles on Wyoming-related subjects that have risen to Featured Status, although not necessarily improved by this WikiProject.
- Mormon handcart pioneers
- Shoshone National Forest
- Rock Springs massacre
- Yellowstone National Park
- Yellowstone fires of 1988
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Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)
The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
- None at this time.
[edit] Nomination for Featured Article Peer Review
The following articles have been nominated by a member of WikiProject Wyoming for a Featured Article peer-review at WP:FAC, and can be discussed at that article's talk page:
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Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:
[edit] Almost Good Articles
The following articles have been noted as well-established and substantive, but require improvement or expansion:
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new Wyoming-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Wyoming, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.
- Union Pass
- Fort Sanders (Wyoming)
- Aspen Mountain (Wyoming)
- Scott's Bottom Nature Area
- Kelly, Wyoming
- Black Thunder Coal Mine
- Buffalo Bill Dam
- Wyoming School for the Deaf
- Jackson National Fish Hatchery
- History of Wyoming
- Bridger Trail
- Greybull River
- Otto Franc
- Otto, Wyoming
- John Allen Campbell
- Frank L. Houx
- Shell Creek
- Wyoming Range
- Shell Falls
- Moose-Wilson Road
- Red Desert (Wyoming)
- American Heritage Center
- Jackson Lake Dam
- Gros Ventre River
- Bomber Mountain
- Lewis Falls
- Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis
- Mount Warren
- Mount Helen
- Paintbrush Canyon
- Bitter Creek (Wyoming)
- Shell, Wyoming
- Union Pacific Coal Company
- Shoshone River
- Boysen Reservoir
- Lower Slide Lake
- Black Tooth Mountain
- Nick Bebout
- Continental Glacier
- East Torrey Glacier
- Sourdough Glacier
- J Glacier
- Connie Glacier
- Downs Glacier
- Grasshopper Glacier (Wyoming)
- Klondike Glacier
- DXFM 101.9
[edit] Needed Articles
The list of needed articles has moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Needed Articles.
[edit] Did you know (DYK?)
[edit] Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles
[edit] Departments
[edit] Collaboration and review
- Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Stubs
- {{Wyoming-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Wyoming. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
- {{Wyoming-politician-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to politicians from Wyoming. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.
[edit] Other templates
{{WikiProject Wyoming}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.
{{WikiProject Wyoming}} looks like this:
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This article is part of WikiProject Wyoming, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Wyoming. |
| NA | This article has been rated as NA-Class on the assessment scale. |
[edit] Categories
- Category:Wyoming
- Category:Images of Wyoming
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Wyoming
- Category:WikiProject Wyoming
[edit] Resources
| Points of interest related to Wyoming on Wikipedia |
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| Portal - Category - WikiProject - Stubs - Deletions |
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