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[edit] Riverboat Gambling

Riverboat Gambling isn't mentioned. Why? 129.41.227.162 13:20, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree that it should be, but the Riverboat gambling page is currently in pretty poor shape. We need better sources so that we can expand it. --Elonka 17:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I've added the Wikiproject Missouri tag to the talk page of Riverboat gambling, so hopefully it will be improved some. Grey Wanderer | Talk 00:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible bad St. Louis Metrolink edits?

Can someone check edits to St. Louis Metrolink station articles made by User:12.74.157.98? I'm not familiar with St. Louis, but this user, whom I'm assuming is a novice, made a few edits that have turned out to not be correct. Another user and I have fixed some of the more obvious errors, but I'd rather see someone familiar with St. Louis fix the less obvious ones, if they also are erroneous. See Special:Contributions/12.74.157.98 for the user's contributions. dhett (talk • contribs) 03:24, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks like all of them have been reverted. The user seemed to also insert their signature with each edit, so they might have been reverted because of that, but not because of erroneous info. Grey Wanderer | Talk 04:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with article requested

Could someone please take a look at the Bertrand MO article. I have tried to add in an image of the city watertower, but I can not seem to get the image in a good position on the page. I am relatively new to editing pages and haven't fully gotten how to make all this work yet. Knowledgeum 07:08, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome, I looked at the Bertrand, Missouri article, cleaned it up a bit, and tried to put the picture in a proper location. Good luck with future edits! Grey Wanderer | Talk 00:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much, looks great. I picked apart your edit and I think I atleast understand how to make an image justify left from now on. Knowledgeum 03:01, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] City WikiProjects

Just wanted to let people know about the creation of WikiProject St. Louis. Between that project and WikiProject Kansas City and WikiProject Columbia editors have plenty of options.Grey Wanderer | Talk 21:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project page reformat

Would anybody object if I restructured the WikiProject Missouri mainspace to look like Wikipedia:WikiProject Columbia, Missouri and Wikipedia:WikiProject St. Louis? Grey Wanderer | Talk 08:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] County templates

I thought I should mention here that I have begun the process of creating county navigation templates for the Missouri counties, and of adding those templates to city and village articles. Omnedon (talk) 02:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I believe the county navigation template project is now substantially complete, but I'm sure some tweaks may still be necessary. I am still in the process of creating the township maps and articles. Omnedon (talk) 11:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Towns?

Appealing to anyone who (unlike me) is familiar with Missouri local government: several places in the state are towns according to the Census website, but I read various places that there are no legal towns in Missouri. I take it, therefore, that these are either cities or villages; but I don't know what makes a municipality a city or a village. Could someone please go through these and sort them accordingly, both by changing their category and by fixing the in-article wording? I've moved up each such article that I've found to Category:Settlements in Missouri. Nyttend (talk) 05:44, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

The existence of legally-constited towns in Missouri was rejected in this deletion discussion, in which it was stated that there are no towns in the state. I beg to differ for two reasons: (1) Census data, and (2) the Missouri Revised Statutes. If you look at the Factfinder data for any of the towns that I mentioned above, or virtually any other that gives "town" in the infobox, you should see that it's considered a town by the Census. Moreover, state law appears to acknowledge towns in places such as §71.012:

"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 71.015 and 71.860 to 71.920, the governing body of any city, town or village may annex unincorporated areas which are contiguous and compact to the existing corporate limits of the city, town or village pursuant to this section."

I believe that this code opens the possibility of some municipalities in the state being towns, and that the Census data proves that certain municipalities are towns. Consequently, unless there are objections, I plan to recreate and begin to repopulate this category. Your input, please? Nyttend (talk) 23:45, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I do not have any legal experience but the wording appears to be a catchall. It doesn't establish a town category, but provides for certain powers if a community was incorporated as such. Perhaps the inclusion of "town" is meant to anticipate any future changes? Red Harvest (talk) 13:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not really familiar with Missouri local government but a cursory search on the Secretary of State website does come up with this document that lists municipalities and their classifcation. None of them are towns. The towns as listed by the Census Bureau are listed as either villages or 4th class cities. Note also that towns are not among the legal municipality types. Other documents indicate that there were indeed towns but a certain law allowed all municipalities to re-incorporate and apparently all of them did. I guess it all boils down to which agency would you trust to provide municipality types, the U.S. Census Bureau or the Secretary of State of Missouri. --Polaron | Talk 17:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong George Kessler - he's not dead

George E Kessler who is dead has been linked to George Kessler who is Board Member of the London Development Agency and is very much alive. This page seems to belong to WikiProject Missouri. Please can you de-link the pages asap. I have also left a note on the page.

Thanks _ _ _ _AlisonLeahy —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlisonLeahy (talk • contribs) 18:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Petty perhaps, but...

The article on St. Joseph indicated that Jesse James was killed in The Patee House. He wasn't, he was killed in his home which has been moved next door to the Patee House museum. I would like to encourage everyone to visit St Joseph, MO. We have a much larger history than just the Pony Express, and Jesse James. Moreta63 (talk) 12:53, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Award

Hey guys, i've created an award that applies to WP:Missouri, heres the template, you can choose to use it or not, cheers, Taifarious1 05:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

The Missouri Barnstar National of Merit -
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[edit] WikiProject Missouri: Articles of unclear notability

Hello,

there are currently 10 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pizza Shoppe

Hi, Missourians. Er, Missourites? A newish user is trying to create this article, and having trouble sourcing it. Is this a notable pizza restaurant? Anyone out there have a ref or two? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:37, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I can't say I've heard of it, but then again I'm not from the KC area. If nothing can be found besides what is currently on the page (the official website and the yellow-book page) it should probably go.-Grey Wanderer | Talk 22:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure I'd call it "notable", but they do have really good pizza. I'm almost always against deletion, going with the "a lousy article is better than no article" defense, but I'm not going to overly passionate about this one. mobyrock (talk) 02:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

Any thoughts on starting a newsletter for this project? I have a bot which could deliver it, and I could set up all of the templates and pages, as I did for WikiProject North Carolina. I would just like someone who could help write it. - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 01:22, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd be willing to help, let me know what you need me to do.-Grey Wanderer | Talk 03:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missouri Portal

I've created Portal:Missouri based on the featured portal Oklahoma. With a little more content it could easily be a featured portal.-Grey Wanderer | Talk 03:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Sweet. Let's figure out how to put it into the wikiproject banner like all those cool WPs. I'm on it. DaronDierkes (talk) 05:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I just looked into it and lo! you already did it. heh. DaronDierkes (talk) 05:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Page redesign

I removed a lot of really mess and redundant content today. I tried to keep as much as possible and redesigned the page using templates any corrections or improvements would be welcomed. The old version is available here. Grey Wanderer | Talk

[edit] Little Dixie category

I created this category for MO (there is a page on Little Dixie, too, started by someone else) and added it to counties for which I had sources - used two lists (one dependent on slaves' accounting for 25% or more of population in 1860); also added brief histories for counties within this category which didn't have any. There may be more but that's what I could finish today - scholars vary as to which counties they assign there.--Parkwells (talk) 15:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)