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[edit] Portal:Oklahoma

Greetings everybody! I've just layed a basic design for Portal:Oklahoma which I believe you will all like to have a look at, and cooperate in maintaining. It currently stands nearly as a skeleton, so now is the perfect time for every member of our Project to make suggestions and enhancements. Regards, Phædriel ♥ tell me - 02:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Yah I saw you created this when I was looking at your contributions (you added yourself to this project, so figured I'd check you out). Good job and thanks :-) -- Ash Lux (talk | contribs) 02:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Wow, thats nice. I'll look more over Portals and learn more about them on Monday when I have more time. But I definitely like that. I like your selection for Selected Article.--Nmajdan 03:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History buff needed

Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Oklahoma's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article.   JEK   19:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nominate articles for Portal:United States

I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Having Portal:United States well-maintained is helpful in making the case for subportals for individual states. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to Oklahoma (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 23:24, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New "People from [city]" Categories

Hello, everybody. I am the bozo who just recently created the new subcategories in the "People from Oklahoma" category. I thought that some of you might want to know why they were created, and why they often have so few pages in them.

The majority of the states have "People from [state]" categories which have at least 200 entries, sometimes over 1,000. This is clearly an unworkably large number for anyone wishing to use the category for research purposes. In 8th grade in Rapid City, South Dakota, the social studies class asked us to write, over the course of the year, reports on two or three people who were or had been residents of the city. Because of that, I have reason to believe that they could be used and probably are used for research purposes. To make such research easier, I looked at the list of metropolitan statistical areas and basically entered in one new category for each metropolitan statistical area.

I know that many of these categories might well be, in the eyes of you who know more about the cities in question much better than I do, misnamed or otherwise faulty. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made along those lines, and I would welcome any corrections, including deletion, that any of the rest of you might choose to make. With that in mind, I have also generally populated the categories with only one or two names, to ease in the process of deletion or renaming.

I thought you all should know why these categories were created, and felt some degree of responsibility for letting your know. I wish you all the greatest good fortune in making the coverage of your state in Wikipedia of the greatest scope and quality possible, and I hope that I haven't annoyed too many of you by my recent actions. Badbilltucker 13:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub deletion notification

This message is to inform the WikiProject that {{Oklahoma-stub}} and Cat:Oklahoma stubs are being considered for deletion at WP:SFD. The category is currently undersized, meaning it has less than 35 articles. Please populate this within 6 days (July 27th) or the stub template and category will be deleted. If you have a question, feel free to leave a message on my talk page or on the SFD page. Thanks you and happy editing. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 17:04, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rose State College

This article has had the same childish nonsense added to it over weeks. It is accidently on my watchlist so I have been reverting it. One of the IPs used has been blocked twice. Could someone who knows about the place edit the article so the wording does not encourage this idiot to add the nonsense? --Bduke 05:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University of Central Oklahoma

This school is upcoming on the list of major schools. With OSBI (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation) building it's lab across the street from the school, and a former FBI lab director heading the forensic science, this school will become big quick. They have a lot of bonds in motion to add buildings, but their wiki page is fairly poor. I have a lot of information on UCO, I'm just not familiar with wiki formatting, I started updating it based off OU's page, but, they really are two different schools.

So if someone, hopefully familiar with the format would like to team up with me, I'd really like to see some progress over at the UCO page. --NeptuneMan 00:17, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New rating feature of project banner

I've added code to {{WikiProject Oklahoma}} that will allow you to rate the quality and importance of Oklahoma-related articles. Doing so automatically adds the article to the appropriate subgroup of Category:Oklahoma articles by quality. Right now, every article is unassessed. For more information about rating articles, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment for rating quality and Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Release_Version_Criteria#Importance_of_topic for importance. For instructions on how to use the template to denote a rating, see the usage instructions I've added at Template talk:WikiProject Oklahoma. Please ask if you have any questions. Pagrashtak 01:02, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to new WikiProject

A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SFD notification

This message is to notify you that a stub template and category that is associated with this WikiProject ({{OU-stub}} and Cat:University of Oklahoma-related Stubs) is up for deletion at WP:SFD. Please join the discussion. Thanks. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 18:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma Portal notice

All, I have set up the Portal: Oklahoma to begin rotating selected articles every month. The University of Oklahoma article has been up there for over 6 months so it is time for a new one. I went ahead and left the OU article up for the remainder of January but I selected the Jim Thorpe article for February as it is the only Featured Article relating to Oklahoma. So, I'd like to start accepting nominations for Selected Articles for March, April, and so on. Of course, these need to be quality articles relating to Oklahoma. Feel free to nominate articles and state the reason for your nomination here. I may also begin working on a rotation for the Selected Picture as well. Nominations for those will be here.--NMajdan•talk 17:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. county infobox

The {{Infobox U.S. County}} needs to be added to almost all OK county articles. /Timneu22 14:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll be working on this in the coming weeks. Also, I am expanding List of counties in Oklahoma and any help would be appreciated.↔NMajdan•talk 22:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma City bombing under Good article candidate review

The Oklahoma City bombing article is currently under Good article candidate review. Any assistance from the good members of this project would be greatly appreciated! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Oklahoma-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/OklahomaSearchResult. Colchicum 15:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jim Thorpe FAR

Jim Thorpe has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma nominated at WP:ACID

I nominated Oklahoma at the Article Creation and Improvement Drive in hopes of getting the article featured by the Centennial in November. Any help on this article would be appreciated.↔NMajdan•talk 15:14, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats on Tulsa making a Featured Article!

Congratulations to Okiefromokla (talk · contribs) and the rest of the editors involved in bringing Tulsa, Oklahoma up to Featured article status! Kudos all `round for your hard work! --Kralizec! (talk) 11:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pride of Broken Arrow

Should The pride of broken arrow article be removed from wikiproject oklahoma? The article has been deleted because it was simply a laundry list of awards they had won. It looks like the article will not be restarted again. There is a discussion page, but no one seems to have any interest in adding it. If this article is recreated, then should there not be an article for every marching band in Oklahoma?--Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆 tell me about it

[edit] Taskforce Tulsa

A new sub-wikiproject has been created to assist this wikiproject, called Taskforce Tulsa. Please insert your name and help out if you are interested in editing articles about Tulsa.Okiefromokla•talk 01:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woody Guthrie

This article just received "Good Article" status. Featured article is not that far away. —Gaff ταλκ 09:38, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] towns/cities - reqphoto, history section...

I've been browsing through towns and cities in Oklahoma (from those two category pages), and adding reqphoto for most of them...I really think it would be brilliant if some of you could drive around and take pictures of towns and cities, and then add them to their pages, possibly with a link to Wikicommons with yet more pictures... Also, most pages don't have a history section - that would be very interesting as well I suppose.Zigzig20s 19:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for Portal

After September, all the Oklahoma-related FAs and GAs will have been used so we will have to start dipping into the B-class articles for Oklahoma Portal Selected Articles unless more articles become GAs or FAs. Just an FYI.↔NMajdan•talk 16:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

That would be a shame. Are there any B-articles on the brink of GA? In fact, we should start looking all B article close enough to reach GA without a whole lot of work. Maybe we could make them A class just so we have a place to 'store' them? If you know of any article like that I could probably get it to GA class fairly quickly.Okiefromokla•talk 17:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Ummm.... Some Bs close to GA that I know of are Carrie Underwood, Frank Keating, Will Rogers, and Oklahoma City. I'm sure there are more.↔NMajdan•talk 17:47, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Well the Oklahoma City article has improved and I've been working on it for a while now, but it still needs much work. Sections need to be written, bias needs to be taken out, and it needs to start from scratch with citations. I think I might try to fix up Carrie Underwood though. Looks like all it should really needs are sources for the citation needed tags and to fix the current refs. Its content is probably sufficient for GA already. Okiefromokla•talk 18:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Little Dixie

There is a discussion/dispute going on at Little Dixie (Oklahoma) right now as to the boundaries of Little Dixie. Requesting that other editors catch up and join in. Okiefromokla•talk 16:39, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for comment re: Battle of Washita River

Battle of Washita River is about an important event in Oklahoma history: Custer's November 27, 2007 attack on the Washita River camp of Cheyenne chief Black Kettle -- a major event in the Indian Wars that played a major role in pushing Southern Plains tribes, esp. Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa-Apache, onto reservations. The article has been under full protection since 1 July 2007 -- over a month now -- in a heavily POV form (pro-Custer, anti-Black Kettle). We are having a great deal of difficulty in getting any movement to make it possible to improve the article, whether through attaining consensus on the article talk page or getting the article unprotected, given the edit warring that proceeded protection.

We really need some help with these RfCs: the article RfC Talk:Battle of Washita River#Request for comment as well as two user-conduct RfCs on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Custerwest, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/HanzoHattori. We could really really use some help in the way of comments, statements, etc. from people outside the dispute. Even if you have limited knowledge about the event itself, there is plenty to see/discuss in these RfCs in terms of the numerous abuses and violations of Wikipedia policy that have occurred in the dispute, including WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:VERIFY, WP:COPYRIGHT, WP:COI, and of course what dispute would be incomplete without WP:3RR, WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA? Please help! Thanks. --Yksin 03:00, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Up for featured article: Oklahoma article

I submitted Oklahoma for featured article status the other day. So far, I need people to make fixes suggested by FA reviewers and people to just generally comb through the article on their own and work any problems that might be there. It would be a huge help! I worked on the article a lot recently to get it up to standard, so it shouldn't need anything major. Also, not many reviewers have looked at it so far, so anyone who wants to review it and give their thoughts is very much needed. Thanks to everyone who has worked on the article over the past few months! Okiefromokla•talk 18:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

promoted. Okiefromokla•talk 18:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

Beginning in September 2007, I will be spearheading a WikiProject Oklahoma newsletter that will be devoted to bringing you all the news around the WikiProject regarding article promotions, WPOK members, new articles, collaborations, Subwikiproject happenings, and more. Please feel free to give your ideas for anything you would like to see in the newsletter, or any other pertaining issue, so we can make this the best newsletter in Wikipedia. Also, you may feel free to contribute directly to this newsletter. If you would like to receive this newsletter on your talk page, please sign up. You may always remove your name from this list at your convenience. Questions or concerns, or if you would like to contribute to this newsletter before the first issue comes out, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. Okiefromokla•talk 17:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma a Featured Article!

Oklahoma has been promoted to Featured Article! Thanks to all who have helped work on the article over the past month. Okiefromokla•talk 18:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

The Oklahoma article is today's featured article! Congratulations to everyone involved in bringing the article up to FA status! --Kralizec! (talk) 12:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Okie Wikiproject Newsletter - first edition

For future reference - nobody worry, this newsletter isn't going to be placed here at any other time in the future. This is just an example, as it's the first issue. Feel free to remove it if it causes a problem. Okiefromokla•talk 17:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


The WikiOkie Reporter

WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter
Issue 1 - September 2007

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WikiProject Oklahoma releases new newsletter

September 2007 brings a new face to WikiProject Oklahoma: a newsletter. As in all of Wikipedia, the new WikiOkie Reporter (tenative name) is intended to be a collaborative effort among editors. Anyone can edit it: this month's newsletter is placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/aug07, but next month's will be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/oct07, with the following month at /newsletter/nov07, and so on. While this month's article's were initially written by User:Okiefromokla, it is hoped other editors will be excited to contribute to articles, content, layout, and ideas. This is a completely new child of WikiProject Oklahoma, and it should reflect the collaborative work of everyone who's bored and has nothing to do for a few minutes. As such, anything can be discussed here: anything - layout, color scheme, pictures, content, etc.

The behind-the-scenes workings for the WikiOkie Reporter will be simple: anyone wishing to recieve the newsletter in their talk page may place their name at sign-up list, but they are more than free to remove their name from the same list at any time. Anyone wishing to discuss ideas or anything at all related to the newsletter may look no further than here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/talk.

Several WikiProjects already have ongoing newsletters, including Wikipedia: WikiProject North Dakota, from which WikiProject Oklahoma's newsletter has been based. For the time being, Okiefromokla will assume distribution responsibilities for the newsletter, maintaining the template, and writing articles from scratch if other editors have not done so by the 1st of the month.

Promotions on the rise

For many Wikipedians, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and make an occasional minor edit to their favorite few pages. Not so in WikiProject Oklahoma. Between May 12 and September, editors have been busily working on Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Woody Guthrie, and all three have been promoted. Prior to May, there were only seven Featured or Good articles in WikiProject Oklahoma.

On May 12, Tulsa was promoted from B-class to FA class after a few months of extensive editing. Its primary editors were User:Nmajdan, User:SandyGeorgia, User:Okiefromokla, and a handful of others. On August 25, Oklahoma was promoted from B-class to FA class after a month-long blitz. User:Okiefromokla, User: SandyGeorgia, and several anonymous IPs contributed heavily to the article. On June 13, 2007, Woody Guthrie was promoted from B-Class to GA class after two failed attempts at promotion. User:Dannygutters, User:Gaff, User:Maenpong, and a handful of others contributed most to the article.

This month's task: Assess articles! Check out all these unassessed articles to help out!

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[edit] Featured topic?

Hello, WikiProject Oklahoma. I just wanted to let everyone know I'm probably going to begin working towards getting the turnpikes of Oklahoma to become a Featured Topic. To start out, I've just done a major expansion of Chickasaw Turnpike, which I'd like to take to FA some time in the future. I'd like to collaborate with other users that might have access to more sources (I only used the articles available through Google and the Tulsa World archives) and/or know more about it through personal experience. Of course, if you'd like to help by working on the other turnpikes, please feel free to do so. I look forward to working with anyone who shares an interest in Oklahoma's turnpikes! —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 02:19, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Is it okay...?

Is it okay to suggest something? If yes, than can someone please make a List of Fossils found in Oklahoma? Please? :/ --HoopoeBaijiKite 01:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I found it. I can't believe I didn't see it. :( --HoopoeBaijiKite 23:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chickasaw Turnpike on FAC

Nomination is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chickasaw Turnpike. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)