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This WikiProject has been created to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. State Missouri. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject will cover the creation, editing, and organization of articles related to the U.S. State Missouri, its law, government, cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, education, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Missouri in a fair and accurate manner.

[edit] Participants

  • Here is a list of members of WikiProject Missouri. If you would like to join, please add your name to the bottom of the list.
  • preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 21:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Rt66lt - Head of WikiProject Missouri State Highways, southwest Missouri
  • KHill-LTown
  • Amalas
  • Elonka - Interests: Missouri history, St. Louis Arch, tech infrastructure, and biographies
  • Marcusscotus1 - Interests: place names, culture, and general geography
  • TommyBoy - Interests: government, history, law, and politics
  • The Deviant - Native Missourian.
  • GuruBuckaroo - St. Louis Metro Resident since birth. Interests: St. Louis Metro, St. Louis History & urban legends, Cardinals Baseball
  • Mobyrock - Native Missourian. Traveled the world. Decided there was no place like home. Back in Missouri.
  • J\/\/estbrook - Missouri Businesses and anything St. Louis (GO CARDS!)
  • Hellmark - Native, who is active in various organizations that help the area.
  • Muspud2 - Native, now living in Philadelphia, MU-Columbia graduate (electrical engineering). Interests: places I've been in MO, things dear to my heart that have a lack of attention on Wikipedia (Marching Mizzou, for starters). Go Chiefs.
  • Discordanian - Added St. Louis Walk of Fame and have been spending time on disambiguation of St. Louis.
  • Christian Historybuff 15:25, 13 April 2006 (UTC) I was born and live in Florissant, Missouri and St. Charles, Missouri. On top of that my last name, Gentry, is the name of a county and town in Missouri.
  • P.Shack Missouri native KC Area.
  • Genius00345 - Native Missourian. Mid-MO area.
  • Storm63640 - Native Missourian, Kirkwood High Class of 1991, Living in Farmington
  • Stlouisuguy - Kansas City MO native, currently going to law school in St. Louis
  • Geobeedude Belton native, wants to help with geography
  • badbilltucker - Non-native Missourian, currently residing in St. Louis
  • Abernaki - Warrensburg MO native
  • Alakey2010 - Sedalia, MO native, currently residing in Blue Springs, MO.
  • GangstaEB EA Missouri is cool
  • Quartermaster - St. Louis area Reference Librarian
  • OscartheOtter - Former Mascot for the Missouri River Otters Hockey Club
  • Doyel - Native Missourian - St. Louis area.
  • TMS63112 - St. Louis native, especially interested in Missouri politics related articles.
  • DrummerguyYD07 - St. Charles native and Cardinals fanatic.
  • GreyWanderer - Columbia native, MU student
  • Cwd575 - Fair Grove Native, University of Idaho Graduate Student
  • TubaHero - Lee's Summit native, University of Missouri-Columbia Student
  • Joshua Friel - Webb City high school graduate, University of Missouri Alum, current resident of South Korea

[edit] Featured Article

No article is currently assigned.

Nominate an article for Article of for Featured Article here. A featured article should represent the best in Missouri-related articles.

  • The Day After - filmed in KC and Lawrence, a concerted effort is underway to make this a features article on the main page. Most of the film took place in Missouri. --KHill-LTown 04:41, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Very interesting and well written. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 22:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


  • Since this is the Missouri Project shouldn't the article on Missouri be a feature article? After all, Missouri is what this project is all about. --(Steve 20:47, 27 April 2006 (UTC))

support. That's not a bad idea. however we'll need support from at least 3 people (or 3 more supporters than opposers) to get it approved. keep in mind that it's good to find articles that are well written and that most wouldn't have read otherwise. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 17:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

  • oppose I'd have to agree with Steve on this. While this is a good article, I don't think that it's the one we want to stand behind. I would much rather see something more related to Missouri make it to featured status. Amalas =^_^= 17:52, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Comment. wait, what are you referring to in your opposition? "the day after" or "Missouri"? --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 19:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Oops... I meant to say that I oppose The Day After. Amalas =^_^= 20:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
  • oppose OK, the unknown newbie chimes in. The Day After is a great article, but I don't think playing up a program about the end of life as we know it would necessarily be the best sort of advertisement for the state. I personally think playing up some other article which might need more work, like Lewis and Clark, Harry Truman, Louisiana Purchase, Branson, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Route 66, or even KMOX might function as a better advertisement for the state than an end-of-the-world story. Granted, any other would need improvements, but those could be made a priority of the group. My personal choice would be U.S. Route 66. There's a great exhibit at the Jefferson Expansion about the subject, and I could try to get some good photos and other items to upgrade the article. Of course, I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about. Feel free to heckle. Badbilltucker 01:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Collaboration

This section is designated for an article that will be temporary featured for articlee improvement. nominate articles that are of significant importance that you feel need to be revised to meet higher standards.

The Current Collaboration is Tom Pendergast.

Notes:

  • I think i have a good picture, but i'm not sure how to tag it. i got the pic from the Kansas City Public Library, which I am assuming is not-for-profit.

link: http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=35057 . the picture is at the bottom of the page.

    • Additional Comments concerning the Tom Pendergast Collaboration can be found Here.

[edit] Nominations

the following are nominations for future article collaborations.

There are currently no nominations for future article collaborations.

moved St. Louis quote discussion to talk page

[edit] Templates

Missouri Infoboxes

  • {{Missouri}} - For Regions, Counties and Cities; Place at bottom of article pages.
  • {{WikiProject Missouri}} - Use to identify an article as part of the wikiproject. Place on Talk Pages, not article pages.
  • {{User WikiProject Missouri}} - Userbox for use on user pages to identify yourself as a member of the WikiProject
  • {{MOGovernors}} - For use on pages of Missouri Governors
  • {{MORoutebox}} - For Missouri state highways

Stub Templates

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles and Lists

Here is a section of articles and lists that either need to be created or revised. if you feel an Missouri-related article needs to be created or revised, please post it here.

Article Revision:


Article Creation:

If someone could give me a link to a similar page to use as a template, I'd be willing to tackle this. mobyrock 04:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

List Revision:

I've worked on it some, but it still needs tons of work. P.Shack 21:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

List Creation:

  • List of Counties in Missouri
I believe this already exists, List_of_Missouri_counties. -- mobyrock 13:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, List of Missouri counties just redirects to List of counties in Missouri (note the lowercase 'c'), so I think we can safely remove this... Amalas =^_^= 14:15, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requests

Things to do

  • Place {{WikiProject Missouri}} on talk pages of all articles found on {{Missouri}} and subsequently all cities, counties, regions, government articles, and other relevant articles. This is essentially busywork and any assistance is much appreciated.
    • Regions and Metropolitan Areas covered. Anyone who does anything, please report it here so people don't go in and waste time. If you are currently working on a section, change the status to In Progress. Do sections in alphabetical order and when you've stopped, switch the status to "begun: completed to _".

Practically every article in a subcategory of Category:Missouri should be tagged. it's long and tedious, but eventually we hope to get around to all of it.

Regions: Complete

Metropolitan Areas: Complete

Cities: Not Complete

Everything at Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri now has a tag.
Everything at Category:Cities in Missouri is complete, except for subcategories of the subcategory of St. Louis.
Everything at Category:Villages in Missouri is complete.
Category:Towns in Missouri is gone, it is now a redirect
    • All articles in the St. Louis category are done; however, there are several subcategories to the St. Louis subcategory and the articles in the subcategories are not done.
I started working on the subcategories for St. Louis and I was able to tag all the articles (excluding Illinois ones) for the subcategories 'Buildings and structures in St. Louis' to 'Parks in St. Louis.' I started on the 'Sports in St. Louis,' but that went many levels deep and I wasn't sure what to tag and what not to tag. Amalas 15:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
  • All articles are done except for those in the St. Louis subcategories "Sports in St. Louis" and "St. Louisians". Some articles were omitted because of lack of relevance to Missouri, and highways were omitted because those are the responsibility of the Missouri Highways WikiProject. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 07:25, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I got started on St. Louisians. All articles in the main subactegory are covered, but sub-subcategories are not. how did this get so layered and confusing?--preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 08:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Counties: Complete

Highways and Roads: Complete

High Schools: Complete

Colleges and Universities: Complete J\/\/estbrook Talk VSCA  14:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Government Subcategory: Complete. All Government subcategories also complete

Categories and Subcategories Not Complete. I went through a ton of categories and subcatogries attached to the Missouri Catergory and tagged them. (Steve 22:05, 28 April 2006 (UTC))

Missouri Civil War Complete All battles, campaigns, and officers have been give a Missouri Project Tag. Also I have added a Missouri Stub tag to all battles that qualified and add all battles to the History of Missouri Category. (Steve 21:37, 3 May 2006 (UTC))

Professional Wrestling Complete. Every wrestler, valet, manager, commentator, or promotion that was connect to Missouri has been tagged. (Steve 23:51, 13 November 2006 (UTC))

  • Note project-relevant articles that are in need of revision or creation and place them in Requests category

[edit] Sections left

These are all subcategories of Category:Missouri . Note: Some of these may not be accurate, check above. Delete from list when complete

[edit] Good/Featured/A-Class Articles

these articles have not nessesarly recieved thier status because of the actions of the wikiproject, but are covered by the wikiproject and have recieved marks of excellence including A-Class Status, Featured Status, and/or Good Article Status.


This list is not necessarily complete.

Featured Articles: None Currently Posted

Good Articles:

A-Class Articles: None Currently Posted

[edit] Resources

  • [1] Moser's Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets in Missouri at the Springfield-Greene County Library website
  • [2] Missouri Official Manual (aka "The Blue Book").


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