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Welcome to the [[Columbia, Missouri]] WikiProject. Our goals are to produce and expand upon articles relating to Columbia, its history, and its current features; and to streamline and standarize all these articles. |
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* The project covers the creation, editing, and organization of articles relating to Columbia, its history, local events, schools, and features. While articles concerning [[University of Missouri–Columbia|Mizzou]] and the [[Katy Trail]] exist, this project will hope to supplement and organize them and similar articles. |
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== Open tasks == |
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* Place {{[[Template:WikiProject Columbia, Missouri|WikiProject Columbia, Missouri]]}} in all relevent articles |
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* Place all relevent articles into the [[:Category:Columbia, Missouri]] |
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* Reseach, writing, and editing of articles concerning Columbia |
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Latest revision as of 17:39, 3 June 2024
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WikiProject Columbia, Missouri
Welcome to the WikiProject page for Columbia, Missouri and the surrounding Columbia Metropolitan Area These pages allow better collaboration for those interested in contributing to the Columbia article series on Wikipedia. Please feel free to browse; we would be happy if you would contribute!
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Announcements
FA-nomination
The University of Missouri School of Music has been nominated as a featured article. You can give input or leave comments at its nomination page. Grey Wanderer (talk) 22:44, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
2020 update
Welcome to two new members: User:23dww01 and User:Gangskew. Also big thanks to User:RunningGrant for creating a wonderful article about Gans Creek Recreation Area. Grey Wanderer (talk) 21:39, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
North Village Arts District
The North Village Arts District page has been created and is in need of expansion. Grey Wanderer (talk) 00:19, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
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Article Alerts
Categories for discussion
- 09 Dec 2024 – Category:Hotels in Columbia, Missouri (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Unknown Temptation (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 09 Dec 2024 – Category:Novels set in Columbia, Missouri (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Unknown Temptation (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- Related: WikiProject Missouri Alerts
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How can I contribute to this project
If you are reading this, then you proably know something about Columbia. . . we welcome your contributions! If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:
If you're looking for something to do involving the Columbia article series, there's a list of articles to the right. Also, look for tags such as {{cleanup}} and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions to the articcle series. Finally, if you're a good photographer, have a look at the image requests below.
And remember, always provide sources for your edits.
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Articles
This area is for contributions to managing the Columbia series. To contribute content to Columbia articles, please see the "to-do" list to the right.
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Project goals
Current goal
Organize and collect all Wikipedia pages relating to Columbia in order to:
- encourage members interested in contributing/editing Columbia articles to work through these pages, so we can combine our efforts
- make all Columbia pages accessible through this page using category listings, so the entire sccope is visible to everyone
- make all article to-do lists and tasks available from one place, so contributors can choose their area of specialty
- centralize information/image/edit requests for all Columbia series pages, so requests can be publicized and quickly fulfilled
Intermediate goal
Bring Columbia article series to a respectable standard, where information about the city is reliable and of sufficient scope
Ultimate goal
Bring the Columbia, Missouri article to featured article status.
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Images
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Columbia, Missouri
- City Hall (Daniel Boone Building)
- Downtown
- CenturyTel of Missouri
- Businesses and Buildings along Broadway (both night and day pics)
- Library
- Some of the larger and historically significant houses that are closer to the mall than to the district that are along Broadway
- 9th street
- Local Bars - The Blue Note, Social Room, Eastside
- Quarterdeck Building on Lemone Blvd (ties in historically to both University and the Software company that owned it previously)
- Local Businesses near Rockbridge Wal-Mart area
- Columns -
- Gallery and Museum Pics (to showcase some of the local art, and University owned galleries and things... for instance some of the Greek Statue replicas in Art and Archeology Bld. on MU Campus)
- University Hospital and Helicoptor
- Fountains and statues at various locations on insurance properties and on campus properties (the big lit up Christmas tree(s), the statue of Beetle Bailey, statue of Christ at Catholic Churches, etc.)
- Churches (focus on architectural aspects)
- Stephens College, along with the stables, and the Lake in the park next to it
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Images
Click HERE to see/edit a gallery of images available for use in Columbia articles.
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Assessment
Article assessment statistics
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| B | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 20 | ||
| C | 3 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 1 | 49 | |
| Start | 1 | 29 | 72 | 175 | 2 | 279 | |
| Stub | 3 | 34 | 130 | 1 | 168 | ||
| List | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | |||
| Category | 158 | 158 | |||||
| Project | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Template | 18 | 18 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 40 | ||
| Assessed | 8 | 44 | 137 | 346 | 209 | 4 | 748 |
| Total | 8 | 44 | 137 | 346 | 209 | 4 | 748 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 2,667 | Ω = 5.13 | |||||
Explanation of article grading system
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Templates in Use
User templates
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WikiProject templates
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- This template should be placed on all article talk pages in the Columbia article series; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:Columbia, Missouri articles.
- Use this template on an article's talk page only if:
- the article is not biographical in nature. Articles about people should use template {{WikiProject Columbia, Missouri people}}
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- This can be added to a user's talk page to invite him/her to the Columbia WikiProject.
Templates used in the Columbia, Missouri article series
This is the main template for the Columbia series, and should be added to the main page of all columbia-related articles non-biographical in nature.
- {{Missouri-stub}}
- This can be added to a page if it is in need of expansion.
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Participants
Anyone who can assist in developing the article series, please add your name:
- theprosperonight (talk · contribs)
- Grey_Wanderer (talk · contribs)
- Genius00345 (talk · contribs)
- tubahero (talk · contribs)
- Osiris Incarnate (talk · contribs)
- Cage, Light in Shadows (talk · contribs)
- Handprints (talk · contribs)
- HornColumbia (talk · contribs)
- Patricknoddy (talk · contribs)
- Bobo The Ninja (talk · contribs) - Columbia native
- Sovereign of Darkness (talk · contribs) - very busy Columbia native
- Saber girl08 (talk · contribs) - Columbia Native
- Agesalis (talk · contribs)- Graduate of Columbia Public Schools
- Seethaki 01:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC) Lover and (former) ten-year resident of CoMO.
- Breakyunit (talk · contribs) - MU student
- Polpo (talk · contribs) - Former MU undergrad & grad student and former nine-year resident.
- maxschmelling (talk · contribs)
- Maria-mesh (talk · contribs)
- AdamProcter (talk · contribs)
- rvanarsdale (talk · contribs) - History buff, small town enthusiast, census excavator
- RM2KX (talk · contribs) - resident for 20+ years. Have worked recently on True/False and Roots N Blues (in a userspace).
- RedOak350 (talk · contribs)
- Jmfcomo (talk · contribs) - Resident of Columbia, currently in the CPS system.
- Mo180894 (talk · contribs)
- 23dww01 (talk · contribs)
- Gangskew (talk · contribs) - CoMo native, Mizzou Journalism undergrad. Expertise: Copy editing, sourcing, local business
- MisterElection2001 (talk · contribs)
- 16porkchops (talk · contribs) - local wikignome
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Collaboration
This section attempts to focus members on one article in order to give it a concentrated effort at improvement.
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Next period's nominees:
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Articles
Articles to work on
About this section . . .
The goal is to bring articles from the bottom of the list to the top of the list. Once an article reaches Stage 4, we can focus on bringing it to Stage 5: featured article quality. Click on the "to do" link beside each article to see its list of tasks. There is also a link to each article's talk page.
Stage 5: Featured articles
Stage 4: Articles of adequate length needing expansion and/or improvement
Stage 3: Articles needing expansion, cleanup, and references
- David H. Hickman High School (talk, to do)
- Missouri Tigers (talk)
- List of people from Columbia, Missouri (talk)
- History of Columbia, Missouri (talk)
- Columbia College of Missouri (talk)
Stage 2.5: Articles that are painful to read and need improvement
- History of the University of Missouri (talk)
- Rock Bridge High School (talk, AFD1)
- Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Area (talk)
- Mizzou Arena (talk)
- Ragtag Cinema (talk)
Stage 2: Stubs and very short articles
- John William Boone (talk, to do)
- MFA oil (talk)
- Booches (talk)
- Columbia Public Library (talk)
- Faurot Field (talk)
- University of Missouri System (talk)
- David R. Francis Quadrangle (talk)
- Memorial Union (University of Missouri) (talk)
- M.K.T. Trail (talk)
- The Blue Note (Missouri) (talk)
- Columbia Daily Tribune (talk)
- Slackers CDs and Games (talk)
- Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area (talk)
- True/False Film Festival (talk)
- Twilight Festival (talk, AFD1)
- Shakespeare's Pizza (talk)
- Avenue of the Columns (talk)
- 2019 Columbia, Missouri mayoral election (talk)
Stage 1: Requests and ideas for future articles
- Maplewood Barn Theatre
- Heritage Festival (Columbia, Missouri)
- Roots & Blues Festival
- Theatre in Columbia, Missouri
- The Magic Tree (Columbia, Missouri)
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Categories
This section and its category listings serve to make all Columbia pages accessible through this page, so the entire scope of the Columbia series is visible to everyone. Please add pages to the correct category when appropriate.
Article series categories
User categories
WikiProject Mizzou categories
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See Also
Projects we admire:
Things you should know about WikiProjects:
We share some articles with these projects:
Parent project:
Child project:
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
