Talk:Oklahoma

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What the actual fuck?

There is a disgusting pornographic image on the main page, at least loading up for me. Toa Nidhiki05 18:55, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

It was vandalism on a template included on this page. Should be fixed now. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:15, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Possible Geology section

I noticed this article does not have a section on Oklahoma geology. I think that would be a useful addition, since I was wondering how I could go about mentioning the state's earthquakes, since there is currently no appropriate section. Master of Time (talk) 02:29, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Ochre Homme

Ochre Homme is French for Red Man, so wouldn't that be a loan phrase from the Louisiana colonists, in a bastardized version attributed to Choctaw? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.193.39 (talk) 00:47, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Lack of citations/data in need of update

So I won't keep defacing the article with "citation needed" tags because it's an FA and it should at least look the part. But there is currently a serious lack of citations that needs to be adressed, in instances such as:

• the first 2 paragraphs of the geography section
• "Cimarron County in Oklahoma's panhandle is the only county in the United States that touches four other states: New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Kansas."
• "Southwestern Oklahoma contains many rare, disjunct species including sugar maple, bigtooth maple, nolina and southern live oak."
• "Oklahoma's highest-recorded temperature of 120 °F (49 °C) was recorded at Tipton on June 27, 1994 and the lowest recorded temperature of −31 °F (−35 °C) was recorded at Nowata on February 10, 2011."
• "The territory now known as Oklahoma was first a part of the Arkansas Territory from 1819 until 1828."
• "Deliberations to make the territory into a state began near the end of the 19th century, when the Curtis Act continued the allotment of Indian tribal land."
• "Oklahoma also has a rich African-American history. Many black towns thrived in the early 20th century because of black settlers moving from neighboring states, especially Kansas. The politician Edward P. McCabe encouraged black settlers to come to what was then Indian Territory. He discussed with President Theodore Roosevelt the possibility of making Oklahoma a majority-black state."
• "Over a twenty-year period ending in 1950, the state saw its only historical decline in population, dropping 6.9 percent as impoverished families migrated out of the state after the Dust Bowl."
• "Prominent theatre companies in Oklahoma ..." - very long paragraph with zero citations
• The Sports#Current teams section (????)
• Almost the entirety of the "National politics" section, etc, etc.

The article is also in need of an update to its data. The Education section presents data ranging from 2004 to 2008; the bulk of the data from the energy section is from 2009; the Economy section has data ranging from 2005 to 2007, the language section data is all from 2000(!!!), the Demographics section features data that ranges from 2005 to 2009, the media section has two figures from 2006. These figures are all 10 years old at the very least.

This article does not seem to meet the current Featured Article criteria. RetiredDuke (talk) 00:05, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

I may take a look at some of this stuff later, but the Tipton record-high and Nowata record-low temperatures can be sourced to the Oklahoma Mesonet (couldn't find the Tipton bit on the Mesonet site itself). Master of Time (talk) 01:34, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Almost one year later and the article manages to be worse somehow, with all that white space in the climate section. Still a lot of unsourced text, 2000, 2002, 2006 data, short, stubby sentences and so on. RetiredDuke (talk) 16:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Native American territory?

I don't really have an opinion one way or another about this, but I figured I'd kick off the discussion: what should be done now that the Supreme Court has ruled that more than half of Oklahoma is actually Native American territory? I see that someone had added it to the history section, but what about the territory visualization? Demographics? Population map? Should there be a separate article for "indigenous territory formerly part of Oklahoma"? Coolreader18 (talk) 06:26, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

It's Tribal land located within the State of Oklahoma, no borders have changed.--Dcheagle • talk • contribs 07:21, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Image sandwiches

Images need to be cleaned up on this article, too many are sandwiching the text (floating images on both left and right and several one are on the opposite side of tables). This goes against MOS:IMAGES. SchizoidNightmares (talk) 16:45, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Came here to say the same thing. I tagged the article accordingly. —howcheng {chat} 05:43, 14 November 2020 (UTC) I am stupid and a fucking jerk I just broke up with my girlfriend bruh!