Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming

WikiProject Wyoming

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• Yellowstone Task Force

Welcome to the Wyoming WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Wyoming.

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Wyoming, by expanding and improving articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Wyoming.

Scope

• This project comprises all pages related to the state of Wyoming, its history, geography, and people.

Project Milestones

• September 16, 2013: Blackwater fire of 1937 promoted to Featured Article.
• May 2, 2013: Fort Yellowstone promoted to Featured Article.
• June 28, 2012: Grand Teton National Park promoted to Featured Article.
• September 3, 2007: Yellowstone fires of 1988 promoted to Featured Article.
• July 30, 2007: Rock Springs massacre promoted to Featured Article.
• September 30, 2006: Mormon handcart pioneers promoted to Featured Article.

Members

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest or articles you are working on:

Active members

To join WikiProject Wyoming, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC) – Former Wyomingite now living in Colorado.
2. --MONGO 07:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
3. CosmicPenguin (Talk) 00:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC) - Also a former Wyomingite living in Colorado.  :)
4. IvoShandor 13:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC): Fan of any U.S. state, they all have their splendor. Anyway I could be pretty helpful with Wyoming Registered Historic Places, as I am a duly contributing member of the NRHP WikiProject and also work on various Wyoming articles, especially Wyoming ghost towns.
5. John Carter 14:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - Trying to fill the shoes of the project's proposer.
6. Drumguy8800 (talk · contribs · count) I dearly dearly love Wyoming.. glad to help
7. Laurapalooza 21 April 2007--I live in Wyoming! I make a few small contributions here and there but will try to do more for my adopted home.
8. photomnt 24 April, 2007 -- Former resident, possible future resident, and all around lover of the state
9. User:Ok! Like No Place On Earth.
10. Wyorunner 14 June 2007 - Sports events and high schools.
11. Dutchtower (talk · contribs · count) 17 May 2007 - I will take on Shell Falls and Shell Canyon.
12. Milonica 18:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC) I live in Wyoming during the summer, an in Utah during the "college" school year.
13. Ngs61 13 March 2008 - Visited Cheyenne,WY twice and like everything about Wyoming. Already have begun to contribute and will contribute to Wyoming State Routes and Major Highways in the great state of Wyoming.
14. Aujourd'hui, maman est morte (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
15. Zenithian (talk) 21:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC), Former resident of Casper. Parkmaniac: 4Nov08 The real experts on Parkman and Laramie Plains -- whoever/wherever they are -- might consider me one of their number.
16. Mike Cline - Yellowstone National Park, Montana History and Fly Fishing
17. Profexorgeek - 16:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Wyoming resident, will work on projects as I find them/have time.
18. Acroterion - 03:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC) National Register of Historic Places articles and Yellowstone/Grand Teton-related work.
19. Rocco81b (talk) 10:17, 17 May 2009 (UTC) Will make various updates.
20. MRF.AHC (talk) September 16, 2010, Current Laramie resident. Would like to update articles as I run across them.
21. Marlinite (talk · contribs) Will contribute and create articles for Wyoming towns.
22. Tdp301 (talk · contribs) 9 July 2012 - All Wyoming topics, especially towns and history-related articles
23. Jon698 (talk · contribs) 3 February 2020 - Wyoming politics
24. AlSmith28 (talk · contribs) 17 September 2020 - Wyoming politics

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Wyoming}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

Noted Articles

Featured articles

Blackwater Fire of 1937 • Fort Yellowstone • Grand Teton National Park • Mormon handcart pioneers • William F. Raynolds • Shoshone National Forest • Starship Troopers (film)

Featured lists

List of counties in Wyoming • United States presidential elections in Wyoming

Featured pictures

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  05june-rapiddow-wide
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  Aerial image of Grand Prismatic Spring (view from the south)
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  Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
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  Dale Creek Bridge Union Pacific Railroad Company by Andrew J Russell
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  Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs
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  Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21 - NARA - 539206 - Restoration
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  Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
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  Thure de Thulstrup - The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs
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  Total Solar Eclipse 8-21-17
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  Wyoming territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)

Good articles

Absaroka (proposed state) • Josh Allen • Eli Bebout • Bighorn Divide and Wyoming Railroad • Brokeback Mountain • Django Unchained • Emigrant Trail in Wyoming • Fur-bearing trout • William Henry Harrison III • Johnson County War • KGWC-TV • Kathy Karpan • Cynthia Lummis • Mummy Cave • The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) • The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) • Paul Roach • A. J. Rosier • Snake River • Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) • Wilkins Peak • USS Wyoming (BB-32) • Wyoming-class battleship • Wyoming Highway 257 • Harry Yount

Did you know? articles

1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature • Absaroka (proposed state) • Steven Amstrup • Laurie Anders • Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 • Herma Albertson Baggley • C. C. Beall • Eli Bebout • Big Nose George • Blackwater Fire of 1937 • Harrison Brown • Buffalo Bill State Park • Buffalo Bill – The Scout • Stephanie Burns • Canyon Hotel • Joseph M. Carey • William L. Carlisle • Craig Cobb • Credit Foncier of America • Curt Gowdy State Park • Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad • Cliff Davis • Dipteronia brownii • Django Unchained • EDZ Irigary Bridge • Eagle Butte Mine • Eagle Peak (Wyoming) • Erismatopterus • Fontenelle Dam • Fort Caspar • Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch • Fort Yellowstone • Fossil Cabin • Girl Scout National Center West • Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone • The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872) • Grebe Lake • Grizzly 399 • Ira L. Hanna • William Jefferson Hardin • William Henry Harrison III • Heart Mountain (Wyoming) • Lillian Heath • Heroes of the Fourth Turning • Herrera v. Wyoming • Gil Hibben • H. M. Hook • Hynds Lodge • Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin • Justin James (basketball) • E. Joy Johnson • KATI (Wyoming) • KGWC-TV • KHOL • KNWT • KYDZ • Kathy Karpan • KFNB • Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve • Patricia MacLachlan • Marshall's Hotel • Arthur John Matthews • Max Maxfield • Thomas C. Molesworth • Mother Featherlegs • Mummy Cave • Nagle Warren Mansion • Bill Nation • Natural Trap Cave • Bob Nicholas • Paleontology in Wyoming • George Edward Pendray • Drew Perkins • Pro-Life (politician) • Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range • Ranch A • William F. Raynolds • The Revenant (novel) • J. De Forest Richards • Paul Roach • Teno Roncalio • Shoshone Lake • Bill Stall • Thomas Sturgis • Mike Sullivan (Wyoming politician) • Symphyotrichum molle • Tivoli Building (Cheyenne, Wyoming) • Uinta County Courthouse • Ed Warren (politician) • White Dome Geyser • Wyoming Highway 257 • Hansjörg Wyss • Harry Yount

Good article nominees

Mike Sullivan (Wyoming politician)

In the News articles

John Perry Barlow • Tom Coburn • Dick Ellsworth • Mike Enzi • Grizzly 399 • George Clayton Johnson • Patricia MacLachlan • Paul Roach • James G. Watt

Main page featured articles

Blackwater Fire of 1937 • Fort Yellowstone • Grand Teton National Park • Mormon handcart pioneers • William F. Raynolds • Rock Springs massacre • Shoshone National Forest • Starship Troopers (film) • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park

Picture of the day pictures

• 
  Aerial image of Grand Prismatic Spring (view from the south)
• 
  Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
• 
  Dale Creek Bridge Union Pacific Railroad Company by Andrew J Russell
• 
  Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs
• 
  Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21 - NARA - 539206 - Restoration
• 
  Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
• 
  Thure de Thulstrup - The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs
• 
  Total Solar Eclipse 8-21-17
• 
  Wyoming territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)

Former featured articles

Rock Springs massacre • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park

Former good articles

Dick Cheney • Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad • First transcontinental railroad • M-10001 • George Edward Pendray • Pony Express • Union Pacific Railroad

Almost Good Articles

The following articles have been noted as well-established and substantive, but require improvement or expansion:

• Johnson County War
• Cheyenne, Wyoming

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Wyoming-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Wyoming, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

• Clayton Mountain
• Sheep Mesa (Park County, Wyoming)
• Fortress Mountain (Park County, Wyoming)
• Three Waters Mountain
• Union Peak, Wyoming
• Shale Mountain
• Torrey Peak, Wyoming
• Whiskey Mountain
• Blackwater Natural Bridge

Needed Articles

The list of needed articles has moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Needed Articles.

Article alerts

Good article nominees

• 18 Oct 2024 – Mike Sullivan (Wyoming politician) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jon698 (t · c); start discussion

Featured article reviews

• 12 Oct 2024 – Shoshone National Forest (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by George Ho (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 Dec 2024 – Matthew Shepard (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Murder of Matthew Shepard by Theparties (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 10 Dec 2023 – Western United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Peaceray (t · c); see discussion

Assessment statistics

Wyoming articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	2	1		1	7
FL				2			2
FM					9		9
GA			6	11		8	25
B	6	11	16	22		32	87
C	7	13	29	77		110	236
Start	5	53	222	452		807	1,539
Stub	1	13	164	1,094		843	2,115
List	1	9	16	64		92	182
Category					2,253		2,253
Disambig					5		5
File					124		124
Portal					1		1
Project					35		35
Redirect					317		317
Template					191		191
Other					6		6
Assessed	22	100	455	1,723	2,941	1,893	7,134
Unassessed						8	8
Total	22	100	455	1,723	2,941	1,901	7,142
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 21,644			Ω = 5.40

Templates

Userboxes

This user is a participant in WikiProject Wyoming.	{{User WikiProject Wyoming}}
This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Wyoming.	{{User Wyoming}}
This user is interested in the U.S. State of Wyoming.	{{User interest Wyoming}}

Stubs

• {{Wyoming-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Wyoming. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Wyoming-politician-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to politicians from Wyoming. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

Other templates

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|WY=|WY-importance=}} on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

Categories

• Category:Wyoming
• Category:Images of Wyoming
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Wyoming
• Category:WikiProject Wyoming

Resources

• List of WikiProject Wyoming Resources