Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho

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WikiProject Idaho

This WikiProject is about the US state of Idaho
Shortcut	WP:IDA
Category	Idaho
Portals	Idaho
Wikimedia Commons	Idaho
Parent project(s)	U.S. states
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Idaho}}
Userboxes	{{User WikiProject Idaho}} {{User WP Idaho}}
Assessment	Assessment
Popular pages	Popular pages
subpages

This project was formed to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of Idaho. This page and its subpages contain various suggestions to help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please introduce yourself on the talk page and add your signature to the "Participants" section below. You are also welcome to add our user template to your user page.

This project template is fairly set, but anyone is welcome to rearrange things or help set up some of the subsidiary pages and templates. Please start a discussion on the Talk page

Scope

This project shall coordinate the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Idaho, its cities, sites, history, etc. It aims primarily to expand Wikipedia's resources on Idaho and present the state in a fair and accurate manner.

WikiProject family tree

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:

• WikiProject United States
  • WikiProject Idaho

Project Divisions

Each of these area has notes and decisions from discussions pertaining to their particular sub-topic (as it relates to Idaho).
Our broad of areas include: (Task forces or Work Groups)

• Communities (talk)—Cities and towns
• Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Idaho
• Culture (talk)— Education, music, art, religion, icons, mass communication
• People (talk)—Includes Idaho natives and those residents who have shaped Idaho
• Government (talk)—Government: federal, state and local politics and politicians in relation to Idaho.
• History (talk)—History of Idaho during and prior to statehood
• Economy (Talk)—Major Idaho industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Idaho

Images

• To request an image for an article, use {{WikiProject United States|ID=yes|ID-importance=|image-needed=yes}} or {{Image requested|in=Idaho}} on the article talk page. Either method will add the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Idaho
• If you need to specify more locations (such as a road passing through eight Idaho counties), use {{Image requested}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.

Check out WikiMedia Commons for Idaho photographs. Please consider adding your Idaho-related photos to the Commons.

Article alerts

Article alerts

Did you know

• 20 Dec 2024 – Thomas Les Purce (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Samoht27 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 Dec 2024 – Idaho State University (talk · edit · hist) move request to Idaho State by Theparties (t · c) was not moved; 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

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Hot articles

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19 edits	Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
16 edits	2024 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
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7 edits	Byron J. Johnson
5 edits	Snake River
5 edits	Chad Christensen (Idaho politician)
5 edits	Teton Valley News
4 edits	Mike Crapo
4 edits	Nick Symmonds

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 30 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Assessment statistics

Idaho article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)

Daily log of status changes

Current Statistics

Idaho articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 2 4 7 FL 1 2 3 FM 6 6 GA 1 1 4 16 22 B 4 5 24 42 75 C 4 10 28 201 1 2 246 Start 12 28 93 957 1 320 1,411 Stub 6 16 35 2,130 1 333 2,521 List 3 12 18 155 7 195 Category 2,748 2,748 Disambig 5 5 File 4 4 Portal 13 13 Project 7 7 Redirect 2 2 2 63 62 131 Template 61 61 Other 1 1 Assessed 33 75 206 3,570 2,910 662 7,456 Unassessed 5 46 51 Total 33 75 206 3,575 2,910 708 7,507 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 23,434 Ω = 5.47

Click on [show] for progress bar for the Unassessed Idaho articles
99.3% complete Backlog: Unassessed Idaho articles Goal: 0 articles Current: 51 articles Initial: 7,142 articles

Click on [show] for progress bar for the Unknown-importance Idaho articles
90.1% complete Backlog: Unknown-importance Idaho articles Goal: 0 articles Current: 708 articles Initial: 7,142 articles

Featured content

Featured articles

2008 Humanitarian Bowl • Boise National Forest • William Borah • Cutthroat trout • Ernest Hemingway • Harmon Killebrew • Sawtooth National Forest

Featured lists

List of governors of Idaho • List of longest streams of Idaho • United States congressional delegations from Idaho

Featured pictures

• 
  Advanced Test Reactor
• 
  Beulah Ream Allen receiving the Medal of Freedom (1945)
• 
  Ernest Hemingway in Milan 1918 retouched 3
• 
  Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
• 
  Idaho territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)
• 
  Sawtooth Valley ID1

Good articles

1970 Idaho gubernatorial election • 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl • Beulah Ream Allen • Leonard J. Arrington • Beaver drop • David B. Bleak • Burke Canyon • Burke, Idaho • Coeur d'Alene, Idaho • Bill Haywood • USS Idaho (BB-42) • Interstate 86 (Idaho) • Kootenay River • H. Rex Lee • The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) • The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) • Potlatch River • Jane Severance • Snake River • Twin Falls saucer hoax • U.S. Route 195 • Brad White (defensive lineman)

Did you know? articles

1970 Idaho gubernatorial election • 2006 MPC Computers Bowl • 2008 Humanitarian Bowl • 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl • 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl • Acer chaneyi • Acer smileyi • Acer traini • Acer whitebirdense • John Merton Aldrich • Beulah Ream Allen • Amalgamated Sugar Company • Benton Bangs • Beaver drop • Polly Bemis House • Big Jacks Creek Wilderness • Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns • David B. Bleak • Boise National Forest • Boise Pro Soccer • Boise homosexuality scandal • Mason Brayman • Reed Budge • William M. Bunn • Carex aboriginum • Lafayette Cartee • Castilleja christii • Thomas Cheney (folklorist) • Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute • Coeur d'Alene people • Charles Coiner • Comptonia columbiana • Concordia University School of Law • Dickshooter • Dworshak Dam • Niles Fulwyler • Jackson Gillis • Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad • Jeanne Givens • Dick Graves • Grizzly 399 • D. Mark Hegsted • Hell's Half Acre Lava Field • Heyburn State Park • Kent R. Hill • Rosel H. Hyde • Idaho State Highway 50 • Idaho State Veterans Cemetery • Idaho Territory in the American Civil War • Interstate 86 (Idaho) • John N. Irwin • Jordan Creek (Owyhee River tributary) • KOUU • KSKI (AM) • KTLE • Jeff Krogh • H. Rex Lee • Jack Lemley • List of Idaho state symbols • List of longest streams of Idaho • Glen Little (clown) • Little Jacks Creek Wilderness • Wesley P. Lloyd • Massacre Rocks State Park • Phil McGrane • Alyssa Mendoza • Charles Moyer • Murphy Complex Fire • John Baldwin Neil • Duane Nellis • James C. Nelson • Nez Perce language • North Fork Owyhee Wilderness • Old Ephraim • Paleontology in Idaho • Mendel L. Peterson • Pole Creek Wilderness • Potlatch River • Priestly's Hydraulic Ram • Pro-Life (politician) • Saint Joe River • Jane Severance • Snake River Plain (ecoregion) • Cy Sneed • Thorvald A. Solberg • Edward A. Stevenson • Janie Thompson • Treasure Valley • Trochodendron rosayi • Virginia Trotter • Twin Falls saucer hoax • Utah-Idaho Sugar Company • LaNada War Jack • Weippe Prairie • Brad White (defensive lineman) • C. Ferris White • White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs • George M. Willing • Wilson Butte Cave • William A. Wilson (folklorist) • Kalie Wright

In the News articles

2021 Western North America heat wave • Phil Batt • Bowe Bergdahl • Bud Clark • Bryce Dejean-Jones • Joseph Edward Duncan • Shirley Englehorn • Grizzly 399 • Marilyn Howard • Don Larsen • Jack Lemley • Gary Peacock • Frank Shrontz • Wayne Walker (linebacker) • Randy Weaver

Main page featured articles

Boise National Forest • William Borah • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Cutthroat trout • Mark Felt • Ernest Hemingway • Harmon Killebrew • Sawtooth National Forest • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park

Picture of the day pictures

• 
  Advanced Test Reactor
• 
  Beulah Ream Allen receiving the Medal of Freedom (1945)
• 
  Ernest Hemingway in Milan 1918 retouched 3
• 
  Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
• 
  Idaho territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)
• 
  Sawtooth Valley ID1

Former featured articles

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Mark Felt • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park

Former good articles

Northern Pacific Railway • Union Pacific Railroad

WikiProjects supported as part of WikiProject Idaho

WikiProjects directly supported by WikiProject Idaho and the {{WikiProject Idaho}} banner:

Participants

Active participants

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

1. Caldorwards4 04:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Faustus37 19:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
3. porkins8888 30 January 2008
4. Mjquinn id - 25 October 2008 = Templates and Categories
5. TwistOfCain ^(talk) - Will work mainly on Southern and Eastern Idaho cities, as well as the Lemhi Valley area.
6. Douglas Jones
7. BDD 23:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
8. Gtwfan52 (talk) 03:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
9. Voltaire's Vaquero (talk) 05:28, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
10. User:Redtitan - 26 November 2015 - Climate geek - I'll be adding weatherboxes and Köppen climate classifications to locations throughout Idaho where they currently don't exist or are outdated.
11. Lena Key 01 January 2016 Boise area related articles
12. Howpper, I focus on North Idaho
13. IdahoSolo (talk) 20:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC) mostly politics
14. Levictorsmith (talk · contribs) 07:21:13, 19 May 2021 (UTC)  General Southwestern Idaho (Mountain Home, Idaho, Bruneau, Idaho, etc)
15. DoovidToonet (talk · contribs) 22:31:37, 12 January 2023 (UTC) , I enjoy anything to do with the Idaho highway network and geologic features in southwest Idaho.
16. Kencf0618 (talk · contribs) Two decadal Idahoan. Retiree looking for potential Ingress portals.
17. Jmaxx37 (talk · contribs) 01:26:04, 4 January 2024 (UTC)  Hot springs!
18. Jokojis (talk · contribs) 20:46:24, 19 March 2024 (UTC)  Southwest Idaho and greater Boise area.

Former participants

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. .Robbie Giles ^talk (founder) - Keeping the project's recent additions link reasonably up-to-date. Also working on city and county sites in the North-central Idaho region. Also adding to articles on the Nez Perce and Coeur d'Alene tribes. - Inactive since December 2008
2. Drumguy8800 (talk · contribs · count) Idaho is fantastic.. along with Montana. I mainly contribute to geographic articles.. recently about the Bitterroot Range and related topics - Only one edit since September 2009
3. redsoxunixgeek 29 April 2007 - 2 edits since August 2008
4. vatsun 10 July 2007 - Inactive since March 2009
5. Luminece 10 July 2007 - Inactive since April 2009
6. arkaydubya 22 March 2008 - Inactive since March 2008
7. </post> Geek45 (talk) 13:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC) - 4 edits since October 2009
8. IrishDragon (talk) 24 November 2008 - Inactive since June 2009
9. Brandongilbert (talk) 22 May 2008 - Inactive since December 2009
10. King of the Arverni - Inactive since April 2011
11. Byron Shock - Inactive since January 2012

Participant identification

WikiProject Idaho participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Idaho participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Idaho participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Idaho}}	This user participates in WikiProject Idaho.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Idaho}}	This user participates in WikiProject Idaho.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Idaho|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Idaho.	linked pages

For other Idaho user templates see Category:Idaho user templates.

Templates

Main Page Article Guidelines Assessment Cleanup Templates Task forces Members >> Join

Various types of Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates help us manage all this information.

Project Templates

Code	Result
{{WikiProject United States|ID=yes}} Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles. After tagging an article, you can add it and its talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho/Idaho recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update.

Article Body

Sections in the Guidelines will link to sub-sections here.

Infoboxes

For People, Places, Things

Code	Result
{{Idaho}} Infobox for use on regions, cities, and boroughs; placed at the bottom of article pages.

See also

General structure for the bottom sections is:

1. ==See also==
   1. {{Portal}} unless there are issues with the right side of the page.
   2. Then try * {{tl|portal-inline|Idaho}}
2. ==References==
   1. {{reflist}}
3. no more lvl1 headers
   1. Stubs - We put stubs above NavBars, in case the page is short, or there are issues with the right side.
   2. NavBoxes - these are bars that have a "show" on the far right that will expand into a "Navigational Box".
      1. {{Idaho}}

Stubs

Code	Result
{{Idaho-stub}} Stub notice for Idaho articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages
{{Idaho-geo-stub}} Stub notice for articles dealing with Idaho locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages
{{Idaho-politician-stub}} Stub notice for Idaho politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages
{{Idaho-school-stub}} Stub notice for Idaho schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages

Link to Stubs

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• Idaho stubs - last resort.
• Geography stubs - Mountains, Rivers, Lakes and Forests
• Politician stubs - All parties, be fair
• School stubs - Watch for wayward students (between Aug-May)

NavBoxes

Navigational boxes are for several purposes:

• Politics - previous office holder and succeeding office holder; Governor, Mayor, etc.
• Sports - with "seasonal" pages (i.e. 2008 Boise State Broncos football season) - will allow the user to find Previous and Succeeding season

Generally, they should be placed after "External Links" section and before the "DEFAULTSORT" or "Category list".
Ideally, with the comment:

<!-- Generically, going from most specific to least specific...-->
{{Boise State Broncos football navbox}}
{{Boise State University}}
{{Mountain West Conference football navbox}}
{{Idaho}}

Code	Result
{{Idaho}} NavBox for basically ALL Idaho articles; placed at the bottom of all other NavBoxes pages
{{Idaho county seats}} NavBox for basically Idaho 'County Seat' articles; placed at the TOP of all other NavBoxes pages, but ONLY on: City pages for the County Seats All County pages

Places Footers

• {{Idaho college football venues}}

• {{Big Sky Conference football venue navbox}}

• {{Idaho NCAA Division I college basketball venue navbox}}

College Footers

• {{Boise State University}}

• {{Idaho State University}}

• {{University of Idaho}}

College Sports footers (Football)

• {{Boise State Broncos football navbox}}

• {{Idaho Vandals football navbox}}

• {{Idaho State Bengals football navbox}}

• {{Big Sky Conference football navbox}}

• {{Mountain West Conference football navbox}}

Resources

The following periodicals are available through online subscription databanks, in either citation, abstract, or full-text format. If any editors would wish to get information from them, please drop me an e-mail indicating the subject, or the periodical, and period, and I will forward what I can find. John Carter (talk) 18:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

• Advocate (Idaho) (1980-on)

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.