Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas

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Welcome This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Kansas with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the member section below. Portal Kansas portal Project Divisions WikiProject Divisions Alerts - provides members of WikiProject Kansas with information about new discussions or collaborations. Communities (talk)—Cities, towns, villages and boroughs Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Kansas Culture (talk)— Music, art, icons, mass communication People (talk)—Includes Kansas natives and those residents who have shaped Kansas Government (talk)—Government: federal, state and local politics in relation to Kansas History (talk)—History of Kansas during and prior to statehood Economy (Talk)—Major Kansas industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Kansas Article alerts Article alerts Did you know 03 Dec 2024 – 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Wildfireupdateman (t · c); see discussion Articles for deletion 18 Dec 2024 – Armed Forces Insurance (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by NiftyyyNofteeeee (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted) Categories for discussion 20 Dec 2024 – Category:Defunct indoor ice hockey venues in Kansas (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Namiba (t · c); see discussion Featured article candidates 23 Dec 2024 – 2007 Greensburg tornado (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by EF5 (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 02 Dec 2024 – 1991 Andover tornado (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by EF5 (t · c); start discussion Good topic candidates 15 Nov 2024 – Tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007 (talk · edit · hist) was GT nominated by EF5 (t · c); see discussion The topic includes: 2007 Greensburg tornado Requested moves 12 Dec 2024 – Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Carl Switzer by Fram (t · c); see discussion 27 Nov 2024 – Assassination of George Tiller (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Murder of George Tiller by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion 22 Dec 2024 – Kansas State University (talk · edit · hist) move request to Kansas State by Theparties (t · c) was not moved; see discussion 10 Dec 2024 – Debbie Mathers (talk · edit · hist) move request to Debbie Nelson by Miklogfeather (t · c) was moved to Debbie Nelson (talk · edit · hist) by Jerium (t · c) on 24 Dec 2024; see discussion Articles to be split 23 Jun 2020 – List of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wolfgang8741 (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 22 Nov 2024 – Draft:Parsons Sun (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GavinTG (t · c) Updated daily by AAlertBot — Discuss? / Report bug? / Request feature? 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Tasks and statistics Tasks Urgent: History of African Americans in Kansas To Nominate at WP:FAC: To Improve to Featured standard: Kansas; Topeka, Kansas; Wichita, Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas; Salina, Kansas; History of Kansas; List of counties in Kansas Collaboration: Kansas To Expand: Kansas State Board of Education; Walnut River (Kansas); Cow Creek (Kansas); Saline River (Kansas); Solomon River (Kansas); The Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery; Ninnescah River (Kansas); Mission Creek To Clean up: To Merge: To Destub: See: Category:Kansas stubs To Deorphan: KVC Health Systems; Kracht Castle Island To Categorize: add Category:Kansas Sports Hall of Fame inductees to all bios of those listed at Kansas Sports Hall of Fame#Inductees To Create: Articles in: Category:Newspapers published in Kansas; Category:Libraries in Kansas To de-redlink: Lists to de-redlink: List of rivers of Kansas Lists to complete: List of Kansas-related topics; List of people from Kansas Wanted Photos/Graphics: Crane Observatory; Haviland Crater; Lake Afton Public Observatory; Philip Billard Municipal Airport Wanted New Photos: missing photos of Kansas Courthouses, all buildings on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas Maintain: add {{WikiProject Kansas|class=|importance=}} to the talk pages of Kansas-related articles and add the articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas/Kansas recent changes so related changes link works. Statistics WikiProject statistics Further information on explanation of article grading system: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment Articles and system Main page: 1.0 Editorial Team : Kansas articles Kansas articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 4 6 FL 1 1 FM 7 7 GA 1 4 81 1 87 B 9 10 36 99 3 157 C 4 20 94 461 1 60 640 Start 14 391 2,291 217 2,913 Stub 1 1 22 3,875 2 348 4,249 List 1 10 33 206 1 10 261 Category 3,646 3,646 Disambig 46 46 File 107 107 Portal 20 20 Project 28 28 Redirect 1 5 104 682 792 Template 458 458 NA 25 680 705 Other 9 9 Assessed 15 57 587 7,147 5,687 639 14,132 Unassessed 2 97 99 Total 15 57 587 7,149 5,687 736 14,231 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 43,289 Ω = 5.37 Featured articles FA-Class Kansas articles B-Class articles B-Class Kansas articles Start articles Start-Class Kansas articles Stub links WikiProject 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. Kansas stubs Geography stubs Politician stubs Find a photograph WikiProject Kansas Photographs Many Kansas articles lack photographs: some of these can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Kansas. If any are located near you, you can help Wikipedia by uploading a freely licensed photograph to Wikimedia Commons. Please help take photos of various Kansas Courthouses that are missing. Participants Active members To join WikiProject Kansas, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page. Aardvark92 (talk · contribs) Activist (talk · contribs) Have traveled most of the state including every Interstate mile. Interest in Government and communities. AlSmith28 (talk · contribs) Arkoutdoors (talk · contribs) - south-eastern Kansas in particular, as well as Kansas geography, history and politics. Baylor98 (talk · contribs) - Kansas City Metropolitan Area Bhall87 (talk · contribs) - Lawrence, Kansas, mainly interested in Kansas cities, Bleeding Kansas, Northeast Kansasand trying to get photos of places in Kansas. Also, I am doing a massive list of ghost towns in Kansas. Buaidh (talk · contribs) - Northwestern Kansas TerritoryHistory of the Territory of Kansas Couillaud (talk · contribs) Cuprum17 (talk · contribs) - S.E. Kansas FUBAR007 (talk · contribs) - Cities and towns in central and western Kansas Flibbert (talk · contribs) Funplussmart (talk · contribs) -South central Kansas, particularly in the Wichita area. Hallward's Ghost (talk · contribs) 00:33:56, 16 August 2020 (UTC)  I was born and raised in Lewis, Kansas, and am interested in working in articles relating to the history of Kansas, particularly regarding prehistory and the history of Indigenous people in Kansas, as well as the Bleeding Kansas time period. ilamb94 (talk · contribs) - Wichita, Kansas, Interested in Kansas politics and Kansas towns. IronRose26 (talk · contribs) Current resident of Stilwell, Kansas; I enjoy history and small towns. I am excellent at copy/line editing. March 2022 IveGoneAway (talk · contribs) - Kansas geology and related settlement history, especially the counties along primordial Interstate 70. Jp07 (talk · contribs) Kmwebber (talk · contribs) -Interested in Kansas History, hoping to contribute to articles soon! Kswx29 (talk · contribs) - Northeast Kansas Ks0stm (talk · contribs) - Salina, Kansas, Anything related to cities/towns/counties or central Kansas. L337p4wn (talk · contribs) - Wichita, Kansas Lithistman (talk · contribs) - Southwest Kansas, mainly interested in Dodge City-related articles, Bleeding Kansas, photographing places in Kansas, and Kansas history. marshan3q (talk · contribs) - Lawrence, Kansas Born in Topeka, raised all over the state by Kansas teachers (mother Kindergarten, father high school social studies). Fascinated by Kansas history, the history of the Free Staters, Jayhawkers, Lawrence, Topeka, and pretty much the entire state of Kansas. Trying to get photos of every city/community and Kansas and eventually would like to create a WikiBook on the state marasama (talk · contribs) - Wichita, Kansas mateinsixtynine (talk · contribs) - Topeka, Kansas and northeast Kansas stuff. Mdupont (talk · contribs) - Topeka, Kansas, Commons, Community. Military Peanuts (talk) 20:14, 19 March 2020 (UTC) -Native and current resident of De Soto, Kansas, former resident of Geary County, Kansas, spent summers as a child in Salina, Kansas Moonraker0022 (talk · contribs) Mustang06 (talk · contribs) paulmcdonald (talk · contribs) - Overland Park, Kansas, working on Cloud County and college football articles for schools in Kansas Qqqqqq (talk · contribs) - Politics and license plates, specifically Political party strength in Kansas and Vehicle registration plates of Kansas Reddi (talk · contribs) Ryan2845 (talk · contribs) Scu ba (talk · contribs) - Politics, namely local members of the Kansas Republican Party. Sbmeirow (talk · contribs) - All communities of Kansas Spacefem (talk · contribs) - Wichita, Kansas, Particularly interested in cities, but I'll help out anywhere. Spacini (talk · contribs) - Manhattan, Kansas, Kansas in the Civil War & Kansas biographies. WTGDMan1986 (talk · contribs) WaltBren (talk · contribs) - Manhattan, Kansas, Interested in Bus and rail transportation in Kansas, as well as general articles. Wrad (talk · contribs) Zamorakphat (talk · contribs) - Interested in Topeka and North Eastern Kansas Gearheadham (talk · contribs) 19:25:01, 29 January 2023 (UTC)  - Interested in Kansas history incl NE KS & Flint Hills areas. TwistedMan1328 (talk · contribs) - Bonner Springs, Kansas, Currently writing and editing articles and drafts for cities, townships, counties, and other entities, mostly in Northeastern Kansas. RoyalSilver (talk · contribs) - Topeka, Kansas, working on a draft for Lake Shawnee! Interested in Salina and Topeka. Former members Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again. Bjorklund_ks (talk · contribs) - Wichita, Kansas, Interested in Kansas sports history & Kansan athletes. - No edits since November 2009 Burroughsks88 (talk · contribs) - No edits since August 2009 CharacterZero (talk · contribs) - Only 1 edit (in March 2011) since November 2010 Jwadeo (talk · contribs) - No edits since March 2009 Kivaan (talk · contribs) - No edits since April 2008 JKetchersid (talk · contribs) - Wichita, Kansas, Kansas Museums - No edits since January 2011 Member identification Members of WikiProject Kansas should place one of the following on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Kansas participants. Wikitext userbox where used [[Category:WikiProject Kansas participants]] none linked pages {{Template:User WikiProject Kansas}} This user is a participant in WikiProject Kansas. linked pages {{Template:User WP Kansas}} This user participates in WikiProject Kansas. linked pages {{Template:User WP Kansas|invite}} This user invites you to join WikiProject Kansas. linked pages For other Kansas user templates see Category:Kansas user templates. Templates and infoboxes infoboxes WikiProject Kansas Infoboxes Code Result {{Kansas}} Infobox for use on regions, cities, and boroughs; placed at the bottom of article pages. Templates WikiProject Kansas Templates Code Result {{WikiProject Kansas|class=|importance=}} 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 Kansas/Kansas recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update. {{Kansas History}} Template to categorize different periods in Kansas's history; placed toward the top of history-related article pages. Important dates in Kansas's history Flag of Kansas July–August 1541 Coronado explores Kansas April 30, 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed May 30, 1854 Kansas Territory organized July 29, 1859 Constitution adopted by convention January 29, 1861 Kansas becomes 34th state August 21, 1863 Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence Spring 1879 Exodusters February 19, 1881 First state to Constitutionally prohibit alcohol 1890s Populist Revolt July 1951 Great Flood of 1951 May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka More... {{Kansas-stub}} Stub notice for Kansas articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages {{Kansas-geo-stub}} Stub notice for articles dealing with Kansas locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages {{Kansas-politician-stub}} Stub notice for Kansas politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages {{Kansas-school-stub}} Stub notice for Kansas schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages For Kansas-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Kansas}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Kansas. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons. The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites. The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images. {{Kansas Barnstar}} Award a barnstar to an editor who has added value to the project. The Kansas Barnstar The Kansas Barnstar is awarded to editors to recognize significant contributions to Kansas-related articles. Userbox templates Code Result {{Template:User interest Kansas|6}} This user is interested in the U.S. State of Kansas. Usage {{Template:User interest Kansas|8}} This user is interested in the U.S. State of Kansas. Usage {{Template:User interest Kansas|10}} This user is interested in the U.S. State of Kansas. Usage {{Template:User interest Kansas|12}} This user is interested in the U.S. State of Kansas. Usage {{Template:User Kansas}} This user lives in the U.S. State of Kansas. Usage {{Template:User Kansan}} This user is a native of Kansas. Usage {{Template:User WP Kansas}} This user participates in WikiProject Kansas. Usage {{Template:User WPKansas}} This user is a participant in WikiProject Kansas. Usage {{User:Dailynetworks/ubx/Kansas}} This user has visited Kansas. Usage Related WikiProjects Related WikiProjects Tips Useful tips for "WikiProject Kansas" editors: See Wikipedia:USCITY article for U.S. city guideline. This should be used for all U.S. communities, which includes incorporated cities, unincorporated cities, ghost towns, neighborhoods. Obviously, not all fields and sections apply in non-incorporated community articles. (tip by User:Sbmeirow) Since some websites delete or move old webpages, it's best to archive the webpage AND add it to your references. This future-proofs your references, because if the old webpage goes away, then Wikipedia still has access to an archived copy. Instructions: 1) open up first webpage that you plan to use in your reference, 2) open up a second webpage to https://archive.org/web/ 3) paste first webpage box on right side under "Save Page Now" then press "Save Page" button and wait archive.org to backup the webpage, 4) open up wikipedia article that needs the reference, 5) edit the article, 6) click the cursor where you need to insert the reference, 7) choose a "Cite" template at the top of the edit window, 8) click "Show/hide extra fields" button (to show archive fields), 9) fill in fields, 10) click "Preview" button to make sure you haven't made a mistake, 11) click "Insert" button to insert the reference citation text into the edit window. (tip by User:Sbmeirow) Resources Websites State Library of Kansas Digital Resources, kslib.info, available for individuals whose IP address is in Kansas Kansas Historical Society, kshs.org, references and some digitized documents Internet Archive, archive.org, digitized books and documents Kansas List of books about Kansas, many of these books are online Wikipedia Wikipedia : The Missing Manual; John Broughton; O'Reilly Media; 312 pages; 2008; ISBN 9780596515164. (Online HTML eBook) 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.