Wikipedia talk:WikiProject St. Louis
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Welcome
WikiProject St. Louis is underway as of December 31, 2007.Grey Wanderer | Talk 20:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Requested move discussion at Talk:Gateway Geyser
Greetings! I have recently relisted a
Edit request for The Doe Run Company
Hello! I'm an employee of The Doe Run Company and I'm here on behalf of the company. Continuing my work to update the Wikipedia article, I have saved an expanded and updated draft here, and posted an edit request on the article's talk page. My goals are to correct inaccuracies, source all content, and provide a more thorough overview of the company's operations, among others outlined in more detail in the edit request. I have posted similar requests for help at WikiProjects Mining and Missouri (since the company is based in St. Louis), but so far I've seen no replies to the proposed changes. Would someone from WikiProject St. Louis be able to help with this request? TS at Doe Run (talk) 12:22, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hello! I'm sorry to hear you've had trouble getting a response. I can look over your draft some time in the next few days and we can move this forward (if anyone else has time earlier, feel free to beat me to the punch!). Thanks for reaching out here! Ajpolino (talk) 14:00, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 11:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis 2018-08-16 Thursday at VentureCafe
Hi, moved this conversation to:
Wikipedia Meetup St. Louis 16
Hi, this is coming up THURS Sept 13 at Venture Cafe. I made a page and need some feedback on times, let's do on the discussion page for the event. Thanks!
Articles tagged with maintenance issues
Hello all! Just wanted to note that for anyone looking for a St. Louis-related task to help with, here is a list of all WikiProject St. Louis articles tagged as having some issue. A bot updates the list every Tuesday (and tracks our progress as well!). A whopping 35% of St Louis aritcles have some kind of maintenance tag, so lots to be done! If you have questions about how to fix a certain issue, feel free to ask here. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 03:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Forest Park Parkway importance rating
Hey folks, I saw that
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
Hello, |
Chat and Realtime Discussion
- We are experimenting with a telegram group, join here: https://t.me/MissouriWikipedians
- The Talk pages for this and our meetups is still important and main form of communication for our group. Jon Phillips (talk) 01:09, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
- – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
New page
Hey guys I started Chouteau Avenue (St. Louis). Clarinetguy097 (talk) 03:54, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Nice job! Grey Wanderer (talk) 04:06, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Unreferenced St Louis Articles
Hi all! For anyone who has a spare moment or is looking for something to do around here, there are a bunch of St. Louis-related articles that have no references at all. If you can find a reference for information in the article, please add it (and feel free to expand the article!) and remove the unreferenced tag at the top. If you have questions as you go through them, feel free to ask here! A non-complete list below:
- Basketball at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Water polo at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- 1926–27 St. Louis Soccer League season
- St. Louis Terriers
- St. Louis Ambush (1992–2000)
- St. Louis Busch Seniors
- St. Louis Knights
- St. Louis Mules
- FC St. Louis
- J.B. Marine S.C.
- Saint Louis Billikens Men's Soccer Half-Century Team
- Braggin' Rights
- 1889 St. Louis Browns season
- Harry Sullivan (baseball)
- Fredbird (or does this belong in "institutions"?)
- St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network
- St. Louis Golf Classic
- J. Roy Stockton
- Joe Childress
- John Whitehead (baseball)
- Dale Meinert
- Bill Bailey (pitcher)
- Gene Green (baseball)
- Wally Judnich
- Harry Arndt
- Josef Spudich
- Earl Caldwell
- Herman Bronkie
- Dave Stief
- Carl Smith (ice hockey)
- Vernon Ayres
- Walter Moser
- Hersh Lyons
- Bud Tinning
- Ike Danning
- Harry Little (baseball)
- Carl Druhot
- Joe Schepner
- Glens Falls Redbirds
- Wytheville Statesmen
- Logos and uniforms of the St. Louis Cardinals
- Missouri Fall Face-Off
Institutions/Places/Other:
- Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
- Puppet Guild of Greater Saint Louis
- Saint Louis Crisis Nursery
- St. Louis, El Reno and Western Railway
- Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway
- The Jeffersonian
- East St. Louis and Suburban Railway
- St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad
- Central West End station
- Union Station (MetroLink)
- Red Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
- Blue Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
- Aquinas Institute of Theology
- Immacolata School
- Sherman, Missouri
- Powellville, Missouri
- St. Mary's Parish (Bridgeton, Missouri)
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2008
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2018
- St. Louis Country Club
- River City Broadcasting
- Price–Harney Truce
- Lewis Bridge (Missouri River)
- KWUL
- Aloe Plaza
- Meramec (series)
- Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis
- Thomas Jefferson Library
- Missouri Legislative Black Caucus
- Barnes–Jewish West County Hospital
- Synthesis/Regeneration
- Missouri Crematory
- Missouri Route 25
- Maryville Treatment Center
- Chain of Rocks Amusement Park
- Fleur de Lis Ball
- Metro Catholic Conference
- New City School
- Webster Graduate School
- Laclede Car Company
- National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
- Arcadia Valley
- Junket (company)
People:
- George Maguire (politician)
- Raymond J. Bishop
- Howard S. Levie
- Ernő Koch
- Edward O'Meara
- George Joseph Donnelly
- John Nicholas Wurm
- Ricky Owens
- Rand Brooks
- List of Washington University faculty and staff
- Silas C. Swallow
- Ludwig Jacoby
- Stanner E.V. Taylor
- Thomas N. Scortia
- Carl Fenton
- Building Rome
- Larry Griffin
- Judy Baldwin
- Steve Shaw (actor)
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks all and happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 05:14, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- I did research on some of these. I fully referenced the talk) 23:48, 5 April 2020 (UTC)]
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Max C. Starkloff article about the Health Commissiner who implemented social distancing in St. Louis during the 1918 flu pandemic
Hi, I recently wrote the Max C. Starkloff article. He was St. Louis Health Commissioner who implemented social distancing by closing all public venues and prohibiting public gatherings of more than 20 people in October 1918 during the 1918 influenza pandemic. His actions are credited with flattening the curve of new cases & hospitalizations, & halving the death rate compared to places like Philadelphia & Boston.
My concern is that I have never spent much time in St. Louis or the Midwest, & there are things that a local may know that I may have not gotten right. Would some of you have a look at the article to see if there is any way to improve it?
Peaceray (talk) 01:49, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Peaceray: Great! I'll take a look sometime this week. Also if there's anything you'd like a picture of, or a source you couldn't track down that might be held locally let us know (though our library system is currently closed as a coronavirus measure; so you may have to be patient). Thanks for posting here! Glad to see another article on a St. Louisian Ajpolino (talk) 18:47, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Ajpolino: Hi, here are some things that come to mind.
- Any improvements at Template:Did you know nominations/Max C. Starkloff or Max C. Starkloff, or WikiProject St. Louis assessment at Talk:Max C. Starkloff would be wonderful.
- I think that there is plenty of material to write an article about Starkloff's & Infobox person/wikidata}} can generate an infobox as long as the items have references. (See Max C. Starkloff at Wikidata). Unfortunately {{Infobox officeholder/Wikidata}} was inadequate for Starkloff's article.
- Marquis, Albert Nelson (1912). The book of St. Louisans; a biographical dictionary of leading living men of the city of St. Louis and vicinity. St. Louis, MO, US: St. Louis Republic. p. 569. OCLC 342643.
- "Muench Medical & Cookbook Heroes". Muench Family Association. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
- Cooperman, Jeannette (2015-08-20). "The Starkloff Family: Independent From the Start". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
- "Hugo Maximilian von Starkloff obituary". The Journal of the American Medical Association. 63 (2): 1776. 1914-11-14.
- Hugo Maximilian von Starkloff at Find a Grave
- Marquis, Albert Nelson (1912). The book of St. Louisans; a biographical dictionary of leading living men of the city of St. Louis and vicinity. St. Louis, MO, US: St. Louis Republic. p. 569.
- Determine that the copyright status this Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources document is. Some state governments release their documents into the public domain. I don't know about Missouri. If it is in the public domain, the pictures could be gleaned.
- Any more relevant images as they become available would be great!
- Peaceray (talk) 05:15, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Ajpolino: Hi, here are some things that come to mind.
Edit-a-Thon
Anyone else finding self with more time at home right now? Anyone want to work on anything in an organized manner for a limited (I hope!) time? --
Articles to work on
Is it ok for anyone to edit the articles to work on section? If so, please say so here. If not, know that I created the
St. Louis Blues
Hey all,
My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm a member of
Proposed Rewrites of World Wide Technology Article
NOTE: I am proposing these edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of World Wide Technology. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I have posted proposed revisions/rewrite to the World Wide Technology article’s Talk page and wanted to flag this to related WikiProjects to hopefully gain consensus or feedback from editors on proposed re-writes. Thank you for your consideration! Jon Gray (talk) 15:52, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Jon Gray, thanks for the note here. If no one else gets to this in the next few days, send us a reminder here and I'll have time to look through your edits later this week. I hope all is well on your side of the state (as much as can be these days). We've got rain and chill over here. Ajpolino (talk) 16:19, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Discussion of interest
Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:37, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
William Tecumseh Sherman Featured article review
I have nominated
Mayor of St. Louis
I've started a discussion on the numbering scheme used at the page
User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
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and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
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This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
1968 Ozark Air Lines and 1943 Waco glider crashes
Howdy all. I'm primarily interested in aviation but I'm working on a couple of articles that are potentially of interest to this project.
- I've written a draft article on Ozark Air Lines Flight 965, a Douglas DC-9 jetliner that struck a Cessna 150 on approach to Lambert Field in 1968, killing both pilots in the Cessna; the DC-9 was only lightly damaged. The article draft relies almost entirely on the NTSB report, but I'd like to add details from newspapers or histories in St. Louis. Feel free to edit the draft and add more info, preferably with citations.
- In 1943, a city in Texas, and is pronounced WAH-coe rhyming with "taco", not WAY-coe like the city.)
Thanks, Carguychris (talk) 18:51, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Transportation Pages
Hi all. I've been going through and making edits to various transportation pages that are woefully outdated. I spoke with Grey Wanderer and we both agreed that having separate pages for the city and metropolitan area was a bit redundant considering the city only accounts for 10% of the region and nearly all of its major routes extend further into the metropolitan area.
I've already migrated all the information from the
I've also updated all of the MetroLink station pages and added updated information regarding expansions plans on the main page. Lightmetro (talk) 23:35, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for that! I will copy this comment to Talk:Transportation in St. Louis so that relevant discussion can take place there. Grey Wanderer (talk) 04:29, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:33, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (Maryland Heights, Missouri)#Requested move 17 September 2023
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (Maryland Heights, Missouri)#Requested move 17 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 19:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 15:17, 29 December 2023 (UTC)