Wikipedia:WikiProject Utah
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This project was formed to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of Utah. 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.
Scope
[edit]This project shall coordinate the creation and editing of articles related to the US State Utah, its cities, sites, history, etc. It aims primarily to expand Wikipedia's resources on Utah and present Utah in a fair and accurate manner.
Goals
[edit]- To improve the quality and quantity of Utah related articles as exemplified by the featured articles, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Geology of the Capitol Reef area, Geology of the Bryce Canyon area and Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area; the Good Articles, Salt Lake City, Utah and Great Salt Lake; and the former featured article Liberal Party (Utah).
- Present a well-rounded view of Utah as a whole.
- To make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on Utah.
Portal
[edit]Open tasks
[edit]Open tasks for WikiProject: Utah. Utah Shortcuts: Categories | History |
Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 15 Dec 2024 – Jimmy Rex (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Praxidicae (t · c); see discussion (18 participants; relisted)
- 10 Dec 2024 – The Battle of City of Rocks (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by KEmel49 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 17 Dec 2024; see discussion (7 participants)
- 06 Dec 2024 – Margaret D. Nadauld (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by SolxrgashiUnited (t · c) was closed as keep by Liz (t · c) on 21 Dec 2024; see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 16 Dec 2024 – Category:Osmond family (show business) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 01 Dec 2024 – Beverly White (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Jon698 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 05 Nov 2024 – St. George Utah Temple (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Itsetsyoufree32 (t · c); start discussion
Requested moves
- 22 Dec 2024 – Utah State University (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Utah State by Theparties (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 04 Dec 2024 – Bed Bath & Beyond (online retailer) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Primefac (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Dec 2023 – Western United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Peaceray (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 22 Dec 2024 – Draft:Career Tech High School (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 69.128.238.180 (t · c)
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Statistics
[edit]See /Assessment.
Utah articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | ||
FL | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | ||
FM | 15 | 15 | |||||
A | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
GA | 1 | 6 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 62 | |
B | 5 | 20 | 34 | 72 | 36 | 167 | |
C | 3 | 35 | 129 | 302 | 2 | 140 | 611 |
Start | 4 | 44 | 370 | 1,450 | 4 | 597 | 2,469 |
Stub | 4 | 136 | 2,199 | 5 | 666 | 3,010 | |
List | 13 | 83 | 75 | 22 | 193 | ||
Category | 3,203 | 3,203 | |||||
Disambig | 6 | 6 | |||||
File | 116 | 116 | |||||
Portal | 123 | 123 | |||||
Project | 29 | 29 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 14 | 53 | 800 | 869 | ||
Template | 239 | 239 | |||||
NA | 4 | 4 | |||||
Other | 28 | 28 | |||||
Assessed | 15 | 130 | 787 | 4,193 | 4,574 | 1,469 | 11,168 |
Unassessed | 3 | 1 | 83 | 87 | |||
Total | 15 | 130 | 787 | 4,196 | 4,575 | 1,552 | 11,255 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 33,480 | Ω = 5.28 |
Related WikiProjects
[edit]Members
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Utah, 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.
- Admrboltz (talk · contribs) SLC
- BigBen212 (talk · contribs)
- Bob Palin (talk · contribs)
- Bob rulz (talk · contribs)
- Bryce Carmony (talk · contribs)
- aguynamedcarl (talk · contribs) - Mostly following Millard County related articles, reviewing changes. Occasional edits, but work and life keep my busy.
- Cool Hand Luke (talk · contribs)
- COGDEN (talk · contribs)
- Davejenk1ns (talk · contribs)
- Dbmcdonough (talk · contribs) - technology, Utah, business, social media and government.
- doncram (talk · contribs) - historic sites, including any NRHP-listed, see List of RHPs in Utah
- GreenGlass1972 (talk · contribs) Ogden. Working on missing State Park articles, and other things as they hook me.
- HalfwayAffable (talk · contribs): Northern Utah, mostly.
- Hypernick1980 (talk · contribs):Ogden, Utah
- Authalic (talk · contribs)
- Ntsimp (talk · contribs)—Nine Mile Canyon, Category:Ghost towns in Utah and other communities, and photos, especially on the sublists of National Register of Historic Places listings in Utah. I also seem to do most of the assessment around here.
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs)
- Noidywg (talk · contribs)
- Qfl247 (talk · contribs) transplant, worked in the West Desert on the Snake Valley/water issue for the Utah Geological Survey, lots of stories and pics
- Robert Horning (talk · contribs): Logan, Utah
- Steven.Harris (talk · contribs): Librarian@USU, interested in improving the entries for Utah authors.
- Thelema12 (talk · contribs)
- Tavatar (talk · contribs)
- Texttramp (talk · contribs) 16:33:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC) Focused on small towns, out-of-the-way places, byways
- The Utahraptor (talk · contribs)
- Todrobbins (talk · contribs) - MLIS/digital asset manager based in Salt Lake City - lots of interests and willing to help anywhere
- TurfToe11 (talk) 06:51, 1 July 2013 (UTC): Ogden, Utah
- Tripleahg (talk · contribs)
- Val42 (talk · contribs): Ogden, Utah
- Visorstuff (talk · contribs)
- WPPilot (talk · contribs) Fraud & Ponzi Schemes in UTAH
- Zaui (talk · contribs) - from Sandy, Utah (Adding photos to articles when I can - see my gallery - willing to work on the portal also)
- Theonlypat (talk · contribs)
- RES2773 (talk · contribs) - Mostly Utah Transit Authority and other transit/transportation related topics, but occasionally edit elsewhere.
- OddishAzul (talk · contribs) - I mostly edit entries for cities, towns, and CDPs but also edit other kinds of articles occasionally.
- Lomrjyo (talk · contribs) 15:38:56, 1 February 2021 (UTC) Cache Valley and Northern UT
- LikeGrantTookRichmond (talk · contribs) from Ivins, Utah, mostly southern Utah, and USU related.
- Red Rocks and Sage Bush (talk · contribs) from Sandy, Utah, anything Utah, but religion and nature especially.
- Tlonedyr (talk · contribs)
- Maylingoed (talk · contribs) 20:43:28, 22 December 2023 (UTC) Summit County-related articles.
Former members
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- 17adavis7 (talk · contribs)
- А (talk · contribs) Ogden, Utah - No edits since April 2008
- Adrian Comollo (talk · contribs) I'm working on an article about Utah National Groups under Utah Culture category. See details in my page. - No edits since October 2009
- Argyleist (talk · contribs) - No edits since October 2008
- Azander (talk · contribs) - No edits since August 2009
- Blahblah5555 (talk · contribs) - No edits since July 2009
- Bonzostar (talk · contribs) - No edits since June 2010
- CKStark (talk · contribs)
- Cortina2 (talk · contribs) - No edits since February 2011
- D&RGW 223 (talk · contribs)
- Edwardlalone (talk · contribs) - I'm working on a State Legislature Project so please feel free to help out. - No edits since June 2010
- floodbud (talk · contribs) - No edits since September 2007
- Gregmaxfield (talk · contribs) - No edits since March 2010
- hitoman72 (talk · contribs) Any photos or information on the Utah county area would be greatly appreciated - No edits since May 2008
- Hooky6 (talk · contribs) - No edits since October 2010
- Idono (talk · contribs) - No edits since March 2011
- Jaromhuff21 (talk · contribs) Utah Valley native -- Did I just say that out loud? - No edits since 2009
- Jaxad0127 (talk · contribs)
- Jbjazzfan (talk · contribs) - No edits sine January 2011
- John Hamer (talk · contribs) - No edits since March 2011
- Jon Holly (talk · contribs)~~West Valley City, Utah - No edits since March 2010
- JonMoore (talk · contribs) - No edits since March 2007
- Koberg427 (talk · contribs)
- Lee.Devine (talk · contribs) I am interested in Dixie Applied Technology College - No edits since October 2010
- Lethargy (talk · contribs) - No edits since October 2008
- Masterhomer (talk · contribs)
- Maveric149 (talk · contribs) (I'm working on getting every national park in Utah featured; Zion and Bryce already there) - No edits sine July 2007
- Mbatman72 (talk · contribs) - No edits since February 2008
- MissingHailstone (talk · contribs)
- Narnia2514 (talk · contribs) - No edits since July 2010
- Rmwarnick (talk · contribs) (I am adding geo-stubs for every Utah wilderness area) - No edits since May 2009
- Rocketmaniac (talk · contribs)
- RSkyhawk (talk · contribs): Want to create/improve history articles. Any help appreciated; see my User Page. - No edits since November 2008
- Sodaplayer (talk · contribs) - No edits since April 2009
- Sterling.morris (talk · contribs)
- Sthatting (talk · contribs): Syracuse, Layton, Hildale, & Midvale, Utah - No edits since January 2008
- Supertechguy (talk · contribs): Working on the Washington County School District (Utah) Page - No edits since February 2011
- Twinkler4 (talk · contribs) - No edits since May 2008
- UtahStizzle (talk · contribs)
- UteFan16 (talk · contribs)
- wadazi11 (talk · contribs) (I was in the middle of working on some mountain pages when I came across this. I'll make sure it ties in.) - No edits since October 2008
- WBardwin (talk · contribs) - No edits since October 2010
- Worlingham (talk · contribs) - I'm working on Catholicism in Utah. - No edits since December 2010
- Yintercept (talk · contribs) I am interested in adding photos to articles about the Mountain West. - No edits since April 2007
- yovinedelcielo (talk · contribs) Hey, former Utahn here that is still very interested in promoting Utah-especially since hardly anyone I know had ever heard of it before they met me! - No edits sine March 2011
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Utah should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Utah participants.
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[[Category:WikiProject Utah participants]] | none | linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WikiProject Utah}}
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{{Template:User WP Utah}}
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{{Template:User WP Utah
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For other Utah user templates see Category:Utah user templates.
Templates
[edit]Applying {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|UT=yes|UT-importance=}} to a talk page gives:
United States: Utah Unassessed | |||||||||||||
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and adds the page to Category:WikiProject Utah.
Applying {{Utah-stub}} to an article page gives:
and adds the page to Category:Utah stubs.
Applying {{Utah-geo-stub}} to an article page gives:
and adds the page to Category:Utah geography stubs.
Applying {{Utah-bio-stub}} to an article page gives:
and adds the page to Category:Utah people stubs.
Applying {{Photo requested|in=Utah}} to a talk page adds the page to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Utah.
Navboxes
[edit]Tools
[edit]- 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.