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WikiProject St. Louis is underway as of December 31, 2007.Grey Wanderer | Talk 20:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Gateway Geyser#Requested move 8 April 2017, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Yashovardhan (talk) 13:45, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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.

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.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

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 WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   11:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, moved this conversation to:

• The Wikipedia Meetup St. Louis 15
  • Discussion about the event

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!

• The Wikipedia Meetup St. Louis 16
  • Discussion about the event

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)[reply]

Hey folks, I saw that Forest Park Parkway (St. Louis) got rated as Low-importance for WP:STL, but it seems to me that maybe it is more important? I looked at WikiProject St. Louis/articles for other major roads, and saw that Grand Boulevard is rated as High-importance. I don't know much about rating, so I was hoping to get some second opinions - maybe Forest Park Parkway is at least Mid-importance? -Furicorn (talk) 03:12, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Please note that St. Louis cuisine, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 September 2018 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team[reply]

• 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Hey guys I started Chouteau Avenue (St. Louis). Clarinetguy097 (talk) 03:54, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job! Grey Wanderer (talk) 04:06, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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:

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks all and happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 05:14, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I did research on some of these. I fully referenced the Rand Brooks article, but in the process learned that he was born not in St. Louis but in Wright City, so I removed WikiProject St. Louis from his page. The Judy Baldwin article was not only unreferenced but... unreferenceable? It had serious issues in notability, verifiability, etc., so I nominated it for deletion and it was deleted. --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 23:48, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]

@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 & Irma S. Rombauer's father, Hugo Maximilian von Starkloff. Since he died in 1914, any photo of him should be in the public domain. I will note that I always start with the Wikidata record as {{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
• 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.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20061008210650/http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/bvcp/docs/St%20Louis%20City%20Hospital.pdf
• Any more relevant images as they become available would be great!

Peaceray (talk) 05:15, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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? --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 18:52, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 Forest Park Highlands article. Other articles on the request list have been created too. Also: I think the Delmar Loop Trolley is no longer a "stub" or "very short article." --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 23:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all,

My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey. I'm attempting the lofty goal of reaching WP:Good topic status for the 2018–19 St. Louis Blues roster (status here). An amateur photographer on Flickr has generously allowed the use of his photos on Wikipedia but not all the players were there/got good photos. Assuming most people here are from the St. Louis area, I was wondering if you have any photos of players to upload them to Wikimedia Commons or chip in and help expand some articles. Thanks and stay safe! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 13:01, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Thanks, Ajpolino! Much appreciated. (It's chilly here too, but it'll be 83 on Thursday...but that's Missouri for you!) Jon Gray (talk) 00:28, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:37, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated William Tecumseh Sherman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:33, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've started a discussion on the numbering scheme used at the page Mayor of St. Louis on its Talk page. The discussion can be found here. Given the possibility that the result could impact a lot of important STL-related articles, I thought it'd be useful to drop a link here. Thanks. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 09:14, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• 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.)

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 WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

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.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 Waco CG-4 military glider crashed at an airshow at Lambert Field, killing St. Louis mayor William D. Becker, notable St. Louis aviation pioneer William B. Robertson, six other area VIPs, and two USAAF pilots. This incident is currently summarized briefly in the glider article, but it easily meets WP:GNG, and really deserves its own dedicated stand-alone article (which presumably will be titled 1943 St. Louis Waco CG-4 glider crash). However, I don't have access to St. Louis news articles and histories that could provide information and citations. Help gathering sources that meet WP:RS would be appreciated. (Incidentally, Waco in this context is the name of an aircraft manufacturer unrelated to the 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)[reply]

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 Transportation in Greater St. Louis page to the Transportation in St. Louis page. Gary will remove the Greater St. Louis page as I'm not sure how to do it.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Joe Garagiola Sr.#Requested move 12 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:10, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:DeAnna Price#Requested move 12 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]