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WikiProject proposal: Memphis (metro area)

Would anyone be interested in forming a WikiProject based on the City of Memphis and the surrounding area? Normally I would propose a task force, but the metro area is in multiple states (AR, MS, and TN), so I am instead proposing a WikiProject as the group cannot be a task force of any one state. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Arkansas articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Invitation to help with WikiProject United States

Hello, WikiProject Arkansas/Archive 2! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject United States, an outreach effort which aims to support development of United States related articles in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 20:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:41, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Dead birds in TV show flashforward

Can someone at wilipeda look into the dead birds in arkansas with the dead birds in the tv show Flashforward? I'm suprised no one as made a cultureal link between the two.

here is a link to the video. http://justelite.net/2011/01/04/birds-and-fish-dead-in-arkansas/2170 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.121.213.168 (talk) 04:05, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:03, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects

A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States

Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to add WikiProject Arkansas under WikiProject United States

Greetings, I am a member of WikiProject United States, it was recently suggested that WikiProject Arkansas might be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States, which Kumioko and me have added some of the projects like WikiProject American television and WikiProject United States Government under the {{WikiProject United States}} banner. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. If you have any thoughts, questions or comments, please let me know. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 19:20, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Since there doesn't seem to be any oppostition in the last 3 months I am going to go ahead and add this project to the WPUS supported projects list as well as to the WPUS template. --Kumioko (talk) 02:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Arkansas will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Arkansas's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process

There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 01:59, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Westerns

Howdy, WikiProject Arkansas!
Your editing history indicates that you may be interested in joining the new Westerns WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve and maintain Wikipedia's coverage of fictional Wild West articles. If you are interested in participating, you are welcome to sign up at the project page. We hope you will join us!
Ma®©usBritish{chat} 01:45, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Well, it's not particularly well worded for non-userpages, but yeah, this WikiProject is now setup and still in the early stages of building its project area before user-participation can really begin to function. Anyone interested, please feel free to join. Note, this project not only covers film and TV, but Western novels, comics, actors, directors and authors, etc who make the fictional-Wild West possible. Thanks, Ma®©usBritish{chat} 01:45, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:18, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 22:53, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer (Talk) 20:56, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:Arkansas articles needing references

Category:Arkansas articles needing references, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for Deletion by another editor. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. 02:38, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Chris Gragg

Chris Gragg is a current featured article candidate. If you have the time, please do take a look. Thanks. Seattle (talk) 21:31, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Request Reassessment

I would like to request a reassessment of Arkansas Army National Guard. I belive it may qualify for C Class and that it's importance should be raised.Damon.cluck (talk) 04:06, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Arkansas

This article is now at a beginning point, but there are many courthouses missing, or missing information or images - some will be at the FJC cite in the external links. Help is needed and would be appreciated - this list will be the jumping off point for WP:USCJ's effort to write articles about each courthouse. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:59, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for creating that page! Heaven knows this project needs more activity. I'll try to create some stubs on those courthouses. Thanks again, --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 15:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

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Photo request

The Arkansas Department of Correction article needs a photo of the central office/headquarters. The HQ is at the intersection of Princeton Pike and I-530 near Pine Bluff, AR. [1] If anyone wouldn't mind, would someone mind photographing the building? Also, within Pine Bluff itself is the ADC annex. [2] - Would someone also mind getting that too? Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 16:09, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo is up for deletion

The article Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo is up for deletion. Does anybody want to help try and save it? -      Hydroxonium (talk) 00:58, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:24, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Focus on Arkansas Civil War Related Articles

We are beginning the Sesquicentennial (150th) year of the American Civil War. Near the end of January 1861, Volunteer Militia Companies began to arrive in Little Rock with the intent of seizing the Federal Arsenal located there. What a great time for us to launch an effort to get all Arkansas Civil War related articles up to at least B Class. I suggest rising the importance on Arkansas Civil War related articles to high for a month and see if we can make progress on this effort! Here are some of the articles that need work:

Aleutian06 21:44, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Memphis WikiProject proposal

I have proposed establishing a WikiProject for Greater Memphis - please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Memphis WhisperToMe (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Marvell photo request

Would anyone near Marvell please travel there to photograph the Marvell Academy?

I would really, really like to have a photo of the school

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 21:58, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Gould photo request

I also have:

WhisperToMe (talk) 23:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Arkansas Highways

I have been working on Arkansas Highway articles for quite some time. Does anyone object to marking an article as C-class for this project if it's C-class for WP:USRD? Also, what importance level should be assigned to AR state highways? Please let me know so I can apply this standard to all my state highway work, which would greatly improve the WP:AR project by taking a lot of unassessed articles off the WP:AR books. Here is an example of C-class WP:USRD work in Arkansas. Brandonrush Woooooooo pig sooie 16:59, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

American Legion buildings in Arkansas

Hi, i've been developing List of American Legion buildings which happens to include more buildings in Arkansas than anywhere else. It includes just individually notable buildings, such as ones listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. I have started stub articles on many of the 16(!) Arkansas ones, in Augusta, Clarksville, Des Arc, Eudora, Fayetteville, Lepanto, Leslie, Nashville, Newport, Paris, Perryville, Russellville, Searcy, Springdale, and Yellville. It would be great if anyone local could take pictures to add, or otherwise improve the articles. Also, the list-article itself seems to be under some attack, which I do not understand as it is obviously notable and a serious list. Any help developing the list-article would be appreciated. :) --doncram 02:32, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Highway maps

I found highway maps: http://www.arkansashighways.com/planning_research/mapping_graphics/county_maps.aspx

This has 1936 highway maps: http://web.archive.org/web/20031231010709/http://www.arkansashighways.com/Maps/Counties/1936/HistoricalMapst.htm

The 1930s maps could be useful for finding institutions that no longer exist!

According to the Jefferson County map at http://web.archive.org/web/20031231010709/http://www.arkansashighways.com/Maps/Counties/1936/mjeff36.tif the Arkansas Industrial School for Whites was located where the ADC Pine Bluff facilities are now

WhisperToMe (talk) 03:49, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Varner, Arkansas

Was the location Varner, Arkansas always a part of the Cummins State Farm Prison property, or did state officials annex the land later? WhisperToMe (talk) 00:25, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Pitman's Ferry, Arkansas Article

WikiProject Arkansas,

Article: 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

I was wondering if someone would be able to take the time to do an article that is "red linked" (Pitman's Ferry, Arkansas) in the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment article. It would be appreciated. Adamdaley (talk) 23:45, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Help Needed improving Arkansas Civil War Unit Histories

The List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units is nearing completion. This list was developed by cross referenceing units listed in several sources including:

Sikakis, Stewart, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Florida and Arkansas, Facts on File, Inc., 1992, ISBN 0-8160-2288-7
National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page

The List needs to be improved by adding at least one reference for each unit on the list.

The individual articles are also in need of additional improvements. The unit articles tend to rely on four primarly sources:

Sikakis, Stewart, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Florida and Arkansas, Facts on File, Inc., 1992, ISBN 0-8160-2288-7
National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page
Col. John M. Harrell, "Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States", Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.
Hempstead, Fay, "A Pictorial History of Arkansas" St. Louis and New York, N. D. Thompson publishing company, 1890, Call number: 9197481

The following is a list of suggested improvements for the individual articles:

References. Many of these articles rely on posting to the Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board. While these postings are often from noted historians or published authors, such as Bryan Howerton or William Shea, they could be improved by adding additional references to orgional documents such as the Official Records of the American Civil War. The The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies are available on line at Cornell University Library
Militia Connections. Many of the Volunteer regiments raised by the State of Arkanssa, particularily in the first year of the war, had as their core, Volunteer Militia Companies which were raised under the state's existing militia laws. These connections can be drawn by cross referencing with Arkansas Militia in the Civil War, which relies heavily on the following sources:
Kie Oldham Papers, Arkansas History Commission, One Capitol Mall, Little Rock Arkansas
Arkansas Military Department Records, List of Commissioned Officers in State Militia 1827–1862, Microfilm Roll 00000038-8
Militia Law of the State of Arkansas, Published by direction of the Commander in Chief of the Army of the State of Arkansas and the Militia thereof
Photographs. Providing at least one photograph for each history.
Flags. Providing information on any documented Flag associated with the unit will be very helpful. A good resource for this is [Dedmondt, Glenn, "The Flags of Civil War Arkansas", Pelican Publishing, 2009
Uniforms. Providing as much detail of the uniforms of the paticular unit as possible. An excellent resourse for this is Ron Field, Richard Hook, :The Confederate Army 1861-65 (4): Virginia & Arkansas", Osprey Publishing, 2006
Coypediting. All the articles could use a thorough Copyediting.
Wikilinks. All articles could use additional links to other articles. For example, many articles mention battles and important leaders who often have their own wikipedial article.
Bibliography. Each article needs to have a section that list "Further Reading" or a Bibliography of books and articles which have been published regarding that particular unit.

There is plenty of work to do and this is a great way to celebrate the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Happy Editing! Aleutian06 (talk) 15:38, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Arkansas Meetup?

At the moment, I'm probing interest in a meetup for Arkansans. As far as I know, this hasn't happened before, and I'd like to see it happen. The Meetup page is Wikipedia:Meetup/Arkansas. Lucasoutloud (talk) 21:48, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Defunct school districts

If somebody wanted to start articles about defunct US school districts, he/she could try:

It shows which defunct district consolidated into which active districts - A lot closed in 2003/2004 after the state passed a law abolishing very small school districts WhisperToMe (talk) 08:12, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Help avoiding an edit war at Bill Clinton

Can someone come comment at Talk:Bill_Clinton#WP:OVERLINK_.3F or edit the page directly.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Reformation in order

Hi there, I'm Hair. I believe that I'm a newer user to this wiki project, but have joined in right away. Recently, I have been assessing articles, updating information on a few and undergoing general maintenance. Now coming to the wikiproject a little more, it seems as if the WikiProject contains outdated departments that I feel should be reworked. Here's some issues of what I'm seeing right now:

These "departments" are very useful to the wiki project but aren't cared for. Perhaps a complete rewrite to the project is in order (for example, the assessment qualities, as these seem dated). If this type of task can be done, the above departments need to be reopened (or shut down permanently), possibly with the creation of new departments. In addition to this, a bot could be created to keep things up to date, I'd be happy to make one to keep pages updated. Now, looking at the current members of this project.. most of them seem inactive, so I'm not expecting anything to be done anytime soon. I just wanted to bring this up, as I'd like to see change, but as it would change most of the projects core design, it seemed better to discuss this first. Thanks. HairTalk 02:48, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

I concur with your assessment. We have had a difficult time maintaining the project. Since most of my work is on military history related articles, I generally use Military history WikiProject for my assessments. I would love to see this the Arkansas Project become more active. Aleutian06 (talk) 15:01, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Yes, much of the project infrastructure seems to be out of date. Perhaps a rejuvenation would help. I don't know how to go about acquiring new editors for the project, and it seems a lot of editors are interested in their home state and Arkansas just doesn't have a high population base to pull editors from in that regard. One thing I did think of is improving the Arkansas article. I have been working on this page for quite some time, I thought it is likely our most visible article and improvements may snag an interested editor or two. I was working on improvements when someone nominated it for Good Article class, which it failed because I wasn't done yet. Let me know if there is a project-wide initiative I can help with. Brandonrush Woo pig soooooooie! 01:17, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
I know there are WikiProject banner ads. If Arkansas doesn't have one yet, it could help. WhisperToMe (talk) 08:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

New page from Arkansas Post National Memorial?

What would you guys think about moving Arkansas Post National Memorial to a new page dedicated solely to the historical settlement (Arkansas Post (Historical Settlement)?), while keeping a separate page for the memorial itself? I'm planning to do an overhaul of the page soon anyway, along with other related articles (just organizing some sources). The page mostly discusses the history of the settlement anyway instead of the actual memorial. I posted on the article's talk page about it. Feel free to reply there or here with input/opinions. Samuel Peoples (talk) 19:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Update: The article has been moved to a new page at Arkansas Post. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places for move reason. Samuel Peoples (talk) 08:59, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton#Requested move 8 to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:54, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Defunct school districts with no articles

Hi! I found Consolidation/Annexations of LEA's (1983-2010)." (Archive) Arkansas Department of Education. -- This is a list of school district consolidations and annexations occurring from 1983 to 2010.

For the school consolidations in the late 1990s and 2000s: it is likely for you to find archived official websites (at the Internet Archive) and/or online articles about these consolidations so I will make the wikilinks red to encourage article creation. Also you can get lists of schools which correspond to these districts from online copies of the Arkansas Education Directory like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20030424080320/arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/2002_2003_AR_Edu_dir.pdf - To find website URLs use Google Books and see if you can find directory books which have the URLs printed in them.

School consolidations take place in July of that year unless otherwise stated.

1998
2003
2004
2005
2006
2009
2010

Districts closed prior to 1998 may not have websites (certainly not before 1993). The further back you go, sources may be harder to find. Microfilms at libraries can help.

School consolidations take place in July of that year unless otherwise stated.

1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995

Defunct districts with articles: Arkansas City School District (2004), Delta Special School District (2004), Grady School District (2004), Gould School District (2004), Elaine School District (2006) WhisperToMe (talk) 07:20, 6 June 2013 (UTC)


Defunct school districts : Articles vs redirects

Unless the former school district has resources that provide content for the basis of its own article, I would be inclined to

  • use the listing of defunct school districts as an element within the article held for the current school district, which would hopefully expand to a History subsection within the current SD.
  • writing some prose in the Education section of the locality(ies) impacted by the changes in school districts over time.
  • Create article REDIRECTs to the current school district with Category entries for "YYYY establishments in Arkansas" and "YYYY disestablishments in Arkansas" in the redirected article listing. Djharrity (talk) 03:07, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
    • There may be cases where the district is carved into pieces and given to several districts. If that is the case it will be difficult to have it simply redirect. The good news about the districts in existence since the late 1990s is that their websites may be on the Internet Archive, and those in existence since the early 1980s or so will have digital newspaper archives. For those districts that closed before digitizing of newspapers, see if friends in Little Rock can check out the microfilms of old newspapers. WhisperToMe (talk) 10:02, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Greetings from GLAM-Wiki US

Invitation to join GLAM-Wiki US
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Hello! This WikiProject aligns closely with the work of the GLAM-Wiki initiative (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), a global community of volunteers who assist cultural institutions with sharing resources with Wikimedia. GLAM-Wiki US is a new community initiative focused on organizing cultural collaborations within the United States. GLAM organizations are diverse and span numerous topics, from libraries and art museums to science centers and historic sites. We currently have a backlog of interested institutions- and we need your help!

Are you interested in helping with current or future GLAM projects? Join→ Online Volunteers

We hope you'll join the growing GLAM-Wiki community in the US. Thank you!
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For more information visit→ The GLAM:US portal or GLAM-Wiki on Outreach

Help needed

I looking for an editor who would be willing to do some outreach in Little Rock area, attempting to address issues of a probable GLAM thats spamming and turn it into an active contributor/partner... Gnangarra 11:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request‎ to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:59, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Missing Arkansas Supreme Court Justices

Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Arkansas Supreme Court Justices at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices#Arkansas. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:33, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission

See Draft:Department of Arkansas Heritage. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 15:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

"420 collaboration",

which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

WikiProject Arkansas participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Arkansas.

For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer (Talk) 14:50, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Malvern Arkansas Fire - July 18, 1896

Does anyone have any information on the town burning down? If so please join the discussion on this subject on the Malvern Arkansas Talk Page. Thanks. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:46, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Football

Anybody know about early football in the state to help with this list? Cake (talk) 22:09, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:10, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


Arkansas Women in Red

WikiProject Women in Red wants your biographies

Might I draw your attention to a new redlist of notable Arkansas women who lack a wikipedia biography, in the form of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Encyclopedia of Arkansas - drawn from the "Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture"..

Right now, there are more than five times as many biographies of men as there are of women on wikipedia - see the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators page. I hope this project will lend its support to addressing this imbalance by creating biographies for women within your project's scope, and perhaps by adopting the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture redlist. More generally, WikiProject Women in Red has more than 300 redlists covering perhaps 100,000 notable women for whom we have no biography. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Arkansas/Archive 2/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Arkansas.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

  • The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
  • The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
  • The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Arkansas, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Alice Walton Art

Hi! I am looking for editors interested in Arkansas and prominent people with ties to the state to review an edit request for the Art section of Alice Walton, the art collector and chairwoman of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. I will not direct edit the page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which I disclosed on my user page and declared on Talk:Alice Walton. I created a proposed update that tidies up the existing content and includes appropriate sourcing regarding Crystal Bridges and Ms. Walton's collection. I have reached out to several editors and WikiProjects, but there has not been a response on this particular request. I appreciate any help from the community to review and update the section. Thanks, Kt2011 (Talk · COI:Walton family) 15:45, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Image request: Ten Commandments Monument (Little Rock, Arkansas)

Is a project member able to take a picture for the Ten Commandments Monument (Little Rock, Arkansas) article? ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:21, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Towns vs. Cities

What is the definition we're using for a town vs. the one we're using for a city? Knoxville, with a 2016 estimated population of 743, is called a city in its lead but is in the Town section of the Johnson County template. Dover, with a 2016 estimated population of 1401, is called a "small town" in its lead, but is in the Cities section in the Pope County template. Wiederkehr Village, with a 2016 estimated population of 37, is called a city in its lead and is in the Cities section in the Franklin County template. Kobra98 (talk) 19:45, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Kobra98, I was here posting the below and happened to see this. The difference between town/city/village is not a distinction based on population, but on the legal form of incorporation. That distinction may be in part based on population, but that varies state to state, and I cannot speak specifically to Arkansas. This project is only semi active, so you may get a more useful response at the reference desk. In any case, it's not a distinction we make, it's a legal distinction. John from Idegon (talk) 01:23, 20 March 2018 (UTC)


Talk:Greenbrier High School (Arkansas)

A discussion that may be of interest to members of this project is taking place at the above talk page. Please lend your views if you are so inclined. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 01:23, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

New Arkansas userbox templates

New Arkansas userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Arkansas and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Assistance from experienced Arkansas editors needed

Northwest Arkansas Community College was the subject of a thread today at WP:Teahouse. The school's marketing director posted an enquiry on how to do something with an image. That brought several editors to look at the article, which appears to have″ pretty much always been used for promotion by the school. I'm hoping someone from this project would step up and actually write an encyclopedia article on the school; as opposed to the entirely self sourced advitorial that now exists. Any volunteers? Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 03:47, 30 May 2018 (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.

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   07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Robinson Center in Little Rock

The article on the Robinson Center Auditorium in Little Rock underwent a reconstruction and expansion from July 2014 to November 2016. I pointed this out in its talk page in December of 2017. But as of this writing, and despite an external link to the Robinson Center "Second Act" website (which is about the reconstruction) having been added in mid-2015, there is still no mention of the renovation/expansion on the article since then.

I am right now asking to help from any member of WikiProject Arkansas regarding this. Jim856796 (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta

Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:49, 27 February 2019 (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)

Good article nomination for Tracy Lawrence

I nominated Tracy Lawrence for good article nomination back in November and it still hasn't been touched by anyone. Would anyone be interested in reviewing it? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:04, 27 May 2019 (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) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner image

Anyone near Lee County? This bbq joint is likely to not be in business for much longer, as the owner is elderly and his son apparently isn't planning to continue the business. I'm wondering if there's someone nearby who could go take some photos? I'd love to have photos of the owner, the building, and good ones of the sandwiches, at least one with the top bread off so the filling can be seen. I'd do it but I'm 8 hours away :) --valereee (talk) 16:43, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Interesting Arkansas resource

I recently discovered the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, which I thought might be of interest to members of this project (if you don't already know it!) since it appears to contain quite a lot of well-researched information. ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 10:52, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

That is a valuable tool for sure, but please remember, it is a tertiary source, and cannot be taken on a whole as reliable. Each individual article in it must be evaluated based on its sourcing. John from Idegon (talk) 11:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Lyon College Article Improvements

Hi, my name is Keli and I'm an employee of Lyon College. When I started working for the college within the last year, I saw this article was missing information and that it had a notice on it about the need for additional citations. I've been working on a new draft to improve the page and add the necessary citations.

You can see my entire post with details about my draft here, on the Lyon College talk page.

Since Lyon College has a rich history related to the state of Arkansas, I'm hoping someone a this WikiProject will have an interest in working on the article to make fair changes. You can find my full draft here. Can someone please take a look and offer any feedback, or if you agree that it significantly improves the article, copy my version over?

Since I am employed by the college and here in that official capacity, I will only post on designated talk pages and I will not directly edit the Lyon College article or related articles where I may have a conflict of interest. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have questions or feedback. Thank you! LyonCollegeKeli (talk) 18:23, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

 Done by User:Danielklotz. TSventon (talk) 13:01, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

FYI and Advice Request

Greetings!

I am a Freshman Comp II instructor at ASU Beebe. Instead of a traditional research paper this semester, I am requiring my students to take a STUB from the WikiProject Arkansas list and develop it into a, hopefully, good article. This is a new attempt, and to be honest, one that many instructors will look down on because of the association with Wikipedia. I, on the other hand, think it is a great opportunity for students to do research and produce something that will potentially be seen by others rather than my eyes only.

Any advice on potential good sources or good topics is welcome.

Cindy BeckCkbeckASUB (talk) 18:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Jonas March Tebetts

I've gotten into the weeda a bit on this interesting and notable subject and would be glad to have some help. FloridaArmy (talk) 02:20, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@FloridaArmy: done. BD2412 T 19:59, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Chris Gragg FAR

I have nominated Chris Gragg 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. Tonystewart14 (talk) 03:34, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

GAR notice

Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal has been nominated for a community 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 01:45, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas)

University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas) 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. Steelkamp (talk) 05:17, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

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

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) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 21:21, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

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