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Welcome to the Wyoming WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Wyoming.

Goals

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  • The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Wyoming, by expanding and improving articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Wyoming.

Scope

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  • This project comprises all pages related to the state of Wyoming, its history, geography, and people.

Portal

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Project Milestones

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News

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Guidelines

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Open tasks

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Article alerts

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Articles for deletion

  • 18 Nov 2024 – Byron Cemetery (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cogsan (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
  • 17 Nov 2024 – Red Cord Records (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Graywalls (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
  • 07 Nov 2024 – Nicholas Sulentic (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Categories for discussion

Good article nominees

Featured article reviews

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Members

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Active members

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To join WikiProject Wyoming, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC) – Former Wyomingite now living in Colorado.[reply]
  2. --MONGO 07:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. CosmicPenguin (Talk) 00:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC) - Also a former Wyomingite living in Colorado.  :)[reply]
  4. IvoShandor 13:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC): Fan of any U.S. state, they all have their splendor. Anyway I could be pretty helpful with Wyoming Registered Historic Places, as I am a duly contributing member of the NRHP WikiProject and also work on various Wyoming articles, especially Wyoming ghost towns.[reply]
  5. John Carter 14:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC) - Trying to fill the shoes of the project's proposer.[reply]
  6. Drumguy8800 (talk · contribs · count) I dearly dearly love Wyoming.. glad to help
  7. Laurapalooza 21 April 2007--I live in Wyoming! I make a few small contributions here and there but will try to do more for my adopted home.
  8. photomnt 24 April, 2007 -- Former resident, possible future resident, and all around lover of the state
  9. User:Ok! Like No Place On Earth.
  10. Wyorunner 14 June 2007 - Sports events and high schools.
  11. Dutchtower (talk · contribs · count) 17 May 2007 - I will take on Shell Falls and Shell Canyon.
  12. Milonica 18:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC) I live in Wyoming during the summer, an in Utah during the "college" school year.[reply]
  13. Ngs61 13 March 2008 - Visited Cheyenne,WY twice and like everything about Wyoming. Already have begun to contribute and will contribute to Wyoming State Routes and Major Highways in the great state of Wyoming.
  14. Aujourd'hui, maman est morte (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Zenithian (talk) 21:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC), Former resident of Casper. Parkmaniac: 4Nov08 The real experts on Parkman and Laramie Plains -- whoever/wherever they are -- might consider me one of their number.[reply]
  16. Mike Cline - Yellowstone National Park, Montana History and Fly Fishing
  17. Profexorgeek - 16:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Wyoming resident, will work on projects as I find them/have time.[reply]
  18. Acroterion - 03:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC) National Register of Historic Places articles and Yellowstone/Grand Teton-related work.[reply]
  19. Rocco81b (talk) 10:17, 17 May 2009 (UTC) Will make various updates.[reply]
  20. MRF.AHC (talk) September 16, 2010, Current Laramie resident. Would like to update articles as I run across them.
  21. Marlinite (talk · contribs) Will contribute and create articles for Wyoming towns.
  22. Tdp301 (talk · contribs) 9 July 2012 - All Wyoming topics, especially towns and history-related articles
  23. Jon698 (talk · contribs) 3 February 2020 - Wyoming politics
  24. AlSmith28 (talk · contribs) 17 September 2020 - Wyoming politics

Former members

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Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

  1. PokeNer 22 August 2007 - I have been cleaning up the University of Wyoming page and Wyoming Cowboys page.
  2. Parkmaniac (talk) 15:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Member identification

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Members of WikiProject Wyoming should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Wyoming participants.

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{{Template:User WikiProject Wyoming}}
 This user is a participant in
WikiProject Wyoming.
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{{Template:User WP Wyoming}}
 This user participates in
WikiProject Wyoming.
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{{Template:User WP Wyoming|invite}}
 This user invites you to join
WikiProject Wyoming.
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For other Wyoming user templates see Category:Wyoming user templates.

Noted Articles

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Blackwater Fire of 1937 • Fort Yellowstone • Grand Teton National Park • Mormon handcart pioneers • William F. Raynolds • Shoshone National Forest • Starship Troopers (film)

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List of counties in Wyoming • United States presidential elections in Wyoming

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    05june-rapiddow-wide
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    Aerial image of Grand Prismatic Spring (view from the south)
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    Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
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    Dale Creek Bridge Union Pacific Railroad Company by Andrew J Russell
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    Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs
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    Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21 - NARA - 539206 - Restoration
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    Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
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    Total Solar Eclipse 8-21-17
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    Wyoming territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)

  Good articles

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Absaroka (proposed state) • Josh Allen • Eli Bebout • Bighorn Divide and Wyoming Railroad • Brokeback Mountain • Dick Cheney • Django Unchained • Emigrant Trail in Wyoming • Fur-bearing trout • William Henry Harrison III • Johnson County War • KGWC-TV • Kathy Karpan • Cynthia Lummis • Mummy Cave • The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) • The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) • Paul Roach • A. J. Rosier • Snake River • Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) • Wilkins Peak • USS Wyoming (BB-32) • Wyoming-class battleship • Wyoming Highway 257 • Harry Yount

  Did you know? articles

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1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature • Absaroka (proposed state) • Steven Amstrup • Laurie Anders • Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 • Herma Albertson Baggley • C. C. Beall • Eli Bebout • Big Nose George • Blackwater Fire of 1937 • Harrison Brown • Buffalo Bill State Park • Buffalo Bill – The Scout • Stephanie Burns • Canyon Hotel • Joseph M. Carey • William L. Carlisle • Craig Cobb • Credit Foncier of America • Curt Gowdy State Park • Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad • Cliff Davis • Dipteronia brownii • Django Unchained • EDZ Irigary Bridge • Eagle Butte Mine • Eagle Peak (Wyoming) • Erismatopterus • Fontenelle Dam • Fort Caspar • Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch • Fort Yellowstone • Fossil Cabin • Girl Scout National Center West • Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone • The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872) • Grebe Lake • Grizzly 399 • Ira L. Hanna • William Jefferson Hardin • William Henry Harrison III • Heart Mountain (Wyoming) • Lillian Heath • Heroes of the Fourth Turning • Herrera v. Wyoming • Gil Hibben • H. M. Hook • Hynds Lodge • Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin • Justin James (basketball) • E. Joy Johnson • KATI (Wyoming) • KGWC-TV • KHOL • KNWT • KYDZ • Kathy Karpan • KFNB • Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve • Patricia MacLachlan • Marshall's Hotel • Arthur John Matthews • Max Maxfield • Thomas C. Molesworth • Mother Featherlegs • Mummy Cave • Nagle Warren Mansion • Bill Nation • Natural Trap Cave • Bob Nicholas • Paleontology in Wyoming • George Edward Pendray • Drew Perkins • Pro-Life (politician) • Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range • Ranch A • William F. Raynolds • The Revenant (novel) • J. De Forest Richards • Paul Roach • Teno Roncalio • Shoshone Lake • Bill Stall • Thomas Sturgis • Mike Sullivan (Wyoming politician) • Symphyotrichum molle • Tivoli Building (Cheyenne, Wyoming) • Uinta County Courthouse • Ed Warren (politician) • White Dome Geyser • Wyoming Highway 257 • Hansjörg Wyss • Harry Yount

  Good article nominees

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Mike Sullivan (Wyoming politician) • Western Air Lines Flight 34

  In the News articles

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John Perry Barlow • Tom Coburn • Dick Ellsworth • Mike Enzi • Grizzly 399 • George Clayton Johnson • Patricia MacLachlan • Paul Roach • James G. Watt

Main page featured articles

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Blackwater Fire of 1937 • Fort Yellowstone • Grand Teton National Park • Mormon handcart pioneers • William F. Raynolds • Rock Springs massacre • Shoshone National Forest • Starship Troopers (film) • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park

  Picture of the day pictures

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    Aerial image of Grand Prismatic Spring (view from the south)
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    Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
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    Dale Creek Bridge Union Pacific Railroad Company by Andrew J Russell
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    Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs
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    Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21 - NARA - 539206 - Restoration
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    Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
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    Total Solar Eclipse 8-21-17
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    Wyoming territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)
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Rock Springs massacre • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park

  Former good articles

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Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad • First transcontinental railroad • M-10001 • George Edward Pendray • Pony Express • Union Pacific Railroad


Almost Good Articles

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The following articles have been noted as well-established and substantive, but require improvement or expansion:

New articles

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Please feel free to list your new Wyoming-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Wyoming, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

Needed Articles

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The list of needed articles has moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Needed Articles.

Assessment statistics

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Wyoming articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
  FA 2 1 2 1 1 7
  FL 2 2
  FM 8 8
  GA 1 6 11 8 26
B 6 11 16 22 29 84
C 5 13 29 74 104 225
Start 6 53 221 449 816 1,545
Stub 1 13 165 1,098 836 2,113
List 1 9 16 63 91 180
Category 2,216 2,216
Disambig 5 5
File 124 124
Portal 1 1
Project 35 35
Redirect 316 316
Template 178 178
Other 6 6
Assessed 22 100 455 1,720 2,889 1,885 7,071
Unassessed 1 1
Total 22 100 455 1,720 2,889 1,886 7,072
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 21,607 Ω = 5.40


Templates

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Userboxes

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 This user is a participant in
WikiProject Wyoming.
 {{User WikiProject Wyoming}}
 This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Wyoming.
 {{User Wyoming}}
 This user is interested in the U.S. State of Wyoming.
 {{User interest Wyoming}}

Stubs

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  • {{Wyoming-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Wyoming. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Wyoming-politician-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to politicians from Wyoming. To be placed on the bottom of the article page.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

Other templates

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Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|WY=|WY-importance=}} on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

 United States: Wyoming Unassessed
 This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
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???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
 
This article is supported by WikiProject Wyoming.

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