Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/Archive 3

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Hello, WikiProject Oklahoma. I just wanted to let everyone know I'm probably going to begin working towards getting the turnpikes of Oklahoma to become a Featured Topic. To start out, I've just done a major expansion of Chickasaw Turnpike, which I'd like to take to FA some time in the future. I'd like to collaborate with other users that might have access to more sources (I only used the articles available through Google and the Tulsa World archives) and/or know more about it through personal experience. Of course, if you'd like to help by working on the other turnpikes, please feel free to do so. I look forward to working with anyone who shares an interest in Oklahoma's turnpikes! —Scott5114 [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 02:19, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Is it okay...?

Is it okay to suggest something? If yes, than can someone please make a List of Fossils found in Oklahoma? Please? :/ --HoopoeBaijiKite 01:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I found it. I can't believe I didn't see it. :( --HoopoeBaijiKite 23:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Chickasaw Turnpike on FAC

Nomination is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chickasaw Turnpike. —Scott5114 [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

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Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City GAN

Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City is now a Good Article nominee. Okiefromokla complaints 16:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 2904 articles are assigned to this project, of which 434, or 14.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subscribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 08:45, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Requested move discussion for new American Civil War article

I've requested that the newly created article Oklahoma in the American Civil War be moved to the Indian Territory in the American Civil War pagespace. I'm not an expert on Oklahoma History, but it was my impression that "Oklahoma" was a created term for the merging of the Indian Nations with the recently opened run lands. If project members here have any opinion on how best this naming helps WikiProject Oklahoma, this would be a time to offer it up for consensus. BusterD (talk) 12:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium

I have reviewed this article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have left a small list of tasks to complete to maintain the GA status of this article. The article will remain on hold for seven days (starting today) for improvements. Nikki311 17:45, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

BOK Center

I'm going to put BOK Center up for Good Article or Featured Article nomination very soon — I can't decide which yet. As soon as I can get some more eyes to look over it, do some copyediting, MOS tweaking, see if any more expansion is needed, we should be good. I would appreciate any and all help. Okiefromokla questions? 01:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Oklahoma

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

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Laven Sowell

This article about an Oklahoma musician is currently at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laven Sowell if project members care to comment. Voceditenore (talk) 06:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma articles needing geographic coordinates

65 articles in Category:Oklahoma articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Oklahoma is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:35, 26 November 2008 (UTC)