Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho
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This project was formed to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of Idaho. 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.
- This project template is under construction and anyone is welcome to rearrange things or help set up some of the subsidiary pages and templates.
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Scope[edit]
This project shall coordinate the creation and editing of articles related to the US State Idaho, its cities, sites, history, etc. It aims primarily to expand Wikipedia's resources on Idaho and present the state in a fair and accurate manner.
Project Divisions[edit]
- Communities (talk)—Cities and towns
- Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features
- Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Idaho
- Culture (talk)— Education, music, art, religion, icons, mass communication
- People (talk)—Includes Idaho natives and those residents who have shaped Idaho
- Government (talk)—Government: federal, state and local politics and politicians in relation to Idaho.
- History (talk)—History of Idaho during and prior to statehood
- Economy (Talk)—Major Idaho industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Idaho
Images[edit]
- To request an image for an article, use {{WikiProject United States|ID=yes|ID-importance=|image-needed=yes}} or {{Image requested|in=Idaho}} on the article talk page. Either method will add the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Idaho
- If you need to specify more locations (such as a road passing through eight Idaho counties), use {{Image requested}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.
Check out WikiMedia Commons for Idaho photographs. Please consider adding your Idaho-related photos to the Commons.
Articles[edit]
Legislature[edit]
Most of the Idaho legislature pages need to be updated to include 2014 and 2016 elections. I'm slowly going through them all but would love help.IdahoSolo (talk) 20:23, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Article alerts[edit]
Good article nominees
- 18 May 2018 – H. Rex Lee (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jeffrolland (t · c); start discussion
Assessment statistics[edit]
| Idaho articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |||
| B | 1 | 6 | 7 | 27 | 11 | 52 | |
| C | 4 | 9 | 81 | 19 | 113 | ||
| Start | 16 | 41 | 749 | 5 | 157 | 968 | |
| Stub | 4 | 11 | 1,790 | 4 | 203 | 2,012 | |
| List | 6 | 5 | 157 | 1 | 7 | 176 | |
| Book | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 2,250 | 2,250 | |||||
| Disambig | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| File | 82 | 82 | |||||
| Portal | 22 | 22 | |||||
| Project | 23 | 23 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 16 | 192 | 210 | |||
| Template | 192 | 192 | |||||
| Other | 44 | 44 | |||||
| Assessed | 1 | 40 | 79 | 2,832 | 2,825 | 399 | 6,176 |
| Unassessed | 10 | 186 | 196 | ||||
| Total | 1 | 40 | 79 | 2,842 | 2,825 | 585 | 6,372 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 17,577 | Ω = 5.54 | |||||
Featured content[edit]
Featured articles[edit]
2008 Humanitarian Bowl • Boise National Forest • William Borah • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Cutthroat trout • Ernest Hemingway • Harmon Killebrew • Sawtooth National Forest • Yellowstone fires of 1988
Featured lists[edit]
List of Governors of Idaho • List of longest streams of Idaho
Featured pictures[edit]
Good articles[edit]
Leonard J. Arrington • David B. Bleak • Burke Canyon • Burke, Idaho • Bill Haywood • USS Idaho (BB-42) • Interstate 86 (Idaho) • Kootenay River • The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) • Potlatch River • Snake River • U.S. Route 195
Did you know? articles[edit]
2006 MPC Computers Bowl • 2008 Humanitarian Bowl • Acer chaneyi • Acer smileyi • Acer traini • Acer whitebirdense • John Merton Aldrich • Amalgamated Sugar Company • Polly Bemis House • Big Jacks Creek Wilderness • Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns • David B. Bleak • Boise National Forest • Boise homosexuality scandal • Mason Brayman • Reed Budge • William M. Bunn • Carex aboriginum • Castilleja christii • 1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation • 1892 Coeur d'Alene labor strike • Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute • Coeur d'Alene people • Charles Coiner • Concordia University School of Law • Dickshooter, Idaho • Dworshak Dam • Niles Fulwyler • Jackson Gillis • Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad • D. Mark Hegsted • Hell's Half Acre Lava Field • Heyburn State Park • Kent R. Hill • Rosel H. Hyde • Idaho State Highway 50 • Idaho in the American Civil War • Interstate 86 (Idaho) • John N. Irwin • Jordan Creek (Owyhee River tributary) • Jeff Krogh • H. Rex Lee • List of Idaho state symbols • List of longest streams of Idaho • Glen Little (clown) • Little Jacks Creek Wilderness • Wesley P. Lloyd • Massacre Rocks State Park • Charles Moyer • Murphy Complex Fire • John Baldwin Neil • Duane Nellis • James C. Nelson • Nez Perce language • North Fork Owyhee Wilderness • Old Ephraim • Paleontology in Idaho • Mendel L. Peterson • Pole Creek Wilderness • Potlatch River • Pro-Life (politician) • Saint Joe River • Snake River Plain (ecoregion) • Cy Sneed • Thorvald A. Solberg • Edward A. Stevenson • Janie Thompson • Treasure Valley • Virginia Trotter • Utah-Idaho Sugar Company • Weippe Prairie • C. Ferris White • White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs • George M. Willing • Wilson Butte Cave • William A. Wilson (folklorist) • Kalie Wright
Good article nominees[edit]
In the News articles[edit]
Bowe Bergdahl • Bryce Dejean-Jones • Judy Kennedy • Wayne Walker
Main page featured articles[edit]
Boise National Forest • William Borah • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Cutthroat trout • Mark Felt • Ernest Hemingway • Sawtooth National Forest • Yellowstone fires of 1988
Picture of the day pictures[edit]
Former featured articles[edit]
Former good articles[edit]
Hudson's Bay Company • Northern Pacific Railway • Union Pacific Railroad
Participants[edit]
Active participants[edit]
To join WikiProject Idaho, edit this section and add # ~~~~ and any comments to the end of the following list of members.
- Caldorwards4 04:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Faustus37 19:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- porkins8888 30 January 2008
- Mjquinn id - 25 October 2008 = Templates and Categories
- TwistOfCain (talk) - Will work mainly on Southern and Eastern Idaho cities, as well as the Lemhi Valley area.
- Douglas Jones
- BDD 23:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- Gtwfan52 (talk) 03:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
- Voltaire's Vaquero (talk) 05:28, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
- User:Redtitan - 26 November 2015 - Climate geek - I'll be adding weatherboxes and Köppen climate classifications to locations throughout Idaho where they currently don't exist or are outdated.
- Lena Key 01 January 2016 Boise area related articles
- Howpper, I focus on North Idaho
Member userboxes[edit]
You may place either {{User WikiProject Idaho}} or {{User WP Idaho}} on your user page to display one of the following userboxes:
| This user participates in WikiProject Idaho. |
| This user participates in WikiProject Idaho. |
Either of these templates will add your user page to:
For other Idaho user templates, please see:
12. IdahoSolo (talk) 20:02, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Inactive Users[edit]
- . Robbie Giles talk (founder) - Keeping the project's recent additions link reasonably up-to-date. Also working on city and county sites in the North-central Idaho region. Also adding to articles on the Nez Perce and Coeur d'Alene tribes. - Inactive since December 2008
- Drumguy8800 (talk · contribs · count) Idaho is fantastic.. along with Montana. I mainly contribute to geographic articles.. recently about the Bitterroot Range and related topics - Only one edit since September 2009
- redsoxunixgeek 29 April 2007 - 2 edits since August 2008
- vatsun 10 July 2007 - Inactive since March 2009
- Luminece 10 July 2007 - Inactive since April 2009
- arkaydubya 22 March 2008 - Inactive since March 2008
- </post> Geek45 (talk) 13:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC) - 4 edits since October 2009
- IrishDragon (talk) 24 November 2008 - Inactive since June 2009
- Brandongilbert (talk) 22 May 2008 - Inactive since December 2009
- King of the Arverni - Inactive since April 2011
- Byron Shock - Inactive since January 2012
Infoboxes[edit]
| Code | Result |
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| {{Idaho}} Infobox for use on regions, cities, and boroughs; placed at the bottom of article pages. |
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| {{Infobox U.S. County}} Infobox for use on counties; placed at the top of article pages. Example at right shows a sample including Adams County. |
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Templates[edit]
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{{WikiProject United States|ID=yes}}
Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles. After tagging an article, you can add it and its talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho/Idaho recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update. |
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| {{Idaho-stub}}
Stub notice for Idaho articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Idaho-geo-stub}}
Stub notice for articles dealing with Idaho locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Idaho-politician-stub}}
Stub notice for Idaho politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Idaho-school-stub}}
Stub notice for Idaho schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages |
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Userbox templates[edit]
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| {{Template:User WP Idaho}} |
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| {{User:Dailynetworks/ubx/Idaho}} |
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Link to Stubs[edit]
If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.
Resources[edit]
The following periodicals are available through online subscription databanks, in either citation, abstract, or full-text format. If any editors would wish to get information from them, please drop me an e-mail indicating the subject, or the periodical, and period, and I will forward what I can find. John Carter (talk) 18:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Advocate (Idaho) (1980-on)
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.