Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missouri

Hello! I'm an employee of the Doe Run Company, a Missouri-based natural resources company. I'm interested in updating the company's Wikipedia article. To start, I've suggested a handful of edits on the Talk page here. Would someone on this page be able to check out my ideas and make some of the changes? TS at Doe Run (talk) 18:09, 10 February 2017 (UTC) Reply

Hello! I'm an employee of The Doe Run Company and I'm here again as a representative of the company, which is based in St Louis. I have saved an expanded and updated draft here, and submitted an edit request on the article's talk page. My goals are to correct factual 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. Would someone from this page be able to give this a look over? TS at Doe Run (talk) 17:04, 28 July 2017 (UTC) Reply

Is there any interest in adding Missouri to {{WikiProject United States }}? It seems like a useful template for regional articles that are of interest to many states. I'm working on some botany pages that span gulf states, and I'm hoping to not have to add separate banners for all six states that aren't in the template -Furicorn (talk) 07:59, 24 August 2017 (UTC) Reply

I rather like the separate format, but I'm quite open to others opinions. Grey Wanderer (talk) 16:21, 10 October 2017 (UTC) Reply

Please see Talk:Richland Township, Scott County, Missouri. Can anyone help?: Noyster (talk), 09:14, 28 October 2017 (UTC) Reply

Is there any documentation of the Winona MN connection? Wondering who that logger would've been. I've always heard that the name came from the Indian word. I have nothing to go on other than folklore, but am curious. Thanks!

LynneLynnea1 (talk) 14:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC) Reply

Can you be more specific? Connection to what in Missouri? Grey Wanderer (talk) 05:18, 6 February 2019 (UTC) Reply

New Missouri userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Missouri and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh talk contribs 22:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC) Reply

Would appreciate editors more familiar with Missouri than I commenting at the discussion "Notable people - Dillon brothers - references don't establish connection to Rolla" at Talk:Rolla, Missouri. --papageno (talk) 03:54, 12 June 2018 (UTC) Reply

I checked it out. Looks like the issue is resolved for now. Grey Wanderer (talk) 05:13, 6 February 2019 (UTC) Reply

I've been trying to sort out the township situation, which is rather a mess. I have updated civil township to accurately reflect that Missouri does have them, but List of townships in Missouri seems to be saying that every county has them, and has a lot more of them than (as I understand it) currently exist. Is there someone who can help with this, and find a historical perspective on the situation? Mangoe (talk) 17:15, 7 September 2018 (UTC) Reply

Sorry for the late reply. Every county does have them. However, they don’t usually have governing bodies or functions nowadays as in some states. I think they can have some function, but only in the most rural part of the state. In Boone County, with the urban center of Columbia, I can safely say 98%+ people don’t know they exists although I did create articles for them. Grey Wanderer (talk) 17:15, 7 September 2018 (UTC) Reply

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 5 7 15:46, 20 October 2018 (UTC) Reply

The main reason for my post is to disclose my affiliation in attempting to update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joplin_Globe.

My name is Joe Hadsall, and I'm the digital editor for the Globe. Our entry is not quite accurate, regarding our history, but I don't want to start changing things around without checking to see your workflow for verification. I assume that copy-pasting from our About Us page (https://www.joplinglobe.com/site/about-us.html) would not exactly be kosher, but if it's as easy as that, I'll get to work.

Thanks for your feedback! ~joe jhadsall@joplinglobe.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeHadsall (talk • contribs) 23:49, 3 December 2019 (UTC) Reply

Well, I'm not so sure how active this project is anymore, but maybe this'll get some attention. A large number of small place stubs for locations in Missouri are based off of GNIS, which isn't a great source for determining if a location would meet the legally recognized community standard of WP:GEOLAND. For examples Yolo, Missouri was a post office that had a stub created from a GNIS misidentification, Dilday Mill, Missouri was a GNIS error where it recognized Dilday Mill as a town, and there are many more like this. This from the Missouri State Historical Society is a good resource identifying the old history of points. While it's sometimes unclear exactly what something formerly was, the MSHS source is pretty good overall. Remember, GEOLAND only gives free passes to legally recognized populated places, everything else must pass WP:GNG. I've been trying to do some cleanup, but it's a big task, and there's only so much I can do at a time. Besides the MSHS source, there's also this database of old topo maps, which generally shows population points. The topos have their limitations, but the small-scale ones mark individual buildings, which helps determine if something was a town or a farm. Most of the states seem to have these non-notable stubs that are basically spurious entries, at the California WikiProjecct has a whole task force: Wikipedia:WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force. Is there any interest in creating a similar task force for Missouri cleanup? Hog Farm _Bacon 04:30, 13 September 2020 (UTC) Reply

First Battle of Newtonia Historic District, Mathew H. Ritchey House, and Second Battle of Newtonia Site are all project-related GAs in the same little area (all on NRHP too). All three could use a site image; if anyone here's got some photos of the Newtonia sites, if you could upload them to Commons and add them to the respective articles, that would be much appreciated. Hog Farm _Bacon 21:24, 14 October 2020 (UTC) Reply

Wikipedia readers would be grateful if your project would consider creating a new article about Housing in Missouri. Here are some sources of information:

• Category:Housing in Missouri
• Housing Needs By State: Missouri, Washington, DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition , retrieved October 25, 2020
• "Missouri", COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard, Eviction Lab , retrieved October 25, 2020
• "Missouri Homelessness Statistics", Usich.gov, Washington DC: U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness , retrieved October 25, 2020
• (Missouri+housing), Digital Public Library of America (assorted materials)
• (Missouri+housing), UK: Core.ac.uk Open access icon (assorted materials)
• (Missouri+housing), Germany: Base-search.net Open access icon (assorted materials)

Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 09:52, 25 October 2020 (UTC) Reply

Good morning all. Does anyone have access to the online archives of the Southeast Missourian? I'm looking for some articles to help with expanding Tim Billings. Details here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive_100#Southeast Missourian articles about Tim Billings. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 13:08, 3 November 2020 (UTC) Reply

I am a non-traditional student at Crowder College. This semester, I am planning to edit the Wikipedia article about the college as part of a class project. I am studying under the alternative energy program at Crowder College. I have been considering moving the Recognition section to the end of the article and then adding sections so that it might match other articles about community colleges. Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated. DonneyC (talk) 20:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC) Reply

Libertville Mo was once known as " Cooks Settlement " after Nathanial Cook who founded it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thundercloud47 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 6 March 2021 (UTC) Reply

I have been working on a new article today, I hope you all agree with the notability, it is certainly something I hear in the local news a lot so surprised to see it does not already have an article. Additions and promotion to a real article would be great to see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Missouri_Sunshine_Law ;sig: Aramantha (talk) 21:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC) Reply

Terrific! Thanks for creating it. -- M2545 (talk) 12:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC) Reply

I have created drafts for all of the current directors/commissioners of the executive departments (https://www.mo.gov/government/guide-to-missouris-government/). I will be working on many of these in the future, most immediately Sarah Parker Pauly (for whom I have a good pool of sources), If you can, would love your help!:

• Draft:Sara Parker Pauley
• Draft:Chris Chinn
• Draft:Anne Precythe
• Draft:Rob Dixon
• Draft:Chlora_Lindley-Meyers
• Draft:Anna Hui
• Draft:Mark Stringer
• Draft:Carol Comer
• Draft:Sandy Karsten
• Draft:Ken Zellers
• Draft:Steve Corsi
• Draft:Patrick McKenna
• Draft:Zora Mulligan

Already created articles:

• Sarah Steelman
• Randall W. Williams

Aramantha (talk) 12:35, 7 July 2021 (UTC) Reply

Wow, great job, that’s a big task. Grey Wanderer (talk) 17:24, 7 July 2021 (UTC) Reply

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Drafts are underway for missing Missouri Supreme Court Justices. Any help completing these drafts and moving them to mainspace would be great. Cheers! BD2412 T 00:05, 13 September 2021 (UTC) Reply

Hi editors, my name is KC and I work for Ascension. I've been trying to make some updates to the Ascension article but my requests have not been getting reviewed. I'd love some feedback on my latest request and was hoping someone here might be interested. Please let me know! I won't make any changes due to my COI, but hope I can be helpful! KC at Ascension (talk) 16:08, 7 June 2022 (UTC) Reply

Noting that this was addressed at Talk:Ascension (healthcare_system). Thank you. Grey Wanderer (talk) 16:11, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Reply

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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

I'm looking to take Pruitt–Igoe, an article about a Missouri housing project with an important place in architectural history, to FAC some time in the future. Any and all feedback at Wikipedia:Peer review/Pruitt–Igoe/archive1 would be much appreciated. rblv (talk) 02:16, 1 December 2023 (UTC) Reply

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Isaac Charles Parker#Requested move 1 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe ^{Edits! Talk!} 16:10, 9 June 2024 (UTC) Reply

The map showing the location of Livingston County within Missouri is broken. It shows a small red outline of the shape of the county, but not in the state. I am trying to figure out how to fix it, but I think that I need help from someone who is more experienced with infoboxes and maps. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:24, 17 June 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tri-State tornado outbreak#Requested move 18 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 13:24, 26 January 2025 (UTC) Reply

I have created a Python script to generate infoboxes for Missouri Townships using 2020 Census data, GNIS data, and MSDIS GIS data. I have begun updating townships in my region, northwest Missouri, but would appreciate help for the rest of the state. It takes about 0.5-2 minutes to update an article, and there are approximately 1200 articles remaining. (There is the possibility some of the articles are already mostly or entirely up-to-date, but that has not been my experience.) If someone volunteers for a region of Missouri, I can send the generated text files or send you the script, and you can create them locally; it should not be difficult. This is a daunting task, and I'd appreciate any help or interest. Thanks.

P.S. Here is a before and after of an example Township I updated. Before and after SamuelNelsonGISP (talk) 18:56, 24 April 2025 (UTC) Reply

Are any project members interested in adding more info for Missouri to the Free America Weekend article? Collaboration welcome! --Another Believer _(Talk) 14:19, 6 July 2025 (UTC) Reply

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Joplin, Missouri, metropolitan area#Requested move 3 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath ^talk 06:54, 18 July 2025 (UTC) Reply

The article Townsend & Wall has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Hello, WikiProject Missouri. I recently compiled an exhaustive list of Wikipedia pages pertaining to United States gubernatorial elections which need tables detailing general election voting statistics by county. If anyone wants to help out with this task of adding stat tables, I'd gladly welcome the assistance. Here is the Missouri list, and all 49 other states have their own likewise lists on that page. Thank you. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 19:59, 26 November 2025 (UTC) Reply

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