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WP 1.0 bot announcement

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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.

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Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

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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:

• Arkansas in the American Civil War
• List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units
• List of Arkansas Union Civil War units

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:

• Gould High School - S. Mississippi Street, Gould, AR - See map

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:

• http://arkansased.org/about/excel/consolidaton_annexation_070110.xls

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:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Arkansas/New articles - Requires a lot of user input as new pages are created withen this project. A bot maintaining this would be more efficient rather than the current system.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Arkansas/Collaboration - A department still linked withen the infobox that is inactive. Be best to remove it, to end confusion for newer users.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arkansas/Newsletter/Newsroom - Dependent on one writer that, as stated on userpage, can be inactive at times.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arkansas/Peer_review - Gives no information on what this is, even though it has usefulness in the long run.

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. Hair^Talk 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)