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Oklahoma Portal notice

All, I have set up the Portal: Oklahoma to begin rotating selected articles every month. The University of Oklahoma article has been up there for over 6 months so it is time for a new one. I went ahead and left the OU article up for the remainder of January but I selected the Jim Thorpe article for February as it is the only Featured Article relating to Oklahoma. So, I'd like to start accepting nominations for Selected Articles for March, April, and so on. Of course, these need to be quality articles relating to Oklahoma. Feel free to nominate articles and state the reason for your nomination here. I may also begin working on a rotation for the Selected Picture as well. Nominations for those will be here.--NMajdan•talk 17:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

U.S. county infobox

The {{Infobox U.S. County}} needs to be added to almost all OK county articles. /Timneu22 14:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll be working on this in the coming weeks. Also, I am expanding List of counties in Oklahoma and any help would be appreciated.↔NMajdan•talk 22:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Oklahoma City bombing under Good article candidate review

The Oklahoma City bombing article is currently under Good article candidate review. Any assistance from the good members of this project would be greatly appreciated! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Oklahoma-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/OklahomaSearchResult. Colchicum 15:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Jim Thorpe FAR

Jim Thorpe has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Oklahoma nominated at WP:ACID

I nominated Oklahoma at the Article Creation and Improvement Drive in hopes of getting the article featured by the Centennial in November. Any help on this article would be appreciated.↔NMajdan•talk 15:14, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Congrats on Tulsa making a Featured Article!

Congratulations to Okiefromokla (talk · contribs) and the rest of the editors involved in bringing Tulsa, Oklahoma up to Featured article status! Kudos all `round for your hard work! --Kralizec! (talk) 11:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Pride of Broken Arrow

Should The pride of broken arrow article be removed from wikiproject oklahoma? The article has been deleted because it was simply a laundry list of awards they had won. It looks like the article will not be restarted again. There is a discussion page, but no one seems to have any interest in adding it. If this article is recreated, then should there not be an article for every marching band in Oklahoma?-- Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆 ^{tell me about it}

Taskforce Tulsa

A new sub-wikiproject has been created to assist this wikiproject, called Taskforce Tulsa. Please insert your name and help out if you are interested in editing articles about Tulsa.Okiefromokla•talk 01:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Woody Guthrie

This article just received "Good Article" status. Featured article is not that far away. —Gaff ^ταλκ 09:38, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

towns/cities - reqphoto, history section...

I've been browsing through towns and cities in Oklahoma (from those two category pages), and adding reqphoto for most of them...I really think it would be brilliant if some of you could drive around and take pictures of towns and cities, and then add them to their pages, possibly with a link to Wikicommons with yet more pictures... Also, most pages don't have a history section - that would be very interesting as well I suppose.Zigzig20s 19:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Articles for Portal

After September, all the Oklahoma-related FAs and GAs will have been used so we will have to start dipping into the B-class articles for Oklahoma Portal Selected Articles unless more articles become GAs or FAs. Just an FYI.↔NMajdan•talk 16:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

That would be a shame. Are there any B-articles on the brink of GA? In fact, we should start looking all B article close enough to reach GA without a whole lot of work. Maybe we could make them A class just so we have a place to 'store' them? If you know of any article like that I could probably get it to GA class fairly quickly.Okiefromokla•talk 17:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Ummm.... Some Bs close to GA that I know of are Carrie Underwood, Frank Keating, Will Rogers, and Oklahoma City. I'm sure there are more.↔NMajdan•talk 17:47, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Well the Oklahoma City article has improved and I've been working on it for a while now, but it still needs much work. Sections need to be written, bias needs to be taken out, and it needs to start from scratch with citations. I think I might try to fix up Carrie Underwood though. Looks like all it should really needs are sources for the citation needed tags and to fix the current refs. Its content is probably sufficient for GA already. Okiefromokla•talk 18:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Little Dixie

There is a discussion/dispute going on at Little Dixie (Oklahoma) right now as to the boundaries of Little Dixie. Requesting that other editors catch up and join in. Okiefromokla•talk 16:39, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Requests for comment re: Battle of Washita River

Battle of Washita River is about an important event in Oklahoma history: Custer's November 27, 2007 attack on the Washita River camp of Cheyenne chief Black Kettle -- a major event in the Indian Wars that played a major role in pushing Southern Plains tribes, esp. Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa-Apache, onto reservations. The article has been under full protection since 1 July 2007 -- over a month now -- in a heavily POV form (pro-Custer, anti-Black Kettle). We are having a great deal of difficulty in getting any movement to make it possible to improve the article, whether through attaining consensus on the article talk page or getting the article unprotected, given the edit warring that proceeded protection.

We really need some help with these RfCs: the article RfC Talk:Battle of Washita River#Request for comment as well as two user-conduct RfCs on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Custerwest, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/HanzoHattori. We could really really use some help in the way of comments, statements, etc. from people outside the dispute. Even if you have limited knowledge about the event itself, there is plenty to see/discuss in these RfCs in terms of the numerous abuses and violations of Wikipedia policy that have occurred in the dispute, including WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:VERIFY, WP:COPYRIGHT, WP:COI, and of course what dispute would be incomplete without WP:3RR, WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA? Please help! Thanks. --Yksin 03:00, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Up for featured article: Oklahoma article

I submitted Oklahoma for featured article status the other day. So far, I need people to make fixes suggested by FA reviewers and people to just generally comb through the article on their own and work any problems that might be there. It would be a huge help! I worked on the article a lot recently to get it up to standard, so it shouldn't need anything major. Also, not many reviewers have looked at it so far, so anyone who wants to review it and give their thoughts is very much needed. Thanks to everyone who has worked on the article over the past few months! Okiefromokla•talk 18:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

promoted. Okiefromokla•talk 18:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter

Beginning in September 2007, I will be spearheading a WikiProject Oklahoma newsletter that will be devoted to bringing you all the news around the WikiProject regarding article promotions, WPOK members, new articles, collaborations, Subwikiproject happenings, and more. Please feel free to give your ideas for anything you would like to see in the newsletter, or any other pertaining issue, so we can make this the best newsletter in Wikipedia. Also, you may feel free to contribute directly to this newsletter. If you would like to receive this newsletter on your talk page, please sign up. You may always remove your name from this list at your convenience. Questions or concerns, or if you would like to contribute to this newsletter before the first issue comes out, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. Okiefromokla•talk 17:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Oklahoma a Featured Article!

Oklahoma has been promoted to Featured Article! Thanks to all who have helped work on the article over the past month. Okiefromokla•talk 18:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

The Oklahoma article is today's featured article! Congratulations to everyone involved in bringing the article up to FA status! --Kralizec! (talk) 12:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

New Okie Wikiproject Newsletter - first edition

For future reference - nobody worry, this newsletter isn't going to be placed here at any other time in the future. This is just an example, as it's the first issue. Feel free to remove it if it causes a problem. Okiefromokla•talk 17:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The WikiOkie Reporter WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter Issue 1 - September 2007 Discuss this newsletter	Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News Sign up to receive this newsletter Oklahoma Portal Current article statistics
WikiProject Oklahoma releases new newsletter September 2007 brings a new face to WikiProject Oklahoma: a newsletter. As in all of Wikipedia, the new WikiOkie Reporter (tenative name) is intended to be a collaborative effort among editors. Anyone can edit it: this month's newsletter is placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/aug07, but next month's will be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/oct07, with the following month at /newsletter/nov07, and so on. While this month's article's were initially written by User:Okiefromokla, it is hoped other editors will be excited to contribute to articles, content, layout, and ideas. This is a completely new child of WikiProject Oklahoma, and it should reflect the collaborative work of everyone who's bored and has nothing to do for a few minutes. As such, anything can be discussed here: anything - layout, color scheme, pictures, content, etc. The behind-the-scenes workings for the WikiOkie Reporter will be simple: anyone wishing to receive the newsletter in their talk page may place their name at sign-up list, but they are more than free to remove their name from the same list at any time. Anyone wishing to discuss ideas or anything at all related to the newsletter may look no further than here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/talk. Several WikiProjects already have ongoing newsletters, including Wikipedia: WikiProject North Dakota, from which WikiProject Oklahoma's newsletter has been based. For the time being, Okiefromokla will assume distribution responsibilities for the newsletter, maintaining the template, and writing articles from scratch if other editors have not done so by the 1st of the month. Promotions on the rise For many Wikipedians, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and make an occasional minor edit to their favorite few pages. Not so in WikiProject Oklahoma. Between May 12 and September, editors have been busily working on Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Woody Guthrie, and all three have been promoted. Prior to May, there were only seven Featured or Good articles in WikiProject Oklahoma. On May 12, Tulsa was promoted from B-class to FA class after a few months of extensive editing. Its primary editors were User:Nmajdan, User:SandyGeorgia, User:Okiefromokla, and a handful of others. On August 25, Oklahoma was promoted from B-class to FA class after a month-long blitz. User:Okiefromokla, User: SandyGeorgia, and several anonymous IPs contributed heavily to the article. On June 13, 2007, Woody Guthrie was promoted from B-Class to GA class after two failed attempts at promotion. User:Dannygutters, User:Gaff, User:Maenpong, and a handful of others contributed most to the article.
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