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Welcome to the WikiProject page for Columbia, Missouri and the surrounding Columbia Metropolitan Area These pages allow better collaboration for those interested in contributing to the Columbia article series on Wikipedia. Please feel free to browse; we would be happy if you would contribute!

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Columbia, Missouri

Columbia, Missouri was granted GA-status on January 5, 2008.Grey Wanderer | Talk 21:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Restructure

I've restructured the page based on the format for the WikiProject Mizzou page. I hope it helps to organize our efforts. Grey Wanderer | Talk 20:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Quality scale for articles

Please see the Wikipedia article quality scale; it is a good reference point.

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If you are reading this, then you proably know something about Columbia. . . we welcome your contributions! If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Starting a new page
• Wikipedia syntax

If you're looking for something to do involving the Columbia article series, there's a list of articles to the right. Also, look for tags such as {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{expand}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions to the articcle series. Finally, if you're a good photographer, have a look at the image requests below.

And remember, always provide sources for your edits.

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This area is for contributions to managing the Columbia series. To contribute content to Columbia articles, please see the "to-do" list to the right.

Please see the current collaboration to the right. Grey Wanderer | Talk 20:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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Current goal

Organize and collect all Wikipedia pages relating to Columbia in order to:

1. encourage members interested in contributing/editing Columbia articles to work through these pages, so we can combine our efforts
2. make all Columbia pages accessible through this page using category listings, so the entire sccope is visible to everyone
3. make all article to-do lists and tasks available from one place, so contributors can choose their area of specialty
4. centralize information/image/edit requests for all Columbia series pages, so requests can be publicized and quickly fulfilled

Intermediate goal

Bring Columbia article series to a respectable standard, where information about the city is reliable and of sufficient scope

Ultimate goal

Bring the Columbia, Missouri article to featured article status.

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• Boone Hospital
• Rock Bridge High School
• MFA oil
• Tiger Hotel
• City Hall (Daniel Boone Building)
• Downtown
• Centurytel
• Businesses and Buildings along Broadway (both night and day pics)
• Library
• Some of the larger and historically significant houses that are closer to the mall than to the district that are along Broadway
• 9th street
• Local Bars - The Blue Note, De Ja Vu, Dueling Piano Bar, etc.
• Quarterdeck Building on Lemone Blvd (ties in historically to both University and the Software company that owned it previously)
• Rock Bridge Park
• Local Businesses near Rockbridge Wal-Mart area
• Columns - (need pic that shows views going both ways of the road that has columns on both ends of it)
• Gallery and Museum Pics (to showcase some of the local art, and University owned galleries and things... for instance some of the Greek Statue replicas in Art and Archeology Bld. on MU Campus)
• University Hospital and Helicoptor
• Fountains and statues at various locations on insurance properties and on campus properties (the big lit up Christmas tree(s), the statue of Beetle Bailey, statue of Christ at Catholic Churches, etc.)
• Churches (focus on archetectural aspects)
• Stephens College, along with the stables, and the Lake in the park next to it

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Click HERE to see/edit a gallery of images available for use in Columbia articles

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Article assessment statistics

Columbia, Missouri articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA	1		1			2
	B	3	2	2	2	1	10
	Start	4	12	21	62	3	102
	Stub		5	10	51	19	85
	Assessed	8	19	34	115	23	199
	Total	8	19	34	115	23	199

Table of articles

Explanation of article grading system

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Anyone who can assist in developing the article series, please add your name:

• theprosperonight (talk · contribs)
• Grey_Wanderer (talk · contribs) - MU student and Columbia native
• Genius00345 (talk · contribs)
• tubahero (talk · contribs)
• Osiris Incarnate (talk · contribs)
• Cage, Light in Shadows (talk · contribs)
• Handprints (talk · contribs)
• HornColumbia (talk · contribs)
• Patricknoddy (talk · contribs)
• Bobo The Ninja (talk · contribs) - Columbia native
• Sovereign of Darkness (talk · contribs) - very busy Columbia native
• Saber girl08 (talk · contribs) - Columbia Native
• Agesalis (talk · contribs)- Graduate of Columbia Public Schools
• Seethaki 01:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC) Lover and (former) ten-year resident of CoMO.
• Breakyunit (talk · contribs) - MU student
• Me5000 (talk · contribs)
• Polpo (talk · contribs) - Former MU undergrad & grad student and former nine-year resident.
• maxschmelling (talk · contribs)
• Maria-mesh (talk · contribs)
• AdamProcter (talk · contribs)

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This section attempts to focus members on one article in order to give it a concentrated effort at improvement.

The current Columbia, Missouri collaboration for the period ending February 28, 2008 is: Show-Me State Games The last collaboration article was Ragtag Cinema — see improvements Nominate for next period

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Articles to work on

About this section . . .

The goal is to bring articles from the bottom of the list to the top of the list. Once an article reaches Stage 4, we can focus on bringing it to Stage 5: featured article quality.

Click on the "to do" link beside each article to see its list of tasks. Ther eis also a link to each article's talk page.

Stage 5: Featured articles

None yet . . .

Stage 4: Articles of adequate length needing expansion and/or improvement

• University of Missouri–Columbia (talk, to do)

Stage 3: Articles needing expansion, cleanup, and references

• David H. Hickman High School (talk, to do)

• Missouri Tigers (talk, to do)

• List of people from Columbia, Missouri (talk, to do)

• History of Columbia, Missouri (talk, to do)

• Columbia College of Missouri (talk, to do)

Stage 2.5: Articles that are painful to read and need improvement

• History of the University of Missouri (talk, to do)
• Rock Bridge High School (talk, to do)
• Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Area (talk, to do)
• Mizzou Arena (talk, to do)
• Quarterdeck Office Systems (talk, to do)
• Ragtag Cinema (talk, to do)

Stage 2: Stubs and very short articles

• John William Boone (talk, to do)
• MFA oil (talk, to do)
• Booches (talk, to do)
• Columbia Public Library (talk, to do)
• Faurot Field (talk, to do)
• University of Missouri System (talk, to do)
• David R. Francis Quadrangle (talk, to do)
• Memorial Union (University of Missouri) (talk, to do)
• M.K.T. Trail (talk, to do)
• The Blue Note (Missouri) (talk, to do)
• Columbia Daily Tribune (talk, to do)
• Slackers CDs and Games (talk, to do)
• Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area (talk, to do)
• True/False Film Festival (talk, to do)
• Twilight Festival (talk, to do)

Stage 1: Requests and ideas for future articles

Cherry Street Artisan

Shakespeare's Pizza

Columbia Festival of the Arts

Heritage Festival (Columbia, Missouri)

Flat Branch Brewery

Hot Summer Nights Concert Series

The Heidelberg

Boone Tavern (Missouri)

Columbia Missourian

Shelter Gardens

Show-Me State Games

The Columbia Mall

The District of Columbia, MO

Art Galleries in Columbia Missouri

History of the Columns

Avenue of the Columns

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This section and its category listings serve to make all Columbia pages accessible through this page, so the entire scope of the Columbia series is visible to everyone. Please add pages to the correct category when appropriate.

Article series categories

User categories

WikiProject Mizzou categories

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Projects we admire:

• WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth

Things you should know about WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Best Practices
• Article Quality Scale

We share some articles with these projects:

• WikiProject Mizzou
• WikiProject Missouri

Parent project:

• WikiProject Missouri
• WikiProject U.S. cities

Child project:

• WikiProject Mizzou