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

Missouri Portal

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Project Creation

Welcome to the newly created St. Louis WikiProject. I hope the design is to everyone's satisfaction, I based it on WikiProject Columbia and WikiProject Mizzou. Please feel free to join by adding your name to the right.Grey Wanderer | Talk 19:09, 31 December 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 probably know something about St. Louis. . . 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 St. Louis 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 article 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 St. Louis article series. To contribute content to St. Louis articles, please see the "to-do" list to the right.

• The Template:WikiProject St. Louis needs to be placed on the talk pages of all St. Louis related articles.Grey Wanderer | Talk 21:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

• Neighborhoods of St. Louis is going to get an overhaul, all the individual neighborhood pages need infoboxes, pictures, maps, and all that other stuff. Please consider picking one and expanding it. DaronDierkes (talk) 08:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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Current goal

Organize and collect all Wikipedia pages relating to St. Louis in order to:

1. encourage members interested in contributing/editing St. Louis articles to work through these pages, so we can combine our efforts
2. make all St. Louis 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 St. Louis series pages, so requests can be publicized and quickly fulfilled

Intermediate goal

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

Ultimate goal

Bring the St. Louis, Missouri article to featured article status.

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• Barnes-Jewish Hospital
• Forest Park
• Downtown in General
• Neighborhoods in General

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Click HERE to see/edit a gallery of images available for use in St. Louis articles

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Article assessment statistics

St. Louis articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			1	1		2
	FL			1	1		2
	GA				3		3
	B	2	16	9	15		42
	Start	10	29	153	485	5	682
	Stub		1	53	161	1	216
	List		2	2	5		9
	Assessed	12	48	219	671	6	956
	Unassessed					89	89
	Total	12	48	219	671	95	1045

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:

• Grey_Wanderer (talk · contribs) -Columbia resident, interested in St. Louis History and Education.

• Astuishin (talk · contribs) -Student (Washington U), interested in St. Louis History, Architecture, and Geography

• Elonka (talk · contribs) - St. Charles resident, interested in St. Louis history and biographies

• Davidkevin (talk · contribs), born in St. Louis City, raised in both St. Louis City and County, with children in St. Louis Public Schools. History; demographics; some aspects of south-side culture; plus a casual interest in other subjects.

• Gamer83 (talk · contribs) -Downtown St. Louis Resident, interested in St. Louis History, Architecture, Culture, Rebirth, and Geography

• Joncnunn (talk · contribs) - Duel Resident of Maryland Heights, MO & Jefferson City, MO, interested in History, Transportation, and census data.

• Jdcaust (talk · contribs) - Transplant from Kansas City, now residing in St. Louis, tied there by both school and wife, interested in the universities and colleges of the area.

• Discordanian (talk · contribs) - Transplant from elsewhere, now living in Webster Groves. I'm a big fan of urban renewal, and enjoy downtown and the loop a great deal.

• DaronDierkes (talk · contribs) - St. Louis is my hometown. I now live abroad.

• Quartermaster (talk · contribs) - Reference librarian at UMSL, I've lived here since 1991. Currently residing in Crystal Lake Park, MO a place that even most locals don't know exists.

• Avatarcourt (talk · contribs) - Marketing Specialist at MU, interested in St. Louis History, Architecture, Culture, Rebirth, and Geography.

• Freemasonx (talk · contribs) - Pharmaceutical Sales Rep, born and raised in St. Louis.

• Millbrooky (talk · contribs)

• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) - Have visited St. Louis and have been interested in learning more about the city.

• Emir34 (talk · contribs) - A resident of Cape Girardeau (100 miles away) but wonders about Gateway Arch.

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Working Groups:

Architecture  · Education · Culture · Geography · History · Medicine · Neighborhoods · Politics · Sports · Transportation

Please feel free to sign up as a participant on the group page. You can assign an article to a working group by placing |wg=group name in the wikiproject banner on the article's talk page.

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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 St. Louis collaboration for the period ending July 1, 2008 is: Neighborhoods of St. Louis The last collaboration article was St. Louis, Missouri — 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. There is 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

• St. Louis, Missouri (talk, to do)

Stage 3: Articles needing expansion, cleanup, and references

• Greater St. Louis (talk, to do)

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

Stage 2: Stubs and very short articles

• Neighborhoods of St. Louis (talk, to do)

Stage 1: Requests and ideas for future articles

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

Article series categories

User categories

WikiProject 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 St. Louis Cardinals
• WikiProject St. Louis Rams
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis
• WikiProject Missouri

Parent project:

• WikiProject Missouri
• WikiProject U.S. cities

Child project:

• WikiProject St. Louis Cardinals
• WikiProject St. Louis Rams