Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho
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Shortcut | WP:IDA |
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Category | Idaho |
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Parent project(s) | U.S. states |
Project banner template | {{WikiProject Idaho}} |
Userboxes | {{User WikiProject Idaho}} {{User WP Idaho}} |
Assessment | Assessment |
Popular pages | Popular pages |
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![]() | WikiProject Idaho mainly works to create, improve, and standardize articles about the U.S. State of Idaho, including:
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Information |
Idaho Portal • Changes |
This project was formed to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of Idaho. This page and its subpages contain various suggestions to help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please introduce yourself on the talk page and add your signature to the "Participants" section below. You are also welcome to add our user template to your user page.
- This project template is fairly set, but anyone is welcome to rearrange things or help set up some of the subsidiary pages and templates. Please start a discussion on the Talk page
Scope
This project shall coordinate the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Idaho, its cities, sites, history, etc. It aims primarily to expand Wikipedia's resources on Idaho and present the state in a fair and accurate manner.
WikiProject family tree
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:
- WikiProject United States
- WikiProject Idaho
Project Divisions
Each of these area has notes and decisions from discussions pertaining to their particular sub-topic (as it relates to Idaho).
Our broad of areas include: (Task forces or Work Groups)
- Communities (talk)—Cities and towns
- Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features
- Transportation (talk)— Roads, trails, rail, ferries, and airplanes in and around Idaho
- Culture (talk)— Education, music, art, religion, icons, mass communication
- People (talk)—Includes Idaho natives and those residents who have shaped Idaho
- Government (talk)—Government: federal, state and local politics and politicians in relation to Idaho.
- History (talk)—History of Idaho during and prior to statehood
- Economy (Talk)—Major Idaho industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Idaho
Images
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- To request an image for an article, use {{WikiProject United States|ID=yes|ID-importance=|image-needed=yes}} or {{Image requested|in=Idaho}} on the article talk page. Either method will add the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Idaho
- If you need to specify more locations (such as a road passing through eight Idaho counties), use {{Image requested}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.
Check out WikiMedia Commons for Idaho photographs. Please consider adding your Idaho-related photos to the Commons.
Articles
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- 10 Dec 2023 – Western United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Peaceray (t · c); see discussion
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Hot articles
23 edits | Don Aslett |
16 edits | 1956 United States Senate election in Idaho |
11 edits | List of cemeteries in Idaho |
10 edits | List of college athletic programs in Idaho |
9 edits | Frank Church |
9 edits | Northwestern United States |
9 edits | Great Basin Murders |
8 edits | Project Mutual Telephone |
6 edits | Boise Towne Square |
5 edits | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho |
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Featured content
![]() | This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Idaho articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
2008 Humanitarian Bowl • Boise National Forest • William Borah • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Cutthroat trout • Ernest Hemingway • Harmon Killebrew • Sawtooth National Forest
List of governors of Idaho • List of longest streams of Idaho • United States congressional delegations from Idaho
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Advanced Test Reactor
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Beulah Ream Allen receiving the Medal of Freedom (1945)
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Ernest Hemingway in Milan 1918 retouched 3
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Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
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Idaho territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)
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Sawtooth Valley ID1
Good articles
1970 Idaho gubernatorial election • 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl • Beulah Ream Allen • Leonard J. Arrington • Beaver drop • David B. Bleak • Burke Canyon • Burke, Idaho • Coeur d'Alene, Idaho • Bill Haywood • USS Idaho (BB-42) • Interstate 86 (Idaho) • Kootenay River • H. Rex Lee • The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) • The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) • Potlatch River • Jane Severance • Snake River • Twin Falls saucer hoax • U.S. Route 195 • Brad White (defensive lineman)
Did you know? articles
1970 Idaho gubernatorial election • 2006 MPC Computers Bowl • 2008 Humanitarian Bowl • 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl • 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl • Acer chaneyi • Acer smileyi • Acer traini • Acer whitebirdense • John Merton Aldrich • Beulah Ream Allen • Amalgamated Sugar Company • Benton Bangs • Beaver drop • Polly Bemis House • Big Jacks Creek Wilderness • Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns • David B. Bleak • Boise National Forest • Boise homosexuality scandal • Mason Brayman • Reed Budge • William M. Bunn • Carex aboriginum • Lafayette Cartee • Castilleja christii • Thomas Cheney (folklorist) • Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute • Coeur d'Alene people • Charles Coiner • Comptonia columbiana • Concordia University School of Law • Dickshooter • Dworshak Dam • Niles Fulwyler • Jackson Gillis • Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad • Jeanne Givens • Dick Graves • Grizzly 399 • D. Mark Hegsted • Hell's Half Acre Lava Field • Heyburn State Park • Kent R. Hill • Rosel H. Hyde • Idaho State Highway 50 • Idaho State Veterans Cemetery • Idaho Territory in the American Civil War • Interstate 86 (Idaho) • John N. Irwin • Jordan Creek (Owyhee River tributary) • KOUU • KSKI (AM) • KTLE • Jeff Krogh • H. Rex Lee • Jack Lemley • List of Idaho state symbols • List of longest streams of Idaho • Glen Little (clown) • Little Jacks Creek Wilderness • Wesley P. Lloyd • Massacre Rocks State Park • Phil McGrane • Alyssa Mendoza • Charles Moyer • Murphy Complex Fire • John Baldwin Neil • Duane Nellis • James C. Nelson • Nez Perce language • North Fork Owyhee Wilderness • Old Ephraim • Paleontology in Idaho • Mendel L. Peterson • Pole Creek Wilderness • Potlatch River • Priestly's Hydraulic Ram • Pro-Life (politician) • Saint Joe River • Jane Severance • Snake River Plain (ecoregion) • Cy Sneed • Thorvald A. Solberg • Edward A. Stevenson • Janie Thompson • Treasure Valley • Trochodendron rosayi • Virginia Trotter • Twin Falls saucer hoax • Utah-Idaho Sugar Company • LaNada War Jack • Weippe Prairie • Brad White (defensive lineman) • C. Ferris White • White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs • George M. Willing • Wilson Butte Cave • William A. Wilson (folklorist) • Kalie Wright
2021 Western North America heat wave • Phil Batt • Bowe Bergdahl • Bud Clark • Bryce Dejean-Jones • Joseph Edward Duncan • Shirley Englehorn • Marilyn Howard • Don Larsen • Jack Lemley • Gary Peacock • Frank Shrontz • Wayne Walker (linebacker) • Randy Weaver
Main page featured articles
Boise National Forest • William Borah • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Cutthroat trout • Mark Felt • Ernest Hemingway • Harmon Killebrew • Sawtooth National Forest • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park
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Advanced Test Reactor
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Beulah Ream Allen receiving the Medal of Freedom (1945)
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Ernest Hemingway in Milan 1918 retouched 3
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Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels
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Idaho territory coat of arms (illustrated, 1876)
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Sawtooth Valley ID1
Mark Felt • Yellowstone fires of 1988 • Yellowstone National Park
Former good articles
Northern Pacific Railway • Union Pacific Railroad
Participants
Active participants
To join WikiProject Idaho, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.
- Caldorwards4 04:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Faustus37 19:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- porkins8888 30 January 2008
- Mjquinn id - 25 October 2008 = Templates and Categories
- TwistOfCain (talk) - Will work mainly on Southern and Eastern Idaho cities, as well as the Lemhi Valley area.
- Douglas Jones
- BDD 23:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- Gtwfan52 (talk) 03:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
- Voltaire's Vaquero (talk) 05:28, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
- User:Redtitan - 26 November 2015 - Climate geek - I'll be adding weatherboxes and Köppen climate classifications to locations throughout Idaho where they currently don't exist or are outdated.
- Lena Key 01 January 2016 Boise area related articles
- Howpper, I focus on North Idaho
- IdahoSolo (talk) 20:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC) mostly politics
- Levictorsmith (talk · contribs) 07:21:13, 19 May 2021 (UTC) General Southwestern Idaho (Mountain Home, Idaho, Bruneau, Idaho, etc)
- DoovidToonet (talk · contribs) 22:31:37, 12 January 2023 (UTC) , I enjoy anything to do with the Idaho highway network and geologic features in southwest Idaho.
- Kencf0618 (talk · contribs) Two decadal Idahoan. Retiree looking for potential Ingress portals.
- Jmaxx37 (talk · contribs) 01:26:04, 4 January 2024 (UTC) Hot springs!
- Jokojis (talk · contribs) 20:46:24, 19 March 2024 (UTC) Southwest Idaho and greater Boise area.
Former participants
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- .Robbie Giles talk (founder) - Keeping the project's recent additions link reasonably up-to-date. Also working on city and county sites in the North-central Idaho region. Also adding to articles on the Nez Perce and Coeur d'Alene tribes. - Inactive since December 2008
- Drumguy8800 (talk · contribs · count) Idaho is fantastic.. along with Montana. I mainly contribute to geographic articles.. recently about the Bitterroot Range and related topics - Only one edit since September 2009
- redsoxunixgeek 29 April 2007 - 2 edits since August 2008
- vatsun 10 July 2007 - Inactive since March 2009
- Luminece 10 July 2007 - Inactive since April 2009
- arkaydubya 22 March 2008 - Inactive since March 2008
- </post> Geek45 (talk) 13:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC) - 4 edits since October 2009
- IrishDragon (talk) 24 November 2008 - Inactive since June 2009
- Brandongilbert (talk) 22 May 2008 - Inactive since December 2009
- King of the Arverni - Inactive since April 2011
- Byron Shock - Inactive since January 2012
Participant identification
WikiProject Idaho participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Idaho participants.
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For other Idaho user templates see Category:Idaho user templates.
Templates
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Information |
Idaho Portal • Changes |
Various types of Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates help us manage all this information.
Project Templates
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{{WikiProject United States|ID=yes}}
Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles. After tagging an article, you can add it and its talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho/Idaho recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update. |
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Article Body
Sections in the Guidelines will link to sub-sections here.
Infoboxes
For People, Places, Things
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{{Idaho}} Infobox for use on regions, cities, and boroughs; placed at the bottom of article pages. |
See also
General structure for the bottom sections is:
- ==See also==
- {{Portal}} unless there are issues with the right side of the page.
- Then try * {{tl|portal-inline|Idaho}}
- ==References==
- {{reflist}}
- no more lvl1 headers
- Stubs - We put stubs above NavBars, in case the page is short, or there are issues with the right side.
- NavBoxes - these are bars that have a "show" on the far right that will expand into a "Navigational Box".
- {{Idaho}}
Stubs
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{{Idaho-stub}}
Stub notice for Idaho articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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{{Idaho-geo-stub}}
Stub notice for articles dealing with Idaho locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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{{Idaho-politician-stub}}
Stub notice for Idaho politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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{{Idaho-school-stub}}
Stub notice for Idaho schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages |
Link to Stubs
If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.
- Idaho stubs - last resort.
- Geography stubs - Mountains, Rivers, Lakes and Forests
- Politician stubs - All parties, be fair
- School stubs - Watch for wayward students (between Aug-May)
NavBoxes
Navigational boxes are for several purposes:
- Politics - previous office holder and succeeding office holder; Governor, Mayor, etc.
- Sports - with "seasonal" pages (i.e. 2008 Boise State Broncos football season) - will allow the user to find Previous and Succeeding season
Generally, they should be placed after "External Links" section and before the "DEFAULTSORT" or "Category list".
Ideally, with the comment:
<!-- Generically, going from most specific to least specific...--> {{Boise State Broncos football navbox}} {{Boise State University}} {{Mountain West Conference football navbox}} {{Idaho}}
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{{Idaho}}
NavBox for basically ALL Idaho articles; placed at the bottom of all other NavBoxes pages |
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{{Idaho county seats}}
NavBox for basically Idaho 'County Seat' articles; placed at the TOP of all other NavBoxes pages, but ONLY on:
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People Footers
Places Footers
College Footers
College Sports footers (Football)
College Sports footers (Football)
Resources
The following periodicals are available through online subscription databanks, in either citation, abstract, or full-text format. If any editors would wish to get information from them, please drop me an e-mail indicating the subject, or the periodical, and period, and I will forward what I can find. John Carter (talk) 18:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Advocate (Idaho) (1980-on)
Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.