Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West

WikiProject American Old West

This WikiProject covers the historical period of the American Old West (c. 1835-1900) and western-related topics.
Shortcut	WP:OLDWEST, WP:WILDWEST, WP:AOW
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Parent project(s)	United States History
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Welcome to WikiProject American Old West. This project covers any and all articles related to the historical American Old West. If you would like to help out with the project, please add your name to the participants section below. Also, if you have any suggestions, please make them clear on this WikiProject's talk page.

Goals

• Help cover the history of the American Old West on Wikipedia.

Scope

This WikiProject will cover the creation and editing of articles related to the historical American Old West. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ghost towns
• Outlaws
• Lawmen
• Native Americans
• Gunslingers

The cutoff date for articles included within this WikiProject's scope is 1900. Any article about a subject that was notable after 1900 should not be included in this project's scope.

American Old West articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	7	1	3			12
FM					2		2
GA	3	7	8	3		2	23
B	15	38	43	45		19	160
C	9	28	44	50		36	167
Start	8	46	117	280		137	588
Stub	1	5	24	180		64	274
List	1	3	3	3		5	15
Category			3		326		329
File					29		29
Project					6		6
Redirect					4		4
Template					6		6
Assessed	38	134	243	564	373	263	1,615
Unassessed				16		27	43
Total	38	134	243	580	373	290	1,658
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7003572000000000000♠5,720			Ω = 4.74

Guidelines

• Articles within the scope of WikiProject American Old West should include information about the subject's relation to the American Old West.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Active participants

1. DarthWyyrlok
2. The Utahraptor ^Talk 29 June 2010 Utah
3. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 29 June 2010 Colorado
4. Wilhelmina Will (talk) - I'll start off with seeing that pages which belong in this wikiproject are labeled as part of it, and then take things from there.
5. CosmicPenguin (talk · contribs) Wyoming, Colorado, Indian Wars, Emigrant Trails, Mining, Railroads, Ghost Towns 02:36, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
6. OldWestHistorian (talk) 16:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC) No preference, I've got experience in all areas of this field, as my username suggests.
7. Montanabw^(talk) horses, cowboys, ranches, native people (and why a lot of folks prefer being called "Indian"), cows, rodeos, Western US generally. Fourth generation Montanan, among other things, have an old history degree with emphasis in western history and women's history. Strongest on Northern Rockies and Great Plains, but up to speed elsewhere.
8. intothatdarkness (talk)- General Frontier history, Frontier Army (both before and after ACW), Frontier law enforcement, cattle towns, Montana (6th generation Montanan), Wyoming, Idaho, Kansas, etc.
9. Jojhutton (talk) 17:13, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
10. Rosiestep (talk) 02:30, 3 September 2010 (UTC) - California; Ghost towns
11. Hutcher (talk · contribs), my father is from the Black Hills of South Dakota so I'd like to tune related articles up, 16:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
12. btphelps (talk) (contribs) Events and individuals related to Cochise County in the Old West
13. Lithistman (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on Kansas-related articles, particularly in the area of Dodge City and its part in the Old West.) LHM
14. Coreyg3 (talk · contribs) (I am in a group project working on cleaning up, editing and contributing to general information on the American Old West!) User:Coreyg3User_talk:Coreyg3
15. Melpars (talk · contribs) (I am a student at the University of Washington hoping to research and participate in the American Old West WikiProject as a new Wikipedia participant) User:MelparsUser_talk:Melpars
16. mwtmtmtl (talk · contribs) (I am interested in the idioms and word origins of the Old West. I am particularly interested in cow town, and cattle trail history) User:mwtmtmtlUser_talk:mwtmtmtl
17. Rosalina523 (talk · contribs)
18. Richlevine00 (talk · contribs) (I am interested in the Plains Wars, Native American and Lakota history)Richlevine00 (talk) 00:54, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
19. KingJeff1970 (talk) 18:47, 2 August 2014 (UTC) I'm a trained historian of the West (and, yes, I do tricks, for the right treats) and I've been working in public history for 20 years in MT, AZ, and CO. I'm particularly interested in the historiography and bibliography of the American West, and regional history.
20. dnforney (talk) 03:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC) I am interested in cattle ranching, gold mining, and Colorado history in particular, but also enjoy the overall history of the western United States in the 1870-1900 time period.
21. Maxim Stoyalov

Articles

Featured content

Candidates

• Frederick Russell Burnham -- Born on a Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota in 1861, he moved to the American Southwest and learned scouting from some of the last of the old cowboys and frontiersmen. After the American frontier closed, Burnham moved to Africa, became Chief of Scouts and a major in British Army, taught scouting to Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Scouting movement), and was decorated for his heroism by King Edward VII without ever giving up his U.S. citizenship.

-- Please, post comments on his FAC!

New articles

Please feel free to list your new American Old West-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• HOP Ranch, The HOP Ranch was an historic ranch in El Paso and Pueblo counties in Colorado, located approximately 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Colorado Springs, in the Chico Creek basin just south of present-day Hanover, Colorado. — dnforney ^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:20, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

• George E. Goodfellow, Tombstone, Arizona physician. Was recognized as America's leading authority on gunshot wounds and is regarded as the first civilian trauma surgeon. — btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 19:23, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Review and assessment

Assessment at WikiProject American Old West is conducted on two separate levels. First the article is assessed for its "class." Stub, start, B, C, GA, or FA? Class helps keep track of where we are and where we should go. The second criterion an article is assessed on is its importance to the project. A table below helps explain. First, the article subject's historical value is assessed. Mid-level importance articles have some significance, but not as much as top level articles. Top level importance articles are articles that are important to include in an encyclopedia. The lowest assessment is for little-known, interesting pieces of trivia relating to the American Old West.

Assessment instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject American Old West}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WikiProject American Old West|class=??? }}

The following values may be used:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class American Old West articles)

should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles

• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class American Old West articles)

should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles

• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class American Old West articles)
• C (adds articles to Category:C-Class American Old West articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class American Old West articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class American Old West articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class American Old West articles)

Non-article pages can be rated, though for the list and category class it's better to use our templates because it adds them to the appropriate category in Category:WikiProject American Old West articles, which helps immensely with overall organization.

The following values may be used:

• Dab (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class American Old West articles)

should be used on disambiguation pages related to WikiProject American Old West

• Image (adds articles to Category:Image-Class American Old West articles)

should be used on image pages related to or in articles related to WikiProject American Old West

• Redirect (adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class American Old West articles)

should be used on redirect pages related to articles in WikiProject American Old West

• Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class American Old West articles)

should be used on WikiProject American Old West template pages, such as an infobox or navigation box.

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed American Old West articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Quality scale

WikiProject article quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status by passing an official review. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is— well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature. Claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; and stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of— a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a system of hierarchical section headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (<ref>Smith 2007, p. 1.</ref>) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1)—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. The use of citation templates is not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions, and acceptable copyright status. Images included follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style.	Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	Water fluoridation (as of August 2014)
A	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from this WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting.	Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. Peer review may help.	Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014)
GA	The article has attained good article status by passing an official review. More detailed criteria The article meets the good article criteria: A good article is— Well written: the prose is clear and concise, it respects copyright laws, and the spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; all in-line citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines; and it contains no original research. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by images: images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (but not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia.	Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.	YouTube (as of August 2014)
B	The article is mostly complete and without major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article meets the six B-Class criteria: The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it does not need to be "brilliant". The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher.	A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.	Apple Inc. (as of August 2014)
C	The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains much irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance, or flow; or contain policy violations, such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective. It is most likely that C-Class articles have a reasonable encyclopedic style.	Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.	Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems.	Bishop (chess) (as of August 2014)
Start	An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete. It might or might not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent. The article should satisfy fundamental content policies, such as BLP. Frequently, the referencing is inadequate, although enough sources are usually provided to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.	Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.	Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.	Interval vector (as of February 2014)
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. However, all very-bad-quality articles will fall into this category. More detailed criteria The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short; but, if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category. Although Stub-class articles are the lowest class of the normal classes, they are adequate enough to be an accepted article, though they do have risks of being dropped from being an article all together.	Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.	Crescent Falls (as of February 2013)
FL	The article has attained featured list status. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available.	List of National Basketball Association season assists leaders (as of April 2014)
List	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.	There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.	Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.	List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1947 (as of January 2013)

Importance assessment

An article's assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject American Old West}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WikiProject American Old West|class=???|importance=??? }}

The following values may be used:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance American Old West articles)

should only be used for top-importance articles.

• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance American Old West articles)

should only be used for high-importance articles.

• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance American Old West articles)

should only be used for mid-importance articles.

• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance American Old West articles)

should only be used for low-importance articles.

• NA (for use on non-articles).

Importance scale

Articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance American Old West articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia	Famous historical figure or event from the American Old West.
High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge	Well-known historical figure or event from the American Old West.
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details	Significant historical figure or event from the American Old West.
Low	Subject is mainly of specialist interest	Not well-known; an interesting piece of trivia relating to the American Old West.
NA	Non-Article	Project pages

Featured articles

• Battle of the Alamo Promoted: October 3, 2009
• Fredonian Rebellion Promoted: September 6, 2009
• James Bowie Promoted: January 21, 2008
• California Gold Rush Promoted: December 10, 2007
• Frederick Russell Burnham Promoted: September 29, 2007
• Rock Springs massacre Promoted: July 30, 2007
• Emperor Norton Promoted: July 7, 2007
• Tulsa, Oklahoma Promoted: May 12, 2007
• San Francisco Promoted: September 10, 2006
• History of the Grand Canyon area Promoted: May 18, 2005
• Yosemite National Park Promoted: March 18, 2005

Good articles

• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Promoted: April 18, 2011
• Abraham Lincoln Promoted: December 16, 2010
• Pony Express Promoted: July 24, 2010
• Alamogordo, New Mexico Promoted: November 21, 2009
• Louis H. Carpenter Promoted: August 4, 2009
• Thomas R. Cornelius Promoted: March 29, 2009
• Gadsden Purchase Promoted: October 10, 2008
• Emigrant Trail in Wyoming Promoted: June 21, 2008
• Joel Palmer Promoted: March 29, 2008
• Sitting Bull Promoted: January 14, 2008
• Great Raid of 1840 Promoted: July 21, 2007
• Provisional Government of Oregon Promoted: July 4, 2007
• American Civil War Promoted: November 4, 2006
• Mormon Trail Promoted: June 11, 2006
• Silver Reef, Utah Promoted: December 29, 2010
• Irataba Promoted: February 15, 2015
• Rose-Baley Party Promoted: February 16, 2015

Requested articles

See: Requested articles

Article assessment and re-assessment

See: Assessment

Article alerts

Good article nominees

• 19 Oct 2015 – Billy the Kid (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Aerospeed (t · c); start discussion
• 17 Aug 2015 – Phoenix, Arizona (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Onel5969 (t · c); start discussion
• 16 Nov 2015 – Wyatt Earp (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Btphelps (t · c) was promoted, see discussion

Requests for comments

• 01 Nov 2015 – Jedediah Smith (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by LynnWysong (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 21 Sep 2015 – American Civil War (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by TheVirginiaHistorian (t · c); see discussion

Peer review

Peer review

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