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Welcome to the WikiProject page for The City of Columbia, Missouri. 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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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
• 9th street
• The Blue Note

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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
	FA
	A
	GA			1			1
	B	4	1	4	1	1	11
	Start		8	6	7	12	33
	Stub		2	4	19	40	65
	Assessed	4	11	15	27	53	110
	Unassessed	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	4	11	15	27	53	110

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

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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 March 30, 2007 is: Rock Bridge High School The last collaboration article was Columbia, 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. 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)

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)

Stage 1: Requests and ideas for future articles

True/False Film Festival

Cherry Street Artisan

Shakespeare's Pizza

The Blue Note (Missouri)

M.K.T. Trail

Columbia Festival of the Arts

Heritage Festival (Columbia, Missouri)

Flat Branch Brewery

Hot Summer Nights Concert Series

Chris Gervino

The Heidelberg

Boone Tavern (Missouri)

The Columbia Missourian

Shelter Gardens

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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