Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West
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{{Infobox WikiProject
| name = American Old West
| image = Great train robbery still.jpg
| caption = This WikiProject covers the historical period of the American Old West (c. 1835-1900) and western-related topics.
| shortcuts = WP:AOW, WP:OLDWEST, WP:WILDWEST
| portal = United States
| commons = Wild West
| parent = United States History
| notice-extended ={{tlx|WikiProject United States|Oldwest{{=}}yes|Oldwest-importance{{=}}}}
| userbox = User WikiProject AOW
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| assessment=WikiProject American Old West/Assessment
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Welcome to WikiProject American Old West, a place on Wikipedia where for the most part you can put up your boots and edit without a lot of bickering and backbiting. There's lots of articles waiting to be started! This project covers any and all articles related to the historical American Old West from about 1835 to 1900. If you would like to help out with the project, please add your name to the list of participants below. If you have comments or suggestions, consider adding it to talk page.
Summary
The goal of this wikiproject is to help expand and improve the coverage the history of the American Old West on Wikipedia. These include the following:
- Ghost towns
- Cowboys and cowgirls
- Western lawmen
- Old West outlaws
- Mountain Men
- Texas Ranger Hall of Fame
- Cochise County in the Old West
- Native Americans
... and many other requested articles.
The cutoff date for articles included within this WikiProject's scope is from about 1835 to 1900. If your article is about a subject that was notable after 1900, please consider adding it to Wikiproject United States.
=Statistics=
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/American Old West articles by quality statistics}}
= Guidelines =
- Articles within the scope of WikiProject American Old West should include information about the subject's relation to the American Old West.
= Open tasks =
{{To do}}
Participants
Please add your name and a short description of your interest below to the end of the list.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West/Active participants}}
Articles
= Featured content =
N/A
== Candidates ==
= Newly created 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.
= Articles needing attention =
See Category: American Old West articles needing attention [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_Old_West_articles_needing_attention here].
= Proposed new articles =
See: Requested articles
=Peer review requested =
N/A
= Article assessment and re-assessment =
See: Assessment
= Article alerts =
{{article alerts columns|Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West/Article alerts}}
=[[WP:GA|Good articles]] =
- {{icon|GA}} Gunfight at the O.K. Corral {{small|Promoted: April 18, 2011}}
- {{icon|GA}} Abraham Lincoln {{small|Promoted: December 16, 2010}}
- {{icon|GA}} Pony Express {{small|Promoted: July 24, 2010}}
- {{icon|GA}} Alamogordo, New Mexico {{small|Promoted: November 21, 2009}}
- {{icon|GA}} Louis H. Carpenter {{small|Promoted: August 4, 2009}}
- {{icon|GA}} Thomas R. Cornelius {{small|Promoted: March 29, 2009}}
- {{icon|GA}} Gadsden Purchase {{small|Promoted: October 10, 2008}}
- {{icon|GA}} Emigrant Trail in Wyoming {{small|Promoted: June 21, 2008}}
- {{icon|GA}} Joel Palmer {{small|Promoted: March 29, 2008}}
- {{icon|GA}} Sitting Bull {{small|Promoted: January 14, 2008}}
- {{icon|GA}} Great Raid of 1840 {{small|Promoted: July 21, 2007}}
- {{icon|GA}} Provisional Government of Oregon {{small|Promoted: July 4, 2007}}
- {{icon|GA}} American Civil War {{small|Promoted: November 4, 2006}}
- {{icon|GA}} Mormon Trail {{small|Promoted: June 11, 2006}}
- {{icon|GA}} Silver Reef, Utah {{small|Promoted: December 29, 2010}}
- {{icon|GA}} Irataba {{small|Promoted: February 15, 2015}}
- {{icon|GA}} Rose-Baley Party {{small|Promoted: February 16, 2015}}
- {{icon|GA}} Wyatt Earp {{small|Promoted: November 20, 2015}}
- {{icon|GA}} Billy the Kid {{small|Promoted: January 9, 2016}}
- {{icon|GA}} Stephen Dee Richards {{small|Promoted: April 23, 2020}}
= [[WP:FA|Featured articles]] =
- {{icon|FA}} Battle of the Alamo {{small|Promoted: October 3, 2009}}
- {{icon|FA}} Fredonian Rebellion {{small|Promoted: September 6, 2009}}
- {{icon|FA}} James Bowie {{small|Promoted: January 21, 2008}}
- {{icon|FA}} California Gold Rush {{small|Promoted: December 10, 2007}}
- {{icon|FA}} Frederick Russell Burnham {{small|Promoted: September 29, 2007}}
- {{icon|FA}} Rock Springs massacre {{small|Promoted: July 30, 2007}}
- {{icon|FA}} Emperor Norton {{small|Promoted: July 7, 2007}}
- {{icon|FA}} Tulsa, Oklahoma {{small|Promoted: May 12, 2007}}
- {{icon|FA}} San Francisco {{small|Promoted: September 10, 2006}}
- {{icon|FA}} History of the Grand Canyon area {{small|Promoted: May 18, 2005}}
- {{icon|FA}} Yosemite National Park {{small|Promoted: March 18, 2005}}
Project templates
=Talkpage templates=
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=Article templates=
==Infoboxes==
- {{tl|Infobox police officer}}, a good infobox for "lawmen" such as sheriffs and marshals
- {{tl|Infobox criminal}}, a good infobox for "outlaws"
- {{tl|Infobox criminal organization}}, a good infobox for "outlaw gangs"
==Footers==
- {{tl|OldWest-stub}}
- {{tl|OldWest-bio-stub}}
- {{tl|US-ghost-town-stub}}
- {{tl|California-ghost-town-stub}}
- {{tl|Wild West}}
- {{tl|Cochise County Conflict}}
=Userpage templates=
{{tl|User WikiProject AOW}}
{{User WikiProject AOW}}
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= Barnstar template =
{{award2|image=American_Old_West_barnstar.png|topic=The American Old West Barnstar|text=Put your message here.
=Project invite=
{{American Old West WP invite}}
{{subst:American Old West WP invite}}
Categories
= Sisterlinks =
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List of U.S. State-level WikiProjects and their sub-projects
Review and assessment
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West/Assessment}}
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Law Enforcement
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history (see also: U.S. military history and U.S. Civil War task force)
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