Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas City


Welcome

Welcome to the Kansas City WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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Goals


WikiProject Goals

  1. To provide a concise and accurate record of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, including its history, background and its current status.
  2. To provide a framework (including infoboxes, categories, and examples of Best Practice) from within which scholarly entries about the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and related topics, may be produced.
  3. To provide a scholarly set of terminology to describe the Kansas City Metropolitan Area which is technically, culturally, and contextually accurate.
  4. To ensure that the Notability of each topic can be gleaned from its entry, without the need for additional explanation.
  5. To expand project stubs to full entries and to progress full entries to the next level.
  6. Patrol frequently vandalized pages within the project's scope.
  7. To maintain Meetup KC.

Scope


WikiProject Scope

Articles relating to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area:

Kansas City people
Individuals from or famous for their association with KC.
Kansas City places
Places including cities, neighborhoods, landmarks and counties.
KC businesses and KC corporations
Economic entities from the area, including non-profit agencies of sufficient notability.
Kansas City sports teams
Teams that are now or have been in the Kansas City area.
Kansas City events
Historical and famous events that took place in the area.
Kansas City schools
Schools located in Kansas City area school districts.

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Guidelines


WikiProject Guidelines

  • To Be Determined

Open tasks


WikiProject Open Tasks

  • To Be Determined. There are redlinks at the articles list mentioned below.

Participant info


WikiProject KC Participants

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  1. Laflaneuse Born elsewhere but grew up in KCMO and lived there for 30+ years. Grew up in Gladstone, then lived in Quality Hill, a Nelle Peters apartment building on the Plaza, and Brookside.
  2. Rwiggum Born in Kansas City, MO. I've had an extensive hand in editing and maintaining the pages for and related to the KC native band The Get Up Kids including all of their albums, members, side-projects and etc. Rwiggum (Talk/Contrib)
  3. SakuraAvalon86User_talk:SakuraAvalon86 I was born in Kansas City, MO, and have lived here for 21 years. Interested in Downtown KC, Lee's Summit, Independence, and Raytown. -- 12:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
  4. Subversionarts Native Kansas Citian for 30+ years, raised in Raytown, resided in Independence, Liberty, North Kansas City, currently in Westport/Hyde Park. Interests: Kansas City renaissance, KC barbeque, City Beautiful movement and its lasting impact on the coming green revolution, Kansas City's growing regional influence, balanced views of the rebirth of downtown and its impacts on surrounding entertainment districts and Ollie Gates' sales tax moratorium proposal. Looking to see much larger regional transportation proposals, like say a bullet train linking Lawrence, KC, St Louis, Chicago, and also maybe New Orleans and Denver.
  5. nae'blis (work for KCMO, lived here five years. Also I'm an admin so I can deal with deleted pages if we need something that got lost) -- 17:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
  6. Reverend Loki (Currently live and work in KCMO, metro area resident for over 20 years) 18:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
  7. KCMODevin (Resident of a Kansas City suburb, been watching/studying area development and architecture for 3 years. Interested in helping the pages regarding Downtown, Architecture and Local Development.)
  8. Hobbes747 (Born and raised in KC and lived there for 31 years. Currently living in Dallas but I miss it and working on the KC pages is cathartic. :P I used to work for the KCMO school district and so did my dad.)
  9. Chris Belton native. I want to help out with the geographic side of the Kansas City Area.
  10. americasroof Old and senile and wanting to dump my knowledge base on KC as the center of the world before I die (who else thinks KC's interurban is cool or can tell you what EMT really means??!!!). Don't even live in the city anymore but am considering a return since ill gotten gains elsewhere go further in the big Wheat Head field. Interests: transportation, civil war (Westport was actually biggest west (and probably most important) of the Mississippi believe it or not!), north of the river, history, hard facts about KC, agriculture heritage, Truman. Turn offs: the marauding "let's prune wikipedia" crowd who don't understand the joy of eventually connecting the dots even if the initial article is a stub or poorly written and unfortunately the excessive boosterists (whose closed mindedness reminded me of why I was glad at the time of leaving the city).
  11. KHill-LTown Grew up in the Northland and a proud Kansas Citian, though I'm in a workaholic exile at Kirksville.
  12. mobyrock Native Missourian. Live just north of KC Greater Metro. mobyrock 02:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
  13. Senorpepr Belton native 18:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
  14. Moonraker0022 Has lived in Overland Park and now in Olathe! He cannot wait until KC gets the NHL, WNBA, and the NBA inside the T-Mobile Center. Love the new KCMO flag! Go Chiefs! Go Royals!
  15. Patricknoddy
  16. willyammer Native Kansas Citian, born and raised in Kansas City proper. Right now I live in the Eastwood neighborhood right behind Arrowhead Stadium.
  17. J. D. Redding Turner, Kansas
  18. Tesau Olathe and Johnson county citizen, rather interested in transportation stuff.
  19. Conman33 — Brookside/Plaza-area native. Die hard Chiefs fan and season ticket holder. Most Chiefs articles are usually started by me or contributed to. Check my user page for more info.
  20. CloversMallRat - Lived in Kansas City since birth. My family members also have, including my grandpa who worked at several local pizza joints in town and my dad who knows a lot about malls when he grew up, like when Metro North Mall was just opening and such. I luv KC!
  21. Blood sliver moved to in grade school and love it!
  22. Grey Wanderer Native Columbian, but take interest KC topics such as History and Education.
  23. flyingemberBorn in Independence, lived in Liberty, school in Warrensburg, year and a half in Springfield and Joplin, family in eastern MO, live in Kansas City North and work downtown. I have photos from across the entire state and have read hundreds of sources about Missouri as well as enjoy exploring industrial areas, natural and historical locations across the state.
  24. UntiedShoes I grew up in Liberty, MO. I really enjoy most aspects of Kansas City.
  25. AlexNebraska All I can say is that it is better than St Louis.
  26. Preschooler.at.heart. Independence native. Founder of WP:WPMO
  27. Cymruman I moved here from Newcastle Australia to be with my wife and absolutely love it here.
  28. House1090 Love KC and hope to relocate here soon. Do a lot of research. House1090 (talk) 20:59, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
  29. MetroFan2009 I love to edit about Kansas City Public Transit.
  30. GC Buffalo Originally from Garden City, Kansas, I'm currently a student at KU. I enjoy editing articles about high schools and colleges within Kansas City, as well as sports-related articles.
  31. Kansas212 I live in Topeka, but I visit Kansas City often.
  32. Baylor98 Midtown native.
  33. Elisfkc Sporting KC and other random stuff
  34. Kclibrarian Kansas City Public Librarian who hosts edit-a-thons on KC topics. kimgile@kclibrary.org
  35. RayChrysler Kansas City-area resident, interested in Kansas City businesses in general but technology in particular.
  36. Smuckola Writer, history enthusiast, and photographer.
  37. TheFactFairy Artist and Kansas City Resident, writer, and interested in humanitarian and social reform topics but here to help find facts for all!
  38. Chrysanthemum123 Wikipedian in Residence at the Kansas City Public Library who hosts edit-a-thons on KC topics. Particularly interested in editing topics related to gender, representation, and social reform in KC history. Feel free to reach out to collaborate on KC-related editing projects! mirandapratt@kclibrary.org

Articles


WikiProject Articles

For now, one of our major attributes is a compiled list of many articles related to Kansas City; this allows the related changes function to help us keep track of things going in these pages without all watchlisting all of them. Please add any that are missing!

Recognized content

Walt Disney • Donner Party • Casey Stengel • Harry S. Truman

Total pages in content type is 4

Main page featured articles

Walt Disney • Donner Party • Casey Stengel • Harry S. Truman

Total pages in content type is 4

Kansas City Cowboys (AA) all-time roster • List of Kansas City Royals first-round draft picks

Total pages in content type is 2

Good articles

MLS Cup 2000 • 2015 World Series • 2019 Linwood tornado • The Get Up Kids • Interstate 470 (Missouri) • KCPT • KCWE • KCTV • KSHB-TV • KSMO-TV • MLS Cup 2004 • New York Life Building (Kansas City, Missouri) • Bess Truman

Total pages in content type is 13

Former good articles

History of Kansas City Chiefs quarterbacks • Kansas City Chiefs

Total pages in content type is 2

Good article nominees

Lee's Summit, Missouri • SubTropolis

Total pages in content type is 2

In the News articles

2014 World Series • 2015 World Series • Ed Asner • Ron Franz • Donald J. Hall Sr. • Interstate Bakeries • Betty Lynn • Kate Spade • Super Bowl XLIX

Total pages in content type is 9

Did you know? articles

1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft • MLS Cup 2000 • 2012 U.S. Open Cup final • Achelous and Hercules • All Nations Club • Arabia (steamboat) • Burns & McDonnell • Lorraine Collett • Donner Party • Ferrellgas • Great Flood of 1881 • John Houghtaling • Norma Hunt • Interstate 470 (Missouri) • Jack Reardon (politician) • KCIT-TV (Kansas City) • Kansas City Cowboys (AA) all-time roster • List of Kansas City Royals first-round draft picks • KCTV • KSHB-TV • KSMO-TV • Rachel MacNair • Samuel S. Mayerberg • New York Life Building (Kansas City, Missouri) • Suicide of Randy Potter • Bess Truman • Verrückt • WHB • Héctor Wagner • Charlie Wheatley

Total pages in content type is 30

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Kansas City-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

  • William Gillis (businessman) - one of the 14 original founders of Kansas City.
  • Durwood Soccer Stadium - home stadium of UMKC Kangaroos men's and women's soccer teams.
  • Swope Soccer Village - FC Kansas City's home field and Sporting Kansas City's training site.
  • Electric Park, Kansas City - common name of two parks constructed and run by the Heim brothers (Heim Brothers Brewery), the latter of which inspired Walt Disney's design of Disneyland. Some sources claim that the second was the largest Electric Park ever. Local sources can turn this into a significant article here.
  • Kelso's Pizza -- I was reading the discussion about whether or not Kelso's was notable, and remembering when I had my first pizza back in the 70's before Pizza Hut was even starting its march through the midwest followed by Domino's. I mean, I could be wrong, but I think Kelso's or Pizza Shoppe has a historical basis for being notable. Pizza chains really are a recent phenomenon, and I'm curious where these two are chronologically compared to that. If someone did some real research away from the internet, I bet they could find something.

Kansas City articles for deletion

Please transclude below, any Kansas City related articles list for deletion.

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Categories


WikiProject Categories

Every article on a Kansas City metropolitan area topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:Kansas City metropolitan area as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has a lot of articles on Kansas City metropolitan area subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:Kansas City metropolitan area; there is an hierarchy of categories, shown here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.

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