Wiki143:WikiProject Colorado

WikiProject Colorado is a collaboration to improve, create, and update Wikipedia articles about the U.S. State of Colorado. We invite you to participate. To join, add your user name to our member list and place one of our member userboxes on your user page.

Please put your questions about, and suggestion for, Colorado articles on our WikiProject Colorado talk page. We really appreciate your help.

Participants Members

See our WikiProject Colorado member list.

To join WikiProject Colorado, add your user name to our member list and place one of our member userboxes on your user page.

Add your user name to our e-mail invitation list to receive information about Colorado events and to our U.S. Mountain West invitation list to receive invitations to online meetings of the Wikimedians in U.S. Mountain West.

You may also be interested in the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group.

Colorado collaboration

We invite you to participate in our current collaboration to document the following seven historic Colorado county seats:

• California Ranch, Colorado now Franktown – Douglas County seat 1864 to 1874
• Dayton, Colorado near Twin Lakes – Lake County seat 1866 to 1868
• Hahns Peak, Colorado – Routt County seat 1878 to 1912
• Lourette, Colorado – Lake County seat 1863 to 1866
• San Juan City, Colorado – Hinsdale County seat February 10, 1874 to 1875
• Ula, Colorado at Template:Coord – Custer County seat March 9, 1877 to 1878
• Wason, Colorado near Template:Coord – Mineral County seat March 27 to November 7, 1893

See our Colorado collaboration talk page.

Events Events

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To do To do

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/2020 Census for 2020 United States Census results.

File:Flag of Colorado.svg Colorado articles

• List of new Colorado articles
• Recent changes to WikiProject Colorado articles
• Articles on topics located near you
• Most popular WikiProject Colorado articles
• All WikiProject Colorado articles
• Please place your request for a new Colorado article in our Template:Nobreak

Colorado data

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/Counties
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/Municipalities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/CDPs

Project divisions Project divisions

• List of all subpages of this page
• Communities (talk) – Cities, towns, and neighborhoods
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• Economy (Talk) – Commerce: Major Colorado industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Colorado
• Education (Talk) – Colleges, Higher Learning Institutions and High Schools of Colorado
• Geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Government (talk) – Government: federal, state and local politics in relation to Colorado
• History (talk) – History of Colorado during and prior to statehood
• People (talk) – Includes Colorado natives and those residents who have shaped Colorado
• Transportation (talk) – Roads & highways, trails, railroads, airlines & airports, general aviation, and trucking, ships, public transit/busses and pipeline.

Resources Resources

• Bibliography of Colorado
• Geography of Colorado
  • Help:Elevation
• History of Colorado
• Index of Colorado-related articles
• List of Colorado-related lists
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/List of highest towns in Colorado
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/List of the highest U.S. town by date
• Outline of Colorado
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/Popular pages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/GNIS places needing verification
• Commons:Category:Colorado
• JSTOR search for Colorado limited to accessible articles
• History of Colorado 4 volumes Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed

Templates Templates

WikiProject Colorado banner

Place the WikiProject Colorado banner Template:Tlx at the top of the talk page of all Colorado articles and assess the article.

Request templates

• If a Colorado article needs an infobox, please add needs-infobox=yes to the WikiProject Colorado banner on the talk page.
  

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• If a article needs a Colorado map, please add Template:Tlx below the Wikiproject Colorado banner on the talk page.

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• If a article needs a Colorado photograph, please add Template:Nobreak below the Wikiproject Colorado banner on the talk page.

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• If an article needs an image of a Colorado person, please add Template:Tlx below the Wikiproject Colorado banner on the talk page.

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Short article description

Place Template:Tlx at the very top of all articles with a very brief description of the article.

Infobox templates

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado person.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a populated Colorado place. For examples of how to use this template, see Denver, Boulder, or Fulford.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado ghost town.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado highway, road, or street.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado mountain.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado mountain pass.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado mountain range or other landform.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado river or stream.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado lake or pond.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado valley.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado trail.

Place Template:Tlx at the top of all articles about a Colorado ski area.

For other infobox templates, see Category:Infobox templates

Portal boxes

Place one of following portal linkboxes at the top of the See also section of Colorado articles. Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of the See also section to avoid run-on to the next section.

Use Template:Tlx for a single portal linkbox.

Template:Pbox Use Template:Tlx for a compact single portal linkbox.

Use Template:Tlx or similar for a multiple portal linkbox.

Template:Pbox Use Template:Tlx or similar for a compact multiple portal linkbox

Sister project links

Template:Main other Place Template:Tl2 at the top of the External links section of relevant Colorado articles. You may use Template:Tl2 for general Colorado articles.

External linkboxes

Any of the following external linkboxes may be placed in the External links section of relevant Colorado articles between the individual external links and the {{Authority control}}. Select [show] to display the linkbox.

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Template:People from Colorado

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Template:Protected Areas of Colorado

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Template:Colorado Rivers

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Template:School districts in Colorado

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Template:Colorado State Senators

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Template:Colorado House of Representatives

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Template:Zoos of Colorado

See Category:Colorado templates for regional and special purpose external linkboxes.

Stub templates

Place the most relevant of the following stub templates at very bottom of a Colorado stub article.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado airport.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado baseball team.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado baseball stadium or field.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado basketball team.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado bridge or overpass.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado church or temple.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about elections in Colorado.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado soccer team.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado place or geographic feature.

Template:Asbox and if the place is a Colorado ghost town —

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a Colorado ghost town stub article.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a geologic formation in Colorado.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a current or former Colorado mayor.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado newspaper or magazine.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado politician.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado radio station.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado railway station.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado river or stream.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado highway, road, or street.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado school.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about sports in Colorado.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado sports team other than baseball, basketball, or soccer.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado sports venue other than baseball.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado building or structure.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about transportation in Colorado.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado college or university.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a Denver-related stub article.

• Place Template:Tlx at the bottom of a Colorado-related stub article not covered by one of the other stub templates above.

See the following categories for Colorado stub articles.

• Category:Colorado stubs (0)
  • Category:Colorado building and structure stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado church stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado school stubs (0)
  • Category:Colorado geography stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado protected area stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado Registered Historic Place stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado river stubs (0)
  • Category:Colorado politician stubs (0)
  • Category:Colorado radio station stubs (0)
  • Category:Colorado sport stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado sports team stubs (0)
  • Category:Colorado transportation stubs (0)
    • Category:Colorado railway station stubs (0)
  • Category:Denver stubs (0)

Userbox templates

Members of Template:Nobreak should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Template:Nobreak. Template:Yytop Template:Yycat Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yyend For other Colorado user templates see Template:Nobreak.

Assessment Assessment

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Tools 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.

External links

• Colorado State Government website
• Active Colorado Local Governments
• United States Geological Survey GNIS Query
• United States Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup
• ZIP Code Map & Profile
• Latitude & Longitude to Address Lookup
• Great Circle Calculator