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Template:KSLargestCities

The information in the new template Template:KSLargestCities mostly duplicates information in the older Template:Kansas. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 21:04, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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What are we suppose to be looking at?

State Library of Kansas

Should this article be considered good enough for C class? Mad Man American (talk) 23:08, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

It looks pretty clean for "C", except the list of board members, which likely should be axed, since they might not be notable, see Wikipedia:Notability. Jo Budler should stay at the top of the article. I usually don't like to list board members, city councils, or other groups because these types of things easily get out-of-date, especially if there isn't a large group of editors that keeps an article up to date. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 00:19, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Move of Leawood, Kansas

An editor moved Leawood, Kansas to Leawood. You are invited to discuss that move and its consequences here.--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:59, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer (Talk) 20:58, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Separate article on Cutter murders and In Cold Blood

I found that the names of the Clutters redirect to In Cold Blood. I think the book and the murder should have separate articles. WhisperToMe (talk) 08:08, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

If there isn't an article specifically about the murder, then it would be fine to point a redirect at this article. Hmmmm, it does seems strange they aren't split. Note that Manson murders redirects to Charles Manson, instead of having its own article. BTK killer and the murders are described in Dennis Rader article. You should do some research on other famous murders to see where they are discussed: their own article or merged into another article. Splitting the article will likely be a lot of work, so you better be serious about it before taking it on. You should pose the question in the book talk page about splitting it into 2 articles. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 12:08, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Upcoming event at the WWI Museum in Kansas City

Hello all! I wanted to invite everyone to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

New article Kansas Navy

As discussed at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Kansas/Archive_4#Kansas_Navy.3F, I've created a stub article for this apparently tongue-in-cheek fraternal organization. MatthewVanitas (talk) 08:46, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

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Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of birds of Kansas/archive1

I have nominated List of birds of Kansas for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.

Olive Ann Beech

Could I get someone on the Project to look at the article Olive Ann Beech and assess it for something besides a stub article? I have added extensive copy and it is referenced. Thank you. Cuprum17 (talk) 00:06, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

I bumped existing projects ones up to "Start", since it's obviously at least a "Start" rating, but I didn't move it up higher since I'm not a member of those other projects. I created one for Kansas then ranked it "C", because I feel that any article that ranks "B" or higher should be validated by multiple people before getting such a rank, though I don't know official policy. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
I don't think anyone has an issue with anyone bumping up a longer article from "Stub" to "Start" without asking. A "Stub" is typically something that is too short and contains almost no text, so anything longer is obviously not a stub, thus automatically deserves no less than "Start", even if you are the one that added most of the text. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:44, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
We made a guide at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Assessment for college football articles. you may find it helpful.--Paul McDonald (talk) 15:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Missing Kansas Supreme Court Justices

Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Kansas Supreme Court Justices at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices#Kansas. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for doing this. I am happy to help as I can. Started work on Judge Ellis' biography today. I'm never comfortable moving an article from draft, so I'll leave that up to others to do so. Cheers! Spacini (talk) 17:49, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
In that case, please feel free to let me know when you're done with one, and I'll be glad to move the article. Cheers! bd2412 T 12:27, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
I think Draft:Abram Halstead Ellis and Draft:Adrian Lawrence Greene are solid enough to be moved and classified as Start-level articles. Thank you! Spacini (talk) 16:54, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

"420 collaboration",

which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

WikiProject Kansas participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Kansas.

For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer (Talk) 14:56, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Greetings WikiProject Kansas/Archive 7 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

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New Additions/WP 50k

Hi all, I wanted to let you know that I have recently created the article Old Depot Museum which fits within the scope of WP:Kansas. I hope you will check it out, give me your thoughts, and maybe even add to the page! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Kmwebber (talk) 02:22, 10 December 2016 (UTC)Kmwebber

Hi, I wanted to check back in and say that I made another article within the scope of the project (Hutchinson Zoo), and that I want to continue to add more as part of the WP:US's 50,000 Challenge. I think it would be great if more of the people on this wiki project also joined the challenge! We have 3 Kansas related articles thus far, and I know we can do more! Kmwebber (talk) 03:24, 18 December 2016 (UTC)Kmwebber

Request for article class review

Hi,

I've been working on improving the article Pawnee, Kansas, and while I'm sure it is no longer a stub, I don't want to re-rate it myself. I would appreciate someone taking a look and redoing the rating. While you're at it, you are welcome to take part in the merge discussion there as well. I will be improving the other article too, and any merge would likely go the opposite direction (but right now it looks like no merge will happen).

Thanks so much! RM2KX (talk) 23:51, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas/Archive 7/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Kansas.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

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We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Kansas, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

{{WikiProject United States}}

Is there any interest in adding Kansas wikiproject page template to the template {{WikiProject United States}}? It wouldn't change anything about the project, just the template itself. It seems like a useful template for regional articles that are of interest to many states. I'm working on some botany pages that span multiple states, and I'm hoping to not have to add separate banners for states that aren't in the template. -Furicorn (talk) 08:45, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

New Kansas userbox templates

New Kansas userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Kansas and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:39, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

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Sean Tevis

I recently came across the article Sean Tevis, about a notable (unsuccessful) political candidate from Kansas a decade ago. I updated a lot of it to the correct tense and to reflect a more encyclopedic, less newsy approach. However, there was one detail I wasn't able to pin down: Tevis's campaign drew a huge number of small donations, and that led to a bill proposed in the KS legislature that would have required candidates with large numbers of donors to report their names and addresses. The thing is, I can't figure out what happened to this bill: was it ever voted on? did it pass? is it law? (See here for what I did find.) Can anyone help? (Cross-posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government.) Thanks, JBL (talk) 13:06, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Article needs work

Hello! The Plaza Grill and Cinema in Ottawa, Kansas needs serious work. It's the oldest operating movie theater in the world. Please pitch in!--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:19, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Courthouse Photos

I'm re-posting this request for county courthouse photos. I have created a complete list of the courthouses and am starting to create an article for each one. It would be ideal to have a current photo of each as we attempted to do so starting back in 2009. I have taken off all of the courthouses from the original list that did get photographed. Atchison County was left on the list as the photo is of poor quality/perspective and dates from 1972. The Ellis County Courthouse photo dates from 1979 and needs to be updated. Thanks in advance! Spacini (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Original post

I propose that photos of all Kansas county court houses be added to their respective article, and possibly the corresponding county seat article. This would serve to beautify the article and serve as a visual representation of the county. Help is needed adding them to their respective county pages by adding the following to the County Infobox template

|ex image = courthouse image filename.jpg

|ex image cap = xxx County Court House in xxxx, Kansas

The following counties do not have court house photos. Contributors may want to cross them off once a photo is taken and uploaded. --Ichabod (talk) 03:19, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm already aware, but the problem has ONLY been the lack of photos, NOT the wanting to do it. Depending on availability of photos, in the past when I cleaned up county articles, my photo choice was: 1st choice = current courthouse, 2nd choice = old courthouse (prior to current courthouse), 3rd choice = some other photo from the county. Sometimes I would choose the old courthouse instead of the current courthouse, because the old building looked better, but I'm not sure which counties that I did that. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:42, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Photo caption. Courthouse is 1 word instead of 2. State shouldn't be included. I prefered the caption to fit on one line, so sometimes I included the year of the photo, sometimes I didn't include it.
|ex image cap = xxx County Courthouse in yyy
|ex image cap = xxx County Courthouse in yyy (YEAR)
If an article exists for the building, of which some do, then a wikilink to the article should be for the "xxx County Courthouse" text.
The naming format for the courthouse building should be "xxx County Courthouse" or "xxx County Courthouse (Kansas)" to line up with existing article naming formats for other states. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:49, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
• Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:42, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Operation Legend (help, please)

We could use some drafting work here:

Talk:2020_deployment_of_federal_troops_in_the_United_States#Activities_in_Kansas

Can anyone help? Thanks, Ocaasi t | c 19:14, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Article request: Housing in Kansas

Wikipedia readers would be grateful if your project would consider creating a new article about Housing in Kansas. Here are some sources of information:

  • Category:Housing in Kansas
  • Housing Needs By State: Kansas, Washington, DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition, retrieved October 26, 2020
  • "Kansas", COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard, Eviction Lab, retrieved October 26, 2020
  • "Kansas Homelessness Statistics", Usich.gov, Washington DC: U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, retrieved October 26, 2020
  • (Kansas+housing), Digital Public Library of America (assorted materials)
  • (Kansas+housing), UK: Core.ac.uk Open access icon (assorted materials)
  • (Kansas+housing), Germany: Base-search.net Open access icon (assorted materials)

Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 17:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

John Brown

The article John Brown (abolitionist) is rsted "low importance". He is more important for Kansas than that. deisenbe (talk) 12:20, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Kansastasks

Template:Kansastasks has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 07:43, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Merge Township #, Rooks County, Kansas

I think it would be more efficient if all the articles about the Rooks County townships shared a page. Currently there are 12 and they all have very similar names and information. It would be a more streamlined and informative article if it was all together. IronRose26 (talk) 20:37, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

For the same reason we don't merge all Kansas City metro cities into one article, or all cities in Wyandotte County into one article, because they aren't the same. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 23:09, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

  • John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Request help with inline sources

Please join me at Timeline of Kansas history and help clean up and specifically insert inline sources.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:07, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

GAR notice

Brown v. Board of Education has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 03:10, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Notable People

Husker and Pro-Football hall of gamer William Roy “Link” Lyman was raised in McDonald. LEsutton (talk) 14:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

ok, but you could have added it yourself. I updated the McDonald, Kansas article. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 22:55, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Court House photos project

Bringing over this project to photograph and add Kansas county court houses be added to their respective articles, and possibly the corresponding county seat article, from the previous archive now that the WP:Kansas group is active and split from the WP:United States group.

Help is needed adding them to their respective county pages by adding the following to the County Infobox template

|ex image = courthouse image filename.jpg

|ex image cap = xxx County Court House in xxxx, Kansas

The following counties do not have court house photos. Contributors, please delete the counties on this list as the photos are added. 

   Allen County
   Atchison County [needs updated photo]
   Barber County
   Chautauqua County
   Cherokee County
   Clark County
   Coffey County
   Cowley County
   Decatur County
   Edwards County
   Elk County
   Ellsworth County
   Finney County
   Gove County
   Graham County
   Gray County
   Greenwood County
   Harvey County
   Jackson County
   Labette County
   Logan County
   Meade County
   Montgomery County
   Morris County
   Nemaha County
   Neosho County
   Ness County
   Ottawa County
   Pawnee County
   Rice County
   Saline County
   Scott County
   Sedgwick County
   Seward County
   Shawnee County
   Sheridan County
   Smith County
   Stafford County
   Stanton County
   Sumner County
   Trego County
   Wabaunsee County
   Wilson County

Spacini (talk) 20:18, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Feedback on draft for artist Laura Berman

Hello members of Wikiproject Kansas. I was hoping someone could offer feedback on a draft I created about Laura Berman, an artist based in Kansas City, Kansas at User:W12SW77/sandbox/Laura Berman .I have a COI as a paid consultant for WhiteHatWiki, which was hired by Laura Berman. Thank you for your help!W12SW77 (talk) 17:53, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting

Wikipedia users in the United States Mountain West and High Plains will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, articles, or photographs of our region is encouraged to attend.

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Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

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Court House photos project

Bringing over this project to photograph and add Kansas county court houses be added to their respective articles, and possibly the corresponding county seat article, from the previous archive now that the WP:Kansas group is active and split from the WP:United States group.

Help is needed adding them to their respective county pages by adding the following to the County Infobox template

|ex image = courthouse image filename.jpg

|ex image cap = xxx County Court House in xxxx (year)

The following counties do not have court house photos. Contributors, please delete the counties as the photos are added.

Spacini (talk) 21:11, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, but I quickly found this - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atchison_County_Courthouse_(Kansas) --- • Sbmeirow • Talk • 00:12, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for noting this one. The photo of the Atchison Courthouse is greatly out of date and only depicts the clock tower. I have a current picture and will upload it today. Spacini (talk) Spacini (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

1855 Kansas Territory elections

Anyone interested in peaking over the "1855 Kansas Territory elections" article I'm working on? I'm trying to base most of the info off the 1856 "Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas," published by the House of Representatives. The problem is that this report is riddled with math errors (e.g., sometimes totals are erroneously calculated; sometimes scattered votes are counted in the "total votes" category, sometimes they aren't), and the table on page 32 that reports some of the territorial house results is a jumbled mess. For these instances, I've used Andreas's History of Kansas to fill in the blanks, so to speak. I've added a lot of explanatory notes to clear some confusion up, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!--Gen. Quon[Talk] 18:53, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I added a link to your new article at "Kansas Territory#Election of Territorial Legislature". I don't have any input at this moment, because I haven't much about the Kansas Territory elections. Have you looked at any other historical Kansas books at Kansas#Bibliography or History_of_Kansas#Bibliography? Is someone going to create 1857 Kansas Territory elections article? • Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:00, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Dean Smith

Dean Smith has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 02:17, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Kansas dead line

Very late in the AfD for Hogback Kansas (20th century Section 18/Disney Hogback Siding), I remembered something I ran accross with respect to the (19th century Section 21/pre-Yost) Hog Back "Station". The article mentioned that even after the Kansas dead line was moved west of Trego, Texas cattle were still being driven to the Section 21 Hog Back.

Back then, I could not find coverage on the Kansas dead line on the wiki. I still can't.

The Kansas dead line refers to a boundary established by the Kansas Legislature to exclude Texas cattle from settled farms and ranchland in Eastern Kansas. The Texas cattle carried disease to domestic herds in Kansas, the cattle drives damaged cultivated crops and consumed grass that Kansas domestic ranchers claimed, and surges of cow pokes disrupted the peace of new Kansas towns.

The original dead line, called the Kansas Pacific dead line, excluded Texas cattle not only from the eastern Kansas cities, but from the northern counties along the Kansas/Nebraska border. The intention was that the cattle be loaded on the Kansas Pacific Railway and shipped west through Denver to Cheyenne, Wyoming. As the Legislature moved the deadline west over following years, closing off Ablilene, Salina, and Ellsworth, in turn, the Ellis Trail developed with destinations from Hays City to Grainfield.

I can understand the reason drovers violated the dead line after it was moved west of Trego. As I. M. Yost later recognised, "Hogback Station" was the last open water on the KPRR until Denver.

I am not suggesting a separate page for the Kansas dead line, necessarily, but at least it should be mentioned in Chisholm Trail with the Ellis Trail. However, I can see that this is an element of Kansas settlement history. Admittedly, the Kansas dead line was not an influence on the settlement, but an effect of the settlement.

So, I offer the suggestion for the project's concideration that the Kansas dead line be added to Chisolm Trail with focus on the westward shifting of the destinations. And the Kansas deadline can be added to the pages on the sequential cowtowns. For my part, I could consider the Kansas dead line in my study of Ellis County.

IveGoneAway (talk) 14:54, 13 February 2024 (UTC) 13:02, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Two clarifications to reduce confusion:
  • The "Ellis Trail" is more widely known as the Great Western Cattle Trail, although the extension to Ellis, Kansas from Dodge City would be more properly the "Ellis Trail", a route that grew in importance as the Kansas dead line blocked train shipments into eastern Kansas from Dodge. The Great Western Cattle Trail article does mention the Kansas Legislation (not by name), but the impact of the dead line on the Chisolm Trail was earlier and more severe.
  • The route that Exodusters took from Ellis to Nicodemus was also called the "Ellis Trail".
IveGoneAway (talk) 02:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Links to work with at some time:
IveGoneAway (talk) 18:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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