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I have commenced the project assessment categories which will help us "rate" all project related articles based on their quality. Project members can first examine articles related to the scope of this project and then proceed to the article talk page and "rate" the article. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Montana/Assessment for guidance as to how to rate articles. This is an informal, no need for hurry mission for the project, so anyone interested can do this as they have the time and/or inclination. There is also a link to the assessment guide under the "assessment" heading from the main project page as well. Basically, the way to rate the article is to hit the edit this page at the top of each article's talkpage. Edit the {{WikiProject Montana}} template by adjusting to:

{{WikiProject Montana|class=FA}} For Featured articles if they have been rated already

{{|WikiProject Montana|class=A}} For A class articles

{{WikiProject Montana|class=GA}} For Good articles if they have been rated already

{{WikiProject Montana|class=B}} For B class articles

{{WikiProject Montana|class=Start}} For Start level articles

{{WikiProject Montana|class=Stub}} For Stubs

{{WikiProject Montana|class=NA}} For Non-Articles such as category pages, templates and Project related pages for this project.

If no adjustments are made to the rating, the article is left in the Unassessed category.

For further details and info, don't hestitate to ask me or refer to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Montana/Assessment guide.--MONGO 09:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When the article is rated, it is automatically placed in a category which reflects that rating:

Montana cities task force

I was thinking it may be good to organize a task force related to Montana's largest (let's say the top seven) cities to increase collaboration and help improve the articles related to Montana's population centers. I think that it would be difficult to generate enough interest to have a separate task force for each city, but if we had a single organized project that it may help. I may probably create one anyway, but I was hoping for any feedback that may come. Dsetay (talk) 16:40, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I like what you did, but I wouldn't do an importance criteria on the tagged articles, the importance ranking for WP:Montana overall should be sufficient (I can see the edit war of importance ranking cities -- especially with only 7 major ones). I agree there is no reason to do task forces for individual communities, as there are insufficient editors and population to generate that level of scrutiny (given the whole population of Montana is arguably only about a million -- less than the city of Denver...). Montanabw^(talk) 03:58, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the importance tag awhile ago, I though. Mainly, because I thought it was a pain. The importance tag now there is simply for the WikiProject Montana. I added that only about a month ago, so many, if not most, articles haven't been assessed. Personally, I don't really want that responsibility and have been leaving them blank wherever I come across it.Dsetay (talk) 04:40, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Montana articles lacking sources

Have created a new category Category:Montana articles lacking sources to start identifying Montana articles that need references. As it gets populated, we should begin looking for and adding sources to bring these articles up to snuff. If you know of Montana related articles needing sources, please add this category to the article (it is a hidden category) Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 15:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Over at WikiProject Equine, someone, somehow set up a cleanup listing that takes all the tagged articles and does a plug and chug to accomplish the same thing, that way when the tag is removed, the article disappears from the list. I think the bot that did all this crashed for awhile, but is up and running again. However, I'm weak on the techie side of WP, so you might want to look into this and see is we can do it here. Montanabw^(talk) 23:06, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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) 04:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Northeast Montana Update

Not sure if this is the place for this, but I have been working on a few pages for communities in Northeast Montana. Thought it would be a good idea to give the project an update on that. I did a lot of research into U.S. Census reports. I couldn't find good sources for a few years but found enough reports to cover from 1900 forward. If anyone is in need of that data for a community, let me know or look at the references under Hinsdale, Montana. Shadybradyj (talk) 19:12, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Montana mountains

The List of mountain peaks of Montana has been expanded and updated. We need articles for the following mountain peaks:

Baldy Mountain (Beaverhead County), Baldy Mountain (Hill County), Baldy Mountain (Sanders County), Big Pryor Mountain, Castle Mountain, Crow Peak, Cutoff Mountain, El Capitan, Gallatin Peak, Garfield Mountain, Greathouse Peak, Highwood Baldy, Hogback Mountain, Holland Peak, Hollowtop Mountain, Homer Youngs Peak, Lone Mountain, McLeod Peak, Mount Chisholm, Mount Cowen, Mount Evans, Mount Headley, Mount Powell, Northwest Peak, Robinson Mountain, Rocky Mountain, Sacagawea Peak, Sage Peak, Saint Joseph Peak, Sheep Mountain, Sliderock Mountain, South Sheep Mountain, Sphinx Mountain, Sunset Peak, Table Mountain, Taylor Mountain, Tumble Mountain, Tweedy Mountain, Two Sisters, West Butte, and West Goat Peak

Information about these peaks can be found in their references on the List of mountain peaks of Montana. We also need good mountain photos for the articles and list gallery. Yours aye, Buaidh 23:16, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Cline: This is up your alley, I know we have photos of Sac peak and probably you can get shots of other stuff in Gallatin County. Montanabw ^(talk) 01:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Goodding's willow

Did you know that Goodding's willow was named for its collector, Leslie Newton Goodding, who studied botany, plant pathology and pedagogy at la Universidad de Montana? Se habla español? Reference here (in English!) for someone willing to turn the red link into blue. – wbm1058 (talk) 20:23, 20 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Montana userbox templates

New Montana userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Montana and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh talk contribs 22:52, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Montana Supreme Court justices

Drafts for the following missing articles for Montana Supreme Court justices have been initiated at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices#Montana:

Any help getting these articles finished and moved to mainspace would be appreciated. Cheers! BD2412 T 18:17, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Free America Weekend

Are any project members interested in adding more info for Montana to the Free America Weekend article? Collaboration welcome! --Another Believer _(Talk) 14:21, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Mountain West online meeting

Wikimedia US Mountain West

We will host an online meeting for all Wikipedia users in the Mountain States from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, August 19, 2025, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. We will discuss how users in each of our states can help one another. Help is available for new users, and all guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

If you don't wish to receive these invitations anymore, please remove your username from our invitation list. Thanks.

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