Wikipedia:WikiProject Las Vegas

WikiProject Las Vegas
This WikiProject is about the Las Vegas metropolitan area
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CategoryLas Vegas metropolitan area
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Assessment/Assessment

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Las Vegas metropolitan area in Nevada. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. We extend the offer to join us.

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Scope

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Las Vegas, Nevada is a fast growing and constantly changing city. It is our goal to keep the articles directly related to Las Vegas and the surrounding valley up-to-date. Focusing on updating and improving articles related to Las Vegas, including notability, fact finding, images, and use of templates for similar look-and-feel.

Definitions

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For reasons brevity, a common acronym is used on this page is CHR, short for:

Casino(s), Hotel(s) and Resort(s)

And should be inclusive of the following as they pertain to Las Vegas.

Attraction(s) and event(s)

For general clarification and communications, the following definitions from Dictionary.com are provided:

Casino: A public room or building for gambling.
Hotel: An establishment that provides lodging travelers and other paying guests. (Usually requires entering a main lobby for room access)
Motel: An establishment that provides lodging ... usually having direct access to an open parking area.
Resort: A place frequented by people for relaxation or recreation.
Although, for Las Vegas, this term is applied to resorts that offer lodging, food, gaming, entertainment and frequently include additional activities such as shopping, swimming, spa or night life.

Parentage

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities / Wikipedia:WikiProject United States

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Portal:Las Vegas

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Sister Project Searches

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Participants

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Structure

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Wikiproject Las Vegas will deal with many types of articles, not only those concerning CHRs, but also those such as Clark County, Las Vegas Strip, Cirque du Soleil and Lake Mead.

City articles

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The city articles about Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada (and townships within the Las Vegas valley) should loosely conform to the guidelines of WikiProject Cities and Wikiproject Location Format.

Casinos, Hotels and Resorts (CHRs)

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See Goals and Tasks

Recognized content

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Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Las Vegas articles by quality statistics

DYKs (Did You Know)s

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Formerly recognized content

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Former good articles

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Hierarchy definition

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No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals

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  1. Maintain up–to–date accurate information.
    1. Common items that change frequently include: population, CHR ownership, name, room count, attractions and restaurants.
  2. Create a standard naming convention for CHR article titles.
  3. Create a easy navigation system of CHRs.
  4. Maintain a logical categorization for the location of CHRs.

Projects

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  1. List all categories currently being used
  2. Identify main articles and what should be in each
  3. Create a simple definition of the area being covered, like is BC included or not. Or maybe keep a list here of all communities included.

Open tasks

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  • Current collaborations:
  1. Create an article listing known CHRs, cities and other attractions. Possibly at Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Las Vegas.
  2. Create Templates:
    1. Create a template {{LV Resort}} with primary information (room count, location, owner, market (NASDAQ/NYSE), attractions, restaurants...) to be included into articles. See discussion on /Templates.
    2. Create a short template {{LV nav}}? with links to lists (ie: Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Las Vegas, List of Las Vegas attractions) See discussion on /Templates.
  3. Expand articles: See: Articles needing expansion
  4. Cleanup articles: Las Vegas Valley
  5. Create articles: See: Articles to be created

Adopt an article

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Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

General strategy and discussion forums

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Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Las Vegas
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/Strategy

Templates

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Infoboxes

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{{WikiProject Nevada}}

 Nevada (inactive)
 This article is within the scope of WikiProject Nevada, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.


{{Infobox Casino}}

Stub templates

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(Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. *To propose new stub categories/templates, see Stub sorting criteria: Proposed new stubs.)

Other templates

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{{User WP Las Vegas}}

Categories

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Lists

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Articles

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Article alerts

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Articles to be split

Wikipedia articles on Las Vegas

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Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Las Vegas

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Please feel free to list your new Las Vegas-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 on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Articles that need to be created

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Older casinos that may be notable

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Rail Transport in the Las Vegas Area

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Articles needing expansion

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Articles needing pictures

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See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nevada for a list of articles needing pictures.

Articles being considered for a wiki wide effort to cleanup the article, anyone who has an id can vote. One article each week is selected based on having the highest number of votes at the end of each week. Articles of interest currently on the voting list: