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why is this protected, this isn't even an important city? do wikipedians live there? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.171.110.135 ( talk) 09:04, 13 April 2018 (UTC) reply

Firstly, it is not a city, it is a state. Secondly, more than six million people live there.
Also it's especially vulnerable to malicious edits as there's a popular tweet about changing the size of the state on the map in this page's infobox which has been floating around the internet since 2015, which is when I belive the semi-protected status was added. Wexford001 ( talk) 15:37, 24 September 2021 (UTC) reply
Maybe the state should be bigger to reflect the changed version of the map? 199.48.156.6 ( talk) 09:49, 26 April 2023 (UTC) reply
As a Missourian, I think that was absolutely hilarious DragonMaster9817 ( talk) 14:32, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply
...??? 50.231.115.70 ( talk) 12:17, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Tribe not river

Missouri wasn’t named after a gd river. It was named after the Missouri Indian tribe. Do some research dumbfuck 172.58.60.170 ( talk) 16:58, 10 April 2023 (UTC) reply

You're mistaken. The river is named after the tribe and the state is named after the river. When you research something like this you need to find reliable academic sources. Avoid knee jerk reactions when you haven't even done the thing you're asking others to do. Honestly you could have just clicked on the inline sources provided already. Grey Wanderer ( talk) 18:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2023

According to https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/immigrants_in_missouri.pdf In 2018, The top countries of origin for Missouri’s immigrants were Mexico (15 percent of immigrants), China (8 percent), India (7 percent), Vietnam (5 percent), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (4 percent). Add this information to the dempgraphics section. 94.127.212.209 ( talk) 07:15, 18 August 2023 (UTC) reply

 Note: IP was blocked on 18 August 2023 for 3 months. — Paper9oll ( 🔔 • 📝) 06:46, 19 August 2023 (UTC) reply
 Not done: Feel free to reopen this request using your account or IP (please no more proxies). M.Bitton ( talk) 17:47, 20 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Mention of universities in lead

Not entirely sure why universities are mentioned in the lead to be honest. Not many articles on USA states mention this.


The university of Missouri is merely just the state university. Every state has one.

Also selective private universities aren’t rare. Not to mention it’s mot like these two universities are Ivy League.

CycoMa1 ( talk) 08:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Good points, but the lead is so lengthy that the little addition does no harm and does add some information of interest. (Unfortunately, while Wash U has in recent years made strides in impact and visibility, characterizing SLU as "well-known" is more than a bit of a stretch.) Barefoot through the chollas ( talk) 14:02, 20 December 2023 (UTC) reply

"Show Me State"

The reference quoted in the intro after "show me state"

{{Cite web|url=https://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainment/television/show-me-st-louis/hey-heidi-how-did-the-show-me-state-come-about/63-204374324|title=Hey Heidi: How did the Show Me State come about?|website=Ksdk.com|date=May 19, 2016 |access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20200103002718/https://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainment/television/show%2Dme%2Dst%2Dlouis/hey%2Dheidi%2Dhow%2Ddid%2Dthe%2Dshow%2Dme%2Dstate%2Dcome%2Dabout/63%2D204374324|url-status=live}}

is terminally broken; the archived page simply says "watch the video" for a video that no longer loads. The nickname is discussed later in the page, under the "Nicknames" section, so this reference can probably be removed and/or replaced by a reference from that section. 86.90.240.85 ( talk) 15:07, 23 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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