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WikiProject Las Vegas
This WikiProject is about the Las Vegas metropolitan area
Shortcut WP:LAS, WP:VGS
Category Las Vegas metropolitan area
Wikimedia Commons Commons:Category:Las Vegas Las Vegas
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project(s)
Nevada
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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

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

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

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities / Wikipedia:WikiProject United States

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Related Wikiportals

Portal:Las Vegas

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Participants

  • (Project founder / Resident) Guy M ( soapbox) 12:23, August 15, 2005 (UTC) - Update: Slowly rejoining. 09:44, 29 March 2013 (UTC) reply
  • jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 15:31, 15 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  • (Has a Las Vegas zip code) Vegaswikian 17:38, 15 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  • Satori 18:08, 16 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  • (non-resident) SpikeJones 12:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  • Hypnotic31 19:50, 18 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  • Sam916 18:40, 19 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  • -- michael180 19:04, August 22, 2005 (UTC) some pictures on commons and Cirque shows
  • Texaswebscout
  • (non-resident) TROGG 09:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC) reply
  • (non-resident) Toonces 20:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC) reply
  • Stan 03:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC) - west side, conveniently close to Red Rock Canyon reply
  • James of Sunrise Manor 12:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC) - Plans to contribute on schools, other government entities. Dunno how that'll pan out, but we'll see. reply
  • Madcoverboy 18:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC) from Green Valley reply
  • (non-resident) Squeezeweasel 13:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC) reply
  • (non-resident) Patricknoddy
  • (resident for now)-- Archstaff 20:08, 24 June 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Sesameball Talk 22:13, 27 October 2007 (UTC) - plans to keep articles up to date, do local tasks like pictures, etc. reply
  • (resident) Simishag ( talk) 08:01, 11 February 2008 (UTC) reply
  • (former resident/native) Rik ( talk) 04:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC) reply
  • Yellow Evan home, Leave Message, Sandbox 20:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC) reply
  • BoldSolitude I have set out to try to complete categories (Casinos in Las Vegas) and (Defunct Casinos in Las Vegas). I would like to complete both of these categories to the point that any user that pulls up these categories will have a complete listing of both. 7:11, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
  • SchnitzelMannGreek-I've traveled an stayed in Vegas frequently and know a bunch about the hotels. I am actually going there in a few days and when I return, I'll come back with fresh photos for stub articles and expand some20:46, 1 July 2009 (UTC) reply
  • WM86: Not from LV, but after playing things casino-related like the Casino Night Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and the Game Boy game Casino FunPak, I'd like to learn more about this city. I also want to revert vandalism and correct grammar and spelling. WM-86 00:42, 20 September 2009 (UTC) reply
  • 08OceanBeach SD: Resident of North County Coastal, though I maintain interest in Vegas-related subjects.
  • Pkkao2 aims to help with the topic of rail transport in Las Vegas. I'm going to Las Vegas very soon and plan to return with pictures and some first-hand experience.
  • (non-resident for now) I'd like to start Nevada energy law, and work on updating the ratings on talk pages. Bearian ( talk) 21:48, 28 March 2013 (UTC) reply

Structure

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

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)

See Goals and Tasks

Recognized content

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WikiProject Las Vegas  articles by quality      Refresh

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

DYKs (Did You Know)s

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals

  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

  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

Things you can do

  • 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

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

Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Las Vegas
/Issues
/Strategy

Templates

Infoboxes

{{ WikiProject Nevada}}

WikiProject icon Nevada NA‑class ( inactive)
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Nevada, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.


{{ Infobox Casino}}

Stub templates

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

Other templates

{{ User WP Las Vegas}}

Categories

  • Things

Lists

Articles

Article alerts

Articles to be split

Wikipedia articles on Las Vegas

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Las Vegas

New Wikipedia articles related to Las Vegas

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

Older casinos that may be notable

Rail Transport in the Las Vegas Area

Articles needing expansion

Articles needing pictures

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

Did you know?

Article improvement drive

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: