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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado

WikiProject Colorado is a collaboration to improve, create, and update Wikipedia articles about the U.S. State of Colorado. We invite you to participate. To join, add your user name to our member list and place one of our member userboxes on your user page.

Please put your questions about, and suggestion for, Colorado articles on our WikiProject Colorado talk page. We really appreciate your help.

Participants Members

See our WikiProject Colorado member list.

To join WikiProject Colorado, add your user name to our member list and place one of our member userboxes on your user page.

Add your user name to our e-mail invitation list to receive information about Colorado events and to our U.S. Mountain West invitation list to receive invitations to online meetings of the Wikimedians in U.S. Mountain West.

You may also be interested in the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group.

Colorado collaboration

We invite you to participate in our current collaboration to document the following seven historic Colorado county seats:

See our Colorado collaboration talk page.

Events Events

Previous events:

Colorado events

To do To do


Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/2020 Census for 2020 United States Census results.

Colorado articles

Colorado data

Article alerts

Did you know

Articles for deletion

  • 29 Oct 2024 – Francis W. Wynkoop (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TeapotsOfDoom (t · c); see discussion (11 participants)
  • 08 Oct 2024 – Albedo Space (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Qivatari (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)

Categories for discussion

Good article nominees

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Project divisions Project divisions

  • List of all subpages of this page
  • Communities (talk) – Cities, towns, and neighborhoods
  • Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
  • Economy (Talk) – Commerce: Major Colorado industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Colorado
  • Education (Talk) – Colleges, Higher Learning Institutions and High Schools of Colorado
  • Geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
  • Government (talk) – Government: federal, state and local politics in relation to Colorado
  • History (talk) – History of Colorado during and prior to statehood
  • People (talk) – Includes Colorado natives and those residents who have shaped Colorado
  • Transportation (talk) – Roads & highways, trails, railroads, airlines & airports, general aviation, and trucking, ships, public transit/busses and pipeline.

Resources Resources

Templates Templates

WikiProject Colorado banner

Place the WikiProject Colorado banner {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|CO=yes|CO-importance=}} at the top of the talk page of all Colorado articles and assess the article.

WikiProject iconUnited States: Colorado Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by WikiProject Colorado, our collaboration to create, improve, and update Wikipedia articles about the U.S. State of Colorado.
To comment about this page, select the Add topic tab above.
For questions about, or to make suggestions for Colorado articles, go to our project's talk page. We invite you to join us!

Request templates

  • If a Colorado article needs an infobox, please add needs-infobox=yes to the WikiProject Colorado banner on the talk page.

{{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|CO=yes|CO-importance=|needs-infobox=yes}}

WikiProject iconUnited States: Colorado Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by WikiProject Colorado, our collaboration to create, improve, and update Wikipedia articles about the U.S. State of Colorado.
To comment about this page, select the Add topic tab above.
For questions about, or to make suggestions for Colorado articles, go to our project's talk page. We invite you to join us!
Note icon
This article has been marked as needing an infobox.


  • If a article needs a Colorado map, please add {{map requested|Colorado}} below the Wikiproject Colorado banner on the talk page.



  • If an article needs an image of a Colorado person, please add {{image requested|people of Colorado}} below the Wikiproject Colorado banner on the talk page.


Short article description

Place {{short description}} at the very top of all articles with a very brief description of the article.

Infobox templates

Place {{infobox person}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado person.

Place {{infobox settlement}} at the top of all articles about a populated Colorado place. For examples of how to use this template, see Denver, Boulder, or Fulford.

Place {{infobox ancient site}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado ghost town.

Place {{infobox road}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado highway, road, or street.

Place {{infobox mountain}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado mountain.

Place {{infobox mountain pass}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado mountain pass.

Place {{infobox landform}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado mountain range or other landform.

Place {{infobox river}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado river or stream.

Place {{infobox body of water}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado lake or pond.

Place {{infobox valley}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado valley.

Place {{infobox hiking trail}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado trail.

Place {{infobox ski area}} at the top of all articles about a Colorado ski area.

For other infobox templates, see Category:Infobox templates

Portal boxes

Place one of following portal linkboxes at the top of the See also section of Colorado articles. Place {{clear}} at the bottom of the See also section to avoid run-on to the next section.

Use {{Portal|Colorado}} for a single portal linkbox.

Use {{Pbox|Colorado}} for a compact single portal linkbox.

Use {{Portal|Geography|North America|United States|Colorado}} or similar for a multiple portal linkbox.

Use {{Pbox|Geography|North America|United States|Colorado}} or similar for a compact multiple portal linkbox


Place {{sister project links|auto=yes}} at the top of the External links section of relevant Colorado articles. You may use {{sister project links|Colorado|auto=yes}} for general Colorado articles.


External linkboxes

Any of the following external linkboxes may be placed in the External links section of relevant Colorado articles between the individual external links and the {{Authority control}}. Select [show] to display the linkbox.

{{Colorado}}


{{ColoCol}}

{{Colorado Counties}}

{{Forts in Colorado}}

{{Indigenous People of CO}}

{{Mountains of Colorado}}

{{Colorado Fourteeners}}

{{Colorado highest}}

{{Colorado Municipalities}}

{{National Register of Historic Places in Colorado}}

{{People from Colorado}}

{{Colorado Places}}

{{Protected Areas of Colorado}}

{{Colorado Rivers}}

{{School districts in Colorado}}

{{Colorado State Senators}}

{{Colorado House of Representatives}}

{{Colorado trauma centers}}

{{CO-FedRep}}

{{Zoos of Colorado}}

See Category:Colorado templates for regional and special purpose external linkboxes.

Stub templates

Place the most relevant of the following stub templates at very bottom of a Colorado stub article.

  • Place {{Colorado-geo-stub}} at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado place or geographic feature.

and if the place is a Colorado ghost town —

  • Place {{Colorado-mayor-stub}} at the bottom of a stub article about a current or former Colorado mayor.
  • Place {{Colorado-river-stub}} at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado river or stream.
  • Place {{Colorado-road-stub}} at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado highway, road, or street.
  • Place {{Colorado-sport-team-stub}} at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado sports team other than baseball, basketball, or soccer.
  • Place {{Colorado-struct-stub}} at the bottom of a stub article about a Colorado building or structure.


  • Place {{Denver-stub}} at the bottom of a Denver-related stub article.
  • Place {{Colorado-stub}} at the bottom of a Colorado-related stub article not covered by one of the other stub templates above.

See the following categories for Colorado stub articles.


Userbox templates

Members of WikiProject Colorado should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Colorado participants.

Wikitext userbox where used
[[Category:WikiProject Colorado participants]] none linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Colorado}} linked pages
{{Template:User WP Colorado}} linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Colorado|invite}}
This user invites you to join
WikiProject Colorado.
linked pages
{{Template:User WP Colorado|invite}} linked pages

For other Colorado user templates see Category:Colorado user templates.

Assessment Assessment


Recognized content

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

Good article nominees

A-Class articles

In the News articles

Picture of the day pictures


Tools Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

38°59′50″N 105°32′52″W / 38.9972°N 105.5478°W / 38.9972; -105.5478 (State of Colorado)