Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Utah

Salt Lake City, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Killing of Charlie Kirk#Requested move 11 September 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:40, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I've been quietly contributing to Wikipedia for several years, making small edits. However, I want to make a bigger contribution. I work at Draft:Pattern Inc., which has recently gone public. As someone who is a proud Utahn, born and raised, I think it's exciting to have another big tech company 'make it' in our state! While not everyone may agree on how exciting an IPO is, Pattern has received significant media coverage as it has gone public. While of course a good chunk of this is meaningless press releases and auto-generated stock market articles that don't qualify according to WP:NORG, there are several articles that appear to pass criteria and contribute to making Pattern notable.

I've gone ahead and marked myself with a COI on the talk page of the draft. I nuked some of the stuff the original author had (another employee) as it was biased, including a bunch of 'Top 50 rising companies' type citations. I added back in some new citations that seem to pass the bar for non-trivial, coming from either journalism research sites, national news sites, or regional news sites. There are more articles I can likely cite, but I'm taking the time to sift through the garbage of many 'trivial' sources that wouldn't qualify for Wikipedia.

I would greatly appreciate any help, feedback, tips, or recommendations for the creation process. I have not been asked or paid to create this page by my WP:BOSS, just doing it because I like Wikipedia. Thanks! 17jmumford (talk) 05:45, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West

We will host an online meeting for Wikipedia users in the Mountain States from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, November 11, 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:17, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Here are a couple of news articles that we discussed at our online meeting on November 11, 2025:

• Wikipedia Asks AI Developers to Stop Scraping the Site for Free
• Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars

Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 00:20, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Here is a Wikipedia article about detecting AI writing:

• Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing.
  

Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 01:44, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, WikiProject Utah. I recently compiled an exhaustive list of Wikipedia pages pertaining to United States gubernatorial elections which need tables detailing general election voting statistics by county. If anyone wants to help out with this task of adding stat tables, I'd gladly welcome the assistance. Here is the Utah list, and all 49 other states have their own likewise lists on that page. Thank you. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 22:14, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Trolley Square shooting#Requested move 11 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 09:24, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

A user has requested an article on this Salt Lake City council member. Please discuss this, and if notable, create it. Bearian (talk) 17:19, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West

We will host an online meeting for Wikipedia users in the Mountain States from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 10, 2026, 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.

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Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 17:31, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Project members are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to $2680 in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:08, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure where on this page to put this article request, so I'll start here.

We should create a Wikipedia article for Utah's Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA), which is a Utah state entity created in 2007 to foster economic development, support military installations, and enhance defense-related infrastructure through public-private partnerships. It manages projects like Falcon Hill Aerospace Research Park, with authority to create project areas, issue tax-increment bonds, and act as a municipality. It is also planning to build a hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah, which will be 2.73 times the size of Manhattan and use 2.5 times the power of the entire state of Utah. ~2026-20625-89 (talk) 17:48, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West

We will host an online meeting for Wikipedia users in the Mountain States from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, May 12, 2026, 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 the new CARUSCA organization and 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.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:53, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

The article Morris D. Rosenbaum has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged for notability concerns and for more citations for 12 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Total lack of significant coverage.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 18:37, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Navajo Nation § Articles on Agencies & Chapters, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. AviationFreak💬 23:25, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

This person does not seem notable. Please fix the issues tagged. Bearian (talk) 04:35, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

A few editors have attempted to delete Wikipedia articles about some small unincorporated communities and ghost towns that they consider insignificant. I feel that any community that was once incorporated, or had a U.S. post office, or is listed in the GNIS as a formerly populated place, deserves a Wikipedia article. A couple of examples are here. Please let me know how you feel about this. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 02:16, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree. Whether Wikipedia should have an article on a community is governed by the WP:GEOLAND notability guideline. More specifically:

• GNIS is known to be unreliable to label a location a "populated place". See WP:GNIS for many examples of egregious errors in GNIS. GNIS also cannot be used to fulfill the "legally recognized" criterion, per WP:GEOLAND.
• There was a discussion back in 2020 which covered whether the presence of a Post Office is enough to show notability of a location. The consensus appeared to be it is not enough: there used to be Post Offices along railroad lines or along roads that served dispersed rural populations.

I would strongly urge that you bring up the issues at WT:Notability (geographic features). Asking at a specific Wikiproject (such as WP:WikiProject Utah) would result in a WP:LOCALCONSENSUS and may produce a controversial mess.

My recommendation for any editor who is interested in ghost towns or former settlements is to create list articles about areas (such as by county). As long as you can find reliable sources for lists of ghost towns in an area, that would pass WP:GNG and be uncontroversial.

— hike395 (talk) 05:50, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Discussion centralized at WT:Notability (geographic features)#Ghost towns. Any responses should be directed there. — hike395 (talk) 16:20, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West

We will host an online meeting for Wikipedia users in the U.S. Mountain States from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, August 11, 2026, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Help is available for new users, and all guests are welcome.
We will discuss the organization of the new CANCUS North American Hub and how it can help individual users and organizations. The Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will be represented at WikiConference North America in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 24-27. We hope you can join us. We also have several controversial topics to discuss. Please see our meeting page for details.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Trolley Square shooting#Requested move 30 July 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Provo Canyon School, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for MOS:LEAD. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Issac I Navarro (talk) 05:57, 3 September 2026 (UTC)