Template:Outline of knowledge coverage

Template:Vital article

This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details. United States: Texas GA‑class Top‑importance This 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. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States GA This article has been rated as GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Texas (assessed as Top-importance). Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details. Mexico GA‑class High‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mexico, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Mexico on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MexicoWikipedia:WikiProject MexicoTemplate:WikiProject MexicoMexico GA This article has been rated as GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. Former countries (inactive) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Former countries, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Former countriesWikipedia:WikiProject Former countriesTemplate:WikiProject Former countriesFormer countries Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details. Geography GA‑class Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Geography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of geography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GeographyWikipedia:WikiProject GeographyTemplate:WikiProject Geographygeography GA This article has been rated as GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. WikiProject Geography To-do list: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : See Requested articles/Social sciences/Geography, cities, regions and named places and Missing articles about Locations Assess : Tag related article talk pages with {{WikiProject Geography}}. To help assess the quality and importance of geography articles, please see: Unassessed geography articles and Unknown-importance geography articles. Cleanup : See Geography articles needing attention Deletion sorting : Listed at Geographic related deletion discussions Geographical coordinates : See Articles missing geocoordinate data by country Infobox : See Geography articles needing infoboxes Map : See Wikipedia requested maps Notability : See Geography articles with topics of unclear notability Photo : See Wikipedia requested photographs of places Stubs : See Geography stubs

Template:WP1.0

	Texas has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones Date Process Result August 18, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted March 13, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed February 5, 2008 Peer review Reviewed April 28, 2008 Good article nominee Not listed October 31, 2008 Good article nominee Listed November 21, 2008 Peer review Reviewed Current status: Good article

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Aminawilliams (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Wickersong, Sgorantla.

I am planning on working on adding a "Health" section to this article. The current "Healthcare" section covers topics that do not actually concern healthcare, including Maternal Mortality and Obesity. These two topics, amongst others, belong in a separate health section. In addition to these topics, I want to research and cover tobacco use, alcohol use, and infant health. There are a variety of health topics that can be added to this, but I think this is a good place to start. I would appreciate any and all feedback. Aminawilliams (talk) 00:05, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For more information on the changes I plan to make and the sources I plan to use, please check out my sandbox. Aminawilliams (talk) 16:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've began making revisions in the Health section. I added a subsection about alcohol use and included information on recent legislation as well. If you are interested in seeing more of my planned contributions for this article, please look at my sandbox. Aminawilliams (talk) 03:05, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for tackling various aspects of healthcare in Texas! What I enjoyed most about your contribution is that you didn't just highlight health problems in Texas, but also discussed potential ways of addressing those health issues. I feel like that's effective as you can present a full picture of what the issue is and what people are mobilizing to do to change it. Your sources for this piece are all fairly strong and bring a robust picture of Health in Texas through statistics and data. I identified a few areas that you could possibly address to improve this contribution: article structure, content, and links. For structure, I think it would be great to look at the headers you use, all of your ones on Obesity use the same size header and could be resized to make most sense in the context of the article. Also concerning structure, you have many sections for Obesity and not many for Alcohol Use, potentially consider adding more sections. For content, I wish you would add a lead to your discussion of health issues in Texas because I think you jump write into health issues without prefacing. It seems like a strange way to start off the Healthcare in Texas section to only discuss problems. Finally with links, I think it would be good to link more wiki pages in your contribution. Overall, great work! Wickersong (talk) 01:20, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Healthcare in Texas has its host of issues and I think you do a great job of addressing them with refined sources. I was particularly impressed with all of the data you gleaned from various sources to highlight the issues in Texas. Like Wickersong, I also thought it could be appropriate to put all of the obesity-related discussions into one section so there is not an overemphasis on obesity. I think your section could benefit from more images, perhaps graphs of various mortalities. I also believe an introduction to your discussion on healthcare in Texas could prime the reader for what is to come. Sgorantla (talk) 03:50, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• @Aminawilliams, Wickersong, and Sgorantla: - thanks for working and looking at this! One suggestion is to pull this into a separate article. At a high-level article like this, we like to stick to WP:SUMMARY style so readers can get a really quick gist of something, then click into a child article for more information. This article is a bit larger than is ideal (see WP:SIZE). II | (t - c) 10:53, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The caption says the photo shows "the six nations" that have ruled over Texas ... but in the photo, there are two Texas state flags and no Confederate flag. Should the caption reflect this? As written, it is inaccurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jodicompton (talk • contribs) 18:18, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This flag is in the picture ~ ~mitch~ (talk) 18:42, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Says ~60 species of mammals, is much higher than that. Would propose changing to "141 species of native terrestrial mammals, a number exceeded in the United States only by California and New Mexico. In addition to the native species that occur in the area naturally, there are also 12 exotics or nonnative species that have been introduced accidentally (house mouse, roof rat, Norway rat) or intentionally (nutria, red fox, feral pig, axis deer, fallow deer, sika deer, nilgai, barbary sheep, and blackbuck) by man and have become established as a part of the freeliving fauna." But page is semi-protected. http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/txmammal.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hollasboy (talk • contribs) 16:03, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Texos. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 23:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I copied the healthcare section to the Healthcare in Texas page. For a page that is supposed to be an overview of the whole state of Texas, the current healthcare section seems excessively long. Obesity treatment is pretty much the same in Texas as it is in Florida. Are there any suggestions on what I should cut, or should I leave everything here. Oldag07 (talk) 17:01, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can see most of the expanded healthcare section was made by the user Aminawilliams. I have preserved her hard work in the Healthcare of Texas page. However, for a page, that is about the topic Texas as a whole, the healthcare section should not be larger than the culture and the higher education section combined. Nor do facts like Obesity prevention belong on this page. As mentioned above, "Obesity treatment is pretty much the same in Texas as it is in Florida". Yes, it is an important topic. That is why I moved the information to the healthcare page. Oldag07 (talk) 13:35, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In the section on greenhouse gases, in eeh first sentence, I would remove the phrase ", the second most polluting state" because CO2 is not a polutant. It is a natural part of the atmosphere emitted by every living organism on earth, and if it were absent from the atmosphere all life would cease. The deleted phrase does not detract from the essential meaning of the sentence, and adds nothing to it if left in place. The reason for the addition of the phrase is a political one, not a scientific or factual one. Billonesty (talk) 16:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:51, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Deacon Vorbis: Can you explain why? That statement seems to violate NPOV. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 23:55, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Would adding

In 1994 ''The Economist'' published the oft-repeated claim that Texas anti-Alaska politicians were told "we'll divide Alaska in two, and Texas will have to be satisfied with being number three."<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[The Economist]] |page=8 |title=Statesmanship |author=P. Wesel}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper |newspaper=[[The Palm Beach Post]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/130660833 |quote=We'll split Alaska in two and make Texas the third largest state |title=Quote |date=March 23, 1983}}</ref>

with an edit summary

This is not TEXAN FARMER "I can get in my jeep and ride all day and not reach the boundary fence" and the RHODE ISLANDER's "I once had a car like that too"

be in bad taste? Pi314m (talk) 04:43, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update: By a vote of 13 to 11, with 3 abstentions, the Board of Directors has authorized the Recording Secretary to purchase and mail a Get-well card to the former Chairman of the Board. Pi314m (talk) 05:41, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi314m: No. At most, this might belong somewhere in Mark White's article, but it certainly doesn't belong here. Please don't add it again. Best —DoRD (talk)​ 22:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The matter of Texas self-perception/self-importance is not something to question, it's just a matter of how and where to present. Not for the lead/lede? Why not, after all this is the state that was a country! All it lacks is a "George Washington slept here" house, and with the fact that buildings have been moved before, even this minor lack can be remedied.

The Rhode Island car comment comes from a somewhat not too tall politician speaking in the Northeast when running against others who were not as height challenged. It cam in the middle of some give-and-take when people were trying to do accents - I can't say it was a Texas Twang, but some type of accent imitation it was. All of this was reported. The Economist has the advantage of not being a Northeast, Southwest, of even North American periodical. Pi314m (talk) 22:40, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please get consensus for your changes, Thank you. –Davey2010^Talk 23:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]