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Head's up: I just added myself as a participant in the Toys wikiproject. Any activity? or other members? Drop by my talk page any time.
User:Pedant (
talk) 06:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Can you please explain why you are removing
Category:High schools in Ohio from this article? The category seems to exist and be populated, and this is an Ohio high school; I don't understand why you don't want it in this category. -
FisherQueen (
talk ·
contribs) 11:56, 30 August 2008 (UTC)reply
Hi, and welcome to the
WikiProject Ohio! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to
Ohio.
A few features of the project that you might find helpful:
The
open task box is updated frequently. You can
watchlist it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including {{
Ohiotasks}} on your user page.
All important discussions take place on our project's
main discussion page; you can also
watch this page to keep up with discussions.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or any other member of the project, we'll be happy to help you. Sorry this is late. Great idea about the townships! §hep •
¡Talk to me! 21:05, 15 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Having your own page deleted
If you create a page, and before anyone else edits it you decide to have it deleted, like what seems to have happened with
Category:Townships in Auglaze County, Ohio, please put a {{
db-self}} at the top of the page, in stead of blanking it. This will attract an administrator to it to have it deleted. Category:Townships in Auglaze County, Ohio has already been deleted, or marked for deletion; next time, however, it could take a while before someone finds it to tag it or delete it.
עוד מישהוOd Mishehu 06:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)reply
West Elkton, Ohio
Thanks for fixing the population density. I haven't a clue why, but some of these community infoboxes have the density of housing units (in case you didn't notice this, check the demographics: you'll see that the numbers you replaced were correct for the density of housing units) rather than population density.
Nyttend (
talk) 04:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)reply
Convertors toys
I saw you had interest in Wikipedia toys articles, so I figured I'd mention that I started a page for the 1980's "
Convertors" line of toys, and could use any help I can get making it "notable" for Wikipedia. Thanks.
Mathewignash (
talk) 17:52, 19 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Are you from the Ohio area? A Wikipedian
meetup is taking place on July 18, 2009 in
Columbus. If you are interested in coming or would like more information, see the
first Ohio meetup page.
Do you take photo requests? If so and if it is convenient, would you mind photographing the
Comair headquarters on the grounds of
Cincinnati Airport? Thank you
WhisperToMe (
talk) 03:25, 21 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Alrighty! If the building doesn't have Comair logos on it, but a sign does, please try to include the sign with the building (similar to this image of the
Alaska Airlines headquarters:
File:Alaska Airlines 4920s0.jpg). The Comair site says it is at 77 Comair Boulevard
[1]. Judging from Google Maps there do not appear to be any security checkpoints before the Comair building. Anyway, Thank you very much!
WhisperToMe (
talk) 06:09, 21 October 2009 (UTC)reply
The bit you noted is the reason that I'm confused. Do you know if Clough Creek is entirely in Anderson Township and not in any municipalities? If so, the district could be moved to the Hamilton-County-without-Cincinnati list,
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Nyttend (
talk) 14:05, 5 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the clarification. I can tell you what they're going to tell you — "that's a restricted-address location, so you'll have to contact the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office if you want to know any location-related data". Moreover, I don't think that they would know — information available to the National Register people is primarily from nomination forms (see
here for a typical nomination form; although this is for a
house in Pennsylvania, the documents are similar), which don't generally spell out whether they're in townships or municipalities. It's listed under Cincinnati because it's in the Cincinnati vicinity; that's the way that most rural-or-almost-rural sites are listed in the National Register database.
Nyttend (
talk) 15:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Invitation to join WikiProject United States
Hello, Oldiesmann! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page
here. Thank you!!!
Welcome to the project and please let me know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. --
Kumioko (
talk) 18:17, 5 January 2011 (UTC)reply
New Years Message for WikiProject United States
With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects
talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating
Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. If you do not want to recieve a monthly message please put an * before your name on the members page.--
Kumioko (
talk) 03:53, 12 January 2011 (UTC)reply
New WikiProject United States Newsletter: February 2011 edition
Starting with the February 2011 issueWikiProject United States has established a newsletter to inform anyone interested in United States related topics of the latest changes. This newsletter will not only discuss issues relating to WikiProject United States but also:
and changes to Wikipolicy, events and other things that may be of interest to you.
You may read or assist in writing the newsletter, subscribe, unsubscribe or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following
this link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on
my talk page or the
Newsletters talk page.
--
Kumioko (
talk) 20:44, 4 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a
project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the
United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the
United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out
WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
Since the last newsletter was sent there have been a number of significant discussions and events that pertained to the project and United States related articles in general.
WikiProject American television has joined the family of WikiProjects that have agreed to share {{
WikiProject United States}}. This project was started to improve Wikipedia's coverage of American television and the articles relating to that topic. If you are interested the project could use your help.
There is an active discussion on the talk pages of WikiProject United States and WikiProject Government about the inactive project
WikiProject United States Government being added to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States.
With the recent release of the 2010 US Census there have been multiple active conversations about how to update all the articles affected. If you have any ideas or want to help in this effort please leave your comments on the WikiProject United States talk page.
The tagging of articles continues and we have added several thousand articles to the count since the last newsletter.
We still have approximately 1300 articles in the project that need to be assessed so any help you can provide with assessments is greatly appreciated. Even 1 or 2 a day would be a big help.
A bot request was submitted to tag the remaining 500 pages of Portal United States with the United States banner. The project already has over 1700 of the portal pages tagged so this would be just to finish off the remaining ones.
Portal
Thanks to
RichardF and a few others the
United States portal is getting ever closer to achieving Featured portal status. The portal needs your help in filling in the
Anniversaries (formerly known as On this day). Any help you can provide to help fill these dates in would be greatly appreciated. If you have any ideas or comments about the portal please feel free to leave them
here.
The monthly collaboration is now in its third month since reactivation. The first article
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was improved significantly in February, as was
George Washington (the second one) in March. Although the latter article was not nominated for GA, enough work was done for contributors to identify remaining content areas needing improving before an attempt is made, which is great progress. Thus anyone keen on reading up on Washington's role in the American Revolution and the presidency is most welcome to review and contribute.
Magicpiano (
talk·contribs) is planning on buffing material for the American Revolution segment by focussing on the daughter article,
George Washington in the American Revolution first. Anyway,
Chesapeake Bay is the new collaboration picked for April and anyone is welcome to work on it.
For choosing new candidate articles for May and beyond, editors should think about articles which have a range of issues that a variety of editors can help with, from content (primary school to university level research) to copyediting. Having a look over current and past ideas (which can be seen
here and
here (even older ones). So folks have a think about which articles are in most in need of fixing, or alternately, have a clear pathway to GA or FA status.
Things you can help with
Ideas for next months newsletter
Help with the Anniversaries in the portal
Help with the assessments
Help with the Collaboration
Comments in active discussions
Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the
Tip Line with your ideas!
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate section
here.
Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a
project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the
United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the
United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out
WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
We are happy to report that the project continues to grow every day with several more editors joining the project this month. We welcome them to the project along with all the other editors who have joined since the relaunch of the project in January.
This month at least five articles relating to United States topics were promoted to Featured article status and at least nine articles have been promoted to Featured list. Additionally, there are multiple articles including the
USS Chesapeake (1799),
Jefferson nickel and
Frank Buckles, the last American World War I veteran who recently died, pending review for Featured article status. The full list can be found
here. There is also a large selection of Lists pending featued list status
here including several relating to sports and music,
List of tallest buildings in Austin and
List of U.S. state horses. We continue to look for editors interested in reviewing these articles so any help no matter how big or small is greatly appreciated.
After nearly two months of discussions and preperations
WikiProject United States Government has joined the family of WikiProjects supported by WikiProject United States. The initial phase of including this project have already begun and should conclude in the next couple weeks. This project represents a core topic relating to the United States and collaboration between the two projects will make both stronger.
The portal is really looking good and a lot of things have been put in place to make the portal work in a semi automated fashion but it needs help with filling in some of the
Anniversaries pages. Most of the days up to mid May have been started but there is still work to be done from the middle of May through December. More help is always appreciated with new events as they occur so any assistance there is also appreciated.
A lot of improvements were made to last months collaboration,
Chesapeake Bay so thanks to all who helped with that. The collaboration for May is
Wall Street.
Tomwsulcer has already done a major rewrite and expansion of the Wall street article while it was a collaboration candidate and with just a little more work I believe we can get it to GA.
Activity in the collaboration has slowed this month and we continue to look for editors to submit their suggestions for articles they would like to see collaboration on and we continue to seek editors interested in improving those articles. Whether they are designated as the collaboration of the month or they are just a candidate editors are encouraged to edit any of them and make improvements. Please take some time to submit and vote for the article(s) you think should be the next collaboration for June.
Over the next couple of months we will be implementing some bot tasks to automate some of the things that are currently done manually in the Collaboration. If anyone has a bot or wants to start one and is willing to take on one of the tasks please let the project know by leaving a note on the projects talk page.
Things you can help with
Ideas for next months newsletter
Help with the Anniversaries in the portal
Help with the assessments
Help with the Collaboration
Comments in active discussions
Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the
Tip Line with your ideas!
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate section
here.
Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a
project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the
United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the
United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out
WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
Its been a busy month with a lot of really exciting stuff happening for the project over the last few weeks.
WikiProject United States governors has joined the family of projects bringing more than 3300 more articles to the family, approximately 50 of which being featured.
A new class has been added to the assessment scale for Featured media. Over the next couple weeks this new class will be populated with the featured Pictures, sounds and video that relates to WikiProject United States.
Kumioko went through all the articles for the project and identified the ones that needed Infoboxes. Over the next couple months he will be adding infoboxes to the approximately 5000 articles that need them along with performing other edits that are performed with
AWB. Any help with this project would be greatly appreciated.
Discussions are currently under way to include several more WikiProjects to the family of supported projects.
We have continued to collaborate with other US related projects to build up content relating to US topics. Most recently we have been talking with
WikiProject NARA about collaborating with the National Archives to develop this months Collaboration of the Month.
For those that might be working on quality or importance assessments,
Jj98 modifed {{
WikiProject United States}} and created the categories so that the project now has the ability to see the Quality/Importance intersect much more easily. To see this just click on
Category:United States articles by quality Then select the plus sign next to whichever class you want to see.
The Portal continues to improve and its only a matter of time now until we get it to featured status. Most of the major issues and suggestions have been completed. The only major roadblock remaining is to finish filling in the anniversaries.
Last month we had a very successful improvement to the
Wall Street article. While the article was in collaboration 74 edits were made to it building it up from 24,234 to 91,912 and getting within stepping distance of GA.
This month the goal is to get the United States Bill of Rights article up to GA standards by the 4th of July. This article already has a lot of content but it needs a fair amount of work to get it there so if you are interested in this topic or have knowledge in this area please feel free to help out. Even minor edits to spelling and grammer are needed and welcome.
Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created
WP:NARA to launch these efforts.
There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please
sign up and introduce yourself.
Dominic·
t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a
project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the
United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the
United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out
WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
Its been another very busy month and the momentum of the project continues to move us forward.
Two more projects have joined the group.
WikiProject U.S. Presidents brings more than 350 key articles, approximately 34 of which being GA or better.
WikiProject US State Legislatures also joined with 398 articles of which 10 are GA or better.
Discussions continue to include several more WikiProjects to the family of supported projects. Some of the current discussions are:
WikiProject Asian Americans - This has been finalized and will be added to the Template and the family in the next few weeks
WikiProject Franco-Americans - This has been finalized and will be added to the Template and the family in the next few weeks
WikiProject United States History - The discussion is located
here. This has been open for a while and some members of the History project are opposed to it so this one probably will not be added to the supported projects list.
WikiProject presidential elections - The discussion is located
here. This has been open for a while and some members of the presidential elections project are opposed to it so this one probably will not be added to the supported projects list.
WikiProject Library of Congress was moved from its location on subpages under WikiProject United States to its own location to help increase its visibility. We also merged
WikiProject Library of Congress country studies into WikiProject Library of Congress in order to better utilize the information on both projects. The country studies project is currently linked to the Library of Congress project but over the next few weeks the projects will be fully merged.
It has been suggested that WikiProject United States start using a B class assessment checklist to better identify which articles need what kind of work. That discussion can be found
here
As of July 1 2011 WikiProject United States has Exceeded 100, 000 pieces of content. This includes 9 projects, 624+ Featured items, 61,000+ articles and 20+ portals.
Portals and portal related content
The
United States portal recently failed its attempt at featured portal status due to some missing anniversary information and some other minor issues. We are going to continue to improve the portal over the next couple months and resubmit.
Last month we had a very successful improvement to the
United States Bill of Rights article. Although we didn't achieve our goal of getting the article to meet GA requirements we made a lot of improvements to the articles.
The goal for July is to improve the article for the United States dollar. This article needs a lot of work including expansion, citations, structure, grammar and general cleanup.
There are currently three collaboration candidates for August:
Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a
project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the
United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the
United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out
WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last 2 months: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
Diagram of the Federal Government and American UnionMission Santa Clara de Asís, on the campus of Santa Clara University in CaliforniaSteam locomotives of the Chicago & North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards.
Project news
The months of July and August proved to be extremely busy months and we had several very important achievements. Although some projects have declined or don't wish to be supported by WikiProject United States we added about 25 more projects to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States and will be using the United States banner. These projects include:
We are continuing to talk with the other United States related WikiProjects to determine interest in being supported by the project and having a closer collaboration with our project. By the end of September we will have contacted nearly all of them to determine which ones are active or inactive and which ones want to be supported by the project.
Below are some interesting things that have taken place of the last couple months:
EdoDodo was kind enough to volunteer his bot,
DodoBot to help with the assessment of the projects articles as well as tagging additional articles for the project. The bot has also been busy with replacing the supported projects banners and replacing it with the WikiProject United States/Supported projects banners.
Census boilerplate - There is a discussion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about using a standard boilerplate for Census infomormation in articles
here
Project self assessment - The WMF has asked us if we would be willing to do a self assessment of the project to see the things we are doing good and bad
here. I think this would be a good opportunity for us to look at what we have done the last year and help focus our efforts for the next year or more.
Wikipedia loves libraries - If you haven't noticed the large message flashing across the top of your watchlist there is an event coming up called
Wikipedia Loves Libraries with scheduled meetups throughout the country. All Wikipedians are invited to attend.
NRHP Washington project -
WikiProject National Register of Historic Places has a discussion about a project to "get a fully-illustrated list for List of RHPs in DC and get the red-links out by Wikimania-in-Washington next August". If this sounds interesting to you check out the discussion
here.
As of September 1, 2011 WikiProject United States has Exceeded 140, 000 pieces of content. This includes 38 projects, 650+ Featured items, 71,000+ articles and over 25 portals.
We have made major modifications to the WikiProject template adding functionality to track articles needing infoboxes, references, images, maps and Geographical coordinates. Additionally we have added functionality to display to do lists and comments for articles as well as WikiProject to do lists.
We created a WikiProject to do list for each project supported. Some still need to be filled out though so any help in filling in these templates would be greatly appreciated.
We made sure all supported projects support the full range of Quality and importance categories. This required many, many categories to be created.
We made sure all supported projects had a Recognized content subpage. We still need to make sure they are updated correctly and visible on the project pages.
Portals and portal related content
The
United States portal recently failed its attempt at featured portal status due to some missing anniversary information and some other minor issues. We are going to continue to improve the portal over the next couple months and resubmit.
Portal:Houston is under Featured portal review
here and after an almost complete overhaul by
WhisperToMe it looks very likely that the portal will retain its Featured portal status.
In the near future several of the tasks for the Collaboration will be automated via a bot thanks to
ErrantX. This will simplify the process of notifying editors and WikiProjects about collaboration candidates and selections that pertain to them.
If one of these sounds like a good candidate feel free to add it to the list of candidates.
Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a
project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the
United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the
United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out
WikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights some of the US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last 2 months: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
As with the previous few months, October and November have continued to see a lot of activity with the project. We have completed determining what US related projects are interested in collaboration and for the most part the projects now represented on the project page should be the last of them. From this point forward we should see much fewer projects being added although we continue to build relationships with other US related projects and look forward to those expanding further in the future. We are continuing to integrate and standardize some of the functionality of the supported projects and it may be another month or two before the process of setting up these projects is complete.
Events and meetups
In case you haven't noticed the big banner on the top of your watchlist you are invited to participate in the Wikimedia DC
Fine Art Edit-a-Thon and GLAM-WIKI Meetup on Saturday, December 17, 2011 in Washington, D.C.!
There is another DC meetup scheduled for sometime in January TBD. If you are interested in attending the information can be found
here.
In 2012, Wiki Loves Monuments will come to the United States. If you are interested in photography or in monuments this might be an interesting event for you. More information is available
here.
Wikimania 2012 is coming fast. As some may have heard, Washington, D.C., was selected as the 2012 site for Wikimania, and we're down to about 215 days. If you are interested in attending, more information can be found
here.
Portals and portal related content
The
United States portal is getting very close to Featured portal status. With the new push to get a space on the main page for featured portals I would like to start devoting some time to getting this one built up. If anyone would like to help out with this leave a message on the talk page
here.
In addition to
Portal:United StatesPortal:Supreme Court of the United States was recently promoted to featured status as well. We have a lot of portals related to the United States that could be promoted relatively quickly and with minimal work. If you have any recommendations for a portal that you would like to get promoted please let the project know.
Some other possibilities for future collaborations can be found on the collaborations talk page and are:
Camp David, the
White House,
Charles Lindbergh and
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. If one of these sounds like a good candidate please add it to the list of candidates or add your own if you have some ideas about an article that would make a good collaboration.
Caution: The projects in this section are associated or maintained by multiple projects. Under no circumstances should the banner from another project be replaced with the banner for WikiProject United States.
We hope everyone had a happy holidays and hope that the New year greets you well. As with most December months editing was down somewhat as everyone enjoyed the holidays with their families and spent time relaxing not thinking about the Wonderful world of Wikipedia. In light of the decrease in editing the project got a lot of tasks completed and paved the way for a lot of work to be done in the new year.
Mistletoe post card
Let me start by saying we are going to try and make the newsletter more interesting. Some editors have suggested its a bit dry and generic so we are going to work on that.
As some of you may know, over the past few months we have been working on determining the activity levels of the US related projects and we have completed that analysis. All of the projects that relate to United States topics were contacted about collaboration and support and many accepted the offer. A year ago only a couple projects were supported by WikiProject United States and now we have 60 projects we fully support and 5 more that are Joint projects maintained by us as well as other projects such as WikiProject Military History. By having multiple parent projects supported these US related topics we will increase visibility and traffic to the articles as well as increase collaboration between projects for the betterment of the articles and Wikipedia. Although we may continue to add projects as the project grows the tempo of that will be greatly reduced going forward.
During December
Kumioko was able to get his bot,
Kumi-Taskbot through the bot approval process to automate a few of the tasks previously done manually and using that bot we completely transitioned the remaining 75, 000 articles into the WikiProject United States banner with the corresponding supported project. The bot continues to perform maintenance on the articles and the article talk pages and should allow us to spend much less time on mundane tasks and more time developing articles. Some of the items that the bot will be performing include:
Converting WikiProject banners
Adding the appropriate WikiProject banner to additional articles
Sending out this newsletter
fix problems with the WikiProject banners such as invalid formatting, parameter addition and replacement, and other talk page cleanup related functions.
Future tasks will include fixing problems on article pages as well as other tasks as needed.
If you have a suggestion for a task that could be done by a bot and pertains to United States related articles please leave a note on Kumioko's talk page for consideration.
Articles of note
This section highlights some of the US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last 2 months: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
Watercolor painting of Cleveland tower at the graduate college, Princeton University.
Events and meetups
December events
Wikimedia DC hosted
Fine Art Edit-a-Thon and GLAM-WIKI Meetup on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.! During the Edit-a-thon they had 18 new articles created or improved.
The
GLAM project was very active the last couple months with United States related activities and tasks and they could use more help. If you are interested in Art, libraries, museums or other areas relating to antiquity all are encouraged to participate. They have several projects relating to the
Smithsonian institution,
National archives,
Children's Museum of Indianapolis and several others.
Upcoming events
Wikipedia day cupcakes
There is another DC meetup scheduled for sometime in January TBD. If you are interested in attending the information can be found
here.
January 15 is known as
Wikipedia Day to Wikipedians. On this date in the year 2001, the wiki-based
Wikipedia project went public after spending five days on
Nupedia.
In 2012, Wiki Loves Monuments will come to the United States. If you are interested in photography or in monuments this might be an interesting event for you. More information is available
here.
Wikimania 2012 is coming fast. As some may have heard, Washington, D.C., was selected as the 2012 site for Wikimania, and we're down to about 215 days. If you are interested in attending, more information can be found
here.
Do you have an event you want everyone to know about? Let us know so we can post it for everyone to see.
Portals and portal related content
The
United States portal is getting very close to Featured portal status. With the new push to get a space on the main page for featured portals I would like to start devoting some time to getting this one built up. If anyone would like to help out with this leave a message on the talk page
here.
In addition to
Portal:United StatesPortal:Supreme Court of the United States was recently promoted to featured status as well. We have a lot of portals related to the United States that could be promoted relatively quickly and with minimal work. If you have any recommendations for a portal that you would like to get promoted please let the project know.
Some other possibilities for future collaborations can be found on the collaborations talk page and are:
Camp David, the
White House,
Charles Lindbergh and
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. If one of these sounds like a good candidate please add it to the list of candidates or add your own if you have some ideas about an article that would make a good collaboration.
Caution: The projects in this section are associated or maintained by multiple projects. Under no circumstances should the banner from another project be replaced with the banner for WikiProject United States.
Hello! I have contacted you because you are in the category "Wikipedians from Cincinnati" and indicate you are a student at Cincinnati State University. I would like for someone to photograph the corporate office buildings, including the Comair General Office Building, the
Comair corporate headquarters at 77 Comair Boulevard, and the building at 82 Comair Boulevard, both in Erlanger, KY, at
Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Regional Airport. Since Comair is shutting down on September 29, 2012, I would like for someone to take this photo as soon as possible. I do not want for the Comair markings to be taken off of the buildings. If you want to, please photograph the Comair buildings.
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Creating good junction lists for highway articles
Just as I did with
U.S. Route 27 in Kentucky after you created the article, I purged a lot of cruft out of
U.S. Route 127 in Kentucky. You should take a look at what I deleted from each for some idea on how to make better tables. Also, you should take a look at how I edited the leads to fit our guidelines on formatting a lead, which is even more generic to Wikipedia. Lastly, we limit infoboxes to just 8–10 junctions, tops. That means that sometimes we omit major highways from appearing in the infobox, but since it is supposed to be a summary of the full junction list table, readers still get all of the information anyway.
We don't list business names as locations in {{
jct}}. The state DOTs don't list them on the main highway guide signs so neither do we. The same goes for schools and the like.
If you have the hospital or airport icon appear, the name of the hospital or airport should appear in the notes column. If the DOT puts the name of the airport on the main guide signs, then you can put it in {{
jct}} in the destinations column. In either case, the name of the airport should appear in full, even if the DOT abbreviates it to just "Airport". Don't make our readers hover their cursors over the link to get the full name.
We don't list schools and things as entries with their own rows of the table. High schools are barely notable, elementary school are not notable at all. Stick to intersections with other roadways and major bridges only.
Usually, if the bridge doesn't have a name, or the body of water isn't really major, leave the bridge out completely, except at a state line.
We use a single line in the table for a single interchange. When an at-grade highway intersects a freeway in a diamond or cloverleaf interchange, that is one intersection, not separate intersections for each set of ramps. You can use |mile= and |mile2= to create a range of mileposts for a single intersection and list everything together.
Just an FYI, but state-detail articles for U.S. Highways have been reverted back to redirects in the past when they don't have more than an infobox and a junction list table. Imzadi 1979→ 05:20, 30 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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I don't know if it interests you or not. Almost 10 years ago you wrote to Nyttend here:
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about Clough Creek. You had said it was named after Richard Clough Anderson, which links to
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Richard Clough Anderson so there will be no further confusion. You are not the only one who got the father and son confused. I think I found about 5-10 mistakes like that in Wikipedia that I just corrected. Some very famous people in American history.
I haven't been able to locate any
WP:RS to prove that Clough Pike is named after the father. If you know of anything, I would love to add that to the article. --
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I noticed that you made a change on October 12, 2020 to the Jan & Dean discography regarding the song Julie, referencing a 1961 article in Billboard. All of the information that I have shows Julie to be the "B" side. While it is not directly printed on the single as "A" side or "B" side, the number for Don't Look Away is 45-LIB-69, while the number for Julie is 45-LIB-70. I don't dispute what you might have read, but I don't have access to that issue. Can you provide a citation for this information. Here is a link
[2] to the pictures of the single on Discogs. In the discography on the Wikilink to the song
Julie, it also shows a different record label with the same information.
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Thank you for the citation regarding the Jan & Dean song. However it only states that one is the flip side of the other, not "A" side or "B" side. I am not intending to be argumentative here and I am not intending to revert your edit or otherwise correct it, I was just curious regarding your reason for making the edit to begin with.
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