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The following New Jersey related articles are undergoing Peer Reviews:
I would appreciate your input and suggestions regarding ways these two articles can be improved and possibly get them to a state of worthiness for Featured Article status.
Both of the Peer Reviews in question can be found here: Wikipedia:Peer review.
For your information, the Joyce Kilmer article passed Good Article on 31 December 2006, only a mere one hour and 56 minutes after it was nominated.
Thank you in advance for your efforts and comments in this regard. — ExplorerCDT 00:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
What fair use rationale are we using for any logos from the state? According to the NJ website agency logos, or the Great Seal, can only be used as allowed by law but those uses are not stated. I'm trying to pick the correct copyright tag for the New Jersey State Police logo. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Editcml ( talk • contribs)
I have proposed that Newark be moved to Newark (disambiguation) and replaced with a redirect to Newark, New Jersey. Please discuss at talk:Newark - crz crztalk 14:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Please visit the talk page and review the recent edit-warring history for Joyce Kilmer and please comment on whether certain genealogical information (which I think is irrelevant and anti-policy) should be inserted into the article. — ExplorerCDT 00:16, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
The article Paulins Kill was promoted to Featured Article just few hours ago. Just to inform y'all and to thank you for any contributions or suggestions some of you have made to help improve the article and develop it well enough to earn inclusion among Wikipedia's finest work. Thank y'all. — ExplorerCDT 04:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
FYI: I've started a WikiProject, hopefully to be under the auspices of the New Jersey and Universities WikiProjects to direct efforts to articles related to Rutgers University, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rutgers. — ExplorerCDT 16:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
These should either line up or all be centred (preferable). For me the ones at the bottom of Clifton, New Jersey do not seem to have the same centre. Rich Farmbrough, 10:53 23 February 2007 (GMT).
A display can be found here. Rich Farmbrough, 12:30 23 February 2007 (GMT).
There is historical NJ municipal population information (1930-1990) here [1] [2]. Please use this data with the {{ USCensusPop}} template as follows. Just place the population on the year= lines. This table should go into the "Demographics" section. I've added similar tables to all the county articles already.
{{USCensusPop | 1930= | 1940= | 1950= | 1960= | 1970= | 1980= | 1990= | 2000= | footnote=historical data source: <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wnjpin.net/OneStopCareerCenter/LaborMarketInformation/lmi01/poptrd6.htm |title=New Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1930 - 1990 |accessdate=2007-03-03}}</ref> }}
-- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 02:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Jimbo/EaglesFan, thanks, I hadn't seen that link before. I ran through the 1920 census report. It shows data for large municipalities as far back as 1810. It also shows data for all other municipalities for 1900 to 1920. I've compiled that data and added it to the spreadsheet. Please use the following reference when adding this data. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 19:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41084506no553.zip |format=ZIP |title=Fourteenth Census of The United States: 1920; Population: New Jersey; Number of inhabitants, by counties and minor civil divisions |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |accessdate=2007-03-21 |author=Wm. C. Hunt, Chief Statistician for Population}}</ref>
Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible New Jersey-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/NewJerseySearchResult. Colchicum 14:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Folks, there's currently a proposal to merge Washington's crossing of the Delaware with Battle of Trenton at Talk:Washington's crossing of the Delaware#Merge with Battle of Trenton. I personally oppose merger, but the NJ community should comment. Wl219 21:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I've spent quite a bit of time trying to improve Barnegat Light, New Jersey, Barnegat Lighthouse, Long Beach Island, Barnegat Bay, and Barnegat Inlet. While I still have some more thoughts on what to add into Barnegat Light and I hope to obtain plenty of photos for all of the subjects, I'm starting to run short on improvement ideas for the articles. I welcome input from other users -- feel free to edit the article on post recommendations either here or on the respective talk pages of the articles. Thanks! -- Bossi ( talk ;; contribs) 17:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Since Ft Dix is in Nj, i've added 2007 Fort Dix attack plot to the project. -- ZeWrestler Talk 20:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
FYI, in case you are not aware, there are bots going through and marking for deletion any logo or seal that does not have a fair use rationale on the image page. This will include town seals, county seals, etc. Please go through the images you have uploaded and create a rationale for any image that has been or might be tagged for deletion. Being pro-active here will be easier than going back and re-uploading the images. Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 20:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Could someone from this project assign an importance rating to the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62)? I would rather not have that box left with a question mark. TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi! You might want to add List of New Jersey birds to your featured list section—since it is, indeed a featured list! :) MeegsC | Talk 18:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Greetings from the left coast. This article was created today by user Weird NJ, which by an astounding coincidence is the name of the magazine the article appears to be copied from. The content does not appear to be online on the mag's web site, else I would have speedy-tagged it straight away. Due to the potential copyvio issue the article seems prod-dable, but I wanted to call attention to it here in case someone wanted to either do something productive with it or confirm the copyvio so it can be deleted. Thank you for your time. -- Finngall talk 23:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated Geography of New Jersey for the article improvement drive. Support would be great for it. -- ZeWrestler Talk 03:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
17-Aug-2007: I have begun putting a quick New Jersey roadmap in major town articles. However, the map's size might be an issue (don't panic, it's not a cumbersome, gargantuan PNG map that will crash browsers). It's an ultra-quick, photo-terrain JPEG map. The map shows the major towns, plus roads, hills, and creeks/bays in the state, purposely labeled to be readable when displayed down to the typical 295px/300px width:
I am trying to use similar map-size in many town articles, since same-sized images reuse browser cache files, downloading the actual map only once per browser cache-period. (I have already put similar roadmaps in 30 major Louisiana town articles). Rationale for use of roadmaps in town articles:
Discussion issues:
Those are some of the things to ponder. - Wikid77 18:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
copied from Talk:Hoboken, New Jersey:
Though the contribution is appreciated, a road map of New Jersey's major highways and mention of nearby towns doesn't seem to add much to the article. The other map, which seems standard for Wikipedia, may be less colorful, already indicates Hoboken's location within the state. Are there strong objections to removing it, or at least making it smaller and re-locating to a different section, such as transportation???? Wouldn't a map of the city itself be more approprate? Djflem 10:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I do not know much about all the computer tech stuff you've mentioned, so sorry, I can't respond to that. I can say that the map which you are proposing is very "Jersey-centric" and offers no perspective to the location, role, history, context to the NY Metropolitan area. How can a map not indicate Manhattan, the Hudson, Brooklyn? If it seems important to have such a map can it at least be of the region? For example, 50 mile radius from Times Square, or something? How can you show a map that put Pennsylvania, New York, and CT as vague, obscure, places? Come on... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Djflem ( talk • contribs) 04:14, August 20, 2007 (UTC).
Sorry I didn't sign off last time: but my concerns grow greater. The role of Hoboken, and Hudson County in general, are minimalized by presenting a NJ map. The location, culture, history, and impact of the city and it's residents cannot be defined by the map proposed. I find it to be poor and misleading information when not contextualized. Djflem 06:13, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
21-Aug-2007: To User:Djflem: I have created a "draft" Hudson-County towns map ( Image:Map Hudson County NJ municipalities.gif, in the style of Jim Irwin's county maps from Dec. 2005), and I agree that showing the county area is needed, especially since the towns are so close (there are no rural pastures separating the towns). I also agree about showing a more NJ+NY regional map (not just Jersey-centric), with more than just showing " Staten Island" labeled as I had added. Each map added to each article reveals more constraints and issues to handle: I finally agree with the notion to keep most maps small because the hidden-TOC and resizing with wide-windows can format text better around smaller images. You had already suggested (above, 18Aug07), "Wouldn't a map of the city itself be more approprate?" and I finally found those Jim Irwin maps that show rough city-limits for each town in a county. That is why I created the Hudson-County towns map. Now note, that other states have cities that span multiple counties/parishes (such as New Orleans), but the towns-within-county mapping seems to work for NJ. Also, few places in the country have the problem of massive cities such as New York & Philadelphia as border "towns" prompting the need for multi-state regional maps. ( Weehawken would be very different without the tunnel to NYC.) I agree with your concept about the Jersey-centric issue, just as El Paso, TX should map with Juarez, Mexico due to the combined presence. Thanks for the suggestions; I have very limited time, but changes are coming. - Wikid77 20:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
19-Aug-2007: Some NJ town articles have regional maps, but also in Swedish Wikipedia towns:
See more map discussion above: Putting NJ..map in towns. - Wikid77 09:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
19-Aug-2007: I've noticed, this weekend, the Table-of-Contents (TOC) "[hide]" option has been fixed to allow shrinking/hiding the TOC detail lines. This change will require reformatting thousands of articles to auto-reformat image/text placement, but we knew this day would come, and so it has. I have begun editing articles, with explanation "Allow HIDDEN Table of Contents.." noting, for each article, the changes to allow Hide/Show TOC. An easy fix is to stack the earlier right-side images/tables (as a series of "Image:" and table definitions) near the top of the article, depending on top paragraphs to provide filler text. The text-clipping glitch has NOT been fixed [yet] for small-then-large image stacking; otherwise, make images similar size or put smaller images after large. Images later in the article should auto-reformat fine, as is, without moving them. - Wikid77 21:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello all, I'm new to this WikiProject and to Wikipedia itself. I've created a page about the New Jersey Transit Police Department and I was wondering if I could get a peer review from the people in this project. I would greatly appreciate comments and constructive criticism. Seeing how this is my first artice I still have quite a bit to learn! (Rebel3986 03:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC))
Please voice an opinion as to whether the cemetery should be deleted from Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of burials at Bayview Cemetery, Jersey City. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
This falls under our project, therefore, we should be able to muster up a lot of information that can help improve this article. Lets work together while this article received the ACID attention.-- ZeWrestler Talk 19:59, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
I reorganized and partially rewrote this several-year-old featured article, and would like comments on whether I did a good job. Please comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Pulaski Skyway/archive1. -- NE2 01:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Recently new maps have been added to NJ municipalities by ArkyBot ( t c), a bot operated by Arkyan ( t c). These new maps are in many ways deficient compared to the previously existing maps. Consider the following maps for the New Egypt, New Jersey CDP.
map by JimIrwin ( t c), December 2005 | map by ArkyBot ( t c), October 2007 | map by JimIrwin ( t c), depicting all of the incorporated areas of Ocean County |
Here is the situation as I see it:
Benefits of the Jim Irwin map:
Detractions of the Jim Irwin map:
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Benefits of the ArkyBot map:
Detractions of the ArkyBot map:
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In short, these new maps are vastly inferior to the older maps. They should be bulk-reverted IMO. Arkyan, in the future, please work with the relevant wikiprojects to avoid the replacement of more correct maps. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 16:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Arkyan, any progress on getting these maps reverted? Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 14:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
New York City Meetup
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This will be the second of the meetups with a session dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues (see the last meeting's minutes).
In the morning, there are exciting plans for a behind-the-scenes guided tour of the American Museum of Natural History. We will also have activities scheduled after the session, with dinner at a local restaurant and (weather permitting) some late-night astronomy thrown in.
Experts, local knowledge, and reliable sources are requested for the Central Jersey article. Please see recent edit history and the talk page. Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 04:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
A long time ago, I created stub articles for many folks named John Taylor, including John Taylor (Taylor Ham), and the Taylor Opera House in Trenton. The opera house article was just given a "proposed deletion" tag and I cleaned it up and removed the tag, but I thought people interested in New Jersey might have more to add to the article on the Opera House and the man who created it, to stave off future deletion attempts. Please have a look and expand and reference them if you can -- thanks! — Catherine\ talk 17:48, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
A series of edits over the past several days have removed information for non-municipalities from some of the templates for New Jersey counties, most notably that of Template:Essex County, New Jersey, (see this edit for details), which sites the fact that "this is not done anywhere, no reason for Essex County to be different" as justification for removal. As pointed out to the editor involved, this information reflects a long-standing consensus for New Jersey's templates, all the more at issue as the information had been added to the template almost two years ago. The question proposed is "should information for communities that are not municipalities be retained on the templates for New Jersey's 21 counties?" Alansohn ( talk) 04:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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