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Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao. Remembering how helpful you were with tagging WP:WPWW article talkpages with the WPWW talkpage banner when we started up that WikiProject in 2014, I draw your attention to this new WikiProject and hope you can help us with our talkpage tagging campaign. No rush! Whenever you have time/inclination.
@ FULBERT, DarwIn, and Maor X, would you please review the other subcats of Category:Cemeteries and sort out which subcats have articles which should (or shouldn't) get the {{ WikiProject Cemeteries}} talkpage banner, e.g. Category:Vehicle graveyards. Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:41, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi The Death project has a vast amount of work on cemeteries - and is implicit in the very core scope of this new project... A significant number of cemeteries have death as project tags. Also it would well serve this new project to go and drop a comment on the talk page - no mention or correlation might be a carriage without a horse perhaps. Well worth going there and checking things out... JarrahTree 00:56, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
I see no reason why WP:DEATH and this one cannot co-exist, and even complement the mutual efforts. There are multiple Women-related WikiProjects and they all focus on their own aspect, but it works. — Maile ( talk) 13:54, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
This past week I had a need to drive in a rather rural area where I have not been before, and drove past several really rural cemeteries in and around small towns. It got me wondering about notability, since none of the ones I passed had Wikipedia articles, Wikidata entries, nor Wikicommons pictures. While there are general guidelines, I am wondering if cemeteries in themselves fit within WikiProject subject-specific notability guidelines, given all cemeteries (or at least those I have seen) in some way will likely pass notability. Now we have a WikiProject on this, I am wondering what others here think about it? --- FULBERT ( talk) 11:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Does anybody think we need to develop the Editing advice section? Currently it is empty though it may be useful if anybody wants to make an attempt to develop it. --- FULBERT ( talk) 12:27, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
this RfC may be of interest to the members of this group. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:09, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Perhaps this project could establish some guidelines on how to contest AFD for notability. You can find sources galore, but most of them are references from genealogy sites. And even if you find one or two sources that are not genealogy sites, you're likely to get, "...that source is nothing, a mere mention ... " or something similar. If a cemetery is part of NRHP, no issue. If it's any other source, it's almost wide-open for anyone to go through and put a whole string of cemeteries up for deletion. It is a challenge to find legit sources for cemeteries, and even within that, it's easy for someone to AFD based on only one or two notable burials in a notable cemetery. Not all sources list every single individual buried in that area. We need concrete standards to back up our contesting of AFD.
Also, the naming of the cemetery should be exactly how the state/town/locale lists it. I went through something a few years back with an editor wanting to rename cemeteries that were officially given ethnic names, to the English equivalent of "county cemetery" or whatever it might be. In a project where anybody can edit, any determined passing editor can get a bee in their bonnet about converting every non-English wording to English. — Maile ( talk) 18:18, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Some cemetery entries have been flagged for deletion:
--- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:52, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
I made a userbox for this WikiProject - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cemeteries/Userbox Medarduss ( talk) 20:48, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Editors are encouraged to comment. Thanks. – S. Rich ( talk) 00:37, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
There is a new tree of categories I started which is directly interested with this project. See Category:Cemeteries by century of establishment and please help populate! User:Namiba 15:24, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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talk) 13:16, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
A discussion about posting Find a Grave webpages as an External link is underway at the Reliable sources/Perennial sources talk page. – S. Rich ( talk) 20:00, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
The National Map Corps, part of the United States Geological Survey, has an Authoritative Sources list, which includes cemeteries posted by Find a Grave. "These [cemetery listings] are authoritative if the entry has photos and the number of interments/burials recorded." With an authoritative, official US government source giving its blessing to Find a Grave cemetery listings it is time to turn away from the individual opinions and prejudices of Wikipedia editors. Find a Grave information, about cemeteries, should be allowed as a Reliable Source and External Link. Comments? – S. Rich ( talk) 15:08, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
I've added the article about Cefn Golau as being within the scope of WikiProject Cemeteries. I hope to improve the article, for example by adding 'Cholera Cemetery' to its name, and am open to suggestions about how it can currently be improved. John Desmond ( talk) 15:14, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, I don't usually write about cemetery-related content, but am currently writing a page and would love feedback/suggestions. It is about the first space in the US for Jewish individuals to acknowledge miscarrages, stillborns, and newborn deaths. It abuts a Jewish cemetery and is on the cemetery's land. However, as fetuses and newborns are not considered "life" by Jewish law and tradition, it is against Jewish law for cemeteries to include spaces for them. As a result, this project is quite significant, and came into being due to largescale interest in the greater San Francisco, CA, USA, Jewish community. [ Jewish Community Memory Garden]
In any event, I had some unusual (for me) challenges in writing this article, and would be grateful for feedback.
Thank you,
Oughtta Be Otters ( talk) 20:50, 12 March 2024 (UTC)