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January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Leon Panetta as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate

Greetings, as a WikiProject that relates to this article, this notice was sent to let you know that the article, Leon Panetta, has been nominated to be a future Collaboration of the Month article. All editors interested in voting for or improving these article are encouraged to participate. You can cast your vote here. --Kumioko (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process

There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:24, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:38, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Sunlight Foundation data

I am organizing an event with the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, DC, focused on using their API data to improve Wikipedia articles. We are currently brainstorming ideas on how their (objective, reliable) data can be used to improve Wikipedia articles, and any ideas and insights you have would be useful. One idea we have is to develop a bot that would be used to keep infobox data up to date, so that whenever there's an update with their API, the corresponding Wikipedia article gets an update. Please let me know what you think of this idea, and feel free to recommend other ones. Here are the different APIs—bear in mind that not all of them are necessarily useful for Wikipedia's purposes. Please also let me know if there is anyone in particular I should reach out to. Harej (talk) 21:04, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions
--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:34, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:18, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles

There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 2000+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. Please post any comments or concerns you might have there. --Kumioko (talk)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2005 Louisville vs. West Virginia football game - Johntex\^talk 16:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Football categories..

I'm thinkin' about creatin' different categories for football players like for Catigories:West Virginia Mountaineer football players 2007 and then for every player on the team that has a article tag their pages. And do that for every year for say the last 15 years or so. It's just an idea to help make it easier for people to find other players from the same year. --Crash Underride 20:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 03:23, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate

One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The December 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 01:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion

Relevant deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_30#File:WestVirginiahelmet.png.--GrapedApe (talk) 17:29, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Scope of this WikiProject

Should the Washington, DC City Council and the legislatures of the five inhabited territories be included within the scope of this WikiProject? 70.122.40.201 (talk) 20:18, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Peteforsyth User:RFD User:Orangemike User:Jack_Cox User:331dot User:Presidentman User:Rockhead126 User:Mpen320 User:GPL93 User:BWellsOdyssey User:RoundSquare 70.122.40.201 (talk) 23:48, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Good question. I don't see any reason why not. There's nothing requiring rigid definitions or boundaries in terms of what a WikiProject takes on, and these entities clearly have strong similarities to state legislatures. Is there a specific task or project you're thinking of? -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:08, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

No, just wondering. 70.122.40.201 (talk) 20:11, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

I agree with User:Peteforsyth in it being a good question and that it probably should include the suggested legislatures. God knows the territorial legislature pages need some attention. Some of them don't have any pages for any of their current legislators. One contributing factor to that seems to be that they don't have as good a coverage as state legislators do (which is saying a lot, as state legislators don't have a ton as it is). A big question of mine is this: Do territorial legislators have inherent notability like state legislators? RoundSquare (talk) 00:13, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Those are technically two separate questions. I'd say yes to including territorial legislators in this project, and will leave the other one to a different noticeboard. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

RoundSquare, nothing has inherent notability. Everything, especially a biography, requires at least a minimum level of independent sourcing: WP:V, WP:NPOV and WP:BLP require that, and they trump anything else. It just happens that it's incredibly difficult to get into a state legislature without attracting that. Guy (help!) 11:24, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes to the territorial legislatures and the Council of the District of Columbia as part of the WikiProject. I'd love to work on them.--Mpen320 (talk) 01:54, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

The former United States territorial legislatures should be included; Several United States territories were admitted to the Union as states. I have written several articles about individuals who were elected to territorial legislatures. The former United States territorial legislatures should also be included within the scope of this WikiProject. Thank You-RFD (talk) 19:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Massachusetts legislative districts and sessions

We're having a discussion over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Massachusetts about the naming convention for sessions of the state legislature (currently, e.g., 179th Massachusetts General Court (1995–1996)); and for legislative districts (currently, e.g., Massachusetts Senate's 3rd Middlesex district and Massachusetts House of Representatives' 3rd Middlesex district). Input from this project's members is welcome! _``` t b w i l l i e _{`</sub> $1.25 <sub>`} 18:33, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Toll Booth Willie. I think the consensus around removing the parenthetical date from the title is correct, as this is generally done for other state legislature sessions that are numbered as Massachusetts' are. The district naming is a more complicated issue. I can see the desire to change the name to something shorter because they aren't simply sequentially named, but at the same time, Massachusetts often uses words which are more commonly associated with locations in Britain, making the reference to Massachusetts in the name useful. I think that naming convention "A - always disambig parenthetically" makes the most sense for cutting down on unnecessary words while also making the subject of the article clear from the title. (Let me know if I should post this on the WikiProject Massachusetts page as well). RoundSquare (talk) 22:41, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Please do repost it there, as we're trying to keep the discussion centralized in one location. Thanks for your thoughts! _``` t b w i l l i e _{`</sub> $1.25 <sub>`} 22:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)