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Lake monster and related articles

WP:Folklore members will find this discussion interesting. Additionally, there's a discussion to be had here about how we're dividing up out articles like lake monster, sea monster, and river monster. What do you think we should do? :bloodofox: (talk) 16:33, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Slender Man listed at Requested moves

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Portal:Folklore

I've just discovered that Portal:Folklore exists. While I'm not sure if the ultimate fate of portals has been decided yet (there was some discussion about deleting them all recently), the portal is of historical interest given Wikipedia's spotty handling of folklore as a topic to date. :bloodofox: (talk) 22:25, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Muhuru for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Muhuru is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muhuru (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:38, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Monitoring

I've attempted to add a monitoring section, but we'll see if the bot actually fills in the page tomorrow, and there are a few other elements to tweak/add. --tronvillain (talk) 14:43, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

I've also started adapting a Navbox, at WP:WikiProject_Folklore/Nav --tronvillain (talk) 22:23, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox folk song

Template:Infobox folk song has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Tamtam90 (talk) 22:48, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

The discussion was closed April 20, 2018 (see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 March 17#Template:Infobox folk song). A second attempt was closed July 2, 2018 (Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 July 2#Template:Infobox folk song. —Ojorojo (talk) 16:02, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Navbox

I've added a Navbox. Some of the pages still need to be created, or the links possibly removed from the Navbox depending on whether we think they're worth it. The Cleanup link should be available after Tuesday. --tronvillain (talk) 19:39, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Category:European folklore

It may be out of scope for an Americano-centric WikiProject, but could someone take a look at Category:European folklore? It seems to be somewhat underpopulated and excludes Category:European mythology. Dimadick (talk) 11:22, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

I tagged it "attention=yes", since I've managed to work out how to make that work. --tronvillain (talk) 17:01, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Utah Mother Goose tradition

hi, an ip has questioned whether the above should be included in the Mother Goose article, i would welcome some input there, thanks Coolabahapple (talk) 06:54, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Article for Deletion: Goatman: Flesh or Folklore?

I've just submitted this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goatman: Flesh or Folklore?. Comments welcome. :bloodofox: (talk) 23:38, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Merge proposal: Mythology > Myth

Just a heads up that I've proposed that we merge mythology into myth. Please feel free to comment. :bloodofox: (talk) 21:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Fallout 76 Release and Traffic Increase

Just as a heads up, the November 14 release of Fallout 76 is likely to produce a significant increase in traffic for West Virginia folklore-related articles, such as Mothman and Flatwoods monster (For example). During this time, we might want to be extra vigilant about drive-by edits. :bloodofox: (talk) 22:28, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge discussion- List of Cryptids to Lists of Legendary Creatures

This may be of note to members [[1]].Slatersteven (talk) 10:58, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Folk art, Folk arts and Concepts in folk art

There has been a lot of new material added to these articles by User:Smithriedel, who over recent years has done most of Folklore (currently 88% of the text, Family folklore, Folklore studies and perhaps others. I have been discussing these with him, currently mainly on Talk:Folk art. I see many of the same issues I have were raised before on Talk:Folklore studies. I come at this from an art history perspective myself, but other views and comments would be welcome. My main concern is to keep the relatively highly-viewed main article at Folk art neutral, coherent and a readable introduction - it was short and pretty poor before Smithriedel came along, but still has a long way to go, imo. Johnbod (talk) 14:50, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

@Johnbod:—Sorry, I'm only just now seeing this. Yikes. I'll bump up slating these articles for a total rewrite. :bloodofox: (talk) 23:42, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, indeed - I can chip in, but am not the person to do a big rewrite/expansion. Once he dropped it, I did too, but I have been mulling it over. I think at least the article is now better than before. I got him to move the most theoretical stuff to Concepts in folk art. Does anyone else want to start? Specific stuff (with lots of links) is one crying need - sections for global regions? Johnbod (talk) 01:02, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Highgate Vampire

Highgate Vampire (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Article recently survived an assault by one of the principals involved in the drama. Upon review, it leans toward the WP:SENSATIONAL. It could use a revamp by someone who has access to quality academic sources and folklorists. - LuckyLouie (talk) 22:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

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Please comment on Talk:Alexander the Great in the Quran

Your feedback would be appreciated at this request for comment on Talk:Alexander the Great in the Quran. Mathglot (talk) 19:24, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Folklore for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Folklore is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Folklore until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:14, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Creepy Wikipedia

Maybe this WikiProject should be renamed? ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:50, 6 August 2019 (UTC)