Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Idaho/Archive 5
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Idaho Juvenile Detention Centers
The article Idaho Juvenile Detention Centers needs to be reorganized. There should be an article about the state juvenile system, and the county system info should be in its own place. Also the capitalization is wrong even if the current organization was for the best. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:51, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Merge discussion for Idaho Department of Correction
An article that you have been involved in editing, Idaho Department of Correction, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Muhandes (talk) 14:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
This list is largely complete, but has bits and pieces of information missing, and needs images filled in - any help in completing it would be much appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:47, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Idaho articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.
We would like to ask you to review the Idaho articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.
We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!
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Palouse Prairie School wants to join
I'm working with grade 4-6 students at Palouse Prairie School on a project to learn about and contribute to Wikipedia on topus related to Palouse people, places and history. View this as a pilot small scale version of the Murder Madness Mayhem project.
I'm looking to connect with Wikipedians who might lend a (virtual) hand Nils Peterson (talk) 03:26, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
update, project underway
We have been reviewing Wikipedia pages for the Moscow, Idaho area, making notes on the talk pages about what is missing, and are planning to begin editing Dec 1, 2010 following these Lesson Plans. Nils Peterson (talk) 23:52, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
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Hello, WikiProject Idaho/Archive 5! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject United States, an outreach effort which aims to support development of United States related articles in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!! |
--Kumioko (talk) 03:20, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:11, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.
I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.
Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages
Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.
If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.
Regards, RichardF (talk) 01:53, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 01:53, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
A Broken Link in the Cited Sources of the Boise Article
The link in Footnote 8, directing people to an article at the Idaho Historical Society which provides a source/reference for the origins of the name of the city directs to a website or page that are no longer in use at that address. The current link address is: http://www.idahohistory.net/reference%20series/0032.pdf The correct link address should be: http://history.idaho.gov/reference%20series/0032.pdf
Jared Miller (Hugonauts) 21 Apr 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugonauts (talk • contribs) 18:13, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. --Kumioko (talk) 20:06, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
- I have tagged semi-active myself since the project has little activity, I see no problem with that. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 05:33, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
- Someone (not me) went and added this project to the list of project to the WikiProject United States template and I went ahead and added it to the supported projects list on the WikiProject United States main project page but I am not going to finish the process of adding it just yet until this discussion is finished. It seems like most of the comments so far support it but I want to make sure before I finish the process. At this point its easy to remove it from the list if needed. --Kumioko (talk) 02:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not a member of this project (though I placed the inactive tag) but I support it being, uh, supported by WP:US. Then hopefully people who ask questions of the project will at least get answered in a timely fashion. If the backlog of assessments and article clean up issues gets tackled too, even better. I'm sure Oregon's Spain will thank you. Valfontis (talk) 23:19, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
- Someone (not me) went and added this project to the list of project to the WikiProject United States template and I went ahead and added it to the supported projects list on the WikiProject United States main project page but I am not going to finish the process of adding it just yet until this discussion is finished. It seems like most of the comments so far support it but I want to make sure before I finish the process. At this point its easy to remove it from the list if needed. --Kumioko (talk) 02:23, 5 August 2011 (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 3500+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. If you do not want the bot to autoassess the articles for your project or if you have any comments or concerns please let us know. --Kumioko (talk) 14:14, 21 August 2011 (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) 03:15, 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) 19:39, 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) 01:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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) 18:12, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
List of Justices of the Idaho Supreme Court has been created as part of a series of lists of State Supreme Court Justices. This list may be incomplete or merit further formatting. Cheers! bd2412 T 13:49, 21 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) 02:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Invitation template created
I've created {{WPIdaho-invite}}, a user talk page template for inviting editors to the project. I'm currently going through Category:Wikipedians in Idaho and inviting active users. --BDD (talk) 23:08, 13 May 2013 (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) 18:38, 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) 22:59, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
UI edit-a-thon
Pardon the late notice, but the University of Idaho Library is hosting an edit-a-thon tomorrow as part of Open Access Week (more info). If you can't make it to Moscow, you're certainly welcome to participate remotely. Alex Kyrios (talk) 19:17, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Category:Chinook Jargon place names has been nominated for deletion/upmerging, with a suggestion that List of Chinook Jargon place names be upmerged. Please add any comments to the CfD.Skookum1 (talk) 15:20, 3 July 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) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Idaho articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 21:36, 30 November 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) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Greetings from GLAM-Wiki US
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You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!
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- When? June 2015
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- 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
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Thanks, and happy editing!
Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:59, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Introduction
Hi all! It didn't look there was a section for introductions (if there isn't one, would it be alright if I added one?), so just wanted to say hi. I'm planning to add climate info, in the form of weatherboxes and Köppen climate classifications to places in Idaho, where they're currently lacking, using the Western Regional Climate Center as a resource. I've already gone through the list for Alaska, WA state, and Oregon, and plan to work on Idaho and CA next. A bit about myself - I'm a climate and plant geek, and went to school at WSU, so I've spent a good amount of time in Moscow and roaming around in the woods and mountains of Northern Idaho. Redtitan (talk) 05:46, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Upcoming "420 collaboration"
 You are invited to participate in the upcoming which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Idaho participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Idaho. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page. |
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Missing Idaho Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Idaho Supreme Court Justices at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices#Idaho. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 00:01, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Idaho mountains
The List of mountain peaks of Idaho has been expanded and updated. We need articles for the following mountain peaks:
Bald Mountain, Bonneville Peak, Bromaghin Peak South, Buffalo Hump, Cinnabar Mountain, Deep Creek Peak, Dickey Peak, Elkhorn Peak, Goat Mountain, Lem Peak, Meade Peak, Mount McGuire, North Loon Mountain, Oxford Peak, Pinyon Peak, Queen Mountain, Saddle Mountain, Scotchman Peak, Scott Peak, Sedgwick Peak, Sheep Mountain, Shelly Mountain, Sleeping Deer Mountain, Smiley Mountain, South Selkirk Crest, Sturgill Peak, Taylor Mountain, The General, Vienna Benchmark, and White Mountain West
Information about these peaks can be found in their references on the List of mountain peaks of Idaho. We also need good mountain photos for the articles and list gallery. Yours aye, Buaidh 23:06, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:13, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho/Archive 5/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Idaho.
We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
- The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
- The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
- The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).
We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Idaho, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.
Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
AFD on 29 Idaho NRHP articles
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bert and Fay Havens House, an AFD for 29 articles on National Register of Historic Places sites in Idaho. --doncram 21:22, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
New Idaho userbox templates
New Idaho userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Idaho and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh talk contribs 22:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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.
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 07:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Portal:Idaho
Portal:Idaho, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Idaho and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Idaho during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:09, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Nomination for merge of Idaho TV network affiliation templates
Several Idaho TV network affiliation templates has been nominated for merging. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Bsherr (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Salmon Dam, world's third largest dam?
Hey, i just started an article on 1909-built Salmon Dam, which apparently was the third-largest dam in the world. I arrive in through working on articles about historic sites, including the Hollister School which was built to serve new population in the reclamation area of the project. I don't know why it had no article yet, and wonder if it was renamed and is covered in a different article already? Any insights and help developing the article would be appreciated! --Doncram (talk) 22:25, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
- Update: I merged my material into Salmon Falls Dam; the "Salmon Dam" was the original name and it was in fact renamed. More development there is needed, including about it being 3rd largest dam in world, if that is true, based so far on just one weak, unrelated source. Not yet covered in List of largest dams, which so far may only cover currently largest dams, but should have a historical section IMHO. --Doncram (talk) 22:57, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Resurrection
Formal notice, that I, not necessarily being of sound mind, am going to try and resurrect this project. Can't have a state without a project to watch it's pages. Any and ALL comments are welcome. Mjquinn_id (talk) 23:10, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
From the WikiProject desk at The Signpost
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Going forward, each participant receives a wikilink to the interview workspace questions about the project's work, problems and achievements.Mjquinn_id (talk) 20:53, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
Banner
I would like consensus from all concerned about "undoing" the WP:SUBST of the Idaho Project Banner...See the Template_Talk:WikiProject Idaho page for the discussion. Mjquinn_id (talk) 12:52, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Northamerica1000, et al - Is there a way to message all participants about changes (To Project or Portal pages)? I really would rather get consensus on some changes. - Mjquinn_id (talk) 16:52, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Mjquinn id: I can use the Mass messaging tool to send messages to Active participants of the project. Just devise it, add appropriate links, etc. and I can do it. North America1000 17:01, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Newsletter?
I am trying to understand the mechanisms for broadcasting an Idaho newsletter; in a potentially mis-guided attempt to get more eyes/participation in the project.
- First newsletter content attempt: Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho/Newsletter
- archive below will be by YYYY/MM - Monthly would be a "stretch goal".
Anyone with experience, or interest; I would love to hear from you. - Mjquinn_id (talk) 21:59, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting
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Wikipedia users in the United States Mountain West and High Plains will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, articles, or photographs of our region is encouraged to attend.
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Ron J. Twilegar
Someone here knows something about this obscure politician? He's barely notable, if that, and finding info on him is virtually impossible. An IP editor changed the birth date in his article from 1943 to 1950, and I can't verify if that change is incorrect or not. Most sources online aren't reliable and seem to take the data from Wikipedia anyway. If there is an editor around able to check this by accessing offline/restricted sources, that would be grand. --Urbanoc (talk) 00:38, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Not sure about the birthdate, but he is notable per WP:NPOL as a former member of the Idaho Legislature (
"Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels
"). KidAd • SPEAK 00:44, 23 February 2022 (UTC)- @KidAd: I uphold he's barely notable simply because there are very few easily accessible sources on him, mostly on him running for office. If an arbitrary Wikipedia policy says he actually is notable by meeting some standards, that's OK to me, as I wasn't proposing to delete the article. I was just asking a pretty specific question. Thanks for nothing. --Urbanoc (talk) 00:55, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Why I would revert the IP if I can't check most the sources? Maybe it's rigth. Do it yourself if you want. The article is subpar anyway. I asked a question and you came with a defensive response as like I was trying to delete it, something I wasn't interested in. And that's it... --Urbanoc (talk) 01:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources
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 "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
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.
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Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting 05/09/2023
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Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 06:22, 2 July 2023 (UTC)