Issue II - May 2008

From the editor: Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May. The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Selected Article: Indian Head Rock There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it. With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value. After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river. Billy Massie Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{ OH-Project}} Article Achievements New Featured and Good articles Ohio was listed as a Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed. Please help get Ohio to GA status! Port Columbus International Airport was listed as a Good Article. WikiProject Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Contributors Stepshep & Billy Massie

Open Tasks

Open tasks for WikiProject: Ohio. Edit or discuss these tasks. Ohio Shortcuts: Categories | History | Portal Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Main listing Cleanup : Ohio articles needing attention ( 80 ) Add city infobox to all town/city articles missing one. Add appropriate bio infobox to all Ohio bio articles missing one. Ohio articles needing cleanup Expand : To Good Article status: Ohio Columbus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Toledo, Ohio Akron, Ohio Mansfield, Ohio Featured article candidates : No results were found. Featured list candidates : No results were found. Featured sound candidates : Project Content template contains the following errors: No content type parameters found Unable to generate results. See documentation for help Good article nominations : WNWO-TV WOSU-TV Geographical coordinates : Ohio articles missing geocoordinate data ( 55 ) Infobox : Ohio articles needing infoboxes ( 53 ) Maintain :   Ohio portal Map : Requested maps in Ohio ( 16 ) Merge : Schools, Articles to be merged in Ohio Photo : Requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) Add a picture to an article in the list of requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) (Most towns in Ohio are still on the list) or improve one of the articles with no images. Stubs : Stub-Class Ohio articles ( 10,775 ), Category:Ohio stubs Unreferenced : Unreferenced Ohio articles ( 7 ) Other : Lists to de-redlink: List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio, List of Members of Governors Cabinet of Ohio Lists to complete: List of Ohio state symbols Coordinate with Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use. Place the {{ WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess

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The WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

Issue III - June 2008

From the editor: This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June! The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Getting the Project Moving WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter! Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage. Selected Article: Central Avenue Historic District (Dayton, Ohio) The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences. On December 16, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at the NewsDesk. Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! 'Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{ OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class! Article Info Good Article Nominees, FAR, FLC List of Governors of Ohio was nominated for featured list status. Teh result was promote. Bruce Johnson (politician) underwent a featured article review. The result was demote. William Henry Harrison underwent a GAN The result was promote. Paul Tibbets underwent a GAN. It is currently undergoing review. Columbus Blue Jackets underwent a GAN It is currently undergoing review. Articles for Deletion Results Afd W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was nominated at Afd. The result was Delete Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were nominated at Afd. The result was Keep All Ohio High School Conferences were nominated at Afd. The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles here. Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Article Importance Scheme A new article importance scheme has been proposed at the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system. Ohio NHLs Tabulated The 25 of Ohio's 69 National Historic Landmarks that were red-links all got articles this month, as part of a WP:NRHP drive to finish beginning the 2,430 or so NHL articles needed for nation-wide coverage. WP:OHIO members Stepshep and Sanfranman59 were busy. Contributors Stepshep, Clariosophic, & Doncram

Open Tasks

Open tasks for WikiProject: Ohio. Edit or discuss these tasks. Ohio Shortcuts: Categories | History | Portal Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Main listing Cleanup : Ohio articles needing attention ( 80 ) Add city infobox to all town/city articles missing one. Add appropriate bio infobox to all Ohio bio articles missing one. Ohio articles needing cleanup Expand : To Good Article status: Ohio Columbus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Toledo, Ohio Akron, Ohio Mansfield, Ohio Featured article candidates : No results were found. Featured list candidates : No results were found. Featured sound candidates : Project Content template contains the following errors: No content type parameters found Unable to generate results. See documentation for help Good article nominations : WNWO-TV WOSU-TV Geographical coordinates : Ohio articles missing geocoordinate data ( 55 ) Infobox : Ohio articles needing infoboxes ( 53 ) Maintain :   Ohio portal Map : Requested maps in Ohio ( 16 ) Merge : Schools, Articles to be merged in Ohio Photo : Requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) Add a picture to an article in the list of requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) (Most towns in Ohio are still on the list) or improve one of the articles with no images. Stubs : Stub-Class Ohio articles ( 10,775 ), Category:Ohio stubs Unreferenced : Unreferenced Ohio articles ( 7 ) Other : Lists to de-redlink: List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio, List of Members of Governors Cabinet of Ohio Lists to complete: List of Ohio state symbols Coordinate with Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use. Place the {{ WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess

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No complaints about inclusion; it's just the sourcing problem. Since you've provided a good source for the bicentennial, I've placed it on the township page. Nyttend ( talk) 18:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC) reply

Thanks for uploading File:Lselogo.gif. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 06:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. FASTILY_sock ^(TALK) 06:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC) reply

Hi Zars. Well, if that is indeed the case, then you probably won't need any emails from anyone. I noticed you added {{ PD-US}} tag to the licensing section of File:Lselogo.gif. Since this is a Public Domain image, fill out the following (with as much detail as possible) and add it to the summary section of File:Lselogo.gif.

{{Information
 |Description    = 
 |Source         = 
 |Date           = 
 |Author         = 
 |Permission     = 
 |other_versions = 
}}

Once that's done, feel free to remove the deletion tag. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance, please do not hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 03:37, 20 November 2009 (UTC) reply

Yeah, I understood (but thanks for making sure that I did :-); I was saying simply that one couldn't know without checking the link what "this year" was supposed to mean. Nyttend ( talk) 13:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC) reply

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Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012 Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104 Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand. Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki. Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration. Yours, Maximilianklein ( talk) 03:59, 1 December 2012 (UTC) reply

Please note that Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway is a disambiguation page. Peter Horn User talk 15:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Make that Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Peter Horn User talk 15:44, 7 July 2014 (UTC) reply

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	US Banknote Contest
	November-December 2019
There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons. In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate. If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here

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