The result of the discussion was keep and redirect to become a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 09:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
This project is directly promoting a official program of the Florida Department of State. It is in effect promoting tourism in Florida. See VIVA Florida 500. -- Donald Albury 11:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
That is not the entire picture. I'm working with Viva Florida members who are archivists and history professors. One of which is Dr. Francis of UNF who is sending 4 students to Seville Spain on a research project. We will be obtaining new information on ancient topics and updating
Florida history articles here at Wikipedia of which this Wiki Project is the Landing page for their members. As I mentioned in the beginning, this project is not so much about promoting Viva Florida 500 to the Wikipedia community, as it is about promoting Wikipedia to Viva Florida 500 members. And frankly you need more accuracy in many of the Florida History articles, as there is many errors and need for embellishment. If you pull the plug on this project then I will pull the plug with promoting Wikipedia to Viva Florida 500. Let me know ASAP, as I have a conference call coming up with Viva Florida 500 with close to a hundred historians and archivists around the state of Florida, and there will be no need to promote this project if there is no page for it.--
Ourhistory153 (
talk) 14:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Also please note that I posted an inquiry about this project back in Sept 2011 Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Florida about this project. I do all this work to it and you now Mr. Danbury User_talk:Donald_Albury#Deleting_the_WikiFriends_of_Viva_Florida_500.3F wants to delete it! I'm an author and a historian and I have better things to do with my time.-- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 14:49, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks that is good. In other news, H-Net a university based list serv just made an announcement today (something I asked for before this deletion process started) asking their subscribers which are archivists, historians, history professors and their students to add to the Florida Time line project which was a signature project of the Wiki-friends of Viva Florida 500. My intention was that this Florida Timeline project was to be the jumping in place for these types to get involved with Wikipedia. Can the Florida Timeline have its link back to the Wikifriends of Viva Florida 500 as a signature project? -- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 16:27, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Also in addition to my announcements about the Wikifriends of Viva Florida 500 at H-Net I also established a link within the pier project the system Viva Florida 500 has set up for projects. Yes everything is running slow there both for my projects and others project but the main thing is that we are getting name recognition for Wiki-Friends of Viva Florida 500. It would be a shame to lose all that work at pr I put into it. BTW Dr. Francis did tell me he visited the work, he is just swamped right now. -- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 16:39, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was keep and redirect to become a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 09:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
This project is directly promoting a official program of the Florida Department of State. It is in effect promoting tourism in Florida. See VIVA Florida 500. -- Donald Albury 11:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
That is not the entire picture. I'm working with Viva Florida members who are archivists and history professors. One of which is Dr. Francis of UNF who is sending 4 students to Seville Spain on a research project. We will be obtaining new information on ancient topics and updating
Florida history articles here at Wikipedia of which this Wiki Project is the Landing page for their members. As I mentioned in the beginning, this project is not so much about promoting Viva Florida 500 to the Wikipedia community, as it is about promoting Wikipedia to Viva Florida 500 members. And frankly you need more accuracy in many of the Florida History articles, as there is many errors and need for embellishment. If you pull the plug on this project then I will pull the plug with promoting Wikipedia to Viva Florida 500. Let me know ASAP, as I have a conference call coming up with Viva Florida 500 with close to a hundred historians and archivists around the state of Florida, and there will be no need to promote this project if there is no page for it.--
Ourhistory153 (
talk) 14:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Also please note that I posted an inquiry about this project back in Sept 2011 Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Florida about this project. I do all this work to it and you now Mr. Danbury User_talk:Donald_Albury#Deleting_the_WikiFriends_of_Viva_Florida_500.3F wants to delete it! I'm an author and a historian and I have better things to do with my time.-- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 14:49, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks that is good. In other news, H-Net a university based list serv just made an announcement today (something I asked for before this deletion process started) asking their subscribers which are archivists, historians, history professors and their students to add to the Florida Time line project which was a signature project of the Wiki-friends of Viva Florida 500. My intention was that this Florida Timeline project was to be the jumping in place for these types to get involved with Wikipedia. Can the Florida Timeline have its link back to the Wikifriends of Viva Florida 500 as a signature project? -- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 16:27, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Also in addition to my announcements about the Wikifriends of Viva Florida 500 at H-Net I also established a link within the pier project the system Viva Florida 500 has set up for projects. Yes everything is running slow there both for my projects and others project but the main thing is that we are getting name recognition for Wiki-Friends of Viva Florida 500. It would be a shame to lose all that work at pr I put into it. BTW Dr. Francis did tell me he visited the work, he is just swamped right now. -- Ourhistory153 ( talk) 16:39, 31 January 2012 (UTC)