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I was recently working on sheep, and I found that the {{ farming}} template was too large to keep in the article and still have the amount of images I wanted. Seriously, it's a big template. Would anyone be opposed to adding a hide/show function like {{ Buddhism}}? It would make me more inclined to add it. VanTucky talk 04:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I wonder if anyone of you could check my updated list of missing topics related to agriculture? Thank you. - Skysmith ( talk) 14:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Any thoughts on a WP:WikiProjec Agriculture/Livestock task force? If there is interest it seems like it would be good to get it started and incorporated into our banner for tagging purposes.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 19:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I've generated a category tree of ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Agriculture at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Categories. I need assistance turning it into a list of categories that are fully within our scope and not within the scope of a subproject. We can then submit this to User:SatyrBot in order to auto tag talk pages. Some of this is subjective. Example: ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Fences is in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Agriculture, but every article in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Fences is not within the scope of this Project so we don't want to include that Cat. Some categories like ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Land-grant universities and colleges are questionable, some of them are pretty insignificant to Ag, others like Texas A&M are very important; again, it's a judgment call whether the cat is entirely within our project's scope. -- Doug.( talk • contribs) 20:16, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Each food plant article should include:
Until we incorporate such information into the articles, what are the best external sources of such information?
This seems like a good global data resource:
- 69.87.199.71 ( talk) 14:53, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I just created (and applied) the {{ goat-stub}}, similar in type and usage to {{ sheep-stub}}. Van Tucky 03:32, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lithuanian Black-Headed sheep. Van Tucky 00:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
This seemed like the most appropriate place to bring this up... A photo I found on Commons, and added to the Boiler article, has started a discussion about the use of steam for soil conditioning. Our initial interest was, of course, from the POV of the older boiler equipment used to create the steam (modified, redundant traction engines, for example), but a current lead has been found, showing that the practice is alive-and-well in organic farming.
Is there already an article about this practice? ('Steam' is not mentioned in organic farming). If not, you may care to add it to your list of 'wanted articles' (and add it to Category:Steam power when you get that far!)
Any further light that you can shed on the matter will be gratefully received at Talk:Boiler.
Thanks -- EdJogg ( talk) 10:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
I've started using Auto-Wiki Browser and the first task I took on was tagging articles in category livestock. Along the way I ran across WP:WikiProject Beekeeping which is tagged as inactive. Suggest we merge it here as a task force. Thoughts?-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 08:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I've posted a question about this at: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions#Lists_of_Breeds, this is a follow up from the discussion above at #Breed lists. I'm hoping to get some further discussion because I'd like to simply change the breed lists for cattle and sheep to Cattle breeds and Sheep breeds respectively and set up a standard for livestock if there is consensus to that effect. I didn't move on this above as there was so little discussion and I had other stuff to work on. Back to it now.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 01:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Anybody want to add peer review parameters and maybe a Livestock workgroup or task force parameter to our banner? I really don't have the template skill to do that sort of thing. Thanks?-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 16:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
It has been suggested that the above project, which has been tagged as inactive, be merged into this project. I would support such a merger, although I would be interested in receiving comments regarding whether to merge it as a task force or simply merging it in directly. John Carter ( talk) 16:54, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that Cheese, Black Pepper, and Shrimp farm aren't up to FA standards. They have a lack of sourcing, especially Cheese, and I think it would be good to start a collaboration or something of the like to improve them. Juliancolton The storm still blows... 16:29, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm engaged in a deletion debate for Apple Oxidation. Whatever your opinion, check out Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple Oxidation. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 22:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
This article has been redirected to sustainable agriculture and the content of the redirected article was not moved to "sustainable agriculture". I created the article "Sustainable eating" and I oppose this redirect as it was done without prior discussion or warning. I ask that this redirect be reverted and that the article be reestablished as it was originally. Thank you. -- Phenylalanine ( talk) 07:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
<<<<Your use of terminology is non-standard. We have a Department of Agriculture, not a department of eating. We have Agriculture Policy and Diet Guidelines, not Eating policy.
An example of the breadth and types of agriculture policy concerns can be found in the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics article Agricultural Economies of Australia and New Zealand which says that the major challenges and issues faced by their industrial agriculture industry are:
WAS 4.250 ( talk) 21:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link))I've proposed that Chick slaughtering be deleted as an overlapping article with both Culling and Chicken. There's no reason we need a separate article on the culling of chicks. Van Tucky 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I personaly think FFA should be added under Governmental Bodies and NGO's & Ag. Support Organizations beacuse FFA is a Govementrun organization. "In 1950, the 81st Congress of the United States, recognizing the importance of the FFA as an integral part of the program of vocational agriculture, granted a Federal Charter to the FFA. In 1998, the 105th Congress of the United States reviewed and passed technical amendments. This shows through the revisions as Public Law 105-225." 1 So by education the public it Shoud go under Ag Support but since its is funded by the Govement should it go under Governmental Bodies and NGO's.
Citations FFA History -- Iwilleditu ( talk) 17:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I proposed the Ag-Ed wikiproject. But it was brought to my atttion that it should be a task force under WikiProject Agriculture. So YAY or NAY.
Support
Oppose
Discussion
Hi All,
WOW! Has this grown! I've been kind of busy, but back at the editing now, Just thought I'd let you all know (sorry if this doesn't go here, feel free to delete) ChristianH158 ( talk) 14:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hi,
This article raised a few flags. From what I've read, it basically only covers using N-fixing (legumes) crops, to break up the nitrogen cycle. "Sustainable agriculture" is a much larger topic when we talk about it as farmers. Using zero, or minimum till, Phosphorous inoculants, responsible uses of fertilizers, and chemicals, inter-row cropping, livestock production without hormones, etc. etc.
My question is, should I re-write this article, or do we leave as-is?
ChristianH158 (
talk)
14:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
In response to the above thread, I created {{ Agriculture footer}}:
I have not added it to any articles. Please feel free to use it as desired or to delete it. Rgrds. -- Tombstone ( talk) 19:59, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been tagging several farming equipment related articles this evening. I noticed that some that are very significant, e.g. Tractor hadn't been tagged at all yet. In your travels through wikipedia, if you see an agriculture or agricultural history related article, WP:Bold and put {{WPFarm}} up on the talk page. The more articles we have tagged the sooner we can start assessing them and get a task-force going to improve them! Zharmad ( talk) 04:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to replace our current Welcome introduction with a banner like the one on Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals. It has everything rather neatly organized. In fact, I'd like to change a lot so that the entire page is organized similarly. That means: cutting all shortcuts but WP:AG and WP:FARM, moving Scope to a Subpage, and otherwise modeling it after that fairly clean page. OptimistBen ( talk) 01:24, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I just nominated Sebright (chicken) for GA class. Please do take a look at it, and chime in if the review is held for improvements. Best regards, Van Tucky 19:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
It passed, so we've got another project GA! Van Tucky 03:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
A proposal to add a symbol identifying Good Articles in a similar manner to Featured ones is being discussed: see Wikipedia talk:Good articles#Proposal. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 19:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
In my recent work on chicken breeds, I discovered our project has three articles sex linked chickens. We've got a general sex link page, a red sex link and a black sex link. As sex links are not breeds (they are never bred to one another in a line, they are always the product of first generation cross breeding), I don't think it's appropriate that there are separate articles on black and red sex links. Much of the content of both those is overlapping, and the differences between black/red sex links are so minute that they can easily be covered in a single paragraph. Also considering that there are other sex link varieties, such as Goldens, I think it's best to merge/redirect red sex link and black sex link in the main sex link article. I was just going to boldly do this, but I wanted to check in at the project first. Thoughts? Van Tucky 00:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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I have requested a move of Cockscomb to either Comb (anatomy) or Bird comb here. Please feel free to chime in, Van Tucky 00:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey y'all. I just created the long-overdue stub for the American Poultry Association. I would really like a DYK for this, so if you can let's expand this well. It's the oldest livestock organization in the States, so it's an important topic. Thanks, Van Tucky 19:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Could i ask that the shade of this userbox be considerably lightened as it it right now very hard to read? Simply south ( talk) 10:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Please take part in the discussion. As of now, the latter article is essentially a duplicate of the former, with a potential to become a POV-fork. Colchicum ( talk) 17:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
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This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
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The article Frozen bovine semen is up for deletion. Input from people familiar with agriculture would be appreciated at the AfD page. Thanks, RayAYang ( talk) 17:06, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Is there no tractor/farm machinery stub? If there is, tag this? FYI, the information in the article is taken from the display plaque on the tractor in the photo...) TREKphiler hit me ♠ 07:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
(moved here from User talk:Doug) Hey there, I just wanted to let you know that my new ag article that was under the AfD axe, Rogers Orchards, survived in a Speedy Keep thanks to a group of people who came to its rescue. It is currently up for DYK consideration. More ag stuff to follow. :) Ecoleetage ( talk) 21:25, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
The one-line article Fruit garden has now been merged into the lead paragraph of Orchard and a redirect from Fruit garden to Orchard has been created. While working on Orchard I anglicized the German word Streuobstwiese as meadow orchard (based on German-English Collins Dictionary, see ref). I would appreciate it if people with better knowledge of this topic would look at the section Meadow orchard and see if it could be improved further.
I also have considerable doubts about Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, India as "a town known for its orchards". Tea gardens/plantations, yes, but orchards? Could someone clarify or edit? -- Zlerman ( talk) 03:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
If I redid your project page? I have recently redid all of the food related pages and would do the same here.
Take a look at the Ice Cream WikiProject page to see an example:
Before : WP Ice cream
After : WP Ice cream
I will not use the same color set (I call it Neapolitan), but will use a stock set of colors in blue.
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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I know it seems strange, but Animal ethics and probably Animal rights fall within the scope of this project, nothing in our names says we're the WikiProject Pro-Agriculture and we have an interest in ensuring that all articles within our scope are NPOV. I moved Animal Egalitarianism from another user's userspace because it hadn't been worked on for a year and was up for MFD just for being stale. The history of the article is that it was originally created under a completely made up name and nominated for AfD, while pending the author recreated it under the current name. A combination of misunderstandings, people being upset at the recreation, and the name not being in common use resulted in the consensus to delete per WP:NEO, it was userfied. The citations look significant, though I don't have easy access to them, I'll do some looking though. My thought is that this may belong as a section of Animal rights. So if anyone wants to help make this into a useful article please dig in.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 03:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
-- Zlerman ( talk) 05:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Go ahead and work that material in if you want to but I recommend using a merge to do it so the history on the material is preserved and I can safely delete the material on my user subpage.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 21:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I want to improve this portal but why is this portal named the way it is ? Isn't suppose to be Portal: Agriculture and can we change it ? Beware ofdog 00:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
A request is sent out to help a new editor Amazona with the article Arnold Tremere a nutritonist then agricultural buiness person with the Government of Canada. SriMesh | talk 03:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
This is a new list (patterned on Demographics of present-day nations and states and Economies of present-day nations and states) that can be used as a checklist for the creation of missing Agriculture in country articles: zillions of them show as red links in the list. -- Zlerman ( talk) 05:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
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I was recently working on sheep, and I found that the {{ farming}} template was too large to keep in the article and still have the amount of images I wanted. Seriously, it's a big template. Would anyone be opposed to adding a hide/show function like {{ Buddhism}}? It would make me more inclined to add it. VanTucky talk 04:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I wonder if anyone of you could check my updated list of missing topics related to agriculture? Thank you. - Skysmith ( talk) 14:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Any thoughts on a WP:WikiProjec Agriculture/Livestock task force? If there is interest it seems like it would be good to get it started and incorporated into our banner for tagging purposes.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 19:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I've generated a category tree of ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Agriculture at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Categories. I need assistance turning it into a list of categories that are fully within our scope and not within the scope of a subproject. We can then submit this to User:SatyrBot in order to auto tag talk pages. Some of this is subjective. Example: ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Fences is in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Agriculture, but every article in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Fences is not within the scope of this Project so we don't want to include that Cat. Some categories like ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Land-grant universities and colleges are questionable, some of them are pretty insignificant to Ag, others like Texas A&M are very important; again, it's a judgment call whether the cat is entirely within our project's scope. -- Doug.( talk • contribs) 20:16, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Each food plant article should include:
Until we incorporate such information into the articles, what are the best external sources of such information?
This seems like a good global data resource:
- 69.87.199.71 ( talk) 14:53, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I just created (and applied) the {{ goat-stub}}, similar in type and usage to {{ sheep-stub}}. Van Tucky 03:32, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lithuanian Black-Headed sheep. Van Tucky 00:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
This seemed like the most appropriate place to bring this up... A photo I found on Commons, and added to the Boiler article, has started a discussion about the use of steam for soil conditioning. Our initial interest was, of course, from the POV of the older boiler equipment used to create the steam (modified, redundant traction engines, for example), but a current lead has been found, showing that the practice is alive-and-well in organic farming.
Is there already an article about this practice? ('Steam' is not mentioned in organic farming). If not, you may care to add it to your list of 'wanted articles' (and add it to Category:Steam power when you get that far!)
Any further light that you can shed on the matter will be gratefully received at Talk:Boiler.
Thanks -- EdJogg ( talk) 10:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
I've started using Auto-Wiki Browser and the first task I took on was tagging articles in category livestock. Along the way I ran across WP:WikiProject Beekeeping which is tagged as inactive. Suggest we merge it here as a task force. Thoughts?-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 08:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I've posted a question about this at: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions#Lists_of_Breeds, this is a follow up from the discussion above at #Breed lists. I'm hoping to get some further discussion because I'd like to simply change the breed lists for cattle and sheep to Cattle breeds and Sheep breeds respectively and set up a standard for livestock if there is consensus to that effect. I didn't move on this above as there was so little discussion and I had other stuff to work on. Back to it now.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 01:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Anybody want to add peer review parameters and maybe a Livestock workgroup or task force parameter to our banner? I really don't have the template skill to do that sort of thing. Thanks?-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 16:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
It has been suggested that the above project, which has been tagged as inactive, be merged into this project. I would support such a merger, although I would be interested in receiving comments regarding whether to merge it as a task force or simply merging it in directly. John Carter ( talk) 16:54, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that Cheese, Black Pepper, and Shrimp farm aren't up to FA standards. They have a lack of sourcing, especially Cheese, and I think it would be good to start a collaboration or something of the like to improve them. Juliancolton The storm still blows... 16:29, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm engaged in a deletion debate for Apple Oxidation. Whatever your opinion, check out Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple Oxidation. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 22:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
This article has been redirected to sustainable agriculture and the content of the redirected article was not moved to "sustainable agriculture". I created the article "Sustainable eating" and I oppose this redirect as it was done without prior discussion or warning. I ask that this redirect be reverted and that the article be reestablished as it was originally. Thank you. -- Phenylalanine ( talk) 07:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
<<<<Your use of terminology is non-standard. We have a Department of Agriculture, not a department of eating. We have Agriculture Policy and Diet Guidelines, not Eating policy.
An example of the breadth and types of agriculture policy concerns can be found in the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics article Agricultural Economies of Australia and New Zealand which says that the major challenges and issues faced by their industrial agriculture industry are:
WAS 4.250 ( talk) 21:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
{{
cite journal}}
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help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link))I've proposed that Chick slaughtering be deleted as an overlapping article with both Culling and Chicken. There's no reason we need a separate article on the culling of chicks. Van Tucky 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I personaly think FFA should be added under Governmental Bodies and NGO's & Ag. Support Organizations beacuse FFA is a Govementrun organization. "In 1950, the 81st Congress of the United States, recognizing the importance of the FFA as an integral part of the program of vocational agriculture, granted a Federal Charter to the FFA. In 1998, the 105th Congress of the United States reviewed and passed technical amendments. This shows through the revisions as Public Law 105-225." 1 So by education the public it Shoud go under Ag Support but since its is funded by the Govement should it go under Governmental Bodies and NGO's.
Citations FFA History -- Iwilleditu ( talk) 17:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I proposed the Ag-Ed wikiproject. But it was brought to my atttion that it should be a task force under WikiProject Agriculture. So YAY or NAY.
Support
Oppose
Discussion
Hi All,
WOW! Has this grown! I've been kind of busy, but back at the editing now, Just thought I'd let you all know (sorry if this doesn't go here, feel free to delete) ChristianH158 ( talk) 14:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hi,
This article raised a few flags. From what I've read, it basically only covers using N-fixing (legumes) crops, to break up the nitrogen cycle. "Sustainable agriculture" is a much larger topic when we talk about it as farmers. Using zero, or minimum till, Phosphorous inoculants, responsible uses of fertilizers, and chemicals, inter-row cropping, livestock production without hormones, etc. etc.
My question is, should I re-write this article, or do we leave as-is?
ChristianH158 (
talk)
14:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
In response to the above thread, I created {{ Agriculture footer}}:
I have not added it to any articles. Please feel free to use it as desired or to delete it. Rgrds. -- Tombstone ( talk) 19:59, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been tagging several farming equipment related articles this evening. I noticed that some that are very significant, e.g. Tractor hadn't been tagged at all yet. In your travels through wikipedia, if you see an agriculture or agricultural history related article, WP:Bold and put {{WPFarm}} up on the talk page. The more articles we have tagged the sooner we can start assessing them and get a task-force going to improve them! Zharmad ( talk) 04:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to replace our current Welcome introduction with a banner like the one on Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals. It has everything rather neatly organized. In fact, I'd like to change a lot so that the entire page is organized similarly. That means: cutting all shortcuts but WP:AG and WP:FARM, moving Scope to a Subpage, and otherwise modeling it after that fairly clean page. OptimistBen ( talk) 01:24, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I just nominated Sebright (chicken) for GA class. Please do take a look at it, and chime in if the review is held for improvements. Best regards, Van Tucky 19:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
It passed, so we've got another project GA! Van Tucky 03:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
A proposal to add a symbol identifying Good Articles in a similar manner to Featured ones is being discussed: see Wikipedia talk:Good articles#Proposal. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 19:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
In my recent work on chicken breeds, I discovered our project has three articles sex linked chickens. We've got a general sex link page, a red sex link and a black sex link. As sex links are not breeds (they are never bred to one another in a line, they are always the product of first generation cross breeding), I don't think it's appropriate that there are separate articles on black and red sex links. Much of the content of both those is overlapping, and the differences between black/red sex links are so minute that they can easily be covered in a single paragraph. Also considering that there are other sex link varieties, such as Goldens, I think it's best to merge/redirect red sex link and black sex link in the main sex link article. I was just going to boldly do this, but I wanted to check in at the project first. Thoughts? Van Tucky 00:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers! Wassupwestcoast ( talk) 15:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
I have requested a move of Cockscomb to either Comb (anatomy) or Bird comb here. Please feel free to chime in, Van Tucky 00:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey y'all. I just created the long-overdue stub for the American Poultry Association. I would really like a DYK for this, so if you can let's expand this well. It's the oldest livestock organization in the States, so it's an important topic. Thanks, Van Tucky 19:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Could i ask that the shade of this userbox be considerably lightened as it it right now very hard to read? Simply south ( talk) 10:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Please take part in the discussion. As of now, the latter article is essentially a duplicate of the former, with a potential to become a POV-fork. Colchicum ( talk) 17:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Butter has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Ultra! 18:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist 09:50, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 22:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 1046 articles are assigned to this project, of which 310, or 29.6%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subscribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 18:55, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
The article Frozen bovine semen is up for deletion. Input from people familiar with agriculture would be appreciated at the AfD page. Thanks, RayAYang ( talk) 17:06, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Is there no tractor/farm machinery stub? If there is, tag this? FYI, the information in the article is taken from the display plaque on the tractor in the photo...) TREKphiler hit me ♠ 07:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
(moved here from User talk:Doug) Hey there, I just wanted to let you know that my new ag article that was under the AfD axe, Rogers Orchards, survived in a Speedy Keep thanks to a group of people who came to its rescue. It is currently up for DYK consideration. More ag stuff to follow. :) Ecoleetage ( talk) 21:25, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
The one-line article Fruit garden has now been merged into the lead paragraph of Orchard and a redirect from Fruit garden to Orchard has been created. While working on Orchard I anglicized the German word Streuobstwiese as meadow orchard (based on German-English Collins Dictionary, see ref). I would appreciate it if people with better knowledge of this topic would look at the section Meadow orchard and see if it could be improved further.
I also have considerable doubts about Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, India as "a town known for its orchards". Tea gardens/plantations, yes, but orchards? Could someone clarify or edit? -- Zlerman ( talk) 03:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
If I redid your project page? I have recently redid all of the food related pages and would do the same here.
Take a look at the Ice Cream WikiProject page to see an example:
Before : WP Ice cream
After : WP Ice cream
I will not use the same color set (I call it Neapolitan), but will use a stock set of colors in blue.
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:05, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
I know it seems strange, but Animal ethics and probably Animal rights fall within the scope of this project, nothing in our names says we're the WikiProject Pro-Agriculture and we have an interest in ensuring that all articles within our scope are NPOV. I moved Animal Egalitarianism from another user's userspace because it hadn't been worked on for a year and was up for MFD just for being stale. The history of the article is that it was originally created under a completely made up name and nominated for AfD, while pending the author recreated it under the current name. A combination of misunderstandings, people being upset at the recreation, and the name not being in common use resulted in the consensus to delete per WP:NEO, it was userfied. The citations look significant, though I don't have easy access to them, I'll do some looking though. My thought is that this may belong as a section of Animal rights. So if anyone wants to help make this into a useful article please dig in.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 03:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
-- Zlerman ( talk) 05:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Go ahead and work that material in if you want to but I recommend using a merge to do it so the history on the material is preserved and I can safely delete the material on my user subpage.-- Doug.( talk • contribs) 21:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I want to improve this portal but why is this portal named the way it is ? Isn't suppose to be Portal: Agriculture and can we change it ? Beware ofdog 00:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
A request is sent out to help a new editor Amazona with the article Arnold Tremere a nutritonist then agricultural buiness person with the Government of Canada. SriMesh | talk 03:37, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
This is a new list (patterned on Demographics of present-day nations and states and Economies of present-day nations and states) that can be used as a checklist for the creation of missing Agriculture in country articles: zillions of them show as red links in the list. -- Zlerman ( talk) 05:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Please contribute to this discussion. Regards— G716 < T· C> 19:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)