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There was a discussion about the scope here: User_talk:Sswonk#Boston - It is continuing here. Sswonk said: "Your feelings revolve around having the project itself become about "Greater Boston", but I can tell you up front that the definitions and feelings about the geographical space of that concept range widely."
"I don't see a reason to change based on "attract(ing) new contributors"
"There is already a link to the Mass portal on the Boston page. My position would be to promote the "Massachusetts" project more aggressively on the Boston project page, rather than expand the scope of Boston."
"I can see more editors or potential editors becoming offended by suggestion, for example, that "Nashua, New Hampshire is under the scope of WP:Boston" than I can see editors or potential ones being pleased by it."
"It is a minor point, ultimately, see [3], [4] and [5] which show that, as an example, the talk page of Canton, Massachusetts has been viewed 5 times in the past 10 weeks."
WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
With the expansion into the inner suburbs, I found that Tufts University is now a part of the WPBoston scope. I find the development exciting, and hopefully the project can recruit people from Harvard and Tufts to assist in the project. WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:40, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
The reason that I initially created this group was that I felt that the Boston Neighborhoods needed more focus and I wanted to create an easy way for us to do this. On the whole I agree that areas such as Cambridge, Newton and Quincy comprise the Greater Boston Area but I would like to see the focus of this Project to be on the Culture, Community and persons that have made Boston such a unique place. With that said I am just one voice in the project so as always the community should decide. Just a little input from they guy who started the Project. I also want to take as second and thank everyone for taking this project much further than I expected - Great work everyone. Markco1 ( talk) 01:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
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The following subcategory of the Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts has been proposed for deletion: Category:People from 20th-century Boston, Massachusetts. A link to the discussion is provided at the top of the subcategory page. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 08:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
There is currently an RFC about use of the word "Prestigious" in the lead of Harvard University. Comments are welcome here. ~DC Let's Vent 20:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
This building, depicted in Commons:File:Warrenty House, Charlestown, Mass, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg and Commons:File:Warrenty House, Charlestown, Mass, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.png is identified as "Warrenty House" in Charlestown, Mass. That could be a misspelling. I did some basic web searching & couldn't find out anything about it: when built, what it was used for, whether it survives and if not when it was destroyed, etc. If anyone knows something, could you add to the respective Commons pages (additional description or categories would both be welcome). Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 21:29, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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All please comment on West Roxbury there is an attempt to remove this article as they feel neighborhoods of Boston should not exist. This would mean all neighborhoods of Boston could be removed. We need a lot of people on this to save the page. Markco1 ( talk) 23:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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) 19:43, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 |
There was a discussion about the scope here: User_talk:Sswonk#Boston - It is continuing here. Sswonk said: "Your feelings revolve around having the project itself become about "Greater Boston", but I can tell you up front that the definitions and feelings about the geographical space of that concept range widely."
"I don't see a reason to change based on "attract(ing) new contributors"
"There is already a link to the Mass portal on the Boston page. My position would be to promote the "Massachusetts" project more aggressively on the Boston project page, rather than expand the scope of Boston."
"I can see more editors or potential editors becoming offended by suggestion, for example, that "Nashua, New Hampshire is under the scope of WP:Boston" than I can see editors or potential ones being pleased by it."
"It is a minor point, ultimately, see [3], [4] and [5] which show that, as an example, the talk page of Canton, Massachusetts has been viewed 5 times in the past 10 weeks."
WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
With the expansion into the inner suburbs, I found that Tufts University is now a part of the WPBoston scope. I find the development exciting, and hopefully the project can recruit people from Harvard and Tufts to assist in the project. WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:40, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
The reason that I initially created this group was that I felt that the Boston Neighborhoods needed more focus and I wanted to create an easy way for us to do this. On the whole I agree that areas such as Cambridge, Newton and Quincy comprise the Greater Boston Area but I would like to see the focus of this Project to be on the Culture, Community and persons that have made Boston such a unique place. With that said I am just one voice in the project so as always the community should decide. Just a little input from they guy who started the Project. I also want to take as second and thank everyone for taking this project much further than I expected - Great work everyone. Markco1 ( talk) 01:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 03:02, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
The following subcategory of the Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts has been proposed for deletion: Category:People from 20th-century Boston, Massachusetts. A link to the discussion is provided at the top of the subcategory page. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 08:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
There is currently an RFC about use of the word "Prestigious" in the lead of Harvard University. Comments are welcome here. ~DC Let's Vent 20:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
This building, depicted in Commons:File:Warrenty House, Charlestown, Mass, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg and Commons:File:Warrenty House, Charlestown, Mass, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.png is identified as "Warrenty House" in Charlestown, Mass. That could be a misspelling. I did some basic web searching & couldn't find out anything about it: when built, what it was used for, whether it survives and if not when it was destroyed, etc. If anyone knows something, could you add to the respective Commons pages (additional description or categories would both be welcome). Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 21:29, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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 Boston 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!
For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 22:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
All please comment on West Roxbury there is an attempt to remove this article as they feel neighborhoods of Boston should not exist. This would mean all neighborhoods of Boston could be removed. We need a lot of people on this to save the page. Markco1 ( talk) 23:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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) 19:43, 27 November 2010 (UTC)