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I don't know if anyone cares, but i've been fighting a one-man battle to keep this category from being deleted. Please sound off if you have an opinion. Amerique dialectics 22:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
User:Cooljuno411 and I seem to have a bit of a disagreement about how {{ Public Transportation in Greater San Diego}} should be formatted. Since the template talk page states the template is part of this WikiProject, I thought I'd bring the discussion here to get a few more opinions. Cooljuno feels that the template is similar to the infoboxes and should be left-aligned (but, for some reason, in the See Also section, which not all of the appropriate articles would otherwise have, such as McClellan-Palomar Airport), while I feel it belongs at the bottom of the page with the other navigation templates and should be the width of the article, as seen in this revision. Thoughts? -- Hawaiian717 22:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Greetings,
Please help. User: Flixthecat85 has repeatedly vandalized the Fuller Theological Seminary article. Me and other editors have helped maintain the site with a moderate, unbiased perspective for the past few months, but this guy just recently started making significant edits and deletions without any discussion. He primarily has vandalized the criticisms section, making me think that he is a Fuller alum or current student that is very biased and doesn't want to see any criticism of his school, even though it is fair (Fuller is a very controversial school). Please investigate, warn him if he doesn't stop he will be blocked, and restore the criticisms section that he recently vandalized yesterday.
Thanks,
-manutdglory —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manutdglory ( talk • contribs) 09:31, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
So can you help? -manutdglory
A response posted also on the Fuller Theological Seminary site in response to Amerique's moderation:
Thank you, Amerique. The policies seem very clear (after all, most of what you stated about referenced material, etc. is well known to most experienced wikipedians). If you check the history, all I did (and what other users did that was also undone) was to note what was unreferenced material, and after a while this unreferenced material was removed. I find it disappointing that a user (especially someone describing himself as a committed Christian) would repeatedly undo changes and assume that others are not acting in good faith, ignoring our comments about why exactly this was done and even trying to get others blocked. However, I am (and always will be) happy to work with him on any referenced facts to make sure that articles are accurate. Flixthecat85 ( talk) 06:07, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Amanita ocreata is at FAC - good public health one...cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 05:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Greetings: I am reposting a request that I originally posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment last week, in hopes of attracting another collaborator:
I've just made a rather shocking and very dismaying discovery: There's no article about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In fact, on all of Wikipedia, there are no more than a handful of passing references to this event. It's not even mentioned in the List of oil spills. Yikes! How on earth is this possible??? This is mind-boggling. In all seriousness, this is undoubtedly the most glaring omission I have ever found on Wikipedia (and, believe me, I've found more than a few). We are talking about the single event that was most directly responsible for launching the modern environmental movement on a mass scale. It's no mere coincidence that Earth Day 1970 took place just months later.
Especially with two oil spill eco-disasters currently under way, I hope I'm not alone in feeling that creation of this article should be a very high priority for this Project. I am in the middle of some very time-consuming things elsewhere on Wikipedia right now, but I promise that I will join in on a collaboration to write this article. Please reply here, and leave a note on my talk page, if you are interested -- especially if you've got good sourcing material. Regards, -- Cgingold ( talk) 22:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- I saw your comments and I appreciate your suggestion to make an article on this oil spill accident. Most likely, I will start an article on this on coming Wednesday. OhanaUnited Talk page 13:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
If you're interested, please reply at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment#Santa Barbara oil spill and/or my talk page#Santa Barbara oil spill. Regards, Cgingold ( talk) 19:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
A merger was proposed from The Twomps, Oakland, California to San Antonio, Oakland, California. It may benefit from your input, discussion is at Talk:San Antonio, Oakland, California. Thanks. -- Pepve ( talk) 22:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd appreciate it if someone could answer my question. Thanks, Yonatan talk 03:12, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Greetings from WikiProject Oregon! ( Sometimes known as WikiProject California's WikiProject Canada.) You might want to check on your history article. We've been working with a well-meaning editor who turned our History of Oregon, that was previously a redirect to the history section of the Oregon article, into a collection of templates. While the controversy continues over whether this user's work is helpful, it has finally got one of our members to actually write an article there, since the template solution was universally diapproved of. Meanwhile, your history article, which until recently was a soft redirect to a couple articles covering certain areas of history, is a collection of templates, which may or may not be what you want there. Happy editing! Katr67 ( talk) 17:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have a good source for city limits of California cities, in particular Paramount, with good enough precision to tell whether they are on the sides or centerlines of streets? Thank you. -- NE2 13:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Good morning. I recently updated the SVG for the Flag of California. The new version is designed to better reflect the colors of the bear as well as give a more accurate depiction of how it rendered on the flag. In particular, I attempted to get the textures and shapes as accurate as possible. I used an actual California Flag as a reference (I scanned it into my computer for tracing). Anyway, I would like to hear your opinions on the changes ... and if we should revert to the other version or keep this one. I wouldn't mind changing the colors of the bear to be more "vibrant" (match the current version). When this is complete, perhaps someone could replace the existing file on Wikimedia Commons (I created an account, but it is far too new). I also added this topic to the California discussion. Thanks for your time. - DevinCook ( talk) 15:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings once again from Oregon. I was tidying up Wikipedia:U.S. cities without articles by removing bluelinks and noticed a couple to point out to you before they are deleted. Crowley Lake, California and Lake Almanor, California both redirect to their respective lake articles but don't mention any settlement by the same name. June Lake (California) is a good example of incorporating both features into an article. But sometimes there isn't actually a settlement named after a feature, it's just a naming convention mistake. I'll leave that to y'all to figure out. Also, I redirected Mi-Wuk, California to Mi-Wuk Village, California, I'm assuming they are the same place, but sometimes these kinds of names indicate separate locales. Happy editing! I hope you are staying warmer than we are. Katr67 ( talk) 19:08, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey everyone. I just created a new version of the California Barnstar. Initially, I saw an image linked in the "images that should have an SVG" section on Wikipedia. After I created the graphic, another user pointed out that someone else had beat me to it. Anyway, I would like to hear what you guys think of the graphic I created. Should we use this one or the other?
I also created a new template designed to have the basic colors and appearance of the California Flag.
THE CALIFORNIA BARNSTAR | |
I award you this barnstar for your considerable efforts on improving articles related to the California Republic. -- (4 tildes) |
Also, I can create a new graphic for the California Portal template. This one would have to be simple given the size constraints. Perhaps it can have a red star centered at the top with the bear centered below it. Anyway, please give me your feedback. - DevinCook ( talk) 00:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I think the current image is fine, really. Matching the colors wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't thik we need to replace the images, but why don't you ask some other people to comment. -- evrik ( talk) 14:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have an opinion regarding modifying the California Barnstar Box? The original image will stay the same.- DevinCook ( talk) 23:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Under the "Claim to Fame" heading, I really can't believe French Camp was the first city west of the Mississippi. How about Santa Fe? Overall, the article reads as if it were copied straight out of an older history book.
Castle Lake (California) is a current Good article nominee. NorCalHistory ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Great idea, DevinCook, thx! NorCalHistory ( talk) 15:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Just did a new stubbish article on the historic Bradshaw Trail if anyone's interested. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 09:26, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks much. I've harbored an interest in the local history of the Coachella Valley ever since I moved here. In fact, I started a lot of California-based articles under my old username and expanded the Coachella Valley article and a lot of its related articles. I did a slew of work on the Route 66 article as well. Just off the top of my head, here are some of my originals:
I originally wrote Wigwag (railroad) which was invented in Los Angeles and June McCarroll, a nurse in Indio who first proposed separating two opposite lanes of a highway with a painted white line. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 19:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Just added Wiley's Well as a sort of companion piece to Bradshaw Trail...which is a DYK feature today! Woo-hoo! -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 07:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a guideline for which articles should have the California template? Specifically, should it only be used in articles that have links in the template? Or, is it okay to include it in other articles about places in California, for example, articles about state or national parks? — Mudwater ( Talk) 13:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
A lot of new stuff at Panama-California Exposition (1915) could use an evaluation rating. -- SEWilco ( talk) 04:54, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 45 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 15:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in forming Wikimedia California? Geoff Plourde ( talk) 01:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I added the California Wikiproject to this article's talkpage, as it could use some input on the role/experience of Kanakas in California; I only know about their presence there from a Canadian-written book, Kanaka by Tom Koppel (not Ted). The Kanaka article was originally written only from an Australasian/South Pacific standpoint, where the term is derisive and associated with plantation slavery; in BC and California it's associated with the gold rush and, earlier, the fur trade. Not sure how much Californian-Kanaka history there is, but I know there's some; the Kanaka placenames in California (see List of Chinook Jargon placenames under "k") must have stories associated with them, maybe some worth articles also. Koppel's book, which I no longer own, has some stats on how many Hawaiians there were in gold rush California, and other details...this is also posted on the Talk:History of California to 1899 page Skookum1 ( talk) 13:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
With the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage coming up on April 26, I have nominated Manzanar to be on Wikipedia's main page on that date. Please add your support for that at Today's featured article requests. Thank you! -- Gmatsuda ( talk) 21:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I revised Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California, Template:WikiProject California, and WikiProject California images to give WikiProject California and California based photographers better information regarding California articles needing photographs. GregManninLB ( talk) 17:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
my husband was to a lady who lived on th hat creek resevation and was put up for adoption. we now have two boys and would like to know how to go about getting his indian numbers for our boys. if there is some one who can help us please respond to t.georgana@yahoo.com thank you so much —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.252.164.4 ( talk) 23:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Does there really need to be three displays of the coordinates in a single article?.
1. First sentence in section Geography.
2. Above infobox.
3. Inside infobox.
Is this information that a reader can use? I'm referring to the Cobb, California article.
Marcia Wright ( talk) 16:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
No, make that four references to coordinates, the last one under external links. These are CDP's in Lake County, but I stll don't see this many references as useful . Marcia Wright ( talk) 15:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
If there are no objections, I will go ahead and remove all but one coordinate, keeping the coordinates listed in the infobox. That seems the most appropriate place for this information Marcia Wright ( talk) 16:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I spent several hours last night rewriting this article to try to limit the influx of fringe theories into it. I would now appreciate several more sets of eyes and some comments on the talk page of the article in an effort to vaguely establish a consensus for the rewrite compared to its original version. This has been prompted by IP reversions and my suspicion that the edits I've make are rather contentious for some. I hope you can help! Best wishes Fritzpoll ( talk) 16:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Someone has placed French Laundry up for deletion. The WP:AFD discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/French_Laundry. — EncMstr ( talk) 04:58, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Is the term Eastern Sierra in common usage? This question arose in relation to Template:High Desert/ Eastern Sierra Radio High Desert (California) has an article but Eastern Sierra doesn't which makes me wonder if it's notable enough to describe this area of California. While not every metro (or not so metro in this case) area has a Wikipedia article, those that are used in these radio market navigation markets should have articles to assist browsers in answering the question "where the heck is Eastern Sierra" for themselves. An opinion from someone with more knowledge of the area would be helpful.-- Rtphokie ( talk) 12:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody add the Councilwoman's blog as an external link? www.janicehahn.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewac ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what else you might have to add; bio articles on namesake family/company seem called for but mostly English history (see google for this name). Skookum1 ( talk) 22:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Although this article is listed as a Featured Article, it no longer meets the criteria. For the most part, it looks very good. There is a lack of references throughout the article, though. If the article can be thoroughly referenced, I have no problem with it remaining as a Featured Article. I wanted to mention this to the relevant WikiProjects to see if anyone is willing to work on the sourcing for this article. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 21:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi; please see Talk:Kanaka#Kanaka_placenames_in_California. Skookum1 ( talk) 04:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
A request for comment has been posted at Talk:Harvey Milk#REQUEST FOR COMMENT: Milk's involvement with Jim Jones/Peoples Temple. Other editor's input would be appreciated. Banje boi 04:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Many of the articles on lighthouses and light stations included in List of Registered Historic Places in California have been moved from "Foo Point Lighthouse" or "Foo Point Light Station" to "Foo Point Light." This is done without discussion in most cases. Some existing articles were simply changed to redirects to new articles with the new naming convention adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses.
Please review the discussion regarding the propsal to move Point Reyes Lighthouse to Point Reyes Light at Talk:Point Reyes Lighthouse.-- Hjal ( talk) 07:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Anonymous editors have been changing the wording of Berkeley Oak Grove Protest, and article in your project's scope, and have recently added a NPOV template. I'd like opinions from other editors, so please stop on by and leave a comment here! Thanks! -- Falcorian (talk) 20:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Ohlone and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a few issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 05:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I have been currently involved in a heated debate regarding the name and the header of {{ County of Los Angeles}}. Because the creator wants the scope of the template to just list the county's departments, board of supervisors, and other government-run offices, I have been arguing for a more specific title than just "County of Los Angeles". It has become so heated that I have accused him of WP:OWN. Therefore, I would appreciate if others could post their opinions on the matter at Template talk:County of Los Angeles#Might need to be renamed to help settle this dispute. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:42, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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Herberger for years has published the local paper for Lodi, California, which is also within the market for the single Stockton, California newspaper, the Stockton Record. While both are small-town, the Record is probably closest to a full-spectrum newspaper (although many discerning and more metropolitan readers also take the Sacramento Bee or papers from the San Francisco Bay Area). The Lodi paper is a local fixture, and long-standing. Herberger also publishes some other sleepy-town local advertising nostalgia papers in surrounding burgs. Those residents of Lodi who are most vocal would argue that Herberger vindicates the small town's need to distinguish itself from Stockton, but many residents and readers know and politically disagree with members of the Herberger publishing family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.93.206 ( talk) 08:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge 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. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I edited this category page, completing it by adding every counties template! Believing that something should be got right once and then used, rather than multiple reconstructions. Thus
-- Category:Cities in California by county can be changed from a category to an article and existing categorizations deleted.
-- Category:Cities in California should be an article generated from the county templates (sorry, I'm a zero at tools/tool writing).
I did the same thing (adding county templates) for Category:Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. If people believe that a list in alpha order is required (I don't - the Wikipedia search function works and so does Googles) then the same tool as for state (above) is needed.
Again, rely on your templates and stop the multiple categorization of cities, etc - getting the templates right is hard enough, let alone multiple redundant categorizations of every city/burg.
And yes, I messed up some of those redundant categorizations before catching onto the curious distinctions being made in categorizing cities, unincorporated, ... entities.(curious as in why do you do it - what question do you think is commonly asked to justify such low level distinctions in an encyclopedia?) Apologies, I hope the net total of my edits was positive ( Mare Island is not in San Francisco bay).
If there is an option on templates for "show" instead of the normal "hide", that might be appropriate for these uses. 69.106.246.31 ( talk) 10:21, 25 August 2008 (UTC) Add links here. 69.106.246.31 ( talk) 15:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
(1) Every county has at least two categories: 'Cities of ...' and 'Communities of ...' Given your county templates that is unnecessary complexity. You will serve users better by deleting the Cities of ... categories and including the county template in the 'Communities of ...' category page. That way there is only one list of cities (your current arrangement has two lists: the list in the template and those cities categorized 'cities of ...'. The two lists are rarely the same!) No information is lost.
(2) Some cities, Newport Beach, for example have both an article Newport Beach and a category Category:Newport Beach, California. In the county template you link to the article, but you should link to the category. You, the creators of templates, don't know the intent of the user, don't know what is being searched for. The editors of Newport Beach found a structure necessary to describe the wonders of Newport Beach but that structure is not obvious to casual (most) Wikipedia users (only a repetition of the name at the very bottom of the article - if they even read to the bottom) so please link to the category -- users will find all of Newport beach's sand! 69.106.246.31 ( talk) 16:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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I've worked on a possible redesign of this project's page based on the one I did for WP:SFBA, it is in User:Optigan13/Sandbox 3 right now, so take a look at let me know if anyone has any concerns. I still need to organize several subpages and rework the participants list, so it may be some time until the page would be updated. Once the page is updated I would poll the participants to check our total number of active members. - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:32, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Does Monterey County, California has a well-defined or commonly-accepted region that it's generally held to belond to? It seems to be wedged between Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley, without belong to any of them. Alai ( talk) 18:02, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
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This biography has been recently rewritten to coincide with the anniversary of their death on November 27 as well as a feature film on them released around the same date. While awaiting further research material on request from libraries as well as some licensing for images it is now in a peer review. Other editors are welcome to offer constructive feedback and assistance. -- Banjeboi 04:35, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the article, specifically Image:Hayedeh6.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 20:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
After being subjected to a massive face-lift Gorman, California is ready to meet her public. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
In addition to Gorman, California, above, the following new or heavily revised articles are now ready for your perusal and cooperation in improving them: Neenach, California, Sandberg, California, Scheideck, California, Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, Frazier Park, California, Lake of the Woods, California, Lebec, California, Three Points, California. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
After working on the bio of Theodore Lukens, who was a Pasadena citizen and conservationist,etc., I had the idea of a bulletin board/noticeboard for editors who can and would be willing to collaborate on articles in their geographical area. I live in Lake County and could help someone who needed newspaper/library sources dealing with this area of Lake County, for example. So, if I could find someone in/near Pasadena to do the same for articles related to that area via a bulletin board page here in WP California... If this idea has been brought up previously, my apologies.
Thank you in advance, Sincerely, Marcia Marcia Wright ( talk) 15:47, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone improve the links to Redondo Beach pier, so "Pier" with a capital P also links there, or tell me how to do it. Also I couldn't find article for the Manhattan Beach pier and Hermosa Beach pier, but these are pretty big attractions in CA. ( ChocoCereal ( talk) 18:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC))
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I created Template:California business citation to allow article inline citations to California business' listed at sos.ca.gov. This may come in handy when referring to a California business that does not have its own Wikipedia article (and perhaps unlikely to have its own Wikipedia article), yet the reader may benefit from access to additional information on the business. The template was modeled after Template:US trademark. -- Suntag ☼ 15:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at Image:SLO_Bear.jpg. Unless we find the details on this sculpture, we'll have to delete it. So if someone can find the name of the artist, when the sculpture was erected, and check all inscriptions on the sculpture such as dates, signatures, copyright notice, it would be most welcome. Teofilo talk 16:09, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=50924&provider-top . A Local media outlet has a encounter with a UFO while engaged in a sporting event. Powerzilla ( talk) 20:30, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I am a representative of York School so I should not be the one to edit, so I am requesting a neutral editor take a look at an edit made by an anonymous user to to the York School entry on October 13. I believe this edit does not represent a neutral point of view. My explanation is on the talk page of the edit. Thank you! Brookhouser ( talk) 22:05, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
The Rick Warren article has been repeatedly vandalized by dozens of unestablished users over the past couple days and need to have a partial lock added ASAP.
Manutdglory ( talk) 23:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
I found this book on Google Books (which lets you "preview" almost the entire book online) and have been using it for cities, former settlements, etc. in Yolo County. Its been a really good resource and it has snippets of information for (virtually) every geographic place name in California. Just wanted to drop the link off here in case anybody else wanted to use it for anything they're working on that is California related. Killiondude ( talk) 08:55, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Some time ago I created the List of mountain ranges of California based on USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data. With the help of a Perl script (computer program) to generate stub text from GNIS data, I added 216 stub pages to fill in the list. It was still a manual cut & paste process as I tried to collect some additional info for each one when available. There are no more redlinks on the list - meaning there is at least a stub article for every mountain range in California. (Well, that's for the ones listed in GNIS.) Also, all the mountain range pages in California which already existed now have a geobox, locator map, coordinates and a reference from USGS GNIS if they didn't already have these. Enjoy! Ikluft ( talk) 08:39, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
I would like to add a "group" to this template titled National Wilderness Preservation System, just wanted to drop a note here on the talk page so if there are any objections, we can discuss them. This template is already huge but it is incorrectly categorizing the wilderness areas. Not all wilderness areas are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management's National Landscape Conservation project.
Ideally, this template could be split into two separate templates-one state protected areas and the other federal protected areas within the state. Any thoughts on this? Happy New Year to all as well! Regards, Marcia Wright ( talk) 14:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
P.S.
Upon further thought-just replacing "National Landscape Wilderness System" (a BLM program) with " National Wilderness Preservation System" (encompasses all WAs) is the best thing to do. Does not inlarge the template and is more accurate.
I'll go ahead and do this and hopefully not screw up the tempplate. ;) Cheers
Marcia Wright (
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15:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Done! I would ask that you look them over to see if they are "ready for primetime" please.- Navboxes
Marcia Wright ( talk) 17:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
The University of California Natural Reserve System has 29 Natural Reserves (currently red links) awaiting creation. I'm copying this request to the UC project as well. Viriditas ( talk) 10:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
I just would like to bring attention to the sorry state of the San Diego article. The San Diego article lacks a decent Lead, content, logical structure, sources, and good prose among other things. There are few regular editors of this article, so if there are any editors in this project that are bored and arent busy, we would be grateful if you Wikipedians could dedicate some time to this Top-priority WikiProject California article. Thanks! Anon134 ( talk) 03:58, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
In reading [Presidio of Sonoma]] just now, it occurred to me that it's part of Mexican history; would it not be approrpriate on such articles to also have WP:Mexico? For example, on Russian America articles, such as Fort Ross, WP:Russia or WP:Russian history appear (WP:Russian history is being merged so I'll truncate that WP on that page); doesn't it make sense that all Mexican/New Spain articles in relation to California (or Arizona etc.) also have WP:Mexico? Skookum1 ( talk) 15:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 21:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm in no mood right now to try and integrate what was needlessly deleted/substituted with what is now in place instead, and I'm not a Californian and unfamiliar with "Russian California"; there's half-a-dozen new bits of information there, all in need of cites, but the article already needed a lot of line-cites to start with. I hadn't heard of the farming settlements beyond Fort Ross - Kustov? Rustov? - or the "hunting settlement" on the Farallons....what I have noticed is a lot of Russian America articles with overblown non-facts, such as the (alleged) existence of Russian settlements in Oregon, Washington and BC...I"m not saying there weren't any - news to me if there were - but if there were, or there were Russian settlements outside of Fort Ross, then citations for this are definitely needed, and also items on the geographic/town articles where these settlements were alleged to have been. Fort Ross was in any case shut down in very short order as t h need for its existence was solved by closer supplies from Hudson's Bay farms (i.e. for the Russian presence in what's now Alaska, where food-growing is dififcult, and often just not possible). I'll cross-post this to WP:Russia, I'm hoping others may shepherd the facts in this article, and also control what non-facts may surface.....mostly right now I'm concerned that some bits of information, e.g. California's first windmills, were wholesale deleted (but weren't actually cited anyway, not line-cited that is; the info is in one of the park's promotional brochures/writeups I'd think, which are in the references. Skookum1 ( talk) 01:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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Just to let you all know, I have three articles, Franklin Knight Lane, Jerry Voorhis, and Murray Chotiner, all part of your project, at GAN. Help with reviews would be greatly appreciated. I intend to push all three on to FA.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 17:26, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I recently stumbled upon Electoral reform in California, which greatly needs expansion. I've posted my initial thoughts on its talk page. Gentgeen ( talk) 09:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a member of new Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic sites which is just starting up a Task force on California historic sites, at shortcut wp:CALHSITES. To develop coverage of California Historical Landmarks, various city and county historic registers, etc.
To the management here as a whole, would you like to co-sponsor this, and make California historic sites a task force under this wikiproject, too? There is some general info about Task forces at WP:TASKFORCE. The master example is wp:MILHIST with its, well, militarily coordinated multiple units.
To anyone individually, management or otherwise, please feel free to jump ship and come work on historic sites, instead of other California topics. :) It's fun, you get to take pictures, it's easier than birding because ur targets are stationary. doncram ( talk) 05:51, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Could somebody who is active with WikiProject California please explain why the article about this film is considered part of it? Thank you very much. 67.79.157.50 ( talk) 14:25, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
KIndly visit the above article and comment on the Discussion Page as to whether the lists of California ranchos should be split into their own pages instead of following the main text of the article. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 04:31, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
The project's template ( Template talk:WikiProject California#New version of template) has recently been updated using the meta banner template. As part of this recent update I was planning to request an bot assisted assessment of all pages in Category:Unassessed California articles (8,371 pages as of this writing). An auto assessment was apparently conducted in the past by User:Betacommandbot on the articles presently in Category:Automatically assessed California articles. Would anyone object to a bot assessment of articles? - Optigan13 ( talk) 22:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello -- I was told that in the 1930s and 1940s, Gypsies lived in the area of Gardenland, California, near Sacramento. I was told they interacted with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. I've been unable to find any confirming information at all. The gypsies made a practice of staying out of public notice, so this is tricky, and a little piece of arcana. Anyone? Thank you. Bek1a ( talk) 04:46, 22 April 2009 (UTC) bek1a
If someone has some time can they perform an assessment on the last two articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment#Requesting an assessment or re-assessment. I've just assessed/reassessed several others listed there and was planning on removing the section since it becomes just one more place to watchlist to look for assessments. - Optigan13 ( talk) 05:41, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I've proposed converting WikiProject Southern California into a task force of this project. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southern California#Changing to task force of WikiProject California - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I've now tagged WP:SOCAL as a task force of this project, the bot updates of the templates are on hold until some other possible merges/demotions are considered. I'll try to look into how to best add overlapping task force tags to the project banner for when a project is a task force of two larger projects. - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi is there any chance somebody can run through the towns and settlements in California and add a pin map of the location. I find the urban area locator maps within county maps very unsightly and difficult to follow. This is the same for most states. It is possible somebody could sort them out as from a world persective its difficult to follow unlike other countries. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:01, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Please see my comment on Template talk:Protected Areas of California#Breaking into sections. I've proposed breaking a template up into several templates based on how large it is right now. Thanks. Killiondude ( talk) 05:41, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Please comment: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Greater_Los_Angeles_Area. There is a related discussion on a substitute template here: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Southern_California. Amerique dialectics 18:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on possibly converting WikiProject Santa Barbara County into a task force of this project. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Santa Barbara County#Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California. - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on converting WikiProject University of California into a task force of this project. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_University_of_California#Converting_to_task_force_of_WikiProject_California. - Optigan13 ( talk) 05:46, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that the Humboldt State University (CSU) info page( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_State_University) lists the "Average Undergraduate Class Size: 25[6]." I have studied at Humboldt State for a few years and have attended a few graduation ceremonies to watch my friends recive their bachelors degrees. The annual group of candidates is definitely well over 25. The total number of graduates per year is probably over 700. I could not find any specific statistics, but if anyone knows how to find this out it'd be great if they wanted to update this information. Thanks, Kristen Cowan 08:25, 11 May 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.227.10.28 ( talk)
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt ( talk) 01:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Please see my comments at Talk:California State Legislature, 1999–2000 session. The job needs to get finished. Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
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I would like to devote a separate article to sports MBA (see sports MBA), it's now listed as to be deleted because it's also mentioned on the page of College of Business San Diego State University. However, the content is distinctive and only the name is listed on the CB site now. Is it possible to split the section that mentions the sports MBA on the source page and link to the new sports MBA page?
Mariskar84 ( talk) 21:44, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rob Pelinka/archive1.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:43, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.
We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.
If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 05:05, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I wondered if someone could assess Victor Valley College. The article was auto-rated, I believe I did enough to get it out of Stub-class and would appreciate feedback on further improvement. 216.117.192.91 ( talk) 09:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
A discussion regarding the Golden Gate Bridge is taking place here. An outside opinion would be helpful. Thank you. APK lives in a very, very Mad World 19:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
This page has been a target for vandalism in the last 6 months: someone added Ronaldinho in the "notable alumni" section and the "History" section was vandalized and erased many times. Yaaargggh ( talk) 18:52, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Where do I go to complain about the Infoboxes somebody is adding to certain pages, like Mettler, California. The one there is redundant, repetitive, and virtually useless. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:59, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I am speaking of the infobox, and my question was, "Where do I go to complain about the Infoboxes somebody is adding to certain pages . . . " Is this the page? And can you please direct me to the "consensus" you mentioned? Thank you so much, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 22:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much. I will digest that page, which I had not seen before. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
This might seem off topic, but it is sort of pertinent to this WikiProject. Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed the closure of 220 out of the 279 State parks (80%). This would affect many of the state park articles, which all fall under this project. Anyways, there's news reports everywhere, but here's a link to the San Jose Mercury News
[2]. I find it interesting that this is happening, just as I started to work more on California State Park articles, and spent hours of work on the {{
Protected Areas of California}}
template :-(
Killiondude (
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03:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I recently encountered this new name for my old nabe, then pulled together a little history of the area that I've known since 1963 as the "Gaza Strip." Comments, corrections, feedback welcome. -- KathleenSeidel ( talk) 02:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Several different images are currently being used on links to the California portal. What is your preference? Is there a consensus favorite?
Please discuss at Portal talk:California#Portal link images.
Links to the other state portals are displayed at Wikipedia:List of U.S. state portals. Yours aye, Buaidh ( talk) 14:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
There's been an effort to import unincorporated communities in California from the USGS database into WP articles. If you'd like to comment on or discuss this effort, please feel free to join the discussion at WT:WikiProject Cities#Systematic inclusion of GNIS unincorporated communities. Thanks! — hike395 ( talk) 09:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I have compiled a list, through AWB, of California Historical Landmarks and NRHPs articles (in California) that need photos. Any help taking pictures of these buildings/places would be greatly appreciated. Tonight I began to search for photos on Flickr to upload to Commons, and I already found a few. If you can help in that regard, that would be appreciated as well. If you do find a picture for any of these articles, please take it off my list and take the "req photo in" template off of the talk page. This list is is in no way exhaustive, it only contains articles that have been properly categorized and tagged.
The list is here. Killiondude ( talk) 08:17, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
If anyone monitoring this page would kindly put {{ Greater Los Angeles Area}} on their watchlist i'm sure people interested in reading about this area would appreciate it. Thanks. Amerique dialectics 20:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I've just noticed Wikipedia:WikiProject Inland Empire and was thinking that it might be better if it worked as a taskforce of this project rather than a separate one. What do people think? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 07:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
I've started discussions on possibly converting WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area to a task force at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area#Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California. Please respond there. I've also proposed moving Wikiproject California Delta to a task force location. See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California Delta#Requested move and comment there. - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I've proposed converting Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles into a task force of this project. Please respond with any thoughts, objections, etc. at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Los Angeles#Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California. - Optigan13 ( talk) 23:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Talk:University_of_California,_San_Diego/GA2 Somebody nomed UCSD for GA today, please assist if you have time. Amerique dialectics 23:23, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Is the defunct motorbike store Mother's Motors of any verifiable significance, and if so are there any reliable sources for it? Its article, quaintly written in the historical present tense, cites three sources but I think these could all be termed elusive, unreliable or both. A fairly typical sentence:
which mixes trivia and name-dropping.
See its talk page too.
I'll crosspost this to the motorcycling project. -- Hoary ( talk) 23:02, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI for WikiProject California participants: I created and populated Category:Northern California. This was created to complement its counterpart Category:Southern California, but for the 48 counties north of the intuitive east-west dividing line at Monterey/Kings/Tulare/Inyo Counties.
The timing of this addition got accelerated by some other events. Background info: I had already created Category:Upstate California to go along with the Upstate California article, for the 20 northernmost counties, after enough references were available to show the term is in sufficiently significant use at the state and local levels. Over time I also created 430 new articles (mostly stubs but all with refs at least from USGS) for mountain ranges in California and Nevada, split about 50-50 between the two states. In California, I categorized the articles under Category:Mountain ranges of Southern California (which already existed), Category:Mountain ranges of Northern California (which I created) and Category:Mountain ranges of Upstate California (which I created). I noticed no one had yet created a category for Northern California, and it was an obvious gap between all these other existing categories. So that had to be next.
Yesterday a proposal was made to rename Category:Upstate California to Category:Northern California. The proposal is a subject of current discussion. I wish that the proposer had asked about this first. One option would be to pursue a large amount of talking, hand-waving and debating about what the Northern California category should look like. But it wouldn't be as convincing as showing where it fits as the final piece of this enormous puzzle. Since there's no prohibition from creating the category and doing the work to populate it, I went ahead and did it. Having already done very similar work on constructing other categories, it came together more quickly than expected.
The discussion brought attention to another gap which I had previously noticed. I have now filled it by creating Category:Mountain ranges of the San Francisco Bay Area and recategorizing articles into it. Originally the thought was that we should keep consistent categories between Northern and Southern California. For the most part they already existed for Southern California so that was the example to follow. (i.e. Category:Mountain ranges of Southern California) As the categorization effort proceeded, Category:Mountain ranges of Northern California and Category:Mountain ranges of Upstate California were made. A question was brought up about why subdivide it by Upstate California since there were no other subcategories. Well, yeah, not until the Bay Area category was created. :-) So it's there now. That should answer the question. It's just simple subcategorization. But anywhere it isn't consistent, questions come up. Ikluft ( talk) 23:52, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I've just joined this project and am excited to help out. I've previously done some editing on local California places, mainly smaller cities. I am interested in discussing the Central Valley's Wikipedia presence with other editors. The main C.V. article is assessed "top importance" but only "start class" quality. I think the material needs a lot of development and possibly some re-thinking. The Sac Valley and SJ Valley articles also have their problems and overlap considerably with the main article. Any interest in creating a Valley subproject? ferretstew ( talk) 09:12, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI: I created and populated Category:Mount Shasta and subcat Category:Glaciers of Mount Shasta.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ikluft ( talk • contribs) 20:31, July 28, 2009
FYI: I created and populated the categories Category:Mojave Air & Space Port and Category:Edwards Air Force Base. Ikluft ( talk) 17:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
San Francisco International Airport has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 01:36, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
I am requesting a reassessment for Anna Escobedo Cabral. It's had significant work done since last assessed, about tripled in size, re-ordered, etc. Thanks. The Original Historygeek ( talk) 06:26, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
0 articles in Category:California articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that California is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
An inpass in a recent clean up of the List of people from California which is within this project's scope has been brought up by myself in the talk page listed in this new section's title. Please see the article's edit history as to reason why individual was removed, and why said removal was reverted. I am seeking a compromise between complete removal, and complete readdition, which would lead to a possible future edit war which would not be in the best interest of the goal of Wikipedia or our Wikiproject. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 09:29, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Seeking consensus here, but why is it that this article of an important and influential state-wide politician is only rated as Mid, while Tupac Shakur is rated as high? I contest while both are definitely already Notable, that in the scope of the WikiCaliforna Project that their importance classes should be switched, with Senator Feinstein being High, and Tupac being rated mid. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 13:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Well there's no real clear suggestions outside of Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Assessment#Importance scale which I'm not sure how applicable that is to us. How about for politicians at least,
As for the rest of the people in Category:California politicians, I tend to want to put them at low by default, but that's largely because I'm not sure how important it is for people to know who the Lt Governor or State Controller was. I'm sure there will be exceptions for early local politicians and others, but this is just more of a general guideline as opposed to any firm criteria. - Optigan13 ( talk) 20:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 has been waiting for a GA reviewer for over a month. Anyone care to take a shot at it?-- Wehwalt ( talk) 20:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking it might be interesting to add a popular pages list for this project ( tools:~alexz/pop/) see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages for example. Not sure how useful it would be, but since it's bot updated it should be pretty straightforward. I'm thinking the default configuration with the subpage being at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Popular pages, and with 500 pages listed. Anyone have any thoughts, objections, etc. - Optigan13 ( talk) 00:47, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
The list of California's forts at Category:Forts in California contains less forts than the list at List of forts in California —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imonmywaynow ( talk • contribs) 22:01, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
The 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is coming up in 1½ months, on October 18. I'd like to see the article rushed through the GA process, and then through the FA process, in time for it to appear featured on the Main page on its anniversary. What it needs most are references for entire paragraphs that have none, especially in the 1989 World Series section which I think contains some original research. Binksternet ( talk) 02:50, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Lake Tahoe has been nominated for the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. If you have any comments, feel free to add them to the nomination. Vegaswikian ( talk) 02:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm requesting that the WikiProject California group take a look at the Avalon, California page. I'm new to Wikipedia, and I'm not sure where to start in improving this article. I would greatly appreciate any input from the project group so that I will know where the article stands as of right now in terms of quality and importance and what I can do to improve the quality. Thank you for your help. mcd51 17:53, 29 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcd51 ( talk • contribs)
OK, I've taken at least an initial pass at all of the suggestions for this page. I would appreciate it if Optigan13, along with any other users watching this page, would come take a look at my changes. I'm looking for a reassessment of the article's quality rating and any tips or suggestions for moving it further up the quality scale. Thanks for all the help!-- mcd51 ( talk) 17:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Oakland Raiders has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 16:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluewater,_California) is a hoax. Please remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.187.44.4 ( talk • contribs)
Please see Talk:Southern_California_Chinatowns and Talk:Chinatown, Talk:Chinatowns in Canada and the United States and related article talk-pages. Either citations for actual common-use (not promotional use) of places like Rowland Park as "Chinatown" should be provided or the article in question should either be deleted or renamed. Skookum1 ( talk) 18:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I've now added support for Californian counties to the {{ coord missing}} tag, and subcategorized 3600 of the articles under Category:California articles missing geocoordinate data into their respective per-county categories. I hope this helps geocoding these articles. If you wish, you are also welcome to join the general geocoding project at WP:COORD. -- The Anome ( talk) 01:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
There are probably about a dozen courthouses missing from this page. Nine of them are at the FJC cite in the external links, the rest, locals may know better. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject California to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 06:02, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Maybe one of these is in order. A lot of progress can be had here. -- Starstriker7( Talk) 06:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Why not set the Southern California task force so that it does not cover Los Angeles and Orange counties, since there is a Los Angeles task force for those counties? WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
As part of the task force conversions proposed a bot run would be necessary to replace instances of the project banners. There are a few other items I would address as part of that same bot run if possible.
The reason I'm trying to do all of this is because I would like to have the class and importance categories to a manageable level so that we can effectively respond to new articles and re-assessment requests. Thank you everyone for all of your patience in reading all of this and in all your work so far. Are there any thoughts, questions, or comments? - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Just placing this here for a more formal wording and a bundling of several requests to link to
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DiscussionFor the remaining ones see above for the discussion
I'm off to go request this. Thanks to everyone who chimed in at the various discussions. - Optigan13 ( talk) 02:06, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Mount Whitney, in my opinion should be rated Top importance to the scope of our project. It is the highest point in the State of California, and the highest point in the contiguous/ continental United States, therefore, it is more important overall to the project then Mount Shasta. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Badwater is too specific a place to be top, though Death Valley should indeed be top Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 01:38, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
That's because a wrong call was made in August, and I agree 100% with RightCow that Death Valley (along with some other stuff as well) belongs as top priority. I see no consensus for dropping Death Valley except for an unsigned comment, and two current contributors are clearly for it. Also, you shouldn't be making new edits to an archive (this applies to both Opt and RightCow) Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 02:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Newbie here. I don't see the Coliseum listed anywhere, as a native So. Californian I am very interested in your project and the Coliseum is important: The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is home to the University of Southern California Trojans football team. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena adjacent to the campus of the University of Southern California (USC). The stadium is jointly owned by the State of California, Los Angeles County, and the City of Los Angeles. The Coliseum has the distinction of being the only stadium in the world to host the Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1984. It is also the only Olympic stadium to have also hosted Super Bowls and World Series. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on July 27, 1984, the day before the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. Also, you have not mentioned the Port of Long Beach, one of the largest shipping ports in the world. It has been mentioned as a prime target for terrorists because it would have worldwide repercussions. You mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake but not the Northridge, the costliest seismic disaster in U.S. History. [1] If you have these on another page please excuse the intrusion, but I hope to be of some small help and maybe a SoCal perspective. JoyDiamond ( talk) 06:35, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
As an organization based out of San Mateo, California, Junior Statesmen of America falls within the scope of our WikiProject. Presently there is a content dispute between myself and another editor, who may have conflict of interest, regarding a new section of the article regarding a single high school club, which is being referenced to a website from that club which falls under WP:SPS.
In an attempt to avoid an edit war, after the first reversion, I created a section in the talk page. I kindly ask others to comment on the present dispute. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 12:34, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
I ask fellow WPP Californian editors, to comment regarding a current discussion of content of the San Diego Comic Con article. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
There is presently an active effort by editors from WPP Comics to exclude information in the article San Diego Comic-Con International regarding participation of individuals, and expansion of the event to areas outside the comic industry. Furthermore, what mention there is of said expansion is framed in a non-neutral point of view, that puts non-comic industry participation in a negative light. Is there a way of remedying the issue regarding exclusion of referenced content? -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 07:36, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Let's keep this all in one thread over there. - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
We need to do it. Needs to be merged in like LA, SOCAL, and the bay. Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 16:29, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
A discussion on merger of the Inland Empire project is open both here and at the Inland Empire Project talk page Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 23:06, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
As an afterthought, because the Inland Empire is not as major of a region as the other parts of California, I feel that it makes sense to make the Inland Empire project a task force of WP California. If regions of California were to have their own projects, it would first be Los Angeles, and then SFBA. To raise awareness of the latter I am posting the San Francisco portal (which indirectly leads to the task force) in several prominent articles. WhisperToMe ( talk) 20:36, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday I created Magic, Inc. (organization) and it's listed at AfD. I'd appreciate your opinions on whether the organization is indeed notable, as I thought, and if anyone has access to sources I haven't used, could they mention to me? I'm having problems searching newspapers since the Mercury News uses a paywall and in any case its online archive only starts in '85, I think it is, and they seem to have deep-sixed the (Palo Alto) Daily News archive. I also suspect there may be relevant books on environmentalism and/or the human potential movement that are too new to show up in Google Books that might cover the group, but I wouldn't know where to begin in identifying them. However, I do have access to the San Jose State/San Jose city library. So I'd appreciate any advice anyone could give; the AfD means I have to get my skates on improving this article, or let wiser heads prevail on notability. Yngvadottir ( talk) 14:28, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to alert project participants of the fabulous contributions by seemingly tireless editor Emargie who has been working at writing articles about every historic California rancho and land grant. The List of Ranchos of California reflects this dedication. So far, Emargie has written more than 180 articles about ranchos, and a score more about early Californians. Well done! Binksternet ( talk) 21:45, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I have began to tag those recipients of the Medal of Honor who were born in, or who came from, California with our talk template. I will go from present, backwards in time. The process will probably take several days, if not weeks, to complete.
Importance wise, should they be given automatic ranking, or is it case by case?-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 11:33, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Also, I was thinking, would a category for those individuals like "Category:Californian recipients of the Medal of Honor", under the parent category of "Category:California military personnel", be appropriate? -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 12:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not going to be adding people who retired, died, or were trainined in California, least every " Hollywood Marine" who was awarded the Medal of Honor, be listed. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 12:36, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
OK, I have gone as far back as the Korean War. I'm going to take a break before sorting through the large number of World War II recipients. Also, would anyone else support the idea of creating a list of California MOH recipients? I don't want to create the page, only to have it AFDed. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:39, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Any objection if I put the full names into this template instead of just the family names? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CALtGovernors GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:43, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
I don't get it; why not the full name? Certainly a viewer might be satisfied with that instead of having to click to the article to find out the full name of a particular lieutenant-gov. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:36, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
OK. Whatever. I can't deal with this. GeorgeLouis ( talk)
User:Alex537 started a San Diego WikiProject on the Spanish Wikipedia. Here I asked him if he was interested in starting a San Diego task force on here, and he said on his talk page that he was interested. Do I need to do anything else before setting up the task force? I helped start Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Detroit - I hope to use that as a model for the San Diego task force. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:31, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
← Task forces are hardly needed when WikiProject California (itself) has very little activity. You'd be subdividing what is already an (essentially) dead project, in my opinion. Killiondude ( talk) 01:54, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Firstly, reports of this project's death (or imminent disaster) are greatly exaggerated. Neither the existence of comparable WikiProject pages nor the large number of residents demonstrate the need for a project, and there are valid options for raising the participation of this project without starting a new task force.
With respect to the other projects you referred to, I'm not seeing significant activity in several of them, and most show more of the issues that Killiondude and I are concerned about. es:Wikiproyecto Discusión:California/San Diego only shows two threads, a welcome one from September of last year, and your image request from this year. es:Wikiproyecto:California is marked as inactive. Looking at the English projects I'm seeing similar situations with several with posts with no response, and limited or no general signs of activity or project development (see Tampa Bay, St. Louis Cincinatti, Kansas City, and Indianapolis). To say that we need to have a task force because all the other areas have one isn't a valid reason.
While the large number of number of residents, the technology centers, and other reasons you enumerated are reasons that we should have significant coverage of California topics, and at 21,302 articles we do. Those same reasons would lead someone to assume that there would be active and thriving Wikiprojects developing Featured Articles, tagging and assessing new articles, responding to inquiries on the project talk pages, that was not the case in the past. I merged all of these projects together into one larger one in the hopes that the few remaining people doing that work would collectively work on California topics, while still keeping up with the responding at the talk page, and to the various issues that arise. While individual members of WikiProject California might not to work on a specific article that another participant wishes to, hopefully enough will have the time and energy to help a fellow member out, and in return their fellow members would be able to return the favor when needed. If you look at this talk page and the archives from this year, you'll see a small number of people responding to a large portion of the issues. Now that we are beginning to build up a healthy number of participants on this page, it is too early to begin splitting back off into new task forces. On projects and task forces with limited number of participants, three or four going inactive or moving onto other topics after a few months could mean that all the whole project would go inactive, while a healthy project/task force with a large number of participants will recover and move on. The broad scope of the project would bring those same participants under one big tent to work together. So many projects and task forces have started with great enthusiasm and passion for their subject only for their members to run out of steam, lets not go back down the path towards more inactive projects and task forces.
All of that being said, yes please:
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to your user page to display the project banner ad.None of these ways to build membership requires an additional task force, and none of the reasons listed so far are really convincing arguments for creating a task force. I've been working on reviving this project for some time now, while still trying to find time to develop articles, and I see nothing to be embarrassed about. - Optigan13 ( talk) 09:38, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
If anything, I can see the reduction of the task forces we have now and have two SoCal, NorCal, with each increasing its area of coverage. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:11, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I personally think that we need MORE taskforces, rather than LESS. Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 18:00, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
If SoCal stays, it and Los Angeles need to be better defined. Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 00:50, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
I dont support socal much but the task force is for all of SoCal including SoCals largest population centers (in order of population: Los Angeles, San Bernardino-Riverside (IE), San Diego). House1090 ( talk) 01:11, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Or the LA Metro kind of like TF IE and future TF SD, mabey. House1090 ( talk) 04:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
House1090 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Following House reporting me for edit warring over Polaron's improvements to the Inland Empire article, 2over0 recommended a project discussion over how to approach issues pursuant to this user, who some of you have become acquainted with due to his zeal in defending his preferred versions of anything that can be made tangentially or remotely related to the IE or San Bernardino, not to mention anything actually within those subject areas themselves.
His level of understanding of these areas (or rather "confusion", more appropriately) is made evident by his edits. This account has a lengthy history, most of which related to sockpuppetry is available here, but there is more over the year since then of edit warring primarily, not to mention horrifically bad English proceeding from his ability in that language, that I haven't collated yet for a full WP:AN review. My intention ultimately is to request support for a topic ban of House from any articles or nav templates relating to Southern California. I suppose the purpose of a discussion here would be to determine if a consensus at WP:CAL would support this action or if anything else can be tried. Thanks to all, Amerique dialectics 22:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
I did not get all A's, I did however get all A's in all my english classes, and graduated with a 3.6 GPA, I dont really care if you believe it or not because I am now in a 4 year university. Like I have said before I type fast and dont check my typing as much as I need to here on wiki. And yes use the talk page, please. House1090 ( talk) 03:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Comment: It appears that House1090 thinks that the term "Inland Empire" is exclusively used to refer to the 2003 definition of the metropolitan statistical area centered on urban Riverside-San Bernardino, which is the entirety of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. This definition is the result of the use of counties as boundaries for building up metropolitan statistical areas. It is clear from the article itself that there are various boundaries and definitions for the Inland Empire. The article history also shows that the article was originally written about a fuzzy area. The external links of the article all refer to the Inland Empire as a region primarily. An option may be for House1090 to split off a separate metropolitan statistical area article. Although how much distinct content can be put there is questionable. -- Polaron | Talk 03:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Right now with it being so focused on House1090 and Amerique I'm thinking it might be best if: 1) House voluntarily limits himself to a one revert rule, 2) start a talk page discussion once reverted, and 3) if he feels that his concerns aren't being addressed to leave a note here requesting additional opinions (keeping all discussion on the relevant article talk page). From there follow standard WP:Dispute resolution processes. This WikiProject's activity is starting to pick up, so we should be able to help address this. I'm trying to think of the best way for House1090 to contribute to the encyclopedia, while balancing the encyclopedic needs for accuracy, verifiability, grammar, etc. If a topic ban is the necessary to achieve that, than so be it. Right now Inland Empire (California) is protected, any content specific issues should be brought up there, and any edit warring should be stopped for now. - Optigan13 ( talk) 10:34, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
House1090 stated that I supported a name change for the Inland Empire (California) article, but that is not accurate. I have argued that the article should not be renamed. I would not oppose creating a new article named Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Statistical Area (RSO MSA), but if that was done, I would expect the two articles to have very different content for the reason stated here. MissionInn.Jim ( talk) 16:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Idid not understand you correctly, my apology. See IE talk Page. House1090 ( talk) 19:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Just to make sure everyone is on the same page here before I mark this as resolved. How does the following sound
Any questions, comments? - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I found that one can manipulate the WPBox to link to specific task forces. So...
{{WPbox|California/Los_Angeles_task_force|image=Flag_of_Los_Angeles,_California.svg}} for Los Angeles<br>
{{WPbox|California/San_Francisco Bay Area task force|image=SF From Marin Highlands3.jpg}} for the San Francisco Bay area<br><br>
We could post these in the "See Also," "Further Reading," and/or "External links" sections of articles related to these cities to people will know that these task forces exist. These links directly link to the task forces.
How does that sound? WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:24, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Also, you might want to create a template for the portal boxes, as there's been an issue in the past with the California portal of with multiple different images being used on pages with no consistency. See Portal talk:California#Portal link images - Optigan13 ( talk) 10:05, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Los Angeles task force/Participants has a template loop. Would someone good with templates please fix the loop? Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
An Environmental issues in California article is needed. There is stuff in the associated category at Category:Environmental issues in California. See Environmental issues in Florida and Environmental issues in the United States for inspiration. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 00:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I was reading Salton Sea, and it mentions the term Imperial Valley Canal. Is this term redundant with any existing article, or should a new article be created? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 09:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
I say create it. You may also want to research George Chaffey, who designed said canal. I believe the original canal filled with silt or flooded before the All American Canal was built.
Just created the Alamo Canal article. From reading various references it seems to be also very well known as the Imperial Canal. Weedwhacker128 ( talk) 00:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
With all the recent local, national, and international news surrounding the attempts to legalize marijuana in California, now is the perfect time to expand the Cannabis in California article. Practically a stub, the article needs to be expanded greatly to include usage statistics, the history of decriminalization and the medical marijuana program, the current legalization effort, etc. A good example of a similar article is Cannabis in Oregon, which is a Good article. WikiProject California members are encouraged to join WikiProject Cannabis members with improving this article, as it is currently the latter's collaboration. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:17, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
There is no high level article describing all the faults (41+) in California. Worse, there is no " Geology of California." Even worse, Geography of California does not have a organized Geology subsection, just little snippets here and there. Student7 ( talk) 23:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm going through and tagging several project sub-pages for deletion, either as a deprecated template, or for an MFD. If someone wants to use one of the pages feel free to remove the deprecated tag or voice opposition at the MFD. Most of these are unused or redundant and not being updated, or if they are, someone posts there a notice there which no one sees (See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Open tasks for an example). Many of these are from when there were several various projects spread out, hence some of the names. There's might be some more that don't have any historical value, but these seem the most obvious to me. - Optigan13 ( talk) 01:38, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
There is a merge proposal involving Brea-Olinda, Brea, California, Olinda, Orange County, California, and Brea, California, all of which are pages in this taskforce. For information, go here Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 00:03, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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I am suggesting that Portal:Southern California/Cities be changed to my older version because:
My versions are here :
Socal LA's version is the current one. House1090 ( talk) 21:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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I propose that we create an Imperial Valley task force that would cover the...
...and everything in between. I feel that most articles relating to those articles are in a mess and can use a dedicated task force to help clean up and improve, even make longer, those articles. Work on creating the task force has already begun and can be found here - See: Imperial Valley task force. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 02:53, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
task force useless. Then we would just have to make SoCal a project. House1090 ( talk) 23:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I say if you can get five people to sign on to it, do it Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 16:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Please see: Talk:Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 01:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm hoping someone can help in sorting out or clarifying what seems to me to be an odd relationship in the category hierarchy. Category:California adobes is a subcategory of Category:California Historical Landmarks. There is no main article corresponding to Category:California adobes. Are a particular set of landmark buildings officially designated "California adobes"? If not, the hierarchy seems problematic here, because a building can be made of adobe, and in California, without necessarily being an official California Historical Landmark.
I can't ask the person who created Category:California adobes, because he's been perma-blocked for unrelated reasons.
My guess is that Category:California adobes should be renamed something like Category:California Historical Landmarks - adobe buildings, but perhaps that is not what is going on here.
(For what it's worth, I noticed this because Commons' hierarchy follows en-wiki's in this area, and I was trying to categorize a photo of an old adobe house in San Diego that lacks the status of a California Historical Landmark.) - Jmabel | Talk 03:06, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
...is languishing at WP:GAN...surely some california local can review it for GA status? Casliber ( talk · contribs) 11:17, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
I propose that we merge the two task forces to form the Greater Los Angeles Area task force (GLAA task force), so that it would also cover Ventura County. By merging into the GLAA it would be more akin to the SFBA task force and could work just as well. I also suggest getting rid of the Santa Barbara county task force which would be covered in, the then active, Southern California Task force as would Imperial and San Diego Counties. I have seen the light in that task forces should be left large since many become inactive once the small scope of the designated force is exhausted. This would also renew activity in the SoCal task force since Imperial and San Diego county related articles are in need of a fix up. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 01:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Like I have said before only because Pheonix does not have one it does not mean the IE should not either, besides the IE needs a lot of help of help and through a more direct taskforce it will be able to get that help. House1090 ( talk) 02:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I believe since the general consensus is to merge we should do just that. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 23:33, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
I am somewhat conflicted regarding the matter, but I am more inclined to keep the IE a separate task force. It would allow those who are interested to maintain a more focused effort on the IE. Even though the IE is part of the greater LA area and part of Southern California, I think most people who live in the IE identify more with the IE than LA or So Cal. The reason I am conflicted is because I agree with Alanraywiki that the IE task force is not particularly effective, but I don't believe merging it will make it any more effective. What is needed is a more cooperative spirit. The people in the task force need to work together to achieve common goals rather than each working independently. I don't see how merging will help do that. If the fact that the members of a project or task force are not currently working together, but all work independently, is a reason to eliminate a task force or project, then we would probably want to eliminate most projects and task forces. MissionInn.Jim ( talk) 16:14, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi TorriTorri; My understanding is a task force (as well as a project) is intended for a group of editors to collaborate on a set of related articles. The task force page is intended to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. I have to admit, there doesn't seem to be a lot of collaboration happening within the IE task force, but I'm not convinced there is much collaboration within the So Cal task force either. Would you be more interested in keeping the IE task force separate if the members actually worked more collaboratively rather than independently? For example; I believe it would be worthwhile if the IE task force worked together to accomplish specific goals each month (or some other time period). They might, for example, decide that during the month of February they would make sure all communities within the IE have at least a stub article written, that each of those articles is rated for quality and importance, and each city has an appropriate info box set up. Maybe the following month they would work together to bring a key article, such as the San Bernardino or Riverside article, up to a good article status. What are your thoughts on that? MissionInn.Jim ( talk) 23:09, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
"smaller task forces...renders the parent task force useless. Task forces are better off bigger since they can cover a wider (but not to large) scope of things, whos sources can almost never be exhausted." SoCal L.A. ( talk) 02:16, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I personally do not care if the IE task force were merged with SoCal's, or not, as neither structure has enough consistently active volunteers to maintain. I find WP:CAL currently has enough volunteers to make posting here worthwhile, as a means of achieving a broad consensus on some issue.
Generally, everyone posting on WP should be interested in working collaboratively, but doing that practically can be like herding cats. We are all volunteers with different skill sets, interests, and real world time commitments... Something as great as the Santa Ana River is currently couldn't have been built by waiting on either the SoCal or IE taskforces, for example, or even this project. Amerique dialectics 20:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Well i think we can merge the Santa Barbara task force in the Southern California, after all it appears no one has gone against it's merging. One step at a time ;). SoCal L.A. ( talk) 04:05, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:University of California, Santa Cruz/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 15:49, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Do we want to have a Recognized content page (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Recognized content)? Let me know and I can set one up. - Optigan13 ( talk) 01:05, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Could an editor throw an eye to the above article, pretty bad and it appears an editor with a couple of accounts is inserting links to google images and using another wikipedia article as a source. I was going to start a tidy on it, but it would have contained very little after I was done. Maybe someone here is familiar with the place and can add some relevant info. Mo ainm ( talk) 17:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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Metrolink (Southern California) is being reviewed for Good Article status and only requires a few tweaks to pass. Please check out the review here and improve the article if possible. Thanks! Butros (talk) 11:25, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
I've done a substantial rewrite of this article and added comprehensive citations of authority. First timer at this and I was inspired by the PBS documentary "Citizen Tanouye". I hope I have done this hero justice. Could someone take a look and see if there is more than I can do? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdunn30 ( talk • contribs) 15:34, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Most other states have one, so California now does too. It's basically a mashup of the LA sports template and the SFB sports template, plus the Central Valley and Central Coast and updated to reflect franchises that went under. Check it out! Clean it up! Place it on pages! Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 22:18, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
User:Jojhutton and I have been in a debate regarding the portal Portal:San Diego.
Jojhutton wants the portal of San Diego to only be applied to the City of San Diego, and he also removed Los Angeles portals ( Portal:Los Angeles) from Orange County articles.
I set the scope of the Los Angeles task force to cover Los Angeles and Orange counties, but there is no San Diego task force. Both portals mention suburban cities, and an earlier revision of Portal:Los Angeles mentioned Santa Ana in Orange County [21].
So, should the portals continue covering suburbs? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:39, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Given that they were altered before a consensus was reached, should we go ahead and reinsert the Portal links on the OC articles which have been reverted? Butros (talk) 20:48, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Weak keep them in: I could go either way on this. I can perfectly understand Irvine and Mission Viejo not being mentioned in the LA portal--they are far away from Los Angeles ideologically and geographically. I could see keeping OC in the portal, but maybe sectioning it off to make it clear what's OC and what's LAC Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 01:45, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that consensus has not been reached one way or the other. There has been NO reasonable explanation as to why we are using OMB designations to supersede county designations. Also, keep in mind that portals are not the same thing as task forces, they are completely different things. This is the LA portal. This is the LA task force. -- TorriTorri( Talk to me!) 01:59, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
(outdent)I would support a renamed portal. I think "Greater Los Angeles" sounds broader than "Metro Los Angeles" (which again sounds focused on the city) and is more commonly used, but I would support either. But lose the city flag and replace it with an image more applicable to the entire area (palm trees or something). The other side of the Orange Curtain really has nothing to do with LA so the flag is irrelevant. And by the way, I think this has been a good discussion. Alanraywiki ( talk) 13:37, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and moved all the LA portal pages to Portal:Greater Los Angeles. -- TorriTorri( Talk to me!) 06:54, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
{{
California portal}}
) should be. --
TorriTorri(
Talk to me!)
07:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)As for the San Diego portal, would I have the consensus to ensure that all San Diego County articles receive the portal? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:01, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
It has been proposed to drop the California from the titles of Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, California, similar to ways it is done in Chicago and Brooklyn. Your comments are welcome Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 05:35, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Trails blazed) 23:52, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I will move to Placentia in few months and wanted to make some new contacts to Wikipedians from my new living-location. Sadly I see that Wikipedia:Meetup/LA is inactive. What can I do? Kind regards -- Juliana da Costa José ( talk) 00:50, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
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Anyone have opinions on whether this map i made could be appropriate for some Southern California-related article? Thanks, Shannon talk contribs 03:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Could someone have a look at Talk:Solar Energy Generating Systems#Coordinates and see if you could help in finding the coordinates? Please reply there. Thanks. Kind regards. Rehman( +) 02:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Template:California sports, a template tagged for this project, has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Purple backpack89 16:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
History of the Yosemite area is now an urgent FARC. The last remaining issue is prose. Please help by reading the article to find prose issues that need to be fixed. You can fix them directly or list them on the FARC page linked above. If the article already reads well, then please say so on the FARC page. Thank you. :) -- mav ( reviews needed) 03:28, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Relevant AFD discussion, on a California lawyer and politician. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Dickson (2nd nomination). Thank you for your time. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 12:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Note that {{California portal}}
has now been replaced by {{
portal|California}}
. Thanks!
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I can't find a WP article about the East Bay Green Corridor, although it is mentioned on the article for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. I thought I would try to write up an article (my first!) but wanted to make sure it was a good topic before spending too much time on it. The EBGR has gotten extensive local press coverage ( http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-06-27/business/17210690_1_uc-berkeley-green-industry-green-careers, http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/03/10/editorial2.html, http://oaklandlocal.com/article/east-bay-green-corridor-partnership-aims-lure-green-start-ups - a few examples among dozens of others), but I could only find one passing reference to it in the national press ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/us/21sfpolitics.html). Locally, it is an important initative, but is it WP:N? I am not trying to promote it; I have no affiliation with EBGR, other than as an interested local resident. I just want to contribute my first article to WP, and this initiative is something I have followed closely in the news. I would be sure to also include some WP:NPOV criticism of the project (such as http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-12-11/article/28674?headline=East-Bay-Green-Corridor-Industrial-Berkeley-s-Salvation-or-Road-to-Ruin-&status=301). Advice? Thanks for helping a n00b out! Tarastar42 ( talk) 20:05, 17 June 2010 (UTC)tarastar42
For those of you uploading things to Commons, such as images (especially regarding the central Valley, with its Hmong population), if you wish to attach Hmong translations, use the template {{hmn|}} And put the Hmong text inside. WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:40, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
List of United States federal courthouses in California is complete but for one image, a half dozen addresses, and some dates of use. bd2412 T 19:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
I just renamed Portal:San Diego to Portal:San Diego County
I plan to begin adding this portal to every San Diego County-related article and to convert {{Portal|San Diego}} to {{Portal|San Diego County}}. The scope of this portal is San Diego County in its entirety.
WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
I could use some help here Talk:Cedar Lake (California), if anybody can> Mlpearc powwow 17:16, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Anyone with sources to support this long-established article might like to go over there and defend it from the editor who wants to delete all unreferenced material from it! PamD ( talk) 08:15, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to see if a Hmong Wikipedia could be started. Many Hmong settled in central California, so this topic may be of interest to this Wikiproject.
The proposal is at:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:35, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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Environment of California needs work. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 00:14, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The discussion below was copied and pasted from the John Muir talk page. As the discussion evolved, it became clear that the topic wasn't so much John Muir's article, but rather how many and which biographical articles ought to be rated "top importance" by this project. Pat Sajak has been downgraded, but certainly others should be added. Cullen328 ( talk) 23:02, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Is this guy really worthy of a 'top importance' rating for California iarticles? 1812ahill (talk) 20:51, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
PS - Ansel Adams is only listed as high importance - btw, can anybody and everybody change these settings? 1812ahill (talk) 13:07, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
You've now raised some valid points, 1812ahill. Pat Sakak is a TV game show host and most certainly should be downgraded on this particular list, in my opinion. Certainly other biographies should be added to the list. Hollywood, the sense of California's film and entertainment industry as opposed to the specific city - of course. But downgrading John Muir? I object to that. Cullen328 (talk) 14:49, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I think I'll go check out if this is general trend in WP. (Note I also placed the same initial message for the Sajak article ;) Cheers 1812ahill (talk) 19:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
A very interesting discussion. From reading it, I get the impression that both parties are much more idealistic than I am. Voting on what the top-priority articles should be? I very much doubt that ever happened. A massive effort to get all the top-priority articles to GA-class? Not since I've been here. The only suggestion I have at this point is to study the assessment rubric at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment and try to work out your differences. I don't see much point in arguing about whether Ansel Adams is more important than Hollywood. With 26,000 articles to choose from, the ones that get improved are the ones people are willing and able to improve. The rest will languish, no matter how you assess them.-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 02:22, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
While we’re on the topic, here’s the top-priority bios:
I have no problem with any of those. And here’s all the High-priority bios:
We may want to reconsider some of these as well; some could go up to high and some should go down to mid or low (Is it just me, or is this list a little too heavy on Spanish and Mexican land barons?). I recently personally added Chavez, Huntington, (Thomas) King, Lummis, Mondavi and Otis to High, and will gladly defend any questions against them being high. I agree that we need to have more (I’d say about eight), and have them be of a more expansive scope (For example, we need representatives of more periods of California history, as well as major California industries). The three names I’d add to Top are Hiram Johnson, Leland Stanford and John Sutter. I might even suggest someone like Mondavi because he’s symbolic of a California history (you could go with Samuel Goldwyn for similar reasons), and Chavez because a state that has 8-10 million Mexicans should probably have a biography up there. I also agree that Hollywood belongs, although I feel that the district is at least as important as the industry it represents. Those are my thoughts Purple backpack89 04:39, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Strand Beach Funicular has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.200.95 ( talk) 06:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Ongoing AFD deletion discussion for this article, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jessica Rodriguez (3rd nomination). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 09:43, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld ( talk · contribs) has this morning made changes very many templates with the the edit summary 'yellow looks naff'. i'm wondering if such sweeping changes should wrought by consensus rather than the offended sensibilities of one editor. -- emerson7 15:04, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
The reason for the colors: that was made at a time when almost all the United States state templates, and all the U.S. county and city navboxes were colored to match that specific state's flag and/or official colors. Template:New Jersey, the New Jersey county navboxes, Template:Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania navboxes all currently still have that similar shade of yellow too. If the objection is yellow background, the colors can be reversed to gold text on blue background. Zzyzx11 ( talk) 16:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure its a good look. Besides i've noticed most of the general use templates for things like schools etc use standard. Is it entirely necessary to have a fully yellow infobox? Admittedly I often use a differnet color for the nav box title but usually with a background color and different colour font text and tend to leave the group style standard light blue. You cold try a gold background with white text just for the title, that would look better. The cleanup job needing doing is tremendous for Californian towns I spent an hour purely tidying 3 articles including Glendale just removing ugly lists/tables converting into prose. I;ve noticed :Zzyzx11 doing a tremendous amount of work seemingly single-handedly at times but I see little active project collaboration over articles. I think we need some project coordination to clean up articles on Californian places, but such collaboration is rare and as usual it is down to a small number working on them.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:15, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I've been editing some of the articles about cities in California. In particular, I've rounded the demographic data to 10th places from the 100ths place figures that are in many articles. Several reasons: 1. a 1/100th of a percent in this data is False precision, particularly in small communities. 2. The data gets old and Significant figures should be considered in the presentations. 3. Somewhere in WP:MOS it says that consistency in presentation of the numbers should be followed. BUT, I have not been able to find a standard template for the layout of the city articles even though it seems editors have been following one. Can anyone tell me where to find the/a standard layout? I'd like to modify it (or its guidance) to specify that 1/10th of a percent is preferred in the layout. Thanks. -- S. Rich ( talk) 04:11, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
It's definitely not a B-class article.
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject California for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 03:27, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Meh, what's the worse that could happen? We get a bunch of fly-by participant list adds that never do anything? We cop to the fact that we haven't been cranking out FAs on a monthly basis? Based on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk#Workspace it looks like we're 3rd string anyway. I don't think this project has been central in a lot of featured content with specific editors doing most of the heavy lifting on their own. I'm not sure how many projects can honestly claim to be amazing juggernauts of featured content. Most of my work has been cleanup at some articles, but have never been great at doing lit reviews and hammering out the content, and that's just fine. I'll try to answer some of these questions if I have time. My main concern at this point is that I've been busy, and haven't been nearly as involved as I used to be, so I can't really speak effectively about the project for the past six or seven months. - Optigan13 ( talk) 05:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
To everyone who replied on this talk page, please go ahead and add your comments to the "anything else" question on the interview. The struggles of your project are just as important as how many FAs can be produced. Plus, the ideas that the culture of your subject impacts the project's membership and activity could make for a really interesting article. No project is perfect, but the responses on this talk page are more than we (the Report writers) usually get from other "active" projects. I think it would be worth your time. Cheers! - Mabeenot ( talk) 17:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject California/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) 20:15, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
While Stub-sorting I found what seemed a muddle Sugarloaf Mountain (Riverside County, California) and Sugarloaf Mountain (Butte County, California). I did my best to create two separate stubs, both linked from Sugarloaf (mountain), but someone might like to sort them out! PamD ( talk) 14:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick ( talk) 20:57, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I created Iowa Hill, California. Someone who is familiar with the community or with Placer County, California might want to expand the article. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 20:31, 9 November 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) 04:58, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I am looking through the various pages for members of the legisature and lots of things look good, but there are some things missing. Some members do not have succession boxes. At times, the sucession box includes just years (example "2006-2080", instead of full date). At times, the exact dates are available in the infobox. And others are also missing an infobox. At least one legislator is missing ( Steve Knight, elected to Assembly district 36). And we just had an election, so I can imagine that lots of the info needs to be updated. I am willing to do some heavy lifting. Does anyone else want to assist, or are there ideas of how to proceed?
RayKiddy ( talk) 04:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
I am aware that this issue was decided back in 2006, HOWEVER, I would like to bring up the possibility of having Orange County redirect to Orange County, California and create a disambiguation page for the others. The most famous Orange County is the one in California, an it's not even close. When traveling around the United States or abroad, I say I am from Orange County and people immediately know where I am from, no one asks "which one?" Also, if Orange County is to be lumped together with all other counties of the same name, then we should do the same for the many different cities and locales that go by Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, or even California (there is a California, Pennsylvania). Thank you for your feedback and the support of those who are part of this Wikiproject would be greatly appreciated. -- CASportsFan ( talk) 06:38, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
I have placed a move request on both Orange County, I figured it would be easiest to discuss the matter at Talk:Orange County. -- CASportsFan ( talk) 08:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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) 19:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Somebody has changed the category name to "The" Los Angeles Times people. What is going on? The name of the newspaper is Los Angeles Times. Category talk:The Los Angeles Times people. Really confused I am, sincerely yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 19:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
We should make a Collabaration of the month like WikiProjct USA is doing. If we get people to work together on articles maybe we can get more GAs and FAs about California. Article like Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Junípero Serra would be perfect articles to collaborate on since they are very important in California history but the articles arnt as good as they should be. Spongie555 ( talk) 06:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
People from a variety of WikiProjects have had concerns about the scope of WikiProject United States and its relationship with other WikiProjects. We have created an RFC and invite all interested editors to discuss it at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject United States#Mission statement for WikiProject United States. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 15:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
(Responding to the GeorgeLouis ( talk · contribs) revert and edit summary) Racepacket's notice was "There may be a problem, come tell us what you think", which is within the rules for WP:CANVASSing. Kumioko's was "Rackpacket is trying to mess up my project, help!" -- which is quite a ways outside them. That's why I reverted. Everyone is of course free to weigh in on either side -- I haven't quite decided what the dispute is about yet, never mind which side I'm on. :-)-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 21:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
"This is an advertising page to solicit donations build an ice rink. This campaign, nor the Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association itself, have received independent coverage. "
Chzz ► 09:53, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
I have formed a WikiProject to organize San Diego. If anybody interested, please add your name on the participants. If have have questions about it, please feel free to add comments. JJ98 ( Talk) 21:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
New article, created, at T. Arthur Cottam. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 21:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
New article, created, at Richard Smith (Silent film director). Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 16:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
I just started a discussion here about a change to {{ USCongDistStateCA}} Thanks. 67.100.125.181 ( talk) 04:08, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Young Democrats of America. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 08:12, 30 March 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}})
A discussion of interest to WikiProject California on merging the Los Angeles metropolitan area and Inland Empire (California) articles into the Greater Los Angeles Area article is going on at Talk:Greater Los Angeles Area#Merge Los Angeles metropolitan area and Inland Empire (California) into this article?. 08OceanBeachS.D. 02:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to add to the above list. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Does a County Supervisor pass WP:POLITICIAN? Someone who knows more than me about US local govt might like to have a look at John Gioia and pass an opinion! PamD ( talk) 12:47, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Uhh. Yes, he is notable. Contra Costa County is not exactly a cow county. For coverage, see the Contra Costa Times at http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CC&p_theme=cc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=headline,lead(john%20gioia)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=title&p_text_advanced-0=(john%20gioia)&p_bool_advanced-1=OR&p_field_advanced-1=Lead&p_text_advanced-1=(john%20gioia)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes . Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:30, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Each of the five supes represents about 200,000 people. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 23:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
File:Battle of Los Angeles LATimes.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 04:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Please help with this article.
It has been developed by students liaising with Wikipedia as part of an important liaison project with universities - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy - which, if successful, will expand to bring many more quality editors to Wikipedia.
The course ends in a few weeks.
Please make comments, suggestions, etc. on Talk:California Proposition 19 (2010). Many thanks, Chzz ► 03:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC) ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Online_Ambassadors|Online Ambassador for this specific course)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Flag of California#State Ensign. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 23:42, 18 April 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}})
I am working on a page for the California Arts Council - but because I work for the California Arts Council, Wikipedia thinks I may have a conflict of interest. (I also suck at putting the page together because I don't understand html, but that's another issue!) Can anyone help clarify this for me? Should I go ahead and put in what I have? Can't imagine that anyone outside the Council would have all the pertinent info, so we just assumed we were the logical people to write the page. - user DGol
Thanks, Stepheng3 ... the COI rules are hard to interpret/apply, since we're a government agency providing services to the public, not a corporation trying to hawk its wares. But we'll continue wading thru them & will discuss at our next web team meeting. There are Wikipedia pages for other state agencies, so maybe we will just ask them how they did it - or whether someone else put the pages up. ?? - DGol — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGol ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Your attention is called to the above article, which is now live. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
These articles about Los Angeles have been rewritten within the last month and are available for all to see:
Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:39, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:RSN#sandiegostreetcars.org. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:35, 28 April 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}})
The Starhawk article was moved/renamed today to Starhawk (author) without discussion by a proponent of the new video game of the same name. Now Starhawk (and all 100 Wikilinks to her name) redirects to a disambiguation page. Please note the Requested Move discussion about moving it back to the original article title. If inspired to vote, please note Wiki policies that support this, such as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, etc. Softlavender ( talk) 12:27, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
A new GLAM project page has been created to organize collaboration with Balboa Park to improve articles on the park, its museums, and southern California topics. I'm leaving a notice on WP:CAL's page to determine if any members would be interested in participating in the project. The staff there would like to meet with a group of Wikipedians to eventually lead to tours of the museums, image donations, editing collaborations, contests, and other events. If you have any interest at all in helping in any capacity (even if only online), please list your name at WP:GLAM/BP so we can determine what size group we're looking at. As this collaboration has just started, if you have any questions, comments, ideas, etc., please leave them on the project's talk page. Thank you! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 01:09, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
One of the articles was related to California:
I will not object to any changes proposed, discussed, or implemented.
Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 20:49, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trona,_California
lists two entries, one for Inyo and one for San Bernadino county.
Both have roughly the same lat/long... However Trona is most definitely in San Bernadino county.
The Inyo county entry lists references that are dead as well, or at the least don't go directly to anything useful that I could find.
I hope I'm going this right, pretty new here.. Braindead0 ( talk) 19:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
All editors willing and able to review articles are needed! Please contribute to the consensus of these articles by choosing 3 or more nominations to review in any of the catagories of interest to this project!
Please visit Wikipedia:Good article nominations now and begin! Thanks you! -- Amadscientist ( talk) 03:42, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
I've just completed a copy-edit on Cruz Reynoso that turned into a major rewrite. In the course of researching this fascinating man, I turned up a wealth of sources. Many of them could be used to improve the articles for Rose Bird and Joseph Grodin, the two other justices who were ousted in the 1986 California Supreme Court retention election. For that matter, I'm surprised that last is a red link, given its lasting impact! I'm sort of burned out after the work on Reynoso, so I'm hoping someone else would like to pick up the ball and run with it. I'm cross-posting this invitation to WikiProject United States courts and judges as well. // ⌘macwhiz ( talk) 03:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
{{ WPLA}} is under discussion, see WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 June 15 . 65.94.47.63 ( talk) 09:44, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, project participants: Some good Wikipedian — I am sure with the best of intentions — keeps removing the graphic for the above article, an election flier which I went to some great degree of trouble to find and upload. I am sure this fine person will be glad to describe the reason for the removal because it has not been done anywhere, at least I can't find it. I must say with the greatest humility that this contretemps is very distressing for me and, speaking frankly, has caused me to lose some sleep. (Maybe I am just a sensitive guy.) In the meantime, I will continue my self-assigned endeavor of completing the biographies of all Los Angeles City Council members and hope to put this matter to rest — as I would like to get some, too. I hope the members of this project will stop by the talk page for the above article and leave their opinion of just what is going on. Sincerely, and with my very best wishes to all, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:36, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I know that this has been suggested before and did not come to much, but I want to suggest it again and see if there is any interest. My thinking is that the task force would cover the Sacramento metropolitan area, not just the city itself. I am not sure I know how to create a task force but I am up to the task of figuring it out and I think it should be done. Toyz1988 ( talk) 17:42, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Upon review of the name "Capital Region" it seems to more commonly refer to the Albany region of New York among other places outside of the United States. It may be better to rethink the name of the task force. A name I was thinking of is Cal Capital task force. Cal is an abbreviation of California, common in many of the state organizations and bureaus; and it emphasizes the fact that it is the California Capital region. I did a search of Cal Capital on Google and it appears to be in relatively common usage. Thoughts? 08OceanBeachS.D. 01:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Assuming everyone agrees on Golden State Capital Region taskforce, someone should be found to create the page that preferably has experience creating California task force pages. 08OceanBeachS.D. 21:54, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surfing Madonna (2nd nomination). I wasn't aware of this until I saw the wikipedia page. Take a gander and weigh in your opinion. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:27, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
I have listed San Diego for peer reveiew. Please comment here. Thank you. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 00:44, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
In the McCloud River article, there is a claim that that the train bridge scene from the movie Stand By Me was filmed on a trestle over this river. However, I believe that scene was filmed using the train trestle over Lake Brtitton. There are a couple youtube videos which show that the backdrops of the scene in the movie match the bridge over Lake Britton. Sorry, I don't have the links handy. There are also online movie film location websites which make the same claim, but I cannot vouch for their reliability. 67.164.10.16 ( talk) 19:08, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
{I just removed the unsourced claim. It would be helpful if anybody interested in this article would find sources for the other information as well. It has been tagged for a long time. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 14:06, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Adrián González#Requested move. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:58, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
I believe it no longer meets FA status and have nominated it for FAR. Per wiki rules, I am notifying all of the article's involved wiki projects. Crystal Clear x3 03:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to convert WikiProject San Diego into a task force into this? I left a note at WikiProject San Diego for any concerns. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 19:03, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Comments are invited on the discussion page for subject article about California Historical Landmark #968 and alleged duplication of coverage in articles about historic aircraft using the site. Thewellman ( talk) 01:24, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
An IP user ( 75.36.142.226) seems to be going around editing the demographics sections of a huge bunch of articles on California cities. I lack the sources, expertise, and time to audit their many changes for accuracy, so I thought I'd bring it up here. -- Cybercobra (talk) 05:35, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States)#Before FAR. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:50, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
A publicity agency for Kevin A. Ross is going into several articles and making changes in Mr. Ross's favor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/3BAAS_Media_Group, It is annoying to have to clean up after this outfit. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:22, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
OK. I did it. Thanks. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 06:39, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Mariano Laya Armington#Notability. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 15:35, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the article 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States) for FA. The review can be found here. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate. Any assistance with this nomination would be greatly appretiated. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 00:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Your attention is called to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raymond A. Watson. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:21, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated Island fox for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad ( talk) 09:58, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could re-assess California Trail on your quality scale. There has been a good amount of cleanup and copyediting done on it recently, although the article may still be too long. Thanks! Dac04 ( talk) 19:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello! The CEO of this organization was involved in a contentious event and the paragraph in the article that describes the event has been changed several times to represent a few different view points. I think the article is mostly in good shape and that the paragraph could use some attention from more editors. The section mentioned is TOMS_Shoes#Focus_on_the_Family. I started this section on the talk page but so far, no one has joined the discussion (only edited the section). Any help there would be greatly appreciated. OlYeller Talktome 13:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Should party labels (D) and (R) be added to List of California public officials charged with crimes? See Talk:List_of_California_public_officials_charged_with_crimes#Parties. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 19:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
This came across my reader today:
Cheers, tedder ( talk) 04:36, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
I would like to create a discussion on the naming of the Placer county unincorporated area that is Olympic Valley. In Wikipedia it is referred to as Squaw_Valley,_Placer_County,_California. This community should be called Olympic Valley, as that is the official name. You will also notice that Placer County, California also refers to this article as Olympic Valley, not Squaw Valley. Squaw Valley is the name of a ski resort that is located in this valley. If you guys feel this is not under the jurisdiction of the SF Bay Area, please suggest a more relevant location for this discussion and ask an admin to move it there. I propose this article be renamed Olympic Valley Thanks. Jtbobwaysf ( talk) 10:24, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible for someone to re-assess the John Wayne Airport article. I've cleaned up a lot of stuff in the article and tried to make it more factual and less opinon - a lot of others have also contributed to this. Would love to hear any feedback on anything that you deem is keeping it at the rating it is. More than happy to spend the time to tweak and re-write further. Np sca ( talk) 04:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I've converted California State University WikiProject into a task force of WikiProject California since it has been inactive, which will be added to the banner soon. If you have any comments, please discuss here. Thank for your time. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 06:11, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure the 3rd photo in the Red Rock Island article is not a photo of Red Rock Island. Just from looking at it, the photo seems to depict a different island. The characteristics: there is no Coast Guard structure on the other pictures of the island (the island is private, so I think it would be odd to have a Coast Guard structure). Also in the foreground of the picture, you can see rocks that look a lot like they are on the shore (which would also explain the photographer's proximity to it without being on a boat) and a small wave emblematic of the coastline. Red Rock Island, however, is quite far from the shore. It is also bigger than what appears in the photo in question. Is there some format for dealing with this? I'd just assume erase it, but I don't want to be presumptuous. It's also being used in another article, Richmond. Lastly, the photographer who uploaded it is red-linked, so I don't imagine he/she's coming back soon. Advice?
Almonroth 23:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Are there any users in the Bel-Air/Westside area of Los Angeles? If so, would anyone mind photographing the Community Charter Elementary and Roscomare Road Elementaries for the Bel-Air article? Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:13, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, as a WikiProject that relates to this article, this notice was sent to let you know that the article, Leon Panetta, has been nominated to be a future Collaboration of the Month article. All editors interested in voting for or improving these article are encouraged to participate. You can cast your vote here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 16:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:California will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in California's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 23:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Bay Area editors. I'm proposing merging Rodeo Cove into Rodeo Beach. You can add your thoughts here. Rupert Clayton ( talk) 00:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Revisiting AfD. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 06:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#Immigration status. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:40, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion about History of the Hmong in Merced, California at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Asian_Americans#History_of_the_Hmong_in_Merced.2C_California WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:N/N#Death of Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr.. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 20:05, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Informing project members that I have started an article for OR-7, the wolf also known as Journey, who has traveled throughout Oregon and California and captured the attention of many people in the process. No question about notability here, as far as I am concerned, given the amount of attention this wolf has received. This article would make a great collaboration for WikiProject California, WikiProject Dogs and WikiProject Oregon. May the adventure continue... -- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:22, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Anyone know how often, or when, or how, the assessment summaries shown here are done? i want to see the current numbers for the sfba task force. are the dates given the dates this program is run? really ignorant so far.(mercurywoodrose) 75.61.128.131 ( talk) 03:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that WikiProject University of California is currently in an inactive status and would like to add it under the supported projects list of WikiProject United States. before I do that though I wanted to give you first dibs on adding it under your scope. Please let me know if you have any questions. Kumioko ( talk) 18:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm planning to contribute to the page by adding the follwing facts: The page should also talk about the De Anza College clubs origin, activities, contribution and schedule link. De Anza club catagories: •Academics •Community Service •Diversity •Political •Religious •Special Interest •Sports •Support Also noting the fact that there is one club day every quarter. In addition, the statement in the De Anza wiki page "One of the well known internships they have available to its students is at the NASA Ames Research Center." is not true anymore because of the budget cuts it has been revoked. But the OTI ( Occupational Training Institute ) in deanza is still active and provides internship for computer major studens in one of its program called CalTechs. References: < http://www.deanza.edu/oti/> < http://www.deanza.edu/clubs/clublist_category.html> Cynide45 ( talk) 05:19, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)#Differing histories. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 16:33, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Morse High School (San Diego, California)#IAR Petition. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:50, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, we have been working to activate WikiProject Indigenous languages of California. How does this project fit in with WikiProject California? Djembayz ( talk) 14:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station#Anti-nuclear protests section. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:47, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Well, it's not particularly well worded for non-userpages, but yeah, this WikiProject is now setup and still in the early stages of building its project area before user-participation can really begin to function. Anyone interested, please feel free to join. Note, this project not only covers film and TV, but Western novels, comics, actors, directors and authors, etc who make the fictional-Wild West possible. Thanks, Ma®©usBritish{ chat} 01:44, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
I have written a basic bio of Eldad Matityahu, the founder of Net Optics. Other editors have now twice added a notability flag, without commenting on the talk page. I removed the flag myself the first time, after increasing the number of references from 2 to 11, with an explanation on the article's talk page.
I'm reluctant to remove the flag myself again without any discussion or input from others, but I believe notability is not a problem. The article is based on 11 independent citations. Several are general profiles about Eldad. Coverage also ranges beyond his role as an entrepreneur -- including his interest in classic cars and his philanthropic endeavors.
Could somebody take a look and remove the notability flag if you agree, or else share your views in the thread I started on the article's talk page? Thanks, - RonnyG1 ( talk) 21:13, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Landmarks California is kicking off their first event and they have chosen California architect Julia Morgan as a way to highlight the importance of the historical preservation of buildings. October and November 2012 are going to be the active months. It would be fantastic if editors here could buckle down and make improving the Julia Morgan biography a priority. Articles about her buildings could be improved, too.
A new book has been written about Julia Morgan's life and career: Julia Morgan: Architect of Beauty, by Mark Anthony Wilson, an architectural historian. Interested editors would be encouraged to locate a copy of this book because it brings some new information to light. Binksternet ( talk) 22:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi! This district list http://www.losal.org/14631062413460983/lib/14631062413460983/Attendance_Boundaries_Summary-One_Sheet.pdf mentions the even number streets of "Claremore Lane 2900 - 2972" as being within the school district. Are these residences really in Long Beach city? What county is this portion in?
Also what city is "Huntington Harbor Boats Dock F" inside? Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:47, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please fix this page? Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Cleanup listing The bot which updates it has been inactive since March 2010 and the page itself is impossibly long. Thanks. -- S. Rich ( talk) 23:35, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
There is presently an article Greenmail, however, I have found sufficient reliable sources to support notability of an article about Greenmail (California) or some other name, or as a new section in a relevant article.
-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:32, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Los Angeles Pobladores#Filipino Pabladore?. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:36, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Category:Alcatraz inmates, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:27, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
WP has used Category:Bottom-importance articles for a while now, and i am curious why its so rarely used. I think it would be appropriate here. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 18:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Although this might be better directed to
WP:MILHIST, I would like to ask here first. I see that the articles of the
184th &
185th Infantry Regiments both state that they are active. However, only one (184th) is part of the present
79th Infantry BCT that is almost half of the
California Army National Guard (the other part being the Aviation Brigade of the
40th ID, and other miscellaneous units). That being said, there is
an article, as recently as 2011 stating that a regiment member was killed in action, and I cannot find any
reliable source stating that the unit has been deactivated. Any assistance regarding this inquiry would be appreciated.--
RightCowLeftCoast (
talk)
01:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
I have received a reply from the curator at the California Military Museum regarding my inquiry. Here it is below:
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO
J****. I am assuming that the 1/185 Inf was reorganized out of existence in 1976 when the HHC 49th Inf Bde was converted to an MP Bde. The battalion was reraised in 2003 and did mobilize separate companies to Iraq. It appears to have been reorganized into a CSS Bn. These is a lot of confusion since the 1/185th Armor was reorganized into a hybrid combined arms battalion.
I will check with the Force structure people in DC and see if they have any clearer information.
D** S****, Sergeant Major (Ret)
Curator, The California State Military Museum
Part of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Museum Systems
1119 Second Street
Sacramento, California 95814-3202
I have redacted my name, as well as the Sergeant Major's. This is a good start, but I wrote back that Wikipedia requires somewhere where there is a
reliable source that we can point to to correct the 185th's article, as well as the date when the regiment was inactivated. Additionally, through him, I have asked if it were possible to request a new "Lineage and Honors" document from the United States Army Center of Military History.--
RightCowLeftCoast (
talk)
23:34, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Charlie company, 1/185 Infantry received a
Meritorious Unit Commendation for their Iraq deployment in 2007-2008. These
orders may help with the search.--
Mattmc76 (
talk)
19:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 18:19, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Ecology of California has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecology of California. Please feel free to join in the discussion. — hike395 ( talk) 02:58, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Please see this ref desk post Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Location_of_street_address_in_California_and_attributes on whether "The Bungalows" is in Long Beach Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:39, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
There is an error in displaying the California State Assembly in the articles of current and former members in their infoboxes on the right side of the page. Instead it shows the U.S. House of Representatives, which is wrong. Looking over most articles you can clearly see which is the CSA tenure and which is the USHOR tenure (if that person has been in both bodies). If someone with familiarity with this particular infobox could look into and fix this issue that would be ideal.- Toyz1988 ( talk) 22:27, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
There has been a little bit of activity at the Wikimedia Cascadia page at Meta, along with its associated talk page. If you have any thoughts on this proposed organization, I am all ears (as I know others are as well). Feedback? Interest? Questions? -- Another Believer ( Talk) 03:56, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I have created Template:California topic and as an example converted Template:California history to use it. A good example of the usefulness of such templates, the History of Visalia, California is now automatically included, and there is no need to constantly update the template as new cities get articles. I believe a large number of California topical navboxes can be converted and would be easier to maintain, especially with city-by-city articles.
The one question is whether to include all cities, and if not which ones and how to override it, and whether to set the color to {{California/color}} by default... Int21h ( talk) 01:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I've just started editing Wikipedia and found incomplete information about California ballot measures for 2012. I'm curious whether this was intentional?
Are there others interested in election information in this project, who can tell me more about the philosophy behind creation (or the decision not to create) pages for ballot measures?
I'd like to add more content, but would add it to Ballotpedia, for example, if you think that is a better approach.-- Jennywaggo ( talk) 00:57, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Category:California has the {{ container category}} template yet it has pages as well as subcategories in it. Also, it has template and WikiProject sub-categories in it. From what I have seen the other US state categories do not do this, or most other categories for that matter. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:05, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi! What are some Chinese-language newspapers active in LA and Orange counties in the 1990s?
At Talk:Murder_of_Stuart_Tay#Chinese names I'm trying to find the Chinese names of two of the perpetrators but can't find anything online - Perhaps a Chinese-language newspaper in California has written an article about the case, but the article isn't online?
WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:52, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I have an issue with the opening sentence at the article Government of California, which begins "The government of California comprises a democratic republic ..." I don't think that is an accurate description of the state, or an appropriate use of the phrase Democratic republic. I'd appreciate any input at Talk:Government of California#Democratic republic???. Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 20:21, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
At Talk:David Westerfield I am concerned about some of the talk page arguments made by some posters. It seems like they are using OR research points, not realizing that analysis should be left up to secondary sources. Since it's a BLP it's something to be cautious on. WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:31, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2012 Benghazi attack/Archives/2013/January#Pruned information regarding Wood & Doherty. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 08:46, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion regarding the lead paragraph on the talk page of Sony Pictures Entertainment. As it according to it's talk page banner falls under this project, some input from participants of this project would be appreciated. Regards. MisterShiney ✉ 08:36, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Burrito#Request for comment. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 20:39, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Choosing and sorting articles by importance is an arbitrary and mostly misunderstood process that no longer serves this project. In fact, the most active WikiProjects no longer use the importance rating at all and have opted to go with a streamlined "core" article rating in its place. This is a proposal to deprecate all articles by importance (including task forces) and to use a core rating for all articles in its place. Arguments for maintaining the status quo and opposing this proposal should demonstrate how sorting California articles by importance is accurate, helpful, and necessary. Viriditas ( talk) 01:44, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Oppose Although some active WikiProjects don't use the importance scale, I think most still do for a good reason: while the quality scale is an encyclopedia-wide assessment, the importance scale is helpful in determining how best to use the resources of a given WikiProject. The scales complement each other, and one extra parameter on the template doesn't seem too time-consuming. Miniapolis ( talk) 03:56, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
At the articles about the state's congressional districts, such as California's 53rd congressional district, the congressional district maps are outdated. I have started updating the descriptions of the districts, but I don't know how to put in the new maps. One source for the new maps is at wedrawthelines.ca.gov - District 53 for example. This looks like a state government site but I'm not familiar enough with Wikipedia image and copyright guidelines to know if we can use it. Anybody want to take this on? Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 16:19, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
I moved an article. There is some disagreement. See Talk:List_of_native_plants_in_California#Name_of_article. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 18:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Are biographies about people from a certain region, including a state, fall within the scope of a WikiProject that covers that region (or state)? For example, how about Gray Davis or Emperor Norton or Cheryl Cox?-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:43, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Southern California task force#Baja California. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:46, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
2013 Southern California shootings has been requested to be renamed, see talk:2013 Southern California shootings -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 23:33, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#Blanking of content verified by multiple reliable sources. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Larry Thomas (actor) is at WonderCon Anaheim March 29 - 31. We could use a picture of him in character for his article and The Soup Nazi. Does anyone know anyone who is going? If they mention the shots will be for Wikipedia he may pose for some good ones.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 10:45, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
file:HuntingtonBeach-1904.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 01:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
I created a new subpage of the project, Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Requested Articles, which is linked to at the "to do" list, but i thought people should know its here now. I scoured the WP:Requested Articles for "calif", found a good collection. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 06:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
in Portal:California/Did you know/6, the third item, Julia Tuttle, has absolutely no California connection. i removed the info, and placed a placeholder there until a replacement is found. I don't know how active the DYK section of the portal is. if no one does, I may add a selection at some point. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 04:01, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if you guys are aware of this, but a subpage of your project has been sent to MfD. The nominator probably should have brought this up here before nominating it. Please feel free to leave comments. T C N7JM 00:06, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Huge difference between numbers given by different sources. Would anyone mind looking into this? Jsayre64 (talk) 18:44, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Your attention is called to this section, Use Mapping L.A. as reliable source?, which could use your expert input. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:03, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi All! I just updated and wrote an article for the Mendocino War because it was previously a stub. Check it out and see what you think! Feel free to edit or provide any feedback! Bellitan ( talk) 20:11, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Template:Largest cities of California has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. I am not the nominator for this deletion. It was nominated March 31 and I did not see a notice on this projects talk page. CRwikiCA talk 18:40, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Could anyone in LA take pictures of this place: Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery? If you are interested in working with me, there is a series of other locations and historic residences to take pictures of. I thought I would ask here to speed things up. Please reply on my talkpage if interested. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 03:08, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA#San_Diego Comic Con. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:04, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
The article Central California is suffering from a grossly poor definition of Central California, one that often contradicts the sources cited in the article. Thmazing ( talk) 21:46, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedia! I recently updated the article on General Grant Grove, which previously was a stub. Please check it out and see what you think! I'd value feedback and a rating! Newhousj ( talk) 20:50, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station#Call for criminal investigation by Senator Barbara Boxer: section added, deleted, reverted back. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:01, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I've rewritten the article Chris Field (Los Angeles musician), DIFF.
Further suggestions for additional secondary sources would be most appreciated, at the article's talk page, at Talk:Chris Field (Los Angeles musician).
— Cirt ( talk) 02:37, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
A significant discussion is underway at Talk:History of California#Dublin IP editor contributions. Additional input would be appreciated. -- MelanieN ( talk) 18:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I just created James Boon Lankershim's page (and also his father's, Isaac Lankershim), two major landowners from California who developed the San Fernando Valley and buildings in downtown LA. However, the editing process has changed and I've just tried to add a 'legacy' section to James's page, but Lankershim Boulevard is not wikified. I don't understand why. Is there a way to revert to the old editing process? This looks like a nightmare to use. By the way, feel free to expand those pages and, if you can figure out how to add their pictures, you can find them on FindAGrave (old enough to have no problem with copyright I think). Thanks. Zigzig20s ( talk) 05:38, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am working to get Electoral history of Ronald Reagan into a much better state than it is currently. I have the bare bones of the article ready in my sandbox, but have run into a very significant hurdle - I cannot find any reliable source relating to the 1966 and 1970 gubernatorial election primaries. I have looked all over the place, including the website for the Secretary of State, but there does not seem to be any record of elections prior to 1992 on that website. These should exist, because the Secretary of State of California issues a Statement of Vote for all elections, including primaries. I was wondering if any of you here at WikiProject California know of or have access to these records - it is important to documenting thoroughly the electoral history of Reagan in California. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. :) Toa Nidhiki05 21:13, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Your attention is called to this discussion. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA/SDCC1#Location. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 06:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Please help find a consensus on images for the article stub at: Talk:17-Mile Drive#17 Mile Drive info box and section images replacement.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 04:15, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I just created 2013 California prisoner hunger strike, obviously notable, but i would like help in fleshing it out. its pretty well linked, categorized and connected to projects, but needs many more references and of course more detail. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 18:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Are there any project members who might be willing to take a quick look at this article? I have requested a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors and I have also nominated this article for Good status. My concern, though, is that my account of the statue's location within the Civic Center is accurate. What confuses me is the timeline for construction of the Civic Center, movement of the library and Asian Art Museum, etc. I found one location for the unveiling and another for its current location. Might contributors with more familiarity with the history of San Francisco be able to help? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:38, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunrise Aviation. - Ahunt ( talk) 22:24, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the Wikipedian in Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in New York. I'm looking for Wikipedians and GLAM contacts in the L.A. area to connect with a contact at a museum in L.A. who is interested in the Wikipedian-in-Residence program and GLAM-Wiki. She is also affiliated with the L.A. as Subject program. Please contact me if you are interested. OR drohowa ( talk) 15:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC) Special:EmailUser/OR drohowa.
image:Drake's Cove, Drakes Bay, California, 1579.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 ( talk) 06:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Regarding a merge of Rancho New Helvetia ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to New Helvetia ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). >>>Discussion is Here<<<; Dated October 17 2013
Any opinions on merging Rancho New Helvetica and New Helvetica? One is the land grant, one is the settlement. There is a bit of confusion as to a second possible location. Not sure which should be the article name, and which the redirect. Djembayz ( talk) 17:27, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Beatrice Kozera was the Mexican farmworker girlfriend who inspired one of Jack Kerouac's characters, and the subject of a film and an upcoming fictional biography. Djembayz ( talk) 00:04, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
When I type in "Silicone Valley" into the search field ... I'm sent to the Adult Entertainment of the San Fernando Valley page. Seems wrong but I haven't a clue how to fix. Please help. 98.125.230.21 ( talk) 01:47, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
If someone has time/interest the banner ad needs fixing. When it says "¿Sabes So Cal?" it should be "¿Conoces California?". Originally I had taken the File:Flag_of_California.svg, stretched the red and white across the page, and put some animated text in flash. But I can't locate any of my project files for when I made it so it would be from scratch again. Someone let me know about this months ago and just haven't had any time or interest in fixing it diff. See File:Qxz-ad182.gif - Optigan13 ( talk) 19:35, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 December 25#Silcone Valley discussion reached consensus to retarget the Silicone Valley redirect to Silicon Valley. Your opinion would now be welcome about whether Silcon Valley should have a hatnote pointing to San Fernando Valley#Adult ednterainment, the former target of the redirect and only other notable meaning of the term. Please comment at Talk:Silicon Valley#Hatnote, thanks. Thryduulf ( talk) 23:54, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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A CFD discussion has been started on a proposal to rename this category, hinging on the question of whether it is appropriate to include the Sierra Foothills as part of the "SJV Area" along with the SJ Valley proper. Please join the discussion. Cgingold ( talk) 17:59, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.
For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and Wikipedia:Notability.
— Cirt ( talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
I tried to use this project's watch list at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_California#External watchlist, but I get this error message: "Query error: Query execution was interrupted" X Ottawahitech ( talk) 21:33, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 45#Comic-Con Panel. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 11:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).
Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.
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This article for deletion is relevant to your wikiproject, so your users may be interested in commenting. 0x0077BE [ talk/ contrib] 23:23, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
...at Talk:Santa Ana Mountains BMK ( talk) 13:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Can we get a photo for Rick Dore Kustoms? dont know what city he is in. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 07:51, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Some include dab/primarytopic issues, please see current discussions WP:RM. I haven't covered the whole of California yet. Skookum1 ( talk) 08:40, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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I want to help the Article
Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park.
Please find my article for creation and my credentials in user:
Douglas Nelson Turner (
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I have worked out how the generators are wired and the three phases developed. I would like to add a table of Contents and a "heading" about the generators.
If that is not appropriate, I would like to make a new Atricle on the subject.
Answer at my user talk, please.
Thank you
Douglas Nelson Turner (
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There is a deletion discussion ongoing for article Wiki Education Foundation.
Discussion page is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wiki Education Foundation.
— Cirt ( talk) 18:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
If anybody lives in or near California State University, Los Angeles, are you willing to scan copies of this master's thesis for me:
It is important because there is an AFD on the Spanish Wikipedia about the es:Liceo Mexicano Japonés ( English article) es:Wikipedia:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés
Thank you WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:36, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Here's the library record of the thesis: http://xerxes.calstate.edu/losangeles/books/record?id=b1577414 WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:59, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
LA Meetup: May 10 Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, You have been invited to a meetup and edit-a-thon at the Junipero Serra Branch of the LA Public Library (4607 S. Main St., 90037) on Saturday, May 10, 2014 from 10 am to 4 pm! This event is sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association and aims to improve coverage of Asian Pacific American topics, particularly as they relate to southern California. Please RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:11, 30 April 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Are there any Californians interested in participating in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a multi-national effort to improve coverage of LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects? Perhaps an edit-a-thon in San Francisco or Los Angeles? Please visit the project page for details or let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
LA meetups: Adrianne Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thons on May 23 and May 31 | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, There are two LA edit-a-thons in memory of Adrianne Wadewitz, a prolific Wikipedia editor, in the coming weeks. Please join us May 23 at Occidental College and May 31 at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry to combat systemic bias and help further Adrianne's legacy. No experience needed! Please RSVP at the relevant page(s) if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:28, 14 May 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Requesting input here, please. Snuggums ( talk • contributions) 21:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Upcoming L.A. events: Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon (Saturday, June 21, 12-5pm) and Wiknic (Sunday, July 6, ~9:30am-4pm) |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The L.A. Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: an edit-a-thon sponsored by the online magazine East of Borneo, and the fourth annual Los Angeles Wiknic! The East of Borneo event is an edit-a-thon that aims to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next chapter of their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, June 21, 2014 from 12pm to 5pm at 356 S. Mission Rd. ( map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting. The Wiknic is a part of the nationwide Great American Wiknic. We'll be grilling, getting to know each other better, and building the L.A. Wikipedia community! The event is tentatively planned for Pan-Pacific Park ( map) and will be held on Sunday, July 6, 2014 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:59, 11 June 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
The FAQ says I should use this talk page to ask about reviewing article quality ratings. It doesn't seem like this page is used much for that, but I figured I'd ask anyway - happy to be pointed elsewhere!
All of these are CA people (mostly artists and historically significant women) who are all currently marked stub-class or start-class, and that I think could be C or B-class- I'm just not sure how best to go about that, or what things I'm missing when looking at them myself.
Reviews, or suggestions, appreciated! LuisVilla ( talk) 15:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
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Invitation to join GLAM-Wiki US | |
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LA Meetup: March 9 edit-a-thon at MOCA | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, You have been invited to a meetup and edit-a-thon at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 11 am to 6 pm! This event is in collaboration with MOCA and the arts collective East of Borneo and aims to improve coverage of LA art since the 1980s. (Even if contemporary art isn't your thing, you're welcome to join too!) Please RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! User:Calliopejen1 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 23:02, March 2, 2014 |
I had started Template:LGBT Americans by location after making LGBT culture-related articles on Houston and Detroit. I notice others have started articles on the LGBT of other cities, but California remains absent. WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
This is currently subcategorized by county, which in my opinion is a bad scheme because it splits what appears to be only about 100 articles by (at present) over two dozen counties, half of which only have one article. No other state's firearm suicide category is split by county, nor is the county of particular significance. Unless there's some compelling rationale for doing it this way, I think the county subcats should all be nominated for upmerging at CFD. postdlf ( talk) 22:27, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon: Saturday, September 6 from 11am to 4pm | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, You are invited to meet up with online magazine East of Borneo for an edit-a-thon to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next event in their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 11am - 4pm at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena ( map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#2011 License revocation. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
The 20th Los Angeles meetup: Sunday, September 21 from 11am to 4pm | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, Join us on Sunday, September 21, from 11am to 4pm at Kramer Studio in Mid-City ( map) for a meetup and edit-a-thon! Get to know the Los Angeles Wikipedia community and do some editing (or learn to edit!) in a collaborative environment. Please RSVP and consider becoming a member of the SoCal task force to help us improve articles about everything in the region. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Upcoming L.A. events: Wik-Ed Women edit-a-thon (10/7, 6-10pm) and UCR edit-a-thon (10/16, 10am-4pm) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The Southern California Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: a Wik-Ed Women editing session downtown designed to combat systemic bias, and a Wikipedia Loves Libraries event at UC Riverside! Wik-Ed Women is a new monthly series of informal Wikipedia editing sessions for Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. This second session will take place on Tuesday, October 7 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. The UC Riverside Wikipedia Loves Libraries event is an edit-a-thon targeting articles related to UC Riverside, SoCal, and beyond. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Thursday, October 16 from 10am to 4pm at UCR's Tomás Rivera Library. Again, RSVPs are requested here. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 20:47, 29 September 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Upcoming SoCal edit-a-thons: UC Riverside (10/21, 10am-3pm) and Unforgetting L.A. (10/25, 9am-5pm) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The Southern California Wikipedia community has two more events scheduled for the month of October: a water-related edit-a-thon at UC Riverside, and an Unforgetting L.A. event at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar in conjunction with L.A. as Subject! As part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries and to celebrate Open Access Week, UC Riverside is participating alongside other Western Waters Digital Library members in an edit-a-thon focusing on water issues. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Tuesday, October 21 from 10am to 3pm at UCR's Orbach Science Library ( map). RSVPs are requested here. The Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon and training workshop will take place at the 9th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, and is hosted by online magazine East of Borneo in partnership with L.A. as Subject. Join us on Saturday, October 25 from 9am to 5pm at the USC Doheny Memorial Library ( map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
I've started a peer review for the WP:GA quality article, R U Professional.
Comments to help further improve quality would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/R U Professional/archive1.
— Cirt ( talk) 19:20, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Wik-Ed Women editing session (11/11, 6-10pm), and join our new Facebook group! | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has a new Facebook group! Become a member to keep up to date with all of our upcoming events and to connect with local Wikipedians! In addition, we have one upcoming event: the third Wik-Ed Women editing session will take place on Tuesday, November 11 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:20, 4 November 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Wik-Ed Women editing session CANCELED | |
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Due to health issues affecting one of the organizers, the third Wik-Ed Women editing session (originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 11) has been canceled. We expect the series to pick up again sometime in December. Sorry for the inconvenience, and hope to see you in the near future! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 03:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
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This is a notice about Category:California articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 16:10, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Please participate in RFC [24] regarding whether or not the article 2014 Isla Vista killings should be in the category "Violence against men" [25], which is described as category: "for articles on the topic of sexual or gender-based violence against men or boys". -- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 01:21, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
This category is for articles on the topic of sexual or gender-based violence against men or boys...The scope of this category includes sexual violence against men, sexual and gender-based violence against men in conflict situations, domestic violence against men (including honor killings of men), and violence against trans men. Organizations, literature, events, books, etc for which the topic of gender-based violence against men is defining are also on-topic. This category should not include violence where men happen to be the victims. Rather, it should only include acts of violence where the gender of the victim is an important determinant in them being selected for violence, when there is a gendered nature to the violence itself, or when it otherwise fits the definition in the literature of sexual or gender-based violence.'[27]-- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 20:57, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#VG comments subpages regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject California articles that would be affected by this action are these:
If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject California's use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. - Thibbs ( talk) 15:53, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
I've created an article about the stand-up comedy film, Bill Cosby 77.
Feel free to help out with expansion from secondary sources, or engage in collaboration at Talk:Bill Cosby 77.
Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 04:08, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
L.A. meetup: December 14 edit-a-thon at the California African American Museum | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, East of Borneo's "Unforgetting L.A." edit-a-thon series continues this weekend at the California African American Museum! Please join us this Sunday, December 14 from 11am to 4pm. Beginners welcome! You'll learn to create new articles that improve Wikipedia's coverage of African American art in Los Angeles, past and present. Please click here for full event details and to RSVP if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Wik-Ed Women editing session (1/20, 6-10pm) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, Please join us at an event this coming Tuesday: the third Wik-Ed Women editing session will take place on January 20 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 23:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
I started a merger proposal last month of New Helvetia and Sutter's Fort here. Any input would be appreciated. Voltaire's Vaquero ( talk) 02:22, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
This page: /info/en/?search=First_Presbyterian_Church_of_San_Jose might be deleted. I believe that it is part of California history. If you disagree, I understand. If you agree, please feel free to edit it. Thanks! Dawn22 ( talk) 00:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 19:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
The Pan Am Flight 843 is up for discussion at AfD. As I commented there, sources should be available to enable the article to be kept. Are there any online newspaper archives covering SF in the 1960s available? If you are able to assist with the improvement of the article, please pitch in. Mjroots ( talk) 17:26, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
There's any edit war shaping up over which county Tustin, California is in. I would appreciate some help resolving the matter.— Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:56, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Redondo Loves Wikipedia (2/14), Wik-Ed Women (2/17), and Unforgetting LA at the Getty (2/21)! | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has three events in mid-February -- please consider attending! First, we have a Valentine's Day edit-a-thon appropriately named Redondo Loves Wikipedia, which will take place at the Redondo Beach Public Library from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, February 14. Join library staff, the Redondo Beach Historical Society, and others to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of Redondo Beach! Second, we have a Wik-Ed Women editing session on Tuesday, February 17 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Third, we have an Unforgetting LA event put on by East of Borneo in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute. Come help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LA design and architecture, and have an awesome free day at the museum -- parking will be validated for edit-a-thon participants! If you'd like to use particular books from GRI's great collection, be sure to email before 2/13 (instructions at event page). And be sure to check out our main meetup page, because we already have three SoCal events scheduled for early March! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:58, 5 February 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:South Coast (California). Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 06:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, there will be 9 satellite ArtandFeminism Edit-a-thons at Berkeley, San Francisco, Irvine, LACMA, L.A., Fresno, Pomona, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Whittier. These events would all like to invite local Wikipedians to come join the events and help new editors. Please email me if you would like to help out and would like to be put in touch with the event organizers. Thanks for your support, and feel free to contact me! OR drohowa ( talk) 04:52, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The 2015 Oxnard train derailment has been created. A Spanish-language version is needed. Mjroots ( talk) 06:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:37, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Terrorism#Southern California terrorist plot. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
The naming of "Cougar" is under discussion, see talk:Cougar, Rlendog ( talk) 08:38, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Just wrote Module:LACMTA for {{ LACMTA icon}} and the test result can be seen in template:LACMTA icon/testcases. I did that for practicing Lua coding but also the original template creates broken links for Harbor Transitway, Regional Connector Transit Corridor and El Monte Busway due to lettercase transformation by wiki magicword. The module is buggy if I un-comment line 60 of the module which is intended to serve as the fallback if parameter 1 does not match the any key's values in table t1, so looking for help to fix that. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk · contri.) 16:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians from California/Architecture/Requested Pictures,
at german Wikipedia we just wrote an article about an architectural interesting office building at teh border of Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village, California. It has been used in several movies, such as Demolition Man or 12:01. Its not the same as The Oaks (Thousand Oaks, California), as the one I am talking about is located here: 34° 9′ 21.95″ N 118° 49′ 8.84″ W. We would be very happy to have a picture for this building. We already checked Wikipedia Commons if there is one - no. Could you help us with someone near this place taking a photo of that building? Or could you pass this question additionally to a better fitting place at english Wikipedia - if this is not the right place? I post this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture and Wikipedia talk:Requested pictures but none of those seem to fit perfectly. Looking forward
Yours -- Zulu55 ( talk) 08:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thon (3/18), Redondo Loves Wikipedia (3/28) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has two events in this second half of March -- please consider attending! First, there is a memorial edit-a-thon in honor of the prolific LA Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz, which is being held downtown on March 18 (tomorrow!) from noon to 8pm as a part of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' annual conference. Please drop by to contribute your own work or teach other users how to write for Wikipedia. Second, there will be an event at the Redondo Beach Public Library (following up on last month's session), in collaboration with the Redondo Beach Historical Society. Please join us from 10am to noon on Saturday, March 28 at the main branch of the Redondo Beach Public Library! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:26, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Editors are invited to comment on the discussion currently underway at Talk:Modesto, California#RFC_regarding_lead_photo.— Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:21, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#January 2016. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:46, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
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I don't know if anyone cares, but i've been fighting a one-man battle to keep this category from being deleted. Please sound off if you have an opinion. Amerique dialectics 22:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
User:Cooljuno411 and I seem to have a bit of a disagreement about how {{ Public Transportation in Greater San Diego}} should be formatted. Since the template talk page states the template is part of this WikiProject, I thought I'd bring the discussion here to get a few more opinions. Cooljuno feels that the template is similar to the infoboxes and should be left-aligned (but, for some reason, in the See Also section, which not all of the appropriate articles would otherwise have, such as McClellan-Palomar Airport), while I feel it belongs at the bottom of the page with the other navigation templates and should be the width of the article, as seen in this revision. Thoughts? -- Hawaiian717 22:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Greetings,
Please help. User: Flixthecat85 has repeatedly vandalized the Fuller Theological Seminary article. Me and other editors have helped maintain the site with a moderate, unbiased perspective for the past few months, but this guy just recently started making significant edits and deletions without any discussion. He primarily has vandalized the criticisms section, making me think that he is a Fuller alum or current student that is very biased and doesn't want to see any criticism of his school, even though it is fair (Fuller is a very controversial school). Please investigate, warn him if he doesn't stop he will be blocked, and restore the criticisms section that he recently vandalized yesterday.
Thanks,
-manutdglory —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manutdglory ( talk • contribs) 09:31, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
So can you help? -manutdglory
A response posted also on the Fuller Theological Seminary site in response to Amerique's moderation:
Thank you, Amerique. The policies seem very clear (after all, most of what you stated about referenced material, etc. is well known to most experienced wikipedians). If you check the history, all I did (and what other users did that was also undone) was to note what was unreferenced material, and after a while this unreferenced material was removed. I find it disappointing that a user (especially someone describing himself as a committed Christian) would repeatedly undo changes and assume that others are not acting in good faith, ignoring our comments about why exactly this was done and even trying to get others blocked. However, I am (and always will be) happy to work with him on any referenced facts to make sure that articles are accurate. Flixthecat85 ( talk) 06:07, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Amanita ocreata is at FAC - good public health one...cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 05:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Greetings: I am reposting a request that I originally posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment last week, in hopes of attracting another collaborator:
I've just made a rather shocking and very dismaying discovery: There's no article about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In fact, on all of Wikipedia, there are no more than a handful of passing references to this event. It's not even mentioned in the List of oil spills. Yikes! How on earth is this possible??? This is mind-boggling. In all seriousness, this is undoubtedly the most glaring omission I have ever found on Wikipedia (and, believe me, I've found more than a few). We are talking about the single event that was most directly responsible for launching the modern environmental movement on a mass scale. It's no mere coincidence that Earth Day 1970 took place just months later.
Especially with two oil spill eco-disasters currently under way, I hope I'm not alone in feeling that creation of this article should be a very high priority for this Project. I am in the middle of some very time-consuming things elsewhere on Wikipedia right now, but I promise that I will join in on a collaboration to write this article. Please reply here, and leave a note on my talk page, if you are interested -- especially if you've got good sourcing material. Regards, -- Cgingold ( talk) 22:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- I saw your comments and I appreciate your suggestion to make an article on this oil spill accident. Most likely, I will start an article on this on coming Wednesday. OhanaUnited Talk page 13:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
If you're interested, please reply at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment#Santa Barbara oil spill and/or my talk page#Santa Barbara oil spill. Regards, Cgingold ( talk) 19:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
A merger was proposed from The Twomps, Oakland, California to San Antonio, Oakland, California. It may benefit from your input, discussion is at Talk:San Antonio, Oakland, California. Thanks. -- Pepve ( talk) 22:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd appreciate it if someone could answer my question. Thanks, Yonatan talk 03:12, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Greetings from WikiProject Oregon! ( Sometimes known as WikiProject California's WikiProject Canada.) You might want to check on your history article. We've been working with a well-meaning editor who turned our History of Oregon, that was previously a redirect to the history section of the Oregon article, into a collection of templates. While the controversy continues over whether this user's work is helpful, it has finally got one of our members to actually write an article there, since the template solution was universally diapproved of. Meanwhile, your history article, which until recently was a soft redirect to a couple articles covering certain areas of history, is a collection of templates, which may or may not be what you want there. Happy editing! Katr67 ( talk) 17:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have a good source for city limits of California cities, in particular Paramount, with good enough precision to tell whether they are on the sides or centerlines of streets? Thank you. -- NE2 13:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Good morning. I recently updated the SVG for the Flag of California. The new version is designed to better reflect the colors of the bear as well as give a more accurate depiction of how it rendered on the flag. In particular, I attempted to get the textures and shapes as accurate as possible. I used an actual California Flag as a reference (I scanned it into my computer for tracing). Anyway, I would like to hear your opinions on the changes ... and if we should revert to the other version or keep this one. I wouldn't mind changing the colors of the bear to be more "vibrant" (match the current version). When this is complete, perhaps someone could replace the existing file on Wikimedia Commons (I created an account, but it is far too new). I also added this topic to the California discussion. Thanks for your time. - DevinCook ( talk) 15:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Greetings once again from Oregon. I was tidying up Wikipedia:U.S. cities without articles by removing bluelinks and noticed a couple to point out to you before they are deleted. Crowley Lake, California and Lake Almanor, California both redirect to their respective lake articles but don't mention any settlement by the same name. June Lake (California) is a good example of incorporating both features into an article. But sometimes there isn't actually a settlement named after a feature, it's just a naming convention mistake. I'll leave that to y'all to figure out. Also, I redirected Mi-Wuk, California to Mi-Wuk Village, California, I'm assuming they are the same place, but sometimes these kinds of names indicate separate locales. Happy editing! I hope you are staying warmer than we are. Katr67 ( talk) 19:08, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey everyone. I just created a new version of the California Barnstar. Initially, I saw an image linked in the "images that should have an SVG" section on Wikipedia. After I created the graphic, another user pointed out that someone else had beat me to it. Anyway, I would like to hear what you guys think of the graphic I created. Should we use this one or the other?
I also created a new template designed to have the basic colors and appearance of the California Flag.
THE CALIFORNIA BARNSTAR | |
I award you this barnstar for your considerable efforts on improving articles related to the California Republic. -- (4 tildes) |
Also, I can create a new graphic for the California Portal template. This one would have to be simple given the size constraints. Perhaps it can have a red star centered at the top with the bear centered below it. Anyway, please give me your feedback. - DevinCook ( talk) 00:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I think the current image is fine, really. Matching the colors wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't thik we need to replace the images, but why don't you ask some other people to comment. -- evrik ( talk) 14:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have an opinion regarding modifying the California Barnstar Box? The original image will stay the same.- DevinCook ( talk) 23:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Under the "Claim to Fame" heading, I really can't believe French Camp was the first city west of the Mississippi. How about Santa Fe? Overall, the article reads as if it were copied straight out of an older history book.
Castle Lake (California) is a current Good article nominee. NorCalHistory ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Great idea, DevinCook, thx! NorCalHistory ( talk) 15:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Just did a new stubbish article on the historic Bradshaw Trail if anyone's interested. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 09:26, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks much. I've harbored an interest in the local history of the Coachella Valley ever since I moved here. In fact, I started a lot of California-based articles under my old username and expanded the Coachella Valley article and a lot of its related articles. I did a slew of work on the Route 66 article as well. Just off the top of my head, here are some of my originals:
I originally wrote Wigwag (railroad) which was invented in Los Angeles and June McCarroll, a nurse in Indio who first proposed separating two opposite lanes of a highway with a painted white line. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 19:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Just added Wiley's Well as a sort of companion piece to Bradshaw Trail...which is a DYK feature today! Woo-hoo! -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 07:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a guideline for which articles should have the California template? Specifically, should it only be used in articles that have links in the template? Or, is it okay to include it in other articles about places in California, for example, articles about state or national parks? — Mudwater ( Talk) 13:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
A lot of new stuff at Panama-California Exposition (1915) could use an evaluation rating. -- SEWilco ( talk) 04:54, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 45 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 15:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in forming Wikimedia California? Geoff Plourde ( talk) 01:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I added the California Wikiproject to this article's talkpage, as it could use some input on the role/experience of Kanakas in California; I only know about their presence there from a Canadian-written book, Kanaka by Tom Koppel (not Ted). The Kanaka article was originally written only from an Australasian/South Pacific standpoint, where the term is derisive and associated with plantation slavery; in BC and California it's associated with the gold rush and, earlier, the fur trade. Not sure how much Californian-Kanaka history there is, but I know there's some; the Kanaka placenames in California (see List of Chinook Jargon placenames under "k") must have stories associated with them, maybe some worth articles also. Koppel's book, which I no longer own, has some stats on how many Hawaiians there were in gold rush California, and other details...this is also posted on the Talk:History of California to 1899 page Skookum1 ( talk) 13:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
With the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage coming up on April 26, I have nominated Manzanar to be on Wikipedia's main page on that date. Please add your support for that at Today's featured article requests. Thank you! -- Gmatsuda ( talk) 21:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I revised Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California, Template:WikiProject California, and WikiProject California images to give WikiProject California and California based photographers better information regarding California articles needing photographs. GregManninLB ( talk) 17:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
my husband was to a lady who lived on th hat creek resevation and was put up for adoption. we now have two boys and would like to know how to go about getting his indian numbers for our boys. if there is some one who can help us please respond to t.georgana@yahoo.com thank you so much —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.252.164.4 ( talk) 23:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Does there really need to be three displays of the coordinates in a single article?.
1. First sentence in section Geography.
2. Above infobox.
3. Inside infobox.
Is this information that a reader can use? I'm referring to the Cobb, California article.
Marcia Wright ( talk) 16:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
No, make that four references to coordinates, the last one under external links. These are CDP's in Lake County, but I stll don't see this many references as useful . Marcia Wright ( talk) 15:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
If there are no objections, I will go ahead and remove all but one coordinate, keeping the coordinates listed in the infobox. That seems the most appropriate place for this information Marcia Wright ( talk) 16:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I spent several hours last night rewriting this article to try to limit the influx of fringe theories into it. I would now appreciate several more sets of eyes and some comments on the talk page of the article in an effort to vaguely establish a consensus for the rewrite compared to its original version. This has been prompted by IP reversions and my suspicion that the edits I've make are rather contentious for some. I hope you can help! Best wishes Fritzpoll ( talk) 16:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Someone has placed French Laundry up for deletion. The WP:AFD discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/French_Laundry. — EncMstr ( talk) 04:58, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Is the term Eastern Sierra in common usage? This question arose in relation to Template:High Desert/ Eastern Sierra Radio High Desert (California) has an article but Eastern Sierra doesn't which makes me wonder if it's notable enough to describe this area of California. While not every metro (or not so metro in this case) area has a Wikipedia article, those that are used in these radio market navigation markets should have articles to assist browsers in answering the question "where the heck is Eastern Sierra" for themselves. An opinion from someone with more knowledge of the area would be helpful.-- Rtphokie ( talk) 12:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody add the Councilwoman's blog as an external link? www.janicehahn.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewac ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what else you might have to add; bio articles on namesake family/company seem called for but mostly English history (see google for this name). Skookum1 ( talk) 22:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Although this article is listed as a Featured Article, it no longer meets the criteria. For the most part, it looks very good. There is a lack of references throughout the article, though. If the article can be thoroughly referenced, I have no problem with it remaining as a Featured Article. I wanted to mention this to the relevant WikiProjects to see if anyone is willing to work on the sourcing for this article. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 21:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi; please see Talk:Kanaka#Kanaka_placenames_in_California. Skookum1 ( talk) 04:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
A request for comment has been posted at Talk:Harvey Milk#REQUEST FOR COMMENT: Milk's involvement with Jim Jones/Peoples Temple. Other editor's input would be appreciated. Banje boi 04:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Many of the articles on lighthouses and light stations included in List of Registered Historic Places in California have been moved from "Foo Point Lighthouse" or "Foo Point Light Station" to "Foo Point Light." This is done without discussion in most cases. Some existing articles were simply changed to redirects to new articles with the new naming convention adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses.
Please review the discussion regarding the propsal to move Point Reyes Lighthouse to Point Reyes Light at Talk:Point Reyes Lighthouse.-- Hjal ( talk) 07:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Anonymous editors have been changing the wording of Berkeley Oak Grove Protest, and article in your project's scope, and have recently added a NPOV template. I'd like opinions from other editors, so please stop on by and leave a comment here! Thanks! -- Falcorian (talk) 20:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Ohlone and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a few issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 05:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I have been currently involved in a heated debate regarding the name and the header of {{ County of Los Angeles}}. Because the creator wants the scope of the template to just list the county's departments, board of supervisors, and other government-run offices, I have been arguing for a more specific title than just "County of Los Angeles". It has become so heated that I have accused him of WP:OWN. Therefore, I would appreciate if others could post their opinions on the matter at Template talk:County of Los Angeles#Might need to be renamed to help settle this dispute. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:42, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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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) 22:12, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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Herberger for years has published the local paper for Lodi, California, which is also within the market for the single Stockton, California newspaper, the Stockton Record. While both are small-town, the Record is probably closest to a full-spectrum newspaper (although many discerning and more metropolitan readers also take the Sacramento Bee or papers from the San Francisco Bay Area). The Lodi paper is a local fixture, and long-standing. Herberger also publishes some other sleepy-town local advertising nostalgia papers in surrounding burgs. Those residents of Lodi who are most vocal would argue that Herberger vindicates the small town's need to distinguish itself from Stockton, but many residents and readers know and politically disagree with members of the Herberger publishing family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.93.206 ( talk) 08:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
San Francisco, California 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. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 15:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge 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. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I edited this category page, completing it by adding every counties template! Believing that something should be got right once and then used, rather than multiple reconstructions. Thus
-- Category:Cities in California by county can be changed from a category to an article and existing categorizations deleted.
-- Category:Cities in California should be an article generated from the county templates (sorry, I'm a zero at tools/tool writing).
I did the same thing (adding county templates) for Category:Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. If people believe that a list in alpha order is required (I don't - the Wikipedia search function works and so does Googles) then the same tool as for state (above) is needed.
Again, rely on your templates and stop the multiple categorization of cities, etc - getting the templates right is hard enough, let alone multiple redundant categorizations of every city/burg.
And yes, I messed up some of those redundant categorizations before catching onto the curious distinctions being made in categorizing cities, unincorporated, ... entities.(curious as in why do you do it - what question do you think is commonly asked to justify such low level distinctions in an encyclopedia?) Apologies, I hope the net total of my edits was positive ( Mare Island is not in San Francisco bay).
If there is an option on templates for "show" instead of the normal "hide", that might be appropriate for these uses. 69.106.246.31 ( talk) 10:21, 25 August 2008 (UTC) Add links here. 69.106.246.31 ( talk) 15:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
(1) Every county has at least two categories: 'Cities of ...' and 'Communities of ...' Given your county templates that is unnecessary complexity. You will serve users better by deleting the Cities of ... categories and including the county template in the 'Communities of ...' category page. That way there is only one list of cities (your current arrangement has two lists: the list in the template and those cities categorized 'cities of ...'. The two lists are rarely the same!) No information is lost.
(2) Some cities, Newport Beach, for example have both an article Newport Beach and a category Category:Newport Beach, California. In the county template you link to the article, but you should link to the category. You, the creators of templates, don't know the intent of the user, don't know what is being searched for. The editors of Newport Beach found a structure necessary to describe the wonders of Newport Beach but that structure is not obvious to casual (most) Wikipedia users (only a repetition of the name at the very bottom of the article - if they even read to the bottom) so please link to the category -- users will find all of Newport beach's sand! 69.106.246.31 ( talk) 16:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 2632 articles assigned to this project, or 19.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 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. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 11:53, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I've worked on a possible redesign of this project's page based on the one I did for WP:SFBA, it is in User:Optigan13/Sandbox 3 right now, so take a look at let me know if anyone has any concerns. I still need to organize several subpages and rework the participants list, so it may be some time until the page would be updated. Once the page is updated I would poll the participants to check our total number of active members. - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:32, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Does Monterey County, California has a well-defined or commonly-accepted region that it's generally held to belond to? It seems to be wedged between Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley, without belong to any of them. Alai ( talk) 18:02, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
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This biography has been recently rewritten to coincide with the anniversary of their death on November 27 as well as a feature film on them released around the same date. While awaiting further research material on request from libraries as well as some licensing for images it is now in a peer review. Other editors are welcome to offer constructive feedback and assistance. -- Banjeboi 04:35, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the article, specifically Image:Hayedeh6.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 20:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
After being subjected to a massive face-lift Gorman, California is ready to meet her public. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
In addition to Gorman, California, above, the following new or heavily revised articles are now ready for your perusal and cooperation in improving them: Neenach, California, Sandberg, California, Scheideck, California, Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, Frazier Park, California, Lake of the Woods, California, Lebec, California, Three Points, California. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
After working on the bio of Theodore Lukens, who was a Pasadena citizen and conservationist,etc., I had the idea of a bulletin board/noticeboard for editors who can and would be willing to collaborate on articles in their geographical area. I live in Lake County and could help someone who needed newspaper/library sources dealing with this area of Lake County, for example. So, if I could find someone in/near Pasadena to do the same for articles related to that area via a bulletin board page here in WP California... If this idea has been brought up previously, my apologies.
Thank you in advance, Sincerely, Marcia Marcia Wright ( talk) 15:47, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone improve the links to Redondo Beach pier, so "Pier" with a capital P also links there, or tell me how to do it. Also I couldn't find article for the Manhattan Beach pier and Hermosa Beach pier, but these are pretty big attractions in CA. ( ChocoCereal ( talk) 18:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC))
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I created Template:California business citation to allow article inline citations to California business' listed at sos.ca.gov. This may come in handy when referring to a California business that does not have its own Wikipedia article (and perhaps unlikely to have its own Wikipedia article), yet the reader may benefit from access to additional information on the business. The template was modeled after Template:US trademark. -- Suntag ☼ 15:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at Image:SLO_Bear.jpg. Unless we find the details on this sculpture, we'll have to delete it. So if someone can find the name of the artist, when the sculpture was erected, and check all inscriptions on the sculpture such as dates, signatures, copyright notice, it would be most welcome. Teofilo talk 16:09, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=50924&provider-top . A Local media outlet has a encounter with a UFO while engaged in a sporting event. Powerzilla ( talk) 20:30, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I am a representative of York School so I should not be the one to edit, so I am requesting a neutral editor take a look at an edit made by an anonymous user to to the York School entry on October 13. I believe this edit does not represent a neutral point of view. My explanation is on the talk page of the edit. Thank you! Brookhouser ( talk) 22:05, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
The Rick Warren article has been repeatedly vandalized by dozens of unestablished users over the past couple days and need to have a partial lock added ASAP.
Manutdglory ( talk) 23:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
I found this book on Google Books (which lets you "preview" almost the entire book online) and have been using it for cities, former settlements, etc. in Yolo County. Its been a really good resource and it has snippets of information for (virtually) every geographic place name in California. Just wanted to drop the link off here in case anybody else wanted to use it for anything they're working on that is California related. Killiondude ( talk) 08:55, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Some time ago I created the List of mountain ranges of California based on USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data. With the help of a Perl script (computer program) to generate stub text from GNIS data, I added 216 stub pages to fill in the list. It was still a manual cut & paste process as I tried to collect some additional info for each one when available. There are no more redlinks on the list - meaning there is at least a stub article for every mountain range in California. (Well, that's for the ones listed in GNIS.) Also, all the mountain range pages in California which already existed now have a geobox, locator map, coordinates and a reference from USGS GNIS if they didn't already have these. Enjoy! Ikluft ( talk) 08:39, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
I would like to add a "group" to this template titled National Wilderness Preservation System, just wanted to drop a note here on the talk page so if there are any objections, we can discuss them. This template is already huge but it is incorrectly categorizing the wilderness areas. Not all wilderness areas are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management's National Landscape Conservation project.
Ideally, this template could be split into two separate templates-one state protected areas and the other federal protected areas within the state. Any thoughts on this? Happy New Year to all as well! Regards, Marcia Wright ( talk) 14:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
P.S.
Upon further thought-just replacing "National Landscape Wilderness System" (a BLM program) with " National Wilderness Preservation System" (encompasses all WAs) is the best thing to do. Does not inlarge the template and is more accurate.
I'll go ahead and do this and hopefully not screw up the tempplate. ;) Cheers
Marcia Wright (
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15:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Done! I would ask that you look them over to see if they are "ready for primetime" please.- Navboxes
Marcia Wright ( talk) 17:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
The University of California Natural Reserve System has 29 Natural Reserves (currently red links) awaiting creation. I'm copying this request to the UC project as well. Viriditas ( talk) 10:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
I just would like to bring attention to the sorry state of the San Diego article. The San Diego article lacks a decent Lead, content, logical structure, sources, and good prose among other things. There are few regular editors of this article, so if there are any editors in this project that are bored and arent busy, we would be grateful if you Wikipedians could dedicate some time to this Top-priority WikiProject California article. Thanks! Anon134 ( talk) 03:58, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
In reading [Presidio of Sonoma]] just now, it occurred to me that it's part of Mexican history; would it not be approrpriate on such articles to also have WP:Mexico? For example, on Russian America articles, such as Fort Ross, WP:Russia or WP:Russian history appear (WP:Russian history is being merged so I'll truncate that WP on that page); doesn't it make sense that all Mexican/New Spain articles in relation to California (or Arizona etc.) also have WP:Mexico? Skookum1 ( talk) 15:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 21:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm in no mood right now to try and integrate what was needlessly deleted/substituted with what is now in place instead, and I'm not a Californian and unfamiliar with "Russian California"; there's half-a-dozen new bits of information there, all in need of cites, but the article already needed a lot of line-cites to start with. I hadn't heard of the farming settlements beyond Fort Ross - Kustov? Rustov? - or the "hunting settlement" on the Farallons....what I have noticed is a lot of Russian America articles with overblown non-facts, such as the (alleged) existence of Russian settlements in Oregon, Washington and BC...I"m not saying there weren't any - news to me if there were - but if there were, or there were Russian settlements outside of Fort Ross, then citations for this are definitely needed, and also items on the geographic/town articles where these settlements were alleged to have been. Fort Ross was in any case shut down in very short order as t h need for its existence was solved by closer supplies from Hudson's Bay farms (i.e. for the Russian presence in what's now Alaska, where food-growing is dififcult, and often just not possible). I'll cross-post this to WP:Russia, I'm hoping others may shepherd the facts in this article, and also control what non-facts may surface.....mostly right now I'm concerned that some bits of information, e.g. California's first windmills, were wholesale deleted (but weren't actually cited anyway, not line-cited that is; the info is in one of the park's promotional brochures/writeups I'd think, which are in the references. Skookum1 ( talk) 01:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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Just to let you all know, I have three articles, Franklin Knight Lane, Jerry Voorhis, and Murray Chotiner, all part of your project, at GAN. Help with reviews would be greatly appreciated. I intend to push all three on to FA.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 17:26, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I recently stumbled upon Electoral reform in California, which greatly needs expansion. I've posted my initial thoughts on its talk page. Gentgeen ( talk) 09:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a member of new Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic sites which is just starting up a Task force on California historic sites, at shortcut wp:CALHSITES. To develop coverage of California Historical Landmarks, various city and county historic registers, etc.
To the management here as a whole, would you like to co-sponsor this, and make California historic sites a task force under this wikiproject, too? There is some general info about Task forces at WP:TASKFORCE. The master example is wp:MILHIST with its, well, militarily coordinated multiple units.
To anyone individually, management or otherwise, please feel free to jump ship and come work on historic sites, instead of other California topics. :) It's fun, you get to take pictures, it's easier than birding because ur targets are stationary. doncram ( talk) 05:51, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Could somebody who is active with WikiProject California please explain why the article about this film is considered part of it? Thank you very much. 67.79.157.50 ( talk) 14:25, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
KIndly visit the above article and comment on the Discussion Page as to whether the lists of California ranchos should be split into their own pages instead of following the main text of the article. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 04:31, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
The project's template ( Template talk:WikiProject California#New version of template) has recently been updated using the meta banner template. As part of this recent update I was planning to request an bot assisted assessment of all pages in Category:Unassessed California articles (8,371 pages as of this writing). An auto assessment was apparently conducted in the past by User:Betacommandbot on the articles presently in Category:Automatically assessed California articles. Would anyone object to a bot assessment of articles? - Optigan13 ( talk) 22:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello -- I was told that in the 1930s and 1940s, Gypsies lived in the area of Gardenland, California, near Sacramento. I was told they interacted with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. I've been unable to find any confirming information at all. The gypsies made a practice of staying out of public notice, so this is tricky, and a little piece of arcana. Anyone? Thank you. Bek1a ( talk) 04:46, 22 April 2009 (UTC) bek1a
If someone has some time can they perform an assessment on the last two articles listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment#Requesting an assessment or re-assessment. I've just assessed/reassessed several others listed there and was planning on removing the section since it becomes just one more place to watchlist to look for assessments. - Optigan13 ( talk) 05:41, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I've proposed converting WikiProject Southern California into a task force of this project. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southern California#Changing to task force of WikiProject California - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
I've now tagged WP:SOCAL as a task force of this project, the bot updates of the templates are on hold until some other possible merges/demotions are considered. I'll try to look into how to best add overlapping task force tags to the project banner for when a project is a task force of two larger projects. - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi is there any chance somebody can run through the towns and settlements in California and add a pin map of the location. I find the urban area locator maps within county maps very unsightly and difficult to follow. This is the same for most states. It is possible somebody could sort them out as from a world persective its difficult to follow unlike other countries. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:01, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Please see my comment on Template talk:Protected Areas of California#Breaking into sections. I've proposed breaking a template up into several templates based on how large it is right now. Thanks. Killiondude ( talk) 05:41, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Please comment: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Greater_Los_Angeles_Area. There is a related discussion on a substitute template here: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Southern_California. Amerique dialectics 18:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on possibly converting WikiProject Santa Barbara County into a task force of this project. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Santa Barbara County#Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California. - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on converting WikiProject University of California into a task force of this project. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_University_of_California#Converting_to_task_force_of_WikiProject_California. - Optigan13 ( talk) 05:46, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that the Humboldt State University (CSU) info page( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_State_University) lists the "Average Undergraduate Class Size: 25[6]." I have studied at Humboldt State for a few years and have attended a few graduation ceremonies to watch my friends recive their bachelors degrees. The annual group of candidates is definitely well over 25. The total number of graduates per year is probably over 700. I could not find any specific statistics, but if anyone knows how to find this out it'd be great if they wanted to update this information. Thanks, Kristen Cowan 08:25, 11 May 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.227.10.28 ( talk)
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt ( talk) 01:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Please see my comments at Talk:California State Legislature, 1999–2000 session. The job needs to get finished. Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
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I would like to devote a separate article to sports MBA (see sports MBA), it's now listed as to be deleted because it's also mentioned on the page of College of Business San Diego State University. However, the content is distinctive and only the name is listed on the CB site now. Is it possible to split the section that mentions the sports MBA on the source page and link to the new sports MBA page?
Mariskar84 ( talk) 21:44, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rob Pelinka/archive1.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:43, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.
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I wondered if someone could assess Victor Valley College. The article was auto-rated, I believe I did enough to get it out of Stub-class and would appreciate feedback on further improvement. 216.117.192.91 ( talk) 09:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
A discussion regarding the Golden Gate Bridge is taking place here. An outside opinion would be helpful. Thank you. APK lives in a very, very Mad World 19:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
This page has been a target for vandalism in the last 6 months: someone added Ronaldinho in the "notable alumni" section and the "History" section was vandalized and erased many times. Yaaargggh ( talk) 18:52, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Where do I go to complain about the Infoboxes somebody is adding to certain pages, like Mettler, California. The one there is redundant, repetitive, and virtually useless. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:59, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I am speaking of the infobox, and my question was, "Where do I go to complain about the Infoboxes somebody is adding to certain pages . . . " Is this the page? And can you please direct me to the "consensus" you mentioned? Thank you so much, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 22:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much. I will digest that page, which I had not seen before. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
This might seem off topic, but it is sort of pertinent to this WikiProject. Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed the closure of 220 out of the 279 State parks (80%). This would affect many of the state park articles, which all fall under this project. Anyways, there's news reports everywhere, but here's a link to the San Jose Mercury News
[2]. I find it interesting that this is happening, just as I started to work more on California State Park articles, and spent hours of work on the {{
Protected Areas of California}}
template :-(
Killiondude (
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03:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I recently encountered this new name for my old nabe, then pulled together a little history of the area that I've known since 1963 as the "Gaza Strip." Comments, corrections, feedback welcome. -- KathleenSeidel ( talk) 02:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Several different images are currently being used on links to the California portal. What is your preference? Is there a consensus favorite?
Please discuss at Portal talk:California#Portal link images.
Links to the other state portals are displayed at Wikipedia:List of U.S. state portals. Yours aye, Buaidh ( talk) 14:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
There's been an effort to import unincorporated communities in California from the USGS database into WP articles. If you'd like to comment on or discuss this effort, please feel free to join the discussion at WT:WikiProject Cities#Systematic inclusion of GNIS unincorporated communities. Thanks! — hike395 ( talk) 09:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I have compiled a list, through AWB, of California Historical Landmarks and NRHPs articles (in California) that need photos. Any help taking pictures of these buildings/places would be greatly appreciated. Tonight I began to search for photos on Flickr to upload to Commons, and I already found a few. If you can help in that regard, that would be appreciated as well. If you do find a picture for any of these articles, please take it off my list and take the "req photo in" template off of the talk page. This list is is in no way exhaustive, it only contains articles that have been properly categorized and tagged.
The list is here. Killiondude ( talk) 08:17, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
If anyone monitoring this page would kindly put {{ Greater Los Angeles Area}} on their watchlist i'm sure people interested in reading about this area would appreciate it. Thanks. Amerique dialectics 20:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I've just noticed Wikipedia:WikiProject Inland Empire and was thinking that it might be better if it worked as a taskforce of this project rather than a separate one. What do people think? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 07:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
I've started discussions on possibly converting WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area to a task force at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area#Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California. Please respond there. I've also proposed moving Wikiproject California Delta to a task force location. See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California Delta#Requested move and comment there. - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I've proposed converting Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles into a task force of this project. Please respond with any thoughts, objections, etc. at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Los Angeles#Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California. - Optigan13 ( talk) 23:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Talk:University_of_California,_San_Diego/GA2 Somebody nomed UCSD for GA today, please assist if you have time. Amerique dialectics 23:23, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Is the defunct motorbike store Mother's Motors of any verifiable significance, and if so are there any reliable sources for it? Its article, quaintly written in the historical present tense, cites three sources but I think these could all be termed elusive, unreliable or both. A fairly typical sentence:
which mixes trivia and name-dropping.
See its talk page too.
I'll crosspost this to the motorcycling project. -- Hoary ( talk) 23:02, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI for WikiProject California participants: I created and populated Category:Northern California. This was created to complement its counterpart Category:Southern California, but for the 48 counties north of the intuitive east-west dividing line at Monterey/Kings/Tulare/Inyo Counties.
The timing of this addition got accelerated by some other events. Background info: I had already created Category:Upstate California to go along with the Upstate California article, for the 20 northernmost counties, after enough references were available to show the term is in sufficiently significant use at the state and local levels. Over time I also created 430 new articles (mostly stubs but all with refs at least from USGS) for mountain ranges in California and Nevada, split about 50-50 between the two states. In California, I categorized the articles under Category:Mountain ranges of Southern California (which already existed), Category:Mountain ranges of Northern California (which I created) and Category:Mountain ranges of Upstate California (which I created). I noticed no one had yet created a category for Northern California, and it was an obvious gap between all these other existing categories. So that had to be next.
Yesterday a proposal was made to rename Category:Upstate California to Category:Northern California. The proposal is a subject of current discussion. I wish that the proposer had asked about this first. One option would be to pursue a large amount of talking, hand-waving and debating about what the Northern California category should look like. But it wouldn't be as convincing as showing where it fits as the final piece of this enormous puzzle. Since there's no prohibition from creating the category and doing the work to populate it, I went ahead and did it. Having already done very similar work on constructing other categories, it came together more quickly than expected.
The discussion brought attention to another gap which I had previously noticed. I have now filled it by creating Category:Mountain ranges of the San Francisco Bay Area and recategorizing articles into it. Originally the thought was that we should keep consistent categories between Northern and Southern California. For the most part they already existed for Southern California so that was the example to follow. (i.e. Category:Mountain ranges of Southern California) As the categorization effort proceeded, Category:Mountain ranges of Northern California and Category:Mountain ranges of Upstate California were made. A question was brought up about why subdivide it by Upstate California since there were no other subcategories. Well, yeah, not until the Bay Area category was created. :-) So it's there now. That should answer the question. It's just simple subcategorization. But anywhere it isn't consistent, questions come up. Ikluft ( talk) 23:52, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I've just joined this project and am excited to help out. I've previously done some editing on local California places, mainly smaller cities. I am interested in discussing the Central Valley's Wikipedia presence with other editors. The main C.V. article is assessed "top importance" but only "start class" quality. I think the material needs a lot of development and possibly some re-thinking. The Sac Valley and SJ Valley articles also have their problems and overlap considerably with the main article. Any interest in creating a Valley subproject? ferretstew ( talk) 09:12, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI: I created and populated Category:Mount Shasta and subcat Category:Glaciers of Mount Shasta.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ikluft ( talk • contribs) 20:31, July 28, 2009
FYI: I created and populated the categories Category:Mojave Air & Space Port and Category:Edwards Air Force Base. Ikluft ( talk) 17:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
San Francisco International Airport has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 01:36, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
I am requesting a reassessment for Anna Escobedo Cabral. It's had significant work done since last assessed, about tripled in size, re-ordered, etc. Thanks. The Original Historygeek ( talk) 06:26, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
0 articles in Category:California articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that California is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
An inpass in a recent clean up of the List of people from California which is within this project's scope has been brought up by myself in the talk page listed in this new section's title. Please see the article's edit history as to reason why individual was removed, and why said removal was reverted. I am seeking a compromise between complete removal, and complete readdition, which would lead to a possible future edit war which would not be in the best interest of the goal of Wikipedia or our Wikiproject. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 09:29, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Seeking consensus here, but why is it that this article of an important and influential state-wide politician is only rated as Mid, while Tupac Shakur is rated as high? I contest while both are definitely already Notable, that in the scope of the WikiCaliforna Project that their importance classes should be switched, with Senator Feinstein being High, and Tupac being rated mid. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 13:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Well there's no real clear suggestions outside of Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Assessment#Importance scale which I'm not sure how applicable that is to us. How about for politicians at least,
As for the rest of the people in Category:California politicians, I tend to want to put them at low by default, but that's largely because I'm not sure how important it is for people to know who the Lt Governor or State Controller was. I'm sure there will be exceptions for early local politicians and others, but this is just more of a general guideline as opposed to any firm criteria. - Optigan13 ( talk) 20:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 has been waiting for a GA reviewer for over a month. Anyone care to take a shot at it?-- Wehwalt ( talk) 20:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm thinking it might be interesting to add a popular pages list for this project ( tools:~alexz/pop/) see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages for example. Not sure how useful it would be, but since it's bot updated it should be pretty straightforward. I'm thinking the default configuration with the subpage being at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Popular pages, and with 500 pages listed. Anyone have any thoughts, objections, etc. - Optigan13 ( talk) 00:47, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
The list of California's forts at Category:Forts in California contains less forts than the list at List of forts in California —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imonmywaynow ( talk • contribs) 22:01, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
The 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is coming up in 1½ months, on October 18. I'd like to see the article rushed through the GA process, and then through the FA process, in time for it to appear featured on the Main page on its anniversary. What it needs most are references for entire paragraphs that have none, especially in the 1989 World Series section which I think contains some original research. Binksternet ( talk) 02:50, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Lake Tahoe has been nominated for the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. If you have any comments, feel free to add them to the nomination. Vegaswikian ( talk) 02:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm requesting that the WikiProject California group take a look at the Avalon, California page. I'm new to Wikipedia, and I'm not sure where to start in improving this article. I would greatly appreciate any input from the project group so that I will know where the article stands as of right now in terms of quality and importance and what I can do to improve the quality. Thank you for your help. mcd51 17:53, 29 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcd51 ( talk • contribs)
OK, I've taken at least an initial pass at all of the suggestions for this page. I would appreciate it if Optigan13, along with any other users watching this page, would come take a look at my changes. I'm looking for a reassessment of the article's quality rating and any tips or suggestions for moving it further up the quality scale. Thanks for all the help!-- mcd51 ( talk) 17:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Oakland Raiders has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 16:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluewater,_California) is a hoax. Please remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.187.44.4 ( talk • contribs)
Please see Talk:Southern_California_Chinatowns and Talk:Chinatown, Talk:Chinatowns in Canada and the United States and related article talk-pages. Either citations for actual common-use (not promotional use) of places like Rowland Park as "Chinatown" should be provided or the article in question should either be deleted or renamed. Skookum1 ( talk) 18:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I've now added support for Californian counties to the {{ coord missing}} tag, and subcategorized 3600 of the articles under Category:California articles missing geocoordinate data into their respective per-county categories. I hope this helps geocoding these articles. If you wish, you are also welcome to join the general geocoding project at WP:COORD. -- The Anome ( talk) 01:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
There are probably about a dozen courthouses missing from this page. Nine of them are at the FJC cite in the external links, the rest, locals may know better. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject California to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 06:02, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Maybe one of these is in order. A lot of progress can be had here. -- Starstriker7( Talk) 06:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Why not set the Southern California task force so that it does not cover Los Angeles and Orange counties, since there is a Los Angeles task force for those counties? WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
As part of the task force conversions proposed a bot run would be necessary to replace instances of the project banners. There are a few other items I would address as part of that same bot run if possible.
The reason I'm trying to do all of this is because I would like to have the class and importance categories to a manageable level so that we can effectively respond to new articles and re-assessment requests. Thank you everyone for all of your patience in reading all of this and in all your work so far. Are there any thoughts, questions, or comments? - Optigan13 ( talk) 04:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Just placing this here for a more formal wording and a bundling of several requests to link to
{{
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DiscussionFor the remaining ones see above for the discussion
I'm off to go request this. Thanks to everyone who chimed in at the various discussions. - Optigan13 ( talk) 02:06, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Mount Whitney, in my opinion should be rated Top importance to the scope of our project. It is the highest point in the State of California, and the highest point in the contiguous/ continental United States, therefore, it is more important overall to the project then Mount Shasta. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Badwater is too specific a place to be top, though Death Valley should indeed be top Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 01:38, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
That's because a wrong call was made in August, and I agree 100% with RightCow that Death Valley (along with some other stuff as well) belongs as top priority. I see no consensus for dropping Death Valley except for an unsigned comment, and two current contributors are clearly for it. Also, you shouldn't be making new edits to an archive (this applies to both Opt and RightCow) Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 02:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Newbie here. I don't see the Coliseum listed anywhere, as a native So. Californian I am very interested in your project and the Coliseum is important: The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is home to the University of Southern California Trojans football team. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena adjacent to the campus of the University of Southern California (USC). The stadium is jointly owned by the State of California, Los Angeles County, and the City of Los Angeles. The Coliseum has the distinction of being the only stadium in the world to host the Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1984. It is also the only Olympic stadium to have also hosted Super Bowls and World Series. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on July 27, 1984, the day before the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. Also, you have not mentioned the Port of Long Beach, one of the largest shipping ports in the world. It has been mentioned as a prime target for terrorists because it would have worldwide repercussions. You mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake but not the Northridge, the costliest seismic disaster in U.S. History. [1] If you have these on another page please excuse the intrusion, but I hope to be of some small help and maybe a SoCal perspective. JoyDiamond ( talk) 06:35, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
As an organization based out of San Mateo, California, Junior Statesmen of America falls within the scope of our WikiProject. Presently there is a content dispute between myself and another editor, who may have conflict of interest, regarding a new section of the article regarding a single high school club, which is being referenced to a website from that club which falls under WP:SPS.
In an attempt to avoid an edit war, after the first reversion, I created a section in the talk page. I kindly ask others to comment on the present dispute. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 12:34, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
I ask fellow WPP Californian editors, to comment regarding a current discussion of content of the San Diego Comic Con article. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
There is presently an active effort by editors from WPP Comics to exclude information in the article San Diego Comic-Con International regarding participation of individuals, and expansion of the event to areas outside the comic industry. Furthermore, what mention there is of said expansion is framed in a non-neutral point of view, that puts non-comic industry participation in a negative light. Is there a way of remedying the issue regarding exclusion of referenced content? -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 07:36, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Let's keep this all in one thread over there. - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
We need to do it. Needs to be merged in like LA, SOCAL, and the bay. Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 16:29, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
A discussion on merger of the Inland Empire project is open both here and at the Inland Empire Project talk page Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 23:06, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
As an afterthought, because the Inland Empire is not as major of a region as the other parts of California, I feel that it makes sense to make the Inland Empire project a task force of WP California. If regions of California were to have their own projects, it would first be Los Angeles, and then SFBA. To raise awareness of the latter I am posting the San Francisco portal (which indirectly leads to the task force) in several prominent articles. WhisperToMe ( talk) 20:36, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday I created Magic, Inc. (organization) and it's listed at AfD. I'd appreciate your opinions on whether the organization is indeed notable, as I thought, and if anyone has access to sources I haven't used, could they mention to me? I'm having problems searching newspapers since the Mercury News uses a paywall and in any case its online archive only starts in '85, I think it is, and they seem to have deep-sixed the (Palo Alto) Daily News archive. I also suspect there may be relevant books on environmentalism and/or the human potential movement that are too new to show up in Google Books that might cover the group, but I wouldn't know where to begin in identifying them. However, I do have access to the San Jose State/San Jose city library. So I'd appreciate any advice anyone could give; the AfD means I have to get my skates on improving this article, or let wiser heads prevail on notability. Yngvadottir ( talk) 14:28, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to alert project participants of the fabulous contributions by seemingly tireless editor Emargie who has been working at writing articles about every historic California rancho and land grant. The List of Ranchos of California reflects this dedication. So far, Emargie has written more than 180 articles about ranchos, and a score more about early Californians. Well done! Binksternet ( talk) 21:45, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I have began to tag those recipients of the Medal of Honor who were born in, or who came from, California with our talk template. I will go from present, backwards in time. The process will probably take several days, if not weeks, to complete.
Importance wise, should they be given automatic ranking, or is it case by case?-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 11:33, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Also, I was thinking, would a category for those individuals like "Category:Californian recipients of the Medal of Honor", under the parent category of "Category:California military personnel", be appropriate? -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 12:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not going to be adding people who retired, died, or were trainined in California, least every " Hollywood Marine" who was awarded the Medal of Honor, be listed. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 12:36, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
OK, I have gone as far back as the Korean War. I'm going to take a break before sorting through the large number of World War II recipients. Also, would anyone else support the idea of creating a list of California MOH recipients? I don't want to create the page, only to have it AFDed. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:39, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Any objection if I put the full names into this template instead of just the family names? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CALtGovernors GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:43, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
I don't get it; why not the full name? Certainly a viewer might be satisfied with that instead of having to click to the article to find out the full name of a particular lieutenant-gov. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:36, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
OK. Whatever. I can't deal with this. GeorgeLouis ( talk)
User:Alex537 started a San Diego WikiProject on the Spanish Wikipedia. Here I asked him if he was interested in starting a San Diego task force on here, and he said on his talk page that he was interested. Do I need to do anything else before setting up the task force? I helped start Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Detroit - I hope to use that as a model for the San Diego task force. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:31, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
← Task forces are hardly needed when WikiProject California (itself) has very little activity. You'd be subdividing what is already an (essentially) dead project, in my opinion. Killiondude ( talk) 01:54, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Firstly, reports of this project's death (or imminent disaster) are greatly exaggerated. Neither the existence of comparable WikiProject pages nor the large number of residents demonstrate the need for a project, and there are valid options for raising the participation of this project without starting a new task force.
With respect to the other projects you referred to, I'm not seeing significant activity in several of them, and most show more of the issues that Killiondude and I are concerned about. es:Wikiproyecto Discusión:California/San Diego only shows two threads, a welcome one from September of last year, and your image request from this year. es:Wikiproyecto:California is marked as inactive. Looking at the English projects I'm seeing similar situations with several with posts with no response, and limited or no general signs of activity or project development (see Tampa Bay, St. Louis Cincinatti, Kansas City, and Indianapolis). To say that we need to have a task force because all the other areas have one isn't a valid reason.
While the large number of number of residents, the technology centers, and other reasons you enumerated are reasons that we should have significant coverage of California topics, and at 21,302 articles we do. Those same reasons would lead someone to assume that there would be active and thriving Wikiprojects developing Featured Articles, tagging and assessing new articles, responding to inquiries on the project talk pages, that was not the case in the past. I merged all of these projects together into one larger one in the hopes that the few remaining people doing that work would collectively work on California topics, while still keeping up with the responding at the talk page, and to the various issues that arise. While individual members of WikiProject California might not to work on a specific article that another participant wishes to, hopefully enough will have the time and energy to help a fellow member out, and in return their fellow members would be able to return the favor when needed. If you look at this talk page and the archives from this year, you'll see a small number of people responding to a large portion of the issues. Now that we are beginning to build up a healthy number of participants on this page, it is too early to begin splitting back off into new task forces. On projects and task forces with limited number of participants, three or four going inactive or moving onto other topics after a few months could mean that all the whole project would go inactive, while a healthy project/task force with a large number of participants will recover and move on. The broad scope of the project would bring those same participants under one big tent to work together. So many projects and task forces have started with great enthusiasm and passion for their subject only for their members to run out of steam, lets not go back down the path towards more inactive projects and task forces.
All of that being said, yes please:
{{
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to invite someone to the project based on their work with a specific article.
{{
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to your user page to display the project banner ad.None of these ways to build membership requires an additional task force, and none of the reasons listed so far are really convincing arguments for creating a task force. I've been working on reviving this project for some time now, while still trying to find time to develop articles, and I see nothing to be embarrassed about. - Optigan13 ( talk) 09:38, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
If anything, I can see the reduction of the task forces we have now and have two SoCal, NorCal, with each increasing its area of coverage. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:11, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I personally think that we need MORE taskforces, rather than LESS. Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 18:00, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
If SoCal stays, it and Los Angeles need to be better defined. Purplebackpack89 ( talk) 00:50, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
I dont support socal much but the task force is for all of SoCal including SoCals largest population centers (in order of population: Los Angeles, San Bernardino-Riverside (IE), San Diego). House1090 ( talk) 01:11, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Or the LA Metro kind of like TF IE and future TF SD, mabey. House1090 ( talk) 04:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
House1090 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Following House reporting me for edit warring over Polaron's improvements to the Inland Empire article, 2over0 recommended a project discussion over how to approach issues pursuant to this user, who some of you have become acquainted with due to his zeal in defending his preferred versions of anything that can be made tangentially or remotely related to the IE or San Bernardino, not to mention anything actually within those subject areas themselves.
His level of understanding of these areas (or rather "confusion", more appropriately) is made evident by his edits. This account has a lengthy history, most of which related to sockpuppetry is available here, but there is more over the year since then of edit warring primarily, not to mention horrifically bad English proceeding from his ability in that language, that I haven't collated yet for a full WP:AN review. My intention ultimately is to request support for a topic ban of House from any articles or nav templates relating to Southern California. I suppose the purpose of a discussion here would be to determine if a consensus at WP:CAL would support this action or if anything else can be tried. Thanks to all, Amerique dialectics 22:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
I did not get all A's, I did however get all A's in all my english classes, and graduated with a 3.6 GPA, I dont really care if you believe it or not because I am now in a 4 year university. Like I have said before I type fast and dont check my typing as much as I need to here on wiki. And yes use the talk page, please. House1090 ( talk) 03:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Comment: It appears that House1090 thinks that the term "Inland Empire" is exclusively used to refer to the 2003 definition of the metropolitan statistical area centered on urban Riverside-San Bernardino, which is the entirety of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. This definition is the result of the use of counties as boundaries for building up metropolitan statistical areas. It is clear from the article itself that there are various boundaries and definitions for the Inland Empire. The article history also shows that the article was originally written about a fuzzy area. The external links of the article all refer to the Inland Empire as a region primarily. An option may be for House1090 to split off a separate metropolitan statistical area article. Although how much distinct content can be put there is questionable. -- Polaron | Talk 03:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Right now with it being so focused on House1090 and Amerique I'm thinking it might be best if: 1) House voluntarily limits himself to a one revert rule, 2) start a talk page discussion once reverted, and 3) if he feels that his concerns aren't being addressed to leave a note here requesting additional opinions (keeping all discussion on the relevant article talk page). From there follow standard WP:Dispute resolution processes. This WikiProject's activity is starting to pick up, so we should be able to help address this. I'm trying to think of the best way for House1090 to contribute to the encyclopedia, while balancing the encyclopedic needs for accuracy, verifiability, grammar, etc. If a topic ban is the necessary to achieve that, than so be it. Right now Inland Empire (California) is protected, any content specific issues should be brought up there, and any edit warring should be stopped for now. - Optigan13 ( talk) 10:34, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
House1090 stated that I supported a name change for the Inland Empire (California) article, but that is not accurate. I have argued that the article should not be renamed. I would not oppose creating a new article named Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Statistical Area (RSO MSA), but if that was done, I would expect the two articles to have very different content for the reason stated here. MissionInn.Jim ( talk) 16:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Idid not understand you correctly, my apology. See IE talk Page. House1090 ( talk) 19:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Just to make sure everyone is on the same page here before I mark this as resolved. How does the following sound
Any questions, comments? - Optigan13 ( talk) 08:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I found that one can manipulate the WPBox to link to specific task forces. So...
{{WPbox|California/Los_Angeles_task_force|image=Flag_of_Los_Angeles,_California.svg}} for Los Angeles<br>
{{WPbox|California/San_Francisco Bay Area task force|image=SF From Marin Highlands3.jpg}} for the San Francisco Bay area<br><br>
We could post these in the "See Also," "Further Reading," and/or "External links" sections of articles related to these cities to people will know that these task forces exist. These links directly link to the task forces.
How does that sound? WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:24, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Also, you might want to create a template for the portal boxes, as there's been an issue in the past with the California portal of with multiple different images being used on pages with no consistency. See Portal talk:California#Portal link images - Optigan13 ( talk) 10:05, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Los Angeles task force/Participants has a template loop. Would someone good with templates please fix the loop? Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
An Environmental issues in California article is needed. There is stuff in the associated category at Category:Environmental issues in California. See Environmental issues in Florida and Environmental issues in the United States for inspiration. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 00:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I was reading Salton Sea, and it mentions the term Imperial Valley Canal. Is this term redundant with any existing article, or should a new article be created? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 09:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
I say create it. You may also want to research George Chaffey, who designed said canal. I believe the original canal filled with silt or flooded before the All American Canal was built.
Just created the Alamo Canal article. From reading various references it seems to be also very well known as the Imperial Canal. Weedwhacker128 ( talk) 00:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
With all the recent local, national, and international news surrounding the attempts to legalize marijuana in California, now is the perfect time to expand the Cannabis in California article. Practically a stub, the article needs to be expanded greatly to include usage statistics, the history of decriminalization and the medical marijuana program, the current legalization effort, etc. A good example of a similar article is Cannabis in Oregon, which is a Good article. WikiProject California members are encouraged to join WikiProject Cannabis members with improving this article, as it is currently the latter's collaboration. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:17, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
There is no high level article describing all the faults (41+) in California. Worse, there is no " Geology of California." Even worse, Geography of California does not have a organized Geology subsection, just little snippets here and there. Student7 ( talk) 23:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm going through and tagging several project sub-pages for deletion, either as a deprecated template, or for an MFD. If someone wants to use one of the pages feel free to remove the deprecated tag or voice opposition at the MFD. Most of these are unused or redundant and not being updated, or if they are, someone posts there a notice there which no one sees (See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Open tasks for an example). Many of these are from when there were several various projects spread out, hence some of the names. There's might be some more that don't have any historical value, but these seem the most obvious to me. - Optigan13 ( talk) 01:38, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
There is a merge proposal involving Brea-Olinda, Brea, California, Olinda, Orange County, California, and Brea, California, all of which are pages in this taskforce. For information, go here Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 00:03, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Kevin Spacey/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 00:19, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
A peculiar unsourced paragraph has been added four times to Area code 415 and removed three times. I'd be grateful if a few people from this project would either confirm the facts or help revert the additions. -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:12, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I am suggesting that Portal:Southern California/Cities be changed to my older version because:
My versions are here :
Socal LA's version is the current one. House1090 ( talk) 21:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Your recent Third Opinion request has been removed from the list of active disputes: |
Reason: A Third Opinion is not available for disputes involving more than two editors. (If three or more editors are involved, a third opinion has ipso facto already been given.) According to the discussion of this matter at Portal_talk:Southern_California/Cities, editors House1090, SoCal L.A., and Amerique are already involved (as is Optigan13, but only procedurally), with Amerique having already given a third opinion on the matter, saying that s/he prefers SoCal L.A.'s version of the page. If the dispute continues, you might want to consider moving on to an RfC or some other form of dispute resolution. — TRANSPORTERMAN ( TALK) 14:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC) |
I have reviewed Northern Red-legged Frog for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 04:21, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I propose that we create an Imperial Valley task force that would cover the...
...and everything in between. I feel that most articles relating to those articles are in a mess and can use a dedicated task force to help clean up and improve, even make longer, those articles. Work on creating the task force has already begun and can be found here - See: Imperial Valley task force. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 02:53, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
task force useless. Then we would just have to make SoCal a project. House1090 ( talk) 23:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I say if you can get five people to sign on to it, do it Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 16:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Please see: Talk:Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 01:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm hoping someone can help in sorting out or clarifying what seems to me to be an odd relationship in the category hierarchy. Category:California adobes is a subcategory of Category:California Historical Landmarks. There is no main article corresponding to Category:California adobes. Are a particular set of landmark buildings officially designated "California adobes"? If not, the hierarchy seems problematic here, because a building can be made of adobe, and in California, without necessarily being an official California Historical Landmark.
I can't ask the person who created Category:California adobes, because he's been perma-blocked for unrelated reasons.
My guess is that Category:California adobes should be renamed something like Category:California Historical Landmarks - adobe buildings, but perhaps that is not what is going on here.
(For what it's worth, I noticed this because Commons' hierarchy follows en-wiki's in this area, and I was trying to categorize a photo of an old adobe house in San Diego that lacks the status of a California Historical Landmark.) - Jmabel | Talk 03:06, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
...is languishing at WP:GAN...surely some california local can review it for GA status? Casliber ( talk · contribs) 11:17, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
I propose that we merge the two task forces to form the Greater Los Angeles Area task force (GLAA task force), so that it would also cover Ventura County. By merging into the GLAA it would be more akin to the SFBA task force and could work just as well. I also suggest getting rid of the Santa Barbara county task force which would be covered in, the then active, Southern California Task force as would Imperial and San Diego Counties. I have seen the light in that task forces should be left large since many become inactive once the small scope of the designated force is exhausted. This would also renew activity in the SoCal task force since Imperial and San Diego county related articles are in need of a fix up. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 01:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Like I have said before only because Pheonix does not have one it does not mean the IE should not either, besides the IE needs a lot of help of help and through a more direct taskforce it will be able to get that help. House1090 ( talk) 02:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I believe since the general consensus is to merge we should do just that. SoCal L.A. ( talk) 23:33, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
I am somewhat conflicted regarding the matter, but I am more inclined to keep the IE a separate task force. It would allow those who are interested to maintain a more focused effort on the IE. Even though the IE is part of the greater LA area and part of Southern California, I think most people who live in the IE identify more with the IE than LA or So Cal. The reason I am conflicted is because I agree with Alanraywiki that the IE task force is not particularly effective, but I don't believe merging it will make it any more effective. What is needed is a more cooperative spirit. The people in the task force need to work together to achieve common goals rather than each working independently. I don't see how merging will help do that. If the fact that the members of a project or task force are not currently working together, but all work independently, is a reason to eliminate a task force or project, then we would probably want to eliminate most projects and task forces. MissionInn.Jim ( talk) 16:14, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi TorriTorri; My understanding is a task force (as well as a project) is intended for a group of editors to collaborate on a set of related articles. The task force page is intended to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. I have to admit, there doesn't seem to be a lot of collaboration happening within the IE task force, but I'm not convinced there is much collaboration within the So Cal task force either. Would you be more interested in keeping the IE task force separate if the members actually worked more collaboratively rather than independently? For example; I believe it would be worthwhile if the IE task force worked together to accomplish specific goals each month (or some other time period). They might, for example, decide that during the month of February they would make sure all communities within the IE have at least a stub article written, that each of those articles is rated for quality and importance, and each city has an appropriate info box set up. Maybe the following month they would work together to bring a key article, such as the San Bernardino or Riverside article, up to a good article status. What are your thoughts on that? MissionInn.Jim ( talk) 23:09, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
"smaller task forces...renders the parent task force useless. Task forces are better off bigger since they can cover a wider (but not to large) scope of things, whos sources can almost never be exhausted." SoCal L.A. ( talk) 02:16, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I personally do not care if the IE task force were merged with SoCal's, or not, as neither structure has enough consistently active volunteers to maintain. I find WP:CAL currently has enough volunteers to make posting here worthwhile, as a means of achieving a broad consensus on some issue.
Generally, everyone posting on WP should be interested in working collaboratively, but doing that practically can be like herding cats. We are all volunteers with different skill sets, interests, and real world time commitments... Something as great as the Santa Ana River is currently couldn't have been built by waiting on either the SoCal or IE taskforces, for example, or even this project. Amerique dialectics 20:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Well i think we can merge the Santa Barbara task force in the Southern California, after all it appears no one has gone against it's merging. One step at a time ;). SoCal L.A. ( talk) 04:05, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:University of California, Santa Cruz/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 15:49, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Do we want to have a Recognized content page (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Recognized content)? Let me know and I can set one up. - Optigan13 ( talk) 01:05, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Could an editor throw an eye to the above article, pretty bad and it appears an editor with a couple of accounts is inserting links to google images and using another wikipedia article as a source. I was going to start a tidy on it, but it would have contained very little after I was done. Maybe someone here is familiar with the place and can add some relevant info. Mo ainm ( talk) 17:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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Who lives in proximity to Hancock Park, Los Angeles? Would anyone mind photographing 3rd Street Elementary School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles? WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:08, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
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I've done a substantial rewrite of this article and added comprehensive citations of authority. First timer at this and I was inspired by the PBS documentary "Citizen Tanouye". I hope I have done this hero justice. Could someone take a look and see if there is more than I can do? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdunn30 ( talk • contribs) 15:34, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Most other states have one, so California now does too. It's basically a mashup of the LA sports template and the SFB sports template, plus the Central Valley and Central Coast and updated to reflect franchises that went under. Check it out! Clean it up! Place it on pages! Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 22:18, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
User:Jojhutton and I have been in a debate regarding the portal Portal:San Diego.
Jojhutton wants the portal of San Diego to only be applied to the City of San Diego, and he also removed Los Angeles portals ( Portal:Los Angeles) from Orange County articles.
I set the scope of the Los Angeles task force to cover Los Angeles and Orange counties, but there is no San Diego task force. Both portals mention suburban cities, and an earlier revision of Portal:Los Angeles mentioned Santa Ana in Orange County [21].
So, should the portals continue covering suburbs? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:39, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Given that they were altered before a consensus was reached, should we go ahead and reinsert the Portal links on the OC articles which have been reverted? Butros (talk) 20:48, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Weak keep them in: I could go either way on this. I can perfectly understand Irvine and Mission Viejo not being mentioned in the LA portal--they are far away from Los Angeles ideologically and geographically. I could see keeping OC in the portal, but maybe sectioning it off to make it clear what's OC and what's LAC Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 01:45, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that consensus has not been reached one way or the other. There has been NO reasonable explanation as to why we are using OMB designations to supersede county designations. Also, keep in mind that portals are not the same thing as task forces, they are completely different things. This is the LA portal. This is the LA task force. -- TorriTorri( Talk to me!) 01:59, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
(outdent)I would support a renamed portal. I think "Greater Los Angeles" sounds broader than "Metro Los Angeles" (which again sounds focused on the city) and is more commonly used, but I would support either. But lose the city flag and replace it with an image more applicable to the entire area (palm trees or something). The other side of the Orange Curtain really has nothing to do with LA so the flag is irrelevant. And by the way, I think this has been a good discussion. Alanraywiki ( talk) 13:37, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and moved all the LA portal pages to Portal:Greater Los Angeles. -- TorriTorri( Talk to me!) 06:54, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
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07:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)As for the San Diego portal, would I have the consensus to ensure that all San Diego County articles receive the portal? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:01, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
It has been proposed to drop the California from the titles of Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, California, similar to ways it is done in Chicago and Brooklyn. Your comments are welcome Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 05:35, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I will move to Placentia in few months and wanted to make some new contacts to Wikipedians from my new living-location. Sadly I see that Wikipedia:Meetup/LA is inactive. What can I do? Kind regards -- Juliana da Costa José ( talk) 00:50, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
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Anyone have opinions on whether this map i made could be appropriate for some Southern California-related article? Thanks, Shannon talk contribs 03:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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Template:California sports, a template tagged for this project, has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Purple backpack89 16:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
History of the Yosemite area is now an urgent FARC. The last remaining issue is prose. Please help by reading the article to find prose issues that need to be fixed. You can fix them directly or list them on the FARC page linked above. If the article already reads well, then please say so on the FARC page. Thank you. :) -- mav ( reviews needed) 03:28, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Relevant AFD discussion, on a California lawyer and politician. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Dickson (2nd nomination). Thank you for your time. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 12:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
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I can't find a WP article about the East Bay Green Corridor, although it is mentioned on the article for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. I thought I would try to write up an article (my first!) but wanted to make sure it was a good topic before spending too much time on it. The EBGR has gotten extensive local press coverage ( http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-06-27/business/17210690_1_uc-berkeley-green-industry-green-careers, http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/03/10/editorial2.html, http://oaklandlocal.com/article/east-bay-green-corridor-partnership-aims-lure-green-start-ups - a few examples among dozens of others), but I could only find one passing reference to it in the national press ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/us/21sfpolitics.html). Locally, it is an important initative, but is it WP:N? I am not trying to promote it; I have no affiliation with EBGR, other than as an interested local resident. I just want to contribute my first article to WP, and this initiative is something I have followed closely in the news. I would be sure to also include some WP:NPOV criticism of the project (such as http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-12-11/article/28674?headline=East-Bay-Green-Corridor-Industrial-Berkeley-s-Salvation-or-Road-to-Ruin-&status=301). Advice? Thanks for helping a n00b out! Tarastar42 ( talk) 20:05, 17 June 2010 (UTC)tarastar42
For those of you uploading things to Commons, such as images (especially regarding the central Valley, with its Hmong population), if you wish to attach Hmong translations, use the template {{hmn|}} And put the Hmong text inside. WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:40, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
List of United States federal courthouses in California is complete but for one image, a half dozen addresses, and some dates of use. bd2412 T 19:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
I just renamed Portal:San Diego to Portal:San Diego County
I plan to begin adding this portal to every San Diego County-related article and to convert {{Portal|San Diego}} to {{Portal|San Diego County}}. The scope of this portal is San Diego County in its entirety.
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I could use some help here Talk:Cedar Lake (California), if anybody can> Mlpearc powwow 17:16, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Anyone with sources to support this long-established article might like to go over there and defend it from the editor who wants to delete all unreferenced material from it! PamD ( talk) 08:15, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to see if a Hmong Wikipedia could be started. Many Hmong settled in central California, so this topic may be of interest to this Wikiproject.
The proposal is at:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:35, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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Environment of California needs work. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 00:14, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The discussion below was copied and pasted from the John Muir talk page. As the discussion evolved, it became clear that the topic wasn't so much John Muir's article, but rather how many and which biographical articles ought to be rated "top importance" by this project. Pat Sajak has been downgraded, but certainly others should be added. Cullen328 ( talk) 23:02, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Is this guy really worthy of a 'top importance' rating for California iarticles? 1812ahill (talk) 20:51, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
PS - Ansel Adams is only listed as high importance - btw, can anybody and everybody change these settings? 1812ahill (talk) 13:07, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
You've now raised some valid points, 1812ahill. Pat Sakak is a TV game show host and most certainly should be downgraded on this particular list, in my opinion. Certainly other biographies should be added to the list. Hollywood, the sense of California's film and entertainment industry as opposed to the specific city - of course. But downgrading John Muir? I object to that. Cullen328 (talk) 14:49, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I think I'll go check out if this is general trend in WP. (Note I also placed the same initial message for the Sajak article ;) Cheers 1812ahill (talk) 19:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
A very interesting discussion. From reading it, I get the impression that both parties are much more idealistic than I am. Voting on what the top-priority articles should be? I very much doubt that ever happened. A massive effort to get all the top-priority articles to GA-class? Not since I've been here. The only suggestion I have at this point is to study the assessment rubric at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment and try to work out your differences. I don't see much point in arguing about whether Ansel Adams is more important than Hollywood. With 26,000 articles to choose from, the ones that get improved are the ones people are willing and able to improve. The rest will languish, no matter how you assess them.-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 02:22, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
While we’re on the topic, here’s the top-priority bios:
I have no problem with any of those. And here’s all the High-priority bios:
We may want to reconsider some of these as well; some could go up to high and some should go down to mid or low (Is it just me, or is this list a little too heavy on Spanish and Mexican land barons?). I recently personally added Chavez, Huntington, (Thomas) King, Lummis, Mondavi and Otis to High, and will gladly defend any questions against them being high. I agree that we need to have more (I’d say about eight), and have them be of a more expansive scope (For example, we need representatives of more periods of California history, as well as major California industries). The three names I’d add to Top are Hiram Johnson, Leland Stanford and John Sutter. I might even suggest someone like Mondavi because he’s symbolic of a California history (you could go with Samuel Goldwyn for similar reasons), and Chavez because a state that has 8-10 million Mexicans should probably have a biography up there. I also agree that Hollywood belongs, although I feel that the district is at least as important as the industry it represents. Those are my thoughts Purple backpack89 04:39, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Strand Beach Funicular has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.200.95 ( talk) 06:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Ongoing AFD deletion discussion for this article, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jessica Rodriguez (3rd nomination). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 09:43, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld ( talk · contribs) has this morning made changes very many templates with the the edit summary 'yellow looks naff'. i'm wondering if such sweeping changes should wrought by consensus rather than the offended sensibilities of one editor. -- emerson7 15:04, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
The reason for the colors: that was made at a time when almost all the United States state templates, and all the U.S. county and city navboxes were colored to match that specific state's flag and/or official colors. Template:New Jersey, the New Jersey county navboxes, Template:Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania navboxes all currently still have that similar shade of yellow too. If the objection is yellow background, the colors can be reversed to gold text on blue background. Zzyzx11 ( talk) 16:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure its a good look. Besides i've noticed most of the general use templates for things like schools etc use standard. Is it entirely necessary to have a fully yellow infobox? Admittedly I often use a differnet color for the nav box title but usually with a background color and different colour font text and tend to leave the group style standard light blue. You cold try a gold background with white text just for the title, that would look better. The cleanup job needing doing is tremendous for Californian towns I spent an hour purely tidying 3 articles including Glendale just removing ugly lists/tables converting into prose. I;ve noticed :Zzyzx11 doing a tremendous amount of work seemingly single-handedly at times but I see little active project collaboration over articles. I think we need some project coordination to clean up articles on Californian places, but such collaboration is rare and as usual it is down to a small number working on them.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:15, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I've been editing some of the articles about cities in California. In particular, I've rounded the demographic data to 10th places from the 100ths place figures that are in many articles. Several reasons: 1. a 1/100th of a percent in this data is False precision, particularly in small communities. 2. The data gets old and Significant figures should be considered in the presentations. 3. Somewhere in WP:MOS it says that consistency in presentation of the numbers should be followed. BUT, I have not been able to find a standard template for the layout of the city articles even though it seems editors have been following one. Can anyone tell me where to find the/a standard layout? I'd like to modify it (or its guidance) to specify that 1/10th of a percent is preferred in the layout. Thanks. -- S. Rich ( talk) 04:11, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
It's definitely not a B-class article.
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Meh, what's the worse that could happen? We get a bunch of fly-by participant list adds that never do anything? We cop to the fact that we haven't been cranking out FAs on a monthly basis? Based on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk#Workspace it looks like we're 3rd string anyway. I don't think this project has been central in a lot of featured content with specific editors doing most of the heavy lifting on their own. I'm not sure how many projects can honestly claim to be amazing juggernauts of featured content. Most of my work has been cleanup at some articles, but have never been great at doing lit reviews and hammering out the content, and that's just fine. I'll try to answer some of these questions if I have time. My main concern at this point is that I've been busy, and haven't been nearly as involved as I used to be, so I can't really speak effectively about the project for the past six or seven months. - Optigan13 ( talk) 05:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
To everyone who replied on this talk page, please go ahead and add your comments to the "anything else" question on the interview. The struggles of your project are just as important as how many FAs can be produced. Plus, the ideas that the culture of your subject impacts the project's membership and activity could make for a really interesting article. No project is perfect, but the responses on this talk page are more than we (the Report writers) usually get from other "active" projects. I think it would be worth your time. Cheers! - Mabeenot ( talk) 17:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
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While Stub-sorting I found what seemed a muddle Sugarloaf Mountain (Riverside County, California) and Sugarloaf Mountain (Butte County, California). I did my best to create two separate stubs, both linked from Sugarloaf (mountain), but someone might like to sort them out! PamD ( talk) 14:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
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I created Iowa Hill, California. Someone who is familiar with the community or with Placer County, California might want to expand the article. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 20:31, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
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I am looking through the various pages for members of the legisature and lots of things look good, but there are some things missing. Some members do not have succession boxes. At times, the sucession box includes just years (example "2006-2080", instead of full date). At times, the exact dates are available in the infobox. And others are also missing an infobox. At least one legislator is missing ( Steve Knight, elected to Assembly district 36). And we just had an election, so I can imagine that lots of the info needs to be updated. I am willing to do some heavy lifting. Does anyone else want to assist, or are there ideas of how to proceed?
RayKiddy ( talk) 04:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
I am aware that this issue was decided back in 2006, HOWEVER, I would like to bring up the possibility of having Orange County redirect to Orange County, California and create a disambiguation page for the others. The most famous Orange County is the one in California, an it's not even close. When traveling around the United States or abroad, I say I am from Orange County and people immediately know where I am from, no one asks "which one?" Also, if Orange County is to be lumped together with all other counties of the same name, then we should do the same for the many different cities and locales that go by Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, or even California (there is a California, Pennsylvania). Thank you for your feedback and the support of those who are part of this Wikiproject would be greatly appreciated. -- CASportsFan ( talk) 06:38, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
I have placed a move request on both Orange County, I figured it would be easiest to discuss the matter at Talk:Orange County. -- CASportsFan ( talk) 08:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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) 19:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Somebody has changed the category name to "The" Los Angeles Times people. What is going on? The name of the newspaper is Los Angeles Times. Category talk:The Los Angeles Times people. Really confused I am, sincerely yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 19:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
We should make a Collabaration of the month like WikiProjct USA is doing. If we get people to work together on articles maybe we can get more GAs and FAs about California. Article like Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Junípero Serra would be perfect articles to collaborate on since they are very important in California history but the articles arnt as good as they should be. Spongie555 ( talk) 06:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
People from a variety of WikiProjects have had concerns about the scope of WikiProject United States and its relationship with other WikiProjects. We have created an RFC and invite all interested editors to discuss it at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject United States#Mission statement for WikiProject United States. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 15:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
(Responding to the GeorgeLouis ( talk · contribs) revert and edit summary) Racepacket's notice was "There may be a problem, come tell us what you think", which is within the rules for WP:CANVASSing. Kumioko's was "Rackpacket is trying to mess up my project, help!" -- which is quite a ways outside them. That's why I reverted. Everyone is of course free to weigh in on either side -- I haven't quite decided what the dispute is about yet, never mind which side I'm on. :-)-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 21:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
"This is an advertising page to solicit donations build an ice rink. This campaign, nor the Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association itself, have received independent coverage. "
Chzz ► 09:53, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
I have formed a WikiProject to organize San Diego. If anybody interested, please add your name on the participants. If have have questions about it, please feel free to add comments. JJ98 ( Talk) 21:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
New article, created, at T. Arthur Cottam. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 21:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
New article, created, at Richard Smith (Silent film director). Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 16:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
I just started a discussion here about a change to {{ USCongDistStateCA}} Thanks. 67.100.125.181 ( talk) 04:08, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Young Democrats of America. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 08:12, 30 March 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}})
A discussion of interest to WikiProject California on merging the Los Angeles metropolitan area and Inland Empire (California) articles into the Greater Los Angeles Area article is going on at Talk:Greater Los Angeles Area#Merge Los Angeles metropolitan area and Inland Empire (California) into this article?. 08OceanBeachS.D. 02:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to add to the above list. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Does a County Supervisor pass WP:POLITICIAN? Someone who knows more than me about US local govt might like to have a look at John Gioia and pass an opinion! PamD ( talk) 12:47, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Uhh. Yes, he is notable. Contra Costa County is not exactly a cow county. For coverage, see the Contra Costa Times at http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CC&p_theme=cc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=headline,lead(john%20gioia)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=title&p_text_advanced-0=(john%20gioia)&p_bool_advanced-1=OR&p_field_advanced-1=Lead&p_text_advanced-1=(john%20gioia)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes . Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:30, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Each of the five supes represents about 200,000 people. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 23:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
File:Battle of Los Angeles LATimes.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 04:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Please help with this article.
It has been developed by students liaising with Wikipedia as part of an important liaison project with universities - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy - which, if successful, will expand to bring many more quality editors to Wikipedia.
The course ends in a few weeks.
Please make comments, suggestions, etc. on Talk:California Proposition 19 (2010). Many thanks, Chzz ► 03:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC) ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Online_Ambassadors|Online Ambassador for this specific course)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Flag of California#State Ensign. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 23:42, 18 April 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}})
I am working on a page for the California Arts Council - but because I work for the California Arts Council, Wikipedia thinks I may have a conflict of interest. (I also suck at putting the page together because I don't understand html, but that's another issue!) Can anyone help clarify this for me? Should I go ahead and put in what I have? Can't imagine that anyone outside the Council would have all the pertinent info, so we just assumed we were the logical people to write the page. - user DGol
Thanks, Stepheng3 ... the COI rules are hard to interpret/apply, since we're a government agency providing services to the public, not a corporation trying to hawk its wares. But we'll continue wading thru them & will discuss at our next web team meeting. There are Wikipedia pages for other state agencies, so maybe we will just ask them how they did it - or whether someone else put the pages up. ?? - DGol — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGol ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Your attention is called to the above article, which is now live. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
These articles about Los Angeles have been rewritten within the last month and are available for all to see:
Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:39, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:RSN#sandiegostreetcars.org. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:35, 28 April 2011 (UTC) (Using {{ pls}})
The Starhawk article was moved/renamed today to Starhawk (author) without discussion by a proponent of the new video game of the same name. Now Starhawk (and all 100 Wikilinks to her name) redirects to a disambiguation page. Please note the Requested Move discussion about moving it back to the original article title. If inspired to vote, please note Wiki policies that support this, such as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, etc. Softlavender ( talk) 12:27, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
A new GLAM project page has been created to organize collaboration with Balboa Park to improve articles on the park, its museums, and southern California topics. I'm leaving a notice on WP:CAL's page to determine if any members would be interested in participating in the project. The staff there would like to meet with a group of Wikipedians to eventually lead to tours of the museums, image donations, editing collaborations, contests, and other events. If you have any interest at all in helping in any capacity (even if only online), please list your name at WP:GLAM/BP so we can determine what size group we're looking at. As this collaboration has just started, if you have any questions, comments, ideas, etc., please leave them on the project's talk page. Thank you! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 01:09, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
One of the articles was related to California:
I will not object to any changes proposed, discussed, or implemented.
Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 20:49, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trona,_California
lists two entries, one for Inyo and one for San Bernadino county.
Both have roughly the same lat/long... However Trona is most definitely in San Bernadino county.
The Inyo county entry lists references that are dead as well, or at the least don't go directly to anything useful that I could find.
I hope I'm going this right, pretty new here.. Braindead0 ( talk) 19:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
All editors willing and able to review articles are needed! Please contribute to the consensus of these articles by choosing 3 or more nominations to review in any of the catagories of interest to this project!
Please visit Wikipedia:Good article nominations now and begin! Thanks you! -- Amadscientist ( talk) 03:42, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
I've just completed a copy-edit on Cruz Reynoso that turned into a major rewrite. In the course of researching this fascinating man, I turned up a wealth of sources. Many of them could be used to improve the articles for Rose Bird and Joseph Grodin, the two other justices who were ousted in the 1986 California Supreme Court retention election. For that matter, I'm surprised that last is a red link, given its lasting impact! I'm sort of burned out after the work on Reynoso, so I'm hoping someone else would like to pick up the ball and run with it. I'm cross-posting this invitation to WikiProject United States courts and judges as well. // ⌘macwhiz ( talk) 03:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
{{ WPLA}} is under discussion, see WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 June 15 . 65.94.47.63 ( talk) 09:44, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, project participants: Some good Wikipedian — I am sure with the best of intentions — keeps removing the graphic for the above article, an election flier which I went to some great degree of trouble to find and upload. I am sure this fine person will be glad to describe the reason for the removal because it has not been done anywhere, at least I can't find it. I must say with the greatest humility that this contretemps is very distressing for me and, speaking frankly, has caused me to lose some sleep. (Maybe I am just a sensitive guy.) In the meantime, I will continue my self-assigned endeavor of completing the biographies of all Los Angeles City Council members and hope to put this matter to rest — as I would like to get some, too. I hope the members of this project will stop by the talk page for the above article and leave their opinion of just what is going on. Sincerely, and with my very best wishes to all, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:36, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I know that this has been suggested before and did not come to much, but I want to suggest it again and see if there is any interest. My thinking is that the task force would cover the Sacramento metropolitan area, not just the city itself. I am not sure I know how to create a task force but I am up to the task of figuring it out and I think it should be done. Toyz1988 ( talk) 17:42, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Upon review of the name "Capital Region" it seems to more commonly refer to the Albany region of New York among other places outside of the United States. It may be better to rethink the name of the task force. A name I was thinking of is Cal Capital task force. Cal is an abbreviation of California, common in many of the state organizations and bureaus; and it emphasizes the fact that it is the California Capital region. I did a search of Cal Capital on Google and it appears to be in relatively common usage. Thoughts? 08OceanBeachS.D. 01:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Assuming everyone agrees on Golden State Capital Region taskforce, someone should be found to create the page that preferably has experience creating California task force pages. 08OceanBeachS.D. 21:54, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surfing Madonna (2nd nomination). I wasn't aware of this until I saw the wikipedia page. Take a gander and weigh in your opinion. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:27, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
I have listed San Diego for peer reveiew. Please comment here. Thank you. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 00:44, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
In the McCloud River article, there is a claim that that the train bridge scene from the movie Stand By Me was filmed on a trestle over this river. However, I believe that scene was filmed using the train trestle over Lake Brtitton. There are a couple youtube videos which show that the backdrops of the scene in the movie match the bridge over Lake Britton. Sorry, I don't have the links handy. There are also online movie film location websites which make the same claim, but I cannot vouch for their reliability. 67.164.10.16 ( talk) 19:08, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
{I just removed the unsourced claim. It would be helpful if anybody interested in this article would find sources for the other information as well. It has been tagged for a long time. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 14:06, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Adrián González#Requested move. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:58, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
I believe it no longer meets FA status and have nominated it for FAR. Per wiki rules, I am notifying all of the article's involved wiki projects. Crystal Clear x3 03:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to convert WikiProject San Diego into a task force into this? I left a note at WikiProject San Diego for any concerns. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 19:03, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Comments are invited on the discussion page for subject article about California Historical Landmark #968 and alleged duplication of coverage in articles about historic aircraft using the site. Thewellman ( talk) 01:24, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
An IP user ( 75.36.142.226) seems to be going around editing the demographics sections of a huge bunch of articles on California cities. I lack the sources, expertise, and time to audit their many changes for accuracy, so I thought I'd bring it up here. -- Cybercobra (talk) 05:35, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States)#Before FAR. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:50, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
A publicity agency for Kevin A. Ross is going into several articles and making changes in Mr. Ross's favor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/3BAAS_Media_Group, It is annoying to have to clean up after this outfit. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:22, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
OK. I did it. Thanks. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 06:39, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Mariano Laya Armington#Notability. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 15:35, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the article 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States) for FA. The review can be found here. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate. Any assistance with this nomination would be greatly appretiated. -- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 00:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Your attention is called to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raymond A. Watson. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:21, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated Island fox for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad ( talk) 09:58, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could re-assess California Trail on your quality scale. There has been a good amount of cleanup and copyediting done on it recently, although the article may still be too long. Thanks! Dac04 ( talk) 19:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello! The CEO of this organization was involved in a contentious event and the paragraph in the article that describes the event has been changed several times to represent a few different view points. I think the article is mostly in good shape and that the paragraph could use some attention from more editors. The section mentioned is TOMS_Shoes#Focus_on_the_Family. I started this section on the talk page but so far, no one has joined the discussion (only edited the section). Any help there would be greatly appreciated. OlYeller Talktome 13:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Should party labels (D) and (R) be added to List of California public officials charged with crimes? See Talk:List_of_California_public_officials_charged_with_crimes#Parties. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 19:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
This came across my reader today:
Cheers, tedder ( talk) 04:36, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
I would like to create a discussion on the naming of the Placer county unincorporated area that is Olympic Valley. In Wikipedia it is referred to as Squaw_Valley,_Placer_County,_California. This community should be called Olympic Valley, as that is the official name. You will also notice that Placer County, California also refers to this article as Olympic Valley, not Squaw Valley. Squaw Valley is the name of a ski resort that is located in this valley. If you guys feel this is not under the jurisdiction of the SF Bay Area, please suggest a more relevant location for this discussion and ask an admin to move it there. I propose this article be renamed Olympic Valley Thanks. Jtbobwaysf ( talk) 10:24, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible for someone to re-assess the John Wayne Airport article. I've cleaned up a lot of stuff in the article and tried to make it more factual and less opinon - a lot of others have also contributed to this. Would love to hear any feedback on anything that you deem is keeping it at the rating it is. More than happy to spend the time to tweak and re-write further. Np sca ( talk) 04:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I've converted California State University WikiProject into a task force of WikiProject California since it has been inactive, which will be added to the banner soon. If you have any comments, please discuss here. Thank for your time. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 06:11, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure the 3rd photo in the Red Rock Island article is not a photo of Red Rock Island. Just from looking at it, the photo seems to depict a different island. The characteristics: there is no Coast Guard structure on the other pictures of the island (the island is private, so I think it would be odd to have a Coast Guard structure). Also in the foreground of the picture, you can see rocks that look a lot like they are on the shore (which would also explain the photographer's proximity to it without being on a boat) and a small wave emblematic of the coastline. Red Rock Island, however, is quite far from the shore. It is also bigger than what appears in the photo in question. Is there some format for dealing with this? I'd just assume erase it, but I don't want to be presumptuous. It's also being used in another article, Richmond. Lastly, the photographer who uploaded it is red-linked, so I don't imagine he/she's coming back soon. Advice?
Almonroth 23:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Are there any users in the Bel-Air/Westside area of Los Angeles? If so, would anyone mind photographing the Community Charter Elementary and Roscomare Road Elementaries for the Bel-Air article? Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:13, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, as a WikiProject that relates to this article, this notice was sent to let you know that the article, Leon Panetta, has been nominated to be a future Collaboration of the Month article. All editors interested in voting for or improving these article are encouraged to participate. You can cast your vote here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 16:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:California will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in California's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 23:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Bay Area editors. I'm proposing merging Rodeo Cove into Rodeo Beach. You can add your thoughts here. Rupert Clayton ( talk) 00:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Revisiting AfD. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 06:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#Immigration status. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:40, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion about History of the Hmong in Merced, California at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Asian_Americans#History_of_the_Hmong_in_Merced.2C_California WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:N/N#Death of Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr.. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 20:05, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Informing project members that I have started an article for OR-7, the wolf also known as Journey, who has traveled throughout Oregon and California and captured the attention of many people in the process. No question about notability here, as far as I am concerned, given the amount of attention this wolf has received. This article would make a great collaboration for WikiProject California, WikiProject Dogs and WikiProject Oregon. May the adventure continue... -- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:22, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Anyone know how often, or when, or how, the assessment summaries shown here are done? i want to see the current numbers for the sfba task force. are the dates given the dates this program is run? really ignorant so far.(mercurywoodrose) 75.61.128.131 ( talk) 03:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that WikiProject University of California is currently in an inactive status and would like to add it under the supported projects list of WikiProject United States. before I do that though I wanted to give you first dibs on adding it under your scope. Please let me know if you have any questions. Kumioko ( talk) 18:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm planning to contribute to the page by adding the follwing facts: The page should also talk about the De Anza College clubs origin, activities, contribution and schedule link. De Anza club catagories: •Academics •Community Service •Diversity •Political •Religious •Special Interest •Sports •Support Also noting the fact that there is one club day every quarter. In addition, the statement in the De Anza wiki page "One of the well known internships they have available to its students is at the NASA Ames Research Center." is not true anymore because of the budget cuts it has been revoked. But the OTI ( Occupational Training Institute ) in deanza is still active and provides internship for computer major studens in one of its program called CalTechs. References: < http://www.deanza.edu/oti/> < http://www.deanza.edu/clubs/clublist_category.html> Cynide45 ( talk) 05:19, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)#Differing histories. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 16:33, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Morse High School (San Diego, California)#IAR Petition. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:50, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, we have been working to activate WikiProject Indigenous languages of California. How does this project fit in with WikiProject California? Djembayz ( talk) 14:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station#Anti-nuclear protests section. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:47, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Well, it's not particularly well worded for non-userpages, but yeah, this WikiProject is now setup and still in the early stages of building its project area before user-participation can really begin to function. Anyone interested, please feel free to join. Note, this project not only covers film and TV, but Western novels, comics, actors, directors and authors, etc who make the fictional-Wild West possible. Thanks, Ma®©usBritish{ chat} 01:44, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
I have written a basic bio of Eldad Matityahu, the founder of Net Optics. Other editors have now twice added a notability flag, without commenting on the talk page. I removed the flag myself the first time, after increasing the number of references from 2 to 11, with an explanation on the article's talk page.
I'm reluctant to remove the flag myself again without any discussion or input from others, but I believe notability is not a problem. The article is based on 11 independent citations. Several are general profiles about Eldad. Coverage also ranges beyond his role as an entrepreneur -- including his interest in classic cars and his philanthropic endeavors.
Could somebody take a look and remove the notability flag if you agree, or else share your views in the thread I started on the article's talk page? Thanks, - RonnyG1 ( talk) 21:13, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Landmarks California is kicking off their first event and they have chosen California architect Julia Morgan as a way to highlight the importance of the historical preservation of buildings. October and November 2012 are going to be the active months. It would be fantastic if editors here could buckle down and make improving the Julia Morgan biography a priority. Articles about her buildings could be improved, too.
A new book has been written about Julia Morgan's life and career: Julia Morgan: Architect of Beauty, by Mark Anthony Wilson, an architectural historian. Interested editors would be encouraged to locate a copy of this book because it brings some new information to light. Binksternet ( talk) 22:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi! This district list http://www.losal.org/14631062413460983/lib/14631062413460983/Attendance_Boundaries_Summary-One_Sheet.pdf mentions the even number streets of "Claremore Lane 2900 - 2972" as being within the school district. Are these residences really in Long Beach city? What county is this portion in?
Also what city is "Huntington Harbor Boats Dock F" inside? Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:47, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please fix this page? Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Cleanup listing The bot which updates it has been inactive since March 2010 and the page itself is impossibly long. Thanks. -- S. Rich ( talk) 23:35, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
There is presently an article Greenmail, however, I have found sufficient reliable sources to support notability of an article about Greenmail (California) or some other name, or as a new section in a relevant article.
-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:32, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Los Angeles Pobladores#Filipino Pabladore?. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:36, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Category:Alcatraz inmates, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:27, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
WP has used Category:Bottom-importance articles for a while now, and i am curious why its so rarely used. I think it would be appropriate here. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 18:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Although this might be better directed to
WP:MILHIST, I would like to ask here first. I see that the articles of the
184th &
185th Infantry Regiments both state that they are active. However, only one (184th) is part of the present
79th Infantry BCT that is almost half of the
California Army National Guard (the other part being the Aviation Brigade of the
40th ID, and other miscellaneous units). That being said, there is
an article, as recently as 2011 stating that a regiment member was killed in action, and I cannot find any
reliable source stating that the unit has been deactivated. Any assistance regarding this inquiry would be appreciated.--
RightCowLeftCoast (
talk)
01:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
I have received a reply from the curator at the California Military Museum regarding my inquiry. Here it is below:
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO
J****. I am assuming that the 1/185 Inf was reorganized out of existence in 1976 when the HHC 49th Inf Bde was converted to an MP Bde. The battalion was reraised in 2003 and did mobilize separate companies to Iraq. It appears to have been reorganized into a CSS Bn. These is a lot of confusion since the 1/185th Armor was reorganized into a hybrid combined arms battalion.
I will check with the Force structure people in DC and see if they have any clearer information.
D** S****, Sergeant Major (Ret)
Curator, The California State Military Museum
Part of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Museum Systems
1119 Second Street
Sacramento, California 95814-3202
I have redacted my name, as well as the Sergeant Major's. This is a good start, but I wrote back that Wikipedia requires somewhere where there is a
reliable source that we can point to to correct the 185th's article, as well as the date when the regiment was inactivated. Additionally, through him, I have asked if it were possible to request a new "Lineage and Honors" document from the United States Army Center of Military History.--
RightCowLeftCoast (
talk)
23:34, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Charlie company, 1/185 Infantry received a
Meritorious Unit Commendation for their Iraq deployment in 2007-2008. These
orders may help with the search.--
Mattmc76 (
talk)
19:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 18:19, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Ecology of California has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecology of California. Please feel free to join in the discussion. — hike395 ( talk) 02:58, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Please see this ref desk post Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Location_of_street_address_in_California_and_attributes on whether "The Bungalows" is in Long Beach Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:39, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
There is an error in displaying the California State Assembly in the articles of current and former members in their infoboxes on the right side of the page. Instead it shows the U.S. House of Representatives, which is wrong. Looking over most articles you can clearly see which is the CSA tenure and which is the USHOR tenure (if that person has been in both bodies). If someone with familiarity with this particular infobox could look into and fix this issue that would be ideal.- Toyz1988 ( talk) 22:27, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
There has been a little bit of activity at the Wikimedia Cascadia page at Meta, along with its associated talk page. If you have any thoughts on this proposed organization, I am all ears (as I know others are as well). Feedback? Interest? Questions? -- Another Believer ( Talk) 03:56, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I have created Template:California topic and as an example converted Template:California history to use it. A good example of the usefulness of such templates, the History of Visalia, California is now automatically included, and there is no need to constantly update the template as new cities get articles. I believe a large number of California topical navboxes can be converted and would be easier to maintain, especially with city-by-city articles.
The one question is whether to include all cities, and if not which ones and how to override it, and whether to set the color to {{California/color}} by default... Int21h ( talk) 01:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I've just started editing Wikipedia and found incomplete information about California ballot measures for 2012. I'm curious whether this was intentional?
Are there others interested in election information in this project, who can tell me more about the philosophy behind creation (or the decision not to create) pages for ballot measures?
I'd like to add more content, but would add it to Ballotpedia, for example, if you think that is a better approach.-- Jennywaggo ( talk) 00:57, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Category:California has the {{ container category}} template yet it has pages as well as subcategories in it. Also, it has template and WikiProject sub-categories in it. From what I have seen the other US state categories do not do this, or most other categories for that matter. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:05, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi! What are some Chinese-language newspapers active in LA and Orange counties in the 1990s?
At Talk:Murder_of_Stuart_Tay#Chinese names I'm trying to find the Chinese names of two of the perpetrators but can't find anything online - Perhaps a Chinese-language newspaper in California has written an article about the case, but the article isn't online?
WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:52, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I have an issue with the opening sentence at the article Government of California, which begins "The government of California comprises a democratic republic ..." I don't think that is an accurate description of the state, or an appropriate use of the phrase Democratic republic. I'd appreciate any input at Talk:Government of California#Democratic republic???. Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 20:21, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
At Talk:David Westerfield I am concerned about some of the talk page arguments made by some posters. It seems like they are using OR research points, not realizing that analysis should be left up to secondary sources. Since it's a BLP it's something to be cautious on. WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:31, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2012 Benghazi attack/Archives/2013/January#Pruned information regarding Wood & Doherty. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 08:46, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion regarding the lead paragraph on the talk page of Sony Pictures Entertainment. As it according to it's talk page banner falls under this project, some input from participants of this project would be appreciated. Regards. MisterShiney ✉ 08:36, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Burrito#Request for comment. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 20:39, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Choosing and sorting articles by importance is an arbitrary and mostly misunderstood process that no longer serves this project. In fact, the most active WikiProjects no longer use the importance rating at all and have opted to go with a streamlined "core" article rating in its place. This is a proposal to deprecate all articles by importance (including task forces) and to use a core rating for all articles in its place. Arguments for maintaining the status quo and opposing this proposal should demonstrate how sorting California articles by importance is accurate, helpful, and necessary. Viriditas ( talk) 01:44, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Oppose Although some active WikiProjects don't use the importance scale, I think most still do for a good reason: while the quality scale is an encyclopedia-wide assessment, the importance scale is helpful in determining how best to use the resources of a given WikiProject. The scales complement each other, and one extra parameter on the template doesn't seem too time-consuming. Miniapolis ( talk) 03:56, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
At the articles about the state's congressional districts, such as California's 53rd congressional district, the congressional district maps are outdated. I have started updating the descriptions of the districts, but I don't know how to put in the new maps. One source for the new maps is at wedrawthelines.ca.gov - District 53 for example. This looks like a state government site but I'm not familiar enough with Wikipedia image and copyright guidelines to know if we can use it. Anybody want to take this on? Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 16:19, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
I moved an article. There is some disagreement. See Talk:List_of_native_plants_in_California#Name_of_article. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 18:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Are biographies about people from a certain region, including a state, fall within the scope of a WikiProject that covers that region (or state)? For example, how about Gray Davis or Emperor Norton or Cheryl Cox?-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:43, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Southern California task force#Baja California. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:46, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
2013 Southern California shootings has been requested to be renamed, see talk:2013 Southern California shootings -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 23:33, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#Blanking of content verified by multiple reliable sources. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Larry Thomas (actor) is at WonderCon Anaheim March 29 - 31. We could use a picture of him in character for his article and The Soup Nazi. Does anyone know anyone who is going? If they mention the shots will be for Wikipedia he may pose for some good ones.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 10:45, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
file:HuntingtonBeach-1904.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 01:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
I created a new subpage of the project, Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Requested Articles, which is linked to at the "to do" list, but i thought people should know its here now. I scoured the WP:Requested Articles for "calif", found a good collection. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 06:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
in Portal:California/Did you know/6, the third item, Julia Tuttle, has absolutely no California connection. i removed the info, and placed a placeholder there until a replacement is found. I don't know how active the DYK section of the portal is. if no one does, I may add a selection at some point. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 04:01, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if you guys are aware of this, but a subpage of your project has been sent to MfD. The nominator probably should have brought this up here before nominating it. Please feel free to leave comments. T C N7JM 00:06, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Huge difference between numbers given by different sources. Would anyone mind looking into this? Jsayre64 (talk) 18:44, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Your attention is called to this section, Use Mapping L.A. as reliable source?, which could use your expert input. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:03, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi All! I just updated and wrote an article for the Mendocino War because it was previously a stub. Check it out and see what you think! Feel free to edit or provide any feedback! Bellitan ( talk) 20:11, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Template:Largest cities of California has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. I am not the nominator for this deletion. It was nominated March 31 and I did not see a notice on this projects talk page. CRwikiCA talk 18:40, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Could anyone in LA take pictures of this place: Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery? If you are interested in working with me, there is a series of other locations and historic residences to take pictures of. I thought I would ask here to speed things up. Please reply on my talkpage if interested. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 03:08, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA#San_Diego Comic Con. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:04, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
The article Central California is suffering from a grossly poor definition of Central California, one that often contradicts the sources cited in the article. Thmazing ( talk) 21:46, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedia! I recently updated the article on General Grant Grove, which previously was a stub. Please check it out and see what you think! I'd value feedback and a rating! Newhousj ( talk) 20:50, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station#Call for criminal investigation by Senator Barbara Boxer: section added, deleted, reverted back. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:01, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I've rewritten the article Chris Field (Los Angeles musician), DIFF.
Further suggestions for additional secondary sources would be most appreciated, at the article's talk page, at Talk:Chris Field (Los Angeles musician).
— Cirt ( talk) 02:37, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
A significant discussion is underway at Talk:History of California#Dublin IP editor contributions. Additional input would be appreciated. -- MelanieN ( talk) 18:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I just created James Boon Lankershim's page (and also his father's, Isaac Lankershim), two major landowners from California who developed the San Fernando Valley and buildings in downtown LA. However, the editing process has changed and I've just tried to add a 'legacy' section to James's page, but Lankershim Boulevard is not wikified. I don't understand why. Is there a way to revert to the old editing process? This looks like a nightmare to use. By the way, feel free to expand those pages and, if you can figure out how to add their pictures, you can find them on FindAGrave (old enough to have no problem with copyright I think). Thanks. Zigzig20s ( talk) 05:38, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am working to get Electoral history of Ronald Reagan into a much better state than it is currently. I have the bare bones of the article ready in my sandbox, but have run into a very significant hurdle - I cannot find any reliable source relating to the 1966 and 1970 gubernatorial election primaries. I have looked all over the place, including the website for the Secretary of State, but there does not seem to be any record of elections prior to 1992 on that website. These should exist, because the Secretary of State of California issues a Statement of Vote for all elections, including primaries. I was wondering if any of you here at WikiProject California know of or have access to these records - it is important to documenting thoroughly the electoral history of Reagan in California. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. :) Toa Nidhiki05 21:13, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Your attention is called to this discussion. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA/SDCC1#Location. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 06:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Please help find a consensus on images for the article stub at: Talk:17-Mile Drive#17 Mile Drive info box and section images replacement.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 04:15, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I just created 2013 California prisoner hunger strike, obviously notable, but i would like help in fleshing it out. its pretty well linked, categorized and connected to projects, but needs many more references and of course more detail. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 18:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Are there any project members who might be willing to take a quick look at this article? I have requested a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors and I have also nominated this article for Good status. My concern, though, is that my account of the statue's location within the Civic Center is accurate. What confuses me is the timeline for construction of the Civic Center, movement of the library and Asian Art Museum, etc. I found one location for the unveiling and another for its current location. Might contributors with more familiarity with the history of San Francisco be able to help? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. -- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:38, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunrise Aviation. - Ahunt ( talk) 22:24, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the Wikipedian in Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in New York. I'm looking for Wikipedians and GLAM contacts in the L.A. area to connect with a contact at a museum in L.A. who is interested in the Wikipedian-in-Residence program and GLAM-Wiki. She is also affiliated with the L.A. as Subject program. Please contact me if you are interested. OR drohowa ( talk) 15:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC) Special:EmailUser/OR drohowa.
image:Drake's Cove, Drakes Bay, California, 1579.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 ( talk) 06:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Regarding a merge of Rancho New Helvetia ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to New Helvetia ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). >>>Discussion is Here<<<; Dated October 17 2013
Any opinions on merging Rancho New Helvetica and New Helvetica? One is the land grant, one is the settlement. There is a bit of confusion as to a second possible location. Not sure which should be the article name, and which the redirect. Djembayz ( talk) 17:27, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Beatrice Kozera was the Mexican farmworker girlfriend who inspired one of Jack Kerouac's characters, and the subject of a film and an upcoming fictional biography. Djembayz ( talk) 00:04, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
When I type in "Silicone Valley" into the search field ... I'm sent to the Adult Entertainment of the San Fernando Valley page. Seems wrong but I haven't a clue how to fix. Please help. 98.125.230.21 ( talk) 01:47, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
If someone has time/interest the banner ad needs fixing. When it says "¿Sabes So Cal?" it should be "¿Conoces California?". Originally I had taken the File:Flag_of_California.svg, stretched the red and white across the page, and put some animated text in flash. But I can't locate any of my project files for when I made it so it would be from scratch again. Someone let me know about this months ago and just haven't had any time or interest in fixing it diff. See File:Qxz-ad182.gif - Optigan13 ( talk) 19:35, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 December 25#Silcone Valley discussion reached consensus to retarget the Silicone Valley redirect to Silicon Valley. Your opinion would now be welcome about whether Silcon Valley should have a hatnote pointing to San Fernando Valley#Adult ednterainment, the former target of the redirect and only other notable meaning of the term. Please comment at Talk:Silicon Valley#Hatnote, thanks. Thryduulf ( talk) 23:54, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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A CFD discussion has been started on a proposal to rename this category, hinging on the question of whether it is appropriate to include the Sierra Foothills as part of the "SJV Area" along with the SJ Valley proper. Please join the discussion. Cgingold ( talk) 17:59, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.
For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and Wikipedia:Notability.
— Cirt ( talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
I tried to use this project's watch list at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_California#External watchlist, but I get this error message: "Query error: Query execution was interrupted" X Ottawahitech ( talk) 21:33, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 45#Comic-Con Panel. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 11:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).
Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.
If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot ( talk) (for Mr. Z-man) 04:56, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
This article for deletion is relevant to your wikiproject, so your users may be interested in commenting. 0x0077BE [ talk/ contrib] 23:23, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
...at Talk:Santa Ana Mountains BMK ( talk) 13:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Can we get a photo for Rick Dore Kustoms? dont know what city he is in. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 07:51, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Some include dab/primarytopic issues, please see current discussions WP:RM. I haven't covered the whole of California yet. Skookum1 ( talk) 08:40, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 00:56, 27 March 2014 (UTC).
I want to help the Article
Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park.
Please find my article for creation and my credentials in user:
Douglas Nelson Turner (
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I have worked out how the generators are wired and the three phases developed. I would like to add a table of Contents and a "heading" about the generators.
If that is not appropriate, I would like to make a new Atricle on the subject.
Answer at my user talk, please.
Thank you
Douglas Nelson Turner (
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There is a deletion discussion ongoing for article Wiki Education Foundation.
Discussion page is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wiki Education Foundation.
— Cirt ( talk) 18:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
If anybody lives in or near California State University, Los Angeles, are you willing to scan copies of this master's thesis for me:
It is important because there is an AFD on the Spanish Wikipedia about the es:Liceo Mexicano Japonés ( English article) es:Wikipedia:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés
Thank you WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:36, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Here's the library record of the thesis: http://xerxes.calstate.edu/losangeles/books/record?id=b1577414 WhisperToMe ( talk) 08:59, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
LA Meetup: May 10 Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, You have been invited to a meetup and edit-a-thon at the Junipero Serra Branch of the LA Public Library (4607 S. Main St., 90037) on Saturday, May 10, 2014 from 10 am to 4 pm! This event is sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association and aims to improve coverage of Asian Pacific American topics, particularly as they relate to southern California. Please RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:11, 30 April 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Are there any Californians interested in participating in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a multi-national effort to improve coverage of LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects? Perhaps an edit-a-thon in San Francisco or Los Angeles? Please visit the project page for details or let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
LA meetups: Adrianne Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thons on May 23 and May 31 | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, There are two LA edit-a-thons in memory of Adrianne Wadewitz, a prolific Wikipedia editor, in the coming weeks. Please join us May 23 at Occidental College and May 31 at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry to combat systemic bias and help further Adrianne's legacy. No experience needed! Please RSVP at the relevant page(s) if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:28, 14 May 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Requesting input here, please. Snuggums ( talk • contributions) 21:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Upcoming L.A. events: Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon (Saturday, June 21, 12-5pm) and Wiknic (Sunday, July 6, ~9:30am-4pm) |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The L.A. Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: an edit-a-thon sponsored by the online magazine East of Borneo, and the fourth annual Los Angeles Wiknic! The East of Borneo event is an edit-a-thon that aims to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next chapter of their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, June 21, 2014 from 12pm to 5pm at 356 S. Mission Rd. ( map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting. The Wiknic is a part of the nationwide Great American Wiknic. We'll be grilling, getting to know each other better, and building the L.A. Wikipedia community! The event is tentatively planned for Pan-Pacific Park ( map) and will be held on Sunday, July 6, 2014 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:59, 11 June 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
The FAQ says I should use this talk page to ask about reviewing article quality ratings. It doesn't seem like this page is used much for that, but I figured I'd ask anyway - happy to be pointed elsewhere!
All of these are CA people (mostly artists and historically significant women) who are all currently marked stub-class or start-class, and that I think could be C or B-class- I'm just not sure how best to go about that, or what things I'm missing when looking at them myself.
Reviews, or suggestions, appreciated! LuisVilla ( talk) 15:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
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LA Meetup: March 9 edit-a-thon at MOCA | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, You have been invited to a meetup and edit-a-thon at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 11 am to 6 pm! This event is in collaboration with MOCA and the arts collective East of Borneo and aims to improve coverage of LA art since the 1980s. (Even if contemporary art isn't your thing, you're welcome to join too!) Please RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! User:Calliopejen1 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 23:02, March 2, 2014 |
I had started Template:LGBT Americans by location after making LGBT culture-related articles on Houston and Detroit. I notice others have started articles on the LGBT of other cities, but California remains absent. WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
This is currently subcategorized by county, which in my opinion is a bad scheme because it splits what appears to be only about 100 articles by (at present) over two dozen counties, half of which only have one article. No other state's firearm suicide category is split by county, nor is the county of particular significance. Unless there's some compelling rationale for doing it this way, I think the county subcats should all be nominated for upmerging at CFD. postdlf ( talk) 22:27, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon: Saturday, September 6 from 11am to 4pm | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, You are invited to meet up with online magazine East of Borneo for an edit-a-thon to build a better history of art in Southern California. This next event in their Unforgetting L.A. series will take place on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 11am - 4pm at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena ( map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. For more info, see eastofborneo.org/unforgetting. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#2011 License revocation. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
The 20th Los Angeles meetup: Sunday, September 21 from 11am to 4pm | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, Join us on Sunday, September 21, from 11am to 4pm at Kramer Studio in Mid-City ( map) for a meetup and edit-a-thon! Get to know the Los Angeles Wikipedia community and do some editing (or learn to edit!) in a collaborative environment. Please RSVP and consider becoming a member of the SoCal task force to help us improve articles about everything in the region. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Upcoming L.A. events: Wik-Ed Women edit-a-thon (10/7, 6-10pm) and UCR edit-a-thon (10/16, 10am-4pm) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The Southern California Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: a Wik-Ed Women editing session downtown designed to combat systemic bias, and a Wikipedia Loves Libraries event at UC Riverside! Wik-Ed Women is a new monthly series of informal Wikipedia editing sessions for Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. This second session will take place on Tuesday, October 7 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. The UC Riverside Wikipedia Loves Libraries event is an edit-a-thon targeting articles related to UC Riverside, SoCal, and beyond. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Thursday, October 16 from 10am to 4pm at UCR's Tomás Rivera Library. Again, RSVPs are requested here. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 20:47, 29 September 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Upcoming SoCal edit-a-thons: UC Riverside (10/21, 10am-3pm) and Unforgetting L.A. (10/25, 9am-5pm) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The Southern California Wikipedia community has two more events scheduled for the month of October: a water-related edit-a-thon at UC Riverside, and an Unforgetting L.A. event at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar in conjunction with L.A. as Subject! As part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries and to celebrate Open Access Week, UC Riverside is participating alongside other Western Waters Digital Library members in an edit-a-thon focusing on water issues. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Tuesday, October 21 from 10am to 3pm at UCR's Orbach Science Library ( map). RSVPs are requested here. The Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon and training workshop will take place at the 9th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, and is hosted by online magazine East of Borneo in partnership with L.A. as Subject. Join us on Saturday, October 25 from 9am to 5pm at the USC Doheny Memorial Library ( map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
I've started a peer review for the WP:GA quality article, R U Professional.
Comments to help further improve quality would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/R U Professional/archive1.
— Cirt ( talk) 19:20, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Wik-Ed Women editing session (11/11, 6-10pm), and join our new Facebook group! | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has a new Facebook group! Become a member to keep up to date with all of our upcoming events and to connect with local Wikipedians! In addition, we have one upcoming event: the third Wik-Ed Women editing session will take place on Tuesday, November 11 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:20, 4 November 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Wik-Ed Women editing session CANCELED | |
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Due to health issues affecting one of the organizers, the third Wik-Ed Women editing session (originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 11) has been canceled. We expect the series to pick up again sometime in December. Sorry for the inconvenience, and hope to see you in the near future! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 03:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
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)
This is a notice about Category:California articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 16:10, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Please participate in RFC [24] regarding whether or not the article 2014 Isla Vista killings should be in the category "Violence against men" [25], which is described as category: "for articles on the topic of sexual or gender-based violence against men or boys". -- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 01:21, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
This category is for articles on the topic of sexual or gender-based violence against men or boys...The scope of this category includes sexual violence against men, sexual and gender-based violence against men in conflict situations, domestic violence against men (including honor killings of men), and violence against trans men. Organizations, literature, events, books, etc for which the topic of gender-based violence against men is defining are also on-topic. This category should not include violence where men happen to be the victims. Rather, it should only include acts of violence where the gender of the victim is an important determinant in them being selected for violence, when there is a gendered nature to the violence itself, or when it otherwise fits the definition in the literature of sexual or gender-based violence.'[27]-- BoboMeowCat ( talk) 20:57, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#VG comments subpages regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject California articles that would be affected by this action are these:
If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject California's use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. - Thibbs ( talk) 15:53, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
I've created an article about the stand-up comedy film, Bill Cosby 77.
Feel free to help out with expansion from secondary sources, or engage in collaboration at Talk:Bill Cosby 77.
Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 04:08, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
L.A. meetup: December 14 edit-a-thon at the California African American Museum | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, East of Borneo's "Unforgetting L.A." edit-a-thon series continues this weekend at the California African American Museum! Please join us this Sunday, December 14 from 11am to 4pm. Beginners welcome! You'll learn to create new articles that improve Wikipedia's coverage of African American art in Los Angeles, past and present. Please click here for full event details and to RSVP if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Wik-Ed Women editing session (1/20, 6-10pm) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, Please join us at an event this coming Tuesday: the third Wik-Ed Women editing session will take place on January 20 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 23:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
I started a merger proposal last month of New Helvetia and Sutter's Fort here. Any input would be appreciated. Voltaire's Vaquero ( talk) 02:22, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
This page: /info/en/?search=First_Presbyterian_Church_of_San_Jose might be deleted. I believe that it is part of California history. If you disagree, I understand. If you agree, please feel free to edit it. Thanks! Dawn22 ( talk) 00:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 19:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
The Pan Am Flight 843 is up for discussion at AfD. As I commented there, sources should be available to enable the article to be kept. Are there any online newspaper archives covering SF in the 1960s available? If you are able to assist with the improvement of the article, please pitch in. Mjroots ( talk) 17:26, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
There's any edit war shaping up over which county Tustin, California is in. I would appreciate some help resolving the matter.— Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:56, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Redondo Loves Wikipedia (2/14), Wik-Ed Women (2/17), and Unforgetting LA at the Getty (2/21)! | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has three events in mid-February -- please consider attending! First, we have a Valentine's Day edit-a-thon appropriately named Redondo Loves Wikipedia, which will take place at the Redondo Beach Public Library from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, February 14. Join library staff, the Redondo Beach Historical Society, and others to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of Redondo Beach! Second, we have a Wik-Ed Women editing session on Tuesday, February 17 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Third, we have an Unforgetting LA event put on by East of Borneo in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute. Come help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LA design and architecture, and have an awesome free day at the museum -- parking will be validated for edit-a-thon participants! If you'd like to use particular books from GRI's great collection, be sure to email before 2/13 (instructions at event page). And be sure to check out our main meetup page, because we already have three SoCal events scheduled for early March! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:58, 5 February 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:South Coast (California). Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 06:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, there will be 9 satellite ArtandFeminism Edit-a-thons at Berkeley, San Francisco, Irvine, LACMA, L.A., Fresno, Pomona, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Whittier. These events would all like to invite local Wikipedians to come join the events and help new editors. Please email me if you would like to help out and would like to be put in touch with the event organizers. Thanks for your support, and feel free to contact me! OR drohowa ( talk) 04:52, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The 2015 Oxnard train derailment has been created. A Spanish-language version is needed. Mjroots ( talk) 06:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:37, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Terrorism#Southern California terrorist plot. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
The naming of "Cougar" is under discussion, see talk:Cougar, Rlendog ( talk) 08:38, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Just wrote Module:LACMTA for {{ LACMTA icon}} and the test result can be seen in template:LACMTA icon/testcases. I did that for practicing Lua coding but also the original template creates broken links for Harbor Transitway, Regional Connector Transit Corridor and El Monte Busway due to lettercase transformation by wiki magicword. The module is buggy if I un-comment line 60 of the module which is intended to serve as the fallback if parameter 1 does not match the any key's values in table t1, so looking for help to fix that. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk · contri.) 16:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians from California/Architecture/Requested Pictures,
at german Wikipedia we just wrote an article about an architectural interesting office building at teh border of Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village, California. It has been used in several movies, such as Demolition Man or 12:01. Its not the same as The Oaks (Thousand Oaks, California), as the one I am talking about is located here: 34° 9′ 21.95″ N 118° 49′ 8.84″ W. We would be very happy to have a picture for this building. We already checked Wikipedia Commons if there is one - no. Could you help us with someone near this place taking a photo of that building? Or could you pass this question additionally to a better fitting place at english Wikipedia - if this is not the right place? I post this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture and Wikipedia talk:Requested pictures but none of those seem to fit perfectly. Looking forward
Yours -- Zulu55 ( talk) 08:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thon (3/18), Redondo Loves Wikipedia (3/28) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has two events in this second half of March -- please consider attending! First, there is a memorial edit-a-thon in honor of the prolific LA Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz, which is being held downtown on March 18 (tomorrow!) from noon to 8pm as a part of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' annual conference. Please drop by to contribute your own work or teach other users how to write for Wikipedia. Second, there will be an event at the Redondo Beach Public Library (following up on last month's session), in collaboration with the Redondo Beach Historical Society. Please join us from 10am to noon on Saturday, March 28 at the main branch of the Redondo Beach Public Library! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:26, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Editors are invited to comment on the discussion currently underway at Talk:Modesto, California#RFC_regarding_lead_photo.— Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:21, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#January 2016. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:46, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
The article Troy Philippines has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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I have nominated List of birds of California for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Harrias talk 09:31, 6 May 2015 (UTC)