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San Jose, 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. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I've begun work on the article for Edo (the city which has since become Tokyo) and I was wondering if you all have any standards, precendents, infoboxes, or other suggestions for Former Cities on the whole. New Amsterdam and Constantinople are both excellent articles, I think, but don't really follow a standard "city" format, and are devoted much more to chronological history than discussions of Society, Culture, Geography, Governance and administration, etc. as a normal city article would be. Since the format (i.e. the headings/sections and such) for cities should work just fine for former cities, I guess my question really is whether or not there is (or can be made) an alternate infobox which lists population over time, key mayors/administrators, key events, etc. as much of the information on the current city infobox is focused on modern-day current population, governors, post codes, telephone area codes, and the like. But also, if any of you write extensively these types of articles ( Constantinople, New Amsterdam, History of X City), I'd be eager to hear your thoughts as to your approach, style, format, whatever.
I've posted a similar comment on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries#Former_cities and would look forward to, perhaps, some collaboration between the two projects on making this work. I apologize for my total lack of understanding of template coding, else I'd do it myself and/or help out more considerably. Cheers. LordAmeth 11:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I've been noticing that there's many cities and towns in the U.S. that didn't have articles auto-generated for them in the early days of the Wikipedia, like what was done for most cities, well, U.S. cities anyway. Does anyone have the know-how and time to look into this and see if it's feasible to finish creating all the city/town articles via bot? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Has any city wikiproject established any (somewhat hardened) rules for what articles to include or exclude, especially in relation to people articles but also other article types? I'm thinking of working on something like this for WikiProject Louisville. Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 03:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Johannesburg 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. Epbr123 18:40, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Just thought people would be interested,... the article on Minneapolis, Minnesota has just been promoted to featured status! This article has recently undergone a tremendous amount of research and editing recently, and is definitely worthy of the FA star! Susanlesch has done a large portion of the editing. Congratulations! Dr. Cash 20:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Cleveland, Ohio 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) 21:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
What is the scope of this project? Does an article like Sør-Trøndelag really fall within the scope of this project? If so, it seems the project is slightly missnamed. Jerazol 21:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Having taken upon myself to tag all Norwegian settlement articles with the WPCities banner I have made a few misses which fortunately are quickly corrected. Dr. Cash is doing a big job following in my footsteps adding priority and class and also correcting any mistakes he sees me doing. On my talk page I was told that categories for cities should not be categorized, only the articles themselves. I am wondering though if this means that the project doesn't want category pages to be tagged at all? E.g. this removal of the project banner from a category page where all the article entries are themselves settlements makes me curious about this. Would that mean that also categories such as Category:Municipalities of Norway or Category:Cities in Norway should not get tagged?
I would think that tagging categories where all entries are inherently within the scope of the project would be a smart and useful thing (a) showing editors that any new articles should be tagged with the project banner right away, and (b) because the tags function as recruitment posters for the project. Besides, since there is a "class = Category" parameter that is valid within the banner template, and there is little maintenance to worry about with a category page, I would think that some application of the project banner to category talk pages would be appropriate. I'm not aware of any previous discussions you may have had on this subject. __ meco 20:51, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
As a follow-up to the issue of categories there seems also to be an issue with whether templates should be included in the project. Dr. Cash and I appear have diverging opinions on this and he has reverted my addition of the WPCities template to Template talk:Municipalities in the Balearic Islands with the edit comment "rm template from WPCities (unnecessary to have individual templates in wikiproject; cities only please)." Also the templates contained in Category:Norway county templates (the templates albeit county templates themselves do contain a list of minicipalities) were divested of the WPCities tag. Is Dr. Cash to strict in his assessment of what whould be included or am I too liberal here? __ meco 08:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Eidsvoll is one of Norway's 400 plus municipalities located some 50km north of Oslo with a population of less than 20,000. Basically this justifies it being classified as low importance in the WPCities assessment scheme. However, in Norway this is historically a rather significant location as the Norwegian Constitution was signed here in 1814. This fact may (or may not, I don't know) be more prominent in the awareness of Norwegians than it would be in other countries. I just wonder if this would justify jacking it into the mid-importance range? The assessment criteria currently don't seem to justify this (although, I suppose, if we dug up some 1814 international newspapers there would surely be mention of this). __ meco 08:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there a list of city articles tagged for this project? Or is the only list the Category:Cities one? Most other projects generate a list purely from the tags added to talk pages. Folks at 137 09:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm still primitive on editing pages. If you think this idea is beneficial, please come to the Grants Pass, Oregon, page and assist. The idea is also for other cities regarding what's in "Media". Grants Pass >> Grants Pass, Oregon / Wikipedia
Basically, I suggested the adddition of "I Love Grants Pass" to the Grants Pass page. Its basically the only forum website in Grants Pass, and its a significant website. While discussing that as an "External Link", I visited Wikipedia's page on the City of Portland, Oregon, and noticed a "Media" section that listed commercial television and radio stations, and newspapers. On the Grants Pass page, I suggested that it also have a "Media" page, with the addition of major city website forums. Because if newspapers are included, it makes no sense to exclude top-tier websites in cities that are dedicated to the city's specific information. I think that other city pages, like Portland, Oregon, should also include "Media: Internet" alongside newspapers and radio stations, if there are websites that fit. As for Grants Pass, if you can help on this and advance getting that link added, please come on over, as its almost out of my league. I know how to make a few minor edits, add a photo, and a few paragraphs. Thanks. Mdvaden 22:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Please be advised that the Duluth, Minnesota aticle is currently being demoted from its WP:GA status at WP:GA/R. The causes are: not enough references, too much lists, and random year wikification.-- SidiLemine 13:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
In my opinion, this article's mass transit section has turned into a pro-con piece on the light-rail system under development. The edits appear to be driven by one user with a strong point of view - as evidenced by the fact that only one side of the "debate" has sources. The debate may well be interesting (if fully developed), but I think it's a bit much for a city article. I think a summary would be more appropriate - and a separate article on the light rail system more appropriate. The anon-editor, however, doesn't appear to agree. I'm going to unwatch the article for a few weeks and see how it sorts itself out. Rklawton 17:38, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Someone deleted {{ WPCities}} from Talk: Mokum. Isn't this article within the scope of this project? – Ilse @ 10:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This has been the subject of some recent controversy at
Gibraltar, where various editors have very strong opinions on whether
or
is the best flag to represent
Ballymena. I would propose there is no need for these flags at all; even a very big city will likely only have 10 or fewer twinned with it, and text is perfectly adequate for this many entries. Does anyone have a good encyclopedic reason why these divisive icons should remain, in terms of added value to the project? If not I think we should remove them.
WP:FLAGCRUFT is an essay which provides a far more detailed rationale about why we should be careful in how we use flags on Wikipedia. --
John
19:15, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Marshall, Texas will be put up for FAR within the next week. If any objections, please discuss on its talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Okiefromokla ( talk • contribs) 20:57, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
I've updated the main project page, moving some information to linked pages, removing some old and stale information, and overall freshening things up a bit to make it easier to read. I've also added a list at the top to some of the articles currently undergoing FAC, GAC, or peer review, so perhaps some editors can take a look at them and give a little extra TLC to some of the FAC candidates as needed. I'll try to keep this list updated on at least a weekly basis, as time permits. Dr. Cash 06:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Chennai 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.
Or do they have to be incorporated? Brian Pearson 00:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Should USPS postal codes be called abbreviations or should they more properly be called postal codes? Most almanacs list abbreviations for the states, but they are not the two-letter codes. Wl7aml 22:05, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Seattle, Washington 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. Lara Love 17:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Marshall, Texas 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. Okiefromokla• talk 17:39, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
A request for Peer Review of Ashdod, Israel, has been listed. We will appreciate any comments that will help us improve the article. -- Derwig 18:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Since when did we establish consensus that this information was either desired or actually encyclopedic to be included in city infoboxes. I was under the understanding that it was far too much information, and totally unnecessary to be included. But apparently, CapitalR has taken it upon himself to automatically start updating infoboxes with this totally unencyclopedic crap. Dr. Cash 07:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
The Cities/Guideline page suggests using a Geolinks template in the "External links" section. The Geolinks templates may be superseded by recent changes in the coord template which provide a list of mapping services when the geographical coordinate is clicked on. Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Geolinks-coord_Issues and consider changes to your guideline. I notice that recent versions of the Geobox template emit coord-style coordinates and locator maps. ( SEWilco 16:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC))
Good day every one . I spend a very long time trying to improve several cities articles , for example : Jeddah . In fact, i couldn't even reach the GA class because simply i'm working alone . is there anyone interested to join :) A M M A R 14:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there has been a flurry of activity on images on the New York City article. I think they need a little more collaborative attention and invite other editors' opinions: Talk:New_York_City#Images_need_attention. Thanks -- SiobhanHansa 14:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if WP:CITIES was just for larger cities or for any town, anywhere. I would like to add a WP:CITIES template to the Stephens City, Virginia page, but want to make sure it fits within the rules of this WP. Thanks for any help you can give. Take Care... NeutralHomer T: C 03:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Streets -- NE2 02:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
User:Polaron is proposing the redirection of CDP articles throughout Vermont to the towns in which they are located. If this is accepted, this would lay precedent for similar action to all other CDP articles to the governmental bodies in which they are located, whether towns, townships, or counties. Please offer your comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vermont. Nyttend 20:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Barcelona, Spain should be omitted from this project until the issues of the current article's serious imbalance and poorly-written English are addressed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.33.35.125 ( talk) 16:40, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I've just noticed a number of pages I'm watching have been added to this "Cities" project, eg, Kintbury and Greenham. They are all small villages in the England and can by no stretch of the imagination ever be classified as cities. It is most confusing to the reader having a cities tag stuck on a page for these articles. Should this project not have a more appropriate name? How about Wikipedia Project:Places or Wikipedia Project: Cities, Towns and Villages? If not I think it is more appropriate to remove the tag altogether to avoid confusion. Dahliarose ( talk) 08:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
...looks awfully funny. I'm using Explorer and the participants text is overwriting what is below it. I didn't want to remove or revert anything, but you might want to take a look. Katr67 17:11, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
List of cities and towns in Tennessee is up for Featured List consideration. Please add any comments to its FLC discussion page. This may be a good template for other states to adopt for their lists of cities as well. Kaldari 18:44, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
The original distribution of census statistics was done well for the time several years ago and well before my time. Lumped together, they are terrifically boring. I have taken to breaking off the statistics on personal income and placing it in a separate section under "Economy." The section also includes statistics on business, etc. Where is it written that statistics must be presented in the same old dull, unreadable way? Student7 ( talk) 23:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I have seen that all capitals of countries are de facto considered "Top"-importance articles just because of being capitals, and however many cities which can be much more populated, more economicalty important or, in particular, more likely to appear and be searched in an Encyclopedia, are rated with a lower degree of importance. As an example, I can not sincerely understand that the stub Moroni, Comoros is a more important article than Barcelona, Los Angeles, California, Sao Paulo or San Francisco, California.-- Xtv - ( my talk) - ( que dius que què?) 16:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Cities team, Just a note that Altrincham (of England) is a current featured article candidate. The nomination/discussion page is found here. -- Jza84 · ( talk) 20:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
24-Dec-2007: The participant list was half-converted into a table, beginning on October 7, 2007; however, the precise formatting of the wikitable (transcluding another wikitable) was not completed until now (24Dec07), so the table was too narrow and overran the ending paragraphs. The "div style" was changed from "height:400px" to "width:520px" for a wider notes column. Beyond the efforts at Wikipedia, remember that the wiki-collaboration software ( MediaWiki version 1.6) is a beta-level technology, attempting to extend incompatible features of prior wiki software. It's all very confusing, not the work of experienced computer scientists, but rather a series of hacks done by hacks to meet the approval of hacks, and who knew sane people would one day use wiki projects? Wikipedia could migrate to some type of professional wiki software, but currently MediaWiki (version 1.8.2?) is being enhanced and might become more usable some day. Honestly, the wiki-edit mode doesn't even allow search-and-replace, which is a trivial edit feature fully implemented over 30 years ago, so everyone is frustrated and trying to get formatting and wikitables to work. Thanks for your understanding. If an "elephant is a horse designed by committee" then MediaWiki software is a crippled two-legged elephant with a hernia, to keep the focus to the highest possible praise for MediaWiki software. - Wikid77 ( talk) 02:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Although I'm not fond of "Prominent Native" sections for city pages, at the very least each notation should bear a source. I went through the list for Inglewood, California [ [1]], adding sources for the natives where I could find them and just deleting the names that couldn't be sourced. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 01:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
athinaios and I are having a discussion about the use of pronunciation in Brussels. We are not reaching an agreement, and I was about to take our discussion to the talkpage of Brussels, but felt that it is relevant enough for a wider Project discussion. There is a guideline - Help:Pronunciation that pronunciation on Wiki should be in IPA. However, I can see the usefulness of having the local pronunciation for articles on cities. asthinaios and I are not in disagreement on that issue, however asthinaios feels that there should be a pronunciation for each official language in Belgium because Brussels is the capital city. My view is that German is not the official language of Brussels and would not be heard in Brussels any more than in any other non-German European city. There is an argument that we are not WikiTravel and all pronunciation should be in IPA, however the German article is a FA and has both German and IPA pronunciation. I feel where it makes sense it's fine, though where it doesn't we wouldn't be pushing too hard against Wiki convention. Is there something we could write up to put in the guideline on the use of names in different languages and pronunciation in city articles? Something like: Names of the city should be given in each of the city's official languages. Pronunciation of the city name should be in IPA as per Help:Pronunciation, though can also be in the main local language(s) if thought helpful. SilkTork * What's YOUR point? 19:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi I`m currently working into expand Panama City, I would ask everybody as a favor, please see Panama City, Panama page, and leave any comment or suggestion about how to improve it in the Talk page. If posible it would be nice if someone make a To Do List as a guideline. Thanks. Nando Cdl ( talk) 03:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
2008 marks the 250th year of the city of Pittsburgh. I was thinking that it would be really nice to get the city's wikipedia article up to Featured Article status; it's currently a B-class article, having never even been a GA or FA, or even nominated for peer review.
Anyone willing to help with this? Please leave comments over at Talk:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Cash ( talk) 16:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Are there any userboxes for users who are participants in this project
anyway , if there arent here's a proposition
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Would the members of this project object to having the project banner equipped with additional functions which would allow your banner to assess for the various extant geography (national, regional, etc.) WikiProjects and subprojects as well? I believe that this project probably has more information available on how to construct city articles than most national projects do, and combining the banners would help to reduce the banner oversaturation problem as well. John Carter ( talk) 22:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Just to let you know that Tel Aviv, a current FAC currently has a copyedit request. If you are able, please contrinute at Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors/Requests.-- Flymeoutofhere ( talk) 13:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think this belongs to you. Please note that I am continuing to collect and add relevant templates to the page. Cheers! bd2412 T 05:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
At Nyttend's suggestion I have placed remarks at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/Guideline#Notes, Footnotes, References about following the Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout headings suggestions and Wikipedia:Citing sources#Section headings guidelines. -- Bejnar ( talk) 19:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Glenrio is a community in the southwestern United States (acknowledged by the USGS to be in both New Mexico and Texas), but it doesn't have a state name attached as is required for US communities. There's been a lowlevel discussion on this community for the past several weeks, and we're not entirely sure what to do with it \u2014 it's obviously not a significant and well-known community like Philadelphia, New York City, and Chicago that don't have state names attached. What's the proper state name to attach to an unincorporated community in two states? Or should Glenrio be made an exception because of its peculiar situation? Nyttend ( talk) 21:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
How about titling it "Glenrio, Texas/New Mexico"? Does that violate any policy? -- Orlady ( talk) 21:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated a picture of the Prinsengracht in city center of Amsterdam as a featured picture candidate. If you agree that this picture is among the best pictures on Wikipedia, please support the nomination on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Prinsengracht by night. Thank you for your help. \u2013 Ilse @ 11:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I assume that when neither country is involved, whoever gets there first uses their countries standards? I'm editing a city in the old USSR. It currently has UK-like features and nomenclature. I don't think there's been any spelling mishaps (!) but the real problem is structure and nomenclature which seems very very British. "Motorways," "Civil society," "Sport" (instead of Athletics), etc. Since they were there first, this prevails, right? One problem here is that cities within a country will not have the same structure at all since the structural differences (which I just messed up!) are substantial. I imagine this has been discussed before. Student7 ( talk) 14:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
The walling off of public domain text as quotations is again being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources#Return of PD text style. Forcing public domain text to be wrapped inside quotations would affect many city/town articles. -- SEWilco ( talk) 15:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
As this project would be involved, I wanted to place a notice here that a question was posted at WP:External links about the listing of a city's official website in multiple places in an article, as well as multiple listings of the coordinates. --- Barek ( talk \u2022 contribs) - 00:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I know this is a perennial debate, but, other than using the undefined and apparently random decision of the US Census to call a place a town or a city, is there any standard wikipedia policy on this matter? From reading in the archives, it looks like a lot of, at least, the articles about cities and towns were created by 'bot, which just went mindlessly (as robots do) with whatever the census said. Pilch62 ( talk) 03:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
[unindent] It's obvious that I am not the only person here who has this implicit belief that cities and towns should be defined by what the Census says. If we doubt the Census Bureau (on which vast numbers of aspects of American society, including the government, rest!) on the type of municipality, why should we trust them on population? I'd trust the municipal official, a professional, to be more accurate than average people, but the guidelines (linked twice above) say that we should trust the demographics that consist simply of responses by individuals, households, and families. Obviously, the state data are inconsistent: of course state law is a reliable source, generally more reliable than the Census, but if we can't determine from the state law, why shouldn't the PC article trust the source that over 99% of municipality articles trust without question? Nyttend ( talk) 20:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to draw everyone attention to vote here, It is about how the name of the kosovar capital should be like , with s,sh or \u0161 -- Cra del 16:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
It has been suggested that a discussion that started at here and here on the appropriateness of Chamber of Commerce and official tourism external links be continued here. My feeling is that Chamber of Commerce links are boosterish, bordering on advertising and low in encyclopedic content, but are borderline acceptable ( http://www.chemungchamber.org/ was the original point of contention). However, official tourism sites ( http://www.orlandoinfo.com is an especially egregious example) frequently cross the line into pure advertising with little or no redeeming value, and should be avoided. Comments, guidelines, advice? TIA, -- Mwanner | Talk 23:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
The articles that were in the above Category now have the new Banner WPCities. Kathleen.wright5 13:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello to all. I am interested in joining this WikiProject in order to standardize the templates that shows the top 20 cities of the countries. I have already helped out by making three others (after the original on of Mexico, but they are all beginning to separate from being standardized and a "war" is beginning to be fought over them. I wanted to know if (along with me joining) these templates, and future ones, can be standardized as part of this project. Please tell me what you think, and if this could be possible. — Nuclear Vacuum 18:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Gangtok 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. Amartyabag TALK2ME 03:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Having many small municipalities included on my watchlist, I have seen an astounding number of municipalities being tagged as part of the Cities Wikiproject, including places with barely hundreds of residents. Is it the intention of this project to tag every single article for every municipality on earth as part of this project? Is there manpower to do all of the tagging and why shouldn't this be done by bot? Is there any expectation that the tens or hundreds of thousands of such articles will be updated in any meaningful manner? Alansohn ( talk) 16:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Hong Kong 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. -- Joowwww ( talk) 11:49, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that cities in USA, such as Boston, have images of their position in their state. I don't know much of the position of the states in the USA. Shouldn't someone add a image of a city's position in the USA as a whole? That's more friendly to readers such as myself. Thanks Mallerd ( talk) 12:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I've just requested a peer review for this article. I've never really commented on this WikiProject, but the page is in it. If anyone would be willing to participate in the review, suggestions would be helpful. I'm trying to get the article to GA or even FA status. Thanks to all! -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 17:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Question for you folks. Is there a useful standard way to measure the road traffic density in a city, for both local streets and highways? I suppose one could take the population and divide by geographical area as an estimate, but I was thinking there might be a more scientific way of measuring the actual traffic (e.g. provided by municipal surveys). Ham Pastrami ( talk) 07:19, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I live in a city where our inner harbour has been remade for recreational use, in the Old Port of Montreal. This redevelopment was in part inspired I think by Baltimore's Inner Harbor. I see that the Auckland waterfront is being redeveloped. And here in Canada, the Harbourfront is a bustling concern, as is HarbourFront in Singapore, False Creek and many others. I'd like to create a category, to group them in a way which is distinct from the categories for parks and places in their respective cities. I'm sure there are many such areas and I've only scratched the surface. Any thoughts on this prospective category and my proposed name? Thanks, Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 17:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
As much as I am leery about terms that begin with "Post-" many of these re-developed harbours are mixed use, with recreational land along the water but also residential and other commercial use (malls, etc.). So would Category:Post-industrial harbourfronts be a better choice than Category:Recreational harborfronts? Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I've created the category as Category:Redeveloped ports and harbours, based on the main parent cat: Category:Ports and harbours. Please make any comments on the category Talk page -- or help to populate. thanks, Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 03:00, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to inform this group about a new bot currently in development, User:FritzpollBot, that will potentially create millions of articles for places that are missing on Wikipedia. See User:Fritzpoll/Geo categorical assessments for some statistics, 28000+ in Bangladesh and 78,000+ in Pakistan. I would appreciate it if members of this group add suggestions to the bot approval page. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 15:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Fritz bot has been approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for filling in a possible 1.8 million articles on cities and settlements across the world. Now dabbing needs to be done for links which aren't sorted as the bot will bypass any blue links. and I need as many people as possible to help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to prepare for the bot. If you could tackle a page or two everything counts as it will be hard to do it alone. Thankyou \u2666Blofeld of SPECTRE\u2666 $1,000,000? 12:09, 30 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) 21:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
You are specifying multiple counties in info boxes. I am doing genealogy work and need to know what county the city is traditionally/historically a part of to list in my genealogies...not all the counties that it has spread into. For instance Tullahoma, TN city website lists iteself as Coffee Co., TN but Wikipedia lists its as two different counties. Please figure out a way to specify which county is primary county and which ones are secondary. It would prevent genealogists from having to pick around multiple websites to figure it out. Thanks if possible. \u2014Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.144.27.67 ( talk) 00:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Please note that there are current move requests for Cancún, Mexicali, and Torreón. Please share your opinions if interested. Thank you. -- Polaron | Talk 01:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm working on the WP:AFC backlog and I came across this request: Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2008-06-15#Stokes.2C_Pitt_County.2C_North_Carolina. I can't tell if this is worth it's own article. Any advice/taking care of the article would be appreciated. I'm going to cross post this to Wikiproject NC also. Thanks! CredoFromStart talk 14:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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What is the reason behind having multiple redirects to the same article, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, in the demographics sections? I was just looking at Golden Beach, Florida and there are seven links to the same census article in one sentence, which seems like overkill. Shouldn't the first line after the section header be {{ seealso}} followed by the ethnic groups being unlinked or linked to the relevant article about them? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 11:33, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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hello recently i undertook a major revamp project on the Kirkcaldy article by re-building the content and my work has been praised by a couple of users. however, i want to request a copy editor to look at my use of words and sentence structuring, now all my work is done Kilnburn ( talk) 00:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello folks, Just a nudge that Greater Manchester is up for FAC at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Greater Manchester. Your input and feedback would be most welcome. -- Jza84 | Talk 02:41, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I have filed a request to add functionality to my bot, specifically to update the various US city and town articles per the updated, official Census figures. The folks over at BAG suggested I would need more input from the community given the potential scope (there are approximately 19,500 incorporated places in the US), so I am bringing this up for attention here, and will likely also make mention of it over at the village pump. You may want to chime in here (I will link to this discussion) if you have any thoughts on the matter. Specifically, what the proposal entails is updating the "population_total" field in the infobox to match current Census figures, and tacking the appropriate citation in the "population_footnotes" field. Thanks, Sher eth 15:21, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The list in Category:C-Class WikiProject Cities articles is empty. All other class lists have some items. Some articles - eg, Aarhus, Aberystwyth and Abington, Massachusetts - are shown on their talk pages as "C" but they're included in Category:Unassessed-Class WikiProject Cities articles. What's the explanation? Folks at 137 ( talk) 11:47, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Due to the upcoming Republican and Democratic Conventions in August, we might want to focus on improving the articles on Denver, Colorado (currently GA-class) and Saint Paul, Minnesota (currently B-class). Also, not to be too US-centric, does anyone want to take a crack at Beijing (currently B-class), with the Olympics coming up? Dr. Cash ( talk) 02:20, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've just come across an article Kai Nani at Makakilo - although it would seem to be a neighborhood in Hawaii, it's actually a community run by a board of directors (i.e. a business). So, do these types of community come under this project, or should they be regarded purely as businesses ? CultureDrone ( talk) 13:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Recently some reliably sourced material I added to the Corvallis, Oregon page was reverted because "WP:CITY requires that it be only US Census Bureau data for population". Is this an accurate statement? Can I get a link to this requirement? It should be noted that I left the population as sourced by the US Census Bureau in the infobox, but simply added (in one case more up to date) info on population in the section discussing population. My problem with this reversion is that this is reliably sourced material, and no objection other than "WP:CITY forbids it" is the justification. I understand that population figures may be a hotly contested issue on some pages but I don't see how any Wikiproject can justify superseding WP:V by disallowing some reliably sourced content based on essentially personal preference. The issue here is the Census Bureau numbers are significantly different from both an academic study and the city's official website, and I think we should allow the reader to decide rather than forcing the USCB numbers on them. That seems reasonable enough, no? VegaDark ( talk) 05:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, if you want to do that, a better place for discussion would be the Corvallis talk page. The only point to discussion here would be to try to change the guideline, which is (1) unlikely and (2) not your intent (I imagine).-- Loodog ( talk) 14:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
I've put in work, and I'd like to see what you guys think. It's still missing several sections that could be inputted (specifically Infrastructure and Government) but I plan to fill those in as soon as I can. The peer review page can be found at this location. Any comments would be appreciated. -- Starstriker7( Say hi or see my works) 14:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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Is there a total number of announcements that should be present on the WikiProject home page? It seems like 20 would be a good limit, but I wanted to discuss it here first. Best, epicAdam( talk) 20:50, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't know a whole lot about the history of this wikiproject and whether or not this has already been debated (it doesn't seem to have been debated in the active talk page) but how come US city infoboxes don't contain a range of ZIP codes in which the city is located? I came to a city page for an American city looking for the zip code and then noticed that it doesn't exist for any city (at least not the five or six I searched for to verify). Is there any particular reason, or just an oversight? I'd think it would be pretty useful to include, if not in the infobox then somewhere in the article. Betterusername ( talk) 05:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was hoping someone could help me out with my peer review request for the Davenport, Iowa page. I worked really hard to get it to a GA in March, and am hoping to get it to an FA by the end of this year. Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Ctjf83 Talk 02:28, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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"Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD." What does PD mean? Questioningly, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I get it \u2014 to save ten keystrokes, one uses an abbreviation that normally means Police Department (but could mean Public Defender or 162 other things). See http://www.acronymfinder.com/PD.html . Hmm. In short dudgeon, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:51, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there any guideline as to a minimum population for a town to be within the scope of this wikiproject? BTW this talk page looks overdue for archiving? dramatic ( talk) 21:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Confession time. I added Taupo - it qualifies according to scope. Moreover, from what I remember, it has local significance. If you look at the US places that have been added, then Taupo qualifies more than many. It's a valid discussion point, however, does this project have no limit? It will become unmanageable. As a side issue, another ed has reverted some inclusions - see my talk page for details and his argument. My response is on his. Comments would be appreciated. Folks at 137 ( talk) 23:45, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
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I am planning one, and if all goes well it should be up and running in no time. I expect at the least ten of the eighteen cities within the scope to ultimately reach FA status. If you would like to help out, come and tell me. -- Starstriker7( Dime algo or see my works) 12:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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Does the abandoned monastic settlement of Glendalough qualify for inclusion? The scope isn't clear: does the project include or exclude settlements that have ceased to exist? This would affect those where occupation became untenable, eg Pompeii, Dead Cities, or where the site ceased to exist (eg Dunwich). I note there is a project Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns, but this doesn't seem to apply (although might be linked to the Cities project). Comments, plz. Folks at 137 ( talk) 16:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at this proposal for a new project (ExtinctSettlments) and add your votes and/or views. Folks at 137 ( talk) 16:41, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
You could easily expand respective WikiProjects instead of creating an entirely new one on abandoned settlements. For instance for abandoned settlements in Saskatchewan you could make it apart of WP: SKCN. This would save it from potentially being WikiProject with little activity. Mr. C.C. ( talk) 06:25, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
The article move wars continue and there are now three proposals get US city articles moved from the long-standing standard of city, state to city, going against the WP:MOS. Three separate debates are currently ongoing, one at Talk:New Orleans, Louisiana and Talk:Boston, Massachusetts. Seattle, Washington was also previously moved to Seattle despite a clear lack of consensus, and without following proper procedures. I have re-initiated discussion on moving Seattle back to Seattle, Washington, since it was improperly moved in the first place. Please go to the talk pages of each article to participate in the discussion threads. Dr. Cash ( talk) 18:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Please note that this WP:CANVASSING is not neutral or appropriate. rootology ( C)( T) 14:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
If we look at what's been happening with respect to city names in the past two months, Seattle, Washington has been moved to Seattle, New Orleans, Louisiana has been moved to New Orleans, and Boston, Massachusetts currently has a discussion that's leaning in favor of moving the article name to Boston. The rationale for moving this is based on the current naming convention for US cities, which allows exceptions for cities mentioned by the AP Stylebook as being eligible to be referred to by 'city' instead of 'city, state'.
I don't think we should be following the AP Stylebook selectively, and debating and voting on this every few weeks or months. Rather than that, let's just move all of the cities mentioned by the Stylebook to their 'city' name. The cities that would be affected would be:
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle (cities highlighted in bold text do not need to be moved).
Discussion on this is currently taking place at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements). Dr. Cash ( talk) 16:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
A user recently changed the racial demographic data in the Denver article to reference a newspaper article which is in turn based on US Census data. No big problem so far, but the secondary source (the newspaper) reported "Hispanic" as a race and used "White, not Hispanic" as a racial percentage. The Census Bureau includes both numbers (depending on where you look) but as far as I can tell doesn't consider "Hispanic" a race. Is there a consistent guideline used in Wikipedia for this? -- Rick Block ( talk) 00:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Many infoboxes (some editors have created their own) have "metro" figures in them in addition to city figures. The trouble with this is that there is usually a metro article already with the same info.
We are starting to see "article creep" here with people unable to place proper boundaries on geographic articles. There is no need for a city reader to know what any metro figure is - s/he can go to that article which has its own editors. They would maintain the figures in one place and one place only. They are "metro specialists" just as some of us are "city specialists." Why not let editors (and articles) comprise whatever they are named to do and not try to "creep" into the next higher level. I don't need to know who the president of France is why I read an article about Caen. I am happy to go to the one article that has that information by pressing the standard links from Caen to "France" where they will most likely have that info.
This opens the door to still other people who claim as "nearby" resources transportation and tourist facilities that are far away from the area which is sometimes an insignificant part of the metro. The idea seems to be to make it "more important." What are we trying to accomplish with these metro figures anyway? Student7 ( talk) 23:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I have made 9 (CA, FL, GA, IL, LA, OH, NY TN, TX) for cities of over 100k of the following form {{ NY cities and mayors of 100,000 population}} {{ CA cities and mayors of 100,000 population}}. I used 100k as the cutoff because I did not want to do WP:OR and a list already exists at List of United States cities by population.
I have proposed moving Harrisburg (disambiguation) to Harrisburg, which at present is a redirect to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Discussion of this proposal is on Talk:Harrisburg. -- Una Smith ( talk) 22:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
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Portal:Shreveport and Portal:Baton Rouge, Louisiana are up for deletion at WP:Mfd ( Shreveport & Baton Rouge, Louisiana). The project's input would be welcome. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 07:15, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Should the project banner be placed on the talkpage of every hamlet, town, city, and village article? Cheers.
Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 18:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Nevermind. Cheers.
Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab
21:00, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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San Jose, 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. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I've begun work on the article for Edo (the city which has since become Tokyo) and I was wondering if you all have any standards, precendents, infoboxes, or other suggestions for Former Cities on the whole. New Amsterdam and Constantinople are both excellent articles, I think, but don't really follow a standard "city" format, and are devoted much more to chronological history than discussions of Society, Culture, Geography, Governance and administration, etc. as a normal city article would be. Since the format (i.e. the headings/sections and such) for cities should work just fine for former cities, I guess my question really is whether or not there is (or can be made) an alternate infobox which lists population over time, key mayors/administrators, key events, etc. as much of the information on the current city infobox is focused on modern-day current population, governors, post codes, telephone area codes, and the like. But also, if any of you write extensively these types of articles ( Constantinople, New Amsterdam, History of X City), I'd be eager to hear your thoughts as to your approach, style, format, whatever.
I've posted a similar comment on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Former_countries#Former_cities and would look forward to, perhaps, some collaboration between the two projects on making this work. I apologize for my total lack of understanding of template coding, else I'd do it myself and/or help out more considerably. Cheers. LordAmeth 11:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I've been noticing that there's many cities and towns in the U.S. that didn't have articles auto-generated for them in the early days of the Wikipedia, like what was done for most cities, well, U.S. cities anyway. Does anyone have the know-how and time to look into this and see if it's feasible to finish creating all the city/town articles via bot? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Has any city wikiproject established any (somewhat hardened) rules for what articles to include or exclude, especially in relation to people articles but also other article types? I'm thinking of working on something like this for WikiProject Louisville. Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 03:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
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Just thought people would be interested,... the article on Minneapolis, Minnesota has just been promoted to featured status! This article has recently undergone a tremendous amount of research and editing recently, and is definitely worthy of the FA star! Susanlesch has done a large portion of the editing. Congratulations! Dr. Cash 20:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Cleveland, Ohio 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) 21:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
What is the scope of this project? Does an article like Sør-Trøndelag really fall within the scope of this project? If so, it seems the project is slightly missnamed. Jerazol 21:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Having taken upon myself to tag all Norwegian settlement articles with the WPCities banner I have made a few misses which fortunately are quickly corrected. Dr. Cash is doing a big job following in my footsteps adding priority and class and also correcting any mistakes he sees me doing. On my talk page I was told that categories for cities should not be categorized, only the articles themselves. I am wondering though if this means that the project doesn't want category pages to be tagged at all? E.g. this removal of the project banner from a category page where all the article entries are themselves settlements makes me curious about this. Would that mean that also categories such as Category:Municipalities of Norway or Category:Cities in Norway should not get tagged?
I would think that tagging categories where all entries are inherently within the scope of the project would be a smart and useful thing (a) showing editors that any new articles should be tagged with the project banner right away, and (b) because the tags function as recruitment posters for the project. Besides, since there is a "class = Category" parameter that is valid within the banner template, and there is little maintenance to worry about with a category page, I would think that some application of the project banner to category talk pages would be appropriate. I'm not aware of any previous discussions you may have had on this subject. __ meco 20:51, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
As a follow-up to the issue of categories there seems also to be an issue with whether templates should be included in the project. Dr. Cash and I appear have diverging opinions on this and he has reverted my addition of the WPCities template to Template talk:Municipalities in the Balearic Islands with the edit comment "rm template from WPCities (unnecessary to have individual templates in wikiproject; cities only please)." Also the templates contained in Category:Norway county templates (the templates albeit county templates themselves do contain a list of minicipalities) were divested of the WPCities tag. Is Dr. Cash to strict in his assessment of what whould be included or am I too liberal here? __ meco 08:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Eidsvoll is one of Norway's 400 plus municipalities located some 50km north of Oslo with a population of less than 20,000. Basically this justifies it being classified as low importance in the WPCities assessment scheme. However, in Norway this is historically a rather significant location as the Norwegian Constitution was signed here in 1814. This fact may (or may not, I don't know) be more prominent in the awareness of Norwegians than it would be in other countries. I just wonder if this would justify jacking it into the mid-importance range? The assessment criteria currently don't seem to justify this (although, I suppose, if we dug up some 1814 international newspapers there would surely be mention of this). __ meco 08:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there a list of city articles tagged for this project? Or is the only list the Category:Cities one? Most other projects generate a list purely from the tags added to talk pages. Folks at 137 09:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm still primitive on editing pages. If you think this idea is beneficial, please come to the Grants Pass, Oregon, page and assist. The idea is also for other cities regarding what's in "Media". Grants Pass >> Grants Pass, Oregon / Wikipedia
Basically, I suggested the adddition of "I Love Grants Pass" to the Grants Pass page. Its basically the only forum website in Grants Pass, and its a significant website. While discussing that as an "External Link", I visited Wikipedia's page on the City of Portland, Oregon, and noticed a "Media" section that listed commercial television and radio stations, and newspapers. On the Grants Pass page, I suggested that it also have a "Media" page, with the addition of major city website forums. Because if newspapers are included, it makes no sense to exclude top-tier websites in cities that are dedicated to the city's specific information. I think that other city pages, like Portland, Oregon, should also include "Media: Internet" alongside newspapers and radio stations, if there are websites that fit. As for Grants Pass, if you can help on this and advance getting that link added, please come on over, as its almost out of my league. I know how to make a few minor edits, add a photo, and a few paragraphs. Thanks. Mdvaden 22:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Please be advised that the Duluth, Minnesota aticle is currently being demoted from its WP:GA status at WP:GA/R. The causes are: not enough references, too much lists, and random year wikification.-- SidiLemine 13:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
In my opinion, this article's mass transit section has turned into a pro-con piece on the light-rail system under development. The edits appear to be driven by one user with a strong point of view - as evidenced by the fact that only one side of the "debate" has sources. The debate may well be interesting (if fully developed), but I think it's a bit much for a city article. I think a summary would be more appropriate - and a separate article on the light rail system more appropriate. The anon-editor, however, doesn't appear to agree. I'm going to unwatch the article for a few weeks and see how it sorts itself out. Rklawton 17:38, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Someone deleted {{ WPCities}} from Talk: Mokum. Isn't this article within the scope of this project? – Ilse @ 10:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This has been the subject of some recent controversy at
Gibraltar, where various editors have very strong opinions on whether
or
is the best flag to represent
Ballymena. I would propose there is no need for these flags at all; even a very big city will likely only have 10 or fewer twinned with it, and text is perfectly adequate for this many entries. Does anyone have a good encyclopedic reason why these divisive icons should remain, in terms of added value to the project? If not I think we should remove them.
WP:FLAGCRUFT is an essay which provides a far more detailed rationale about why we should be careful in how we use flags on Wikipedia. --
John
19:15, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Marshall, Texas will be put up for FAR within the next week. If any objections, please discuss on its talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Okiefromokla ( talk • contribs) 20:57, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
I've updated the main project page, moving some information to linked pages, removing some old and stale information, and overall freshening things up a bit to make it easier to read. I've also added a list at the top to some of the articles currently undergoing FAC, GAC, or peer review, so perhaps some editors can take a look at them and give a little extra TLC to some of the FAC candidates as needed. I'll try to keep this list updated on at least a weekly basis, as time permits. Dr. Cash 06:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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Or do they have to be incorporated? Brian Pearson 00:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Should USPS postal codes be called abbreviations or should they more properly be called postal codes? Most almanacs list abbreviations for the states, but they are not the two-letter codes. Wl7aml 22:05, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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Marshall, Texas 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. Okiefromokla• talk 17:39, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
A request for Peer Review of Ashdod, Israel, has been listed. We will appreciate any comments that will help us improve the article. -- Derwig 18:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Since when did we establish consensus that this information was either desired or actually encyclopedic to be included in city infoboxes. I was under the understanding that it was far too much information, and totally unnecessary to be included. But apparently, CapitalR has taken it upon himself to automatically start updating infoboxes with this totally unencyclopedic crap. Dr. Cash 07:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
The Cities/Guideline page suggests using a Geolinks template in the "External links" section. The Geolinks templates may be superseded by recent changes in the coord template which provide a list of mapping services when the geographical coordinate is clicked on. Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Geolinks-coord_Issues and consider changes to your guideline. I notice that recent versions of the Geobox template emit coord-style coordinates and locator maps. ( SEWilco 16:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC))
Good day every one . I spend a very long time trying to improve several cities articles , for example : Jeddah . In fact, i couldn't even reach the GA class because simply i'm working alone . is there anyone interested to join :) A M M A R 14:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there has been a flurry of activity on images on the New York City article. I think they need a little more collaborative attention and invite other editors' opinions: Talk:New_York_City#Images_need_attention. Thanks -- SiobhanHansa 14:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if WP:CITIES was just for larger cities or for any town, anywhere. I would like to add a WP:CITIES template to the Stephens City, Virginia page, but want to make sure it fits within the rules of this WP. Thanks for any help you can give. Take Care... NeutralHomer T: C 03:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Streets -- NE2 02:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
User:Polaron is proposing the redirection of CDP articles throughout Vermont to the towns in which they are located. If this is accepted, this would lay precedent for similar action to all other CDP articles to the governmental bodies in which they are located, whether towns, townships, or counties. Please offer your comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vermont. Nyttend 20:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Barcelona, Spain should be omitted from this project until the issues of the current article's serious imbalance and poorly-written English are addressed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.33.35.125 ( talk) 16:40, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I've just noticed a number of pages I'm watching have been added to this "Cities" project, eg, Kintbury and Greenham. They are all small villages in the England and can by no stretch of the imagination ever be classified as cities. It is most confusing to the reader having a cities tag stuck on a page for these articles. Should this project not have a more appropriate name? How about Wikipedia Project:Places or Wikipedia Project: Cities, Towns and Villages? If not I think it is more appropriate to remove the tag altogether to avoid confusion. Dahliarose ( talk) 08:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
...looks awfully funny. I'm using Explorer and the participants text is overwriting what is below it. I didn't want to remove or revert anything, but you might want to take a look. Katr67 17:11, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
List of cities and towns in Tennessee is up for Featured List consideration. Please add any comments to its FLC discussion page. This may be a good template for other states to adopt for their lists of cities as well. Kaldari 18:44, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
The original distribution of census statistics was done well for the time several years ago and well before my time. Lumped together, they are terrifically boring. I have taken to breaking off the statistics on personal income and placing it in a separate section under "Economy." The section also includes statistics on business, etc. Where is it written that statistics must be presented in the same old dull, unreadable way? Student7 ( talk) 23:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I have seen that all capitals of countries are de facto considered "Top"-importance articles just because of being capitals, and however many cities which can be much more populated, more economicalty important or, in particular, more likely to appear and be searched in an Encyclopedia, are rated with a lower degree of importance. As an example, I can not sincerely understand that the stub Moroni, Comoros is a more important article than Barcelona, Los Angeles, California, Sao Paulo or San Francisco, California.-- Xtv - ( my talk) - ( que dius que què?) 16:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Cities team, Just a note that Altrincham (of England) is a current featured article candidate. The nomination/discussion page is found here. -- Jza84 · ( talk) 20:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
24-Dec-2007: The participant list was half-converted into a table, beginning on October 7, 2007; however, the precise formatting of the wikitable (transcluding another wikitable) was not completed until now (24Dec07), so the table was too narrow and overran the ending paragraphs. The "div style" was changed from "height:400px" to "width:520px" for a wider notes column. Beyond the efforts at Wikipedia, remember that the wiki-collaboration software ( MediaWiki version 1.6) is a beta-level technology, attempting to extend incompatible features of prior wiki software. It's all very confusing, not the work of experienced computer scientists, but rather a series of hacks done by hacks to meet the approval of hacks, and who knew sane people would one day use wiki projects? Wikipedia could migrate to some type of professional wiki software, but currently MediaWiki (version 1.8.2?) is being enhanced and might become more usable some day. Honestly, the wiki-edit mode doesn't even allow search-and-replace, which is a trivial edit feature fully implemented over 30 years ago, so everyone is frustrated and trying to get formatting and wikitables to work. Thanks for your understanding. If an "elephant is a horse designed by committee" then MediaWiki software is a crippled two-legged elephant with a hernia, to keep the focus to the highest possible praise for MediaWiki software. - Wikid77 ( talk) 02:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Although I'm not fond of "Prominent Native" sections for city pages, at the very least each notation should bear a source. I went through the list for Inglewood, California [ [1]], adding sources for the natives where I could find them and just deleting the names that couldn't be sourced. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 01:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
athinaios and I are having a discussion about the use of pronunciation in Brussels. We are not reaching an agreement, and I was about to take our discussion to the talkpage of Brussels, but felt that it is relevant enough for a wider Project discussion. There is a guideline - Help:Pronunciation that pronunciation on Wiki should be in IPA. However, I can see the usefulness of having the local pronunciation for articles on cities. asthinaios and I are not in disagreement on that issue, however asthinaios feels that there should be a pronunciation for each official language in Belgium because Brussels is the capital city. My view is that German is not the official language of Brussels and would not be heard in Brussels any more than in any other non-German European city. There is an argument that we are not WikiTravel and all pronunciation should be in IPA, however the German article is a FA and has both German and IPA pronunciation. I feel where it makes sense it's fine, though where it doesn't we wouldn't be pushing too hard against Wiki convention. Is there something we could write up to put in the guideline on the use of names in different languages and pronunciation in city articles? Something like: Names of the city should be given in each of the city's official languages. Pronunciation of the city name should be in IPA as per Help:Pronunciation, though can also be in the main local language(s) if thought helpful. SilkTork * What's YOUR point? 19:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi I`m currently working into expand Panama City, I would ask everybody as a favor, please see Panama City, Panama page, and leave any comment or suggestion about how to improve it in the Talk page. If posible it would be nice if someone make a To Do List as a guideline. Thanks. Nando Cdl ( talk) 03:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
2008 marks the 250th year of the city of Pittsburgh. I was thinking that it would be really nice to get the city's wikipedia article up to Featured Article status; it's currently a B-class article, having never even been a GA or FA, or even nominated for peer review.
Anyone willing to help with this? Please leave comments over at Talk:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Cash ( talk) 16:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Are there any userboxes for users who are participants in this project
anyway , if there arent here's a proposition
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Would the members of this project object to having the project banner equipped with additional functions which would allow your banner to assess for the various extant geography (national, regional, etc.) WikiProjects and subprojects as well? I believe that this project probably has more information available on how to construct city articles than most national projects do, and combining the banners would help to reduce the banner oversaturation problem as well. John Carter ( talk) 22:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Just to let you know that Tel Aviv, a current FAC currently has a copyedit request. If you are able, please contrinute at Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors/Requests.-- Flymeoutofhere ( talk) 13:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think this belongs to you. Please note that I am continuing to collect and add relevant templates to the page. Cheers! bd2412 T 05:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
At Nyttend's suggestion I have placed remarks at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/Guideline#Notes, Footnotes, References about following the Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout headings suggestions and Wikipedia:Citing sources#Section headings guidelines. -- Bejnar ( talk) 19:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Glenrio is a community in the southwestern United States (acknowledged by the USGS to be in both New Mexico and Texas), but it doesn't have a state name attached as is required for US communities. There's been a lowlevel discussion on this community for the past several weeks, and we're not entirely sure what to do with it \u2014 it's obviously not a significant and well-known community like Philadelphia, New York City, and Chicago that don't have state names attached. What's the proper state name to attach to an unincorporated community in two states? Or should Glenrio be made an exception because of its peculiar situation? Nyttend ( talk) 21:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
How about titling it "Glenrio, Texas/New Mexico"? Does that violate any policy? -- Orlady ( talk) 21:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated a picture of the Prinsengracht in city center of Amsterdam as a featured picture candidate. If you agree that this picture is among the best pictures on Wikipedia, please support the nomination on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Prinsengracht by night. Thank you for your help. \u2013 Ilse @ 11:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I assume that when neither country is involved, whoever gets there first uses their countries standards? I'm editing a city in the old USSR. It currently has UK-like features and nomenclature. I don't think there's been any spelling mishaps (!) but the real problem is structure and nomenclature which seems very very British. "Motorways," "Civil society," "Sport" (instead of Athletics), etc. Since they were there first, this prevails, right? One problem here is that cities within a country will not have the same structure at all since the structural differences (which I just messed up!) are substantial. I imagine this has been discussed before. Student7 ( talk) 14:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
The walling off of public domain text as quotations is again being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources#Return of PD text style. Forcing public domain text to be wrapped inside quotations would affect many city/town articles. -- SEWilco ( talk) 15:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
As this project would be involved, I wanted to place a notice here that a question was posted at WP:External links about the listing of a city's official website in multiple places in an article, as well as multiple listings of the coordinates. --- Barek ( talk \u2022 contribs) - 00:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I know this is a perennial debate, but, other than using the undefined and apparently random decision of the US Census to call a place a town or a city, is there any standard wikipedia policy on this matter? From reading in the archives, it looks like a lot of, at least, the articles about cities and towns were created by 'bot, which just went mindlessly (as robots do) with whatever the census said. Pilch62 ( talk) 03:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
[unindent] It's obvious that I am not the only person here who has this implicit belief that cities and towns should be defined by what the Census says. If we doubt the Census Bureau (on which vast numbers of aspects of American society, including the government, rest!) on the type of municipality, why should we trust them on population? I'd trust the municipal official, a professional, to be more accurate than average people, but the guidelines (linked twice above) say that we should trust the demographics that consist simply of responses by individuals, households, and families. Obviously, the state data are inconsistent: of course state law is a reliable source, generally more reliable than the Census, but if we can't determine from the state law, why shouldn't the PC article trust the source that over 99% of municipality articles trust without question? Nyttend ( talk) 20:45, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to draw everyone attention to vote here, It is about how the name of the kosovar capital should be like , with s,sh or \u0161 -- Cra del 16:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
It has been suggested that a discussion that started at here and here on the appropriateness of Chamber of Commerce and official tourism external links be continued here. My feeling is that Chamber of Commerce links are boosterish, bordering on advertising and low in encyclopedic content, but are borderline acceptable ( http://www.chemungchamber.org/ was the original point of contention). However, official tourism sites ( http://www.orlandoinfo.com is an especially egregious example) frequently cross the line into pure advertising with little or no redeeming value, and should be avoided. Comments, guidelines, advice? TIA, -- Mwanner | Talk 23:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
The articles that were in the above Category now have the new Banner WPCities. Kathleen.wright5 13:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello to all. I am interested in joining this WikiProject in order to standardize the templates that shows the top 20 cities of the countries. I have already helped out by making three others (after the original on of Mexico, but they are all beginning to separate from being standardized and a "war" is beginning to be fought over them. I wanted to know if (along with me joining) these templates, and future ones, can be standardized as part of this project. Please tell me what you think, and if this could be possible. — Nuclear Vacuum 18:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Having many small municipalities included on my watchlist, I have seen an astounding number of municipalities being tagged as part of the Cities Wikiproject, including places with barely hundreds of residents. Is it the intention of this project to tag every single article for every municipality on earth as part of this project? Is there manpower to do all of the tagging and why shouldn't this be done by bot? Is there any expectation that the tens or hundreds of thousands of such articles will be updated in any meaningful manner? Alansohn ( talk) 16:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed that cities in USA, such as Boston, have images of their position in their state. I don't know much of the position of the states in the USA. Shouldn't someone add a image of a city's position in the USA as a whole? That's more friendly to readers such as myself. Thanks Mallerd ( talk) 12:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I've just requested a peer review for this article. I've never really commented on this WikiProject, but the page is in it. If anyone would be willing to participate in the review, suggestions would be helpful. I'm trying to get the article to GA or even FA status. Thanks to all! -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 17:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Question for you folks. Is there a useful standard way to measure the road traffic density in a city, for both local streets and highways? I suppose one could take the population and divide by geographical area as an estimate, but I was thinking there might be a more scientific way of measuring the actual traffic (e.g. provided by municipal surveys). Ham Pastrami ( talk) 07:19, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I live in a city where our inner harbour has been remade for recreational use, in the Old Port of Montreal. This redevelopment was in part inspired I think by Baltimore's Inner Harbor. I see that the Auckland waterfront is being redeveloped. And here in Canada, the Harbourfront is a bustling concern, as is HarbourFront in Singapore, False Creek and many others. I'd like to create a category, to group them in a way which is distinct from the categories for parks and places in their respective cities. I'm sure there are many such areas and I've only scratched the surface. Any thoughts on this prospective category and my proposed name? Thanks, Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 17:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
As much as I am leery about terms that begin with "Post-" many of these re-developed harbours are mixed use, with recreational land along the water but also residential and other commercial use (malls, etc.). So would Category:Post-industrial harbourfronts be a better choice than Category:Recreational harborfronts? Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 18:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I've created the category as Category:Redeveloped ports and harbours, based on the main parent cat: Category:Ports and harbours. Please make any comments on the category Talk page -- or help to populate. thanks, Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 03:00, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to inform this group about a new bot currently in development, User:FritzpollBot, that will potentially create millions of articles for places that are missing on Wikipedia. See User:Fritzpoll/Geo categorical assessments for some statistics, 28000+ in Bangladesh and 78,000+ in Pakistan. I would appreciate it if members of this group add suggestions to the bot approval page. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 15:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Fritz bot has been approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for filling in a possible 1.8 million articles on cities and settlements across the world. Now dabbing needs to be done for links which aren't sorted as the bot will bypass any blue links. and I need as many people as possible to help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to prepare for the bot. If you could tackle a page or two everything counts as it will be hard to do it alone. Thankyou \u2666Blofeld of SPECTRE\u2666 $1,000,000? 12:09, 30 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) 21:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
You are specifying multiple counties in info boxes. I am doing genealogy work and need to know what county the city is traditionally/historically a part of to list in my genealogies...not all the counties that it has spread into. For instance Tullahoma, TN city website lists iteself as Coffee Co., TN but Wikipedia lists its as two different counties. Please figure out a way to specify which county is primary county and which ones are secondary. It would prevent genealogists from having to pick around multiple websites to figure it out. Thanks if possible. \u2014Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.144.27.67 ( talk) 00:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Please note that there are current move requests for Cancún, Mexicali, and Torreón. Please share your opinions if interested. Thank you. -- Polaron | Talk 01:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm working on the WP:AFC backlog and I came across this request: Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2008-06-15#Stokes.2C_Pitt_County.2C_North_Carolina. I can't tell if this is worth it's own article. Any advice/taking care of the article would be appreciated. I'm going to cross post this to Wikiproject NC also. Thanks! CredoFromStart talk 14:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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What is the reason behind having multiple redirects to the same article, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, in the demographics sections? I was just looking at Golden Beach, Florida and there are seven links to the same census article in one sentence, which seems like overkill. Shouldn't the first line after the section header be {{ seealso}} followed by the ethnic groups being unlinked or linked to the relevant article about them? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 11:33, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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hello recently i undertook a major revamp project on the Kirkcaldy article by re-building the content and my work has been praised by a couple of users. however, i want to request a copy editor to look at my use of words and sentence structuring, now all my work is done Kilnburn ( talk) 00:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello folks, Just a nudge that Greater Manchester is up for FAC at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Greater Manchester. Your input and feedback would be most welcome. -- Jza84 | Talk 02:41, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I have filed a request to add functionality to my bot, specifically to update the various US city and town articles per the updated, official Census figures. The folks over at BAG suggested I would need more input from the community given the potential scope (there are approximately 19,500 incorporated places in the US), so I am bringing this up for attention here, and will likely also make mention of it over at the village pump. You may want to chime in here (I will link to this discussion) if you have any thoughts on the matter. Specifically, what the proposal entails is updating the "population_total" field in the infobox to match current Census figures, and tacking the appropriate citation in the "population_footnotes" field. Thanks, Sher eth 15:21, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The list in Category:C-Class WikiProject Cities articles is empty. All other class lists have some items. Some articles - eg, Aarhus, Aberystwyth and Abington, Massachusetts - are shown on their talk pages as "C" but they're included in Category:Unassessed-Class WikiProject Cities articles. What's the explanation? Folks at 137 ( talk) 11:47, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Due to the upcoming Republican and Democratic Conventions in August, we might want to focus on improving the articles on Denver, Colorado (currently GA-class) and Saint Paul, Minnesota (currently B-class). Also, not to be too US-centric, does anyone want to take a crack at Beijing (currently B-class), with the Olympics coming up? Dr. Cash ( talk) 02:20, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've just come across an article Kai Nani at Makakilo - although it would seem to be a neighborhood in Hawaii, it's actually a community run by a board of directors (i.e. a business). So, do these types of community come under this project, or should they be regarded purely as businesses ? CultureDrone ( talk) 13:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. Recently some reliably sourced material I added to the Corvallis, Oregon page was reverted because "WP:CITY requires that it be only US Census Bureau data for population". Is this an accurate statement? Can I get a link to this requirement? It should be noted that I left the population as sourced by the US Census Bureau in the infobox, but simply added (in one case more up to date) info on population in the section discussing population. My problem with this reversion is that this is reliably sourced material, and no objection other than "WP:CITY forbids it" is the justification. I understand that population figures may be a hotly contested issue on some pages but I don't see how any Wikiproject can justify superseding WP:V by disallowing some reliably sourced content based on essentially personal preference. The issue here is the Census Bureau numbers are significantly different from both an academic study and the city's official website, and I think we should allow the reader to decide rather than forcing the USCB numbers on them. That seems reasonable enough, no? VegaDark ( talk) 05:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, if you want to do that, a better place for discussion would be the Corvallis talk page. The only point to discussion here would be to try to change the guideline, which is (1) unlikely and (2) not your intent (I imagine).-- Loodog ( talk) 14:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
I've put in work, and I'd like to see what you guys think. It's still missing several sections that could be inputted (specifically Infrastructure and Government) but I plan to fill those in as soon as I can. The peer review page can be found at this location. Any comments would be appreciated. -- Starstriker7( Say hi or see my works) 14:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
The image KeizersgrachtReguliersgrachtAmsterdam.jpg is a featured picture candidate. You can support/oppose the candidate on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Thank you. \u2013 Ilse @ 20:31, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a total number of announcements that should be present on the WikiProject home page? It seems like 20 would be a good limit, but I wanted to discuss it here first. Best, epicAdam( talk) 20:50, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't know a whole lot about the history of this wikiproject and whether or not this has already been debated (it doesn't seem to have been debated in the active talk page) but how come US city infoboxes don't contain a range of ZIP codes in which the city is located? I came to a city page for an American city looking for the zip code and then noticed that it doesn't exist for any city (at least not the five or six I searched for to verify). Is there any particular reason, or just an oversight? I'd think it would be pretty useful to include, if not in the infobox then somewhere in the article. Betterusername ( talk) 05:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was hoping someone could help me out with my peer review request for the Davenport, Iowa page. I worked really hard to get it to a GA in March, and am hoping to get it to an FA by the end of this year. Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Ctjf83 Talk 02:28, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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"Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD." What does PD mean? Questioningly, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I get it \u2014 to save ten keystrokes, one uses an abbreviation that normally means Police Department (but could mean Public Defender or 162 other things). See http://www.acronymfinder.com/PD.html . Hmm. In short dudgeon, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:51, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there any guideline as to a minimum population for a town to be within the scope of this wikiproject? BTW this talk page looks overdue for archiving? dramatic ( talk) 21:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Confession time. I added Taupo - it qualifies according to scope. Moreover, from what I remember, it has local significance. If you look at the US places that have been added, then Taupo qualifies more than many. It's a valid discussion point, however, does this project have no limit? It will become unmanageable. As a side issue, another ed has reverted some inclusions - see my talk page for details and his argument. My response is on his. Comments would be appreciated. Folks at 137 ( talk) 23:45, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
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I am planning one, and if all goes well it should be up and running in no time. I expect at the least ten of the eighteen cities within the scope to ultimately reach FA status. If you would like to help out, come and tell me. -- Starstriker7( Dime algo or see my works) 12:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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Does the abandoned monastic settlement of Glendalough qualify for inclusion? The scope isn't clear: does the project include or exclude settlements that have ceased to exist? This would affect those where occupation became untenable, eg Pompeii, Dead Cities, or where the site ceased to exist (eg Dunwich). I note there is a project Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns, but this doesn't seem to apply (although might be linked to the Cities project). Comments, plz. Folks at 137 ( talk) 16:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at this proposal for a new project (ExtinctSettlments) and add your votes and/or views. Folks at 137 ( talk) 16:41, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
You could easily expand respective WikiProjects instead of creating an entirely new one on abandoned settlements. For instance for abandoned settlements in Saskatchewan you could make it apart of WP: SKCN. This would save it from potentially being WikiProject with little activity. Mr. C.C. ( talk) 06:25, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
The article move wars continue and there are now three proposals get US city articles moved from the long-standing standard of city, state to city, going against the WP:MOS. Three separate debates are currently ongoing, one at Talk:New Orleans, Louisiana and Talk:Boston, Massachusetts. Seattle, Washington was also previously moved to Seattle despite a clear lack of consensus, and without following proper procedures. I have re-initiated discussion on moving Seattle back to Seattle, Washington, since it was improperly moved in the first place. Please go to the talk pages of each article to participate in the discussion threads. Dr. Cash ( talk) 18:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Please note that this WP:CANVASSING is not neutral or appropriate. rootology ( C)( T) 14:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
If we look at what's been happening with respect to city names in the past two months, Seattle, Washington has been moved to Seattle, New Orleans, Louisiana has been moved to New Orleans, and Boston, Massachusetts currently has a discussion that's leaning in favor of moving the article name to Boston. The rationale for moving this is based on the current naming convention for US cities, which allows exceptions for cities mentioned by the AP Stylebook as being eligible to be referred to by 'city' instead of 'city, state'.
I don't think we should be following the AP Stylebook selectively, and debating and voting on this every few weeks or months. Rather than that, let's just move all of the cities mentioned by the Stylebook to their 'city' name. The cities that would be affected would be:
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle (cities highlighted in bold text do not need to be moved).
Discussion on this is currently taking place at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements). Dr. Cash ( talk) 16:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
A user recently changed the racial demographic data in the Denver article to reference a newspaper article which is in turn based on US Census data. No big problem so far, but the secondary source (the newspaper) reported "Hispanic" as a race and used "White, not Hispanic" as a racial percentage. The Census Bureau includes both numbers (depending on where you look) but as far as I can tell doesn't consider "Hispanic" a race. Is there a consistent guideline used in Wikipedia for this? -- Rick Block ( talk) 00:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Many infoboxes (some editors have created their own) have "metro" figures in them in addition to city figures. The trouble with this is that there is usually a metro article already with the same info.
We are starting to see "article creep" here with people unable to place proper boundaries on geographic articles. There is no need for a city reader to know what any metro figure is - s/he can go to that article which has its own editors. They would maintain the figures in one place and one place only. They are "metro specialists" just as some of us are "city specialists." Why not let editors (and articles) comprise whatever they are named to do and not try to "creep" into the next higher level. I don't need to know who the president of France is why I read an article about Caen. I am happy to go to the one article that has that information by pressing the standard links from Caen to "France" where they will most likely have that info.
This opens the door to still other people who claim as "nearby" resources transportation and tourist facilities that are far away from the area which is sometimes an insignificant part of the metro. The idea seems to be to make it "more important." What are we trying to accomplish with these metro figures anyway? Student7 ( talk) 23:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I have made 9 (CA, FL, GA, IL, LA, OH, NY TN, TX) for cities of over 100k of the following form {{ NY cities and mayors of 100,000 population}} {{ CA cities and mayors of 100,000 population}}. I used 100k as the cutoff because I did not want to do WP:OR and a list already exists at List of United States cities by population.
I have proposed moving Harrisburg (disambiguation) to Harrisburg, which at present is a redirect to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Discussion of this proposal is on Talk:Harrisburg. -- Una Smith ( talk) 22:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
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Portal:Shreveport and Portal:Baton Rouge, Louisiana are up for deletion at WP:Mfd ( Shreveport & Baton Rouge, Louisiana). The project's input would be welcome. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 07:15, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Should the project banner be placed on the talkpage of every hamlet, town, city, and village article? Cheers.
Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 18:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Nevermind. Cheers.
Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab
21:00, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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