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Glad to be on board WikiProject DC! I've set up bot archiving for this talk page in order to keep it clean right off the bat. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 04:13, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I just tagged 5,000+ articles with a DC tag, now all we gotta do is assess them all. If you are assessing then please add both quality and importance. Makes it so we don't have to go back and do them all over again. T Rex | talk 02:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I posted a topo map, aerial photo and SVG road map to wiki commons. I linked where I could think of it -- but I'm not smart enough to get images into Category:Washington,_D.C._maps or Category:Images_of_Washington,_D.C.. Would someone please help? thumb thumb thumb -- 24.27.19.133 23:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Noted your Wiki DC tag, and want to direct someone to the Adrian S. Fisher article. It's a GA, and warrants the same designation for the Wikiproject DC. Scott Clarkson 20:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
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The photo on the Albert Einstein Memorial does not seems to be of good quality, the statue looks very washed and reddish. What about changing it for a better one. I suggest the following, but it can be any other picture, just one of better photographic quality. Just compare both. Mariordo 15:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Are Washington, D.C. (northeast), Washington, D.C. (northwest), Washington, D.C. (southeast) and Washington, D.C. (southwest) really the best names for articles? I'm not sure they should be that, Quadrant, Washington, D.C., Quadrant (Washington, D.C.) or something else. Jason McHuff ( talk) 11:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
There are two methods I suggest:
Personally, I prefer the latter, but the former could work too. Either way, there's no justification for using parentheses in any fashion. -- Golbez ( talk) 01:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm involved in WP:NRHP, not WikiProject District of Columbia. FYI, a process outside of WP:NRHP has started which would change wordings to "Washington, D.C." from what has been practice in WP:NRHP "the District of Columbia" in numerous places.
This got stirred up by a WP:NRHP proposal to create Category:National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia, which is now suggested to be "in Washington, D.C." instead.
Assuming these go through, then I predict that the current titles of list-articles List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia and List of National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia would also be changed.
If you care about this, participate by discussing here and/or on the talk page of WP:NRHP if you like, but especially by voting or commenting in the category change process. doncram ( talk) 12:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
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Project members should be aware that Ford's Theatre has been proposed for deletion. Discussion here. JGHowes talk - 21:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
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I've been working on the Navy Yard/Near Southeast article for a few hours and wondered if someone could take a look at it and see where improvements could be made? Thanks. -- AgnosticPreachersKid ( talk) 15:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
The discussion is here. -- Eliyak T· C 19:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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there are currently 10 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
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There are a couple of DC area radio shows that have been nominated for deletion (on WJFK-FM in each case). The notability of these articles has been questioned and editors are having difficulty finding reliable references. Editors with some DC area experience would be helpful in adding to the discussion. Easiest way to get to these discussions is here:
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-- Rtphokie ( talk) 20:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
A new article if someone wants to read over it and check for errors. Thanks. APK yada yada 18:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
A new NHRP stub. I don't have alot of info about the house itself, just her. There's already an article for Grimke, so if someone can find more to add to the house article, let me know. Thanks. BTW, List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia could realllly use some help if anyone is interested. Using this will generate an infobox and a basic layout. APK yada yada 05:39, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
A new stub. Martinis, mmm. APK yada yada 13:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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Just recently I've noticed that there has been large scale edits to include the "the District of Columbia WikiProject" template on pages of former athletes of the Washington Bullets/Wizards. It appears this was done using an AWB bot script. Although a case can be made to include notable athletes that played in D.C., I think it is excessive to include players who have a very insignificant contribution to the team's history. Futhermore, nearly all of the players I have identified were neither born, raised nor lived in the D.C. metro.
Here are some examples:
I am currently removing the D.C. WikiProject template on players with minor contributions to the Bullets/Wizards. I feel only players with a significant contribution to the Washington Bullets' history (thus far I've allowed the WikiProject scope for players with at least 3-4 seasons in D.C. or who had a solid season while with the Bullets to be included into the WikiProject scope -- of course players who grew up, went to high school/college or moved to the D.C. Metro area will be included). I'd eventually like to narrow the scope but for now I will leave it like this until there is a consensus from group members. Please feel free to input your ideas and suggestions! Thanks! -- Djrun ( talk) 00:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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I am not in DC, but I wrote this article and I wanted some help validating the coordinates. According to sources Temperance Fountain is at the corner of 7th & Penn. NW, across from the Hancock statue, so I kind of guessed at coordinates based on Google Earth -- unfortunately the satellite imagery for that intersection isn't very clear (I put it at the southwestern corner). Would anyone here happen to know if this is right? Thanks... howcheng { chat} 21:52, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I have just made Category:Georgetown, Washington D.C. and populated it with everything I can think of that's appropriate. Feel free to tag any I missed. -- Bachrach44 ( talk) 21:09, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The article for Rites of Spring (band) has been a mess for a while (people are constantly redirecting it, deleting stuff, and trying to delete it). Can someone help me keep an eye on it?-- Emotional Wiki Dude ( talk) 21:36, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
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I was looking for an opinion or two in regards to the notability of " Borderstan." I'm thinking about writing an article on it (the "neighborhood", not the website), but not if it's going to end up at AfD. A few RS have mentioned it: Washington City Paper, DCist; HuffPo has a one-liner reference, and the WaPo describes it as "a mini-hood encompassing western Dupont Circle and eastern Logan Circle, from 14th to 16th NW and from P to S NW. Primary focus is public safety." So, any thoughts? APK is ready for Spring 18:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
The area located east of Judiciary Square/395, north of Louisiana, and south of Massachusetts is called (fill in the blank). The ==map==> doesn't have that section labeled, but dc.gov says "Downtown East" aka East End aka ANC 6C. The reason I'm asking is because Category:Washington, D.C. on Commons needs to be organized (I've been working on it the past week), and I need to know what neighborhood category should be added to places like the Teamsters headquarters, GULC, and Hotel George. I added the Judiciary Square neighborhood category to GULC, but then Postdlf yelled and cussed at me. He beat me too! Ok, I lie. He kindly pointed out the fact GULC is not located in J.S. So what ya'll think? Is that area called Downtown, East End, or Federal City Shelterville? APK ain't the baby daddy 16:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
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I left the same message on Talk:Dupont Circle, but I'll mention it here as well. I created a list of Dupont-related topics, in case you guys and gals want to create/expand/improve some articles. APK thinks he's ready for his closeup 02:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Need to be proofread. First, the map of business dictrict is incorrect. The correct version is here: http://www.ddot.washingtondc.gov/ddot/lib/ddot/information/bicycle/cbdu.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itman ( talk • contribs) 20:31, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I've nominated 1520 New Hampshire Avenue for deletion. Feel free to voice your opinion here. Gracias. APK straight up now tell me 05:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Someone should photograph the former US Airways headquarters in Arlington County. It is located at 2345 Crystal Drive - BTW I also posted this in the Virginia WikiProject WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
According to The Times, the guy has a WP user profile. Does anyone know who it might be? APK lives in a very, very Mad World 19:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting - APK lives in a very, very Mad World 21:44, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Just to add to this page (since it's locked):
On July 3, someone (I didn't catch who, some girl) called in a local radio station ( Hot 99.5) that there is four girls, four guys, and 2 of the guys are gay. Just some info to add. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmafan2010 ( talk • contribs) 22:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
If Marion Barry isn't on your watchlist, please add it (at least temporarily). The article might be prone to unhelpful edits during the next day or so. APK coffee talk 03:30, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
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Just a heads up - Inauguration of Barack Obama is a FAC, if anyone wants to join the discussion. APK that's not my name 00:10, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Since the article is under our project's scope, I'd appreciate some third opinions related to crowd estimates. Gracias. APK is a GLEEk 00:55, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
On a similar note, List of protest marches on Washington, D.C. has been semi-protected due to constant additions of unsourced material and removal of sourced material related to the teabagger protest by IP editors. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 00:06, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Should this WikiProject also include suburbs of Washington DC in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland? I would like to include the counties in the Washington MSA WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:50, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
WhisperToMe, four people have voiced their informed opinions; brief statements do not equal weak "arguments". You said "I have the consensus", but at this time, that appears to be your own opinion. Articles such as Mars, Incorporated and Colgan Air do not fall under the project's scope. APK say that you love me 09:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi folks. I'd like to request a clarification: is Harry Thomas, Jr. the Harry K. Thomas, Jr. who has been designated as the next United States Ambassador to the Philippines? The two biographies do not seem to match. I created a Harry K. Thomas, Jr. stub and then made it a redirect when I saw a link to the current article. Is this someone with a similar name, perhaps? Thanks. -- Alternativity ( talk) 11:30, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello: Yesterday I created Category:Romanesque revival architecture in Washington, D.C. I had added as a category to it Category:Romanesque revival architecture in the United States on which I had a sort of |District of Columbia. Another user came along and changed it to |Washington, D.C. so it shows up under the "W" Which is correct? I see other places where it shows up under "D" and thought that was correct. TIA-- Pubdog ( talk) 01:36, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I've been working on a rewrite of Lincoln Memorial, which currently is in pretty rough shape considering there is an NRHP nomination out there with a great amount of historical and architectural information out there. The rewrite is hosted at Lincoln Memorial/Sandbox. I have yet to rewrite the lead, but most of the text in the history and architecture sections is new. I'm having trouble updating the "Memorial today" section (specifically visitors #s are difficult to find). If anybody has interest, by all means, take part and edit away. I would like to see this hit GA sometime in the near future. upstate NYer 09:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
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One of the series of articles organized in Category:Library of Congress Classification has been proposed for deletion ( Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PD -- Germanic languages). I will be removing the PROD-tag shortly as I think that all of the contents of this category should be considered together if any pro-deletion activity ensues. Personally, I think that this content should perhaps go into either WikiSource or a Wiktionary appendix. I can see, however, the advantages of having it sitting here on Wikipedia. Regard —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceyockey ( talk • contribs) 01:32, August 25, 2007 (UTC)
How many of you contribute to this project? I notice Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia was marked as inactive... WhisperToMe ( talk) 11:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Streetcars in Washington, D.C./GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 20:18, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I created on the Commons the Commons:Category:District of Columbia Public Schools category - It needs to be populated with DCPS school images. Please tag images of DCPS schools on the Commons if you know of any. Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:52, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of stuff, I also have some photo requests:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:22, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
A discussion has been started at Talk:Washington#Requested move which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.
70.29.208.247 ( talk) 11:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Would someone mind photographing the NTSB headquarters in DC? WhisperToMe ( talk) 01:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi folks -- I'm a DC-area Wikipedian who generally edits articles when I run across them and find errors. I just did some editing to the articles on Hains Point and East Potomac Park (primarily the former), and then stumbled across this project when I took a look at one of the discussion pages.
I'm confused by the "Recent changes" list -- is it automatically updated, or are we supposed to update it ourselves? If the latter, how the heck do we do that? I can't figure out how to change the date/time for the "Show new changes starting from" field.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Languorous Lass ( talk) 02:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I would like to suggest a correction to the article about the Cellar Door music club in Georgetown during the 1960s and thereafter. The article currently states that the Cellar Door "emerged from The Shadows." ("Emerged from" means what, exactly?) In fact, "the Door," as we who attended Georgetown University in the late '60s called it, was a completely different establishment than the Shadows. "The Door" was at the west end of the Georgetown portion of M Street, NW, while the Shadows was at the east end of that portion of M Street. The Shadows was in operation at least two years prior to the 1965 opening of the Cellar Door. In about 1964 a band called the Mugwumps played the Shadows that entire summer, as I recall. The Mugwumps consisted of Cass Elliot and Dennis Doherty of (later on) the Mamas and the Papas, John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky of (later) the Lovin' Spoonful, and Jim Hendricks, who later wrote "Summer Rain," as recorded by Johnny Rivers. The Shadows seems to have gone out of business well before the 1981 demise of the Door. I do not know if the Shadows was ever owned by Jack Boyle and Sam L'Hommedieu, original owners of the Door and other Georgetown nightlife establishments such as the Crazy Horse. Even if they did, I do not think it is correct to say that the Cellar Door "emerged from" the Shadows. It is more correct to say that the Shadows and the Cellar Door were, together, the two most important "folk-oriented" night spots in 1960s Georgetown. Epstewart ( talk) 20:34, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Please check out Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Watermelon House Wolfview ( talk) 05:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Which article would be the best place to describe the activity of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services of DC?
I found several sources about the Oak Hill Youth Center and its replacement [1] [2] and I thought I would use them to describe the youth centers. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:15, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Because the TV channel C-SPAN falls under the scope of this WikiProject, I want to make an announcement, a disclosure and a request for assistance.
The announcement is that I am interested in updating and improving several articles and some non-article pages (such as categories) related to C-SPAN, its shows and related subjects.
The disclosure is that I work with C-SPAN's communications team, so I have a potential conflict of interest with the subject, and I've already posted a similar notice on the Conflict of interest/Noticeboard discussion page. Also: this is not my primary account, but one I plan to use for potential COI topics; I've posted a thorough explanation of this account's creation on my user page.
The request is for your assistance. I intend for any edits I make to be constructive, although with the exception of non-controversial edits, that can be in the eye of the beholder. I've found in my early outreach / requests for help only silence, so I am hoping to find someone willing to look over my shoulder, and provide a non-conflicted perspective. I'll watchlist this page, but also feel free to leave a comment on my Talk page.
First things first, the articles Q&A (talk show) and Q & A (C-SPAN) are about the exact same C-SPAN series. I've proposed a merger on the former's Talk page, and while I suppose it's as unobjectionable an edit as can be, demonstrating good faith is important to me as I get started. Cheers, WWB Too ( talk) 19:32, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I posted a request here recently (see above) regarding improvements to the Wikipedia article about the C-SPAN TV show Q&A. That has since been resolved, and my second wish is now to replace that article’s text with a better one of my drafting, available in my subspace here. This article is currently a stub and I have written an expanded version to include just a bit more information, with reliable sources (online and offline) to verify the material. I followed the MOS for TV series in re-organizing the page, and have added an infobox. As stated before, I have a potential COI with this subject, so I would appreciate any feedback from a non-conflicted point of view. If you like the replacement, please feel free to move it. If you have any questions, I’ll be watching this page and my Talk page. And since I don’t think this update is at all controversial, if there are no objections within a reasonable time period, I may just move it myself. Cheers, WWB Too ( talk) 14:20, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{ WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 05:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed that the Wards of Washington, D.C. page has been receiving little attention, leading to scattered and redundant information across a variety of pages, and wanted to take this as an opportunity to talk about how we want to ultimately have our pages on DC's wards and neighborhoods look. I would appreciate the comments of all WikiProject DC members at Talk:Wards of Washington, D.C.. MarginalCost ( talk) 20:25, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Based on talking with a couple of the current active editors on this project and the minimal activity of the project in general I am recommending that this project fall under WikiProject US. What this means:
This will allow greater visibility of both projects and allow them to better collaborate on improving US and DC related articles. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Based on comments received from the editors who are still active in WikiProject DC I have added District of Columbia to {{ WikiProject United States}}. I will start tagging the DC articles in the next couple days. The syntax of the template looks like this: . Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:11, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I have started the process of tagging the DC related articles. It will take me a few days to finish this and in the mean time I have left the District of Columbia banner in place. If there are no objections. Once I have completed the process of adding the WPUS banner/DC=yes I will go back and remove the DC banner. If you want me to leave the DC banner as well however I can do that too. One note I would like to make. Although the current DC template has some categories and templates I have added them to the appropriate class under WPUS for know. Leaving them in the Topic with the articles was looking a bit cluttered and I'm not sure its necessary to separate these out for the DC project anyway. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Now that all DC related articles have been migrated from {{[[Template:|]]}} to {{ WikiProject United States}} I will begin tagging the articles that should have been tagged for DC but weren't such as 1000 Connecticut Avenue. I would also like to suggest we submit the WikiProject DC template for deletion/redirect it to WPUS. If everyone wants to keep it that's fine but we will have to keep eyes on it to switch over any articles that get tagged with the DC tag. I have about another 5-10, 000 DC related articles to tag so.....off I go. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Why are Metro stations in Virginia being tagged for WikiProject DC? I noticed that the new Silver Line stations in Virginia (such as Tysons Central 123 (Washington Metro)) have been tagged for this project. -- StuffOfInterest ( talk) 19:47, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
In the process of tagging articles that relate to DC I came across 2 specific cases that I would like to discuss. They are the artificts in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum and the Library of Congress. Both of these 2 have several hundred to several thousand articles each. In the case of the SI it already has a project so Im not sure if it would be appropriate to tag all the collection items with "DC". Some high profile ones sich as the Hope diamond maybe but not sure all. The other is the case of the Library of Congress where there is no project. The catch here is that there are 3000ish items in the LOC collection that has its own article such as the articles under Category:United States National Recording Registry recordings. IMO if we do tag all these we should do it as a Library of Congress task force or project of its own. The volume of articles supports it, we could probably find enough people to participate and there are several initiatives that are working to collaborate more with the SI and the LOC. Just tagging it all as DC though, IMO, would be overly ambiguous since these are not directly relating to DC. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:37, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:08, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject District of Columbia for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 02:39, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Over on Commons, I've been sorting the 2,000 or so stereo cards of Washington, D.C., which were originally placed in rather arbitrary temporary categories. I'm running into a few things I'm not sure of, and am hoping someone here can help me. I'll probably have up to a dozen questions about individual images over the next week or two, and perhaps more after that. Let me know if this is appropriate here, or if someone wants me to set up a separate subpage for this.
First question: would you agree that the "Senate Chamber" depicted at right is the present chamber, now somewhat differently configured, and not the old (pre-1860) chamber?
Second question: Am I correct that the "Marble Room" depicted here is in the Senate wing, on the opposite side of the Senate Lobby than the Senate Chamber? Is there another name it is known by today? Any information or sources about this room would be welcome. - Jmabel | Talk 20:31, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
OK, so then am I right that this image labeled "Supreme Court Room" would be the Old Senate Chamber, not the original Supreme Court room? - Jmabel | Talk 05:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Another (at left): can anyone identify any of what is in the foreground? - Jmabel | Talk 05:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
SchuminWeb, since you've been so helpful so far: could you take a look at Commons:Category:Stereo cards of the Washington Monument? Would you agree that those images that make reference to the State Department, etc., are simply mistitled, rather than there being something going on here that I'm missing? - Jmabel | Talk 03:43, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
I decided yesterday to start a page for the Yards Park near the ballparkin Near Southeast. However, I could use some help. In my mind, its one of the better public parks on the east coast. I plan to work on it, but I have little experience with wiki projects (I have no idea where to place it, etc.) Thanks Thedofc ( talk) 20:40, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of copying unresolved questions to Commons:User talk:Jmabel/Stereo cards of Washington, D.C., so people should feel free to archive the discussions above whenever they seem to have gone stale. - Jmabel | Talk 02:28, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
A near-total mystery to me. Why would a general (presumably William H. French, who spent much of the Civil War in D.C.) have had a room in the Senate? And what room would this have been? - Jmabel | Talk 02:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
... though we could still use more certainty about "Carnival Day". -
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As of 19:41, 23 January 2011 (UTC), the only remaining open question here is the date of "West Point Cadets passing Reviewing Stand..." -
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Another mystery building. NYPL's tentative identification as "Art Gallery?" is probably based on where someone filed it; it might have been misfiled, because someone who didn't look closely might have mistaken it for the Corcoran. - Jmabel | Talk 01:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
This one at left is identified by someone from NYPL as "Postal Office". It sure looks to me like the Treasury Building, and certainly it would not be the first time NYPL's catalogers made a mistake like this, but maybe there is some other very similar building I'm not thinking of. Does anyone think I should hesitate to rename this file and categorize it as a stereo card of the Treasury Building? - Jmabel | Talk 02:48, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Similarly, this one at right. The caption on the image itself, reproduced by the NYPL, says it's the Capitol, but I can't think of any part of the Capitol Building that looks like this. I suspect this one is also the Treasury. Thoughts? - Jmabel | Talk 02:55, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
And this one, at left: can anyone think of a way to determine which inauguration this would be? And would people agree that this must be somewhere on Pennsylvania Avenue? - Jmabel | Talk 04:38, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
One more, before I wait to see if I get some answers. At right, in this picture of McKinley and Admiral Dewey reviewing a parade in 1899: can anyone identify the building or buildings behind them? - Jmabel | Talk 04:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
"Pennsylvania Ave. on Carnival Day". NYPL dates this 1860–1880. Anyone know anything about "Carnival Day" in D.C. in this era? - Jmabel | Talk 07:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI for Project folks..
Thanks for your interest in helping bring DC public art to Wikipedia! We have updated our Task Force page for DC, so please take a look and get started. We look forward to seeing your contributions and please let me know if I can help you with anything. Missvain ( talk) 14:06, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
A statue of Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol, but not the Vinnie Ream statue. Anyone know who would be the sculptor (or anything else about this statue)? - Jmabel | Talk 01:14, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Assuming the description is something like correct, any idea whether this on the right would be in the Old Executive Office Building or in something else from before that? - Jmabel | Talk 06:57, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
And how about this on the left, identified as the State Department? Any idea when and where? It doesn't match the picture of the State Department in 1865 in our
United States Department of State article. -
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Jmabel, minor suggestion: could you place the pictures in such a way so that it goes like so:
The way you've been doing it, when you have a few of them, since they're stacked on the sides, it gets difficult to figure out which picture goes with which question. Thanks! SchuminWeb ( Talk) 05:02, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Needless to say, a school named "Summer School" isn't the easiest thing to search for. Anyone know anything about this one? - Jmabel | Talk
Anyone know anything about this (presumably former) monument, or about the church? The church appears to be the Israel Metropolitan Church; a bit of quick Googling suggests that was an important African American church that merits an article, but lacks one. - Jmabel | Talk 06:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
The card itself says "The Langham Hotel, Wash", "American Scenery" and "Washington", but this sure looks like the (still-extant) Langham Hotel in London. I suspect that the maker of this card back in the 19th century made a mistake; or does anyone know of a building like this in D.C.? - Jmabel | Talk 07:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
"Pension Office"; presumably a predecessor to the Pension Bureau Building that is now the National Building Museum. Anyone know where it was? By the way, we have barely a stub about the Pension Bureau. - Jmabel | Talk 06:05, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
People from a variety of WikiProjects have had concerns about the scope of WikiProject United States and its relationship with other WikiProjects. We have created an RFC and invite all interested editors to discuss it at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject United States#Mission statement for WikiProject United States. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 15:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.
I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.
Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages
Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.
If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.
Regards, RichardF ( talk) 03:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF ( talk) 03:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello all, this past weekend I just joined as part of Wikiproject DC; however I wish to become involved a bit more. While I am no library scientist, I am fairly seasoned at tracking down reliable sources for Wikipedia articles and I happen to have a subscription to a few research tools which help in digging up archived articles and other obscure (yet reliable) sources that can't be easily googled. Well, I have two questions for you all:
Cheers, Jeff Bedford ( talk) 20:58, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
This source talks about a way journalists determined breaking news in the pre-internet era:
"In the old days, Washington, D.C. ,was a sleepy, backwater town. When I went to school in the 1990s, there was at least one way beyond "sources" that journalists could figure out if there was something going on: It was called the Dominos method. If a certain government building had lights on at night and was receiving pizza deliveries in the off-hours, then that agency was brewing something big." WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:21, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
The May 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Kumioko (
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02:42, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
A DC book is now available at Book:Washington DC. - Presidentman talk· contribs Random Picture of the Day ( Talkback) 17:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Portal:Supreme Court of the United States is a candidate for Featured Portal, with discussion at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Supreme Court of the United States. — Cirt ( talk) 16:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Please join us next weekend for GLAM Baltimore 2011 --- a series of two events organized by Baltimore Heritage on July 22-23 to build relationships between cultural heritage organizations, archives and museums and the Wikipedian community in Baltimore and Maryland. We'll start on Friday, July 22 with a happy hour at the Midtown Yacht Club in Baltimore's historic Mount Vernon neighborhoods. On the morning of Saturday, July 23, we'll meet at the Walters Art Museum for an introduction to GLAM Wiki partnerships around the country and break out into smaller groups to develop new ideas for projects. I know this is a bit of a distance but we'd welcome any DC-area Wikipedians or GLAM folks that like to come up and participate.
You can sign up and find additional details on our meetup page or on the Baltimore Heritage website where you can also use a form to RSVP for the July 22 Happy Hour or the July 23 GLAM Wiki partnerships meeting. I hope you can join us! -- Eli.pousson ( talk) 20:11, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
I found:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:33, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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Kumioko (
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This article was rated C-class some time ago, but a lot of work has been done since then. Could someone take a look to consider reassessment? NearTheZoo ( talk) 13:25, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
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Glad to be on board WikiProject DC! I've set up bot archiving for this talk page in order to keep it clean right off the bat. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 04:13, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I just tagged 5,000+ articles with a DC tag, now all we gotta do is assess them all. If you are assessing then please add both quality and importance. Makes it so we don't have to go back and do them all over again. T Rex | talk 02:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I posted a topo map, aerial photo and SVG road map to wiki commons. I linked where I could think of it -- but I'm not smart enough to get images into Category:Washington,_D.C._maps or Category:Images_of_Washington,_D.C.. Would someone please help? thumb thumb thumb -- 24.27.19.133 23:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Noted your Wiki DC tag, and want to direct someone to the Adrian S. Fisher article. It's a GA, and warrants the same designation for the Wikiproject DC. Scott Clarkson 20:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
United States Senate 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. -- RelHistBuff 17:19, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
If you have the time, please head on over to Reel Affirmations and review the article. This would be the first peer review of this article. The goal is to improve the article and seek Good Article status for it. Please improve the article if you can. You may also wish to leave comments here. Thank you! - Tim1965 20:39, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
The photo on the Albert Einstein Memorial does not seems to be of good quality, the statue looks very washed and reddish. What about changing it for a better one. I suggest the following, but it can be any other picture, just one of better photographic quality. Just compare both. Mariordo 15:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Are Washington, D.C. (northeast), Washington, D.C. (northwest), Washington, D.C. (southeast) and Washington, D.C. (southwest) really the best names for articles? I'm not sure they should be that, Quadrant, Washington, D.C., Quadrant (Washington, D.C.) or something else. Jason McHuff ( talk) 11:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
There are two methods I suggest:
Personally, I prefer the latter, but the former could work too. Either way, there's no justification for using parentheses in any fashion. -- Golbez ( talk) 01:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm involved in WP:NRHP, not WikiProject District of Columbia. FYI, a process outside of WP:NRHP has started which would change wordings to "Washington, D.C." from what has been practice in WP:NRHP "the District of Columbia" in numerous places.
This got stirred up by a WP:NRHP proposal to create Category:National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia, which is now suggested to be "in Washington, D.C." instead.
Assuming these go through, then I predict that the current titles of list-articles List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia and List of National Historic Landmarks in the District of Columbia would also be changed.
If you care about this, participate by discussing here and/or on the talk page of WP:NRHP if you like, but especially by voting or commenting in the category change process. doncram ( talk) 12:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I have left this message at this WikiProjects's talk page since the article falls under its scope and so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles. I have reviewed Abraham Lincoln assassination and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix. I left messages for the other WikiProjects/task forces and the main contributors to the article so that the workload can be shared. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 21:32, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Project members should be aware that Ford's Theatre has been proposed for deletion. Discussion here. JGHowes talk - 21:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Nonagaye.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
It appears the uploader has been blocked.-- Rockfang ( talk) 19:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on the Navy Yard/Near Southeast article for a few hours and wondered if someone could take a look at it and see where improvements could be made? Thanks. -- AgnosticPreachersKid ( talk) 15:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
The discussion is here. -- Eliyak T· C 19:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 10 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
There are a couple of DC area radio shows that have been nominated for deletion (on WJFK-FM in each case). The notability of these articles has been questioned and editors are having difficulty finding reliable references. Editors with some DC area experience would be helpful in adding to the discussion. Easiest way to get to these discussions is here:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Radio
-- Rtphokie ( talk) 20:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
A new article if someone wants to read over it and check for errors. Thanks. APK yada yada 18:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
A new NHRP stub. I don't have alot of info about the house itself, just her. There's already an article for Grimke, so if someone can find more to add to the house article, let me know. Thanks. BTW, List of Registered Historic Places in the District of Columbia could realllly use some help if anyone is interested. Using this will generate an infobox and a basic layout. APK yada yada 05:39, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
A new stub. Martinis, mmm. APK yada yada 13:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 730 of the articles assigned to this project, or 13.4%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 17:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 22:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Just recently I've noticed that there has been large scale edits to include the "the District of Columbia WikiProject" template on pages of former athletes of the Washington Bullets/Wizards. It appears this was done using an AWB bot script. Although a case can be made to include notable athletes that played in D.C., I think it is excessive to include players who have a very insignificant contribution to the team's history. Futhermore, nearly all of the players I have identified were neither born, raised nor lived in the D.C. metro.
Here are some examples:
I am currently removing the D.C. WikiProject template on players with minor contributions to the Bullets/Wizards. I feel only players with a significant contribution to the Washington Bullets' history (thus far I've allowed the WikiProject scope for players with at least 3-4 seasons in D.C. or who had a solid season while with the Bullets to be included into the WikiProject scope -- of course players who grew up, went to high school/college or moved to the D.C. Metro area will be included). I'd eventually like to narrow the scope but for now I will leave it like this until there is a consensus from group members. Please feel free to input your ideas and suggestions! Thanks! -- Djrun ( talk) 00:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
I am not in DC, but I wrote this article and I wanted some help validating the coordinates. According to sources Temperance Fountain is at the corner of 7th & Penn. NW, across from the Hancock statue, so I kind of guessed at coordinates based on Google Earth -- unfortunately the satellite imagery for that intersection isn't very clear (I put it at the southwestern corner). Would anyone here happen to know if this is right? Thanks... howcheng { chat} 21:52, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I have just made Category:Georgetown, Washington D.C. and populated it with everything I can think of that's appropriate. Feel free to tag any I missed. -- Bachrach44 ( talk) 21:09, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The article for Rites of Spring (band) has been a mess for a while (people are constantly redirecting it, deleting stuff, and trying to delete it). Can someone help me keep an eye on it?-- Emotional Wiki Dude ( talk) 21:36, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
0 articles in Category:Washington, D.C. articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Washington, D.C. is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 01:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
I was looking for an opinion or two in regards to the notability of " Borderstan." I'm thinking about writing an article on it (the "neighborhood", not the website), but not if it's going to end up at AfD. A few RS have mentioned it: Washington City Paper, DCist; HuffPo has a one-liner reference, and the WaPo describes it as "a mini-hood encompassing western Dupont Circle and eastern Logan Circle, from 14th to 16th NW and from P to S NW. Primary focus is public safety." So, any thoughts? APK is ready for Spring 18:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
The area located east of Judiciary Square/395, north of Louisiana, and south of Massachusetts is called (fill in the blank). The ==map==> doesn't have that section labeled, but dc.gov says "Downtown East" aka East End aka ANC 6C. The reason I'm asking is because Category:Washington, D.C. on Commons needs to be organized (I've been working on it the past week), and I need to know what neighborhood category should be added to places like the Teamsters headquarters, GULC, and Hotel George. I added the Judiciary Square neighborhood category to GULC, but then Postdlf yelled and cussed at me. He beat me too! Ok, I lie. He kindly pointed out the fact GULC is not located in J.S. So what ya'll think? Is that area called Downtown, East End, or Federal City Shelterville? APK ain't the baby daddy 16:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. §hep Talk 00:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I left the same message on Talk:Dupont Circle, but I'll mention it here as well. I created a list of Dupont-related topics, in case you guys and gals want to create/expand/improve some articles. APK thinks he's ready for his closeup 02:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Need to be proofread. First, the map of business dictrict is incorrect. The correct version is here: http://www.ddot.washingtondc.gov/ddot/lib/ddot/information/bicycle/cbdu.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itman ( talk • contribs) 20:31, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I've nominated 1520 New Hampshire Avenue for deletion. Feel free to voice your opinion here. Gracias. APK straight up now tell me 05:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Someone should photograph the former US Airways headquarters in Arlington County. It is located at 2345 Crystal Drive - BTW I also posted this in the Virginia WikiProject WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
According to The Times, the guy has a WP user profile. Does anyone know who it might be? APK lives in a very, very Mad World 19:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting - APK lives in a very, very Mad World 21:44, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Just to add to this page (since it's locked):
On July 3, someone (I didn't catch who, some girl) called in a local radio station ( Hot 99.5) that there is four girls, four guys, and 2 of the guys are gay. Just some info to add. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmafan2010 ( talk • contribs) 22:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
If Marion Barry isn't on your watchlist, please add it (at least temporarily). The article might be prone to unhelpful edits during the next day or so. APK coffee talk 03:30, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
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Just a heads up - Inauguration of Barack Obama is a FAC, if anyone wants to join the discussion. APK that's not my name 00:10, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Since the article is under our project's scope, I'd appreciate some third opinions related to crowd estimates. Gracias. APK is a GLEEk 00:55, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
On a similar note, List of protest marches on Washington, D.C. has been semi-protected due to constant additions of unsourced material and removal of sourced material related to the teabagger protest by IP editors. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 00:06, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Should this WikiProject also include suburbs of Washington DC in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland? I would like to include the counties in the Washington MSA WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:50, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
WhisperToMe, four people have voiced their informed opinions; brief statements do not equal weak "arguments". You said "I have the consensus", but at this time, that appears to be your own opinion. Articles such as Mars, Incorporated and Colgan Air do not fall under the project's scope. APK say that you love me 09:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi folks. I'd like to request a clarification: is Harry Thomas, Jr. the Harry K. Thomas, Jr. who has been designated as the next United States Ambassador to the Philippines? The two biographies do not seem to match. I created a Harry K. Thomas, Jr. stub and then made it a redirect when I saw a link to the current article. Is this someone with a similar name, perhaps? Thanks. -- Alternativity ( talk) 11:30, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello: Yesterday I created Category:Romanesque revival architecture in Washington, D.C. I had added as a category to it Category:Romanesque revival architecture in the United States on which I had a sort of |District of Columbia. Another user came along and changed it to |Washington, D.C. so it shows up under the "W" Which is correct? I see other places where it shows up under "D" and thought that was correct. TIA-- Pubdog ( talk) 01:36, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I've been working on a rewrite of Lincoln Memorial, which currently is in pretty rough shape considering there is an NRHP nomination out there with a great amount of historical and architectural information out there. The rewrite is hosted at Lincoln Memorial/Sandbox. I have yet to rewrite the lead, but most of the text in the history and architecture sections is new. I'm having trouble updating the "Memorial today" section (specifically visitors #s are difficult to find). If anybody has interest, by all means, take part and edit away. I would like to see this hit GA sometime in the near future. upstate NYer 09:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
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One of the series of articles organized in Category:Library of Congress Classification has been proposed for deletion ( Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PD -- Germanic languages). I will be removing the PROD-tag shortly as I think that all of the contents of this category should be considered together if any pro-deletion activity ensues. Personally, I think that this content should perhaps go into either WikiSource or a Wiktionary appendix. I can see, however, the advantages of having it sitting here on Wikipedia. Regard —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceyockey ( talk • contribs) 01:32, August 25, 2007 (UTC)
How many of you contribute to this project? I notice Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia was marked as inactive... WhisperToMe ( talk) 11:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Streetcars in Washington, D.C./GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 20:18, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I created on the Commons the Commons:Category:District of Columbia Public Schools category - It needs to be populated with DCPS school images. Please tag images of DCPS schools on the Commons if you know of any. Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:52, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of stuff, I also have some photo requests:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:22, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
A discussion has been started at Talk:Washington#Requested move which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.
70.29.208.247 ( talk) 11:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Would someone mind photographing the NTSB headquarters in DC? WhisperToMe ( talk) 01:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi folks -- I'm a DC-area Wikipedian who generally edits articles when I run across them and find errors. I just did some editing to the articles on Hains Point and East Potomac Park (primarily the former), and then stumbled across this project when I took a look at one of the discussion pages.
I'm confused by the "Recent changes" list -- is it automatically updated, or are we supposed to update it ourselves? If the latter, how the heck do we do that? I can't figure out how to change the date/time for the "Show new changes starting from" field.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Languorous Lass ( talk) 02:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I would like to suggest a correction to the article about the Cellar Door music club in Georgetown during the 1960s and thereafter. The article currently states that the Cellar Door "emerged from The Shadows." ("Emerged from" means what, exactly?) In fact, "the Door," as we who attended Georgetown University in the late '60s called it, was a completely different establishment than the Shadows. "The Door" was at the west end of the Georgetown portion of M Street, NW, while the Shadows was at the east end of that portion of M Street. The Shadows was in operation at least two years prior to the 1965 opening of the Cellar Door. In about 1964 a band called the Mugwumps played the Shadows that entire summer, as I recall. The Mugwumps consisted of Cass Elliot and Dennis Doherty of (later on) the Mamas and the Papas, John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky of (later) the Lovin' Spoonful, and Jim Hendricks, who later wrote "Summer Rain," as recorded by Johnny Rivers. The Shadows seems to have gone out of business well before the 1981 demise of the Door. I do not know if the Shadows was ever owned by Jack Boyle and Sam L'Hommedieu, original owners of the Door and other Georgetown nightlife establishments such as the Crazy Horse. Even if they did, I do not think it is correct to say that the Cellar Door "emerged from" the Shadows. It is more correct to say that the Shadows and the Cellar Door were, together, the two most important "folk-oriented" night spots in 1960s Georgetown. Epstewart ( talk) 20:34, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Please check out Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Watermelon House Wolfview ( talk) 05:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Which article would be the best place to describe the activity of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services of DC?
I found several sources about the Oak Hill Youth Center and its replacement [1] [2] and I thought I would use them to describe the youth centers. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:15, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Because the TV channel C-SPAN falls under the scope of this WikiProject, I want to make an announcement, a disclosure and a request for assistance.
The announcement is that I am interested in updating and improving several articles and some non-article pages (such as categories) related to C-SPAN, its shows and related subjects.
The disclosure is that I work with C-SPAN's communications team, so I have a potential conflict of interest with the subject, and I've already posted a similar notice on the Conflict of interest/Noticeboard discussion page. Also: this is not my primary account, but one I plan to use for potential COI topics; I've posted a thorough explanation of this account's creation on my user page.
The request is for your assistance. I intend for any edits I make to be constructive, although with the exception of non-controversial edits, that can be in the eye of the beholder. I've found in my early outreach / requests for help only silence, so I am hoping to find someone willing to look over my shoulder, and provide a non-conflicted perspective. I'll watchlist this page, but also feel free to leave a comment on my Talk page.
First things first, the articles Q&A (talk show) and Q & A (C-SPAN) are about the exact same C-SPAN series. I've proposed a merger on the former's Talk page, and while I suppose it's as unobjectionable an edit as can be, demonstrating good faith is important to me as I get started. Cheers, WWB Too ( talk) 19:32, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I posted a request here recently (see above) regarding improvements to the Wikipedia article about the C-SPAN TV show Q&A. That has since been resolved, and my second wish is now to replace that article’s text with a better one of my drafting, available in my subspace here. This article is currently a stub and I have written an expanded version to include just a bit more information, with reliable sources (online and offline) to verify the material. I followed the MOS for TV series in re-organizing the page, and have added an infobox. As stated before, I have a potential COI with this subject, so I would appreciate any feedback from a non-conflicted point of view. If you like the replacement, please feel free to move it. If you have any questions, I’ll be watching this page and my Talk page. And since I don’t think this update is at all controversial, if there are no objections within a reasonable time period, I may just move it myself. Cheers, WWB Too ( talk) 14:20, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{ WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 05:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed that the Wards of Washington, D.C. page has been receiving little attention, leading to scattered and redundant information across a variety of pages, and wanted to take this as an opportunity to talk about how we want to ultimately have our pages on DC's wards and neighborhoods look. I would appreciate the comments of all WikiProject DC members at Talk:Wards of Washington, D.C.. MarginalCost ( talk) 20:25, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Based on talking with a couple of the current active editors on this project and the minimal activity of the project in general I am recommending that this project fall under WikiProject US. What this means:
This will allow greater visibility of both projects and allow them to better collaborate on improving US and DC related articles. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Based on comments received from the editors who are still active in WikiProject DC I have added District of Columbia to {{ WikiProject United States}}. I will start tagging the DC articles in the next couple days. The syntax of the template looks like this: . Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:11, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I have started the process of tagging the DC related articles. It will take me a few days to finish this and in the mean time I have left the District of Columbia banner in place. If there are no objections. Once I have completed the process of adding the WPUS banner/DC=yes I will go back and remove the DC banner. If you want me to leave the DC banner as well however I can do that too. One note I would like to make. Although the current DC template has some categories and templates I have added them to the appropriate class under WPUS for know. Leaving them in the Topic with the articles was looking a bit cluttered and I'm not sure its necessary to separate these out for the DC project anyway. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Now that all DC related articles have been migrated from {{[[Template:|]]}} to {{ WikiProject United States}} I will begin tagging the articles that should have been tagged for DC but weren't such as 1000 Connecticut Avenue. I would also like to suggest we submit the WikiProject DC template for deletion/redirect it to WPUS. If everyone wants to keep it that's fine but we will have to keep eyes on it to switch over any articles that get tagged with the DC tag. I have about another 5-10, 000 DC related articles to tag so.....off I go. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Why are Metro stations in Virginia being tagged for WikiProject DC? I noticed that the new Silver Line stations in Virginia (such as Tysons Central 123 (Washington Metro)) have been tagged for this project. -- StuffOfInterest ( talk) 19:47, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
In the process of tagging articles that relate to DC I came across 2 specific cases that I would like to discuss. They are the artificts in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum and the Library of Congress. Both of these 2 have several hundred to several thousand articles each. In the case of the SI it already has a project so Im not sure if it would be appropriate to tag all the collection items with "DC". Some high profile ones sich as the Hope diamond maybe but not sure all. The other is the case of the Library of Congress where there is no project. The catch here is that there are 3000ish items in the LOC collection that has its own article such as the articles under Category:United States National Recording Registry recordings. IMO if we do tag all these we should do it as a Library of Congress task force or project of its own. The volume of articles supports it, we could probably find enough people to participate and there are several initiatives that are working to collaborate more with the SI and the LOC. Just tagging it all as DC though, IMO, would be overly ambiguous since these are not directly relating to DC. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:37, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:08, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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Over on Commons, I've been sorting the 2,000 or so stereo cards of Washington, D.C., which were originally placed in rather arbitrary temporary categories. I'm running into a few things I'm not sure of, and am hoping someone here can help me. I'll probably have up to a dozen questions about individual images over the next week or two, and perhaps more after that. Let me know if this is appropriate here, or if someone wants me to set up a separate subpage for this.
First question: would you agree that the "Senate Chamber" depicted at right is the present chamber, now somewhat differently configured, and not the old (pre-1860) chamber?
Second question: Am I correct that the "Marble Room" depicted here is in the Senate wing, on the opposite side of the Senate Lobby than the Senate Chamber? Is there another name it is known by today? Any information or sources about this room would be welcome. - Jmabel | Talk 20:31, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
OK, so then am I right that this image labeled "Supreme Court Room" would be the Old Senate Chamber, not the original Supreme Court room? - Jmabel | Talk 05:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Another (at left): can anyone identify any of what is in the foreground? - Jmabel | Talk 05:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
SchuminWeb, since you've been so helpful so far: could you take a look at Commons:Category:Stereo cards of the Washington Monument? Would you agree that those images that make reference to the State Department, etc., are simply mistitled, rather than there being something going on here that I'm missing? - Jmabel | Talk 03:43, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
I decided yesterday to start a page for the Yards Park near the ballparkin Near Southeast. However, I could use some help. In my mind, its one of the better public parks on the east coast. I plan to work on it, but I have little experience with wiki projects (I have no idea where to place it, etc.) Thanks Thedofc ( talk) 20:40, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of copying unresolved questions to Commons:User talk:Jmabel/Stereo cards of Washington, D.C., so people should feel free to archive the discussions above whenever they seem to have gone stale. - Jmabel | Talk 02:28, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
A near-total mystery to me. Why would a general (presumably William H. French, who spent much of the Civil War in D.C.) have had a room in the Senate? And what room would this have been? - Jmabel | Talk 02:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
... though we could still use more certainty about "Carnival Day". -
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As of 19:41, 23 January 2011 (UTC), the only remaining open question here is the date of "West Point Cadets passing Reviewing Stand..." -
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Another mystery building. NYPL's tentative identification as "Art Gallery?" is probably based on where someone filed it; it might have been misfiled, because someone who didn't look closely might have mistaken it for the Corcoran. - Jmabel | Talk 01:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
This one at left is identified by someone from NYPL as "Postal Office". It sure looks to me like the Treasury Building, and certainly it would not be the first time NYPL's catalogers made a mistake like this, but maybe there is some other very similar building I'm not thinking of. Does anyone think I should hesitate to rename this file and categorize it as a stereo card of the Treasury Building? - Jmabel | Talk 02:48, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Similarly, this one at right. The caption on the image itself, reproduced by the NYPL, says it's the Capitol, but I can't think of any part of the Capitol Building that looks like this. I suspect this one is also the Treasury. Thoughts? - Jmabel | Talk 02:55, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
And this one, at left: can anyone think of a way to determine which inauguration this would be? And would people agree that this must be somewhere on Pennsylvania Avenue? - Jmabel | Talk 04:38, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
One more, before I wait to see if I get some answers. At right, in this picture of McKinley and Admiral Dewey reviewing a parade in 1899: can anyone identify the building or buildings behind them? - Jmabel | Talk 04:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
"Pennsylvania Ave. on Carnival Day". NYPL dates this 1860–1880. Anyone know anything about "Carnival Day" in D.C. in this era? - Jmabel | Talk 07:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI for Project folks..
Thanks for your interest in helping bring DC public art to Wikipedia! We have updated our Task Force page for DC, so please take a look and get started. We look forward to seeing your contributions and please let me know if I can help you with anything. Missvain ( talk) 14:06, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
A statue of Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol, but not the Vinnie Ream statue. Anyone know who would be the sculptor (or anything else about this statue)? - Jmabel | Talk 01:14, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Assuming the description is something like correct, any idea whether this on the right would be in the Old Executive Office Building or in something else from before that? - Jmabel | Talk 06:57, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
And how about this on the left, identified as the State Department? Any idea when and where? It doesn't match the picture of the State Department in 1865 in our
United States Department of State article. -
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Jmabel, minor suggestion: could you place the pictures in such a way so that it goes like so:
The way you've been doing it, when you have a few of them, since they're stacked on the sides, it gets difficult to figure out which picture goes with which question. Thanks! SchuminWeb ( Talk) 05:02, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Needless to say, a school named "Summer School" isn't the easiest thing to search for. Anyone know anything about this one? - Jmabel | Talk
Anyone know anything about this (presumably former) monument, or about the church? The church appears to be the Israel Metropolitan Church; a bit of quick Googling suggests that was an important African American church that merits an article, but lacks one. - Jmabel | Talk 06:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
The card itself says "The Langham Hotel, Wash", "American Scenery" and "Washington", but this sure looks like the (still-extant) Langham Hotel in London. I suspect that the maker of this card back in the 19th century made a mistake; or does anyone know of a building like this in D.C.? - Jmabel | Talk 07:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
"Pension Office"; presumably a predecessor to the Pension Bureau Building that is now the National Building Museum. Anyone know where it was? By the way, we have barely a stub about the Pension Bureau. - Jmabel | Talk 06:05, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
People from a variety of WikiProjects have had concerns about the scope of WikiProject United States and its relationship with other WikiProjects. We have created an RFC and invite all interested editors to discuss it at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject United States#Mission statement for WikiProject United States. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 15:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.
I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.
Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages
Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.
If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.
Regards, RichardF ( talk) 03:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF ( talk) 03:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello all, this past weekend I just joined as part of Wikiproject DC; however I wish to become involved a bit more. While I am no library scientist, I am fairly seasoned at tracking down reliable sources for Wikipedia articles and I happen to have a subscription to a few research tools which help in digging up archived articles and other obscure (yet reliable) sources that can't be easily googled. Well, I have two questions for you all:
Cheers, Jeff Bedford ( talk) 20:58, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
This source talks about a way journalists determined breaking news in the pre-internet era:
"In the old days, Washington, D.C. ,was a sleepy, backwater town. When I went to school in the 1990s, there was at least one way beyond "sources" that journalists could figure out if there was something going on: It was called the Dominos method. If a certain government building had lights on at night and was receiving pizza deliveries in the off-hours, then that agency was brewing something big." WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:21, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
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A DC book is now available at Book:Washington DC. - Presidentman talk· contribs Random Picture of the Day ( Talkback) 17:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Portal:Supreme Court of the United States is a candidate for Featured Portal, with discussion at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Supreme Court of the United States. — Cirt ( talk) 16:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Please join us next weekend for GLAM Baltimore 2011 --- a series of two events organized by Baltimore Heritage on July 22-23 to build relationships between cultural heritage organizations, archives and museums and the Wikipedian community in Baltimore and Maryland. We'll start on Friday, July 22 with a happy hour at the Midtown Yacht Club in Baltimore's historic Mount Vernon neighborhoods. On the morning of Saturday, July 23, we'll meet at the Walters Art Museum for an introduction to GLAM Wiki partnerships around the country and break out into smaller groups to develop new ideas for projects. I know this is a bit of a distance but we'd welcome any DC-area Wikipedians or GLAM folks that like to come up and participate.
You can sign up and find additional details on our meetup page or on the Baltimore Heritage website where you can also use a form to RSVP for the July 22 Happy Hour or the July 23 GLAM Wiki partnerships meeting. I hope you can join us! -- Eli.pousson ( talk) 20:11, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
I found:
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This article was rated C-class some time ago, but a lot of work has been done since then. Could someone take a look to consider reassessment? NearTheZoo ( talk) 13:25, 10 September 2011 (UTC)