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We have reached 50 members, congrats to all. The newest member has a couple of concerns regarding the inclusion of a forensics agency in the project, as he/she is worried that it suggests they are affiliated with a law enforcement agency. I tried to explain that inclusion in the project means that the topic is related to law enforcement by content, not neccessarily that the subject is closely linked to specific law enforcement agencies, but I'm not sure how clear I was! I suspect he/she will post here soon
SGGH
speak! 10:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
this is the article.
SGGH
speak!
10:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Yay 50, wonder when we will make 100? Congrats Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Roger that =) Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:05, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I propose a new forward.
TASK:
Create the Duty Belt article
MEASURES:
e.g:
etc.
OR should we integrate it into Uniforms and equipment of the British police?
ALSO the Belt (clothing) article has some info on the duty belt as-well.
WHAT IS A DUTY BELT:
A duty belt is a belt which holds all the equipment a police officer requires to conduct his or her duties, several items which a duty belt may hold is:
For the UK cops:
etc.
For the "Cops with guns" cops:
and all the other random stuff
PICTURES:
Image:Police Duty Belt.jpg My duty belt Image:Hiatts Speedcuffs.jpg Hiatts speedcuffs
I will try and get some more pictures and UK and US cops duty belts.
Other than that quite good Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 15:44, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 15:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
IDEAS:
QUESTIONS:
Don't be afraid to ask me or SGGH
TO DO:
Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I have created the article, you can pop along if you like =] Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
What gun was it? SGGH speak! 23:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Also, the award for helping is going to be my golden speedcuffs award! Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 19:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
AAHHH It's even bigger now, Chachu has added loads. SGGH speak! 23:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Still, history of the duty belt's use would be a must for FA, I will try to find some sources for you. SGGH speak! 15:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Nominated for peer review, you can view it here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Police duty belt/archive1. =D Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 08:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
There is no value in adding this category to articles about specific law enforcement agencies. It should only be added to articles about generic law enforcement in specific countries, which was what it was originally used and intended for. Adding it to agency articles duplicates the country categories and will not tell a reader browsing the cats anything at all, since the articles are not being categorised "by country" (e.g. Militsiya is not law enforcement by country - which country?; Law enforcement in Serbia is law enforcement by country as the title implies; this is the usual useage of "Foo by country" categories). Since agencies will already appear under the appropriate "Law enfocement in Foo" category, which will itself be a subcat of "Law enforcement by country", they do not need to appear in the supercat too. Frankly, I think the supercat should only be for subcats in the first place. not individual articles, which are better off under the more specific category. -- Necrothesp 19:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
And an added note, I notice that one editor has been moving articles about specific agencies to generic articles about law enforcement in a country. There is no reason to do this. Every law enforcement agency should have its own article as well as the generic articles. -- Necrothesp 21:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Maybe we can fill this one out after the duty belt FORWARD? Robbskey 23:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
The article Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Police was speedily deleted after I had added two references about the arrest of a celebrity by airport police. Perhaps someone with more access to information about southern California might consider recreating and expanding the article. -- Eastmain 14:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
I have restored the article. I don't really think it meets speedy deletion criteria. Seems to be a perfectly reasonable article to me. -- Necrothesp 22:11, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
There is a new shortcut for this talk page, it is WT:LE
The main project page is still WP:LE
This will hopely make it easier to direct people to our talk page!
Regards
Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:17, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
The 1919 Boston Police Strike finally has its own article! SGGH speak! 21:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I have added this article to the watchlist-it's been getting all sorts of spam and crap thrown into it because of the Paris Hilton thing. Please watch. Chris 22:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
I've suggested these two pages ( Special police & Special police force) be merged. Both are small pages of lower quality which are comprised mostly of lists; both describing the same thing. akuyume T C 02:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
...has no image of a UK police officer. I can't get a uniform for at least a week or two but there must be other UK officers out there who have a camera and could create a suitable image? SGGH speak! 11:42, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Just realised I've been "leading" this project for 6 months now since I found it, does anyone want to swap leaders or anything? It's not too difficult a job as it has excellent supporting users, but it might avoid a wikatorship... SGGH speak! 20:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
I suggest replacing all the "Region name|Law enforcement" in templates with a version of the above for each region, because it works far better in a number of ways, notably because we can get around redirects to articles which arent called "law enforcement in_____" just copy and paste what is in the above and change all the names and saveit in Template:Lawin____ :) let me know if you need any help, or post it in WT:LE SGGH speak! 12:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
:::Here we go, we now need to replace all the "North America|Law enforcement in" templates with {{Template:LawinNorthAmerica}} to produce the following:
SGGH speak! 10:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Has also been done, and all the articles on it now have the new template, which is {{LawinOceania}} SGGH speak! 11:01, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Template:LawinSouthAmerica Also done this one, it's {{LawinSouthAmerica}} SGGH speak! 11:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed this these template placed at the bottom of the Police article. [3] With them all expanded out, I agree that it's too much. But, we can make the templates collapsible, where the details are hidden by default but can be "shown". Would anyone mind if I tried that, to see if/how it might work? -- Aude ( talk) 14:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
This template:
{{ Police by country}}
Is surely redundant considering the work we are doing above, I vote we delete it, remove it from the pages on which it currently resides and replace it with the relevan regional template from the above collection. Please see its old AFD. Note, if we agree here I think we still have to take it for AfD, but due to its complete redundancy it will surely be deleted. Discuss below:
Another editor has created the article Republika Srpska Police, which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. -- Eastmain 21:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Dep the above category is chocka! SGGH speak! 14:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I wrote a new Internal Troops of Ukraine article today and requested it to be grammar-checked as I'm no native English-user. But I'd like to have it checked by editors familiar with law enforcement first. The same is about significant expansion of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (wonder did I leave a grammar template there?). Thanks in advance guys, AlexPU 18:44, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, regarding name change you're wrong. "the Ukraine" is an ovsolete usage condemned by Wikicommunity years ago. As for "Internal" to "Interior", it seems to be another naming convention both in Wikipedia and in real life. Don't mind about the official site cause my country is poorly English speaking, translations of the same word may differ from time to time :). Unlike EU, there's no authority in Ukraine to register and maintain official names in foreign languages. From what I know, Ukrainian police authority itself "M. of Internal Affairs", so why don't its remain "Internal as well. However, Russians use "Interior" for the same thing ... Anyway, your opinions on this matter are important in case of further renaming discussions, and I thank you for them. And I'm OK about moving to Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine) because of ugly usage of two "of"s in a row. And thank you for the rest of your changes there. I was mostly concerned about my usage of English verbs. AlexPU 06:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Waiting for assessment from someone other than me, *clap clap* wake up people :) SGGH speak! 16:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for rating. SGGH speak! 21:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone fancy writing a lead for this article? Greatly appreciated! Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 17:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
What do you reckon about turning that into a table and adding the call signs, as well as expanding it in general? I can get a hold of most of them, Sussex is Hotel 900, it's not operational information so its fine to put up. SGGH speak! 19:25, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
One ought to just check that they are all police or constabulary as is correct for them. SGGH speak! 17:52, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
(You'll have to excuse me for being a formatting freak). I was looking for infoboxes for police department webpages, and I found two: Template:Infobox_Police and Template:Infobox_Police_Department. Think these could be merged if we had auto include/exclude parameters like some of the newer infoboxes have (see template:infobox television for a good one). Also, a field where we can put a picture of the shoulder patch or logo would be nice. Before I make any changes, if you guys wouldn't mind helping me make a list of categories or information that should be shown on every department page. DLPanther 20:50, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey all, Dep is taking a bit of a break from wikipedia due to work related business, and I'm back as "lead coordinator" and I think it's been far too quiet here! :D Let's get another project going shall we? Galvanise things into action again! Give me your suggestions! SGGH speak! 21:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, just a quick question that has come up at Police car. Does anyone in the US know of any police departments who operate separate vehicles for patrol, response and traffic duty? This is common practice in Europe and some other parts of the world, but seemingly not that common in the US.
Does anyone have an example from the US we could reference?
Thanks in advance Owain.davies 19:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
This was raised a long time ago when we only had about 10 members, now we have over 65 (ish) and was wondering what people though of it as a possibility in the future? SGGH speak! 00:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
the combat police section of Law enforcement in South Korea seems to violate POV (and, perhaps less importantly, not as well written as could be). nothing wrong with describing tactics and training but to minimize police brutality charges seems disingenuous. some videos unflattering to the combat police were also removed:
skimming through article history shows there are two somewhat fleshed out versions of that section: one anti-combat police and the other pro. south korean riots seem pretty intense. i assume violence are committed by both sides. that section ought to be looked at and probably rewritten by someone neutral and knowledgable. Mct mht 09:34, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you did on the duty belt article, which was linked from Police officer. I'd also appreicate you passing on thanks to the other users who have worked on it :) ShakespeareFan00 23:59, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
SGGH speak! 13:33, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I've begun going through the B-class articles and have lowered a lot of them to "start" class, and I cleared out the unassessed articles. I just wanted to mention that we have very few articles classed in the higher end of the quality scale and just wanted to further encourage focusing efforts on quality. The tendency of this project has been quantity: there's around a thousand stub-class articles versus 10 that are GA and higher in the projects scope. This isn't meant as a criticism, and is natural way for things to evolve, but perhaps the project should begin shifting gears in this respect.
That said, I think the collaborations are a great idea in this direction. Good work on the duty belt; I never would've guessed so much could be said about a belt!
Also, I don't think it's a crime to rate an article you created or made major contributions to if it's start-class or a stub. For the sake of expediency, if it has the main elements of an article (references, proper formating, photo, sub-headings, etc), but still falls far short of a complete article, just tag it start. If it's less than that, it's a stub. An objective value-judgment isn't really required below B-class, IMO, and we can prevent the unassessed list from building up. cheers, bobanny 20:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
As per the above point, I have created a collaboration page. Check it out and make sure to read all the instructions. I'm hoping it can run a specific way. Find the link on the main navigation page. SGGH speak! 23:23, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, every article on the above template that isn't about a person must have a {{WPLE}} tag on its talk page. If someone could help me out with this it would be appreciated, just remember that the WPLE tag goes underneath the FBI one SGGH speak! 15:01, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. Am I right in assuming this name change was done at the behest of this WikiProject? If so I invite you to contribute to the current discussion about changing the name back to Policing in the United Kingdom. (And if not, you're still invited to participate). -- SiobhanHansa 19:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I am from WikiProject Cincinnati, and am requesting here and on the requested articles page an article on the Cincinnati Police Department. Being that I live near the city and that the department has seen many controversies, I don't feel comfortable writing it. I was hoping an inspired editor from this project might consider creating the article. Thanks. ( Mind meal 02:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC))
Hello all, I'm new to this WikiProject and to Wikipedia itself. I've created a page about the New Jersey Transit Police Department and I was wondering if I could get a peer review from the people in this project. I would greatly appreciate comments and constructive criticism. Seeing how this is my first artice I still have quite a bit to learn! ( Rebel3986 03:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC))
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | → | Archive 10 |
We have reached 50 members, congrats to all. The newest member has a couple of concerns regarding the inclusion of a forensics agency in the project, as he/she is worried that it suggests they are affiliated with a law enforcement agency. I tried to explain that inclusion in the project means that the topic is related to law enforcement by content, not neccessarily that the subject is closely linked to specific law enforcement agencies, but I'm not sure how clear I was! I suspect he/she will post here soon
SGGH
speak! 10:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
this is the article.
SGGH
speak!
10:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Yay 50, wonder when we will make 100? Congrats Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Roger that =) Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:05, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I propose a new forward.
TASK:
Create the Duty Belt article
MEASURES:
e.g:
etc.
OR should we integrate it into Uniforms and equipment of the British police?
ALSO the Belt (clothing) article has some info on the duty belt as-well.
WHAT IS A DUTY BELT:
A duty belt is a belt which holds all the equipment a police officer requires to conduct his or her duties, several items which a duty belt may hold is:
For the UK cops:
etc.
For the "Cops with guns" cops:
and all the other random stuff
PICTURES:
Image:Police Duty Belt.jpg My duty belt Image:Hiatts Speedcuffs.jpg Hiatts speedcuffs
I will try and get some more pictures and UK and US cops duty belts.
Other than that quite good Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 15:44, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 15:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
IDEAS:
QUESTIONS:
Don't be afraid to ask me or SGGH
TO DO:
Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I have created the article, you can pop along if you like =] Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 14:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
What gun was it? SGGH speak! 23:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Also, the award for helping is going to be my golden speedcuffs award! Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 19:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
AAHHH It's even bigger now, Chachu has added loads. SGGH speak! 23:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Still, history of the duty belt's use would be a must for FA, I will try to find some sources for you. SGGH speak! 15:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Nominated for peer review, you can view it here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Police duty belt/archive1. =D Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 08:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
There is no value in adding this category to articles about specific law enforcement agencies. It should only be added to articles about generic law enforcement in specific countries, which was what it was originally used and intended for. Adding it to agency articles duplicates the country categories and will not tell a reader browsing the cats anything at all, since the articles are not being categorised "by country" (e.g. Militsiya is not law enforcement by country - which country?; Law enforcement in Serbia is law enforcement by country as the title implies; this is the usual useage of "Foo by country" categories). Since agencies will already appear under the appropriate "Law enfocement in Foo" category, which will itself be a subcat of "Law enforcement by country", they do not need to appear in the supercat too. Frankly, I think the supercat should only be for subcats in the first place. not individual articles, which are better off under the more specific category. -- Necrothesp 19:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
And an added note, I notice that one editor has been moving articles about specific agencies to generic articles about law enforcement in a country. There is no reason to do this. Every law enforcement agency should have its own article as well as the generic articles. -- Necrothesp 21:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Maybe we can fill this one out after the duty belt FORWARD? Robbskey 23:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
The article Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Police was speedily deleted after I had added two references about the arrest of a celebrity by airport police. Perhaps someone with more access to information about southern California might consider recreating and expanding the article. -- Eastmain 14:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
I have restored the article. I don't really think it meets speedy deletion criteria. Seems to be a perfectly reasonable article to me. -- Necrothesp 22:11, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
There is a new shortcut for this talk page, it is WT:LE
The main project page is still WP:LE
This will hopely make it easier to direct people to our talk page!
Regards
Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:17, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
The 1919 Boston Police Strike finally has its own article! SGGH speak! 21:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I have added this article to the watchlist-it's been getting all sorts of spam and crap thrown into it because of the Paris Hilton thing. Please watch. Chris 22:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
I've suggested these two pages ( Special police & Special police force) be merged. Both are small pages of lower quality which are comprised mostly of lists; both describing the same thing. akuyume T C 02:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
...has no image of a UK police officer. I can't get a uniform for at least a week or two but there must be other UK officers out there who have a camera and could create a suitable image? SGGH speak! 11:42, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Just realised I've been "leading" this project for 6 months now since I found it, does anyone want to swap leaders or anything? It's not too difficult a job as it has excellent supporting users, but it might avoid a wikatorship... SGGH speak! 20:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
I suggest replacing all the "Region name|Law enforcement" in templates with a version of the above for each region, because it works far better in a number of ways, notably because we can get around redirects to articles which arent called "law enforcement in_____" just copy and paste what is in the above and change all the names and saveit in Template:Lawin____ :) let me know if you need any help, or post it in WT:LE SGGH speak! 12:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
:::Here we go, we now need to replace all the "North America|Law enforcement in" templates with {{Template:LawinNorthAmerica}} to produce the following:
SGGH speak! 10:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Has also been done, and all the articles on it now have the new template, which is {{LawinOceania}} SGGH speak! 11:01, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Template:LawinSouthAmerica Also done this one, it's {{LawinSouthAmerica}} SGGH speak! 11:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed this these template placed at the bottom of the Police article. [3] With them all expanded out, I agree that it's too much. But, we can make the templates collapsible, where the details are hidden by default but can be "shown". Would anyone mind if I tried that, to see if/how it might work? -- Aude ( talk) 14:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
This template:
{{ Police by country}}
Is surely redundant considering the work we are doing above, I vote we delete it, remove it from the pages on which it currently resides and replace it with the relevan regional template from the above collection. Please see its old AFD. Note, if we agree here I think we still have to take it for AfD, but due to its complete redundancy it will surely be deleted. Discuss below:
Another editor has created the article Republika Srpska Police, which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. -- Eastmain 21:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Dep the above category is chocka! SGGH speak! 14:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I wrote a new Internal Troops of Ukraine article today and requested it to be grammar-checked as I'm no native English-user. But I'd like to have it checked by editors familiar with law enforcement first. The same is about significant expansion of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (wonder did I leave a grammar template there?). Thanks in advance guys, AlexPU 18:44, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, regarding name change you're wrong. "the Ukraine" is an ovsolete usage condemned by Wikicommunity years ago. As for "Internal" to "Interior", it seems to be another naming convention both in Wikipedia and in real life. Don't mind about the official site cause my country is poorly English speaking, translations of the same word may differ from time to time :). Unlike EU, there's no authority in Ukraine to register and maintain official names in foreign languages. From what I know, Ukrainian police authority itself "M. of Internal Affairs", so why don't its remain "Internal as well. However, Russians use "Interior" for the same thing ... Anyway, your opinions on this matter are important in case of further renaming discussions, and I thank you for them. And I'm OK about moving to Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine) because of ugly usage of two "of"s in a row. And thank you for the rest of your changes there. I was mostly concerned about my usage of English verbs. AlexPU 06:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Waiting for assessment from someone other than me, *clap clap* wake up people :) SGGH speak! 16:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for rating. SGGH speak! 21:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone fancy writing a lead for this article? Greatly appreciated! Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 17:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
What do you reckon about turning that into a table and adding the call signs, as well as expanding it in general? I can get a hold of most of them, Sussex is Hotel 900, it's not operational information so its fine to put up. SGGH speak! 19:25, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
One ought to just check that they are all police or constabulary as is correct for them. SGGH speak! 17:52, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
(You'll have to excuse me for being a formatting freak). I was looking for infoboxes for police department webpages, and I found two: Template:Infobox_Police and Template:Infobox_Police_Department. Think these could be merged if we had auto include/exclude parameters like some of the newer infoboxes have (see template:infobox television for a good one). Also, a field where we can put a picture of the shoulder patch or logo would be nice. Before I make any changes, if you guys wouldn't mind helping me make a list of categories or information that should be shown on every department page. DLPanther 20:50, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey all, Dep is taking a bit of a break from wikipedia due to work related business, and I'm back as "lead coordinator" and I think it's been far too quiet here! :D Let's get another project going shall we? Galvanise things into action again! Give me your suggestions! SGGH speak! 21:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, just a quick question that has come up at Police car. Does anyone in the US know of any police departments who operate separate vehicles for patrol, response and traffic duty? This is common practice in Europe and some other parts of the world, but seemingly not that common in the US.
Does anyone have an example from the US we could reference?
Thanks in advance Owain.davies 19:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
This was raised a long time ago when we only had about 10 members, now we have over 65 (ish) and was wondering what people though of it as a possibility in the future? SGGH speak! 00:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
the combat police section of Law enforcement in South Korea seems to violate POV (and, perhaps less importantly, not as well written as could be). nothing wrong with describing tactics and training but to minimize police brutality charges seems disingenuous. some videos unflattering to the combat police were also removed:
skimming through article history shows there are two somewhat fleshed out versions of that section: one anti-combat police and the other pro. south korean riots seem pretty intense. i assume violence are committed by both sides. that section ought to be looked at and probably rewritten by someone neutral and knowledgable. Mct mht 09:34, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you did on the duty belt article, which was linked from Police officer. I'd also appreicate you passing on thanks to the other users who have worked on it :) ShakespeareFan00 23:59, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
SGGH speak! 13:33, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I've begun going through the B-class articles and have lowered a lot of them to "start" class, and I cleared out the unassessed articles. I just wanted to mention that we have very few articles classed in the higher end of the quality scale and just wanted to further encourage focusing efforts on quality. The tendency of this project has been quantity: there's around a thousand stub-class articles versus 10 that are GA and higher in the projects scope. This isn't meant as a criticism, and is natural way for things to evolve, but perhaps the project should begin shifting gears in this respect.
That said, I think the collaborations are a great idea in this direction. Good work on the duty belt; I never would've guessed so much could be said about a belt!
Also, I don't think it's a crime to rate an article you created or made major contributions to if it's start-class or a stub. For the sake of expediency, if it has the main elements of an article (references, proper formating, photo, sub-headings, etc), but still falls far short of a complete article, just tag it start. If it's less than that, it's a stub. An objective value-judgment isn't really required below B-class, IMO, and we can prevent the unassessed list from building up. cheers, bobanny 20:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
As per the above point, I have created a collaboration page. Check it out and make sure to read all the instructions. I'm hoping it can run a specific way. Find the link on the main navigation page. SGGH speak! 23:23, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, every article on the above template that isn't about a person must have a {{WPLE}} tag on its talk page. If someone could help me out with this it would be appreciated, just remember that the WPLE tag goes underneath the FBI one SGGH speak! 15:01, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. Am I right in assuming this name change was done at the behest of this WikiProject? If so I invite you to contribute to the current discussion about changing the name back to Policing in the United Kingdom. (And if not, you're still invited to participate). -- SiobhanHansa 19:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I am from WikiProject Cincinnati, and am requesting here and on the requested articles page an article on the Cincinnati Police Department. Being that I live near the city and that the department has seen many controversies, I don't feel comfortable writing it. I was hoping an inspired editor from this project might consider creating the article. Thanks. ( Mind meal 02:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC))
Hello all, I'm new to this WikiProject and to Wikipedia itself. I've created a page about the New Jersey Transit Police Department and I was wondering if I could get a peer review from the people in this project. I would greatly appreciate comments and constructive criticism. Seeing how this is my first artice I still have quite a bit to learn! ( Rebel3986 03:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC))