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Before you create any New Jersey stubs, you should visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals to propose the new stubs. The general criteria for creating a stub is that there should be enough articles to make the new stub category useful, which is around 100 articles. You can start by looking at the articles that currently in Category:United States-related stubs and Category:Northeastern US geography stubs to see how many are New Jersey articles. At the bottom of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types#North and Central America, there is also a list of other stubs that might also have more New Jersey articles. You might also look for various New Jersey list articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Lists for a list of California lists), and count the number of red-linked articles that could easily be turned into stubs. The New Jersey article also has a bunch of red-linked community colleges. BlankVerse ∅ 22:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Good point! I haven't created any stubs yet and I was using the stubs proposed in the WikiProject Massachusets page that I had copied as a template. I am very carefully researching the stub issue and won't do anything until I'm confident that I have the issue under control. Right now, WP:NJ is in more of a requirements definition phase than a development mode. Thanks again for the guidance. Alansohn 23:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
The project page speaks of Template:Infobox Town NJ. I lean opposed to infoboxes that do not add new data, especially on the Rambot ( t c) created pages for CDPs, municipalities, counties, etc. They all have a distinct style, and if you have seen one, you know where to look for data in the others. For an example of what adding an infobox can do to the flow of an article, see these revisions of Bergen County when Template:US County infobox was added: [1] [2]. I'm not saying that we definitely should not add an infobox for towns, but rather that we should not do so lightly. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 22:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been working on maps of NJ state and federal representation districts. Here is one of the maps, please comment. SVG source will be uploaded once the image is finalized.
Particular items I would like clarification on are:
Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 21:02, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
The map is fine.
I would like to become involved in this project as I am interested in my home state.
Kevin Hanse 13:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)( talk)
Thanks for the input, all. I've added two images to the New Jersey Legislature page based on this. They are reproduced here for comment. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 18:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
The new map inset is very good, thank-you ChrisRuvolo.
Someone has added the WP:NJ template to the talk pages of several celbrities from New Jersey. I'm not sure there is really anything for WP:NJ to do in these cases.. the people are not directly related to the state. They are not a public official, nor are they identified with the state any more. I suggest we remove the template from them. WP:NJ may include pages about people, particularly government figured identified with the state, but celebrities? I don't think so. Comments? -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 00:31, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
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For those of you that are NJ residents, take a look at this userbox template you can add to your user page. It also adds people to the category Category:Wikipedians in New Jersey. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 13:51, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
There's recently been a discussion on the WP mailing list that seems to be converging on a consensus that every local politician in the world ("from the dog catcher up") should be prepared to have an entry in WP. This will make it a lot of fun to distinguish between all the John Smiths, etc. I'm not going to make it a priority to write an article on school board members, etc., but we can certainly put their names in brackets in case someone feels moved to write an article on Fred Profeta, or whatever. -- Leifern 18:52, 7 December 2005 (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. |
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![]() | 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 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
Before you create any New Jersey stubs, you should visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals to propose the new stubs. The general criteria for creating a stub is that there should be enough articles to make the new stub category useful, which is around 100 articles. You can start by looking at the articles that currently in Category:United States-related stubs and Category:Northeastern US geography stubs to see how many are New Jersey articles. At the bottom of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types#North and Central America, there is also a list of other stubs that might also have more New Jersey articles. You might also look for various New Jersey list articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Lists for a list of California lists), and count the number of red-linked articles that could easily be turned into stubs. The New Jersey article also has a bunch of red-linked community colleges. BlankVerse ∅ 22:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Good point! I haven't created any stubs yet and I was using the stubs proposed in the WikiProject Massachusets page that I had copied as a template. I am very carefully researching the stub issue and won't do anything until I'm confident that I have the issue under control. Right now, WP:NJ is in more of a requirements definition phase than a development mode. Thanks again for the guidance. Alansohn 23:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
The project page speaks of Template:Infobox Town NJ. I lean opposed to infoboxes that do not add new data, especially on the Rambot ( t c) created pages for CDPs, municipalities, counties, etc. They all have a distinct style, and if you have seen one, you know where to look for data in the others. For an example of what adding an infobox can do to the flow of an article, see these revisions of Bergen County when Template:US County infobox was added: [1] [2]. I'm not saying that we definitely should not add an infobox for towns, but rather that we should not do so lightly. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 22:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been working on maps of NJ state and federal representation districts. Here is one of the maps, please comment. SVG source will be uploaded once the image is finalized.
Particular items I would like clarification on are:
Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 21:02, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
The map is fine.
I would like to become involved in this project as I am interested in my home state.
Kevin Hanse 13:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)( talk)
Thanks for the input, all. I've added two images to the New Jersey Legislature page based on this. They are reproduced here for comment. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 18:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
The new map inset is very good, thank-you ChrisRuvolo.
Someone has added the WP:NJ template to the talk pages of several celbrities from New Jersey. I'm not sure there is really anything for WP:NJ to do in these cases.. the people are not directly related to the state. They are not a public official, nor are they identified with the state any more. I suggest we remove the template from them. WP:NJ may include pages about people, particularly government figured identified with the state, but celebrities? I don't think so. Comments? -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 00:31, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
![]() | This user lives in the state of New Jersey. |
For those of you that are NJ residents, take a look at this userbox template you can add to your user page. It also adds people to the category Category:Wikipedians in New Jersey. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 13:51, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
There's recently been a discussion on the WP mailing list that seems to be converging on a consensus that every local politician in the world ("from the dog catcher up") should be prepared to have an entry in WP. This will make it a lot of fun to distinguish between all the John Smiths, etc. I'm not going to make it a priority to write an article on school board members, etc., but we can certainly put their names in brackets in case someone feels moved to write an article on Fred Profeta, or whatever. -- Leifern 18:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
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