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User:Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 has evidently decided he doesn't like the religion labels on a lot of articles, and in particular has gone through the presidents changing "Episcopal" to "Episcopalianism" (and perhaps making similar changes for other religions). I've left him a message, but at the moment I have to go off to church. If someone would like to take up the reversions it would help. Mangoe ( talk) 13:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge ten articles, which I have copied to project space, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jimmy Carter. Our goal is to get these articles in top shape and merge or move them into mainspace as quickly as possible. If this turns out well (as I am confident it will), the NGE will permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,200 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in merging in the NGE Jimmy Carter materials. If there is nothing that can be merged in, we should make an affirmative determination about that as well. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have just created List of Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language, and was wondering if anyone could think of a better title for it. かんぱい! Scapler ( talk) 01:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
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A proposal has been made to add height as an optional field under personal data at Template talk:Infobox officeholder. Your comments are welcome on said proposal Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 05:15, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Would anybody like to do this with me? We can do it starting from the most recent, that would be Bill Clinton. -- Iankap99 ( talk) 04:18, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
User:Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 has evidently decided he doesn't like the religion labels on a lot of articles, and in particular has gone through the presidents changing "Episcopal" to "Episcopalianism" (and perhaps making similar changes for other religions). I've left him a message, but at the moment I have to go off to church. If someone would like to take up the reversions it would help. Mangoe ( talk) 13:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge ten articles, which I have copied to project space, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jimmy Carter. Our goal is to get these articles in top shape and merge or move them into mainspace as quickly as possible. If this turns out well (as I am confident it will), the NGE will permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,200 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in merging in the NGE Jimmy Carter materials. If there is nothing that can be merged in, we should make an affirmative determination about that as well. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have just created List of Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language, and was wondering if anyone could think of a better title for it. かんぱい! Scapler ( talk) 01:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Let me think -.- Ah! Presidential Forgein Speakers! Aruda556 ( talk) 02:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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A proposal has been made to add height as an optional field under personal data at Template talk:Infobox officeholder. Your comments are welcome on said proposal Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 05:15, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Would anybody like to do this with me? We can do it starting from the most recent, that would be Bill Clinton. -- Iankap99 ( talk) 04:18, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I was glancing through some Executive Order stubs and noticed that they had been expanded out to include what looks like a heavy dose of Original Research and Opinion from the above user. Examples are Executive Order 10925, Executive Order 11246 and Executive Order 11375. I would advise someone with a better understanding takes some action to clarify some of the remarks as there definitely appears to be some synthesis. Koncorde ( talk) 22:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I am new to wikipedia and I was wondering how president pages were assessed in order to determine their class rankings. I clicked on guidelines but it didn't say anything about it. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, -- Schwindtd ( talk) 21:46, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
A Good Article review has started on George Washington. It is on hold for seven days to allow issues raised on Talk:George Washington/GA3 to be addressed. SilkTork * YES! 23:53, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
ATTENTION: I am asking all editors interested to join me in revamping
Millard Fillmore's article. It is in bad shape. If you know anything about him or are willing to research and contribute consider this a call to action! Let's get to work. Thanks!--
Schwindtd (
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Also I am thinking about starting an "Unknown Presidents" task force. The following Presidents would be included:
Our Mission: To expand the knowledge of the "Unknown Presidents." Specifically getting all these articles to GA class or higher. Let me know what you think. -- Schwindtd ( talk) 22:44, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I'd love to join as long as you include William Henry Harrison. Many people forget him,too you know!:) Aruda556 ( talk) 02:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I have completed substantial edits on Garfield and Buchanan. More work is needed. Carmarg4 ( talk) 13:23, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
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Guys, if we are committed we could get all presidents up to GA level systematically. If we work together on the most recent one that isn't GA, each one would take a week tops. Would anybody like to do this with me? We can do it starting from the most recent, that would be Bill Clinton.-- Iankap99 ( talk) 00:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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There is a discussion going on currently on H.W.'s talk page regarding the addition of content on Fitzgerald to H.W.'s page. I would really appreciate some of your opinions on the matter. Thanks Much!-- UhOhFeeling ( talk) 14:49, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
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I am hoping to get some help from the knowledgeable folks here in order to get an article on Jennifer Fitzgerald ready for the main space. Here is where it is located currently, User:UhOhFeeling/Jennifer_Fitzgerald. Please feel free to edit away. If not, any advice on how to make this a solid article would be much appreciated. What would probably be the greatest help is adding more solid ref's. Thanks much. -- UhOhFeeling ( talk) 21:01, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
If you are so inclined, you may want to comment at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:US_Heads_of_State, a nomination for deletion of a navbox template that could potentially be used in all President of the United States biographies. Cheers! — Kevin Myers 14:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{ WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:27, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I have submitted a proposal at the Village pump regarding tagging non article items in Wikipedia. Please take a moment and let me know what you think. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:13, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I noticed, in my opinion, that they don't include ALL of the trivia and secret lives of the presidents. Join me in the new "Get It Out There" task force to reveal this. Together we can make their secrets known. (Open membership on December 31, 2010 Type Get It Out There!) Aruda556 ( talk) 02:52, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I nominated Hayes for Featured Article here. If anyone has any comments or suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them. Coemgenus 18:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
I just completed a substantial edit here; main improvement is added references and clean up of reference/footnote formats. The article still needs a lot of work. Carmarg4 ( talk) 14:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Talk:Benjamin Harrison that might benefit from the opinions of members of this project. -- Coemgenus 12:27, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF ( talk) 14:26, 22 February 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) 02:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{
citation}}, {{
cite journal}}, {{
cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id=
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|url=
http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567
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The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
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|year=2000
|title=How to Put Things into Other Things
|journal=Journal of Foobar
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Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
File:Lolo Soetoro Ann Dunham Maya Soetoro-Ng Barack Obama.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.45.160 ( talk) 05:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Most of the presidents are remembered on at least one stamp. There appears to be a concerted effort underway on the part of philatelist editors to highlight this in the presidential articles. Multiple stamp images are being added to some articles, and in some cases even new sections added devoted to the detailed stamp representation for the president. My own opinion is that the stamp feature is not germane to the article and should not be emphasized – if not eliminated entirely. Most recently this has, in my view, taken up a completely inordinate amount of attention and discussion with Lincoln. Carmarg4 ( talk) 13:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there is some active discussions on the talk page and some content updates to the project page but being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I agree that WikiProjects US Presidents should be included under the WikiProjects United States Umbrella -- Sorry Kumioko, don't know where to put this! SenatorSteve ( talk) 14:17, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
United States dollar, a page within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for July 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:02, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
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One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:50, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
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Kumioko (
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Is up for FPOC. This is one of the highest (if not the highest) visibility portal on Wikipedia, I recommend commenting on it! Cheers, Res Mar 23:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
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There are alot of us working hard on these various articles and the interruption from the blackout is not helpful. Neutrality is the hallmark of the WP platform and should not be compromised. I do agree in opposing some provisions of SOPA and PIPA; but the WP Foundation should handle their response to this as well as other political and legislative issues without co-opting the website with an unproductive and counterintuitive result. Hoppyh ( talk) 20:15, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I have just completed a major edit and a review might be warranted. I have not reviewed technicals or reference formats, though I did work on some images. Hoppyh ( talk) 20:19, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello editors interested in Abraham Lincoln. I just created a proposal for a new WikiProject with a focus on Lincoln, similar to the WikiProject that exists for Barack Obama. Please feel free to comment on my proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Abraham Lincoln. – Muboshgu ( talk) 22:42, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
The quest for getting Wikipedia editors the sources they need for articles related to U.S. Presidents and other subjects is gaining momentum. Here's what's happening and what you can sign up for right now:
In addition to these great partnerships, you might be interested in the next-generation idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. It's still in the preliminary stages, but if you like the idea, add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal to start developing the project. Drop by the talk page of User:Ocaasi, who is overseeing these projects, if you have any questions.-- JayJasper ( talk) 17:49, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko ( talk) 02:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
For some reason an editor has informed me about the documents and records held at the Ford Presidential Library and Museum on my my talk page. Evidently it is a good source for information regarding Ford and related history. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 16:49, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
There's a discussion ongoing at Talk:Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness regarding the extent to which the article should be built around a 2003 journal article arguing that FDR had Guillain-Barre Syndrome rather than polio; outside input would be welcome. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 00:55, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Michael Barera and I'm (barring the unforeseen) going to be named Wikipedian in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library later this month. I'm very interested in creating a subject-specific task force or WikiProject in an effort to organize and coordinate efforts between the various people involved in the Ford collaboration (including members of the Ford Presidential Library and Museum, the Michigan Wikipedians student club, and other interested and dedicated Wikipedians who are involved remotely). I'm curious if you think it would be more appropriate to create a task force under this WikiProject or a standalone WikiProject (like the Barack Obama one) for Ford. Because there aren't nearly as many articles concerning Ford as there are Obama, my initial thought was to go with a task force under this WikiProject, but we would really like to tag, assess, and create/improve all articles relating to Ford (ie, more than just the Ford biography that is under the scope of this project). Please let me know what you think is best, but I would like to reiterate my desire to create some sort of project or task force that is completely subject-focused and open to any interested editors. Thank you so much and do take care! Michael Barera ( talk) 20:02, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Please comment at Talk:Bill_Clinton#WP:OVERLINK_.3F or just step in and edit as you see fit.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 06:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 2000+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. Please post any comments or concerns you might have there. -- Kumioko ( talk)
There is an RfC at Talk:Barack Obama#RfC: Should "the first African American to hold the office" have a footnote in the lead?. Please comment there. Wilhelm Meis ( ☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 21:49, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Informed feedback is needed on the Thomas Jefferson talk page regarding whether we should list Architect in the info box on that page. The issue has been discussed at length there in the upper sections. -- Gwillhickers 15:19, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko ( talk) 18:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Washington-bible.jpg has been nominated for deleting -- 70.24.249.39 ( talk) 11:17, 16 September 2013 (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 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 |
User:Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 has evidently decided he doesn't like the religion labels on a lot of articles, and in particular has gone through the presidents changing "Episcopal" to "Episcopalianism" (and perhaps making similar changes for other religions). I've left him a message, but at the moment I have to go off to church. If someone would like to take up the reversions it would help. Mangoe ( talk) 13:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 04:05, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge ten articles, which I have copied to project space, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jimmy Carter. Our goal is to get these articles in top shape and merge or move them into mainspace as quickly as possible. If this turns out well (as I am confident it will), the NGE will permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,200 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in merging in the NGE Jimmy Carter materials. If there is nothing that can be merged in, we should make an affirmative determination about that as well. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have just created List of Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language, and was wondering if anyone could think of a better title for it. かんぱい! Scapler ( talk) 01:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Harry S. Truman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Geschichte ( talk) 17:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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An example of a book cover, taken from Book:Hadronic Matter |
As detailed in last week's Signpost, WildBot has been patrolling Wikipedia-Books and searched for various problems in them, such as books having duplicate articles or containing redirects. WikiProject Wikipedia-Books is in the process of cleaning them up, but help would be appreciated. For this project, the following books have problems:
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Also, the {{ saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of books (title, subtitle, cover-image, cover-color), and gives are preview of the default cover on the book's page. An example of such a cover is found on the right. Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class U.S. Presidents articles should have covers.
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A proposal has been made to add height as an optional field under personal data at Template talk:Infobox officeholder. Your comments are welcome on said proposal Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 05:15, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Would anybody like to do this with me? We can do it starting from the most recent, that would be Bill Clinton. -- Iankap99 ( talk) 04:18, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
User:Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 has evidently decided he doesn't like the religion labels on a lot of articles, and in particular has gone through the presidents changing "Episcopal" to "Episcopalianism" (and perhaps making similar changes for other religions). I've left him a message, but at the moment I have to go off to church. If someone would like to take up the reversions it would help. Mangoe ( talk) 13:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge ten articles, which I have copied to project space, including Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jimmy Carter. Our goal is to get these articles in top shape and merge or move them into mainspace as quickly as possible. If this turns out well (as I am confident it will), the NGE will permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,200 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in merging in the NGE Jimmy Carter materials. If there is nothing that can be merged in, we should make an affirmative determination about that as well. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have just created List of Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language, and was wondering if anyone could think of a better title for it. かんぱい! Scapler ( talk) 01:01, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Let me think -.- Ah! Presidential Forgein Speakers! Aruda556 ( talk) 02:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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As detailed in last week's Signpost, WildBot has been patrolling Wikipedia-Books and searched for various problems in them, such as books having duplicate articles or containing redirects. WikiProject Wikipedia-Books is in the process of cleaning them up, but help would be appreciated. For this project, the following books have problems:
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A proposal has been made to add height as an optional field under personal data at Template talk:Infobox officeholder. Your comments are welcome on said proposal Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 05:15, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Would anybody like to do this with me? We can do it starting from the most recent, that would be Bill Clinton. -- Iankap99 ( talk) 04:18, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I was glancing through some Executive Order stubs and noticed that they had been expanded out to include what looks like a heavy dose of Original Research and Opinion from the above user. Examples are Executive Order 10925, Executive Order 11246 and Executive Order 11375. I would advise someone with a better understanding takes some action to clarify some of the remarks as there definitely appears to be some synthesis. Koncorde ( talk) 22:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I am new to wikipedia and I was wondering how president pages were assessed in order to determine their class rankings. I clicked on guidelines but it didn't say anything about it. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, -- Schwindtd ( talk) 21:46, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
A Good Article review has started on George Washington. It is on hold for seven days to allow issues raised on Talk:George Washington/GA3 to be addressed. SilkTork * YES! 23:53, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
ATTENTION: I am asking all editors interested to join me in revamping
Millard Fillmore's article. It is in bad shape. If you know anything about him or are willing to research and contribute consider this a call to action! Let's get to work. Thanks!--
Schwindtd (
talk)
22:36, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Also I am thinking about starting an "Unknown Presidents" task force. The following Presidents would be included:
Our Mission: To expand the knowledge of the "Unknown Presidents." Specifically getting all these articles to GA class or higher. Let me know what you think. -- Schwindtd ( talk) 22:44, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I'd love to join as long as you include William Henry Harrison. Many people forget him,too you know!:) Aruda556 ( talk) 02:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I have completed substantial edits on Garfield and Buchanan. More work is needed. Carmarg4 ( talk) 13:23, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
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Guys, if we are committed we could get all presidents up to GA level systematically. If we work together on the most recent one that isn't GA, each one would take a week tops. Would anybody like to do this with me? We can do it starting from the most recent, that would be Bill Clinton.-- Iankap99 ( talk) 00:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I have started a proposal to merge three United States related Noticeboards into one due to all three having no, or extremely limited activity, in the last year. I believe this will invigorate the noticeboard if we keep any of them at all. I propose merging:
into
Please provide comments here (including support or oppose). Comments are necessary to ensure that this does not intefere with ongoing efforts. If no comments are received in 7 days I will assume there is no problem and proceed with the merger. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on currently on H.W.'s talk page regarding the addition of content on Fitzgerald to H.W.'s page. I would really appreciate some of your opinions on the matter. Thanks Much!-- UhOhFeeling ( talk) 14:49, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
There is a proposal on WikiProject United States to task Xenobot with tagging and assessment of articles that fall into the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject United States. Please take a few moments to provide your comments about this proposal.
If you are interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject United States please add your name under the applicable section here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:08, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject United States Presidents/Archive 5! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject United States, an outreach effort which aims to support development of United States related articles in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!! |
-- Kumioko ( talk) 15:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
I am hoping to get some help from the knowledgeable folks here in order to get an article on Jennifer Fitzgerald ready for the main space. Here is where it is located currently, User:UhOhFeeling/Jennifer_Fitzgerald. Please feel free to edit away. If not, any advice on how to make this a solid article would be much appreciated. What would probably be the greatest help is adding more solid ref's. Thanks much. -- UhOhFeeling ( talk) 21:01, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
If you are so inclined, you may want to comment at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:US_Heads_of_State, a nomination for deletion of a navbox template that could potentially be used in all President of the United States biographies. Cheers! — Kevin Myers 14:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{ WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:27, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I have submitted a proposal at the Village pump regarding tagging non article items in Wikipedia. Please take a moment and let me know what you think. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:13, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I noticed, in my opinion, that they don't include ALL of the trivia and secret lives of the presidents. Join me in the new "Get It Out There" task force to reveal this. Together we can make their secrets known. (Open membership on December 31, 2010 Type Get It Out There!) Aruda556 ( talk) 02:52, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I nominated Hayes for Featured Article here. If anyone has any comments or suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them. Coemgenus 18:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
I just completed a substantial edit here; main improvement is added references and clean up of reference/footnote formats. The article still needs a lot of work. Carmarg4 ( talk) 14:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion going on at Talk:Benjamin Harrison that might benefit from the opinions of members of this project. -- Coemgenus 12:27, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF ( talk) 14:26, 22 February 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) 02:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{
citation}}, {{
cite journal}}, {{
cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id=
(or worse {{
arxiv|0123.4567}}
|url=
http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567
), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567
, likewise for |id=
and {{
JSTOR|0123456789}}
|url=
http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789
→ |jstor=0123456789
.
The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
{{cite journal
|author=John Smith
|year=2000
|title=How to Put Things into Other Things
|journal=Journal of Foobar
|volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=3–4
|arxiv=0123456789
|asin=0123456789
|bibcode=0123456789
|doi=0123456789
|jfm=0123456789
|jstor=0123456789
|lccn=0123456789
|isbn=0123456789
|issn=0123456789
|mr=0123456789
|oclc=0123456789
|ol=0123456789
|osti=0123456789
|rfc=0123456789
|pmc=0123456789
|pmid=0123456789
|ssrn=0123456789
|zbl=0123456789
|id={{para|id|____}}
}}
Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
File:Lolo Soetoro Ann Dunham Maya Soetoro-Ng Barack Obama.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.45.160 ( talk) 05:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Most of the presidents are remembered on at least one stamp. There appears to be a concerted effort underway on the part of philatelist editors to highlight this in the presidential articles. Multiple stamp images are being added to some articles, and in some cases even new sections added devoted to the detailed stamp representation for the president. My own opinion is that the stamp feature is not germane to the article and should not be emphasized – if not eliminated entirely. Most recently this has, in my view, taken up a completely inordinate amount of attention and discussion with Lincoln. Carmarg4 ( talk) 13:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there is some active discussions on the talk page and some content updates to the project page but being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I agree that WikiProjects US Presidents should be included under the WikiProjects United States Umbrella -- Sorry Kumioko, don't know where to put this! SenatorSteve ( talk) 14:17, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
United States dollar, a page within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for July 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:02, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
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The September 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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talk)
03:21, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:50, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
The December 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 (
talk)
01:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Is up for FPOC. This is one of the highest (if not the highest) visibility portal on Wikipedia, I recommend commenting on it! Cheers, Res Mar 23:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
The January 2012 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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There are alot of us working hard on these various articles and the interruption from the blackout is not helpful. Neutrality is the hallmark of the WP platform and should not be compromised. I do agree in opposing some provisions of SOPA and PIPA; but the WP Foundation should handle their response to this as well as other political and legislative issues without co-opting the website with an unproductive and counterintuitive result. Hoppyh ( talk) 20:15, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I have just completed a major edit and a review might be warranted. I have not reviewed technicals or reference formats, though I did work on some images. Hoppyh ( talk) 20:19, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello editors interested in Abraham Lincoln. I just created a proposal for a new WikiProject with a focus on Lincoln, similar to the WikiProject that exists for Barack Obama. Please feel free to comment on my proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Abraham Lincoln. – Muboshgu ( talk) 22:42, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
The quest for getting Wikipedia editors the sources they need for articles related to U.S. Presidents and other subjects is gaining momentum. Here's what's happening and what you can sign up for right now:
In addition to these great partnerships, you might be interested in the next-generation idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. It's still in the preliminary stages, but if you like the idea, add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal to start developing the project. Drop by the talk page of User:Ocaasi, who is overseeing these projects, if you have any questions.-- JayJasper ( talk) 17:49, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko ( talk) 02:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
For some reason an editor has informed me about the documents and records held at the Ford Presidential Library and Museum on my my talk page. Evidently it is a good source for information regarding Ford and related history. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 16:49, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
There's a discussion ongoing at Talk:Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness regarding the extent to which the article should be built around a 2003 journal article arguing that FDR had Guillain-Barre Syndrome rather than polio; outside input would be welcome. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 00:55, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Michael Barera and I'm (barring the unforeseen) going to be named Wikipedian in Residence at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library later this month. I'm very interested in creating a subject-specific task force or WikiProject in an effort to organize and coordinate efforts between the various people involved in the Ford collaboration (including members of the Ford Presidential Library and Museum, the Michigan Wikipedians student club, and other interested and dedicated Wikipedians who are involved remotely). I'm curious if you think it would be more appropriate to create a task force under this WikiProject or a standalone WikiProject (like the Barack Obama one) for Ford. Because there aren't nearly as many articles concerning Ford as there are Obama, my initial thought was to go with a task force under this WikiProject, but we would really like to tag, assess, and create/improve all articles relating to Ford (ie, more than just the Ford biography that is under the scope of this project). Please let me know what you think is best, but I would like to reiterate my desire to create some sort of project or task force that is completely subject-focused and open to any interested editors. Thank you so much and do take care! Michael Barera ( talk) 20:02, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Please comment at Talk:Bill_Clinton#WP:OVERLINK_.3F or just step in and edit as you see fit.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 06:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 2000+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. Please post any comments or concerns you might have there. -- Kumioko ( talk)
There is an RfC at Talk:Barack Obama#RfC: Should "the first African American to hold the office" have a footnote in the lead?. Please comment there. Wilhelm Meis ( ☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 21:49, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Informed feedback is needed on the Thomas Jefferson talk page regarding whether we should list Architect in the info box on that page. The issue has been discussed at length there in the upper sections. -- Gwillhickers 15:19, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko ( talk) 18:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Washington-bible.jpg has been nominated for deleting -- 70.24.249.39 ( talk) 11:17, 16 September 2013 (UTC)