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In classifying a regional mall, perhaps the best example in Texas would be Town East Mall in Mesquite located on the east side of the Dallas - Fort Worth area the way it reportedly attracts 20 million customers a year from the surrounding North Texas area, from East Texas, further out from Louisiana, and even further from Arkansas. When speaking about things regional in Texas, one is most likely going to be talking about the Dallas - Fort Worth area. In contrast, the malls located in the Houston area are going to tend to be more localized in scale. In other words, the building of the more regional type of malls in the Dallas area did not have as much of an impact on the existing business of its urban stores located within Dallas proper. That is not the case with shopping in Houston as the more localized business of its malls tended to have an impact on the business of the urban stores located within Houston proper. I'm not claiming that Houston doesn't have regional malls. I think the Katy Mills Mall, the Woodlands Mall, and the San Jacinto Mall are all regional shopping centers attracting outside customers to the Houston metropolitan area. But, by and large, the smaller Houston market doesn't have the same amount of regional shopping that has been built up around the significantly larger regional market surrounding Dallas - Fort Worth. By regional in scale, think about the new Nebraska Furniture Mart now being constructed within the city of The Colony, about the huge Texas Motor Speedway that was built north of Fort Worth, about the Deloitte University built in Southlake, about the Grapevine Mills Mall built in Grapevine, as well as about the huge Gaylord Texas Convention Center and Resort constructed on Lake Grapevine, and about all those other numerous regional attractions and resorts that have since been built up around them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uncle Emanuel Watkins ( talk • contribs) 23:44, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Can we get some editors to look at the recent discussion on the talk page of the USA article. We seem to have a slue of new editors fighting and could use a few experienced editors to help out and guide them. -- Moxy ( talk) 04:02, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
I've created the above, but not being too familiar with US politics I'd appreciate someone checking it over. -- S.G.(GH) ping! 18:38, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Is University, Mississippi redundant to University of Mississippi? Is Mississippi State, Mississippi redundant to Mississippi State University?
WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Fuck (film) is a candidate for Featured Article quality — comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck (film)/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 18:08, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I'm new to this page and I was just looking around the Project to see what was going on and things that could be contributed to and worked on and I found this section on the To Do list tab titles 'Good article nominees' It seems to be a list of links to United States related articles but there is really no indication as to what these articles are being nominated for. I'm just looking for some clarification. Cheers Rawlem ( talk) 18:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is ongoing about the lead to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution article. Please help form a consensus at Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution#Proposal for lead-- Mark Miller ( talk) 12:59, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
I started a request for comment at Edward Snowden#added videos. All views are welcome. -- Dr. Fleischman ( talk) 06:28, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and created Category:Targeted killing, a category to encompass articles related to the topic of Targeted killing.
Suggestions for additional articles to add into the category would be appreciated, feel free to add them yourself or suggest them at Category talk:Targeted killing.
Cheers,
— Cirt ( talk) 01:58, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I would like to add our event venue to the Wikipedia listing of Round Top Antiques Week. We have a 35,000 sq ft venue in Warrenton in the heart of the antiques week. We also have a winter show the same weekend as The Big Red Barn. Thank you for adding The Lone Star Gallery to the description. 66.68.113.7 ( talk)Kaci VanCoutren —Preceding undated comment added 16:10, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
I believe my husband was on the ship "picaway" in1946 for the testing of the nuclear weapon. Would like to conttact other soldiers who was there. His name is James Cooper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.29.0.134 ( talk) 18:10, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Category:LGBT state legislators in Arizona and 33 other sub-categories of Category:LGBT state legislators of the United States, all of which are within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for merger to their parent categories. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:22, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Please see the discussion at
Talk:List of Mitt Romney presidential campaign supporters, 2012#RFC: Should a list of endorsements include people who quietly donated?
Thank you.
Binksternet (
talk) 06:11, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I was just looking to see where ADM(archer daniels midland) ranked in the largest agriculture companies and found that they aren't even listed, yet they have 89 billion in sales. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.169.27.230 ( talk) 16:25, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Miyagawa and I have nominated Portal:Star Trek as a featured portal candidate.
Commented would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Star Trek.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 02:23, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Fundingmoney is adding lists of incumbent governors (well, so far just their states) to all such articles: see this one here, which I reverted. I brought it up on their talk page but since they're doing it on so many articles I think it should be discussed here. I'm loath to press mass rollback on these presumably good-faith edits, but I see no valid reason for bloating every one of those articles with such lists: governors simply aren't important enough in the grand scheme of things. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 04:57, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
WP:USA is a parent project for many other projects, but it seems that its specific usage and thus tagging, administration and operation is all dependent upon every other Wikiproject to use and be under WP:USA in order for WP:USA to operate effectively OR for every other Wikiproject not under the USA, but still about the USA to be tagged with WP:USA to have it show up as being part of the project. The end result is a half-finished system and its simply sluggish - anyone want to move forward with a rally or split of the functionality related to the WP:USA banners? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 05:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
@ WhisperToMe:: Above, you said "But AFAIK Gone With the Wind is not associated with any one state". Not getting involved in the larger discussion, but a novel set entirely in Georgia, focused on a historical event in Georgia (particularly Sherman's march to the sea), and by a Georgia author should be (and is currently) tagged as a WikiProject:Georgia article. Cdtew ( talk) 12:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I added portals to Gone with the Wind (film). However a Wikipedian reverted the edit and told me "This has been discussed in the past. There is no consensus to add portals to film articles."
There is a problem: This article is also relevant to the WikiProject United States, so that project also must have a say in whether that article allows portals, yes? Does the WikiProject United States agree with not having portals in articles related to American films?
I do not think it is a good idea for one WikiProject to impose rules over its own articles like that because it affects other WikiProjects. See Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Video_games_developed_in_Japan for a conflict between the Video Game WikiProject and the Japan WikiProject
I also posted to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film#Cross_WikiProject_relations_and_decisions_about_portals WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:22, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Do American novels (novels, films derived from novels, characters) fall within the scope of WikiProject United States? For instance, would Gone with the Wind be within this project's scope? If there is a dispute regarding the nationality of the novel and there are reliable sources describing the novel as "American" then would it be within the project's scope? Template:WikiProject United States explicitly has parameters for American film, American music, American animation, etc. so I would think novels are covered.
I started this discussion after a user responded in User_talk:SchroCat#Wrong_portal_removed. WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:24, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Due to decreased activity I have tagged this semi-active.
If I get no responses on here in 7 days it's becoming {{WikiProject status|inactive}} and it will be noticed everywhere.
WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:48, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
|importance=
to |USA-importance=
and |USA=yes
, this is a cosmetic change, and would prevent future uses of the banner from just assessing everything as some USA important topic. As for breaking apart the template. Substituting ((WikiProject some state name|class=X|importance=Z))((WPUSA|class=X|importance=Y))
for ((WPUSA|statename=yes|statename-importance=Z|class=X|importance=Y))
is also cosmetic. --
76.65.128.112 (
talk) 01:39, 1 January 2014 (UTC)I suggest that this wikiproject implement the new "Draft"-class and categorize into Category: Draft-Class United States articles, for pages in the WP:Drafts namespace that was recently initiated. This would allow tracking of articles related to this wikiproject that are in draft form, which members of this wikiproject may wish to improve and move into the mainspace. -- 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 23:38, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
While I notified the sub-projects related to the US government, in case it didn't get through... WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:55, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Here is an RFC on whether to add Portal:Film in the United States to: Gone with the Wind (film) Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposal_to_add_Portal:Film_in_the_United_States_to_Gone_with_the_Wind_.28film.29 WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:37, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands " Capital Hill" or " Capitol Hill"? Please weigh in at Talk:Capital Hill, Saipan if you care. — AjaxSmack 22:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Was the Emancipation Proclamation an executive order, a presidential proclamation, or both? Has the meaning of "proclamation" changed since the 19th century? If a U.S. president were to emancipate a group of people in the 21st century, would it now be called an emancipation order?
I bring up this hypothetical scenario because " executive order" and " presidential proclamation" both exist as articles, yet in their current form it is far from clear what the difference is between the two terms w.r.t the U.S. presidency. 68.165.77.241 ( talk) 22:18, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)/archive2.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:42, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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I moved from Atlanta in 2011 because I had had cancer then I got legionnaires' pneumonia and I had it about 6 months before I fell out, temp104.5 and was unconscious for 3 days and I woke and couldn't talk, walk, write, acute renal failure and several neurological deficits. The doctors told me I would be able to go back to work in a month and I didn't I was still the same way. The neurologist told me that the legionella bacteria was killed but the toxins were left in me cerebellum causing cerebral ataxia and encephalopathy. T hat was on01/01/09. I went to several doctors,psychologist, psychiatrist neurologist and a neurosurgeon and now my speech is better I walk but I stagger when I walk, I have difficulty swallowing. Falls and bounce when I walk, keeps headache, neck pain and pain in my joints and legs sometimes. I was going to one private dr. and several others. I went to ER one night and the dr. diagnosed me as acutely and she suspected that I was A chronic alcoholic. She diagnosed this without doing any kind of blood, urine, or breath analyzer. I went to the ob-gyn who was nice and thorough, I was in a lot of pain and she did an ultrasound and found I had a lot of fibroids and she increased my pain medicine which I was glad I could take one pill instead of 1 and 1/2. When I went back to see her in Nov. her nurse took my med. and I could see on her face that she was angry. She went and told the dr. and she came in the room and said I can't give you anymore pain pills you will have to go to the pain dr. I went to the neuro dr. and he hollered before I could say anything and said I can't give you no control drugs. We had a meeting and it was said that the only way we can give any control drugs is that you have terminal ca and has six months or less to live. I hollered back at him and I said you don't let a dog suffer and if you had a wife you wouldn't let her suffer. If that is the way the medical law is they should start euthanasia. I called to see if I had my referral and the nurse told me that the dr. said don't give me no meds. I was not the right kind of pt. She said she told them I had been treated for stomach problems which was a lie she never treated me for a stomach problem. I know different stats have different laws but in Atlanta they don't let you hurt. Then I called my insurance company to see if they could help me find a dr. They were very nice and they said they had a navigator to do that and she would call me back. When I talked to her she said she was the nurse and I had legionnaires and it didn't" last that long it was like the flu or pneumonia. I have cried, I am so depressed and frustrated because I came down here to live and the medical system is not working for me. I was told in2010 that I had 2 years to live. I called the insurance company back and asked for the supervisor to ask her about the navigator and how was getting all my private information and she hung up in my face. I know it is not all but there is still so much prejudice here. It is not all white on black but when some blacks get a fairly decent job they are prejudiced against blacks too. Do you have any neurologist that knows anything about life after legionnaires. Some are alright but since I went back to work so soon after 3 surgeries for cancer and chemo keeping my immune system down I got the worst of it. I read only about 30% died after it. The dr. I had down here only looks at your walking but my problems are in my head, they say there is no cure for it like ms or cerebral palsy. I can never sleep at night, I have nightmares about me retaliating against the hospital They didn't want to give me my chart after asking for it for 3 weeks. I was very depressed, frustrated no sleep, trembling, dropping. things falling down. I said where did my life go. I had called the police to go with me to go and get my chart and I told my daughter If I was not back I would probably be dead, I felt that I was ready to die and they don't know how to treat me and won't give me a pill to sleep or something to assist me in trembling. The navigator told me I shouldn't complain because legionnaires' only last a short time. The medical system is like gangs they don't snitch. They will kill you in the hospital and your family will never know. I asked my drs. since I was a cancer pt. and has a lot of cancer deaths in my family could I get a pet scan and it takes so long to stick me and a pet scan would go all over my body, they were done on me in Atlanta but she said they only get the Para neoplastic levels unless you already have cancer. I have been a RN since 1975 and this is the worst quality of nursing I have ever seen. With my memory leaving at times and nobody knows what ataxia is I might go one day and let them see how they let poor patients suffer now or I can always go down the street if I get to hurting bad or can't sleep I will go and get some illegal drugs to take my mind off suffering. Don't they know one day they will get sick. I know they get drinks after parties but you don't let a patient just die even if they are an alcoholic or addict. we have them in every family. Everything I learned In nursing is not done for me. I feel like I'm going crazy and my personality is telling me no. What is happening to the healthcare system.
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User:Sion8, who ironically has an infobox saying he is an American, states on his userpage that "The word "American" in any language should not be used in the context to refer to a citizen or national of the United States of America." Examples shown to me on my talk page include [
[1]], [
[2]], [
[3]], [
[4]], [
[5]]) He doesn't seem to like "United States either as shown by
[6] where he changes
Flag of the United States to the redirect
Flag of the U.S. after changing
American government to
United States government. Where he can't avoid 'American' he changes it to "U.S. American"
[7]. Here
[8] in the key to an image he changes U.S. to U.S.A. against our MOS and the fact that the article uses U.S. throughout. Given his userpage manifesto discussions seems futile. My question is do people find this acceptable?
Dougweller (
talk) 09:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Wiktionary now shows both 'US-American' and 'U.S. American' in 2004 use as nouns; 'US American' in 2007. It doesn't show or tell any use as an adjective.
Google translates US-amerikanischen -> American, German to English (eg, translate de:US-amerikanischen Film). It detects US American as English and translates US American -> US-amerikanische, English to a German adjective. -- P64 ( talk) 19:31, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
This article about civil disobedience to desegregate Mississippi beaches was posted at WP:AFC by an IP in a draft so well-composed we could publish it straight away. It has a few basic refs, but there are a number of books on GoogleBooks that discuss these events, so it could easily be expanded. Unfortunately, IPs are hard to get a hold of, so if someone else wants to jump in it'd be great to build it up, maybe find a Public Domain photo? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:34, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I've added Fuck (film) to TFA nominations, discussion is at Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/requests#Fuck_.28film.29. — Cirt ( talk) 22:34, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Could anybody help to update it ? I wonder if it could be renamed as military contractors, which is less biased/ more neutral.-- Wuerzele ( talk) 04:14, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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I've gone ahead and created a new article on Chicago Options Associates.
Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page.
Cheers,
— Cirt ( talk) 08:07, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
This list appears to use only median household income as an indicator of whether or not a community is "poor." Low median household income does not necessarily make a community poor. Other factors must be taken into account, such as poverty rate and cost of living. The term "poor" itself is subjective. Bms4880 ( talk) 22:15, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I've listed the article Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for peer review.
Help with furthering along the quality improvement process would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 01:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
A quick scan of some issues of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" on the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org showed that it has a lot of the images that are very useful/usable and was able to add portraits to a number of biographical articles lacking images. It also shows that a number of topics that need to be covered from the historic past are lacking (for instance I found fr:Thaddeus Hyatt in French alone). If someone has access to archives of this and other such pre-1923 illustrated newspapers, a lot could be gained by systematic image harvesting. Shyamal ( talk) 12:19, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Could use some fresh eyeballs and voices at this previously stale merge proposal, splitting the content at Opium Wars into the articles First Opium War and Second Opium War and turning the page into a dab between them, to avoid the existing content fork. — LlywelynII 13:46, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Neelix ( talk) 20:48, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated List of wettest tropical cyclones in the United States for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Neelix ( talk) 04:14, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Just want to note that the Fourth Amendment, currently a high quality GA, is trying to make the final push to FA. With a little hard work, we can turn that into a . More importantly, we can help educate the public about a very timely and important subject. -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 02:04, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I just noticed that there are no Indian reservations listed at Template:Whatcom County, Washington (the county has two), and looking at some others, it looks like some of these templates have them and some don't. These templates are all titles "municipalities and communities of...", and I'm not sure if Indian Reservations would be called municipalities, but they are absolutely communities. Adding them to each of these county templates that missing them would be a huge task, so it's probably best to determine if and how to do it before spending too much time. I personally suggest modeling after Template:Skagit County, Washington which has a subheading for reservations. Ego White Tray ( talk) 05:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Assistance request. There is a DRN which has run away before a volunteer took it on at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Puerto Rico. The issue revolves around including sourced material in the article narrative, whether to allow both sides of a controversy into the article narrative introduction. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 10:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Apollo Eleven ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Apollo Eleven -- 70.50.148.248 ( talk) 08:15, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI, there is a notice at WT:MILHIST about Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Pennsylvania provincial conference 1776 -- 70.50.148.248 ( talk) 06:44, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
At Puerto Rico, there is an RfC Can the existence of the PR status controversy be admitted to the article? The DRN put forward by another editor was closed due to no volunteer. An RfC was recommended there. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 17:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of Fuck (film) know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on March 1, 2014. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask Bencherlite ( talk · contribs). You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 1, 2014. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Fuck is a 2005 American documentary film by director Steve Anderson, which argues that the word is key to discussions about freedom of speech and censorship. The film provides perspectives from art, linguistics, society and comedy. Linguist Reinhold Albert Aman, journalism analyst David Shaw, language professor Geoffrey Nunberg and Oxford English Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower explain the term's history and evolution. The film features the last interview of author Hunter S. Thompson before his suicide. It was first shown at the AFI Film Festival at ArcLight Hollywood; it has subsequently been released on DVD in America and in the UK and used as a resource on several university courses. The New York Times critic A. O. Scott called the film a battle between advocates of morality and supporters of freedom of expression, while other reviews criticized its length and repetitiveness. Law professor Christopher M. Fairman commented on the film's importance in his 2009 book on the same subject. The American Film Institute said, "Ultimately, [it] is a movie about free speech ... Freedom of expression must extend to words that offend." ( Full article...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Above was posted to my user talk page, posting here as well. Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 23:20, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I've created an article on the organization Free Expression Policy Project.
Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be most appreciated, at Talk:Free Expression Policy Project.
Cheers,
— Cirt ( talk) 04:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the book, Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.
Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 01:27, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the newspaper, The Houstonian (newspaper).
Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:The Houstonian (newspaper).
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 03:31, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
I really want to know if there are any objections to the following change in the infobox for cities:
The city infobox should mention the city's rank in population among cities of the state. Currently, the infobox mentions the city's rank in population among cities of the United States. For example, with San Antonio, it gives the city a rank of 7, which means the seventh largest city in the United States. This change should give San Antonio a rank of 2, which means the second largest city in Texas. Any thoughts on this?? Georgia guy ( talk) 19:33, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I have a list (partially complete) of US athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics who need Wikipedia pages. The partial list is here. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 12:05, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I do I.T. work for William P. Hobby, Jr and he recently asked me how he might edit his own page in Wikipedia. He wants to do two things in particular:
1. Bold his book titles.
2. Add a section called, "Family Eponyms."
He didn't ask me to do it, but I was asked about how to do it. Knowing as little as I do about Wikipedia, this kind of editing would seem to fall on the bad side of WP:COI both for him to edit the page and for me to help him to do it.
Putting aside the book title boldenings (which smell a little too much like self-promotion), he is a fount of information about his family's history and he has a lot of ties within the universities around the state.
If this information was of general interest to the page, how might he get this information up there without running afoul of the policies?
Mwhalenhtc ( talk) 21:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Indian Scout ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Indian Scout (motorcycle) -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 08:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure how the Arizona SB 1062 article as it is was approved. It reads like an editorial. Claiming that one possible effect of the bill is the purpose and function of the bill is misleading. The actual text of the bill isn't even referenced - only other editorials from biased newspapers. The article should be cleaned up or taken down in order to prevent the public from being influenced by un-researched opinion on an encyclopedia website. Pkclan ( talk) 23:45, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I see that the bill's text has been added now. That's a start. Pkclan ( talk) 23:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I've nominated Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for Featured Article candidacy.
Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 05:33, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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The usage of Plymouth ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Plymouth -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Why does people on walfair get tax money. There getting my money all year — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.19.130.24 ( talk) 03:07, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Massachusetts Minutemen and Minutewomen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:01, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Boston Minutemen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Boston Minutemen for the discussion -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:11, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article about the Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 22:10, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Is here: Talk:Investigative_Project_on_Terrorism#RFC:_Does_the_use_of_the_Islamophobia_template_in_this_article_violate_wikipedias_policy_on_NPOV.3F.— alf laylah wa laylah ( talk) 23:07, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. I am looking for suggestions on how to improve the article Voting Rights Act of 1965, and I would be highly appreciative if folks from WikiProject United States could leave some comments about it on the peer review I requested at Wikipedia:Peer review/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. The article was recently promoted to GA status, and it'd be fantastic to get it up to FA status. Thanks! – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 03:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi US team, I have adopted a help if I can approach to my first forays into wiki, I notice the "list of law clerks" 11 pages are in different formats and and not as usable as they could be, with the "main" list page huge and a bit clunky, I have placed on my user page a proposed format, with dummy data, which I can automate onto each of the appropriate pages if and when finalised (or finalized US spelling) this format uses much less byte data so should increase load time and potentially reduce the need to "split list" etc and adds more functionality, I am also suggesting at this stage to remove all "dead links" these add no value and take up further space, the links can be added back where and when appropriate.
Any help, comments, suggestions are all welcome.
Kind regards
The Original Filfi (
talk) 01:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article on the book, Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.
Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.
— Cirt ( talk) 08:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I need help at Talk:LR-87#Number of nozzles. TIA Andrewa ( talk) 10:50, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
If anyone's interested, I've tabulated the numbers of US articles needing coordinates at Category talk:United States articles missing geocoordinate data - previously there was no easy way to eg see that there were 3,309 articles needing geotagging in California, as it was spread over 59 subcategories. Hopefully that might inspire some people to have a go at reducing the backlog - it should be quite doable as the UK coord missings were "zeroed" a few years ago from a much worse position (relative to population). At least the US doesn't have the medieval lost buildings/events that the UK does, which take a lot of research to locate! Each state has typically only a couple of hundred, so it makes for a nice finite little sub-project; CA Wikpedians can tackle it a county at a time. You might want to have a look at WP:WikiProject Geographical coordinates before starting - Bing Maps is a bit easier to extract the numbers from than Google. Le Deluge ( talk) 13:04, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties was promoted to Featured Article quality.
Thank you very much to all who helped with this successful quality improvement project related to freedom of speech and censorship,
— Cirt ( talk) 00:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article on the book, Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.
Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.
— Cirt ( talk) 04:18, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 14:15, 24 March 2014 (UTC).
The usage and scope of Declaration of Independence ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:United States Declaration of Independence -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 06:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I have nominated Portal:New York City for Featured Portal status. Please engage in discussion at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:New York City. – Muboshgu ( talk) 20:08, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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Anyhow, If you provide some suggestion to move our working way to make result then our NGO progress rapidly to reach to the goal point.
Hoping your nice and peaceful mind and god bless you all the times and getting result from you very soon.
Best regards, Majedur Rahman Khan President Youth Progressive Programme youthprogressive@hotmail.com Mobile: 88-01552301760 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.39.134 ( talk) 11:59, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
There are currently two proposals one concerning city staff, and one concerning city officials on the issue of which form to use "American X", versus "X in the United States". Quite frankly, I thought there was already a consensus, or even a policy on this, but there appears to be some debate on the matter. Can we please get some input, so as to get the story straight?! It can't be one thing one day, and another on another day. Greg Bard ( talk) 16:09, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.
For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and Wikipedia:Notability.
— Cirt ( talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton#Requested move 8 to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Where should I apply for a summer job on Martha's Vineyard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.7.144.60 ( talk) 19:18, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos should be merged into/with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexican-Americans, with a possible compromise name of Wikipedia:WikiProject Hispanic and Latino Americans, as a subproject of WPUSA. i dont know if we could make the Mex Am project a further sub project/task force. I also dont know if it all matters, as both are moribund, as is the portal ive revived. I sure dont know how to do any of this. anyone want to try to revive this at all? Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 05:18, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Somebody at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Florida listed Florida CDPs which do not yet have articles. Is there a bot which can create those pages? WhisperToMe ( talk) 10:54, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is ranked by WikiProject United States as an article of "Top-importance", is currently a Featured Article Candidate (FAC). Feedback on the article's candidacy would be greatly appreciated! Please post feedback on the candidacy page at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. Please note that FAC reviewers are not required to review or offer feedback on every aspect of an article. Thank you! – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 17:07, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
A discussion has begun in order to gain a consensus on whether to include or exclude material involving the CIA and weapons smuggling in the article. Please weigh in on the discussion at the talk page. This may also be a good time to reassess the rating on the article. Thank you.-- Maleko Mela ( talk) 22:05, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
An artifact of the way Wikipedia links places to maps that is particularly relevant to counties and similar areas is that Google maps will not show the county (area) boundaries. The standard lat/log link to the Geohack page results in a Google map link to a point rather than the area with a pink boundary representing the border of the county. The map with boundaries is often useful and a link so one did not have to copy/paste would be convenient. Fholson 12:53, 14 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fholson ( talk • contribs)
I think a lot of unecessary stuff has been added to the article, Sally Banes. Apparently some of the codes have been wrongfully added, though they weren't needed. OccultZone ( Talk) 10:54, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
In an unusual manner for Wikipedia, the current US Senate campaigns now have extremely extensive (i.e. complete sets) of "hypothetical polling" results (in some cases more than 37K of such data, in addition to up to 12K of normal polls), in addition to each new poll as they come out (that is, one or more new polls each week). I fear this is "data for the sake of data" and that we should restrict such polls, ephemeral as they are, to only covering the most significant ones, and not up to two hundred polls in one article (The NC 2014 one, for example).
Ought there be a uniform standard here as to how much "data" should be placed in a single article? Ought it be restricted to polls of some reasonably major significance? Cheers. Collect ( talk) 15:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I'm citing this from 1976 (I think it's since been repealed) in an article. It claims to be the Code of Federal Regulations, but appears to be Title 23 of the United States Code. Which is it, and how do I cite it? 23 C.F.R. 661 (1976)? -- NE2 06:35, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
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talk) 14:36, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
See talk:Mexico–United States association football rivalry where it is contended that this article should be called Mexico–United States football rivalry (this uses "football" to mean "soccer") -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:22, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if there's any US v Mexico in (American) football ? -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
The above list, noted as being within this Wikiproject's scope, was a mess. It was overlong, had no sectioning at all, and included many entries that were not, in fact, "wars" at all. I attempted an extensive clean-up, including pruning some obvious non-wars, and creating three sections, at what I thought were fairly logical demarcations of American history: The Revolution, The Civil War, and World War II. If you take a look at the history of the article, you'll see that one user keeps reverting wholesale all of the work I did on the list. At first he did so with a really odd edit summary ("Considering the was no regime change from from the revolution to the Civil war, it doesn't make sense to add borders stating 'From the Revolution to the Civil War'. Had the Confederacy won the civil war, this would be appropriate"), but now he's simply reverting my work on the list without even the barest edit summary, as if I were vandalizing the article or something. I even took out the benign sections that seemed to offend him, but he still reverted sans edit summary. Please take a look at what I've been trying to do, and let me know if I'm far afield in my work. Lithistman ( talk) 13:49, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Is anyone interested in reviewing the Major League Soccer good article nomination? The nomination has been pending for more than 100 days. Barryjjoyce ( talk) 19:44, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Discussion about whether or not to delete article for Kleargear, discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination). — Cirt ( talk) 20:31, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Per d:Wikidata:Bot_requests#US population, Wikidata soon should start to import demographic data about the United States. I noticed that some articles like Manhattan and Los Angeles County provide the 2013 population figure in the infobox while other give 2010 (2010 is a census, so probably more reliable). We can import both to Wikipdata, but I am wondering, which one should be considered the "preferred" one, that is the one that will be returned by default when someones looks for a simple population figure ? (other years will still be accessible, but it will require a little bit of Lua programming). -- Superzoulou ( talk) 21:21, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Freddie Aguilar is also considered a one hit-wonder in the States. Please, correct this information!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JomartheGreat ( talk • contribs) 13:24 23 July 2014
Pleas add information about this country to this articles-- Kaiyr ( talk) 13:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi all,
I recently submitted the article Briarcliff Manor, New York to the list of featured article candidates. I am actively following its review, and will be glad to take criticism and advice, and I welcome you to edit the article directly. Would any members of this WikiProject take some time to assist in the article review? Thank you.
Respectfully,
--
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(talk) 00:18, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Odd spam of some sort in this article.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayors_of_Mesa,_Arizona — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.121.154.240 ( talk) 05:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to call to your attention this "discussion" that I have tried to get going on the Top-importance Article "Americans" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Americans#Total_Population_of_Americans
Thank You, an anon ( 70.176.70.213 ( talk) 03:36, 31 July 2014 (UTC))
Would there be any objection to supporting the already commonly used Future class in the WP US template? This is used for articles that are being written about a subject (I assume always an event) that occurs in the near future. I've been informed on the template page that the change to support it is about as simple as it gets. Thoughts? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:52, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
I also just found an earlier discussion of this. It seems the objection then was that the Future assessment wouldn't get updated on a timely basis -- but that applies to any quality assessment as far as my experience goes. Also, like expressed in that discussion, I think individual projects should get to decide whether they use it. WP US enabling it isn't making any specific project do any particular thing with regards to this class. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:04, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
A topic where details are subject to change often. The article covers a future topic of which no broadcasted version exists so far and all information is subject to change when new information arises from reliable sources. With multiple reliable sources there might be information that contradicts other information in the same or other articles.And for anyone who wants examples of what such articles would be there is Category:Future-Class articles. — Maile ( talk) 13:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
How about opening it up to Support or Oppose, and let anyone interested say so here. — Maile ( talk) 16:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Support - Mostly, because it won't hurt to have the Future class option on the template. It already exists as one option on Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. As described above by Stevietheman, it seems to me to be just an additional assessment option on the WPUS template. Nobody here is obligated to assess anything as any class. We don't exactly have a stampede of volunteers assessing articles anyway. So, let's add the option. — Maile ( talk) 16:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Support - Supporting is the equivalent of flipping a switch and causes no damage to anything, nor does it require any adaptation work by included projects (although if they choose to use it, a new assessment category has to be created for their project, but that's a snap. :) ). This is basically supporting an assessment class that is already widely supported, whether if makes perfect sense on its merits or not. Individual projects can decide to use it or not use it. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
DoneCompleted Per WOSlinker above, the feature was enabled on the template. The word "Future" has to be completely typed out (not case sensitive) when assessing an article as such. — Maile ( talk) 17:48, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi- This newly-written article is currently a Featured List Candidate. Any constructive comments, feedback, or reviews (positive or otherwise) are welcome. Thanks.-- Godot13 ( talk) 23:20, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Template:Lang-en-US ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 08:07, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
There is an on going discussion in WikiProject Latinos on whether or not WikiProjects Latinos and Mexican-American should be merged WikiProject United States and to be renamed WikiProject Hispanic and Latino Americans. Erick ( talk) 12:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#2011 License revocation. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:33, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Asian-American Medal of Honor recipients#Asian American. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
It has been suggested that the subject city subarticle be moved to Louisville Metro. Please read all the arguments made so far and participate if you have a chance. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:42, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Affluence in the United States#Good article review request. I think the article has strayed from its purpose, but I may be considered biased. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:24, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
I found a university that i couldn't find in the list that appear in this ohio universities list from wikipedia. Russ college of engineering and technology. more over there is in this page a list of universities of different areas, but there is no place for the industrial area. Another idea is that it can appear a link, that help people to find and shared information about different questions related with any university in ohio, maybe it is useful for the people who is looking for this type of information. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.11.117.139 ( talk) 11:59, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
I have requested a move from Sabine Pass Light to Sabine Pass Lighthouse. Please weigh in on the request. Otr500 ( talk) 19:46, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
I looked through the list and did not find J. H. Hardy listed. I found a document on ebay signed by him as Louisiana's secretary of state dated 6/15/1868 in the "92nd" year of our independence. If you google J.H.Hardy Louisiana secretary of state you will also find a reference to him in a NY Times article. Sundoc59 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sundoc59 ( talk • contribs) 21:19, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Project members are invite to participate to this RfC regarding ceremonial seniority position. There has been a request for closure but there are not yet enough participants to assess consensus. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Participate here /info/en/?search=Talk:Americans#Poll Secondplanet ( talk) 16:31, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Category:Afghanistan-Iraq War Memorials 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Maybe someone in this project could catch an eye on this new article (Notability & neutrality evaluation). Iselilja ( talk) 07:10, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Most articles about United States cities list a FIPS 55-3 code in the infobox. However, these codes were withdrawn in 1998. Should we start removing this information from articles? — Stepheng3 ( talk) 16:11, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, |
The images from the book State Arms of the Union highlighted in Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876 (a newly featured list) have been nominated as a Featured Picture set. Comments/reviews are welcome through 27 September 2014.-- Godot13 ( talk) 05:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
The usage of "Durham" is under discussion, see talk:Durham (disambiguation) -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 06:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
I am an undergraduate student at Rice University who has decided to revise “Hunger in the United States” in order to raise the article’s status and improve the content. I know the article does not currently have a rating for both quality and importance for this WikiProject, but I hope my work will earn the article a GA rating and draw attention to the fact this article should be of high importance. Hunger in America affects millions of people; therefore, I believe the page should reflect the relevance of this social issue in the United States. Currently, the article as minimal information and does not provide readers a comprehensive view on hunger in the United States.
I plan to edit and modify the current sections as well as add new sections. Overall I want to fact check the page and add more current data. For the existing sections, I want to eliminate “21st century” and “20th century” because both provide historical information that can be organized under the section “History.” Also, I want to reduce the length of the page’s historical portion because I don’t think it should be the predominate feature of the article.
My revision to “Hunger in the United States” will mainly focus on adding new sections that reflect a holistic approach to discussing the topic. I plan to create a “Causes” section that highlights the believed influences or theories for the prevalence of hunger in the country. Also in a new “Effects” section,” I want to include subsections (geographical region, ethnicity, and children) that focus on hunger’s impact on the most affected social groups in the United States. I want to include a “Fighting hunger” section that is broken into two topics, governmental and private. Currently, the article does address the hunger relief options in America, but there is minimal information and the organization is not logical. I feel the topic of hunger relief deserves its own section instead of falling under the “21 century” section. This portion of the page would go in depth on sharing the various current hunger relief options as well as highlight what programs have been the most and least successful. I believe the page would benefit from a “Challenges to alleviating hunger” section that addresses the obstacles in conquering this social issue because the United States continually struggles to eliminate (or severely reduce) hunger. Finally, I think I can easily expand the “See also” and “External links” sections because such a broad topic like hunger connects to countless social issue topics and organizations.
There has been no activity on “Hunger in the United States” Talk Page and I know the page has not been of importance to this WikiProject, but I do believe this page needs editing. Do you all feel this is the right approach to revising the page? I feel I am proposing a neutral and logical proposal but if anyone sees any potential obstacles or issues with my plan please let me know. I am open to all suggestions, so please share with me your thoughts and any feedback. MBouchein ( talk) 23:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
FYI, the usage of "American Landrace" is up for discussion, see Talk:Dutch Landrace -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 06:37, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear United States experts: I am not sure which more specific project might be interested in this. This old AfC submission has a slightly different title from the mainspace article. Google give far more hits for the title in the draft than for the title in mainspace. Are these really the same topic? — Anne Delong ( talk) 14:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
The RFC is here: Talk:2014_Iranian-led_intervention_in_Iraq#RFC:_Military_intervention_against_ISIS_2014_in_Iraq Serialjoepsycho ( talk) 03:51, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm proposing the above as preferred terms of reference as a friend from the UK and based on the following:
Gregkaye ✍♪ 12:41, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
My article submission Regiment of Riflemen (United States) was accepted last night and assigned to this WikiProject. It's rated as a C-Class and I'd like to see it get the tender loving care to make it up to B-Class. I'll also be asking Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history to adopt and review the effort. Thanks.-- Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 18:46, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
My name is Anita Torres and I personally tending to Tricia Aguirre's (Arise) Wikipedia page. I'm having a music video still of her from 2011 uploaded as well as finding more information/reliable sources on her daily. It's a fairly new page. Bottom Line:Her page needs to be left alone and NOT deleted. Having a Wikipedia page is a tremendous accomplishment for her as well as an honour. More information will be added as soon as possible. Please leave her page alone. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anita maria torres ( talk • contribs) 16:28, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Would the "|listas=" parameter in WP:United States, interfere/conflict with the one in WP:Biography? Adamdaley ( talk) 22:44, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
|listas=
is not required if it is already present in a different template. It would also similarly conflict with DEFAULTSORT: I don't know if the first instance or the last would be the one that ends up "winning", though. –
Philosopher
Let us reason together. 02:38, 9 October 2014 (UTC)Before making a bot approval request, I would like to inform everyone about the Hispanic and Latino Americans task force being revived as a task force for this project. I need to know if anyone objects to me making a bot request to update all the previous Latinos project banner to the Hispanic and Latino Americans task force as it is now part of this project. In regards, Erick ( talk) 03:25, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Affluence in the United States, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. GamerPro64 18:58, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
According to the writer Ann Bausum speaking on WORT-FM community radio in Madison, WI on Oct. 15, 2014, the Sewall-Belmont house was not simply "deliberately saved." When Bausum was a girl her father was living in the house while teaching in a college there. When Bausum and her mother visited one time, he introduced them to the elderly Alice Paul who, instead of talking about her past, spoke about her present challenge. This challenge was a fight with a Congressional attempt to condemn the house to build the Hart Building. As Bausum tells it, the house's continued existence as a museum at one corner is a result of Alice Paul's immovability in the face of Congressional Power. (Stephen Mikesell, Madison WI) Singing Coyote ( talk) 18:09, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. — Cirt ( talk) 22:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#VG comments subpages regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject United States articles that would be affected by this action are these:
If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject United States' use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. - Thibbs ( talk) 15:53, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Several editors are arguing over what the first line of African American should consist of. As per custom, the first line is the definition. See the discussion at:
/info/en/?search=Talk:African_American#Antebellum.3F
Thanks. Mr. Swordfish ( talk) 22:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
I've nominated an article relevant to this project for WP:TFAR consideration, discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/George B. McClellan. — Cirt ( talk) 20:15, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
G'day all, Ulysses S. Grant, an article that may be of interest to your project, is currently undergoing a Military History project A-class review. A few more editors are needed to help review article, so I would like to invite participants from the US project to participate. The review can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Ulysses S. Grant; please stop by and help review the article! Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 02:17, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:African American#Straw poll. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I have created a new article on admission of states to the Union. Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:42, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Worcester is under discussion, see Talk:Worcester -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 04:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, |
There has been a discussion at Talk:United States#Area in square miles —sorry, in a wall of three sections — whether to use the U.S. Census Bureau “State and other areas” which uses the MAF/TIGER database, shared by the USGS and Homeland Security. The first box on the first line reports 3,805,927 sq.mi. for the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and "Island Areas”. Some editors would like to see the figure of “50 states and DC” alone, which is available in a sub-chart.
In trying to find a resolution, I proposed a “Poll for two alternatives”, for reporting the total U.S. area in the info box.
The results are two A., three B, although one of the Bs says either way, and one of the Bs may be saying no footnote. Any comments are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 12:57, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
As you might have seen in the Signpost this week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps (and ground plans), with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. As I'm writing, over 5700 new maps have been identified, with 30.2% of the target books looked at -- but see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.
Some parts that may specifically interest this project are
The first page contains Flickr book page links for books that have largely been broken down by state; the remaining two overspill pages contain links for further books arranged chronologically.
Currently the central status page shows 866, 359 and 233 pink templated links for each of these respectively -- ie Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts the world still to be looked through as well).
Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, which is what it would be particularly good to achieve this week, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on different places throughout the country.
Please also feel free to filter this message down to more local projects that may be interested. Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 21:55, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Many of the articles on the November 4 election need to be updated. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Please comment on talk:drone attacks in Pakistan. Uhlan talk 20:36, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
What was Mr. Surma's role, if any, in the now controversial NCAA sanctions imposed on Penn State, and the firing of Joseph Vincent Paterno - which even PA Governor Corbett - a voting member of the BOT at the time - has tried to distance himself from?
68.37.181.181 (
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Admission to the Union now has these sections:
There's still an immense amount on law and politics and history that is not there. Michael Hardy ( talk) 02:12, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Shouldn't the template be caled {{ Protected areas of the United States}}? As far as can tell, these places are called "protected areas", not "Protected Areas"; and we don't capitalize page titles here except for the first word. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:52, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Several or many articles are part of the Wikiproject United States that are about politicians and their political positions.
In Wikipedia, we do not allow companies to self promote themselves by advertising their products. Likewise, politicians should not be allowed the same.
Listing of political positions is inappropriate for a number of reasons.
One example is President Obama's handling of Keystone XL, the pipeline. It is generally acknowledged that he is delaying it so as not to make one of two of his constituencies mad. The environmentalist oppose it. Union members want it. Yet, such an analysis would never be allowed on Wikipedia. Instead, his political position would be continued study, which portrays the situation inaccurately.
I move to disallow political positions for any WP:USA article. Eating Glass Is Bad ( talk) 20:08, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
@Eating Glass Is Bad: According to WP:NOTADVERTISING, "content hosted in Wikipedia is not for [a]dvocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view." Thus, so long as material on political positions is written objectively, it is not considered "advertising". Moreover, your assertion that "It is original research to pick and choose positions" is a mischaracterization of the term "original research", which per WP:OR "refer[s] to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist." If a politician's positions are verifiable in reliable, published sources, then they are not original research. As to your underlying concern about Wikipedia "picking and choosing" positions to include in articles, which political positions to include—like any other material–is governed by Wikipedia's NPOV policies on Due and undue weight (specifically WP:BALASPS, in this case). If many reliable sources exist discussing a politician's views on gun control, few such sources exist discussing that politician's views on the environment, and almost no such sources exist discussing that politician's views on abortion, then material on Wikipedia discussing those views should roughly match that breakdown: a fair amount of material on the politician's gun control views, a small amount of material on the politician's environmental views, and little to no material on the politician's abortion views. Some Wikipedia articles may not achieve that balance, but the solution is to fix the material, not delete it. So long as Wikipedia's policies are being observed, there's no reason for political positions to be removed from this encyclopedia. – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 00:32, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
@ User:Eating Glass Is Bad: You are considering this from the wrong perspective. Instead of considering it from an advertising standpoint, consider it from a historical one instead. What history book would not cover the political positions of a politician it covered? What encyclopedic entry on Chamberlain or Churchill wouldn't cover the positions they took on, say, the war in Europe? Then consider that Wikipedia is one of those works - we should cover historians from an appropriate perspective - and if it is often "current" or recent history that is covered, well, we can't help that. Probably the lists and sections will need to be adjusted as a better historical perspective is achieved. But since Wikipedia is not finished, that's a problem we can deal with. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
The article titled Admission to the Union -- concerning the admission of new states beyond the original 13 states -- has evolved further since I first mentioned it here, but it is still less than complete. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:32, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
In an instance where a place name is mentioned (i.e. Dayton, Ohio), should " US" or " United States" also be mentioned? This would result in "[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]], Ohio, US" instead. Also what's the preferred usage, "United States" spelled out, or just "US"?-- Prisencolinensinainciusol ( talk) 21:43, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
There is an Request for Comments in process at Talk: United States concerning the scope of area and population figures for the United States. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:40, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
I've started a new article on the book by Janice Dickinson — No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
Feel free to help out with additional secondary sources, and/or chip in with collaborative discussion at Talk:No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 06:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
I opened up an RfC for the U.S. same-sex marriage map due to the complicated situation of Kansas: RfC: How should we color Kansas? Prcc27 ( talk) 05:53, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a Request for Comments at Talk: Bath School bombings concerning how the article should be named. Shearonink ( talk) 07:17, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I'd like to invite interested editors to help clear out the backlog of thousands of uncategorized files at Media from the National Archives and Records Administration needing categories. The subjects range from military to political to agriculture and more, and proper categorization into multiple categories aids Wikipedia editors and the general public in finding appropriate media. Categorizing media works much like categorizing Wikipedia articles, although can be more specific (e.g. a black and white photograph of a female politician could be categorized under "Politicians from Maine" as well as "Black and white photographs of seated women facing left"), and like Wikipedia categorization, the most specific relevant categories should be used. More specific subsets of the National Archives images can be viewed at National Archives and Records Administration/Categorize. There are tools such as Cat-a-lot to help facilitate the categorization of large amounts of files. Cheers! --Animalparty-- ( talk) 21:53, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated Selena 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 04:48, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm unsure about this article. It has problems that I cannot describe. I'm hoping that you can get involved and clean it up. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:28, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Demographics of Filipino Americans#USVI. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:44, 6 December 2014 (UTC)-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:44, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Details can be found here: Talk:Texas Revolution — Maile ( talk) 16:13, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
The name of the article Chrysler is under discussion, see talk:Chrysler -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 05:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Starting in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson asked his Vice President ("VPOTUS"), Thomas R. Marshall, to sit in on his cabinet. This is believed to be the first instance of a VPOTUS being considered at least minimally as part of a President's cabinet. Until recently, all VPOTUS were included in the cabinet navboxes. I recently took them out, but now I realize perhaps I should have had a discussion of the changes first. Please add your comments here. Thanks! — GoldRingChip 15:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there; this is just a quick note to let you all know that the 2015 WikiCup will begin on January 1st. The WikiCup is an annual competition to encourage high-quality contributions to Wikipedia by adding a little friendly competition to editing. At the time of writing, more than fifty users have signed up to take part in the competition; interested parties, no matter their level of experience or their editing interests, are warmly invited to sign up. Questions are welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! Miyagawa ( talk) 22:06, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
There are a number of red-linked categories relating to populated places in America, e.g.
Category:Unincorporated communities in Estill County, Kentucky. I propose to create some of these over the next few days, if there are no objections. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC).
22:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Thoughts on Talk:PhinDeli Town Buford, Wyoming#Name change? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Utcursch ( talk • contribs) 19:07, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
If you know anything about this, please see my question at Talk:William Wiswesser and help there. Thanks. Pam D 18:18, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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I was in Canon City several years ago and at that time the buildings at Buckskin Joe were being removed and I was told they had been purchased by a gentleman from Eagle County, Colorado and were being moved there to his property. That was from one of the men working on the move. So the location information of Tabor's Store has probably changed. 174.24.104.240 ( talk) 05:26, 15 January 2015 (UTC)Mary A Best, Leadville, CO
I'd like to gain the communities attention to the Homeless veterans in the United States. It is in very poor shape for a subject which has received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. I hope others can help me improve this article. Thanks in advance for your time and effort.-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 19:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
There is an Rfc on mustang/Mustang capitalization going on at Talk:Mustang#Capitalization_RfC where we would be grateful for input. This project is listed on the article talk page. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 11:08, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
There is currently an RfC going on at Template talk:Infobox officeholder#RfC Congressmen's tenures in infobox. Please comment. Kraxler ( talk) 15:24, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
United States has been nominated for Good article status and a review has been carried out. Interested editors are invited to assist with improving the article to the comments at Talk:United States/GA2. After these fixes have been made it will pass and become a Good article once again. Rcsprinter123 (discourse) @ 09:28, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
This nomination has now passed; United States is a Good article. Rcsprinter123 (chatter) @ 21:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Please comment at Talk:Battle of Abu Ghraib#Future for this article. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 05:25, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case#Removal of an RS. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 04:49, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
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template:Electronics industry in the United States has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 11:52, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I write on behalf of my employer who is venturing into a new construction aspect - that of metal and steel construction. I am asked to research publications in which the company can advertise such services. The company in which my employer is partnering is located in Midwestern USA and is a manufacturer of metal and steel structures. Can someone respond to me at my email [ggaetano@ipqconstruction.org] with names of publications I can research and inquire advertising? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.253.178.61 ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new at WP and just noticed incorrect info and a bad citation at /info/en/?search=Arizona_Superior_Court
Justice court has in fact jurisdiction of cases over property cases for less than $10,000 and I've seen many forcible entry and detainer actions in justice court. There's also a bad link in Ref. 1 "Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts. Retrieved 22 June 2014."
Hope I'm in the right place here, this sure is confusing. How can this be fixed? ChristineBaker1 ( talk) 02:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
And a clarification, the info isn't incorrect per se, but misleading and I think there need to be a link to AZ justice court so readers can see which cases must be filed in justice court. The second link in Ref 1 goes to "Creating Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts" - a page not yet created. ChristineBaker1 ( talk) 02:46, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Im a 45 year old man who use to race and due freestyle tricks as a kid. I am interested in opening up another track here in cadillac michigan and would like information regarding the same TerryTattoos ( talk) 18:28, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Template:Central Asian American has been nominated for merging with Template:Middle Eastern American. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 04:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
the meaning and usage of Ontario, CA is under discussion -- 70.51.200.101 ( talk) 06:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.12.176.103 ( talk) 08:20, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:United States#National March. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 07:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC)-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 07:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't like this list at all. I would prefer a list that includes only segments of the river that are either in or the border of the selected state for the list of longest rivers in each state. For example, the Kentucky section of this article starts with the Mississippi. This makes no sense because the Kentucky segment of this river is very short; it's simply the Missouri-Kentucky state line. (It is defined as the segment of the Mississippi River that is either in Kentucky or a state line where one of the states is Kentucky.) The Kentucky segment of the Ohio River is much longer. Any thoughts on what kind of state-specific river list would make sense?? Georgia guy ( talk) 17:55, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
I am a student from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and I am looking forward to extensively editing the page on Affirmative action in the United States as part of a Wikipedia project for my Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities class. I would like to revise the current page and bring it to a "Good Rating" by adding new information, restructuring the article, and condensing current information. The page lacks a clear definition of affirmative action and needs more support in its arguments for and against affirmative action in the United States. The banner on the page lists multiple issues such as the need for the verification of sources. I would like to condense current information on the current page and add new sections/topics that help to create a more cohesive and encyclopedic entry on affirmative action in the United States.
I would appreciate any input in deleting and restructuring information on the page. I would like any advice on approaching the topic of editing the page and would be more than welcome to any feedback since this is only my second time working with Wikipedia. Please let me know if there are any questions, comments, or concerns before I start my project and edit the page.
Dwang41 ( talk) 06:06, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There appears to be one of these for every state. The two I sampled, Indiana and Louisiana, were over 95% redlinks. Why have them? John from Idegon ( talk) 07:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
I just nominated a 7 man police department in Louisiana for deletion. The article had been here for seven years and had less than a hundred edits, the last over two years ago. Its exactly what you'd expect it to be - nothing. A couple weeks ago, I nominated a volunteer fire department in Maryland that I could not find one single newspaper story on. Can we create a notability standard for public safety agencies? Also, see related discussion below. John from Idegon ( talk) 07:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
The naming of "Cougar" (should it be "Puma"?) is under discussion, see talk:Cougar -- 70.51.200.101 ( talk) 08:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated History of the Grand Canyon area 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKiernan ( talk) 10:46, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 21#Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–14). Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 05:28, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
I've noticed that the is no credit given to Cold River Bridges LLC. For being the company that rebuilt this bridge after damage from Irene, and that it was completed in record time. Also there is no mention of the fact that it is presumably the longest single-spanning covered bridge (without piers) in the country, there are lots of interesting details about the daunting task of completing the project in such a short time, as well as some rather interesting details about the techniques/strategies that were pioneered by this company specifically for this project. 24.63.233.128 ( talk) 16:14, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The primary topic of "Indian Chief" is under discussion, see Talk:Indian Chief (motorcycle) -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:05, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
See WP:REFUND where many New Jersey redirects such as {{ NJ-stub}} are under discussion -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 03:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, I just wanted to let everyone know there is now an IRC channel for WikiProject United States and related topics. The channel can be found at #WikiProject-United-States connect if anyone is interested. 96.255.237.170 ( talk) 21:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi editors and contributors: There is currently a proposed WikiProject which would focus on the United States Constitution. If you want to support the creation of this WikiProject, or want to join it when it is created, please voice your opinion, comments and suggestions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/United States Constitution. Thank you! CookieMonster755 (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Korean American#Requested move 11 March 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 00:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Would someone mind adding the census information to Dove Valley, Colorado? Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:04, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
"Cheyenne Mountain Complex" has been proposed to be merged into Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station; for the discussion, see talk:Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 01:54, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Indian American in infobox. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Spike Lee filmography is a FL and is currently under review here due to having reference issues along with navigation issues, if anyone would like to comment. LADY LOTUS • TALK 11:15, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
On going discussion on conformity of President biographies. Please add your thoughts. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 22:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Interested project members are welcome to join WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to Hillary Rodham Clinton. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 18:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock has been submitted for peer review in preparation for a run at featured article. If you are interested, please go the the peer review page and help out. Thanks, GregJackP Boomer! 19:06, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Need someone to check John Coleman (news weathercaster), usually it is long term disrupted by socks of Sonic2030. Discussion can be found here. I find it clearer that the American Meteorological Society's position on global warming has no bearing on John Coleman's position on the issue and keeping this sentence at the end of this section makes the article appear polemical, as said by one other editor before. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 09:25, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Cambodian American in infobox. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:42, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
There is a move request at Talk:Epping (disambiguation) that members of this project may be interested in. Egsan Bacon ( talk) 14:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
As the nom in the TfD at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_3 noted, without a main article, it is difficult to prove this is not a NPOV OR. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:58, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Well, the theory is that it got all the land just to harvest poop. Which I believe is true. As my teacher found it out himself. Does anyone else have the same thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sege 510 ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Virginia exists, but doesn't seem to be referenced on the Members list page for WP United States. What's the reason for this? -- Mysterious Gopher ( talk), 22:13, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
How do I add myself to one of the list of members? Nick2crosby ( talk) 19:14, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans for Prosperity#one of the most influential. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:27, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Definitely notable, could anyone assess this submission's quality? Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
My name is Betty Sayers and I was born and raised in Summerfield, La. on a farm with now electricity, gas or running water. My children ask me to write about my childhood growing up during a time that will never be again. I have written all the fact but I need help filling in the details. I would love to have someone read what I have written and maybe help me. I am a senior living on my SS check each month. Can you help?
Thanking you in advance for your time and consideration.
Betty Sayers bettysayers06@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.193.41.228 ( talk) 22:40, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm writing to ask members of this WikiProject to review some proposed revisions I have for the Tipper Gore article. The article mainly focuses on Gore's early life and work with the PMRC. My suggestions include updating and expanding the article to discuss more of her career and work, in particular, adding in her activities as Second Lady and as an activist/advocate. I posted a note on the Talk page detailing all of my suggestions, but have not received a reply there yet. I don't want to edit the article myself, since I'm working on behalf of The Glover Park Group, friends of Tipper Gore. Because of my COI, I'm hoping others can take a look at my suggestions and make changes if they agree with them. I'll be keeping an eye out here and on the article Talk page for others' feedback. Thanks! Heatherer ( talk) 14:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Please offer me suggestions (or make changes yourself) for Veterans benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States. Please post suggestions on the article's Talk page under What is needed to make this an A-class article? I plan to submit the article for A-class consideration on 30 JUN 2015 to WP:MIL and WP:USA, the two WikiProjects associated with the article.
Thank you - Mark D Worthen PsyD 19:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Is really it necessary for counties to be listed with a "county, state" format like cities are? It would better satisfy WP:COMMONNAME, WP:UCN, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:CONCISE if counties articles were listed just as the county name.-- Prisencolinensinainciusol ( talk) 01:51, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:First Battle of Bud Dajo#Merge proposal. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:52, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
There are multiple occasions wherein the bottom navbox template is given a color theme to reflect its subject, such as school colors, or for whatever other reason. I have done such for the lists of Current U.S. Senators, List of Presidents, and List of Vice Presidents. The themes may be seen below. My contributions were swiftly undone without discussion, and I believe this is an unnecessary action. I would like to build a concensus, either in favor or opposed, of these themes. I believe they do no harm, and are fitting of their subjects. The argument was made in ex post facto discussion that they were 'distractions', with which I disagree. My case is that such is done for other such bottom templates, and they have remained so styled for years, such as this case: {{Template:United States Military Academy superintendents}}, which has existed for five years without quarrel.
Hopefully some consensus may be made in this matter. Thanks Spartan7W § 23:23, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Medal of Honor#Number of Medal of Honor awards. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 00:15, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the venue to ask but... I'm currently working on updating List of cities and towns in Alabama to have more information, images, and a better lead with the goal of bringing it up to featured status similar to List of cities and towns in California. I have brought 8 such lists to featured status in the past, and hope to see Alabama there as well. I'm wondering if anybody has some free time, I need help populating the "city or town" column, the 2000 population column, and the % growth column. If there are any GIS wizards out there, Alabama could also use a simple map that shows what areas are incorporated, and which are not. Thanks for your help. Mattximus ( talk) 14:05, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
The Wikipedia "List of Austrian Americans" ( /info/en/?search=List_of_Austrian_Americans ) contains an entry for Austrian-born philosopher Karl Popper. He was never an American citizen, nor did he live there for any length of time. Perhaps, someone might wish to delete his entry from that list. 91.115.249.129 ( talk) 17:13, 16 June 2015 (UTC) [1]
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United States v. Ramsey (1926) has been nominated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United States v. Ramsey (1926)/archive1 for featured article. The case is about the Osage Indian murders in the 1920s and one of the first murder investigations of the Bureau of Investigations, which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If interested, please stop by and add your comments, either for, against, or neutral. GregJackP Boomer! 19:26, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Does WP:USPLACE article naming guideline apply to the U.S. territory of Guam ? See Talk:Dededo, Guam for the discussion -- 70.51.203.69 ( talk) 02:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 22:40, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, several articles in this project's scope were featured in a recent Wikimedia blog post, including SS Arctic disaster, Ezra Meeker (a pioneer and writer), and Joseph B. Foraker (a senator). I'd love to get your feedback! Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 10:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
See the talk page at press time of Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color. Before Eamonster's edit request on 25 June, the color was #3333FF ( ). The edit request, answered by MSGJ, changed it to #00A6EF ( ). The change was opposed by Mitchumch and Byzantium Purple, and I changed it back to the previous color based on the latter's edit request. Mitchumch, for one, thought there should have been a discussion first, so I'll ask all of you: which color should we have to represent the Democratic Party in infoboxes here? APerson ( talk!) 18:54, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Articles, like Title 9 of the United States Code, don't explain how notable each Title of US Code is. Shall we expand further or propose deletion? -- George Ho ( talk) 06:48, 29 June 2015 (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 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
In classifying a regional mall, perhaps the best example in Texas would be Town East Mall in Mesquite located on the east side of the Dallas - Fort Worth area the way it reportedly attracts 20 million customers a year from the surrounding North Texas area, from East Texas, further out from Louisiana, and even further from Arkansas. When speaking about things regional in Texas, one is most likely going to be talking about the Dallas - Fort Worth area. In contrast, the malls located in the Houston area are going to tend to be more localized in scale. In other words, the building of the more regional type of malls in the Dallas area did not have as much of an impact on the existing business of its urban stores located within Dallas proper. That is not the case with shopping in Houston as the more localized business of its malls tended to have an impact on the business of the urban stores located within Houston proper. I'm not claiming that Houston doesn't have regional malls. I think the Katy Mills Mall, the Woodlands Mall, and the San Jacinto Mall are all regional shopping centers attracting outside customers to the Houston metropolitan area. But, by and large, the smaller Houston market doesn't have the same amount of regional shopping that has been built up around the significantly larger regional market surrounding Dallas - Fort Worth. By regional in scale, think about the new Nebraska Furniture Mart now being constructed within the city of The Colony, about the huge Texas Motor Speedway that was built north of Fort Worth, about the Deloitte University built in Southlake, about the Grapevine Mills Mall built in Grapevine, as well as about the huge Gaylord Texas Convention Center and Resort constructed on Lake Grapevine, and about all those other numerous regional attractions and resorts that have since been built up around them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uncle Emanuel Watkins ( talk • contribs) 23:44, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Can we get some editors to look at the recent discussion on the talk page of the USA article. We seem to have a slue of new editors fighting and could use a few experienced editors to help out and guide them. -- Moxy ( talk) 04:02, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
I've created the above, but not being too familiar with US politics I'd appreciate someone checking it over. -- S.G.(GH) ping! 18:38, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Is University, Mississippi redundant to University of Mississippi? Is Mississippi State, Mississippi redundant to Mississippi State University?
WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Fuck (film) is a candidate for Featured Article quality — comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck (film)/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 18:08, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I'm new to this page and I was just looking around the Project to see what was going on and things that could be contributed to and worked on and I found this section on the To Do list tab titles 'Good article nominees' It seems to be a list of links to United States related articles but there is really no indication as to what these articles are being nominated for. I'm just looking for some clarification. Cheers Rawlem ( talk) 18:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is ongoing about the lead to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution article. Please help form a consensus at Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution#Proposal for lead-- Mark Miller ( talk) 12:59, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
I started a request for comment at Edward Snowden#added videos. All views are welcome. -- Dr. Fleischman ( talk) 06:28, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and created Category:Targeted killing, a category to encompass articles related to the topic of Targeted killing.
Suggestions for additional articles to add into the category would be appreciated, feel free to add them yourself or suggest them at Category talk:Targeted killing.
Cheers,
— Cirt ( talk) 01:58, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I would like to add our event venue to the Wikipedia listing of Round Top Antiques Week. We have a 35,000 sq ft venue in Warrenton in the heart of the antiques week. We also have a winter show the same weekend as The Big Red Barn. Thank you for adding The Lone Star Gallery to the description. 66.68.113.7 ( talk)Kaci VanCoutren —Preceding undated comment added 16:10, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
I believe my husband was on the ship "picaway" in1946 for the testing of the nuclear weapon. Would like to conttact other soldiers who was there. His name is James Cooper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.29.0.134 ( talk) 18:10, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Category:LGBT state legislators in Arizona and 33 other sub-categories of Category:LGBT state legislators of the United States, all of which are within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for merger to their parent categories. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:22, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Please see the discussion at
Talk:List of Mitt Romney presidential campaign supporters, 2012#RFC: Should a list of endorsements include people who quietly donated?
Thank you.
Binksternet (
talk) 06:11, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I was just looking to see where ADM(archer daniels midland) ranked in the largest agriculture companies and found that they aren't even listed, yet they have 89 billion in sales. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.169.27.230 ( talk) 16:25, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Miyagawa and I have nominated Portal:Star Trek as a featured portal candidate.
Commented would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Star Trek.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 02:23, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Fundingmoney is adding lists of incumbent governors (well, so far just their states) to all such articles: see this one here, which I reverted. I brought it up on their talk page but since they're doing it on so many articles I think it should be discussed here. I'm loath to press mass rollback on these presumably good-faith edits, but I see no valid reason for bloating every one of those articles with such lists: governors simply aren't important enough in the grand scheme of things. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 04:57, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
WP:USA is a parent project for many other projects, but it seems that its specific usage and thus tagging, administration and operation is all dependent upon every other Wikiproject to use and be under WP:USA in order for WP:USA to operate effectively OR for every other Wikiproject not under the USA, but still about the USA to be tagged with WP:USA to have it show up as being part of the project. The end result is a half-finished system and its simply sluggish - anyone want to move forward with a rally or split of the functionality related to the WP:USA banners? ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 05:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
@ WhisperToMe:: Above, you said "But AFAIK Gone With the Wind is not associated with any one state". Not getting involved in the larger discussion, but a novel set entirely in Georgia, focused on a historical event in Georgia (particularly Sherman's march to the sea), and by a Georgia author should be (and is currently) tagged as a WikiProject:Georgia article. Cdtew ( talk) 12:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I added portals to Gone with the Wind (film). However a Wikipedian reverted the edit and told me "This has been discussed in the past. There is no consensus to add portals to film articles."
There is a problem: This article is also relevant to the WikiProject United States, so that project also must have a say in whether that article allows portals, yes? Does the WikiProject United States agree with not having portals in articles related to American films?
I do not think it is a good idea for one WikiProject to impose rules over its own articles like that because it affects other WikiProjects. See Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Video_games_developed_in_Japan for a conflict between the Video Game WikiProject and the Japan WikiProject
I also posted to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film#Cross_WikiProject_relations_and_decisions_about_portals WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:22, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Do American novels (novels, films derived from novels, characters) fall within the scope of WikiProject United States? For instance, would Gone with the Wind be within this project's scope? If there is a dispute regarding the nationality of the novel and there are reliable sources describing the novel as "American" then would it be within the project's scope? Template:WikiProject United States explicitly has parameters for American film, American music, American animation, etc. so I would think novels are covered.
I started this discussion after a user responded in User_talk:SchroCat#Wrong_portal_removed. WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:24, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Due to decreased activity I have tagged this semi-active.
If I get no responses on here in 7 days it's becoming {{WikiProject status|inactive}} and it will be noticed everywhere.
WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:48, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
|importance=
to |USA-importance=
and |USA=yes
, this is a cosmetic change, and would prevent future uses of the banner from just assessing everything as some USA important topic. As for breaking apart the template. Substituting ((WikiProject some state name|class=X|importance=Z))((WPUSA|class=X|importance=Y))
for ((WPUSA|statename=yes|statename-importance=Z|class=X|importance=Y))
is also cosmetic. --
76.65.128.112 (
talk) 01:39, 1 January 2014 (UTC)I suggest that this wikiproject implement the new "Draft"-class and categorize into Category: Draft-Class United States articles, for pages in the WP:Drafts namespace that was recently initiated. This would allow tracking of articles related to this wikiproject that are in draft form, which members of this wikiproject may wish to improve and move into the mainspace. -- 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 23:38, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
While I notified the sub-projects related to the US government, in case it didn't get through... WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:55, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi! Here is an RFC on whether to add Portal:Film in the United States to: Gone with the Wind (film) Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposal_to_add_Portal:Film_in_the_United_States_to_Gone_with_the_Wind_.28film.29 WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:37, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands " Capital Hill" or " Capitol Hill"? Please weigh in at Talk:Capital Hill, Saipan if you care. — AjaxSmack 22:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Was the Emancipation Proclamation an executive order, a presidential proclamation, or both? Has the meaning of "proclamation" changed since the 19th century? If a U.S. president were to emancipate a group of people in the 21st century, would it now be called an emancipation order?
I bring up this hypothetical scenario because " executive order" and " presidential proclamation" both exist as articles, yet in their current form it is far from clear what the difference is between the two terms w.r.t the U.S. presidency. 68.165.77.241 ( talk) 22:18, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)/archive2.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:42, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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I moved from Atlanta in 2011 because I had had cancer then I got legionnaires' pneumonia and I had it about 6 months before I fell out, temp104.5 and was unconscious for 3 days and I woke and couldn't talk, walk, write, acute renal failure and several neurological deficits. The doctors told me I would be able to go back to work in a month and I didn't I was still the same way. The neurologist told me that the legionella bacteria was killed but the toxins were left in me cerebellum causing cerebral ataxia and encephalopathy. T hat was on01/01/09. I went to several doctors,psychologist, psychiatrist neurologist and a neurosurgeon and now my speech is better I walk but I stagger when I walk, I have difficulty swallowing. Falls and bounce when I walk, keeps headache, neck pain and pain in my joints and legs sometimes. I was going to one private dr. and several others. I went to ER one night and the dr. diagnosed me as acutely and she suspected that I was A chronic alcoholic. She diagnosed this without doing any kind of blood, urine, or breath analyzer. I went to the ob-gyn who was nice and thorough, I was in a lot of pain and she did an ultrasound and found I had a lot of fibroids and she increased my pain medicine which I was glad I could take one pill instead of 1 and 1/2. When I went back to see her in Nov. her nurse took my med. and I could see on her face that she was angry. She went and told the dr. and she came in the room and said I can't give you anymore pain pills you will have to go to the pain dr. I went to the neuro dr. and he hollered before I could say anything and said I can't give you no control drugs. We had a meeting and it was said that the only way we can give any control drugs is that you have terminal ca and has six months or less to live. I hollered back at him and I said you don't let a dog suffer and if you had a wife you wouldn't let her suffer. If that is the way the medical law is they should start euthanasia. I called to see if I had my referral and the nurse told me that the dr. said don't give me no meds. I was not the right kind of pt. She said she told them I had been treated for stomach problems which was a lie she never treated me for a stomach problem. I know different stats have different laws but in Atlanta they don't let you hurt. Then I called my insurance company to see if they could help me find a dr. They were very nice and they said they had a navigator to do that and she would call me back. When I talked to her she said she was the nurse and I had legionnaires and it didn't" last that long it was like the flu or pneumonia. I have cried, I am so depressed and frustrated because I came down here to live and the medical system is not working for me. I was told in2010 that I had 2 years to live. I called the insurance company back and asked for the supervisor to ask her about the navigator and how was getting all my private information and she hung up in my face. I know it is not all but there is still so much prejudice here. It is not all white on black but when some blacks get a fairly decent job they are prejudiced against blacks too. Do you have any neurologist that knows anything about life after legionnaires. Some are alright but since I went back to work so soon after 3 surgeries for cancer and chemo keeping my immune system down I got the worst of it. I read only about 30% died after it. The dr. I had down here only looks at your walking but my problems are in my head, they say there is no cure for it like ms or cerebral palsy. I can never sleep at night, I have nightmares about me retaliating against the hospital They didn't want to give me my chart after asking for it for 3 weeks. I was very depressed, frustrated no sleep, trembling, dropping. things falling down. I said where did my life go. I had called the police to go with me to go and get my chart and I told my daughter If I was not back I would probably be dead, I felt that I was ready to die and they don't know how to treat me and won't give me a pill to sleep or something to assist me in trembling. The navigator told me I shouldn't complain because legionnaires' only last a short time. The medical system is like gangs they don't snitch. They will kill you in the hospital and your family will never know. I asked my drs. since I was a cancer pt. and has a lot of cancer deaths in my family could I get a pet scan and it takes so long to stick me and a pet scan would go all over my body, they were done on me in Atlanta but she said they only get the Para neoplastic levels unless you already have cancer. I have been a RN since 1975 and this is the worst quality of nursing I have ever seen. With my memory leaving at times and nobody knows what ataxia is I might go one day and let them see how they let poor patients suffer now or I can always go down the street if I get to hurting bad or can't sleep I will go and get some illegal drugs to take my mind off suffering. Don't they know one day they will get sick. I know they get drinks after parties but you don't let a patient just die even if they are an alcoholic or addict. we have them in every family. Everything I learned In nursing is not done for me. I feel like I'm going crazy and my personality is telling me no. What is happening to the healthcare system.
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User:Sion8, who ironically has an infobox saying he is an American, states on his userpage that "The word "American" in any language should not be used in the context to refer to a citizen or national of the United States of America." Examples shown to me on my talk page include [
[1]], [
[2]], [
[3]], [
[4]], [
[5]]) He doesn't seem to like "United States either as shown by
[6] where he changes
Flag of the United States to the redirect
Flag of the U.S. after changing
American government to
United States government. Where he can't avoid 'American' he changes it to "U.S. American"
[7]. Here
[8] in the key to an image he changes U.S. to U.S.A. against our MOS and the fact that the article uses U.S. throughout. Given his userpage manifesto discussions seems futile. My question is do people find this acceptable?
Dougweller (
talk) 09:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Wiktionary now shows both 'US-American' and 'U.S. American' in 2004 use as nouns; 'US American' in 2007. It doesn't show or tell any use as an adjective.
Google translates US-amerikanischen -> American, German to English (eg, translate de:US-amerikanischen Film). It detects US American as English and translates US American -> US-amerikanische, English to a German adjective. -- P64 ( talk) 19:31, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
This article about civil disobedience to desegregate Mississippi beaches was posted at WP:AFC by an IP in a draft so well-composed we could publish it straight away. It has a few basic refs, but there are a number of books on GoogleBooks that discuss these events, so it could easily be expanded. Unfortunately, IPs are hard to get a hold of, so if someone else wants to jump in it'd be great to build it up, maybe find a Public Domain photo? MatthewVanitas ( talk) 15:34, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I've added Fuck (film) to TFA nominations, discussion is at Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/requests#Fuck_.28film.29. — Cirt ( talk) 22:34, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Could anybody help to update it ? I wonder if it could be renamed as military contractors, which is less biased/ more neutral.-- Wuerzele ( talk) 04:14, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 18:32, 22 January 2014 (UTC).
I've gone ahead and created a new article on Chicago Options Associates.
Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page.
Cheers,
— Cirt ( talk) 08:07, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
This list appears to use only median household income as an indicator of whether or not a community is "poor." Low median household income does not necessarily make a community poor. Other factors must be taken into account, such as poverty rate and cost of living. The term "poor" itself is subjective. Bms4880 ( talk) 22:15, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I've listed the article Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for peer review.
Help with furthering along the quality improvement process would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 01:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
A quick scan of some issues of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" on the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org showed that it has a lot of the images that are very useful/usable and was able to add portraits to a number of biographical articles lacking images. It also shows that a number of topics that need to be covered from the historic past are lacking (for instance I found fr:Thaddeus Hyatt in French alone). If someone has access to archives of this and other such pre-1923 illustrated newspapers, a lot could be gained by systematic image harvesting. Shyamal ( talk) 12:19, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Could use some fresh eyeballs and voices at this previously stale merge proposal, splitting the content at Opium Wars into the articles First Opium War and Second Opium War and turning the page into a dab between them, to avoid the existing content fork. — LlywelynII 13:46, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Neelix ( talk) 20:48, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated List of wettest tropical cyclones in the United States for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Neelix ( talk) 04:14, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Just want to note that the Fourth Amendment, currently a high quality GA, is trying to make the final push to FA. With a little hard work, we can turn that into a . More importantly, we can help educate the public about a very timely and important subject. -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 02:04, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I just noticed that there are no Indian reservations listed at Template:Whatcom County, Washington (the county has two), and looking at some others, it looks like some of these templates have them and some don't. These templates are all titles "municipalities and communities of...", and I'm not sure if Indian Reservations would be called municipalities, but they are absolutely communities. Adding them to each of these county templates that missing them would be a huge task, so it's probably best to determine if and how to do it before spending too much time. I personally suggest modeling after Template:Skagit County, Washington which has a subheading for reservations. Ego White Tray ( talk) 05:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Assistance request. There is a DRN which has run away before a volunteer took it on at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Puerto Rico. The issue revolves around including sourced material in the article narrative, whether to allow both sides of a controversy into the article narrative introduction. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 10:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Apollo Eleven ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Apollo Eleven -- 70.50.148.248 ( talk) 08:15, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI, there is a notice at WT:MILHIST about Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Pennsylvania provincial conference 1776 -- 70.50.148.248 ( talk) 06:44, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
At Puerto Rico, there is an RfC Can the existence of the PR status controversy be admitted to the article? The DRN put forward by another editor was closed due to no volunteer. An RfC was recommended there. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 17:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of Fuck (film) know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on March 1, 2014. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask Bencherlite ( talk · contribs). You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 1, 2014. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Fuck is a 2005 American documentary film by director Steve Anderson, which argues that the word is key to discussions about freedom of speech and censorship. The film provides perspectives from art, linguistics, society and comedy. Linguist Reinhold Albert Aman, journalism analyst David Shaw, language professor Geoffrey Nunberg and Oxford English Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower explain the term's history and evolution. The film features the last interview of author Hunter S. Thompson before his suicide. It was first shown at the AFI Film Festival at ArcLight Hollywood; it has subsequently been released on DVD in America and in the UK and used as a resource on several university courses. The New York Times critic A. O. Scott called the film a battle between advocates of morality and supporters of freedom of expression, while other reviews criticized its length and repetitiveness. Law professor Christopher M. Fairman commented on the film's importance in his 2009 book on the same subject. The American Film Institute said, "Ultimately, [it] is a movie about free speech ... Freedom of expression must extend to words that offend." ( Full article...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Above was posted to my user talk page, posting here as well. Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 23:20, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I've created an article on the organization Free Expression Policy Project.
Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be most appreciated, at Talk:Free Expression Policy Project.
Cheers,
— Cirt ( talk) 04:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the book, Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.
Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 01:27, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
I've recently gone ahead and created an article about the newspaper, The Houstonian (newspaper).
Help with suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:The Houstonian (newspaper).
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 03:31, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
I really want to know if there are any objections to the following change in the infobox for cities:
The city infobox should mention the city's rank in population among cities of the state. Currently, the infobox mentions the city's rank in population among cities of the United States. For example, with San Antonio, it gives the city a rank of 7, which means the seventh largest city in the United States. This change should give San Antonio a rank of 2, which means the second largest city in Texas. Any thoughts on this?? Georgia guy ( talk) 19:33, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I have a list (partially complete) of US athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics who need Wikipedia pages. The partial list is here. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 12:05, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I do I.T. work for William P. Hobby, Jr and he recently asked me how he might edit his own page in Wikipedia. He wants to do two things in particular:
1. Bold his book titles.
2. Add a section called, "Family Eponyms."
He didn't ask me to do it, but I was asked about how to do it. Knowing as little as I do about Wikipedia, this kind of editing would seem to fall on the bad side of WP:COI both for him to edit the page and for me to help him to do it.
Putting aside the book title boldenings (which smell a little too much like self-promotion), he is a fount of information about his family's history and he has a lot of ties within the universities around the state.
If this information was of general interest to the page, how might he get this information up there without running afoul of the policies?
Mwhalenhtc ( talk) 21:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Indian Scout ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Indian Scout (motorcycle) -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 08:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure how the Arizona SB 1062 article as it is was approved. It reads like an editorial. Claiming that one possible effect of the bill is the purpose and function of the bill is misleading. The actual text of the bill isn't even referenced - only other editorials from biased newspapers. The article should be cleaned up or taken down in order to prevent the public from being influenced by un-researched opinion on an encyclopedia website. Pkclan ( talk) 23:45, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I see that the bill's text has been added now. That's a start. Pkclan ( talk) 23:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I've nominated Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties for Featured Article candidacy.
Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties/archive1.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 05:33, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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The usage of Plymouth ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Plymouth -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Why does people on walfair get tax money. There getting my money all year — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.19.130.24 ( talk) 03:07, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Massachusetts Minutemen and Minutewomen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:01, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Boston Minutemen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Boston Minutemen for the discussion -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:11, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article about the Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 22:10, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Is here: Talk:Investigative_Project_on_Terrorism#RFC:_Does_the_use_of_the_Islamophobia_template_in_this_article_violate_wikipedias_policy_on_NPOV.3F.— alf laylah wa laylah ( talk) 23:07, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. I am looking for suggestions on how to improve the article Voting Rights Act of 1965, and I would be highly appreciative if folks from WikiProject United States could leave some comments about it on the peer review I requested at Wikipedia:Peer review/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. The article was recently promoted to GA status, and it'd be fantastic to get it up to FA status. Thanks! – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 03:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi US team, I have adopted a help if I can approach to my first forays into wiki, I notice the "list of law clerks" 11 pages are in different formats and and not as usable as they could be, with the "main" list page huge and a bit clunky, I have placed on my user page a proposed format, with dummy data, which I can automate onto each of the appropriate pages if and when finalised (or finalized US spelling) this format uses much less byte data so should increase load time and potentially reduce the need to "split list" etc and adds more functionality, I am also suggesting at this stage to remove all "dead links" these add no value and take up further space, the links can be added back where and when appropriate.
Any help, comments, suggestions are all welcome.
Kind regards
The Original Filfi (
talk) 01:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article on the book, Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.
Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars.
— Cirt ( talk) 08:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I need help at Talk:LR-87#Number of nozzles. TIA Andrewa ( talk) 10:50, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
If anyone's interested, I've tabulated the numbers of US articles needing coordinates at Category talk:United States articles missing geocoordinate data - previously there was no easy way to eg see that there were 3,309 articles needing geotagging in California, as it was spread over 59 subcategories. Hopefully that might inspire some people to have a go at reducing the backlog - it should be quite doable as the UK coord missings were "zeroed" a few years ago from a much worse position (relative to population). At least the US doesn't have the medieval lost buildings/events that the UK does, which take a lot of research to locate! Each state has typically only a couple of hundred, so it makes for a nice finite little sub-project; CA Wikpedians can tackle it a county at a time. You might want to have a look at WP:WikiProject Geographical coordinates before starting - Bing Maps is a bit easier to extract the numbers from than Google. Le Deluge ( talk) 13:04, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties was promoted to Featured Article quality.
Thank you very much to all who helped with this successful quality improvement project related to freedom of speech and censorship,
— Cirt ( talk) 00:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article on the book, Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.
Help with researching additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence.
— Cirt ( talk) 04:18, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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The usage and scope of Declaration of Independence ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:United States Declaration of Independence -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 06:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I have nominated Portal:New York City for Featured Portal status. Please engage in discussion at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:New York City. – Muboshgu ( talk) 20:08, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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Anyhow, If you provide some suggestion to move our working way to make result then our NGO progress rapidly to reach to the goal point.
Hoping your nice and peaceful mind and god bless you all the times and getting result from you very soon.
Best regards, Majedur Rahman Khan President Youth Progressive Programme youthprogressive@hotmail.com Mobile: 88-01552301760 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.39.134 ( talk) 11:59, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
There are currently two proposals one concerning city staff, and one concerning city officials on the issue of which form to use "American X", versus "X in the United States". Quite frankly, I thought there was already a consensus, or even a policy on this, but there appears to be some debate on the matter. Can we please get some input, so as to get the story straight?! It can't be one thing one day, and another on another day. Greg Bard ( talk) 16:09, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.
For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and Wikipedia:Notability.
— Cirt ( talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton#Requested move 8 to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Where should I apply for a summer job on Martha's Vineyard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.7.144.60 ( talk) 19:18, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos should be merged into/with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexican-Americans, with a possible compromise name of Wikipedia:WikiProject Hispanic and Latino Americans, as a subproject of WPUSA. i dont know if we could make the Mex Am project a further sub project/task force. I also dont know if it all matters, as both are moribund, as is the portal ive revived. I sure dont know how to do any of this. anyone want to try to revive this at all? Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 05:18, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Somebody at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Florida listed Florida CDPs which do not yet have articles. Is there a bot which can create those pages? WhisperToMe ( talk) 10:54, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is ranked by WikiProject United States as an article of "Top-importance", is currently a Featured Article Candidate (FAC). Feedback on the article's candidacy would be greatly appreciated! Please post feedback on the candidacy page at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. Please note that FAC reviewers are not required to review or offer feedback on every aspect of an article. Thank you! – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 17:07, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
A discussion has begun in order to gain a consensus on whether to include or exclude material involving the CIA and weapons smuggling in the article. Please weigh in on the discussion at the talk page. This may also be a good time to reassess the rating on the article. Thank you.-- Maleko Mela ( talk) 22:05, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
An artifact of the way Wikipedia links places to maps that is particularly relevant to counties and similar areas is that Google maps will not show the county (area) boundaries. The standard lat/log link to the Geohack page results in a Google map link to a point rather than the area with a pink boundary representing the border of the county. The map with boundaries is often useful and a link so one did not have to copy/paste would be convenient. Fholson 12:53, 14 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fholson ( talk • contribs)
I think a lot of unecessary stuff has been added to the article, Sally Banes. Apparently some of the codes have been wrongfully added, though they weren't needed. OccultZone ( Talk) 10:54, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
In an unusual manner for Wikipedia, the current US Senate campaigns now have extremely extensive (i.e. complete sets) of "hypothetical polling" results (in some cases more than 37K of such data, in addition to up to 12K of normal polls), in addition to each new poll as they come out (that is, one or more new polls each week). I fear this is "data for the sake of data" and that we should restrict such polls, ephemeral as they are, to only covering the most significant ones, and not up to two hundred polls in one article (The NC 2014 one, for example).
Ought there be a uniform standard here as to how much "data" should be placed in a single article? Ought it be restricted to polls of some reasonably major significance? Cheers. Collect ( talk) 15:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I'm citing this from 1976 (I think it's since been repealed) in an article. It claims to be the Code of Federal Regulations, but appears to be Title 23 of the United States Code. Which is it, and how do I cite it? 23 C.F.R. 661 (1976)? -- NE2 06:35, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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See talk:Mexico–United States association football rivalry where it is contended that this article should be called Mexico–United States football rivalry (this uses "football" to mean "soccer") -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:22, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if there's any US v Mexico in (American) football ? -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
The above list, noted as being within this Wikiproject's scope, was a mess. It was overlong, had no sectioning at all, and included many entries that were not, in fact, "wars" at all. I attempted an extensive clean-up, including pruning some obvious non-wars, and creating three sections, at what I thought were fairly logical demarcations of American history: The Revolution, The Civil War, and World War II. If you take a look at the history of the article, you'll see that one user keeps reverting wholesale all of the work I did on the list. At first he did so with a really odd edit summary ("Considering the was no regime change from from the revolution to the Civil war, it doesn't make sense to add borders stating 'From the Revolution to the Civil War'. Had the Confederacy won the civil war, this would be appropriate"), but now he's simply reverting my work on the list without even the barest edit summary, as if I were vandalizing the article or something. I even took out the benign sections that seemed to offend him, but he still reverted sans edit summary. Please take a look at what I've been trying to do, and let me know if I'm far afield in my work. Lithistman ( talk) 13:49, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Is anyone interested in reviewing the Major League Soccer good article nomination? The nomination has been pending for more than 100 days. Barryjjoyce ( talk) 19:44, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Discussion about whether or not to delete article for Kleargear, discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination). — Cirt ( talk) 20:31, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Per d:Wikidata:Bot_requests#US population, Wikidata soon should start to import demographic data about the United States. I noticed that some articles like Manhattan and Los Angeles County provide the 2013 population figure in the infobox while other give 2010 (2010 is a census, so probably more reliable). We can import both to Wikipdata, but I am wondering, which one should be considered the "preferred" one, that is the one that will be returned by default when someones looks for a simple population figure ? (other years will still be accessible, but it will require a little bit of Lua programming). -- Superzoulou ( talk) 21:21, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Freddie Aguilar is also considered a one hit-wonder in the States. Please, correct this information!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JomartheGreat ( talk • contribs) 13:24 23 July 2014
Pleas add information about this country to this articles-- Kaiyr ( talk) 13:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi all,
I recently submitted the article Briarcliff Manor, New York to the list of featured article candidates. I am actively following its review, and will be glad to take criticism and advice, and I welcome you to edit the article directly. Would any members of this WikiProject take some time to assist in the article review? Thank you.
Respectfully,
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(talk) 00:18, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Odd spam of some sort in this article.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayors_of_Mesa,_Arizona — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.121.154.240 ( talk) 05:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to call to your attention this "discussion" that I have tried to get going on the Top-importance Article "Americans" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Americans#Total_Population_of_Americans
Thank You, an anon ( 70.176.70.213 ( talk) 03:36, 31 July 2014 (UTC))
Would there be any objection to supporting the already commonly used Future class in the WP US template? This is used for articles that are being written about a subject (I assume always an event) that occurs in the near future. I've been informed on the template page that the change to support it is about as simple as it gets. Thoughts? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:52, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
I also just found an earlier discussion of this. It seems the objection then was that the Future assessment wouldn't get updated on a timely basis -- but that applies to any quality assessment as far as my experience goes. Also, like expressed in that discussion, I think individual projects should get to decide whether they use it. WP US enabling it isn't making any specific project do any particular thing with regards to this class. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:04, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
A topic where details are subject to change often. The article covers a future topic of which no broadcasted version exists so far and all information is subject to change when new information arises from reliable sources. With multiple reliable sources there might be information that contradicts other information in the same or other articles.And for anyone who wants examples of what such articles would be there is Category:Future-Class articles. — Maile ( talk) 13:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
How about opening it up to Support or Oppose, and let anyone interested say so here. — Maile ( talk) 16:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Support - Mostly, because it won't hurt to have the Future class option on the template. It already exists as one option on Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. As described above by Stevietheman, it seems to me to be just an additional assessment option on the WPUS template. Nobody here is obligated to assess anything as any class. We don't exactly have a stampede of volunteers assessing articles anyway. So, let's add the option. — Maile ( talk) 16:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Support - Supporting is the equivalent of flipping a switch and causes no damage to anything, nor does it require any adaptation work by included projects (although if they choose to use it, a new assessment category has to be created for their project, but that's a snap. :) ). This is basically supporting an assessment class that is already widely supported, whether if makes perfect sense on its merits or not. Individual projects can decide to use it or not use it. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
DoneCompleted Per WOSlinker above, the feature was enabled on the template. The word "Future" has to be completely typed out (not case sensitive) when assessing an article as such. — Maile ( talk) 17:48, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi- This newly-written article is currently a Featured List Candidate. Any constructive comments, feedback, or reviews (positive or otherwise) are welcome. Thanks.-- Godot13 ( talk) 23:20, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Template:Lang-en-US ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 08:07, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
There is an on going discussion in WikiProject Latinos on whether or not WikiProjects Latinos and Mexican-American should be merged WikiProject United States and to be renamed WikiProject Hispanic and Latino Americans. Erick ( talk) 12:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#2011 License revocation. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 01:33, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Asian-American Medal of Honor recipients#Asian American. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 03:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
It has been suggested that the subject city subarticle be moved to Louisville Metro. Please read all the arguments made so far and participate if you have a chance. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 21:42, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Affluence in the United States#Good article review request. I think the article has strayed from its purpose, but I may be considered biased. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:24, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
I found a university that i couldn't find in the list that appear in this ohio universities list from wikipedia. Russ college of engineering and technology. more over there is in this page a list of universities of different areas, but there is no place for the industrial area. Another idea is that it can appear a link, that help people to find and shared information about different questions related with any university in ohio, maybe it is useful for the people who is looking for this type of information. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.11.117.139 ( talk) 11:59, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
I have requested a move from Sabine Pass Light to Sabine Pass Lighthouse. Please weigh in on the request. Otr500 ( talk) 19:46, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
I looked through the list and did not find J. H. Hardy listed. I found a document on ebay signed by him as Louisiana's secretary of state dated 6/15/1868 in the "92nd" year of our independence. If you google J.H.Hardy Louisiana secretary of state you will also find a reference to him in a NY Times article. Sundoc59 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sundoc59 ( talk • contribs) 21:19, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Project members are invite to participate to this RfC regarding ceremonial seniority position. There has been a request for closure but there are not yet enough participants to assess consensus. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Participate here /info/en/?search=Talk:Americans#Poll Secondplanet ( talk) 16:31, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Category:Afghanistan-Iraq War Memorials 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Maybe someone in this project could catch an eye on this new article (Notability & neutrality evaluation). Iselilja ( talk) 07:10, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Most articles about United States cities list a FIPS 55-3 code in the infobox. However, these codes were withdrawn in 1998. Should we start removing this information from articles? — Stepheng3 ( talk) 16:11, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, |
The images from the book State Arms of the Union highlighted in Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876 (a newly featured list) have been nominated as a Featured Picture set. Comments/reviews are welcome through 27 September 2014.-- Godot13 ( talk) 05:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
The usage of "Durham" is under discussion, see talk:Durham (disambiguation) -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 06:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
I am an undergraduate student at Rice University who has decided to revise “Hunger in the United States” in order to raise the article’s status and improve the content. I know the article does not currently have a rating for both quality and importance for this WikiProject, but I hope my work will earn the article a GA rating and draw attention to the fact this article should be of high importance. Hunger in America affects millions of people; therefore, I believe the page should reflect the relevance of this social issue in the United States. Currently, the article as minimal information and does not provide readers a comprehensive view on hunger in the United States.
I plan to edit and modify the current sections as well as add new sections. Overall I want to fact check the page and add more current data. For the existing sections, I want to eliminate “21st century” and “20th century” because both provide historical information that can be organized under the section “History.” Also, I want to reduce the length of the page’s historical portion because I don’t think it should be the predominate feature of the article.
My revision to “Hunger in the United States” will mainly focus on adding new sections that reflect a holistic approach to discussing the topic. I plan to create a “Causes” section that highlights the believed influences or theories for the prevalence of hunger in the country. Also in a new “Effects” section,” I want to include subsections (geographical region, ethnicity, and children) that focus on hunger’s impact on the most affected social groups in the United States. I want to include a “Fighting hunger” section that is broken into two topics, governmental and private. Currently, the article does address the hunger relief options in America, but there is minimal information and the organization is not logical. I feel the topic of hunger relief deserves its own section instead of falling under the “21 century” section. This portion of the page would go in depth on sharing the various current hunger relief options as well as highlight what programs have been the most and least successful. I believe the page would benefit from a “Challenges to alleviating hunger” section that addresses the obstacles in conquering this social issue because the United States continually struggles to eliminate (or severely reduce) hunger. Finally, I think I can easily expand the “See also” and “External links” sections because such a broad topic like hunger connects to countless social issue topics and organizations.
There has been no activity on “Hunger in the United States” Talk Page and I know the page has not been of importance to this WikiProject, but I do believe this page needs editing. Do you all feel this is the right approach to revising the page? I feel I am proposing a neutral and logical proposal but if anyone sees any potential obstacles or issues with my plan please let me know. I am open to all suggestions, so please share with me your thoughts and any feedback. MBouchein ( talk) 23:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
FYI, the usage of "American Landrace" is up for discussion, see Talk:Dutch Landrace -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 06:37, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear United States experts: I am not sure which more specific project might be interested in this. This old AfC submission has a slightly different title from the mainspace article. Google give far more hits for the title in the draft than for the title in mainspace. Are these really the same topic? — Anne Delong ( talk) 14:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
The RFC is here: Talk:2014_Iranian-led_intervention_in_Iraq#RFC:_Military_intervention_against_ISIS_2014_in_Iraq Serialjoepsycho ( talk) 03:51, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm proposing the above as preferred terms of reference as a friend from the UK and based on the following:
Gregkaye ✍♪ 12:41, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
My article submission Regiment of Riflemen (United States) was accepted last night and assigned to this WikiProject. It's rated as a C-Class and I'd like to see it get the tender loving care to make it up to B-Class. I'll also be asking Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history to adopt and review the effort. Thanks.-- Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 18:46, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
My name is Anita Torres and I personally tending to Tricia Aguirre's (Arise) Wikipedia page. I'm having a music video still of her from 2011 uploaded as well as finding more information/reliable sources on her daily. It's a fairly new page. Bottom Line:Her page needs to be left alone and NOT deleted. Having a Wikipedia page is a tremendous accomplishment for her as well as an honour. More information will be added as soon as possible. Please leave her page alone. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anita maria torres ( talk • contribs) 16:28, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Would the "|listas=" parameter in WP:United States, interfere/conflict with the one in WP:Biography? Adamdaley ( talk) 22:44, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
|listas=
is not required if it is already present in a different template. It would also similarly conflict with DEFAULTSORT: I don't know if the first instance or the last would be the one that ends up "winning", though. –
Philosopher
Let us reason together. 02:38, 9 October 2014 (UTC)Before making a bot approval request, I would like to inform everyone about the Hispanic and Latino Americans task force being revived as a task force for this project. I need to know if anyone objects to me making a bot request to update all the previous Latinos project banner to the Hispanic and Latino Americans task force as it is now part of this project. In regards, Erick ( talk) 03:25, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Affluence in the United States, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. GamerPro64 18:58, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
According to the writer Ann Bausum speaking on WORT-FM community radio in Madison, WI on Oct. 15, 2014, the Sewall-Belmont house was not simply "deliberately saved." When Bausum was a girl her father was living in the house while teaching in a college there. When Bausum and her mother visited one time, he introduced them to the elderly Alice Paul who, instead of talking about her past, spoke about her present challenge. This challenge was a fight with a Congressional attempt to condemn the house to build the Hart Building. As Bausum tells it, the house's continued existence as a museum at one corner is a result of Alice Paul's immovability in the face of Congressional Power. (Stephen Mikesell, Madison WI) Singing Coyote ( talk) 18:09, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. — Cirt ( talk) 22:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#VG comments subpages regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject United States articles that would be affected by this action are these:
If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject United States' use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. - Thibbs ( talk) 15:53, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Several editors are arguing over what the first line of African American should consist of. As per custom, the first line is the definition. See the discussion at:
/info/en/?search=Talk:African_American#Antebellum.3F
Thanks. Mr. Swordfish ( talk) 22:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
I've nominated an article relevant to this project for WP:TFAR consideration, discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/George B. McClellan. — Cirt ( talk) 20:15, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
G'day all, Ulysses S. Grant, an article that may be of interest to your project, is currently undergoing a Military History project A-class review. A few more editors are needed to help review article, so I would like to invite participants from the US project to participate. The review can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Ulysses S. Grant; please stop by and help review the article! Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 02:17, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:African American#Straw poll. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I have created a new article on admission of states to the Union. Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:42, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Worcester is under discussion, see Talk:Worcester -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 04:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, |
There has been a discussion at Talk:United States#Area in square miles —sorry, in a wall of three sections — whether to use the U.S. Census Bureau “State and other areas” which uses the MAF/TIGER database, shared by the USGS and Homeland Security. The first box on the first line reports 3,805,927 sq.mi. for the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and "Island Areas”. Some editors would like to see the figure of “50 states and DC” alone, which is available in a sub-chart.
In trying to find a resolution, I proposed a “Poll for two alternatives”, for reporting the total U.S. area in the info box.
The results are two A., three B, although one of the Bs says either way, and one of the Bs may be saying no footnote. Any comments are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 12:57, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
As you might have seen in the Signpost this week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps (and ground plans), with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. As I'm writing, over 5700 new maps have been identified, with 30.2% of the target books looked at -- but see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.
Some parts that may specifically interest this project are
The first page contains Flickr book page links for books that have largely been broken down by state; the remaining two overspill pages contain links for further books arranged chronologically.
Currently the central status page shows 866, 359 and 233 pink templated links for each of these respectively -- ie Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts the world still to be looked through as well).
Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, which is what it would be particularly good to achieve this week, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on different places throughout the country.
Please also feel free to filter this message down to more local projects that may be interested. Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 21:55, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Many of the articles on the November 4 election need to be updated. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Please comment on talk:drone attacks in Pakistan. Uhlan talk 20:36, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
What was Mr. Surma's role, if any, in the now controversial NCAA sanctions imposed on Penn State, and the firing of Joseph Vincent Paterno - which even PA Governor Corbett - a voting member of the BOT at the time - has tried to distance himself from?
68.37.181.181 (
talk) 21:51, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Admission to the Union now has these sections:
There's still an immense amount on law and politics and history that is not there. Michael Hardy ( talk) 02:12, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Shouldn't the template be caled {{ Protected areas of the United States}}? As far as can tell, these places are called "protected areas", not "Protected Areas"; and we don't capitalize page titles here except for the first word. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:52, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Several or many articles are part of the Wikiproject United States that are about politicians and their political positions.
In Wikipedia, we do not allow companies to self promote themselves by advertising their products. Likewise, politicians should not be allowed the same.
Listing of political positions is inappropriate for a number of reasons.
One example is President Obama's handling of Keystone XL, the pipeline. It is generally acknowledged that he is delaying it so as not to make one of two of his constituencies mad. The environmentalist oppose it. Union members want it. Yet, such an analysis would never be allowed on Wikipedia. Instead, his political position would be continued study, which portrays the situation inaccurately.
I move to disallow political positions for any WP:USA article. Eating Glass Is Bad ( talk) 20:08, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
@Eating Glass Is Bad: According to WP:NOTADVERTISING, "content hosted in Wikipedia is not for [a]dvocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view." Thus, so long as material on political positions is written objectively, it is not considered "advertising". Moreover, your assertion that "It is original research to pick and choose positions" is a mischaracterization of the term "original research", which per WP:OR "refer[s] to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist." If a politician's positions are verifiable in reliable, published sources, then they are not original research. As to your underlying concern about Wikipedia "picking and choosing" positions to include in articles, which political positions to include—like any other material–is governed by Wikipedia's NPOV policies on Due and undue weight (specifically WP:BALASPS, in this case). If many reliable sources exist discussing a politician's views on gun control, few such sources exist discussing that politician's views on the environment, and almost no such sources exist discussing that politician's views on abortion, then material on Wikipedia discussing those views should roughly match that breakdown: a fair amount of material on the politician's gun control views, a small amount of material on the politician's environmental views, and little to no material on the politician's abortion views. Some Wikipedia articles may not achieve that balance, but the solution is to fix the material, not delete it. So long as Wikipedia's policies are being observed, there's no reason for political positions to be removed from this encyclopedia. – Prototime ( talk · contribs) 00:32, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
@ User:Eating Glass Is Bad: You are considering this from the wrong perspective. Instead of considering it from an advertising standpoint, consider it from a historical one instead. What history book would not cover the political positions of a politician it covered? What encyclopedic entry on Chamberlain or Churchill wouldn't cover the positions they took on, say, the war in Europe? Then consider that Wikipedia is one of those works - we should cover historians from an appropriate perspective - and if it is often "current" or recent history that is covered, well, we can't help that. Probably the lists and sections will need to be adjusted as a better historical perspective is achieved. But since Wikipedia is not finished, that's a problem we can deal with. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
The article titled Admission to the Union -- concerning the admission of new states beyond the original 13 states -- has evolved further since I first mentioned it here, but it is still less than complete. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:32, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
In an instance where a place name is mentioned (i.e. Dayton, Ohio), should " US" or " United States" also be mentioned? This would result in "[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]], Ohio, US" instead. Also what's the preferred usage, "United States" spelled out, or just "US"?-- Prisencolinensinainciusol ( talk) 21:43, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
There is an Request for Comments in process at Talk: United States concerning the scope of area and population figures for the United States. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:40, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
I've started a new article on the book by Janice Dickinson — No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
Feel free to help out with additional secondary sources, and/or chip in with collaborative discussion at Talk:No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.
Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 06:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
I opened up an RfC for the U.S. same-sex marriage map due to the complicated situation of Kansas: RfC: How should we color Kansas? Prcc27 ( talk) 05:53, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a Request for Comments at Talk: Bath School bombings concerning how the article should be named. Shearonink ( talk) 07:17, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I'd like to invite interested editors to help clear out the backlog of thousands of uncategorized files at Media from the National Archives and Records Administration needing categories. The subjects range from military to political to agriculture and more, and proper categorization into multiple categories aids Wikipedia editors and the general public in finding appropriate media. Categorizing media works much like categorizing Wikipedia articles, although can be more specific (e.g. a black and white photograph of a female politician could be categorized under "Politicians from Maine" as well as "Black and white photographs of seated women facing left"), and like Wikipedia categorization, the most specific relevant categories should be used. More specific subsets of the National Archives images can be viewed at National Archives and Records Administration/Categorize. There are tools such as Cat-a-lot to help facilitate the categorization of large amounts of files. Cheers! --Animalparty-- ( talk) 21:53, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated Selena 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 04:48, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm unsure about this article. It has problems that I cannot describe. I'm hoping that you can get involved and clean it up. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:28, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Demographics of Filipino Americans#USVI. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:44, 6 December 2014 (UTC)-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:44, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Details can be found here: Talk:Texas Revolution — Maile ( talk) 16:13, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
The name of the article Chrysler is under discussion, see talk:Chrysler -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 05:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Starting in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson asked his Vice President ("VPOTUS"), Thomas R. Marshall, to sit in on his cabinet. This is believed to be the first instance of a VPOTUS being considered at least minimally as part of a President's cabinet. Until recently, all VPOTUS were included in the cabinet navboxes. I recently took them out, but now I realize perhaps I should have had a discussion of the changes first. Please add your comments here. Thanks! — GoldRingChip 15:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there; this is just a quick note to let you all know that the 2015 WikiCup will begin on January 1st. The WikiCup is an annual competition to encourage high-quality contributions to Wikipedia by adding a little friendly competition to editing. At the time of writing, more than fifty users have signed up to take part in the competition; interested parties, no matter their level of experience or their editing interests, are warmly invited to sign up. Questions are welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! Miyagawa ( talk) 22:06, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
There are a number of red-linked categories relating to populated places in America, e.g.
Category:Unincorporated communities in Estill County, Kentucky. I propose to create some of these over the next few days, if there are no objections. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 22:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC).
22:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Thoughts on Talk:PhinDeli Town Buford, Wyoming#Name change? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Utcursch ( talk • contribs) 19:07, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
If you know anything about this, please see my question at Talk:William Wiswesser and help there. Thanks. Pam D 18:18, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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I was in Canon City several years ago and at that time the buildings at Buckskin Joe were being removed and I was told they had been purchased by a gentleman from Eagle County, Colorado and were being moved there to his property. That was from one of the men working on the move. So the location information of Tabor's Store has probably changed. 174.24.104.240 ( talk) 05:26, 15 January 2015 (UTC)Mary A Best, Leadville, CO
I'd like to gain the communities attention to the Homeless veterans in the United States. It is in very poor shape for a subject which has received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. I hope others can help me improve this article. Thanks in advance for your time and effort.-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 19:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
There is an Rfc on mustang/Mustang capitalization going on at Talk:Mustang#Capitalization_RfC where we would be grateful for input. This project is listed on the article talk page. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 11:08, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
There is currently an RfC going on at Template talk:Infobox officeholder#RfC Congressmen's tenures in infobox. Please comment. Kraxler ( talk) 15:24, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
United States has been nominated for Good article status and a review has been carried out. Interested editors are invited to assist with improving the article to the comments at Talk:United States/GA2. After these fixes have been made it will pass and become a Good article once again. Rcsprinter123 (discourse) @ 09:28, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
This nomination has now passed; United States is a Good article. Rcsprinter123 (chatter) @ 21:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Please comment at Talk:Battle of Abu Ghraib#Future for this article. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 05:25, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case#Removal of an RS. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 04:49, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:War in Afghanistan (2001–14)#Propose merger. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 05:35, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
template:Electronics industry in the United States has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.40.137 ( talk) 11:52, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I write on behalf of my employer who is venturing into a new construction aspect - that of metal and steel construction. I am asked to research publications in which the company can advertise such services. The company in which my employer is partnering is located in Midwestern USA and is a manufacturer of metal and steel structures. Can someone respond to me at my email [ggaetano@ipqconstruction.org] with names of publications I can research and inquire advertising? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.253.178.61 ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new at WP and just noticed incorrect info and a bad citation at /info/en/?search=Arizona_Superior_Court
Justice court has in fact jurisdiction of cases over property cases for less than $10,000 and I've seen many forcible entry and detainer actions in justice court. There's also a bad link in Ref. 1 "Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts. Retrieved 22 June 2014."
Hope I'm in the right place here, this sure is confusing. How can this be fixed? ChristineBaker1 ( talk) 02:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
And a clarification, the info isn't incorrect per se, but misleading and I think there need to be a link to AZ justice court so readers can see which cases must be filed in justice court. The second link in Ref 1 goes to "Creating Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts" - a page not yet created. ChristineBaker1 ( talk) 02:46, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Im a 45 year old man who use to race and due freestyle tricks as a kid. I am interested in opening up another track here in cadillac michigan and would like information regarding the same TerryTattoos ( talk) 18:28, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Template:Central Asian American has been nominated for merging with Template:Middle Eastern American. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 04:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
the meaning and usage of Ontario, CA is under discussion -- 70.51.200.101 ( talk) 06:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.12.176.103 ( talk) 08:20, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:United States#National March. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 07:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC)-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 07:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't like this list at all. I would prefer a list that includes only segments of the river that are either in or the border of the selected state for the list of longest rivers in each state. For example, the Kentucky section of this article starts with the Mississippi. This makes no sense because the Kentucky segment of this river is very short; it's simply the Missouri-Kentucky state line. (It is defined as the segment of the Mississippi River that is either in Kentucky or a state line where one of the states is Kentucky.) The Kentucky segment of the Ohio River is much longer. Any thoughts on what kind of state-specific river list would make sense?? Georgia guy ( talk) 17:55, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
I am a student from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and I am looking forward to extensively editing the page on Affirmative action in the United States as part of a Wikipedia project for my Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities class. I would like to revise the current page and bring it to a "Good Rating" by adding new information, restructuring the article, and condensing current information. The page lacks a clear definition of affirmative action and needs more support in its arguments for and against affirmative action in the United States. The banner on the page lists multiple issues such as the need for the verification of sources. I would like to condense current information on the current page and add new sections/topics that help to create a more cohesive and encyclopedic entry on affirmative action in the United States.
I would appreciate any input in deleting and restructuring information on the page. I would like any advice on approaching the topic of editing the page and would be more than welcome to any feedback since this is only my second time working with Wikipedia. Please let me know if there are any questions, comments, or concerns before I start my project and edit the page.
Dwang41 ( talk) 06:06, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There appears to be one of these for every state. The two I sampled, Indiana and Louisiana, were over 95% redlinks. Why have them? John from Idegon ( talk) 07:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
I just nominated a 7 man police department in Louisiana for deletion. The article had been here for seven years and had less than a hundred edits, the last over two years ago. Its exactly what you'd expect it to be - nothing. A couple weeks ago, I nominated a volunteer fire department in Maryland that I could not find one single newspaper story on. Can we create a notability standard for public safety agencies? Also, see related discussion below. John from Idegon ( talk) 07:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
The naming of "Cougar" (should it be "Puma"?) is under discussion, see talk:Cougar -- 70.51.200.101 ( talk) 08:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated History of the Grand Canyon area 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKiernan ( talk) 10:46, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated 1996 United States campaign finance controversy 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:49, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 21#Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–14). Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 05:28, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
I've noticed that the is no credit given to Cold River Bridges LLC. For being the company that rebuilt this bridge after damage from Irene, and that it was completed in record time. Also there is no mention of the fact that it is presumably the longest single-spanning covered bridge (without piers) in the country, there are lots of interesting details about the daunting task of completing the project in such a short time, as well as some rather interesting details about the techniques/strategies that were pioneered by this company specifically for this project. 24.63.233.128 ( talk) 16:14, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The primary topic of "Indian Chief" is under discussion, see Talk:Indian Chief (motorcycle) -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:05, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
See WP:REFUND where many New Jersey redirects such as {{ NJ-stub}} are under discussion -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 03:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, I just wanted to let everyone know there is now an IRC channel for WikiProject United States and related topics. The channel can be found at #WikiProject-United-States connect if anyone is interested. 96.255.237.170 ( talk) 21:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi editors and contributors: There is currently a proposed WikiProject which would focus on the United States Constitution. If you want to support the creation of this WikiProject, or want to join it when it is created, please voice your opinion, comments and suggestions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/United States Constitution. Thank you! CookieMonster755 (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Korean American#Requested move 11 March 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 00:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Would someone mind adding the census information to Dove Valley, Colorado? Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:04, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
"Cheyenne Mountain Complex" has been proposed to be merged into Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station; for the discussion, see talk:Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 01:54, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Indian American in infobox. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Spike Lee filmography is a FL and is currently under review here due to having reference issues along with navigation issues, if anyone would like to comment. LADY LOTUS • TALK 11:15, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
On going discussion on conformity of President biographies. Please add your thoughts. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 22:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Interested project members are welcome to join WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to Hillary Rodham Clinton. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 18:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:United States#Trends in local vs global inequality. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:52, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock has been submitted for peer review in preparation for a run at featured article. If you are interested, please go the the peer review page and help out. Thanks, GregJackP Boomer! 19:06, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Need someone to check John Coleman (news weathercaster), usually it is long term disrupted by socks of Sonic2030. Discussion can be found here. I find it clearer that the American Meteorological Society's position on global warming has no bearing on John Coleman's position on the issue and keeping this sentence at the end of this section makes the article appear polemical, as said by one other editor before. OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 09:25, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Cambodian American in infobox. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 22:42, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
There is a move request at Talk:Epping (disambiguation) that members of this project may be interested in. Egsan Bacon ( talk) 14:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
As the nom in the TfD at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_3 noted, without a main article, it is difficult to prove this is not a NPOV OR. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:58, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Well, the theory is that it got all the land just to harvest poop. Which I believe is true. As my teacher found it out himself. Does anyone else have the same thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sege 510 ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Virginia exists, but doesn't seem to be referenced on the Members list page for WP United States. What's the reason for this? -- Mysterious Gopher ( talk), 22:13, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
How do I add myself to one of the list of members? Nick2crosby ( talk) 19:14, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans for Prosperity#one of the most influential. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:27, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Definitely notable, could anyone assess this submission's quality? Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
My name is Betty Sayers and I was born and raised in Summerfield, La. on a farm with now electricity, gas or running water. My children ask me to write about my childhood growing up during a time that will never be again. I have written all the fact but I need help filling in the details. I would love to have someone read what I have written and maybe help me. I am a senior living on my SS check each month. Can you help?
Thanking you in advance for your time and consideration.
Betty Sayers bettysayers06@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.193.41.228 ( talk) 22:40, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm writing to ask members of this WikiProject to review some proposed revisions I have for the Tipper Gore article. The article mainly focuses on Gore's early life and work with the PMRC. My suggestions include updating and expanding the article to discuss more of her career and work, in particular, adding in her activities as Second Lady and as an activist/advocate. I posted a note on the Talk page detailing all of my suggestions, but have not received a reply there yet. I don't want to edit the article myself, since I'm working on behalf of The Glover Park Group, friends of Tipper Gore. Because of my COI, I'm hoping others can take a look at my suggestions and make changes if they agree with them. I'll be keeping an eye out here and on the article Talk page for others' feedback. Thanks! Heatherer ( talk) 14:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Please offer me suggestions (or make changes yourself) for Veterans benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States. Please post suggestions on the article's Talk page under What is needed to make this an A-class article? I plan to submit the article for A-class consideration on 30 JUN 2015 to WP:MIL and WP:USA, the two WikiProjects associated with the article.
Thank you - Mark D Worthen PsyD 19:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Is really it necessary for counties to be listed with a "county, state" format like cities are? It would better satisfy WP:COMMONNAME, WP:UCN, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:CONCISE if counties articles were listed just as the county name.-- Prisencolinensinainciusol ( talk) 01:51, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:First Battle of Bud Dajo#Merge proposal. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 21:52, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
There are multiple occasions wherein the bottom navbox template is given a color theme to reflect its subject, such as school colors, or for whatever other reason. I have done such for the lists of Current U.S. Senators, List of Presidents, and List of Vice Presidents. The themes may be seen below. My contributions were swiftly undone without discussion, and I believe this is an unnecessary action. I would like to build a concensus, either in favor or opposed, of these themes. I believe they do no harm, and are fitting of their subjects. The argument was made in ex post facto discussion that they were 'distractions', with which I disagree. My case is that such is done for other such bottom templates, and they have remained so styled for years, such as this case: {{Template:United States Military Academy superintendents}}, which has existed for five years without quarrel.
Hopefully some consensus may be made in this matter. Thanks Spartan7W § 23:23, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Medal of Honor#Number of Medal of Honor awards. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 00:15, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the venue to ask but... I'm currently working on updating List of cities and towns in Alabama to have more information, images, and a better lead with the goal of bringing it up to featured status similar to List of cities and towns in California. I have brought 8 such lists to featured status in the past, and hope to see Alabama there as well. I'm wondering if anybody has some free time, I need help populating the "city or town" column, the 2000 population column, and the % growth column. If there are any GIS wizards out there, Alabama could also use a simple map that shows what areas are incorporated, and which are not. Thanks for your help. Mattximus ( talk) 14:05, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
The Wikipedia "List of Austrian Americans" ( /info/en/?search=List_of_Austrian_Americans ) contains an entry for Austrian-born philosopher Karl Popper. He was never an American citizen, nor did he live there for any length of time. Perhaps, someone might wish to delete his entry from that list. 91.115.249.129 ( talk) 17:13, 16 June 2015 (UTC) [1]
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United States v. Ramsey (1926) has been nominated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United States v. Ramsey (1926)/archive1 for featured article. The case is about the Osage Indian murders in the 1920s and one of the first murder investigations of the Bureau of Investigations, which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If interested, please stop by and add your comments, either for, against, or neutral. GregJackP Boomer! 19:26, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Does WP:USPLACE article naming guideline apply to the U.S. territory of Guam ? See Talk:Dededo, Guam for the discussion -- 70.51.203.69 ( talk) 02:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 22:40, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, several articles in this project's scope were featured in a recent Wikimedia blog post, including SS Arctic disaster, Ezra Meeker (a pioneer and writer), and Joseph B. Foraker (a senator). I'd love to get your feedback! Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 10:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
See the talk page at press time of Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color. Before Eamonster's edit request on 25 June, the color was #3333FF ( ). The edit request, answered by MSGJ, changed it to #00A6EF ( ). The change was opposed by Mitchumch and Byzantium Purple, and I changed it back to the previous color based on the latter's edit request. Mitchumch, for one, thought there should have been a discussion first, so I'll ask all of you: which color should we have to represent the Democratic Party in infoboxes here? APerson ( talk!) 18:54, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Articles, like Title 9 of the United States Code, don't explain how notable each Title of US Code is. Shall we expand further or propose deletion? -- George Ho ( talk) 06:48, 29 June 2015 (UTC)