Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Syracuse, New York/Archive 4

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Syracuse University is a featured article candidate

The Syracuse University article has been nominated for Featured article! Nomination and discussion at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Syracuse University/archive1.doncram (talk) 17:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

A reviewer singled out the National Register of Historic Places mentions as being relatively more interesting than some other material. There are links from the article to the 4 NRHPs on campus: the Comstock Tract Buildings, Crouse Memorial College, the Hall of Languages, and the Pi Chapter House of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Actually, glancing at those articles, each of them could easily be improved and would help support the SU overall article. Like, adding references to the NRHP text and photo docs is needed and very doable. I don't have the capacity to help the SU article in more major ways that seem to be needed for it to reach FA this time around, but it would be good to try to be a bit supportive. Anyone else watching this? doncram (talk) 06:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Yup, watching. I went to check the references, but you beat me to it. Wasn't a guy last summer working on the Comstock Tract pics? Where'd his stuff end up, do you remember?Lvklock (talk) 23:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Answered my own question. It was Zewrestler, and his pics are in List of Syracuse University Buildings. I'll add the pertinent ones to the Comstock Tract article.Lvklock (talk) 23:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Article was improved considerably during the process, although the FAC was closed with decision not to promote it.doncram (talk) 22:35, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Assessment

I enabled assessment for this project tonight since it was the only New York descendant project not to have assessment enabled. If anyone is interested in assessing articles for the project, the two categories to watch are Category:Unassessed Syracuse, New York articles andCategory:Unknown-importance Syracuse, New York articles. They will fill up as the changes to the project template filter through the job queue. Thanks! – TMF 07:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. Thanks. Honestly I wonder about folding this WikiProject and reopening, instead, a Task Force on Central New York more broadly defined as part of wp:NY, which might be more convenient for sharing technical skills and scarce editorial resources. I think a member has boldly gone ahead and set up the wikiproject for assessment (which is fine!), but at first I am not eager to support actually going around and performing assessment on this wikiproject's articles. Even if a move to a Task Force is decided, though, I expect that a bot moving this wikiprojects articles (simply changing Wikiproject Syracuse to some Taak force name) would easily transfer any ratings attached. Just the emphasis of importance might vary slightly for just a few articles. So, come to think of it more, anyone else who feels like assessing articles, please go ahead! doncram (talk) 21:44, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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Likewise about Assessments. I don't think we need to enable this, as I would support moving this wikiproject to a NY Task Force, within which these alerts will already be handled. I am not aware of any Syracuse wikiproject articles being nominated for AfD, and I don't think we have any problem requiring technical solution this way. doncram (talk) 21:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

recent activity and summer meetup

This has been a quiet wikiproject but actually some good stuff has been accomplished recently:

1. With Lvklock's leadership, the National Register of Historic Places listings in Syracuse, New York article has been developed to include a photo for every one of its 71 items, this project's First Fully Illustrated List-Article, I believe! Key contributions also by User:Crazyale, User:ZeWrestler (perhaps while it was part of Onondaga County-wide list) and a little by me too. It has short descriptions for the majority of the 71 items.
2. Complex historic district articles including many photos each, for Armory Square,Hanover Square, Syracuse, Montgomery Street-Columbus Circle Historic District, South Salina Street Historic District have been developed. Walnut Park Historic District is particularly nice in my view.
3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Onondaga County, New York is also developing nicely.
4. The Syracuse University article is much improved by direct edits of User:Orangemarlinand the FA nomination process he/she initiated. Previous development of Syracuse University-Comstock Tract Buildings and List of Syracuse University buildings allowed some others of us support that effort somewhat.
5. A good amount of wikiproject setup, neighborhood article cleanups, and individual article assessments has been accomplished by User:TwinsMetsFan (seeTMF's contributions here ).

Note also:

1. The lead Syracuse, New York article is pretty good, and with the recent cleanups it seems feasible to me that someone should be able to bring it to GA recognition, without too much further effort.
2. A lower hanging fruit to reach might be to create a Tallest buildings of Syracuse, New York list, following examples of many Featured Lists of tallest buildings in other cities.

I do wonder about folding this wikiproject into a Central New York task force of wp:NY, because I think it would broaden the impact of our good work and allow others to join in more happily. Overall, I say the State of the Union is STRONG! To celebrate, I wonder if Wp:SYR could have a meetup, perhaps a picnic, this summer, perhaps in early July? Would anyone be willing to organize such an event? I don't have high hopes as coordinating an in-person meetup is hard and we don't have very big numbers of people involved here. But if people could express interest or not, generally, perhaps date and place coordination could happen off-wiki, and perhaps we could pull off an event which has proven impossible for many larger WikiProjects ever to accomplish, on top of our other achievements! doncram (talk) 22:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh god would I want to go to Syracuse :) - that would be quite a trip for me. I just don't know how I would get up there :(. I would prefer making it into Task Force Finger Lakes or Task Force Syracuse–Oswego, since Syracuse per se is north of the FL.Mitch32^{(Go Syracuse)} 22:40, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

There's a NYS tourism region "Finger Lakes" definedhere, along with other tourism regions, which groups both Syracuse and Rochester (but not Binghamton) with the Finger Lakes. It has a detailed map showing boundaries of the zone, a click or two below. There is another map at some senator/congressman's page which divides the state up somewhat differently, grouping Syracuse with Utica and more to the right, I think, but i can't find that link right now. (Perhaps somewhere within Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Capital District#Name of wikiproject?) I think the WikiProject is free to define a big region including the Finger Lakes and Binghampton (where there were several interested wikipedians previously). The best boundaries could also be sorted out better in a broader discussion to be had at wp:NY, where other regions like Adirondacks and Western NY areas could be set up as Task Forces at the same time. I think the Syracuse Airport is a centralizing feature for the area; perhaps Rochester need not be included and other regions could be informed by considering airport locations, too. I'd like for a Central New York / Finger Lakes Task Force, say, to include Binghamton, Syracuse, and the Finger Lakes. :) doncram (talk) 00:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I know about the 11 regions - but the problem is - they aren't clearly defined.Mitch32^{(Go Syracuse)} 01:05, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Two articles requested per Finger Lakes portal FPOC

There are two red links in the pictures section of Portal:Finger Lakes. There has been a request for them to be created: Ithaca Falls, which is self-explanatory, and Glenora Wine Cellars, which (on NY 14), may not be as self-explanatory. Could someone create those for me?3 1/2 years of Mitch32 16:12, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, okay, i think i have pics of Ithaca Falls. If i am thinking of the right place, it is awesome. doncram (talk) 05:28, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

A few NRHP stubs needed

Hey, the National Register of Historic Places listings in Onondaga County, New York needs a few stub articles to be created. There is an active non-local editor, User:Pubdog, who threatens to create our own articles for us, has been marching from Buffalo east and is now verging on this county... Help! doncram (talk) 05:28, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Too late. I scrambled to get many stubbed, but he got to about 3, rats. Now all on that list have been photographed, too, except for one archeological site, altho it remains to have all the photos uploaded, hopefully in the next couple weeks. Better photos always welcome, but at least there will be images good enough to identify the places. doncram (talk) 21:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Syracuse, New York articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 20:25, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Portal

Does anyone have any objections if I add a main portal page to the site? Syracuse needs a main page to highlight all the different topics that are currently more or less buried or hidden.User:Nconwaymicelli 08:22, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Nconwaymicelli, i have been noticing many of your good contributions to articles on the history of Syracuse and area industries, etc. I don't happen to be a really big fan of portals, myself, because i don't really understand what purpose they serve, exactly, but certainly many editors do like them. And it is fine by me if you wish to create a portal. I wonder if you have any particular example portals in mind, that you wish to emulate. As i recall there is one for WikiProject New Orleans and i think there is one for WikiProject Capital District (about the Albany, New York area), which might be worth considering.

Another consideration might be whether the WikiProject should be moved to a more general name, say, WikiProject Central New York, so that it can welcome wikipedia editors and readers from a wider area. The wikiproject was started by a group of Syracuse / Onondaga County editors a long time ago, who all were no longer active when i got involved. I have always thot it was too narrowly defined, and that is a factor in the participation here. Again, i am glad to see your many contributions, and you are indeed welcome to create a portal. wp:Be bold and all that! :) --doncram (talk) 15:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Doncram, I appreciate it and have also seen your good work out here, in particular, all the historical architecture. It doesn't appear many Wiki Syracusans are out here. Did you know Onondaga County is already included in the Finger Lakes portal? Seems to be a lot of discrepancy over what is Finger Lakes region and exactly what is Central New York and I don't know if NY state wiki project defines that (haven't looked yet, but have a feeling no from the looks of what is included in Finger Lakes)? The regions seem to have morphed over the years, in fact, some of the newer state maps don't even have Central New York region anymore. Instead they include Onondaga County in Finger Lakes and have another region more easterly called Central Leatherstocking. Also, I searched on the internet and could not find a single map that agreed on the same list of counties. So although good idea, it still needs some more clarification. The Capital District portal is very nice and I was also looking at Ottawa. The advantage is that, for example, the New York portal would link to Syracuse portal (instead of Syracuse page). The Syracuse portal would include links to such articles as your historical pages which are currently buried on the site. So would be more about interesting links and less about a drill down of Syracuse history through the years as you get now (and hoping they find the buried pages)!User:Nconwaymicelli 14:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey i was not at all aware that there was a Portal:Finger Lakes, but i just found it on the Talk:Finger Lakes page. I notice a pic by Lvklock there, who has contributed a lot in WikiProject Syracuse. Interesting about its map. About New York State wikiprojects, at some time in the past i was proposing bigger task forces be set up, maybe one Western New York, one Central New York to include the finger lakes counties, one Northern for the adirondacks, technically as subprojects of WikiProject New York. And maybe a Southern Tier one, or perhaps better include the southern counties in Western and Central ones. Already existing are WikiProject Hudson Valley and WikiProject Capital District, both having been a bit more active than WikiProject Syracuse, and all three being more active than the statewide WikiProject New York. That's what i thot about wikiprojects. About portals, which i suppose don't have to correspond, i don't have much thought. Probably you should just proceed with a Syracuse portal as you planned, and let a state-wide wikiprojects and portals reorganization happen later if it happens. :) --doncram (talk) 21:38, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page forWikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspirationhere is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:29, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Penn-Can Mall

This article is in desperate need of more sources. I found a great deal of newspaper clippings in a website whose link I posted in the talk page, but most are missing the page numbers. If anyone wants to do the digging to find the newspaper pages, please let me know. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)}05:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion

Relevant deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_30#File:Syracuse Orange Football.png.--GrapedApe (talk) 17:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Article assessment in relation to WPNY

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York#Article tagging in relation to subprojects. –TMF (talk) 21:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Accusations of POV-pushing and racism at Tipperary Hill

There is currently a discussion at AN/I involving accusations of POV-pushing and racism at Tipperary Hill, which might be of interest to editors involved with this project. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 16:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Issue with category: Syracuse University faculty

Not quite sure what to do about this. On the Syracuse University faculty category page,Lucien Marcus Underwood appears under the "L" section, when he should be in the "U" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katharoz (talk •contribs) 20:07, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed Added a DEFAULTSORT to the article. – TMF (talk) 23:27, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC

I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 08:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

ACC

As a current or past contributor to a Atlantic Coast Conference-related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject ACC, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the ACC and its member institutions. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! CrazyPaco (talk) 08:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Reference Links in Cazenovia College page

The two website links used as references in the Cazenovia College Wikipedia page are outdated. Would it be possible to update them?

There are two links given, but they both point to the same page. The correct link for both of these reference items is http://www.cazenovia.edu/about/history-cazenovia-college.

Thank you in advance for your help with this update.

CazCollege1824 (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed. Regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 01:16, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team navigation templates

Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:20, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Interstate 690

Could someone with better expertise please add some sources to Interstate 690? Most of our road articles are in good shape, but this one has [citation needed] tags dating back to 2010 and I have no idea where to start. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:19, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Help request

Hello, To address the 'overly long section' maintenance tag on the history section of this article, I spun off a new History of Syracuse, New York article. I hope others find the new article useful. Along the way, one of Wikipedia's bots found that some of the material in that section (now in the new article) was copied or closely paraphrased from one of the cited sources. It will take a little while to rectify this, as the source is drawn from in several places in the article. Assistance with this would be most welcome! Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 05:53, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

 Fixed, with thanks to Moonriddengirl and Justlettersandnumbers. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:46, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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WikiProject X is live!

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Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Syracuse, New York to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Syracuse, New York/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 03:44, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission

See Draft:Scottholm, Syracuse. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 01:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Please comment or read this Move Review

Hi there,

I'm attempting to let this project's members know of Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2016 June, where a Move Review is taking place. A Requested Move was implemented, moving New York to New York (state), which is now being contested. This should be of relevant interest to this WikiProject. This notice was requested by several editors, and is performed as a courtesy.

Best, ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 15:53, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Syracuse, New York/Archive 4 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

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Article opportunity

User:DASonnenfeld recently posted a photo of the Syracuse University observatory to Commons:Category:Spring in Syracuse, New York. There's no article for this observatory (yet!). If one were created it could be added to List of astronomical observatories, List of observatory codes, and Template:NY Observatory. Unfortunately, I am too lazy to add this to Wikipedia:WikiProject Syracuse, New York/to do. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 05:53, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

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We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Syracuse, New York, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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Background

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Merge into WikiProject New York

Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_York_(state)#Merging_inactive_WikiProjects. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:49, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Monthly "Popular pages"

Greetings, fyi - "Popular pages" report is now running again. JoeNMLC (talk) 16:53, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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