User:Wjhonson/WikiProject Wikipedians for local history

Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up on the members page.

This is a project to co-ordinate the efforts of people interested in local history, biography of faintly notable people, and genealogy. Editors using claims of non-notability or non-verifiability or lack of reliable sources, tend to zealously cause pages of local historical interest to get deleted. This project was started on July 20, 2006 to combat that.

Too often old editors attempt to bamboozle new editors by redefining notability as they want. Notability is a *guideline* only. It is not consensus. In particular note this entry under the notability of people:
 * Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events

Post any ideas or suggestions on the Talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need attention to the sections below.

You can add your page to be protected below as /pagename, then save this page, then click on the link you created, and copy the text of your page to that link.

Example:
 * /mylocalhistorypage
 * /Kittie May Ellis

Userbox
If anyone wants to create a userbox for us, go for it. That might be a good way to get more members until we can reach a critical point. Thanks. Wjhonson 02:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's one. --Lukobe 02:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks Luke! I've already added that to my main page. Wjhonson 04:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

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