Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Addictions and recovery

Mental health
I know this project's name doesn't include mental health, but its generally agreed that a huge number of those with addiction and recovery issues have a co-occurring disorder, thus the two are always co-addressed. thus, so should this projects focus be co-addressed, to mirror best practices, as most of the articles focused on 1 area will touch on the other.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:59, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Template:User warning-mentalhealth
I think this template, Template:User warning-mentalhealth is misrepresentative of MI's affect on work, and i dont like how it assumes that people living with MI are going to be less productive. I know its only placed on a users own page, but its still weird. anyone else think it should be deleted?Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Category:People self-identifying as...
The following categories, Category:People self-identifying as alcoholics, and Category:People self-identifying as substance abusers, were deleted last month. I understand the reasoning around BLP, but i disagree. I dont know if this can be discussed in a deletion review, as the deletion process seems to have been followed properly. I created Category:People self-identifying as problem gamblers, which i suppose should also be deleted. should we then delete categories for people with bipolar disorder, or depression, for the same BLP reasons? Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:38, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Inclusion of Courage International, Homosexuals Anonymous and LDS Family Services
All three of these organizations credit the twelve-step approach as part of their program. Should they be included in this project? - Scarpy (talk) 22:59, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Potentially LDS Family Services. I'm not seeing how the other two relate to addictions and recovery. As far as I know, homosexuality isn't considered an addiction by any reputable medical or governmental body. Sizeofint (talk) 01:44, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree with . Yes, Mormons, no to the other two. —PermStrump  ( talk )  01:56, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * * Only if the Mormon one is a 12-step program for drugs and alcohol, not if it's conversion therapy, which, now that I'm reading about the other 2 organizations, I'm now reading the use that for gay people too. —PermStrump  ( talk )  05:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I would encourage a narrow scope of pages tagged for a WikiProject. There are plenty of articles within our purview that need improvement. However, if they're using the 12 steps for conversion therapy, they should certainly be mentioned in List of twelve-step groups Sondra.kinsey (talk) 16:52, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

AFD: Joey Julius
Joey Julius

AFD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Joey_Julius — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Kingfisher (talk • contribs) 04:30, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:



23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, 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, 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.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11
Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:
 * Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
 * I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
 * WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
 * If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
 * Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

= kindly requesting afc review =

Hello! I am kindly requesting an AfC (Articles for Creation) review of the draft article below.

Draft:Centerstone Rlambert327 (talk) 17:45, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Merger proposal (Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous into Alcoholics Anonymous)
Please see Talk:Alcoholics_Anonymous Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:43, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Multiple article merge proposal for Wellness Recovery Action Plan
I have proposed a merge of Mary Ellen Copeland and Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery into Wellness Recovery Action Plan, and am notifying this project and WP:WikiProject Psychology as all three articles have very few watchers. Please join the discussion.

Note: all three articles have been subject to some level of conflict of interest editing. -- Xurizuri (talk) 04:51, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

AA major changes
Just wanted to let you know that the page for Alcoholics Anonymous is currently undergoing some major edits in order to improve the article. If there are more editors who wanted to jump on board. CaffeinAddict (talk) 17:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
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 and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * 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.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Duxhurst Industrial Farm Colony
Hello. I just created Duxhurst Industrial Farm Colony. The topic is not in my area of expertise. Hoping someone can review the wording. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:25, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Digital media use and mental health
I have nominated Digital media use and mental health for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the 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" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ) voorts (talk/contributions) 02:00, 24 November 2023 (UTC)