Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alabama/Archive 5

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.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Silas, AL
Hello,

While looking at the page for Silas, AL, I attempted to access the website listed as the official website for the town of Silas. The website was no longer functional and seems to be for sale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:0:102D:7:318E:674:C140:812D (talk) 15:03, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:49, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Alabama for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Alabama is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Alabama until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 21:22, 2 October 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)

help on "Georgia Road" in Alabama
Hi anyone, i am having trouble developing about Woodlawn, Alabama, on the north side of Birmingham, Alabama, where there is history of it being on the "Georgia Road", according to the National Register of Historic Places document about the Woodlawn Historic District.

There were at least two historic roads known as Federal Road (a disambiguation page), with the northern one of these being known first as "Georgia Road", covered in Federal Road (Cherokee lands). This ran from Savannah Georgia to Knoxville Tennessee through northern Georgia, and does not seem to have run through Alabama area at all, however. The other one, Federal Road (Creek lands), seems like it swung south well below Birmingham. There is this webpage on "Federal Road in Alabama" which is not much help.

How can the Georgia Road have opened up the Woodlawn area for development, including there having been a house located directly on the Georgia Road in Woodlawn? --Doncram (talk) 01:18, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Sometimes-editors-of-Georgia-NRHP-articles: User:Altairisfar, User:Bubba73, User:Ebyabe, User:JodyB, User:ProprioMe OW, User:Spyder Monkey, any chance you might be able to help? --Doncram (talk) 01:29, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't know anything about it. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:27, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Assessment - Current Quality Ratings section, updated
Greetings, For Alabama WP, I added progression, pie chart, wikilink to "Popular pages". JoeNMLC (talk) 19:49, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Article request: Housing in Alabama
Wikipedia readers would be grateful if your project would consider creating a new article about Housing in Alabama. Here are some sources of information: Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 10:50, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Category:Housing in Alabama
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Montgomery Bowl navbox
Template:Montgomery Bowl navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Fbdave (talk) 00:13, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

GA reassessment for Hugo Black
Hugo Black, 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. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:41, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Most-viewed stub article within this Wikiproject
Gil Hill	108,835	3,627	Stub--Coin945 (talk) 16:35, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Zelda Fitzgerald under FA review
I have nominated Zelda Fitzgerald 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. — Flask (talk) 02:11, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Interstate 422
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Interstate 422 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 03:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage by county (Pickens–Winston) Comment
I made a minor correction: source typo William C. Bankhead Home→William B. Bankhead. The house was built by William Brockman Bankhead. As far as anything I've found, there was never a William C. Bankhead. — Maile (talk) 21:11, 10 July 2023 (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)

WP:UNDUE and sourcing issues.
I'm notifying the wikiproject of an article in need of help here:. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 09:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage by county (Pickens–Winston) Comment
I made a minor correction: source typo William C. Bankhead Home→William B. Bankhead. The house was built by William Brockman Bankhead. As far as anything I've found, there was never a William C. Bankhead. — Maile (talk) 21:11, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian has been nominated for a 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. Spinixster  (chat!)  08:48, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 December 7
You are invited to join the discussion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 December 7, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This RfD has been stalled for a month. Queen  of   Hearts ❤️  (she/they 🎄 🏳️‍⚧️) 06:33, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Hardcore Holly
Hardcore Holly has been nominated for a 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. Spinixster  (chat!)  06:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)