Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Asian Americans/Archive 2

Mass category renaming
Looks like somebody is once again trying to do a mass renaming of the XXX-Americans categories. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 18:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Syrian American
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Syrian American/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 03:23, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Cantonese (Yue)
FYI, the article Cantonese (Yue) is up for naming review at WP:RFC, see the talk page, Talk:Cantonese (Yue)

As many East Asian Americans are of Cantonese extraction, this may be of interest to you.

70.29.208.247 (talk) 08:59, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Murder of Robert Eric Wone
The three men accused of covering up the Murder of Robert Eric Wone have just been declared not guilty. Bachcell (talk) 05:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Kenneth K. Kim deletion nomination
The article Dr. Kenneth K. Kim, about a Southern California-based Korean American doctor covered primarily in Korean-language sources, has been nominated for deletion. As this project has no deletion sorting list, I am placing this notification here. Please comment on the AfD discussion at Articles for deletion/Dr. Kenneth K. Kim. Thanks, cab (talk) 10:03, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Asian American literary awards
I've just created pages for the Asian American Literary Awards and the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, but there are a few years missing. If anyone has access to that info, I'd love to add it into the lists! Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 06:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Categorization
I took the liberty of sorting all the folks at Category:American writers of Asian descent into their respective ethnic categories, where available. If the project would rather keep everyone in both cats, let me know and I'll change it back. Aristophanes68 (talk) 23:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Hmong Wikipedia proposal
I'm trying to see if a Hmong Wikipedia could be started.

The proposal is at: WhisperToMe (talk) 07:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Hmong
 * A list of possible starter articles is at meta:User:WhisperToMe/ArticlestostartHmongWikipediawith

Asian Americans articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Asian Americans articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:19, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

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) 19:42, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See 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 inspiration here 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) 19:03, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

RfC at Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)
Talk:Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel) re: making the novel the main article and giving the film the DAB title. Aristophanes68 (talk) 07:38, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 14:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:24, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing this to our attention. As far as this Wikiproject is concerned I am greatly troubled that Asian American wikiproject has a generally low profile. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 07:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe this tool will help foster some discussions on the project's more popular articles. In addition, please let me know at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:United States how the project's articles and other content could be better showcased. -- RichardF (talk) 13:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Filipino America, or not?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List_of_Filipino_Americans. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:18, 5 March 2011 (UTC) (Using )

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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:49, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

up (2009 film)
There's no mention of Russell and Jordan Nagai as being Asian American. Two attempts to mention that with references have been shot down (You can't say that he's Asian from his photo, that's original research??? You can't mention the race of Russell unless you note the race of every character???) Jordan Nagai's entry has been deleted as well.

Some groups with a strong WP prescence don't have any problem tagging topics as African American, Jewish or LGBT, but Asian American topics keep getting squashed like bugs. I'm giving up but here are some sources:

http://www.channelapa.com/2009/05/jordan-nagai-as-russell-in-up.html Russell is based on Animator Peter Sohn

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-05-21-pixar-main_N.htm As for Up, Pixar's 10th outing, which opens May 29, about a cranky codger and an overeager Asian kid who fly off to South America in a house hoisted by helium balloons, it will likely be the first film that all three — father, mother and child, who turns 2 today — enjoy together.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-jordanpete28-2009may28,0,7055067.story Russell was to be more hyper. In fact, the initial concept was based on the effusive personality of animator Peter Sohn, who was the voice of Emile in "Ratatouille" and is the director of the short "Partly Cloudy," which will be shown before "Up."

Asia Pacific Arts: May 22, 2009: News BitesMay 22, 2009 ... As for the Japanese American Jordan Nagai, this may be the first of hopefully many acting opportunities to come. --Timothy Natividad ... www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090522/article.asp?parentID=108481

Discussion at Talk:Asian American#Asian American Femininity
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 12:19, 9 March 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Flag removal
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Asian American astronauts. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Infobox representative
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Hyphen or not
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian-American history. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Asian American article scope
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Asian American article Undue template discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Undue?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Rosie O'Donnell. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:22, 19 April 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Subject ethnicity dispute
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:BLPN. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:10, 3 May 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Redirect into article
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:55, 19 May 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Filipino American image infobox
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Filipino American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 11:48, 23 May 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Filipino Americans second or third largest ethnicity of Asian Americans?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Filipino American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 15:02, 28 May 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Request for comment
Discussing rename of prejudicial term "Chink" to more appropriate article title06:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of U.S. states by Asian American population


The article List of U.S. states by Asian American population has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Content is a duplicate of information found here. Content Fork.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Contradiction in content between Filipino American & Indian American articles
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Filipino American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:24, 4 June 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Elmelindo Rodrigues Smith
Asian or not? See talk page discussion. Since it has been shown that DEOMI isn't always reliable. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:40, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Should we become a task force?
This wikiproject has very few active users. Should this wikiproject become a Task force of another WikiProject, perhaps WP:WikiProject United States? I have began a discussion about this possibility here. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 15:09, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There does not appear to be any opposition that has been posted there to make WPAA a supported WikiProject, or Task force of WP US. I shall begin a discussion there regarding what steps will occur next. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:22, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Is there still interest in adding this project to the list of projects supported by WPUS? I have a couple more projects to add and I want to do them all in one group if possible since the template is protected. --Kumioko (talk) 17:23, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * There have so far been no objections, so far. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok I will add it as a subproject in the sandbox for Template:WikiProject United States and whenever were ready we can have it moved over. --Kumioko (talk) 13:08, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * IMHO, it makes sense. The size of active editors that are members of WPAA is less than ten, and the number of those members who actively edit within the Scope of the WP is fewer than that. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:18, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * OK I added the project to the template in the sandbox. I just have a couple more edits to make for a couple of other things and Ill implement it. --Kumioko (talk) 23:33, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * This project has been added to the list of projects support by WikiProject United States. Over the next couple weeks I will transition the articles to use the WPUS banner with WikiProject Asian Americans. --Kumioko (talk) 20:47, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Idea: Portal?
What could help draw people to this WikiProject would be an Asian American portal. Would you be interested in getting one? WhisperToMe (talk) 06:22, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't mind; but what articles would be highlighted?
 * As for WPAA members, I appear to be the only active member who is active within the subject, and it's difficult enough maintaining & improving those top and high importance articles within its scope; for instance recently an IP editor has been highly active in editing the Asian American and Filipino American articles regarding population; and appear to be content pushing to place New York Metro in both Region section of the infobox. So far I have assumed good faith, but I am not sure whether their edits could be considered disruptive. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:35, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Pick whatever articles you like the most :) - If/when articles improve, the choices can be changed.
 * There are several articles that could be highly trafficked, so a portal could easily pull in more editors.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 00:38, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * OK. I haven't worked with portals much in the past. I imagine there is some sort of standard format or MOS to follow. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:15, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Take a look at this one. Portal:Supreme Court of the United States. It was just recently created, is pretty basic and uses the standard. --Kumioko (talk) 03:21, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I started Portal:Asian Americans WhisperToMe (talk) 17:13, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Portal image
How does one go about changing the portal image? Presently it is the default puzzle piece image. Do we have to create something like Template:Portal/Images/Asian Americans, and create a link to the appropriate image there? --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:06, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well there are a couple of things I would suggest.
 * First I think we need to design this as a Random Portal like United States. That will ensure that the Portal is less manpower intensive to maintain and will have a shot at Featured portal someday.
 * 2nd to do the image if we look at Portal:United States/Selected picture we can get a good idea what we need to do to set the picures.
 * I hope this helps. --Kumioko (talk) 19:14, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I have already created 40 different portal selected picture pages, the image I was talking about was the small image that can be found as a link to the portal, such as that on the Talk page wikiproject header template. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:26, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh sorry, my mistake. --Kumioko (talk) 19:35, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * For instance the US Portal image is linked here Template:Portal/Images/United states. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:36, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

OK the page Template:Portal/Images/Asian Americans was created, but it does not appear to be used for the portal image in the WikiProject United States headerbox on talk pages, or when the portal is added at the bottom of article pages.

What am I doing wrong? --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 12:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Those are both seperate templates that need to be modified. I can take care of those. We might also need to modify the Stub templates pertaining to the project as well. --Kumioko (talk) 12:22, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I would actually prefer that the old image be used for WikiProject wide items; I was only thinking of the Chinatown image as a portal image as it is iconic to entering a Chinese neighborhood worldwide. No other Asian American community has something as recognizable, not Little Tokyos, Koreantowns, Little Manilas, or Little Saigons. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:46, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh ok I can switch it back then. The only thing I don't like about the old one is its kinda hard to see when used in the stub template and on the talk page banner. Its hard to make out. --Kumioko (talk) 13:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It can be, admittedly, but the Chinatown gateway arch isn't inclusive to all the ethnicities that fall within the Asian American grouping. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:33, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Kumioko, can you please revert the image change for the Userbox and WikiProject USA Template, I only meant the new image to be used for the portal. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:54, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Content removal discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Philippine cuisine. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:47, 1 July 2011 (UTC) (Using )

RS noticeboard on Minal Hajratwala
See Reliable_sources/Noticeboard regarding an RS noticeboard entry on the Amina Arraf/Minal Hajratwala interaction WhisperToMe (talk) 18:11, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 2000+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. Please post any comments or concerns you might have there. --Kumioko (talk) 18:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Request for name change reversion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Gordon Paiʻea Chung-Hoon. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:04, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Request for comment from supporting WikiProjects
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States). RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:48, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Questionable notability of Mariano Laya Armington
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Mariano Laya Armington. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 15:35, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

FAC for 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States)
I have nominated the article 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment (United States) for FA. The review can be found here. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate. Any assistance with this nomination would be greatly appretiated. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest
WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011. I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.

One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge. For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites related to Asian-American history to the NRHP county lists." To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).

Any and all contributions appreciated.

Smallbones (talk) 15:14, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:37, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Request for assistance
Assistance is requested as a new editor is violating an MOS (WP:HEADINGS) and is not responding to requests to talk. The new editor is also violating WP:NOTPROMOTION through attempts to edit as Filipino Americans & List of Filipino Americans in a way to enhance an individual's notability. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:28, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:09, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Asian Americans will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Asian American society. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wong Kim Ark being considered for Featured Article
United States v. Wong Kim Ark — an article about the landmark Supreme Court case that established that essentially everyone born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen — is being considered for promotion to Featured Article. The article is badly in need of additional reviewers. Please consider reading the article carefully, then going to the article's Featured Article candidacy (FAC) page (here) and commenting as you feel is appropriate. Please note that much of the FAC discussion for this article has been moved onto the talk page. The criteria for what a Featured Article needs to be can be found here. Thanks. — Rich wales 23:55, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

AFD for Luce–Celler Act of 1946
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles for deletion/Luce–Celler Act of 1946. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC) --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Asian American infobox discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:27, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Jose Vargas
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Second Generation Immigrants in the United States
I am creating a new entry titled “Second Generation Immigrants in the United States.” My article will consist of statistical data showing education and income levels of second generation immigrants in comparison to first generation immigrants and US citizens born to US natives. A large portion of my article will focus on the theories of immigrant assimilation, with emphasis places on the theory of segmented assimilation and notable criticism to this theory. I will devote a section on the unique assimilation experiences of second generation immigrants that are Asian American as they constitution a large percentage of second generation immigrants in the United States. Do you know of any resources that may aid me in developing this section on assimilation of second generation immigrants that are Asian American? I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you. Marymorales291 (talk) 05:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Feel free to look at the references used in the article, and the article's about the ethnicities that make up the Asian American census group, they can be mined for generational differences.
 * Also look at the Filipino American article, there is a section that I wrote that is well sourced that talks about cultural identity that has significant generational issues. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:01, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for all your suggestions! The article is now up. Please take a look at Second generation immigrants in the United States. There is a current discussion going on in the talk page on possible revisions. Feel free to join. I welcome all your suggestions. Thank you. Marymorales291 (talk) 03:41, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

History of the Hmong in Merced, California
Hi! I started History of the Hmong in Merced, California with information from several books and sources on the Hmong. An editor argued that the article was "oddly specific" - Talk:History_of_the_Hmong_in_Merced,_California and he started a talk page debate arguing that the article should be consolidated Talk:Hmong_American - From my understanding there were only three participants, including myself, the user, and one other person. He and the other person argued for consolidation, while I argued against it. The last post was in 2010 and there was no consensus, and no further effort for dispute resolution. In late 2011 he consolidated the article with no further discussion, but I wasn't aware of it until now. I reverted his consolidation, but kept the section he made at Merced, California - I alerted him to my reversion and to this new discussion here.

Considering the contents of History_of_the_Hmong_in_Merced,_California and Merced, California, do you believe that a merge was necessary WhisperToMe (talk) 18:04, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * AFD filed: Articles for deletion/History of the Hmong in Merced, California WhisperToMe (talk) 18:54, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject for the Hmong and/or Miao
While I have checked with the Hmong community to see if anybody is interested in writing a Hmong Wikipedia, I also wonder if it would be a good idea to establish a WikiProject about the Hmong/Miao.

We do have WikiProjects on the Yoruba and Igbo people of western Africa, so there is a precedent allowing ethnic based WikiProjects where the ethnic group is not in one particular country WhisperToMe (talk) 19:58, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Asian-American as an adjective
Hi, I am proposing a bunch of category renamings from "Asian American" to "Asian-American" where the phrase is being used as a compound adjective. I trust there is no objection from this WikiProject, but you can currently see them at WP:CFDS. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:22, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Category:Asians in film and theatre
Category:Asians in film and theatre has been nominated for deletion. See discussion here. – Fayenatic  L ondon 12:21, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Michelle Rhee
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Michelle Rhee. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:13, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Infobox image discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Filipino American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:49, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Lincecum GAR
Tim Lincecum, an article that  may be interested in, has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the good article reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. —Bagumba (talk) 21:22, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:00, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Antonio Miranda Rodriguez
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Los Angeles Pobladores. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:38, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Infobox image discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 07:16, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion
A "to do" list would be fantastic. In the spirit of another WikiProject — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aichikawa (talk • contribs) 18:14, 14 October 2012
 * I believe there is already one, see this.
 * Perhaps it should be more prominent than on the WikiProject talk page template.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:22, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American infobox representatives open nomination period
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:08, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American representative approval period (Now until 18 December)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Chinese-language newspapers in LA/Orange counties in the 1990s
Hi! What are some Chinese-language newspapers active in LA and Orange counties in the 1990s?

At Talk:Murder_of_Stuart_Tay I'm trying to find the Chinese names of two of the perpetrators but can't find anything online - Perhaps a Chinese-language newspaper in California has written an article about the case, but the article isn't online?

WhisperToMe (talk) 04:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this link and this news story might help?--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 09:05, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! The second link says that the major papers are "Chinese Daily News," "International Daily News," and the "Centre Daily News" - I wonder which ones were renamed or are still in business WhisperToMe (talk) 03:45, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Ling Woo
Ling Woo, 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 will be removed from the article. AIR corn (talk) 01:10, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Japanese American Veterans Association
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:RSN. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 07:28, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Jose Antonio Vargas
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Filipinos, Malay or Austronesians?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Filipino American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Sexuality Demographics of Asian Americans
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Asian American interracial trope
So last year, 2012, the Washington Post wrote an article about a common trope of Asian American women in interracial relationships. Now I would like to integrate it into Wikipedia much like how the "Dragon Lady" trope has been. However, I would like to seek guidance as to where. Would it be better in the stereotype section at Asian American, in Asian Americans in arts and entertainment which is a sub-article of Asian American of notable Asian Americans in that field, in one of the articles listed at Stereotypes of Asians, in Interracial marriage in the United States, or elsewhere? As I am unsure as to which I will notify possible related Wikiprojects to seek guidance regarding this question.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 11:44, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I would put it into Asian_American and be very careful about the wording, as always. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Sze Yup
See talk:Sze Yup (Hoisan) about a Mandarin Pinyin, Mandarin Wade-Giles, Cantonese transcription issue for naming the article. -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:19, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 22:54, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Sharon Maeda
As part of a support project for the Pacific Radio Archives, I created the beginnings of a page for Asian-American activist (an past director of Pacific Radio) Sharon Maeda. If anyone has additional information, please add it in. I have a few more sources, and am looking for a rights free photo as well. LaMona (talk) 22:40, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Adding info to History of the Chinese Americans in San Francisco
Is anyone interested in adding info to the History of the Chinese Americans in San Francisco article?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 02:36, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

"Merging" (aka Deleting) categories
There is a discussion on merging Category:American women philosophers, Category:Asian American philosophers and Category:African-American philosophers into Category:American philosophers which would, in fact, lead to their deletion. If you would like to weigh in on the conversation (pro or con), go to Categories for discussion/Log/2014 April 17. Liz Read! Talk! 21:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Asian Americans At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 10:46, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Content inclusion or exclusion
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Request for return to page name List of Asian American Medal of Honor recipients
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Nomination of Arjun Singh Sethi for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Arjun Singh Sethi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#No Hyphen required
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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)

Nomination of Thai Ngo for deletion
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Discussion at Talk:Asian American#Radical infobox changes
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 * Discussion has recommenced, additional editors opinions welcomed!--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 12:46, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Filipino American#OVERLINK
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Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Asian Americans articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 20:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Chinese in the Columbia River Basin
I found:
 * "Chinese Americans in the Columbia River Basin." Washington State University.

It may be a good resource for info about Chinese populations in that area: Idaho (Boise Basin, Twin Falls), Washington State (Walla Walla), etc. WhisperToMe (talk) 08:24, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

John Fujioka
I just noticed that John Fujioka has no article. He is rather a noted and well-established actor to have no article. — ★ Parsa ☞ talk 23:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Possible sources on Chinese Americans
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Cao, Yan. "Cultural Identities of Chinese American Adolescents" (Archive) (master's thesis). University of Tennessee, Knoxville. December 2004.
 * Kuo, Joyce. "Excluded, Segregated and Forgotten: A Historical View of the Discrimination of Chinese Americans in Public School" (Archive). Asian American Law Journal. January 1998. Volume 5, Article 7. p. 181-212.

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

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Goodphil 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 article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:29, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

OPENPARA dispute
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X American article name discussion
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Talk:Asian American#Indian American in infobox
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Japanese-language academic articles about Japanese in the USA
I don't know if these really fit with Asian Americans, but in any case I found two sources that may be of use WhisperToMe (talk) 05:29, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Agatsuma, Toshihiro (我妻 敏博; Division of Special Education (上越教育大学障害児教育講座)). "The Educational Circumstances of Japanese Handicapped Children in the U.S." (在米日本人障害児の実状(その1) : 日本人学校,補習授業校,私立の在外教育施設に対する調査; Archive). Bulletin of Joetsu University of Education (上越教育大学研究紀要) 21(1), 163-172, 2001. Joetsu University of Education. See profile at CiNii. See profile at Joetsu University of Education Academic Institutional Repository (上越教育大学リポジトリ). English abstract available.
 * Minami, Yasusuke (南 保輔; Seijo University). "Cultural Identity and Socialization Experiences of Japanese High School Students in the U.S.A. : From a Communication Ecology Study Using Interviews and Time Management Records" (アメリカの「日本人」高校生の文化アイデンティティと社会化経験 : コミュニケーションエコロジー調査から; Archive). Communication Studies (コミュニケーション紀要) 21, 1-34, 2010-03. Seijo University. See profile at CiNii. See profile at Seijo University Library (成城大学リポジトリ). English abstract available.

You're invited to a meetup
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Infobox image discussion
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Proposed deletion of Laotian Chinese American


The article Laotian Chinese American has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Subject has been tagged for notability and has been unreferenced since March 2012. Subject does not appear to have received any significant coverage from any reliable sources; therefore the subject fails WP:GNG

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:47, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Idea for a project: coordinate with other Wikipedias for non-English articles about U.S. school districts
It may be a good idea to help develop non-English articles about American school districts. These are the avenues which Asians become Asian Americans. Many school districts have documents and websites in East and South Asian languages. If you know people who speak or write any of the following languages they would be of a great assistance to help develop these school district articles.

These are the following East/Southeast and South Asian languages which I have seen American school districts use for communications with parents:

East/Southeast Asian languages:
 * Mandarin Chinese
 * Vietnamese
 * Korean
 * Japanese
 * Hmong
 * The Hmong Wikipedia is not yet in the mainspace and I'm looking for contributors to help build it up!
 * Filipino
 * Karen (one school district in Minnesota)
 * Chin (one school district in Maryland)

South Asian languages: WhisperToMe (talk) 13:00, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Bengali
 * Urdu
 * Hindi (the New York City school system had published documents in Hindi, but it has no Hindi website)
 * Tamil (one school district in Michigan has a Tamil handbook)

Lia Chang
I saved this article from being deleted at an AfD, but various issues in it are under discussion. Can anyone comment here?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lia_Chang#archive.3F -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:17, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia APA
The 2nd annual Wikipedia Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon will take place during the month of September. There will be events at MoMA in New York, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Washington DC, as well as Bangkok, Pasadena, Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Chicago, and other cities. Please join us in person or virtually. Suggestions for articles are welcome on the Tumblr page. gobonobo + c 06:37, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:28, 6 August 2016 (UTC)


 * : My sincere apologies for refactoring your comments. I had mistakenly overwritten your post while trying to post a couple of AfDs below. I have self reverted. Thank you. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:15, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Uzbek Americans
When did Uzbek Americans fall within the scope of this project? Per the terminology on the Asian American article, the do not fall within this article's scope.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:18, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Disregard. I see the reference on the note section of the template now.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:20, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Couple of AfD of interest
These are a couple of AfDs which might be of interest to this project
 * Articles for deletion/Hakka Americans
 * Articles for deletion/Hokkien and Hoklo Americans

Thank you. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:12, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry I wasn't active earlier. Only restarted editing after a very long WikiBreak. So No Consensus huh? Are there reliable sources that provide significant coverage on these subjects? If not I suggest to propose merger is in order.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:24, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:16, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Asian pride
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Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


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 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
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Upcoming editathon in Eugene, Oregon
Just sharing a link to an upcoming editathon in Eugene, Oregon: Meetup/Eugene/WikiAPA . Remote participation is also welcome! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:34, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Nice. I hope you can also remotely participate in this one, which also shares an APA focus: Meetup/San Diego/May 2017.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:46, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

New article: Asian quota
I've created a page for Asian quota (alleged quota in college admissions, notably Ivy League, similar to earlier Jewish quota); perhaps of interest to project members.
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 04:27, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

10-year-old biographical entry nominated for deletion
It may be of interest that an article for actress Cathy Shim, created almost exactly ten years ago, on November 6, 2007, has been nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Cathy Shim. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 18:19, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Asian Americans
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian Americans. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:22, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States
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Use of word "Caucasian" to designate non-internee related collections with the WWII camps.
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Topaz_War_Relocation_Center#Potential_problems_with_use_of_.22Caucasian.22_in_collections_description_in_WP there is a section concerning collections associated with the camp experience that were previously described as by "Caucasians" until i changed it to a more neutral descriptive and brought the issue to discussion on the Topaz talk page. I guess my major concern is that if it is a title that has been created by an official government agency then i guess it could continue to be used because it was not created by WP. But if it were created by WP then we really should not use that word to designate those collections developed by internees and non-internees especially as there are known examples of non-Japanese voluntarily living in the camps because they had an existing relationship with someone such as a spouse. So we really cannot describe all internees as of Japanese origin although they certainly were primarily interned because of their Japanese association as perceived by society as a whole. Would members having an interest in Asian history in the US think it appropriate to avoid the use of the word Caucasian in describing collections if it is a WP supplied word? My anthropological training thinks that it best be not used in WP?2605:E000:9143:7000:3832:5234:5BA4:7DB6 (talk) 18:48, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * That was a word I supplied to distinguish the archival collection from internee histories. I replied on the talk page of Topaz War Relocation Center. If you look at the source, you can see it was not published by a government organization. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 20:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:CANVASS. There is an appropriate and non-appropriate way to elicit opinions when attempting to form a consensus.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:08, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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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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.

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Asian American Hollywood
1961's Flower Drum Song (film) was the first major Hollywood film to feature a majority Asian cast in a contemporary Asian-American story, and 1993's The Joy Luck Club (film) was the second, making 2018's Crazy Rich Asians, only the third. 3 films in 57 years. -- 65.94.42.168 (talk) 03:29, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Should we have a list of major Hollywood feature films with majority Asian casts, and perhaps also telling atleast the Asian experience? (This would then be able to include period pieces and non-Asian-American stories like 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha (film). / but exclude films about the white experience in Asia, or white savior in Chinatown ) -- 65.94.42.168 (talk) 03:51, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

San Diego meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/October 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:42, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Article or not?
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 02:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Scope question
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Filipino American History Month.  Right Cow Left Coast  (Moo) 05:58, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Filipino American population
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Discussion at Template talk:Asian Americans
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Demographics of the United States template discussion
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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.
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Discussion of Nextshark (nextshark.com) on the reliable sources noticeboard
There is a discussion on the reliability of Nextshark (nextshark.com) on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   09:46, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Health of Filipino Americans
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Health of Filipino Americans. RightCow LeftCoast ( Moo ) 01:23, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of potential deletion of Asian American related categories
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Organization of Chinese Americans
There is a requested move as of 5 June 2019 to rename Organization of Chinese Americans --> OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates. Cheers, &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 17:16, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Genealogy
If anyone here is interested, we are looking for volunteers at WikiProject Genealogy. Our current collaboration is Genealogy, an article which needs a lot more international perspective. Thanks! Tea and crumpets (talk) 01:15, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Filipino School in San Diego
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RfC on reliability of The Epoch Times
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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)

Invitation to Pinoy edit a thon @ OSU
Who: All members of the public

What: Filipino American History Month-themed Edit a thon at Ohio State University.

When: Saturday 20 October 2018, 4:00PM EST / 1600 until 4:55PM PST / 1655

Where: Eighteenth Avenue Library, Ohio State University

Sponsor: WikiConference North America 2018 San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )

Your host:

Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to limited space available.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. RightCow LeftCoast ( Moo ) 02:15, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Manzanar FAR
In case anyone wants to participate, Manzanar is underging a featured article review here.&mdash;Myasuda (talk) 02:59, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Help with article
In case anyone is interested, I have submitted a draft article about the highest-ranking Indian-American to serve at the U.S. Department at the Treasury over at AfC Draft:Bimal_V._Patel. I have a COI, so I'd appreciate any input and/or an AfC review. Capecodcontributor (talk) 21:56, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Names of Wong Kim Ark's sons
Hi. I'm hoping to find some information regarding the names of Wong Kim Ark's four sons. Wong Kim Ark, as many/most of you probably already know, was the subject of an 1898 US Supreme Court decision that affirmed he was a US citizen per the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, because he was born in the US, and despite his being of Chinese descent.

Wong's four sons are recorded in US immigration records (early 1900s) as having the following names (Chinese characters plus English transcriptions):


 * 黃毓煥 (Wong Yoke Fun)
 * 黃郁賜 (Wong Yook Sue)
 * 黃沃修 (Wong Yook Thue)
 * 黃沃沾 (Wong Yook Jim)

My questions:


 * In the first son's name, is "Yoke" a plausible transcription for 毓 (in the Taishanese dialect used in Wong Kim Ark's ancestral region)? One person editing the Wong Kim Ark article right now is arguing that it should be "Yook", just like the other son's names, and that the immigration hearing transcript's use of "Yoke" is suspect.


 * I note that the four names use three different characters (毓, 郁, and 沃) to start the sons' personal names — and yet they all appear to sound the same, or nearly the same, based on the English transcriptions. Are these three characters homonyms (or near-homonyms) in the Taishanese dialect?  Is there an explanation for why these names would have been written differently in this way, despite apparently sounding similar?

I have no familiarity at all with Chinese (written form or any dialect), so I would be grateful for any knowledgeable insights. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:22, 21 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I understand now, fwiw, that the portion of the name which I'm asking about is called the "generation name" — which, again, leads me to wonder why it's not the same (written as well as spoken) for all of Wong's sons. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 17:32, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Asian American categories being discussed (again)
As periodically happens, there are a number of Asian American categories listed at Categories for discussion/Log/2020 December 30. Proposals are for renaming, merging, and deletion of various categories that may be of interest to project participants.&mdash;Myasuda (talk) 21:55, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Rock M. Sakura
Rock M. Sakura is WikiProject RuPaul's Drag Race's collaboration of the month for April, if any project members want to help expand this bio stub. Happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:51, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021
Hello! The Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department is looking at ways we can bring attention to activities and members in our movement related to Asian American and Pacific Islander and Asian History content during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (next month, May 2021). We are wondering if there are any activities planned around this year's AAPI Heritage Month or any general AAPI related content activities we can help promote next month. Additionally, if there are folks interested in talking with us about ways we can help bring attention to both these efforts and folks within the AAPI communities working to better Wikipedia, please let me know! You can either reply here, or reach me via email: gvarnum@wikimedia.org. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) &#91;he/him&#93; (talk) 21:25, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Asian Americans articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Asian Americans articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. Peaceray (talk) 05:47, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Hyphen
If anybody is interested, there is currently a discussion on whether or not the hyphen should be preserved when referring to ethnic/racial identities, both as a noun and as an adjective. Happy for anybody to join the discussion. --Caorongjin (talk) 09:49, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiAPA edit-a-thon - May 18, 2021
Help improve Wikipedia content around Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for #AAPIHeritageMonth - work with SmithsonianAPA for the WikiAPA Edit-A-Thon: She/They Edition - more info and registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikiapa-edit-a-thon-shethey-edition-tickets-151652610039

Cheers. --Fuzheado &#124; Talk 19:30, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

National APIDA Panhellenic Association
The National APIDA Panhellenic Association article has been again nominated for deletion after having been previously speedy deleted. The AfD was just relisted amid slim participation; I thought it may be of interest to this WP. -Littledrummrboy (talk) 15:36, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Need Advice To Improve Current Draft
Hello,

I am a Filipino-American artist hoping to lift up Filipino immigrant voices in the entertainment industry. I am starting with Filipino-American filmmaker and actress Aina Dumlao. It’s a draft that’s been sitting un-approved for a few months now and I’m seeking advice to improve the draft and its chances for approval. I am totally new to this so any help at all will be very much appreciated.

I am pre-writing two other articles for notable Filipinas - Yong Chavez (trailblazing journalist) and Michelle Josue (award-winning documentarian).

Thank you.

Nievesismyname (talk) 17:45, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Requested article
Hum Fay, et al. v. Baldwin, also known as the Chinese Boycott Case. Viriditas (talk) 20:59, 21 July 2021 (UTC)