Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belarus/Archive 2

New task
Now it seems the complaints about the tagging are finished, I have a new goal for us. According to this scan, 85 articles under our care have at least one "citation needed" tag. I would like to reduce this number to zero. So do whatever you can in this list to try and get that number lower. Sure, it will change over time, as new articles get added to Wikipedia or someone goes template happy, but this should be a constant goal for us. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 23:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:Belarus born people
Please join the discussion in Category talk:Belarus born people. `'Míkka>t 00:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

FAR for Constitution of Belarus
Constitution of Belarus has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Pro hib it O ni o ns (T) 10:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Film editors wanted
WikiProject Films has solicited interest in creating a Soviet/CIS cinema task force. We'd like to cordially welcome all regular editors of these articles to voice their interest in starting this task force so as to see if there is sufficient support. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 02:31, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 18:55, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Tõnu Trubetsky
You might be interested in this AfD. Renata (talk) 14:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Moldavian-Belarussian relations
Belarussian interested users, your contributions would be most welcome! -- Moldopodo talk 18:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  22:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 2130 articles are assigned to this project, of which 354, or 16.6%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subscribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:21, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Trimming
With thanks to the tool provided by B. Wolterding, I have been going through the articles we need to clean up. Well, using that tool, I found articles that got under our project banner, but not anyway connected to Belarus at all in any way, shape or form. I have begun to remove the tags from the articles, so this should make some of the cleanup tasks easier. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Soviet and post-Soviet films task force
Just thought that the community would like to know that WikiProject Films has a established a Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force. Interested editors are encouraged to join onboard! Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:45, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Help with Olympics
Hi, as part of WikiProject Olympics i've been updating the Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics page but have come across some difficulty with competitors names, particularly in Judo. What I am finding is that the names listed at the official Beijing 2008 website do not always correspond with the names listed on wikipedia. I may be wrong but i'm assuming this is the difference between the names in Belarusian(?) and the westernised versions? The athletes pages themselves appear to be under their Belarusian names (e.g. Siarhei Shundzikau) but all the pages relating to olympic results (e.g. Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics—Men's 81 kg) use the westernised version. What i'd like to know is if there is a convention established here for naming these articles. Should I just set up redirects or change all mentions of the athletes to one form or another. If you could reply on the Belarus talkpage i'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Basement12 (T.C) 17:51, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Belarusian Cup 2008-09
Hello,

could please someone check the above mentioned article for typos and the correct transcription of the lower division team names? Any help on competition details would also be welcome. Thank you and best regards, Hockey-holic (talk) 00:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Belarus
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Constitution of May 3, 1791 up for FAR
Constitution of May 3, 1791 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. D.M.N. (talk) 16:58, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Berestovitsa
Can somebody fix the naming and create redirects and disambig for Vialikaja / Bolshaya Berestovitsa and Malaya Berestovitsa? I give up... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:02, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Correct Belarusian forms for this (BGN) are: Vyalikaya Byerastavitsa and Malaya Byerastavitsa. Correct Russian forms (BGN): Bol'shaya Berestovitsa and Malaya Berestovitsa. Dialectal Belarusian form of the key word, differing in the stress position and, subsequently, in the orthography (BGN): Byerastovitsa (-sto- syllabe stressed as opposed to -vi-). Yury Tarasievich (talk) 08:22, 18 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Could you create relevant redirects? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:27, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Belarus-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Belarus, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Belarus, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Belarus articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Drut River
 * 2) Drutsk
 * 3) Halshany
 * 4) Hantsavichy Raion
 * 5) Minsk-Arena
 * 6) Myaleshkavichy
 * 7) Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 100 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 09:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

GA sweeps: Gnezdovo
Hello, as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of Gnezdovo. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If anyone is able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 18:10, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Rydel's images
Hi all,

Template notifications about problems with images uploaded by Rydel periodically appear on his talk page. Unfortunately the users who post them don't know that Rydel is sadly no longer with us. I watch his page, and i would really like to help solve the problem with those images, but i am terribly busy with my studies lately and i am not so well-versed in Belarusian websites.

Can anyone help solve this unpleasant situation?

Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * If I'm not mistaken he often uploaded non-free low resolution modern images as public domain. So if you interested in some of them just search Internet, upload and write fair use rationale. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:59, 9 December 2008 (UTC)