Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bhutan/Archive1

Questions
Do the other members think the project should engage in assessment? If yes, I personally think it might work best to include importance assessments as well as quality assessments. Importance levels have to date in other projects been determined by a consensus of the members for Top, High, Mid, and Low importance. I welcome any responses. Badbilltucker 23:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck
I have removed "King" and am reverting to original name as per WP:MOS about honorifics-Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom doesn't have her queenly title, and Akihito isn't referred to imperially in his namespace. Chris 00:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Wildlife of Bhutan
Kindly contribute to this article when you get time, and request others too. Thanks Atulsnischal 13:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Tibet
There is now a WikiProject Tibet but it is a subproject of WP China, rather than a separate project. Chris 02:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

script tagging
I have now created a template at Tibetan to ask for Tibetan script to be added to articles. Chris 02:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I think would be useful to have a template similar to Bo but for Dz (Dzongkha). Paramaters should probably be:
 * c for conventional phonetic spelling
 * d for the name in Dzongkha (Tibetan script)
 * w for the transliteration of the Dzongkha name according to Wylie romanisation
 * r for the spelling / transcription in the DDC's Official Dzongkha Romanization
 * p for the p ronunciation, given in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Chris Fynn (talk) 15:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you.  Ed  ¿Cómo estás? 18:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

2008 Parliamentary elections
Hello. I'm a student of Japanese Studies and an editor who works primarily in that field, though my interests extend to many of the cultures of Asia, and beyond. Having read an intriguing article in the New York Times today, I decided to be bold and attempt to incorporate information on these new events into the relevant articles.

I apologize for being woefully ignorant of related recent events and developments, and the way the events of this week tie into them; I therefore respectfully ask that someone more knowledgeable than myself take a glance through the Times article (or, quite obviously, any other article on the same events), and through my edits, and make the necessary changes. As I say, I was hoping to be able to incorporate these new developments into the relevant articles myself, but have come across some difficulties in understanding how these relate to other events, and therefore how best to describe them, or where to mention them.

(The edits I've made today were small ones, to Bhutan, Politics of Bhutan, and Jigme Singye Wangchuck.)

I am eager to learn more about these developments, and look forward to reading more about it, both here on Wikipedia and in the news media. Two of the main things which confused me in my reading today, if someone would not mind clearing them up for me:

-The NY Times article says that King Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced this week that he would abdicate, and that he ordered the parliamentary elections to be held next year. But Wikipedia indicates that he already abdicated in December of last year (though his successor is not formally coronated yet, which may be where the confusion originates). If he has in fact already abdicated, how much power does he continue to wield? Does he play a similar role to a regent or to a retired emperor?

-The various Wikipedia articles indicate that there already is a parliament, that each household has one vote, and that a referendum fo constitutional reform is in the works, while the Times article indicates none of this, implying that the announced elections are a major drastic change. I am curious as to the extent to which this shift towards a more democratic mode of government was already in the works, and basically whether this week's announcement is simply reflective of changes which were already underway or whether they represent an actual event - were the elections, the shift to democracy, the opening to Westernization/modernization already quite well underway, or does this announcement reflect a true change in the government's policies and attitudes?

Thank you very much. LordAmeth 07:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Bhutan FAR
Bhutan 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. --Victor12 00:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

South Asian countries as a Featured topic
The South Asian WikiProjects have been tremendously productive, which I congratulate you for, and I just wanted to let you know that we're very close to meeting the criteria for a Featured topic covering the countries of the region. Please see Wikipedia talk:Featured topics. Thanks.--Pharos 03:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Night hunting
Take a look at Night hunting. Is this for real?? - Nabla 14:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Bhutan Scout Tshogpa
Can someone help render Bhutan Scout Tshogpa, and also "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Bhutanese script? Thanks! Chris 02:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

 * 14 September 2007 - expires 19 September
 * Bhutan Travel Bureau ( PROD by User:Edcolins; "Bhutan Travel Bureau (BTB) is one of the main travel agencies in Bhutan, issuing tickets on Druk Air and other airlines." ) --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 05:06, 17 September 2007 (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) 19:06, 25 May 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 )  22:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Assessment for Drukair
I have rewritten and expanded greatly the Drukair article, but it is still assessed as being a stub, and having been responsible for the expansion I am somewhat hesitant to re-assess it myself. It is currently a stub, but it is obviously way past stub stage now. Cheers. --Россавиа Диалог 00:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Bhutan
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 22:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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

The articles in question are listed in Category:Bhutan articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Choekhor
 * 2) Dechenchholing Palace
 * 3) Khoma, Bhutan
 * 4) Lingmethang
 * 5) Merak, Bhutan
 * 6) Phongme
 * 7) Samtse

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 14 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) 09:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Royal Families template
Can someone who's better than I am at wiki syntax check out Template talk:Royal Family of Bhutan? There is an issue with that template's floating that is causing problems at Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (and probably any other articles that have an infobox in addition to that template). Thanks, &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 05:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * When you have a problem like this you can always use a:  or   before inserting the second info box. Chris Fynn (talk) 16:59, 3 February 2009 (UTC)