Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bihar/Archive 1

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)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Bihar
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 23:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Bihar Discrimination entry
All, a significant part of the discrimination against Bihari people, under notable incidents was unilaterally removed without any discussion. I have undone the changes and asked user who made these changes to discuss with Bihar work group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Notashamed (talk • contribs) 22:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I just messaged the concerned editor here. Manoj nav (talk) 09:46, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Demographics of Bihar
Hi Devesh

Nice article indeed.

I came across the data in the reference used by you, which says out of 1,619,031 persons migrating in to the state 1,394,325 are female. Correct me if I am wrong? This is so unusual. May be we can do some more research and include more details about it.

I would also suggest you to improve the demographics section of the article Bihar.

Manoj nav (talk) 06:05, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Discrimination Bihar
Template:Discrimination Bihar has been nominated for deletion. Kindly participate in the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Manoj nav (talk) 14:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Racism against Biharis=
As an FYI...the Racism against the Bihari community is being edited again without any discussion. Rahul Raj is being deleted time and again for no reason, and as is the Notable incidents section. Please monitor page carefully. Not-Ashamed (talk) 00:45, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 04:57, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

East Champaran
East Champaran is a district which really needs some improvement in its article. Please help do it so. -- Extra999 (talk) 23:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Good picture in need
For Patna article - The main picture of the info box shows just the Ganga (or Ganges) river. I think there should be a better picture there. -- Extra999 (talk) 22:51, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  02:46, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Bhojpur district, Bihar
A couple IPs and new editors have been adding unsourced information to this article. Someone familiar with the topic may wish to take a look. Regards, P. D. Cook  Talk to me! 00:32, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Bihar 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 Bihar articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) 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.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 22:03, 19 September 2010 (UTC)