Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Blades/Archive 1

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)


 * I believe that the problem is that WikiProjects aren't well... advertised. I mean, it is not that easy to stumble upon one. It took me almost 3 weeks to find out that Wikiprojects even exist Tetra quark (don't be shy) 04:12, 11 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!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Walter Doane "Bo" Randall, Jr. listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Walter Doane "Bo" Randall, Jr. to be moved to Walter Doane Randall, Jr.. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 21:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
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Tomahawk (axe) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Tomahawk (axe) to be moved to Tomahawk. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 06:15, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
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Kukri listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Kukri to be moved to Khukuri. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 06:30, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
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Classification of swords listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Classification of swords to be moved to European classification of swords. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 12:00, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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Arabic sword listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Arabic sword to be moved to Arab sword. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 00:45, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

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

The discussion about this can be found here.

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

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

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

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

So far, 84 editors have joined.

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

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

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  10:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Qama listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Qama to be moved to Qammeh. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 05:47, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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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.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Stabbing as a terrorist tactic listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stabbing as a terrorist tactic to be moved to Stabbing attack. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 16:03, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
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Stabbing as a terrorist tactic listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stabbing as a terrorist tactic to be moved to Stabbing attack. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 19:48, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
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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) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Dao (sword) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Dao (sword) to be moved to Dao (Chinese sword). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 07:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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Forged in Fire (TV series) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Forged in Fire (TV series) to be moved to Forged in Fire. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:04, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
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FAR for Ernest Emerson
I have nominated Ernest Emerson for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 23:49, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Zulfiqar listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Zulfiqar to be moved to Dhul faqar. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 11:31, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
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Claymore listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Claymore to be moved to Claymore (sword). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 06:18, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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