Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boston/Archive 1

Merging of Kenmore Square and Fenway-Kenmore
There already is an article called Back Bay Fens, Kenmore Square, Back Bay which encompass much of this in formation – Fenway-Kenmore should either be merged with Back Bay or Kenmore Square.

Joining Project
I'm going to lend my efforts to the project and see how I can help. The article Forest Hills, Boston is a recent example of my work and it shows that I like to use lots of pictures and lots of references (it doubtlessly also shows that I do make typos!) I'm going to look at the Fenway-Kenmore issue closely...Most likely, that article should end up as a stub/disambiguation directing to both Kenmore Square and a new article called "Fenway, Boston" or something. There is already a Fenway (disambiguation) and I created a page called The Fenway the other day (like the Back Bay Fens article you mention, my Fenway article is about the Emerald Necklace link specifically). Fenway by itself links to Fenway Park.

However, seeing the shape that articles like Mattapan are in, I may set my priorities towards articles of that ilk first. BTW, my user page has a big list of the articles I have done about Boston as well as others...many of them could use another proofread and to be added to other categories. Best Wishes.  ◄ HouseOfScandal  ►  House of Scandal 20:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Welcome aboard House of Scandal, I placed a template on Forst Hills I am not assigning anything above a class B but I would like to get a few articles up for review to get to GA. Possibly Forest Hills, Boston could be one of those canidates. Markco1 13:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Jamaicaway
You asked if I needed help on the Jamaicaway article. Although it might benefit from a proofread or a tweaking, I think the length and amount of content is about right, especially since it is just a road, Mr. Olmsted's involvement not withstanding. I am polishing off a couple medieval literature articles this morning but I'll do at least some on Mattapan this afternoon. I will do something for NEHGS very soon as well; I know it inside and out. Finally, thanks for your proposal to try to get the Forest Hills, Boston article above B-rating; that would be cool.  ◄ HouseOfScandal  ►   House of Scandal 15:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Boston molasses disaster
Just finished cleaning up Boston molasses disaster Can someone nominate this for GA? - If someone could nominate it atGood article candidates it would be our first article to go to GA. Thanks all. Markco1 04:42, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Per your request, Boston molasses disaster has been added to the nomination list. As I may have said, don't know if I can do anything to Forest Hills, Boston - while there's always room for improvement, I think that apple is as polished as I can get it.  Also, I am a bit disappointed that my "do you know?" candidate (Do you know...Shreve, Crump & Low, the oldest jeweler in North America, opened across the street from Paul Revere and has built such prestigious trophies as the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award?) has been overlooked in favor of another article about an obscure Hindu mathematician and several other articles which seem to strike less surely at the stated "do you know?" editorial policy of chosing articles with "hooks" that have a wide range of interest.  As such, I'm not much in the mood to try to woo the Wikipedia powers-that-be.  In fact, I feel a bit more like Achillies sulking in his tent. ◄  HouseOfScandal  ►  14:10, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I put what I think the article needs on it's talk page. I think the information is great - Just thought that Topic headline felt like a catch all. I suggested the following. If you think that I am out of line then I will submit today. Let me know.
 * Remove Topic headline – this feels like a catchall and create the following

History
 * subcats(if any)

Places of interest
 * Subcats

Education - include comments about overall education system
 * Schools

Transportation Keep Notes - References - and Bibliography. 

Images Deleted
Man why do they keep deleted your images - Are these your images IE - You took the pictures. If so we should be able to keep them just need to release them with GDLF (self made) in the Licensing pulldown. It took me forever to figure out how to keep my images from being deleted. Markco1 15:41, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No, they aren't photos I made myself. My understanding on proper tags was imperfect and I think its within their rights to delete them.  I get your point about the headings on Forest Hills, Boston.  I may turn back to Boston topics later this weekend.  Non-Boston topics (Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, Castletownroche, Eamonn an Chnuic, London Metropolitan Orchestra) have been my lastest contributions.   ◄  HouseOfScandal  ► 

Created Middle East nightclub Article
I Created an article about the The Middle East (nightclub) and its notability is being questioned - Add your thoughts to the page. Markco1 23:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Article was saved - Go Team work

Taken Articles to GA
Would like to take an Article to GA - I tried with Boston molasses disaster but it failed GA. I think we can take another pass at it in a bit. But I would like us to as a group nominate a B article for push to GA and get it done. Markco1 04:30, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Boston residences and school zoning
Hi! Regarding Boston's residential, encyclopedic towers, I decided to post school zoning information for them.

Here is how it works at Boston Public Schools:

"For elementary and middle school, students may apply to:
 * Any school within the location's "assignment zone"
 * Any school within the location's "walk zone," regardless of the school's "assignment zone."
 * Any citywide elementary school, middle school, and K-8

All high schools are "citywide.""

So, for each tower... 1. Under the first option, specify the school zone that the tower/residence is located in. If you cannot determine this, use the school zone tool https://externalweb.mybps.org//ExternalWeb/home.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=32 (You will have to register to view this, but registration is free) and determine where all/most of the schools are. 2. If you find any non-city wide, non-"Own zone" walking-distance schools, list them under the second option. 3. Leave the third and fourth points blank (I.E. do not add anything)

And, be sure to update each of these listings in case new elementary and/or middle schools open and/or the "assignment zones" change

WhisperToMe 07:08, 27 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 22:11, 29 December 2006 (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) 19:04, 15 January 2011 (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)

1953-54 Boston Bruin.jpg
file:1953-54 Boston Bruin.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 02:49, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Boston FAR
I have nominated Boston for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets 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" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ELEKHHT 13:58, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC
I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 07:58, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

The usage of is under discussion, see talk:Boston Minutemen for the discussion -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 05:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 29/04
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:00, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
Are there any Boston residents interested in participating in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a multi-national effort to improve coverage of LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects? Perhaps an edit-a-thon or a photography project? Please visit the project page for details or let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:42, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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)

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)

Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:17, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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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  07:27, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Boston 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 page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 05:47, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Proposal to add WikiProject Boston under WikiProject United States
Greetings, I am a member of WikiProject United States, it was recently suggested that WikiProject Boston might be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to include a project for it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States, which Kumioko have added some of the projects like WikiProject American television and WikiProject United States Government. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. If have any thoughts, comments or questions, please let me know. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  10:09, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Since there doesn't seem to be any oppostition in the last 3 months I am going to go ahead and add this project to the WPUS supported projects list as well as to the WPUS template. --Kumioko (talk) 02:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Mohammed Saeed Harib
The biography of Mohammed Saeed Harib says he studied at North Eastern University in Boston.

But which school does that refer to? WhisperToMe (talk) 23:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, so it's Northeastern University (one word) - that's why redirects need to be aggressively instituted WhisperToMe (talk) 23:41, 29 March 2012 (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) 23:17, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Today's Featured Article discussion related to this project
The 2008 ACC Championship Game was a college football game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles.

I've nominated 2008 ACC Championship Game for consideration as Today's Featured Article, see discussion at Today's featured article/requests/2008 ACC Championship Game. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

GPS coordinates request
Crossposting with Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Boston, I am asking here: can anyone add GPS coordinates to my new Boston-related article, the The Partisans (sculpture)? Also, we could use a post-July-2006 picture (if it is on Commons, it is mislabeled and I couldn't find it). Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 14:31, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Requesting comments at Blackfriars Massacre
There is an ongoing requested move discussion at Talk:Blackfriars Massacre. Please comment. RGloucester — ☎ 02:07, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

George Washington Dixon FAR
I have nominated George Washington Dixon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets 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" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 15:09, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

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)

Good Article reassessment
Sacred Cod 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 may be removed from the article. ɱ (talk) 04:57, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

College Basketball team navbox templates
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Creation of these templates will impact articles on Boston related teams such as BC, Harvard and BU. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:21, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Public art in Boston
Hello! Ahead of the upcoming WikiConference North America, which will be held in Boston in November, I'm creating a project page listing public artworks in the city at WikiProject Sculpture/Boston.

Surprisingly, there were only 6 Wikipedia articles about public art in Boston, before this month. So far I've created Boston Massacre Monument, Equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker, Statue of Charles Sumner (Boston), Statue of Charles Sumner (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and Statue of Wendell Phillips, as well as List of public art in Boston and Template:Public art in Boston. I'll be continuing work on Boston's public art in the next couple months and invite any project members to help out! Could be a fun little collaboration. :)

Thanks, and happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:53, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Boston Public Garden vs. Public Garden (Boston)
What should the page be called? See Talk:Boston_Public_Garden. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:18, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Articles needing coordinates
If you're willing to help, Category:Boston articles missing geocoordinate data contains articles needing coordinates. I'm not familiar with adding coordinates, but I'm happy to follow by updating infoboxes, adding maps, etc. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:58, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Category:Boston articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Boston 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) 06:21, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Red Telephone (band)


The article The Red Telephone (band) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "No indication of meeting WP:BAND"

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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 page 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. —Mahāgaja · talk 08:21, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Image request: The Embrace
Anyone able to upload an image under fair use at The Embrace (installed @ Boston Common)? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 00:47, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:38, 9 April 2023 (UTC)