Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Archive 6

AfC submission
Could I request comments on this draft? Draft:Green Space in Los Angeles, California. Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 21:24, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The tone of this article is not neutral and rings of advocacy. I wouldn't approve it, on that alone. Wikipedia is not a tool to be used to advance a position. Perhaps some of these sources can be used to improve articles such as Geography of Los Angeles, but the tone of the draft article raises red flags.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2015
You are invited to join the discussion at Meetup/San Diego/June 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:48, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Taking Larry Itliong to FA
I have never been able to advance an article to FA before, and am wondering if any other editors would like to help me get the article Larry Itliong to FA status.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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There is no photo of Chato Galvez in Geyserville, California wikipedia.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.244.148 (talk) 14:31, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

R U Professional – featured article candidate
I've nominated the article about the song "R U Professional" for Featured Article consideration.

It's a satirical song and a form of parody music using sampling.

Comments would be appreciated, at Featured article candidates/R U Professional/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

— Cirt (talk) 21:50, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection – EranBot Project
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.--Lucas559 (talk) 22:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

CA Legislature Pages Need Moving
If you go to the California State Legislature page, you will see a list of sessions. The titles of these articles have a high-ascii character in them and I believe they should be changed. I am putting a note on the talk page for some of the sessions also. Please let me know if you can think of a reason why this should not happen.

What one sees now is:

Special:Export/California State Legislature, 2015–16 session

That could be just "2015-16", using a plain old everyday 0x2d hyphen. There is nothing added by this being an em-dash.

Of course, I could be wrong. Please let me know. I will wait a bit before making the moves. Thanx.

(time passes...)

Actually, it turns out that I am wrong about this. But the MOS (MOS:DASH) says that if a page has a en dash in its title, there should be a re-direct page that uses a hyphen. I have asked the re-namer to do this. We will see.

RayKiddy (talk) 22:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ Int21h (talk) 00:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

No, they don't need moving and I will revert to the correct title if they get moved.
This is wrong. 2015–16 is a punctuation error; 2015–16 is correct. Thus an article's initial sentence says:
 * Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

The date of birth and date of death are separated by an en-dash. If it had given only the years, it would have said Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874–1965), with no blank space before and after the en-dash. Similarly, ranges of pages use en-dashes, thus: The Gathering Storm pp. 170–71. If a hyphen rather than an en-dash had appeared there, I would have changed it to an en-dash with an edit summary saying I'm correcting a punctuation error. It's used in things like this: "Butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, 40–50 million years ago." Note the en-dash in "40–50". It is also used in physical measurements, e.g. 2.5–3 kg, and with letters of the alphabet, e.g. A–F.

If I'm not mistaken, all this is codified in WP:MOS. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:49, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

South Dakota – mistake?
Greetings all. At talk:South Dakota Wing Civil Air Patrol there is an indication that the page is of interest to WikiProject California. At this point, I'm assuming that this was a mistake of some type, possibly because of a copy/paste error when the article was created. That said, I'm planning to remove the reference in a few days unless someone indicates a rational reason why it should remain. I'm asking that any discussion for the issue continue on that page, especially if there is a reason for it to be there, since the question is likely to come up again and any discussion here will probably get buried in the archives.  Etamni &#124;  ✉  05:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Nobody having objected here or on the above-mentioned talk page, the WikiProject California template/banner has been removed from that page.  Etamni &#124;  ✉  08:34, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:59, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Draft pages for missing California Supreme Court justices
I have created the following draft pages for persons on the List of Justices of the Supreme Court of California who are missing articles. Once these have been filled in with appropriate biographical information and references, they can be moved to mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 23:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Come on guys, help me out here. I've done half of the heavy lifting. Cheers! bd2412  T 18:54, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Drafts with links to In Memoriam pages

 * Draft:Charles N. Fox – Charles N. Fox
 * Draft:Emmett Seawell – Emmett Seawell
 * Draft:Henry A. Melvin – Henry A. Melvin
 * Draft:Ira F. Thompson – Ira F. Thompson
 * Draft:Isaac S. Belcher – Isaac S. Belcher
 * Draft:Jesse W. Carter – Jesse W. Carter
 * Draft:Jesse W. Curtis, Sr. – Jesse W. Curtis, Sr.
 * Draft:M. C. Sloss – M. C. Sloss
 * Draft:Maurice T. Dooling, Jr. – Maurice T. Dooling, Jr.
 * Draft:Nathaniel P. Conrey – Nathaniel P. Conrey
 * Draft:Oscar L. Shafter – Oscar L. Shafter
 * Draft:Ralph C. Harrison – Ralph C. Harrison
 * Draft:Raymond E. Peters – Raymond E. Peters
 * Draft:Samuel B. McKee – Samuel B. McKee
 * Draft:Thomas J. Lennon – Thomas J. Lennon
 * Draft:Thomas P. White – Thomas P. White
 * Draft:Warren Olney, Jr. – Warren Olney, Jr.
 * Draft:William A. Sloane – William A. Sloane

Drafts without links to In Memoriam pages

 * Draft:Armand Arabian – Armand Arabian
 * Draft:C. H. Garoute – C. H. Garoute
 * Draft:Frederick W. Henshaw – Frederick W. Henshaw
 * Draft:James D. Thornton – James D. Thornton
 * Draft:John Arguelles – John Arguelles
 * Draft:Joseph B. Crockett – Joseph B. Crockett
 * Draft:Louis H. Burke – Louis H. Burke
 * Draft:Raymond L. Sullivan – Raymond L. Sullivan
 * Draft:Terry W. Ward – Terry W. Ward
 * Draft:Van R. Paterson – Van R. Paterson

Proposing deletion / redirection for Citrix Online
Hello! I'm searching for editors interested in (California-based) software companies. If anyone here is interested in this topic, it would be great to get your feedback on what I've proposed over at the Citrix Online article. I am working as a paid consultant to Citrix, and won't make any edits, instead I'm hoping to discuss possible blanking and redirection over here on the article's talk page. Let me know what you think! Cheers, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:57, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

photographs
I am wondering if anyone in the group has PD photographs of any of Harriet Moody's cottages. Seems if so many of them are protected monuments, the photos would be PD, but I find none on commons. Any help in obtaining images of her 36 known cottages would be appreciated. SusunW (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

This Thursday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:26, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Delancey Street Foundation
The article for the Delancey Street Foundation reads like a puff-piece. It needs to be rewritten to have a NPV (plus some small grammatical errors fixed). Does anyone else agree?Doug1943 03:30, 22 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug1943 (talk • contribs)

"Los Angeles Football Club"
We are discussing "Los Angeles Football Club" at Talk:Los Angeles FC -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 06:17, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Objectivity of article on Salvation Mountain
The article (esp. the section "The Toxic Nightmare" – simply this title is already hilarious) does not seem very objective, esp. if you read things like the last two sentences which have no citation ("Knight was always extremely careful of what went into his mountain, as he did not want to harm the environment [...]") and are expressing a personal opinion of the author ("Salvation Mountain stands as a monument not only to God or to Knight, but to an ideal and determination."). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.217.141.90 (talk) 22:16, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

EDIT: another example: "In 1998, Knight wanted to expand the mountain a bit.". What is "a bit"? 1% 5% 10%? How many square meters? And how does this sentence even make any sense in comparison to the rest of the section it is in?

AfC submission
See Draft:Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel and Draft:Frank D. Lanterman. Thank you, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  19:41, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Lecompton Democrat
Lecompton Democrat Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 06:20, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

How would it be possible "seceed" from the WP:USPLACE rule
It's pretty clear that many locations in California, and for that matter many other states), are commonly referred to by just their names, even though the WP:USPLACE guideline dictates that the state be included in the article title. Such locations include Oakland, Anaheim, and Beverly Hills. It's probably a good idea to create a separate guideline on this WikiProject to account for this discrepancy. Thoughts?--Prisencolin (talk) 02:39, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what a separate guideline here would accomplish. Per WP:Local consensus, "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope" (emphasis added). What also works against this is that this WikiProject has been relatively semi-active for some time (I alluded to this back in 2010 when I commented that it has been difficult to maintain regular active participants here, as more people seem to want to focus on more specific topics) -- so even if you do get sufficient supporters here to "secede from WP:USPLACE", will they be active when someone challenges it later? The only thing that can basically be said is that "Articles on cities and incorporated towns in California should comply with the WP:USPLACE guidelines: except for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco (which fall under the so-called 'AP Stylebook rule'), their article titles need the state appended to them". But then, again because of the lack of regular active participants here, there are not really any WikiProject-specific guidelines here anyway. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:20, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Request for comment
Your attention is called to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities, where a discussion is being held concerning the Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, article. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 19:39, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Help needed on Village Pump
Would someone in Southern California who is interested in automobiles and/or attends car shows in Southern California please try to help the person at Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 51? ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 16:57, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Los Angeles City Government template
Template:Los Angeles Government

The "Elections" sections (excuse the rhyme) are missing information and seem like a lot to maintain. Should we take them out/move to somewhere else? I think it's a little confusing anyway because to me the template is meant to be an org chart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chursaner (talk • contribs) 02:50, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Spring Valley, Butte County
According to an autobiography of Fred J. Dodge (listed in the references there), he was born in Spring Valley in northern Butte county in 1854. It is not listed as a location in Butte County, California, nor in Spring Valley, California, nor can I find it in contemporary maps. But there is a Spring Valley Elementary School, and a Spring Valley Reservoir in the area, and perhaps a Spring Valley Mountain. There were also companies with Spring Valley in their names from the gold rush days. So it probably was a name used in the 19th century, maybe just a mining camp. If anyone can figure out exactly what/where it was and what the area is now called, I think it should be mentioned as a former name. MB (talk) 16:32, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

The USGS GNIS Geographic Names Information System may be of help. http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:2:0::NO:RP::


 * Not really. It showed that there is a school, reservoir, and a gulch in the area named Spring Valley, just as I found on maps. I'm looking for a little more historical context. I did find a newspaper article on the mining ghost town of Cherokee, California that says the local mines all consolidated into the Spring Valley Mine (Spring Valley Mining & Irrigation Co.)  But the GNIS does not show Spring Valley as a variant name of Cherokee.  MB (talk) 03:47, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Naming discussion at Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles
There is currently a discussion at the Talk:Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles article regarding the name. It is requested that members of this WikiProject comment for more opinions on what the actual name of the article should be. Thanks, Corkythe hornetfan  03:44, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

List of fatal shark attacks in California
I am wondering if someone from this WikiProject would mind taking a look at List of fatal shark attacks in California and assessing it. There seems to be a lot of detail provided about some of these attacks which might be taking things a bit too far, but I am not sure if that is common for these types of articles. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:35, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated Gwen Stefani 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. Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 18:57, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Please See – Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:38, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Anyone in LA?
Hey, I was wondering if there's anyone here that lives in LA that would be able to go take a picture of an art installation for me. I recently created an article for Liquid Shard and I think that the article would be much improved with an image. It's in Pershing Square and should be up until August 11, if anyone can make it up there. I live in Virginia, otherwise I'd totally go and take a picture. There are various pictures up on the Internet, but I'm not sure whether or not any of them would fall under fair use or not. It's a shame I live on the other side of the US – I'd love to see it in person since videos and pictures like this one make it seem like it'd be pretty neat. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:54, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Announcing WikiConference North America in San Diego, Fri-Mon 7-10 October
I am not a regular participant to this WikiProject, so please excuse my intrusion. Still, I thought this would be of interest. Thanks for introducing this conference in a previous note here.

I am inviting participants in WikiProject United States to WikiConference North America to be held in San Diego Friday to Monday 7-10 October. Here are further details: Discussion about the conference on-wiki could happen at meta:WikiConference North America.
 * We are accepting submissions until 31 August.
 * We are accepting scholarship applications 9 August – 23 August. About 40 scholarships are available only for people in Canada, the US, and Mexico. Last year about 200 people applied for scholarships.
 * More volunteers are needed. In the usual wiki-way, anyone may comment on program submissions. At the conference in person, all staff will be volunteer and all attendees are encouraged check in with conference organizers about volunteering for the task queue even for an hour. Anyone interested may contact to offer volunteer support.
 * Major sponsorship for the conference comes from the San Diego Public Library who are providing the venue and a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * This is the third year of this conference, with WikiConference USA being in New York in 2014 and in Washington DC in 2015. Check the schedules of those for examples of what kinds of programming will be offered this year.

I am one of the organizers for this event. I thought that I should share this information here, as this conference includes the regional focus of this WikiProject. Thanks.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:01, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Rachel Bilson
Rachel Bilson, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual 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. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:44, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Ballot proposition articles
I have started a discussion about California ballot proposition articles at WikiProject Elections and Referendums – please do contribute if you have an opinion. Cheers, Number   5  7  16:57, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Start a usergroup in San Diego?
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 02:59, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Reminder: Please contribute to articles about California on the Spanish and other language Wikipedias
Hi, guys!

I found that a Los Angeles Times article about Central American students in Los Angeles's Belmont High School is available in Spanish. Therefore I added content to both the English and Spanish versions of Belmont High School (Los Angeles) / es:Escuela Preparatoria Belmont (Los Ángeles)

While most people in California speak good English, some don't. Those of you who know Spanish are encouraged to contribute to the Spanish Wikipedia, especially when the topic is relevant to the Spanish-speaking community and/or involves a city or state government or the federal government. Also pay attention to Spanish language publications like La Opinión and Hoy Los Angeles of the Los Angeles Times. They may have information and points of view not found in the English-language newspapers. To a lesser extent please pay attention to publications in other immigrant languages/languages of foreigners such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Russian, Hmong, etc. and those of you who know these languages can add content about California to their respective Wikis (White Hmong/Hmong Dawb sadly doesn't have a Wikipedia yet, but if anyone knows people who want to start one please let me know)

WhisperToMe (talk) 14:40, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:11, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject California/The 1000 Challenge
Challenge for California is up and running, needs contributors!♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Guidelines for assessing importance.
I think we need to review articles to determine whether within this project their importance has been appropriately assessed and that requires defining importance scale. Poaching from elsewhere something like the following:

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of investigating California needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Wikipedia.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

Thoughts? --Erp (talk) 03:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

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Commons:Photo challenge February 2017 is Multilingualism
FYI, take a look in commons:Commons:Photo challenge/2017 – February – Multilingualism if you have any file you'd like to upload, maybe in some of your archive at home. So far nothing from California.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Long Beach template
Hi, guys! I notice the Template:Long Beach, California was deleted back in 2011 by a discussion here: Templates for discussion/Log/2011 March 11 – Only one other user participated, and the rationale was "Well-linked articles which do not need a navbox. Unused. " – Since then multiple California municipalities have gotten infoboxes and I think it's time this template was revived. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:26, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Pinging  and  WhisperToMe (talk) 05:12, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * No idea what I was thinking six years ago :) If you now think it should exist, please recreate it. — This, that and the other (talk) 09:48, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I ended up doing so: Template:Long Beach, California WhisperToMe (talk) 15:22, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Photo request for Los Angeles Wikipedians?
Hey, all- I'm working on Mexican Repatriation, which is currently unillustrated. There is a plaque at the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes that commemorates the repatriation, but I've been unable to find an appropriately licensed image to use in the article. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to swing by (when the weather clears ;) and take a picture for me/the article? Could also add some photos to the LA Plaza article while you're at it :) Thanks! —Luis (talk) 17:36, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Years in Northern+Southern California
Several categories within the scope of this project have been nominated for merger. I have proposed that Category:20th century in Northern California, Category:21st century in Northern California, Category:21st century in Southern California, Category:20th century in Southern California to Category:20th century in California and their by-year and by-decade sub-categories be merged to the equivalent California-wide category.

A discussion is taking place to seek a consensus on whether this proposal fits with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at these categories' entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:47, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Merger discussion at Talk:Deltopia
I started the merger discussion at Talk:Deltopia. I invite you to comment. --George Ho (talk) 05:37, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to a San Diego edit-a-thon
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/May 2017. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:10, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

USER:CORRECTOR
Hi! It may be useful to look into 's edits. I found he/she [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Penitentiary,_Victorville&diff=prev&oldid=753470232 changed the name and location of] USP Victorville even though its name is still Victorville and from a map search I did, I determined the facility is still in Victorville. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:52, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * , please do not [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_California&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=779487829&oldid=779439962 unilaterally remove my edits as was done here]. I do have concerns about the accuracy of some of your edits but I don't have time to go through all of them. Please participate in this discussion. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Your comments about CORRECTOR--are inappropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CORRECTOR (talk • contribs) 18:15, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * , on what basis did you change the location of USP Victorville? WhisperToMe (talk) 11:07, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

San Francisco-based Tides (organization)
Hello, I am looking for editors interested in California-based organizations for help improving Tides (organization). I left a note on the San Francisco Bay Area task force, but I figured I should leave a message here, too. I placed an request for edits on the Tides Talk page to update and fix inaccuracies in the introduction and infobox. For those who do not know, Tides is a public charity and fiscal sponsor whose work focuses on social equality, human rights, the environment, education and health. Its main office is located in the historic Presidio National Park, in Tides' Thoreau Center for Sustainability. (Please note that I have a Conflict of interest, as I work for Tides. Rather than direct edit, I posted my suggestions at the discussion page.) Thank you, RD at Tides (talk) 22:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * According to WP:BFAQ, you should avoid editing articles directly related to your organization because of the conflict of interest. Is there any particular reason why you have an interest in this Wikipedia article? Woebegone (talk) 05:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems like he is aware that he will not be directly editing WhisperToMe (talk) 13:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you both for replying. As WhisperToMe says, I’m aware I shouldn’t edit directly, that’s why I’m trying to get help via a request for edits. Per my note above, I work for Tides which is why I’m interested in the article, and I want to help fix some issues. Can either of you help? Thanks, RD at Tides (talk) 18:50, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I can take a look. Woebegone (talk) 22:37, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * @Woebegone: Please let me know if there are any questions when you review the Tides edit request. Thank you, RD at Tides (talk) 21:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Quatloos.com
It's not an important article, and it looks fairly similar to a stub, but the Quatloos.com article now reflects the entirety of RS mentions for Quatloos!. It'll never be a GA, just because it's lacking some basics (even if I forced a Lead into the article, I'd need to replicate almost the entire body to satisfy the Lead length requirements). However, I'd suggest that it's now "well organized and essentially complete", so should be bumped up to an A grade. A quick review would be appreciated. Cheers, Bromley86 (talk) 00:11, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to San Diego wiknic and bonfire
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2017 Wiknic. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:47, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to June 2017 San Diego meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2017. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:10, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Nomination of Elijah Daniel for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elijah Daniel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Elijah Daniel (2nd nomination) 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 article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sagecandor (talk) 21:01, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Seeking input on Culver City-based Woven Digital name change and update
Hello! I'm reaching out here to see if members of this WikiProject would be able to look at some updates for the Culver City-based digital media company, Uproxx Media Group (formerly Woven Digital), which owns brands including Uproxx and BroBible. For the company, I have written an updated draft seeking to improve the current article and in my edit request, I've also proposed moving the article to the company's current name, Uproxx Media Group. As I do have a conflict of interest, I'm seeking uninvolved editors to review the proposed draft and weigh in on the name change suggestion. Would anyone here be able to help? Thanks in advance. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 16:57, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Pinging back to see if anyone would be able to look at a couple of small additions to this article? The main update has been completed, but there is a new source that can be added, so I've opened a small edit request. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:44, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Help on San Francisco Bay Area
Hey everyone, I am currently working on a rework of the Bay Area's article. It is currently not in a great shape, with a lot of missing citations and entire sections that are completely blank. I could use some help on this immense task, so if any editors are free and have time to help out, please check out my sandbox at User:haha169/sandbox and help me fill it in. Much appreciated! --haha169 (talk) 09:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

San Diego meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/November 2017. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:29, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Proposed draft for "Move (company)" article
On behalf of Move, a California-based company, I am proposing expanded and updated Move (company) and Realtor.com articles. Given my conflict of interest, I will not edit either article directly and ask independent editors to review them for accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. During this project, Move has provided feedback to ensure accuracy. I've saved my Move draft here and my Realtor.com draft here.

Both articles have edit requests on their respective talk pages, which you're welcome to review if you're interested. I think an editor is in the process of reviewing the Realtor.com article, so I am wondering if a member of WikiProject California might be willing to review the Move draft.

Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:11, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to December meetup event
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/December 2017. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:23, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Blake Ricciardi
Would someone from this WikiProject take a look at Blake Ricciardi? I am unable to find any sources which show that this person in Wikipedia notable enough for a stand-alone article per WP:GNG or WP:BIO. Googling gets a number of hits, but these seem to be mainly primary sources or trivia mentions and not the significant coverage in independent reliable sources needed for Wikipedia notability. It has been suggested that the article be taken to AfD, but I'm asking here to see if someone might be aware of better sources which can be used. The article was recently heaviy edited by an IP (most likely someone connected to the subject) who turned it into a mish-mash over promotional content. It was also most likely created by someone connected to subject. The article has been restored to the last table version before the IP editing, but even that doesn't seem good enough to avoid AfD. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Stop revisionist history
For several years, there has been an effort to edit into Wikipedia a false revisionist version of early California history. The central false claim is that in 1836 (or before), California freed itself from Mexico and became an independent republic like Texas. Revisionist favorite articles include California Republic, Juan Bautista Alvarado, and List of Governors of California before 1850. Help me maintain the historical accuracy of WP articles on California! WCCasey (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2017 (UTC)


 * See Help desk. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:53, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Expanding Cannabis in California
The folks at WikiProject Cannabis are fine-tuning Cannabis in California, expecting an increase in views as California officially opens stores in January. I'd welcome anyone curious to take a look at the article, and either make any small corrections to mistakes, or provide input on Talk:Cannabis in California as to how the article can be improved. Thanks! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 08:38, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

San Diego January meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/January 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Somewhere under the tinsel
Does somebody at the Project have access to actual back issues of Variety or something? There are ridiculously high boxoffice numbers here (& elsewhere), which are (I'm told) supposed to represent annual take on release. The trouble is, they're sourced to websites using lifetime take, & that number is the one being used, which (I'm also told) is supposed to be reserved for the page on the individual film (which is confusing enough...). So, I'm hoping somebody has access to a source that records the actual number for the year & the film in question. Any help would be enormously welcomed (by me, anyhow). Roger Siskel under my thumb  15:01, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_California

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 13:58, 3 December 2017 (UTC) I strongly object, as an environmental consultant, and have ojected in the past, to the categorization of leaving water in a river, as nature intended, as an "environmental use". Rivers were not put on the earth for man to consume at will. I have made several corrections, and each time they have been reversed. I am now asking the Wikipedia moderators to correct this problem, which is clearly caused by a represententative of "Big Ag.". The usual figures for CONSUMPTION are 80% agriculture, 20% urban. Big. Ag. doesn't want to hear this. Nigelrg (talk) 13:20, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Recommendation to assess "Disappearance of Gary Mathias" as a B-class article on WikiProject: California
After reviewing the article entitled "Disappearance of Gary Mathias", it appears that it may meet the requirements fora B-class article within the scope of WikiProject California. The article presents a multitude of verifiable claims, and it does so in a chronological order, omitting no known details. There are some sections/phrases that could be re-written for clarity, but overall the article is cohesive, understandable, and appears to be well-researched after investigation of a few sources. I recommend that it be placed in the B-class articles of the project's Assessment page. — OranL (talk) 21:30, 25 February 2018 (UTC)


 * After reviewing this project's page and finding an apparent period of inactivity on this project, I'm going to go ahead and preemptively mark this article as B-class. Please re-categorize the article at any time, dis-categorize it for re-assessment later, or discuss it as necessary at any time. Thank you. — OranL (talk) 23:23, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to attend a Bonfire in San Diego
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:05, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

New California userbox templates
New California userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP California and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Request Review – The Phenomenauts
Hello, I'd like to request an assessment please for The Phenomenauts. I see the Assessment FAQ mentions I can edit it myself, but I recently made a large number of changes and I'd like to have someone independent take a look.

This article has been largely untouched for the past 6-10 years, and I recently made a number of edits. I have added: 109 references; five new free images; 3 new non-free images; four sample audio clips (all within fair use sizes); subtitles for the audio clips; and a band member timeline chart. I have added roughly 4,000 words to the article. I have grouped it into sections, and tried to do several passes at copyediting. I have tried to make it follow the WikiProject Musicians article guidelines. I would like to propose it could now be rated as at least B class. Feedback is quite welcome. I created a feedback section on the Talk page to help. Thanks! --Culix (talk) 05:55, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to attend a meetup in San Diego
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:07, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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. — The Transhumanist  07:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to attend a meetup in Balboa Park
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:46, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Requesting reassessment: Eleanor Roosevelt College
Hello! I have recently done a lot of work on Eleanor Roosevelt College, and feel that it should be reassessed. I am not a member of the project, so I do not feel comfortable reassessing it myself. Thank you! -Hemarcello (talk) 02:48, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the efforts to improve the article. I have elevated the article to C class as I believe it does not meet all B class criteria. I hope this helps, and if there is anything I can do to support efforts in content improvement within the scope of WikiProject San Diego please feel free to contact me.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:45, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Los Angeles articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. There might be as few as one page in the category, or zero if someone has removed the expert request tag from the page. &thinsp;— Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 20:06, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Goat Canyon Trestle
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Goat Canyon Trestle. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:30, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

San Diego meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/October 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:43, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Mission Valley meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/September 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 14:35, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

7th Annual Los Angeles Wiknic
It's the 7th Annual Los Angeles Wiknic! '''Sunday, September 30, 11:00-4:00 PM

Pan Pacific Park, 7600 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036'''

Hang out. Consume crowd-sourced BBQ! Bask in the glory of late September in Los Angeles (and the glory of our new user group, Wikimedians of Los Angeles).

RSVP (and volunteer) here.

We hope to see you there! JSFarman (talk) 02:50, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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RfC about mass changes to California census figures
Should the mass changes in the California census figures made recently by User:Carlossuarez46 be maintained or rolled back? BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:13, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The discussion will be done at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject 2010 US Census. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:16, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

San Francisco-related discussion
Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:46, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Death of Diane Whipple has duplicate content
I notice Death of Diane Whipple seems to have duplicate content (it's like it's two articles spliced together)

Would someone mind taking a look?

WhisperToMe (talk) 04:47, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

GA reassessment
Chris Field (composer), an article that you or your project may be interested in, 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. Richard3120 (talk) 15:22, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Featured quality source review RFC
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Problem of climate data of Los Angeles
Please read: Talk:Los Angeles. Subtropical -man (talk / en-2 ) 00:43, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

California is the only US state whose articles on its counties do not include a list of all the adjacent counties in the Geography section
Seriously! Every other state has that section included. I think it'd be really helpful if somebody could go through and add them. Sincerely, a big US geography nerd 184.62.80.200 (talk) 01:59, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Be bold in editing! Killiondude (talk) 02:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, I just did like half of them. Somebody else can do the other half or maybe I'll do the rest someday. - OP 173.165.42.220 (talk) 01:09, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Photo request
Is anybody on or within reach of the UCB or the Stanford campus and would be able to get a pic of a kiwibot for the Kiwi Campus page I have just perpetrated? I believe it would have to be uploaded here rather than on Commons, with a fair use rationale, since presumably the appearance of the robots is proprietary. Thanks in advance to anyone willing and able; my camera is on its last legs and I think it will be easier to catch one at Berkeley, which is a bit of a lengthy and costly trip for me. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:38, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Is this the place to raise questions about California legislature history?
I am not American, and I failed to find a comprehensive history of the legislature and government of California between when it became a State in 1850 and somewhere around the 1970s. My first attempt to find out whether I merely failed to find the articles or if they don't exist is at Talk:Members of the California State Legislature. The driver that got me looking was a discussion at Talk:John Cain (junior) about renaming an article about one of the Australian John Cains to better distinguish it from his father and son who were and are also John Cain. I wanted to improve the disambiguation page by adding birth and death years for the Californian politician John Edward Cain. I could not find them, or even what years he served in the legislature or which district he represented. Have I missed an entire suite of articles about historic lists of memberships and electoral districts, or do they not exist for California? --Scott Davis Talk 11:58, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Title of the Governor's wife
There is dispute regarding California Governor Gavin Newsom's wife – Jennifer Siebel Newsom – should be referred to as First Lady or First Partner within her encyclopedia article. I invite editors to review the relevant information and build a consensus to solve this issue, here. CookieMonster755 ✉  19:24, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to attend a Southern California Regional mini Unconference
Who: All Wikipedians & Wikimedians

What: Southern California Regional mini Unconference.

When: Sunday 3 March 2019, 2:00PM PST / 1400 until 4:10PM PST / 1610

Where: Philippe's at Chinatown, Los Angeles

Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )

Your host:

Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to the limited size of the cafe.

(Delivered: 00:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC) You can unsubscribe from future invitations to San Diego Wikimedians User Group events by removing your name from the WikiProject San Diego mass mailing list & the Los Angeles mass mailing list.)

Native names for landforms in California
has added a number of Spanish native_name to landforms in California (see, e.g., Manzanita Lake, Novato Creek, Carrizo Plain). has disputed these Spanish names, because they are not verifiable: they do not appear to be based on reliable sources.

Are there reliable sources for the use of these Spanish names as native names, e.g., before California became part of the United States? I have found a few, and would encourage editors to find more. —hike395 (talk) 08:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)


 * To clarify my objection: my understanding with many of the infoboxes is that native_name should be only used if the majority language spoken in the area was not English at the time that place or geographical feature was named. Just because these names have Spanish etymology does not give carte blanche to just merely post literal Spanish translations without any evidence that they were ever used as common or official names. Otherwise, you are just posting an unsourced assumption/original research. For example, artificial lakes that were created in the 20th Century, when English was now the common/majority language in California. I have no objections for those features whose names existed when they were still in Native American/Spanish/Mexican/etc. rule, per se. But again, we should not automatically assume literal English-to-Spanish translations. Zzyzx11 (talk) 08:56, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:History of California for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:History of California 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:History of California 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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Northamerica1000 (talk • contribs) 01:30, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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)

Request for article review
Hello to all involved with the California WikiProject. I have asked for a peer review for the article, New Albion, which is very salient to California. In one month, there has been no assistance with the review. The article is rated start class; however, I believe it is well past that stage. I have been working on the article, primarily with cleaning up re-writing and providing improved citations. I would like to know what next steps on this article are, specifically how to make it either good article or most satisfactorily, a featured article. One may find the request by using this link New Albion, and I greatly appreciate the attention any extend to the matter.Hu Nhu (talk) 04:35, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Kelly Gould up for deletion

 * Child star who is subject to a notability challenges. Shouild she always be notable? Are there sources where there is more than a passing mention of the subject?   7&amp;6=thirteen  ( ☎ ) 21:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Child star who is subject to a notability challenges. Shouild she always be notable? Are there sources where there is more than a passing mention of the subject?   7&amp;6=thirteen  ( ☎ ) 21:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Child star who is subject to a notability challenges. Shouild she always be notable? Are there sources where there is more than a passing mention of the subject?   7&amp;6=thirteen  ( ☎ ) 21:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Good Article Nomination
Hello Project California. After many revisions on the article New Albion and some help from an editor who examined the article during a peer review request, I have listed the article as a Good Article Nomination. It is the only article so listed under the Places category which relates to California. Perhaps as part of the WikiProject California, an editor here might review it. After examining some of Good Articles on California Project page and their nomination assessment, I am confident this article is properly prepared. Most kind regards. Hu Nhu (talk) 19:01, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

1986 California Proposition 65
Hi together, phaps sombady can look for the 4 last qestion at Talk:1986 California Proposition 65 thank you--Calle Cool (talk) 10:38, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Harry Hay
Hi, I found some content that seemed wrong on Harry Hay and opened NAMBLA content on Harry Hay. Any interest is appreciated. Gleeanon409 (talk) 12:54, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Southern California Wiknic & Bonfire invitation
 Meetup-San Diego-September 2K19 Who: All members of the public

What: Southern California Wiknic & Bonfire.

When: Sunday 1 September 2019, 2:00PM PDT / 1400 until 10:00PM PDT / 2200

Where: La Jolla Shores

Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )

Your host:

Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, and please add your intended potluck contribution to the list.

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Potential notable individual
This might be of interest to WP:MILHIST and to WP:AFRO but William Clark, Jr. might meet WP:BIO. Retired Command Sergeant Major Clark has received significant coverage in the Monterey Herald, is mentioned in the Congressional Record by Congressman Jimmy Panetta, and a biography is included in this book. Just thought I would mention it if someone where interested in creating the article, if they deem it a sufficiently notable subject.-- RightCow LeftCoast ( Moo ) 01:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Could someone create an article for Mike Schaefer
Perennial candidate and slumlord turned Board of Equalization member. MB298 (talk) 23:38, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
In the germany Wikipedia we have Uploaded the OEHHA-Logo. That is for you Information. If you want also upload to the EN-Wiki or upload to the Commons if you know more about the US-Copyright... Unfortunately we are not verry sure if we can upload to the commons. --Calle Cool (talk) 20:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Based on the treatment of the Cal Fire logo, this logo is in the public domain under the laws of California. Consequently, I have uploaded it to the Commons here. Thank for your the information! Titan  Andromeda  21:44, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, California
Would someone be so kind as to assess this new article? I'm new to this WikiProject and hoping for some pointers on how the article might be improved. Thanks, Swper (talk) 20:52, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this is overall a very good new article. I went ahead and made some relatively minor changes, the largest of which was removing the reference to Frank Gehry from the note at the top. I think it's a spurious detail that doesn't contribute to the article.
 * I also think that having ", California" in the article title is unnecessary given that there presumably isn't another museum with the exact same name as this one, unless the actual name of the museum includes ", California" at the end. But I will hold off on moving the article to allow for more discussion. Titan  Andromeda  00:39, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help! I would support moving the article to Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, which is the actual name of the museum, but that is currently a disambiguation, so it would require a bit of shuffling things around. Swper (talk) 16:34, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah good point, I didn't realize that the two museums technically have the same name. I think in that case, using "(California)" and "(Minnesota)" at the end of each title would be appropriate, rather than being after commas. There's also the question of whether the article titles should call each museum a different name; I think the convention is to use the most common name even if it isn't the formal name. Titan  Andromeda  19:02, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:San Francisco Bay Area
Proposal to delete all portals. The discussion is at Village pump (proposals). Voceditenore (talk) 08:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Melvin T Mason

 * Melvin T. Mason I have been adding to this article, can it be moved up from stub? Toandael49 (talk) 22:24, 18 October 2019 (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.

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Category renaming discussion: Sierra Pelona Mountains -&gt; Sierra Pelona Ridge
FYI: there is a category renaming discussion at Categories for discussion/Log/2019 November 1 for renaming of Category:Sierra Pelona Mountains to Category:Sierra Pelona Ridge to match the name which is actually supported by its USGS GNIS source. The category's main article was already renamed for the same correction to align with the name supported by its source. Ikluft (talk) 19:36, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * As obvious as it sounds that it should use the name supported by its source, the renaming will only happen if at least a few shows of support are added to the CfD discussion. This is not expected to be controversial but still needs to meet the minimum bar of having had a discussion. Ikluft (talk) 20:02, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

New bot to remove completed infobox requests
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Hearst Castle
Hearst Castle, a California Historic Landmark, is currently up for Peer Review, here. It would be great to get some US perspectives on the article, and any comments will be gratefully received. KJP1 (talk) 09:36, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

John F. Kennedy High School (Richmond, California)
I'm currently doing a major revision and expansion on Kennedy High School in Richmond, California. I welcome input in the discussion page and suggestions. Thanks! JacDT (talk) 17:57, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

List of cities and towns in California
Does anyone have an issue with adding a column in there for charter cities vs non-charter cities? Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 16:30, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking. I believe the proper place for a discussion is on the Talk page of that article. Can you go over there and start a discussion, explaining how you would do that? Would it be a separate column in the list, or marking with asterisks, or a new list? Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 16:43, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure. Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 02:03, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Cleaning up all those GNIS location articles
I've noticed there are a massive amount of one or two sentence articles for GNIS placenames in California that are plainly not notable. I've started working on El Dorado County, one of the worst offenders, at User:CJK09/California locations cleanup/El Dorado County. In addition to figuring out which of these location articles are non-notable and should go through the deletion process, I'm also going to be working on expanding the ones for which information exists beyond a name and which are actually notable. This is way too big to take on myself for the entire state but there are hundreds of not thousands of these articles cluttering up the California county pages and templates and many others. If others want to contribute you're welcome to join in. I may end up moving it to project space in that case. CJK09 (talk) 23:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Per WP:NGEO, a populated location without legal recognition is considered notable if it fulfills WP:GNG (significant coverage in reliable sources). WP:NGEO excludes mentions in "tables" (which I presume covers the GNIS database?). It would seem that many of the GNIS locations would not be notable under this criterion.


 * Back in 2009, we had a discussion about this, and User:Polaron came up with an idea: merge all of the GNIS stubs into a single list article, one per county. I personally think this is an excellent idea, and would be willing to do this for a few counties in Eastern California.


 * Would other editors be willing to merge these into list articles? Should the discussion go to AfD? — hike395 (talk) 01:56, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * It's probably best to avoid too many runs through AfD to avoid wasting everyone's time. I'd envision starting out with PRODs and then doing large batch AfDs of the ones where the PROD gets removed for whatever reason. CJK09 (talk) 03:40, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I would recommend doing things in the following order:
 * Create the list articles per county
 * Modify the county navbox templates
 * PROD/AfD discussion process.


 * This way, if the PROD/AfD process fails (which is possible), at least we'll have the navboxes pointing at the list articles instead of the individual articles. What do you think? — hike395 (talk) 05:01, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * One other (perhaps obvious) note: WP:NGEO became a guideline in 2014. The old discussion from 2009 is now obsolete. However, I think having a combined list article per county is still a good idea. — hike395 (talk) 05:10, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Just finished El Dorado County (User:CJK09/California locations cleanup/El Dorado County). Phew, that was exhausting. I've found redirect targets for a lot of the non-notables, but not all of them. That's only one county in one state, and several CA counties are far far worse. Kern in particular looks nightmarish to clean up. This is gonna take a lot of time and a lot of manpower. Soon I'll redirect the ones with suitable targets and PROD or batch AfD the rest; the ones with no redirect targets are so non-notable (many of them are literally just someone's last name that ended up on an early map) that I truly don't see the point of even putting them into a list. CJK09 (talk) 06:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm interested in helping out with this, starting with my home county of San Diego. I think setting up the working areas for each county in Project space is probably a good idea in case others want to take counties as well, that way it isn't spread across various userspaces.
 * What sort of naming and format are we envisioning for each county's consolidated list article? Perhaps List of unincorporated communities in, California ? Titan  Andromeda  22:10, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yesterday I looked through some archive discussions on the GNIS spam issue. The format someone suggested in this discussion looks pretty good. I'm sure I could code up a JS script to automate turning county navboxes into tables of that format, with the coords and all. Then for the ones that are notable, we can provide a sentence or two description in its entry in the table, and then link to its article.
 * However, there are some that really aren't even worthy of inclusion in such a table. For example, if you look at the Likely valley in Modoc County, you'll see that there's about a dozen individual ranches in that valley that ended up in GNIS somehow and then got turned into Wikipedia articles.
 * I'm going to turn WP:Wikiproject California/GNIS cleanup task force into the root directory for further work, and move my work so far to there from my userspace. If people are interested in working on it in other states, we could move it to the USA wikiproject later on. California is far from the only state with this problem, even if we have it worse than most.
 * Finally, I don't know what other people's deletion standards are (I'm pretty inclusionist, but a lot of this stuff just clutters up the encyclopedia), but the rule of thumb I'm using is if it were ever a populated community (not a road station or railway depot or whatever, an actual community – basically if it's a place someone might say they are from), or if it has received SIGCOV, it should stay; otherwise it should go. CJK09 (talk) 23:19, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for working on this! For further background, we've established in Articles for deletion/Susie, Washington (industrial rail spurs incorrectly labeled as "populated places" and sadly repeated elsewhere) and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and countless others (see WikiProject Deletion sorting/Geography) that the GNIS is unreliable at accurately classifying entries as "populated places", including many that are elsewhere marked as locales. Even when actually places that are or were populated, they are often subdivisions or otherwise do not meet WP:GEOLAND#1 for automatic notability.
 * Hike395, it's great that you called out this mass-production and errors in the GNIS a decade ago, and It's really disheartening how Carlossuarez46 shot you (and me!) down and has left us to clean up this mess of 2000+ one-line "articles". I'll note that these are already marked in List of places in California (A) etc. but having these by county could be good as well. I made List of places in California sortable but it's too big to be very usable. Just redirecting each article to one of these lists or to their county's article would work too. Reywas92Talk 03:59, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hike395, it's great that you called out this mass-production and errors in the GNIS a decade ago, and It's really disheartening how Carlossuarez46 shot you (and me!) down and has left us to clean up this mess of 2000+ one-line "articles". I'll note that these are already marked in List of places in California (A) etc. but having these by county could be good as well. I made List of places in California sortable but it's too big to be very usable. Just redirecting each article to one of these lists or to their county's article would work too. Reywas92Talk 03:59, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

I took the liberty of creating Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force for any further discussion related to this effort. Titan Andromeda  23:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you all for your work, I've been dealing with these GNIS stubs for a while and it's time to take a systematic approach. This is a busy time of year for me so I'll chip in where I can for now and hopefully take on a county this summer (if it's still needed) or try applying the model to other states. –dlthewave ☎ 04:17, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week
Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) is being given away in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, including the week ending July 5th dedicated to the US, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. There's a potential £120 to be won in total for destubbing on any subject or region of your choice. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius  12:11, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I support the idea and might be interested, but the US on the week including the 4th of July, seriously? CJK09 (talk) 16:33, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

A question
Is there a name for the system of ridge-and-valley foothills along the western side of the Sacramento Valley from approximately Wilbur Springs in the south to Paskenta in the north? It's a pretty distinct geological/geographical region just from looking at a map, and might deserve an article of its own, but I just can't find a name anywhere. CJK09 (talk) 06:16, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Manzanar featured article review
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Collapsed tables do not open headers?
In most of the California county pages I've looked at, the (sortable) tables are all collapsed to a title line using 'collapsible' and 'collapsed'. In my environment, at least (Chrome on Linux) when I show these tables, the headers fail to show. In most cases this means the table is impossible to understand, it's just columns of numbers with no context. And of course, without the headers they are not sortable, either.

Changing the classes to (apparently now preferred) 'mw-collapsible' and 'mw-collapsed' fixes this problem locally (to some extent-- the way the tables are built, when they collapse the headers are still visible) but it seems to be a systemic issue across many pages. I've not looked across wikipedia more generally, only at some California county pages, so I don't know how widespread this is. I'm hoping an experienced editor knows where and how to fix this problem.

76.226.67.112 (talk) 08:05, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Territorial evolution of California
I just spent some effort cleaning up, organizing, removing superfluous content, and adding missing content to this article. I welcome any reviews or feedback. I realize placing it in sections now makes the look and feel different than other similar state articles, but I think those other articles could also benefit from sectioning the data for easier reading. Please let me know what you think. Hopefully I'm not off base. I also think it is about as complete as it can be, given the type of article, so it might be due for an update of the article's quality and importance scale. Thank you. OvertAnalyzer (talk) 01:35, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Contributing to La Jolla Cove
Hello! My name is Jessica and I am a student in a Policy Analysis course at the University of California San Diego. We have been assigned to contribute to an article and I am interested in adding some more up-to-date information about the California sea lions at La Jolla Cove on the La Jolla Cove article. I think other people can see my Sandbox (?) to see what I'm working on. Thanks! Jlw040 (talk) 17:59, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * You seem to be on the right track. Here are a few suggestions:
 * 1) Consider starting the section with a brief one or two sentence explanation of what the "controversy" is. That way people won't have to read the entire section, unless they want the details.
 * 2) The section is long enough, you might want to organize it into subsections so people can zero in on what they are most interested in about the controversy, but the length doesn't necessarily require subsections.
 * 3) I recommend including a very brief definition of "hauling out" when you first use it in the body. I know you have a link in the lead of the article, but I think a brief clarifying definition is always helpful for such an unusual term.
 * 4) Normally external links (links that take you outside Wikipedia) are not acceptable when they are imbedded within the body of the article. If necessary to support the article, they can be placed in a separate section at the end of the article called "External links". See External links. External links such as "Hanan & Associates" and "La Jolla Swim Club" should not be imbedded. OvertAnalyzer (talk) 23:15, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback! I greatly appreciate your simple and straightforward suggestions. I have added a brief summary, divided the work into subsections, defined 'hauling out' in the lead and in my section, and removed the external links. I kept an external link at the bottom as you mentioned to the La Jolla Town Council Joint Task Force on California Sea Lions page because I believe it includes documents that further support my research and offers more specific local opinions on the issue. Let me know what you think! Sandbox, Jlw040 (talk) 22:44, 19 August 2020 (UTC) My understanding is that, since their protection by the MMPA in the early 70s, the population of CSLs has quickly bounced back from over-harvesting for their oil and hides. The Southern California population(s) were inhabiting the Channel Islands and using them as a rookery (place where they breed) but are "overflowing" onto mainland California. La Jolla serves them well because orcas and great whites aren't terribly common, and with the marine reserve they have plenty of food to support this new growing population. Here's a study that discusses more of the recent population trends of CSLs in central and southern California. Thanks again for your expertise! Jlw040 (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2020 (UTC) I think your changes make it easier to read, and I took your suggestions as well. Thanks! Jlw040 (talk) 17:11, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I think your changes have improved your section of the article. Maybe some detailed copy editing would be helpful, but I'm probably not the right person for that. I was left with one question. It sounds like the problem started in 2013, but it does not explain what happened to trigger this. Is it a growing population of animals, are they moving south for some reason, or are there other factors involved? If you don't know, that is fine, but it might be helpful to explain that if you do know. Good luck with your assignment, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. OvertAnalyzer (talk) 00:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I made a few formatting and punctuation changes, and broke up the last long paragraph into smaller pieces. If you don't agree with my changes, you are welcome to revert them. A couple final suggestions: 1) find a way to break up the sentence that starts "In 2017 the City increased ...". That sentence would be easier to read, if it can be split up, 2) I've been told references are generally supposed to be placed after the punctuation mark (see examples at Template:Ref). OvertAnalyzer (talk) 23:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Good job! OvertAnalyzer (talk) 22:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Area Code Map
This question concerns the California Area Code pages, which are listed under the broader umbrella of WikiProject California. There is an error in the area code listings. The northern portion of Mono County is in the 530 area code. However, the most detailed listing of that area code is missing this. The county listing under 530 reads ". . . . . Modoc County, Nevada County . . . ." It leaves out Mono County. To edit would require the changing of several links, something beyond my Wikipedia skills. Eventually I was looking for a map that would show enough detail to determine the exact southern boundary of the 530 area code. I haven't found that yet, but came across the above error while looking — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exsmokey (talk • contribs) 15:54, August 31, 2020 (UTC)


 * Don't forget to strike the tilde key four times to sign your postings. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 04:32, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Current Fruitvale Bridge page references three different bridges.
(Also posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force) This one page is presenting info for the original 1894 Fruitvale railroad-only bridge that was later converted to car usage in 1951, the 1951 Fruitvale railroad-only bridge adjacent to the old bridge, and the 1974 road vehicle bridge built in place of the 1894 bridge. I want to make a page for each bridge as they are separate subjects with related but different histories. Any objections? Dougbcnu (talk) 03:24, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Given their interlocking histories, it makes more sense to have one thorough article than three stubs. The current article is <10kB and <500 words. I don't see a compelling reason for a split of Fruitvale Bridge. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:41, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Pre-USA California
Please contribute to this category discussion about California while under rule of the Spanish and Mexicans. The categories are also listed on the main project page, under article alerts, so this is just an extra reminder. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Slab city ownership
Does anyone know what happened after a private developer bought it in 1993? I am reading that it was bought by a developer https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-02-20-9402200304-story.html but I'm reading on NPR that it is owned by the state as of 2012. https://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145645412/down-and-out-escape-to-slab-in-california-desert So, did the state buy it back? If then I can't find any info about it. Graywalls (talk) 09:12, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Gerald Desmond Bridge (2020-present) Has No Rating Yet
Gerald Desmond Bridge (2020-present) recently got split away from Gerald Desmond Bridge (1968–2020), and it has no ratings from this group. Can someone here please rate it, because I don't know how to mark it so it can be rated. Because of this split, Gerald Desmond Bridge (1968–2020) may need to be reassessed. Thank you. Interstate 11 (talk) 01:05, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Move Request
There is a move request you may be interested in at Talk:Stephen Hahn (oncologist).  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 05:54, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

California dairy industry
Given that California produces 20 percent of the total milk production of the United States, I decided to make a California dairy industry article. It is a work in progress. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Thriley (talk) 04:09, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Redwood National and State Parks
Redwood National and State Parks is an older FA promotion. As part of WP:URFA/2020, all FAs promoted before 2015 and not having undergone WP:FAR since then are being checked to make sure they comply with current standards. The goal is to get any ones with issues back up to the requirements and avoid FAR. This one needs a few straggling inline citations, and the recreation section needs checked to make sure the various details about camping rights and such haven't changed since 2008. Hopefully someone can find the time to work on this one, as it's not far from meeting the current criteria. Hog Farm Bacon 17:26, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Statue of Christopher Columbus (Chula Vista, California) at AfD

 * Statue of Christopher Columbus (Chula Vista, California)

Feedback welcome, --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 12:58, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Article reassessment for Scovern Hot Springs, California
Requesting a reassessment of Scovern Hot Springs, California it would be appreciated. I improved it from a three sentence stub-class to a full article. Thanks in advance! Netherzone (talk) 23:26, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ someone assessed it as C-Class.

Article reassessment for Lucchesi Park
It's got some very um, shall we say, "quirky" and non-park-related opinions sprinkled throughout the few sentences, but I'm not comfortable enough as a town resident of a little over a year to edit it myself with additional information. TheSweet (talk) 06:17, 26 April 2021 (UTC)


 * and assessed as stub — hike395 (talk) 09:40, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Article Reassessment for Steven R. McQueen
Requesting a reassessment of Steven R. McQueen after I have done quite a bit of sourcing of information, I believe it is now better than a Start-class. Thank you. Aviator006 (talk) 14:36, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ by DocFreeman24, assessed as C-Class, thank you. Aviator006 (talk) 22:12, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 03:39, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Date shake
The date shake article is under consideration for a merge. There is plenty of great material about it to keep it up as a standalone article. It is a great piece of living California history. It would be a shame to see it disappear into the milkshake article. Please feel free to add to it as I may be busy for the foreseeable future. Best, Thriley (talk) 01:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Orange County Task Force
If anyone is interested in starting a specific task force for Orange County, let me know here. Count me as one who regularly contributes to Orange County based articles. Sewageboy (talk) 10:44, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Requests for MasterClass article
Hello! My name is Alyssa and I work for the San Francisco-based online streaming platform MasterClass. I've disclosed this on my profile and at Talk:MasterClass, where I've proposed some changes to make the article more accurate and up to date. More specifically, I've asked to correct language about the company's founding and remove a sentence which is not specifically confirmed by sourcing. Editor feedback has been limited, so I'm hoping some editors from WikiProject California can take a look and update the article for me. Thanks! MC Alyssa (talk) 01:34, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Panavision
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Offer to help
Hi I just signed up and want to help but I need direction. Thank you. Ericmalibu 00:28, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Reduce rate of PRODs and AFDs
I noticed there are way too many proposed deletions recently. There might not be enough time to evaluate all of time. Unfortunately this means quite a lot of useful information might be deleted. In some cases, rather than deletion, alternatives such as a merge or redirect or collection into a list article could be considered. It would be helpful if we reduce the rate of PRODs or AFDs.--DreamLinker (talk) 15:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Pinging User:Mangoe, User:Reywas92, User:Hog Farm, User:FOARP as well User:Netherzone. Instead of PRODing/AFDing them individually, I wondering if we could compile these into a list, maybe by county. Then check if we can find any alternatives to deletion.--DreamLinker (talk) 15:33, 15 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the ping,, and the good suggestions – merge, redirect, or compile list articles of the lesser known places. The ones that I am concerned about are those places that are no longer "settlements" but in the past were used by Native Americans (some of which were actual villages), or those that historically were settlements but entirely burned down (such as Scovern Hot Springs, California.) Some are notable as former mining camps, stagecoach stops, historical water sources, etc. Perhaps the weeding-out process could be conducted differently. I feel quite strongly that lesser known places associated with indigenous peoples' history belong in this encyclopedia. I realize that would slow down the process of stub clean up, but I think its better in the long run. Netherzone (talk) 15:59, 15 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Very happy to discuss ways of dealing with this issue. However, we should get it straight first that I (and I believe the other people working on this issue) are not simply deleting articles willy-nilly without first checking that they cannot be saved. What we are struggling with is the sheer scale of the problem created by massive-scale negligent article-creation. It is not that the person who created the majority of these articles was purposefully vandalizing the encyclopedia, it is simply that, despite being an admin at the time, they did not care about any of the rules in place even at the time they were doing it (2009) regarding notability.
 * These deletions are necessary work as probably 90% or more of the articles created by the creator during their campaign of mass-article creation do not meet WP:GEOLAND. As they are present on Wiki they inevitably find their way into other collections of data, and thus take on a life of their own outside Wiki.
 * I hope the others will not object if I say that we are very alive to the problem of these PRODs/AFDs clogging up the various forums that have to deal with them and creating unnecessary work for admins. Indeed I and others have pointed out that this is the effect of these deletions having to be done one-by-one. It should be noted, though, that in every instance where we have tried to deal with these issues in bulk, formal reasons have been found not to do it (see e.g., here, where a clear consensus to delete all was not acted on). No-one will bother doing all the work of preparing a bulk deletion if in every occasion it turns out to be pointless. Instead they will use forums where at least deletion can occur (e.g., PRODs/AFDs).
 * A very obvious way to avoid having to go through these one-by-one would be for the creator of the vast majority of the problematic articles numbering in the thousands, Carlossuarez46, to speedy-delete the ones that have not been substantially edited since they created them in 2009. However, they have been unwilling to do this and have engaged only very minimally with the process of clearing up these articles (see their talk page here and here). FOARP (talk) 16:01, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * To second FOARP, we've been going through these looking at the merits of each individually, as far as I'm aware of. I personally have a four or five-part test to go through the California ones that I apply to them.  I'm unaware of a single one that I've checked against my test and failed every single point that have not been deleted. Also to keep in  mind that we have discovered that the source Durham is either misinterpreted or fabricated in most of its usages.  Additionally, some redirections/mergers are going on, but aren't as visible.  Such as when I determined through research that the stub at Union Shed, California was actually an early name for the site of Sheridan, California, so I added an explanation to the Sheridan page and redirected.  From what I've seen (unless I missed something), this cleanup has been conducted in a reasonable and not overboard manner.  The fact that over a thousand of these has been deleted over the course of several months is because almost 2,000 of these were mass-created with no real regard for accuracy or how the source actually describes these places. Hog Farm Talk 16:12, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thirding FOARP. I would love to just redirect these to pages like List of places in California, as was agreed upon at User talk:Reywas92, but User:Tavix reverted my first batch of redirects and prodded them instead. I have now gone though every single "former settlement" cited only to Durham's California Geographic Named – most of which are misrepresentations, as Durham mentions "a place" on a map or a post office rather than a settlement of any notability – and prodded every one; the ones from yesterday are the final batch of those, but there are still many supposed "unincorporated communities" and non-obvious former ones still to go (not to mention other states). The main places list previously included the full list before being split by letter so I think if the redirects were to the subpages like List of places in California (A) that include the names that would be more satisfactory to Tavix than to the main page. Reywas92Talk 20:25, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm of the opinion that the non-verifiable ones should be deleted rather than redirected, anyway. The thing deleted at Articles for deletion/Ash Log, Kentucky should probably not have a redirect to a hypothetical List of places in Kentucky because Ash Log as a toponym is barely even verifiable, much less notable.  Redirection would work fine for a lot of these place stubs, but a few just need deleted as there's nothing useful about peddling GNIS errors when there was never anything at the site at all. Hog Farm Talk 20:43, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I favour redirection only because it can be done in bulk and results in less harmful articles. Ultimately a non-notable place just shouldn't have an article on here, though, and made-up "ghost towns" and "unincorporated communities" should be nuked with extreme prejudice. Carlos's negligent article-creation led to the situation where until this clean-up project started there were counties in California with more than twice as many "ghost towns" listed than there were presently inhabited communities – a plainly ridiculous situation. The overwhelming majority of these "Ghost towns" turn out to be, on closer inspection, railway sidings, road/rail junctions, farms, factories, warehouses, wharves, camps, mines, individual buildings etc. Of the remainder many are actually just different names for presently-existing communities.
 * Please note that I am far from a deletionist, my record at AFD was (rarely for people who do a lot of work there) more keep !votes than delete !votes until I started working on this clean-up project. My initial response was "Surely GNIS and Durham are reliable sources? Why are people deleting these articles?" until I saw the scale of what Carlos had done, and how very little time had been spent in the creation of each article (maybe ~1-2 minutes for each at most?). Even for PRODs we are probably spending 2-3 times longer simply PRODing the article than Carlos did creating them!
 * My personal view is that Carlo's behaviour reverses the presumption that we should assume they were acting in good faith when they created these articles: they plainly weren't. I don't like engaging in mind-reading but, forced to guess, I think it was their ranking on this list that was uppermost in their minds when they created these articles. Doing a WP:TNT on the entire corpus of WP:V/WP:GEOLAND-failing stubs they created is justifiable in that circumstance. FOARP (talk) 09:36, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you everyone for your responses. I understand that non verifiable information should not be part of Wikipedia and the cleanup is actually a good step to take. My concern is just to reduce the speed a bit. Like maybe, do it county by county. It would be helpful if, let's say a list of all non-verifiable places in that county could be compiled (maybe in a subpage of this project?). Then we could go over that list, find sources if required. Do a local consensus to redirect. For those that contain some information to be salvaged, we could merge/redirect it. If done in a systematic manner, it also allows someone to check later and recover an article (in case it is deleted/redirected incorrectly)--DreamLinker (talk) 16:09, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for sharing the history behind the stub article creations ; it’s good to have a deeper understanding of the vastness of this clean up effort. I’m wondering if would be willing to share their five-part test. That could be a useful tool moving forward. The ones that are errors, non-verifiable or non-notable should be deleted. I like ’s suggestion to redirect some of them to List of places in California (A). I will continue to keep an eye out for stubs that are either associated with historical indigenous settlements or with water sources (like hot springs :-) ), and will improve them if I can find reliable sources. Netherzone (talk) 18:19, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * - My five part test utilizes the resources I have available. The first step is to look on GNIS for the location.  If the location existed after 1910 and isn't in GNIS, there's a good chance it's not notable.  Then, using the coordinates I pulled from GNIS, I search the coordinates in the USGS topographic maps database.  The maps and GNIS aren't enough to show a place as notable, but they can identify a lot of the non-community features.  I've been able to diagnose stubs as non-community features such as railroad sidings, individual ranches, and in a couple cases natural features such as ponds or canals misentered into GNIS as communities. I have access to newspapers.com through WP:LIBRARY, so I use that as the third step.  In places where there are old newspapers on the site (some going back into the 1800s), you can generally figure out what something is.  Step four is checking the google books preview of Gudde's California Place Names, which generally only lists significant features.  Gudde also has a book about gold camps, which is useful to check for supposed mining features.  The last step is to run a standard WP:BEFORE, with Google books generally being a better bet than Google search, as Google search is almost hopelessly polluted with clickbait and mirrors of both GNIS and Wikipedia.  That's my process. Hog Farm Talk 18:47, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , this is really helpful, thank you for posting your process. I will save it to my tool kit. Netherzone (talk) 19:17, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Geology of the Death Valley area
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This article needs updating
(1) The term "eastern California" is (a) ambiguous and (b) too general. (a) The term may refer to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada OR California's eastern counties. Since the fault zone is described as located in "the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada," the term "eastern slope" must refer to the eastern counties. (b) However, this is too general a description. If the fault zone is a suture threaded through the Smartville Block, then specific counties need to be cited.

A map would be useful. This could be provided by linking to USGS: however see #2 and #3 below.

(2) References: USGS link invalid (3) External links: USGS link invalid Jordansmith (talk) 17:32, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

WP:FLRC Nomimination
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Image request
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:54, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Black Lives Matter street mural (Santa Cruz, California)

Task force cleanup
This project has quite a few task forces, many of which are inactive several of which overlap (e.g. SoCal and L.A.). Could we clean them up a bit? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 01:35, 10 August 2021 (UTC)


 * That certainly seems like a good idea to me for whatever its worth. DocFreeman24 (talk) 02:10, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Honestly I'd much prefer to attempt to rehabilitate them than just toss them aside, especially since it would probably be more work in the long-run to adjust the documentation everywhere and back-end tooling (templates, assessment, categories, etc.) as it would to brainstorm some ways of getting the project in front of the eyeballs of the right editors and jump-start them back to life. I'm currently in the process of giving a lot of that infrastructure a fresh coat of paint (see Category:FM-Class California State University articles for an example of the new category page design and for my test case with the invitation template, among others) would like to see if I can enlist a few others volunteers to help me spread them around once everything's polished up nice and shiny. Does anyone have a problem with trying that approach first? —    ℛ ogueScholar   ₨🗩   11:35, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Certainly no objection here. My only concern is that this Wikiproject does not seem particularly active even at the highest levels so it made sense to try and consolidate and clean things up a bit to centralize things and hopefully bring more editors together.  But I don't feel strongly about that, so fire away! DocFreeman24 (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there's the activity concern is one issue, but I'm really here because of the duplication. I've recently been working on a group of pages at the eastern end of Los Angeles County—is that the L.A. task force, the Inland Empire task force, the SoCal task force, or all three? It's not immediately clear when tagging talk pages, and that's the issue. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 08:48, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Disappearance of Lauren Cho
I have created an article for the Disappearance of Lauren Cho. She was last seen in the area of Yucca Valley, California. Any help with the article would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 20:54, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Navbox color
The navboxes for California topics use a rather jarring golden yellow, defined at Template:California/color. I'm not sure whether or not it complies with the contrast accessibility guidelines at MOS:COLOR and whether or not it has any official status (it does look like blue and gold are the state colors). Does anyone want to look into it and see if we ought to change it? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 23:12, 19 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I tested the color at as a background color for black text, link text, and visited link text (per WP:COLOR), and found that all three of those cases passed the WCAG AA contrast level. I don't believe you can change the color based on an accessibility argument. — hike395 (talk) 00:06, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Kevin McCarthy (California politician)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Kevin McCarthy (California politician) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 13:11, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Yosemite
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FAR for San Francisco
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Napa Valley Museum
I just created a draft for the Napa Valley Museum. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley (talk) 17:48, 21 December 2021 (UTC)


 * , I've added some content and two citations. I'm having some difficulty finding news sources that are about the museum. I added the one I found has been added to the draft Netherzone (talk) 18:14, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * , Thank you. I’ll do some digging myself. I am a bit surprised there is a lack of quality news about it. Thriley (talk) 18:31, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy/archive1 Featured article review
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Happy New Year from Wikimedians of Los Angeles!
--JSFarman (talk) 02:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Sequoia Capital: Request for review
Hello! I recently posted a request to the Sequoia Capital article talk page asking editors who watch the page to review some proposed revisions to the History section. My request can be found here: Talk:Sequoia Capital

Sequoia is a California-based company that has made investments in numerous companies headquartered in the state. My proposed History section details these investments and provides additional information about key personnel and operational developments over the past five decades.

Due to my conflict of interest (I work for Sequoia Capital) I will not make any changes to the article myself. Instead, I’ve reached out to experienced Wikipedia editors to review my proposals and hopefully implement changes when they believe the new material will improve the article. I have been working with two editors already to refine my draft, and I would like to add a few more voices to make sure everything looks good.

Thank you so much! VS for Sequoia Capital (talk) 22:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Geology of the Lassen volcanic area
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Featured Article Save Award for Geology of the Lassen volcanic area
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Requested move at Talk:Modesto Area Express
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Modesto Area Express that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 17:56, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Ranchos of California infobox suggested
I believe the individual articles for the ranchos found in the List of ranchos of California would benefit from an infobox. Suggested contents are readily available from the list itself:
 * Map / illustration


 * Grant name
 * Date
 * Grantor
 * Grantee
 * Size
 * Land case number
 * Location (city, county)
 * Coordinates (center of grant?)

It would take considerable work to propagate such an infobox, but perhaps someone could write a script. Thoughts? — btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 01:09, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Stephen Hahn (oncologist)
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FAR for Anna May Wong
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FAR for Nancy Reagan
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Good article reassessment for Project 86
Project 86 has been nominated for an individual 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. Hog Farm Talk 02:55, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

L'Ermitage Beverly Hills: Request for review
Hello! Last month I posted a request to the L'Ermitage Beverly Hills article talk page asking anyone active there to review my proposed revisions to the History section. (The current material is largely unsourced and includes a lot of details that I have been unable to verify.) My request can be found here: Talk:L'Ermitage Beverly Hills

I'm an employee of EOS, the company managing L'Ermitage, and thus have a clear COI. As such, I'm reaching out to experienced editors to review my draft. Hoping someone here can help, or at least steer me in the right direction. Thanks! Mcg2132 (talk) 14:27, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Munger Hall, UC Santa Barbara
I created a draft for Munger Hall, a proposed dormitory at UC Santa Barbara. Its been in the news as it will house 4,500 students and 94% of the rooms will have no windows. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 17:30, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

LH Research Inc.: Request for review
Hello! I posted a re-request for reviewing an article on Draft:LH Research. The main critic was: not enough Notability. I improved upon the article, and added sources (e.g. to a Smithsonian collection about the company and many links to scientific articles about the company and its developments). The first reviewer states, that he does 'only' one-time revies... so this article is back to AFC. Geoman3 (talk) 08:14, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

James Robert Baker Featured article review
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Evernote: Company section updates
Hey there! I'm Greg, an employee at the California-based software company Evernote. I'm trying to get some help updating the company's article. A colleague of mine, User:Evernotebrian, assembled a new draft for the article's Company section. It covers some recent company history that isn't included in the current version of the Evernote article and backs up some of the existing content with better sourcing. You can view his draft at this link. I'll also provide an additional link to Brian's edit request on the Evernote Talk page. You can see my COI disclosure and follow-up note right below his post. We were also hoping to get the Company header changed to History, because we feel that's a more accurate description of what the section contains, but if an editor from this WikiProject could at least take a look at the new section draft, that would be a great start. Thanks very much for your time. Evernote Greg (talk) 16:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Oakland Historic places table: Add construction date column
I would like to recommend that a column be added to the table of Oakland historic places with the date of construction.946towguy (talk) 18:52, 21 June 2022 (UTC)946towguy

LendingClub History request help
Hello! I'm dropping by to see if an editor might have an interest in helping me with an edit request for the LendingClub page. As an LC employee I can't edit the company page directly but instead must rely on other volunteers to review my requests. I didn’t have much luck at WP Finance and investment, so I thought here might be a good place to go next.

As you can see on the LendingClub Talk page, I've put together a revised and updated version of the article's History section, which doesn't currently have much information on the past couple years of company activity. For ease of reference, I’ve also posted a revised History draft on my user page if editors find that easier to review.

Any feedback editors might be willing to give would be great. Thanks! EFlynn at LendingClub (talk) 18:46, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles
Anyone know of a good image to illustrate Chung King Road? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:55, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Singularity University
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Singularity University that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 17:01, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

AfD: Britannia Pub
Britannia Pub has been nominated for deletion, if any project members care to weigh in. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:11, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Notable temple?
Anyone know if File:Los Angeles, Buddhist Temple, 2015.03.27 (02) (28752960304).jpg is notable enough for a Wikipedia entry? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:11, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Murals of Kobe Bryant
Anyone care to help expand Murals of Kobe Bryant? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:44, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Bulldog Stadium
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Bulldog Stadium that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 13:55, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Squaw Valley, Placer County, California
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Sushi Kaneyoshi
Sushi Kaneyoshi has been nominated for deletion. Discussion participation welcome. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:28, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Emperor Norton
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Chung Chun Rice Dog
Any project members able to help expand Chung Chun Rice Dog with LA and San Diego details? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 03:17, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Joseph W. Tkach
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Featured article review for Hurricane Nora (1997)
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FAR for Madman Muntz
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Should the "Wi Spa controversy" Article Identify the Suspect by Name?
Please consider contributing to the "Should the Article Name the Suspect?" discussion at Talk:Wi Spa controversy. --Mox La Push (talk) 06:02, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Redwood National and State Parks under FA review
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Good article reassessment for Barry Bonds
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Good article reassessment for David Carradine
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Museum of Northern California Art
New article: Museum of Northern California Art. Improvements welcome!

Thanks, --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:11, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Bernard Williams
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consolidated steel
The Consolidated Steel Corporation should probably be adopted by the project. I don't have numbers but it looks like it was LA's largest construction business (and a continuation of Llewellyn IW and Baker IW which i believe were the 2 most significant ones before they merged). They also did substantial things for the rest of the world. Lots of ships and the tubes for at least one big pipeline abroad. If one digs deeper, it is likely they had their fingers many Californian projects.

Has as of now a substandard section on the Baker Iron Works. Nowakki (talk) 16:52, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Julian C. Messic (1889-1961)
Does anyone have any sources, or ideas as to where to find sources, for a Californian female architect called Julian Messic? The spelling of the name varies; I think the full name was Charlotte Julian Messic, but I have seen C. Julian Messic, Julian C. Messic, and also Mesic with a single "s". I think her dates were 1889-1961, and she worked as a draughter in the office of Julia Morgan, of Hearst Castle fame. Commons does actually have an image. I'd be very grateful for any help in finding sufficient sources for a Start article. I'll also post at the Architecture Project. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 17:53, 23 March 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) 20:48, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Riot Games Operations section review
Hey there! I'm a Riot Games employee trying to improve the quality of the company's article. We're based in L.A., so I thought our article might be of interest to editors at this WikiProject. A couple weeks ago, I posted a COI edit request on the Riot Talk page that proposes a brief Operations section. It's similar to ones I've seen on other corporate pages, and features key details about the company's structure and function.

Here's the link to that request. If someone could review the request and either add the section to the article or let me know how it can be improved, I would really appreciate it. Thanks! JHixson at Riot Games (talk) 01:03, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

FAR for The Log from the Sea of Cortez
User:Buidhe has nominated The Log from the Sea of Cortez 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:13, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Request for Opionions
Since the Inland Empire group seems to have migrated to here, I would like to request opinions on a change to the article on Zzyzx.

A sentence I added to the "Popular Culture" section of the article on Zzyzx was removed by an editor; I personally think this was inappropriate. I would be interested in any comments (positive or negative) from editors interested in this topic. See Talk:Zzyzx,_California. Finney1234 (talk) 14:49, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Munger Hall, proposed dormitory at University of California, Santa Barbara
I recently created an article for the proposed Munger Hall. Any help with expansion would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 20:54, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hobie Cat at AFD
Articles for deletion/Hobie Cat The article is up for deletion. Feedback on the template is welcome on this California-based successful company. — Maile (talk) 03:21, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Twitter
Twitter has been nominated for a 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

York fire
I recently created an article for the active York fire, a major fire in the Mojave which has burned over 77,000 acres as of July 31. Thriley (talk) 17:08, 31 July 2023 (UTC)