Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Santa Barbara County task force

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California
Some articles covered by this WikiProject lack photographs. As part of a subcategorization of the requested photos category, there is now a category for California articles needing photos - to use it, just add to the article's talk page. I have only added a few articles to the category so far, but it would be an easy way to make an extensive list California-related articles lacking photos. I hope you find it useful! TheGrappler 05:19, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

CA-geo-stub sub-types proposed
There's a discussion here about how best to (further) split up the. Ideally, we'd do this by generally-recognised regions consisting of a readily-identifiable list of whole counties, such that there's at least 60 existing stubs in each (but not so many as to mean we're likely to be doing the same thing again before too long). Comments welcome. Alai 00:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC) WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Award
There is curently a proposal for a WikiProject California Award. I proposed expanding it to include this WP. Check out the link and feel free to comment. --evrik (talk) 21:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * There is currently a final vote being held on a WikiProject Award for all California related projects. You may wish to give your input here. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 19:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello
I'm back to editing some of the SB related articles. I'm going to start working on the one about the school district (SBSD)first. A lot of things have been happening with teacher salaries and it's a pretty big district. -- hello, i'm a member  |  talk to me!  02:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

GA Review
One of this Project's Good Articles, Presidio of Santa Barbara has been nominated for Good Article review. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Drewcifer3000 19:42, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Santa Barbara oil spill
Greetings: I am reposting a request that I originally posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment last week, in hopes of attracting another collaborator:

I've just made a rather shocking and very dismaying discovery: There's no article about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In fact, on all of Wikipedia, there are no more than a handful of passing references to this event. It's not even mentioned in the List of oil spills. Yikes! How on earth is this possible??? This is mind-boggling. In all seriousness, this is undoubtedly the most glaring omission I have ever found on Wikipedia (and, believe me, I've found more than a few). We are talking about the single event that was most directly responsible for launching the modern environmental movement on a mass scale. It's no mere coincidence that Earth Day 1970 took place just months later.

Especially with two oil spill eco-disasters currently under way, I hope I'm not alone in feeling that creation of this article should be a very high priority for this Project. I am in the middle of some very time-consuming things elsewhere on Wikipedia right now, but I promise that I will join in on a collaboration to write this article. Please reply here, and leave a note on my talk page, if you are interested -- especially if you've got good sourcing material. Regards, -- Cgingold (talk) 22:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I saw your comments and I appreciate your suggestion to make an article on this oil spill accident. Most likely, I will start an article on this on coming Wednesday. OhanaUnitedTalk page 13:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

The short paragraph in Santa Barbara Channel is the largest piece of text on the spill that I found anywhere on Wiki. Not good.

If you're interested, please reply at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment and/or my talk page#Santa Barbara oil spill. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 19:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

New photo request category
Please see Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Santa Barbara County, California. GregManninLB (talk) 23:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia California?
I am looking into starting Wikimedia California. Anyone interested? Geoff Plourde (talk) 03:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Santa Barbara County
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Changing this project to a task force of WikiProject California
Based on the general project activity level, number of participants, and the overlap in scope with WP:WikiProject California, I feel this project should be changed to a task force of WikiProject California. Right now this would involve replacing all instances of WikiProject Santa Barbara County withz. Category:Unassessed Santa Barbara County articles only has 16 articles at the moment, so there isn't really a huge amount of issues caused by unassessed santa barbara articles overlapping with california, but I don't really see a need for a lot of the overlapping bureaucratic overhead caused having two similar projects. Any thoughts, objections, etc? -Optigan13 (talk) 04:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I think the most useful parts of this WikiProject are the centralized lists of SB-related articles and editors, so anything that preserves them is fine with me. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:32, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Swapping the article templates should still retain Category:Santa Barbara County articles by quality. Santa Barbara County would share whatever assessment is in the WP CAL banner, but would still have an independent importance rating. Right now as part of the update to WP CAL there is also a bot-assisted assessment of all unassessed california articles. I'm not really interested in wiping out the participant lists or trying to force anything on this project aside from losing the separate talkpage template. -Optigan13 (talk) 05:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea to me. John Carter (talk) 15:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

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Santa Barbara County articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Raise Santa Barbara County Task Force Activity
Come on, we need to get going again, there are some articles I'm interested in upgrading to B and GA ratings. Evancahill (talk) 22:24, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Role Call #1: 1/12/16
I'm having a role call for all active members. Evancahill (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Here! Evancahill (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Here! Note: I'm going to be inactive for a while. Lightningmist (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Note: This role call is now over. If you would like to report to the task force, add your own section saying this: Hi, I'm (user name). I'd like to (join or become active with) the Santa Barbara County task force. (Sign using the four "~"s.). Evancahill (talk) 23:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Evancahill (talk) 23:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:40, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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