Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cincinnati/Archive 2

Standarization of neighborhood names?
I noticed that if you look at the category Neighborhoods in Cincinnati, there are several different naming schemes, such as, for example Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, Bond Hill, Ohio, and East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. We should try to come to a consensus on these article names. It seems that Neighborhood, Ohio seems the most popular, but it can't be more than 50% from a glance. Borg Sphere (talk) 16:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Project activity?
Is this project still active at all? It hasn't been edited by a non-bot in months, and it seems to be basically defunct. Is there a way to bring it back from the dead? If not, is there a procedure to delete dead Wikiprojects? Seems stupid to keep this one sitting around when there is no collaborative effort, just a project page. Borg Sphere (talk) 21:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
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Articles needing Photos
I am interested in synchronizing the following lists which are currently mismatched:


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Cincinnati%2C_Ohio
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Cincinnati
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cincinnati_articles_needing_photographs

Does anyone have any input on the best way to go about this? DaveMenninger (talk) 19:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Update: I have synchronized the two reqphoto based lists. Now the two match each other but not the third list. Two questions:


 * Is there a reason to prefer "Cincinnati, Ohio" or "Cincinnati" when it comes to the reqphoto tag? It seems most other major cities use the city name alone, without the state name ( Chicago, Cleveland ).


 * Does someone maintain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cincinnati_articles_needing_photographs and is there any reason to favor either it or the reqphoto tag?

DaveMenninger (talk) 21:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Personally, Cincinnati seems better, I don't know of any other cities called that. As for the category maintenance, I doubt that they do, as this project was pretty much dead for several months before you came along. Borg Sphere (talk) 02:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Update: Someone has proposed the two reqphoto articles be merged and I'm all for that. I guess it just needs to be decided whether to go with "Cincinnati" or "Cincinnati, Ohio" as the name of the place.

Also, I have come to a realization about the difference between "Wikipedia requested photographs in X" vs. "X articles needing photographs". The ones that use 'reqphoto' with the 'in' parameter are things that are actually in a a particular location. Things that don't really move much, like buildings. The ones that use the 'WikiProject' tag with the 'needs-photo' parameter are not necessarily things that have a specific location, although they might have a lot to do with Cincinnati (like famous people).

So, my proposal is that maybe the one category is a sub-category of the other. In other words, the things with specific locations are a sub-category of cincinnati-related things. Does that make any sense? DaveMenninger (talk) 18:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I did some work with this a few weeks ago I think. §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  01:18, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Cincinnati
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Featured article review of Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway
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