Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Europe/Archive 1

Southern Europe discussion at WikiProject Council/Proposals
Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of Southern Europe, including Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Vatican City, and Yugoslavia. Temporary project page: WikiProject Southern Europe User: Badbilltucker Interested Wikipedians: Comments: It is understood that this project would devote the majority of its efforts to those countries which are not already within the scope of another regional or national project.
 * I'm sponsoring a potential project on Microstates; perhaps this could be incorporated into that, since a lot of the other countries that aren't microstates have WikiProjects of their own? Let me know if you have any questions. matt91486 05:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Albania merge
Since it is an inactive project, I suggest merging it into this one. Chris 07:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support such a merger. John Carter 16:42, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Please make sure to remember that BERATI in ALBANIA has never been called "The city of a thousand windows". It is always called " The city of ONE ABOVE THE OTHER WINDOWS" Thank You 216.118.190.9 02:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment perhaps a merger to WikiProject Eastern Europe might make more sense. This project is really only a caretaker for national pages until they get their own WikiProjects. I'm not sure we should start going the other way (merging national projects into this one) even if they are inactive. On the other hand a task force albeit part of WikiProject Eastern Europe mat be the wat to go. Caveat lector 15:57, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Debate on the correct adjective for Kosovo
Hi! Based on your interest in the Balkans, you may be interested in the currently ongoing debate on whether we should be using Kosovo or Kosovar/Kosovan as the adjective for Kosovo. — Nightstallion 16:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Proposal: WikiProject Europe
Hi, I was wondering what the relationship is between this project, WikiProject Former Yugoslavia and WikiProject Eastern Europe. You all overlap on the Western Balkans so I was wondering if you guys had defined your scopes with that in mind. In addition, I was noting down the related projects for WikiProject European Union and number of small European projects as I was going round. How do you guys feel about a parent "WIkiProject Europe" to link together as many European projects at the top (not merge, unless some fell the need to)? It could help discussion and cooperation between projects and possibly reduce overheads for the smaller ones. In addition for areas with no project of their own. Where a project has few members or is inactive, a common peer-assessment could help them move forward. Ideas? For central discussion, see WIkiproject EU talk page -  J Logan t: 11:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Europe discussion from WikiProject Council/Proposals
Hook up with WikiProject European Union. Chris 06:34, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Description : This project will cover all cross-border aspects Europe, bar that covered by national projects. This is direly needed and already has support. See proposal page here for details.
 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) User:JLogan (proposor)
 * 2) Rossenglish
 * 3) Son
 * Comments

Proposals
I have a number of proposals for the running of the project; Thoughts? -  J Logan t: 15:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) New logo, hold a contest or something.
 * 2) We have join peer assessment with WP:EU - that is already undeveloped so both would benifit.
 * 3) A new selected content scheme for the portal. If an article is FA, and still complies to that standard, and has a European slant (in or outside our scope so long as it is European), it can be nominated to become selected exceptional content for the Europe portal, EU portal could share the scheme and just remove items outside the EU.
 * 4) Get a bot to change all project banners so we don't need the redirect.
 * 5) Basic taskfoce for all countries with no national project, nominate leaders to control their early development.
 * Okay, we have a logo. Extra point is the project template. Does anyone have skills in the area of editing it? We need to add taskforce capability to it. Further more, once we are up and running properly, I say we go on a recruitment drive - also create an ad for Template:Wikipedia_ads -  J Logan t: 18:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Albania
No replies have been heard from the members of WikiProject Albania. They have made no changes to their project page in months. I propose we go ahead with the merger previously proposed for S.EUR. A point was made in the S.EUR discussion that E.EUR might be better. The scope has changed now are we are not so much caretakers as S.EUR was. In addition, we might be able to capitalise on a start-up momentum which E.EUR is lacking. Can the members of this project please voice their opinions on whether we should merger Albania in, propose E.EUR take it on or do nothing. -  J Logan t: 19:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * support merge-it's an inactive project, and this is a really much nicer, clearer approach. Chris 21:20, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Help with European
Hello. Currently, many European links redirect to Europe. Can anyone help with correcting that and redirect European to the newly created disambiguation page European?? KarenAER 19:03, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, you should also try to get a bot to go round and change them though. It's faster. -  J Logan t: 16:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Macedonia
Since that project was deleted through Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject ROMacedonia, the articles tagged with Template:WPMK should now come under this project, perhaps as a workgroup like Slovenia and Albania. Chris 18:20, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject History
WikiProject History now has a European task force. I am considering merging WikiProject European history with that task force if no one objects-- Phoenix 15 (Talk) 13:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Not sure why they made a taskforce instead of restarting the project, but hey. Yes I have no problems, we could get some co-op going. - J Logan t: 17:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have objected to the deprecation (historicalization) of WikiProject European history. The scope is so large that it deserves its own project.  Country projects with joint historical (especially military) task forces exist and some countries already have their own history projects.  Having a large and significant region relegated to a task force when smaller internal areas have or may justify their own historical projects is problematic.  Further, I don't see that this project is inactive.  Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject European history--Doug.(talk • contribs) 23:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well if it is not inactive then yes, keep the project. Just tie in to WP:HIST to get more coop and members.- J Logan t: 10:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Article for deletion: Arpitania

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 13:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)