Wikipedia talk:WikiProject FBI/Archive 1

Criminal Justice Information System
Isn't the Criminal Justice Information System same thing as Criminal Justice Information Services Division? If it is, just move all the information there and request a speedy delete of the page. A lot of the pages have been created already, they just need to be expanded on. Shane (talk/contrib) 19:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirection
CJIS is the usual abbreviation and some books note the name (official) as Criminal Justice Information System. So, I just redirected the page so, both names can be used to locate the information. One book Automated Crime Information Systems also uses the name as CJIS. It's the same thing happened in NCAVC page too. NCAVC is redirecting the page to National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. --Cyril Thomas 17:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Um... I think alot of the links are messed up. --[[Image:FBISeal.png|15px]] Shane (talk/contrib) 22:55, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I understand that CJIS is the correct abbreviation, but Criminal Justice Information System is the same as Criminal Justice Information Services Division. So I am moving the infomation from to Criminal Justice Information System to Criminal Justice Information Services Division. --[[Image:FBISeal.png|15px]] Shane (talk/contrib) 22:58, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime is not tagged.
I think we need to add FBI-tag the NCAVC page? National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime is a major organization under FBI dealing with violent crime. --Cyril Thomas 17:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk page template cribbed from WPBeatles?
Hi! Those comment dividers look familar. I was involved in the writing of some of that template, so if i can be of any assistance with your version, please advise, happy to help. ++Lar: t/c 23:24, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * yes they were! It was a suggestion based of my discussion with someone on wikiProject page. I figured out the "view/edit" problem you were having. No assistance need though. Thanks for the offer! :) --[[Image:FBISeal.png|15px]] Shane (talk/contrib) 00:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * What was the view/edit problem and how did you fix it? maybe we need to do what you did? ++Lar: t/c 02:51, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

DOJ Question
I am wondering if the articles of enforcement agencies under United States Department of Justice (DOJ) intermixed with FBI articles. DoJ is like a parent organization. --Cyril Thomas 17:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well.. the DOJ runs the FBI. Maybe the tag under the main department of justice article, but the articles that are run by the DOJ, but not the FBI, do not fall under this category. --[[Image:FBISeal.png|15px]] Shane (talk/contrib) 18:53, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

hey
How do I join?? --Qho 21:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Add your name here --Shane (talk/contrib) 21:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome to the team Qho, glad to see you. Now I am not alone! :) --Cyril Thomas 17:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

The template size
It's just a bit friggin' huge, please try to optimize it.


 * Thanks, and regards, -- That Guy, From That Show! 08:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Tagging talk pages and assessing articles
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 * Tagging talk pages, great for high-speed tagging
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Are Top Tenners under the scope of this project?
I have been trying to beef up John Ward Warren Parsons, the newest FBI Top Tenner, and I just found out about your WikiProject. Should I tag his article's talk page with ? Jesse Viviano 02:14, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep. :) Shane (talk/contrib) 06:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

FBI names of wanted persons
Under the section titled "Conventions" the guidelines state that:

"Ten Most Wanted Fugitives article names should be the full name: First Middle Last"

That seems appropriate, for wikilinks of article title names, though it does not always conform, since at times articles on persons of interest are created prior to a major FBI listing.

Suggestion: section heading names (not the wikilink article title names mentioned above) should match the FBI usage, on the FBI related pages, as a stated convention here.Steven Russell 22:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:27, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Article assessment
The 2001 anthrax attacks article needs to be assessed.

I vote Good-class or A-class article. BlackBear 14:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

New Serial Killer Task Force
Hi, I created the Serial Killer Task Force as a task force of the WikiProject Criminal Biography. I know that your group is primarily interested in FBI subjects, but I was wonder if you could give some advice for the task force. I have always been more interested in how serial killers are caught, such as profiling techniques an VICAP, than in the serial killers themselves, who I find to be just a bunch of sick a**holes. Thus said I really don't want this project to degenerate into sensationalism and a project for people who think serial killers are "cool". Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jmm6f488 22:51, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Introductions
Hey everyone. Just joined what I hope will not be a defunct project here. I don't have much experience with the logistics and formats of wiki pages, but I do have at least a fair working knowledge of law enforcement issues / FBI history. I can also write fairly well, or at least well enough to construct a good article for these purposes. If anyone knows of pages that need editing or upkeep, please let me know (you can contact me on my talk page). Thanks, Epthorn 17:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox FBI Ten Most Wanted
Template:Infobox FBI Ten Most Wanted has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- Mark Chovain 22:51, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Barry Lee Bush
The article Barry Lee Bush, an FBI special agent who was killed, has been nominated for deletion. Your comments at Articles for deletion/Barry Lee Bush would be welcome. --Eastmain (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:FLRC of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
I have nominated FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives for the removal of its Featured list status. The discussion can be found at Featured list removal candidates/FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 02:14, 20 June 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.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Helen Gandy
Helen Gandy has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

FAR Mark Felt
W. Mark Felt has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for FBI
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:31, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:08, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Directors
The FBI does not consider Acting Directors to be actual FBI Directors. For example, Bob Mueller is only the 6th Director and he is preceded by Louis Freeh, who was preceded by Bill Sessions. Pickard, Clarke, and so on are not considered to be official Directors of the FBI. Sam (talk) 18:51, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Article assessment
Could the Hostage Rescue Team (FBI) article be reassessed Aaron mcd (talk) 00:18, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Is this project active or not?
Is the project still active? Niteshift36 (talk) 22:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)