Wikipedia talk:WikiProject France/Archive 6

Article Bitard needs help
The article Bitard is about to be deleted; see the discussion at Articles for deletion/Bitard. I have a feeling that this student organization or tradition is notable and should be retained in Wikipedia. But the article is so poorly written it is impossible to tell. Could someone from this project please take a look at it, clean up the writing, and add references to show that it is notable? There is plenty of information available in French but I could not find any in English. Thank you. --MelanieN (talk) 20:55, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The deletion request on French WP in 2008 has gone to keep the article online. A master degree student has made a dissertation about it. Trizek here or on wpfr 16:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs - the final surge
Since early in 2010, many editors have assisted in the referencing or removal of over 90% of the Unreferenced Biographies of Living People, bringing the total down from over 50,000 to the current 4,862 (as of 16:12, 1 June 2011 (UTC)). Thank you for all of the work you've done to date, but we are now asking for your help in finishing this task. There are two main projects which are devoted to removing UBLPs from en.Wikipedia:
 * WP:URBLP has set up a large number of topic based lists, which are updated each day by a WP:BOT. Your project's list is located at WikiProject France/Unreferenced BLPs and currently contains 69 articles.
 * WP:URBLPR is focusing on clearing out the backlog based on the month in which each article was tagged as being unreferenced. The current task is Category:Unreferenced BLPs from September 2009, and it is the last month remaining from 2009.
 * You can also reference a or make your own lists using one of the catscan tools, such as this search for |9&doit=1 French musicians.

All you have to do is pick your articles and then add suitable references from reliable sources and remove the BLP unsourced template. There is no need to log your changes, register or remove the articles from the list. If you need any help, or have any comments, please ask at WP:URBLPR or WT:URBLP.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide. The-Pope (talk) 16:12, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Health in France
The article "Health in France" should add to its title the word "Care", so as to conform with other such titles (of other countries). Its title thus should read Health Care in France. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tperla (talk • contribs) 06:03, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I requested the move. An administrator will have to get involved as there is a redirection. --Anneyh (talk) 09:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Where is your move request? It's probably worth pointing out that Health care in France redirects to Health in France. The contents from Health Care in France also should be merged in with the moved article. Kiwipete (talk) 02:35, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Request for Deletion notice
Moxy (talk) 16:31, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Rocca
Hi, Rocca (Colombian rapper) has been nominated for deletion. His french article is here. If you have any reasons to keep it or delete it, please go to Articles for deletion/Rocca (Colombian rapper) and vote for that. --Damián del Valle (talk) 14:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Should diacritics be encouraged or discouraged in article's titles?
You may be interested in my proposal here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 20:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Est-ce que Caillebotte avait un fils?
The biography states that the painter never married, though he had a close relationship with a woman he allowed for in his will. Yet in the section about the distribution of his art collection of works by the impressionists, it states that they became the responsibility of the widow of Caillebotte's son. There is no reference to this son in Wikipedia biography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.111.180.4 (talk) 00:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Shall We Defend the Legacy of the French Revolution from Deletion?
Citizens, to the Barricades! Today is your last chance. Trilliumz (talk) 12:20, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Francophone
Francophone has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 04:51, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Taking photo requests: Strasbourg
Hi! I'm spamming this here because you appear on the project banners at Talk:Strasbourg. I'll be spending some time next month in and around the city, so if anyone has any photo requests of specific locations in the town or immediate vicinity do let me know. I can't promise all or even any, but I will make an effort. I'll have access to top-flight Canon equipment, so do feel free to request higher-res replacements of images already available. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:26, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Open page move discussions
Kauffner (talk) 08:29, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * (Discuss) – Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou → 
 * (Discuss) – Garden à la française → 
 * (Discuss) – Eveline Hańska → 

WikiProject Franco-Americans is up for deletion
I have nominated WikiProject Franco-Americans for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thank for your time. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  18:15, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Expand new Pinard (wine) (any French-speakers or WWI fans?)

 * bringing over from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Food_and_drink

I ran across the term pinard somewhere years ago and put it on my WP "to do" list. Apparently it's a French military term for wine, kind of akin in sentiment to "grog". A previous version was deleted in 2009 per WP:NOTDICT, but I think there's enough cultural context around pinard as a concept, not just a word, to justify an article (and fr.wiki seems to quite agree). I've put together a pretty basic version just based on English sources on GoogleBooks and an image from fr:Pinard (vin). If anyone is keen on this and speaks French, I'm sure much more could be said, though the fr.wiki version as it stands is just too flowery/sentimental/inside-jokey to pass en.wiki WP:TONE standards. Just thought folks might find this an interesting article about wine culture. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:00, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed your suggestion is welcomed, as pinard is a valid and notable term in itself. I'll see what I can add, although I do warn you my time is limited towards articles such as this. Cheers, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:35, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

The Hidden Parks of Paris 2014 - Wikipedia Entry
Hello Wikipedia France,

I would like to see if it would be possible to have a Wikipedia page for my new book, 'The 'Hidden Parks of Paris 2014'?' The book was written in Paris last year and will be published by a Parisian publisher, Éditions L'improviste. I am under the impression from previous submissions from fellow writers that it is quite difficult to have a Wikipedia entry page for a work of art, such as a book, and am wondering how I can go about creating a page for my book and not having it removed from Wikipedia. I would like to also update the Wikipedia pages for the various parks in Paris, including photos that I would upload with full permissions. Please let me know if I can create a Wikipedia page for my book when you have a chance, as I think it would be a good tool for those interested in obtaining further information on the parks of Paris, and to also help in the recognition of my book, which is being published by a small, independent publisher.

My website is www.thehiddenseries.com

My email is: gregoryross18@gmail.com

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Merci bien, Gregory Ross — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.235.12.23 (talk) 04:05, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * My recommendation is to wait until your book gets two reviews from publications independent of you and/or your company. Once there are multiple reviews (they can be in any language) post the citation information for the reviews on the WikiProject France talk page so that Wikipedians may use those reviews as sources for the article. This is because Wikipedia articles are required to have multiple secondary sources independent of the subject. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:06, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

How do you find archives of news articles of French newspapers?
How do you find archives of news articles of French newspapers? I want to check archives of Le Monde, Libération, etc.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 12:04, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid they don't exist... Le Monde has an online archive service, but you have to pay. Only newspapers issued before 1940 are available online for free - through the Gallica portal. You can still use their search feature, but with limited results.JoB 35 (talk) 22:10, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Mr Leon's Paris - children's book
Salut! For anyone here more conversant than I am with articles about books who feels like improving the content at Mr Leon's Paris, please go ahead. Merci. N.B. I don't have the book myself, was considering purchasing it but when seeing the expected age group changed my mind. -- Trevj (talk · contribs) 13:03, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Europe may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:53, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject France At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 17:14, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis
The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:
 * Jacques Soisson: de:Gestorben 2012 / fr:Décès en 2012
 * Jean Laroche: fr:Décès en 2010

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:10, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Attendance
With reference to the attendance in the World cup Foot-ball Finals, I would like to have a clarification. While the attendance is in thousands in all cases, it has crossed 100,000 when it was held in Brazil in 1950 (174,000) and in Mexico in 1970 (107,412). Is the statistics true? J.Chandradas, 3, Professors Colony, East Tambaram, Chennai - 600 059, India. jebamani_chandradas@yahoo.co.in  §  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.179.76 (talk) 08:49, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect Information and Image?
I believe there are a couple of errors in this article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Romain,_Charente

It states that St Romain is north-east of Aubeterre, but it is almost due west - is there another St Romain in 16347 code?

I think the image of the town hall is also incorrect - it didn't look like that when I was there in May (again, do I have the right commune?) - I'm sorry, I didn't take a photo.

The population figure seems rather high.

If you check Google Earth, you will see what I mean.

I hope this is helpful.

81.153.231.190 (talk) 13:37, 21 June 2014 (UTC) Matt.
 * It seems that the place of the picture is not the town hall any more. The new one is close to the church. Some corrections done according to your comments. Thanks, Matt. — M-le-mot-dit (T) 14:00, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Kleargear AFD deletion discussion notice

 * 1) Kleargear
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination)

Discussion about whether or not to delete article for Kleargear, discussion at Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination). &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Help needed with Piéton a tributary of the Sambre
Please see Reference_desk/Humanities -- PBS (talk) 23:21, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

✅Help given thanks. -- PBS (talk) 14:24, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

European Sleep Apnea Database deletion discussion
European Sleep Apnea Database is undergoing a deletion discussion, AFD page at Articles for deletion/European Sleep Apnea Database. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:49, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * European Sleep Apnea Database

French magazine up for deletion
This magazine about stamp collecting is up for deletion. Input from this project would be welcome. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:53, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gilles d'Ambra Azzorpardi
Dear France experts: This author has written a lot of books. Is this a notable topic? Are there book reviews to be found in French? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 04:15, 4 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm not finding much, other than a few one- or two-paragraph descriptions. He doesn't appear to have an article on the French Wikipedia, though someone thinks he's notable enough to include him in a disambiguation page for .  Bms4880 (talk) 19:55, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Native speaker needed :)
Hi, I'd be eternally grateful (and happy to DYK/GA review or copyedit work) if a native french speaker could watchlist Vercors Massif to make sure I am not making any egregious errors of translation as I attempt to translate the featured fr. article into english. Thank you in advance :) -- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 22:39, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
 * My first read of your version leaves me no problem, no question, no doubt whatsoever. Tomorrow I'll compare both articles just to make sure. Akseli9 (talk) 21:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

SLM
SLM ECEM HANIM AFYONDAN SERDAR BEN.SİZE ULAŞMAK O KADAR ZORKİ ANCAK BÖYLE ULAŞACIĞIMI UMUYORUM.BENİMLE İLETİŞİME GEÇERSENİZ ÇOK SEVİNİRİM.SAYGILAR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.0.196.110 (talk) 11:35, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles. --Kaiyr (talk) 17:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Wolf attacks on humans in France
Here, if you would like to take a look, are two books not available in English: |here and |here. If you are interested in animal attacks, wolves, or French history, we need a French-speaking Wikipedian to improve the article Wolf attacks on humans and List of fatal wolf attacks, or maybe even create an article called maybe Wolf attacks on humans in France.

Either way, thanks for you contributions and happy editing! Chrisrus (talk) 01:37, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Infobox French region
Hello, I've a question about infobox homogeneity.

What is the convention to fill the flag and shield parameters of Template:Infobox French region? Do we need to use the national flag as in Martinique or Guadeloupe, or the emblems of the region, as in Alsace, Brittany and others? Or nothing as in Île-de-France, where only the reg_logo is filled? Opinions differ.

Regards, — M-le-mot-dit (T) 08:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

1958 elections
Hello, I have a quick question about the 1958 Natonal Assembly elections. Did they only occur in "Metropolitan" France, or also in the overseas territories? For some reason, in African MPs' biographies, there does not appear to be any figures for 1958 elections for MPs representing African territories (but there are for all previous elections - see e.g. Sourou Apithy. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Number   5  7  20:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your interesting question. As far as I understand (I was not born ;-)...
 * Following this link : www.assemblee-nationale.fr/elections/historique-3 (Sièges pourvus par nomination : anciennes colonies d'Afrique noire 23) 23 députés were nominated, from the anciennes colonies d'Afrique noire.
 * The link you provide : Sourou Apithy. 30/11/1958 - 15/07/1959. It was a prolongation of his previous mandate. So, Sourou Apithy was nominated député because he was previously (in 1956) elected deputé and... the independences of all the african colonies where already planned.
 * From the 2nd paragraph in fr:Liste des députés de la Ire législature de la Cinquième République : « Elle a été marquée par le maintien en fonction jusqu'au 15 juillet 1959 des 33 députés des Territoires d'outre-mer élus précédemment » Automated translation : it was marked by the retention until 15 July 1959, 33 members of the Overseas Territories previously elected
 * What I can't understand, is a problem of numbers; 33, 23... it's not very clear.
 * TLTR : In short (and except Algeria, the Comores...) the elections did not occur in the overseas territories.
 * Sorry for my broken english and the mess; the period was messy, too, indeed.
 * Alvar ☮ 19:19, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

French language help needed
I am unable to find English language sources to respond to expansion requests for Heather Stewart-Whyte. Can someone help me translate French for the 3 stories listed at Template:Did you know nominations/Heather Stewart-Whyte.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:49, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

RfC Notification regarding Chevalier d'Eon
There is currently an RfC on the proper use of pronouns in the article Chevalier d'Eon, which falls within the scope of this Wikiproject. The RfC can be found here. Your comments and discussion on the matter would be appreciated. 0x0077BE [talk/contrib] 14:48, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Is there a mountain there?
Why is it called Mont. is2602:306:8047:CD60:812A:FAAF:9AB4:CC53 (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2015 (UTC) there a mountain there?


 * Why is what called Mont? Bms4880 (talk) 23:47, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

The world's largest country
At what point was France "the worlds largest country" ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.164.54.104 (talk) 17:35, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * France is the largest country in West Europa (and in European Union) by area, but the second by population, after Germany (Figures here). — M-le-mot-dit (T) 13:48, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

GAR
Paris, 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.  Tim riley  talk    14:36, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That over, there's a few of us aiming to get the Paris article back into GA shape - and better, if possible. Any (especially knowledgable) help would be much much much much appreciated. Thanks!  THE PROMENADER  ✎ ✓ 18:25, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

RM which won't show up on alerts
There's a move request at Talk:Bayonne but it won't show up on Alerts because the template has been added to Talk:Bayonne (disambiguation). In ictu oculi (talk) 03:16, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

FEANF
I edited the Black African Students Association in France/FEANF page recently. Added a few paragraphs about what tangible results their efforts brought about (housing specifically for African students studying in France, funding for various cultural endeavors). I also thought that it would be a good idea to add a section about the French response to the FEANF/Francophone West African student movement, since they didn't exist in a vortex and needed the funding and approval of the French administrators to enact change. I felt that the page needed a brief mention of how the colonial system affected and obscured the FEANF's political relationship with the French. Lippienyx (talk) 15:12, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Plogonnec, Brittany
This stained glass of Saint Aelhaiarn (various spellings) is supposedly in one of the church windows there, presumably either Chapel(le) Saint-Théleau or -Thurien. Does anyone here live nearby or can anyone check some relevant French database? — Llywelyn II   01:20, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Cabinet or Government of France
The usage of and the naming of  is up for discussion, see Talk:Cabinet of France -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 22:32, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation help needed for Angevin
Angevin, a disambiguation page related to this project, has about 36 incoming links. Any help fixing even a few of these would be greatly appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:23, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Sources for adding religion info to "Maghrebian community of Paris"?
In the article Maghrebian community of Paris I want to add info about the religion: Both about Islam as it is practiced in Paris (including the mosques) and about the Judaism practiced by the Algerian/Tunisian/Moroccan-origin Jews (including the synagogues). Does anyone know any good sources about this? WhisperToMe (talk) 16:26, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Translation help: source for Alfred Grandidier
I am wanting to write the article for French naturalist Alfred Grandidier; however, I need help translating one of the best sources from French. Though I can read some French, and Google Translate can help a little, it would be best to have someone fluent in French assist with the translation of this source. Would anyone be able to help? – Maky  « talk » 20:09, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Talk:CILECT
There is an ongoing move discussion. --George Ho (talk) 08:34, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Aftermath of the Revolt in Lyon during the Terror
Hello all,

I have been thinking about adding to the aftermath section of the Revolt in Lyon during the period of terror. Any suggestions or comments?

Thanks Frenchrevolutionary (talk) 16:47, 5 February 2015 (UTC)


 * What are you thinking of adding? Bms4880 (talk) 15:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Louis Thiroux de Crosne
Louis Thiroux de Crosne was the chief of Police of Paris up until his execution during the Reign of Terror in 1794. He is therefore a semi important figure in French history. I found his article at Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006 and as a member of the Abandoned Articles WikiProject, I am attempting to expand on it.

Can anyone here recommend categorisation as well as potential interested parties who may be able to lend a hand, particularly French speaking ones. Thank you

Uamaol (talk) 22:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

"of Valois"
Late last year this user moved a whole chunk of people from "of Valois" to "of France". I have corrected Catherine of Valois since she is clearly better known by this name. I don't know enough about any of the others to be sure about, but given the blatant wrongness of the Catherine move (unless there was some discussion I was unable to find), it's probably worth checking. I'm not sure if this is the best place to leave this but I do so in hopes of someone more knowledgeable than I seeing it. Frickeg (talk) 13:22, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Seems like nonsense, quite very much vandalism indeed it seems, probably some pedantic obsession turned on the wrong direction. I cheched the French Wikipedia versions, there also a lot of people who have been well-known as "De Valois" since several centuries, out of the blue have been renamed as "Of France"... Akseli9 (talk) 21:28, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Jacques Lebaudy and the Empire of the Sahara
I have just written a first pass at an article on Jacques Lebaudy, an eccentric French millionaire who in 1903 tried to found an empire on the Moroccan coast. I'm sure there are much better sources on him and his "Empire" in French - there is a recent French biography of him, for instance - but I don't read French. Perhaps someone here might want to expand his article, or write one on his "Empire"? (It is just a redirect at the moment.) The Lebaudy family as a whole seems like it might be worthy of more coverage in English - there is an article on the family in the French Wikipedia, and much of interest to write about them. Brianyoumans (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2015 (UTC)


 * You may want to expand the lede to mention how acquired his initial wealth, and a sentence or two about how the Empire scheme panned out. Bms4880 (talk) 20:37, 25 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I just tweaked the lede a little. I'm not quite sure what happened to Lebaudy's "Empire"; it is mentioned that he was in London in October 1903, but whether his hired men had abandoned their camp in Morocco by that time, I don't know. My feeling is that any actual presence on the ground was probably abandoned by October 1903, but I don't know for sure. The sources I can find so far are vague and contradictory. Perhaps someone could check the French newspapers of the time? Brianyoumans (talk) 21:05, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Greater Lyon and stub types
This isn't my area at all so I thought I'd just raise the subject. What exactly is the status of the new Metropolis of Lyon (formerly Urban Community of Lyon) following the recent reorganisation, and how does that follow through to Wikipedia organisation like stub types? Is it equivalent to a département or subsidiary to it? And even if it is equivalent, can Wikipedia be bothered to adjust things like stub types to match, if eg La Poste isn't going to change its "département" number from 69? I only ask because I came across Grigny, Rhône which still has Rhône in its name but User:Arteronyl has removed Rhône-geo-stub in favour of a new category, Metropolis of Lyon geography stubs. It feels like one of those grey areas which probably isn't really worth the work to change but some eager beavers will change in part. Anyway, I leave it to you guys, I just thought the inconsistency was worth pointing out. Le Deluge (talk) 21:18, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Update - I've proposed it for deletion as a way of generating discussion over at CFD although personally I'm 50:50 either way. Le Deluge (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2015 (UTC)


 * From what I understand from French wikipedia and the law text they refer to, the Metropolis of Lyon has taken over all authority from the department of Rhône for its 59 member communes. It's on the same administrative level as departments (so below the region Rhône-Alpes, to which it still belongs), but it's not a department. It's a special territorial collectivity (that article needs to be updated too). Also since 1 January 2015, the communes of the Arrondissement of Lyon that didn't join the Metropolis of Lyon changed over to the Arrondissement of Villefranche-sur-Saône, these needs to be updated too. I started updating the infobox template. Markussep Talk 09:33, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Category:Quais in Paris
Category:Quais in Paris, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:Streets in Paris. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 11:47, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Sources about black African groups in Paris?
As some of you know, there is a series of articles based on ethnic minority groups in Paris, North Africans, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese. However there is one major group missing: the black Africans/sub-Saharan Africans.

I have experienced great difficulty in finding English sources about them. There may be French sources... I do not know whether they group all black African groups together (for example the sources discussing North Africans tend to discuss them as a single group and not by the individual country) or whether they discuss Ivorians, Malians, Congolese, Rwandans, etc. separately. The article scopes and titles should be dictated by what sources use.

WhisperToMe (talk) 06:57, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

France's recognition of minority languages
Should the infobox state and show France's recognized minority languages. I added the minority languages in the infobox(without sources) a while ago, but then not long ago it got reverted by a user. And we ended up into a edit war, as he stated that it wasn't true. And these are the sources that states that minority languages have been added to the French constitution; Article 75-1 de la Constitution de la Cinquième République française with sources to it and. I ask as I figured that if I add the source(s) without seeing what everyone else thinks about them, they would get removed. Seqqis (talk) 21:30, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Category:Official historical monuments of France
Just want to see if there's some agreement here. Would people be OK with splitting this by region/department? I don't mind either way, I can understand having a main one for convenience, but like Bien Cultural for Spain I think it would be better to organize by region. Any thoughts people? Merci beaucoup.♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:01, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

,, ?♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:05, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Absolutely it needs splitting. There's so many that I think having one overarching category becomes too difficult to navigate. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 13:30, 28 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Split it.  Bms4880 (talk) 13:33, 28 April 2015 (UTC)


 * 44,236 monuments in 2012! Yup seems uncontroversial, but you never know with French topics on wiki ;-).♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:23, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Consequence of the cantonal recutting
I see by fr:Redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France that a few weeks ago the number of cantons was reduced by half. This means that the arrondissement articles, which list the cantons, ought to be updated eventually.

If that's done by a bot, I hope it won't be in the same absurd format as before, with the cantons and communes listed separately, each list meaninglessly numbered, and the communes pointlessly boxed in a table. See my rearrangement of Arrondissement of Beauvais for my idea of How Things Ought To Be. —Tamfang (talk) 08:25, 30 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Looks like the French articles haven't fully caught up yet. —Tamfang (talk) 09:20, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Paris International Agricultural Show
Some recent edits have added an infobox and other templates that do not exist. I suspect the text comes from fr:Salon international de l'agriculture where the templates work. I'm hoping someone will want to fix it up. Johnuniq (talk) 03:18, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Relevant move request
There is a move request at Talk:Epping (disambiguation) that members of this project may be interested in. Egsan Bacon (talk) 14:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

French schools in Kabul? Did they close?
I found that the AEFE no longer lists the French schools of Kabul, Afghanistan on its website. The website of the Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan still exists but it seems like the French page hasn't been updated since 2005? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Please see draft here and relevant comments here. Appreciated, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:38, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

RER listed at Requested moves
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Vive, Viva listed at Requested moves
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Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy listed at Requested moves
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L'Express (France) listed at Requested moves
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Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
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 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
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RFC on the end of France's colonial empire
Hi, I started an RFC on when should we said the French colonial empire ended. It's at Talk:French_colonial_empire. Please comment there if you can. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:59, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

"Galicianism"
The usage and primary topic of is under dispute. For the discussion, see talk:Galicianism (Galicia) -- 70.51.203.69 (talk) 06:04, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Requested page move notification: Facel→Facel Vega
I have proposed that an article within the scope of this Wikiproject, Facel, be moved to Facel Vega. Discussion here. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 16:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Moulin de Vertain, Templeuve
Is the Moulin de Vertain at Templeuve a monument historique, or does it have some other designation. This document refers. Mjroots (talk) 19:17, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello, No, it is not; the area around the windmill has been listed as site classé and is granted protection for its naturel and historical interest. It is filed in the Ministry of Culture listing (see the notice), but not as monument historique. — M-le-mot-dit (T) 14:26, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

List of Archives in France
I have created the list on En:WP and am starting off the articles on (as more convenient than a sandbox here): help in creating the equivalent EnWP articles (including interlinking with the FrWP pages) required. My French is sufficient to create the start level articles - so cooperation is needed to develop them further (especially given the number of archives). Discussions here or on the several talk pages as felt appropriate. Jackiespeel (talk) 16:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

EuropaCorp
A blueprint for France?

Hello, I am a member of the French Film Task Force. Among other things I have provided a whole lot of wikitables for the filmographies of French stars such as Alain Delon, Jean Marais etc. I have also written a number of articles on French films, occasionally even in French. Most recently I rewrote some general film articles including film director and film producer. Hereby I became aware of Luc Besson's achievements. The whole French industry seems to moan about declining exports. The whole industry? No, one single company doesn't. EuropaCorp that is. EuropaCorp with its self-confident, international approach could be a blueprint for a French resurgence in regards to exports. I mean, did Besson ever complain the Germans were too strong or something? Wasn't Constantin film earlier on so much more successful than EuropaCorp? Whenever I watch Besson's early films I wonder if he is crazy, but hey, maybe that is exactly what it takes to create a miracle. Really, I beseech you to assess the importance of this article again and to help me to brush up the article. Please look into it. N'hesitez pas, s'il vous plaît. NordhornerII (talk)

Ne pas oublier Jennifer Ayache (Fille de Chantal Lauby) as the Little Girl at the Cinema Exit
I think you may forgot the little girl when Chantal Lauby fell down exiting the movie theater.

Thanks.

Laurent

German Exile Periodicals in France
I am working on German-language exile periodicals published in France from 1933-1945. I am currently working on a draft for an article on the Sozialistische Warte, hopefully to be up soon!

Relevant AfD
Hello there! Care to comment at Articles for deletion/Netatmo? Best, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  14:41, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library donations
Hello all, I wanted to let you know of two recent donations we just opened up at the Wikipedia Library: WP:Cairn and WP:Erudit. Please sign up for the accounts if you think you can use them. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 00:04, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Horses on Bianditz mountain


I've nominated this photo of Horses on Bianditz mountain for Featured Picture consideration.

Discussion is at Featured picture candidates/Horses on Bianditz mountain.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:56, 14 October 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 possible copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).--Lucas559 (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Rewbell or Reubell?
We currently have an article for Jean-François Rewbell (a member of the French Directory) and his son, Jean-Jacques Reubell (a Napoleonic general). Any ideas on which spelling we should run with? Alansplodge (talk) 16:52, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The French Wikipedia uses "Reubell" for both. Bms4880 (talk) 17:46, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The French Wikipedia as well as French dictionaries, say both spellings are in use. We probably should run with Reubell, but that would be for the only purpose of correct pronounciation, and that should not imply forgetting the other spelling. Akseli9 (talk) 18:36, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * True, both spellings should be mentioned in the lede. Bms4880 (talk) 19:01, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, should we change one to be consistent? Alansplodge (talk) 16:48, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

New regions in 2016
On 1 January 2016, the number of regions will be reduced from 27 to 18. I have just posted questions on Wikidata and WP-fr to determine if hierarchy data can be stored on Wikidata and then used to update infoboxes on other WP projects, including WP-en, mainly in relation to new arrondissements in Bas-Rhin and I asked if similar changes have been made in other departments. Since a bot would be needed for such changes, it seems like a good time to adjust the "region" parameter of infoboxes in regions affected by the upcoming changes. I have one question for input from others:


 * Should the region parameter include the new region and the former region (on separate lines)?

This would be helpful in areas where the current region is well-known and would allow the new regions to be added before the change, as well as inform readers of the upcoming change. Because they have until 1 July 2016 to choose a name, they are tentatively known by a name that combines the names of the current regions, eg. Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine. In such cases, we could use the acronym for these regions. For Strasbourg, for example: Alsace (1982-2015)...next line...ACAL (effective 1 Jan 2016). AHeneen (talk) 21:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

remote Visiting scholar for DePaul University

 * See Visiting Scholars/Apply; position focuses on focus on Chicago history, Catholic social justice studies, and Vincentian Studies (including French history during the Napoleonic Era)• Lingzhi♦(talk) 05:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Finding info about the French school of Baghdad
I'm trying to find info about any French, American, British, or German international schools that were in Baghdad prior to the Gulf War.

Some sources which may talk about French international schools: Impr. nationale, 1935. p. 46. Do you know any from these types of journals which discuss the French school of Baghdad? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:18, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Journal officiel de la République française. Édition des lois et décrets. 1985. p. 1105. (Other views showing the nature of the charts of schools)
 * Enquêtes annexes du recensement de 1931: Français et institutions françaises à l'étranger en 1930. France. Statistique générale

People of the Elizabethan era
A category discussion is taking place here that may interest this project. Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:21, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Jean Prestet
The article on 17th century mathematician Jean Prestet could be greatly expanded by this scholarly article in French. If anyone wants to take that on, I would appreciate it, as I am not a speaker myself. Karl Dickman talk 22:53, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

title capitalization
I'd like to rename École normale supérieure to Écoles normales supérieures and rename Ecole Normale Supérieure to École normale supérieure. These changes reflect the usage in the respective articles. Any cons? Thanks. fgnievinski (talk) 16:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Discussion of merging recently created content fork
France in the American Revolutionary War has been the subject of two recent move requests (Requested move 29 January 2015, Requested move 20 August 2015), both of which have failed. Perhaps frustrated by the failure to move, but undeterred from purpose, new User:AdjectivesAreBad chose to build the created redirect into its own article. France in the ARW is a legitimate topic, has existed since 2005, and deserves improvement. Newly created Anglo-French War (1778–83) is a clear content fork, and should be deleted and redirected (or perhaps merged) to the France in the American Revolutionary War pagespace. I encourage interested editors to visit the merge discussion here. BusterD (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Help with an article?
I'm looking for some help with an article about Sur les femmes. It's up for AfD and I've found sourcing to show that it's notable, but I need help from people that can look for French language sourcing since there's an obvious language barrier here. I've put two in the AfD that look usable, but more is always helpful and I want to try to give a varied amount of sources since the article initially relied heavily on the same two sources. Anyone want to help? I'm slightly swamped with schoolwork and I have a project coming up, so I can't really devote a lot of time to this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  13:04, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Translating Garage Rock article to French
Would anyone be interested in translating the updated English Garage rock into French for French Wikipedia. I have just done a huge expansion there. I will be adding more things in the coming months, so the expansion is not yet quite complete. But, we can start the translation now. Do we have any music enthusiasts fluent in French who would like to do the translation for the French artcle? Garagepunk66 (talk) 03:09, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Native speaker and enthusiast here. What parts specifically would you like to be transferred onto the French version? Akseli9 (talk) 04:30, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All or as many as possible. I will have new additions coming in later this year, but it might be easier to begin the translation now.  Thanks for your interest! Garagepunk66 (talk) 15:25, 14 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd like to eventually add more about bands from France and places such as Quebec, etc. Do you have any 60s garage rock bands form France that you'd like to recommend?  And, I'm sure that they would also look extra-great appearing in the French language garage rock article! Garagepunk66 (talk) 23:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Family Puryear/ Purrier/ Perrier/ Perers
My Greatgrandmother, Mary Ada Puryear's, family came from the area near Evreux, France; probably around Perriers-la-Campagne, to England around 1066 to 1086. They occupied the area of Saxeby in Leicester, England. The estate in 1086 was held in part by Hugh Musard, and another part appears to have passed soon after into possession of the Norman family of De Perers, who, in the person of Henry de Perers, were seated at Dalby and elsewhere in Leicester in 1086 (Domesd.) I am interested in finding more about the history of Evreux and the surrounding area before and just after the Norman invasion of England. Michael D. Barnes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.159.196.245 (talk) 14:58, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

French colonialism
Please join this discussion: Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_October_21. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:47, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Fouquet's and Maxim's
Hi dudes, I just created the Fouquet's article (here) and may be somebody here will be interested on expanding it... I'm working on other subjects and other wikipedias, so I'll leave the Fouquet's subject for now. I also launched a request procedure, to move Maxim's Paris (non-official name) to Maxim's (official name of the restaurant and primary topic). You can vote, of course, following your own views and opinions... Bye ! Kintaro (talk) 13:51, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * EDIT : Oh, by the way, the discussion for the vote is here. Regards. Kintaro (talk) 13:55, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Saint Contest
HISTORY The man named Contest who was later canonised as Saint Contest [or Contextus] was initially reputed to have been a hermit at Blay, who became a bishop of Bayeux between 480 and 513 AD, His name was given to the parish after the 7th century AD. The name Contextus was possibly a corruption of Conductus [one who is guided]. The extraordinarily spacious feudal church of St Contest, north west of Caen, was built in phases between the 11th and 14th centuries AD. In 1207, Gautier d'Aignaux, the lord of Saint-Contest, granted the church to the nearby Abbey of Notre Dame d’Ardenne. The gift included the fiefs of of Buron, Maslon, Bitôt and Saint-Contest. The D'Aignaux line continued as lords of the fief of Saint-Contest until the 15th century when they were succeeded as lords by the Nollent family between the 15th and 17th centuries and thereafter by the Barberie family from the 17th century up until the French Revolution in 1789. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcoldham (talk • contribs) 15:31, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

POLEMIC and poetic militancy
Considering recent developments, I share my sympathies as well as the following discussion.  Jaakobou Chalk Talk  14:12, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Help with a draft article?
Hi! Would any of you be willing to help with Draft:Jean-François PERNETTE? The article's claims make him appear to be notable, but there aren't many sources that are available on the page. I tried performing a search but I hit a bit of a dead end since the majority of sources are in French and pre-date the Internet, so I'm getting paywalled for the majority of them. Also, I believe that the article's creator (Pipistrellus~enwiki ) primarily speaks French, so it would be nice for a French fluent editor to mentor them since I know that some of the guidelines on Wikipedia can be rather confusing even for native English speakers, to put it mildly. She seems to write well, but I'd feel better if she had someone available if she needs the help. (I'm assuming from the name that she's female, my apologies if you're not!) Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:11, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm going to ping since I see that you're a native speaker and that you've been recently active. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:14, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Departments in France
There seems to be some reorganization of categories at Category:Departments of France by region that those interested in France, governance and geography might want to take a look at. Liz Read! Talk! 18:26, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Provinces of Roman Gaul
Feel free to join this category discussion whether or not to delete Category:Provinces of Roman Gaul. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:07, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

"Lorraine"
The usage and topic of Lorraine is under discussion, see Talk:Lorraine (duchy) -- 70.51.200.135 (talk) 05:07, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Removing unused parameters from French Commune Info boxes
Currently French commune articles contain an info box. The region and department values are calculated based on the INSEE code. But the articles still contain the parameters which is confusing because if you edit them nothing happens. Anyway as part of the approval process for the bot was told to post here to make sure it makes sense to do this. Let me know if it does not thanks. Bots/Requests_for_approval/Lonjers_french_region_rename_botLonjers (talk) 02:48, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_French_communes
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_French_communes. Eric talk 17:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for January 2016 Paris police station attack
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;January 2016 Paris police station attack &mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. AusLondonder (talk) 08:18, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of German place names in Alsace
The user Gabriel HM recently deleted the German name from the town Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin/Sankt Ludwig in different attempts. His main arguments were that the town is named after Louis XIV the sun king -> First deletion, which is not true since it is named after the catholic saint Louis IX (Ludwig in German), who is also a patron of many churches in Germany. In the second attempt he used the argument that there is no historical German name: This is also not true as it was the official name of the town from 1870-1918 as maps of that time show -> Map of Map of Haut-Rhin, 1890 (The town is in the lower right corner, next to Basel) The same can be found on a website focusing on German administration history. The argument that the name is not in use anymore is irrelevant but also baseless as the name can still be found in recent German sources, e.g. -> A book about Jewish history in Haut-Rhine (2004) or a book about public transport in Basel (2003) Needless to say that the deletion is a violation of the rules of WP:Places. I would kindly ask whoever is familiar with foreign place names to help solving this dispute.--Hombart (talk) 11:26, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like @Bermicourt has taken care of it for now. Thanks to him and to @EdJohnston for their help on this matter. Gabriel clearly has his facts wrong, as a quick search will demonstrate. He also seems to be a contentious editor on a one-issue campaign. That, combined with his level of English, make him a high-maintenance editor here. Eric talk 12:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok first of all I have change ONE name ONLY among hundreds, AND I've explained many times why. If I was an obsessive anti German place kind of guy I would have tried to revert many of them. And for the rest, once again, if the user could take the time to read the article about Saint Louis, he would see that he was a French King before being a Saint and the city was named in its honour by Louis XIV. So this is very frustrating to read this. Once again the German name is obsolete in this particular case, and it is not fair to use two sources that are about this history of Alsace during 1871-1918 to try to make his point. The two books even thought are published recently are about history and in any way are related to present time events. Taking a book about the history of transportation in 1871-1900 and try to make it sounds like a contemporary book by putting the date of publication is misleading. Why don't you provide the link about the present day public transportation.  --Gabriel HM (talk) 17:19, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You have apparently taken the time, since you first started editing the article, to learn that the town was not named for Louis XIV, as you claimed several times in your peevish, chaotic edit summaries. Before you continue to waste your time and ours with unsubstantiated claims, you may want to follow my search link above and note that both the French Wikipedia and Michelin disagree with you. Eric talk 17:40, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * , it would be nice that before starting to insult someone, you take the time to read his edits. This is a copy paste of what I wrote to the other user in the | Saint Louis talk page yesterday: "the city was named in 1684 in honour of the French King Louis XIV and its ancestor Saint Louis, see the city website: , "Les trois lys des armoiries des Rois de France ornent son blason car le bourg fut créé et baptisé de son nom par Louis XIV en 1684, en se rattachant au patronage du roi Saint-Louis, selon le souhait de ses habitants." Even the armoiries of the town are showing the Lys flowers. Sankt Ludwig was a plain translation during 1871-1918 under German administration." So Eric are you saying that the city town hall of Saint Louis is wrong too? Your animosity and the words used in this section are not in compliance with the wiki charter. Please once again refrain from using such insulting term towards another contributor especially when you are judging him on false ground and without taking the time to read his edits. In order to save your time, please read the contributions before being so mean and making wrong and insulting comments. Since your comments are so aggressive and judgmental I don't think that your objectivity and yours comments are worth being taken into account. --Gabriel HM (talk) 19:35, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This is getting tiring. Read your own edit summaries from March 1 and March 16. Eric talk 21:02, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * What is tiring is your insults, even when I kindly ask to stop these actions on your talk page, you delete it. And to be fair, whereas it was named about louisXIV or Saint Louis, they were both French kings and the city was named after them. One thing is for sure, you have no right to be mean and insulting towards another contributor. If you don't agree, there are many civilised way to express you point. --Gabriel HM (talk) 21:10, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * How the town was founded is already covered in the history-part of the article, exactly in the way as it is also mentioned in your cited website. Your point was that the town does not have a historic German name, which is obviously not true, as I clearly proved above. That you are still making a fuss out of it is simply beyond comprehension.--Hombart (talk) 21:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Please read the comment before restarting the talking. I'm addressing to another user, I'm not talking about the town. However I keep thinking that there is a difference between an historical name and a plain translation made during another administration. But since you want to make the point, following your idea, if we want to be fair we should add a French name to all the cities and places that have been under French administration in Germany in the Rhineland. I think that I have spent to much time in this minor issue already.--Gabriel HM (talk) 21:35, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * As German was the main language of the inhabitants in Alsace for centuries and still is of importance in the region it has to be adressed differently than places under temporary occupation (Napoleon).--Hombart (talk) 21:57, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep the German name. I understand getting passionate about our edits, but the German use is valid and historical. It belongs. Maslowsneeds (talk) 23:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

New regions
With the recent merger of the regions, a huge number of articles are now outdated. I don't know if this is the right place to bring it up, but it seems like something that should be tackled sooner rather than later. -165.234.252.11 (talk) 17:47, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

French Guiana in History of South America
I've been working on History of South America. Any assistance with copy editing/translating would be much appreciated. -- Marek . 69    talk  01:37, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Makowski - Neung sur Beuvron
Nothing mentioned of the Croix de Guerre avec Palme hero Stanislaw Makowski on the Neung sur Beuvron stub.

There is a monument to this brave man by the bridge in N-s-B83.244.201.222 (talk) 07:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Move proposal for the French RAID page
Hello, I have made a move proposal for the page : Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence to RAID (French Police unit). Please note this is in fact an amended proposal since the first one I made - for RAID (French Police) - was found ambiguous. If you'd like to vote, you can go to Talk:Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence. Thanks and regards, Bruno --Domenjod (talk) 14:56, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Please help evaluate Draft:Bastir! about a political organisation
Draft:Bastir! is "stuck" at AFC because reviewers do not have the ability to evaluate the sources cited in the draft. Please post your opinions about this draft's acceptability to the draft's talk page. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:23, 19 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Why did the French-language Wikipedia reject an attempt to create a Bastir! article ? BrineStans (talk) 20:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps because this movement is secessionist... The French hate regionalists.

The nationalists French of wikipedia ask NATIONAL articles for an article on REGIONAL movement. So, except terrorists or nazis-regionalists movements with nationals articles to stigmatize the regionalists violence, "no regionalist democratic movement in France" because no post at national level. LOL!

But if French stigmatize the regionalist terrorism and censure the democratic regionalism (newspapers, wikipedia, tv), there is a little article [https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastir! "Bastir" on the Occitan wikipedia] !

"Bastir!" is not a French movement : "Bastir!" is a democratic Occitan movement present in some region of France ! why asking the wikipedia French opinion ? you should ask the opinion of the Occitan wikipedia.

Raymond Trencavel (talk) 09:13, 20 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Neither the French nor Occitan Wikipedias opinions are relevant, the English Wikipedia has its own policies and standards. So please can we have a definite opinion from this project about the acceptability of the sourcing of Draft:Bastir!? If the draft passes WP:RS, WP:N and WP:V please just say so, then we can get this draft out of the AFC workflow, where it is now the oldest draft in the queue. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:39, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your neutrality and your own policies and standards. Well I am new on wikipedia, and I do not understand what exactly means WP: RS WP: N and WP: V.

Can't the mentioned articles of newspapers and medias relating to the movement agree to this?

French wikipedia said "not famous about all France, not evocate in the French nationals newspapers"...

But "Bastir!" is not a national French movement ! it's an Occitan "regionalist" movement, only evoked in the newspapers of the Occitans regions ! well, it is evoked in Spain, in a nationalist Basc newspaper and in a nationalist newspaper of Catalonia. Well, Wikipedia French said : "only an Occitanist regionalist movement, in Catalonia or Basc country too (Catalonia and Basc Country are REGIONS of Spain), "Bastir!" is only a regionalist movement, it is not a national movement, it is not acceptable by Wikipedia France"... Well, of course, "Bastir!" in not a French national movement, and it's not evoked in All regions of France by French nationals newspapers, because "Bastir!" is an Occitanist movement : "Bastir!" is only evoked in the newspapers and medias of the Occitan Counties and in the neighbourgs regionalists newspapers (Catalonia, Basc Country).

You must judge yourself the acceptability of this article: the nature of the movement "Bastir!" is incompatible with wikipedia France (Regionalist movement : not evoked in French national press... And it will be never evoked because of its regionalist nature !). But maybe compatible for the English Wikipedia ? "Bastir!" is very evoked in regionals medias (tv and newspapers of Occitania) and a little bit in the nationalists newspapers of the neighbourgs countries (Basc and Catalonia).

Raymond Trencavel (talk) 20:28, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Was Fernando de Noronha a French colony?
Copied from main discussion at Talk:Fernando de Noronha

Hello,

Article Fernando de Noronha and Category:Fernando de Noronha are categorized as, but the article says nothing about it. Which one is true? Place Clichy (talk) 14:32, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Grand Est outdated
It says the regional council should already have approved a new name. --146.140.210.15 (talk) 15:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Monaco Grand Prix
Monaco Grand Prix, 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. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  13:18, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Brigade spécialisée de terrain - BST
This police unit has no article in enWP. Do you think it merits an article of its own? It has one in frWP]. AadaamS (talk) 12:09, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned article: Agessa
Hey folks! While sifting through piles of long-orphaned articles, I stumbled upon Agessa, which has been largely neglected since it was created in 2007. Can someone with a bit more knowledge of French government/social security take a look at this? If it appears to be a notable topic, it'd be great if someone could de-orphan it (or even better, expand it a bit and add a few references!). If you don't think it's sufficiently notable to merit its own topic, we can nominate it for deletion. Thanks for your help!! Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 21:18, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Translation help with short reference
I'm currently working on an article in my sandbox, for an animated short film called Le Building. The film was made in France, and while I've been able to locate several English language sources, there's one (fairly short) article about one of the filmmakers that I'd like to have translated. The website doesn't seem to give me any option for copying text, and while I suppose that I could manually type everything into Google translate, it would be nice to have a better translation to work with (Google translate's not always very good). Since the article is so short, I imagine that someone proficient in both languages could knock something out pretty quickly (it doesn't have to be perfect). But then, I've never translated anything before, so apologies if I'm underestimating the task. If anyone is able to help out, the article in question is the profile on Pierre Perifel, located on page 8 of this link. --Jpcase (talk) 18:09, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, unless there is a bad redirection with your link, did you realise that the text is in Spanish and not French????--Gabriel HM (talk) 20:48, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Haha, oops. I feel like kind of an idiot...thanks for pointing that out. I didn't look at the text very closely (and can't read either language), but hastily assumed, after a cursory glance, that it was written in French, simply because Perifel himself is French. --Jpcase (talk) 00:02, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

JP, I have no expertise in Spanish, but I can give you a decent direct translation of what's there. It should be accurate, barring any sneaky idioms. Text in <> indicates some degree of guesswork or interpretation on my part.

I just did the bio, not the class description below. Hope this helps! Eric talk 13:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * he received THE first Annie, in the text it seems that it was the first Annie ever distributed... I don't know what is an Annie, but it seems that he was the first to win this award regarding the text. For the rest I do agree with Eric. I do speak or at least read Spanish, so if you need help let me know. Good luck --Gabriel HM (talk) 18:15, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late response - I really appreciate the help! :) The Annie Awards are one of the most esteemed honors within the animation industry - they were first established in the 70s, long before Perifel came around; possibly even before he was born. So I can't say exactly what the text was implying. Perhaps it meant "first" as in "first place", although that would be an unusual way to put it, since the Annies never announce which of the nominees came in "second place". --Jpcase (talk) 16:59, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Glad to help. A literal read of the text suggests to me, as Gabriel points out, that he received the first Annie ever awarded for that category, i.e. the category was newly created. It should be pretty easy to verify. Good luck! Eric talk 17:14, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I actually have one more short blurb about Le Building that needs translating. This article appears to come from a credible source, but the first paragraph is largely unintelligible when ran through Google Translate. Of course, I don't mind going to one of the Spanish-language WikiProjects, but I figured I would check in with the two of you first. If either of you are available, would one of you be able to help me out with that first paragraph? Thanks. --Jpcase (talk) 18:15, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I can see why the automatic translation would be rough--that passage is much more idiomatic than the issuu stuff. I could take a crude hack at it, but I think you'd do better to find someone fluent in Spanish. Eric talk 21:23, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for giving it a look! I'll go ahead and check in with one of the other WikiProjects. --Jpcase (talk) 17:44, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Marc Lelandais
Dear France experts: This draft article has a counterpart in the French Wikipedia, here. It has a lot of references. My French is not very good, but from what I can tell some of them are not neutral and independent. Can someone who's more fluent and familiar with these sources pick out some appropriate ones that could be added to the English draft?&mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 00:10, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Those come from notable french newspapers.
 * Note that I can't check some of Les Echos articles due to their anti adblock software.
 * Regards, Comte0 (talk) 18:17, 10 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Comte0. I used some of them, and moved the draft to mainspace, at Marc Lelandais.  Perhaps someone will use them to improve the article in the French Wikipedia as well.  I copied the ones I didn't use to the article talk page for use when the article is expanded in the future.&mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 21:50, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Request
Hello members of WikiProject France. I'm doing a bit of research into a Mauritian boxer and I came across this sentence:

"Sinon comment expliquer ses performances positives quand on sait qu'il est passé de la catégorie des moins de 69 kg à celle des moins de 91 kg."

Can anyone one translate this. I have a basic understanding of French and I think it is something to do with changing weight classes.

Thanks, - Yellow <b style="color:brown">Dingo</b>&#160;<b style="color:BLUE">(talk)</b> 07:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi- Yes, it does. A quick translation, with wording options in []: [Otherwise / if not], how do we explain his [positive performances / successes] [when we know / given that] he moved from the under 69 kg category to under 91? Hope this helps! Eric talk 12:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much ! - <b style="color:#FFCC33">Yellow</b> <b style="color:brown">Dingo</b>&#160;<b style="color:BLUE">(talk)</b> 10:39, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Would these buildings be unfree under French non-FOP laws?
In regards to I would like to review whether the images fr:Fichier:Siège SNCF Saint-Denis.jpg and File:SNCFHQParis.JPG are of buildings that are original enough to be protected under non-free FOP laws. The user on this page is saying I need to find information on how/why these buildings are original. AFAIK if they are not in fact "original" French copyrights cannot protect the images as the buildings are not original enough. If in fact they are original then information on the building's architecture must exist somewhere. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:50, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Template:Infobox French commune subpages need to be updated for redefined and renamed regions
Bonjour. I noticed that some of the subpages of Template:Infobox French commune still have the pre-2016 regions and names. I don't have the expertise or knowledge to update them myself, so I was hoping someone here would be able to help. The two subpages I've seen that need update are Template:Infobox French commune/regdept and Template:Infobox French commune/regmap. Is there someone here who could make the needed changes? I'd appreciate a ping with any reply. Merci. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:24, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Count Henri, Marie, Joseph, René Marty
Please help me, I need to reference this biography, related to Georges Bertier, Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France, and Scouting, and I hope you can help.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Food and Drink editathon
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Articles for deletion/Danielle Bleitrach
FIY about an AfD that is within the scope of this project. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:27, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/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 countries than they might otherwise work on. If anybody here would like to contribute to a European one or would rather contribute to a sub one specifically for France like The 1000 Challenge (France) based on The 1000 Challenge (Nordic), sign your name under the section for France and I'll start it if there is enough support. For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit French and European content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for France and European nations, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:26, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Of interest
The following discussion may be of interest to project participants. Articles for deletion/Danielle Bleitrach Montanabw (talk) 05:48, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Alfred Pochon
Hi there. I thought that someone might want to look up this article that was recently created by translation from frwiki by a fr-0 guy. thanks. 103.6.159.89 (talk) 10:59, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Alternate title for Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir
At Talk:Discipline_and_Punish, I have sought opinions regarding possible alternate translations for the title of Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir. I encountered someone who felt it was known as Crime and Punishment rather than Discipline and Punish. Should we have a redirect at Crime and Punishment? Please comment there if you have an opinion on this issue.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in France needs improvement
We have a new article Cannabis in France, partially derived from the French Wikipedia version.but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read French sources. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:04, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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A recent Forbes article
A recent Forbes article stated that the Indian economy surpassed that of the UK. However, Forbes used an unconventional method to arrive at this conclusion - they took the recent 20% slump in the value of the pound, and used that exchange rate for the entire 2016 GDP of the UK. Needless to say, this method of calculating GDP is completely wrong; the IMF and World Bank (etc.) take average monthly exchange rates. However, over at the Economy of the United Kingdom, Economy of France and Economy of India articles, many (uninformed) editors are taking the Forbes article as gospel. This is bad practice and I think it better we stick to official figures as provided by the IMF, where the methodology is proper. It would be nice if other editors here could help me keep an eye on those articles. Cheers. Antiochus the Great (talk) 12:25, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Franco-Tahitian War (1844–47)
I recently created Franco-Tahitian War (1844–47). It is a topic that has escape coverage on Wikipedia or even the French wiki despite how interesting it is and important it is in the history of Oceania. I hope anyone reading this would be interested in helping me expand upon it, especially more on military issues, diplomatic issues, creating separate articles for the famous battles of the conflict, and research with numbers and casualties. Thanks.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 07:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Proposed renaming: French overseas departments and territories
I have proposed renaming the article French overseas departments and territories to Overseas France.

The discussion is at French overseas departments and territories, where the input of members of this project would be welcome. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:52, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Le Vieux Cordelier
I am planning on adding sustenance to this article. Provide testimonials if found, interpretations of citizens and even include historical information that correlates with the publication dates. Also, I am thinking about adding personal accounts from Desmoulins journals/ letters found written in correlation with publication dates. These are just some ideas I have on how to juice up this article, please feel free to drop any comments/ concerns. Sam.i.am98 (talk) 05:59, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Translation help for animated short film
I'm currently working on an article in my sandbox for a French animated short film called Le Buildling and have come across this French-langauge article about one of the filmmakers. Would anyone be able to provide a translation? Thanks. --Jpcase (talk) 18:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * P.S. This interview from a French website called 3DVF seems to contain some of the same information, although it's not identical. Google translate does a much better job with the 3DVF source than with the one cited in my above comment. But I'm not sure whether 3DVF qualifies as RS. The website seems legit, just by looking at it. But it might be helpful for someone fluent in French to take a closer look. Under the title, I can see that the interview was posted by someone called "shadows44", which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. But I'm also seeing indications that the website publishes, or is in someway affiliated with, a magazine. And it appears as though the interview was conducted by an official staff member of the website. Especially since this is an interview with one of the filmmakers himself, I'm inclined to go ahead and use it as a source. Still, if anyone reading this can learn a little more about the website, let me know what you find out. Thanks! --Jpcase (talk) 20:31, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * FYI - I've received help with this through a separate discussion. --Jpcase (talk) 20:02, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Jean-Yves Marin - Translation from French to English needed
Hi, I have updated the page of Jean-Yves Marin. Would anyone be willing to provide a translation in English? Many thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fay2511 (talk • contribs) 10:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Stub sorting dilemma
Please see WP:AN. Is the request for the renames appropriate? 103.6.159.71 (talk) 12:49, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Moved here from WP:AN :

Category:French castle stubs (along with its subcat Category:Alsace castle stubs) contain a total of 455+63 = 518 pages. However, this Petscan query reveals that only 313 of those pages are in Category:Castles in France or its subcats (to any depth). This makes it clear that the stub templates have been used by editors for not just castles, but for all types of French châteaux. (Read the chateau article - castles are a subset of chateaux -and chateaux is plural for chateau.) This means that the following renames need to take place (the only other alternative is to identify each non-castle article using france-castle-stub and change the stub template):
 * Template:France-castle-stub to Template:France-château-stub.
 * Category:French castle stubs to Category:French château stubs. The |category= parameter in stub category template should be set to Category:Châteaux in France.
 * Template:Alsace-castle-stub to Template:Alsace-château-stub.
 * Category:Alsace castle stubs to Category:Alsace château stubs. The |category= parameter in stub category template should be set to Category:Châteaux in Alsace. Also, the parent category Category:French castle stubs should be changed to Category:French château stubs

The wordings of the templates don't need to be changed, as they already mention, "This article about a castle or château".

103.6.159.71 (talk) 12:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Also pinging, who mass-created most of the stubs in question here. I am not entirely sure whether the renames should take place, because Category:French castle stubs is parented by Category:European castle stubs, and renaming the former would cause ... The best way to resolve the dilemma perhaps is to destub these articles. Dr. Blofeld, is it possible to make the subject of European castles sub-goal or sub-challenge (or even an editathon) under WP:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge? I ask this because many of these stubs are easy enough to expand, especially the French ones, because for most of them a longer article is available on frwiki. 103.6.159.71 (talk) 13:50, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I may organize a contest later in the year for France/Europe, they can be expanded then.♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:12, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

FYI: editing campaign on French diocese and church articles
Hello all- I would like to bring to your attention a campaign of unilateral and somewhat obsessive mass changes being instituted by a new user on articles relating to churches and dioceses in France. Over 1,000 edits in the eleven days since account creation: user's contributions, user's talkpage. Eric talk 18:36, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I just looked at a couple of recent edit, and nothing struck me as bizarre. Please, don't bite. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 23:14, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
 * You may want to look at a few more of the user's thousand-plus edits. The first edit you link does represent one of the things I think might be an issue: the addition of series of names with hyphens and dashes preceding them, often creating long, awkward extensions of names, in parentheses, that do not appear to me to be how the subject would be referred to by anyone. The second one I don't view as really problematic, but I don't see the utility of wikilinking the word "French", especially in an article that clearly relates to France.
 * Et merci de m'avoir illuminé sur les mœurs concernant le traitement des novices--je n'en avais aucune idée! ;) Eric talk 23:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Nantes
Hello,

This is just to say that I recently nominated Nantes as a Featured article candidate. Oie blanche (talk) 15:11, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Barthélemy Hervart
Please feel free to improve the article Barthélemy Hervart, another French banker in the 17th century, also involved in marsh draining. Mathglot (talk) 03:57, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Nominating Palais Rohan, Strasbourg for A-Class
The article failed its FAC, but it was much expanded and edited in the process since it became a GA, and actually got some support: Featured article candidates/Palais Rohan, Strasbourg/archive1. It most probably fulfils all the criteria to be promoted A-Class. Thank you in advance to all future reviewers! --Edelseider (talk) 22:03, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: Before the Palais Rohan article is judged for its quality, it might be held up as an example of how much clean-up and copyediting work a single sloppy, contentious, self-promoting editor with an aversion to edit summaries can generate for the Wikipedia community. Eric talk 01:05, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Is that a personal attack? Shall I report you for this? By the tone of your comment, I think that you are a bitter person. Maybe your own life is punishment enough. Edelseider (talk) 08:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Nominating Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, for A-Class (this time without interference)
The article failed its FAC, but it was much expanded and edited in the process since it became a GA, and actually got some support: Featured article candidates/Palais Rohan, Strasbourg/archive1. It most probably fulfils all the criteria to be promoted A-Class. Thank you in advance to all future reviewers! Edelseider (talk) 20:16, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

RfC on Catalan Countries
There is an RfC at Talk:Catalan Countries on the wording of the opening sentence of that article. The department of Pyrénées-Orientales is included in the Catalan Countries. Any input would be appreciated. Scolaire (talk) 09:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

French phonetics
Hello everyone. Occasionally I notice that the IPA phonetics transcription of French topics (in the opening sentence) contains some dots (i.e. full stops) separating syllables. However, looking at all the resources I can online, I see no mention anywhere of such dots being used. Can anyone enlighten me? Are dots normally used? Mezigue (talk) 23:46, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia does have a ressource which shows the dot being used: fr:Aide:Alphabet_phonétique_français. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 16:10, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Marine Le Pen
She is apparently of Mid-importance. I imagine that this should be increased to 'High' given recent and historical coverage. Nicnote •  ask me a question  •  contributions  22:03, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Sciences Po
Hi,

it would be nice if someone could take the time to read the article Sciences Po, and give his or her opinion about it. Neutrality is disputed, as it overly focuses on criticism.

Any help is welcome. XIIIfromTOKYO (talk) 18:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

RfC on the political position of En Marche!
Your input would be appreciated here. Mélencron (talk) 03:21, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Presidency Page
Why don't we have pages for presidencies of Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron (soon), etc., somewhat like the Presidency of Barack Obama, etc pages where we talk about what they accomplished in office, etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.128.214.2 (talk) 22:57, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Le Pen political family
FYI, Le Pen family has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.169.56 (talk) 05:08, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Foreign alliances of France missing the EU?
I noticed that Foreign alliances of France does not include the European Union. Just WP:WIP, or is there a reason for that? Paradoctor (talk) 23:01, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Proposal to remove text from lead in parentheses
There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section‎‎ proposing to remove text in parentheses from the lead (as well as IPA pronunciations). Please do come participate in the discussion. Thanks! TheInfernoX (talk) 15:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Contentious statement on Joan of Arc page
Hi, I'm just popping in because I noticed something a little odd on Joan of Arc, details on the talk page and was hoping that someone more knowledgeable might be able to help out. Thanks! Mehmuffin (talk) 15:04, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Unilateral changes to Burgundy-related articles
Hello all- A new user has been making seemingly unilateral page moves related to Burgundy. Please see here if interested: Talk:Burgundy. Please feel free to move or copy any discussion to another page you deem more appropriate. Thanks in advance for any input. I also posted here: Talk:Duchy_of_Burgundy. Eric talk 23:39, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Ferrat
I've just seen that the article on Jean Ferrat is marked as being 'low' on the WikiProject France importance scale. An error, surely... Is Ferrat's importance to French culture really still in need of being demonstrated? Aridd (talk) 14:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * He's labeled as maximum in fr:Discussion:Jean Ferrat, therefore I moved his evaluation accordingly here. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 05:51, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Hello. Is there an infobox template suitable for settlements that do not have commune status? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 06:25, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. WikiProject French communes suggests WikiProject Country subdivisions, which uses Template:Infobox settlement. You should ask on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Country subdivisions for further details. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 06:11, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Jean Alfonse article
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Jean Alfonse. A permalink for it is here. The matter primarily concerns whether or not Jean Alfonse was Portugese and what the title of the article should be. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 00:03, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Jardin botanique alpin "Daniella" is fake
I just wanted to attract the attention on the fact that this garden doesn't exist. I've been living in Limoges, France for 10 years and it is just not real. You can check the location on Google maps street view and see it by yourself.


 * I just checked on Google Street View and indeed, there is no garden. There are other websites, such as the Botanic Gardens Conservation International website (I did not verify if that institution is trustworthy or not) that do list this garden. However,
 * the garden is not a member at this institution and that website may just have parsed wikipedia. I was unable to find any information on this garden on the Website of the City of Limoges. The page on this garden has been created by who has been an active user for a long time.
 * I think we should check with him before deleting this page - I notified him about this post. --Shurakai (talk) 09:06, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that it's probably a good idea to delete the article. The Botanic Gardens Conservation International website is legitimate (IMHO), and that's where I found the information. If there is no other evidence that the garden exists, however, the article should probably be deleted. with best wishes, Daderot (talk) 11:24, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on French women during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the appropriate sub list Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:07, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Error in Fantômas
There appears to be an error in the Books section of Fantômas. See Talk:Fantômas. (This note is going to WP:WikiProject Fictional characters, WP:WikiProject France, WP:WikiProject Comics, and WP:WikiProject Novels.) Thnidu (talk) 01:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Hôtel Matignon Plagarisation
The article on the Hôtel Matignon is plagiarised from the French government website, at least the English edition is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:4E80:4100:C916:A87:41FD:6814 (talk) 18:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Assistance required
Are there any editors here fluent in French and with access to a French newspaper archive covering the early 1840s? Mjroots (talk) 10:41, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
 * It's the second part of that equation that is rather the more difficult. Why don't you do some legwork and see if you can turn up some archives, and at that point, finding someone to help you should be relatively easy. You can start here.  If you want to search around on google.fr, 'newspaper' is 'journal' (pl.='journaux') and 'archive' is 'archive'. You could also try WorldCat, which will tell you what libraries have it, and Gale or JStor. Best of luck, Mathglot (talk) 18:16, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm not fluent in French, but I am able to suggest you write to all the major newspapers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:4E80:4100:C916:A87:41FD:6814 (talk) 18:29, 28 November 2017 (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_France

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 12:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Francis Ponge
While working on my doctorate (incomplete) I was lucky enough to speak with Francis Ponge who was, in 1983, spending some time in St Malo, in Brittany, France. This may be of no importance, but he did not spend all his life in the south of France. He spoke with some bitterness about Sartre's portrait of him in La Nouvelle Revue as "un vrai mec". Sartre's own resistance work was slowing coming into disrepute and he felt that he was a false token 'working class' discovery. I can be contacted at svetislaveva@rogers.com for verification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by La Verite F Ponge (talk • contribs) 05:28, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Limougeaud ?
If you live in Limoges, or know someone who does, can you help out at Talk:Jardin botanique alpin "Daniella ? For tl;dr version, please see fr:Talk:Limoges. Merci, Mathglot (talk) 09:06, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Pierre Weiss
I added more information to the article from the French version, is this sufficient to eliminate the stub category? How do I proceed? --MaoGo (talk) 14:49, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is. You just have to edit the talk page. See Template:WikiProject France and WikiProject assessment for details. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 01:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

A-Class review for Army of Sambre and Meuse needs attention
A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Army of Sambre and Meuse; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 02:55, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Dibrani Case
I am concerned about this article and the way it enacts and re-inscribes hostility to Roma. While it is written in neutral language, I do not think Wikipedia articles usually present people who were at the center of political storms as a case. For example, Elián Gonzáles is the entry in Wikipedia, not Elián Gonzáles Case. A better way to present this would be an entry on Leonarda Dibrani with a section on French political debate and consequences. In the explanation for media response and demonstrations from students, the article states that people misunderstood French law about arrests of students, and no evidence is given for this. Credible news sources explain the demonstrations as simply opposition to arresting a student in front of her classmates <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/world/europe/france-says-deportation-of-roma-girl-was-legal.html>. This short entry refers to Leonarda Dibrani as an illegal immigrant and also refers to illegal immigrant children. This use of the term, "illegal immigrant" is becoming less common; note the NY Times article where it is stated clearly that her family entered the country illegally but does not refer to children as illegal immigrants. <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/world/europe/france-says-deportation-of-roma-girl-was-legal.html> WhoHasTime (talk) 05:51, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

French pronunciation of Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard?
Hey. I want to confirm a pronunciation. Is the French pronunciation of Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard [øʒeni ʒəni buʃaʁ]? Thanks! LoveVanPersie (talk) 10:43, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

"Henry" versus "Henri" for historical French figures
Please see Talk:Henry III of France — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:18, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Street maps of Deauville in 1870
Does anyone here know where I can get a street map of Deauville from 1870? It can be prior to that year, but it would need to be fairly accurate to what was there in the year 1870. I've done searches online, but had little luck finding anything. Perhaps I'm just not searching for the right thing. I appreciate any help. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:06, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi - I'm guessing you've looked at the images here already: Deauville. Here's a quick Google image search. There might also be something buried on this site. Lemme know if this helps; might have more time later to research. Eric talk 21:59, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I looked at the images at fr:Deauville already. They show some of what I need, but none of the mages show a complete picture of the streets of Deauville that includes the roads around the harbor and such. I had done a Google search, but yours brought up a few more images I hadn't seen. I hadn't seen the Patrimoine site before, but I couldn't find anything that proved useful there. I appreciate your help. If you find anything else, please let me know. I'll continue searching, as well. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:52, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * - Glad to help if I can. Did a little more poking around with searches like "ancien plan de deauville" and "plan de deauville 187" and found these on the town's "Biblio'Tech" website:
 * Plan de Deauville 1875
 * ancien rivage 1880
 * And, though a decade early, figures 4 and 6 of this article, Deauville : création et développement urbain, might be of interest. Eric talk 19:37, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! "Plan de Deauville 1875" looks like just what I need. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 03:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * "ancien rivage 188" is also helpful. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 03:22, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Glad I could help! Eric talk 14:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

An odd followup question: What is the French word (or phrase) for the beard style that José Osorio y Silva has in the main pic on his article? I'm on a mobile, so I havent figured out how to link the image. I've looked around online and I cant find the French name for it. I appreciate your help. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm back on a desktop, so I've added the image to the right. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:44, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Please search Google for some more images of "rouflaquettes". Usually rouflaquettes best effect is when chin beard and moustache are shaved. Akseli9 (talk) 11:38, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * New territory for me. I would call these muttonchops, and it seems Britons use or used the word sideboards. Various sources translate them as (gros) favoris bien fournis, favoris en côtelettes, and rouflaquettes. Favoris looks like it might be considered outdated, and some sources indicate that rouflaquettes is. Sorry, I can't remember ever having encountered this in French, so I don't have personal knowledge to add. Eric talk 13:16, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Outdated is fine as I need to know what might have been used around 1870. I just didn't have the words to search for since I don't know French outside of a few words and this is not a word I've ever come across. A bunch of sites called it a hulihee, but I didn't know if that word would have been used back then, let alone in French. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:51, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Ending the system of portals
Hello, there's a proposal to delete all Wikipedia portals. Please see the discussion here. --NaBUru38 (talk) 14:01, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Iconography
Greetings, Franks. I would be pleased to join you but cannot bear to soil my royalist user page with the rag of treason. Would it be entirely impossible for the current membership to discuss abandoning the project's republican iconography in favor of the blue fleur-de-lys, a neutral symbol representing both the monarchy and modern Île-de-France? - Conservatrix (talk) 06:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Alternative: What if I were to establish a new WikiProject devoted to the monarchy, similar to WP:BRoy? - Conservatrix (talk) 07:38, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I made you a userbox Template:User Wikiproject France-4 that displays


 * I hope you like it. <b style="color:#060">L293D</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b> • <b style="color:#000">✎</b>) 15:06, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, I would join if you created WP:Froy. <b style="color:#060">L293D</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b> • <b style="color:#000">✎</b>) 15:08, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. This can serve as a neutral welcome to stuffy, old reactionaries like myself. However, with the prospect of founding a new project devoted to the monarchy, I can see myself only among the ranks of this new endeavor. All who would be interested in joining are encouraged to voice their support here. If enough support is garnered, the new project will be established on 29 May 2018, one-hundred-ninety-three years past the coronation of Charles X. - Conservatrix (talk) 17:14, 1 May 2018 (UTC)


 * And there was me, thinking someone had set up WikiProject Iconography! Quel dommage! Johnbod (talk) 15:35, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Please come and help...
The requested move at Talk:2018 missile strikes against Syria has been relisted, because there is no consensus yet either to move or not to move the article to a different title. Your !vote and rationale in this debate would be appreciated!  Paine Ellsworth   put'r there  23:47, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Article issues
Can someone look at Talk:Canadian National Vimy Memorial? Otr500 (talk) 01:14, 9 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.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:38, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

French speakers requested
At Talk:Rouge Sang we are discussing the capitalization of song titles, particularly "Rouge Sang" by Renaud. I understand that French often uses sentence case for titles of songs and other creative works, but modern usage varies more. What I do not understand is that "Sang" is being used as a proper noun here? It is capitalized almost everwhere, even in sentence-case contexts. Is there a general consensus whether to use sentence case or title case in names of French songs by French artists? It seems that most of Renaud's work is sticking to sentence case in general. 2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 19:06, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Nascent gender-neutral language approach in Romance languages
Please see: Talk:Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:15, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Arthur Gobineau
Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:55, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace - Édition des Abonnés
Hi all - posting here on the off chance someone might have subscriber access to the online version of Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace - Édition des Abonnés, and be able to help with a citation from for the article 2018–19 Coupe de France Preliminary Rounds. Let me know on my talk page, or the talk page of the article, please. Cheers, Gricehead (talk) 09:56, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

New article: Verdale-de-l'Hérault (olive)

 * Greetings, I created a new article and included this project because of listings on other like articles. If there are some that wish to take a look and possibly make improvements, including the project ratings I would appreciate it.
 * Verdale-de-l'Hérault (olive)
 * It would not take much to get to "Start-class". Thanks, Otr500 (talk) 15:43, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Today's featured article/requests/Claude Debussy
Currently up for consideration for 22nd August.--Smerus (talk) 12:20, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Years in the French First Republic
Category:Years in the French First Republic has been nominated for merging. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. Place Clichy (talk) 14:03, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

loi pour une République numérique
I took this out of the recent translation filter logs. As I don't know French, I am asking for advice about it here. What should I do with it? » Shadowowl  &#124;  talk  20:38, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Need help with reference translation
I'm working on Draft:Tom Waltham. I found what looks like a good source, https://journals.openedition.org/afas/1604?file=1, but it's in French and the various auto-translation tools for some reason can't handle the document format. Would somebody be willing to translate this for me? I realize that's a lot of work; I'd be happy if somebody could read it and summarize the facts that would be most useful as references for Draft:Tom Waltham. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:14, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, never mind. It looks like I can copy-paste it one paragraph at at time and then the autotranslator can deal with that.  -- RoySmith (talk) 14:17, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lycée Edgar-Quinet


The article Lycée Edgar-Quinet has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "All three of these schools are currently red links. Lycée Edgard-Quinet (Paris) is the only one with links from other pages, and those only via Template:Lycées in Paris. There is nothing a disambiguation page can reasonably link to. Please create the articles before disambiguating them."

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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  15:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

French museums on the List of music museums
Hi there, I have introduced the List of music museums, and a number of French museums are written in French but not in English. Are there users at this project that like to write some or all of these articles? Best regards, Ymnes (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * For the record, those are:
 * Musée des instruments à vent La Couture-Boussey
 * Musée Claude-Debussy Saint-Germain-en-Laye
 * Musée européen d'art campanaire L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers
 * Musée du piano de Limoux Limoux
 * Le Belvédère Montfort-l'Amaury
 * MuPop Montluçon
 * Ferme des orgues de Steenwerck Steenwerck
 * Others without french article:
 * Musée de la musique (Anduze) Anduze
 * Musée de l'art forain et de la musique mécanique Conflans-en-Jarnisy
 * Musée de la musique mécanique Mirecourt
 * Musée de la chanson française La Planche
 * Regards, Comte0 (talk) 21:26, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the oversight! Ymnes (talk) 17:37, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * In order to not only ask, but to give something back as well, I have written an article for your project in return: Musée de la chanson française. Happy editing! Ymnes (talk) 17:12, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge notice for Sciences Po
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sciences Po should be renamed Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on article titles.

The article will be discussed at the article Talk page 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. However, do not remove the merge notice from the top of the article. Mathglot (talk) 01:13, 29 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) 21:48, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Help at Articles for Creation
Can someone who can read French help out with Draft:Metis Music Festival at AfC? I cannot locate anything in English for notability and cannot read the references provided in the draft. There appears to be an article for this topic in French Wikipedia so it is possibly notable, but would like to know if the sources included in the draft show notability. If so, please let me know and I can move the draft to mainspace. --CNMall41 (talk) 01:54, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * There was a mistake in the title. I've wikified it and accepted it in the main space after reviewing the sources. Thank you for the heads up. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 09:59, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Move discussion notice - November 11, 2018
Hey there! I'm Flooded with them hundreds. There is a move discussion at Talk:Musée_de_la_Vie_Romantique requiring more participation, please consider commenting/voting in it along with the other discussions in the backlog (Requested moves). <u style="font:1.1em/1em Arial Black"><u style="color:#7f2ed1">Flooded <u style="color:#bfa6d8"> with them <u style="color:#7f2ed1">hundreds 18:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I replied over there. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 10:24, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Great power article: Map
Following quite nasty edit-war, I started discussion on the Great Power article talk page about map in the article. Main topics for discussion: What countries should be on the map? Should the map show some sort of hierarchy of great powers (eg. using colours)? Would not be better to remove the map altogether? So far, only IPs and new accounts entered this discussion, so input from experienced editors would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Pavlor (talk) 08:24, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

RFC at Stéphane Grappelli
There is an RFC at Talk:Stéphane_Grappelli regarding whether or not the article should state that the subject was gay. Please provide your perspective! –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 04:07, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Disability in France
This draft needs quite a bit of work, some help will be appreciated, particularly if you can access French sources. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:23, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Villon poem article
Should a second translation of poet François Villon's poem be included at this article? Your feedback is requested at Talk:Ballade des dames du temps jadis. Mathglot (talk) 08:53, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

March 2019: Vive la Francophonie
In connection with International Francophonie Day on the 20th, WikiProject Women in Red is focusing on Francophone Women throughout the month. Help us to increase coverage of French speakers in English and/or in French, turning red links into blue.--Ipigott (talk) 12:44, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Rael
Raël, 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. AIR<b style="color: green;">corn</b> (talk) 03:05, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Disputed title
Please comment at Talk:Le Marais; your feedback would be welcome! Mathglot (talk) 08:50, 6 April 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)

French stereotypes
Should an article called Stereotypes of French people exist I feel there is enough third person sources to support such an article.Dwanyewest (talk) 12:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Here are some sources . Dwanyewest (talk) 12:58, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Brittany for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Brittany is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Merge proposal WikiProject French departments
I am a member of wikiproject merge going through the large merger backlog and found a proposal to merge WikiProject French departments here. I believe this discussion should be revived since it seems highly sensible to merge inactive 4 people projects into larger ones. Trialpears (talk) 17:29, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. Mathglot (talk) 17:36, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. SteveStrummer (talk) 19:16, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Mélencron (talk) 19:53, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Comte0 (talk) 20:47, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like we're in agreement. I would add WikiProject French régions and French Collaboration Project to be merged here. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 16:47, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

✅ I have now performed the original merger. There were no active members to add to the member list. All articles covered by the project were already claimed by WP France. All things on their to-do list seemed to have been done. The only thing I actually merged was the structure recommendations to WikiProject France/Departments article structure. For the other pages I think should make a new discussion section with a separate rationale for French Collaboration Project. For WikiProject French régions I'll do the same thing as was done for the departments article since it's basically identical and I couldn't find active members. Trialpears (talk) 17:34, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:New Caledonia for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:New Caledonia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Discussion on reliability of ¡Hola! and Paris Match magazines
There is a discussion on the reliability of the ¡Hola! and Paris Match magazines on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   21:03, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:French and Francophone literature for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:French and Francophone literature is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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À la volonté du people
This song Do you hear the people sing? from Les Misérables is very famous in different languages, and now is having a resurface with the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests. It would be nice if somebody translated the article to French as the song is originally in that language.--MaoGo (talk) 15:40, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

1XXX in France
has created (at least dozens, if not hundreds) of "1XXX in France" articles. For the ones in the 20th century, he has summarily removed "sports" entries, (mostly Tour de France), and completely changed the category structure. I see no other changes in the ones I've checked, but it might be a good idea if someone active in the project took a look at them, and commented on those in the ANI thread WP:ANI. I feel an immediate block and WP:NUKE is needed, but people here would have a better idea if the edits are entirely damage or merely mostly damage. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 05:16, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * There is an article 1567 in France on the French wikipedia, so more could be written. However, since an argument with a deletionist on Talk:September 5, I believe that notability of dates is in the eye of the Beholder. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 14:08, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

French references
This is the second time in as many days I have run across an article in AfC that has all non-English references. While WP:RSN is the most appropriate forum, I thought coming here made more sense since they are all non-English. Can anyone tell me if the following publications would be considered reliable for establishing notability in Wikipedia?--CNMall41 (talk) 20:48, 10 July 2019 (UTC)


 * humanite.fr
 * hornet.com
 * bastamag.net
 * baamasso.org
 * nouvelobs.com
 * rfm.fr
 * L'Obs is reliable, rfm depends on the exact ref, others are questionable. Which article are you talking about ? Regards, Comte0 (talk) 22:35, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . The draft has been moved to mainspace by another editor to Bureau d'Accueil et d'Accompagnement des Migrants. If you can take a quick look it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:37, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
 * L'Humanite is the official newspaper of the French Communist Party and needs to be evaluated as such; it can be relied upon for factual information, but of course has an ideological tilt that has to be kept in mind when the topic is political — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.172.133.187 (talk) 18:19, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Infoboxes for subdivisions
I have created a new infobox template for French subdivisions such as communautés d'agglomération and cantons, basically everything that is not a (former) commune: Infobox French subdivision. This new infobox has several advantages, including automatic lookup of region and department based on the INSEE code, and maintenance categories for incorrect input. I have already converted the articles that used Infobox French communauté (métropoles, communautés urbaines, communautés d'agglomération and communautés de communes) and Infobox French canton. I have included the option to use this new template for arrondissements as well, and I'm planning to convert the articles currently using Infobox French arrondissement to the new infobox. If you have comments or wishes for extra parameters, leave a note here or at Template talk:Infobox French subdivision. Markussep Talk 07:13, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Arrondissements and cantons
Hi, I'm updating the articles about arrondissements of France, for instance Arrondissement of Avallon. Currently each article has a list of cantons, which made sense before 2015, when cantons could only lie in 1 arrondissement. But since 2015 many cantons are spread over several arrondissements, and especially in 2017 the borders of many arrondissements have been modified, so many of the lists in the arrondissement articles aren't accurate anymore. Anyway there is no organizational relation between arrondissements and cantons (anymore?) as far as I know, so I propose to remove the lists of cantons from the arrondissement articles. Thoughts? Markussep Talk 10:00, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * That's what have been done in the French article, keeping the historical list of the cantons is a good idea. I also suggest preferring the zip codes (code postal) to the INSEE codes: the latter are not used in everyday life. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 20:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * That's a nice idea, to move the list of cantons to a "history" section, and show the pre-2015 situation there. The situation of the arrondissements and cantons as of 1 January 2015 can be found in the INSEE Populations légales 2012 file. A problem I have with the postal codes is that they don't correspond one-to-one with a commune: the larger communes have several postal codes, and many smaller communes share one postal code. Markussep Talk 12:36, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I started implementing the discussed changes, see Arrondissement of Laon for example. Markussep Talk 07:08, 8 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.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Requested move
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:May 1968 events in France that would benefit from more input, from your input. Please come and help!  P. I. Ellsworth , ed.  put'r there 16:40, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Occitan speaker needed
Hello, if you speak Occitan, or know it well enough to proofread a short excerpt, can you please have a look at this edit at Judaeo-Spanish? This resulted in the following text, claiming to be in Occitan:"Lo judeocastelhan es la lenga parlada pels jusieus sefarditas expulsats d’Espanha en 1492. Es una lenga venent del castelhan que 150 000 personas la parlan dins de comunautats en Israèl, Turquia, èx-Iogoslavia, Grècia, Marròc, Malhòrca, las Americas, entre fòrça autres luòcs." If you can comment on this text excerpt at Talk:Judaeo-Spanish, or simply make any needed adjustments directly to the article, that would be great. Mathglot (talk) 02:08, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

New bot to remove completed infobox requests
Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject France since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as infobox journal for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as starbox begin should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

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Annexation of the Leeward Islands
I recently wrote Annexation of the Leeward Islands. I was wondering if any French historian with knowledge about French colonial history in the Pacific can take a look at this and help with further expansion. I am more adept on the Polynesian side of history but less about French history. KAVEBEAR (talk) 06:54, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Deep America
Deep America, currently prodded, could possibly be saved and expanded by a French speaker. Google Books and Scholar turn up lots of hits for l'Amérique profonde, but it's not clear to what's in-depth discussion and what's just using the term. If it's not notable then l'Amérique profonde probably ought to be created. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:02, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Hubert Lefèbvre


The article Hubert Lefèbvre has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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comorians in france
hiya, new user here!! i just translated the comorians in france article into english. i'd love it if somebody could read through it, to make sure i've addressed any concerns about the previous version of the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vernyeds (talk • contribs) 18:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

mouti
the page on mouti is VERY obviously an ad 𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕪𝕖𝕕𝕤 / אפרים (talk) 00:12, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Deputies of the 8th Legislature of the French fifth republic
I am proposing to create a series of pages for each department of France along the lines of Draft:Ain deputies to the eighth legislature of the French fifth republic to show the deputies of the French National Assembly elected via proportional representation (which was just for the 8th leigslature). I'd like some feedback on the idea and the design of the table.

(cross-posted on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums

Newystats (talk) 01:24, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Aÿ-Champagne
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Aÿ-Champagne. Soumyabrata stay at home wash your hands to protect from coronavirus 08:52, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Aÿ-Champagne
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Aÿ-Champagne. Soumyabrata stay at home wash your hands to protect from coronavirus 07:31, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Odette Abadi
Hello! My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm attempting to qualify Odette Abadi for GA status. I was wondering if anyone in this WikiProject has photos they would be able to upload of "Place Moussa et Odette Abadi," a tribute to her and her husband, or related images. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:55, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

National Rally (France)
Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:20, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Merge proposal: Stardust (band)
I've proposed that Stardust (band) be merged into Music Sounds Better with You. This was done before in 2015, but then unmerged, so I'd like to gain wider consensus on it. If you have views on this please participate at Talk:Music Sounds Better with You. TSP (talk) 02:41, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank You
As the originator of the Nouvelle Chanson page, I'd like to thank all those contributors who have redesigned my page and made it proper.

When originally looking at the music of the Swedish artist Ane Brun, Who had spent years busking in France to develop her music, I became aware of the genre. As I could find no article on it, I created the page. There was very little material available for research. The main source was an article from the French Embassy in Canberra, which actually said that for the first time the French were creating decent pop music!

I wrote to Carla Bruni suggesting that France promoted the genre and received a polite reply from her secretary that she was 'aware of the situation', something like that.

Thank you all again.

Indigocat (talk) 06:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Green ticket roundup
Announcing new article, Green ticket roundup. Feel free to improve it. Mathglot (talk) 11:55, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Vélivert
I'm not familiar with french RS so won't call an AfD but this article subject doesn't seem noteworthy. Thoughts? Merci Cesde v a  (talk) 09:05, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

AfC Draft:Cyril Pedrosa
An article I translated about the French comics artist Cyril Pedrosa was moved to draftspace, due some issue about a mass input of badly translated articles using the Content Translation tool back in 2017. I checked the translation and the sources again, but I want a second opinion. Could someone in the project verify the sources and grammar to bring the article back to mainspace? (It passes WP:NBIO, the subject having won several comics awards) I also asked WP:Comics folks for their help.

Thank you. DanGFSouza (talk) 17:18, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Genopole for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Genopole 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/Genopole until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. --2A01:CB00:B51:3E00:81BB:52E0:71A:AA4A (talk) 12:20, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Proposed split at Philippe Pétain
Your feedback would be appreciated at this split proposal at Philippe Pétain. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:52, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I've had a quick look at Philippe Pétain, it's a long article which would benefit by splitting off articles. Regards -- Devoke water  (talk)  10:21, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Jean-Michel Jarre GAR
I am doing a GAR on article about of the greatest and most essential French electronic musicians of all-time: Jean-Michel Jarre. Participate in this link here: Good article reassessment/Jean-Michel Jarre/1. <span style="border:1 solid;background:radial-gradient(#eee,#ddd);font-family:courier"> ias :postb□x 13:01, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi <span style="border:1 solid;background:radial-gradient(#eee,#ddd);font-family:courier"> ias :postb□x good luck with this he's a great musician. -- Devoke water   (talk)  10:13, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep. <span style="border:1 solid;background:radial-gradient(#eee,#ddd);font-family:courier">- ias postb□x+ 16:32, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Translation
Hello! Would someone be kind enough to provide an error–free translation from French to English of this → Les Sinté du Pays Rhénan. Essai d'une Monographie d'un Sous–groupe Tsigane. Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 06:16, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Really? No one! • Мастер Шторм (talk) 17:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Cuties
The French film is controversial and I'd like more input on the articles covering it, including Cuties, Netflix, and Criticism of Netflix. Adding French language sources would be absolutely essential.Harizotoh9 (talk) 04:16, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I disagree: having US sources is best when talking about a US controversy. Anyway, I've found a Libération article, but it isn't specific enough. Première article talk about Ted Cruz and Tulsi Gabbard who are already mentioned in the wikipedia article.
 * In other words, the French sources are useful to analyse the film, but not for the controversy, since it is not that controversial in France. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 20:30, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Is Zangro notable?
Is Zangro also know as Sylvain de Zangroniz considered noteworthy for a Wikipedia article? Dwanyewest (talk) 09:15, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Not really. You could argue the writer/director isn't either, as she has one film and everything about her is about the film. Harizotoh9 (talk) 04:25, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe he is notable, for winning the César Awards for Best short film for Maman(s). Most of the sources actually cover his works, but there are a couple of secondary sources about him: a Libération portrait  and another one from fr:Bondy Blog . Good luck, Comte0 (talk) 20:28, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Napoleon Reassessment
Napoleon, 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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Midnightblueowl (talk • contribs) 17:41, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Jean Hoeufft
Please feel free to improve the article Jean Hoeufft, a 17th century French banker, who also worked on draining the Marais Poitevin. Mathglot (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 03:56, March 19, 2017

Racism in France
Concerning the part about jews during german occupation in WWII : the yellow star is not a french decision taken in the october 1940 in the ' statu des juifs ' ( jews statu )but a german decree in occupied zone from may 1942 ,( the yellow star has never existed in Vichy zone even after this territory has been annexed to german  zone in november 1942) and the round-ups from summer 1942 have been done in part by french officials and police but on german request, ordered by Himmler and Heydrich ( the french made the choice to arrest first foreign jews , so 80 % of french citizen jews have survived the war which is an high rate among all occupied countries ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.2.193.195 (talk • contribs) 09:17, October 31, 2017 (UTC)