Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Archive 4

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Grassy Mountain
Anyone know more about it and can clean up the page? Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:56, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Major project possibly coming down the pike.
I have been speaking with one of the principals of the New Georgia Encyclopedia, an online-only collection of about 2,200 professionally written and well-sourced articles relating to the state of Georgia, and about 5,000 corresponding images, about potentially migrating their entire collection to Wikipedia. My rough estimate is that this would include at least a thousand new articles, and the remainder would need to be maintained in project space until they could be fully merged in to the appropriate existing articles. In each case, proper attribution to both the origin project and the original authors would need to be maintained in the article, along with a link to the original article. Three to four of the authors who have worked on those articles would also likely be joining Wikipedia, and this WikiProject specifically, in order to watch these articles as they are transitioned into our system (I have already cautioned them not to expect to be able to assert ownership of the content once the articles are here, and that objections to changes will have to be addressed by discussion and generating a consensus). If the remaining principles of the New Georgia Encyclopedia are agreeable to our incorporation of their work, this could provide substantial new opportunities for Wikipedia to incorporate similar works, and could generate some good publicity regarding the reliability and utility of Wikipedia. They may wish to begin by allowing us to import a small number of articles as test cases, to see how they fare in terms of vandalism and other issues that may arise in this process. Please let me know if you have any particular concerns or thoughts about this, as I will hopefully be having a conference call with all of the principles within the next week. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:57, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

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New Georgia Encyclopedia project is underway
See WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia.

The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge the following ten articles, which I have copied to project space:


 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jesse Hill
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jimmy Carter
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Anne Cox Chambers
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Charles Lindbergh
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Nancy Hart
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Piano Red Perryman
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Georgia Department of Labor
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Trustee Georgia
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Revolutionary War in Georgia
 * Moved to mainspace, now at Georgia during the American Revolution
 * WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Sumter County, Georgia

Our goal is to get these articles in top shape and merge or move them into mainspace as quickly as possible. If this turns out well (as I am confident it will), the NGE will permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,000 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in accomplishing this. Please note that the original NGE articles (now linked in the required attribution section of each of the above articles in project space) have images, but NGE is unable to convey those to us at this time, as they are individually licensed by NGE. Finding equivalent images would, of course, be helpful. Also, please note that the NGE would like for us to parallel their selection of internal links (where they link to an internal NGE article, they would like for us to also link to our equivalent Wikipedia article). The first import, WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Jesse Hill, is substantially finished in this respect. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles
What's going to happen to articles on Wikipedia that NGE also has? In other words, will the NGE articles whipe out and take precedent over the content of the Wiki articles? In some cases, the Wikipedia articles offer more information (more detailed) and more photos than the NGE article. For example: Reinhardt College. I'd like to think that some of the well researched and documented articles on Wiki won't simply be erased or "saved" over by the NGE articles. Thoughts? Carsonmc (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:31, 16 February 2010 (UTC).
 * If we both have them, we merge them together. This may mean adding in a few bits of the NGE material that is missing from our own, or (if the NGE article is better written) it may mean moving the NGE article to mainspace and merging up the bits from our original article to the NGE. No information is intended to be lost in this process. bd2412  T 00:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you, BD2412. Good to know.  There are some great Wiki articles out there that have more, or more up-to-date info. than NGE has.  Who actually does the merging?  In other words, do the original authors of some of the Wiki content get to be involved in the merging or is it just random? Too, I know it's in the test stage now, but if it all gets green lighted, what's the proposed time frame for having NGE transferred to WikiCarsonmc (talk) 01:40, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Who does the merging? Given that this is Wikipedia, anyone who wants to. bd2412  T 01:48, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, we have not set out a schedule for the full copy-over. We may do that somewhat slowly, perhaps a dozen articles a day for half a year, focusing first on articles that they have and we lack, or for which we have only stubs. bd2412  T 01:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:00, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:56, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Greater Albany/Savannah/Valdosta (South Georgia)
The WikiProject Greater Albany/Savannah/Valdosta (South Georgia) needs to become a task force. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:19, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I-95 and I-16 in Georgia.....
I-16 does run through Garden City, GA. However exits 155 and 157(A&B) are both with in the Pooler, GA city limits (I know because I live there). I-95 doesn't go through Garden City at all, it begins in Chatham county by running through the out skirts of Savannah first then through Pooler and finally through Port Wentworth before entering South Carolina. Exits 99 (A&B), 102, 104 and 106 on I-95 all fall within the city limits of Pooler. I tried to change this last night so the pages would be correct but they were all changed back by this afternoon by someone, I of course have no clue who changed it but I'm changing them again in a few minutes.

Xyvorax (talk) 22:51, 2 April 2010 (UTC)Xyvorax

Bacon County
I seriously doubt that most of the land in the county is actually used for bacon production. The county is named after the late Senator Augustus Bacon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.83.227.238 (talk) 20:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Automated hints to disambiguate Georgia/Washington?
I just made the page WikiProject Washington/Link repair because the state of Washington has now been moved to Washington (U.S. state) like Georgia, and Washington is now a disambiguation page. Of course, that means the untold numbers of articles that were linked to the state the "normal way" for years are now ambiguous links. Since people who work on Georgia articles may have had to deal with the same disambiguation problem for quite a while: Does anyone have any tips on what kinds of phrases automated tools on Wikipedia should look for to indiciate an ambiguous link to Georgia/Washington is for the U.S. state rather than something else? I guess Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Washington/Link repair would be the place to talk about it. (Or is there a Georgia page for this sort of thing already?) --Closeapple (talk) 06:55, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 33 articles to be referenced, a 10.8% reduction from last week. Great work! The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:19, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:GASV as a task force
As the founder of WikiProject Greater Albany/Savannah/Valdosta (South Georgia), I have decided that you guys should take over and make it a task force of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state). What thoughts do you guys have? - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 17:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Version 0.7 set nom
A Version 0.7 set nom for Georgia (U.S. state) has been posted here. - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 12:53, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Georgia (U.S. state) articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 20:22, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:46, 27 November 2010 (UTC)