Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Atlanta task force/Archive 1

Neighborhoods
List of Atlanta neighborhoods needs to be cleaned up a little. The neighborhoods to include in the template needs to be agreed upon. And then we should probably standardize what a neighborhood should include and try to make a page for each neighborhood. Akubhai 14:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Article tagging
You may want to reconsider which articles you've tagged, as many of them are probably outside the scope of your project. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, Disavian has very strong feelings about our tagging, to say the least; see comments and response here. Good luck to everyone. -- Satori Son 16:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Stay strong. Sometimes, wikiprojects intersect with others, and tension arises.  With regards to the established WikiProject Georgia Tech, it may be a good idea to declare them a child project, and then not tag any article that naturally belongs to them.  Perhaps ultimately, that project can become a task force of WikiProject Atlanta, but I would think only after this project becomes somewhat established.  Good luck, and welcome to the growing array of city wikiprojects!  Stevie is the man!  Talk &bull; Work 15:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Chastain Park
I started a stub for Chastain Park, someone want to help? Is this project even alive? Akubhai 18:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey all
I just added this to the Georgia (state) project page, but I think it is more related to this project b/c its center was in Atlanta:

I'm actually a fellow resident of Georgia. I'm not a formal member of this project (maybe one day), but I am a member of WP:PW (Project Wrestling). I came to inform you that one of our articles, which also happens to relate to the great state of Georgia, is up for a Good Article review. The article is History of World Championship Wrestling. I went ahead and added your template to the talk-page...I was surprised that it wasn't already there. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know, so you could keep an eye out for it and add it to list of Good Articles (if it passes). Thanks. Nikki311 04:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Merger with WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)
Possibly merging WP:ATL with WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) may concentrate efforts and result in many more improvements. -Connor Carey 16:14, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania bid
A few dedicated individuals, myself included, are putting together a bid to host Wikimania on Georgia Tech's campus. This is an incredible opportunity, so any assistance that any of you would be able to provide will be greatly appreciated. Please read Wikimania 2008/Official requirements for bidding cities and Wikimania 2008/Judging criteria and contribute to the ongoing bid, located at Wikimania 2008/Bids/Atlanta. The deadline for bids is August 30, 2007, so we need to work and plan quickly. For those interested, there will be an IRC meeting to coordinate the bid tonight (Aug 23) at 7:00PM EST in #wikimania-atlanta on irc.freenode.com. If you can, it would be great if you could log on. Thanks for your help! :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 17:12, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Perimeter Mall
A deletion discussion hinging on the notability of this Atlanta mall is underway at Articles for deletion/Perimeter Mall. -- A. B. (talk) 21:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

MARTA up for peer review
I've listed the MARTA article for a peer review. I would appreciate feedback from experienced editors regarding the quality of the article and areas needing improvement. I am thinking of trying to make it a featured article. Biomedeng (talk) 03:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Peachtree Road Race
I expanded the Peachtree Road Race article beyond stub status and submitted the fact that it is the world's largest 10K to did you know. Currently it is on the front page. Please feel free to edit the article to provide additional information. I would also like to get the article assessed from someone from Wikiproject Atlanta. Biomedeng (talk) 13:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Help request: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hello, I would like to request some help with this article, which is under the scope of this project. I fully sourced it over the past week, and I would like to help it get to GA or FA status. It would be great if any editors from this project could look it over, possibly do some copyediting, and give some feedback in the peer review. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:33, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Articles flagged for cleanup
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Atlanta
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Image needs replacement
Hello all...

An image used in the Atlanta Botanical Garden article, specifically Image:Atlbotanicalgardens.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.

You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 22:31, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Atlanta Thrashers
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pittsburg
i have lived in atlanta my whole life and i'm pretty sure the pittsburg neighborhood is located in fulton county, not dekalb. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.158.137.209 (talk) 20:01, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
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Coordinators' working group
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WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:28, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Photo request: Delta Air Lines headquarters
If anyone has time, would anyone mind taking a photo of Delta Air Lines's headquarters? It is located at 1030 Delta Boulevard, by the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. If possible, see if you can get the Atlanta Main Post Office at 3900 Crown Road SW. Thank you! WhisperToMe (talk) 03:56, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * BTW Atlantic Southeast Airlines's HQ is located at 990 Toffie Terrace http://www.flyasa.com/contact/index.php - The ** The ASA request has been fulfilled. One is still welcome to get a photo on a sunny day, though. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:41, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The Delta Air Lines HQ request has been fulfilled - User:Mav and a user from Flickr submitted a total of four photos of the Delta Air Lines HQ WhisperToMe (talk) 11:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Request for comment
There is currently a discussion regarding how much material regarding certain matters of the subject's private life should be included in the article above. A request for comment on the subject can be found at Talk:Martin Luther King, Jr.. Any input is more than welcome. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 14:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
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Talk:University of Atlanta -- input requested
This article has been the subject of many discussions (WP:ANI, WP:AFD, etc.) A predecessor school, Barrington University, was unaccredited and involved in multiple scandals. In 2004, it was sold to new owners. In 2008, Barrington was renamed and received DETC accreditation.

Presently, there's a disagreement at Talk:University of Atlanta as to whether Barrington's history should be included in the University of Atlanta article. This content issue has been clouded by issues of alleged spamming, sockpuppetry and legal threats by University of Atlanta employees and/or partisans.

It would be helpful if we had a few more neutral editors looking this over and adding their thoughtful comments on the talk page. Note that doing this right probably means about 30 minutes reading the cited references and the full discussion on the article talk page.

Thanks, -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 16:53, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Pill Hill (Atlanta) needs refs
Pill Hill (Atlanta) needs references. Please add them WhisperToMe (talk) 22:03, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Georgia Institute of Technology GA Sweeps: On Hold
I have reviewed Georgia Institute of Technology for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 20:32, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority GAR notice
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:19, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Atlanta portal
Has anyone considered developing a portal for Atlanta? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:27, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ladies and gentlemen, an Atlanta portal is now available:

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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