Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Google/Archive 1

AdMob
This discussion page is linked to, but it has no content. I'm curious what AdMob acquired before it was acquired. Mathiastck (talk) 00:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

error in date of Google founding
Please correct the error in the first sentence of "History of Google." it says "Google began in March 2009 . . . " I do not know the correct date, so I can't fix the mistake. Pbrpoet (talk) 13:38, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people
If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here
 * List of cleanup articles for your project

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

Ikip 02:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Please provide inputs to put the best articles on Google Portal
Request your help to provide me 2 best two best articles to put in selected Articles section. Five Best Biographies related to Google which will appear in the portal. I will add them to the Google Portal. Amol.Gaitonde (talk) 06:09, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, Gmail is a good one. I'd suggest that one!  Glad you're interested in helping!--iBen (talk) 05:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Google profile
Please help to save Google profile. --91.197.114.83 (talk) 07:13, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Renaming of WikiProject Google assessment categories
There is an ongoing discussion here of a proposal to rename this WikiProject's assessment categories to use "Google" instead of "Google Inc." per the recent renaming (diff) of this project from WikiProject Google Inc. to WikiProject Google. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 06:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  02:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

GMail Drive
FYI, GMail Drive has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 05:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Getting active again
Hey, I'm not a member here but I think I probably should become one-- I've been working a lot with Android applications lately, and I feel that it would do well for this project to have a good navigation layout and a good active core. As such, over the next few months, I'll probably be revamping this project and trying to get more active members. If anyone has any objections, just let me know on my talk page. Nomader (Talk) 02:53, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Google articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Google articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Service templates
A bunch of service templates like find sources was recently marked as being within this projects scope (see list). I believe that is a mistake: The WikiProject is aimed at improving the overall quality of articles that touch on the topic "Google". Service templates that just happen to show links to Google-related pages need to be seen and maintained separately from the topic. Failing to keep that distinction will certainly strengthen concerns that we use too many Google links in helper templates, as last happened at Template talk:Find sources, and I think it's not helpful for template maintainance or the WikiProject anyhow. Opinions? Amalthea 10:40, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
 * 1) supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
 * 2) opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced article if they are not sourced, so your project may want to pursue the projects below.

Three separate articles
According to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/discover-more-than-3-million-google.html, as of today we have Google eBooks and Google eBookstore in addition to Google Books. All three are distinct (e.g. you can buy Google eBooks from online bookstores other than Google eBookstore), so three articles are needed. Thanks. 67.101.6.143 (talk) 22:37, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Re-activating
Over the next few weeks, I'll start leaving notes to people who I notice contribute heavily to Google and Android related articles. This is just a note letting people know that I'm trying to reactivate this project. Nomader ( Talk ) 22:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

remove Orphan tag from "List of Google domains"
an editor has placed Orphan tag on following page List of Google domains now i have given an link to this page from Google Search. kindly remove Orphan tag from List of Google domains

Request for re-assessment
I would like to request that the Android Market article be re-assessed for quality. --Amlz (talk) 20:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Santorum (neologism)
This article has recently been expanded with additional sources and referencing improvements. There is also some ongoing discussion about that, at the article's talk page. If you are interested, please have a look at Santorum (neologism) and the associated talk page discussion at Talk:Santorum (neologism). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Santorum (neologism)

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)
Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism).
 * Santorum (neologism)
 * Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 06:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion of article to expand:Susan Wojcicki
I created an article about Susan Wojcicki today when I noticed that it was missing from Wikipedia. My article to do list is very long right now, so if some other people would like to expand it that would be great. I think that there is enough written about her these days to get it to GA without to much trouble. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 14:50, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Naming of the "Google Nexus" article
Some opinions regarding the naming of the Google Nexus article would be appreciated, discussion here. Thank you. --SF007 (talk) 00:18, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

HTC Android series
I have created a template here for the Android phones developed by HTC. It's incomplete, so if anyone can, please help fix it and include all the devices, and put the template in all appropriate articles. There is info on the HTC phones list. Thanks! - M0rphzone (talk) 05:56, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Does Google search find articles with titles with diacritics
Your project member User:LittleBenW has posted this on about 6 talk pages today:, and other variants. He's basically saying that if you search for "Manuel Sanchez" on Google, it won't find our WP articles such as Manuel Sánchez (economist) with diacritics in the title, or if it finds them it won't rank them very high. Is there any truth to this? It seems to work fine for me. Dicklyon (talk) 04:47, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Google Fiber
With the rollout of Google Fiber in Kansas City, Google Fiber might need to be reedited. I think the page could use alot of work. Casprings (talk) 18:46, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Google Statement on Ads in Project Glass not Supported by Citations
Start Article on Project Glass with low importance does quote Google as saying that they "won't be serving ads on upcoming eye pieces" but citations (26/27) are articles with no supporting information for the quote. Jabowman78 (talk) 17:39, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Google style up for deletion
template:Google style has been nominated for deletion.

Google

76.65.128.252 (talk) 05:17, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Android Taskforce
So what do you think about setting one up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elephantsandbacon (talk • contribs) 15:13, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Apps Proposal
A proposal for a WikiProject Apps has been made at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Apps. As WikiProject Google is a related WikiProject, members of this WikiProject are invited to join the discussion. Thank you. XapApp (talk) 03:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Google-Wallet-logo.svg
image:Google-Wallet-logo.svg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 23:09, 21 September 2013 (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)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

YouTube Wikiproject Proposal
I have just proposed a YouTube Wikiproject that would cover any Articles relevant to YouTube People, Culture, Organisations and Business

I would love to get lots of support for this --- :D Derry Adama (talk)

Google Play Movies listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Google Play Movies to be moved to Google Play Movies & TV. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:21, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Alphabet Task Force
I propose the creation of a task force on Alphabet (company) to help Wikipedia make the transition in coverage from Google to Alphabet. StudiesWorld (talk) 21:51, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and created it at: Alphabet Task Force.


 * You are welcome to create tasks force as you like. If you want guidance, check WikiProject Council.
 * I might warn that that the software and social support for task forces and WikiProjects is far less than people expect. There are hundreds of Wikiprojects, and only the most popular ones have 5 active users. This Google project has been around for years and does not have 5 users, so unless something extraordinary happens, neither will this subproject. Setting up a task force / WikiProject does grant access to tools, but they are difficult to set up and have outdated documentation. As you invest your time in this, try to imagine what you want to happen as a result, what the likely outcome is, and how much time you want to put into this. There are other ways to get support for projects and many people are disappointed with the response to the task forces they make. Do what you want here to enjoy it - if you like the task force then make it.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  18:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Is this going to be a separate WikiProject or a Task Force of WikiProject Google? --Varnent (talk)(COI) 23:18, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Since it's called a task force - I am going to go ahead and adjust it to be set up as one. As Bluerasberry points out - a new WikiProject can be a big undertaking, and this being under the Google effort seems logical to me. Feel free to revert and comment here if you object. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 23:24, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have gone ahead and reverted as it covers a large swath of Wikipedia than Google. StudiesWorld (talk) 17:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Requested Move of X
There is an open discussion on moving X (incubator) to something else that uses a more common disambiguation word. Your input would be welcome and appreciated. -- Natural  R X 15:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Requested move for Google for Work to Google Cloud
As with the new G Suite rebranding came the renaming of Google for Work to Google Cloud. However Google Cloud is currently a disambiguation page, and I have created a request for move. Come to Talk:Google for Work to talk about if the article should be moved? --Emphrase - 💬 | 📝 16:58, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of List of YouTubers for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of YouTubers 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/List of YouTubers 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, 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. Oliverrushton (talk) 17:14, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

List of most viewed online videos in the first 24 hours
I am gonna add 5 more videos the list (I am gonna expand the list from 20 to 25 videos). Sergioca369 (talk) 15:58, 27 November 2017 (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.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:40, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion
The articles Pixel (smartphone) and Pixel 2 could potentially be merged onto the Google Pixel article. Any feedback is welcome and encouraged. The area for discussion can be found here. Plantduets (talk) 16:28, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Extracting Paper ID from Google Scholar at scale
On Wikidata, (at least) one bot is creating entries for academic journal articles (e.g., Q38917924). While DOI and often PMID are included, a paper's Google Scholar ID is not because scraping the information from the Google Scholar website directly is being blocked when done at high frequency. This being the WP Google, I wondered if anyone here is aware of something like an API for Google Scholar, that would allow Wikipedia bots to extract the Google Scholar ID for any given paper? --bender235 (talk) 13:52, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Notability of Pixel Slate
I created a Draft:Pixel Slate article just before the new year which was declined based on product notability. Is this an example of a Google product not considered notable? If not, it may be worth weighing in here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lengau (talk • contribs) 02:57, 11 January 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)

New discussion
New discussion on Talk:List of most-liked YouTube videos--Luke Stark 96 (talk) 08:05, 9 September 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)

Request for suggestions -- Google Dataset Search
Hi,

I'm trying to improve Google Dataset Search to get it at least past the stub/start class categories. However, I'm having trouble finding sources or really anything that would make it possible to expand the article past its current state. Can anyone help me figure out what to do next? KilimAnnejaro (talk) 01:29, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Input requested
There are a couple of discussions regarding changes to the List of most-viewed online videos in the first 24 hours, which has been indicated to be in your project's purview. Please join in the discussion here. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 13:53, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Help with draft article about YouTube Pride 2021
I have prepared a draft article about “YouTube Pride 2021” livestream events: User:Peony1432/sandbox, which is part of YouTube Premium. While on first look this appears to be a WP: Crystal Ball event, there are exceptions for well-publicized events that are newsworthy. I am hoping for input and advice from members of this project including whether it is ready to go live. I should disclose that I have a conflict of interest because I work for Google. Thanks Peony1432 (talk) 00:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Area 120 page
I wrote this page Draft:Area 120 and was hoping someone on here could review it. - Joe - 18 Sep 2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joelam816 (talk • contribs) 21:27, 18 September, 2021 (UTC)
 * You will have to wait for an AFC reviewer to review the draft (which may take up to several days), but I will look over it to polish up some things. InfiniteNexus (talk) 21:39, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Well congratulations, the article has been published! InfiniteNexus (talk) 03:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * - Thank you! - Joelam816, Sep 21, 2021