Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hello! Project/Archive 1

Pictures
I went ahead and uploaded pictures for the following articles: Hitomi Yoshizawa Miki Fujimoto Risa Niigaki --abarry, 20:37 03 February 2006 (EST)

WikiProject Hello! Project
Where do I sign up? ^_~ -- chsf, 12:56 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Stubs
For the stubs, shall we just use the H!P stub template on articles alone, or use the other stubs (song, album ect) as well? I think using more than one stub on articles looks a little untidy, and lets be honest, who is gonna edit H!P stub articles to non-stub status other than H!P fans? --Sploggers 22:31 17 February 2006 (GMT)
 * We should use the H!P stub. Wikipedia requires that stub templates be on around 50 articles or they could get shitcanned quick-fast. --CJ Marsicano 02:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

J-pop capitalization discussion
A number of us are talking about capitalization of Japanese song, band, and album titles on the WikiProject Songs page. Please come and register an opinion. Thanks!--Mike Selinker 14:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

GAM
Some guy went in good faith and messed up GAM's entry, I'm just not sure if I moved it back to the correct page: GAM. Help please? – chsf, 14:53, 2006-10-07
 * Well, now it's at GAM (band) - chsf, 2:37, 2006-10-14 (UTC)
 * Since they aren't really a band, I moved it to GAM (Great Aya and Miki). --Pmsyyz 02:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
 * User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
 * User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
 * User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
 * User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 00:27, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

more pictures
Added pictures to Kamei Eri and Tsuji Nozomi -- abarry 03:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello! Project template to-do list
I noticed a to-do list on the template was missing, so I made it. To Do Listing I tried to copy the format that the Japan project uses. -- Shiori 03:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed the link; I think I must be slow or something. :P -- Shiori 01:56 30 April, 2007 (UTC)

wiki.theppn.org
This may be a stupid comment, but it seems a shame and a waste of time that pages at http://wiki.theppn.org/Main_Page are being improved and edited in the same way. Can the two not be combined in some way?
 * wiki.theppn.org isn't related to Wikipedia (even though the former uses the same open-source software that Wikipedia uses) so we can't combine both items. Material from both can be shared, however. --CJ Marsicano 21:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Images of living people
It is expressly forbidden by the policy of the English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia foundation to use non-free (fair use) images solely to illustrate what a living person looks like. Per Non-free content, "An image of a living person that merely shows what s/he looks like [is unacceptable use under non-free content policy]. The rationale is that this is potentially replaceable with a freshly produced free photograph." There are no if's, and's, or but's to this policy. The statement that was on this WikiProject's page that stated "Free images sadly do not exist for H!P artists so anyone involved with this WikiProject should endeavor to both properly attribute and rationalize these items and defend them from those that are (intentionally or not) destroying much of the hard work we are doing here" is completely false and against all Wikimedia policies. If you can't find a free image of someone, then you cannot have an image of that person on the article at all. This covers all living persons, so we are not just cracking down on your WikiProject.— Řÿūłóñģ ( 竜龍 ) 22:26, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I suppose the new standard should be "try and discuss the individual picture being used in the article or take a screencap of a concert show"? Shiori 19:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Either that, or "Start a music wikipedia free from Jimbo Wales' legal retinue telling everyone that neither the First Amendment nor the Fair Use Clause of the US Copyright Act apply here." --CJ Marsicano 23:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Images of inactive bands
I'm about ready to stab someone, as people are starting to tag pictures of inactive bands (i.e. W (Double You)) as being able to be replaced by a free alternative. Umm... no. If this happens to your images, be sure to include the following in the dispute: If this doesn't them kept, I'm going to reconsider my faith in the Wikipedia community. Shiori 12:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Image is of a band that is NO LONGER ACTIVE. This means that a license-free image is not likely to be found.
 * It should be added that the free use policy does explicitly allow for this usage for broken up bands.


 * I'm going to add to this, because I'd like to set a new precedent. If possible, could we all try to use the images on the official website, from the artist profiles?  This will most likely help reduce disputes, as the quality on there is about as reduced as it gets.  I also like this idea, since it does come from an official source, and citing sources will end up being a lot easier for those of us that try and add rationales to images missing them. (Note that this of course wouldn't apply to active bands.) I've updated some existing pages with these images, since they seem to be accepted by the taggers. Shiori 03:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Infobox musical artist background
Template:Infobox musical artist says that singers within groups should use the solo_singer background (khaki coloured) and the group_or_band background (blue coloured) should only be used for the groups but not the members in the groups. I am going to correct the infoboxes on the member pages in a few days unless someone says otherwise. ☆ Charles Nguyễn  14:17, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * By all means, do those corrections. -- CJ Marsicano 14:43, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed, go for it. They should have done a better job of making it less ambiguous when I started infoboxing articles, as I assumed (before it was discussed on the template page) that solo_singer was only used for solo singers.  Come to think of it, there are quite a few ambiguous things about that template... Shiori 02:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
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Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:46, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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

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We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:06, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:23, 22 January 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, many 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 BLP articles if they are not sourced, so your project may want to source these articles as soon as possible. See the next, message, which may help.

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 that your project covers, 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 05:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Active or not?
As the headline states, I am curious about the status of this project. Is this group active still or is it -as the tag above states- inactive? And if this group is active shouldn't the inactive tag be removed? 夢  追人  20:50, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's inactive, but fortunately there are a few people (members of the WikiProject or not) who still update H!P articles. I am thinking of reactivating this WikiProject, though.  Eugh jei ♥  Kaorin   00:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well considering the vast number on H!P related articles there are and since there is a few editors that still edit those articles, as you pointed out, I believe that you should make the project active once more. 夢   追人  00:52, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've started the reactivation process. If you want to help, please do. (^.^")  Eugh jei ♥  Kaorin   00:15, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Photos of the Morning Musume
hello,

I was present at Japan Expo and I could take pictures of the Morning Musume. For the moment there are only those of the autograph session, but I also have photos of the concert, with Yuko Nakazawa as surprise guest. Okki (talk) 11:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC) ps: sorry for my really poor english
 * Thank you very much, Okki! You rock. I started using some of the pictures you took in the appropriate articles. I hope you wouldn't mind.  Eugh jei ♥  Kaorin   09:13, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

RFC on romanization of loanwords
There is currently an RFC taking place concerning the romanization of English loanwords in the Japanese language. Input from members of this WikiProject is requested to form a consensus.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 20:41, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Hello! Project-related articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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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 November, 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!

If you have already provided feedback, we deeply appreciate it. For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 16:33, 6 November 2010 (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)