Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Home Living

Nice
Heh wow, just found this WikiProject and I think it's a great idea. I was just thinking how everyday common items such as "Bed", "Couch", "Wallet" etc. ought to have their own wikiproject. -- &oelig; &trade; 02:40, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

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Project watchlist
Everyone should check out the new WikiProject Home Living Watchlist. It lets you see recent changes to all articles within the scope of this project. -- &oelig; &trade; 12:04, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Home articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Shutters on Windows
Window shutters are beginning to lose touch in today's home improvement trends. This is a classic trend that must be restored and treasured. Let me suggest a link to this resource: http://www.plantationshuttersplace.com Thekikomoto (talk) 18:52, 19 October 2011 (UTC) Frank

Chimney sweep -categorisation help and advice.
Hi, a number of fairly experienced editors have contributed to Chimney sweep which features the World's first recognised occupational disease and first legislation against child labour, either of which should make it a high importance article. Unbelievably it's languishing as a low importance household item yet we can't find anywhere else to classify it -or to get the expert attention it deserves. It might need to be merged with Chimney sweeps' carcinoma and it needs more sources but it is a potential featured article. Please advise -and thanks in eager anticipation! JRPG (talk) 21:57, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Jacque Fresco - 3D Projector.jpg
image:Jacque Fresco - 3D Projector.jpg has been nominated for deletion at PUF -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:41, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Its copyright status is not clear so I commented that the file should be deleted.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   05:04, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Interested in contributing to new articles and cleaning up existing ones
I've had a lot of experience working with wikis and love this topic. There doesn't seem to be a lot of contributors or discussions. Has anyone created an article template to use to start new ones? DeWriterMD (talk) 04:35, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello, sorry that I missed your message. It is true - not many people are at this project and it is not well established. I am not sure what you mean by a template for starting new articles. Articles to be created usually are just listed. Anyone making a very small article will get the "stub" template on it, which puts it in this project's queue as something which exists and ought to be developed. The main template for sorting this is the banner template on the main page of this project. If you have questions about home economics stuff ask and ping me by saying my name and I will go to wherever you are and talk. If you want to tour Wikipedia functionality then email me sometime and I would meet you on phone or Skype to look at things live.   Blue Rasberry   (talk)  20:14, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Manual of style - section order
I was thinking of proposing a manual of style for section headings and section order of products. The idea would be that if someone wanted a suggestion for what to include in an article about a product, like an appliance, daily use item like soap, or some other household fixture like a rug, then they can have a standardized model. I would not suggest forcing this on anyone, but just presenting something for people to use if they wish to do so.

The most developed such manual of style that I know for bodies of articles is at WikiProject Medicine's Medical Manual of Style. They have a section listing for drugs and devices. Based on that, here is my draft proposal for home products:


 * Order for products
 * Uses
 * Reasons to avoid use
 * Mechanism of action
 * Physical description
 * Frequency of use (how commonly is it used)
 * History
 * Society and culture
 * Legal status (off-label use or unlicensed preparations if notable and sourced)
 * Economics
 * Marketing
 * Research

I have not thoughtfully consider the order or section headings in any range of articles. Right now I am just floating the idea of developing a standard for this.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  14:57, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I drafted some further thoughts with the toaster article at Talk:Toaster.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  22:27, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been featured
I contributed a little.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  20:01, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

New WikiProject
Hey there! I have made a new WikiProject proposal that focuses on the connected home! If you are interested of learning more about the project, joining or discussion you can visit the project page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Connected_Home.

Daylen (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Category:Garage door opener manufacturers
Category:Garage door opener manufacturers, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming & expanding scope. 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) 02:45, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Category:Cleaners
Category:Cleaners, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:Cleaning and maintenance occupations. 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) 12:05, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

New article: Flounder house
Hello all!

I've drafted an article about flounder houses. A flounder house has a shed roof and lacks windows and doors on its tallest wall.

Would anyone here be interested in collaborating in making it ready to move to the mainspace? Feel free to dive in, say hey on my talk page, or send me a note.

Thanks for the help!

Verbistheword (talk) 18:45, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Split homelessness discussion
The article homelessness is very long and probably should be split. Please join the discussion. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)please ping me
 * I replied.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  16:18, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

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Home show article

 * Just curious … does this article about an annual home show fit into your WikiProject? I was going to give it a Start rating for Wiki-Oregon team, but I thought I’d see if you folks were interested in adding your tag to it before I scored it.--Orygun (talk) 22:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Affordable housing has become very long - propose splitting off section
Hello, this is in reference to Affordable housing, which is about twice the recommended Wikipedia page size. Since this page is a C-class, Top-importance page in your project, I wanted to drop by and propose splitting off the section on New York City into its own page. Please discuss: Talk:Affordable housing. Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 03:32, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup at WikiProject Home Living
has expressed some interest in developing the top and high importance articles for this WikiProject.

I am unable to commit to article content development, but I can contribute to an effort to sort this project's articles out better and set development goals.

This project still has not published a scope of coverage, which ought to be at WikiProject_Home_Living/Assessment. By defining a scope then we can more easily identify which articles are a priority for development to have the most impact.

Assessment should not be a priority because it is only a means to content development. However, a little conversation and goal setting might be useful to get started. Seahawk, you found the typical place to start article development, which are important C-class articles.
 * Top Class / C-Class
 * High Class / C-Class

What do you think of these lists? What should be priority?  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  13:13, 11 November 2018 (UTC)


 * here are two suggestions:
 * * clean up the smaller pages and see if we can just promote them. Going through the lists, these are some of the smaller pages: Bed, Buyer's remorse, Dishwashing liquid, Drawing room, Furniture, Home appliance, Housing trust fund, Infant bed, Log house, Mansion, Mobile home, Personal life, Plumbing, Screwdriver, Sink, Spoon, Toolbox
 * * leverage our effort by trying to involve larger WikiProjects. Here are a few candidates: Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, International Style (architecture), Pet, Apartment, Causes of the Great Recession, Screwdriver, etc
 * I could go around to the different WikiProjects and request some help editing. For example, Screwdriver is high-importance to both Metalworking and Woodworking
 * Seahawk01 (talk) 02:28, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Page splits: Affordable Housing
Just to let everyone know, we split out:


 * Affordable housing by country
 * New York City housing crisis

Thanks and both need work :-)

Seahawk01 (talk) 03:14, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Articles for deletion/New York City housing crisis
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles for deletion/New York City housing crisis. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:35, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Terraced_house
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Terraced_house. Seeking input on potential merger. Thank you. Levivich (talk) 02:32, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Home improvement 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 page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 09:24, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

water supply
Please contribute to the discussion. Uncle G (talk) 15:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

AFD Buffalo Box
I have nominated Buffalo Box for deletion. If you are interested in chiming in, you can find the discussion at Articles for deletion/Buffalo Box --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 00:10, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Seeking editors interested in real estate article improvement
Hello, Wikipedia! It's Jessica from JLL. I have some suggestions to update incorrect information and add missing information in the "Operations section" of the JLL (company) article. I am posting here in hopes of finding some editors interested in real estate and want to help improve this article. You may review the full request with at Talk:JLL_(company).

Due to my conflict of interest, I will only post to talk pages and refrain from making direct edits. I welcome your feedback! Thank you. JKatJLL (talk) 15:20, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Today's articles for improvement/Nominations
A nomination is open at the above link for the article Home to become a weekly article for improvement. It would then be offered for editing to those signed up on the articles for improvement list, so please ivote if the mood hits. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:02, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Stoves articles (plural) are a mess
The disambiguation is terrible between stove, oven, kitchen stove, and cook stove. I also found issues such as the fact that stovetop and similar terms have been redirecting to kitchen stove for years rather than cooktop. Does anyone want to sort this out? Some edits at Wikidata may also be necessary. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 00:41, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I can help with Wikidata. Feel free to ping me. Besides, I'm wondering whether there are authoritative definitions of these things or not, and there are differences between American English and British English or not. --迴廊彼端 (talk) 14:49, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

(Extra-)low-voltage wiring, from more than a technical perspective
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electrical engineering.

Mentioning it here since it involves things like LAN and home theater cabling information (and where to put it). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  03:49, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Sherwin-Williams article updates
Hi, my name is Mira and I am the employee representative for Sherwin-Williams here on Wikipedia. I posted a request on the Sherwin-Williams talk page to hopefully work with editors to make improvements to the article while following the site's guidelines for editors like me with a conflict of interest. As an employee, I will refrain from editing the article and related articles directly. I won't list my full request here, but you may review it on the Sherwin-Williams talk page.

This WikiProject is listed on the Sherwin-Williams article, so I thought it would be a good idea to reach out to see if there were any interested editors.

Please let me know if this is the preferred way for a conflict of interest editor like myself to best collaborate with editors! I welcome your questions and feedback if they arise. Thanks in advance! MiraSherwin-Williams (talk) 20:38, 10 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello again, I'm just closing the loop here to say that I received assistance with my initial suggestions for improving the Sherwin-Williams article. I also learned new tricks for requesting future help. Other interested editors here are welcome to join the conversation at the Talk:Sherwin-Willams page and assist with future requests. I will continue to suggest edits to the article, while refraining to edit the content myself, due to my conflict of interest. Thanks again! MiraSherwin-Williams (talk) 21:14, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

New request: History section draft: Hello editors, MiraSherwin-Williams here again to see if there are any interested editors willing to take a look at my most recent request on the Sherwin-Williams Talk page. Specifically, I have drafted content to add a History section to the current article and posted it, along with references, for the community's review. I included the edit request template with my original post but it remains unanswered so far. I am requesting reviewing editors to check my work and integrate some version of this new draft into the current article on my behalf. I will not do so myself because of the site's guidelines for conflict of editors like me. Thanks in advance for any assistance offered! You can view my full request HERE Thanks! MiraSherwin-Williams (talk) 21:34, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Proposed Merge: garage door opener and garage door
Hello editors. It has been proposed that the article garage door opener be merged into the article garage door. And one or both of those articles is within the scope of this WikiProject. If you would like express support for or object to the merge then you are strongly encouraged to do so at the talk page for garage door. Thank you! --Paul Carpenter (talk) 12:21, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

New article
Hello Home Living Project members. Please know there is a new article you may be interested in, Chalk paint, which I posted today. Kind regards.Hu Nhu (talk) 05:18, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Gillette's operations in Canada
Hello! Erin here with the public relations firm Ketchum Inc. I've submitted a request here to update the Gillette article's Canadian headquarters section. Until recently, this section was completely unsourced. The newly added source is helpful for confirming a few details about the company's operations in Canada, but doesn't quite verify the specific text within the section, so I've shared replacement text based on sourcing. Can any WikiProject Home Living members please review and update the page since I cannot? Thank you! EA.Ketchum (talk) 17:35, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to US Housing Edit-a-thon
Please join us on 13 December 2020, 12:00-14:00 EST, as we update and improve articles in Wikipedia related to housing in the United States of America. Sign up here. -- M2545 (talk) 11:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Elderly homes articles
The group of home articles related to the elderly currently includes Retirement home, retirement community, Nursing home, assisted living, and possibly others. They're all stubby, and some should possibly be merged (I'll leave that call to someone more familiar with the subject area). Some WP:AFI noms might be in order once we figure out which pages to focus on. (And I say "we", but 90% chance I'm talking to myself here, since everyone else is busy creating military history/video game pages *sigh*.) &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:23, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Another disambiguation mess
Help would be appreciated sorting out Hallway, Hall, Hall (concept), and related pages. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:28, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Invitation Homes
If editors are interested, there is a request to improve the "Overview" section of the Invitation Homes article at Talk:Invitation Homes. Full disclosure: I made this request on behalf of my employer, therefore I have a conflict of interest. Kristi at IH (talk) 21:35, 12 July 2021 (UTC) Kristi at IH

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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Project-independent quality assessments
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No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:39, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Nice
I think it's a great idea. Zulfikar Chaniago (talk) 05:48, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:International Style (architecture)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:International Style (architecture) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   20:28, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed for deletion (PROD): CCG Profiles
FYI, the article CCG Profiles has been proposed for deletion (WP:PROD). The first sentences summarize the subject thusly:


 * "CCG Profiles is a software for designing joinery constructions for windows and doors industry. The first version was released in 1995 – named Alumin, as a software for design and calculation of aluminium constructions for Windows. In 1999 the software was renamed Profiles and it was redesigned, in order to calculate PVC and timber constructions."

The nominator wrote this summary of their concerns:


 * "Not meeting WP:PRODUCT guidelines"

If you agree or disagree with deletion, there are instructions on the deletion notice for what to do.

Thanks,

-- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 15:17, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Wendell Holland nominated for deletion
I have nominated the article about Wendell Holland for deletion. You may input your comments at Articles for deletion/Wendell Holland. Thanks! George Ho (talk) 18:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Kim Spradlin re-nominated for deletion
Link: Articles for deletion/Kim Spradlin (2nd nomination) George Ho (talk) 04:01, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion about the merger of Deckchair and Sunlounger
Join the discussion about the merger of Deckchair and Sunlounger at Talk:Deckchair.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:44, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Zero carbon v Net Zero house
Someone changed "zero carbon housing" to be also "net zero home" in June 2024. This conflates two different concepts. We already have a separate article for low-energy house -- 64.229.90.32 (talk) 21:45, 17 June 2024 (UTC) 64.229.90.32 (talk) 21:45, 17 June 2024 (UTC)