Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Archive 6

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:44, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I have cleaned up all articles that are under both Category:People from Iowa and under Category:Unreferenced BLPs to date. J. Edgar Vekilnik, Jr. (talk) 02:20, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:11, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 02:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Iowa AfD
An article related to Iowa, Iowa Flood of 2010, has been nominated for deletion. The discussion can be found at Articles for deletion/Iowa Flood of 2010. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:07, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Iowa
Someone recently suggested that this project may be inactive or semi-active and that it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there has been no active discussions in several months and very few edits made to the project page. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 00:55, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open for 6 days without comment. Does anyone have any comments about this suggestion? --Kumioko (talk) 20:35, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open for 12 days without comment so I am going to go ahead and add it to the supported projects list. --Kumioko (talk) 01:58, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd agree that the project itself is semi-active. The Government workgroup does come to life on a fairly regular schedule, though it isn't at present.  However, in the absence of a real issue, this page primarily just serves as a noticeboard for our members. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:00, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree, I don't want to pull WP:IOWA under WikiProject United States any time soon. I've worked on the Iowa portal myself a little bit. So, you want me to remove the Iowa WikiProject under WikiProject United States or not? JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  09:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I see that Iowa is not listed as part of WikiProject United States - and that's how I think it should stay. That said, I have no problem with their linking to us as a "related project." --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:13, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, no problem, I will remove it anyway since there is little discussion. In the meantime, why don't you ask Kumioko to not support under WikiProject United States and I will modify the WikiProject Iowa banner myself. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  10:21, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry? I don't understand why the banner would need to be modified.  Could you please explain?  --Philosopher Let us reason together. 11:40, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I had added Iowa to the supported projects list of WPUS and added it to the WPUS banner after knowone here responded to the post after about 15 days. Thats usually a sign that the project is inactive. I have started to devote my time to other areas anyway cause knowone in WP really cares about making the project better and working together. I'm still going to contribute but not what I was doing before since knowone else seems to care. --Kumioko (talk) 14:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * In the next couple days I will remove the Iowa projects from the list of projects supported by WPUS. It just takes a day or 2 to get the template updated. --Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)