Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Italy/Archive 6

New categories for Sicilian music
After looking at the article Ciaramedda (a Sicilian bagpipe), I realised there were basically no articles for Sicilian music. I created the following categories to fix that, and would appreciate your help filling them out, either with new articles or by translating Sicilian articles:
 * Category:Sicilian music
 * Category:Sicilian musical groups, note a full 46 articles over at scn:Catigurìa:Gruppi musicali siciliani.

Hope this gets folks off to a good start; at least we've expanded the category trees with some basic articles. MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Inconsistency
There are inconsistency in the article Montefalcone Appennino : 1th is not the truth. It may be 1st or it may be 4th, 5th ... It is possible that the number is wrong, or the “th” is wrong. I do not know what of that is wrong or true. Please check it. --Diwas (talk) 12:25, 21 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Done, it was 14th century, thanks Overbridge (talk) 17:42, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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Cleanup list at WikiProject Italy/Cleanup listing
FYI - A massive discussion is taking place at a Request for comment (RfC) Requests for comment/Biographies of living people. About 50k of articles are currently unreferenced and therefore in danger of deletion, some of those are on Italian subjects. I will add the proper template on the main page to have a bot generate the cleanup list after some days (hopefully). The cleanup link in the title above will then point to a list of unreferenced articles with the WikiProject Italy template on its talk page. Please revise articles on the list, when possible,

Thank you. Power.corrupts (talk) 20:37, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) review them for contentious unsourced information pr WP:BLP concerns
 * 2) add references (you may e.g. lift references from the Italian page, if that page exists)
 * 3) remove the  template from the article.

Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Bilingual toponyms in Italy
Hello! Referring to this correction, please note that almost all the comuni/Gemeinde of the province of Bolzano are written in bold type (e.g. Bolzano, Merano, Bressanone). In this last case (Bressanone) the title of the article is in German, and this in incoherent. I think that wikipedia in English should choose, as all other wikipedias, one version. For example, wikipedia in Dutch has chosen to put the toponyms in German, following the instructions of the Taalunie, and the similarity of German with Dutch. Anyway, seeing things how they are now, there are no reason to delete the bold type for Aosta/Aoste, which has a bilingual status exactly as Bolzano/Bozen. --Simoncik84 (talk) 08:21, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

All the comuni in the Province of Bolzano have been object of a language census, in which they stated which was the ratio between the Italian and the German speaking population. Bolzano for example is mostly Italian speaking. Other towns are mostly German speaking. I think it's possible to follow this method, and when not available use as title the Italian name. Anyways both name Italian and German have to be bolded. But in Aosta valley I suppose there's another parameter. --Theirrulez (talk) 01:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Train crash
A train has crashed in Italy, killing 6 and injuring 20. Help in expanding the 2010 Merano train derailment article would be appreciated. Mjroots (talk) 09:21, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Vlora War
Hello there! I have contributed in the Vlora War, which regards, I believe, both the Albania and Italy's Task Force. As a result, I tagged the article with Italy's Task Force. I would love that some italian contributors participate in the improvement of the article so that it upgrades, but be not POV. Please consider contributing to the article and let me know in my talk page: I speak perfectly Italian btw. Thank you for your attention. -- Sulmues talk   15:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Disagreement over the Massimo family article
There is currently a disagreement over some of the content in the article on the Italian Massimo family. Two editors have been edit warring over the status of some members of the family while claiming that one another are actually part of the family and attempting to push their views. I've been contacted (as an admin) by one of the editors to intervene in this article, but it appears to be a content dispute to me - particularly as I know nothing of this topic and am in no position to evaluate any of the content or sources which are being disputed. As such, I'd appreciate it if editors and/or admins active in this project could look in on this article. Thanks Nick-D (talk) 12:10, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

History of Cremona
''The first historical news about a free Cremona is from 1093, as it entered into an anti-Empire alliance led by Mathilde of Canossa, together with Lodi, Milan and Piacenza. The conflict ended with the defeat of Henry IV and his famous humiliation of Canossa to Pope Urban II in 1098. ''

The last sentence should either be completely removed or replaced by something more accurate, like "This was part of the conflicts around the Investitur Controversy".

"Humiliation of Canossa" links to "Walk to Canossa", what happened in 1077, not 1098, when Gregory VII was pope, not Urban II. Neither the Walk to Canossa nor anything happening in the year 1098 settled this Controversy, but the Concordat of Worms in 1122 did. This one was signed by Henry V and Pope Callixtus II.

Italian fake parties on wikipedia
I think that these 2 pages should be deleted: Lega Padana Lombardia and Lombardy Project. As i've written in their "discussion" these parties don't exist actually and never existed in the past. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.133.92 (talk) 17:27, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Right. Lombardy Project is completely unsourced. Spurces for Lega Padana Lombardia are either nonexistent or only show that the party did not compete in elections. However, the official page does exist and the party does exist even if did not compete. This page might not be deleted.Mad Toad (talk) 02:56, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Alitalia Flight 771
For those of you who also post on the Italian Wikipedia, Alitalia Flight 771 has an article on the English Wikipedia, but none on the Italian Wikipedia. Would anyone like to start an Italian version of the page? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:35, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons update
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

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Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 18:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Italian election maps
Most of the Italian elections have maps showing which party won which province. However, in many cases, the legends of the maps are misleading or incomplete. I've shown the 1979 map at right to illustrate the problem, since this is one of the worst.

The part that says " Red denotes those with a Communist plurality" is clear.

However, the part that says " White denotes provinces with a Christian Democratic plurality" is just terrible. First of all, the word "White" is shown in yellow, not in white. And second, the Christian Democratic provinces are not colored in white at all, but in light gray.

And the part that says " Gray denotes those with an Autonomist plurality" is no good either. First of all, the shade of gray that the word "Gray" is in is closest to the color of the Christian Democratic provinces. Second, the regional parties are shown on the map in two different shades of gray and one of green. None of the parties listed in the results at Italian general election, 1979 is identified there as "Autonomist". Rather, "SVP" as labeled on the map corresponds to the South Tyrolean People's Party and should be labeled as such; "UV" as labeled on the map corresponds to the Valdotanian Union and should be labeled as such; and I don't even know what "ApT" stands for, although I assume it's something "per Trieste" because Trieste is where the party won.

This map at Italian general election, 1979 has similar problems to maps in other Italian election infoboxes, albeit more of them. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:21, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Translation requested Fulvio Wetzl
If someone could visit Talk:Fulvio Wetzl there is a google news search which links to a number of potential sources in Italian that could be added to the article to ensure WP:N. He appears to be a director of mostly horror films oooh scary scary! Active Banana (talk) 19:29, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

CFD nomination
You may be interested in voicing your opinion at current CFD nomination. The nominator attempts to break the already working categorization scheme about Italian cities and towns and put them into "populated places" categories. - Darwinek (talk) 11:14, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Honours - source
I've just created an article on an Australian politician who apparently was made an officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in the 1960s. Is there a definitive source for confirming the award of these sorts of honours? Hack (talk) 03:41, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Answer: User talk - Hack

EddieAlighieri (talk) 21:42, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Air One head office
In regards to this link of the Air One website: http://web.archive.org/web/20080315163324/www.flyairone.it/it/Corporate/Contatti.aspx

The "DIREZIONE GENERALE" and the "Uffici di Roma" were in Rome, while the "SEDE LEGALE" was in Chieti. Which city had the corporate head offices? (I.E. in which city was the executive office complex located in?) WhisperToMe (talk) 22:34, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Fiumicino schools
http://www.fiumicino.net/elenco_scuole.pdf

Based on this list, which schools are in Fiumicino? WhisperToMe (talk) 06:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Naming conventions
User:Skinsmoke has moved several cities for example from Barbariga, Italy to Barbariga, Lombardy (from Italy to regions) This must be wrong according to Naming conventions (geographic names). (78.70.221.227 (talk) 07:07, 3 July 2010 (UTC))

Barletta - possible vandalism
Please review over a dozen recent edits to the Barletta page, unsourced and with possibly spurious content. See examples noted on Talk:Barletta. -- Deborahjay (talk) 18:57, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Kingdom of Sardinia may need your help
There is a certain amount of disagreement about this subject. Alas, I don't know enough history to make any sense of the disagreement, but if you know anything about the Kingdom of Sardinia, it would be lovely if you could stop by and weigh in on which of two competing articles is more accurate. The "voting" section of the talk page is here. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:11, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Marco Polo: a cultural robbery
According to an old local legend Marco Polo was born in the Venetian island of Curzola (today Korcula in Croatia). Years after years, Yugoslavia first, independent Croatia later, started to present this legend as something of true, and Marco Polo as Croatian (see here to believe . The final step, starting from 2007, was to advertise Croatia as "Marco Polo's country" (This is just on of the several sample =). Despite this option is totally deprived of sources, somebody tries to push it in the Marco Polo's article, as something of reliable. The invite to read talk page, such as Marco Polo's birthplace talk page, and to give an opinion.--IP IP Hurra! (talk) 17:42, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * What sources do you have to back this up? WhisperToMe (talk) 03:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Almerico da Schio
Where do I put requests to make new English articles from Italian articles? it:Almerico da Schio needs an article in English. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

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Wind Jet Flight 243
The Wind Jet Flight 243 article is currently at AfD. Mjroots (talk) 06:05, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Pompeii Discussion re 3D Models
Could interested parties please have a look at the Pompeii discussion page under "3D Models of Pompeii" and make comment. Pmolsen (talk) 19:22, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:Legislatures of Italy
Hi. Could you help translate these important WP:Italy articles from Italian?♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:22, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Silvio Michelotto former Italian Ambassador?
The article on former Italian Ambassador to France (1985 -1990) Silvio Michelotto has been tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person since December 2008, which is the current focus month of the BLP Rescue Project. I have tried, and failed, to find any reliable sources to support this text. I can't find anything for his term as Ambassador (which could be due to the dates but is a bit surprising) or for the company he is supposed to have founded. I'm posting here in the hope that someone might be kind enough to take a look and help. If it stays unreferenced much long, it may be nominated as an AfD.--Plad2 (talk) 06:52, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies is a Featured article nominee
The article about Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, a 19th century Italian princess and wife of Pedro II, the second Brazilian emperor is now a Featured article nominee. Comments, criticisms, supports or opposes are welcome. See: Featured article candidates/Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies/archive1. --Lecen (talk) 16:43, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

International Parliament for Safety and Peace
There are often edit wars around the entry of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace, a Palermo-based entity. As a result it is currently semi-protected. Would it be possible for a member of this project to assess the importance of the article for WikiProject Italy? Also is the "start" status still the correct status? Are there any other parameters that need to be set? Thank you for any assistance on the top of Talk:International Parliament for Safety and Peace or the entry itself! gidonb (talk) 16:56, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Peer Review at Helmichis
Was wondering if anybody may be interested in providing feedback for a peer review (Peer review/Helmichis/archive1) concerning Helmichis, infamous regicide who killed his king Alboin and married his widow Rosamund in 572. Ciao, Aldux (talk) 15:15, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Photo req: Air Dolomiti HQ, Verona
Would someone mind photographing the Air Dolomiti head office at Via Paolo Bembo, 70 37062 Frazione di Dossobuono - Villafranca di Verona - Italy ?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 23:38, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Marianus I of Arborea


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Portals to add to English Wikipedia
The Italian Wikipedia has: So why not make: ? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:35, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * it:Portale:Padova
 * Portal:Padua

Proposed deletion of Monarchist National Party


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