Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kentucky/Archive 5

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New Civil War list
Just completed List of Kentucky's American Civil War generals which includes both Union and Confederate army and navy officers. --Spacini (talk) 04:50, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

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Images needed
I presently have Paul E. Patton nominated for FA, but unfortunately, there is no picture of Patton on Wikipedia. Is there an editor in or near Pikeville who might be able to stop by Pikeville College (where he is now president) and get a picture? Also, I included the image File:Memorialhall.jpg in that article, but an editor has pointed out that it is not free-use. This image is somewhat trivial to the Patton article (except to break up a huge block of text) but is more important to the University of Kentucky article, as the Memorial Hall clock tower is one of the signature structures of the university. Any editors in Lexington who might be able to replace this image with a free one? Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 13:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Notification regarding Wikipedia-Books
As detailed in last week's Signpost, WikiProject Wikipedia books is undertaking a cleanup all Wikipedia books. Particularly, the saved book template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of the books. Title, subtitle, cover-image, and cover-color can all be specified, and an HTML preview of the cover will be generated and shown on the book's page (an example of such a cover is found on the right). Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class Kentucky articles should have covers.

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Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
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.

Your Project's list can be found at WikiProject Kentucky/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 29 articles to be referenced. The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

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) 17:02, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Kentucky
This list is largely complete, but has bits and pieces of information missing, and needs images filled in - any help in completing it would be much appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:50, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Comair HQ
Delta announced that it may sell the Comair HQ at Cincinnati Airport. It is of the essence to photograph it, as the HQ building could have its markers taken off. The HQ is located along Comair Boulevard. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Eastern Mountain Coal Fields B+ article
The Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force would like to ask for additional help from any user who would be interested in helping improve the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields article to at least a B-class. The article needs a history section, along with expanded geography and economy sections. J654567 (talk) 18:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

AFD for Massacre at Ywahoo Falls
Articles for deletion/Massacre at Ywahoo Falls. East of Borschov 06:20, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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!

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Lexington Herald resource requests
For those of you with access to the Lexington Herald articles, please see WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request WhisperToMe (talk) 16:30, 11 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) 20:11, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Era
I'm working on getting some biographies up of Kentucky women active in the long civil rights era (1920s-1970s). This is part of a larger collaborative project on open educational resources, see more at http://www.kywcrh.org. Any help on tips and improvements would be greatly appreciated! Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 18:07, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:52, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force
Hello, WikiProject Kentucky! We are looking for editors to join the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force, an outreach effort which aims to support the development of articles relating to Eastern Kentucky in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!

J654567 (talk) 02:20, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kentucky locations by per capita income


The article Kentucky locations by per capita income has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references failed to find any published (gBooks) support for the content of this article. Fails WP:N and WP:V

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 18:14, 2 December 2010 (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) 19:13, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Research help needed
Hey Kentucky Project! College Football could use some help researching Red Roberts (American football) who played for Centre College alongside Bo McMillan. I've got several sources calling him "Colonel" Roberts. He could be a Kentucky Colonel, or it could be just a nickname because he played with the "Praying Colonels" or something else... help and add-ins would be greatly appreciated!--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:24, 15 February 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) 02:03, 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) 02:03, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Bethel College (Kentucky) - was it coeducational?
Very minor article, so not tremendously important, but still interesting, and alas Google isn't helping much here since the place closed in the 60s. I did some minor research and made a stub on Bethel College (Kentucky) way back in 2007, but some of the links I found back then seems to have disappeared / been buried, and may have been wrong anyway. Since then, something fascinating has come up - looking at What links here, there are articles like John Stockdale Rhea, Robert Y. Thomas, Jr., and Thomas Rhea that all claim they attended Bethel College, sourced to solid refs like the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. The problem is that according to the sources I originally found for the article, Bethel College was a woman's college. Well, until 1951. Somehow I doubt that these men pretended to be ladies for their education?

Anyway, if I had to venture a guess, one of the campuses was a men's college and the other was a woman's college, and the sources I found before were only on the woman's campus. That said, I don't really trust the sources I found originally anymore, and it's possible that they were actually two distinct and unconnected Bethel Colleges, or something weird like that. Does anyone have any good sources on what actually was the case? SnowFire (talk) 01:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Mfd notice of WikiProject Bluegrass Region
I have nominated WikiProject Bluegrass Region for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thanks, JJ98 (Talk)  01:39, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

A class review for James B. McCreary
Hello all, the article on James B. McCreary, which is related to this project, is currently undergoing an A-class review. Any editor who is interested is invited to help review the article. The review can be found here: WikiProject Military history/Assessment/James B. McCreary. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 01:41, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

USS Kentucky FAR
nominated USS Kentucky (BB-66) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 05:47, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProjects Kentucky and Louisville
Someone recently suggested that these 2 projects may be inactive or semi active and 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 activity on either the project page or the talk page since 2010. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 16:19, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open for 11 days so far with no comment. Does anyone have any comments or concerns about this suggestion? --Kumioko (talk) 21:22, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Since this discussion has now been open for 16 days I am going to go ahead and add it to WikiProject United States. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 19:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Since many of us who were active on these WPs are either retired or semi-active, it is probably just as well.-- King Bedford I Seek his grace  20:42, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Older courthouse
The photo of the courthouse on Elizabethtown KY's page, is the old courthouse that is no longer in use as a courthouse... if someone could change the picture to the newer one that would be great. Its on google, its the white and glass building with all of the columns going around the building... Much more modern. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.235.242 (talk) 03:38, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Today's featured article: J. C. W. Beckham
Congrats to all who worked on this article. Excellent work and great publicity for WikiProject Kentucky! Spacini (talk) 01:26, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, friend. All part of my drive to make Governors of Kentucky a Good Topic, which is now done. I'm seeing how many I can get featured now. If all goes well, Governor of Kentucky will be TFA for November 8, 2011, which is the day of the gubernatorial election. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 13:21, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thats awesome glad to hear. --Kumioko (talk) 15:35, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * A very solid goal.-- King Bedford I Seek his grace  20:40, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Nathaniel G. S. Hart
Requesting a WikiProject Kentucky initial assessment. Shearonink (talk) 14:44, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Picture of Toyota Plant
Can anyone get a photo of the Georgetown Toyota Plant for the Martha Layne Collins article? If so, please just let me know where to find it when it's uploaded. Thanks. 21:18, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:40, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion
Relevant deletion discussion at .--GrapedApe (talk) 17:35, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:13, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Eggner Ferry Bridge
Are there any Wikipedians in Kentuck able to get photos of the Eggner Ferry Bridge and/or MV Delta Mariner following the collision? Mjroots (talk) 09:31, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Kentucky will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Kentucky's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Please translate? Okay, I'll try to translate this into Kentuckian so that we can understand it. Let me know if I get anything incorrect.

"Hey all y'all. Some gals are a-havin' a big to-do in a few weeks to show off what such-n-such women have done for our beloved Commonwealth. They got one of them Internet pages with events and they're a-hopin' we feel moved to set our minds to a-helpin' out. The shindigs can be anywhar, like the Internets, the libarry, or, if'n we so choose, on this here Wickerpedia. Head on over to WikiWomen's History Month to see for yournselfs. Thankee kindly and we'll catch y'all later."

I don't really speak Western Kentucky very well, so I hope our folks down in the Purchase can get the gist of my translation.

--Spacini (talk) 01:05, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Muhlenberg County isn't in the JP, but it's close enough that I feel comfortable saying "You nailed it!" Especially "libarry". Good fun, my friend. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 14:22, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In all seriousness, I will attempt to track down as many pertinent articles about women and their contributions to the Commonwealth. I will be using the Category:History of women in Kentucky to bring light to articles that need more exposure.

--Spacini (talk) 01:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Also in seriousness, I'll be working to get the recently-featured article on Martha Layne Collins as TFA on International Women's Day (March 8), or at least some time in Women's History Month in the U.S. (March). Acdixon (talk · contribs) 14:22, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Eggner Ferry Bridge
We need an image. Is there anyone in the area? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:56, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

This is probably fair game as it is Fed gov. But not really enough bridge, and too much "that guy". Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:57, 10 February 2012 (UTC) ✅ Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:00, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Hall of Fame
Now that we have WikiProject Kentucky/Recognized content, which is automatically updated by a bot, does anyone still see the need for WikiProject Kentucky/Hall of Fame, which has to be manually updated? If not, I think I'll dump it. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 17:08, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Dump away amigo! --Spacini (talk) 19:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Historic home tour in Lexington
This Wednesday, June 6, at 5:30 pm, there will be a free tour of the Botherum, a historic home at 341 Madison Place, Lexington. If anyone could go and get some pictures, inside, outside, and of the grounds, I would really appreciate it; I'll be expanding the article in the next week or so. Details from the Lexington Herald-Leader. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 14:10, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Cincinnati-area request: Comair HQ near Erlanger, KY
I would like for someone to photograph the corporate office buildings, including the Comair General Office Building, the Comair corporate headquarters at 77 Comair Boulevard, and the building at 82 Comair Boulevard, both in Erlanger, KY, at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport. Since Comair is shutting down on September 29, 2012, I would like for someone to take this photo as soon as possible. I do not want for the Comair markings to be taken off of the buildings. If you want to, please photograph the Comair buildings. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 12:04, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Knob Creek Farm
An article that you have been involved in editing, Knob Creek Farm, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Alanscottwalker (talk) 20:04, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

A couple of Kentucky related City categories suggested for Upmerging at Categories for discussion/Log/2012 September 22
I recently suggested that three very small Kentucky, City related categories be upmerged to the related county categories. All three have less than 3 articles associated to them and the cities themselves are small, 2 were less than 2000 people. Kumioko (talk) 15:02, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Alben W. Barkley
An RFC on whether this article is too long and contains too many references has been opened. You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alben W. Barkley. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 13:38, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

LaRue County, Kentucky needs a map
LaRue County, Kentucky is missing a location map. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:50, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

THATCamp Kentucky and Wikimeetup Kentucky, June 1-2
Hi everyone! The clock is ticking down on the dates for THATCamp Kentucky - June 1 & 2 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Take a look at the Tentative Schedule. Let's get together in person to work on Kentucky-related wikipedia pages, what do you say? If you register for THATCamp Kentucky, you can propose what it is you would like to do/learn/discuss during our time together (if you're not familiar with THATCamps, look at past THATCamp sites. So, propose away! It doesn’t even have to be a fully-formed session, just what you’d like to do or share during the weekend. I built a Wikimeetup Kentucky page also.  If you have any questions, please email the THATCamp KY Organizer, Lee Skallerup Bessette (Morehead State University, @readywriting) at thatcampky@gmail.com. Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 14:20, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Awe, Kentucky
Doesn't actually exist and never really has, either. Here's an article on it if we're keeping the page but it's certainly odd to list it everywhere on the Lewis County pages when communities that, y'know, actually do exist and actually do have people (Charters, Trinity, even side venues like Ghost Hollow) aren't included. — Llywelyn II   04:27, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Bluegrass Music

 * WikiProject Bluegrass Music? Talk to Anne Delong. • Serviceable†Villain 02:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:40, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 22:50, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team template navboxes
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Creation of these templates will impact articles on Kentucky related teams such as UK, WKU, and UL. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:36, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Kentucky Colonels
Are they always notable? Is there a way I can confirm that Edmund W. Starling is a Kentucky Colonel? Dloh cierekim  19:29, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Black Patch Tobacco Wars and The Night Riders
Currently there are two separate articles, both created a long time ago, about the Black Patch Tobacco Wars and The Night Riders. Both articles are about essentially the same topic. I think it would make sense to merge them into a single article. However, I don't know much of anything about the topic, and I think it's possible that there is a reason to document the Night Riders separately from the Wars. I seek your advice: do the two articles both need to exist, or does it make sense to merge them? Posting the same item at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennessee. --Orlady (talk) 02:48, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:58, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Kentucky At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 14:35, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Project-wide Change Patrol
Would anyone be interested in me re-establishing project-wide change patrol like I have done at WikiProject Louisville? It would be pretty easy to set up again, and I'll promise to keep the Watchall file updated on a weekly basis until a bot can be found to do it. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:24, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Removed mistagged articles/pages from WP:KY
A few years ago when WP:USA swallowed up this project and WP:Lou, articles and other pages included in this project and WP Louisville were re-tagged. Well, a number of articles/pages were mistagged for WP KY. These were Indiana-related articles that had something to do with the Louisville metropolitan area, but weren't actually in Kentucky. I had removed some of these articles/pages manually before today, but I decided to semi-automate the removal of the rest today. So this project is now around 200 articles/pages lighter. Please let me know if you have any questions. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:03, 30 August 2014 (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)

Kentucky Music Hall of Fame
On Wikipedia in de Dutch language I compiled the article on Kentucky Music Hall of Fame (see: nl:Kentucky Music Hall of Fame). As the red link here on English Wikipedia shows, the article needs still to be written here. For anyone who wishes to do so, just feel free to use a copy out of the work that I've allready done. There may be some additional work because you need to find the correct internal links to each musician. Good luck, Ymnes (talk) 11:58, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
I created Category:Kentucky articles needing expert attention for making Category:Louisville articles needing expert attention a subcategory of it. Category:Kentucky articles needing expert attention might be populated in the future and might be of interest to your WikiProject. Iceblock (talk) 23:18, 18 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)

Starting cleanup of WP KY pages
Starting today, I'm running my semiautomated cleanup process against WP Kentucky's pages. Please let me know if there are any changes you are concerned about. Note that many pages have already been hit from other cleanings, so this will mainly hit the project pages I haven't looked at before. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

March 2015 Art+Feminism event in Lexington
Hi Kentucky Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone would be interested in helping out with editing training for a Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon being organized in Lexington. We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the area, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! -Thepwnco (talk) 22:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Change patrol has been redesigned and is now active again
Check it out here.

Now you can watch what happens to all the pages in WikiProject Kentucky, especially to revert any vandalism. It took me a while to get to upgrading this because I wanted to ensure that I had done as much semi-automated cleanup fixes to the project's files as possible before unleashing this tool (I didn't want all the cleanups dominating the patrol listing). I will periodically update the file list used for the patrol to keep it fresh. Anyway, here you go, and enjoy. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Several upcoming Wikipedia events in Kentucky
  Meet up with Wikipedians in Kentucky! All are welcome to attend!

Lexington, KY Wiki Loves Pride 2015

 * Lexington Pride Festival : June 27, 2015. Location: Lexington Pride Festival venues. Take photographs of the Lexington Pride Festival and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon : June 30, 2015. 7:00 pm. Location to be determined.

Lexington, KY/Wiknic 2015
Meet up for a picnic with other Wikipedian in Kentucky on July 25, 2015 from 12:00-3:00pm.

Sign up on event pages. For questions contact Sydney Poore/FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 03:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Rooster Run up for deletion
I've added a few minor sources but am wondering if any of you fine folks might have access to better sourcing. I don't intend this message as a solicitation for support of the keep position, but instead a request for experienced eyes who know the subject matter to help with citation, if any additional is available. BusterD (talk) 13:40, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Nominator has withdrawn this AFD procedure. Still could use some help with cites and expansion. Thanks, colonels. BusterD (talk) 16:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Acdixon and Stevie have helped this page a lot since the nom. I'd mentioned in the process but I'll reiterate here: this is an excellent example of how the deletion process can help strengthen pagespace. Good work folks! BusterD (talk) 16:42, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Move request: Kim Davis (Kentucky politician) → Kim Davis (clerk)
A requested move discussion is taking place at Talk:Kim_Davis_(Kentucky_politician). Interested editors are invited to comment. - - MrX 14:34, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

RfC
An RfC, Should this biography include commentary or reactions from politicians?, has been posted at the talk page for Kim Davis (county clerk). Interested editors are invited to comment. - MrX 17:07, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Rename Louisville, Kentucky to Louisville?
Please participate in this new straw poll: Talk:Louisville, Kentucky. Please leave !votes and comments in that discussion only. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:51, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

US Route 641
Can someone with more/better wiki-fu than me fix the table of exits so that it doesn't look like the "Midway" exit of US-641 is in Midway, KY, which is over 250 miles east of this interchange? I'd do it myself, but I can't figure out how to do it without messing the table up. Thanks.JasonKY (talk) 15:58, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd be glad to, since you're right, it definitely isn't Midway, Kentucky. I'm assuming it's Midway, Tennessee, but HOLY COW there are a lot of Midway, Tennessees! I'm assuming it's this one. Can someone confirm before I just change one wrong link to another one? Acdixon (talk · contribs) 19:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks...much appreciated.JasonKY (talk) 04:38, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Adding more articles/pages to the project
I've noticed that many people from Kentucky don't have their articles included in this project, so I'm going through and adding them. We'll end up with around 1,000 more when I'm finished. There's likely many more Kentucky articles than this to add as well Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 04:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Follow-up: This bunch has been added, but I just realized yesterday that I didn't capture all the people from Kentucky not yet included. So there will be another 700 or so added.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 14:18, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Any more Kentucky-related articles you want added to this project?
I've recently added nearly 2,000 Kentuckians as well as all the remaining Kentucky routes and settlements to this project. If there's any other category or bunch of Kentucky-related article/pages you would like to see added to the project, please let me know, and I will add them with AWB, a semiautomated editor. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:05, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Kentucky to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Kentucky/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 04:26, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Overhaul of Change Patrol to have all the aspects included in WikiProject Louisville
Hey everyone. I just completed an overhaul of our Change Patrol to have all the aspects that WikiProject Louisville's has. Two additional patrols are for our popular pages (1,000 most viewed) only, and for categories only, which includes page categorization changes. Also, I've added instructions for updating the Watchall page, which includes links to all the pages included by WikiProject Kentucky. Please let me know if anyone has any questions. Cheers! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:54, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Missing Kentucky Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Kentucky Supreme Court Justices at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 00:19, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky colonels has been nominated for discussion
Category:Kentucky colonels, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. 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) 01:18, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

RfC: My Old Kentucky Home rendition lists
Please check out the new RfC that seeks to decide what to do with three rendition lists in the article. This is to help resolve an ongoing dispute. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:38, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

New Book: Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front
New Book: Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front by David J. Bettez, 2016, University Press of Kentucky -- maybe relevant for an article such as Kentucky in World War I. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 19:03, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, — Delivered: 18:02, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey - Proposals related to "Recent Changes"
Hello again WP Kentucky members! Since we also make extensive use of RecentChangesLinked to produce our Change Patrol, here's a couple Wishlist Survey proposals related to making these patrols more productive:


 * 1) "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
 * 2) RecentChangesLinked should search associated pages

Please consider and vote on these by December 12. Thank you again for your time! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:51, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Jennifer Lawrence FAC
Featured article candidates/Jennifer Lawrence/archive1 is open. Hoping to gain input. Snuggums (talk / edits) 02:21, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:


 * Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:07, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Transit Authority of River City
Transit Authority of River City, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages is back!
Popular pages -- the list of the top 1,000 most viewed Kentucky-related articles -- is back after a year hiatus. The original maintainer of the bot that produced it decided to discontinue his work with the bot. It has taken quite a monumental effort to get it back online, including pushing for it in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey (where it ended up as the #9 choice!) and a lot of redevelopment. I hope everyone enjoys the fresh data. Especially note that the data now includes mobile device views of articles where it didn't before, so we have even better accuracy. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:36, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Two people with the same name have overlapping data
Below is what I posted on the Louisville page which they referred me to this page. If a second page is needed for the second person, I would like to learn the proper way to create and site the correct information for Judge/Representative Edward Worthington and the Irish Captain Edward Worthington. Thanks for any assistance in this matter.

Regards, Charles B Cameron

Hello,

I am new to Wikipedia and I updated the information on Captain Edward Worthington from Ireland, Maryland and Kentucky yesterday, but today it is gone. I realize that it might not have been in the correct format, but I would like to know how I can have the new information posted on Edward's page. There were two notable Edward Worthingtons living in and around Mercer and Boyle Counties in Kentucky in 1800. I have the information on the second Edward Worthington who was a Judge and State Representative for Danville, Kentucky. If someone would assist me, I would gladly forward the information with cited links and references to have them update the data on Edward Worthington's Wikipedia page.

The following information is incorrect and should be linked to the second Edward Worthington of Mercer and Boyle Counties in Kentucky, not Captain Edward Worthington: "His grandson, William H. Worthington, was an officer with the 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.[1] Historian and author, Kathleen L. Lodwick is a direct descendant of Edward Worthington.[2] Noted attorney, Greg A. Jennings of Owensboro, Kentucky is also, a direct descendant of Edward Worthington."

Please advise me in how to correct the information listed for the Irish Captain Edward Worthington under General George R Clark's command.

Regards, Charles B Cameron — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camworth (talk • contribs) 03:19, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

@Camworth: this article isn't a part of WikiProject Louisville. You may want to inquire at WP:WikiProject Kentucky. Basically, an article shouldn't be used to distinguish between two people. It would be better to write a separate article for the other person with the same name and then have a hatnote at the top distinguishing between the two. Covering both in one article is ordinarily confusing to readers. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:01, 13 May 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camworth (talk • contribs)

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 17:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Drafts for fifteen missing Kentucky Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for fifteen missing Kentucky Supreme Court Justices: Please help finish these drafts and get them moved into mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:23, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Draft:Boyce C. Clayton
 * 2) Draft:Charles H. Reynolds
 * 3) Draft:Charles M. Leibson
 * 4) Draft:Donald C. Wintersheimer
 * 5) Draft:James B. Stephenson
 * 6) Draft:John D. White (judge)
 * 7) Draft:John Jay O'Hara
 * 8) Draft:Martin E. Johnstone
 * 9) Draft:Marvin J. Sternberg
 * 10) Draft:Robert O. Lukowsky
 * 11) Draft:Roy N. Vance
 * 12) Draft:Thomas B. Spain
 * 13) Draft:Wilfrid Schroder
 * 14) Draft:William Fuqua

TFAR for Jennifer Lawrence
There is a request for Jennifer Lawrence to be featured on the main page for her upcoming birthday on August 15th. See Today's featured article/requests/Jennifer Lawrence for more. Would prefer responses sooner rather than later. Snuggums (talk</b> / <b style="color:#454545">edits</b>) 20:17, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Ashland Community and Technical College
Ashland Community and Technical College, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIR<b style="color: green;">corn</b> (talk) 07:43, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

New Kentucky userbox templates
New Kentucky userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Kentucky and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 22:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women by occupation has been nominated for discussion
Category:Kentucky women by occupation, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion.. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. 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. -- Brown <span style="display:inline-block;transform:rotate(-3deg)">Haired Girl (talk) • (contribs) 00:09, 8 May 2018 (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  07:44, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians
I found this title, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, on Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=aksVAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y It was published in 1912 and is therefore now in the public domain. If you republish material from the book, please be aware of the biases of people writing in 1912, and include a line such as "Some material in this archive was taken from..." Perhaps someone could set up a template to do that. You may be able to find other useful books on the history of Kentucky on Google Books https://books.google.com <b style="font-family: Times;">Eastmain (talk • contribs)</b> 06:07, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Governor's Cup
Can someone with better understanding of how to edit tables on Wikipedia than me (i.e., anyone who actually knows how to edit tables) please have a go at the Governor's Cup (academics) article? Something got messed up pretty bad in there. TIA... JasonKY (talk) 14:40, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:47, 27 February 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)

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)

Lexington meet-up(s)
is anybody in this project near lexington, and willing to meet up in the Central Public Library's "Kentucky Room"? the materials are incredible and so are the librarians.Sbbarker19 (talk) 20:12, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Tomtown, Kentucky
There is a discussion about a ghost town at Articles for deletion/Tomtown, Kentucky. It would be helpful if members of this Wikiproject can participate.--DreamLinker (talk) 13:09, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Kentucky evulation
Kentucky is a state in the south states that used to be a virgina territory then on the 1792 it became a state then getting go e away from virgina — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sanskar bhattarai (talk • contribs) 12:24, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

FLR notice
I have nominated List of counties in Kentucky for featured list removal. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 02:22, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

FAR for William Goebel
I have nominated William Goebel for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  03:33, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Draft article
Hi. If anyone has a thought as to how to improve the draft article Draft:Center for Rural Development so that it is accepted -- which has proven to be a surprisingly difficult effort -- please lmk. Thanks.--2603:7000:2143:8500:1841:AF34:6839:55A4 (talk) 18:28, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

GEOFF YOUNG
Articles_for_deletion/Geoff_Young

Discussion ongoing 176.59.168.167 (talk) 08:49, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Geoff Young in Kentucky race
Geoff Young is running in Kentucky's Congressional 6th district race. You are experienced in articles on Kentucky, Can I get some help on this article?

Any suggestions that you have about the article? I want to make it notable. Year2040 (talk) 14:59, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

÷′== 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.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Kentucky Railway Museum
Kentucky Railway Museum has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:30, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Content assessment
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. &#x0020;This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 06:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Newport, Kentucky
If others could assist with a content dispute at Talk:Newport, Kentucky it would be appreciated. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Articles Most Edited
I just boldly added an "Articles Most Edited" section to the project's front page to show our included articles getting the hottest edit activity over the past week. We're the 3rd US state project (after Idaho and Washington) to show this on their front page. My view is that having something like this on the front page shows to visitors the ongoing life of the project, to hopefully attract more participation. Also, in some cases, it will show us where rampant vandalism or other problematic behavior is occurring. At any rate, it's just interesting info. Stefen Towers among the rest!  Gab • Gruntwerk 21:37, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Jefferson Davis FAR
I have nominated Jefferson Davis for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Guerillero Parlez Moi 13:15, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Jefferson Davis
There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Jefferson Davis/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  23:05, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Kentucky Horse Park
The Kentucky Horse Park, north of Lexington, is one of the main equine event venues in Kentucky, including holding several world class international events. The Wikipedia article has only 4 citations. I know the park has been extensively written about because the horse industry is one of the top industries of Kentucky (and a cultural favorite, like the bourbon industry is). Can anyone help to add citations and/or content? ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 04:47, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

GNIS mess
I've just created Project:WikiProject Kentucky/GNIS cleanup explaining how I've been slowly cleaning up this mess with what turn out to be some very extensive and expert-compiled sources. There are 91 books of KGS reports up to 1927 alone, and Rennick has hundreds of books and other documents. Alas, doing this properly is a lot harder than lazily mass-importing things from a computer database. Unfortunately the computer database was wrong, and we have quite thorough documentation from one person who tried to correct it and the Kentucky Geological Survey (no less) to tell us how the geography of Kentucky actually systematizes. Uncle G (talk) 09:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Anyone using project-wide change patrol?
Is anyone who does WP Kentucky work using project-wide change patrol ("ALL PROJECT PAGES" and links under it)? If not, due to performance issues in updating the mammoth page it depends on, I may need to indefinitely deprecate this feature. If anyone does use it, I need to see if I can get a bot to do the updates to that mammoth page, although I don't know in advance if that will be possible. At any rate, please let me know here if you use it. Thanks! Stefen Towers among the rest!  Gab • Gruntwerk 20:08, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Update: I've figured out how to get a bot to build the underlying big list of project-included articles on a daily basis. So there's no longer any need to do any manual updates. And there will no longer be weeks-long lag between updates. Every day will have refreshed project-wide change patrol. Enjoy! Stefen Towers among the rest!   Gab • Gruntwerk 12:38, 12 March 2024 (UTC)