Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Louisiana/Archive 5

The other Cajun/Quebecois unity flag (white, cypress tree, river)?
I was reading a book on Cajun culture maybe ten years ago, and it had a photo from the 1970s of a "Acadian diaspora" flag. I believe it was white, with a green tree (cypress?) and a blue squiggly line representing a river. Does anyone recall this flag, know if it's notable enough to have its own article, etc? MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Hurricane Katrina
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List of United States federal courthouses in Louisiana
This page has been initiated - any help in filling in missing federal courthouses, or providing missing information on listed courthouses (especially pictures) would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:04, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Photo request: Louisiana State Penitentiary
I would like a photo of the main entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. The entrance has the words "Louisiana State Penitentiary" visible. I especially encourage the photo request of people who plan to visit the Angola Rodeo and/or the Angola Museum. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:14, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The request has been fulfilled, and the image is available here: File:AngolaLAPrison.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 18:43, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Photo request: Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women
How many of you are in the St. Gabriel, Louisiana area? Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 06:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I would like a photograph of the entrance, as seen in Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%23+7205+Highway+74++%23+St.+Gabriel,+LA+70776&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.704107,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=7205+Louisiana+74,+St+Gabriel,+Iberville,+Louisiana+70776&ll=30.260782,-91.07269&spn=0.001599,0.002411&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=30.260237,-91.072537&panoid=moPzgoOLQ7yjqRxBeqfN_Q&cbp=12,4.11,,1,1.45
 * Take it from the roadway
 * In particular I would like for the sign to be visible - Here is a copyrighted shot of the sign: http://www.corrections.state.la.us/files/misc/lciw_sign_entrance.jpg

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Dumont de Montigny
Can someone please assess this article about an 18th-century French explorer of colonial Louisiana? It would be appreciated. Thanks, Jsayre64   (talk)  03:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Gumbo
I've recently revamped the article Gumbo and have opened a peer review (here) to get more input. I would like to bring this article to Featured Article status soon. I'd love to get input from members of this project who can hopefully help identify gaps in the article. Karanacs (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Zuzu
What is a zuzu?

I see it in this sentence: "“Smith will be charged with escape as well as be held responsible for paying restitution in the full amount of this escape. This means he won’t be buying any zuzus for a long time.” " WhisperToMe (talk) 03:11, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

The other Cajun/Quebecois unity flag (white, cypress tree, river)?
I was reading a book on Cajun culture maybe ten years ago, and it had a photo from the 1970s of a "Acadian diaspora" flag. I believe it was white, with a green tree (cypress?) and a blue squiggly line representing a river. Does anyone recall this flag, know if it's notable enough to have its own article, etc? MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Hurricane Katrina
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List of United States federal courthouses in Louisiana
This page has been initiated - any help in filling in missing federal courthouses, or providing missing information on listed courthouses (especially pictures) would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:04, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Photo request: Louisiana State Penitentiary
I would like a photo of the main entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. The entrance has the words "Louisiana State Penitentiary" visible. I especially encourage the photo request of people who plan to visit the Angola Rodeo and/or the Angola Museum. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:14, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The request has been fulfilled, and the image is available here: File:AngolaLAPrison.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 18:43, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Photo request: Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women
How many of you are in the St. Gabriel, Louisiana area? Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 06:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I would like a photograph of the entrance, as seen in Google Maps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%23+7205+Highway+74++%23+St.+Gabriel,+LA+70776&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.704107,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=7205+Louisiana+74,+St+Gabriel,+Iberville,+Louisiana+70776&ll=30.260782,-91.07269&spn=0.001599,0.002411&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=30.260237,-91.072537&panoid=moPzgoOLQ7yjqRxBeqfN_Q&cbp=12,4.11,,1,1.45
 * Take it from the roadway
 * In particular I would like for the sign to be visible - Here is a copyrighted shot of the sign: http://www.corrections.state.la.us/files/misc/lciw_sign_entrance.jpg

Louisiana 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.

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Dumont de Montigny
Can someone please assess this article about an 18th-century French explorer of colonial Louisiana? It would be appreciated. Thanks, Jsayre64   (talk)  03:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Gumbo
I've recently revamped the article Gumbo and have opened a peer review (here) to get more input. I would like to bring this article to Featured Article status soon. I'd love to get input from members of this project who can hopefully help identify gaps in the article. Karanacs (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Zuzu
What is a zuzu?

I see it in this sentence: "“Smith will be charged with escape as well as be held responsible for paying restitution in the full amount of this escape. This means he won’t be buying any zuzus for a long time.” " WhisperToMe (talk) 03:11, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:35, 9 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) 19:53, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The Template:WikiProject Louisiana has the following unique parameters: auto, attention, needs-infobox, needs-photo, needs-ref. Can these be added to the Template:WikiProject United States template? Of course it is also necessary to have a separate "importance" assessment than the general WPUS template. Cmcnicoll (talk) 19:27, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Shreveport conversion to task force
I would like to get consensus to make WikiProject Shreveport into a task force of WikiProject Louisiana. The project has been tagged as inactive since April 2010, and has little activity since it was created. The task force would look like the Los Angeles task force, which is a part of WikiProject California. Cmcnicoll (talk) 19:41, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. I've converted to a task force of WikiProject Louisiana. I've have also added a Shreveport task force to the WikiProject Louisiana banner. The parameters are  for the banner. JJ98 (Talk) 00:45, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing that! I have one small comment. Can you add a "shreveport-importance" parameter?  That way the TF can give a different importance assessment than the general Louisiana assessment?  Thanks.  Cmcnicoll (talk) 01:17, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. As requested. I've added,   and   on the banner. JJ98 (Talk) 07:02, 14 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)

Talk page inquiry at Talk:Bobby Jindal
Hey! Talk:Bobby_Jindal - Someone left a comment on the page. It hasn't been answered yet. Would someone more familiar with the article mind looking at it? WhisperToMe (talk) 00:29, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Wilbert Rideau content dispute
Please see Talk:Wilbert_Rideau - As there is a dispute over how much "weight" should be given to Billy Sinclair's role in Wilbert Rideau's life and career. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:33, 20 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) 02:04, 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) 02:04, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

La. prisons
Why can not the senators of La. veto the governors plans to sell La. prisons to private enterprise? Does not a check and balance system exist in this state? Why does this governor have so much power? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.195.53.225 (talk) 12:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Another graduate of note: Tim Brando National Sport Television personality -
Tim Brando (born February 27, 1956, in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a radio host and CBS Sports and Fox Sports Net studio host and play-by-play announcer.

[edit] BiographyFrom 1981–86, Brando was WAFB-TV Baton Rouge's assistant sports director and did telecasts of LSU basketball[1] on Tigervision. From 1986-94, he served as a studio host for SportsCenter, for ESPN's college football halftime show, and for the network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.[2] In 1994, he provided play-by-play for TNT's coverage of the NBA Playoffs. Brando also called Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Braves games for SportSouth during this period.

In 1995, Brando joined CBS Sports and began calling NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games. Three years later, he added hosting duties on College Football Today,[3] which is the broadcast network home of SEC football. He has also provided play-by-play for the NFL on CBS.[2] In addition to his CBS duties, Brando also calls game for Jefferson Pilot's coverage of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball telecasts. He also hosts The Tim Brando Show which airs weekday afternoons from 10am–1pm (Eastern) on Sporting News Radio.[1]

In 1989, Brando, who loves game shows, was a finalist to host the NBC version of Wheel of Fortune, but that job went to former San Diego Chargers placekicker Rolf Benirschke. (Benirschke hosted for only a few months; Bob Goen replaced him and continued as host until the show's cancellation in 1991.)

Brando called the four games in Tampa during the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where for the first time ever, all 4 lower seeded teams won in the same venue on the same day.

Brando attended Northeast Louisiana University (now the University of Louisiana-Monroe).[3] He graduated from Fair Park High School in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1974. Brando lives in Shreveport with his wife, Terri.[1] They have two daughters: Tiffany, who attended Louisiana State University; and Tara, who attends the University of Mississippi and is pursuing a Broadcast Journalism degree.

During halftime of the January 2, 2010 basketball match-up between the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville, broadcast on CBS, Brando generated controversy for criticizing the game's veteran officiating crew.[4] His comments stemmed from a scramble for a loose ball during the first minute that resulted in three technical fouls on players for both teams. Brando felt that Kentucky's center, DeMarcus Cousins, should have been ejected from the game. Cousins went on to score 18 points and pull down 18 rebounds in route to a Kentucky win and was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week.[5]

Brando serves as a television announcer for New Orleans Saints preseason games alongside Solomon Wilcots. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.22.121.175 (talk) 17:18, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Template:WPLA
WPLA is under discussion, see WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 June 15. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 09:44, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Doug Kershaw
Interesting thing here. I've searched all over and cannot find any proof that his supposed hometown of "Tiel Ridge" ever existed. Literally every hit I found on Google, Gnews and Gbooks mentions him and/or his brother, and I've found no outside mention of the town anywhere. Does anyone have any idea what the origin is of this supposed town, or if maybe it's a typo for something else? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:04, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana Tech and Shreveport
It was recently suggested that WikiProjects New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech and the Shreveport task force be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the main page as well as the talk pages of these projects it appears that there has been little to no activity on most of them although it is evident that several editors have been trying to get some of these projects going again. I think that if we added these projects to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States it would help them tremendously by taking advantage of the infrastucture (like the Collaboration space, Newsletter, the bots that are running, etc) already in place for WPUS. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 17:41, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok since its been about 18 days since this message was left with no response I am going to go ahead and add this project to the supported projects list of WikiProject United States. --Kumioko (talk) 19:52, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Highway maps
For highway maps, see http://www.dotd.la.gov/planning/mapping/home.aspx WhisperToMe (talk) 03:55, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Source on Louisiana French
I found: If you need a full text of this article for research on Wikipedia, please ask Resource request WhisperToMe (talk) 16:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * http://www.jstor.org/pss/455786 - American Speech. > Vol. 72, No. 2, Summer, 1997 > "Enclave Dialect Contradiction: An External Overview of Louisiana French" - Michael D. Picone

Louisiana! Need a state jelly picture!
Come on locals, now is your time to shine! Do me a favor, I think incomplete lists are sad, and the state foods page is missing a picture of either Mayhaw jelly or Louisiana sugar cane jelly, those are the state jellies! .... someone want to step up to the plate and take a picture for the good of all mankind? That would be great! Cheers, Nesnad (talk) 14:25, 29 October 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) 19:41, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion
Relevant deletion discussion at .--GrapedApe (talk) 18:05, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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

Wiki-Picnic Houston Sat June 23
Attention Louisianans: Join and sign up at Meetup/Houston on Saturday June 23 as part of the Great American Wiknic!--Pharos (talk) 14:30, 5 June 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) 02:05, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Manila Village, Louisiana
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jean Lafitte, Louisiana. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:55, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
There is a discussion if the Environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was split correctly from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and if it should be merged back there. Relevant sections for this discussion are this and this. Your comments are appreciated. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 21:45, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion for John Allen Muhammad
An article that you have been involved in editing, John Allen Muhammad, 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. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 14:51, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Education section cleanup of Vernon_Parish,_Louisiana#Continuing_Education
Vernon_Parish,_Louisiana needs to be cleaned up... the bit on colleges is too long and not concise. WhisperToMe (talk) 08:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Assessment Request -- Francisco Bouligny
I'd like to request an assessment of the article Francisco Bouligny. Thanks Carter (talk) 14:13, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Article renaming discussion
I would like to invite you to comment on a requested move at Talk:Sabine Pass Light that is of interest to Louisiana. Thank you, Otr500 (talk) 21:08, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Huey Long assessment
I was somewhat impressed when reading Huey Long, and was surprised it is only a C class article. Is that up to date? More notes on talk. trespassers william (talk) 01:59, 27 May 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) 18:41, 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) 23:02, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

St. George, Louisiana controversy
See: * Allen, Rebekah. "Councilman supports St. George property annexation." The Advocate. December 6, 2013. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:20, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission
You might be interested in reviewing this submission. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:19, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Doug Kershaw again
Interesting thing here. I've searched all over and cannot find any proof that his supposed hometown of "Tiel Ridge" ever existed. Literally every hit I found on Google, Gnews and Gbooks mentions him and/or his brother, and I've found no outside mention of the town anywhere. Does anyone have any idea what the origin is of this supposed town, or if maybe it's a typo for something else?

I previously posted this in 2011 and got no answers. Anyone? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:21, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Hill Farm Community Garden AFD
There is an AFD about Hill Farm Community Garden, at Articles for deletion/Hill Farm Community Garden, which may be of interest. Please consider commenting there. -- do ncr  am  19:23, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Requested move of Sabine Pass Light
I have requested a move from Sabine Pass Light to Sabine Pass Lighthouse. Please weigh in on the request. Otr500 (talk) 19:49, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Mystery of a missing Mayor - Arthur Winton Brown
Arthur Brown was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. In 1892 he left Wellington for Auckland but never arrived. He was traced to Sydney, Australia where he had stayed for several days. By 1896 he had been seen in New Orleans and was reportedly working for a newspaper. There is an A W Brown mentioned as working for several newspapers in the area, and his son, Arthur Bernard Brown, became the Secretary of the Louisiana State Board of Health in 1911 and President of the Federation of State Medical Boards in 1913. Arthur Bernard Brown (the son) died in 1913 and Arthur Winton Brown died in 1917. If any of you are able to add any further information about his time in the United States I would be gratefull as it would complete the story of his life. NealeFamily (talk) 01:34, 1 October 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)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Louisiana articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 13:05, 14 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!

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


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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)

Low importance placed on coastal erosion article is beyond belief!
It is very unfortunate that the Coastal erosion in Southeast Louisiana article has bee deemed low importance by this project, when it is the single most important issue facing our state. The level of importance needs to be re-considered. Please, let's get with it! Garagepunk66 (talk) 21:21, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * see comment on Talk:Coastal erosion in Southeast Louisiana NealeFamily (talk) 23:44, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Jax beer
There is an article about Jax beer, but it needs to be expanded and improved. Please read my comments on the talk page of that article. There may need to be two articles, one for Jacksonville and one for New Olreans. I could create an article on the New Orleans brewery if need be. Garagepunk66 (talk) 02:19, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Missing Louisiana Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Louisiana 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 00:21, 29 February 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  15:16, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

The Revelers (Louisiana)
Could any editors make improvements to The Revelers (Louisiana), please? I arrived by chance whilst making minor typofixes, and was very concerned about its content, which initially looked like a spoof. I've left detailed concerns on its Talk Page, and hope that someone with more understanding of the U.S. music scene than me (that's virtually everyone!) investigate and remove any content they find irrelevant and, of course, add further valid content as appropriate. Many thanks Parkywiki (talk) 00:28, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Categories
I have started creating articles on wildlife management areas, specifically at this time in Louisiana, and there is no category;, as a sub-category of. I am posting this at Wikipedia talk:Category names, since this is my first time dealing with this, was not sure where to start, and would appreciate some information. I have also been adding the category "Geography of" the parish or parishes involved and found that does not exist. Otr500 (talk) 11:37, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Image request
Can anyone get an image for 930 Poydras.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:10, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

New Louisiana userbox templates
New Louisiana userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Louisiana and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 22:43, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Featured list removal nomination
I have nominated List of parishes in Louisiana for featured list removal here. 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.

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
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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.
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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.

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Article issues

 * There is a discussion at Talk:Alex Chilton that might be of interest to members of this project. Otr500 (talk) 10:24, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Charles Erasmus Fenner
I think Charles Erasmus Fenner has GA potential for this project, if anyone want to help with a substantial expansion. BD2412 T 22:46, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Article request: Housing in Louisiana
Wikipedia readers would be grateful if your project would consider creating a new article about Housing in Louisiana. Here are some sources of information: Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 10:16, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Category:Housing in Louisiana
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FAR notice
I have nominated New Orleans Mint 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. Hog Farm Bacon 05:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Articles deleted due to copyvio
Thousands of articles were deleted due to copyvio by one editor, including four people who were Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: J. Emile Verret, C. E. "Cap" Barham, Lether Frazar, and Paul N. Cyr. I've recreated the last one. Fences &amp;  Windows  19:47, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have restored non-copyvio portions of J. Emile Verret and Lether Frazar. BD2412  T 20:23, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

William Tecumseh Sherman Featured article review
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GAR
Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, 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. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:59, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Étienne de Perier rewrite
In the wake of an article expansion and edit war that appears to have spilled over from the fr-wiki version of the article, I've been trying to moderate improvement of Étienne de Perier. Having a few other editors who weren't involved in the original edit war helping on the effort would be appreciated. Familiarity with French-language sources and 1720s/1730s Louisiana would be appreciated. We've got the first part of his life mostly nailed down, although not all updates have been applied to the main article yet, but we're shortly going to getting to his time as Louisiana governor, the Natchez Revolt, and the other bits that lit the editing disputes. Thanks. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 14:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The rewrite of this is now ✅, and despite the challenges along the way, I think the article turned out to be pretty good. I've put it up for Good Article review. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 19:16, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of John McKeithen
The page on John McKeithen has been deleted due to copyvio. I posted on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States about this first because it seemed like the most active project, but sharing here as well. GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 08:52, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

GNIS
It would be great if articles were created with some references but specifically not with GNIS alone (and not sourced. This way we don't end up with an unsourced article like Abbie Joe, Louisiana. Thanks, --  Otr500 (talk) 09:53, 19 March 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.

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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}) 06:29, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Tools
It looks like the links in the tools section are no longer viable. They result in a warning page. I think we should delete them. Thoughts? Ktkvtsh (talk) 05:21, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Legislative pages
I have completed the creation of pages for all current members of the Louisiana State Senate. I am going to start on the members of the Louisiana House of Representatives next.Ktkvtsh (talk) 02:16, 10 August 2023 (UTC)