Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lowell, Massachusetts

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Lowell, Massachusetts articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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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)

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)

Proposal to add WikiProject Lowell, Massachusetts under WikiProject United States
Greetings, I am a member of WikiProject United States, it was recently suggested that WikiProject Lowell, Massachusetts might be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to include a project for it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States, which Kumioko have added some of the projects like WikiProject American television and WikiProject United States Government. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. If have any thoughts, comments or questions, please let me know. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  10:12, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Since this has been out here for a couple months with no comments I am going to go ahead and add it to the WPUS supported projects list and to the WPUS template. --Kumioko (talk) 00:17, 6 February 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) 02:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

UMass Lowell Edit-a-thon
I believe this group is inactive, but we are hosting an edit-a-thon at UMass Lowell on November 13, 2012. I would love to have a few experienced editors come out and help. I am adding this project to the list of things we will work on. We are focusing on entries related to Townie - A Memoir by Andre Dubus III. You can find more info at: Meetup/UMassLowell Fall12 Edit-a-thon. --LibraryGurl (talk) 16:25, 15 October 2012 (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) 18:42, 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) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (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)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Reassessing the project pages
The UML library and Pollard Memorial library just finished our run of edit-a-thons. A lot of pages for this project have been improved over the last few months. It makes sense to me that the editors on this project start to re-assess the pages here to see if quality has improved and get a sense of what we have to work on next. I know I would love to do more edit-a-thons and having a rejuvenated project group would really help this. I can provide a list of Lowell related entries that got edits during the events. Is there anyone else still active in the project? --LibraryGurl (talk) 18:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Bette Davis
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Personalities cleanup
10/16/2016 - Expanded page for Elisha Bartlett, 1st mayor of Lowell; Review to remove 'stub' and/or Low Importance?? Bill McKenna (talk) 22:10, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Edits on Marty Meehan's bio
Hi - I am not sure who is paying attention here, but I have been in contact with the communications office at the main UMass offices. They want to help editors find sources and clean up the pages. The person working with me is just learning how to manage the COI policy and navigating the Marty Meehan bio. I have given him some background on why this entry may have more eyes on it than normal. He has put some text and sources on the talk page and is looking for someone to make edits. I would, but I too have a conflict of interest as a system employee. I am putting this on a few projects with hope that it will be caught by those still editing. The language on the entry needs clean up to be more neutral and the sources need to be integrated. I appreciate any help we can give him. --LibraryGurl (talk) 00:41, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm not neutral enough to step up to this. I was a friend of Mr. Meehan's a long while back, and hold him in the highest regard. So much for my NPOV. Still, I went to the talk section, and found the page to be a troll favorite, even if most of the trolling is older. I immediately put a watch on the page to keep vandals away. Thanks Librarygurl. Bill McKenna (talk) 14:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
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Nov 2016 Articles of interest

 * I finished my entry for James H.B. Ayer if someone wants to assess it and designate importance. Bill McKenna (talk) 04:35, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * On November 9, this page was reviewed, and flagged for a discussion for deletion. I would appreciate anyone with connections to this WikiProject to visit the discussion for deletion and add a comment, regardless of whether one thinks this page meets deletion criteria.  I would note that a complete set of pages for mayors of Lowell prior to the adoption of a 'weak mayor' system in the mid-20th century is important to this WikiProject.  James H.B. Ayer was the 8th mayor of the city, during the height of Lowell's influence on the Industrial Revolution.  Further, the deletion criteria for the page included notability of a living person.  If James H.B. Ayer were, in fact, a living person, he would most certainly be notable for living beyond his 200th birthday. Bill McKenna (talk) 03:37, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * On November 11, I made a substantial expansion to the Denny Driscoll page, and tagged it with the Lowell WikiProject banner. A quick review for possible promotion out of stub would be appreciated. Bill McKenna (talk) 11:51, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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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.
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