Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maine/Archive 1

Existing assessments
I've run User:PockBot to get the current assessments of all the articles in the Category:Maine, and the results are now on the Category talk:Maine page. Anyone wanting to use the information is more than welcome to do so. John Carter 13:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Photo request
Looking for any Maine photographers willing to shoot and upload to Commons for Connected farm, as southern Maine seems to be one of the primary locales for such style of home, according to the definitive study of connected farm distribution, which is, admittedly, old. Thanks in advance and if you could reply on my talk page as well that would be great. IvoShandor 09:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Image category
I see there's an Images of Maine category: should we have a reminder on the main page about using it?--SarekOfVulcan 16:36, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

North American ice storm of 1998 GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" articles. I have reviewed North American ice storm of 1998 and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues concerning sourcing that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article along with other WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 02:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Maine towns
I've noticed that a number of articles on Maine towns are named in the form "Townname (Town), Maine", even though "Townname, Maine" is not otherwise occupied, and in fact is a redirect to the "(Town)" article. This seems unnecessarily variant to our normal naming conventions (don't disambiguate unnecessarily), but before I go ahead and boldly changed I figured I'd ask the relevant wikiproject if there was any reason for this state of affairs. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 01:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Lists of school districts in the United States
Someone recently added a note to Talk:Lists of school districts in the United States saying it was part of WikiProject Maine. I'm going to revert the edit. If I'm wrong say so here and restore it. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  02:33, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

List of school districts in Maine
List of school districts in Maine is reorganized, complete as of 4/10/08, and cited. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  04:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 1742 articles are assigned to this project, of which 206, or 11.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:40, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

I've created the missing county categories and have begun sorting through. All of those in this category should be recategorized into the correct county of their birth/residence/prominence unless no county is cited. I've already done about 200 (it now stands just above 500) and would love some help from other Maine project participants.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 22:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

New article: Maine in the American Civil War
I just created a new article that should fall under this Wiki project task force&mdash;Maine in the American Civil War. Please have a look and feel free to edit it. Thanks! 8th Ohio Volunteers (talk) 14:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

New article: Deertrees Theatre
I think that I am at the point in my article on Deertrees Theatre that I could use some expert input. I am a first time contributor and would appreciate a guiding hand. Thank you. --Bwp3 (talk) 21:44, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Maine articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Maine articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Maine is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Bangor, Maine splitting
There are a few sections of Bangor's article that have gotten far too long. If anyone has any ideas, see the discussion at Talk:Bangor,_Maine; we will need people familiar with the topic to help write introduction/summary sections for the new and old articles. Cheers, -M.Nelson (talk) 20:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Howie Day
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Howie Day/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:23, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Template:Maine portal
FYI, has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.155 (talk) 04:58, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This has now been replaced by . Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  01:43, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Maine
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 18:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Maine Civil War regimental histories
I have just completed 25 articles of Maine Civil War regimental histories. This now completes the List of Maine Civil War units. I have not altered any of the previously created regimental histories (except for the 11th Maine Infantry, in which my great-great grandfather served) and encourage someone else to take the initiative to bring them up to date. It's time for me to move on to another project. Best wishes. Spacini (talk) 20:20, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:34, 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)

Harrington Meeting House / Harrington Meetinghouse
Can an expert check if these are in fact the same historical building please? Both the dates and locations are very close but not exact matches. - TB (talk) 23:38, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * That is quite strange. Their GPS coordinates are slightly off also. Bristol is such a small town though, it is unlikely they'd have two buildings dating back 230+ years named the same thing. For the record, I would merge the non-NRHP article into the NRHP one given that the NRHP is probably a better source than the website.--TM 23:47, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thnaks for the quick response. I've added merge notices to the articles for now. - TB (talk) 00:37, 6 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) 19:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Relationship with WikiProject United States
People from a variety of WikiProjects have had concerns about the scope of WikiProject United States and its relationship with other WikiProjects. We have created an RFC and invite all interested editors to discuss it at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject United States. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 19:06, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Somerset County
Somerset County, Maine is currently designated as a "Start" class on the quality scale. It seems to have improved beyond that, so I thought you guys might want to reevaluate it. EPM (talk) 00:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

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

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

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

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

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

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:12, 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) 02:12, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Maine
Someone recently suggested that this project may be inactive or semiactive 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 significant activity on either the main project page or the talk page since 2010. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 03:16, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think we need to be supported by a project that has no direct connection to our state, thanks. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:20, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem although I don't think that the statement of no direct connection to the state is true unless Maine recently became part of Canada and I didn't know. I would like to leave the discussion open for a little while and see what the other members think but I have no problem leaving it alone. --Kumioko (talk) 03:26, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Old Town Canoe Articles for Deletion discussion
There is a debate about whether this subject is notable or should be deleted from Wikipedia. Candleabracadabra (talk) 00:19, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

BAT Community Connector Outdated Content
I wanted to bring to your attention that information needs to change on the BAT Community Connector page. I realize I can go in and edit this myself, however, I wanted to be respectful of those who have been adding the content to this page. The bus system is now known as the Community Connector (formally known as BAT Community Connector). The website is: http://www.bangormaine.gov/communityconnector.

Can I have the blessing of the person(s) who were maintaining this in the past to go in and add additional information and clarify that the bus system is now called the Community Connector?

Thank you. Meghancollins (talk) 18:29, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Portal:New England was nominated for Featured Portals
Here. Achowat (talk) 18:39, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton FAC
I've nominated Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton for Featured Article. It's about a land claim by two tribes for the majority of the land in Maine. Comments from participants in this project would be welcome here. Savidan 20:01, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation of "Sagadahoc"
I've added a pronunciation guide to Sagadahoc County, Maine based on my best understanding after browsing the Internet for this information. I would appreciate it if locals could confirm the pronunciation, especially because I speak a different accent and struggled with how to transcribe the "-hoc" syllable. — Athelwulf [T]/[C] 22:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems OK to me. 331dot (talk) 22:09, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * As a local, I can confirm that's the correct pronunciation. I'm not sure if that counts as OR or not, though haha. -- T K K  bark  !  14:21, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Project page layout
I've been working on a new version of the project layout, and it can be viewed here. I'd like to get some feedback/opinions on it - it's heavily based off the layout of the other project I'm heavily involved with, WP:DOG. -- T K K  bark !  18:35, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Your proposal seems to be an improvement over the current page. 331dot (talk) 01:43, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Portland metropolitan area - OR/ME?
You may wish to join the conversation at Talk:Portland metropolitan area. Buaidh 19:57, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

BLT cocktail

 * BLT cocktail is undergoing a deletion discussion about whether to delete the article from Wikipedia. Please see ongoing discussion at Articles for deletion/BLT cocktail.  Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Hospital articles
We are missing articles on six of the seven Eastern Maine Health Services-owned hospitals (and apparently, the EMHS article itself) If anyone's interested in working on articles for these I'd be more than willing to help. I also noticed that we're missing the Dorthea Dix Psychiatric Center / Bangor Mental Health Institute / Eastern Maine Insane Asylum. The Maine Memories site has a bit on it in tangled up in their EMMC article if anyone wants to work on that. The St. Joseph Hospital (Bangor, Maine) article is also absent. All of these are notable enough for inclusion, it's just a matter of actually writing the articles.
 * Acadia Hospital
 * Aroostook Medical Center
 * Blue Hill Memorial Hospital
 * Charles A. Dean Memorial Hospital
 * Inland Hospital
 * Sebasticook Valley Health

I'm presently working on an expansion of the Eastern Maine Medical Center article and I will stub these other articles myself when I've finished, but if anyone would like to get to them sooner I thought I'd point it out. -- T K K ! bark with me if you're my dog! 22:07, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Prouts Neck or Prout's Neck
Does anyone here know if this peninsula in Scarborough in Maine is called Prouts Neck or Prout's Neck? I have seen both spellings used frequently both here and elsewhere on the internet. Thanks. P. S. Burton (talk)  20:42, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Why do you ask ? I'm sure we can figure it out. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 00:56, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Im asking to find out which version, if any, that is correct. To make sure that we use the correct spelling on Wikipedia. P. S. Burton  (talk)  18:56, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Based on every source I can find, it is "Prouts Neck" (including Google maps, Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, MSN, and City-data). — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 19:12, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

MassMailing(s) appearance
First, I'll apologize to everyone that got two copies of the message. I sent it to both the category for members and the mailing list, and if you are on both, you got it twice. I'm hoping that we will not only be able to put together a nice form for future mailings here, but also we will be able to incorporate any users in the category into the mailing list (not that the category will be used for mailings most of the time). Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks! — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 17:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * First, I note it is possible to do as WikiProject Star Wars has done in the past and generate a "roll call", which basically at a particular time moves all members to a "inactive" or "formerly active" section of the members list and then tells them if they wish to remain active to move their name to the "active members" section.
 * Secondly, I actually don't live anywhere near Maine, and would be extemel unlikely to attend any sort of meetings. Sorry about that.
 * Thirdly, I think this project, like a lot of others, might have some issues regarding both the number of members and the number of members who have ready access to detailed sources, and the issue for those who have access of what material fits best for which article. The latter is a not insignificant concern for a lot of articles and topics. In general, one of the best ways of doing this is to find relevant reference sources and see which articles they give the greatest amount of space to and the various subdivisions of articles they have. Going to Worldcat I find a "Biographical encyclopedia of Maine of the nineteenth century" which is in the public domain and could be added to commons and wikisource, and a few other directly relevant reference sources, like "The dictionary of Maine place-names," "Maine composers and their music" volumes 1 and 2, "The Maine Dictionary," "A Biographical dictionary of architects in Maine," and some others. Lists of articles included in them, and maybe other sources like the Dictionary of American Biography, maybe added to a special project page like WikiProject Christianity/Encyclopedic articles might help a lot. If anyone could add any particular older or public domain books to wikimedia commons or wikisource, where I and presumably others could proofread them, those sources could well be useful in putting together "History of" articles and similar subtopical articles for Maine and presumably areas or cities in Maine. They might also help develop related content at wikibooks or wikiversity as well.
 * Just a few ideas, anyway. John Carter (talk) 17:59, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Members list
Hey guys and gals! I've made some adjustments to our members list and it is now usable by as a mailing list to send out WPME notices and updates. I'm noticing there are people that have been inactive (or blocked) for over a year and in some cases many years. What do we want to do with those names? Remove them from the list? Let them stay, but not send mailings? What "inactivity limits" should we set, and what steps for each level? I'll send out a mailing to everyone on the list and those in our members category to get some more feedback as-well-as post my own ideas tomorrow. Thanks for any input!!! — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 01:54, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) There are apparently a lot of inactive members on our participants list (and even a user that has been blocked for years). What do we as a project want to do about inactive or blocked users?  I have some ideas on the issue, but would love feedback from others.
 * 2) * Remove blocked users that appear to be no longer interested in participating in developing Wikipedia.
 * 3) * Users with zero activity at all in three years are unlikely to come back. I suggest that we remove them from the mailing list and deactivate any categorizing feature of a userbox on their page.  When doing this, we must make sure to leave a note on their talk page explaining that since they have been off-wiki for three years that they have been removed from the list as a purely technical measure and they are more than welcome to add themselves back to the list if they choose to start editing again.
 * 4) * Users with zero activity on wiki for 18 months may come back, despite it being unlikely. I would suggest that we mark those users as inactive on our mailing list, and stop sending them messages like this one to prevent their user talk page from filling up with irrelevant notices.
 * 5) * Users with zero activity on wiki for at least six months should be marked as inactive in the mailing list template, but should still receive mailings.


 * I suggest creating a separate list for inactive members. That way we keep them with the project and can send them messages separately if we wish.Thewellman (talk) 18:05, 11 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure we need the 18-month level actions, but I like the other ideas. 331dot (talk) 22:44, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I would only point out that it is quite possible for someone to add a template to the user talk page of someone who has been inactive for a substantial period of time, which also serves as a bit of a courtesy notice to anyone else who might seek to contact someone who has been inactive for a significant period of time. There are even extant templates, such as Template:User longterm inactive. John Carter (talk) 00:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

The Great American Wiknic
I'm wondering if there is any interest in doing a Wiknic in Maine's geographical area this year. I remember bringing this up last year, and trying to coordinate something, but nothing resulted from it. So, this year, I'm asking if anyone else is interested in this kind of thing and would like to suggest Portland, Augusta, or Bangor as the three most likely areas to host such a thing. I'm personally in the Augusta area, but would like to hear about any interest in hosting one someplace in Maine. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 02:11, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * As much as I would like to attend, it is unlikely I could coordinate a trip from the west coast for such an event.Thewellman (talk) 18:05, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * While a nice offer, I prefer to limit my involvement in Wikipedia to the site itself at this time. 331dot (talk) 22:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd love Bangor, but it would probably be fairer to the Portland folks to do it in Augusta (which might prohibit me from going, but Portland makes it even more unlikely). -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 04:18, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

New England Wikimedians website
Hey all. I would just like to let you know that the New England Wikimedians user group now has a website. If anyone would like to get involved in an event or suggest hosting something, please let us know there, as we are trying to increase our events in areas outside of Massachusetts and would love to have help organize and host events in the region. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:42, 24 July 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)

Paul LePage
Please see and comment on RFC: Paul LePage and the Sovereign Citizen's Movement. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 15:08, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Chinese students in Maine schools
May be a good source: WhisperToMe (talk) 16:18, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "Chinese students seeking opportunity in Maine schools." Bangor Daily News. July 15, 2011.
 * Is this an article in progress? It should be if it's not. I'm willing to head it up. -- T K K ! bark with me!  03:21, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

AfC page
There is an AfC submission at Draft:Maine Concussion Management Initiative (MCMI) that could use some tlc! -- T K K ! bark with me! 03:27, 27 December 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)

North Maine Woods
the article Maine_North_Woods should be renamed to North Maine Woods. See also talk page there --188.193.144.179 (talk) 12:33, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Care to review Draft:Lewis Mitchell? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:41, 18 May 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) 04:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Maine 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 Maine/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 03:45, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

2015 Question 1
I have created Maine Question 1, 2015 about this year's question; if anyone has anything to add or change, please do so. I would like to find information specifically on the Legislature's actions regarding it; I know they sent it to the ballot but I don't know if any votes were taken on it. 331dot (talk) 14:27, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Maine Central Railroad Locomotive 470
Please comment on the section "Old 470 bought for restoration." on the talk page Talk:Maine Central Railroad Locomotive 470. Thanks. Oak Island Kid (talk) 02:35, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Missing Maine Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Maine 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 03:36, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ RobTalk 01:12, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Maine religious building and structure stubs
Dawynn (talk) 11:39, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Neal Dow
Hello Mainers! Just wanted to let you know that Neal Dow has been nominated for featured article and I would welcome any of your comments or criticisms. Thanks! --Coemgenus (talk) 11:53, 3 October 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: 18:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

A couple of optional userboxes
Thewellman (talk) 05:11, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Dead links on project page
There seem to be a few dead links on the project page. Does anyone know what they are supposed to link too? or where these things never created?

For example under the Departments Section the 'Collaboration', 'Gallery', and 'Top-Importance articles' are broken.

Jason Bluefire (talk) 14:57, 20 January 2017 (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

Adding a signature here for archiving purposes. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:57, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

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)

New Maine userbox templates
Wake up. New Maine userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Maine and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 22:44, 25 April 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  07:46, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Nobody Is Above the Law
Currently, the Nobody Is Above the Law has a paragraph about the recent demonstrations in Maine. Are any project members able to confirm if protests were held in other cities, or help flesh out the existing content? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:05, 10 November 2018 (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)

MfD nomination of Portal:Maine
Portal:Maine, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Maine and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Maine during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:22, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. S EMMENDINGER  ( talk ) 22:58, 12 May 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)

Drafts for missing Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Drafts have been seeded for the following missing Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (many of whom also held other state offices, or played other parts in the history of the state):

• #Draft:Abraham M. Rudman - Abraham M. Rudman

• #Draft:Armand A. Dufresne Jr. - Armand A. Dufresne Jr.

• #Draft:Arno W. King - Arno W. King

• #Draft:Artemus Libbey - Artemus Libbey

• #Draft:Arthur Chapman (judge) - Arthur Chapman (judge)

• #Draft:Cecil J. Siddall - Cecil J. Siddall

• #Draft:Charles A. Pomeroy - Charles A. Pomeroy

• #Draft:Charles F. Woodard - Charles F. Woodard

• #Draft:Charles P. Barnes - Charles P. Barnes

• #Draft:David G. Roberts - David G. Roberts

• #Draft:Donald W. Webber - Donald W. Webber

• #Draft:Edward F. Merrill - Edward F. Merrill

• #Draft:Edward S. Godfrey (judge) - Edward S. Godfrey (judge)

• #Draft:Francis W. Sullivan - Francis W. Sullivan

• #Draft:Frank A. Tirrell Jr. - Frank A. Tirrell Jr.

• #Draft:George E. Bird - George E. Bird

• #Draft:George F. Haley - George F. Haley

• #Draft:George H. Worster - George H. Worster

• #Draft:Guy H. Sturgis - Guy H. Sturgis

• #Draft:Harold C. Marden - Harold C. Marden

• #Draft:Harry Manser - Harry Manser

• #Draft:Henry C. Peabody - Henry C. Peabody

• #Draft:Howard H. Dana Jr. - Howard H. Dana Jr.

• #Draft:John A. Morrill - John A. Morrill

• #Draft:John B. Madigan - John B. Madigan

• #Draft:John S. Tenney - John S. Tenney

• #Draft:Jonathan G. Dickerson - Jonathan G. Dickerson

• #Draft:Joseph Howard (Maine judge) - Joseph Howard (Maine judge)

• #Draft:Joseph W. Symonds - Joseph W. Symonds

• #Draft:Louis Scolnik - Louis Scolnik

• #Draft:Nathan Weston - Nathan Weston

• #Draft:Paul L. Rudman - Paul L. Rudman

• #Draft:Percy T. Clarke - Percy T. Clarke

• #Draft:Randolph A. Weatherbee - Randolph A. Weatherbee

• #Draft:Raymond Fellows - Raymond Fellows

• #Draft:Richard D. Rice - Richard D. Rice

• #Draft:Rufus P. Tapley - Rufus P. Tapley

• #Draft:Seth May - Seth May

• #Draft:Sewall C. Strout - Sewall C. Strout

• #Draft:Sidney St. Felix Thaxter - Sidney St. Felix Thaxter

• #Draft:Sidney W. Wernick - Sidney W. Wernick

• #Draft:Thomas H. Haskell - Thomas H. Haskell

• #Draft:Walter M. Tapley Jr. - Walter M. Tapley Jr.

• #Draft:William G. Barrows - William G. Barrows

• #Draft:William H. Fogler - William H. Fogler

• #Draft:William Penn Whitehouse - William Penn Whitehouse

• #Draft:Woodbury Davis - Woodbury Davis Any improvements to these would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 11:18, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Content dispute at Skowhegan, Maine
The input of editors regarding a content dispute at Skowhegan, Maine would be appreciated. Please see Talk:Skowhegan, Maine. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:06, 28 November 2019 (UTC)


 * It seems that this issue has been resolved as if this date. Should this comment be removed? ClaudeDavid (talk) 00:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

The Iris Network
Hello, I recently uploaded an article on my employer, The Iris Network in Portland. Although I did my level best to remain neutral, it has been tagged as possibly not neutral. I would love to have that tag removed. Could someone please take a few moments and review the article and give it a thumbs-up (or down)? It would be most appreciated. Btbky (talk) 15:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Articles_for_deletion/Friends_School_of_Portland
The Friends School of Portland has been nominated for deletion. Please comment Articles_for_deletion/Friends_School_of_Portland.--User:Namiba 19:05, 22 February 2021 (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)

Ellis Paul Featured article review
I have nominated Ellis Paul 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. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  15:01, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:08, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Most common name of former Maine governor
Please review the sources and comment here regarding the name to be used by Ralph Owen Brewster.--User:Namiba 13:40, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hurricane Sandy in New England
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hurricane Sandy in New England that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:02, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

River AfD
Your input at Articles for deletion/Wolastoq is welcome. The river flows between Canada and Maine. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:02, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Request for Comment at Talk:2020 United States Senate election in Maine
A request for comment on creating a localized exception to the five percent rule has been opened at Talk:2020 United States Senate election in Maine. As this is an article under the scope of this WikiProject, all editors are invited to comment. Toa Nidhiki05 20:51, 25 January 2024 (UTC)