Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Miami/Archive 1

Historic Pictures
A plea for pictures of US historic places in and around Miami, that is. I'm with WP:NRHP and live in Florida, and am trying to get photos of all the state sites. But being in the northern part of the state, it'll be some time before I can make it down there.

Dade County (I know, but I grew up in Miami in the 60's and 70's, and it'll always be just Dade County to me) has the most sites in the state, over 160. A few articles have pictures, but most don't. I have a checklist of sorts here. Any help y'all can provide would be appreciated. And, hey, an excuse to get away from the computer and out and about in the sun, not a bad thing, doncha know. :) -Ebyabe 20:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Importance
Who rates the importance of these articles and on what criteria are they rated? JDS2005 21:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

The articles are judged based on the Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria and are judged mainly by WikiProject Miami members but anyone can give and update ratings. Right now, I am giving preliminary assessments of all the WikiProject Miami articles, but the ratings can be debated later because they of their subjective nature.--Jorfer 03:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Scope of the Project
I think people need to make a decision on what the exact scope of this project is. Is it Miami, the Greater Miami Area, Miami-Dade County, or South Florida? For example, I wrote an article on the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach, and it was tagged and assessed as part of this project. It's quite clearly on Miami Beach, which is not part of Miami, but is considered to be part of the Greater Miami Area. So what is the boundary going to be? JDS2005 20:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

We are still debating that. Right now, we are focusing on Miami, but I think we all want to enlarge the project to encompass South Florida. The reason I have not changed it is because it is drastic for such a young WikiProject, and it is a hassle.--Jorfer 03:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Subprojects
Hey everyone. I don't want to go messing around with coding that you all don't want messed with.. but its much wiser to transclude a page (like on your subprojects, under "ideal article") using the following syntax:. This way, it will stay up to date and it won't muddy up the coding on your subproject pages. Cheers! -- drumguy8800  C  T  06:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Miami Portal
So are we ever going to have a functioning Miami portal? =] Skillz187 23:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Change of Name
Shoudnt this WP be changed to WikiProject:South Florida since it talks about all of South Florida not just Miami. Arigont 21:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree that a more generic "WikiProject South Florida" would be better.--JEF 21:58, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I meant for this to be specific to the city, but perhaps there can be a separate one for South Florida. I Saw that there is one for Southern California, but most of these projects are at the city level.  CodeCarpenter 16:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It should have stayed Wikiproject:Miami. Skillz187 19:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I think that would have been too narrow a focus. Look at the Dallas/Fort Worth WikiProject where they did it on the whole metropolitan area. I decided to expand the scope (I did not change the title because it would have been too time consuming to change everything) because I felt that the line between the counties were almost indistinguisable at times (i.e. sports teams like the Florida Marlins). If you do not have a map with the county line you would not know where Dade ends and Broward begins unless you lived on the county line like me.--Jorfer 19:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I get what you mean, and I agree that we should leave it a South Florida thing, but it looks funny having a Boca Raton page with a category reading "Wikiproject: Miami." As time consuming as changing the name may be, we might as well change the project to 'Wikiproject: South Florida.'Skillz187 02:53, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I checked to see examples of it being done before and from what I can gather it has never been attempted before (from all the city WikiProjects and other ones I have seen so it would be going into uncharted territory where we may be left with a mess and no going back.--Jorfer 00:19, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Featured Picture Candidate
Guys, a photograph of the Miami Skyline is a candidate for featured pictures! Support it here Featured picture candidates/Miami Skyline! Skillz187 20:26, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Meetup/Miami 2
New wikimeetup Miami set for around late August, if anyone is intrested. We need to set a place in the talk page though. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 21:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry S. West Laboratory School
This project may be interested in commenting at Articles for deletion/Henry S. West Laboratory School. TerriersFan 02:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Images for deletion/Downtownmiami.gif
The map graphic Image:Downtownmiami.gif has been nominated for deletion. Project members may be interested in commenting at.

Likely to close within the next couple of days, or sooner. Jheald 19:28, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Rilya Wilson case
I'd like to add the Rilya Wilson article to the project. I don't know how to do it exactly. Just add the template to the Talk page? - Cyborg Ninja 04:35, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: Micah Armstrong

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 18:45, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Meetup/Miami 2.
The meetup in Miami was originally planned for August/September, but we'll probably be having it around January. Feel free to participate in the planning (exact date/place not decided upon) if you're interested. · AndonicO Talk 23:14, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Carl G. Fisher FAR
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Article abandoned in user space
User:Seedvp/Sunset Elementary School, about a school in Miami, probably could be moved to main space. The user has not posted since September 22, and so is probably not active. I did unlink categories and a template in the article from main space, so those should be restored if the article is moved to main space. -- Donald Albury 13:00, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Change of Project Name
If this project is focusing on South Florida, why is it named WP Miami? Miami is not the center of South Florida when South Florida is composed of 3 counties and Miami is in just one of them. WP Florida is culling their articles and tagging a number of them WP Miami. I think a name change is in order not to confuse people. KnightLago 15:46, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, I am willing to help with the work needed to change the name. KnightLago 15:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * See discussion on the top of this page for the answer to your question. If you can change the name of the project without creating a mess than go ahead, but it involves changes of all the subpages and categories, and when I looked it had never been done before (either a wikiproject started off as a regional project or it didn't). I decided to expand the scope of the project because Miami was too specific of a project, but I think a name change would be too much of a hassle.--Jorfer 21:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, TampaWikiproject and WikiProject Jacksonville are also covering their respective MSAs. While I would like to see names that better reflect the scopes of all three projects, sometimes we have to live with what we have. -- Donald Albury 21:51, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I understand what you are both saying, but it is pretty clear that most people think the name should change and the only thing holding people up is the work invovled. I am not going to do anything hasty, I'll first try and recruit some more help from editors experienced in this. Also, I think some of the work, such as substituting templates, could be done by a bot. If I find that it is too much work I will leave it alone. But I might as well try and see how hard it would be first. I will comment here and then wait a day or two before doing anything if I go that route. KnightLago 21:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I started a thread to look for help and guidance, see Wikipedia_talk:Requested_moves. KnightLago 22:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Next Florida Meetup
Please feel free to discuss the next Florida meetup location(s) here.  - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs  22:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

List of Registered Historic Places in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Any help in filling the image holes on the newly table-ized list would be greatly appreciated. Or Monroe, Broward or Palm Beach, for that matter. Cheers! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 00:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Miami River (Florida) GA Sweeps Review
Just a heads up for the project that Miami River (Florida) has been placed on hold following its GA Sweeps Review, which can be found here. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:41, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Florida Panthers
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Nova Southeastern University
I know Broward County is under the Wikiproject Miami, and NSU is in BC. I was wondering if someone on the talk page could add rating/importance to the Talk page of Nova Southeastern. Thanks in advance. Dgreco (talk) 17:27, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Photo request: Consulate of Colombia at 280 Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables
Who want to take Consulate of Colombia at 280 Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables? WhisperToMe (talk) 05:45, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Photo request: Miami Main Post office
Someone should photograph the main Miami Post Office at 2200 NW 72nd Avenue - It is by the airport, outside of the city limits. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Pan American World Airways, a featured article, needs more refs
Pan American World Airways was promoted as a featured article in 2005. Now, it needs more references. Otherwise it could lose its FA status. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Pan American World Airways FAR
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Photo request: Spirit Airlines HQ in Miramar
Would anyone be interested in photographing the Spirit Airlines HQ in Miramar? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Portal Creation
For those of you who haven't noticed i created Portal:Miami upon request by User:WhisperToMe. It would be good of other members of WP Miami could start putting links to the portal at the bottom of Miami related articles in the see also section. Also i would check it out :). Opinions and requests are always welcome! SoCal L.A. (talk) 00:52, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Burger King
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Spanish Wikipedia and Florida
Hi! Those of us on the Spanish Wikipedia are considering forming a Florida Wikiproject there. If anyone is interested, please contact es:Wikiproyecto_Discusión:Estados_Unidos WhisperToMe (talk) 10:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Wykked Wytch
Your comments would be greatly appreciated at an Afd for a Miami musical ensemble here. Neelix (talk) 21:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Botched move of Miami-Dade County article
Miami-Dade County, Florida was moved to Miami-Wade County, Florida, and then a new Miami-Dade County, Florida article was created by copying over the original article. As a result, the current Miami-Dade County article has no history prior to the move, while the article with the full history remains under the Miami-Wade County name. I protected the Miami-Dade County version, and it needs to be deleted so that the version with the full history can be moved back, but it looks like at least one legitimate edit was made on the history-less version, so I have hesitated to delete it. I have to go to work, so can someone else figure what to do about any legitimate edits to the new page before deleting it and moving back the correct page. -- Donald Albury 11:08, 2 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and moved the history-less version of Miami-Dade County to Miami-Dade County, Florida (bad), and restored the version with the full history to its proper name. Miami-Dade County, Florida (bad) needs to be deleted after any legitimate edits made to it have been incorporated in the correct article. -- Donald Albury 11:32, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Hammocks Middle School
I have started up a new article about said school, Hammocks Middle School under my user until the page is completely finished, or at least releasable. I borrowed the template and most of the text from Felix Varela High School for guidance. It struck me that this school wasn't anywhere on Wikipedia, because I attended this school three years ago. If anyone has any information to add, by all means feel free. Thanks in advance,  Caledir  Chat 17:35, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

FIU Pics/Task
If that is still something the WikiProject Miami would like to complete, may I ask what specifically is needed? I understand more pictures are wanted, but FIU's huge, and personally, I see tons of pictures on this article. Caledir Chat 03:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps a better photograph of the Library and frat houses? -- ℐℴℯℓ ℳ.   ℂℌAT ✐  15:44, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Marlins?
I think someone should make a WikiProject for the Florida Marlins. Florida Marlins have alot of related articles beacause alot of people and prostects have played for the Marlins. Maybe it can be a related Project with WikiProject Miami. Spongie555 (talk) 03:23, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds too narrow for a full-fledged Wikiproject. It would be better as a subproject. If you are interested, than you should start it. I put it down as a request under WikiProject Miami/Subprojects for now.--Jorfer (talk) 01:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Miami 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) 19:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

There's a lot that can be done
Just in the wave of my recent enthusiasm I've already seen several Miami related articles that are good but could easily be improved greatly. I just created the Port of Miami Deep Dredge Project because it didn't really fit in the short Port of Miami article above the picture of the cruise ships. I also added the high rise thing to the history article. There's some cool stuff happening there, and it sucks that the unemployment is so high and that I don't speak fluent spanish, but I think something like the port of miami improvements could turn that place around again. Daniel Christensen (talk) 06:28, 21 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) 19:15, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Port of Miami Tunnel GA nomination
A few months a go it was a terrible article, nearly bad enough that a deletion nomination would not have surprised me, but my major renovations of it, which in turn got it more attention and procurement from other editors, made it a completely different article and look at it now! it still has a lot of improvement potential, and a ton of future potential as it develops, I wouldn't be surprised if it could eventually even become a featured article, but that will depend on how much of an impact/well known the tunnel becomes, not just how well it's written (not many FA's are on obscure topics). I'm sure right now as it stands it probably would not make it, but it's not far short of being worthy for a nomination. Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:48, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I have nominated it. See Talk:Port of Miami Tunnel Daniel Christensen (talk) 07:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The Port of Miami Tunnel has passed as a good article, and the only thing stopping it from being a featured article is it's length, which is medium until it develops further and there is more to say about it. Daniel Christensen (talk) 21:24, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Florida or Miami chapter?
Do we have enough active wikipedians in Florida to form a chapter? I've created an entry for Florida at the Wikimedia United States Chapters Council page. If a state-wide chapter will be too unwieldy, perhaps chapters based on the larger cities could be formed (i.e., South Florida, central Florida, northern Florida). -- Donald Albury 21:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

FAR for History of Miami

 * Featured article review/History of Miami/archive1
 * Talk:History of Miami

History of Miami is under Featured Article Review, because it does not meet featured standards. I'm surprised it was nominated, even for 2006 standards, but at any rate at this point it does not nearly meet FAC. This is not just because of the tag, but speaking of which, come on. That is the most clìche, parodies, and meaningless overused tag on Wikipedia. Daniel Christensen (talk) 16:21, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion to add this project to the supported projects list of WikiProject United States
It has been suggested that WikiProject Florida and some of its child projects may be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to add them to the supported projects list of WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project page and the talk page of this project it seems as though this project is pretty active but I thought I would leave a note here anyway just in case. Just as clarification even if the other Florida related project due get added to the supported projects list there is no requirement for this project to do so as well. --Kumioko (talk) 00:15, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Since theres been no comment on this discussion in 11 days I am going to go ahead and add it to the supported projects list of WPUS. --Kumioko (talk) 14:10, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Help with an image
Hi, I'm trying to find info on this photo. Based on the user's edits, I think it may be a lighthouse off of a golf course in Boca Raton, FL. Does this look familiar to anyone? ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  07:02, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Photo requests
If anyone in Broward County is interested, I have some photo requests:"
 * Claire's Stores Inc. headquarters at 3 S.W. 129th Avenue Pembroke Pines, FL 33027 - Map
 * Spirit Airlines headquarters at 2800 Executive Way Miramar, FL 33025
 * Pollo Tropical headquarters - 7300 North Kendall Drive, 8th Floor, Miami, Florida
 * First Pollo Tropical - 741 NW 37th Avenue, Miami, FL
 * Miami-Dade County Police Kendall District Station - 7707 SW 117th Avenue Miami, FL 33183-3899 USA

Also I'd like for somebody to take a photo of a Publix Sabor (any one of them): Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:35, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hialeah Mercado 1585 West 49th Street Hialeah, FL 33012-2924
 * Miller Square Shopping Center - 13890 SW 56th St Miami, FL 33175-6021
 * Publix Sabor Coral Way Shopping Center - 8680 SW 24th St Miami, FL 33155-2338

2 Things:
1. How do I add myself to the participants? 2. I created a page for the Bristol Tower, in Miami. If anyone is interested it is currently very small and it is being proposed for deletion. It needs to be saved and I need your help.

Jakebarrington (talk) 19:24, 12 May 2012 (UTC)


 * 1. Edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Miami/Active participants and add yourself at the bottom of the page using # and any comment you want to add.
 * 2. You can stop a proposed deletion by removing the notice from the article page. If someone nominates it for Articles for deletion, however, you must leave that notice in place. You can help to prevent the article from being deleted by citing reliable sources that establish the notability of the building. If someone does nominate the article for deletion (AfD) as not being notable, then a discussion will be held to reach a consensus on whether the article will be deleted. -- Donald Albury 14:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Spanish Wikipedia: WikiProject Florida created
For editors who speak Spanish, you are welcome to edit es:Wikiproyecto:Florida, the Spanish Wikipedia WikiProject on Florida WhisperToMe (talk) 20:35, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Patrick Murphy RfC
Input is encouraged at Talk:Patrick Murphy (Florida politician). Instaurare (talk) 19:12, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC
Canes fans and alumni, I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 07:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Horacio Cambeiro
Horacio Cambeiro is a journalist who has worked in Miami.

The articles by the same author about two other people have been shown to have dubious sourcing; and when I started to look at this one, it too soon seemed suspicious.

In the space of half an hour or so, I:


 * Attached a COI template (see the article's talk page for why)
 * Marked six links for sources as dead
 * Found that one page given as a source had been given a fictional title and didn't say what it was claimed to say (edit)
 * Found that Cambeiro's name appeared nowhere within the sole source given for nomination of an award (a claim that gives rise to about half the WP article) (edit)
 * Replaced a fictional title with the actual title (edit)

Of course there is nothing inherently suspicious about dead links. It's not a contributor's fault that a website removes a page or removes itself. And I haven't googled for newer addresses of moved pages, or even looked in the Wayback Machine. But as for now, the article has a grand total of two sources with working links. Both of these are in Spanish, and the majority of the "dead" (but perhaps still alive, somewhere) links are in Spanish too. Unfortunately I don't read Spanish, and I also don't trust Google Translate or similar to do the job for me. Would any kind reader of Spanish care to take a look? -- Hoary (talk) 09:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Template:Miami Neighborhoods
I suggest to split the Template:Miami Neighborhoods in two groups, to highlight the main neighborhoods from the Subdistricts: please, join the discussion. Pietro (talk) 16:15, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Moving Fort Dallas to "Lummus Park, Miami"
The name in the City of Miami website for Fort Dallas is Lummus Park: what about to rename this page? Pietro (talk) 13:52, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Fort Dallas changed to military installation, and new page for Lummus Park, Miami created. Pietro (talk) 02:32, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Renaming of some Miami road articles
G'day. I have put forward a motion to rename eight articles that I think are in the sphere of interest of your WikiProject, primarily so that their names are in line with the standards set forth at WP:USSH. I am seeking discussion regarding the renaming. The articles in question and their proposed names are:


 * Bird Road → Florida State Road 976
 * Coral Reef Drive → Florida State Road 992
 * Coral Way (street) → Florida State Road 972
 * Flagler Street → Florida State Road 968
 * Galloway Road → Florida State Road 973
 * Kendall Drive → Florida State Road 94
 * Le Jeune Road → Florida State Road 953
 * Sunset Drive → Florida State Road 986

The thread for discussion may be found on WP:RM at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves.

Your thoughts and input into the matter would be greatly appreciated. -DyluckTRocket (talk) 11:47, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Rolling Stone article on Miami and climate change
I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 07:05, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Goodell, Jeff. "Goodbye, Miami." Rolling Stone. June 20, 2013.

Best known Nicaraguan restaurant in Miami-Dade County as of 1995

 * Kelly, Ivonne Rovira. "LA PARRILLA MAKES A NAME FOR ITSELF." (Archive) Miami Herald. August 9, 1995.

States that Los Ranchos is "Dade's County's best-known Nicaraguan restaurant" Not sure where that would go... WhisperToMe (talk) 21:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of The Vatican Splendors for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Vatican Splendors is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/The Vatican Splendor until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. trespassers william (talk) 23:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of SkinPro


The article SkinPro has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * all the sources seem to be press releases or otherwise from this Miami company itself. There is nothing that indicates that the company is notable. I couldn't find anything independent or reliable in web searches either. See WP:CORP

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

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

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:35, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Walter De Garmo at AfD
Walter De Garmo, architect of the Douglas Entrance and luxury homes in Coral Gables, is at Articles for Deletion. Djembayz (talk) 18:22, 6 February 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:Miami articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 23:08, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

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

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 (timestamp may not be accurate) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Believer (talk • contribs) 15:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Created new article - Cuban-born musician Israel Kantor
I've created a new article on the Cuban-born musician Israel Kantor.

Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Israel Kantor.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:16, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

New FL nomination - List of Miami-Dade Transit metro stations
I recently nominated List of Miami-Dade Transit metro stations for the second time, after it was nominated and then archived last year with no consensus. Please help this WikiProject grow by adding your input to the FLC link here: Featured list candidates/List of Miami-Dade Transit metro stations/archive2. – Dream out loud (talk) 10:08, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:22, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Merge for Ft. Lauderdale Air & Sea Show
It has been suggested that Fort Lauderdale Air Show be merged into Air & Sea Show. (Discuss)

If anyone from this WikiProject has any opinions or input, it would be appreciated. WikiVirus  C (talk) 23:40, 9 July 2017 (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  07:48, 30 May 2018 (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)

Photo of 1983 art event
Hi page watchers, I'm trying to track down a free use photo of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1983 Miami art installation, Surrounded Islands. Any ideas/help on where I might be able to find someone willing to freely license one of their own photos from this era? (not watching, please )  czar  06:44, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi all, I've boldly updated your project's peer review page (WikiProject Miami/Peer review) by updating the instructions and archiving old reviews.

The new instructions use Wikipedia's general peer review process (WP:PR) to list peer reviews. Your project's reviews are still able to be listed on your local page too.

The benefits of this change is that review requests will get seen by a wider audience and are likely to be attended to in a more timely way (many WikiProject peer reviews remain unanswered after years). The Wikipedia peer review process is also more maintained than most WikiProjects, and this may help save time for your active members.

I've done this boldly as it seems your peer review page is pretty inactive and I am working through around 90 such similar peer review pages. Please feel free to discuss below - please ping me in your response.

Cheers and hope you are well, Tom (LT) (talk) 22:55, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

I have also updated your page's archiving, as I note there is no setting currently in place and threads stretch over a decade.

Featured article review Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami
I have nominated Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami 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. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  01:10, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Category:Miami articles needing expert attention has been nominated for discussion
Category:Miami articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 20:19, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Featured Article Review
I have nominated Florida Atlantic University 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. Bumbubookworm (talk) 20:02, 26 August 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)

GA reassessment of Florida International University
Florida International University 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. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:41, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

New page on Miamian Civil Rights Leader
Hi, I'm working on making a page for Lawson Edward Thomas, a civil rights leader from Miami who was the first black judge in America since Reconstruction and who led wade-ins to desegregate Virginia Key. Plans for the article are in my sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:101235k/sandbox

101235k (talk) 23:12, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

OPEN CALL FOR A WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE AT PAMM
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is seeking a creative and driven Wikipedian In Residence (WIR) to improve coverage of their collections on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. PAMM is a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

MUSEUM: https://www.pamm.org

The WIR would be helping PAMM establish Wikipedia programming institution-wide. The Wikipedian In Residence will work closely with the digital team at PAMM with access to curators and staff for support and training.

DIGITIAL LEAD: https://www.jaymollica.com

On Wikidata, the WIR will add structured data and expand items about painting objects, artists, collections, installations, exhibits, and events. On Wikimedia Commons, photos of living artists will be taken and added with appropriate categorization. On Wikipedia, the WIR will improve articles about PAMM's artists, their key collections, and the notable art movements of which they are a part. The WIR will also engage community through edit-a-thons, virtual events, and staff trainings.

They WIR will have a dedicated, expert strategic advisor helping them onboard into the role and plan their activities with weekly check-ins and ongoing support.

ADVISOR: https://www.wikiblueprint.com

A good candidate will have some (but not necessarily all) of the desired skills and experience. We encourage a diversity of candidates to apply even if your resume doesn't meet every qualification.

PLEASE APPLY: https://secure5.saashr.com/ta/5CET.careers?ShowJob=302365959

Ocaasit &#124; c 21:18, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Just a reminder that applications are still open, REMOTE applicants are OK, and a resume/cover letter is all you need to submit.
 * Apply: https://secure5.saashr.com/ta/5CET.careers?CareersSearch
 * Ocaasit &#124; c 23:17, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Project seems inactive
This project seems fairly inactive. What can we do to get it going again? TheGables (talk) 02:53, 4 November 2022 (UTC)