Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Minnesota/Archive 1

Templates
Could the template for locations in Minnesota be changed to include Brooklyn Center? ReverendG 23:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Source for helpful tips
I don't know how useful all of the discussion will be, but consider checking out the talk pages for other state WikiProjects for ideas. Tom e rtalk 08:08, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Inviting participants
If someone isn't afraid of being labeled a "spammer", you might consider inviting people in Category:Wikipedians in Minnesota to join the wikiproject. Tom e rtalk 05:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd (?!? - help us) 07:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota
Many articles covered by this WikiProject lack photographs. As part of a subcategorization of the requested photos category, there is now a category for Minnesota articles needing photos - to use it, just add to the article's talk page. I have only added a few articles to the category so far, but it would be an easy way to make an extensive list Minnesota-related articles lacking photos. I hope you find it useful! TheGrappler 06:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate categories for Minneapolis-St. Paul
I noticed that there are two duplicate categories: Category:Minneapolis-St. Paul and Category:Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. The latter category has only one subcategory, and that's for pictures. The former category seems to have everything in it. I nominated Category:Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota to be merged into Category:Minneapolis-St. Paul. The discussion is at Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 4 if anyone wants to express an opinion either way. I don't have any strong opinions, but it might be easier to merge the smaller category into the bigger one. -- E lkman - (talk) 00:14, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I say just go ahead and make the merge. Its makes more sense.--Gephart 00:38, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge them. Let me know when you're done on my talk page and let me know which one to delete and I'll take care of it.  This isn't the kind of thing that's going to either elicit a lot of discussion, nor will a summary deletion of the redundant category be a source of admonition and castigation.  This is a classic "slam dunk".  Cheers, Tom e rtalk  05:31, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Schools
Could we also work on improving the information for the schools? There is 2 websites we could use: greatschools.net and publicschoolreview.com. Thanks!

Ksax 14:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Stubs
Anybody know what happened to Minnesota-stub? It up and disappeared. Do we need it? What other Minnesota-related stub notices do we need? JEK   Monday, July 29 2024 at
 * I belive it was removed because there are more specific ones.-Ravedave 17:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Project of the week
I added a project of the week, Eventually we might need to vote on it, but for now whoever gets there first can choose a project. I figured our 1st project should be getting the state article to FP status. -Ravedave 17:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * FP as in featured picture, or FA as in featured article? If you're talking about a featured article, that will probably take more than one week, as I found out with Glacier National Park (US).  I'm willing to help out either way, but I just want to know what we're doing first.  (I'd need a really wide lens to take a picture of the whole state, for example.)  --Elkman 18:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

History buff needed
Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Minnesota's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article. JEK   19:53, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Nominate articles for Portal:United States
I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to Minnesota (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude ( talk contribs ) 23:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

New "People from [city]" Categories
Hello, everybody. I am the bozo who just recently created the new subcategories in the "People from Minnesota" category. I thought that some of you might want to know why they were created, and why they often have so few pages in them.

The majority of the states have "People from [state]" categories which have at least 200 entries, sometimes over 1,000. This is clearly an unworkably large number for anyone wishing to use the category for research purposes. In 8th grade in Rapid City, South Dakota, the social studies class asked us to write, over the course of the year, reports on two or three people who were or had been residents of the city. Because of that, I have reason to believe that they could be used and probably are used for research purposes. To make such research easier, I looked at the list of metropolitan statistical areas and basically entered in one new category for each metropolitan statistical area.

I know that many of these categories might well be, in the eyes of you who know more about the cities in question much better than I do, misnamed or otherwise faulty. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made along those lines, and I would welcome any corrections, including deletion, that any of the rest of you might choose to make. With that in mind, I have also generally populated the categories with only one or two names, to ease in the process of deletion or renaming.

I thought you all should know why these categories were created, and felt some degree of responsibility for letting your know. I wish you all the greatest good fortune in making the coverage of your state in Wikipedia of the greatest scope and quality possible, and I hope that I haven't annoyed too many of you by my recent actions. Badbilltucker 13:29, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub deletion notification
This message is to inform the WikiProject that Minnesota-stub and are being considered for deletion at WP:SFD. The category is currently undersized, meaning it has less than 35 articles. Please populate this within 6 days (July 27th) or the stub template and category will be deleted. If you have a question, feel free to leave a message on my talk page or on the SFD page. Thanks you and happy editing. ~ Amalas rawr  =^_^=  17:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota State Fair
As I've said elsewhere, I'd like to make a serious effort to bring this up to at least good article, and preferably featured article, status. Help is appreciated. It seems like it's something that would be relatively easy to reference and find resources on, and something most or all of us are familiar with. Grand master  ka  06:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

On roads, again
I'm asking all Minnesota editors to take a look at this, and contribute your wisdom and local knowledge to the discussion if you can. Jonathunder 20:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

List of people from Minnesota
This list is mostly of well-known people who were born here, contributed to the history of the state, or lived a portion of their life here and made contributions to mankind.

Mary Tyler Moore is on the list, and as far as I can tell the only connection is that she played Mary Richards on television, a fictional character who lived in Minneapolis. There is a statue of her in Minneapolis related to that role. I think she should be deleted from the list. Anyone agree/disagree/care? Appraiser 17:47, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. This reminds me of a story, which happened to a friend of a friend of some guy I met in a Minneapolis bar (so it may be an urban legand). He went to the address given in the show for where Mary was supposed to live, and asked if she was home. He was told, politely, that the use of the address was entirely fictional, and that there was, in fact, no real connection between that place and the show. It was not filmed there. The visitor said, "Yes, I understand all that. Is Rhoda here, then?" Jonathunder 22:11, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I've noticed state project templates on the talk pages of some other people/states. Are we supposed to do that too I wonder?  Cricket02 05:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

List of people from Minnesota
Two listed tasks are

1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota. 2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.

I have just completed these tasks, however the category is constantly growing. Whenever someone adds the category to an article, the name is added. I tried "watching" the category page, but that doesn't inform me when a name is added. Does anyone have any idea how to be alerted when a new name is added, so that this list can be kept up-to-date? Appraiser 15:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

List of radio stations in Minnesota
I (Mattdp) will continue to get the radio station list in sync with the FCC records. However, I will need local people to confirm the data on their local radio stations (like slogans and formats).

The tasks to be accomplished are:

1. Finish adding in all stations. Status (10/11/06): AM station from 530-1200 KHZ are in sync with the FCC database records. 2. Get people to confirm the formats and slogans of stations in their local area (something I can't really do). 3. Create an article for each individual station. 4. Create the By callsign, By city, By format, By market, By network lists (Preferably, this should be done after the initial [by frequency] list is finished). Mattdp 16:17, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

List of Minnesota companies nominated for deletion.
This is a heads up that List of Minnesota companies has been nominated for deletion. I have proposed a remedy on its discussion page. Share your thoughts on the articles for deletion page. JonHarder 23:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to new WikiProject
A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Units
I noticed that most of the articles have metric measurements first and standard second, and in some cases, there is no standard measurement. For instance, population density is marked as persons per square kilometer, with no mile conversion. Should standard measurements be the norm, or is there a reason for them to be metric? --Sable232 03:09, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers) addresses this. It states among other things conversions should generally be included and not be removed and choose SI units as the main unit, with other units in parentheses. But there are other nuances in that manual of style, so you'll want to read it yourself. JonHarder 03:27, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I wasn't intending to remove anything, just rearrange. According to the manual, it seems like we should have the standard come first, because the articles are about U.S. places, and because (I assume) the original measurement was in standard form. --Sable232 03:58, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I prefer the SI (metric) units first, but won't put any more effort into defending or advocating that position than this sentence! I recently worked on an article where my source had units in archaic Russian units which I converted to SI and English units. JonHarder 13:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Mankato article on WP
May find this interesting: -Ravedave (help name my baby) 06:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota up for FA
I have recently nominated Minnesota over at Featured article candidates/Minnesota, please leave your comment. Thanks! - Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

FAR
nominated Music of Minnesota 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (help the Invincibles Featured topic drive) 02:37, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * This article has recently been improved; more eyes on Featured article review/Music of Minnesota/archive1 would be helpful at this stage. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 03:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi all. This article has been copyedited and improved. Anybody home who can express their opinion would be welcome at featured article review. I can't canvas for votes but I can ask if anybody is here to vote? -SusanLesch (talk) 19:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)