Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Mexico/Archive 5

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:26, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Otero Mesa stub expansion
I happened upon the Otero Mesa stub randomly, and I'm doing what I can to expand it. It's somewhat biased at this point (not my contribution), and I'm having a hard time finding unbiased sources to help beef up the article. Anybody who knows anything is welcome to help! Katiedert (talk) 20:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm working on a draft here, if you want to contribute. Katiedert (talk) 20:15, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

New Mexico Association of Museums
The New Mexico Association of Museums is interested in putting together a panel or workshop on Wikipedia. Is there anyone in the New Mexico area who could organize such a thing? If not organize, at least participate? If so, please email me. Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 15:13, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Adding Flag + Seal to List of New Mexico state symbols
Just wondering if it is appropriate to add the NM flag + seal here.

And also, if ok to add this link on the main NM page.

I'd gladly do it if alright by wiki standards. &#9786;

Great job, btw, all NM wiki pages I've seen are of top quality.

Thanks for your time + concern.

MDGx &#9785;&#9786; 21:46, 18 July 2010 (UTC) I did notice the wiki link to NM symbols page on the NM main page, but I don't think it has anything to do with my 1 year old request, looks like some1 else just happened to have the same thought. So I'm asking again: how about adding the NM flag + the NM seal to the NM symbols page? Thanks for listening (or not). MDGx &#9785;&#9786; 19:33, 26 June 2011 (UTC) HTH [Hope This Helps] ;) MDGx &#9785;&#9786; 01:58, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ignored for almost a full year. Nice... ;-) I guess my original opinion about the quality of these pages is not so great after all. ;-(
 * Thanks for following up— in my experience it can be hard to get a response on this page. I took a quick look at a few of the other states' "list of symbols" articles and all the ones I saw included the flag and seal, so I say go for it. Camerafiend (talk) 02:49, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for caring + taking the time to reply. ;-/ I've added the State Capital, Flag, Seal + Aircraft to the List of New Mexico state symbols page.

List of United States federal courthouses in New Mexico
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 19:08, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Albuquerque Plaza merger proposal
I'm looking for more comments on a proposed a merger of Hyatt Regency Albuquerque into Albuquerque Plaza. If you have an opinion on this, please drop by the discussion. Camerafiend (talk) 04:10, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

New Mexico articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Mescalero Apache Chiefs
In reviewing the information that is displayed for the Mescalero Apaches, there is information that is not correct as far as Chiefs and leaders are concerned. The Apaches had numerous leaders and some of the ones that you have listed are incorrect. I just wanted to let you know. Also for the two pictures of the men you have on the front page, I have no clue as to who they are??? There are many people who claim to be Mescalero Apache and do not have a clue as to who they are or how they could even be Apache. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks, Nettie nfossum@innofthemountaingods.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.96.197.145 (talk) 22:52, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:26, 7 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) 20:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Photo request: Penitentiary of New Mexico sign
Would someone like to photograph the front entrance sign of the Penitentiary of New Mexico?

Its address is at: Hwy 14, 10 Miles South of Santa Fe - Santa Fe, NM

It is shown in this Google maps image

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 03:31, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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

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


 * Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

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

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

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:29, 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) 02:29, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Photo of Governor Martinez
Have a a recent or updated photo of Governor Susana Martinez, one is needed badly. The current photo is from her campaign. Also, if so, maybe someone can get the proper permission to use the governor's office released photo? JHarrelson (talk) 05:29, 25 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Under US copyright law, no permission is ever needed to use photos produced by the government (federal, state or local). There is no American equivalent to Crown copyright. So, her official photos as governor, as released in state publications including the governor web site, are public domain and can be added to Commons. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 15:39, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Colonial Governors of New Mexico
Hello people of WikiProject New Mexico!

I've worked a lot on wikipedia articles related with the history of the Americas, since that this is a topic that I´m interested. the case is I realized that, since a long time, all governors of New Mexico have articles on wikipedia since those states joined the United States, while only a few colonial governors of this state had them. I thought it would be nice to at least most colonial governors of New Mexico also have articles on wikipedia, because they are a bit forgotten in this encyclopedia. I've already looked for information and I've edited articles the some of these governors and I ask that, if interested, you also collaborate on editing articles from other governors of this state. The names of the governors of New Mexico are on the lists Spanish governors of New Mexico.

I hopefully are at least some editors interested. I would appreciate any cooperation. --Isinbill (talk) 00:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States
Someone recently suggested that this project be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have been some recent active discussion on the talk page and some updates to the main project page. The project has been added to the list of supported projects but before I fully implement this I want to ensure that the members of the project concur with this action. I will contact each of the active members of the project and ask them to comment as well. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 02:17, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * This very inactive member has no preference. &mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 15:16, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 15:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree with Jerry. Frankly, the WikiProject process has become sufficiently bureaucratic that I've semi-lost interest, so those with more interest should do what works for them. -- Bill-on-the-Hill (talk) 16:18, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I continue to make edits in New Mexico articles, but I am not really involved in the Project New Mexico as such. If that is better served by placing it elsewhere, then it is fine with me.  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:48, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 3500+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. If you do not want the bot to autoassess the articles for your project or if you have any comments or concerns please let us know. --Kumioko (talk) 14:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:19, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Official languages
Hi! There is a discussion on whether New Mexico has official languages or not. Please see: WhisperToMe (talk) 08:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Talk:New_Mexico

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:44, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:43, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:15, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:New Mexico will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in New Mexico's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject New Mexico
It looks like this group has been dormant for a while. Anyone still interested in getting active again? The Wikimedia Foundation has a push on to get museums collaborating with Wikipedia, and I want New Mexico to get on board, but we need experienced Wikipedia editor to get off the ground. Find out more at the website http://us.glamwiki.org. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimi.roberts (talk • contribs) 19:35, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Taos, New Mexico
Could someone please review the recent inaccurate drive-by tagging of this article and remove the inaccurate tags? Thanks, Yworo (talk) 22:09, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Westerns
Well, it's not particularly well worded for non-userpages, but yeah, this WikiProject is now setup and still in the early stages of building its project area before user-participation can really begin to function. Anyone interested, please feel free to join. Note, this project not only covers film and TV, but Western novels, comics, actors, directors and authors, etc who make the fictional-Wild West possible. Thanks,  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh {chat} 01:45, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Meteorite Museum, Institute of Meteoritics, Univ. of New Mexico

 * Hello
 * Could someone donate an image of the Norton County meteorite? Long Island meteorite would be nice too ;) Thx. Cheers --Chris.urs-o (talk) 07:50, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Albuquerque photo request
Would someone be willing to donate photographs of the Cathedral Church of St. John at 318 Silver Avenue, S.W. in Albuquerque? There is this one on Commons, but I am looking for some that show the old part of the Cathedral, inside and outside, if possible. Jonathunder (talk) 00:37, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

John Grubesic
Hi all. Was doing some random cleanup and found a mess of an article on State Senator John Grubesic. I'm having a lot of verification issues, but someone more local might have more information, so I figured I'd toss a heads-up your way. Thanks! Thargor Orlando (talk) 20:16, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:45, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:24, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe Peer Review
This article has been submitted for a peer review in preparation for a run at Featured Article. Any assistance would be appreciated. GregJackP  Boomer!   04:05, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Index of New Mexico articles
Hello,

I've posted a question on Talk:Index of New Mexico-related articles about what type of articles should be added to the index, but since there's no talk sections, I thought I'd post something here. If someone could look at my question about a list of article that I have to add, that would be great!!!--05:15, 15 August 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)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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

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

New Mexico wineries
I was surprised to find not one single article on any of the many award-winning wineries in New Mexico. (Though there were a couple deleted ones, no surprise there...)

So, I've created List of wineries in New Mexico along with articles on seven notable wineries:
 * Black Mesa Winery
 * La Chiripada Winery
 * La Viña Winery
 * Luna Rossa Winery
 * Noisy Water Winery
 * Ponderosa Valley Vineyards & Winery
 * St. Clair Winery

Please feel free to expand any or all of these. Skyerise (talk) 22:31, 21 April 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)

Category:Employees of the New Mexico Legislature
Category:Employees of the New Mexico Legislature, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. 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. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:00, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Galisteo Pass
Feel free to expand this stub.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:34, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

New Mexican English
Please see Talk:New Mexican English. More importantly, we need a concerted sourcing effort, especially by anyone with access to book stacks (including dissertations/theses as a last resort) at the UNM and other state university libraries, and Santa Fe colleges. These are probably the only semi-accessible stockpiles of paper sources on this topic, and even some of the journals that have published material about the topic were published by these institutions. Various organizations in the area may have also put out materials that can be found and sourced. So far, the interwebs have largely been a big FAIL for finding the necessary material. Even establishing the idea that NM English as a broad regional (historically, territorial) dialect exists and what it means have proven nearly impossible with online sources. Two sub-regional dialects have been ID'd (Burqueño, and Nuevomexicano or Northern New Mexico Chicano English), but basically the article is quite poor, and not very well sourced. It barely survived AfD. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  09:43, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

mexico
Im doin a projet on mexico please help!---Awsomazing220 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awsomazing220 (talk • contribs) 23:01, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

A group of museum professionals in Santa Fe and Taos could use some help getting organized around improving and expanding content about New Mexico art and culture. Please let me know if you're interested. Mimi.roberts (talk) 20:44, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

New Mexico mountains
The List of mountain peaks of New Mexico has been expanded and updated. We need articles for the following mountain peaks: "Alegres Mountain, Carrizo Peak, Cerro Vista, Florida Peak, Gallinas Peak, Gold Hill, Ladrones Benchmark, Little Costilla Peak, Mount Withington, Picuris Peak, San Andres Peak, San Pedro Peaks, South Baldy, Ute Mountain, West Blue Mountain, and Wind Mountain" Information about these peaks can be found in their references on the List of mountain peaks of New Mexico. We also need good mountain photos for the articles and list gallery. Yours aye, Buaidh  23:37, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Missing New Mexico Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing New Mexico Supreme Court Justices at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices. Please help complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:24, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame!
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Santa Fe Spanish Market
Santa Fe Indian Market and the much more recent Santa Fe International Folk Art Market have well-developed articles, but the "middle child" of this summer activity flurry, the Santa Fe Spanish Market, is a still redlink. This would be a good "feather in the cap" article for anyone looking to author a major article that's clearly somehow still missing after 15 years of Wikipedia. This could easily also be a WP:DYK item, etc., and a nice WP:Systemic bias gap filler. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  10:19, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, which organizes Spanish Market, is also a redlink. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  12:12, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:53, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:22, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Editing Event in Silver City
We will be holding an editing event at the Silver City Public Library, Silver City, New Mexico on March 13, 2017, 3:30-5:45pm Mountain time. I anticipate that our group will be mainly brand-new beginners learning about Wikipedia best practices in person here at the library. I'll be learning too! If any experienced Wikipedia editors here would like to edit remotely at that time, you would be very welcome! Also, if there are any Wikipedia editors in the Silver City area, we'd love to see you at the library! Check out Meetup/New_Mexico/SilverCityPublicLibraryEditathon

Thanks!

LillianLibrarian (talk) 17:30, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Mora overhaul
I've overhauled (to the best I can without additional sources): Mora, New Mexico, Mora County, New Mexico, First Battle of Mora, and Second Battle of Mora, with various side edits at Taos Revolt, etc. The Mora articles all appeared to have been cobbled together by successive waves of "drive-by" edits without any regard for the relationships between the articles. They all seem pretty coherent now, though then need better (and more inline) sourcing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:29, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

New New Mexico userbox templates
New New Mexico userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP New Mexico and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 22:57, 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.

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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.

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Background
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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.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:49, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Re: History of slavery in New Mexico page
Added: "Soon after the Treaty had been signed, a group of prominent New Mexicans went on record in opposition to slavery, in their petition to congress to change the military government to a temporary territorial form. They were likely motivated by their desire for self-government, and the fact that the slave state of Texas claimed much of New Mexico east of the Rio Grande, and that many believed that it was planning to invade again as it had in 1841 and 1843. "Whatsit369 (talk) 08:13, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:46, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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


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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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)

Same river different names

 * See: Talk:Beaver River (Oklahoma). The North Canadian River changes names at the Oklahoma border but is the same river (name used interchangeably) covered in two articles. It would seem this could be easily covered with alternate names. Otr500 (talk) 10:48, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Proposed move of Zuni
There is currently a discussion regarding a proposal to move the page Zuni which may be of interest to this WikiProject. The discussion is taking place HERE. Netherzone (talk) 17:34, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Mescalero Sands South Dune
A while ago an editor posted a substantial draft at Draft:The Mescalero Sands of New Mexico, referring to this National Natural Landmark. The editor is a librarian and researcher who worked on the landmark's recognition in the 1960s and has written a good deal about the topic (with references), however what they've written here is more of a promotional brochure, and they need help turning it into an encyclopedia article. If you're interested in helping out, please visit the draft. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:47, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Infobox question re Gutiérrez Hubbell House
Hello, any ideas which infobox might work for this article... historical, architectural, geographic, biographic or? Netherzone (talk) 23:45, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Template:Infobox NRHP is specifically for NRHP-listed historic properties so I think it would be the best choice. There is also Template:Infobox building but it is more geared toward skyscrapers and other large buildings. Camerafiend (talk) 16:09, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you!Netherzone (talk) 16:36, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem, great article by the way! Camerafiend (talk) 18:21, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Chaco Culture National Historical Park Featured article review
I have nominated Chaco Culture National Historical Park 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)  02:44, 8 December 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}

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Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting
Wikipedia users in the United States Mountain West and High Plains will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, articles, or photographs of our region is encouraged to attend.

If you don't wish to receive these invitations any more, please remove your username from the Meetup/US Mountain West/Invitation list. Thanks.

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 * At the recent Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting, one participant from NYC, New York, mentioned that he and fellow participants in his region have get-togethers. He recommended having a get-together in ABQ, New Mexico. Is there any interest for such a gathering? And if so, where should we meet up in person? Shari Garland (talk) 18:24, 18 February 2023 (UTC)


 * celebrate_Women/Events is an editathon I want to organise if that time and date works for you or others. Arlo James Barnes 22:06, 21 March 2023 (UTC)


 * What a great idea!Shari Garland (talk) 01:20, 23 March 2023 (UTC)


 * is the date 4-6-23 or 6-4-23? Netherzone (talk) 23:20, 23 March 2023 (UTC)


 * April sixth, not June fourth. I'll see what date templates meta has. (edit: thanks!) Arlo James Barnes 06:18, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Missing New Mexico Supreme Court justices
Drafts for the following missing articles for New Mexico Supreme Court justices have been initiated at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices:

• #Draft:Andrew H. Hudspeth - Andrew H. Hudspeth

• #Draft:Charles C. Catron - Charles C. Catron

• #Draft:Charles R. Brice - Charles R. Brice

• #Draft:Clarence M. Botts - Clarence M. Botts

• #Draft:Dan A. McKinnon III - Dan A. McKinnon III

• #Draft:Daniel A. Sisk - Daniel A. Sisk

• #Draft:Donnan Stephenson - Donnan Stephenson

• #Draft:H. Vern Payne - H. Vern Payne

• #Draft:Henry A. Kiker - Henry A. Kiker

• #Draft:Henry G. Coors - Henry G. Coors

• #Draft:Irwin S. Moise - Irwin S. Moise

• #Draft:James C. Compton - James C. Compton

• #Draft:James C. McGhee - James C. McGhee

• #Draft:John B. McManus Jr. - John B. McManus Jr.

• #Draft:John C. Watson (judge) - John C. Watson (judge)

• #Draft:John T. Watson - John T. Watson

• #Draft:Joseph F. Baca - Joseph F. Baca

• #Draft:LaFel E. Oman - LaFel E. Oman

• #Draft:Martin A. Threet - Martin A. Threet

• #Draft:Paul J. Kennedy - Paul J. Kennedy

• #Draft:Paul Tackett - Paul Tackett

• #Draft:Richard E. Ransom - Richard E. Ransom

• #Draft:Richard H. Hanna - Richard H. Hanna

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

• #Draft:Samuel Z. Montoya - Samuel Z. Montoya

• #Draft:Stanley F. Frost - Stanley F. Frost

• #Draft:Stephen B. Davis Jr. - Stephen B. Davis Jr.

• #Draft:Thomas F. McKenna - Thomas F. McKenna

• #Draft:Tom W. Neal - Tom W. Neal

• #Draft:Tony Scarborough - Tony Scarborough

• #Draft:W. Morris Shillinglaw - W. Morris Shillinglaw

Any help getting these articles finished and moved to mainspace would be appreciated. Cheers! BD2412 T 18:28, 27 September 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) 17:24, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting 05/09/2023
Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, May 9, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the history, geography, articles, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. Please see our meeting page for details.

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Discussion at Content assessment
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! &mdash;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 06:40, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting 08/08/2023
Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, August 8, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in articles, history, geography, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. We may try to organize one or more Wiknics. Guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

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US Mountain West online meeting November 14
Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MST, Tuesday evening, November 14, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. All guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

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