Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Norse history and culture/Archive2

NavBoxes
Articles in this project need some Navboxes. Especially Vikings imo. Anyone have more experience than me in making them? --dotDarkCloud (talk) 16:56, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have some experience, but I must admit that my method mostly consists of trial and error by using older user boxes as models.--Berig (talk) 12:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies
WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies has finally gained enough support to justify its creation as a daughter project of WikiProject History. Before doing this, however, good sense dictates conferring with WikiProject Norse history and culture, as the fields covered by the two projects intersect and, to some degree, overlap.

The Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject intends to cover the history, language and culture of the Ancient Germanic peoples from their earliest beginnings around 500 BCE to ca. 1000 CE. Our chronological scope is derived mainly from the field of linguistics, with the First Sound Shift (ca. 500 BCE) marking the beginning of the Ancient or Old Germanic period and the change from the ‘Old’ to the ‘Middle’ dialects (High German ca. 1000, English 1066, Norse ca. 1100) marking its end.

This new WikiProject is felt to be necessary as at present all effort to coordinate and standardize articles related to the Ancient Germanic peoples has been that of a few isolated individuals. There is no medium for discussing and working on multi-article projects – something which has caused and continues to cause both unnecessary friction between editors as well as discrepancies between articles. And there is no group-effort to improve articles on Ancient Germanic peoples outside of Scandinavia (i.e. the Goths, the Burgundians, the Vandals, etc.) and to coordinate these with their Northern counterparts. There is a related portal, Ancient Germanic culture, which is a first attempt at covering the Ancient Germanic peoples as a whole. But the portal lacks the administrative infrastructure that a full-fledged WikiProject can provide.

The creation of the Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject does not automatically entail either a forced merge with WikiProject Norse history and culture nor its being subsumed into the same as a task force. WikiProject Norse history and culture would still cover fields which would remain outside the scope of Ancient Germanic studies, and remains justified as a WikiProject due to the sheer enormity of literature that comes with the topic. It would, however, entail making it a partly autonomous daughter project of WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies.

As members of this WikiProject, your thoughts and comments on this development would be highly valued. —Aryaman (Enlist!) 17:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure. It's only natural if the two projects are closely tied together.--Berig (talk) 18:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI: The WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies project page is up. It will take a few days before things are ready for 'business', however. —Aryaman (Enlist!) 01:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:User WP:Norse
If nobody minds, I'd like to edit Template:User WP:Norse into something more runestone-like rather than the bright orange that it is now. I'll go ahead and do so as it doesn't seem to be widely used but if there are any objections to my edits we can certainly revert it. bloodofox: (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

List of Norwegian monarchs
Hello, I put the List of Norwegian monarchs up at the Peer review. If you have any comments/suggestions, please share them here. Thank you.-- Crzycheetah 19:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Prayers in pre-Christian Norse culture
A peer review of the article Prayer pointed out that the article does not mention prayers in pre-Christian Viking culture. If someone would like to assist us in correcting this flaw, even if it's only by pointing out an existing Wikipedia article that addresses Viking prayers, it would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. --Blanchardb- Me • MyEars • MyMouth -timed 13:14, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I have since added this. See: Prayer. bloodofox: (talk) 13:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

A discussion
An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ?  " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) -, member of WikiProject Council. 14:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 2048 articles are assigned to this project, of which 283, or 13.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:32, 27 July 2008 (UTC)