Wikipedia talk:WikiProject North Carolina/Archive 5

Haywood Community College
This article needs some attention from someone more familiar with the area. There is currently a dispute regarding the inclusion of some material in the article which appears to have references, though they are offline refs. Any help at Talk:Haywood Community College is appreciated. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe 16:54, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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WikiProject renaming
I found WikiProject Durham NC - which was a WikiProject about one city in North Carolina. I didn't see this as a feasible goal alone, so I proposed changing the scope here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Durham_NC - I stated that I would change the scope myself if I found no activity in seven days. Over seven days passed with no reply, so I altered the project page and reset the scope. With no activity present, I believe there are no objections with my decision. Now, I would like to rename the project page to the "Raleigh-Durham WikiProject" - What do you think?

In addition at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council Optigan said "I think a good chunk of WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces is fairly applicable to this." WhisperToMe (talk) 20:57, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * No objection here, although people in Orange and Chatham counties might prefer to have Research Triangle somewhere in the name (see the metro area map). - Dank (push to talk) 21:09, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I would be fine with including the Research Triangle name in the name of the task force. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm just guessing. I went to school in Chapel Hill, but that was a while ago ... I don't know what they tend to call their metro area these days, and whatever they call it, it probably wouldn't make sense to people outside North Carolina. - Dank (push to talk) 14:30, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Another question: Do you think it would be better if the Raleigh area was a task force of the NC project? That way it won't have to maintain its own infrastructure - it can simply share the North Carolina template and membership pool. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Whatever is easiest for you. - Dank (push to talk) 05:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * In that case I'll ask User:Optigan for help regarding this... Indianapolis may be converted into a task force, so I'll wait and see what happens first with Indy. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Kinston Indians
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA  Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the article talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Kinston Indians/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are  fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Picture request
I'm trying to track down and photograph a painting and I could use the help of someone in North Carolina. The paining I'm looking for is Studies of a Baby by Thomas Eakins (See List of works by Thomas Eakins, #100) After much searching, I found out that it is owned by the Duke-Semans Fine Arts Foundation, and is typically stored by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (where it is normally *not* on display). However, the painting was loaned to the Asheville Museum of Art. Assuming the museum allows photography I want someone to go to the museum, photograph it, and upload the picture to commons. (I contacted the museum to find out when it is on display and if photography is allowed, but they haven't gotten back to me. I will post more here when I hear back) Raul654 (talk) 19:12, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Anyone? Raul654 (talk) 18:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

North Carolina Zoo
Hi everybody, I have recently done a significant expansion of the article on the Zoo and I have a couple requests. 1. It is lacking suitable pictures. I put some up but they really are less than ideal. So if you have photos from the zoo or live nearby throw them up. 2. The article is still rated Start-Class. I think that is now inaccurate but I don't think I, as a main editor, am supposed to change things like that. 3. It is pretty pro-zoo. This is probably not an issue but my main source is the zoo website and when I looked around for other sources and found some but none iwth any serious (or even minor) controversies, problems, complaints etc. but it seems to be the general consensus that the zoo is awesome and generally without problems. If I have missed anything notable it should be addressed. 4. And most importantly, I am sure it could use a good clean-up. Since I have been the only author of the expansion, no one has checked my work for spelling, grammar, typos, etc. Also my citations, while I believe they are numerous and reliable, are not done by any standard besides usability. I'm not an expert on how people like citations to look nor am I picky about it so if anyone cares to "fix" them or whatever that would be cool. Thanks -- Jieagles (talk) 22:06, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at WikiProject North Carolina/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 54 articles to be referenced. The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:23, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Goodrich Corporation
Hi! I posted a new section in Talk:Goodrich Corporation about a possible addition to the article. Because of COI, I cannot make the edit myself. However, I see that the last addition to the talk page was back in 2009, so my comment might not be spotted any time soon! As the article falls within the scope of this project, could someone please review the information (which does include a 3rd party source, although I admit it is probably a report about the press release), and decide whether or not it should appear in the main article? Thank you! Stephen! Coming... 18:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Rockingham County Schools
Hello.

I'm from Arizona, but while going through random articles, I came across Reidsville High School, which was at that time a one-sentence stub (the lead section). Turned out it had had more content once upon a time, but COI'ed edits and copyright concerns kept it at one sentence. I expanded the article using the school's site - and then went on to create the articles for three additional schools in the Rockingham County Schools district. All of the articles still require a good bit of work - I am particularly concerned with the latter article, which has some JPG graphs and tables, some grammar problems, and large amounts of copied block text from what I presume is their website. The high schools' articles could also stand to receive significant expansion, and there's even a good article for someone to tackle: Dalton McMichael (as a springboard, try this), who apparently was a textile executive in Rockingham County.

I would like to finish the work on these articles - I've done a good bit of the work (including a set of basic info on each school), but the district article needs an overhaul and I'm not a resident of North Carolina. Can you guys help? I reached out to you instead of WikiProject Schools because that project has a MASSIVE scope. Raymie Humbert (local radar | current conditions) 20:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

North Carolina articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Carolina Mudcats
The Carolina Mudcats page links to a Wikipedia article about owner Steve Bryant. Except I'm pretty sure it's not the same Steve Bryant. The one it links to was on Press Your Luck--if you watch that show on YouTube, that football-playing Steve was black, and the Mudcats Steve Bryant is white. No other confirming information, and yet that seems pretty solid... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.101.145.15 (talk) 03:02, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks much, just delete the and  and it won't link. - Dank (push to talk) 03:59, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Charles E. Whitmeyer
I ran across an article for Charles E. Whitmeyer, a former state legislator in North Carolina. The majority of the article seems to be a hoax and I'm looking for reliable sources on his life or career. Gobonobo T C 03:34, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:56, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Two articles that may be in the scope of this project..
Hello WikiProject North Carolina! Over the past year or so I have done some work expanding turtle articles here on the wiki. I was wondering if the bog turtle and painted turtle would be in the scope of WikiProject North Carolina? Both species are native to the state.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:55, 11 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) 20:01, 27 November 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) 19:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Articles for deletion/Cate Edwards (3rd nomination) Borock (talk) 09:14, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Problems with the Bladenboro, North Carolina page
OK, it's low-importance, but the claims made in that article are very far-fetched, and unsurprisingly have few outside references. Deletion or at least an extensive rewrite are probably necessary. Paireon (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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

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

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

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

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

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

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:37, 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) 02:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Removing Sokal affair from NC WikiProject
I am assuming the designation was a mistake, since there does not appear to be any connection between that article and North Carolina.DarwinPeacock (talk) 17:11, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Featured article review Hamlet chicken processing plant fire
nominated Hamlet chicken processing plant fire 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. Brad (talk) 09:36, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

FAR notice
nominated Duke 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. Dana boomer (talk) 21:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Mount Tabor High School
It's not a very important article, but I didn't want to mess with your templates since I'm not in this project. Anyways Mount Tabor High School isn't a stub anymore, I fixed it up, but it is still listed as such on the article talkpage. DavidSSabb (talk) 13:56, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject North Carolina
Someone recently suggested that this project may be inactive or semi-active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there has been no significant activity on either the main project page or the talk page since 2010. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 01:10, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds alright to me. I joined wikipedia a while back, but only in the last month or so have signed up for projects. You are right that this project seems to be semi-active. But, what would including it in the projects of WProj US really do? Isn't it already kind of a subset of that project? I'm for it. Anything that could help improve our articles and projects. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 04:10, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry this will be kinda long. How it will be supported can depend on what the members of the project want but typically since WPUS is a bigger project with a lot more members, it has a newsletter, a monthly collaboration, multiple bots that run actively through the articles for various things (as can be seen on the members page) with more being setup as we go along. This means that it will be seen by a lot of people in a lot of ways.


 * The project page with members stay basically as they are with the members able to dictate how things happen, scope of the project, etc. Its not going to be absorbed or dissolved in any way and the scope won't change unless the members want it too. The main change would be that the WikiProject banner would be replaced with the WPUS banner. You can take a look at Category talk:Visitor attractions in South Carolina to see an example.


 * We have standardized the parameters so that all the supported projects have a wide range of maintenance parameters including (Needs infobox, image, attention, geo coordinates, references, etc.). This also includes the ability to see which articles have comments or to do lists, which ones have been automatically assessed by a bot or have an inherited importance from another project by a bot. It reduces the number of banners cluttering up the talk page of the articles, allows various bots to do their business, etc. All the projects use the same article classes so I would expand the existing capability of the template so that all the content classes are supported for North Carolina as well. Currently the template for North Carolina only recognizes Fa, A, GA, B, C, Stub, Start, FL, List, NA and unknown.


 * Up till now we have mostly been concentrating on building up the infrastructure of the project, getting the newsletter and collaboration going, recruiting members and things like that. By the end of September though we will be done contacting the US related projects (there are over 200 of them) and will pretty much know who wants to be supported and who doesn't so then we will be able to start focusing our efforts on doing some drives to build up articles, create some new ones, do more recruiting for the supported projects, etc. I hope this helps. --Kumioko (talk) 13:46, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * After speaking with a couple of the members of the project its seems ok to move forward with adding this project to the supported projects list of WPUS. I am going to leave it open for a few more days to allow comments and then I will move forward. --Kumioko (talk) 20:34, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have added North Carolina to the list of supported projects. It may take a couple weeks for the bots to start sweeping through though. --Kumioko (talk) 02:02, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Sellerstown
Hi!
 * Drash, Wayne. "A little girl's memories stir questions about good and evil." CNN. September 17, 2011

...talks about Sellerstown, North Carolina But there's no article. Does anyone know more about the town? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 23:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks to additional CNN articles I found more info.
 * It does NOT show up on the US GNIS, so without CNN it's likely that there would be no article.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 16:55, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

North Carolina TV templates
I had some ideas for the North Carolina TV templates, but I wanted to discuss them here first. One idea was adding WYCW-DT2 to the CBS North Carolina template since it is broadcasting WSPA-TV. Similarly, WLOS-DT2 could be added to the MyNetworkTV North Carolina template since it is broadcasting WMYA. Both WYCW and WLOS are licensed to Asheville, but WSPA and WMYA are licensed in South Carolina.

mcy919 (talk) 22:23, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * You might try WP:TVS. - Dank (push to talk) 22:33, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Possible Charlotte hoax article
Do we have any Charlotte residents who could check out the article Sephardic Temple Adat David? It is suspected as a hoax because all the information in it was added by users and IPs who have been involved in other undoubted hoax articles, it cites no sources, gives no checkable detail like street number or website, and a quick internet search finds only obvious Wikipedia mirrors. The temple has been mentioned in the Charlotte, North Carolina article only since 22 Feb 2011 when it was added by an IP. If someone could take a quick trip down Caldwell Street, and it's really there, you could hardly miss it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:47, 23 October 2011 (UTC) check it on Gog. earth. should show up if it real. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diesel1507 (talk • contribs) 23:08, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Bob Timberlake (artist)
I'm working up an article (Bob Timberlake (artist)) with the goal of moving the article in main space as soon as it is ready, moving Bob Timberlake to Bob Timberlake (football player) and turning the main page into a disambig. Anyone that can help with the artist, please do. He is a part of Carolina history for sure, and has won lots of awards and such, so I'm quite confident on him passing the notability test here. Dennis Brown (talk) 19:18, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good plan, to me. This has been needed for a while now. I agree on the notability. Before we just rename the football player article, though, do we need to discuss it on that page as well? I'm not certain of that procedure. And if we do move it, we have to make sure to go through all the "What links here" to correct the dabs. I would suggest moving it to Bob Timberlake (American football), which is more in line with other American football players as opposed to soccer players. I'll see if I can help out some. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Update: I have moved the Timberlake article into mainspace (thanks to some great help from JoannaSerah and have moved the other articles as I had planned.  Anyone interested, feel free to fix any errors or add content.  This long needed article is finally live.  Now we need an article on the Galleries (working on getting photos of the Lexington gallery, I drive passed it every day) but the weather has been terrible every time I have a little time.  If anyone knows Bob, a photo of him under the CC would be swell. Dennis Brown (talk) 02:12, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

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) 19:45, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of articles.
I seem to have a communication problem with a user who wants to merge all the NC barbecue related articles into a single article, and get rid of the old ones. Including Lexington Barbecue Festival, North Carolina Barbecue Society, and has nominated Pigs in the City for deletion. I'm certainly open to any opinions and ideas on these pages. Dennis Brown (talk) 17:02, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

WPNC templates now merged to WPUS - NC
Per discussions above (see this and this), since our WikiProject appears to be semi-active at best, the project has become part of the WikiProject United States. We can still function as an independent project, but we will get much more help and oversight from the WPUS for general clean-up, administration, etc. The WikiProject North Carolina templates we used became deprecated in favor of. Please make sure to use this tag instead of the old templates or its variations. If we do get enough activity to branch out completely on our own, we can do that. I know there are many here who edit a lot of NC articles, but don't do much anything with the project since it has become semi-active. That is fine. If anyone is interested in starting the project up again and maintaining the Portal:North Carolina pages, just let us know here. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 02:46, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was marked as inactive
I just wanted to drop a note that WikiProject University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was recently marked as inactive. Additionally, there are a few other North Carolina related projects that appear to be inactive as well. Some of these may be worth pulling under WikiProject North Carolina/US. Does anyone have any ideas or comments about this? Here are a couple others:
 * 1) WikiProject East Carolina University - Only has about 65 articles and needs a lot of work. Doesn't appear that it ever gained much momentum. We might be able to just delete this one.
 * 2) WikiProject North Carolina State University - Appears to have been in active for a very long time. --Kumioko (talk) 15:58, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

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

DYK nom?
I just expanded the article Cary's Rebellion fivefold and added sources. if someone more experienced with DYK wants to nominate I'm all for it. Also if someone want's to give it a proofread that would probably be good too. -- InspectorTiger (talk) 22:50, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks pretty good. It's long enough and, as you state, recently expanded. For DYK, there really should be some fact/"hook" that you think should appear in the DYK section. Is there one point in the article that would appeal to other users as an interesting fact (and is that fact cited)? I've not nominated anything for DYK before, but will look into it as well. Thank you for your work. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 01:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Walter Dalton
This is just my opinion, but I think that in light of his current bid for Governor, the article for Walter H. Dalton should have its importance raised and be expanded upon. DavidSSabb (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I think your right. Even more so if he wins the job. --Kumioko (talk) 02:38, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know about that. Seems like it would be very one-side/POV promotion to just up his article importance. Really don't think we should unless we raise the importance of all those running for Governor. Since it is not definite yet who all will run, I think we should wait until after the primary election to see who will be the nominees. At the very least, wait until the filing period is over and see who is actually running. That won't be until closer to the end of February. Don't think we should simply up his importance simply because he is running for office. Definitely think his article needs to be expanded (but, then again, I think all articles need to be expanded). -- JoannaSerah (talk) 03:42, 30 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:North Carolina will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in North Carolina'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) 00:31, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Barbecue in North Carolina
Currently working on it at User:Dennis Brown/Barbecue in North Carolina. As a comparison, you can look to Barbecue in Texas. Hoping to get something worthwhile built within 2 to 3 months that is worthy of going mainspace. Would love to have some input from everyone here. Goal is to cover more than just Eastern vs. Lexington, but to cover the history, influences of other types, etc. A comprehensive article. Anyone wanting to help, grab a mop and come on over. Feel free to slash/cut/burn/add/reorganize to your hearts content, I don't own it, I just parked it. Dennis Brown (talk) 21:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Now that is going to be a good article when it's done! I just had eastern NC BBQ for lunch.  Does that mean I can't edit the article due to conflict of interest? :) --Andrew (User:90) (talk) 23:43, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Not a problem, as long as you can keep a neutral point of view and don't use original research. And even though I live in Lexington, I won't hold your choice of styles against you. ;) Dennis Brown (talk) 23:53, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

North Carolina Wine Festival
Just started this article, could use some help. I'm off to go to the 12th today in Clemmons, will take photos. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;   &copy;  14:26, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Appalachian State University
Is there a chance the Appalachian State article could be added to Articles to be expanded/improved? I've improved the page, but I can only go so far before I start violating WP:OWN and WP:COI. And frankly, I'm fresh out of ideas. I tried going through the Universities WikiProject but it's pretty much dead. DavidSSabb (talk) 05:07, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

South Yadkin River
I've created the stub South Yadkin River over a bad redirect. Anyone more familiar than I, feel free to jump right on in. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 17:32, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I've also added Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin which was also an improper redirect. There is finally a source for Pilot Mountain being the inspiration for Mount Pilot in the Andy Griffith Show, a source that is missing from many articles, and may be a reason to submit for DYK.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 17:09, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Started North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 13:16, 27 July 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)

Greetings!
I am Jayemd, the newest member of WikiProject North Carolina! --Jayemd (talk) 14:01, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * A little belated, I know, but: Welcome! Glad to have more users willing to focus on NC. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 06:15, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Welcome template proposal
I did not see a template to use for welcoming new project members. It has always been up to individual users to welcome new members with their own text. So I decided to create one to propose to the group. It is in a sandbox at WikiProject North Carolina/Welcome. See what you think about it and whether you think we need one or not. I think it could be a good tool to help new members out and be easier than individuals typing out their own messages. You can see how it looks substituted in my sandbox:  We can move it to the correct location if approved. As a second possible proposal, do you think we need an invitation template? Some other WikiProjects use this to invite users to join, such as Template:Hawaii invite or Template:Cardiologytaskforce/invitation. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 20:33, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No one has answered yet one way or the other, but I think this will be a good possible template to use. Will wait one more day then move it to proper template place and put on project page. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 13:28, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

NC Gen Web links
Some users were starting to add links to the www.ncgenweb.us website. While this may be a discussion for Wikipedia talk:External links, since this primarily covers North Carolina pages, I decided to start the discussion here. I think originally the edits by were reverted as being spam and/or violating WP:ELNO/WP:LINKFARM. I started reverting a couple of pages because it appeared that the user was simply edit warring. They referenced no discussions or any guidelines in their re-reverts. Discussion appears to be going on across a few users' talk pages, so I decided to centralize discussion here. Please let us know whether these are appropriate links or not and why. I am not convinced that these are necessary, but have been leaning toward inclusion. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 16:58, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Frankly, I'm not convinced that these are necessary links and really would rather someone not affiliated with the website had added those. Those are my main concerns. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 17:09, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this related to ncgenweb.us? I would like to know the exact tie-ins if any.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:45, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I have emailed the board advisor for the Genweb project to make sure that this is part of the official project. If so, then this isn't as bad as Wiki editors might think. Genweb formed out of volunteers well before Wikipedia existed for the purpose of helping give free information and pointing towards resources for those doing genealogy. They were not/have not been commercial to the best of my knowledge (unlike Rootsweb which was started that way but was bought out and is semi-commercial). They were oriented around many of the same premises that Wikipedia is and exist to help others.
 * True, it doesn't appear to be a bad resource. It isn't really an open wiki, so I was leaning toward inclusion. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 19:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep the links are fine.
 * The users are new, so the edit-warring was accidental.
 * The fact that the users are librarians affiliated with the project should add to the link's credibility not detract from it. Do we really want to tell the world's librarians that they should NOT add their areas of expertise to Wikipedia? It seem to me we've been putting forth a lot of effort to encourage librarians.
 * The links are very specific to each county.
 * The links point to collections of historical data including marriages, births, deaths, and the work of local historians. This information is very useful, but too detailed for us to simply include within these articles, therefore an external link is most appropriate.
 * The external links sections of these articles are either short or (prior to this) non-existent, so there's little risk at this point that these articles will turn into a "collection of links"
 * I'm sure we've already had these sorts of discussions regarding links to IMDB and to Find-a-Grave, and in both cases, the result was to keep the links as useful and relevant. If links to grave site information is relevant, I would think a link to births, deaths, and marriages would be at least as relevant.

Personally, I think the only reason these links were deleted in the first place was that the editors who deleted them did so because they had the "appearance" of link-spam and they failed to follow through and adequately examine these links. I went through the same thought process myself. When I first saw them, I thought "crap, link spam..." but then I examined the links and realized that they were an asset to Wikipedia. Also the fact that these users are using their real names and aren't hiding either the project or their relationship to it all points away from these links being useless spam. Rklawton (talk) 19:02, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Acutally, since they have a relationship to the site being put on, that actually points to it being spam. Most people don't spam things they have no relation to. I first started reverting because it looked like edit warring. (Spamming doesn't really have anything to do with it being a commercial site or not. Promoting any type of website could be considered spamming.) -- JoannaSerah (talk) 19:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * That said, I think now that they were doing it in good faith, After I reverted a couple, I saw the discussions. That's why I tried to consolidate discussion here. The users were just newer and didn't know the process. I guess the question is: Is it a reliable source? It appears so (it is not an open wiki site, but a closed volunteer group, it appears). But that would really be a discussion for WP:RSN. We should keep links to minimum but if it is deemed to be a worthy link it really should have been added by a third-party. We've not kept users' edits where they put theirs or some own genealogy sites in, but, often, those did not always appear to be reliable sources. I guess, it is just that I have seen "genealogy" sites taken off as external links often, so just wondering why this one is an exception. I'm not really saying take them off, I'm saying I'm not sure. So don't read this as a sign I want to just go through and delete them all. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 19:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I edit conflict anyone, but I do find point #6 above by Rklawton relevant. We do allow those as external links (not always as refs, though). Also the links provided are very helpful especially for those articles that don't have much on them. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 20:02, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Actually, a correction to Rklawton's good faith assumption that I reverted because the edits appeared to be spam. I don't know that I would characterize them as spam, but I disagree with adding them unless there is some sort of consensus. I don't see how geneology links are any more notable than dozens (perhaps hundreds) of other links, such as public libraries, Chambers of Commerce, public health departments, newspaper and other media websites, houses of worship, various civic and other nonprofit organizations, etc, etc, etc. Off the top of my head, I could link about 10 or 15 websites from my geographic area (and it wouldn't be spam; I consider them notable and informative), but I don't because then we have a linkfarm if I do that and a few other people add their favorite websites. I'm not criticizing geneology websites; I just don't see how they merit being placed ahead of so many other useful websites that if we added would double the length of a lot of articles. If I were a geneology enthusiast I might think differently, but then if I were a coin collector, I probably would agree with adding every link to anything having to do with numismatics. So that's why I wanted consensus; it had nothing to do with edit warring or spam (although I may have given the impression of spam since I used the standard templates on the user pages of editors who are adding the links. This is not an issue that I would climb the Reichstag to make my point, but I simply feel that if we allow geneology links without consensus, where do we draw the line? Let's consider Zymurgy's First Law Of Evolving Systems Dynamics: "Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can." My two cents. By the way, I don't know if this is considered an official consensus discussion, but if you need a vote, obviously it is to not allow the links. Cresix (talk) 01:07, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  09:39, 20 November 2012‎ (UTC)
 * Keep per Rklawton. I have received confirmation that this is indeed a part of the official project. For the NCGenweb then we would be talking about a single link to 100 county articles. The information is quite valuable to those with ties to the county and this is very specific and germane to the topic as the genealogy is part of each county's history. Our public libraries have dedicated sections for these purposes which illustrates the significance of the topic. Note: if this moves forward to a larger venue, I believe it would be ELN and not RSN...notability isn't the question here. At no point would I want Genweb used as a reliable source within an article but I feel that it is a good external link.

Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin
Gilderien and I are attempting to get this article to GA status. S/he helped us get a DYK for it already. I just loaded a ton of sources on the talk page, if anyone wants to help. My next goal will likely be to get Lexington Barbecue Festival to GA. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 15:20, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to help. I have an article (Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)) that I'm going to try to push through GAN and FAC once it's done with A-Class review at Wikiproject Military history, so some quid-pro-quo would be much appreciated when I submit that.  What specifically needs to be addressed?  I'm usually better with substantive/citation issues, as I'm a not-so-good copyeditor.  Cdtew  (talk) 16:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It needs general expansion. I've dumped a ton of sources on the talk page, just haven't gone through.  Needs wildlife, geographical data, etc., and context.  Then it can be cleaned up and we can make sure we have it all sourced.  Fort Dobbs is an hour from my house, not sure what I can do to help but just ping me.  Due to my job, my hours are irregular for a few months (seasonal) but will be gnoming and sourcing rather than admining anyway.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 16:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I will try to cover geographical data, and also probably a segment on human use and habitation history, since this was a fairly important river, both during the colonial/early state eras as well as during the era of industrialization.  Cdtew  (talk) 16:48, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a plan, I appreciate all the help I can get. I've lived in this area just over 20 years, so it isn't my "stomping ground", but it is my home. I really enjoy learning and writing about the area.  I've lived all over the US in my many years, and find this a fascinating area in so many ways.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 16:53, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to copyedit articles that are either related to or have a section on military history, whether they're tagged by WP:Milhist or not ... especially if there's a North Carolina connection (I live south of Greensboro). This particular article doesn't fit the bill, but there are a lot of geographical articles that devote a section to some relevant history. Please let me know if you're working on anything I can help with, guys. - Dank (push to talk) 17:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You should come over some time when Berean Hunter makes the big drive and we barbecue, every couple of months. I'm in Lexington, so I can't be more than a few miles from you.  Smoked ribs, chicken and bacon.  And beer, of course. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 18:13, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * As long as there's plenty of bacon. And beer. - Dank (push to talk) 18:32, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Just bacon for me, thank you. :) I'll see what I can find on the area. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 18:51, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You are invited as well, Joanna, although I'm not sure how far a drive it is. We really should have a NC get together.  I built a screened in grilling/smoking room at my house for occasions just like this. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 18:53, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to work on this this weekend, but I am starting to sandbox my section as we speak. A mixture of discovery deadlines at work and stupidly (courageously?) pushing my article straight through to FAC slowed me down this weekend.  Cdtew  (talk) 15:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * P.S. I sort of like the idea of having a Piedmont-area Wikipedia meetup. We could probably find somewhere relatively central (in fact, Lexington or Salisbury may be central to us all).  I'm in Mooresville, so only an hour or so away at most from any of you.  Cdtew  (talk) 15:27, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)

 * I would like to formally request any assistance (especially as a GAN reviewer!) my fellow project members would be willing to give to this article, as I have just nominated it for Good Article status. The article passed a fairly rigorous review at WikiProject:MilHist for A-Class status under that project, and so it shouldn't take much to get GA for this (I hope!)  Anyways, thanks for your help, and be sure to help with Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin above, which is also gearing up to try out for GA status.  Cdtew  (talk) 19:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I updated the WPNC "to do" list to include the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin and the Fort Dobbs articles under GA drives. These should keep us busy for the time being. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Welp, I've passed GAN, and it's officially a Good Article (or so they tell me). I'm continuing down the path towards FAC, so I have opened up a Peer review, specifically with an eye towards FA criteria.  I am also interested in expanding the archaeology portion, and so have some points there to discuss as well.  Thank you to everyone's help in this process, from new article to DYK to GA!  I look forward to continuing to work with all of you!   Cdtew  (talk) 15:34, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: FAC review is underway here  Cdtew  (talk) 04:36, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merger for North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture
See Talk:North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture WhisperToMe (talk) 21:15, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I've commented, and at this time I firmly oppose.  Cdtew  (talk) 04:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

FAC Comments needed
An article I created and have ushered through life is in suspension over at FAC, but for right now one of the delegates have stated that it primarily needs a spot-check. If anyone is interested in spot-checking or otherwise commenting on it, please go to Featured article candidates/Fort Dobbs (North Carolina)/archive1 and do so. Thanks!  Cdtew  (talk) 21:58, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Two proposals to motivate article creation and improvement
It seems like there's only a few people who actively participate in this WikiProject on a regular basis, with a number of people interjecting sporadically (which I have done in the past). I'm interested, however, in attempting to encourage people to become more active, and to incentivize that activity. I've been participating for a while now in the WP:MILHIST system as well as this Project's, basically killing two birds with one stone by expanding Wikipedia's NC content, while at the same time working in that project (which is very active). I like two of their ideas, which I suggest we implement in a modified fashion, here:


 * 1. Hold a contest each month/two months/quarter that challenges project members to create quality articles. If you look at WP:MILCON, they have a great monthly contest where they assign points to users based on the number of articles created, and the relative quality of each article as assessed at the end of the month versus its beginning of the month assessment.  I believe this originally came from WP:LGBT, where they ran a similar contest.  I think implementing this could be as simple as making a new linked sub-page, setting up the rules, and advertizing it among semi-regular WP:WNC editors.  I would volunteer to serve as a coordinator for this if the community thinks it's a good idea.


 * 2. Create a WP:WNC-specific Barnstar with Ribbons and possibly with a second-tier distinction. WP:MILHIST does this with WikiChevrons (2nd tier: WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves) for general service to the project, and A-Class Project Medals (2nd tier: with Oak Leaves; 3rd tier: with Swords; God tier: with Diamonds) for their A-class article creation program.  See here for those examples.  Wikiproject Illinois has the File:WikiProject Illinois Barnstar.png.  I would propose creating a barnstar theme based on our State's civilian award, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.  I'd call it the "Barnstar of the Long Leaf Pine", and have a second-tier be "with cotton blooms", and possibly a third-tier "with Golden pine cones".  Here's the catch: I have no idea how to design barnstars, and don't have photoshop.  I'd be glad to give it a try if someone could tell me how to do it with those conditions, though.

Anyways, interested to hear if anyone thinks these are worthwhile. Also, since I've been away for a long time, I don't know if these have ever been suggested before. If so, I apologize.  Cdtew  (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll be happy to do some of the copyediting for articles that are at FAC, and I'll be happy to show up when we're voting on something. - Dank (push to talk) 17:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Interesting ideas. I could help with the graphics. One thing to point out as well, which I've been meaning to post here, also, is that our project is also responsible for maintaining the North Carolina Portal pages. Now that we have more GA articles (and are driving for more), we probably need to restart nominating articles for NC Featured Articles (these don't have to be classified as FAs for our purposes, but I believe they should at least be GAs) and also keep the portal's newsfeed up to date. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 14:49, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * To that end, I've gone and nominated the same article I've been pushing for the past two months at GAN, MILHIST ACR, and FAC: see Portal:North Carolina/Featured/Nominate.   Cdtew  (talk) 13:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Regarding the awards/barnstars given, that would be a good idea. The suggestions by Cdtew sound pretty good. We should definitely work in the state symbols somehow, although I'm not sure what a box turtle or the Plott Hound barnstars would be for. :) Anyway...we can prepare and plan the stuff out and maybe start in March. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 14:49, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I like that idea; and hell, we could come up with as many trinkets and baubles as we think might develop interest in the Project and the Portal; since they're not wiki-wide, we'd just have to establish them as a matter of our Project's consensus. If anyone wants, I will try and develop a contest page just for modeling and testing purposes; if allowed, I'll use a new pagespace like WikiProject North Carolina/Contest.   Cdtew  (talk) 14:53, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Carolina Panthers GA
The Carolina Panthers, a topic of significant importance to North Carolina, is up for good article. If you are interested in commenting on or reviewing the article, please feel free to do so.  Toa   Nidhiki05  02:43, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC
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) 08:00, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

African Americans in North Carolina Edit-a-thon at UNC-Chapel Hill


Hi, all. The North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon, sponsored by several student groups at the  School of Information and Library Science, to improve or create Wikipedia articles pertaining to African Americans in NC.

The edit-a-thon is scheduled for Sunday, April 14th, from 1-5 p.m. in UNC's [Wilson Library]. If anyone is interested in attending, we'd love to have you - we will feed you, and give tours of Wilson, when you need a research break.

Here's the link to our event page, for more information, or to RSVP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/unc_edit-a-thon.

If you can't be there, but you know of some articles that need work, please leave them on my talk page - that would be a big help. Not just articles about people - we're looking at HBCUs, businesses, etc, as well. Czarinanc (talk) 15:15, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, all - Just a quick update on this event, FYI. We had 12 attendees, and if you follow that link above to the event page, it has been updated with our completed and improved articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Czarinanc (talk • contribs) 14:59, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Boone's Cave Park
A harder one to source, but I went and visited the other day, with too little lighting to get good photography. Will be back soon with more since it is just half an hour from the house. The article could use more hands. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124; © &#124; WER  13:05, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Carolina Panthers FAC
Hello; I have nominated the article Carolina Panthers, a high-importance article on this project, for featured article. As one of the three major professional sports teams based in North Carolina and perhaps the most prominent and popular one, this article is of unique interest to readers. All editors of this project are invited to comment on the featured article candidacy.  Toa   Nidhiki05  19:10, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

New article Moral Mondays
These protests clearly satisfy GNG, so I made an article from them using some material that was already in Pat McCrory. This is still a first draft, and could use additional attention. a13ean (talk) 17:52, 24 July 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)

College basketball team navigation templates
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Creation of these templates will impact articles on Carolina related teams such as Wake, UNC, Duke, NCSU, ECU, etc. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:38, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Discover Charlotte
Please review, fix, or delete this. Bearian (talk) 17:27, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Dan River
Given this unfolding disaster, our article on the Dan River may need more eyes watching it as well as any improvements that editors can make. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  03:10, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia edit-a-thon: African American history in North Carolina
Please join the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library for an edit-a-thon on the theme of African American history in North Carolina on 30 March 2014. In addition to some fun group editing, we'll have refreshments and will offer tours of the library. It would be great to see people from WikiProject North Carolina at the event! Sodapopinski7 (talk) 11:15, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

North Carolina Wikibook
We need help at the North Carolina wikibook. StudiesWorld (talk) 22:26, 9 April 2014 (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 ) 21:02, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Mary Willingham AFD
Articles for deletion/Mary Willingham Arbor to SJ (talk) 18:17, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Notice re NC politician article nominated for deletion
See: Articles for deletion/Tom Bailey (U.S. politician). – S. Rich (talk) 23:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:North Carolina articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 17:07, 12 October 2014 (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) 04:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine has been nominated for discussion
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides 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. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:27, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Missing North Carolina Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing North Carolina Supreme Court Justices at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:40, 5 June 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  15:23, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject North Carolina/The 1000 Challenge
This is up, needs more support and people to begin producing and running it long term!♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:41, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

What city limits is this place in?
I notice Carpenter Historic District (Raleigh, North Carolina) has Raleigh in its name but it says it's near Cary. Is this place in the Raleigh city limits or is it in an unincorporated area? It's unclear... WhisperToMe (talk) 14:55, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
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WCQS and Blue Ridge Public Radio
May I draw your attention to the WCQS Wikipedia page that is under WikiProject North Carolina. In the last few weeks they have created a new parent company: Blue Ridge Public Radio and a new sibling station to WCQS called BPR News. There is a lot of information that it out of date with our listing for WCQS including the transition to BPR and the addition of a new radio station BPR News. I am unfortunately not able to edit the page due to a financial conflict, but there is a summary of most changes on their talk page including references.

Thank you for your assistance! Rdecker47 (talk) 13:37, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
It has been suggested that John Canoe be merged into Junkanoo. Please discuss merger at talk:Junkanoo -- MassiveEartha (talk) 17:57, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Help with Sageworks updates
Hi! I'm reaching out to see if editors interested in North Carolina-related businesses would be able to look at some proposed updates for Raleigh-based Sageworks's article. In full disclosure, I'm here on behalf of Sageworks as part of my work with Beutler Ink. I believe there are some issues with the page's current content in terms of sourcing and due weight. To start with, I've suggested a proposal for the History section, to begin with something neutral and where it's a case of simply providing more encyclopedic content based on reliable sources.

A quick note about the history on the page prior to my involvement. More than two years ago, individuals from Sageworks edited without disclosure, created multiple accounts, and the accounts were rightly blocked for sockpuppetry; Sageworks understands and does not intend to appeal the block or try to directly edit the page again. There were also editors involved in discussions and editing the article whose opinions and suggestions appear to be motivated by a dislike for the company. Because of this history and the debates that followed, I think fresh eyes on the article in general would be helpful. If there's any feedback or questions, please let me know. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 16:45, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Following up to say this request has been reviewed. Of course if anyone has an interest in taking a look and has any questions, I'm more than happy to discuss. Cheers, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 21:03, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Include this Civil War general?
James Henry Lane (Confederate general) was born in Virginia and returned there after the Civil War. Immediately before the war, however, he was teaching at the North Carolina Military Institute and during the war he commanded a North Carolina infantry brigade. I leave it to those more involved with the WikiProject to decide whether he should be included. JamesMLane t c 09:10, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Haywood County
Just noticed this on the Haywood County page, there's a section the the Tuscola-Pisgah rivalry. Can someone with more expertise on the subject than me please comment on whether this section meets notability standards from a global point of view? Removing it takes out a significant portion of the Education section, but maybe there's something better that can be added instead of a local school rivalry. N. Jain (talk to me) 22:54, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

New North Carolina userbox templates
New North Carolina userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP North Carolina and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 22:59, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Terry Sanford
The Terry Sanford article is in need of some improvements, especially considering its rated as a Featured Article. See talk. -Indy beetle (talk) 20:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Newspapers
Greetings North Carolinians,

From reviewing [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fid%20%3Fcoords%20%3Farticle%20%3Fmapflags%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fc%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11032%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fc%20.%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%7Cwdt%3AP495%20wd%3AQ30%20.%0A%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5454%20%3Fid%20.%7D%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP291%7Cwdt%3AP159%7Cwdt%3AP131%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords.%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fpageid%20%3Fns%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22en.wikipedia.org%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Generator%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agenerator%20%22search%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agsrsearch%20%22insource%3A%5C%22infobox%20newspaper%5C%22%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agsrlimit%20%22max%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wikibase%3AapiOutputItem%20mwapi%3Aitem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fpageid%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20%22%40pageid%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fns%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20%22%40ns%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2015000%0A%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28SUBSTR%28str%28%3Farticle%29%2C%201%2C%2025%29%20%3D%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Fns%29%2C%22_infobox%22%2C%22_noinfobox%22%29%20AS%20%3Finfobox%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3Farticle%29%2C%22enwiki%22%2C%22noenwiki%22%29%20AS%20%3Fonwiki%29.%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%3Fonwiki%2C%3Finfobox%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20.%0A%0A%20%20BIND%28%20IF%28BOUND%28%3Farticle%29%2C%20%20%20IF%28BOUND%28%3Fns%29%2C%20%22009500%22%20%2C%20%22FFF000%22%20%29%20%20%2C%20%20%22FF0000%22%20%20%20%29%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%23hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArunFirst%20%22true%22.%0A%20%23OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5454%20%3Fid%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20 this handy map of newspapers with Wikipedia articles], it appears that your state has a whole lot of such articles. Congratulations! Is there a story about how that came to be -- did your WikiProject, or a local university, have a newspaper drive, or something? Or just a handful of editors who have chipped away at it over the years?

In case you haven't heard, has put together the Newspapers on Wikipedia WikiProject, and we're working to create 1,000 good stubs by mid-December. We'd love to have any of you join, and/or tell us about how you've approached this topic in the past so we can learn from your accomplishments. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 21:45, 13 September 2018 (UTC)


 * P.S. For those of you in the coastal area, please know that we're sending you our best wishes! -Pete Forsyth (talk) 21:46, 13 September 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)

Interstate 285
There is a requested move discussion taking place at Talk:Interstate 285 that people here may be interested in following. –Fredddie™ 06:16, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Terry Sanford at FAR
I have nominated Terry Sanford 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. -Indy beetle (talk) 06:05, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:48, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
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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)