Wikipedia talk:WikiProject North Dakota/Archive 5

List of United States federal courthouses in North Dakota
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 21:24, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Just an thought...
I just thought I'd get some feedback on a version of the North Dakota flag I found at VectorPortal. To me, it looks better than the current one. I just want to see what the rest of WP:WPND thinks of this one compared to the current (old one left, new one right):



Using Inkscape, I've modified the SVG to match the colors of the existing one so that in case this does replace the current it will be a smooth change. If you want what the state says is the state flag, click here. Though, I've never seen it look like that.

I'm not all that great at editing SVG's, but if the colors should be changed, I can do that. -- Myrtle T Turtle  (  talk  )  23:26, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

North Dakota articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the North Dakota articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:24, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:56, 9 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) 20:02, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

historic sites articles in Fargo and rest of ND
Hey, there's some debate going on at Talk page of WikiProject NRHP, about whether starting stub articles for historic sites is very helpful or not. I started up Northern Pacific Railway Depot (Fargo, North Dakota) and about half of the 32 articles that National Register of Historic Places listings in Cass County, North Dakota provides links for. There were some existing articles, and there are about a dozen redlinks now. The new articles do all include links to good sources, the NRHP nomination documents, which are available online. Could editors here consider the started articles, and consider adding to them? Are articles developed just that far a help or not? --doncram (talk) 22:13, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Update: I and some others are settling down to work on an article starting-and-improvement drive for NRHPs listed in Grand Forks County, instead.  Draft articles which may be helpful both in starting new articles and in adding material to existing articles are available at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand Forks County, North Dakota/drafts.  About these drafts or anything else, please feel free to comment here, or to comment at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, or to contact me at my Talk page.  This particular county list-article is a focus of some discussion elsewhere, as it is pilot test for the software that generated the /drafts.  I notice many photos and several already-existing articles for Grand Forks County were nicely done in 2009 by editor User:Glorioussandwich.  Help now further developing this county would be appreciated! --doncram (talk) 15:12, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:20, 15 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) 19:17, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

North Dakota Infobox suggestion
The North Dakota project page is already quite full, so I am suggesting this infobox for the consideration of project members here on the talk page. --DThomsen8 (talk) 19:33, 28 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) 02:38, 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) 02:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

2011 Missouri River Floods
The floods article really needs some local expertise from North Dakota. If somebody is up to it, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.Americasroof (talk) 20:34, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject North Dakota
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) 01:11, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open for 6 days without comment. Does anyone have any comments about this suggestion? --Kumioko (talk) 20:32, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Since this has been open for 11 days now without comment I am going to go ahead and add it to the Supported projects list. --Kumioko (talk) 01:14, 14 September 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)

Elbow Lake
Hello all, does anyone know of an "Elbow Lake" located near Garrison in McLean County, ND? Maybe it is very tiny, because I had no success finding it via Google (or Google Maps). I wanted to properly link (red link) the location for the articles Max, North Dakota; and Elbow Lake (a disambiguation page). Thank you for your help. Hamamelis (talk) 01:34, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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

Colleges and universities list nom
Hi all. Just a quick note that I nominated List of colleges and universities in North Dakota for featured list status. I would love for it to have some more input, as there are little to no ND-related FLs. You can find the nomination page at Featured list candidates/List of colleges and universities in North Dakota/archive1. Thanks,  Ruby  2010/  2013  18:56, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/St. Boniface Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site
Please have a look. I do not feel myself qualified enough.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:20, 15 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Decision was Keep all. -- do ncr  am  19:37, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

links from town, county, other ND articles
I and some others have been starting and developing articles for North Dakota's historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, indexed from National Register of Historic Places listings in North Dakota. We're getting close to having at least a stub article for every one, of more than 400! I wonder if any local editors could help make links to this articles from corresponding town/city/county articles....

It's good to have mention, in a town article, of the one or two or three NRHP-listed historic sites in that town.

Your support and help would be appreciated. Cheers, -- do ncr  am  19:37, 31 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) 02:13, 13 August 2012 (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) 18:47, 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) 23:28, 31 August 2013 (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!

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

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

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)

South East Multi-County Agency Narcotics Task Force (North Dakota)
Could you kindly add South East Multi-County Agency Narcotics Task Force (North Dakota) to your project? The group is quite secretive and the more editors aware of it the better. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 13:51, 25 July 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  15:28, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

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

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:50, 30 May 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)

MfD nomination of Portal:North Dakota
Portal:North Dakota, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Dakota and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:North Dakota during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:36, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

New North Dakota userbox templates
New North Dakota userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP North Dakota and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:00, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

FAR for Grand Forks
I have nominated Grand Forks, North Dakota 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. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  02:19, 3 January 2021 (UTC)