Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Papua New Guinea/Archive 1

Request for help at Tok Pisin Wikipedia and Betawiki
Hi all. I am seeking some fairly urgent assistance for a project on the Tok Pisin wikipedia, which requires NATIVE speakers of the Tok Pisin language to help. I am translating the Mediawiki interface messages via Betawiki, and we desperately need a native speaker to assist, since I am only a Level 2 speaker (Dispela yusa i save hap hap long Tok Pisin). If you can help, please contact me on my user page and I will direct you to the site. Thanks. Thor Malmjursson (talk) 16:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Papua New Guinea
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Coordinators' working group
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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Not both disambiguation and Papua New Guinea province
The Jimi article should not be both a disambiguation page and a Papua New Guinea province description at the same time. Someone should take the time to separate the two purposes. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:20, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I've fixed that page and tried to improve it a bit, but someone more familiar with it (i.e. a member of this project and not me!) needs to have a look at Jimi Valley to make sure I got it okay. (John User:Jwy talk) 19:08, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
A vote to move Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to Elizabeth II is being held at Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. — what a crazy random happenstance 02:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD discussion of 2010 Papua New Guinea bus crash
There is a discussion at Articles for deletion/2010 Papua New Guinea bus crash regarding the notability of 2010 Papua New Guinea bus crash. The comments of members of this project would be welcome. - Eastmain (talk) 00:25, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:22, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Papua New Guinea articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Port Moresby photo request
Hi! I have a Port Moresby photo request: WhisperToMe (talk) 03:12, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Air Niugini head office: Air Niugini House Port Moresby, National Capital District Jackson’s Airport

Stubs for populated places
Regarding Aheri, Papua New Guinea I received the following:


 * So, what am I supposed to do now! add a project tag, add coordinates properly, add an infobox, search for references for the article and add, provide some information on the place. The reason India may be seen to be a bit of a mess is that editors have come in and created just such those articles as you have done (in quantity) and those of who wish to provide content for our readership are overloaded with useless stubs such as the above to contend with (Crusoe8181 (talk) 11:33, 23 July 2011 (UTC)).

I have to say I did only create a few of such stubs and mostly to prevent that people think their "Aheri" is the only one in the world and move it to the plain name.

I would like input from the PNG project whether they want no such stubs for places in PNG. Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 12:01, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

To better sort the items from Category:Populated places in Papua New Guinea, I created: Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 12:41, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Category:Populated places in Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
 * Category:Populated places in East Sepik Province
 * Category:Populated places in Madang Province
 * Category:Populated places in Morobe Province
 * Category:Populated places in Sandaun Province
 * Category:Populated places in West New Britain Province

WP:PNG is under the monitor of WP:AUS which means no they'll kick up a storm if you create small stubs..♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:19, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Uncontrolled creation without responsibility is one of the encyclopaedia's biggest problems - in credibility terms, it's huge, especially if the sourcing isn't there to support it, and it creates a maintenance nightmare for small projects such as this one that don't have the resources to cope with the barrage. (I love how you seem to see it as a problem that a bigger neighbouring project has extended a helping hand to a project to help it out - is Wikipedia simply meant to be a playground for you and your friends to spread confetti around?) In essence I see it more as ultimately the fault of ranking systems such as WBE which become competitive and rank quantity over quality. If you're really bored, there *are* a bunch of articles needing creating - basically, all the redlinks contained within the "Towns and major villages" sections of the district articles I just fixed up (the districts of Central Province (Papua New Guinea)) as every one of them's been verified off local sources and we even have exact 2000 populations and lat/longs to 6dp. Orderinchaos 22:20, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * After seeing that post, I thought I'd help out. I made an invitation to the WikiProject now displayed at the PNG Portal. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:34, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Peter O'Neill
This article is being considered for the front page. see In_the_news/Candidates. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:04, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Source
I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 05:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Counts, David (McMaster University). "Too Many Bananas, Not Enough Pineapples, and No Watermelon At All: Three Object Lessons in Living with Reciprocity." (Archive). Article 15.

Chimbu or Simbu?
The article is at Chimbu Province, the category at Category:Simbu Province. I've just created Category:Populated places in Chimbu Province (to accommodate the stub for Mingende) but had to make it a child of the above. Could we standardise on one or the other for the article and categories? Pam D  09:37, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Papua New Guinea place noinated for deletion
Please note, Infobox Papua New Guinea place has been nominated for deletion. This notice is obviously late, as discussion has already been underway for eight days, so comments should be made sooner rather than later. The discussion may be found here. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 00:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * This template is now being deleted as the result of the discussion. However, I have listed this at WP:DRV. The discussion may be found at Deletion review/Log/2013 August 14. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 05:36, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Oceania
FYI, there's a proposal for a coordinating project for Oceania (akin to WP:South America, WP:Asia), see WikiProject Council/Proposals/Oceania -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:42, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Island sub-stubs
A batch of unreferenced stubs have been created with minimal, sometimes ungrammatical, content: eg this whose only text is "Bonvouloir Islands is an island of Papua New Guinea.". I'm cleaning some of them up as I stub-sort them, but I don't know if they're even notable (no indication whether they are inhabited), and they need redirects or dab page links from their name without "Island" (eg Bonvouloir - I've just created the dab page there), and they have no coordinates. It looks as if they may have been created with the aim of turning redlinks in Islands of Papua New Guinea into bluelinks, but they need a lot more work. Over to you. Pam D  07:30, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 14:38, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Eipomek
Dear Papua New Guinea experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable topic? There is a small stub at Mek people. Is this the same group? Or, if it's a subgroup, should it have its own article or be added to the Mek people article? There are plenty of book references about the Eipomek, which I am willing to add. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 22:07, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Papua New Guinea Independence Medal has been nominated for discussion
Category:Recipients of the Papua New Guinea Independence Medal, 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) 00:34, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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