Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Polynesia/Archive 1

Polynesia discussion from WikiProject Council/Proposals
Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, the Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna.

Temporary Project Page: User:/WikiProject Polynesia

User: User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments It is I believe understood that this project would focus its efforts primarily on those countries which are not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.
 * User:gadfium. I'm the maintainer of Portal:Oceania, and have an interest in the area.
 * User:Zora. Did graduate research in Tonga and Hawaiian archives. Speak Tongan and some Hawaiian. Unfortunately, I'm grotesquely over-committed to several other projects (Indian cinema, Islam, clothing).
 * Chris 05:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Avenue 12:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC). Not sure how much I can help, as I have little expertise or (currently) spare time, but I am interested.
 * Given the existence of the Portal:Oceania, would people like to see the proposed Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia projects merge into one proposed Oceania Project, to develop a similar scope? Badbilltucker 21:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand?
I see the Wikiproject banner has been added to Talk:New Zealand. While New Zealand is undoubtedly part of Polynesia, I think it is stretching the resources of this project too far to try to take New Zealand on board. We should adopt specific articles which are more relevant to Polynesia, such as Pasifika (should it ever get written), but the country overall is too ambitious.- gadfium 08:17, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree a lot of NZ-related articles would be better left to the NZ WikiProject, probably including the New Zealand article. Many articles in Category:Māori might be relevant, although again the NZ project seems to be making reasonable progress on those. Just looking around, I get the impression that Polynesian aspects (besides Māori) of New Zealand culture are a bit neglected. The lack of a Pasifika article is one example, or look at Category:Ethnic groups in New Zealand. -- Avenue 11:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Personally, as the person who added the tag, I tried to include all the articles which are mentioned on the Polynesia page, including Hawaii as well. However, in cases like these, I think we would limit ourselves only to those main articles, and let the other projects which deal with the subjects more specifically handle all the other pages relating to the subject. Basically thinking we might be slightly able to help with maps, maybe some history, and a few other things relating to the main subject, but limiting ourselves only to those main articles. Of course, if others disagree, they are free to remove the tags. John Carter 14:33, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The other, more original name for "New" Zealand is Aotearoa. There remains, despite the first two comments, a significant indigenous population, Maori, linked closely to the rest of Polynesia, including the original Maori in the "Cook" Islands, Maohi in "French" Polynesia, and Maoli in Hawaii. Polynesia predates colonial borders by, oh, a few centuries or so. This should very much definitely stay, if that's not being too emphatic. avaiki (talk) 20:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * PS thanks for showing me how to indent with the little colon thingys!

New article
Hoa Hakananai'a, the Easter island statue in the British Museum. Totnesmartin 19:14, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

User sm, User smo
Are there no templates like User sm, User smo, User smo-3? ... It's not for me ;-) --Roland2 07:58, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I have looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_language . It would not appear that there are. :( Chris 02:43, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Rename and expansion

 * Description : I propose to expand the now-inactive WikiProject American Samoa into WikiProject Samoa to be more inclusive of both Samoas and all Samoan-topics. Including the independent nation, with three times the population, would improve (and perhaps save) the existing Project. Not to mention the large Samoan diaspora, Los Angeles being the largest Samoan city, as well as notables who have come from the culture, like The Rock, Sosene Anesi...


 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) Chris 04:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

You could request that the project change its scope, and, if whatever response you got was affirmative and sufficient, change the existing project page, templates, blah blah blah. At that point, you could start tagging the articles of the new broader scope and try to get members that way. Listing it on the Community Portal would probably work too. But you really should get the approval of the project itself before making such changes. Of course, if others were to join the project and agree to the changes, no one could argue that. John Carter 22:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

alternate mergefrom WikiProject American Samoa
As WikiProject American Samoa seems to have been inactive since the turn of the year, I propose making it a taskforce of this project, WikiProject Polynesia/Samoan Islands task force. That will ensure it won't get deleted (the WP:Council has been cleaning out inactive projects in recent months) and it will standardize that project with our existing MoS and membership base. Chris 05:29, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Tokelau
Hello! Tokelau could use some attention. All help is appreciated. Perspicacite 04:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Translation help HI -> EN?
See Talk:Capparis sandwichiana talk. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 05:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Review request
Could somebody please review O le Ao o le Malo? Myself and several other editors are working to get this article to an FA and we would like to know how we are doing so far and what else is needed. -- Shark face  217  22:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merger with WikiProject American Samoa
Given the inactivity of the above named project, I propose it be merged in as a work group of this project. The project banner is already adjusted to accomodate the merger.


 * 1) Support John Carter (talk) 19:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - I only came to the American Samoa wikiproject to notify any interest about the upcoming creation of the American Samoa towns/villages/islands and it seems that since it's inactive, I will just make the suggestion here on this centralized wikiproject. Would there need to be a merger with the regular Samoa wikiproject (+ any other wikiprojects that bud of from wp:Polynesia) or is the American Samoa wikiproject particularly inactive? Calaka (talk) 11:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

French Polynesian politics
Can anyone here sort out the pages on the politics and politicians of French Polynesia? Numerous changes of President have left most of these articles seriously outdated, and while I have made efforts to at least note who is the current President, they could do with a good cleanup. I'm confused whether there's a difference between President of French Polynesia and President of the French Polynesian assembly. If there's no difference, then we need to add Edouard Fritch to President of French Polynesia for two days in February.

The articles I think need a cleanup include: and maybe:
 * Gaston Flosse
 * Gaston Tong Sang
 * Oscar Temaru (I removed a large amount of material in French - someone more fluent in the language than I could possibly evaluate it)
 * Politics of French Polynesia
 * French Polynesian legislative election, 2008
 * Edouard Fritch
 * President of French Polynesia

Is there a better place than this to ask for such help?- gadfium 21:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

To answer the opening questions above, there IS a difference between the president of the assembly and the government. Under the French system, President of the Assembly = Speaker. President of the Government = Prime Minister, for those labouring under Westminster concepts. avaiki (talk) 20:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Rongorongo
Finally got rongorongo up to FA status, but I see it hasn't been rated for the Polynesia project yet. I don't see any criteria for rating its importance. Someone here wanna take a look? kwami (talk) 21:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

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Rennell Island
Hello,

Please have a look at Rennell Island Solomon Islands. I have added a great deal of information. thanks--Phenss (talk) 07:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Tu'i Tonga Empire
In April last year, I saw this article (Tu'i Tonga Empire) and thought it was interesting, so I added it to the queue of selected articles for Portal:Oceania. However, since that time the article has been edited by very many anons with no meaningful edit summaries or discussion on the talk page. Some edits have removed material, and a great deal has been rewritten. At a quick glance, I (who know nothing about the subject) can't tell whether the overall result is an improvement. I won't use it at this time for the portal. Could someone more knowledgable about Tongan history take a look at the article please.- gadfium 22:39, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Will check it out. A lot of Tongan have create or edit an article to promote themselves or a personal agenda with no independent verification at all.Puakatau (talk) 17:08, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

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Samoa
Just logging myself in here...I'm focusing on pages in Samoa and expanding pages like Savai'i. I'm creating geo stubs on Savai'i and starting to list villages and info on the island. Teine Savaii (talk) 11:03, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Governors of American Samoa
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Teahupo'o: false pronunciation
Hello! I don't know where someone have heard this 'chopo', but it's totally wrong! (i am from Fr. Pol.) The colloquial pronunciation is 'teh-ah-w-poh' with the "Te ahu" part quickly pronounced as a triphtongue without any 'h' and the "po'o" part is short and ignores the glottal stop. The "formal" pron. is 'teh-ah-hoo-poh-|oh'. I can't correct this myself because there's no 'edit' window there on WAP (I don't have any PC): could someone do this for me, and talk about the two problems the local population has with Billabong? Thank you.193.253.141.65 (talk) 12:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Though someone else has the same signature, this is the 1st time I write here, despite "my history".


 * Hi, I've removed the pronounciation note in the header of the Teahupo'o article, as 'cho-po' does appear wrong for this Polynesian word. Thanks for the alert. I don't know how to add the proper pronounciation squiggles - so haven't replaced it with another term. Happy editing. teinesaVaii (talk) 07:54, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

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discrepancy
population on graph indicates population of slightly over 100,000 the text lower on shows 900,000+ why so unclear? 174.27.209.188 (talk) 02:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Which article are you talking about?- gadfium 06:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Māori task force at WikiProject New Zealand
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new article
There's a new article Eastern polynesia, it's rather sad looking at the moment, and it needs some TLC!  Schwede 66  08:08, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have redirected it to Eastern Polynesian languages because the term is not a geographical one but a linguistic one. You only have to look at a map to see that New Zealand, linguistically a key part of the Eastern Polynesia languages, is one of the westernmost parts of triangle Polynesia. I will tidy up any links, etc, within the next couple of days. As I do that I will think about whether a disambig page would be helpful. Kahuroa (talk) 18:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to add American Samoa work group under WikiProject United States
Greetings, I am a member of WikiProject United States, it was recently suggested that American Samoa work group might be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States, which Kumioko and me have added some of the projects like WikiProject American television and WikiProject United States Government under the WikiProject United States banner. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. If you have any thoughts, questions or comments, please let me know. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  10:17, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Since there doesn't seem to be any oppostition in the last 3 months I am going to go ahead and add this project to the WPUS supported projects list as well as to the WPUS template. --Kumioko (talk) 02:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Polynesia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Polynesia'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) 22:13, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Sulieni Layt
The following is a repost of the thread here: "I have written an article about Tongan TV personality Sulieni Layt but the administrator has noted that this person is non-notable. I have added links to the page and an edit summary for the Wikipedia team with the hope it won't be deleted within 13 days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulieni (talk • contribs) 05:57, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like it was deleted after the discussion at Articles for deletion/Sulieni Layt. Part of the problem might be that his name is Julian (Sulieni) Layt, so seaching only under Sulieni Layt may not being forth articles on the topic. Another problem is that he is in Tonga and the reliable source material is in Tonga, but perhaps not available on the internet to the general Wikipedia editor. You'll have to find the sources yourself. Maybe you can get help at WikiProject Polynesia. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 04:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)"

Can you help him out? -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 04:09, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

WP:MOS Polynesia
Hi. Is there an equivalent for this project to Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles to address questions like Talk:Ha‘apai]]. Btw Alerts aren't listed on project homepage... Cheers.In ictu oculi (talk) 06:42, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Waka
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File:NativeHawaiianGroup1890.jpg
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WikiProject Oceania
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WP:OCEANIA wants to replace your banner with the WikiProject Oceania one
See WT:OCEANIA where it's been proposed to remove every placement of WikiProject Polynesia with WikiProject Oceania -- 65.92.182.123 (talk) 04:08, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Easter Island and Oceania maps
So I know that Easter Island is part of Polynesia. A Wikipedia/Wikimedia map involving LGBT rights and same-sex marriage in Oceania showed multiple countries and territories, but the map did not include Easter Island. Is Easter Island part of Oceania and should it be added to the map?

To participate in this discussion (experts requested), please go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Same-sex_marriage_map_Oceania.svg which is the talk page/discussion for https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Same-sex_marriage_map_Oceania.svg

Thanks,

TenorTwelve (talk) 03:40, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Category: Hawaiian cuisine VS Category: Polynesian cuisine?
Can Cateogry:Hawaiian Cuisine be added as a subcategory to Category:Polynesian Cuisine? I'm not sure if it really applies, as many Hawaiian dishes are derived from non-Polynesian sources. The Verified Cactus 100% 20:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * In addition, which Hawaiian dishes would qualify? The Verified Cactus 100% 16:12, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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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  11:00, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Tawhanga Nopera
Articles for deletion/Tawhanga Nopera Maori Academic. I need any assistance you can muster. there are sources at Google Scholar, but I have no appropriate language skills to find other sources. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:17, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 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)

Invitation to new WikiProject
A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 02:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Samoan Scouting
Can someone help render Be Prepared, the Scout Motto, into Samoan? Thanks! Chris 03:53, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merger with WikiProject Polynesia
For purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Polynesia/Archive 1. John Carter (talk) 19:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

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

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

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable )  22:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for American Samoa
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 20:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

American Samoa articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:American Samoa articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that American Samoa is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot ( Disable ) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 04:43, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 02:31, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  02:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

American Samoa 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 American Samoa 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 00:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Feedback please on improving Samoan language article
Hi all, any feedback and sugggestions on improving and cleaning up the Samoan language article would be much appreciated - please post at Talk:Samoan language. Ta. teinesaVaii (talk) 07:38, 18 November 2010 (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) 03:07, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to add American Samoa work group under WikiProject United States
Greetings, I am a member of WikiProject United States, it was recently suggested that American Samoa work group might be inactive or semi active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States, which Kumioko and me have added some of the projects like WikiProject American television and WikiProject United States Government under the WikiProject United States banner. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. If you have any thoughts, questions or comments, please let me know. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  02:03, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Since there hasn't been any comment I am going to go ahead and add this to WPUS. Since it a task force of Polynesia though I am not going to add it as a Joint project. --Kumioko (talk) 16:11, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 03:07, 24 February 2011 (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) 02:14, 13 August 2012 (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) 20:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Pago Youth FC
I am trying to improve the quality of articles on footballing matters of many small nations, one of which is American Samoa, as you can see on my User page. I found this article about the American Samoan football club Pago Youth. I need any help I can get with getting information for the article so if anyone can help I (and the whole of this workgroup and Wikipedia) would be greatful, thanks!

-User:KHarber —Preceding undated comment added 19:31, 25 July 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) 18:49, 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) 23:31, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

WPUSA banner
I've suggested a change to the WPUSA banner to add optional signing on of American Samoa onto the WPUSA banner. This would not change the signing on through WPPOLYNESIA banner (which itself is being considered to be replaced by the WikiProject Oceania banner (see WT:WikiProject Oceania for the proposal of that)). This would merely add WPUSA as a way of indicating this project. -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 08:24, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Oceania 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 ) 20:30, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Just made Cannabis in American Samoa
If anyone has any news/government resources to expand it, or definitely any photos, please do so. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 02:50, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:46, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:15, 8 November 2016 (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)

Inactive subprojects
A lot of the subprojects for this project - notably WikiProject Cook Islands, WikiProject Niue, WikiProject Tonga, American Samoa work group and French Polynesia work group - are marked as "inactive". Do people want to work on fixing this? (I've been working on Cook Islands recently, having done some work before that on Tongan and Niuean politicians).--IdiotSavant (talk) 05:28, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Caroline Island
I have nominated Caroline Island 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  03:28, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Fetu
It has been suggested that an article created in 2002, putatively about a Samoan god, might be a hoax. Comments from any subject-matter experts would be greatly appreciated at Articles for deletion/Fetu. Thanks. -- Tamzin (she/they) &#124; o toki tawa mi. 21:28, 22 June 2021 (UTC)