Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Diego

SoCal WIKNIK Summer 2020 Meetup - far reaching! Help Plan?
Hi all, anyone want to help me start planning a SoCal WIKNIK Summer 2020 Meetup?! Invitation/reach would include much of California, soCal, Inland Empire, Riverside, possibly Tijuana Mexico, ..but invites would specifically reach especially LA, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego... '''Is anyone interested in helping to plan this? Please contact me.''' Thanks! --From Peter a.k.a. Vid2vid (here's his talk page), 🖋 on 18:51, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Such a large reaching event would need to involve Wikimedians of Los Angeles, which has the large geographical scope of Greater Los Angeles, as well as Wikimedia Mexico whose geographical scope includes Baja California.-- RightCow LeftCoast ( Moo ) 02:03, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:United_States_International_University_(USIU)
I am looking for help to preserve an important and rich SD story regarding a now defunct University (USIU).

I was trying to get the page started and then let the wider community contribute as there are so many rich threads associated with this (and I am a total novice on Wiki). There are disparate pages on Wikipedia out there which I have included below, but I believe this needs to be organized into one page.

Wiki Admin has told me the page already exists so I can't publish it, referring to Alliant International Univ. However, these two organizations are now really distinct. Alliant is a for-profit corporation (2015), USIU was a not-for-profit liberal arts school with a rich collegiate background. It was suggested that I publish it all to the Alliant page which 'exists'. Then later suggest a separate page for it. I need help to accomplish this (novice).

The fact is that for +50 years of existence USIU was always in financial trouble. In 2001 it merged with another school, California School for Professional Psychology (CSPP). CSPP was also in equally dire straits. The new entity was called Alliant International University. Somehow CSPP's legacy has been preserved with its own Wiki Page, but USIU does not have one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_School_of_Professional_Psychology

In 1966, The Cal West Univ president created USIU. It was a beautiful attempt at creating one university with campuses all around the world - To bring the world closer (in 1966 can you imagine). The land for their main campus is now Point Loma Nazarene. It had an athletics program that produced professional NFL and NHL players (yes Ice Hockey in San Diego at a university, at the time any ice hockey west of Colorado was considered ridiculous - and still is?). The mascot was the 'Gulls" - Which is now the SD pro Team's namesake. There are numerous articles I have found, from Sports Illustrated as well as coverage by the Union Tribune, Reader, etc. Not just Ice Hockey, USIU produced NFL players and had one of the most legendary coaches in Football history did a stint there. For basketball there is even a documentary about one of its basketball players, who still holds a Division 1 record for his time there. He was made homeless when the program got cut and he lost his scholarship. This is really a forgotten SD legacy.

The larger community has tried to establish some sort of legacy with its own Alumni page (Separate from Alliant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_International_University_alumni And an: Ice Hockey Team has a page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_International_Gulls_men%27s_ice_hockey It is odd that these exist without a link to USIU.

Now to make things a little worse, in 2015 Alliant International became a For-Profit Corporation (no athletics, completely different entity as well.) I feel this is big distinction with USIU, and further warrants USIU to have its own distinct page in the large encyclopedia context as a point of reference. The goals of Alliant are now drastically different from USIU.

I think it is a great read so far and definitely can become better with retrieval of more articles especially from the school archives. For example, one thread I have only brushed the surface on is about the wealthy international students who attended. For example, there was a Saudi Prince's there who had a road paved for his luxury car because he didn't like the gravel (ridiculous right?). Another is, at the height of the cold war USIU had Russian and American kids together here in SD on one Ice Hockey team.

Can anyone out there help me preserve this which is: the good, bad and visionary legacy of the USIU story better on Wiki? --Happy2Help619 (talk) 14:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Happy2Help619 (talk • contribs) 03:58, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Update: I stumbled across this notice in February 2021 and immediately realized that of course USIU needs an article - a university with a 80-year history! The proposed draft had been rejected as "already covered at Wikipedia", but there was no article, just a redirect. So I improved the draft a little (it was already in very good shape) and moved it to mainspace as an article. It is now at United States International University. Better late than never. -- MelanieN (talk) 20:37, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

You're invited to an Edit-A-Thon on Monday 25 September 2023
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/September 2023. RightCow LeftCoast ( Moo ) 22:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

"Hillcrest, California" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillcrest,_California&redirect=no Hillcrest, California] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. RL0919 (talk) 02:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)