Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting for Girls

Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, many wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
 * 1) supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
 * 2) opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced BLP articles if they are not sourced, so your project may want to source these articles as soon as possible. See the next, message, which may help.

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people
If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here
 * List of cleanup articles for your project

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles that your project covers, to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

Ikip 05:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * At the moment this would only affect one article - Scouting for Girls - which is referenced, so there's nothing for WP:SFG to worry about at the moment. AnemoneProjectors (talk) 14:09, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Lol there is only one biographical article in this subject. Oh well. thanks for responding... best wishes! Ikip 22:06, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Template:Wikipedia Ads
Is this project worthy of an ad? I don't know what makes one suitable. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 15:34, 20 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I can't say in all my years on Wikipedia I have ever seen or heard of that. anemoneprojectors   talk  19:32, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Really? Wow! So, having looked at them, what do you think? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 08:51, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't know what makes one suitable either! But you could try. anemoneprojectors   talk  11:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll ask my adopter (Fetchcomms) for help. I'm told he's good at this sort of stuff. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 13:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Feel free to have a look at the conversatiion here. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 17:40, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Right, it's done. You can see it above in other news This Ain't a Love Song (Scouting for Girls song) has been deleted. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 16:17, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately my internet connection doesn't allow animated gifs to load so I can't see it in full :( The article was redirected, not deleted. I have to agree, since the song hasn't charted and therefore fails WP:NSONGS. It's released next week though, so perhaps next Sunday when the chart is released, the article can be recreated (or just revert the redirect with the new information added to it). anemoneprojectors   talk  19:30, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

This Ain't a Love Song
How can we get it back on its own feet? Discuss improvements below. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 12:19, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Suggestions

 * List chart positions? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook)
 * iTunes #1? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook)


 * Recreate on Sunday when the official chart is revealed on Radio 1. As long as it's in the top 40 it'll pass WP:NSONGS. Listing the iTunes chart position is not allowed as iTunes is listed on WP:BADCHARTS as a chart relating to a single retailer. anemoneprojectors   talk  12:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Do you have any other suggestions on how to improve it? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 12:43, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * If some information on the background of the song is available, what it's about, etc, that would be good, and something about the music video. But the article still won't be recreatable until it charts. anemoneprojectors   talk  13:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It's #1 on the midweek charts. Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 08:06, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Midweek charts aren't official. But the article was recreated yesterday and hasn't been redirected because people got fed up for continuously having to revert changes. The midweek chart shouldn't be mentioned though. anemoneprojectors   talk  11:26, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, that's good. And I already knew that it was recreated. Many thanks, Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 11:56, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Sound sample
I don't have the single and I would like to know if anybody could upload a sound sample of the song to enhance the article. It would also be useful for some of the other songs, too. Cheers, Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 10:36, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Anybody? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 13:39, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I have uploaded sound samples in the past but I am no longer able to create them to Wikipedia's standards. Only one of my samples remains on Wikipedia as the others were orphaned and then deleted, though I don't know what the reason was. Anemone  Projectors  17:53, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Anyone else? Rock drum (talk·contribs·guestbook) 19:09, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

That Jason Manford comedy show
I can't remembr the name of it, but there's a new show hosted by Jason Manford and SFG are the "house band", whatever that means.--92.251.142.219 (talk) 21:30, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford. It's on right now. anemoneprojectors   talk  21:56, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Sandbox article (Roy Stride)
Hi guys, Do you think that the article is ready for publication? If so, can I move it? Thanks, Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 17:46, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No. I don't think any members of the band will be worthy of a separate article unless they move on and do something else that's not part of SFG. Anemone  Projectors  20:07, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

We have a book!
I've just created Book:Scouting for Girls. I'm not sure what to tag it as. Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 16:50, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Tag it as? Anemone  Projectors  20:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Book class on the WikiProject template. At the moment it doesn't exist. Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 07:59, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Does it really need to exist? It's not like there are going to be several books relating to this project. Anemone  Projectors  01:49, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, point understood. Rock drum Ba-dumCrash 07:31, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Then again we have it for other things that only have one of its type, so I might as well add it in... Anemone  Projectors  21:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Photos: 100 Club gig, Thursday 23 August 2007
I could probably dig up some photos (my own so there is no copyright problem) from this gig if they are of interest. If so, where should I put them? Holly har (talk) 19:07, 9 January 2013 (UTC) [] [] Holly har (talk) 19:08, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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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.

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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.

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