Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Carolina/Archive 1

Plates?
How about adding a license plate for this list, also to be included in the transportation section of the main article? -- LV (Dark Mark)  19:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

The Citadel
As of March 6 the VP of Public Affairs for the Citadel has completed content review and made changes to reflect an accurate picture of The Citadel. Does it still need Peer Review?

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd (?!? - help us) 18:48, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in South Carolina
Many articles covered by this WikiProject lack photographs. As part of a subcategorization of the requested photos category, there is now a category for South Carolina articles needing photos - to use it, just add to the article's talk page. I have only added a few articles to the category so far, but it would be an easy way to make an extensive list South Carolina-related articles lacking photos. I hope you find it useful!

History buff needed
Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that South Carolina's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article. JEK   19:56, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Nominate articles for Portal:United States
I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to South Carolina (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude ( talk contribs ) 23:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

New "People from [city]" Categories
Hello, everybody. I am the bozo who just recently created the new subcategories in the "People from South Carolina" category. I thought that some of you might want to know why they were created, and why they often have so few pages in them.

The majority of the states have "People from [state]" categories which have at least 200 entries, sometimes over 1,000. This is clearly an unworkably large number for anyone wishing to use the category for research purposes. In 8th grade in Rapid City, South Dakota, the social studies class asked us to write, over the course of the year, reports on two or three people who were or had been residents of the city. Because of that, I have reason to believe that they could be used and probably are used for research purposes. To make such research easier, I looked at the list of metropolitan statistical areas and basically entered in one new category for each metropolitan statistical area.

I know that many of these categories might well be, in the eyes of you who know more about the cities in question much better than I do, misnamed or otherwise faulty. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made along those lines, and I would welcome any corrections, including deletion, that any of the rest of you might choose to make. With that in mind, I have also generally populated the categories with only one or two names, to ease in the process of deletion or renaming.

I thought you all should know why these categories were created, and felt some degree of responsibility for letting your know. I wish you all the greatest good fortune in making the coverage of your state in Wikipedia of the greatest scope and quality possible, and I hope that I haven't annoyed too many of you by my recent actions. Badbilltucker 13:36, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

To do or not to do
I'm sure that everyone who sees the pages related to South Carolina realizes they have a lot of things that need doing. Terms with articles need to be linked, things needs citations, certain facts need to be verified or cleaned up, etc. I'm not noticing much activity in this project, but I plan to be editing on my own, and it would be nice to have others interested in collaborating on a regular basis. Please contact me on my talk page if you are interested, and until then, I'll be editing on my own, primarily those topics dealing with York County, where I reside. Cheers! --Chuchunezumi 19:56, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

All Saints Parish
I have found reference to both Robert Francis Withers Allston and Joseph Alston, former governor of South Carolina, being born in All Saints Parish. Does anyone know where this is/was/whatever? Badbilltucker 15:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Colonial South Carolina was divided into parishes by the Church Act of 1706, and these church units doubled as political units after 1716. All Saints was located in modern Georgetown/Horry Counties and was founded in 1778 (having briefly existed from 1767 to 1770). A terrific source on this is John Hamilton Long, Gordon DenBoer, and Kathryn Ford Thorne's _Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: South Carolina_. (New York: Scribner's, 1997). You might also consult George C. Rogers' _The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina_  (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970).Radar1 21:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Invite
Wanted to let you know that WP:BIOGRAPHY has added a "work group" called Politics and government, and so wanted to invite you to participate on any biography-type articles. The section for SC is here and if there's interest, we can beef it up to look like the newly-created Virginia one plange 05:36, 25 August 2006 (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 19:56, 19 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 19:18, 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 22:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)