Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Carolina/Archive 5

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 06:36, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Delano Meriwether
I've created an article for Delano Meriwether, an athlete who was brought up in Charleston, South Carolina. Just thought this project might be able to contribute something to the article...The Hack 04:18, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in columbia
There is a Mormon temple in Columbia, SC. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Columbia City Paper
Does anyone in this WikiProject want to try and improve the Columbia City Paper article? The article seems to mainly exist for two anonymous editors to battle over who started the paper. There is no notability formally established. - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 00:23, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I suggest we nominate the article for removal due to lack of notability. Lists of South Carolina newspapers generally do not include this one. See and. - Tsnyder9 (talk) 15:45, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

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two newly tagged articles
Francis Salvador and History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina APK  straight up now tell me 08:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun could use some serious help in the inline references department. Viriditas (talk) 10:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Photo request at Rob Miller (South Carolina politician)
If anyone could obtain a free-use photo of Rob Miller (South Carolina politician) and upload it to Wikimedia Commons for use in the article, that would be most appreciated. Cirt (talk) 16:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

John Lucas Miller
Hello. I'm working on the Find-A-Grave_famous_people list of (potentially) missing biographies and I stumbled on the article John Lucas Miller. The article is strange because its only content currently is about his son John Lucas Miller, Jr. who was both an army officer and SC legislator. I'd be grateful if someone from the project can take a look and either re-write the article so that it's about the son or split it into articles. Thanks, Pichpich (talk) 23:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert GAR
Stephen Colbert has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:47, 31 December 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) 03:57, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

No recent activity
I just put my name in the Participants section but I have noticed that there has been little activity lately. I'd like to ask a few things: How can I help rate or assess pages that are not rated? I know of 2 in particular, Beaufort, SC and Port Royal, SC. How is the importance scale judged? I'm unclear who the project leader is, who are the admins here? Marine79 (talk) 05:01, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Picture request
I'm interested in finding someone in the vicinity of Asheville, North Carolina, to take a photograph for me. If you're interested, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts. Raul654 (talk) 18:02, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

North Charleston, South Carolina blanking
Someone has just blanked North Charleston, South Carolina. It appears that there may be an edit war going on so, especially as I have no knowledge whatsoever on the article subject or the nature of the dispute, am reluctant to simply revert possibly contentious material and thought it better to draw attention to the matter on this project page. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD - Rob Miller (South Carolina politician)
AFD discussion, is at Articles for deletion/Rob Miller (South Carolina politician) (2nd nomination). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 22:20, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Article page = Rob Miller (South Carolina politician)

South Carolina articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the South Carolina 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.

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For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:38, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 02:57, 9 November 2010 (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) 20:24, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Minor Changes to Town of Seabrook Island
We would like to list the new Mayor and Council as well as the website?? (Under Government) Mayor-  Bill Holtz Mayor pro-tem = Dr. Rob Savin Council: Terry Ahearn, Jerry Cummin, Sam Reed

Website (the Official Site of Seabrook Island) www.townofseabrookisland.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.97.217.67 (talk) 17:43, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Question about this project
Greetings, I have been watching this project for a while and it doesn't appear to be very active and I had a proposition for the members to consider. I would like to pull this project under WikiProject United States. I am not necessarily talking a full merger unless thats what the members of this project want but here is what I propose. This would do a couple things that I think would benefit both projects. I would like to begin the process of adding this project to WPUS's scope in the next couple weeks. --Kumioko (talk) 15:44, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The project would mostly stay the way it is except for a couple things. I would replace WikiProject South Carolina with WikiProject United States and add WikiProject South Carolina to the list of Projects supported by WikiProject United States. This would include replacing the WikiProject South Carolina template on the talk pages of the articles with WikiProject United States/South Carolina (if you want to see an example you can look at WikiProject District of Columbia).
 * 2) I would also add it to the list of Projects supported by WPUS on the main WPUS landing page.
 * 1) It would increase visibility of South Carolina and related articles to a much larger user base
 * 2) It would allow WPSC to more easily benefit from the Bots running for WPUS. This includes article alert bot that warns of Articles and Images for deletion or Promotion. This would ensure maximum visibility if an article relating to South Carolina was submitted for deletion or promotion.
 * 3) It would allow the South Carolina related articles to fall under the WPUS and South Carolina scope.
 * 4) It would somewhat reduce the maintenance required by consolidating the templates
 * 5) It would reduce the number of templates visibile on the articles
 * 6) In addition to the above, I typically cycle through all the articles in the WPUS scope every month or 2 fixing various things (sections, typos, persondata, categories, etc) and this would allow the South Carolina articles to fall under that much more easily.
 * No argument from me. Seems like it would be a good move for the project.--FrankieG123 (talk) 03:36, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:28, 15 January 2011 (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) 02:42, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 02:42, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Abuse of the liberties at Wikipedia
I am a resident of Summerville. Upon encountering the town's page, I saw that someone had added a paragraph in the Demographics section. This paragraph revealed that Summerville was known as something other than what it is...something VERY unflattering. This Author went on to say that Summerville was a fine place to view unsavory people of a few types. I will be ever vigilant to edit these unwarranted additions to the article. One can only hope that said author finds himself answerable to his transgressions. Our Democratic society being what it is, It's no wonder to find yourself facing down a few who might have found themselves cast in the refuse pit, had they been born in Sparta. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.206.246.114 (talk) 15:04, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Open Date of Ebenezer Middle School
Ebenezer Middle School's open date was not in the 1980s, but September, 1970, when it converted from a high school to middle school. I attended Ebenezer Middle School that year when it began it's first year as a middle school.

Bob Eusebio II —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobeusebio (talk • contribs) 14:13, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Myrtle Beach is up for deletion
I have placed WikiProject Myrtle Beach for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thanks, JJ98 (Talk)  01:21, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there is some active discussions on the talk page and some content updates to the project page but 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. --Kumioko (talk) 17:10, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Since there doesn't appear to be any opposition (or comment of any kind) I have added this project to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. Over the next couple weeks I will transition the articles to use the WPUS template with West Virginia. --Kumioko (talk) 20:38, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyvio Revert on Circular Congregational Church and Parish House
I had to do a substantial revert on Circular Congregational Church and Parish House because most of the text was copied from the congregation's website. Unfortunately I do not have the time to do a proper rewrite myself. Mangoe (talk) 12:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:16, 16 January 2012 (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) 02:15, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC
Clemson fans and alumni, I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 08:00, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Carolina Panthers FAC
Hello; I have nominated the article Carolina Panthers, a high-importance article on this project, for featured article. The Panthers are the only major professional sports team to have played in South Carolina, and the only major professional sports team to cover the state. All editors of this project are invited to comment on the featured article candidacy. Toa  Nidhiki05  19:10, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Florence SC article in the news
Hi all. I thought you would be interested to know that the Florence, South Carolina article has been mentioned (somewhat unfavorably) in a news story on scnow.com. Matthew (WMF) 01:15, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

The article URL is now a 404 Error and I believe it has changed to new URL with a follow up letter to the editor mentioning the entry at the same site Windhamdavid (talk) 19:43, 31 August 2013 (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)

AfD
Just wanted to let you guys know about Articles_for_deletion/Red_Wolfe_Stadium, which appears to be a misspelled attempt at a nickname of American Legion Field (Florence). Ultraviolet (talk) 22:02, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission
Wanted to let you know about a pertinent submission. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:34, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl FAC
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is currently undergoing a Featured Article Candidate review at Featured article candidates/Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl/archive1. I would invite anyone interested in going by, looking at the article, and if inclined, adding your comments. Regards. GregJackP  Boomer!   19:49, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Renominate Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl FAC
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is currently undergoing a Featured Article Candidate review at Featured article candidates/Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl/archive2. I would invite anyone interested in going by, looking at the article, and if inclined, adding your comments. Regards. GregJackP  Boomer!   18:08, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:South Carolina articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 20:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Notice of discussion at Talk:Charleston, South Carolina
A discussion has been started at Talk:Charleston, South Carolina which appears to be within the scope of this WikiProject. Input from interested parties would be appreciated. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:50, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Could I get a look here? Draft:Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle, and Wolff. Also Draft:Sloman Moody. Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 21:45, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Palmetto has been nominated for discussion
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Merger discussion for Timmons Arena
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Charleston, SC photo request
If anyone on this page lives in the area, could someone take a good pic on 90 Broad St in Charleston? Pi Kappa Phi was founded in the building a hundred years ago, and our current image of the building is probably from around 1910 but of unknown origins. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:52, 16 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Will try to get a picture next time I am downtown. RegistryKey(RegEdit) 17:24, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Help needed on Commons for Market Hall/Confederate Museum
Village pump. Could someone with a clue please weigh in? Thanks. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 21:33, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Completely unreferenced article
Chiquola. Anyone care to deal with it? Softlavender (talk) 02:55, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

New South Carolina userbox templates
New South Carolina userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP South Carolina and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:08, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Background
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"Statesville, South Carolina"?
Does this place exist? See Talk:Art Tatum/Archives/2018. Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:21, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No, South Carolina native speaking. It's in NC: Statesville, North Carolina. -- Softlavender (talk) 14:27, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Now resolved with your better source. Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:07, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 2000+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. Please post any comments or concerns you might have there. --Kumioko (talk)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:46, 20 October 2018 (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)

Photo req
Is there anyone in the area of McClellanville who can take a photograph of the windshaft of the former Marsh Island windmill, which is on display outside the Village Museum? It looks something like this, but the left had end will be a cross and not a canister. Said photo would be used in the List of windmills in the United States to illustrate the entry. Wikipedia appears not to have an article on the museum, so there's an opportunity for someone familiar with the area to write an article. Mjroots (talk) 06:10, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Article project guidelines
Hello fellow contributors! (All 5 of you?) I have been growing through our project's articles that need to be assessed for importance. I've noticed a fair number of articles that have been added to our project (often by nonparticipants) which are about an individual who was born in SC but who has no further association with the state. Do y'all believe they should continue to be listed under the SC wikiproject banner? Muttnick (talk) 01:45, 12 August 2020 (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)

Missing or low-res county flag and courthouse pictures
Copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject North Carolina

There are a few county pages in both NC and SC that lack good photos of the county courthouse and or flag. If anyone has any good photos of some, it would be much appreciated if you could upload them. The pages that lacks good pictures should have an upload box in its talk section but feel free to update other pages with older photos too. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me on this page or contact me on my talk page. Adding the pictures to the county page infobox is quiet easy, for a Courthouse picture, it should go in the "ex image" and then add a short description in the "ex image cap" section. County flags should go in the "flag" section along with county seals going in the "seal" section. Thanks again for your help, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me. DiscoA340 (talk) 15:14, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Census population updates needed on some pages
Copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject North Carolina

If anyone has time, there are many city, town, and municipality pages that currently haven't been updated to include 2020 and 2021 Census counts and estimates. Currently, there are 6,830 pages that haven't been updated on all of Wikipedia. For most pages, there are three sections that need updating, the Introduction, the Infobox population count section, and the template in "Demographics." All the information to update these pages can almost always be found at https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/jacksonvillecitynorthcarolina/PST045221 (Jacksonville, NC for example) on the Census Bureau QuickFacts website. This script by DemocraticLuntz might be able to help but Thank you for your help and have a great day! DiscoA340 (talk) 01:20, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * As of October 15th, all SC town and city Wikipedia pages have been updated to include 2020 Census count, population density, and town and city size (at least according to this list.) Most of this work was done by @DemocraticLuntz and his code, Thank you! DiscoA340 (talk) 20:42, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

County Seal images
Hi all, I'm quite new to Wikipedia and was wondering if someone could add County Seal images to each county page in SC? Thanks, I appreciate it! DiscoA340 (talk) 02:22, 4 May 2022 (UTC) (Member of WikiProject North Carolina)


 * I made a list of the current missing County Courthouse pictures on my user page. DiscoA340 (talk) 01:43, 8 January 2023 (UTC)