Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Texas/Austin task force/Archive 1

Stubs
I've changed the stub template link from Austin-stub to Austin-TX-stub, because the other was just a redirect. One of these should be deleted. Which would ya'll like to keep?  Joe  I  03:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I noticed you were replacing old Austin-stub tags, so the old tag should be kept until the old links are updated. Deatonjr 13:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I just replaced the last Austin-stub tag that was in an article. The remaining 4 links are to talk pages that are discussing the Austin stub tag change, so you can delete the old one now. Dabomb87 01:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Note that Austin-TX-stub has been moved back to its correct place (Austin-stub), and the redirect, which is contrary to to stub template naming conventions, will shortly be deleted (once all the stubs are moved back to the proper name). Grutness...wha?  05:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I've updated all the Austin-TX-stub to Austin-stub stubs using AutoWikiBrower. - Dravecky (talk) 19:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Brilliant! Thanks - saved doing the rest by hand :) Grutness...wha?  23:24, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Austin companies
I've created a new category called Category:Companies based in Austin to parallel the similar category used in other cities. I have already put most of the companies that I could find, however I welcome others to see if there are any more that I missed that deserve addition. -- Bovineone 08:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it got deleted. Sounded like a good idea to me. We've got a lot of entrepeneurial spirit here, and a lot of cool companies. What happened? --KotetsuKat (talk) 15:33, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Portal
Anybody interested in working on an Austin portal? --PopeFauveXXIII 17:38, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I wasn't actually aware of them before, since there don't seem to be very many city portals in general (see Category:United States portals by city). I guess the Portal:Houston is what you would want to have a design goal towards.  -- Bovineone 19:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I think I'll put that as one of our goals. Sa hm  ed  itor  13:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm working with one in my sandbox and maybe it'll get out of userspace. Sa  hm  ed  itor  08:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It's done! Yay! I finished it.... almost. It's here. Sa  hm  ed  itor  13:23, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Ad Project

 * [[Image:Qxz-ad76.gif]]

 Mi r a n da   04:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Assistance on Downtown Austin article
I need help on writing this article. Æe tlr   Cre  ejl  03:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

This WikiProject is a Stub?
I was scrolling around the WikiProject Austin page when I noticed something strange. Below the Templates and Userbox section and above the See Also section, it says "This article related to Austin, Texas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." What does this mean? I mean this is a wiki project page, I don't know if this WikiProject is a stub... :-? --TheAustinMan (talk) 20:15, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Members Section Is Swept Clean
Somebody swept clean the members in the members section. There used to be a lot of names there. The only thing that remains are the instructions. Who did this? TheAustinMan (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Sweeping clean the member list in the Interested Wikipedians is unacceptable. It makes the section useless. I have undone the edit. TheAustinMan (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2010 (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) 02:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Article drive
For what it is worth I wanted to congratulate TheAustinMan in his efforts to encourage interest in this WikiProject which has been neglected for a while. I'd like to propose that Austin, Texas needs to be brought up to GA standards sooner than later. Shall we invest in an informal drive toward that goal?

Let me suggest a timeline for this goal:
 * {| class="wikitable" style="" border="1"

! colspan=2 | Goal !! Target
 * + Austin, Texas improvement drive
 * Sourcing ||
 * || Replace all low-quality sources (including inappropriate primary sources) with high-quality sources || 28 Feb 2010
 * || Add sources to all paragraphs for History, Geography, Economy, and Demographics || 7 Mar 2010
 * || Add sources to all paragraphs || 21 Mar 2010
 * Polishing ||
 * || Polish the content in History, Geography, Demographics || 14 Mar 2010
 * || Polish the content in Economy, and Arts and Culture || 21 Mar 2010
 * || Polish the content in Cityscape, and Parks and recreation || 31 Mar 2010
 * || Polish the content in Transportation, Education, and the rest || 7 Apr 2010
 * GA ready || || 14 Apr 2010
 * }
 * || Polish the content in History, Geography, Demographics || 14 Mar 2010
 * || Polish the content in Economy, and Arts and Culture || 21 Mar 2010
 * || Polish the content in Cityscape, and Parks and recreation || 31 Mar 2010
 * || Polish the content in Transportation, Education, and the rest || 7 Apr 2010
 * GA ready || || 14 Apr 2010
 * }
 * || Polish the content in Transportation, Education, and the rest || 7 Apr 2010
 * GA ready || || 14 Apr 2010
 * }
 * }

--Mcorazao (talk) 04:33, 15 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Given that there have been absolutely no responses I declare that this drive is off. --Mcorazao (talk) 21:55, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

2010 Austin plane crash
WikiProject Austin members need to work on the article 2010 Austin plane crash WhisperToMe (talk) 14:05, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  01:33, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Article Drive for Austin Skyscrapers
Unless you haven't heard, here it is:

'm requesting an article drive for buildings #1-#20, meaning you should help improve or make articles numbers 1-20 on the list. After 20, the buildings kind of run out of importance steam, so it's better not to make articles for them. Good luck! -I have recently changed/made: 360 Condominiums, The Austonian, W Austin Hotel and Residences, and Spring (building). TheAustinMan (talk) 20:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

You are not expected to reach at least C class articles when making one, because these buildings aren't that famous. 99.58.60.128 (talk) 00:07, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

So far, so good:

Spring; Made on April 7, 2010; Stub article W Austin Hotel and Residences; Made on April 7, 2010; Stub article The Ashton; Made on April 7, 2010; Stub article TheAustinMan (talk) 20:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Concern: It's great to see coverage for Austin improving but we should make sure that we are covering notable topics. I'm not sure that all of these buildings necessarily have enough coverage in the media and books to justify Wikipedia articles (the fact that list sites like Skyscraperpage and Emporis mention these in passing, or worse in some forum, does not really establish notability). --Mcorazao (talk) 20:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Check the Austin Business Journal or other publications on Google News. Type in the name of the building and get archives. Oftentimes I found enough to write an article on a building solely from articles about real estate transactions (for instance Arena Place, Total Plaza, Five Post Oak Park, etc) WhisperToMe (talk) 10:51, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Austin 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 Austin 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 21:54, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:27, 7 November 2010 (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) 19:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

37th Street
Stub: 37th Street. Feel free to help expand or upload pictures if you've taken any!! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 01:55, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Featured Article Candidate: Frost Bank Tower
Calling all WikiProject Austin Members!

The chance to earn another featured article is open! Frost Bank Tower has been nominated as a featured article candidate. Reviewers have left their concerns for the page. Take advantage of these comments to edit Frost Bank Tower today! Go to this page for the comments so you can edit!

Be Quick and Be Fast, or Else the President and Delegates Close the Nomination! TheAustinMan (talk) 18:43, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Source on Austin food culture
I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 01:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Newnam, Brandon Francis. "Over-the-counter culture in Austin." CNN. March 30, 2011.

AFD Kendra Scott
The article about the Austin jewelry designer, Kendra Scott is up for deletion. Please weigh in on the discussion. Or perhaps clean up the article to save it. —EncMstr (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Willie Nelson/GA2
Willie Nelson is going through a GAN, and is on hold for an initial seven days to allow issues, mainly prose, to be addressed. Help is requested and welcome.  SilkTork  *Tea time 17:56, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Discussion on WikiProject Texas regarding support by WikiProject United States
WikiProject Austin has been mentioned as being added to a list of projects being supported by WikiProject United States. You are invited to join the dialogue Here
 * -Maile66 (talk) 18:36, 25 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) 02:00, 13 August 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) 18:19, 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) 23:33, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Portal:New York City FPO nomination
Hello. I have nominated Portal:New York City for Featured Portal status. Please give it a look and make any comments at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:New York City. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
Are there any Austin residents interested in participating in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a multi-national effort to improve coverage of LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects? Perhaps an edit-a-thon or a photography project? Please visit the project page for details or let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:41, 13 May 2014 (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) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Austin Police Department
See the history and talk page of this article. It contained very little encyclopedic content, and a lot of cruft was removed from the article today. It needs to be started over. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2014 (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!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Holt McDougal
Holt McDougal is now in category and its talk page is tagged for this wikiproject. Its text does not mention Austin or Texas and closes, "based out of Dumfries, NC".

By the way, there is not much Holt McDougal content in the article now. {Infobox publisher} displays the HRW logo < !-- is the HRW name still in use today? --> and section 1 History tries to cover Holt, Rinehart and Winston (which name redirects there). The "try" is mine from a couple hours ago. --P64 (talk) 23:30, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Stephen Crosby
Happy New Year. Perhaps some of you will be able to add more referenced info to Stephen Crosby's article. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 11:21, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Featured list review?
Would anyone be interested in helping to clean up List of tallest buildings in Austin as it is undergoing a featured list review. There are some very big problems with many of the "tallest buildings lists" that are currently featured. I think this list specifically no longer meets featured list criteria. Specifically, two whole sections (under construction and approved) are completely unreferenced. There is an outdated tag from 3 years ago not addressed. There are many dead links, very messy citations, images have no alt-texts, and many of the buildings in the main list are unsourced. It has been neglected for years now and it shows. This would take a lot of work to bring it up to standards again sadly...

I have nominated List of tallest buildings in Austin for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Mattximus (talk) 14:12, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:17, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

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  07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Austin for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Austin is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Austin until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 05:56, 6 June 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)

Spanish Wikipedia version of WikiProject Texas
For those of you who edit in Spanish, please stop by the es:Wikiproyecto:Texas on the Spanish Wikipedia. This will be the Spanish-language sister project to the English WikiProject Texas. WhisperToMe (talk) 08:32, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Capitol Complex map
For those of you wondering which buildings are where in the Texas Capitol Complex, this map should help: http://www.glo.state.tx.us/jpegs/CapComplex.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 05:47, 18 July 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) 19:42, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Two Austin international schools
I found some articles about Austin international schools: WhisperToMe (talk) 04:26, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Harrington, Kate. "Magellan International School geared toward global mindset." Austin Business Journal. Sunday May 17, 2009.
 * It also describes the Austin International School (Austin Int'l School, Ecole Internationale d’Austin)

Article about 2nd Street area
See: Novak, Shonda. "City's vision beginning to bloom for 2nd Street District." Austin American-Statesman. Friday December 23, 2011. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:33, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Interesting info about a developing neighborhood

Help Improve Texas Projects and Portals
This is an open invitation to anyone interested in helping to update the information on the various Texas projects and portals. The information is generally out-of-date, sometimes by years. Every little bit helps. Every small improvement adds to the larger whole. Together, we can get the Texas pages to look current and helpful to visitors.

These two Category links will take you to the various pages:
 * Category:Texas portals
 * Category:WikiProject Texas

Anyone interested in improving the basic look and structure, could open a WP:RfC. Dialogue is good for the project.

These are areas I see could be improved, in addition to miscellaneous information on the portal and project pages:


 * Participant lists could be divided in to two separate lists: Active, and Inactive participants
 * Task lists that require monitoring, can be somewhat automated by replacing the individual topic items with category page links
 * Eliminate duplication of efforts. Inter-connect the like sections in different pages to a singular template.
 * As an example, I already updated the Open Tasks on WikiProject Texas, and the Things You Can Do on the Texas portal. These are exactly the same information, but point to two different templates.  In a perfect world, these two pages would point to the same template, but they don't - possibly due to page formatting. I updated the templates they point to, so at least the individual items will point to Wiki links that would, in essence, make the list items self-updating. But it would be better if both pointed to only one template.

-Maile66 (talk) 19:33, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit requests for Vianovo article
Greetings! On behalf of Vianovo, a company with offices in Austin, I'm reaching out to see if any editors are willing to help me update the company's Wikipedia article. There are 2 edit requests posted here. I won't edit the article directly because of my conflict of interest, and I'm happy to respond to any questions or concerns on the article's talk page, or on my user talk page. Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:12, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The edit requests have been answered, so I am marking this section as resolved. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:20, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia Workshop speaker?
I teach a class on alternative and activist media at UT Austin. I have contributing to the Wikipedia page on "Alternative Media" as a class assignment. I'm wondering if there are any active members in Austin, Texas who would be interested in speaking to the class, and maybe kick starting this editing work around the first week in October. Do let me know. LauraLStein (talk) 02:51, 26 July 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LauraLStein (talk • contribs) 02:49, 26 July 2014 (UTC)