Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thailand/Archives/2010

New round of discussion for the MoS
I'm hoping to place an RFC for the proposed MoS soon; your input is appriciated at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles)/Draft. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:56, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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GA Reassessment of Finland Plot
I have done a GA Reassessment of Finland Plot as part of the GA Sweeps project. I have found the article to not meet current GA Criteria. My review of the issues is here. I will place the article on hold for a week pending work. I am notifying all interested projects and editors. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 21:24, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Spelling of เกาะล้าน
There is an ongoing dispute on the spelling of the Ko Lan/Ko Larn article; please see Talk:Ko Lan (or Talk:Ko Larn, wherever the page is). --Paul_012 (talk) 18:25, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Copyright concerns related to your project
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Crossings on the Chao Phraya River
I have added a List of crossings of the Chao Phraya River several hours ago. A day earlier, I created an article for the Rama V Bridge using translated text from its corresponding article via the Google translator. The translations can become very poor so I may need help improving the article. Also, the list needs to be expanded to include any bridges that are located north of Rama V Bridge. And articles need to be created about those bridges also. Wikipedians working for WikiProject Thailand may be able to help by either getting more information on thosebridges and properly translating text from the bridges'corresponding articles in the Thai Wikipedia. Jim856796 (talk) 11:11, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Renaming of amphoe articles
I have started a discussion for moving Thai district articles from Amphoe  to  District at Talk:Amphoe Ban Fang. I'm hoping consensus on the issue will serve as precedent for all district articles. Your input is appreciated. --Paul_012 (talk) 06:20, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  23:22, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD of Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand
Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand has been listed for an AfD. As per User:Ans-mo's observation, I feel that this foundation has probably not received WP:RS because of its foreign location. --Morenooso (talk) 01:55, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Help on HTMS Chakri Naruebet
I've recently been working on the article for the aircraft carrier HTMS Chakri Naruebet, and need some help from someone who can read Thai. This webpage was provided to support information about the carrier's work during the December 2004 tsunamis. I've tried to use the page (and a second page on the same site) to include information from the page to expand on the carrier's acquisition and other disaster relief operations, but because I cannot read Thai and had to work of a machine translation, some of the content may be wrong. Would somebody be able to doublecheck the article and the webpages to make sure I have not made any errors? Thanks in advance -- saberwyn 07:53, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 35,715 as of May 1. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

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Naming of tambon articles
I've noticed that many tambon (subdistrict) articles have recently been created. Currently most of them are titled after their bare names. I would like to propose that, for consistency and clarity, we follow a regular naming scheme for such articles, similarly to that used for amphoe (districts), which has recently been discussed at Talk:Ban Fang District. If the same scheme as with provinces and districts is used, articles should be titled [ [ Placename Subdistrict ] ]. This will avoid ambiguity as many subdistricts share their names with other things. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:17, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Though I am really not happy with all those new articles - they contain almost no information beyond the one already given in the Amphoe article, and only add to the thousands of abandoned Wikipedia articles where vandalism will accumulate and which nobody ever reads - adding the subdistrict to each name is definitely necessary. We not only have subdistricts (of which many have no unique name), then there's for almost every Tambon the TAO, a legally different entity only in most cases covering the same area, and in some cases even an additional municipality. And not too rarely a Tambon is named after a geographic object, like a river, lake, forest, so these would then also add to the disambiguation. andy (talk) 13:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

6 October 1976 massacre has been rewritten
Discussion moved to Talk:6 October 1976 Massacre

Featured article review/Bhumibol Adulyadej/archive1
I have nominated Bhumibol Adulyadej for a featured article review. Savidan 21:21, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for Comment: List of cities proper by population.
There is a new RFC at Talk:List of cities proper by population that asks which definition of city proper to use consistently for the purpose of List of cities proper by population. The outcome of this RFC can significantly influence the representation of Thai cities on this list. One option on the RFC could result in the removal of all Thai cities from the list -- BsBsBs (talk) 05:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Hmong Wikipedia proposal
I'm trying to see if a Hmong Wikipedia could be started. Many Hmong ended up settling in Thailand as refugees.

The proposal is at: WhisperToMe (talk) 07:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Hmong
 * A list of possible starter articles is at meta:User:WhisperToMe/ArticlestostartHmongWikipediawith

Thailand articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Hmong Daw Wikipedia ready to accept contributions
The Hmong Daw Wikipedia is ready to accept contributions, as per meta:Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hmong_Daw WhisperToMe (talk) 21:44, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Can you help with Thai footballer BLPs?
There's a list of stubs on Thai footballers which have all been tagged as unrefernced BLPs since October 2008 (which is the current focus month for the UBLP Rescue Project. We're really struggling a) to establish whether these bios meet the WP:ATH or WP:GNG notability guidelines and b) if they do, finding  reliable sources for them.  This is an area which could really do with some attention from editors with the right language skills and an enthusiasm or interest in Thai football.  I'm posting here in the hope of finding someone who might be kind enough to swing by and lend a hand. Some help finding RS generally would be a help as we find several of this type of BLP in every focus month. Without sourcing many of these stubs will probably end up in one or other of the deletion processs.--Plad2 (talk) 09:54, 20 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Most of those articles do meet the literal implications of WP:NFOOTY, but I doubt there is enough interest in these articles to sustain them, nor do their existence significantly contribute to the value of Wikipedia as a whole. Most of these articles were created by a handful of editors, at least one of whom tags new articles as UBLPs rather than providing references, and I doubt others would share their interest. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:02, 21 November 2010 (UTC)