Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vermont/Archive 2

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)  19:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

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 Vermont
Many articles covered by this WikiProject lack photographs. As part of a subcategorization of the requested photos category, there is now a category for Vermont 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 of Vermont-related articles lacking photos. I hope you find it useful! TheGrappler 09:10, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I think this is a great idea. For those of us who live here it should be easy to put photos on our "to do" lists. Jessamyn (talk) 14:15, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I went through the list of towns and cities last week adding the template to the talk pages of all articles with no images. Mickmaguire 18:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Membership?
So how does one become a "member" of Project Vermont? do you just add your name to the list and start editing or is it nomination or... ?
 * It's just an interest group, really, so feel free to check in and see what needs working on and help out! Jessamyn (talk) 14:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Lists
Suggestion - Replace lists with categories as they are self maintaining? Anybody have any thoughts / advice on this idea? Mickmaguire 15:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

History buff needed
Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Vermont'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   19:57, 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 Vermont (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 ) 23:22, 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 Vermont" 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 13:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub deletion notification
This message is to inform the WikiProject that Kentucky-stub Vermont-stub and  are being considered for deletion at WP:SFD. The category is currently undersized, meaning it has less than 35 articles. Please populate this within 6 days (July 27th) or the stub template and category will be deleted. If you have a question, feel free to leave a message on my talk page or on the SFD page. Thanks you and happy editing. ~ Amalas rawr  =^_^=  17:04, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * hmmm I guess you actually mean VT stubs! ;o) Mickmaguire 17:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, shoot! That's what I get for using the same text for different projects.... Also, I've updated the SFD to reflect the increase in articles.  Vermont-stub should be safe. ~ Amalas  rawr  =^_^=  18:01, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The article needs help!
I've made some comments and some changes, but the VT article is really lacking. A whole lot of anecdotal nonesense, non fact-based assertions about what VT is, and who VTers are. The modern history section includes a bit on the Great Flood and Civil Union...and thats it! Come on now, we can do far better!--Jonashart 13:03, 23 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 VT is here and if there's interest, we can beef it up to look like the newly-created Virginia one plange 05:39, 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 19:57, 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 19:22, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Seven Days article
Kudos to those of you who contributed to the article in this week's Seven Days about Wikipedia. I'd say it was a pretty well balanced article. Dismas|(talk) 09:00, 1 December 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 22:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)