Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vermont/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 06:55, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:50, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Vermont sports
An editor has defined Template:Vermont Sports. This seems okay for professional sports teams. But he has included college teams as well. It is one thing to limit template to a select few, but to have everything in the world on it and/or suggest that individual article need be written on the Goddard croquet team, or the Johnson table tennis team, seems a bit much IMO. Would appreciate your support in limiting the scope of this template which will soon pop up in every place article if it hasn't already! Student7 (talk) 00:28, 3 April 2009 (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.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Vermont American Civil War unit histories
Here is an excellent source of material on every Vermont Civil War unit:


 * http://vermontcivilwar.org/.

Some interested editor should make use of this website to improve every Vermont Civil War unit history.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:21, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Attempted deletion
An editor is attempting to delete Northeast Kingdom Community Action, a government owned social service agency. Your comments would be appreciated. Student7 (talk) 23:25, 2 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) 04:08, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

A request has been made to auto-assess your unassessed articles
, a project member, has filed a request for Xenobot Mk V to auto-assess your Category:Unassessed Vermont articles. The bot uses the logic described at User:Xenobot/A. If there are any objections to this, please make them known. The bot will commence its task after 48 hours if there are none. –xenotalk 17:18, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * –xenotalk 15:37, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Vermont/Unreferenced_BLPs
I opted us into a reporting service by User:DASHBot. All UBLPs are listed there, and the list is updated nightly. We should try tp reference these articles. Tim 1357  talk  02:59, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Stub article?
Two editors have taken over the United States presidential election in Vermont, 2008. The article has been "supplemented" with riveting material, perhaps with an FA, or at least a Pulitzer in mind! IMO it is well off WP:TOPIC. Because it is well off the beaten track, it is fairly easy to "take it over!" But it should still maintain Wikipedia standards IMO. In the meantime, we are lacking articles on the majority of presidential elections. Student7 (talk) 20:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Vermont
This list is largely complete, but has bits and pieces of information missing, and needs images filled in - any help in completing it would be much appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:25, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

New Vermont "town" article
The New England town article became too cluttered with odd distractions to make any sense to a reader interested in Vermont. I extracted pertinent info from it and ported it to Vermont municipality. Linked all of Orleans County towns to it. It, in turn, is linked to New England town. The NE town is cross-linked back to the new Vermont article. Student7 (talk) 23:51, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Vermont 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 Vermont 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 23:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

"County" link
Someone has linked all Vermont counties to County (United States), which is fine. If you read far enough in the article, you find how limited the powers "probably" are in Vermont. We would better serve the reader by providing a "Vermont County" article which references this US county, but tells about country governance in Vermont up front, rather than late in the article. And probably more of it and more germane as well. Student7 (talk)


 * That page says nothing about Vermont counties except what the average population is (as if that is at all relevant). Vermont is relatively (if not absolutely) unique among US states in having no county government except for the Superior Court and the Sheriff (technically, an officer of the Court). The Vermont_counties page should have a paragraph or two describing that. --Mfwills (talk) 23:39, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Right. New England is unique in having weak, or in the case of Connecticut, non-existent, county government. We've tried defining general articles before for New England (towns) and wound up with all sorts of caveats which would have to mystify a casual reader, so one specific to Vermont should help. Student7 (talk) 20:38, 5 April 2011 (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) 20:32, 27 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) 23:39, 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) 02:44, 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) 02:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

User sort
I added myself to the member list, and took the libery of alphabetizing it. --Mfwills (talk) 22:43, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Vermont
Someone recently suggested that this project may 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 has been no significant activity on either the main project page or the talk page since 2010. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 03:16, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open now for 14 days. Does anyone have any questions or comments? --Kumioko (talk) 20:02, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I think a more relevant criterion is activity at articles marked as belonging to the project. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:21, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

There is no doubt that there are a lot of editors working on articles within the projects scope. No doubt at all and this is in no way intended to interfere with that. Please don't look at this as a badge of shame for the project. But the project itself has little activity and I would like to try and change that. Partly through automation of messages and alerts but also in member activity. All the individual projects will function as they do and the WPUS project will perform certain tasks just as the Federal government does things and the states do things also.

Just to clarify the project page with members stay basically as they are with the members able to dictate how things happen, scope of the project, etc. Its not going to be absorbed or dissolved in any way and the scope won't change unless the members want it too. The only change would be that the WikiProject banner would be replaced with the WPUS banner with WikiProject Vermont embedded within it. You can take a look at Category talk:Visitor attractions in South Carolina to see an example. All the projects use a standard group of parameters (Needs infobox, image, attention, etc), and the banner allows for things like project to do lists, articles with to do lists and articles with comments. I am working on developing some bot tasks that would automate some of the parameter values like needs infobox, image, attention, etc. and hope to have those out in the next couple months. It also reduces the number of banners on the talk page of the articles. All the projects use the same article classes and importance. I notice this project doesn't use importance or all of the quality classes and that is something I would like to adjust. This will allow article alerts to better notify the project members of things for discussion/deletion like images, categories, templates and articles.

How it will be supported can depend on what the members of the project want but typically WPUS is a bigger project with a lot more members, it has a newsletter, a monthly collaboration, multiple bots that run actively through the articles for various things (as can be seen on the members page) with more being setup as we go along. This means that it will be seen by a lot of people in a lot of ways. Up till now we have mostly been concentrating on building up the project but soon we are going to be starting to do some drives to build up articles, create new ones, etc. I hope this helps. --Kumioko (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been open for 19 days now with only one comment. Does anyone else have any comments regarding this suggestion? I would like to wrap this up this week. --Kumioko (talk) 01:56, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Since there are no comments I am going to go ahead and add this project to the supported projects list. --Kumioko (talk) 23:45, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

FAC
Just a heads up, the 1991 Perfect Storm, one of the more significant New England nor'easters, is on FAC right now - Featured article candidates/1991 Perfect Storm/archive1. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 22:22, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

The origin of the name Vermont
The whole description about the origin of Vermont is not referenced in any way and is actually contradictory to some referenced work. See my article at: http://www.kristinsawyer.com/2011/10/where-does-the-name-vermont-come-from/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.114.55.156 (talk) 12:45, 9 October 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) 19:54, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Vermont will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Vermont's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:41, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Portal:New England was nominated for Featured Portals
Here. Achowat (talk) 19:00, 8 August 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) 02:24, 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) 18:53, 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) 23:40, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

A discussion of interest to this project....
...is talking place at Talk:Brattleboro, Vermont. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:13, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Reorganization of Politics of Vermont
I have drafted a reorganization of Politics of Vermont with additional, more pertinent material in my sandbox. I plan to move that material across to this article after 1 January 2014, pending input about the advisability of doing so. Please leave your comments at this link to the article's talk page. I have moved most of the content of the existing article into appropriate locations. Even so, it is my opinion that the content is poorly written. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 03:11, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Vermont General Assembly
The article Vermont General Assembly lacks historical information about this legislature that dates from colonial times and was converted from a unicameral to a bicameral body. I have added it to the "tasks" template for the WikiProject. Hope someone with access to a good Vermont history can begin filling in the gaps. The current article has a serious case of presentism. — ℜob C. alias &Agrave;LAROB  18:31, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
Are there any Vermont 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)

New England Wikimedians website
Hey all. I would just like to let you know that the New England Wikimedians user group now has a website. If anyone would like to get involved in an event or suggest hosting something, please let us know there, as we are trying to increase our events in areas outside of Massachusetts and would love to have help organize and host events in the region. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:42, 24 July 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) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Mello's Moses Robinson
Judge Robert Mello has written a book titled Moses Robinson and the Founding of Vermont. Has this received any attention at least in Vermont, or is it one of those books that will be considered a best-seller if it sells _dozens_ of copies? Michael Hardy (talk) 06:25, 7 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!

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) 16:58, 14 January 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)

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

Slavery in Vermont
I have created a short new article titled Slavery in Vermont, which would bear expansion. It says adult slavery was outlawed in Vermont in 1777 but violations were not unusual. It cites Harvey Amani Whitfield's book The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont. However, I haven't yet seen that book -- only reviews and excerpts. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:50, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Vermont to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Vermont/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 03:46, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Wholesale replacement of maps
User:Rcsprinter123 has been replacing town maps, which showed the location in the state and the location of the state in the country with maps that show the location of the town in the county and the county in the state. I feel that this approach should be subject to consensus, as it gives a county, versus a national-centric perspective. See: Special:Contributions/Rcsprinter123. User:HopsonRoad 21:35, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * HopsonRoad: I am placing in the style of map which is standard for U.S. settlements. From Indiana to Hawaii, and now Vermont they all have them. Their use (and prior discussion for this) on so many articles is consensus enough, I feel.  Rcsprinter123    (address)  21:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for checking in, User:Rcsprinter123. I'm fine with the "compromise" that you did at Norwich, which gives both scales. Could you point us in the project to some discussions where consensus on this was reached? As you may appreciate, not all state, town or country articles are addressed in a cookie-cutter manner. So, it would be appropriate to achieve consensus in this project first, before piling on further. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 21:56, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * HopsonRoad: You might like to read pages such as here and here in terms of consensus for this map style. I understand that for smaller states such as Vermont, you'd also want to have a national context map on there as well, as at Norwich, either using the red dot map or one which highlights the state like, for example at Naples, Illinois or Grayson, Louisiana, so I'd be fine with incorporating that approach for Vermont infoboxes.  Rcsprinter123    (dialogue)  19:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Missing Vermont Supreme Court Justices
Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Vermont Supreme Court Justices at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:09, 26 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  15:37, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, — Delivered: 18:19, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Vermont religious building and structure stubs
Category:Vermont religious building and structure stubs has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. Category:Vermont church stubs is also included in this nomination. Dawynn (talk) 10:03, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

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

New Vermont userbox templates
New Vermont userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Vermont and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:15, 25 April 2018 (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  08:00, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Vermont
Portal:Vermont, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Vermont and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Vermont during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:07, 25 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) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Union Station (Brattleboro, Vermont)
Members of this project may wish to monitor the current editing of this article. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:20, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Vermont Constitutional officers
My comment is about this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State_constitutional_officers_of_Vermont

The page incorrectly lists the Attorney General (AG) as a Constitutional officer. See Article 43 of the Vermont Constitution. It does not include the AG. https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/constitution-of-the-state-of-vermont/

The Wikipedia page on the Vermont AG also refers to it as "one of five cabinet-level constitutional officers" even though it notes subsequently that it was "created by an act of the Vermont General Assembly in 1790." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Attorney_General

See page 8 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1790. The Preamble describes the need for such an officer, which means it was not created in the Constitution. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437123029015&view=1up&seq=14

This is a common error. I will not edit the page because I'm not sure how you folks think it should be done.

Respectfully, Doug Hoffer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drhoffer (talk • contribs) 12:44, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Vermont Edition
Hello, I recently made an article for Vermont Edition. It is a work in progress. Feel free to improve it. Thanks! Thriley (talk) 19:32, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Vermont Dairy Festival
Hello, I recently made an article for the Vermont Dairy Festival. It is a work in progress. Feel free to improve it. Thanks! Thriley (talk) 19:32, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Add hatnote pointing to Village pump (technical)?
This might just be me but I typed in WP:VT today fully expecting to be redirected to the Village Pump (technical) only to end up here. Might I suggest adding a hatnote pointing people to said page?  Asartea  Talk    Contributions  16:14, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , not a regular here (coming from Discord), but a hatnote sounds fine to me; they're cheap. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:18, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center could use some help with its history section. There have been numerous notable exhibits there over the years. Thriley (talk) 22:07, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Vermont dairy industry
It was time for an article for the Vermont dairy industry. It is a very basic article at the moment. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley (talk) 09:19, 2 December 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}

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