Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Virginia/Archive 3

Image source problem with Image:WPVA.png
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Image source problem with Image:WJDV2007.jpg
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The uploader has retired from Wikipedia. --Rockfang (talk) 04:03, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Population figures
Please, get everyone to stick to a single year. Some pages claim to be using 2000, some 2006 census data, and Henry County gives different figures for the 2000 census (text & stats) that differ by 20%. I suspect the larger figure is 2006, but it may just be a typo.

Is there a preference? Yes, Year 2000 data should be preferred because all the stuff down in demographics (median income, race, yada yada yada) is all based on the 2000 figure.Lamabillybob (talk) 03:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Inglewood, Virginia
I have created an article for the town Inglewood. - Warthog Demon  19:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Or rather after discovering two towns, I have created Inglewood, Rockingham County, Virginia and Inglewood, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The second one I can not find coordinates for, however it does contain some slight notability hopefully. - Warthog Demon  20:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

William Fleming, early Governor and possibly Chief Justice
Can somebody knowledgeable about early Virginia history sort out the discrepancy I found and commented on at Talk:William Fleming (governor)? Rigadoun (talk) 19:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Virginia: Articles of unclear notability
Hello,

there are currently 10 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 2008-03-12 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Anyone feel like making a table or list?
If you have the time and the interest, Virginia Ratifying Convention could use a snazzy table of delegates who voted for and against ratifying the US Constitution. I don't know if you'd really want to list all 168 votes, or just a smaller table with just the votes of the more notable guys (i.e. those who already have Wikipedia articles).

The list of "ayes" and "noes" can be found here, beginning at the bottom of page 654. (The previous vote at the top of that page is not what we want.) Hope someone volunteers to do it; you'll probably learn a bit about Virginia history in the process. Extra credit if you list delegates by the county they represented, which would require a little more research. Cheers! —Kevin Myers 09:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
Did you know that there are 118 U.S. National Historic Landmarks in Virginia? I've started to complete out and otherwise develop the List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia, and would welcome other editors' participation! doncram (talk) 01:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

James Monroe Law Office
New article I tagged with your project. Cheers. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 02:39, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Virginia: Virginia resolves
I tried to fill the corresponding article with some more relevant information. Please feel free to review the contribution. Hadoriel (talk) 10:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikimeetup on May 17th in Washington, D.C.
For those who haven't heard - please see Meetup/DC 4 regarding a meetup scheduled for May 17th, at Union Station. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:34, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 665 of the articles assigned to this project, or 15.6%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-06-18.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

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Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Photo request - Agecroft Hall
Would anyone be able to obtain or provide a suitable image of Agecroft Hall for the article on this subject, as well as for an article in development by Giano II on the topic of Britain's lost houses? The latter article is now being prepared as a featured article candidate, and an image would be most helpful. Thanks. Risker (talk) 17:32, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I am in Williamsburg, and travel to Richmond only occasionally. However, I have many close friends there, and will see if someone closeby there can do this for us. As I recall, it is easily viewable from the public street, so hopefully we can get this done. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia (talk) 05:16, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Hampton Roads FAR
Battle of Hampton Roads has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 15:58, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

List of wild mammal species of Florida
The Florida article is a featured list. Would anyone be interested in working on a similar article for Virginia, modeled after the Florida one? That would be this: List of wild mammal species of Virginia. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Virginia
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Old Virginia
There doesn't seem to be an Old Virginia, shouldn't this redirect somewhere? 70.55.203.112 (talk) 10:58, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:Virginia Barnstar
I created a barnstar (sorta) for WP:Virginia. Essentially it the Editor's Barnstar and the Virginia State Seal in the middle. It ain't great, I bet you all could do better, but it would give WP:Virginia a barnstar :) What do ya think? -  NeutralHomer  •  Talk  02:43, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

William Nelson Page FAR
William Nelson Page has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 21:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

William Alexander Anderson is my great-great Grandfather
It is wonderful to see a Wikipedia page on him. Thank you so much! If anyone would like to create a page on my grandfather, William Anderson McNulty, I can supply the photo. He passed in Roanoke in January of 2005 at the age of 94 and was a Colonel.


 * Did he have any other "claim to fame"?-- Kubigula (talk) 05:28, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Virginia articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Virginia articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Virginia is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:47, 26 November 2008 (UTC)