Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Virginia/Archive 6

Auto assessments
Would there be any objection to adding automatic assessments to this banner? This would allow the Stubclass template to be removed from pages in (example at Talk:Cuckoo, Virginia) and be replaced with a message in the banner, i.e.

Thoughts? PC78 (talk) 14:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Virginia
This page has been initiated - any help in filling in missing federal courthouses would be appreciated! bd2412 T 02:59, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Copyright concerns related to your project
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Photo request: Colgan Air
Would anyone mind fulfilling a photo request I have? There is the Colgan Air headquarters at Manassas Airport - Would anyone mind photographing it? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 11:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Bruce Hornsby
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Bruce Hornsby/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Roanoke Region and Roanoke Metropolitan Area Articles
I want to suggest merging the Roanoke Region of Virginia and Roanoke metropolitan area articles because they have similar content. It looks as if the "Roanoke Region" is a name for the metropolitan area, similar to the way Greater Boston is the popular name for the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy MSA, and Greater Richmond for Richmond-Petersburg. Treefingers1206 (talk)Treefingers1206

A Task Force
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in working with me to form a Northern Virginia Task Force. I remind you that Northern Virginia is a major part of Virginian Political Demographics as well as containing the burgeoning Dulles Technology Corridor. Is anyone interested?

I'm working on the full proposal, but I need some members. I think I can drum up two, but if anyone can help it would be appreciated. 226Trident (talk) 04:58, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I would be happy to help, but I think that maybe we should create it as a subdivision of WP:VIRGINIA, because we certainly need more members. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 22:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I would also be interested in helping out with such a task force.--Chuck369 (talk) 23:36, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Alright, everyone. It has been created as an official Task Force of Wikiproject Virginia. Feel free to go and join! Click here for the Task Force page. Also, if you join, copy and paste the Userbox into your User Page. 226Trident (talk) 00:23, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * 226Trident, you spelled WikiProject as Wikiproject on the project page (and I will be the LAST person to pick on poor speelers ;-). Looking around, it seems like most projects use WikiProject. Also, the link has a backslash in "Virginia\Northern Virginia" but the project has a forward slash in "Virginia/Northern Virginia".--Chuck369 (talk) 01:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest?
Would it be a conflict of interest or partial to rate an article which you yourself created on the project's quality scale? -BLM Platinum (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is my opinion (NOT commonly accepted consensus). I believe that if you actively work on a page and are a member of the WikiProject which does the rating, then you can assess your articles in the Stub-Start-C class rating area. You should probably get some other eyes looking at it for B class, and once you get to GA class, a third party MUST rate and assess your article as part of the GA review. The actual, commonly accepted guidelines are that any member of the assessing WikiProject can assess the page until it reaches the GA review, and at that time, the reviewers of the page must not be actively involved in editing it. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 18:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

New editor needs assistance with first article
I am soliciting support from this project's members to lend a hand to a new editor User Talk:Commvolunteer and their first article Virginia Canals and Navigations Society. The article was PRODed but no one has attempted to help this editor or article. Certainly a 33 year society has recieved sufficient coverage in 3rd party sources to support notability. This editor just needs help finding them. Thanks--Mike Cline (talk) 21:44, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Feature Review for J.E.B. Stuart
nominated J.E.B. Stuart for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Lord Oliver  The Olive Branch 02:51, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  23:17, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of project subpages
In order to streamline the project a bit, and because of the low numbers of editors we have in the project, I am proposing that we remove our divisions structure. In doing this two subpages would be deleted: I think that this is in the best interest of the WikiProject, and both pages have not been edited for at least two years. Of course, all concerns can go here at this talk page. I will list these pages at MfD soon unless we feel that they are necessary. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 01:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * History
 * Education

Good stub article creation drive on NRHPs of Henrico County
Hey, a few editors are going to march through the 29 NRHPs itemized in National Register of Historic Places listings in Henrico County, Virginia to start or develop good starter articles, starting about now (5/5/2010). Each article is to include inline references to the good NRHP nomination documents, photos, maps made available by Virginia's Department of Historic Resources, whose Henrico County documents are indexed here. Please join in! Any suggestions for DYK nominations, comments, questions welcome. :) Please join discussion at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Henrico County, Virginia. --doncram (talk) 17:02, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Region specific task force
I am interested in either creating or joining a (subcategory) task force for Southwest Virginia. Would anyone else be interested? Also I was thinking it would be good to create region specific task forces throughout Virginia. Northern Virginia has one, and I think it is a wonderful idea rather than just have one for the whole state. I am already a member of Eastern Kentucky Task force (because I live near the state line). L.N.farm (talk) 18:30, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, and welcome to the WikiProject! As for making another subdivision for SW Virginia, I would recommend against it, because as you can see, the Northern Virginia task force is small and does not have very much involvement (Though, if you can find more editors willing to join a SW task force, feel free to make one). This WikiProject is fairly small, so we welcome any new people involved. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. P.S. If you have something that you want to collaberate with other members on, consider posting it here on the talk page or on the to-do list. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 15:55, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

List of counties in Virginia
Virginia's list may be the weakest of the fifty, lacking "Origin" for all and providing suspect "Date" for the independent cities. What's needed to replace misinformation is simply the dates of independent city status but the Maryland and Missouri entries for "Origin" of Baltimore City and St. Louis City may be a worthy models. See Talk:List of counties in Virginia. --P64 (talk) 18:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

FAC in Progress
Hello All, just a note to let you know there is an WP:Virginia project page up for FA status. You may find the FAC here. Thank you. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * This FAC was closed and promoted on August 15, 2010. :) -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:47, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

George Washington
A Good Article review has started on George Washington. It is on hold for seven days to allow issues raised on Talk:George Washington/GA3 to be addressed.  SilkTork  *YES! 23:55, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Virginia 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 Virginia 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)
 * I am calling all WikiProject members to Help go through the 159 articles that are going to be released and look for things that should be added, removed, or the revision IDs changed. I have created a page in my userspace for a draft message; feel free to add things to that list. I would like to spark some discussion so this is more than just my recommendations, but the entire WikiProjects'. I will submit my lists in hopefully about a week once I finish looking things over. Thanks --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 21:35, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Stephens City, Virginia is a low-importance FA on the Virginia 0.8 list. It was minted as an FA on August 15, 2010 and was a TFA on September 5, 2010, so really no changes are needed since it was just combed over.  I was the main editor on the page and will be glad to take the lead on that one. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 21:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Grace Sherwood, Witch of Pungo FAC
This article is here as a FA candidate. Would appreciate commentary to help improve the article. Thank you. — Rlevse • Talk  • 13:23, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Now it's on featured article review can any editor fix this mess up? Secret account 03:28, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Action needed
Please assist at Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Virginia/Peer_review/BroadMap Gigs (talk) 15:28, 5 October 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) 20:17, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:01, 9 November 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) 04:58, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to participate!
Hello! As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation is gearing up for our annual fundraiser. We want to hit our goal, and hit it as soon as possible, so that we can focus on Wikipedia's tenth anniversary (January 15) and on our new project, the Contribution Team.

I'm posting across WikiProjects to engage you, the community, in working to build Wikipedia not only through financial donations, but also through collaboration in building content. You can find more information in Philippe Beaudette's memo to the communities here.

Please visit the Contribution Team page and the Fundraising page to find out how you can help us support and spread free knowledge. -- T HE F OUNDERS I NTENT  PRAISE 13:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Virginia Creepers
Hey everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that a rather stubby article on Virginia Creepers was started by yours truly! It's about horror hosts from Virginia. If anyone wants to lend a hand in editing, feel free!--DrWho42 (talk) 08:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Overcategorization
I am not a member of this WikiProject, but periodically edit some Virginia-related articles. I recently noticed an abundance of categories related to Harrisonburg, Virginia and posted a note about it on the talk page. I've noticed articles related to Charlottesville also have many similar categories. Please read the note. This seems like a case of overcategorization as these categories have tons of subcategories, most with just 1 or 2 pages each and in many cases subcategories will share the same pages. We also have both "Schools in..." and "Education in..." categories. Some things to look at are WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OC. --JonRidinger (talk) 20:32, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ill look into that. --Kumioko (talk) 20:51, 11 December 2010 (UTC)Kumioko is not a listed member of WikiProject Virginia
 * In the end, it isn't really relevant if Kumiko is a member of this wikiproject or not. It's either a case of overcategorization or it isn't.  From what I can see, there is quite a bit of it on Virginia articles in general.  As an example, go to Category:Education in Virginia and see how many subcateories exist along with even more subcategories underneath them.  I couldn't even count all the subcategories that branch from there and once you get to the bottom of all these subcategories, many have just 2 or 3 articles in them, not to mention quite a bit of overlapping. --JonRidinger (talk) 02:40, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * For what its worth its not required to be a member and since I am a member and one of the main contributors to WPUS I consider myself a defacto member to all the US related ones. I was just too lazy to go to all the pages and add my name. Honestly though even if it is overcategorized theres not too much we can do about it. With the exception of general cleanup every time I have tried to delete a category it gets shot down so once the thing is created, for the most part, were stuck with it. --Kumioko (talk) 02:58, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

VA Route 27 and 110
Could a volunteer please take a look at Virginia Route 27 and Virginia Route 110 and copy edit them? I am hoping that someone who is distant from highway article jargon could look them over. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:34, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lochhaven


The article Lochhaven has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Neighborhoods generally don't meet WP:N, no indication of notability fails WP:V

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 12:05, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge


The article Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found several "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge"s. None of them seem to have any claim that meets WP:N, they all exist and that is about it.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 17:25, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Wine Project on Virginia wine articles?
Hello! For 2011 the Wine Project is doing a new Wine Improvement Drive where each month we focus on an area of articles that relate to a particular theme. In January, we are are ringing in the New Year with New World wine, with a focus on the wines of the Northern Hemisphere-Canadian wine, American wine and Mexican wine. I am going by related projects to see if there is any interest in collaboration between this project and the wine project on the subject of Virginia wine. Some suggestion on potential article creations include History of Virginia wine, Thomas Jefferson and wine, bios on prominent early Virginian winemakers such as Phillip Mazzei or expanding beyond a stub important Virginia wine articles on Monticello Wine Company, North Fork of Roanoke AVA, Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace AVA, Rocky Knob AVA, Shenandoah Valley AVA, Virginia's Eastern Shore AVA etc. On a another scale, there are Virginia wine related articles that could use some help with clean up tags such as Williamsburg Winery, Notaviva Vineyards, Doukénie Winery, List of Loudoun County wineries, Valhalla Vineyards, Chateau Morrisette Winery, Ingleside Vineyards. Sunset Hills Vineyard, etc. Several of these tags relate to the need for third party reliable sources to establish notability for the wineries so they can pass WP:GNG. These articles in particularly could dearly use some help or else they might face WP:AFD. And, of course, of HUGE help would be the upload of free use photos of Virginia wineries, wines and wine regions to Commons that could be used to better illustrate Virginia wine articles. If you're interested in helping, please drop a note at the Wine Project's talk page with the article you're interested in helping with. Thanks and have a great New Year! AgneCheese/Wine 00:00, 2 January 2011 (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)

Guys, there is so much work to be done on coverage of Virginia, that I would hope that we can avoid the distraction of Kumioko's well-meaning efforts to restart the WikiProject United States. Let's get back to work here on our articles. If people within this project want to try a collaboration, propose it on our Project page rather than getting wrapped up in the other. Racepacket (talk) 14:25, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

King Street (Alexandria, Virginia)
This article is in need of rescue; it's currently prodded for purportedly not being notable. I'll do what I can, but I haven't touched it since 2004 (and I have long since moved away from the area), so it would be great if anyone else could help find sources. Cheers, postdlf (talk) 03:31, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have removed the PROD (which is allowed) but this will probably go to AfD. I will forward this to WP:ARS for rescue. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 03:56, 23 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) 02:48, 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) 02:48, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Where should Harpers Ferry redirect to?
You may be interested in User talk:Robert K S. Yaris678 (talk) 09:29, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Collages
I just finished and posted a collage for the infobox for the city of Richmond (it seems to be the trend for those cities with multiple iconic sites, see e.g. NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, LA, Seattle, Detroit, etc.) and was wondering if similar works would be appreciated for other cities in Virginia? I have preliminary stuffs for Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News and Alexandria. Thoughts from those who help maintain city sites in Virginia?Morgan Riley (talk) 22:10, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Merger of Stafford, Virginia with Stafford County, Virginia
I propose that Stafford, Virginia be merged into Stafford County, Virginia. The content in the Stafford, Virginia article can easily be explained in the context of Stafford County, Virginia, much of the information overlaps apart from a description of the locality, and the Stafford County, Virginia article is a reasonable size in which the merging of Stafford, Virginia will not cause problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. It will also prevent confusion when querying for Stafford County. ChuckBuck13 (talk) 19:45, 14 August 2011 (UTC)ChuckBuck13
 * personally I don't agree. There is a big difference between the town of Stafford and the County of Stafford. Additionally Stafford county is a very large county that inlcudes a lot of towns, several of which have a lon history dating back to the late 1600's. I agree that the article needs to be expanded and is in pretty humble condition but I think its best to leave them separate. --Kumioko (talk) 19:35, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Neither do I. Stafford is a town, while Stafford County is a well, county.  They are two seperate entities and should remain seperate. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 19:44, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

What big difference is there between Stafford and Stafford County? In common usage there is no difference. Yes, the county contains many place names and named communities, but none called Stafford, and none with any public government function not part of the county. Stafford Courthouse is merely a name for the area near the courthouse. The county government uses the name "county" merely to designate officialdom, not place. Its website is stafford.va.us. I suggest the page merger idea is sound. I suggest Stafford is the better name for the merged page. Edwin M Ridout 19:11, 7 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emridout (talk • contribs)
 * Because they are two totally different places. One is a town, one is a county.  They should and will remain seperate. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 23:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Virginia
It was recently suggested that this project be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there haven't been any active discussions on the talk page in some time (aside from the one I just commented on myslelf when I came to leave this message) and some updates to the main project page. Before any action is taken I want to ensure that the members of the project concur with this action. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 19:57, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I think we do alright on our own. We don't talk much, we just edit and talk on our talk pages instead of the group page.  If you look at the entire WP:VIRGINIA page, there is plenty of activity, so the lack of activity on this talk page doesn't translate to the entire project.  I oppose WP:VIRGINIA being "umbrella'd" in with WP:US. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 20:19, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok no problem. Ill mark this one down as a no. --Kumioko (talk) 20:22, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, you should wait for others to respond. One lone Wikipedian does not a consensus make. :) -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 20:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Also note, it looks like Kumioko wants to pull WikiProject Albemarle County under WPUS. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albemarle County for more information. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  20:59, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem and no rush we have plenty of time and I am happy with whatever the members of the project want. --Kumioko (talk) 01:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Since no one is really monitoring WikiProject Albemarle County, I would pull that under WP:VIRGINIA to be honest. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 07:18, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
 * That also makes sense to me. --Kumioko (talk) 13:23, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Sounds fine with me. I will add WikiProject Albemarle County to the WikiProject Virginia banner. Also note, WikiProject University of Virginia appears to be semi-active and should be pulled under WikiProject Virginia as well. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  07:27, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm cool with the UVA Wikiproject being put under the WP:VIRGINIA banner as well. :) -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 12:44, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Battle of Malvern Hill
Article: Battle of Malvern Hill,

Would like to see if this can be assessed from a "C Class" to "B Class" and possibly an Importance re-assessment. Like the other battles have been promoted to "B Class". It would be appreciated. Adamdaley (talk) 12:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Advice please
Any comments about Articles for creation/Wm Jack Hranicky, RPA and whether this chap may meet notability guidelines would be welcomed. Thanks &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:26, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Merge - please comment
Please comment on a merge proposal at Talk:New Kent High School and George W. Watkins High School. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  03:27, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Falling River, VA
I traced my genealogy to Falling River VA near Brookneal. Up 170 yrs, I find out that my childrens' mothers' family is from Brookneal. Any plans of providing some historical info on this area? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.84.230 (talk) 06:29, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Alexandria in Fairfax county
This question is for someone knowledgeable about the geography of Virginia, and possibly Gerald Hyland, too (of which I am neither): a user at ip 68.84.8.78 made this edit to the article Gerald Hyland. I asked him/her about it here. All I could find was New Alexandria, Virginia. Any help to clear up this possible discrepancy would be much appreciated. Thanks, Hamamelis (talk) 06:42, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Lived in Virginia for 30 years and as far as I have ever known Alexandria is not part of Fairfax County, it is an Independent City. In Virginia, we have Independent Cities.  They are considered their own county and city at the same time, but can be considered the county seat of a surrounding county.  As is the case with Winchester, Virginia, itself an Independent City, it is the county seat of surrounding Frederick County, Virginia, but Winchester is considered it's own county at the same time (has it's own county sheriff's office, though not used often).  This is not the case, though, with Alexandria.  Alexandria is it's own city, not part of Fairfax County, not Fairfax County's county seat (that would be Fairfax, Virginia, also an Independent City) and in no way connected with Fairfax County.  To be perfectly honest, Alexandria is closer to Arlington County, Virginia than Fairfax County. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 10:27, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow, its very complicated, indeed. Thank you for your help Neutralhomer, Hamamelis (talk) 15:36, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem. I went into more detail when I posted on the IPs talkpage after doing some further research, but for the sake of clicking, I will copy it here:


 * I do believe you are getting the Alexandria thing mixed up. It is possible for someone to have the address "Alexandria, Virginia", but live in Fairfax County, but it does not mean that Alexandria is in Fairfax County. There is a similar situation in Frederick County, Virginia, where Winchester, Virginia (an Independent City) is the county seat.  One can go to Shawnee Land, Virginia, some 20 miles away from Winchester, clearly in Frederick County and have the address "Winchester, Virginia".  In fact, most of Northern and Western Frederick County is addressed as "Winchester, Virginia".  This is in no way makes Winchester part of Frederick County.  This is just where the people get the mail, a zip code.  Since there isn't a incorporated town called New Alexandria, Virginia in that area (just an unincorporated community in a census-designated place), the USPS puts the people in "Alexandria, Virginia" for mail service, it's only an address.  Fairfax County does have jurisdiction over those people in that area of "Alexandria, Virginia" (just the address) but it does not make them technical "Alexandrians".  Virginia is a VERY tricky state when it comes to stuff like this.  I have lived here all my life, 30 years, and I still don't understand half of it.  But to clarify, no part of Alexandria, Virginia is in Fairfax County, the part in Fairfax County is just an address, nothing more...a situation that happens in many, many, many other places in Virginia.


 * Let me know if you need any further information and I will crack open my knowledge of Virginia cities and counties weirdness. :) -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 16:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Articles of interest
I'm not a project member, so I haven't tagged these myself, but WP:Virginia members may be interested in the article I created on Adele Goodman Clark, an artist and suffragist involved in Virginia politics and government, and in Slowking4's article on Willoughby Ions. (The article on Lila Meade Valentine and Mary Johnston (novelist) were created years and years ago and aren't bannered, but may also be of interest as these individuals, with Clark and others, founded the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, which became the Virginia League of Women Voters.) –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 07:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject University of Virginia was marked as inactive
I just wanted to drop a note that WikiProject University of Virginia was recentlymarked as inactive. I recommend pulling it in as a task force of this project. --Kumioko (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oops per above it looks like this came up before. I will add it to the template in the next few days. --Kumioko (talk) 14:30, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I support the folding of WP:UVA into WP:VIRGINIA. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 19:50, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Just please, do me a favor, don't turn the WP:VIRGINIA talk page template into the template for WP:US pages like WP:WV, as those are really hard to understand and use. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 19:52, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'll just add the project. If you want to add other paramaters later you can. --Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Apparently someone beat me to it....like back in September. Since the UVA and Abemarle county projects now fall under Virgnia would it be ok if I ran my bot against the articles with the Templates for Abemarle county and UVA to reflect the correct template? It shouldn't take it more than a few hours and then it'll be done. --Kumioko (talk) 20:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, go ahead. Bots away! :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 08:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok I'll fire it up later today. --Kumioko (talk) 12:33, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Okie Dokie, thanks! :) Once you are done, you can redirect WP:UVA and WP:ALBEMARLE to WP:VIRGINIA, pretty much completing the move. :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 12:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Will do. That bots running now. One things I noticed is that WPAlbemarle county has a biography parameter VA doesn't seem to have. I left it in place for now but I can easily remove it later if the project doesn't want it. --Kumioko (talk) 15:28, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually I think the biography parameter is a good idea for all WP:VIRGINIA templates. I am heading to bed now (I'm a night owl), so I will check on the progress of the bot later and any other posts. :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 15:52, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok bots all done. Please let me know if you find any problems. If you would like me to add the biography parameter to the VA articles just let me know and I'll put in a bot request for it. VA's got quite a few articles so it would likely take the bot a couple days to get through them all. --Kumioko (talk) 03:04, 7 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:Virginia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Virginia'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) 00:42, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

New article: Urofsky v. Gilmore
I've created the new article, Urofsky v. Gilmore. Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page, Talk:Urofsky v. Gilmore. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Urofsky v. Gilmore

BLT cocktail
BLT cocktail is undergoing a deletion discussion about whether to delete the article from Wikipedia.
 * BLT cocktail

Please see ongoing discussion at Articles for deletion/BLT cocktail.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Long Branch Plantation horse sale 1883.jpg
File:Long Branch Plantation horse sale 1883.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 04:33, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

File:Handbill Long Branch Auction.jpg
File:Handbill Long Branch Auction.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 04:33, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Long Branch west side pre Isaacs.jpg
image:Long Branch west side pre Isaacs.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:26, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Long Branch Slave quarters.jpg
image:Long Branch Slave quarters.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:26, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

File:Long Branch Plantation gardens.jpg
File:Long Branch Plantation gardens.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:29, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Lee Smith (fiction author)
Lee Smith (fiction author) has been proposed for deletion due to being a unsourced BLP. StudiesWorld (talk) 21:07, 12 January 2014 (UTC) / 21:08, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to User Study
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 18:54, 8 April 2014 (UTC).

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:04, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Virginia At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 11:30, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Subdevision of Category:Southwest Virginia geography stubs
Category:Southwest Virginia geography stubs is getting big. I would like to split it - and the most obvious is to take the regions from the map, Blue Ridge Highlands and Heart of Appalachia. Unfortunately, I can't tell from the map which counties and independant cities belong in each secion. Can someone please help me? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:41, 27 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The original map is here, and it has more detail. One other issue is that there are different names for the regions of Virginia - particularly in the western part of the state.  The Virginia template (Virginia) probably has the most common region names (in my opinion).-- Mojo Hand (talk) 17:00, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Stub Sorting has chosen this one - presumably because it splits up the state by county/independent city - which is the next template down from state. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OK - since the regions are somewhat ambiguos, what about splitting Southwest VA into county and city stubs? That would be simpler and consistent with Category:Northern Virginia geography stubs and Category:Central Virginia geography stubs.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 21:12, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * We do when the templates in question have 60 transclusions - if you look at the 2 categories you mentioned, you'll see that they each have many templates still in these categories. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:17, 29 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)

Today's Featured Article discussion related to this project
The 2008 ACC Championship Game was a college football game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles.

I've nominated 2008 ACC Championship Game for consideration as Today's Featured Article, see discussion at Today's featured article/requests/2008 ACC Championship Game. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Re:Edward Hill (politician)
This appears to be his son, buried at Shirley Plantation, who was also a Speaker of the House of Burgesses (1691), and colonel, etc. The son is mentioned in passing in Shirley Plantation, but no mention of notability. Edward Hill, Jr. is a redlink in the List of Speakers of the Virginia House of Burgesses template, but burial as Edward Hill II. At the list, Speakership is (1684), but blanks leave open the possibility of multiple periods. As the main editor of the Edward Hill (politician) page & the template is inactive, I am hoping someone here can move forward with this. Dru of Id (talk) 09:38, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Naming the high-density corridor in Arlington County?
Hi everyone. I'm looking for any comments or suggestions on the best way to refer to the high-density corridor along Wilson Blvd, Clarendon Blvd, and Fairfax Dr, including Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon, and Virginia Square. Is it appropriate to call this "Arlington County downtown", and if not, is there a better term? Here is the photo which illustrates the topic.--MrPanyGoff (talk) 22:08, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Virginia geography stubs reorganization
Greetings! Two or more stub types which you created have been nominated for renaming or deletion at Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature. Dawynn (talk) 10:36, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Tracy Thorne-Begland
I've started an article on the Tracy Thorne-Begland dust-up if anybody's interested in contributing. It's far from complete, but I'm well past my bedtime. Cheers, Khazar2 (talk) 09:37, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Red dot map for Williamsburg


Does anyone here edit those red dot maps that appear on every city/county article? The one for Williamsburg has been incorrect, indicating York County instead, since 2005 (!) and asking on the article's talk page and the talk page of the user who made the map have not been fruitful. I haven't found any sort of centralized red-dot-map task force to complain to and lack the know-how to do it myself, so does anyone here edit the things or know how they're made? Thanks! Hiyayaywhopee (talk) 18:25, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Discussion regarding removal of verified content, change in scope, NPOV
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:You didn't build that. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:15, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Photo request
If someone lives in the area of or happens to be passing through New Market, Virginia, there is a historical marker on US-11 that marks the birthplace of John Sevier, and we're trying to get a photo of this marker for Sevier's article. If you can get a photo of this, add it to the article's "Early life" section (be sure to left-align it). Bms4880 (talk) 20:08, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Will this do? - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 20:49, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This one is from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, a division of the Commonwealth of Virginia. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 20:58, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Either will do, if there are no copyright conflicts with these sites. Bms4880 (talk) 20:59, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I would go with the Commonwealth of Virginia one. Since it is a picture taken by the state for the state, that one should be able to be used with no problems.  We have an editor headed toward that area in the next couple months and he can get a clearer picture for you to use then. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 21:08, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I can wait until then. I prefer we have our own original. Just add it to the article or let me know when it's uploaded. Bms4880 (talk) 21:13, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Okie Dokie, I will let you know when I know. :) If you are in need of any information from Virginia about John Sevier, please let me know.  I am in the vicinity of New Market, VA so I can help with the Virginia part of any information you need. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 21:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Alben W. Barkley
An RFC on whether this article is too long and contains too many references has been opened. You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alben W. Barkley. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 13:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Duplicate lists of mayors
See Talk:List of mayors of Alexandria, Virginia. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:39, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Stafford, Virginia
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Stafford, Virginia regarding the page "Stafford, Virginia." Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Tyrol5   [Talk]  01:59, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC
I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 08:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion for John Allen Muhammad
An article that you have been involved in editing, John Allen Muhammad, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 14:51, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Philip Ludwell Sr. and Jr.
There is a current question at talk:Philip Ludwell about whether Ludwell or his son and namesake served as Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1695-6. Any input from members of this group would be welcome. Rklear (talk) 19:11, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Vaoverland
Would anyone have objections to removing the late User:Vaoverland from the Members list and putting him in a separate section titled "Members emeritus"? I think it's a bit misleading to leave a user known to be deceased on the active member list, but I also think it's appropriate to remember his contributions to the project. Rklear (talk) 11:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Given how much Vaoverland did for this project and Wikipedia more broadly, I think that would be a very appropriate tribute while letting other users know he is no longer available to help.Morgan Riley (talk) 02:53, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No objections here, I think it is a great idea. :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 03:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

I went ahead with this. If anyone has further comments, please let me know here. Rklear (talk) 13:15, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Portal reactivated in a new, no-maintenance form!
I've been working to reactivate the Portal:Virginia into a mostly self-sustaining randomized form. Namely, instead of manual updates which there doesn't seem enough interest in, there will be a randomized display of selected content, drawn from a sufficient quantity of pre-loaded content that will be added (or at least attempt to be added). This will hopefully provide a springboard for people generally interested in the topic, while requiring far less maintenance that doesn't seem to exist. Anyone who wants to help nominate or select content please drop by, or just drop ideas here as its rather dead on the talk page there. However, the page-hit counter recorded a general range of about 14-35 hits a day at the portal, so while not spectacular, it means several hundred visitors a month wanting info on Virginia in general, and it isn't unreasonable to think that a one-time push and subsequent would do a lot of good in the long-run.

Also on that note, would anyone object to a style and design update on this WikiProject's pages? Morgan Riley (talk) 15:30, 20 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Great idea. It had bothered me that the portal was inactive, and I had thought about suggesting its deletion.  However, this is a much better solution.  Thanks Morgan!-- Kubigula (talk) 16:29, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The redesign looks good for a start, but the Discussion tab is redundant with the Talk tab that exists on every Wikipedia page. Do we really need it? Rklear (talk) 19:53, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I was merely mimicking some other projects, but no, I concur that it is redundant, so done. Let me know of any other features or consolidation I can do; programming templates and visual design is quite fun to me! Morgan Riley (talk) 20:07, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Help with LG candidate article
Hello, I'm looking for some help from an editor who has no involvement with the Lt. Gov. race to review and possibly implement some suggestions I've made regarding candidate Pete Snyder, whose pre-existing article is a little neglected and out-of-date. I'm not editing myself because he is my former boss, and I've actually contributed to his campaign, so I'm very mindful of COI issues. I've posted my suggestions on the article's Talk page. Would anyone be willing to look at this? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 16:35, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:54, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Terrific, thank you very much! WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 15:08, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

DC project scope
Hi! I started a discussion about the DC WikiProject scope at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_District_of_Columbia. I would like to extend the project's scope to the whole metro area. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Assessing the importance of populated places in VA
Given the recent burst of activity by our colleague User:Rklear, the assessments and scope of this project have been greatly cleaned up. However, one thing that has never been consistent or entirely clear is how we rate the assessment "importance" of cities, towns and other occupied places. On the one hand, it's probably not a very important issue, given that project participents and other editors will presumably work on whatever happens to interest them. On the other hand, it does seem like we ought to have some modicum of uniformity in our relative assessments. Clearly Richmond and other big cities are presumably assessed as "top" or "high" importance for the project. However, I've come to see that there are literally thousands of smaller populated areas - towns, unincorporated communities, census designated places etc. I used to assume that any populated place should be assessed as mid importance or higher. However, I am starting to think that's excessive and could potentially water down the scope of this project too much.

Anyone else have any thoughts or experience on this?-- Kubigula (talk) 04:30, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Just to note what I have done recently in this area, I rated every county and independent city article as high importance, and every incorporated town as mid. (That's roughly 330-340 articles, total.) I generally haven't touched the CDPs or unincorporated communities. I tend to think that the state's basic geography is something only this project is likely to work on, as opposed to other types of articles (biographies, businesses, etc.) that will attract editors with those specific interests, so articles like this should have relatively higher importance for us.


 * By the way, if anyone out there is looking for a thankless task to take on, many if not most of these articles either still contain 2000 census data, or a mixture of 2000 and 2010. Also, changing these numbers at random seems to be a common form of entertainment for IPs. If you'd like to earn a barnstar or two, updating these stats would be a way to do it. Rklear (talk) 13:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I Agree with Rklear, counties and cities should be high importance, towns as mid. I have always thought that, unless particularly notable, unincorporated communities should be listed as low, but I do not know what the common practice is.  I think the update to the 2010 census is an important thing that needs to be done, and I have updated a few pages with full 2010 census data.  I will try to update some more in the coming months.  - MountainRail (talk) 20:18, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you to Rklear and MountainRail for the input. Seems like we can agree that the CDPs or unincorporated communities with larger populations or other significance (historical eg), should be at least mid importance. I'm probably leaning low importance on sparsely populated areas with no significant history.-- Kubigula (talk) 19:26, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * In many important ways, there is little need to rate the "importance" of articles. Kubigula, you had it mostly right in your earlier days. Readers presumably will read what they want or need to read whether it is about Virginia Beach or Ruther Glen. Ruther Glen is more important to the student who has been asked to write an article about Ruther Glen, for instance. The reader decides what is important. The assessments will tend to be counterproductive in many ways, including discouraging contributors and diverting the time of those making assessments from the more critical effort of editing. Instead of (perhaps unintentionally) tearing down contributors, please make suggestions for improvement, or actually improve the material, correct the material, contribute the missing material, etc. The worst thing to do is to suggest that articles about small places are unimportant or not well written. From observation it appears those grading the projects have a hard time separating the two assessment categories (at least when the place is small. I would posit that suggesting that an article about a smaller place is unimportant and of low quality can be seen as academically dishonest, because one has to wonder under the approach taken how a low importance article ever could be well written. I encourage more emphasis on fixing articles and less time spent on passing judgement on them. (If the assessment is intended primarily to guide editors to the more "important" pages, then to some extent I would agree with a ranking for the editors to head to the big cities and other big places first, because they presumably will get the most readers. But the system should be much less judgmental in tone. "Importance" is a word easily misunderstood.) Thanks. DBK (talk) 01:02, 9 June 2013 (UTC)


 * DBK, you make excellent points - some of which I have wrestled with as well. Personally, I have found the rating system useful as a way to try to get a handle on exactly what is covered by the project and to get some prioritization on which articles need work.  While doing some of the assessing work, I have learned a tremendous amount about Virginia, and I think I have made many little improvements to many articles along the way (articles that I otherwise would never have touched).  At the same time, many of the distinctions are pretty arbitrary, and I would hate to discourage any potential editor based on one of these distinctions.  I would be all for a less judgmental rating system, but I'm fairly certain it's Wikipedia wide and not something we can change for this project alone.-- Kubigula (talk) 03:34, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Steve McMahon (consultant)
Hi all! Last week submitted a new article to AfC for the media consultant Steve McMahon. He currently works for the Alexandria-based communications firm Purple Strategies, which is why I am reaching out here, to see if any editors from this WikiProject would be interested to review and move it live.

McMahon has consulted for candidates including Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt and has also worked for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic National Convention. I am confident, McMahon meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, as his work has been covered by major publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Journal. However, as I have written this article on behalf of Purple Strategies and with input from McMahon, I have a COI and prefer not to move this live myself. I am instead looking for editors to review the draft article, which I've submitted to AfC. As there's quite a backlog there, I wondered if an editor here would be willing to help out by taking a look at this draft. The draft of my article is here. Please take a look if you are interested. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 12:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ This has been done: an editor at AfC reviewed and took the article live. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 00:49, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Melpar anyone?
I stumbled across the article on Melpar which had been put into the Washington state project a while back. The article was mostly a personal story praising the company, saying "Washington" and "Government" without any precision, and some editor did not realize it meant DC. The buildings generally seemed to be in Virginia so I moved it here. I worked a little on removing some chatty promotion and added a few sources back in. If someone wants to work on it further that would be great (or take some photos of the buildings which might be re-purposed but still standing?). Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 18:49, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Notability of many unincorporated communities?
I've been doing a bit of work trying to clear the backlog of project assessments, and found that there are hundreds of articles for unincorporated communities that consist of little more than the name of the place, it's county, and a link to the GNIS. I've looked for numerous ones on Google Maps, and though some show signs of being villages or hamlets, others are little more than a crossroads with maybe five to ten houses. Would these still meet the notability requirements for Wikipedia, even though they may otherwise totally lack any significant third-party coverage (or even their own coverage) outside of the GNIS? What is the threshold? Should I mark them for notability issues, or continue sorting? Morgan Riley (talk) 18:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I tend to favor the inclusion of unincorporated community articles in Wikipedia, even though the notability of certain communities could be questioned. Generally, it seems small communities, and especially the crossroads you mentioned, are either mentioned in passing or used as references to the locations of other points of interest when discussed by third-party sources.  I find that the unincorporated community articles can serve a similar fashion here by helping the reader to easily establish location references within a particular county.  For example, when describing the geographic features of a county, it is handy to provide a link to a community to establish the location of a particular mountain, valley, gap, etc..  Though this use doesn't establish the notability of the subject, it does illustrate a useful purpose.  I feel that a GNIS listing partly establishes the notability of the subject and provides enough information (coordinates) to locate the community on a topographic map in order to describe the community's geographic situation in the article.  Doing so could expand the articles from a mere listing of the county a certain community is in to the establishment of the geographic situation and distance to major towns, cities, or other points of interest.  I do not know whether under the rules of Wikipedia notability these articles would pass or fail, but the Virginia communities (and likewise the thousands of similar community stubs across the U.S.) seem to have survived many years here without being deleted.  Thanks!  MountainRail (talk) 21:00, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds perfectly reasonable to me! And that's given me good ideas for expanding them into a more thorough geographic description, making them into proper gazetteer-like entries rather than full-blown articles. I just didn't want to spend significant time working on hundreds of them only to find them all deleted the next month.Morgan Riley (talk) 21:12, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposal: new category for importance assessment scale
A number of other projects have already implemented what they consider to be "Bottom-importance" articles, i.e. those that are trivially or very marginally related to the scope and expertise of the project. WikiProject Astronomy has quite effectively implemented such a grading, and it is a ready-built option requiring minimal code. I see this as a possible solution to some of the most tangentially-related articles that are best served by other projects, and a while ago modified the proposed importance assessment scale to reflect this. However, in order to implement that change would require an administrator, as it is hidden within Template:WikiProject Virginia (the talk page template). It basically involves creating a subpage mask-- all that is needed is to change the code as done in template to invoke the subpage Template:WikiProject Virginia/importance, so its quite simple. Some input, or at least lack of opposition, is desirable. Thoughts? Morgan Riley (talk) 06:01, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I have mixed feelings about this. I see some value, but I also think we will alienate editors who would view this assessment as some kind of value judgment.  When I see articles that I would assess as "bottom importance" to the Virginia project, my typical solution is simply to remove them altogether.  So, I am on the fence.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 23:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The main area I've been trying to figure out what to do with are certain articles about individuals who are basically in Virginia for brief periods of time for some specific transient reason (e.g. Kohki Abe, whose only connection is because of an LLM from UVA--a one-year degree), who are neither born, raised, died, nor became or continue to be notable because of what they did in Virginia (often a cursory read will reveal little to do with Virginia, save maybe half a sentence of two, sometimes only through implication), where this Wikiproject's expertise will be of little use, and where other WikiProjects are far more suited to cover them. Thoughts on what to do in such cases? Morgan Riley (talk) 00:20, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Personally, I think the best thing to do in those situations is to remove the WPVA template from the article and take it out of the scope of the project. I have seen some of these examples too, and I think it started when someone started a separate UVA Wikiproject, which later folded into WPVA.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 17:18, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment on move of Samuel Davies (educator)
I've started a proposal for a page move relevant to this project over at Talk:Samuel Davies (educator). The current disambiguation term (educator), puts the emphasis on his brief role as a president of Princeton. This obscures that his main career profession was as a minister, for which I propose moving to Samuel Davies (minister) or (clergyman). The relevance to this project was that he was the first licensed non-Anglican minister in the Virginia colony (preaching at Polegreen Church in Hanover County), whose work paved the way for the eventual disestablishment of the Anglican church in Virginia, and American religious freedom more broadly. Any comments would be appreciated. Morgan Riley (talk) 06:36, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Articles about random suburban subdivisions, not unincorporated communities; any worth saving?
So it seems that quite a number of subdivisions in the city of Richmond, Virginia are listed in GNIS. An editor, presumably unaware to double-check any references to Richmond in "County" field, created a large number of stub articles on them, assuming them to be unincorporated communities. A quick coordinates check on a map pinpoints them to within the incorporated city. My question is: are any of these worth moving and starting as stubs on neighbhorhoods (even though there is already a List of neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia to cover such matters? And if not, is there any objection to putting many of these up for deletion?

Here is the list:
 * Dorchester
 * Brookbury
 * Ampthill Heights
 * Broad Rock
 * Broad Rock Manor
 * Cedar Farms
 * Cherokee Hills
 * Cherry Gardens
 * Chesterfield Court
 * Chestnut Hill
 * Chippenham Village
 * Clopton
 * Fairway Acres
 * Fawnbrook
 * Fernleigh
 * Forest Hill Farms
 * Hobby Hill Farms
 * Huguenot Farms
 * Kragmont
 * Lower Rocketts
 * Manchester, Richmond County, Virginia
 * The Mews
 * Pinehurts
 * Piney Knolls
 * Pittaway Farms
 * Rio Vista
 * Scottdale
 * Shannon Terrace
 * South Garden
 * South Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia
 * Southampton, Richmond County, Virginia
 * Southhampton Hills, Virginia
 * Twin Valley Farms, Virginia
 * Walmsley Village, Virginia
 * Warwick Acres, Virginia
 * Washington Park
 * Westlake Hills
 * Westover Gardens
 * Willow Oaks
 * Woodland Park
 * Worthington Farms

Cheers.Morgan Riley (talk) 05:48, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * If they are, indeed, subdivisions and not towns of one kind or another in Richmond County, Virginia or Henrico County, Virginia, then I have no problem with them going up for deletion. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 08:27, 6 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Several appear to duplicate other articles which discuss the neighborhoods of Richmond, such as Manchester, Richmond County, Virginia and Manchester, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington Park, Virginia and Washington Park, Richmond. If the articles you listed above duplicate existing neighborhood articles linked from Template:Richmond, Virginia neighborhoods, then they should be deleted. The others could either be moved to align with the naming conventions of Richmond neighborhoods and rewritten to remove reference to Richmond County or put up for deletion so long as they are within the city limits.  I have no objection to either.  MountainRail (talk) 20:57, 6 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Yikes - a bit of a mess. A third solution is to redirect all these to List of neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (like Morgan has already done with Broad Rock, Virginia).  We could then let that list develop and see which neighborhoods are sufficiently notable.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 20:31, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * That sounds like a good solution, although those with "Richmond County" in the page name should be deleted as they are not in the county. MountainRail (talk) 22:04, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Just a quick note: Richmond, Virginia is not in Richmond County, Virginia. Richmond, the capital of Virginia, is in Henrico County, Virginia.  Richmond County, a rural county, is on the Northern Neck (along the Chesapeake Bay) and is 57 miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 00:01, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, in any other state it would be in Henrico (and Chesterfield), however, under the current state schema of jurisdictions Richmond is an independent city, and thus not part of any county. Morgan Riley (talk) 01:56, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * You are indeed correct, it is an Independent City. I am embarrassed I didn't catch that before I posted....and I'm from Virginia. :) - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 02:26, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Neighborhoods of Arlington County
Are the Neighborhoods of Arlington County unincorporated communities? Arlington County, Virginia lists them as unincorporated communities, but the articles themselves (expect Arlington Ridge, Virginia) don't call them "unincorporated communities", they call them neighborhoods (tough neighborhood and unincorporated community might not be multiply excessive). Most of the titles are in a "X, Arlington, Virginia" format, but if these are unincorporated communities then the template is fine and the pages should probably be modified to "X, Virginia" just like every other unincorporated community, city, etc.

If these are not unincorporated communities, but mere neighborhoods, then the template will probably need to be changed to more of a "neighborhoods in a city" format. I don't know what the titles should be in that case, but if we're going to have "Arlington" in the title it should probably be changed to "Arlington County" to match the parent page. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 16:39, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It appears to me that the template title already says "Arlington County". This template model is standard for counties across the United States, and most of them seem to use the term "unincorporated communities". Arlington County is a bit of a odd duck, as it is a quasi-city that refuses to incorporate, so a variation may be in order, but I would look for more consensus on that first. Rklear (talk) 19:55, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * My main question is, are these neighborhoods unincorporated communities? If they are, then the articles ought to say that that are. If not, then the template should stop saying that they are. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 20:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I am having trouble understanding what you believe is the definition of "unincorporated community", distinguished from "neighborhood". Since cities and counties are separate geographic areas in Virginia and there are no towns within the boundaries of Arlington County, there are no incorporated areas within Arlington County other than the County itself. So any geographic region contained within Arlington County, such as a neighborhood, is by itself unincorporated (if "unincorporated" has the opposite meaning of "incorporated").  Because Arlington County is fully densely populated in the same manner as a city, these are more like neighborhoods in a city, as opposed to (for example) Chantilly, Virginia and the many other census-designated places in Virginia that may be what you are thinking of as unincorporated communities.  --hulmem (talk) 02:07, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Virginia Confederates




There is a controversy arising over use in the Infobox of the First National Flag versus the Third National Flag, "Blood Stained Banner" at Confederate States of America where the consensus is to use the First National Flag. In articles about Virginians, the First National Flag is used at Robert E. Lee, but it is challenged, and the BSB is used at J.E.B. Stuart. The BSB is coincidentally adopted by the Confederate States of America, Inc., a WP:FRINGE organization which seeks to persuade voters to elect state representatives who will vote for state secession in the 21st century.

Is there a way to adopt a consistent usage across Virginia articles concerning the Confederacy? Confederates served under one banner, so history articles at WP should picture the flag of its time, the "First national flag with 13 stars", 1861-1865. Jefferson Davis was the last Confederate citizen, the only man not included in the general amnesty. Heritage Auction offered the original First National Flag flown by Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir “since 1865” – that is 1867-1908 until his death. The Second National Flag flew only over the Confederate Capitol in Richmond, the Third was never fabricated.

David Sansing, professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi at “Mississippi History Now”, online Mississippi Historical Society observes in his Brief history of Confederate flags, that the “Bood stained banner” was “unlikely” to have flown over “any Confederate troops or civilian agencies”. He quoted the author of “Confederate Military History”, General Bradley T. Johnson, “I never saw this flag, nor have I seen a man who did see it.” -- the BSB. In contrast, Ellis Merton Coulter in his The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, published in LSU’s History of the South series, on page 118 notes that beginning in March 1861, the National Flag was used “all over the Confederacy”.

The alternate image description for the Blood-Stained-Banner suggests the BSB is in use “since 1865”, yet in Jefferson Davis' Short History of the Confederate States of America, p.503 it is said that the Confederacy “disappeared” since 1865, in the words of Jefferson Davis. Use of this flag is supported by editors who quote primary source of the Confederate Congressional Journal, but it was adopted by a rump session without a quorum, it was never fabricated and no one ever saw it in 1865. It should not be used to represent the historical Confederacy or anyone serving it 1861-1865. Advocates of the BSB have offered no scholarly sources to support their position.

Is there a way to adopt a consistent flag usage in articles of history of the Confederacy across military articles concerning the Virginians Confederacy? TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:53, 16 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia articles related to Virginia battlefields and Virginians should not become a display case for neo-Confederate modern day secessionist “Blood-stained banner”, when there is a reliable source that no one ever saw the banner as specified in a resolution of rump Congressional session as Richmond was evacuated. The image sourcing explains it is the CSA flag "since 1865".


 * The historic Confederacy 1861-1865 which has disappeared had a flag displayed everywhere in the Confederacy at the time. It was the “First National Flag”, and that is what should be displayed in Infoboxes of WP history articles related to Virginia battlefields and Virginians. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 18:52, 24 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Agreed. You may also want to run this issue by at WikiProject Military history; they are a very active project and I'm sure they have some insight in that this extends beyond Virginia.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 19:59, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I tried earlier, couching it in terms of protecting the Infoboxes once the flag of history was agreed to by consensus, as at Confederate States of America. That turns out to be impossible, and at some level I was misunderstood as an editor answered that the images at Wikimedia Commons were protected. I think that in the shorter presentation my overall point is better understood. Thanks for your encouragement. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:31, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Notice re VA politician article nominated for deletion
See: Articles for deletion/Gary Reams. – S. Rich (talk) 23:09, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
I created Category:Virginia articles needing expert attention for making Category:University of Virginia articles needing expert attention a subcategory of it. Category:Virginia articles needing expert attention might be populated in the future and might be of interest to your WikiProject. Iceblock (talk) 03:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Jeff Davis House
I'd like to categorize these, but have no idea who Davis or where this mansion is.


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Please help.

Link: Metmuseum collection

Thanks!

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:20, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Follow-up
Now categorized at:

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:55, 3 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Ah yes - the "White House of the Confederacy".-- Mojo Hand (talk) 02:10, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Photo request
If someone lives in Arlington, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could take a photo of Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, specifically the 1964 building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thank you. <b style="color:#000080;">APK</b> whisper in my ear  12:41, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Filipino American population
I am seeking assistance to expand the section Demographics of Filipino Americans. It has proven difficult to find sources online, and will continue with my efforts, however any additional assistance from this WikiProject would be beneficial.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:20, 18 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) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

March 2015 Art+Feminism event in Sweet Briar
Hi Virginia Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone would be interested in helping out with editing training for a Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon being organized in Sweet Briar (at Sweet Briar College). We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the area, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! -Thepwnco (talk) 22:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Data from the Commonwealth of Virginia
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 07:22, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

United Negro College Fund?
The United Negro College Fund was tagged as of interest to WikiProject Virginia. The only apparent connection between the UNCF and Virginia is that Virginia Union University is a UNCF member institution. This seemed very tenuous, so I removed the tag. Please feel free to revert me if I've overlooked something. If so, it may be a good idea to expand the article to include the Virginia connection to avoid future confusion. --BDD (talk) 20:05, 4 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Weird. I think the article was added to WPVA because it's in Category:Fairfax County, Virginia, but I can't tell why it would be in that category.  It's clearly located in Washington DC.  Without more, I think you were right to remove it from the project.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 02:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)


 * , from 1994 until recently the UNCF was headquartered in Fairfax County. The organization moved to the Shaw neighborhood in Washington, D.C.  I agree, the project tag should be removed since the UNCF no longer calls Virginia home.  <b style="color:#000080;">APK</b>  whisper in my ear  18:17, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

"Spanish-Indian Wars"
The article on Blacksburg, Virginia mentions "the Spanish-Indian Wars" in connection with its early history. There is no such article in WP and hardly any occurrence of the phrase in article text or on the Web at large. I've described the problem on the Talk page, which is the appropriate place for discussion. To discuss this, please me. --Thnidu (talk) 04:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission
Could you have a loot at Draft:University of Virginia Greek life? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:54, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

William Elliott (politician) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for William Elliott (politician) to be moved to William Elliott (U.S. politician). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:00, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy expansion?
Hello! Would anyone be willing to help me expand this page? I'm pretty new here and could use some help. Since it's an underdeveloped page I was thinking we could add some more content sections. Since I work at Batten as an intern, there might be some COI issues which is also why I'm asking for help, I'm wholeheartedly interested in writing an unbiased piece and could use some cooperation to ensure that happens.

Here's some articles I pulled together from fairly reliable sources on possible tidbits of info, etc.

Overview


 * http://www.uvacontemplation.org/content/frank-batten-school-leadership-and-public-policy
 * http://www.appam.org/spotlight-the-frank-batten-school-of-leadership-and-public-policy-at-the-university-of-virginia/

Quote for Batten’s vision for the school


 * http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/education/education-features/2008/12/16/colleges2008/

Faculty/Staff


 * http://www.nbc29.com/story/23778851/uva-batten-schools-founding-dean-stepping-down
 * http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/02/batten-hires-shimshack-mbiti
 * http://jenniferdoleac.com/
 * https://www.coursera.org/instructor/gerrywarburg
 * https://sites.google.com/site/ericpatashnik/home
 * http://leavittpartners.com/team_members/ray-scheppach/

Faculty (etc.) with Wikipedia pages


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Childress
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ferzan
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harding_(political_scientist)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hitz
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Holt
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Savage
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wilson
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Brogdon (source saying he’s a Batten student: http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/malcolm_brogdon_791198.html)

Degrees


 * http://uvamagazine.org/articles/batten_school_seeking_new_undergraduate_degree/

Other

http://internsdc.com/internship-opportunities/special-interview-kellie-sauls-frank-batten-school-leadership-public-policy/
 * http://uvamagazine.org/articles/a_new_kind_of_leader -“ Batten School takes hands-on approach to develop ‘challengers of the status quo’”

Virginia Policy Review


 * http://virginiapolicyreview.com/

I also have easy access to the University of Virginia's library system if including any information book or special resources here is applicable.

--Wannesa (talk) 16:23, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Historic Inn
How can we get a Wikipedia page for our historic inn? The Mountain Rose Inn, Circa 1901 is on the site of the DeHart family's Mountain Rose Distillery built in the late 1800's.

Thank you, Bruce Cadle, Manager 276-930-1057. info@mountainrose-inn.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.6.208.44 (talk) 20:56, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Broken tool
Hello again. This time I have something just for this WikiProject. On your main page, there is a tools section. The tool called "Dab solver" is broken. I didn't remove the link because I didn't know if it's fixable or not. Hope it's fixable! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk • contribs) 06:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like when all the Toolserver links were FINALLY moved, updated, and/or redirected, we forgot to update them on here. It took forever for Toolserver to figure out what they were doing, so it isn't surprising.  I updated all the links, so you will be able to go their new sites now. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 06:28, 3 August 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) 04:58, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * This was proposed by another user awhile back. We here at WP:VIRGINIA are very active in creating, updating, watchlisting, etc. all Virginia articles.  While we don't do much talking, we are active and our contribs show it. :)  Having the Virginia WikiProject being mashed into WP:US wouldn't really help the WikiProject any, if anything, it would hurt it.  Having to go through and update each and every talk page with the correct banners, would be the MAJOR turn off.


 * Being an independent WikiProject has worked for us so far (and I think/hope others will agree), I don't see a reason to merge into WP:US. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 05:11, 3 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Neutralhomer! Nice to meet you, and thanks for replying so soon. :) I didn't mean for there to be any merging to happen. I love the fact that all the states have their independent WikiProjects. What I meant was that there would be a central guideline somewhere in case any of the independent wikiprojects ever want to opt in. Mostly layout and such. The Virginia project here, for example could be used as an example for some of its layout. The little bar at the top (Main, Members, Assessment, Improvement, Peer Review, Requests, Templates, Resources) is really awesome, and could be shown in this possible guideline, as could the little box titled WikiProject Virginia. And in the same manner, the great stuff from the other State wikiprojects could be shown there too. Every project could pick from the best of the others, and keep any cool individual stuff that they want. JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 05:53, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, misunderstood what you were asking. On that part, most WikiProjects go by the WikiProject template, but each project jazzes up their page how they see fit.  Mostly so they all don't look the same. :)  But they all follow the same general layout with the WikiProject template. - <small style="white-space:nowrap;border:1px solid #900;padding:1px;"> Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 06:02, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Oh. That's useful to know, thanks. :) After looking at it though, I saw that it's a bit too general. What I was thinking is something like that, but more specific to US State WikiProjects. REALLY like that bar though, and think all the others should see it. A few have something simmilar, but quite a few have nothing like it. I'll think/remember some more specifics later. Right now all my tiredness suddenly caught up with me. Good night. JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 06:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Virginia 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 Virginia/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! <font face="Broadway">Mr.Z-man 03:47, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Mabry Mill not built by Mabry
I was shocked to find that Mabry Mill Va which was in existence long before Mabry owned it, was attributed to him as having built it in 1903. Someone needs to do the research. It was built by John Thompson, younger brother to Caroline Thompson Barnard, my great great grandmother (Maternal side), prior to the civil war. I'm not looking to change "history" or the name, but let's give credit where it's due. Thanks Rich Nix50.135.244.131 (talk) 00:29, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Brain fart
Hey, figured I'd start using these boards as well as the others. I have a quick question: if someone was part of the Constitutional Convention (state or national), would that be enough to establish notability? I have someone who would pass on other criteria, but I've been wondering if this would qualify by itself. I think I'd asked this somewhere else months ago and just forgot, so I figure I'll ask again. Tokyogirl79LVA (talk) 13:51, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * My initial thought is that being sent to a constitutional conventional, by itself, is not sufficient evidence of notability. I think many (maybe even most) people sent to constitutional conventions are prominent and likely to be the subject of coverage in reliable sources, even if such coverage is not immediately available.  However, there are also party operatives, political hacks and others who may not be particularly notable.  So, I see attending a convention as a sign of notability, but not sufficient to qualify by itself.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 16:20, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Gotcha - good to know. I don't think I've written any articles based on that alone, but it's good to know. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Article requested-move alert
Just a heads-up to the project that a request has been made to move Fairfax, Virginia to City of Fairfax, Virginia. —C.Fred (talk) 17:40, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Editathon at UVa
We're holding an editathon at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville today. Y'all can come, or see us online! -- econterms (talk) 10:59, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Photo request in Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania VRE station is opening next Monday, the 16th. Is there anyone who'd be able to get photos on opening day or thereafter? Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:36, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Virginia expert needed
Is there someone with expertise about Virginia? I'm trying to write an article about "Screamersville", a ghost town in Chesterfield County about 20 miles southeast of Richmond. However, there are many sources pointing to another "Screamersville" located on the river in Richmond, which was a site for many pre-Civil War brothels and taverns. If anyone can help sort this out I'd appreciate it. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:03, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

James from Richmond
I live in Richmond, Virginia. Here is a 1860's reference to the Richmond Screamersville. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acz8838.0001.001/297?page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image;q1=Screamersville

It references several parts of Richmond, apparently where gangs of boys play fight. Screamersville is listed before Oregon Hill. The Oregon Hill boys are listed as disciples of Vulcan, greek god of the forge. Oregon Hill was built for people who worked at Tredegar Iron Works.

Oregon Hill is still a popular name of that historical neighborhood. I have never heard of Screamersville from Richmonders.

AfC submission
See Draft:Hickory Flats. Thank you, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  21:06, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Chantilly, Fairfax County, VA
Chantilly Plantation was built by Cornelia Lee Turberville and her husband Charles Calvert Stuart. She was born at Leeton - the home of the Turbervilles still standing on Walney Road in Chantilly. Cornelia named Chantilly after her grandfather's plantation (Richard Henry Lee) of the same name in Westmoreland Co. VA. Chantilly plantation was burned by the Union forces and the property sold at auction some few years later by Cornelia's son. (I have the original papers for the sale). My husband and I own Leeton which was a 5,000 acre plantation in 1727 and now is just 2.5 acres. The house that is shown on this page and called Chantilly is not Chantilly, but Sully Plantation built by Richard Bland Lee. Sully was called the "sister plantation" to Leeton since brother and sister owned the two plantations. The only structure left of Chantilly plantation is the stone building on Rt. 50. Richard Henry Lee, my 5th great grandfather, was said to have visited a chateau in France called Chantilly, loved the name and so named his plantation Chantilly in Westmoreland County. All of these facts are in my two volume set of books I wrote and published called The Turbervilles of Virginia. I put copies of the auction and sale of Chantilly and also a description of the plantation. Dr. Tricia Petitt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.250.253 (talk) 19:16, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Help with an article!
Hi guys! I'm in the process of trying to clean an article up, but I know that there's only so much I can do today. The article for Ralph Hamor needs a lot of work because I'm not sure how much of it is actually accurate. I just pulled out a sentence that claimed that Captain Christopher Newport died in 1621 as a result of an attack, however my records with Encyclopedia Virginia show that Newport died in 1617 of unspecified causes. All we know is that he died around this time.

I'm really not sure how much of the article is accurate since I haven't done an in-depth comparison to the EV's bio of him. All I know is that the Newport claim stood out immediately because it was so obviously incorrect. If that's wrong, then I have to assume that a large portion of the article is probably wrong as well.

Anyone want to help out? The EV is a good place to start since it's run by the VHF and this particular entry was written by one of the Library of Virginia's historians, so I can vouch for its accuracy. (Full disclosure, I'm a volunteer there.) However of course the article will likely need more sources - I know that right now one of the sources is to RootsWeb, which is problematic for obvious reasons. (User submitted content, in other words.)

I'd posted this to the biography WikiProject under my COI account, but this would pertain here as well. I'm not able to give this a lot of time today and because I'm starting into the second half of a 10 week course, I'm not sure how much time I'll have in general, but this definitely needs to be looked at. I've tried starting some cleanup, but I don't have a lot of time to do this today. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  15:04, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Article Critique
In response to the article about Ellwood Manor, the layout and overall coverage of the topic is great. After visiting Ellwood Manor once before, I can say that the article does a fantastic job covering the history and the current status of the site. While the information is written eloquently and factually, the first section lacked a single citation. Other than that, the article is very informative and a good representation of Ellwood Manor. Mr9560a (talk) 18:26, 11 September 2016 (UTC)McKenna

Virginia Conventions --- peer review request
Virginia Conventions is of High Importance on the Virginia Project scale, and has recently been substantially expanded. Two editors are considering nominating it for Good Article (GA) status. Your comments and contributions are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 10:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Virginia's congressional districts
I have made several recent contributions and note that it previously had more material than several other articles rated start-class "[state] congressional districts”. I have promoted the article to B-class; it takes two other editors to promote an article to A-class. Further comments and contributions are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:22, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Jerry Falwell Jr. discussion
Hello. There is currently a discussion taking place at the above article regarding whether or not to include a section about the Trump tapes and Liberty University students' reactions to it. Given, I thought it best to notify relevant WikiProjects of the discussion, especially because Falwell is a very politically-involved figure at the moment. I believe that this notification is as neutrally-worded as possible and that it does not violate the canvassing policy.  — Gestrid  ( talk ) 22:13, 19 October 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)

Virginia Congressional delegations
Looks like United States congressional delegations from Virginia has not been updated since 1990s, so Robb is pictured in the current delegation as U.S. Senator. The article is still quite useful for its historical background on this topic, but it lacks updating over the last twenty-five years. Any assist would be appreciated. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 19:04, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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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

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Pat McGee Band
Would someone from this WP:VIRGINIA mind talking a look at Pat McGee Band? The article is a bit promotional sounding, which is something that can be cleaned up. The band has had a couple of albums released by Warner Bros. Records which seems to be enough to establish notability per WP:BAND, but the only source being cited is a press release which does nothing to establish notability. Perhaps this is a case of WP:NEXIST and the band has received some local/regional coverage which can be used as sources, so any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:55, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Notice about adminship to participants at this project
Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:


 * Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

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Help with VA-based organization
Hi there. I'm looking for help with reviewing some suggested improvements to the National Automobile Dealers Association article, which is outdated and missing some key details. As the organization is based in Virginia, I wondered if any editors here would be interested to help. As I'm making the proposals on behalf of NADA, I'm not editing the article directly, and have posted an edit request for a few small, straightforward updates on the article's talk page. I'm hoping an editor from this project may have a few minutes to take a look at this request. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 14:43, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride
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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:
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Help with Virginia-based ICF International?
Hello, WikiProject Virginia! I recently created a new article draft—ICF International (new proposed draft)—for Fairfax, Virginia-based ICF International and posted this edit request that members of WikiProject Virginia might be interested in. The article was essentially stubbed after an editor found that someone (years ago) had inserted probable copyright violations. My draft fixes issues I saw with the previous iterations of the article: the entry relied heavily on primary sources, its content was choppy, fragmented and outdated. I think it's a good, neutral, encyclopedic overview of the company. I am asking for another editor to review and consider implementing my proposed edits because I am working on behalf of ICF, as I've disclosed on the article's Talk page. Please let me know if you have any questions at all. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 18:20, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

All done, never mind! WWB Too (Talk · COI) 21:18, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Priority of Virginia House and Senate districts?
We have a bunch of stub articles for Virginia House & Senate districts - see e.g. Virginia's 56th House of Delegates district. I have been debating how to categorize them for the Wikiproject. On one hand, they seem to be "low" priority, as no-one seems much interested in reading or developing these articles. Alternately, one could say the districts are perpetual and more important than any individual representative, and therefore they should be a "mid" priority for the Virginia Wikiproject. I am on the fence. Anyone else have a thought about whether the individual districts should be considered a low or mid priority for the project?-- Mojo Hand (talk) 14:20, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Newly-elected politicians
I've created some stubs for some of the newly-elected politicians from Virginia, and invite all to help expand these articles:


 * Hala Ayala
 * Kelly Fowler
 * Wendy Gooditis
 * Elizabeth Guzman
 * Kathy Tran

Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:08, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Virginia

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 19:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lombardi Bowl


The article Lombardi Bowl has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "While I can find some announcements about the proposed initial game and invitations to it, I can find nothing about it actually occurring. I don't believe that this college all-star game that was announced and never played is notable because there is not significant coverage in reliable sources."

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New Article: Seeking Input
Hello! I'm new to Wikipedia and I'm currently writing an article on the court case Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia for a college course I'm taking. I would love to get some feedback on the article so that I may continue to improve it. Thank you! Kimmecca (talk) 20:35, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Jim Limber
This page needs to be written by a real historian. I edited a few usages of offensive language (octoroon, mixed) and changed the nationality (Conferederacy?!), but the whole page needs to be rewritten or taken down. For example, this is not a reputable source: http://spofga.org/flag/2005/feb/jim_limber_davis.phtml--see the logo at the top of the page, for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scohens (talk • contribs) 19:24, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

RfC: Should material stating the NRA operates gun safety and training programs be included in the NRA article?
An RfC has been posted at Talk:National Rifle Association. Interested editors are invited to comment.- MrX 🖋 18:09, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

New Virginia userbox templates
New Virginia userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Virginia and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 23:16, 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)

Informal RfC discussion on WP:UNDUE at Talk:Liberty University
There is an informal/unofficial RfC at the Liberty University talk page found here that members of this project might interested in taking part in. <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 15px #0099FF, -4px -4px 15px #99FF00;">-- ψλ  ● <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 15px #FF9900, -4px -4px 15px #FF0099;">✉ ✓ 15:16, 2 June 2018 (UTC)


 * NOTE Discussion has just been made into an official RfC. <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 15px #0099FF, -4px -4px 15px #99FF00;">-- ψλ  ● <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 15px #FF9900, -4px -4px 15px #FF0099;">✉ ✓ 16:02, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Laura Ingraham
There is a discussion at the Laura Ingraham talk page found here that members of this project might be interested in taking part in. <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 15px #0099FF, -4px -4px 15px #99FF00;">-- ψλ  ● <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 15px #FF9900, -4px -4px 15px #FF0099;">✉ ✓ 01:01, 3 July 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)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:46, 27 February 2019 (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)

Changing “importance” to “priority”
It has long bothered me that this WikiProject (like most) uses the term "importance" in its assessments. My concern is that “importance” is a major value judgment, and this designation can be very disheartening to someone who has worked hard to create or edit an article. See, for example, the previous discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Virginia/Assessment. I think the word “priority” would be both more accurate and kinder. The priority designation would estimate the degree to which any given article is helpful towards improving comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Obviously these assessments still require a great deal of subjectivity, but I strongly believe this change in the wording is a step in the right direction. I looked over previous discussions at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment and this seems to be something of a perennial issue. To the best of my understanding, the general consensus is that individual WikiProjects have the power to make this change for themselves. So, I would like to propose that change for this project.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 15:16, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Virginia
Proposal to delete all portals

The discussion is at Village pump (proposals). Voceditenore (talk) 08:13, 23 September 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)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week
Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) is being given away in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, including the week ending July 5th dedicated to the US, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. There's a potential £120 to be won in total for destubbing on any subject or region of your choice. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius  12:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about the move of an article in scope of this project
There is a discussion whether or not Thomas(ine) Hall should be moved to Thomasine Hall. Since the article is part of this project, some members may be interested in the discussion. Gehenna1510 (talk) 17:15, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Virginia/Peer review
Hi all, I've boldly updated your project's peer review page (WikiProject Virginia/Peer review) by updating the instructions and archiving old reviews.

The new instructions use Wikipedia's general peer review process (WP:PR) to list peer reviews. Your project's reviews are still able to be listed on your local page too.

The benefits of this change is that review requests will get seen by a wider audience and are likely to be attended to in a more timely way (many WikiProject peer reviews remain unanswered after years). The Wikipedia peer review process is also more maintained than most WikiProjects, and this may help save time for your active members.

I've done this boldly as it seems your peer review page is pretty inactive and I am working through around 90 such similar peer review pages. Please feel free to discuss below - please ping me in your response.

Cheers and hope you are well, Tom (LT) (talk) 23:35, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Potomac Crossing


The article Potomac Crossing has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Non-notable subdivision"

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 00:51, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Tom Burford
I recently created an article for the noted Virginia pomologist and historian Tom Burford. The article is a work in progress. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Thriley (talk) 13:42, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

FAR notice
I have nominated Report of 1800 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:53, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for a Virginia-headquartered company
Hi! I'm looking for help for the Maximus Inc. page, and as it falls under this WikiProject as a Virginia-headquartered company I wanted to see if anyone here can review a small request. The first paragraph of the company's "History" does not have any references and a lot of the content is about the company's founder, not the company itself. I've suggested some edits to add references and include a couple more key milestones for the company. It's a short draft to review: can anyone here help?

As I am an employee of Maximus and have a conflict of interest, per Wikipedia's COI rules, I will use Wikipedia Talk pages to request edits for Maximus instead of direct editing. Thanks, Katie at Maximus (talk) 15:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi again! It looks like this message might not have come to editors' attention. Tagging a few active members who noted they're interested in improving articles in general: User:1618033golden, User:TheMadGiggler76 and User:WikiIsKnowledge Would any of you be able to help with this short request? Thanks, Katie at Maximus (talk) 15:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

I can look into it. WikiIsKnowledge (talk) 15:57, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

FAR notice
I have nominated William Henry Harrison for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sahaib3005 (talk) 17:34, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Joseph Carrington Cabell
Hello, I recently created a stub for Joseph Carrington Cabell. It appears he was quite a significant figure in Virginia history, particularly with UVA. Any help would be appreciated. Best, Thriley (talk) 18:21, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Falling Creek
According to the TV show Modern Marvels ( season 3 / episode 15 ) it was said that the first Steel Mill in America was built in Falling Creek VA. It was attacked by Native Americans just as the first fires were built for the first batch of steel, and therefore never made. Apparently it was abandon soon after with only one young boy surviving the attack. 216.36.14.112 (talk) 12:39, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
I have nominated Christopher C. Kraft Jr. for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 15:55, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

John W. Johnston Featured article review
I have nominated John W. Johnston for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  01:25, 9 April 2022 (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}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Christopher C. Kraft Jr./archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  22:33, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

GAR notice
Zachary Taylor has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:06, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 02:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:22, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Newport News, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:54, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources rearranged their site so the links to NRHP nomination forms on all of Wikipedia's NRHP articles are broken. Here's a link to find nomination forms if you happen to work on one of the articles or just want to replace dead links.  APK  whisper in my ear  23:41, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Informal RfC at Roanoke, Virginia
About a month ago I began a conversation at the Roanoke, Virginia Talk Page located here, but have yet to have any discussion. I'd like to get the opinions of interested editors before deciding to be WP:BOLD and make the change myself. Thanks in advance. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 15:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

2021 Redistricting
I think all of the Virginia House of Delegate Districts and State Senate Districts are out of date and refer the reader to the old district information. Virginia was redistricted in 2021. It looks like a major update is called for. I hope this can take place before the November 2023 elections Brumleygap (talk) 20:23, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Raytheon Company requested move
There is a discussion taking place at Talk:Raytheon_Company about whether to move Raytheon Company to Raytheon. --Jax 0677 (talk) 02:33, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:WMTV (College of William & Mary)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:WMTV (College of William & Mary) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 05:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Wayside Theatre
I know this a long shot, but if someone has any photos of inside the theatre or any performances, it would be awesome. Thanks.  APK  whisper in my ear  03:38, 5 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I don't, I'm afraid, but just wanted to say that's a great article you've written there. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 13:28, 5 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you!  APK  whisper in my ear  00:33, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Featured article review for Richard Hakluyt
I have nominated Richard Hakluyt for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 17:54, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk, Virginia has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Virginia Beach, Virginia
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Virginia Beach, Virginia that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2023 Arlington house explosion
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Arlington house explosion that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:24, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses: article needing attention
Hello! While I'm all for redlinks, the sea of red at List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses is a set-up for failure. I removed a redlink to William Melling, an actor alive today, and noticed the article also links to a New Zealand mayor and an Australian cricketer. It would be helpful if an editor familiar with this topic could unlink articles that are unlikely to meet WP:GNG/WP:NPOL, while retaining genuine redlinks for members that might merit a future standalone article. Thanks! IgnatiusofLondon (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Virginia Housing Development Authority
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Virginia Housing Development Authority that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:35, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:College of William & Mary
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:College of William & Mary that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:55, 13 April 2024 (UTC)