Wikipedia talk:WikiProject West Virginia/Archive 4

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Daily Mail Majorette Festival article
I would like to know how well this article has come since it was last rated as a stub-class. I would like to know what else I need to do to make it better. The page is Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival. Thanks JDC808 (talk) 17:30 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Please take these comments as the friendly criticism that they are offered. I assume that you hope to bring the article up to "good article" or "featured article status", and I am passing along comments that may help bring the article to that status.


 * I think the writing needs to be improved. The tone of the article is not encyclopedic. It reads more like brochure or an ad than a good Wikipedia article. For instance, the phrase "is gratefully acknowledged" seems out of place.  Take a look at some featured articles and lists, and you will get a feel for what constitutes good wiki style.


 * I think you need some in-line citations, and more references, if possible.


 * I like the fact you rounded up all the winners' names. But you might consider adding them into a table to make the layout seem a bit more pleasing.  Perhaps you could ask the Daily Mail for some photos to place in the article.  Wouldn't it be neat to have a photo of each winner? WVhybrid (talk) 00:47, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 11:01, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Highland, West Virginia
Hi, is there a defined geographic location known as 'Highland', please?. A school uses this as their postal address here and there are a few other references to it. TerriersFan (talk) 18:04, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sort of, in Ritchie County northeast of Ellenboro at the intersection of CR 1 and CR 16/4. It is listed on the Ellenboro USGS quad and on the WVDOH county maps, but it is no place that I've ever heard anyone mention.  It looks like it is just about 5 houses. Brian Powell (talk) 19:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

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Federal Prison Camp, Alderson
Hi! I'm trying to determine what counties that Federal Prison Camp, Alderson is located in. On the maps I can't tell exactly where the prison grounds start and where they stop. Also I wonder if any of the prison grounds are in the city limits of Alderson, West Virginia. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:44, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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List of United States federal courthouses in West Virginia
This list is largely complete, but has bits and pieces of information missing, and needs images filled in - any help in completing it would be much appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:26, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

West 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.

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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Governor of West Virginia
Is Tomblin the 35th Governor or is he merely the Senate President/Acting Governor? We've a current dispute over this at the Earl Ray Tomblin article & List of Governors of West Virginia article. GoodDay (talk) 06:00, 24 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) 20:35, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Thomas Esposito BLP and Logan County politics
Thomas Esposito was involved in a federal corruption investigation several years ago. Discussions are underway about how to improve this article as well as what's appropriate for inclusion in this article. Your input and assistance would be helpful: -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:34, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Talk:Thomas Esposito
 * Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (permanent link)

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) 23:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:50, 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) 02:50, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Protohistory of West Virginia and Prehistory of West Virginia
Has anyone with this project actually looked at these pages? I estimate 25% of the Protohistory of West Virginia article actually concerns West Virginia history. One could probably cut 75,000 bytes of unrelated material from the current article of 101,455 bytes before one got it down to the actual subject of the article. The majority of the extraneous subjects actually have articles of their own, bluelinks to Mississippian culture, Caddoan Mississippian culture, Fort Ancient and plenty of others would suffice, rather than laying out enormous explanations for said other subjects, some of which have no connection to WVA protohistory at all. Much of the information has been added so hodge podge and piecemeal, fractured sentences and incomplete phrases, it is almost impossible to read the articles. I'm pretty well versed in a lot of the subjects mentioned, but even I can only glean meaning after several readings and sometimes by going to the citations and hoping it links to where I can read the original. I really dont know what someone not acquainted with the subjects would think when trying to read through them. Is anyone interested in helping to copyedit it?  He  iro 03:29, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Where should Harpers Ferry redirect to?
You may be interested in User talk:Robert K S. Yaris678 (talk) 09:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)