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WP:CHICAGO roles

It is not exactly clear to me what the best way to divide the responsibilities for the new coordinators who have volunteered. Here is what I think we need in terms of review coordinators:

1. we need at least one person to be the peer review coordinator for WP:CHICAGO. This person would be responsible for both WP:CHIR#PR, which is for internal peer reviews within the project and WP:CHIR#EPR, which are peer reviews at WP:PR and elsewhere that we should try to transclude to WP:CHIR. I think such a person should comment on all reviews listed at either of these places and coordinate archiving of such reviews. This person should also monitor WT:CHICAGO for articles seeking assistance and make sure the editors are aware that we now have project reviews. In the early stages of the project this person should also comment on all discussions at WP:CHIR#A-CLASS until we build up some momentum.
2. we need at least one person to be the A-Class review coordinator for WP:CHICAGO. This person would be responsible for WP:CHIR#A-CLASS. This person should comment on all reviews there and coordinate archiving of such reviews. This person should also monitor WP:CHIR#FAC and WP:FAC because articles listed for FAC review should often come from our A-Class pool in the future. Also articles that fail may come to our A-Class for guidance. In the early stages of the project this person should comment on all discussions at either WP:CHIR#PR or WP:CHIR#EPR in order to help get the momentum going for our review process.
3. we need someone to monitor delistings at WP:FAR, WP:FARC, WP:FLRC, WP:GAR, and keep an eye on individual GAR discussions. This person should keep an eye on whether all the leading editors of each article, the leading editors of each article's talk page, and the projects listed on the talk pages have been duly notified. This will help maximize the likelihood that we find people to respond to discussion comments. Transcluding all articles to the proper locations at WP:CHIR is a must. This person hopefully will have an interest in helping to clean up an occasional article or two as well.

Generally, discussion pages are removed immediately at WP:CHIR, but kept at WP:CHIDISCUSS for two weeks after closing. I have been attempting to do all of these things for the project myself as well as my other tasks. We have three volunteers who mentioned an interest in reviews so each of you should discuss among yourselves which coordinator you would like to be.

Two of the review coordinator respondents also listed Assessments. Within the assessment department at WP:CHIASSESS we need a few tasks handled as well.

1. Assessment requests need to be responded to.
2. WP:CHIQUALITY and WP:CHIPRIORITY need to be kept up to date
3. Category:Unknown-importance Chicago articles and Category:Unassessed Chicago articles need to be kept up
4. Category:Top-importance Chicago articles needs to be administered. We have made it policy to keep the Top-importance for the top .2% of all WP:CHICAGO articles. Thus the following will be the next promotions based on the last round of voting:

Magnificent Mile -when the project gets to 16000 articles

Haymarket Riot -16500 articles

Daniel Burnham -17000 articles

Chicago River -17500 articles

Lake Shore Drive -18000 articles

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) -18500 articles

Chicago Tribune -19000 articles

The following will be considered for promotion or we may call for another vote or we may discontinue promoting altogether: Soldier Field -19500 articles

Sears, Roebuck and Company -20000 articles

Chicago school (architecture) -20500 articles

William Wrigley Jr.-21000articles

New candidates for Top-importance should be continually brought forth. Alternative selection methods may be considered, but currently we support or oppose inclusion on a ballot and then vote on the ballot. We should keep discussion open on this issue. Again, please discuss the division of responsibility. I am hoping to have all responsibilities assigned and be a fairly fully functional project on September 1.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure if I was mistaken in my interpretation of your interest. Were you not interested in being a coordinator and instead being more of a helper?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:13, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Above I described the three types of review coordinators. I also mentioned various roles in assessments. The thing that is most important is that the three people listed at Wikipedia:CHICAGO/leadership as review coordinators determine which role that they would like to have. I had asked that you work it out among yourselves, but if you reply to me first you can have any one of the three coordinator roles above. In short the three types of reviewers are peer-review, A-Class review, and delisting review.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:34, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes you are listed, but you should choose one of the above three types as your primary role.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:36, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I try to keep everything transcluded at WP:CHIR while it is active and keep everything at WP:CHIDISCUSS (which transcludes to the main project page) while it is active plus two weeks afterwards. Right now we have a borderline WP:FLRC, and a losing WP:FAR in process. I think both of the current community WP:GARs are pretty safe. I think we are going to lose an GA for Ernest Hemmingway on an individual WP:GAR. These are all the things that I know of right now. Basically, your role would be to try to find people to help out by making sure all the leading editors of the article and its talk page have been contacted. Also, make sure all the projects on the articles' talk pages have been contacted. When simple things can be done you may want to step in. E.g. the current FLRC was not really so close to the border until I made some of the final changes although a lot of work has been done since it was nominated. It would be your own decision how much effort you are willing to put into saving articles from delisting, but finding people and helping out a bit is good. You will want to patrol the FAR, GAR, FLRC for new listings. I have never noticed one of ours at WP:FPR (we only have two featured portals) or in the delisting section at WP:FPC, but someday something will eventually appear at one of these pages. In fact, we have previously had a featured picture delisted. I don't know enough about picture editing to know if you could even do anything about avoiding a delisting other than by participating in the discussion. Thanks for assuming some responsibility.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

If you want to help out with the delisting area, Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Chicago Bears seasons is starting to look like it is headed for a delist. I think it is salvagable, but if you are interested in such matters, I leave it to you.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking your coordinator role seriously. Good luck in meeting the current objections.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping me up to date. Let me know when the final decision is made.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

There are times when you can save an article from delisting with relatively minor work (see what I did at Grand Central Station (Chicago) to save its GA. Blues is beyond me. This was somewhere in between. I had hoped someone would want to do whatever was needed. I did my part to help, but do not intend to drive this one home. We lose some sometimes. This will be our first list, but it was bound to happen.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deadmalls.com

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Dassault Ouragan

Hello,

Thanks for the offer. I'd like to take a raincheck on that. You see several other folks were working on that article responding to my request. So I decided to move on to another article in the mean time. Currently I am working on [Jagdgeschwader 1|Jagdgeschwader 1 Oesau]. Once that's done, I will come back to this one. I don't think this article has enough material to justify GA review. My modest goal is to get a B at least.

Thanks for the Offer. perseus71 (talk) 14:27, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War 2)

Hi!

This article is Rated B at this time. I would like to see it go to GA or A or FA Rating. Could you please give me comments on weather its ready for that level ? I'd really appreciate any detailed opinions on the areas lacking.

Thanks. perseus71 (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Marcusmax,

Yes i was aware you do not have the power to make it GA or A or FA. All I am looking to find are points that it lacks in order to become one. Those you have already provided.

I did have a hard time in getting Sources. But as of now I have 9 Cited sources that are reliable. Do you think it still needs more ? Also do you think the lead in is sufficient ? Please let me know.

Thanks perseus71 (talk) 19:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Marcusmax,

I appreciate the offer of listing for a peer Review. I already listed it on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history for peer review. Also whatever sources I have, were cited at least 3-4 times each. I will go look for more sources as suggested by you.

Thanks perseus71 (talk) 20:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello Again!

I have about 18 Sources by now. Almost all are books. Pretty much each is cited at least 3-8 times. A large amount of information is added as well. Could you please let me know what you think ? Specifically if its now worthy of nomination for a A ? Thanks perseus71 (talk) 15:16, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

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1998 PHS TFA

Thanks for asking me first. I have no strong preference, but I'm leaning slightly toward no, since we've been on the main page pretty often as of late. But if you wish to nominate it, you can. Thanks for the compliments, BTW! ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Nc-logo.jpg)

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Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar. It really means a lot to me. Hopefully one day we'll have a little golden star on Melbourne Airport. Cheers. Mvjs (talk) 04:08, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Delistings

You may want to watch WP:CHIAA. It is a bot-administered page that keeps track of ongoing workflows for WP:CHICAGO. As delistings coordinator, you may want to watch and comment on the WP:AFDs at issue there.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:28, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Barbers Point Light (Hawaii)

In general, lighthouses have been held to be innately notable. Mangoe (talk) 02:03, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Marcusmax, in the future, please allow more than 9 minutes before nominating a page for deletion. Many people tend to produce content within the hours following the page creation, and nominating a page for deletion within the first hour can cause many problems. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

In any case the basic info has been added. Mangoe (talk) 02:29, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Smile!

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Sorry for labeling it vandalism

I realized the moment I hit the revert link that you probably did make a mistake. I acted a bit too quickly myself. Echtoran ^(talk) 01:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

AIV report

Greetings, the recent AIV report regarded an anonymous user who had one edit since June and no warnings this month. I thusly declined to block, as there is no way to confirm that the editor is the same person as previously. The user may be worth keeping an eye on and sufficiently warning if need be. Regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 21:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

New article Thunder City

Thanks for your response. I'd really like someone experienced in Aviation related articles to begin on improving my stub article, particularly in terms of things like infoboxes, templates etc. As I said I am a complete newbie at those aspects of articles. (I don't even know how to upload a new image.) Roger (talk) 21:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Nothing further at this stage. It really is just a bare bones start. Thanks Roger (talk) 21:19, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II)

Hi Marcusmax,

I'd appreciate if you could take a look one more time. Right now it went through one round of Peer review and all comments are incorporated.

I had put up request for a second round of Peer review. Didn't get any comments though. I appreciate your time and would really like to know your opinion on current state. Perseus71 (talk) 13:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Again!

I am afraid I am requesting for some of your time again. I am aware that there are plenty of articles awaiting a GA review. (I do intend to contribute there.) However there aren't that many GA let alone FA articles on German Military history (14 at last count). Secondly if I am able to take one article to GA Status then that would give me experience to review other articles.

So for these two reasons can I please PLEASE request for a GA review on Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II). If you could not spare the time then could you at least request someone else to spare some ? I already asked DAPI89 and MisterBee1966. Not successful I am afraid. I'd truly appreciate if you could do a GA review for this article. Thanks a lot in advance for the time invested. Perseus71 (talk) 14:40, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

RE US 151 in Iowa

Strictly speaking, no, iowahighways.org is not a reliable source. See the discussion about AARoads and WP:SOURCES for more information. That being said, I have used and cited his website on some articles on WP. It's always a judgment call. --Fredddie™ 01:31, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

• Google Maps is fine as a source so long as you provide a link so others can see how you got your mileage. --Fredddie™ 01:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I got the exit numbers from actually driving the road and taking notes. That being said, you can also get them from Mapquest or other online mapping services. --Iowahwyman (talk) 02:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much. I checked Google Maps and they also give the distance as 108 miles if you ask for directions from its south end to the state line. --Iowahwyman (talk) 04:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for submitting the DYK hook. It's the first one I've verified, until now I only ever submitted there. Thanks for being patient with me. Imzadi1979 (talk) 02:31, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for U.S. Route 151 in Iowa

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Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 04:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Main Page redesign

The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll to select five new designs, before an RFC in which one will be proposed to replace the Main Page. The poll closes on October 31st. Your input would be hugely appreciated! Many thanks, Pretzels^Talk! 10:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

RE:Barnstar

Thanks for the BarnStar, it's greatly appreciated. :) Also, thanks for helping with the Urlacher article too. Hopefully it will stay GA. --  StarScream1007  ►Talk  04:14, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I too thank you for mine! -- Biruitorul ^Talk 05:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

No prob!!-Marcusmax(speak) 23:36, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

User: Jarrett O'Hearn

I would like the nomination for deletion to be removed, if it's okay with you. Jarrett O'Hearn (talk) 17:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Nurasko/myminicity is another one of the copies. I think we would be better to save, then explain to the user that one is enough, and help them understand the policies. It is always better if the user themselves learns why it isn't notable on their own.

DYK for Central Illinois

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