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[edit]Making an AfD on an article that *you yourself* say is already in an AfD makes little sense. TMLutas (talk) 03:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- as per your comment, if multiple AfDs are general practice, I withdraw the complaint. If you read the group AfD the objections are generally for insufficient information. The article material is being auto-generated by a database program in code that is likely to be distributed to thousands of people. The articles will come back regardless of the AfD results and regardless of whether or not I ever submit another one. Setting a collaborative process with me to improve the "form letter" style template I'm developing would be a lot better but this seems to be culturally difficult for the mass delete crowd. I'm extending you the same invitation, What would be the verbiage I should add and what would be the information (ideally from a source like NCES that provides in CSV form) that should be added to overcome your objections? It's not particularly difficult to add a static text paragraph that explains the independent government nature of these districts. It's just not usually done in the complete ones I've read and so I didn't think I should do it. Maybe that's US centrism. What do you think? TMLutas (talk) 04:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- As a Bay Area resident (Napa County) I noted your three school district AfDs in Napa and Sonoma Counties, and I oppose this campaign to delete school district articles. I oppose it in any state or any other country, but because these districts are familiar to me, I took special notice. I believe that school districts ought to be considered notable if there is any verifiable information available about the district. There is nothing wrong with a stub about a notable topic. As WP:STUB says, "A stub is an article containing only one or a few sentences of text that, although providing some useful information, is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, and that is capable of expansion." The proper approach to stubs about notable topics is to expand and reference the stubs, not to delete them. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Cullen, I generally share your outlook, but we do need to maintain a minimum level of quality. Very few people actually edit these articles, meanwhile they rot with no content or sources. Yes, ideally we'd have a full, decent sourced article on every school district in world, but a line does need to be drawn and we should strive to at least have a sourced fact bare minimum for stubs created so they become a constructive thing rather than a pollutant. That you have mentioned nothing of quality and errors, nor encouraged Lutas to improve his standard, is concerning to me.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:05, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Dr. Blofeld, I respect your opinion and have left a message on the talk page for TMLutas, expressing general support for the creation of these school district articles, but also expressing concern about the quality level of the stubs. As I told that editor, I have no expertise in bots and automated procedures for creating articles, and I know that such automated efforts have been controversial in other contexts. I am an old fashioned guy, and I write, reference and expand articles slowly, and in a very personalized way. If, though, better bots can be programmed that produce better, more useful, more accurate stubs by extracting information from databases, I do not object. So, I encourage TMLutas to shift from quantity to at least minimal levels of quality, and I would feel far more confident with an effort that produced 500 decent starter articles than 5000 miserable, inaccurate stubs filled with errors and garbage. So, perhaps, we are not so much out of agreement here. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 04:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
- Cullen, I generally share your outlook, but we do need to maintain a minimum level of quality. Very few people actually edit these articles, meanwhile they rot with no content or sources. Yes, ideally we'd have a full, decent sourced article on every school district in world, but a line does need to be drawn and we should strive to at least have a sourced fact bare minimum for stubs created so they become a constructive thing rather than a pollutant. That you have mentioned nothing of quality and errors, nor encouraged Lutas to improve his standard, is concerning to me.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:05, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- As a Bay Area resident (Napa County) I noted your three school district AfDs in Napa and Sonoma Counties, and I oppose this campaign to delete school district articles. I oppose it in any state or any other country, but because these districts are familiar to me, I took special notice. I believe that school districts ought to be considered notable if there is any verifiable information available about the district. There is nothing wrong with a stub about a notable topic. As WP:STUB says, "A stub is an article containing only one or a few sentences of text that, although providing some useful information, is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, and that is capable of expansion." The proper approach to stubs about notable topics is to expand and reference the stubs, not to delete them. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Apparently you were unaware of this but I already nominated them all for AFD.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:58, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, first of all sorry for my bad english, but I need some help. This page was nominated for deletion, but I've added 12 links and others info. Now can I remove the message or is still considered for deletion?--Kekkomereq4 (talk) 17:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for the category adds on the Clark Glasson article. That was helpful and very kind of you! Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 16:51, 5 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hello! I appreciate all the work you do rating articles, but I'm curious why you rated South San Francisco Hillside Sign as a stub. According to the criteria at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment this article looks to me like a "C" - certainly at least "Start". (Granted I'm prejudiced - I wrote the article.) If I'm wrong, could you tell me what the article lacks so that I can improve it? Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 14:37, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I should probably join the SFBA project as well - I grew up in Oakland and am still in the area multiple times a year. I'll go do that. Meanwhile thanks for all your work in the area! --MelanieN (talk) 16:34, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
- Replied at my talk page. Joined the project. --MelanieN (talk) 16:52, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I should probably join the SFBA project as well - I grew up in Oakland and am still in the area multiple times a year. I'll go do that. Meanwhile thanks for all your work in the area! --MelanieN (talk) 16:34, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]Sure, no problem. The ANI thread is here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Kavdiaravish/User:Stonex201. If you'd like the article restored to your userspace, that shouldn't be of a problem; just let me know. It's just that all of this user's articles have been mostly copyvios (from books, which makes them more difficult to detect), and what isn't tends to be not worth saving. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 03:34, 11 April 2013 (UTC) cross-posted from my talk page Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 03:36, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
- Got it. ill let you know if i want to try to revive the article. if i do take the time, ill start with at least researching whether i feel its notable on my own first, then ask for the content as a guide to rewriting, with NO copypasting of the original content if i do ask for it.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:38, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]Do you know anyone who takes/uploads photos in the East Bay? I was recently working on the Children's Fairyland article, and it desperately needs an image or two, but the only thing I found at Commons is a picture of a directional sign. Thx. --MelanieN (talk) 20:52, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
- I was taking photos of the east bay, but stopped for no particular reason. I will try to remember to take one of fairyland now, as i do go by there frequently. I dont know who else takes photos here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:22, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. And thanks for fixing the caption on the existing photo. --MelanieN (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
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Chocolate project
[edit]Hello Mercurywoodrose: In my opinion, your best bet would be to create a Chocolate WikiProject. People don't contribute to task forces much nowadays, as evidenced per (see revision histories):
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Mixed Drinks Task Force – Revision history
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Foodservice taskforce – Revision history
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I'm currently busy with other projects, articles, etc., but in the future I could help out with getting this going. I don't have enough time right now. A significant part of the process after a WikiProject is created is sending out invitations to users who would likely be interested (e.g. those who contribute to chocolate-related articles), in order to establish a member base. Northamerica1000(talk) 09:43, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
- No rush, Im going to probably just work on the chocolate articles for a while, and maybe get a list together of people editing them. If its ok to start a wikiproject whose subject matter is a subset of another project, then i see your point about task forces. the SFBA task force was almost completely inactive until i came along (as was the portal). Ill get back to you if i need help at some point, probably not for some months.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:24, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
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Why? There is no associated project, and this falls under P:Drink.
- The portal was created by a SPA, without discussion, as part of a project to recreate the former Coffee and Tea Wikiproject which had died and was folded down into the Beverages Task Force. The Drinks portal, which was created specifically to deal with that merger, is associated with The Beverages Task Force. Your example of The Los Angeles Portal is a bit off because it is associated with the Los Angeles Task force of WikiProject California.
- I deleted that stuff as the page, as you stated, was a wreck, not maintained and a minimum of links. It is redundant to the Drink portal. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 05:47, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
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I think that Portal:Coffee has potential for improvement and expansion. Not to criticize, but rather than nominating it for deletion, it may have been more functional to seek editors that may be interested in improving it. At any rate, I've undid the speedy deletion tags on each subpage (placed by another editor), so people can actually view the content that is already in place. The tag atop the portal suffices. Northamerica1000(talk) 10:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]You're welcome! I had been thinking of creating it myself but it was too late that night. So I did the next best thing and helped shape the version you created. Daniel Case (talk) 06:49, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Mercurywoodrose: The top-level importance page nominations page for WikiProject Food and drink hasn't received any input except from you (and thanks). Since I nominated the articles, it would be best for another person to close the entries that have received !votes and update the talk pages for the articles. A problem is that virtually nobody contributes to the page, and the way entries are all boxed-in on the project's main page seems to possibly discourage participation, like people just skim over them. If somebody doesn't close the entries that have actually received support, and update the articles accordingly, they will likely just sit there in limbo forever. Another editor insists that an uninvolved editor close entries, but when nobody comes along to actually do it, it is counterproductive. Perhaps the instructions on the page should be revised, because it isn't working out. Please respond at your convenience. Northamerica1000(talk) 01:26, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
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