Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas/Houston task force/Administration/archive1

Archived proposals

Welcome template, November 29, 2006

You are invited to participate in WikiProject Houston, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about the Greater Houston area.

Proposed template to invite users to this project on their talk page. Perhaps to be given to users in Category:Wikipedians in Houston? Just vote *Support or *Oppose. If you object please leave a comment/reason. T ennis Dy N ami T e ^{(sign in)} 00:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh Yeah! The idea and style was adapted from Template:WPLatinos-invite. Tennis DyNamiTe ^{(sign in)} 22:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support - looks good and will be quite useful Postoak 02:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I'm going to use the template as proof of concept :) Postoak 23:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template accepted and moved to the resources page. Postoak 06:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Guidelines, November 11, 2006

Project discussion - Guidelines (November 11, 2006): Our first discussion as members of WikiProject Houston is to propose the operational or functional guidelines of the project. Personally, I don't want to get bogged down with any rigid structure or formality (this is supposed to be fun!), but we do need some basic guidelines as a foundation as we move forward. Please provide your ideas and suggestions. The end result of this discussion is to propose our initial set of guidelines. Please see discussion topics below and add any additonal topics as necessary. Postoak 22:42, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project scope

Include any article directly related to the city. Qualifying articles about persons are iffy - I would suggest those born or residing in the city for a significant amout of time. Postoak 23:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This was my first notion in developing the Dallas WikiProject as well. WikProjects Chicago, Louisville, Seattle and Southern California (to name a few) include their entire metropolitan area within their project scope. As cities are easier defined as an entire urbanized construct and not just a single municipality, its only logical to me to encompass the entire metropolitan region. However, this view is not garnering as much support as I had hoped over at WikiProject Dallas. drumguy8800 C T 04:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The entire metro area seems good to me also, Dallas might be a special case with FW issues. I think most people associate with Houston, even if they live in the suburbs. Houston also has such sprawl if you limited it to the municipality you would leave out some important articles. - cohesion 18:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Metropolitan area sounds fine to me. As for people, someone like Marvin Zindler should definitely be included, but someone like Hilary Duff or Beyoncé Knowles, should not. Although they were born here they otherwise aren't deeply associated with Houston. Mike Richardson 06:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
So no famous Houstonians? That sounds good to me. T ennis Dy N ami T e ^{(sign in)} 21:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm assuming that events that affect the Houston Area (such Allison) are included, right? T ennis Dy N ami T e ^{(sign in)} 15:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus, voting, etc.

I would suggest the model employed by the Dallas wikiproject. Additionally, separate voting page with all requests documented there. Each vote given a name/identifier and date so that it can be easily found. Postoak 23:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would suggest it too, but that's because I made it up. drumguy8800 C T 04:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good. - cohesion 18:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Graphics - images, template development, etc.

Image review - we have many images that may get deleted (some have been taken out already) based on licensing and WP:FUC. Do we need a process to verify that images are legal? Postoak 23:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It's a good idea to have a master list of images that deal with Houston. The only two things I could think of to watch out for on the list though would be fair-use images existing in articles you want to bring up to FA status (like Houston, Texas) and images with old or outdated tagging. drumguy8800 C T 04:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm mostly active in image tagging, help, and deletion, so I can probably help with this. Once the articles are selected I wouldn't mind running through them and classifying them. There is an ongoing shift in sentiment regarding fair use images, so any of those images would need to at least be classified for the project. - cohesion 18:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I favor a liberal interpretation of fair use for images, though most people disagree. Let's try not to be image nazis. Mike Richardson 06:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article standards

Standard Wikipedia standards, but we need specifically define categories, which articles fall within a category and the appropriate footers. We should determine what qualifies to be a stubbed article Postoak 23:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Dallas is developing subprojects whose aim it is to provide specifically tailored support and information for developing certain kinds of articles. Beyond that, the attribution of a stub can be easily determined by looking at this chart. That's another thing this project should consider, the majority of active wikiprojects have been implementing article grading/commenting/etc through the use of their project-identification template used on talk pages. It may seem like a chore to develop first, but its a great way to step back and look at progress project-wide. Mathbot makes all these cool little logs and tables automatically for you :D drumguy8800 C T 04:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Do most projects use some standard rating, or does everyone use something different? If possible I would prefer some standard, but in general I will be much more quiet on these type issues than images, I am terrible at rating articles. :) - cohesion 18:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, all projects that use assessment (that I've seen) use the standard set by WP:1.0 which can be found here. drumguy8800 C T 22:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Collaboration efforts

Weekly collaboration of the week - Propose article and week in the todo box on the main page. Expanded notes for each article is directly below the todo box. We can move these to an archive page at the end of each month. Postoak 08:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

December 27, 2006/Featured article nomination

I propose that Houston, Texas be nominated as a Featured article on January 8, 2007

Support - I feel the article is ready, let's go for it. Postoak 20:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support WhisperToMe 20:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's about time. Tennis DyNamiTe ^{(sign here)} 14:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Looks good... JuWiki 16:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support much better so lets go for it! Urban909
Support - Deserves it. Some Person 06:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Let's highlight this fantastic city. Mike Richardson 05:43, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]