
/Praise Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria/Current]] == Category problems with counties == Hi Beland, I've noticed the Pearl bot will add the County Category to a parent county even if it already exists. I think that it is related to having a category that looks like this. Category:Imperial County California I do that so that in the Sub Category, the parent always appears first for ease of use. The bot then adds the same county sub category. See Imperial County, California for the end result. User:Sortior 23:38, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC) :Ooo, good catch. I've upgraded Pearle's brain so that this shouldn't happen in the future. I will have to devise some method for finding other articles where the same thing happened. I suppose it would be a good idea to take a look at the entire tree of political divisions of the USA at the end of the current run, anyway, to see if there are any more anomalies. Thanks, User:Beland 04:30, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC) == :Category:Columbus Township, St. Clair County, Michigan == I'm wondering why Pearle created this category. I had thought User:D6 created it, since I only noticed it after D6 had added Columbus Township, St. Clair County, Michigan to the category, which was otherwise empty. Anyhow, township categories are a bad thing, IMO, with the possible exception of some large charter townships that might have enough going on in them to warrant a category, like some cities have. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 03:37, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC) :It looks like a link from Columbus, Michigan to "Columbus_Township, St._Clair_County, Michigan" was interpreted as being a link to a county with the name "Columbus Township, St. Clair", so Columbus, Michigan was added to it. Then there was a second pass to add all Michigan county categories to "Category:Michigan counties", which by necessity creates a lot of new categories (because many only had articles assigned them, not any intro text), so no warning was triggered. :I checked, and this is the only township category Pearle has created. I agree they they are unnecessary, as I wrote in the WikiProject Cities proposal. I will nominate this category for deletion, and make a note to modify matching logic to avoid this problem in the future. Thanks for checking up on it. -- User:Beland 04:29, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Trinidad towns == I suppose my question wasn't quite clear - I was just wondering if I re-name the category 'Towns of (in) Trinidad and Tobago' to 'Cities and towns' - as it stands there are only two "cities" in Trinidad, and I included them in the "towns" list (the difference in that case is somewhat trivial, because the "cities" are the second and third largest 'towns', while the largest 'town' wasn't even a municipality until 1990). The thought was really - if I choose to rename the category, should I wait until after the change has been run (and then empty and CFD the old category) - I assume that would be less confusing than to empty and CFD the category so that it appears in two places? Of course, no one has complained about the naming as it stands - maybe "towns" is fine for something as small as Trinidad. Sorry about the rambling... User:Guettarda 04:49, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)! :Thanks very much. Legally municipalities covers two entities in Trinidad - "cities" (the City of Port of Spain and the City of San Fernando) and "boroughs" (the Borough of Chaguanas, the Borough of Point Fortin and the Royal Borough of Arima). The term "town" is generally used for these and any other settlement of some size and history, while "village" might be used for smaller entities. The usage of "town" for things like Siparia, Couva, St. Joseph and Tunapuna (to pick a few examples) is historical, covers a valid entity and (in several cases) an administrative center, but not an "incorporated municipality" with any legal standing. Nonetheless, leaving the examples I stated out of a list wouldn't make sense (if the articles existed) - St. Joseph, for example, is the oldest European town in Trinidad (founded in the 1500s). Similarly, Scarborough in Tobago is the administrative centre, and it's the largest town on the island, but it does not have a legal status distinct from the rest of the island. On the other hand, laws that apply to "built up areas" would cover these examples (for example, there are two speed limits in Trinidad, one for built up areas and one for open areas). :My point (if I have one) is that there are legal distinctions between cities and towns, and there are also legal distinctions between municipalities and other towns. It doesn't fit well into the American model(s) of towns and cities (my favourite is the "City of Atqasuk" in Alaska - which has 200 people and is only accessible by air - or snow mobile/dog sled in winter). Legally it's a city, but when I was there in 1996 there was a plaque on the wall with a greeting from President Clinton to the "Village of Atqasuk". seems weird to me that the two extremes can be used interchangeably. User:Guettarda 13:54, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==:Image:American Civil War Battles by Theater, Year.png== Thanks for the comments. The next thing I would like to do with the map is turn it into an imagemap, so that when you click on a county or state, it lists all the battles in that county or state, but that'll have to wait till Wikipedia supports such features. Another future possibility would be to use a map that accurately depicts counties, states, and territories back then, although those boundaries changed all the time. --brian0918">User:Brian0918™">User talk:Brian0918 03:06, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Infotainment == I dislike the move, if only because the title is long. And anyway shouldnt it be 'Soft news and infotainment'? The terms hard news/soft news can be debated in place of Journalism/infotainment, but a common treatment assumes there isnt going to be enough in the infotaiment article, which is not the case at all. Do you see the inverted emphasis? I understand the desire to make distinctions, but the article is section material, not article material. Id like to restore the infotainment article, and you can make the contrast article a section within it if you like. I think it would be quite appropriate, unless there is enough material to justify a contrast article between two discrete things. An article that contrasts two things is rare enough here, but three things is better dealt with as discrete elements in context of discrete articles. Regards, -User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo|[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevertigo&action=edit§ion=new add] 01:36, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) :"Well, I thought that there was really no point in discussing hard news and soft news separately...soft news and infotainment...refer to more or less the same thing." I dont disagree with the focus, just that it shouldnt replace the discrete article. Otherwise its just an arguement over the title of infotainment and softnews, with hard news going to journalism, eh? :"Whether or not article titled "infotainment" is necessary, I'm not sure, especially since it has negative POV connotations. Certainly the industries of entertainment news, human interest reporting, home and garden shows, etc. deserve coverage, but I would expect them to have their own articles. What sort of content were you thinking should be added to "infotainment" itself?" I would add precisely the material youre writing, some or all of it, depending on how deep it is, in a section within infotainment. Its a controversial term, sure, but so are a lot of terms-based articles. "Negative POV connotations" doesnt work if its a well-used term, and this certianly is one. You could argue the case for "soft news" but that only works in contrast with hard news" The point is to appropriately detail what these discrete concepts are, (using the most common terms for titles) and under that framework treat the relationships, differences, etc to other topics. You wouldnt redirect journalism to a treatment on what constitutes journalism vis a vis infotainment, would you? :) If the question is "is there enough material to justify an infotainment article - then yes, if only by (proper) inclusion of your this, this and that article. The relationship treatments have to be subordinate to the greater discrete articles, and those need to adress development in the others. In this case, the relationsip treatment might outpace the main, but thats just because Ive been busy. ;) Regards -User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo|[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevertigo&action=edit§ion=new add] 02:18, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Dahl Book== So how did you like How Democratic is the American Constitution? I agree with Dahl that the Senate is egregiously undemocratic. I also think it's a joke that small states might need a senate so that the big states don't gang up on them. A great (and the only, AFAIK) survey of how small states abuse their disproportionate power in the Senate is "Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation." It's thanks to the Senate that we have Wyoming getting $37 per person for Homeland Security and California getting ~ $5. User:Dinopup 12:18, 19 May 2005 (UTC) ::It's funny that you mentioned that Congressmen are more into pork barrel work than Senators. One of the most interesting findings of Sizing Up the Senate is that small state senators tend to operate in the Senate exactly the way Congressmen operate in the House. Small state Senators tend to sit on Committees that do constituent service (like Appropriations) whereas large state Senators tend to sit on committees that conduct affairs of national importance. Since 1947, the Senators on Appropriations have come from states with an average of 5.29 Congressmen, since 1947, the Senators on Energy and Public Works have come from states with 3.29 Congressmen, the Senators on Veterans Affairs come from states with an average of 4.61 Congressmen, and the Senators on Commerce have come from states with an average of 6.18 Congressmen. By contrast, the Senators on Foreign Relations, Small Business, Labor, and Banking, come from states with an average of 7.63 to 8.89 Congressmen. ::If a vote in the Senate is going to be close, small state Senators are much more likely than big state Senators to hold out in hope of getting something for their state. Lee and Oppenheimer analyze over thirty votes that were delayed because of hold outs and find that small state Senators were the ones holding out over half the time. If a big state and small state Senator are both holding out, the small state Senator is more likely to be the one rewarded, since a reward to his state is less expensive than a reward to a large state Senator. One egregious example fo this happening recently was James Jeffords holding out on the prescription drug bill. He voted for it after HHS agreed to subsidize Burlington, VT hospitals the same amount they paid Boston, MA hospitals for labor costs. ::Many people say that the Senate products rural interests, but that is false, it merely products people who live in small states. Essex County, New York is as rural as Essex County, Vermont, yet it is only Essex County, Vermont that is privileged. Also, what is rational about giving half the West Coast representation equal to the metropolitan area of Providence? ::I agree with you that the Senate apportionment scheme is unchangeable, but I hope we can change the terms of debate. Perhaps the Senate could be weakened? Perhaps the power to confirm judges could be given to the House? or perhaps we could restrict the Senate's power over appropriations? ::It is possible that this issue will rise in prominence in the next few decades. Every census since 1790 has revealed that more and more of our population is concentrated in a few states. In 1790, half of the Senate was elected by ~33% of the population. In 2000 half of the Senate was elected by 17% of the population. ::It won't be long before we can speak of Wyoming, Vermont, and North Dakota as rotten boroughs. User:Dinopup 14:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC) == Stub sorting bot == I have put a proposal for a bot to help stub sorting at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Stub_sorting_bot. The task seems well suited to Pearle. User:Susvolans User talk:Susvolans 17:14, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC) == lots of edits, not an admin == Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in User:Rick Block/WP600 not admins? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- user:Rick Block (user talk:Rick Block) 23:02, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC) == tl:Stylehowto == Hi there! What's the status on deprecating this template? It passed TFD without objections, but hasn't been deleted yet as it seems in use. User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 09:20, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC) == New categories list == Hi there! You said on WP:VP that you could create a list of new cats from the monthly database dump. If it's not too much trouble I'd really appreciate that. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 11:56, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC) *I'd like to see that one for reference, but I doubt I'd do anything with it until the next version. The idea is to set up a 'new category patrol', basically checking if newly created categories fit in the naming scheme. Ultimately I'd like to set up a WikiProject on Categories, that should examine the entire present list of categories. That sounds daunting, but many of them can instantly be approved, e.g. combos. Reason being that categorization is a mess. I'd also like to get in touch with the devs and see what upgrades might be done in the future, but they are somewhat less than reachable. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 10:28, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
== non-empty redirected categories ==
Hi - Does your orphaned category scanner currently also scan for non-empty "redirected" categories. Since doesn't prevent anyone from adding members to a "soft redirected" category I'd be willing to bet at least some of them occasionally end up with miscategorized articles. Finding such occurrences seems like an ideal job for a tool. Come to think of it, it might be useful to have a list of categories folks try to "hard redirect" (with #REDIRECT) as well. Perhaps related to this, :Category:Wikipedia category redirects has been listed at WP:CFD. If you know for sure whether the 500 limit for whatslinkhere is in the database (vs. just a display artifact), could you please comment at WP:CFD? Thanks. -- user:Rick Block (user talk:Rick Block) 15:22, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
:I saw your post at WP:CFD. Thanks! -- user:Rick Block (user talk:Rick Block) 23:18, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
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/Praise Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria/Current]] == Category problems with counties == Hi Beland, I've noticed the Pearl bot will add the County Category to a parent county even if it already exists. I think that it is related to having a category that looks like this. Category:Imperial County California I do that so that in the Sub Category, the parent always appears first for ease of use. The bot then adds the same county sub category. See Imperial County, California for the end result. User:Sortior 23:38, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC) :Ooo, good catch. I've upgraded Pearle's brain so that this shouldn't happen in the future. I will have to devise some method for finding other articles where the same thing happened. I suppose it would be a good idea to take a look at the entire tree of political divisions of the USA at the end of the current run, anyway, to see if there are any more anomalies. Thanks, User:Beland 04:30, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC) == :Category:Columbus Township, St. Clair County, Michigan == I'm wondering why Pearle created this category. I had thought User:D6 created it, since I only noticed it after D6 had added Columbus Township, St. Clair County, Michigan to the category, which was otherwise empty. Anyhow, township categories are a bad thing, IMO, with the possible exception of some large charter townships that might have enough going on in them to warrant a category, like some cities have. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 03:37, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC) :It looks like a link from Columbus, Michigan to "Columbus_Township, St._Clair_County, Michigan" was interpreted as being a link to a county with the name "Columbus Township, St. Clair", so Columbus, Michigan was added to it. Then there was a second pass to add all Michigan county categories to "Category:Michigan counties", which by necessity creates a lot of new categories (because many only had articles assigned them, not any intro text), so no warning was triggered. :I checked, and this is the only township category Pearle has created. I agree they they are unnecessary, as I wrote in the WikiProject Cities proposal. I will nominate this category for deletion, and make a note to modify matching logic to avoid this problem in the future. Thanks for checking up on it. -- User:Beland 04:29, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Trinidad towns == I suppose my question wasn't quite clear - I was just wondering if I re-name the category 'Towns of (in) Trinidad and Tobago' to 'Cities and towns' - as it stands there are only two "cities" in Trinidad, and I included them in the "towns" list (the difference in that case is somewhat trivial, because the "cities" are the second and third largest 'towns', while the largest 'town' wasn't even a municipality until 1990). The thought was really - if I choose to rename the category, should I wait until after the change has been run (and then empty and CFD the old category) - I assume that would be less confusing than to empty and CFD the category so that it appears in two places? Of course, no one has complained about the naming as it stands - maybe "towns" is fine for something as small as Trinidad. Sorry about the rambling... User:Guettarda 04:49, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)! :Thanks very much. Legally municipalities covers two entities in Trinidad - "cities" (the City of Port of Spain and the City of San Fernando) and "boroughs" (the Borough of Chaguanas, the Borough of Point Fortin and the Royal Borough of Arima). The term "town" is generally used for these and any other settlement of some size and history, while "village" might be used for smaller entities. The usage of "town" for things like Siparia, Couva, St. Joseph and Tunapuna (to pick a few examples) is historical, covers a valid entity and (in several cases) an administrative center, but not an "incorporated municipality" with any legal standing. Nonetheless, leaving the examples I stated out of a list wouldn't make sense (if the articles existed) - St. Joseph, for example, is the oldest European town in Trinidad (founded in the 1500s). Similarly, Scarborough in Tobago is the administrative centre, and it's the largest town on the island, but it does not have a legal status distinct from the rest of the island. On the other hand, laws that apply to "built up areas" would cover these examples (for example, there are two speed limits in Trinidad, one for built up areas and one for open areas). :My point (if I have one) is that there are legal distinctions between cities and towns, and there are also legal distinctions between municipalities and other towns. It doesn't fit well into the American model(s) of towns and cities (my favourite is the "City of Atqasuk" in Alaska - which has 200 people and is only accessible by air - or snow mobile/dog sled in winter). Legally it's a city, but when I was there in 1996 there was a plaque on the wall with a greeting from President Clinton to the "Village of Atqasuk". seems weird to me that the two extremes can be used interchangeably. User:Guettarda 13:54, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==:Image:American Civil War Battles by Theater, Year.png== Thanks for the comments. The next thing I would like to do with the map is turn it into an imagemap, so that when you click on a county or state, it lists all the battles in that county or state, but that'll have to wait till Wikipedia supports such features. Another future possibility would be to use a map that accurately depicts counties, states, and territories back then, although those boundaries changed all the time. --brian0918">User:Brian0918™">User talk:Brian0918 03:06, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Infotainment == I dislike the move, if only because the title is long. And anyway shouldnt it be 'Soft news and infotainment'? The terms hard news/soft news can be debated in place of Journalism/infotainment, but a common treatment assumes there isnt going to be enough in the infotaiment article, which is not the case at all. Do you see the inverted emphasis? I understand the desire to make distinctions, but the article is section material, not article material. Id like to restore the infotainment article, and you can make the contrast article a section within it if you like. I think it would be quite appropriate, unless there is enough material to justify a contrast article between two discrete things. An article that contrasts two things is rare enough here, but three things is better dealt with as discrete elements in context of discrete articles. Regards, -User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo|[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevertigo&action=edit§ion=new add] 01:36, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) :"Well, I thought that there was really no point in discussing hard news and soft news separately...soft news and infotainment...refer to more or less the same thing." I dont disagree with the focus, just that it shouldnt replace the discrete article. Otherwise its just an arguement over the title of infotainment and softnews, with hard news going to journalism, eh? :"Whether or not article titled "infotainment" is necessary, I'm not sure, especially since it has negative POV connotations. Certainly the industries of entertainment news, human interest reporting, home and garden shows, etc. deserve coverage, but I would expect them to have their own articles. What sort of content were you thinking should be added to "infotainment" itself?" I would add precisely the material youre writing, some or all of it, depending on how deep it is, in a section within infotainment. Its a controversial term, sure, but so are a lot of terms-based articles. "Negative POV connotations" doesnt work if its a well-used term, and this certianly is one. You could argue the case for "soft news" but that only works in contrast with hard news" The point is to appropriately detail what these discrete concepts are, (using the most common terms for titles) and under that framework treat the relationships, differences, etc to other topics. You wouldnt redirect journalism to a treatment on what constitutes journalism vis a vis infotainment, would you? :) If the question is "is there enough material to justify an infotainment article - then yes, if only by (proper) inclusion of your this, this and that article. The relationship treatments have to be subordinate to the greater discrete articles, and those need to adress development in the others. In this case, the relationsip treatment might outpace the main, but thats just because Ive been busy. ;) Regards -User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo|[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevertigo&action=edit§ion=new add] 02:18, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Dahl Book== So how did you like How Democratic is the American Constitution? I agree with Dahl that the Senate is egregiously undemocratic. I also think it's a joke that small states might need a senate so that the big states don't gang up on them. A great (and the only, AFAIK) survey of how small states abuse their disproportionate power in the Senate is "Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation." It's thanks to the Senate that we have Wyoming getting $37 per person for Homeland Security and California getting ~ $5. User:Dinopup 12:18, 19 May 2005 (UTC) ::It's funny that you mentioned that Congressmen are more into pork barrel work than Senators. One of the most interesting findings of Sizing Up the Senate is that small state senators tend to operate in the Senate exactly the way Congressmen operate in the House. Small state Senators tend to sit on Committees that do constituent service (like Appropriations) whereas large state Senators tend to sit on committees that conduct affairs of national importance. Since 1947, the Senators on Appropriations have come from states with an average of 5.29 Congressmen, since 1947, the Senators on Energy and Public Works have come from states with 3.29 Congressmen, the Senators on Veterans Affairs come from states with an average of 4.61 Congressmen, and the Senators on Commerce have come from states with an average of 6.18 Congressmen. By contrast, the Senators on Foreign Relations, Small Business, Labor, and Banking, come from states with an average of 7.63 to 8.89 Congressmen. ::If a vote in the Senate is going to be close, small state Senators are much more likely than big state Senators to hold out in hope of getting something for their state. Lee and Oppenheimer analyze over thirty votes that were delayed because of hold outs and find that small state Senators were the ones holding out over half the time. If a big state and small state Senator are both holding out, the small state Senator is more likely to be the one rewarded, since a reward to his state is less expensive than a reward to a large state Senator. One egregious example fo this happening recently was James Jeffords holding out on the prescription drug bill. He voted for it after HHS agreed to subsidize Burlington, VT hospitals the same amount they paid Boston, MA hospitals for labor costs. ::Many people say that the Senate products rural interests, but that is false, it merely products people who live in small states. Essex County, New York is as rural as Essex County, Vermont, yet it is only Essex County, Vermont that is privileged. Also, what is rational about giving half the West Coast representation equal to the metropolitan area of Providence? ::I agree with you that the Senate apportionment scheme is unchangeable, but I hope we can change the terms of debate. Perhaps the Senate could be weakened? Perhaps the power to confirm judges could be given to the House? or perhaps we could restrict the Senate's power over appropriations? ::It is possible that this issue will rise in prominence in the next few decades. Every census since 1790 has revealed that more and more of our population is concentrated in a few states. In 1790, half of the Senate was elected by ~33% of the population. In 2000 half of the Senate was elected by 17% of the population. ::It won't be long before we can speak of Wyoming, Vermont, and North Dakota as rotten boroughs. User:Dinopup 14:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC) == Stub sorting bot == I have put a proposal for a bot to help stub sorting at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Stub_sorting_bot. The task seems well suited to Pearle. User:Susvolans User talk:Susvolans 17:14, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC) == lots of edits, not an admin == Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in User:Rick Block/WP600 not admins? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- user:Rick Block (user talk:Rick Block) 23:02, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC) == tl:Stylehowto == Hi there! What's the status on deprecating this template? It passed TFD without objections, but hasn't been deleted yet as it seems in use. User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 09:20, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC) == New categories list == Hi there! You said on WP:VP that you could create a list of new cats from the monthly database dump. If it's not too much trouble I'd really appreciate that. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 11:56, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC) *I'd like to see that one for reference, but I doubt I'd do anything with it until the next version. The idea is to set up a 'new category patrol', basically checking if newly created categories fit in the naming scheme. Ultimately I'd like to set up a WikiProject on Categories, that should examine the entire present list of categories. That sounds daunting, but many of them can instantly be approved, e.g.
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=About me= I am putting myself on a wikidiet, to make more time for important things like finding a new job, moving cross-country, and :Category:LGBT events. So, I won't be able to get around to feeding my various wiki projects in a timely fashion until sometime in September. But do feel free to leave a note on my user talk page if you'd like to draw my attention to something in particular. I am expecting to move from San Francisco to Boston in August or September. I am taking Digital photography of San Francisco before I leave. If you have any special requests, no guarantees, but you should probably speak up sooner rather than later. -- User:Beland 08:24, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) =Pearle= I am the owner of User:Pearle. Feel free to leave messages about the behavior of Pearle on my User talk:Beland. =Tools= * /workspace * [http://download.wikipedia.org Dumps] * Wikipedia:Cleanup_resources * Wikipedia:Template_messages/Stubs * Wikipedia:Auto-categorization * WP:CFD * Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps * :Category:Pearle edits needing manual cleanup * Wikipedia:LGBT notice board, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality Watchlist checked through: end of 31 Jan 2005 * News: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost * IRC: [irc://us.freenode.org/wikipedia|#wikipedia] * IRC: [irc://us.freenode.org/wikipedia|#servmon.wikimedia] * IRC: [irc://us.freenode.org/wikipedia|#wikimedia-tech] * [http://wikiwax.com/ WikiWax] =Sites= * [http://www.wikitravel.org/ Wikitravel] * b:Wikiversity * Wikinews:Wikinews:Broadcast =Todo= ==Active collaborations== ===CFD Cleanup=== Finish implementing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_May_16#Category:Wikipedia_style_and_how-to this decision]: * Merge Wikipedia:Substub into Wikipedia:Stub. * Pull everything appropriate from :Category:Wikipedia style and how-to, :Category:Wikipedia guidelines (completed S-Z so far), and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines for a new category, "Category:Wikipedia style guidelines". Make it a subcategory of :Category:Wikipedia guidelines. * Pull everything appropriate from Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory and :Category:Wikipedia help into a new "Category:Wikipedia how-to", with subcategories. * Delete :Category:Wikipedia style and how-to * Clean up Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory. * Wikipedia talk:What is a troll (renaming) * Implement Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Page_fixing_tools as redirect, if approved by Jun 5, UTC. ===More meta=== * Wikipedia:Auto-categorization/Wikipedia_namespace ** Needs publicity. Add to current categorization projects, maybe make an announcement. See what currently links to the parent page. Update. Re-add to Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects. ** User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes * Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. special districts * Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Implementing_the_Jimbo_declaration * Internal mergers on Wikipedia:Offline reports; eliminate this page? * Wikipedia_talk:Bots (Pearle cleanup tagging. Then see Wikipedia:Cleanup to removed already-fixed and move comments to talk pages.) * WP:B ** Speed limit discussion * Wikipedia:Cleanup ** Purge Wikipedia:Cleanup/September ** Move to Template:cleanupDate using Pearle ** Constructing new intro text ** See Template_talk:Stub ** Wikipedia:Cleanup_process ** Wikipedia:Cleaning_department * Wikipedia categories in need of attention ** Needs publicity or attention from Beland * WP:CFD ** Periodic cleanup, especially requests for automated moves ** Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/likely is in cold storage. ** AMERICA ** Summarize decisions on Category talk:Ireland and see also Wikipedia:Irish wikipedian's notice board ** Clean up policy on WP:CFD and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion_phrases and their talk pages. ** Post gender-neutral nominations from Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people. ===Active content collaborations=== * [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Gay%2C_lesbian_or_bisexual_people&from=U] * Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:lgbt * Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Homosexuality_and_morality * Wikipedia_talk:LGBT_notice_board#Mergers_and_renames * Talk:Court-packing Bill (Fix effects section) * Wikipedia_talk:Merge_some_redundant_lists_to_categories * Separation of church and state (external links, Article Improvement Drive) * History of science * Talk:History of sex * Journalistic ethics and standards, :Category:Regional wikipedian notice boards * Objectivity (journalism) (needs help) * :Category:Orphaned categories * Homophobia cleanup * Demographics of sexual orientation and Kinsey Reports cleanup and fact-check. * Corporate farming (fix NPOV) * Rural sociology, Demographic history of the United States (fix NPOV) * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Grammar - merge templates, change to category listings only? * Talk:Hard news, soft news, and infotainment * Talk:Sex_in_advertising#Budweiser_ad * Talk:Pederasty * Talk:Journalistic standards and ethics * Talk:Separation_of_powers#Unsourced_statements * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities ** Need to start implementing proposal ** Need to check if recommended categorization scheme has been implemented. *** Intro texts do not conform to the recommendation. A bot should check all articles in a given category to see if the right phrase and/or links are present. **** Wisconsin towns (townships) are confusing (e.g. Springfield, Wisconsin). **** See :Category_talk:Towns_in_Maryland? ** Need to clean up talk page, esp "weird cases" or later ** Need to update status section on main page. ** Need to update status of mapping project ** Template:CDPpreface, Template:UnincorpNotCDP ** city-data.com ===Update once per DB dump=== * Wikipedia:Category cleanup ** new-funny-categories.txt * :Category:Orphaned categories ** new-orphaned-categories.txt * Wikipedia:Auto-categorization (USA state placenames) ** Add suppression feature before uploading next dump ==Science== * Time could use a rewrite to make it flow better * History of science has growing pains * Timeline of scientific discoveries and :Category:Science timelines * Science_studies needs a lot of help. It may need a Wikibook project. ** Sociology of scientific knowledge ** Scientific enterprise ** Sociology_of_knowledge ** History_of_science_and_technology - may need inbound links fixed * Peer-review Scientific_method and read Talk:Scientific_method. Possible merge with Scientific enterprise. * Scientific_skepticism: Categorize, check for accuracy, NPOV. Add to official list of Controversial topics? * Check Science * Basic_theories_of_science * History of parapsychology - needs NPOV, cleanup * Talk:Obsolete_scientific_theory#Request_for_obsolete_theories_of_electricity * Elminate "fluid" metaphor from Electromagnetic field ** E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model ** Electromagnetic field should say it's part of electroweak theory and is special relativity-compliant. ** Electric_field should say that it's part of EM/electroweak theory/standard * Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM core network, and related ==Supreme Court History project== * Reading book on history of the Supreme Court * May also need to check out the Supreme Court "encyclopedia" book * Related articles to fix: ** ''Corporate personhood'' ** List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States ** Reconstruction ** Dred_Scott_v._Sandford ** List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases ** Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States ** United States Constitution ** Dormant_Commerce_Clause ** Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution, etc. ** See Lawrence_v._Texas ** Write an article on the Charles River Bridge case, find out more about the history of Charles River crossings. ** Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali ==Meta== ===Mergers=== * Wikipedia_talk:Welcoming_committee - Some pages in :Category:Wikipedia basic information could use merging. * :Category:Wikipedia needs cleaning again. Combine things about protected pages. * Wikipedia:Topical index needs to be converted into category listings. * Wikipedia:Utilities needs to be reconciled with categories, templates (on User:Beland) and Wikipedia:Community portal. * Wikipedia:Maintenance could probably use an update. Is it in the most easily maintainable form? Is it redundant with Wikipedia maintenance or any other pages? Wikipedia:Nooks and corners of Wikipedia that should be frequented? Templates? What maintenance pages should Wikipedia:Community Portal and Template:Opentask point to? ===Avoidance mergers=== * Upgrade Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution and form consensus * Wikipedia:Avoid weasel terms -> Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution * Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms -> Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution * Wikipedia:Be cautious with compliments and mass attribution -> Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (or at least summarize it there) * Update Wikipedia:Words to avoid ===Talk mergers=== * Wikipedia talk:Writers' rules of engagement -> Wikipedia:Wikiquette * Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines -> Wikipedia:Wikiquette, Wikipedia:Talk page ===More=== * Coordinate bugs on Wikipedia:Categorization with Wikipedia:Merge some redundant lists to categories. ** Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and series boxes * Clean Wikipedia:Category_schemes * Clean :Category:Wikipedia proposals * Post to Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories * Tidy Wikipedia talk:Categorization and Wikipedia:Categorization ==Religion== * Atheism needs rounding out after it is un-protected. * Arguments_against_the_existence_of_God and Arguments for the existence of God might be fun to edit. ==Politics== * Peer review UN Reform and later sections of United Nations, possibly organize its talk page * Check up on Capitalism * Should the following be merged? United States territorial acquisitions History of United States imperialism Historic regions of the United States **[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594200130/qid=1088752646/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1665331-9527126 Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson] ** [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465023290/qid=1088752646/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-1665331-9527126 Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson] ** Note that many modern Americans reject the label "empire/imperialism". * De-Americanize Separation_of_powers, incorporate comments on the UK. (See section "Other countries"). * [http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government] * Address todo list on Progressivism ==Sexuality== ---- ---- * http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/The_Swiss_vote_yes_to_same-sex_relationships_and_%22Schengen/Dublin%22 * Gender role needs POV check. * History of sexuality and Demographics of sexual orientation need attention. May need to merge from Anthropological classification of homosexuality. * Improve homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, Homosexuality and transgender and sexual orientation with regard to terminology and orientation/behavior/identity considerations. * Improve Genetics and sexual orientation, esp. terminology in twin studies * Refactor Causes_of_sexual_orientation in Sexual orientation w.r.t. genetic and environmental/choice subarticles. Talk:Causes_of_sexual_orientation suggests science/society not gene/environment split. * Also sync homosexuality and morality * Add something like the following to Nature_versus_nurture_debate and/or Causes_of_sexual_orientation. Or maybe make a "multi-determined" article. :''Multi-determination:'' A car owner notices the check engine light on their dashboard is on, but continues driving for 3 days. On the highway, the engine suddenly fails. A second car that has been tailgating crashes into the first one. A nearby philosopher asks whether the cause of the accident was the way the car was built, or the way it was operated by the owner. In fact, if the car had been built differently, operated differently, or followed differently, the accident would not have happened. The accident is "multi-determined". Cite that STS book. * Reconcile Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology with [http://www.apastyle.org/sexuality.html Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language]. * Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, and Sexual_orientation, and Anthropological classification of homosexuality need to be re-synchronized. * All sexology articles need their See Also sections cleaned, especially converion to categories where needed. ==West Springfield/Pioneer Valley History== * Obtained source materials * Extract and summarize * Post full text of non-copyrighted content? * Massachusetts * Pioneer Valley * West Springfield, Massachusetts * Springfield, Massachusetts ==Random Topics== ===Boston transport=== * [http://www.mbta.com/insidethet/taag_history.asp MBTA history] * Boston transportation * Turnpike should talk about the old English gate, not just be a redirect to toll road ===EM Categorization=== * Electromagnetic field, Electroweak force, Fundamental force, SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1), Standard_Model ** E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model ===United States Categorization=== * Clean up :Category:United_States_history. Most articles belong in a subcategory; some new subcategories need to be created, including :Category:US history by year. Many articles need to be assigned to multiple categories. Cross-referencing by year would be useful. ** Recreate :Category:United States history (terrorism) * :Category:Companies_of_the_United_States (top level needs sorting out) === Random peer review === * Wikipedia:Cleanup * Wikipedia:Peer review ====Science==== * Three-phase electric power (hard to understand) * Civilization * Temperature (intro is not public-friendly) * Decimal_time * National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration * Gravitational_radiation * Thermopower * Peltier-Seebeck_effect ====Religion==== * Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bible ====Politics==== *Clinton v. City of New York *Bill Clinton * Civil_disobedience / Direct_action ** http://www.nonviolence.org/issues/ ====Postmodernity==== *Postmodernity *Postmodernism *Modernism Some of the antecedents of postmodernism are missing from modernism. The postmodern articles are too long and very hard to read. ====Readme==== * Indian Wars * Population transfer * Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War * Metrication ==World legal systems== * Goal: Write an article on Legal systems of the world ** Historical derivation of current systems ** Main ideas of each historical/ideological system ** Add to :Category:Legal_history, :Category:Law ===Problems=== * Legal_system is probably missing a number of fundamental references, including many kinds of law listed in :Category:Religious law. It should either reference or summarize or be Legal systems of the world * Legal_history is also somewhat fluffy, and might actually be the best place to put Legal systems of the world. * Legal_code is very fluffy and could probably use a merge or a re-write. It also has broken links and grammatical issues. ===Readme=== *Roman_law *:Category:Civil law *Napoleonic_Code *Common law *:Category:Common law **English_law **:Category:English_law **:Category:United Kingdom law *Soviet law *:Category:Soviet law *Chinese law *:Category:Chinese law *:Category:European Union law **:Category:Japanese law *Canon law *Shariah *:Category:Islamic law *:Category:Religious_law *:Category:Legal_history *Supreme_court *:Category:Constitutional law *:Category:Law ==Pages to remember== ===Intellectual=== * List_of_discredited_substances * List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories * List_of_unsolved_problems * Slippery slope * Project_Censored ===Nifty=== * American and British English differences * Enclave * Country * Nation * Maps of San Francisco, California * :Image:Irish1346.gif * User:Stevey7788/Maps * [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiNews] * Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago * Conch Republic * Google X * Theban_alphabet ===Educational=== * Regional_language * California Central Valley * Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California * Gibraltar * Reconciliation (Senate) ===Serious history=== * Air France Flight 8969 * Republic of Indian Stream * U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954) * Wall Street bombing * Vermont Republic * Indian Removal * American Indian Movement ===Not serious, best of=== * Extreme ironing ** Urban housework * Japanese toilet * User:Bishonen/European_toilet_paper_holder * Spotted dick * Riot Act (contains exact instructions for reading it aloud) * List of fictional curse words * Self-reference (note indirect self-reference) ===More not serious=== * Crêpe Day is February 2nd. * Profanity * Minced oath * [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Todo&oldid=10183889 Todos] * Uhura (isn't she fabulous?) * RuPaul (also incredibly fabulous) * Ravi_Shankar * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense/April_Fools%27_Day_2005] * Dord * Crazy Frog ===Of indeterminate seriousness=== * Boston molasses disaster * :Image:Happy_Happy_Happy.jpg * Barefoot and pregnant ===Offspring=== * Advocacy journalism * Snickerdoodle * Bi-curious * Straight acting * How Democratic Is the American Constitution? * City College of San Francisco
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