Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States/Archive 4
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That's outrageous!
I've heard religious toleration guaranteed to
2 articles from this Wikiproject are up for deletion
They are
Census phrasing
While the people distributing the census did a great job, I do have one small comment. The phraseology used "population is spread out" seems clunky to me. I would suggest "population is distributed by age" a better, if imperfect, substitution. Also, went I went to change this, an admin altered my wording back to the clunky phrase. Where is it written in stone that this phrase must be used? Student7 (talk) 12:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
New US environment articles
I have created Environmental issues in the United States and Climate change in the United Statesas overview articles. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:54, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
- And now Pesticide use in the United States. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 02:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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Bush Doctrine background
We need to reach a consensus in a discussion and some input is needed on Talk:Bush Doctrine#Bush Doctrine background. Please include your Wikipedian views. Thanks. Scierguy (talk) 17:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for United States
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Please contribute your opinions on proposals at Talk:Weatherman (organization)/Terrorism RfC
An RfC has started on whether the word "terrorism" can be mentioned and discussed at
US Constitition FAR heads up
As a related Wikiproject, I'm informing you that
Automatically created stubs on unincorporated communities in the United States
A few years ago, articles were automatically created for many communities in the United States based on census data. These articles proved to be good starting points for expansion in many cases. What I would like to see now are automatically generated articles for the populated places listed in
In this case, if there had already been an automatically-generated article about
An automaticaly-generated page based on
- name of the community and its coordinates, including elevation
- name of the county and state
- under "References", a link back to the appropriate page at GNIS
- the template for the county
- the state-geo-stub for the state
- categories for the name of the county and Unincorporated communities in (name of state) -- Eastmain (talk) 03:18, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
- Might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography/Bot, looks like they'll cover US as well. Might want to tell them about the GNIS info. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Pollution in the United States
I have created Pollution in the United States. It is a skeleton page with links that will need prose to turn it into an article. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
FAR notice
Democratic Party (United States) is not A-class quality
The above article is labeled as an A-class article, however it is terribly under sourced. It really needs reassessment and sent down a class or two. — Realist2 14:01, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Can somebody check out the string of recent edits to
American films
Just thought that the community would like to know that
I would appreciate a quick show of hands at Talk:List of German Americans#Jews?, I don't want to revert the user a second time without a clearer consensus. Thanks, Amalthea 01:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
United States presidential line of succession
Another editor and I are having a rather spirited discussion of whether the article United States presidential line of succession should retain the section Anticipated order under the incoming Obama administration. We're beginning to go 'round and 'round, and it might be helpful to have other voices in the discussion. I have a position on the matter, but am willing to go with the consensus if one emerges. That's kind of hard with only two people in the discussion. TJRC (talk) 01:55, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
United States Orienteering Federation
Hi I was wondering if anybody at this project could help expand
19:28, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Norfolk -> Norfolk, England & Norfolk (disambiguation) -> Norfolk
A requested move has popped up at
) 13:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Corvette
at
White House staff
I can see why we have articles on the many functions within the White House, like the
Survey
I'm conducting a new survey since the last was done 3 years ago (an editors lifetime on Wikipedia) at 2009 Vancouver Vs. Vancouver, Washington Survey. Your input would be most appreciated. Mkdwtalk 21:37, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
NAVAGATION BAR HELP!
I have updated the Navagation Bar of all cabinet officials, senators, and governors, and some are saying that I have no right to put a nationalistic touch on the navbars, which I was trying to make them like the Israel and Canada one like for Stephen Harper and Tzipi Livni. I was putting the flag and the seal on the navbar to make it look separte of the other monotonus ones on various pages. I am wanting to get your opinion because you all have been working on stuff about the USA and political figures in the US to get your stance on the matter. Bluedogtn (talk) 21:44, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- For anyone who's interested, the main debate is here. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
See discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 February 9#Template:Welcomeunclesam. Concerns have been raised over the appropriateness of this welcome template for general usage, but rather than see it deleted I thought that you guys might be interested in adopting it as a project-specific welcome template. Regards. PC78 (talk) 20:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
United States Army
Hey, I'm really into military and I found out that
GA Reassessment of Education in the United States
Attributing and contextualizing minority 9/11 theories
Review of
Note: For those who do not share my position (although the spirit of it also applies to those who do), I've made what I feel to be a basic--yet an important--suggestion in this diff on the 9/11 talk page. Cosmic Latte (talk) 03:00, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. §hepTalk 00:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Everyone loves this so far, so I don't see why you guys wouldn't love it as well. If you could message the individual states' Wikiprojects and taskforces, I'm sure they would appreciate this as well.
WikiProject United States Biota
Hi everyone I was thinking about this idea for quite sometime and even thought about putting a request up for this project. Originally I thought about doing this at a state level but then too many species would have 10+ "state" biota projects on the talk page so I thought it would be best to do it at the national level.
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Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Hey there! If I'm in the wrong place, please tell me (this may be too general a WikiProject for this.) I've already asked for some attention on the talk page of
I've been asked to update the
In order to avoid COI issues, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to help out on the draft and help bring it up to Wikipedia's standards. When it looks good enough, I'd like to ask someone to help copy it to
US-PROC rename
Featured List Removal Candidate
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O 'Come on!
Gimme a break!
21:39, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Just a note to inform you of a relevant FPC. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 09:51, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
A-7D production data
A-7D production data has been prodded for deletion. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 03:42, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Does your WikiProject care about talk pages of redirects?
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt (talk) 02:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
County by county maps
I've added some images to Wikimedia Commons which hopefully will encourage people to map statistics by county using styles in .svg files. To color a county you can edit the upgraded blank svg file (Image:USA counties FIPS text addressable.svg) in a spreadsheet and add its FIPS code above the proper color. If you can obtain statistics (as from the BLS above) which come with county FIPS codes (or with the separate first two and last three digits of those codes) then it is a simple matter to sort the statistics in a spreadsheet. Otherwise you can sort data that labeled by county and state to align with such a list of FIPS codes. Then you can copy out groups of the codes and use "paste special" to bring them into text format. Do a find and replace (if you're using OpenOffice, you may need to download the "Alternate Searching" add-on) to convert the numbers into a group with ", .s" between each number, and then these groups can be placed before a "{fill#ff00ff;}" in the .svg to color them all, in this case, purple. This is a little complicated but it really isn't that hard to do, and I've marked the spot with a comment in the .svg file. It would be nice for Wikipedia to start producing some county by county maps. Mike Serfas (talk) 03:54, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
GA Sweeps invitation
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Prediction of the United States collapse in 2010
This brand new, and rather strange, article appears to me to be a clear
- I think there may be a place for the article but it should probably be renamed... perhaps: "Igor Panarin's Prediction of the collapse of the United States in 2010" or something similar? Anotherclown (talk) 04:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I have been working trying to come up with a new idea on how to distinguish the U.S. Government Offices from other navboxes and alerting the user to the offices, which I have developed here User:USAAuthority/Sandbox1! Tell Me What You Think! And Feel Free To Edit This and make it better before it might get implemented. This is an example of what I want to do to cabinet, senate, house navboxes. Thanks !USAAuthorityDC 17:24, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- To be honest I'm strongly opposed to this change. Navbox templates are meant to be simple navigational tools - they are not decorations, and the new styling does more to hinder their use than it does to improve their aesthetic value. I appreciate the work that's gone into the new style, but I'd very much rather that the templates followed the advice of template:navbox/doc and did not override the default styling. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- I have to agree. The old templates are fine, and these are no different in terms of content, but on the other hand add gaudiness. On another note, in the future, please avoid writing [[Barack Obama|<font color=white>Barack Obama</font>]] when you can write <font color=white>[[Barack Obama]]</font>. You're not the only person to do that, but it's clunky, uses unnecessary keystrokes, and it's just a pet peeve of mine. --Muboshgu (talk) 18:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- ^ Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009). "Labor force data by county, 2008 annual averages".