Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indiana/Archive 2

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Settlements?

Do Hoosiers think of their cities as settlements? Well, check out Category:Settlements in Indiana that's as of today in your category hierarchy. I reverted it out for Kentucky, and I recommend all states do it as well. Kentucky uses "Subdivisions" and Massachusetts uses "Administrative divisions" (both reasonable). "Settlements" are for pioneer days, not for contemporary political subdivisions. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 04:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Terre Haute

Question here. Thanks for your input. Tomer^talk 02:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Indiana-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/IndianaSearchResult. Colchicum 14:42, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Dot Maps

Hello all. I am considering replacing the red dot maps that I made for Indiana with new-fangled SVG versions, using more "standard" map colors, the Superimpose template, blah blah blah. Something like this:

Anyway, I am somewhat curious about if people in general prefer the maps the way that they are or this new full-color style, or the more usual boring maps that are used on several other states, like these. - Marvin01 | talk 05:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I also made a locator map for Indiana. Similar ones are in use in infoboxes in state park articles (for example Itasca State Park) or city articles (for example Elmwood, Louisiana). I hope this is useful, Ruhrfisch 02:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism to Lafayette article

Hello, I'm not associated with this project and wanted to alert you to some vandalism at the Lafayette, Indiana article, which is rated "high-importance" by your project. Maybe some of you might want to keep an eye on the article? The following is copied from my notice at Talk:Lafayette, Indiana: --Malepheasant 00:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed that User:74.38.50.249 has changed the US Census demographic data (such as the city's racial makeup and median income) several times since late February (see here, here, here, and here), apparently without anybody else noticing -- nobody seems to have undone the damage, in any case. I reverted the "demographics" section to the 2/24/07 version, which I checked against the original automated upload from back when this article was started in 2002. The article might benefit from having some responsible editors place it on their watchlist, so that they can revert such vandalism when it occurs. --Malepheasant 23:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Your friendly neighbor to the South

I can't remember if I have approached WikiProject Indiana before, but I founded WikiProject Louisville around a year ago, making it cover the entire Louisville metropolitan area, which includes four Southern Indiana counties. Because of this, WPLouisville considers itself a child project of not only WP-KY, but also WP-IN. If anybody in WP-IN has a particular interest in Southern Indiana, we welcome them to join WPLouisville as well. We already have achieved pretty good coverage of Southern Indiana subjects, but certainly, more assistance is a good thing. Also, if there's any special assistance WPLouisville can provide to WP-IN, please let us know. Thanks for your time! Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 20:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

There's actually five counties included: Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, and Washington. I know, I know, nitpicking. I am quite tempted to make a Southcentral Indiana portal, so I can include this five in an area separate from Louisville, and maybe add a few more counties to it: Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Orange, and Crawford.--Bedford 21:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I think that Scott County is not currently in the Louisville MSA, but rather it's in the Louisville CSA, which also adds two additional counties in Kentucky, Hardin and Larue. If you think WPLouisville should cover the entire CSA, that's something we could discuss. Also, couldn't the Indiana Portal add more emphasis to Southern Indiana instead of creating a whole new portal? Just a thought. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

The Hoosier page

Just wanted to make note that there is an on-going controversy on the Hoosier page. If anyone here is passing by, please take a look at the more recent history regarding the inclusion of the so-called "St. Louis" use of the word and the question of whether it is an appropriate addition. Thanks!! Wildhartlivie 06:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Indiana Wesleyan University

Please help! There has been repeated severe and obscene vandalism on IWU's page by the user "Lilmissjess." Please notify Wikipedia authorities and have him blocked immediately. This is the type of things you guys should be watching out for - not innocent comments that are cited improperly. Please deal with this ASAP.

Thank you,

-manutdglory

Well, thank goodness, someone else already beat you to it and blocked that freak. Please keep an eye out for those types of nuts.

-manutdglory

Project Participants....

Shouldn't the Project Participants for this page be listed in alphebetical order, like many of the other states?

AAARanger5 03:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Done -JT 20:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Murat Shrine

Suggesting an article on the Murat Shrine. --Scottandrewhutchins 14:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

FAR notice

The Jackson 5 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. --RelHistBuff 15:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

County templates

All 92 of the counties now have templates. It should be noted that the lists of unincorporated communities in these templates come from the USGS GNIS and include designated places that may never have articles or that are extinct towns and may have historical articles but should not be listed as extant communities. I will work on weeding those back out, but naturally people from those areas will have more direct knowledge of those situations. Omnedon 05:17, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Virtually all of the cities and towns in Indiana now have county navigational template applied to them. Omnedon 04:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Townships

As of last night, all 1008 townships in Indiana now have articles. Omnedon 14:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Indiana Wesleyan University

The IWU article was recently vandalized by user: 199.8.26.10, who deleted the entire school "History" section. I tried to restore it, but I was not able to do so. Could you please investigate and restore what was vandalized?

Thanks,

-manutdglory

Photo and other content for ME's Zoo

If anybody is planning to visit ME's Zoo in Parker City, would you consider taking a picture and adding it to the article? I'm a native Hoosier now living out of state. I won't be home for Christmas in time to catch the holiday light display. Any other additional content would be welcome, too. Thanks! Eseymour (talk) 21:43, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

South Bend

I have been working (very slowly) over the last couple of years to improve the article on South Bend. At this point I don't know if anyone else is even watching the South Bend article, so I am looking for help here. I would like to get it up to Good Article standards soon. At this point I am having difficulty finding decent, up to date sources other than websites, especially for the history after the 19th century. Anyone know of any good books that might help me out? Anyone want to help me out with this? cntrlaltdel33t (talk) 15:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

South Bend has now reached good article status... Anyone want to help bring it up to meet featured criteria? - cntrlaltdel33t (talk) 13:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

List of Indiana state symbols at FLRC

I have nominated List of Indiana state symbols for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.--Crzycheetah 04:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Indianna banner transcludes the Alerts.

Please link to the Alerts rather than transclude them. This unnecessarily pollutes the "What links here" of several pages. (See the last bullet in Wikipedia:AALERTS#Subscribing). Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Indiana Historical Society

Just an FYI, I have contact the Indiana Historical Society to see if they would be willing to release a portion of their image archives under the terms of the GFDL for use on the Wikipedia. I am not sure how they will respond, but it would be really great if they would make available some of their images. As they promote Indiana history, I would hope they would be glad to pair their images with the largest online collection of Indiana history article available (Wikipedia) —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 15:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Territorial expansionism by Indiana Wikiproject??

For some reason, Return J. Meigs, Sr. has been twice tagged for this Wikiproject, and I've now removed the template twice. The article subject was born in Connecticut, made major contributions in Ohio and Tennessee, and died in Tennessee, but I see no hint of Indiana in his bio. My best guess is that he's tagged because Northwest Territory is linked in the article about him, but that does not make him an Indiana person.

If the bot is being asked to tag all Northwest Territory-related articles for this Wikiproject, it's probably expanding the Wikiproject's territory far beyond the borders of Indiana! --Orlady (talk) 15:31, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

He was tagged due to inclusion in Category:Northwest Territory officials which is listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana/Categories; if this category is too wide it should be removed (and its members examined for other erroneous Indiana tags). Note also you can use {{bots|deny=Xenobot Mk V}} to prevent Xenobot from tagging a page. –xeno^talk 15:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

The Northwest Territory encompassed the entire region of modern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. As a result, Category:Northwest Territory officials is of interest to this Wikiproject, but it is not reasonable treat every person in that category as being relevant to the Wikiproject.

I don't necessarily want to ban Xenobot from ever tagging the Return J. Meigs, Sr. page -- I just want it to quit tagging the page for the Indiana Wikiproject. --Orlady (talk) 15:41, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure, someone from Indiana should confirm that the entire category isn't really in their area of interest and remove the category from the bot's worklist (and tag manually). =) That way the "deny" won't be necessary. –xeno^talk 15:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Parts of the category are definatly within Indiana's project scope. John Johnston (Indian Agent) for example. Northwest Territorial officials are also within the scop of the project as predecssors to the officials of the Indiana Territoy. Northwest Territory, the article is also within the projects scope, along with the Battle of Fallen Timbers, a number of the Northwest Indian War articles, etc. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 15:59, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Unless the entire category is in the scope, it should be removed from the bot's list or the bot should be individually denied as described above. –xeno^talk 16:02, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hones Abe FA

I'm trying to get Abraham Lincoln up to FA, and his article is within the scope of your wikiproject. It's a big job, but the article is in pretty good shape. Anyone want to help? Drop by the talk page if you're interested. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 04:26, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Where is/was Wendell College?

I'm trying to track down the college mentioned in Monica Sone's memoir, Nisei Daughter. She says that during WW2, she was allowed to enroll in Wendell College in Indiana--but I can't find any mention of this school online other than her book. She says the school was in the southern part of the state, on the Ohio River, and affiliated with the Presbyterian church. Did the school change its name or close? Thanks. Aristophanes68 (talk) 15:18, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

The only religous school of higher learning in southern Indiana I am aware of is St. Meinrad Archabbey. The only notable presbyterian school in the state I am aware of is Wabash College, but it is in central Indiana. If it is on the Ohio River, it was probably either in Evansville, New Albany or Jeffersonville, or Madison. There are no other sizable Indiana cities on the Ohio River. I'd guess it is closed since there is no note of it online. There are several Wendell Wilkie High Schools, middles schools, and elementary schools. There is a Wendell Phelps High School in Chicago. Hope that is some help. :) —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 01:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm thinking now that she may have been referring to Hanover College, which fits her description of Wendell College pretty well. And I doubt there'd be two Presby schools on the Ohio River in the same state. Aristophanes68 (talk) 02:48, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana

List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana is currently at WP:FLC at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana/archive2. Many nominations have been failed due to lack of reviews, so any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Reywas92^Talk 02:34, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

List of United States federal courthouses in Indiana

This page has been initiated - any help in filling in missing federal courthouses would be appreciated! bd2412 T 03:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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George Webb Sweigert PROD

I've been cleaning up Oregon BLPs, and I can't find much on this guy. Please save him if you can. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 05:08, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Indianapolis project inactive

The Indianapolis project is inactive. Should it become a task force of the Indiana project? It will have the same metro area scope, but it will be a task force. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:50, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I would not oppose that. Does anyone else oppose it? There are couple editors of that project who I know are still active. I guess they are just not administering anything there. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 18:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, if they are still active, please tell them to mark the project as "semi-active" - Also, ask them to consider whether they want to be a task force of Indiana. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:02, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I will ask the two I know about. Are you experienced in changing projects to taskforces? I presume it would involved moving all their project pages to subpages of our project. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 19:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I would say User:Optigan is very experienced with doing it. If you need help with it, you may ask him for help. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:04, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea. Just about every single Indianapolis article is in the Indiana project already anyway. Reywas92^Talk 02:12, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

There don't seem to be any objections to making this into a task force, so I suppose you can make it into a task force whenever you are ready. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

OK I am going to bite the bullet and start absorbing it. I will move all the project pages to subpages here. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 13:19, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Ok, got all the project moved over to a new Indianapolis Department here. Now for the fun job of deciding what to do with their project banners on article talk pages. I am thinking I could take AWB and go through fast and remove them all. If I come across articles that have no Indiana project tag, I can replace the Indianapolis tag with an Indiana tag. Any objections? —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 13:42, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Welp, I've finally finished.. 3000 edits later. Took longer than I thought! —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 17:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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Gibson Southern Marching Titans

This article has been nominated for deletion, and is covered by this project. Interested editors may comment at the article's deletion discussion. LonelyBeacon (talk) 05:12, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

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I work with a museum and I'm looking for a Wikipedian to work with

I work with The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. I'm looking for a local WikiPedian who may be interested in working with us on our education and curatorial information. Please email me at angelam@childrensmuseum.org. AMMcNew (talk) 17:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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Barbara Kingsolver

Hello, I'm re-working the article about American author Barbara Kingsolver, and it currently is listed as an article in the Indiana project. I just wanted to check-in and see if she really ought to be listed in this project; although she graduated from an Indiana university (DePauw), she wasn't born there, doesn't appear to have grown up there (although I haven't got a complete biography of her early years) and doesn't live there now. Would any of the editors here be upset if I removed the Indiana Project templates from her talkpage? They just don't seem to fit. Thank you! Jhfortier (talk) 03:40, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

No it would be ok to remove her. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 14:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

US Veterans category links

As an outsider, shouldn't Category:United States military veterans from Indiana and its subcats link also to the general category for Americans in each of the wars; eg Category:People from Indiana in the Iraq War should link (as a subcat. of) as well to either Category:American people of the Iraq War or Category:American military personnel of the Iraq War. The only page with these links at present appears to be the Civil War category. Hugo999 (talk) 14:46, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Courthouse in Bloomington

Please contribute to the discussion of First Monroe County , Indiana Courthouse (AfD discussion). Uncle G (talk) 12:43, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Indiana articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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I am trying to work through this list now. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 14:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Ok guys, I've put together two lists - one of topics that I think are not of great importance and could be removed from 0.8 as far as Indiana is concerned, and a list that should probably be included. They have picked 167 of our articles to include. I note the pick seems to have a significant tilt towards sports, of that category I am only proposing we remove the less notable sports topics.

Not needed:

• Mario Andretti
• Hammond, Indiana
• Jeffersonville, Indiana
• Nick Dinsmore
• Richmond, Indiana
• West Lafayette, Indiana
• 2005 United States Grand Prix
• Harrison County, Indiana
• Oscar Robertson
• Rex Grossman
• Colony of Virginia
• Columbus, Indiana
• Alfred Kinsey
• Chesley Sullenberger - this should probably be included, but I'm not sure why its in our project
• Freddie Hubbard
• Jim Jones
• Randy Johnson

These article I think are not of sufficient quality to merit inclusion, in addition to some not being notable enough

• 2007 United States Grand Prix
• A. J. Foyt
• Joshua Bell
• Robert Wise
• Roger Maris
• Carole Lombard
• Edward Mills Purcell
• Howard Hawks
• Julian Schwinger
• Kevin Kline
• Michael Graves
• Peja Stojaković - not sure why this is part of our project
• Philip Warren Anderson
• Moe Szyslak
• Rex Stout

There are only a few articles not included that I think should be, some are pretty obvious

• Indiana - duh
• History of Indiana
• Indiana General Assembly
• Mitch Daniels
• George Rogers Clark
• On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away
• Battle of Corydon
• Indiana Hoosiers
• Hoosier
• Angel Mounds
• Wabash River

And some important, but not well developed topics I am iffy about.

• Economy of Indiana
• Geography of Indiana
• Government of Indiana

So, if anyone care to comment go ahead. Once we finish us up what we want taken out and added in, we can post it to 0.8 to have them update the list. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 15:31, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

OK, I've added detailed comments here. The articles on Indiana and Mitch Daniels were already included - the former is VERY highly ranked, for obvious reasons. Most of the scientists, sports figures, etc are included for their importance in their fields, not for their importance to Indiana; we will only consider removing them if the primary WikiProject for that article requests it. I have added most of the proposed additions - many nice suggestions, thanks - though I left out Angel Mounds and Indiana Hoosiers.

I would like to get a second (third?) opinion on the articles Harrison County, Indiana, Columbus, Indiana and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Should I exclude these as being unimportant? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 03:50, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Children's Museum of Indianapolis Backstage Pass - you're invited!

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Indianapolis task force tag

Hi! I added a tag to the WikiProject Indiana template

Add "|indianapolis=yes" and the article is marked as a part of the task force! WhisperToMe (talk) 23:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

That is great, thank you! I may copy that code to add parameters for our other task forces. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 16:50, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States

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--Kumioko (talk) 15:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

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A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:11, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Benjamin Harrison

There is a discussion going on at Talk:Benjamin Harrison that might benefit from the opinions of members of this project. --Coemgenus 12:25, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Relationship with WikiProject United States

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School Stubs

I went through all of the Low-importance articles, from stubs to FAs. I noticed that only high schools and specialized schools have been assessed above stub status. Do we have an example anywhere of what, for example, a Start quality article on an elementary school might look like? There typically isn't the media coverage or notability for elementary schools that there is for high schools. Notrapturedyet (talk) 01:02, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Indianapolis photo requests

Hi! Would anyone mind fulfilling some photo requests in the Indianapolis area?

• Republic Airways Holdings headquarters - 8909 Purdue Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46268 (See google maps)

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 16:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Hello!
I thought it important that WikiProject Indiana be apprised of the continued Wikipedia Wikipedia collaboration with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. You can check out my brief overview in the Children's Museum blog, which includes details on the Apprentice Program project to create five new Wikipedia articles as well as the image donation and use of the new Wikipedia Widget to link the museum's website to Wikipedia.

Last month we completed our first museum image content donation of 30 images. While this seems to be a low number, what makes the donation unique is the curatorial involvement in choosing and vetting the images for their appropriateness and usefulness within Wikimedia (many of the objects are copyrighted toys and other works that have copyright restrictions.) The curators in the collections department were very hands-on in their involvement, and we'll be outlining this process in an upcoming case study. If you would like to help further this process, I'd be happy for you to help disperse the images into useful Wikipedia articles, or let the appropriate WikiProjects know of the new images. Another 30 will be uploaded in the coming month.

The Museum Apprentice Program project resulted in five new articles that relate to WikiProject Indianapolis. They each compile information on some of the museum's most iconic objects: Bucky (Tyrannosaurus rex), Fireworks of Glass, Water clock (Indianapolis), Reuben Wells (locomotive), and the soon to be unveiled Captain Kidd's Cannon. Any tags, linkage, or updates you'd like to do to these articles are of course welcome.

In addition to the collaboration with the Museum Apprentice Program students and the curatorial department, another important collaboration was between User:Ealdgyth and the American Collections curators to significantly update the Broad Ripple Park Carousel article. This project should have a special interest in knowing that, after an impressive amount of time and work, the carousel is now a Featured Article. The museum is absolutely thrilled and will now be adding a QR code to the carousel exhibit Carousel: Wishes and Dreams. In the future, more QR codes will be added to the objects that have had articles written by the MAP students. We're excited by the success of this collaboration & will also be writing a case study on the process.

There is now a recurring Indianapolis Update on the newly minted GLAM Newsletter. If you'd like to subscribe to the GLAM newsletter, you can do so here. Thanks! And let me know if you have any questions! HstryQT (talk) 18:06, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Blackford County

Hello. As information, I have upgraded the Blackford County stubs Montpelier, Indiana, Millgrove, Indiana, Converse, Blackford County, Indiana, and Renner, Indiana. I have also contributed a new article — Mollie, Indiana. I plan to upgrade Trenton, Indiana, Matamoras, Indiana, and Blackford County, Indiana by the end of the year. The plan is to get Blackford County up to a good or featured article status. Any constructive criticism or suggestions are always welcome. TwoScars (talk) 15:38, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Mitch Daniels

Hello all! I have recently been working on improving the Mitch Daniels article. It seems very likely he will run for President lately, and, there has been a big spike in readership of his article. This seems like an excellent opportunity for us to draw readers and potential contributors to our project's many articles. If anyone has spare time and would like to spend a little time copy-editing or expanding the article, it would be of great benefit the project as a whole. During the last presidential elections, the candidates' articles were getting hundreds of thousands of hits daily! If our readers find a high quality article when they search Mitch Daniels, it will go a long way to improving the reliability and reputation of all of Wikipedia. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 17:36, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support Indiana and Indianapolis

Someone recently suggested that this project as well as WikiProject Indianapolis be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing both projects it appears that there has been no almost not activity on either the project page or the talk page in months. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions. --Kumioko (talk) 19:14, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

This discussion has been open for 6 days. Does anyone have any comments about this suggestion. --Kumioko (talk) 16:21, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Since this discussion has been open for 11 days with no comments I am going to go ahead and add it to the Supported projects list. --Kumioko (talk) 15:05, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 03:15, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Source

I wanted to pass along this resource that may be useful for WP:Indiana. It's the Famous Hoosiers Unit of Study that The Children's Museum of Indianapolis created for teachers. It includes information on James Whitcomb Riley, Gene Stratton-Porter, Madam C.J. Walker, Orville Redenbacher, and T.C. Steele. I'd be happy for this information to be checked against the existing articles and updated if it'd be helpful. Thanks so much. LoriLee (talk) 17:19, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate

One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:39, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The December 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 01:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:12, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Indiana will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Indiana's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:05, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Suggested Re-Assessments

Why are Paul Bako (journeyman baseball player, one year with minor league baseball team in Indiana), Ambrose Burnside (birth in Indiana), Rex Grossman (birth in Indiana), Walter Bedell Smith (birth in Indiana), or William S. Taylor (death in Indiana) listed as having mid importance to Indiana? Their only involvements with the state are births, deaths or minor athletic association. Please note that I am not discounting their importance to other WikiProjects, I just think their importance to Indiana is overstated. I recommend a re-assessment and potential change to low importance.--Rpclod (talk) 17:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

The following suggestion might evoke a strong response from Indy faithful, but I say the following respectfully. I question whether the Mario Andretti article should have high importance to the WikiProject Indiana. Andretti was not born and has not lived in Indiana. The association appears to be related solely to participating in racing competition in Indiana and writing a racing article for an Indiana newspaper. Does that meet criteria for high importance? I recommend a re-assessment and potential change to mid or even low importance.--Rpclod (talk) 17:22, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Personally I agree on all counts and I would suggest all of those be reduced to low importance to the project. --Kumioko (talk) 18:42, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

I agree on all counts as well, and support the reduction of their importance to the project.--YHoshua (talk) 16:01, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Based on positive comments and no negative comments, I have made the changes.--Rpclod (talk) 19:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Donald Mattison

Is the Indiana Project interested in supporting the article Donald Mattison? Until a few days ago, it didn't even have a talk page. --Kenatipo ^speak! 23:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Historical Bureau cooperation

If anyone reads this page — see this comment on my talk page from an IDNR representative; looks like they're planning on releasing almost all rights to most material on their website, with attribution being the only requirement. I know that this isn't a hoax: LoriLee, whom I know personally, has told me about off-wiki contact with this IDNR representative and with other Historical Bureau officials, who appear to be interested in Wikipedia collaboration. Nyttend (talk) 15:35, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

A little help?

I am working on cleaning up Hobart High School. Is there a template for an infobox for schools? Any suggestions as to other content? Thanks in advance for any help!Gtwfan52 (talk) 19:10, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

You can use the generic Infobox school. --Rpclod (talk) 12:35, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

ThanksGtwfan52 (talk) 17:47, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Place notability

How do you determine if a placename is notable enough to be included? I was looking at Hortonville. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:09, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Geographic places are usually notable as coverage in paper format can be assumed. Rare exceptions to that assumption can be deleted though. The article needs some cleaning up though. Agathoclea (talk) 10:38, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Packard Clipper

Some issue has arrisen about Packard Clipper which was tagged for this project due to the productionplant being in Indiana. Personally I feel it is relevant, but a large number of other car-makes are not country-wikiproject tagged so I agreed to remove the WPUS banner awaiting some input from this project. Agathoclea (talk) 10:37, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Minor change to Jeffersonville

I'd like to make a minor change to reflect that Jonas Ingram, Medal of Honor winner and WW2 Admiral, was born in Jeffersonville and raised there for a while. Would that be a problem? Spastic Legend (talk) 05:20, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

You don't need to request permission to make edits to articles. Be bold! If people don't like your changes, you'll find out fast enough. Your edits will have the best chance of standing if you cite a verifiable reliable source to support them. The Jeffersonville article has a notable residents section, you could add him to that list. Sarah 10:10, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Help with a contemporary bio

Hi, I'm working on this article on the current Democratic candidate in the 9th District congressional race in southern Indiana: [1] Anyone want to help? She's notable and significant; that's verifiable, but I'm not the greatest Wiki editor there is. Apparently, a review editor rejected a previous version (to which I've added additional third party sources and resubmitted). I also don't live in that part of the state, nor do I have a lot of experience editing political bios. If you cannot help, then can you point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. I don't know Ms. Yoder and have never met her, so there's no agenda here. I just think she should have an article. Josh a brewer (talk) 16:41, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Josh, you don't have to go through AfC. Just type the proposed page name in search. It will come up a redlink. Just click on the redlink and away you go. Please read WP:POLITICIAN, Item #3 before you go any further. Unless she has independent notability, a candidate for a state office is not notable. Gtwfan52 (talk) 19:54, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your hard work on this article. I thought the name sounded familiar. She was also 2nd runner-up for Miss America in 1993. Your article is getting turned down at AfC due to a lack of reliable sources and some style issues IMHO. I will be happy to help you with the writing style and sourcing. If you want my help, contact me at my talk page. Go Hoosiers! Gtwfan52 (talk) 20:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Photos needed from Evansville?

The Evansville Wiknic is this weekend, and we're planning on enriching the Commons with new photos from the west side in the historic Lamasco area. We'll start our hunt for photo ops at Franklin/Wabash. Are there any sites or sights we should try and capture?

Thanks! Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:29, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process

There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Photos requests: "Welcome to Indiana Crossroads of America" highway signs"

I am requesting image files of "Welcome to Indiana Crossroads of America" highway signs" to be submitted.Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 20:19, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

9th Congressional District

Can someone take a look at Indiana's_9th_congressional_district? It's out of date. I know, WP:Be Bold, but I know some of you guys can do it better than me. :) Thanks! -- Me^Holla! 15:08, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Montage Needed

Evansville, South Bend, and Fort Wayne all now need montages now that Indianapolis has one. Rhatsa26X (talk) 19:32, July 30 2013 (CDT)

Why? Do Gary, Hammond and Bean Blossom need one too? BTW, new talk page threads go at the bottom. Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:04, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Because these three have 100,000+ populations. Gary once did, Hammond and Bloomington will eventually, and Bean Blossum probably never will. Rhatsa26X (talk) 19:22, July 31 2013 (CDT)

So is there some standard I have missed that says cities over 100,000 must have a montage? I personally find them a weak illustration, as they tend to be cluttered with hard to understand captions. A skyline shot is much nicer IMO. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:25, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Downtown Carmel, Indiana

Dear Indiana experts: The above article has been sitting around in Wikipedia:Articles for creation for months because the creator didn't submit it. An edit summary indicates that he or she wants someone else to finish it. Eventually it will be deleted because it has no references, and neighbourhoods aren't guaranteed notability. Anyone interested? —Anne Delong (talk) 01:33, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:38, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:00, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

College basketball navigation templates

Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Creation of these templates will impact articles on Indiana related teams such as IU, Purdue, Butler, and ND. CrazyPaco (talk) 11:32, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Adrianne Wadewitz deletion discussion notice

1. Adrianne Wadewitz
2. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz

There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.

For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and Wikipedia:Notability.

— Cirt (talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update

As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.

If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man) 05:10, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jackson Creek. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:12, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Adrianne Wadewitz for Peer review

1. Adrianne Wadewitz
2. Wikipedia:Peer review/Adrianne Wadewitz/archive1

I've nominated the article Adrianne Wadewitz for Peer review.

Discussion is at the peer review subpage, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Adrianne Wadewitz/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

— Cirt (talk) 04:02, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 04/03

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/City West, Indiana. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 20:57, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Indiana At Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (talk) 14:29, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Notice re Indiana politician article nominated for deletion

See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ed Coleman (politician) – S. Rich (talk) 22:30, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Indiana geography stubs split

Please feel free to participate at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2014/September#Category:Indiana geography stubs split. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:47, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

March 2015 Art+Feminism event in Bloomington

Hi Indiana Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone would be interested in helping out with editing training for a Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon taking place at Indiana University Bloomington on Saturday March 7th. We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the area, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. More information about the event can also be found here. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! -Thepwnco (talk) 22:26, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Angela_Mansfield

This has been nominated for deletion. It needs a lot of work. Bearian (talk) 00:11, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Zionsville, Indiana

Requesting eyes on this article because of Jared Fogle. There have been rather consistent edits reliving around him and the scandal surrounding him. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 08:37, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Missing Indiana Supreme Court Justices

Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Indiana Supreme Court Justices at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices#Indiana. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:35, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Edgewood High School (Indiana)

There is a discussion occurring at the above page on the encyclopedic suitability of the listing of sports teams in this school article. Your participation is encouraged. John from Idegon (talk) 19:16, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:14, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship

Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:46, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Request photo of ditch-weed for Cannabis in Indiana

I know that feral hemp grows wild in many parts of Indiana; if any of y'all happen to pass through such an area, could you pull over and take a photo for Wikimedia Commons so we can add it to Cannabis in Indiana? Thanks! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 05:17, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

There was an underground ammunition factory operated by the Navy during WWII near North Judson. They planted the surface with pot as a source for hemp to make rope. It's thick in that area, or at least it was as recently as 20 years ago. However to use a photo, you'd need copy in the article on the subject. John from Idegon (talk) 06:09, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Indiana/Archive 2 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:01, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Discussion of Location of University of Notre Dame

There is a new discussion of the location of the University of Notre Dame at Talk:University of Notre Dame.--Jahaza (talk) 18:05, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Indiana participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Indiana. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:55, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Article assessment

There are comments relevant to the project concerning article "class assessment" at Talk:USS Indianapolis (CA-35)#Article assessment. Otr500 (talk) 02:44, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana/Archive 2/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Indiana.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

• The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
• The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
• The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Indiana, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

New Indiana userbox templates

New Indiana userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Indiana and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta

Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:47, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Access to archived copies of the Indiana Daily Student?

At Talk:Claude Ferguson, someone wants to cite a newspaper article that appeared in the Indiana Daily Student in 1977. I've asked them for additional bibliographical information; currently only author, title, newspaper and year are given, but no more precise date nor the page number. However, even with more details I wouldn't have access to old copies of the Daily Student and wouldn't feel confident adding a source to the article that I haven't read myself. Maybe someone here with better access to old newspapers from Indiana can keep an eye on that talk page and help out? Huon (talk) 23:07, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Greetings from GLAM-Wiki US

Invitation to join GLAM-Wiki US

tight Hello! This WikiProject aligns closely with the work of the GLAM-Wiki initiative (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), a global community of volunteers who assist cultural institutions with sharing resources with Wikimedia. GLAM-Wiki US is a new community initiative focused on organizing cultural collaborations within the United States. GLAM organizations are diverse and span numerous topics, from libraries and art museums to science centers and historic sites. We currently have a backlog of interested institutions- and we need your help! Are you interested in helping with current or future GLAM projects? Join→ Online Volunteers We hope you'll join the growing GLAM-Wiki community in the US. Thank you! -Lori Phillips (Talk), US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator For more information visit→ The GLAM:US portal or GLAM-Wiki on Outreach

Requested move at Indianapolis Museum of Art

Please see the discussion regarding a proposed title change to the article Indianapolis Museum of Art to "Newfields". Cerebral726 (talk) 17:01, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Please look at and assess this new article

Union Literary Institute deisenbe (talk) 12:34, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

New bot to remove completed infobox requests

Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject Indiana since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with {{ping|Trialpears}} and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as {{infobox journal}} for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as {{starbox begin}} should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

Sent on behalf of Trialpears (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Lincoln Monument of Wabash, Indiana listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Lincoln Monument of Wabash, Indiana to be moved to Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Wabash, Indiana). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 21:09, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Draft: Stop Child Abuse and Neglect

Greetings. Here you'll find the (draft) article for SCAN[2] hopefully someone may want to take it to the Finish Line. Cheers, Tortillovsky (talk) 22:16, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Adding years relating to Indiana

You guys need to add years relating to Indiana. ArekSmith (talk) 15:25, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Tippecanoe FAR

I have nominated Battle of Tippecanoe for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Kevin1776 (talk) 18:42, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Purdue University WikiProject.

Hey all! While I know this project is semi-active and this message may not be seen, but I would like to invite any editors here to show their support for and potentially join the new WikiProject: Purdue University. It hasn't technically been made yet, and I only proposed it just a few minutes ago, but I'm trying to start out strong. The Project would aim to improve existing Purdue University-related articles and create new ones. As it is still in the proposal process, you can show your support here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Purdue University. Thanks!! Invinciblewalnut (talk) 20:22, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Seymour, Indiana § Namechecking and not everything

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Seymour, Indiana § Namechecking and not everything. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:32, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Would some members of this WikiProject mind taking a look at this. The article has recently been expanded quite a bit by a fairly new editor. I think this editor means well, but some of the recent additions seem to be moving too far into WP:LOCAL and WP:NOTEVERYTHING territory. I could be reading too much into this and perhaps others might feel differently which is why I'm asking about it here. Additional input on the article's talk page would be appreciated. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:32, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Kelly Hecking

I could use some help finding independent sources for Kelly Hecking.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:50, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

If by "independent" you mean ... not from Notre Dame, seems like Hecking is mentioned a few times in Swimming Magazine's reports on ND swimming results. Some of Hecking's accomplishments in the junior year are described at greater length, though, in the ND student newspaper: https://archives.nd.edu/observer/2001-01-25_v34_073.pdf -- Jaireeodell (talk) 21:58, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

You're invited! Wiki Loves Pride in Indianapolis

Upcoming Indianapolis event - June 21: Wiki Loves Pride Indy
	You are invited to join us at IUPUI University Library for a Wiki Loves Pride editathon—hosted by IUPUI University Library, and supported by the Central Indiana Community Foundation—where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on this theme: Tuesday, June 21: Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/Wiki Loves Pride 2022 (RSVP), focusing on Indiana LGBT history and culture. 11am–4pm at IUPUI University Library, Ashby Browsing Room. We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Dominic & Jere

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