Wikipedia talk:WikiProject West Virginia/Archive 2

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Do the Charleston

I started International Automobile Company & wanted to tag the talk page for Charleston. Isn't there a Project for it? BTW, anybody who's got shares from Scripophily or somewhere, or any info, please add to the page. It's pretty short... Trekphiler (talk) 13:13, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 21:33, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1688 articles are assigned to this project, of which 123, or 7.3%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|banner=WikiProject West Virginia}}

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

So should we take ol' Wolter up on his offer? Any objections? WVhybrid (talk) 00:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

No one responded, so I assume everyone is okay with running the report. I will make the request tonight. WVhybrid (talk) 23:11, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

The cleanup list has been generated. So have at it, team! WVhybrid (talk) 19:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for West Virginia

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:45, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

WV Blue Book

I just picked up a 2007 copy of the state gov't Blue Book. How should I cite it? youngamerican (wtf?) 01:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Why not use Template:Cite book? It has 20+ input variables, but just use the one needed to find your reference point in the book.

Now for the big question, where did you get it? Admittedly, I haven't looked very hard for it.WVhybrid (talk) 05:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

When you get a copy, you'll see what I mean. Try hitting up you local Legislators. They usually have a bunch. youngamerican (wtf?) 00:20, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Does it have page numbers? Section numbers? It has a title, a publisher (State of WV), an edition date. You're right, I don't understand WVhybrid (talk) 01:20, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I've cited it before in academic stuff in college, but the WP cite templates all seem to turn out a bit odd. I'll mess around in my sandbox to see what I can come up with. youngamerican (wtf?) 02:11, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

William Nelson Page FAR

William Nelson Page 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. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:59, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Template: WikiProject West Virginia

I found an article today (Dolly Sods Wilderness) that seemed to be "C-class" to me. C-class is on our assessment quality scale at Wikipedia:WikiProject_West_Virginia/Assessment#Quality_scale yet our template didn't allow for C-class assessments. This is a pretty common thing, since C-class assessments are new; I've added this to other templates in the past. I added it to the template, and assessed the article as C-class. Merenta (talk) 14:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

West Virginia Outdoors

How do we get some of the amazing West Virginia outdoor attractions on this? I'm new to Wikipedia and living out-of-state but am passionate about WV. What determines a good source? I'm thinking of skiing, whitewater rafting, kayaking and other water sports, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, hunting, all of it. Tourism is one of our main industries and should be highlighted. Also, I was wondering if textbooks and pamphlets can be references for sources. Thank you for your feedback. Timber98 (talk) 14:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi! We're always glad to see more people interested in working on the West Virginia articles. I've been working on a lot of articles related to state parks, forests, wildlife management areas and Monongahela National Forest since earlier this year. There's still a lot more stuff to do - expansions of existing articles on rivers with kayaking and fishing, mountains with skiing and the like area all great ways to contribue.

Wikipedia has a lot of info on sources at WP:HELP that might be worth looking through. Textbooks and books in general are great sources, as are websites and newspapers. I don't see a problem with pamphlets, although they're probably less-preferable compared to some other items since they can be hard to get a hold of. The key is to make sure that you cite everything properly so that people can find and verify the information if necessary.

Good luck and thanks for your help improving the West Virginia articles. Brian Powell (talk) 07:49, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

West Virginia articles needing geographic coordinates

33 articles in Category:West Virginia articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that West Virginia is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:47, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I knocked out some of the articles. A lot of the articles are for streams and rivers. A good source for those is GNIS at geonames.usgs.gov. You should use the coords for the mouth of the stream when citing waterways. Thanks for the help, everyone! Brian Powell (talk) 07:43, 27 November 2008 (UTC)