Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)

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Contents 1 Name of WikiProject 2 "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" userbox 3 Naming 4 Wikiproject Banners 5 First collaboration? 6 Portal 7 Bot tagging of articles 8 Georgia discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals

[edit] Name of WikiProject

Just occured to me after creating a bunch of cats for article assessment that this project needs to be named "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" instead of "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. State)" for consistency with all other Georgia (U.S. state) articles/cats? What do you think? Wish I had noticed this before creating all those cats. --Roswell native 06:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Roswell native,

I agree, it should be "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" to be more consistent. Great work on the cat work, btw! Reb 13:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" userbox

I've sort of jumped the gun and created a userbox for the project members. Opinions?

Reb 01:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I like it. I'm not so sure about the "proud" part, though...maybe you could take that out? PTO 01:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Edited out the "proud". What do you think about it now? Reb 02:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Excellent! PTO 02:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

To use this box, add the following to your userpage: {{User WikiProject Georgia (US)}} Steevo714 21:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

Should I move the Georgia WikiProject to (U.S. state), or leave it where it is? PTO 01:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

PTO,

Just my opinion, but I'd move it to have it more closely resemble the category stubs and any article, such as Georgia (U.S. state) with the lower-case format. Reb 02:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I definitely think we should rename as I'm guessing we'll eventually have to do it anyway for consistency. So might as well do so at the beginning of the process. --Roswell native 06:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Done.

[edit] Wikiproject Banners

I have asked for help in adding the WikiProject banner onto relevant talk pages at Wikipedia:Bot requests. I would suggest stop putting banners on manually and let the bot handle it; it will save you a lot of effort. Cheers, PTO 02:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That's good news. --Roswell native 03:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Why would the Astrodome be included in this project? Postoak 18:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC) (WikiProject Houston)

Not sure what you mean, Postoak. Where in the project is the Astrodome included? Reb 18:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I see. That is curious. Probably just a bot error.Reb 18:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

We're working on fixing that right now. Please be patient, it's kind of a pain...:D. Cheers, PTO 18:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First collaboration?

Just ran across Ty Cobb which failed GA review in March of 2006. Might be a good one to try to get to GA status - doesn't look like it needs a lot of work based on the reasons for failure on Talk:Ty Cobb --Roswell native 05:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll add that to the main page. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 06:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Great idea. We might also want to work on the Georgia article. It's B class right now. What do y'all think? Reb 17:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Reb, while Ty Cobb is important. The Georgia article is in worse shape and is a cornerstone of our project. Seeing this article brought up to snuff should be our first priority. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 18:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Ganymead. I've been looking over the Georgia article and it does need a lot of work. I actually have some suggestions. Should I put them here to talk about them or on the article's talk page? Reb 15:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

My preference would be to discuss it over at the Talk:Georgia (U.S. state) page. -- Satori Son 22:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I put those suggestions on the article's talk page. Reb 22:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal

Georgia has its own portal, too: Portal:Georgia (U.S. state). There isn't a whole lot there yet, though. I think that this project should help maintain the portal. Comments? PTO 16:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

PTO,

I agree and I'm willing to do whatever's needed to help out there. Also, what about getting involved with WikiNews Georgia (U.S. state)? No news articles have been written there in over a year. Reb 17:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I also created a Wikiquote page for Georgia if interested and expanded on the existing Wikipedia Commons category for Georgia. Also, the Project template is set-up to tag articles/images/etc. that are/were featured on the Georgia portal.--Roswell native 22:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot tagging of articles

Is User:WatchlistBot the bot we used earlier to tag potential Georgia articles? If not, does this look useful? Looks like it also compailes a list of all Project articles so we can monitor recent changes. What do you think? --Roswell native 22:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the United States state of Georgia.

Temporary project page:
User:PullToOpen/Wikiproject Georgia (U.S. state) (extremely rough and informal stuff)

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

• Roswell native
• JohnnyReb1977
• PullToOpen I actually came here to propose this project.

Comments:

• I'd recommend that you name it Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. State) so as to avoid a potential conflict with a WikiProject on the country, Georgia (country), and to keep in line with the naming of the two articles. Picaroon 21:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Unless anybody has any objections, I'll go ahead and move this into the project namespace and do all the formal listing stuff in a day or two. PTO 21:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean by the "formal listing stuff". No objections to moving it into projectspace, but if you clarify that statement, I might be able to help out a little. Badbilltucker 22:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'd move it into project space, list it at the WikiProject Directory, and probably post a notice on the Community Portal asking for contributors. I might also go to related WikiProject pages and add this wikiproject to their "related WikiProjects" list if it's acceptable. PTO 00:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

More than acceptable. There actually is some sort of template most of the projects use that I can't find right now to list the related projects. I'd recommend waiting a day or two until the community portal list gets shoter anyway though. I'll try to find it by then and insert the updated version. Also, I'm looking to update the directory, maybe this weekend or next week, with all the other new projects that a bot is discovering for me this weekend, and will ensure that it and all the others are put in the appropriate locations in the appropriate pages. Badbilltucker 00:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks for your help. I'll go ahead and move it to its appropriate location and begin working. Cheers, PTO 00:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)