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[edit] Quasi-Newb needy

Hey, I'm not really a newbie - I just haven't done the whole Project stuff before. I just want to make sure that if one wished to join, one would simply add their name to the list, right? I just don't want screams of 'Hey, who's this guy?' and the like. --Arkracer 21:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep that's all. But this isn't the most lively of projects, so I don't think many would mind if you just started a discussion without formally joining. Gran2 22:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Articles for sets

Is it too much to have an article about each lego set? Or even just every major lego set? Each article could have an infobox with set #, series, year first produced, a picture of the set etc? What do you guys think? Timkovski 21:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I agree. The sets should be listed on their "theme" and/or "subtheme" page. -AMK152 23:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Great, is anyone any good at making infoboxes, templates? I will give it a go later and post it here to see what you guys think. Timkovski 08:59, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
  • In my view listing every set here is not a good idea. There might be 10 sets that would pass an AfD here, if that, most of them are completely unencyclopedic (you'd have to show relevance and impact on culture or society I think). BrickWiki is a better place for that sort of thing and already has a lot of that set up. As for templates and the like, I've some facility. See {{WPBeatles}} which I had no small part in getting to where it is now. If this project wants to participate in WP 1.0 article grading I can modify the article talk template to pick up rankings and I can create the categories etc, as was done for WP:Beatles. ++Lar: t/c 13:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
  • After actually realising how many different lego sets there are, I agree with you Lar, I propose a separate page for each theme and subtheme. Each page could give details about the story behind the theme, minifigs associated with the theme, list of sets in the theme and perhaps sections about the theme's main sets eg the royal castle set from the royal knights theme? Timkovski 13:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Each theme perhaps... and I think some of those exist already. (for instance Lego_train which is in the Category:Lego_themes) Subthemes I think need merely be mentioned in the theme, unless they are really significant. (some of the subthemes there now in the category, I would merge) Sorry if I'm sounding like a wet blanket but the last thing I want to see is people put a lot of work into articles and have them get deleted. Again, BrickWiki is the place for detail, and every article should link to the corresponding BrickWiki article(s) for more info... ++Lar: t/c 14:55, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
      • Using the Lego themes page, each theme should have their own page, with a list of subthemes and descriptions. In the discriptions, there should be info on the sets. That's what I think. -AMK152 17:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] brickwiki

Brickwiki Is an open LEGO encyclopedia powered by MediaWiki. You may want to copy content Back and forth (Both are under the GNU). And if any LEGO Article is up for Deletion (For being too trivial) it can be moved to brickwiki. Before you create a new LEGO article you may want to check both ours and theirs sights first.--E-Bod 01:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project talkpage box {{WikiProject_Lego}}

The project box {{tl|WikiProject_Lego}) contains the LEGO logo. That's probably not a good idea as the logo is copyrighted (LEGO's permission for certain liminted use notwithstanding) and therefore fair use and therefore by WikiMedia foundation policy, should be used ONLY on article pages directly related, and not for decoration. WP:Beatles ran into this too. I'll fix it and we can discuss it in that talk page if there's a problem ++Lar: t/c 15:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Title

Shouldn't this be Wikiproject LEGO instead of Wikiproject Lego? Should another goal be to have appropriate capitalization of LEGO thoughout all articles? timrem 03:18, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

The manual of style suggests that whatever corporations may actually want, the style is to capitalise only the first letter of proper names including corporate ones, so there may be some resistance to going with LEGO (although it's my personal preference) There have been revert wars over trying to get LEGO to stick. ++Lar: t/c 06:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
I do think that it should be LEGO, because that is how it is written, basically everywhere. I wasn't sure about it when i started the project. -AMK152 18:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC).
That is my preference. And for the project it could be OK. But if it's put into articles it will start revert wars. That's all I'm saying. Not that I agree. ++Lar: t/c 02:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps if we get a lot of people to agree with this idea, then we could possibly go through with it. I prefer LEGO also. -AMK152 03:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't care what we do to the name User: Squirrelmassacre

[edit] Lego

Lego is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 21:08, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It isn't any more though 'I didn't meet current standards' Gran2 21:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Products problem

Help me! All users put information of probabily future sets of Bionicle theme, to from of germany Amazon. All of products are not official confirmed to released. What our opinion and solution of this? Antidermis2319 02:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, hey, hey. Originally YOU were the one that put them on the Star Wars page, I said not to, and then when you did, I removed them, but you put it on again. So I just gave in. So first off don't blame other users for that one. But as for your point, in an ideal world we wouldn't put them on, but its doing no harm, they are practically confirmed anyway, we can just add more information when Lego releases it. Gran2 07:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. Before I don't understand you, and now a real problem as Bionicle page. Ah, now I understand your advice. Antidermis2319 16:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shortcut

Created! Dfrg.msc 02:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I created the WT:LEGO one for here and placed a shortcut box at the top of this page, and I see you placed a shortcut box at the top of the WP:LEGO page as well. Excellent

[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
  • User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
  • User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 23:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Work

Hello, I'm Dfrg.msc, and I want to make some constructive edits to Wikipedia. It's not that I am unable to, I would just like some guidance. So, if you have any specific tasks related to this topic, please inform me on my talk page, be specific and include links and I'll help out as soon as I can. Thanks, Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . 3 07:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Proposal: Lego Duplo Thomas & Friends

Greetings from WP:THOMAS!

Article 'Lego Duplo Thomas & Friends' has been slated for deletion, along with a stack of other 'merchandise' pages, most of which are simply undetailed lists. As someone has identified the page as being part of WP:LEGO, I thought I should draw your attention to the AfD, which has been running for quite a few days now. (My apologies: none of the active WP:THOMAS members have any knowledge, nor much inclination, concerning 'Thomas' merchandise! It's never been top of the ToDo list!!)

The delete discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Tomy Wind Ups.

The original view of WP:THOMAS members was for all articles to be kept. However, we have now secured a new home for them at a fledgling enthusiast Wiki site:Train Spotting World, so the project viewpoint is that we will not oppose the AfD after all. If WP:LEGO wishes to keep the page, someone will need to start shouting on the AfD page very soon!

Regards, on behalf of WP:THOMAS. -- EdJogg 01:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally, having just looked-up Thomas & Friends at brickwiki, you may be interested to know that that wiki has NO information about the 'Thomas' sets yet. So this may be an ideal chance for someone to add it. :o) EdJogg 01:30, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lego Board Games article

I have created a Lego Board Games article, but it still needs a lot of work.

[edit] Replacement for brick picture in templates

I've made a render of a red 2x4 LEGO brick for possible use in templates and such, instead of the current low-quality photo. What do you all think, should I upload it to Wikipedia and replace the current pic? I've made both SVG and PNG versions.

PNG
SVG
-HotWheels(53) Talk 18:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New page that has been started that I need help on

everyone please help me. I have started a page on the Quest for Makuta board game. I need help with it Squirrelmassacre 20:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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