Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/March 2008

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WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 2008

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Welcome to March 2008!

Folks who have received the February I Love Saskatchewan Award!! are .... (in no particular order)....:

  • These aforementioned editors have made considerable additions and improvements to the content and quality of Saskatchewan related articles, and have received an I love Saskatchewan award on their talk pages.


Article Improvement Drive

Article Improvement Drive: Articles can now be assessed, and this is the showing for top rated GA and FA class articles as well as stub articles. Please help rate articles, and contribute to improved status.

  • We have now reached over 1,799 assessed articles!
  • There are currently about no Saskatchewan articles at WP:GAN waiting to be reviewed. :-( If you have not considerably edited one of the articles, you can perform a review by following these instructions.
  • There are currently no Saskatchewan related articles waiting to be assesed for feature article... :-( FACs.
  • Please help B class articles move into GA class and GA class articles move toward Feature status.
  • Add content to stub articles to improve their status.
  • In December there were over 797 articles which needed template changes from the original Saskatchewan talk page banner to the new Canada - provincial talk page banner. This has been completed!!!
  • Wikiproject Saskatchewan now has 0.5% FA articles 0.22% GA articles, about 5% B class articles, about 35% Start class articles and 68% stub class articles.
  • Saskatchewan related articles contribute 1,799 / 19,566 articles, or 9.19 % of Canadian related articles!!!
Saskatchewan
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2 4
Featured list FL 3 1 4
Good article GA 1 2 4 7
B 2 23 28 42 95
Start 1 17 147 377 6 548
Stub 4 516 1038 8 1566
List 17 12 29
Assessed 3 46 714 1476 14 2253
Unassessed 18 18
Total 3 46 714 1476 32 2271
  • Please help to tag articles! On the assessment page are the actual articles listed which have been tagged with Canadian projects and Saskatchewan content. The result is...please, if you read this, help to tag Saskatchewan sports articles with both Saskatchewan, and Canadian sports project templates checked off as yes! Some sports articles may also need the appropriate general sports wikiproject talk template or a Wikiproject biography talk template as well.
What's New?

What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot. The archives of new articles for Saskatchewan are listed at Saskatchewan Search Result archive 1, the current search results, not yet archived are at, Saskatchewan Search Result.

  • Check these new articles out, expand stubs, rate articles, add banners, welcome new members to wikipedia.
Member News
Other News

Articles for Deletion

  • Deleted: Patricia K. Robertson, Bombing Neverland , List of petroleum clubs, Elizabeth Quarshie , Lungbutter , Youth Conservative Party of Canada , 2006 in List of years in paranormal, fringe, and pseudoscience Category:People from North Battleford, Saskatchewan in popular culture - discussion, Saskatchewan Association for the Betterment of Addiction Services, List of Saskatchewan provincial roads , Range Road 3042 (Saskatchewan)
  • Tried to add discussions for these...

Portal Saskatchewan

  • The Portal Saskatchewan peer review has produced some excellent suggestions, many of which have been enacted. Some of the portal categories should be added to Saskatchewan wikiproject such as the instructions on how to add content to a box portal concept.
  • To go forward to apply for PORTAL feature status, 10 articles, 10 biogrphies, 10 images which are qualified as good or feature should be added to the portal in the various areas.
  • Shanemcd (talk · contribs) has contributed to the organization of which placenames are town, villages, hamlets, etc by going above and beyond the call of duty. Sorting out List of communities in Saskatchewan and the various section lists have shown significant improvements. Consistency and attention to detail on the various incorporation dates, and status of the many and several communities is producing more accurate lists for visitors to wikipedia viewing Saskatchewan articles. This provides an improvement in quality on wikipedia and so a large thank you goes out to Shanemcd at this time.
  • So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing
The Editor's Desk

Welcome to March 2008!!:

  • Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Saskatchewan Wikiproject News

Wikipedia talk WP SK :

  • For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways - Life is a highway...

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right. See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

  • Rschen7754 commented about Highways notability guidelines in the latest USRD newsletter. To see how discussion is coming along, and how it may affect Canadian / Saskatchewan roads and highways see:
Sources: Wikipedia:Notability (highways), Wikipedia talk:Notability (highways)
Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods - There goes the neighbourhood!

Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page Communities & Neighbourhoods

I, Fishhead2100 aka Mr. C.C. have been organzing the project as of late. Moving and adding items to the appropriate pages.

As was mentioned many months ago, we want to also bring Indian reserves to the forefornt. Start those articles on Indian reserves.

There is going to be a new banner for the project, but it still on the works. Once completed it will alow for assesments via the banner.

On March 1st, Fremte created the Stanley Mission page and added photos to Nistowiak Falls. There are many more places and communities to go!

Signed... Mr. C.C..

Wikiquote Saskatchewan

Wikiquote logo Saskatchewan There is a new Saskatchewan related article on Wikiquote. If you know of any notable quotations which refer to Saskatchewan, please add them to Wikiquote.

Wikinews Saskatchewan

The current Wikinews logo Category:Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan news articles entered into wikinews are also now a part of the Saskatchewan Portal. If you know of a late breaking news story that would be awesome to add to Wikinews, and would like to try being a wiki-reporter, add it to Wikinews!

Wikicommons Saskatchewan

2007 Grey Cup There are new Saskatchewan images on WikiCommons! Please let us know of anymore images which have been added. If you are a photographer or artist and would like to add Saskatchewan related media, sign in to Wikicommons. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when uploading images for any Saskatchewan related content.

Wikisimple Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan There are some Saskatchewan articles on Wikisimple! If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, add the content to Simple English using easy words and shorter sentences. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when adding new articles for any Saskatchewan related content.

Wikitionary / Simple English Wiktionary: Saskatchewan

Wiktionary: Saskatchewan and Simple English Wiktionary There is a definition on Wiktionary for Saskatchewan. If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, and have used a term unique to Saskatchewan, add the definition to either wiktionary.

Editors of March 2008


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