Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/March 2008

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

• Gypaetus (talk · contribs)
• Cocopie (talk · contribs)
• Fishhead2100 (talk · contribs)
• Shanemcd (talk · contribs)
• Drm310 (talk · contribs)
• Wyldkat (talk · contribs)
• Shootmaster 44 (talk · contribs)
• Canuck85 (talk · contribs)
• Reginald Perrin (talk · contribs)

• 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: 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
	FA		1	1	2		4
	FL			3	1		4
	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.

• There are 6 articles written which overlap both the 1850 tagged Saskatchewan and the 870 tagged Canadian Music articles.
• Canadian Federal Government articles which relate to Saskatchewan are the following 14 articles, a couple of which are rated FA.
• There are 24 Saskatchewan law articles.
• Education in Saskatchewan comprise 28 articles, one of which is GA.
• There are only 31 Saskatchewan sports related articles which have been included in the Wikiproject Canada talk page banner for the sports project.
• Also, there are 43 Saskatchewan geographical articles!
• There are 140 Saskatchewan articles relating to Electoral Districts.
• There are 140 Saskatchewan articles relating to Political parties and politicians in Canada.
• Saskatchewan highways have a lot of contributions for the project ratings, with 338 articles being tagged as Saskatchewan as well as WikiProject Canada Roads, giving content to the Saskatchewan Roads subproject.
• The most tagged articles are Saskatchewan communities. Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods comprise 551 articles - tagged with both the Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods template, as well as the new Canadian - provinces template.

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.

• The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 32 members. Please welcome Merovingian to the project!
• The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 10 members.
• The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 6 members.

• Notability tag Brant Kersey

Articles for Deletion

• Current: Template:Saskatchewan Provincial Highways - discussion,

• Kept: Category:CBC Radio 3 programs - discussion, Category:People from North Battleford, Saskatchewan - discussion, Sedley, Saskatchewan - discussion, Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Highway 667 , Saskatchewan Highway 956 , Saskatchewan Highway 8 , Melville Beach, Saskatchewan, Category:Shopping malls in Saskatchewan - discussion, Category:Saskatchewan Huskies ice hockey players - discussion

• 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.

Welcome to March 2008!!:

• This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's tenth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. Archives: Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008, Volume 1, Issue 7, December 2007, Volume 1, Issue 6, November 2007, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2007

• Add to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 4 - April 2008 or WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 5 - May 2008

• This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips here on the talk page for current issues and/or on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition - Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2008.

• If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

• 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!

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

• Portal Saskatchewan Selected Atrractions has been established to showcase the finer articles written about Saskatchewan parks, attractions, national heritage sites. Edit Portal SK Attractions by adding a Portal attraction article using the established layout for Portal attraction additions. See also Portal instructions
• User:Skookum1 has brought up a topic related to provincial parks on the Canadian Wikiproject talk page. If there is only one feature or reason for the park's existence, should each park have a separate article? Discussions are being held at: this discussion] and also at Chasm (disambiguation).

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)

• The several new templates, and template revisions have been included in the highway template for standardization and improvements for highway articles.{{subst:Saskatchewan Highways}}
• Portal Saskatchewan Selected Highway has been established to showcase the finer written and developed Saskatchewan highway articles. Highway additions use the layout schemata to start new portal Sk highway articles. See also Portal instructions

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..

• A guideline for sections in neighborhood, community and city articles.
• Portal Saskatchewan Selected Community has been established to showcase the finer written articles about Saskatchewan cities, neighborhoods, towns, and communities. Edit Portal Communities by adding a portal community article using the established Layout. See also Portal instructions

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers

There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.

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