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[edit] In scope professions ...

Would you consider Astronomers to be in scope? Perhaps also Cosmologists (who might also be dubbed "Cosmic Physicists")? Courtland 00:39, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)

I just started a bigraphy article about historian - Thomas D. Clark Please take a look and see if it conforms to an acceptable standard. Quinobi 3 July 2005 19:04 (UTC)

[edit] Biography portal

I've created Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Biography to see if anyone else thinks it's a good idea and would be willing to participate. It's still just a rough sketch of an idea. Matt 01:06, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion list

Hi folks,

I wanted to let you know about the creation of a list of articles nominated for deletion which deal with academics or educators. There are only a couple of items on the list now, primarily because I only created it a few days ago. The list is part of WikiProject Deletion sorting, which you are welcome to join.

Anyway, I see that this project traces its origins to a VfD debate, so perhaps this list will be of interest. If so, please help to keep it current. Feel free to add or subtract entries, and to modify the inclusion criteria as well.

Nice idea for a project, by the way. Hope it's going well.

Cheers!

-- Visviva 15:08, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

This deletion sorting list is clearly not very active, or are there just very few articles on academics that are put up for deletion? Or is the whole project inactive as the header says? --Bduke 03:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Science pearls

Hello, Please notice this project. Thanks,APH 06:29, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-Class and good B-Class articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles on academics? We are also looking for FAs. Please post your suggestions here. Cheers!--Shanel 22:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of Science WikiProject

Many of you may be interested in the History of Science Wikiproject, which overlaps considerably with your project. We also welcome your input regarding style conventions, etc, if you notice problems in the articles on scientists that we are editing. May the Wiki be with you--ragesoss 01:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[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 22:36, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved 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 14:27, 24 October 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 16:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page template

I am not sure I understand the scope of this project. Does it exist to serve the extremely important purpose of adjudicateing Acedemic AFDs or is it broader. If it is a broad project does it have a talk page template.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:37, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

A very good idea. I can work on some other standard pieces to make this a fuller-functioning wikiproject over the next couple of months. --Lquilter (talk) 16:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scholars versus academics

Hi. We have two biographical article trees for Category:Academics and Category:Scholars. These terms are often used synonymously. Technically, academics should refer to people who are full-time faculty at academic institutions, generally with both teaching and research duties. Scholars on the other hand is broader than academics insofar as scholarship/research goes, but doesn't necessarily entail teaching. However, in practice there doesn't seem to be any clear rationale for picking one or the other; any given field usually just one (not both) as well as a "teachers of" category (usually if there are also primary and secondary instruction); and the two trees are circularly placed.

I am putting this out there for discussion, and tentatively proposing that probably most subject categories could have an "x scholars" and an "x teachers" category rather than (("x scholars" or "x academics") and ("x teachers")). It doesn't seem necessary to have two trees ("x scholars" and "x academics") since most editors don't really observe the (rather academic) distinction. (Indeed, the various "x academics" categories are sometimes in "teachers of x" and sometimes not.) Still, the category trees are pretty well-established (although not, I think, with a lot of planning), so it would be good to get a lot of discussion about these categories.

The other way of handling this consistently would be to really thoroughly clean up the two trees, creating lots of container categories, such that "Category:Academics by subject" are all enclosed within Category:Scholars by subject and Category:Educators by discipline. This would be "purer" I think and may be the preferred long-term approach.

I also posted a Merge notice on top-level categories to get some discussion. See Category talk:Scholars by subject. --lquilter 18:04, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox academic

In light of the comments at Template talk:Infobox academic, is there any need for the template, or should it just be redirected to the more general Template:Infobox Scientist? Thanks, Black Falcon (Talk) 22:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)