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[edit] Project page face lift

I've edited the project page to take advantage of the WikiProject Turnkey Project's templates. This gives the page more of a portal feel and logically breaks up the content into individually editable components. I hope this is seen as an improvement.--Kharker (talk) 04:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery on project page

I am not sure what the purpose of the gallery on the project page is. This does not seem to be something that other WikiProjects do. Would anyone oppose removing it?--Kharker (talk) 04:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I had originally started the gallery to act as a list of images just as we do with the list of articles. Rather than deleting the gallery outright, how about converting into a proper list? This will actually make it easier to spot redlinks when images are deleted in the future. BTW, thanks for all the work reorging the project. It was tough just keeping track of all you were doing last night. --StuffOfInterest (talk) 12:27, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I can understand where the idea comes from, but I guess at some point the number of articles and images in a project gets to be long enough that using a single list to keep track of red links is problem. And besides, you want to catch the problem before the redlink. For articles, I'd think that relying upon project members' watchlists to notify them of AfDs, etc. would be the best way to go. Actually, for images, I can see a gallery as being useful - a project member ould browse the images and maybe find one that would be useful in a multiple articles. Maybe a gallery not on the main project page, but linked to from the See Also frame?--Kharker (talk) 20:47, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind seeing it as just a link off of the main page. Heck, you can convert it back from a list to a galley if you want to do that. Still, I think "Images" is a better name for the sub page than "Gallery". As for keeping track of things via watchlist, I tried and it doesn't work. I have hundreds of articles on my watch list right now including most of the amateur radio related articles. There is just too much to keep track of all the edits. It would be nice if someone comes up with a bot to notify projects when one of their articles is tagged for XfD or CSD. --StuffOfInterest (talk) 21:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I run said bot but it can only guess who cares the most about the article. I may add a hard opt in option at some point so people can watch whole categories. BJTalk 04:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic archiving of this talk page

I propose that we set up MiszaBot to automatically archive this page. I'm thinking we archive anything older than six months, leaving at least the five most recent discussions on the main page. Any objections?--Kharker (talk) 15:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

No objection. --StuffOfInterest (talk) 15:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
It's set up. The first archives should run in the next 24 hours or so.--Kharker (talk) 17:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion proposals, March, 2008

  • I normally like to handle stub articles like this by proposing a merger of their content into a parent article. Unfortunatley, for this one (Firedrake (shortwave)), I don't see any suitable articles. Perhaps we need a general article on Amateur radio interference to cover topics such as power-line, radar, jamming, and equipment problem interference with Amateur radio? --StuffOfInterest (talk) 16:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to take a break from proding and recategorization before I annoy anybody. Also hello everybody, my call sign just showed up in the FCC database yesterday. :D BJTalk 18:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Congrats on your license! Before proding articles again, how about coming by and discussing options? I have ot admit, I won't miss a lot of the small club articles, but some of the other articles which were marked could be merged into higher level topics. This gets rid of the article count bloat while still salvaging as much content as possible. --StuffOfInterest (talk) 18:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization

I'm sure you noticed me changing around the some categories the last few days and I wanted to bring up things I've noticed here.

  • From what I can tell the amateur radio project was created before the radio project leading to many talk pages being tagged with the amateur radio banner when the topic isn't amateur radio specific, I've been changing theses slowly to the radio wikiproject.
  • Many article that are indirectly related to amateur radio are in Category:Amateur radio and I've been slowly removing these from the category. For example Skywarn is directly related to amateur radio, Storm spotter isn't.
  • I've removed some articles from Category:Amateur radio that are in subcategories with some exceptions. I've left the amateur specific radio modulation modes like D-STAR in the amateur radio but removed non-amateur specific modes like Amplitude modulation so they are only in Category:Radio modulation modes, a subcategory of Category:Amateur radio.

Any comments or objections? BJTalk 18:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yaesu radio articles

These articles need to get merged or deleted. I think they should be merged and redirected to Yaesu FT series and Yaesu VX series. Comments? BJTalk 10:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I tried to have these merged all the way up to the main Yaesu article a year or so ago and the proposal ran into resistance. Taking them up to a series level article might get more success. Go ahead and throw the merge tags on them and get a discussion going. Once you do, please put links to the discussion here so we can get people involved. --StuffOfInterest (talk) 12:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Actually, I'm not sure the format of a merged article would work well. How about Comparison of Yaesu radios (or done by series) page? Having the radio features and specs in a table, this is all the articles list anyways. This would be easier to maintain and easy to do with Icom and Kenwood as well. BJTalk 12:50, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photographs requested

I have requested photographs for the article L-Tronics, which I believe would fall under this Wikiproject. Could anybody help with this? —  scetoaux (T|C) 23:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually it does not fit into this Wikiproject. There is nothing in the article indicating that the company makes, or has ever made, anything for the Amateur Radio sector. Roger (talk) 06:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
I agree it was an extremely loose characterization, but I didn't think it would fit anywhere else. Thanks anyways. —  scetoaux (T|C) 19:21, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New geotemplate

{{Coor Maidenhead}}. This might be useful for articles on locations notable to radio hams. --  Denelson83  23:27, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ITU prefix in country infoboxes?

Would it be worth trying to have ITU prefixes added to the country infobox? Has this ever been proposed? —Ninly (talk) 22:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

That's not necessary. See Country codes: A and the other articles in that series. --  Denelson83  02:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)