Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arizona

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Thank you thank you thank you! Consider me in. -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 06:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome! Kukini 14:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Can people join that don't know tons about arizona? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thetruthbelow (talk • contribs) .

Anyone can join any WikiProject at any time. "A WikiProject is a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific family of information within Wikipedia. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles, but a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing." In other words, although we use words like "join" and "members" and such, it's really just a place within Wikipedia to work on a family of information that can be applied to multiple articles. Kind of like a collective talk page, but more. "Joining" is usually just a way to show that you are interested in the project, and when people list their names or mention a Project on their user page, they're just spreading the word about the project. So.. yes, yes you can join. -- Ned Scott 07:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

So if I have a tricky question about an incredibly obscure place in Arizona and the only place I found to talk about it before is the Talk page for an only marginally less obscure place in Arizona, would this be a good place to ask about it? See Talk:Desert Hills, Arizona. --Darksasami 19:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

If it's your question about Desert Hills, Arizona, I have no idea where to begin, but I am familiar with the existence of the Desert Hills area in Maricopa County. I wonder if, having been started by the cities bot, Rambot, it didn't distinguish the two areas. Maybe a disambiguation would work, but I really can't say being new to all this and not even having signed on yet.

Do you have any more tricky obscure Arizona questions? I'm a fan of them, anyway! Panchitavill e^talk 06:43, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ajo, Arizona Picture Request

Hi! I'm Yassie, a Japanese Wikipedian who write articles about American cities on jawp. Would you someone please take picture(s) of Ajo, Arizona, post it/them onto commons or enwp, and release it/them as GFDL/PD? I'd love to use it/them on its translated article. Thanks! --Yassie 13:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History buff needed

Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Arizona's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article. JEK 19:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nominate articles for Portal:United States

I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to Arizona (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 23:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Review requested

Hey everyone! I noticed that the Phoenix Zoo article consisted of only one sentence, so being the big zoo fan that I am I thought that was a darn shame. I expanded it over the last two days - can anyone give me feedback on it? Let's make a goal of having the best zoo article in the US! --Aguerriero (talk) 22:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Just fixed a few spelling errors that I found. I know very little about zoos but based on a little browsing of the "Zoos in the United States" category, this is already one of the bettter written articles. Hard to believe this was only one sentence a few days ago, good work. --Nebular110 03:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the fixes - I wish Wikipedia had a spellchecker. :) --Aguerriero (talk) 03:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I do my writing in Microsoft Word because it does have spell checking. When the article is finished, I paste it from Word into the new article. Seems to work great for me. Just a suggestion. CRKingston 06:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

This article looks Excellent!!!--Kukini ^{hablame aqui} 02:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

WP:1.0 offers a good piece of technology to keep track of the status of all the articles that come under the project's purview, by offering Mathbot to create article assessment tables. These are very useful, or at least have been for articles managed by WikiProject Tropical cyclones. So, are you interested in having Mathbot work for you? There's a bit of legwork to do, but the results are certainly worth it. Tito xd^(?!?) 00:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I will volunteer to get this effort underway if we want to start assessing AZ articles. --Aguerriero (talk) 00:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Any Arizonans out there that might be interested in organizing a meetup? --Aguerriero (talk) 00:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to new WikiProject

A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the 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 that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. 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 18:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this project still active?

Based on the project page history, sub pages, and associated talk pages and sub pages there has been no activity within this project since late August or early September. Is this project still active or does an {{inactive}} template need to be added to the project page? --Allen3 ^talk 17:36, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

As a week has gone by with no response, I have added an inactive template to his project. --Allen3 ^talk 19:55, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Just started working on some things here, not sure if I'm enough to keep it active though. ⇔ EntChickie 20:38, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

It is alive. But not quite as active as I would like. Kukini 07:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessing articles?

Does anybody else think that we should have the articles assessed for quality and importance? Just wondering ONE^der Boy 06:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Tell me...what do you mean, exactly? Kukini 07:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

One of these... Tito xd^(?!?) 07:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I learn something new on here every day, I tell you! Kukini 07:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Does anybody have a clue as to how one would go about doing all of the stuff needed? ONE^der Boy 23:59, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Shhh! We're supposed to be inactive. Just kidding. I have set up article assessment for two other WikiProjects - would be happy to do it for this one. I'll have some time on Monday. Or you can read the article assessment FAQ and this assessment guide and figure out how to set it up. Basically you have to create some categories, some subpages, modify the WikiProject Arizona project banner that goes on the talk pages, and maybe a couple other things. If you are comfortable doing those things, it's cake. Otherwise, I can do it on Monday. Take care! --Ars Scriptor 02:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Or you could have the bot do it for you, which I already did. See Category:Arizona articles by quality and Category:Arizona articles by importance. The last thing needed is to modify the WikiProject's banner template, by adding {{class parameter}}, and if importance assessments are going to be made, modify the template slightly. Tito xd^(?!?) 03:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Man, that was fast!!! You guys are good. ONE^der Boy 04:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Er, yeah, bot. I was gonna say that. Well done, everyone. --Ars Scriptor 15:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC) (formerly Aguerriero)

Is there a way to do that for article importance? ONE^der Boy 20:55, 2 December 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 21:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Settlements?

Do Arizonans think of their cities as settlements? Well, check out Category:Settlements in Arizona that's as of today in your category hierarchy. I reverted it out for Kentucky, and I recommend all states do it as well. Kentucky uses "Subdivisions" and Massachusetts uses "Administrative divisions" (both reasonable). "Settlements" are for pioneer days, not for contemporary political subdivisions. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 04:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Props

Should we have articles on props like Arizona Proposition 204 (2006) and Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)? Prop 204 doesn't even seem notable at all. BJ^Talk 20:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I think having an article for every single ballot proposition is a bit much. If we do it, then all the other states are going to do it and you can have the same proposition number on the ballot year after year after year. Having an article for everyone of them means we're going to start have to creating disambiguation pages for each prop#. I would say just stick to those that are very notable, which BTW, I think both of the ones you listed are as both generated a fair amount of controversy here last year. --Nebular110 20:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Well I don't remember 2004 election very well but 204 this year was in the top 5 most talked about but not sure why it has an article and the other 4 don't. So right now we only have articles for the props the supporters come make articles for. I think we need to make some criteria for what props we want to keep.(only two exists as far as I can see) BJ^Talk 20:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Would it be possible to have one article for the props for each election? The ones that are the most controversial could have more discussion, and possibly break out into a separate article if the one article gets too long. It seems more manageable to me to have a single prop article per election than many prop articles. And then you get into a discussion of what was important or controversial, and how do you decide, etc. CRKingston 02:09, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I was thinking that but should we start next election or go back and do the last few years? BJ^Talk 02:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a list at Arizona ballot propositions (2006). I think the article can be changed from a plain list, like it is now, to have maybe a paragraph/few sentences on each proposition. ⇔ EntChickie 12:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I know this topic is a little on the "dead" side as there's not been discussion here in weeks but just in case anyone comes looking, I recently made a List of Arizona Ballot Propositions modelled after the List of Oregon ballot measures page. It has a full listing of ballot propositions in recent years, done in sortable table by year. It includes a summary section where the proposition can be, well, summarized :) For the more notable articles as mentioned above, they can be given their own article, but I believe this to be the most succinct and navigable method of listing the propositions. Any input is appreciated! Arkyan • ^(talk) 22:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Municipal Copyright

A member on the page mentioned that they are working on drawing up county maps. I have been wondering, what is the copyright on materials created/published by a municipal government, such as a county or a city? I know the U.S. federal government's publications (with some exceptions) are all public domain, so would the same apply downward based on the 14^th Amendment? If so, that should make city, road, and county maps much easier, since most of them can be taken from the websites of the governments involved. Uagent 09:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

As you are asking this question at WikiProject Arizona, I assume you are are interested in Arizona specific information. The short answer is no. Arizona law does not allow for free commercial use of any documents produced or supported by public funds (§ARS 39-121.03). As Wikipedia is released under the GFDL, which allows for free commercial reuse, Arizona government documents are not available under a GFDL compatible license. This of course does not exclude citing such documents as references or using them via fair use provisions. --Allen3 ^talk 10:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I read the statute you've cited, and it only outlines physical hard copies. Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 20:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it still applies, as I found on the Secretary of State's AUP [1] that the materials provided on their site are considered public record, and require a commercial fee when the intent is to use them commercially. Thanks for pointing that out Allen3. Uagent 07:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Arizona-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/ArizonaSearchResult. Colchicum 14:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA: Passed

Congratulations, Flagstaff, Arizona has been listed as Good article status. See Talk:Flagstaff, Arizona for more information. LordHarris 11:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] County navigational templates

I've long worked with many Ohio articles, including (earlier this year) creating a navigational template for each of the 88 Ohio counties. Looking around at Arizona, I noticed that no county except Pima had a county navigational template, so I created one for Santa Cruz and Yuma Counties. My question is this: what would all of you think of creating such templates for the other twelve counties? Besides the design I used for those counties, you can see different designs for Franklin County, Ohio, Hancock County, Ohio, or Cimarron County, Oklahoma. If you'd like, I'd be interested in creating these templates (that's more along the lines of what I generally do on Wikipedia), although admittedly it will be a while before I can devote a bunch of time to such things — I did Santa Cruz and Yuma because there were so few towns there! Whoever first replies to this note, please do me a favor and just tell me on my talk page that you replied. Thanks! Nyttend 02:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'm done with the navigational templates. Nyttend 02:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Factory in the background. This may need to be addressed. Dissapointing to see it, though. Thanks, CarpD, 7/12/07.

[edit] Arivaca

Would appreciate commentary from locals on a dispute with Arivaca, Arizona: is it incorporated? It's an edit war in which I've hit my 3RR. Nyttend 22:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anybody around here...

...assessing articles? Yavapai people could sure use it. Murderbike 01:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

The following was posted on Talk:Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, and I copy it here because I haven't a clue myself. Nyttend 13:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Is the pronunciation supposed to be English, or Navajo? It really isn't either. kwami 12:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FA status for Flagstaff, Arizona?

We've recently received some good copyediting efforts by several members of the League of copyeditors, and I think the article may be very close to featured status. I think a few sections need some more details, and once that's done, it should be ready for WP:FAC. Anyone interested in helping this process? Dr. Cash 22:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Historic Landmarks in Arizona, and Registered Historic Places

Hi. I've edited List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona to include a link to a separate article on each of the 40 NHLs in AZ. This main list article, and those linked articles, could use some editing help. And, almost all need a photo! In the same vein, you could visit List of Registered Historic Places in Arizona, but there are way more NRHPs than there are NHLs. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated, on the talk page for the article, or here. doncram 02:21, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Meetup/Phoenix

I'd like to see if we can get a meetup organized for this winter. I've put up a very preliminary page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Phoenix, which mostly consists of sections for people to suggests times, dates, places, etc. that work for them. Everyone is welcome. Please spread the word, and even if you can't make it, it would be great to create a central list of interested people in the area to contact for future events. Dmcdevit·t 03:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lavender Pit, Bisbee

I'm having a disagreement with another editor on the correct spelling of the open pit at Bisbee: Lavender vs. Lavendar Pit. Some additional opinions on the Lavender Pit Talk Page would be most helpful. Thanks. Plazak (talk) 12:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Niggerhead cactus

Can anyone please create a page on this cactus native to Arizona?Zigzig20s (talk) 11:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wayne Gretzky Featured Article Review

Hello, this article, which falls under the scoope of your project, is currently listed as a Featured Article. I felt that there is sufficient reason to revisit this assessment, so I have listed it for a Featured Article Review. My preference is to see the concerns addressed and have the article remain at its current level, but some work its needed. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Wayne Gretzky. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)