Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. cities

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Contents 1 WikiProject Templates? 2 Definition of "city" 3 Project directory 4 Wikipedia Day Awards 5 Great expansion of U.S. cities projects this year 6 PD images of cities

[edit] WikiProject Templates?

Does the U.S. Cities WikiProject have a WikiProject Template to be applied to the discussion pages of U.S. Cities articles? If not, how do you keep track of which articles fit under the scope of the project?

[edit] Definition of "city"

How exactly is a "city" defined by the project here? Is it by the official U.S. government standard of 50,000 population or more, or by some other criterion? Badbilltucker 16:55, 28 August 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 18:39, 25 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 22:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great expansion of U.S. cities projects this year

I have been very delighted to see a lot of U.S. cities join the fold with new WikiProjects in 2006. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had all major U.S. cities with projects by the end of 2007? Should we in this project organize such a phenomenon? I am one to think that if all major cities were covered, then we would end up with pretty full coverage of most U.S.-related articles, and keep the article trolls under control. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 18:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PD images of cities

America As It Was is a huge resource for vintage postcards in the U.S., organized by state. Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many U.S. locations. I hope this is useful to your city or region of interest. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 18:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC)