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WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 35 1,633 1,668 FL 204 204 A 1 131 132 GA 41 8,363 8,404 B 97 40,200 40,297 C 33 168,321 168,354 Start 2 761,756 761,758 Stub 1 1,033,734 1 1,033,736 List 8,143 8,143 Category 2 346,017 346,019 Disambig 8,164 8,164 File 31,980 31,980 Project 216 216 Redirect 3 45,833 45,836 Template 20,631 20,631 NA 480 480 Assessed 215 2,475,806 1 2,476,022 Unassessed 24,586 24,586 Total 215 2,500,392 1 2,500,608 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,822,451 Ω = 5.37
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Attention Tag, WP:MIL

I had a discussion with Kirill on this some time ago, and the consensus as I understood it was that if there weren't MAJOR URGENT issues with an article, it shouldn't have the tag. There are tens of thousands of un-ref'd, or badly underref'd articles within the project right now, so with a total of around 120 attention tags, there should be greater issues with an article than that if the tag is applied. Regards Buckshot06 06:36, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

re: WikiProject Aramaic

So, this was saved but barely, and userfied to your user space. Mind if I do some editing there? Will you be around at all? Will you "watch" the page? You're clearly the subject matter expert and I'm just an interested editor (spent some time in Ninewah Province, Iraq), so I really wouldn't want to be alone on this. If I don't hear otherwise, I'll just start editing when I get the time. Please respond on my talk page (preferably by moving the discussion so it stays together)--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 22:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Certainly, please feel free to edit at your leisure. My schedule has suddenly become much busier than I intended, as I had hoped to drum up some interest in the group before it was userified. אמר Steve Caruso 19:23, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Maine Meetup?

Greetings! My name is Garrett Fitzgerald, and I've lived in Brewer for the past year. I just thought I'd check in with the rest of the Maine Wikipedians to see if there was enough interest to start organizing a Wikipedia:Meetup somewhere in the state. If you're interested, drop me a note by email or userpage: if there's enough interest, I'll see about organizing a bit more formally. See you around!--SarekOfVulcan 07:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography newsletter

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WikiProject Agriculture

Thanks for the warm welcome, I wholly agree that this project has long been needed. When I created Christmas tree cultivation I couldn't believe there wasn't an Agriculture project. I will be pouring over what work needs to be done, and helping out where I can, certainly. You may want to extend an invitation to join to User:Wassupwestcoast, he has a degree in some kind of agricultural field, and helped immensely with the Christmas tree article above. IvoShandor 22:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for inviting me. I see that you've discovered Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. That project is pretty well moribund. I suggest merging everything into Agriculture and inviting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening#Participants over. I think only one or two are active editors. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 23:26, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Agriculture banner

I think the categories are all set up correctly. Can you show me an example of where the NA class article category is shown? Remember to look at the categories on the bottom rather than in the template itself too. The templates were standardized I don't know how long ago for color and whatnot, but I just assessed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture/Assessment and the categorization looks right. John Carter 23:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

All banners are supposed to link to Category:(X)-Class (topic) articles. The Category:B-Class articles, for instance, is the category for all the articles of all projects assessed at that level. None of the banners should be linking directly to that category. If you know of one, let me know so that it can be corrected, because it probably should be. Remember, look at the categories at the bottom of the page, not the banner' statement itself. John Carter 01:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

basic lists topic coverage banner

I don't know how to nest templates. It looks like pretty complex code. The Transhumanist 01:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Long comment

Many people patrol the short pages (you can find it through the special pages link on the side), when one does so and finds that there is no obvious problem, you add a long comment to avoid everyone checking the same OK things over and over again. Carlossuarez46 16:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Dragonfly

Hi, Doug, I've removed the WP:farm tag from dragonfly. I can't imagine why any dragonflies are part of that project, but I assume you know what you are doing. The reason I've removed the tag from this page is that I don't believe that all dragonflies have agricultural importance, and you should just tag the ones that do. To tag the whole order is like tagging insect because silkworms are farmed. Jimfbleak 05:46, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Agriculture

The agriculture list page and the portal and the template need to be fixed. The template should be shorten down. The list should be expanded. The portal should be updated. Please stop removing the navigation template from article pages. The portal link is already on it and using nav boxes is standared practice. Portal links in place of nav boxes is a bad idea. WAS 4.250 19:17, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your warm welcome. I'm sure we can all work together successfully to make Wikipedia better. Your leadership is essential for the agriculture project to be all it can be. I could add more cliches here, but you get the idea. I mean everything I've said, I'm not playing games here. You hold the confidence of the troops. Go for it. (Whoops, more cliches. Oh well.) WAS 4.250 05:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

I've neever seen any other projects who welcome newbies personally. I look forward to editing along side you--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 10:45, 31 October 2007 (UTC)