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This page is an Archive of the discussions from WikiProject Greenland talk page (Discussion page). (January 2008 - December 2008) - Please Do not edit!

Polar bear legends

Hi there, we're looking for more info on Polar bear folklore from the far north..anyone who has any folklore material and references is welcome to add it to the polar bear article. much appreciated. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:46, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Comer's Midden

I just created an article on Capt. George Comer. One of the things he's notable for is:

In 1915, Comer served as ice master on the George B. Cluett, chartered by the American Museum of Natural History to bring back Donald MacMillan's men from the Crocker Land Expedition of northwestern Greenland. Enroute, the Cluett became trapped in the ice for two years, giving Comer opportunity to perform archaeological excavations at Umanaq/Uummannaq/Umanak (76°33′N, 68°52′W), a hill near Pituffik/Dundas, where he unearthed evidence of what's presently referred to as Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit. His find is called "Comer's Midden".

If anyone on this project has additional info regarding Comer's Midden, his excavation at Umanaq, etc., please add to the article, or let me know what reference material might be helpful so that I can. Also, I wasn't sure about adding your wikiproject banner on the George Comer talk page, but if you think it's appropriate, please do so. Thanks. Cheers. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:44, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the most comprehensive references on this will be Holtved, Erik: Archaeological Investigations in the Thule District volumes I and II (both 1944) and III (1954), published in the journal "Meddelelser om Grønland" by C. A. Reitzels Forlag. I will try and see if I can get a hold of a copy and add something, but my local library doesn't have a copy so it won't happen right away. Hemmingsen 08:49, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Hemmingsen, for creating the Comer's Midden article. I've expanded it a bit before nominating it at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on May 3. If the article (or the DYK? nom) could benefit from additional tweaking, edit boldly! --Rosiestep (talk) 11:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 21:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Arctic Portal and WikiProject?

Would anyone here be interested in helping me start Portal:Arctic and Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic? Drop a note on my talk page if you are interested, or if there are any objections. Please also let me know if I've missed any existing projects? I'm notifying Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian Territories as well. Please let me know if you know of any other WikiProjects centred on Arctic areas. Carcharoth (talk) 22:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Nordbild the Nordic image database

Hello, I just wanted to let you know about Nordbild the Nordic image database. The images there can be used freely provided you quote the source so it's perfect to upload on Wikimedia Commons. If you are active on the other Nordic Wikipedias feel free to post this information there.--Jóhann Heiðar Árnason (talk) 07:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Greenland

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Nordic cinema task force

A Nordic cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Greenland. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 18:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)