Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Malta/Archive 2

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Prominent people of Malta

Is there an article or a category dealing exclusively with Indivdiuals from Malta? Kdammers (talk) 05:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Try these: List of Maltese people , Maltese people and Category:Maltese people , but I wouldn't bet on the quality of those pages. Note that according to the Guide lines for Notability all people with an article about them on wikipedia should be prominent (or at least Notable).

--Inkiwna (talk) 09:33, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Assessment

Hello, I'm the creator of Palazzo Malta and Villa Malta. I was wondering first of all if these fall within your scope, and secondly if I could get them assessed. Thanks, Benjamin ^{Scrīptum est - Fecī} 00:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Ayin, Dun Karm, Batemans and Baroque

I've included an image from the Maltese version of Wikipedia in the Dun Karm article: I've also added a reference to the 'ajn' on the ayin page. However, a confident linguist should take a look at the information that's been added there. I have added a few more names to the List of Maltese people too.

Update: I just created an article for Francesco Maltese but couldn't find much about him. Kalindoscopy (talk) 07:34, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Latin Europe

Hello WikiProject Malta/Archive 2! There is a vote going on at Latin Europe that might interest you. Please everyone, do come and give your opinion and votes. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 20:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Town box

How about including mayor field in the Town (Malta) box for mayor? Additional information would be the political party he/she represented as well as the year since when he/she has served e.g. Joe Borg (Malta Labour Party) since 2004. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Demdem (talk • contribs) 15:34, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok i've added a "mayor" field to the template. I suggest using as follows mayor=Joe Borg (MLP) . The implication is that that person is the current serving mayor. More details than that is not really warranted for the infobox in my opinion. The infobox should give a snapshot, the details are in the article text. Now we need the data! --Inkwina (talk · contribs) 18:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Notice how Joe Borg (the commisioner not the mayor) has no picture :-( --Inkwina (talk · contribs) 18:42, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Data has been entered! Demdem (talk) 05:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested

Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 13:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

HELLO?????

Hemm wiehed User:Yolgnu who's making edits I find questionable. Whether or not they are evidence of an agenda or simply ignorant tinkering, I'm not sure. Assistance in settling disputes would be MORE than welcome, and I'll back off/go on as required. Dak kollox. Sahha nies. golden bells, pomegranates, prunes & prisms (talk) 10:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, second opinions would be gratefully appreciated, especially from Wikipedians with a knowledge of linguistics.--Yolgnu (talk) 11:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Mnajdra Temples

Hi there, i have rewritten the Mnajdra article... and tried to make it as accurate as possible... improved layout, improved article's contents (hopefully), added gallery, divided it into sections...etc.

It would be nice to:

1. Check the article for any inaccuracies
2. Rate the article on the assessment scale
3. Rate it on the importance scale!

I am new to these stuff :) If you have any difficulties, feel free to leave a message in my user-page. Thanks -- Ramif 47 (talk) 15:25, 4 July 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) 20:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Names of Maltese towns in English!

It appears that the names of Maltese towns is being changed to conform to English language requirements of Wikipedia. This is a Good think, but the BIG problem is that the spellings being used are archaic, and seem to come from this paper: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1787509. For some reason these spellings are spread around the internet. I need some help to fix this Ugly situation. Can you please help me go through all Local Council and locations in Malta and fix this mess ( with references where possible)

--Inkwina (talk · contribs) 15:09, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

The spellings as you yourself admit, are backed by multiple sources. The fact that you do not like the way they are spelt, and would prefer them to be more akin to their Maltese counterparts, is irrelevent, quite frankly. Kyarichy (talk) 15:25, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

In all the times I have been in Malta I have never heard of any of these names. Seconding the fact that they are archaic and obsolete and renaming the articles back to their original names, which are the ones everybody uses today including English speakers. ~ ► Wykebjs ◄ (userpage | talk) 22:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Archaic, unused versions of names should not be article titles. Otherwise Kiev would be Kieff, and so forth. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 14:46, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

All the spellings added were names used at some point and to some extent in English, but that does not mean they were or are the most common names used in English, especially in modern writing. Just because one or two sources use Italianised spellings of Maltese towns in English does not mean we should use them too ignoring the vast number of sources that use the MAltese spelling in English. Looking at Special:Contributions/78.146.213.236, Special:Contributions/78.133.74.103 and Special:Contributions/Kyarichy (there could be more IP's), there have been widespread mass changes going on which although well-meaning have not been entirely accurate and supported by our policies. Someone needs to go through all these edits and verify them.

Hi Kyarichy, the sources you are citing are archaic. They are based on the concept of bending pronunciations to fit phonemes in the phonetic system of the English Language. The world has moved on since then. In any case, if you feel that you must make such major changes it's always advisable to discuss them before. --Joelemaltais (talk) 16:56, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I've tried reverting some of the changes made by whoever thought this was a good idea. The courteous (and decent) thing to do would be for that person to clean up their own mess and return the proper spelling of names to the articles, rather than obscure and little used (if at all used) names. Kalindoscopy: un enfant espiègle (talk) 08:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Russian offices in Malta

Hello WikiProject Malta. I am working on a list article Diplomatic missions of Russia and in desperate need of photos. Would any project members be in the position to be able to help with photos of the Russian embassy (25 Anthony Schembri Street, Kappara, San Gwann SGN 08) and the Russian Centre for Science and Culture (36, Merchants Street, Valletta. ). Any help anyone can give would be appreciated. Regards --Russavia ^{Dialogue Stalk me} 06:55, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

"Streets showing the Roman Catholic faith" (sic)

I think the sections appearing in some articles on local councils "Streets showing the Roman Catholic faith" should be removed. Apart from the godawful English these are simply lists of streets whose name have some religious connection. Mind you, it's the name of the street which has a connection which, in most cases, is an incidental matter. Such lists are about as valuable as a list of street names starting with the letter "L" and look ridiculous especially for the smaller localities.

What do you think?

Demdem (talk) 20:47, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Malta

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.

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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 23:17, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Megalithic Temples

Hi, I have expanded the Megalithic Temples of Malta article, and I have done some tweaking and wikification to the other temple articles like Ħaġar Qim, Mnajdra, Ġgantija, Ta' Ħaġrat, Skorba etc. etc. is it possible for someone to make an assessment of the article/s as per WikiProject Malta? Thanks.

( P.S. I've also made a template-box for the main temples article, found here).

Reuv (talk) 15:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 72 Malta-related articles needing geographical coordinates

Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Malta, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Malta, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Malta articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:

1. Christ the Redeemer Church
2. Fort Saint Michael
3. Inquisitor's Palace
4. National Museum of Fine Arts (Malta)
5. Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Fontana
6. San Blas, Nadur
7. Spencer Monument

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 72 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?

By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?

The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)