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The article European mandatory age limits and related laws has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.
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File:EU-Agreements.svg
This map desperately needs an update. I can't find the uploader and can't really make sense of the grouping into categores. Something needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Either the map in question or the table here. --U5K0 (talk) 14:02, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{citation}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id= (or worse {{arxiv|0123.4567}}|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567, likewise for |id= and {{JSTOR|0123456789}}|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 → |jstor=0123456789.
The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
- {{cite journal |author=John Smith |year=2000 |title=How to Put Things into Other Things |journal=Journal of Foobar |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=3–4 |arxiv=0123456789 |asin=0123456789 |bibcode=0123456789 |doi=0123456789 |jfm=0123456789 |jstor=0123456789 |lccn=0123456789 |isbn=0123456789 |issn=0123456789 |mr=0123456789 |oclc=0123456789 |ol=0123456789 |osti=0123456789 |rfc=0123456789 |pmc=0123456789 |pmid=0123456789 |ssrn=0123456789 |zbl=0123456789 |id={{para|id|____}} }}
Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:47, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Europe articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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I've listed Portal:Portugal for demotion from featured status as it has not been updated properly for many years. If you'd like to join in the discussion or improve the portal to meet the Featured portal criteria, please do so. BencherliteTalk 17:40, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
The article European mandatory age limits and related laws has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.
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Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{citation}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id= (or worse {{arxiv|0123.4567}}|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567, likewise for |id= and {{JSTOR|0123456789}}|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 → |jstor=0123456789.
The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
- {{cite journal |author=John Smith |year=2000 |title=How to Put Things into Other Things |journal=Journal of Foobar |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=3–4 |arxiv=0123456789 |asin=0123456789 |bibcode=0123456789 |doi=0123456789 |jfm=0123456789 |jstor=0123456789 |lccn=0123456789 |isbn=0123456789 |issn=0123456789 |mr=0123456789 |oclc=0123456789 |ol=0123456789 |osti=0123456789 |rfc=0123456789 |pmc=0123456789 |pmid=0123456789 |ssrn=0123456789 |zbl=0123456789 |id={{para|id|____}} }}
Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:47, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Location maps
I worked on Location map Europe2 and got it to working with three of the {{Location map}} templates. So there are three map templates that know of:
–droll [chat] 23:04, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
History book
I have created a book on the history of Europe at Book:EuropeHistory. I was wondering if the project would be interested in helping out. - Presidentman (talk · contribs) (Talkback) Random Picture of the Day 21:38, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Rating articles
The lists of Top, High, Mid, etc importance articles is just plain ridiculous. Someone needs to rip through it and remove all the inflated gradings of the Space articles. Every Space development is rated as either a Top or High importance article.
The Top 100 popular music lists also need to be pushed down to the lower categories along with all the other competition lists.
Pan-European history, art and architecture articles need a place either in the Top or High section. Renaissance architecture, Romanesque architecture, and Gothic architecture were all pan-European.
Amandajm (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Asking for help
On the Wikipedia page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Croatia#Information it takes a while exhausting debate on the writing and writing at all of minority languages in articles about settlements in Croatia. Please if you have time, look at the page and try to help us in forming some kind of agreement. We will highly appreciate your effort.--MirkoS18 (talk) 22:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Perth requested-move notification
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A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:
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{{neweuc}}
Template:Neweuc has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.131.160 (talk) 22:42, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
France portal at FPR
Portal:France has been nominated for a featured portal review. During this review, editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the portal from featured status. Please leave your comments and help us to return the portal to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, portals may lose its status as featured portals. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. JJ98 (Talk / Contribs) 09:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Category move discussion
Recently a number of categories, including one related to this project, were moved without any discussion. The category related to this project is Category:European television navigational boxes, which was moved to Category:Europe television navigational boxes. The moves have been opposed and a new discussion is in progress at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 September 17#Television navigational boxes. --AussieLegend (talk) 17:35, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hungary anyone?
Is there a reason WikiProject Hungary is omitted from WikiProject Europe's list of child projects? Are any other countries missing? -Mabeenot (talk) 18:08, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
The sovereign-debt crisis
I posted a question at WT:EU#The sovereign-debt crisis. I was unsure which talk page would be more appropriate. Your feedback would be appreciated.
—Sowlos (talk) 19:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Portal:Geography at portal peer review
Portal:Geography is now up for portal peer review, the review page is at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Geography/archive1. I've put a bit of effort into this as part of a featured portal drive related to portals linked from the top-right corner of the Main Page, and feedback would be appreciated prior to featured portal candidacy. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 21:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Unifying introductory paragraphs on EU member state articles
I would like to propose that all articles pertaining to the 27 member states of the EU share a uniform introductory paragraph introducing all countries as, first and foremost, states of the European Union. Post Lisbon Treaty, the concept of fully independent and sovereign nation states in Europe is outdated when such major areas of public policy are now agreed upon at the European level, with much deeper integration due to arrive in the imminent future. The wikipedia definition of a sovereign state is as follows:
"A sovereign state is a political organization with a centralized government that has supreme independent authority over a geographic area. It has a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states. It is also normally understood to be a state which is neither dependent on nor subject to any other power or state"
It is, therefore, not only misleading but inaccurate to introduce the various countries as 'sovereign' or 'independent' as if they are not dependent upon or subject to the powers of the EU, considering the fact that should their national parliaments fail to incorporate EU law they face prosecution by the European Court of Justice. Wikipedia would do well to reflect this fact in the introductory paragraphs, preferably within the first few sentences. This would of course merely involve minor corrections to the intro paragraphs of 27 countries. Please discuss... Richie wright1980 (talk) 11:04, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- We have List of sovereign states#Criteria for inclusion, which specifies that countries declare themselves as sovereign states and are recognised as such by others. That applies to the countries within the EU. Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Portal:Geography for featured portal consideration
I've nominated Portal:Geography for featured portal candidacy, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Geography. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 21:25, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that WP:WikiProject Scandinavia redirects to WP:WikiProject European history, rather, shouldn't it redirect here? -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 21:51, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
- That would make sense, but both of these projects appear to be inactive at the moment. Don't expect a lot of replies. –Mabeenot (talk) 12:47, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Coat of Arms of Charlemagne.jpg
image:Coat of Arms of Charlemagne.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 07:14, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- That nomination appears to have been removed under a public domain justification. —Sowlos 09:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- The nomination was reinstated. -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 12:24, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
GAR
Ukraine, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 02:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
2 euro coin from 2007 reverse.jpg
image:2 euro coin from 2007 reverse.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:04, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
- It has been moved to commons -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:51, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
EuDrivingLicense-Slovenia-2010.jpg
image:EuDrivingLicense-Slovenia-2010.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:44, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Countries bordering the Baltic Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Countries bordering the Caspian Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:43, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
{{Latin Union}}
Template:Latin Union (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:51, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Official EU languages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:59, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Countries and territories of the Mediterranean Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:42, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
{{Baltic states}}
Template:Baltic states (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:47, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Countries bordering the Black Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:52, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Several European international organization templates are up for deletion
See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_30 where these are mass-nominated -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:43, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
- also Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_31 -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
egu logo.png
File:Egu logo.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 09:02, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a debate over a deletion proposal. All comments are welcome. Fakirbakir (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Popular pages tool update
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CfD discussion for societies and cultures
There is a discussion going on right now at WP:Categories for discussion that involves changing the category names for all cultures, from, for example, "Afghan society" to "Society of Afghanistan". I can see that next will be changing "German culture" to "Culture of Germany" and the like. This would be for all ethnicities, nationalities and cultures.
If you would like to weigh in, the conversation is occurring at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27#Society by country. Liz Read! Talk! 15:24, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 27/03
Draft:Czechia. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 01:59, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Leaflet for Wikiproject Europe at Wikimania 2014
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject X is live!
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Help with AIFMD?
Hi there, I'm hoping someone at WikiProject Europe might be interested in improving the article about an EU financial directive, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. There's a lot of information missing from the AIFMD article, and it generally lacks sources and could be made more clear, so I'm offering some suggestions to fix these issues.
As a quick disclosure: I'm working on behalf of the Managed Funds Association and due to that financial COI I won't make any direct edits to the article. Instead, I've proposed the updates on the Talk page here. If an editor active here is able to review and make the changes as they feel are appropriate, I'd be very grateful. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 11:54, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
- This project is for topics that are not primarily concerned with the EU, so the appropriate talk page is probably Wikipedia talk:WikiProject European Union. --Boson (talk) 17:23, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The European Language Certificates listed at Requested moves
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Dividing Europe
The need to divide Europe into large trans-national parts arises in many contexts, leading to various ad-hoc terms. Since these terms exist, we have articles on them, but in most cases it's not clear what, precisely, the articles are supposed to be about. I have looked at the situation, and some of these articles are in a really bad state.
Some regions are relatively well defined and not (very) problematic:
- Alpine states – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Slovenia. Also Germany, France, Italy, Monaco.
- Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia. Sometimes also included: Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey.
- Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
- Benelux – Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
- British Isles – United Kingdom and Ireland.
- Celtic nations – Ireland plus parts of UK and France.
- Iberian Peninsula – Portugal and Spain.
- Latin Europe – Essentially Portugal, Spain, France, Italy.
- Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. (Also Greenland.)
- Scandinavia – Denmark, Norway, Sweden. (Article also says Finland is sometimes included.)
- Slavic Europe – Countries with Slavic languages.
- Romance-speaking Europe – Andorra, France, Italy, Moldova, Monaco, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Spain, Vatican.
- Visegrád countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia.
The reason why I started looking at this is the sad state of the following, which for some reason is on my watchlist:
- Germanic Europe – Gives a sloppy OR definition related to "Germanic culture".
But as soon as you add a compass direction to "Europe", it gets incredibly messy:
- Northern Europe – Uses an internal UN Cold War era definition (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, UK).
- Western Europe – Uses the Cold War era political definition (Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece[!], Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Vatican) but also highlights the UN definition (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Switzerland).
- Southern Europe – Simply lists the several definitions (Geographical, UN, climatical, phytogeographical, linguistic).
- Eastern Europe – Explains that the term is extremely volatile, then lists various definitions (UN, CIA World Factbook, geographical, political/cultural), in most cases without saying in detail which countries they cover.
- Central Europe – The article lists states that are normally included (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland) and states that are sometimes included in part. It also lists the UN definition (as before + Croatia, Luxembourg, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).
- Mitteleuropa – Apparently a content fork under the German name.
- Northwest Europe – Gives a geographic and a linguistic definition. Also a Canadian/British definition from military history.
- Southwest Europe – Redirects to Iberian Peninsula.
- Northeast Europe – Redlink. (And I am not asking for this to change, at least not without discussion!)
- Southeast Europe – Initially defines it as a recent term for the Balkans, but proceeds to give several different definitions.
- Central and Eastern Europe – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria. Political term for ex-communist countries that are not CIS members.
- East-Central Europe – Essentially the same thing.
Given the problems with the latter block of articles, I wonder if we can't simply merge them all (or almost all) into Regions of Europe. Any other ideas what to do with this mess? Hans Adler 23:47, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
File:EU-Agreements.svg
This map desperately needs an update. I can't find the uploader and can't really make sense of the grouping into categores. Something needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Either the map in question or the table here. --U5K0 (talk) 14:02, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
List of sovereign states in Europe by GDP (PPP) per capita
The above article has been renamed from "List of countries in Europe by GDP (PPP) per capita" along with the others in the "group". However, none of the cross links have been changed from "country" to "sovereign state" which makes it a complete mess. Trouble is I am not certain if I should be putting a rename tag on the articles, or should be re-writing the links so the whole thing is correct. My opinion is with the former, but I thought I'd get a second or third opinion before I act. Any ideas? Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 11:44, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Antisemitism
Why does anti-semitism have its own entry on the Europe portal category tree when it should be under the already present racism category? Is antisemitism different from other forms of racism? Totally new to this, tried to fix it, got lost in the quagmire, gave up and decided to post here, most probably the wrong place..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.139.17.60 (talk) 15:12, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
{{Europe topic|Symbols of}}
Since there are many articles sources that use the Template type {{Culture of England}}, in which it is linked "National symbol of", it's more that it is changing this single template, with a link to "National symbol of" and not "Symbol of" as it is now. Someone is able to make this change? --Kasper2006 (talk) 06:23, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
European Bananas
The Blue Banana and Golden Banana seem to overlap. Is there an overview article on this, similar to Megaregions of the United States ? -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 03:37, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi all
A discussion has started due to recent edits that have been challenged.
Would any interested parties please join the discussion.
Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 14:46, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Deletion of "Human trafficking in [..]"
There are several articles about Human trafficing in various European Countries, which are just a direct copy of some U.S. goverment report. All articles (I checked) mentioned these problem as unresolved since 2010. I therefore think a deletion of most of them is appropriate. Since I am no Wikipedia author I was unsure whether these articles are suitable for a speedy deletion, proposed deletion or regular one, I am just mentioning it here in the hope somebody more knowledgeable will know what to do.
The articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Human+trafficking+in+Germany — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.76.47.115 (talk) 09:23, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Duplicated list of presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
There are duplicate lists at Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe#Presidents and List of Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I've started a discussion at talk:Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe#List of presidents to determine whether it is best to have a stand alone list or a section. As that page doesn't seem highly watched I'm advertising the discussion here. Thryduulf (talk) 17:48, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
THE UN about the Statistical division geoscheme
Seeing all the spats about European sub-divisions (Europe is quite small for dividing!), I have decided to contact the UN and as what they think abou the fact that their geoscheme is so extensively used on Wiki. This is what I received:
Dear xxxxx,
Thank you for your email.
The geographical groupings used by the United Nations Statistics Division follow the M49 Standard for Area Codes for Statistical use, details of which can be found here: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm
The designations employed and the presentation of material at this site do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations.
"Regions" are so drawn as to obtain greater homogeneity in sizes of population, demographic circumstances and accuracy of demographic statistics (another example is Russia -- it is in the continent of Asia but it belongs in the Eastern Europe "region"). This nomenclature is widely used in international statistics but it is by no means universal.
I hope this is useful.
Best regards,
The UN Demographic Yearbook Team.
It seems Wikipedia abuses the geoscheme, while there is actually an openly proposed geoscheme by the Geographical sub-division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/23-gegn/wp/gegn23wp48.pdf --131.251.133.25 (talk) 11:50, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
"Holocaust" OR "The Holocaust"
Recently, the article that was titled The Holocaust was changed to Holocaust with relatively little input. Please see the follow-up discussion at Talk:Holocaust#Follow-up discussion about a hasty decision and please contribute your views. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 07:35, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Eurocup (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Eurocup Basketball -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:24, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
RfC - Galicia (Eastern Europe) title
I have opened a Request for Comments here, regarding the disputed title of the article. There is no consensus regarding it's title and the lead section of the article remains in conflict with the title.
Any comments are welcome. --hmich176 00:53, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Migration of EU legislation site
According to this page:
We are migrating the content of this website during the first semester of 2014 into the new EUR-Lex web-portal. We apologise if some content is out of date before the migration. We will publish all updates and corrections in the new version of the portal.
Someone may wish to investigate the impact for out projects of this move. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:19, 8 June 2014 (UTC).
FYI, the usage of "Brown Carpathian" and "Brown Caucasian" is up for discussion, see Talk:Anglo-Nubian -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 05:43, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
13th Street Universal listed at Requested moves
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RFC on Eurofighter Typhoon
A Request for Comments is in progress at Eurofighter Typhoon as to whether to include a paragraph comparing the radar cross-section of this aircraft to the Dassault Rafale. Please participate in the RFC if you are interested. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Help resolve an edit war?
Hello! There is a slow-motion edit war going on at the article Largest cities in Europe. The issue is how to count the population of Istanbul: whether to count the population of the entire city, or only the population on the European side of the city. Any input at Talk:Largest cities in Europe to help resolve this edit war or develop consensus would be appreciated. Bragging rights are involved, since Istanbul is the largest city in Europe counting both the European and Asian sides, and the second-largest counting only the European side. (Note that this page uses the population within city limits, not the metropolitan area.) I have full-protected the article for 24 hours hoping this can be resolved without anyone getting blocked. Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 19:00, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- This has now been converted into a Request for Comment. The question is, "In articles which rank European cities or countries in order by population or area, should the entire city or country be counted, or only the portion which is in Europe?" The discussion is at Talk:List of European cities by population. Any input would be appreciated. --MelanieN (talk) 15:22, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
"Eurogame"
The usage and primary topic of Eurogame is under discussion, see talk:German-style board game -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 04:28, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Talk:Ministry of Defense of Georgia#Requested move 30 May 2016 - Please see this requested move which relates to the official name of the Ministry (WP:NC-GAL) vs WP:RETAIN AusLondonder (talk) 22:30, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings WikiProject Europe/Archive 5 Members!
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Missing topics list
My list of missing articles about places in Europe is updated - Skysmith (talk) 20:33, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Project scope and organization
Hello everyone! I have a question about the scope and organization of WikiProject Europe, and I'm asking out of curiosity. While analyzing statistics for some of the WikiProjects, I noticed that the number of articles within the scope of WikiProject Europe and WikiProject Africa are very different. From what I can tell this is partly due to how they are organized, WikiProject Europe appears to only be concerned about articles that cover "pan-European/cross-border" topics, whereas WikiProject Africa appears to be an umbrella project covering articles about any African topic (while at the same time also tagging relevant country-specific WikiProjects where applicable). I'm not saying either of those is better than the other, I just found the difference in approaches interesting and wanted to reach out to see if this is something that has been discussed and what some of the reasons were behind choosing the approach WikiProject Europe has?
I've dug into the archives of this talk page, but didn't find much of use there, which is why I'm posting. Curious to learn more. Regards, Nettrom (talk) 23:47, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/Archive 5/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Europe.
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Merger discussion for United States of Europe
An article that you have been involved in editing—United States of Europe—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Oldag07 (talk) 15:36, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Culture of Europe
Several people have clearly worked hard on the Culture of Europe article, but it's not in a great state. Most sections consist of either long lists of persons relevant to the topic or links to other articles, with little sense of overarching theme or context. Efforts to improve the article are going to be difficult, as I doubt anyone is an competent in every topic covered, but at the very least it could be consistently formatted and efforts made to provide a basic overview. That should leave it in a better state for when experts do come along. Some kind of consensus on how detailed the article should be would also be beneficial. Any comment is appreciated. A.D.Hope (talk) 01:54, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Categories of ancient periods (up to 500 CE) by continent have been nominated for discussion
Category:107 disestablishments in Europe and many similar categories have been nominated for possible upmerging. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
RfC about Cold War II's "EU/NATO vs Russia" section
I started an RfC discussion at Talk:Cold War II about "EU and NATO members vs. Russia" section. I invite you to discuss it there. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 14:15, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Communes or Municipalities
Please comment on the word to be used in Wikipedia articles and page names for Luxembourg, at Talk:Communes of Luxembourg. A WP:SPA has been pushing changes through – probably a sock of a blocked user – but these are now under review. – Fayenatic London 11:30, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Ending the system of portals
Hello, there's a proposal to delete all Wikipedia portals. Please see the discussion here. --NaBUru38 (talk) 14:03, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
There is a discussion here which may be of interest to members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
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So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
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Thank you. — The Transhumanist 07:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Cyrillic advice merge
Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Merge the Cyrillic advice to one guideline
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 07:03, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
Expert attention
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Discussion of Wiwibloggs and Eurovix on the reliable sources noticeboard
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A new newsletter directory is out!
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Nomination of Portal:European Space Agency for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:European Space Agency is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Nomination of Portal:Armenia for deletion
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Minority Languages in Country Article Infobox (Serbia)
Hello, I guess that some of you may be interested to express your opinion on RfC if the country infobox (Serbia in this case) should contain "Recognised regional or minority languages" or should they be removed. The RfC can be seen on THIS LINK. Best regards and thank you for your contribution.--MirkoS18 (talk) 21:41, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
WP:Articles for Creation has a new sort tool, you can see all pending relevant drafts here: Wikipedia:AfC sorting/Geography/Regions/Europe
Just in case there are folks here who might be interested in reviewing drafts awaiting article status that are particular to this WikiProject. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:18, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Category:Demographics of the Western Balkans has been nominated for discussion
Category:Demographics of the Western Balkans has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 14:58, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Europe portal
Portal:Europe had not been updated with new content for quite some time, so I have expanded it. A detailed summary of updates that were performed exists at Portal talk:Europe § Portal updates. Feel free to post comments about the portal there, if desired.
Also, below this section on the talk page is a proposal, titled Proposal to include GA-class articles in the portal. North America1000 10:44, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Capitalization of the Netherlands
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:The Netherlands#Capitalization of "the". Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:34, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Kosovo move discussions
Hello, everybody. There are ongoing, relisted move discussions of several Kosovo-related articles(Vucitrn, Pec, Malisevo). Unfortunately, almost no editors have participated in those discussions since they were relisted. Maybe members of this wikiproject could contribute and provide new perspectives.--Maleschreiber (talk) 00:13, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Europe#A very minor content dispute
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Europe#A very minor content dispute. Generalrelative (talk) 03:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Mir, ISS and Gateway task force. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 18:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
FAR for Belarus
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RFC on whether Ottoman capital city should be referred to as "Constantinople" or "Istanbul"
Please see this request for comment on whether Ottoman capital city should be referred to as "Constantinople" or "Istanbul": Talk:History_of_Istanbul#Should_the_name_"Istanbul"_be_used_for_the_Ottoman_city_instead_of_"Constantinople"? WhisperToMe (talk) 15:08, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
If you have an opinion, please join. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:47, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
FAR for Flag of Portugal
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Requested move at Talk:List of cities by country that have stolpersteine#Requested move 19 August 2021
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of cities by country that have stolpersteine#Requested move 19 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 02:06, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Article title input requested
An editor has requested for Early European modern humans to be moved to Upper Palaeolithic Europe. Since you had some involvement with Early European modern humans, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Note that the page was already moved, however the discussion has been reopened as the result of a move review. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:01, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
"Zangezur Corridor" deletion
There is an interesting discussion on deletion of Zangezur Corridor article, relevant to Armenia-Azerbaijan topic. Members of this Wikiproject are very welcome to participate in the constructive discussion and diversify it. Thanks. --Armatura (talk) 14:15, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Most viewed stub in this Wikiproject
Europe, the Middle East and Africa 16,944 564 Stub--Coin945 (talk) 14:31, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
College towns/ University towns
I have been watching the article List of college towns for over a year, and I notice there seems to be no agreement over the meaning of a college town. It seems to be mostly applied to the United States, but this may be because only in the United States are the words "college" and "university" mostly synonymous. On the other hand, maybe a town "dominated by its student population" is a mostly American phenomenon, because from the little I know of the topic, most early European universities were built in major cities.
You can see that on Talk:List of college towns, many people have been pointing out inappropriate list items. For example, Paris was previously included, and it's certainly not dominated by university activities. Then we have Category:University towns and its subcategories. This needs to be better defined, particularly in regards to Europe. It's possible that "university town" has a different meaning in Europe than "college town" in the United States, although I'm not sure. Maybe it would be better to split the American/Canadian college towns into their own article. But the city of Cambridge does seem to meet American standards for a college town. It may be that the category(s) won't match the list article(s), but we need to make the meaning of both clearer.
Notifying members in the previous CfD discussion for the category, as well as creators of categories: @Dystopos, Bearcat, Dennis Bratland, Marcocapelle, Markvs88, Bduke, Peterkingiron, Thincat, Carlossuarez46, BrownHairedGirl, Jc37, Robby, and GilesMartin1945: —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 16:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- Some local knowledge here. In the Netherlands, Wageningen and Kampen have a very high percentage of students because they are only small towns. But these two towns in isolation are not specifically known as "college towns" or "university towns". The latter terms apply to just every town or city that has a university. That is also what the list is based on. I notice that Groningen, Leiden and Maastricht are in the Dutch category which basically means that the category has been randomly populated. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:57, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- The only nearby place that I know that is really defined by its university is Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium which was built with the purpose to accomodate the university. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:09, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- The usage is definitely problematic — I can only speak with any particular expertise to the Canada section of the list, but it includes entirely too many places that aren't "university/college towns" as that term is generally defined, but are merely "places that happen to have a university or college". My own hometown of Sudbury, for instance, is included in the list — but while it certainly has post-secondary institutions, those aren't its central raison d'être and can't be said to exert an outsize influence on the city's overall culture or economy. And although they aren't still there now, the talk page purports that the list previously included Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver, which again certainly have post-secondary institutions but aren't dominated by them to the extent needed to be defined as "university towns". I can't speak to Europe with the same expertise about what is or isn't a "university town", but I can confirm that at least in Canada, what OP describes is definitely happening, to such an extent that I've had to completely strip the Canadian section from that list pending the use of proper reliable sources to actually support inclusion. The Canadian category isn't as bad, but instead is populated by a much more limited selection of entries that I can mostly defend, but the sibling categories for other countries are definitely being used more problematically (e.g. the one for Germany is including Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, and the UK one includes London.) Bearcat (talk) 17:45, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- The article College town is in poor shape, with few references and little attempt to explain how the term has developed and how usage varies by country. Sure, the concept exists, but understandings of it are too variable and subjective to form the basis of a viable category (see WP:SUBJECTIVECAT). In Ireland, there are not many universities, but there is divergence between the List of college towns#Ireland and the Category:University towns in Ireland. On a narrow definition, the only "university towns" on the island of Ireland are Maynooth and possibly Coleraine, but the category even includes Dublin, which is not dominated by its universities.
So I am reasonably persuaded that the only solution is to delete the categories per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. However, I suggest that the best path would be to start with an RFC, to ensure that there is time to hear all views. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:42, 7 June 2021 (UTC)- He nominated the category for deletion: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_June_7#Category:University_towns. —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 13:29, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
- For whatever it's worth, to speak to my own knowledge regarding towns in Alabama, I'd remove all of the ones listed in the article except for Auburn and Tuskegee. Tuscaloosa and some others are certainly dominated (economically and demographically) by their universities, but they also have significant histories and economic activities not related their universities. The subheadings for "Arkadelphia" and "Southside" in Birmingham make no sense as they are not towns. --Dystopos (talk) 17:11, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Monegasque / Monégasque
There are some article titles with the spelling "Monégasque" (here) and some with the spelling "Monegasque" (without the diacritic) (here). All categories use the latter spelling (here). Both spellings are in general use, but the article on the Monégasque language consistently uses the diacritic. I would suggest to move the pages so as to consistenly use the diacritic, but I wanted to get your views first since this would be quite a large number of moves. Joriki (talk) 06:11, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
- I support this proposal. We have the technology to easily use diacritics, so we should use it. Moves would create redirects from titles without diacritics, so there is no loss of functionality by doing this. Mjroots (talk) 06:21, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:List of cities by country that have stolpersteine#Requested move 19 August 2021
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of cities by country that have stolpersteine#Requested move 19 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 02:06, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Question about Balkan portal
Hello, I am not really sure how to start this queestion on this talk page off as I am new here. But, I wanted to ask, would the prospect of a Balkans portal be possible sometime in the distant future? I noticed there was a request for it. If it would be alright to start, I would certainly be excited to help as much as I could. Lararuzic (talk) 00:02, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Discussion regarding GEONet Names Server (GNS) at RSN
See here. Site is used as a source in about 43,000 articles related to various geographical locations world-wide, including in Europe. FOARP (talk) 09:45, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
Ukraine
Think we should work on this article together Ukraine ...needs lots of care. As of now its full of unsourced info and full of excerpts that dont allow us to monitor changes to the article and has many subpart references we normally dont use in country articles. Best get as many eyes on this considering whats going on.--Moxy-
17:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Balkan Latinity WikiProject
Hello, I've been thinking for a while of an idea for a new and certainly needed WikiProject. The Aromanians/Vlachs, Megleno-Romanians/Meglenites and Istro-Romanians/Ćiribirci are poorly known peoples in the Balkans, the only ones that are Romance-speaking apart of the Romanians. Tagging pages related to these with WikiProject templates can turn problematic, see this talk page for example [1], saturated with 7 different templates. I was thus thinking that giving them their own WikiProject could increase organization on Wikipedia about info on these peoples and increase their representation in the project, perhaps even attracting members of these groups into working at Wikipedia. The project could be split into three task forces for each of the three.
If you're interested, please ping me here or message me on my talk page. Expressing your interest in the existence of such a project is enough, you will not be compromised or pressured into working in a topic area you might lose interest to soon. After (if) I recruit enough support, I will start a formal proposal and ping you there. Regards, Super Ψ Dro 20:57, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
European Union
The European Union article has been thoroughly rearranged over the last week and discussion is currently ongoing at Talk:European Union about whether those changes have improved the article. It would be helpful if members of your wiki project could contribute. For reference, is the version of the article from before the recent changes. Furius (talk) 10:44, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
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GAR of Croatia
Croatia has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Artem.G (talk) 19:03, 16 January 2023 (UTC)