Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media

Opinion needed

Was the Courante published in the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (The Netherlands)" or in the "Dutch Republic (The Netherlands)"? See Talk:List of newspapers by establishment date#Which country? Gun Powder Ma (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Categorizing question

I've been working in fits and starts on The Advocate. It started as a newspaper and transitioned to (and is still published as) a magazine. Is there a guideline as to whether it should be categorized as both a newspaper and a magazine? Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 00:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Media articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Media articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:19, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge redundant media projects into taskforces/workgroups

There are too many media-related WikiProjects. Just for starters, WP:JOURN and WP:MAG should arguably merge into WP:WPMEDIA absent some really compelling reason not to. It's completely absurd that all three of these projects have banners at places like Talk:Sports Illustrated (and there are probably even worse examples, with 5 or more media-related project banners, for topic that span more than one medium).

I propose a merger, right now, of WP:JOURN into WP:WPMED as a task force a.k.a. work group, as it serves no real purpose being separate, and does nothing unique that I can see other than lead to more talk page clutter.

I also propose a serious discussion about merging, down the road, all the medium-specific projects into this one (WP:FILM, WP:MAG, WP:TV, etc.), for the sake of centralization and consistency, and again for reduction of talk page clutter.

— SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 01:01, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

C-SPAN improvement project

Because the TV channel C-SPAN falls under the scope of this WikiProject, I want to make an announcement, a disclosure and a request for assistance.

The announcement is that I am interested in updating and improving several articles and some non-article pages (such as categories) related to C-SPAN, its shows and related subjects.

The disclosure is that I work with C-SPAN's communications team, so I have a potential conflict of interest with the subject, and I've already posted a similar notice on the Conflict of interest/Noticeboard discussion page. Also: this is not my primary account, but one I plan to use for potential COI topics; I've posted a thorough explanation of this account's creation on my user page.

The request is for your assistance. I intend for any edits I make to be constructive, although with the exception of non-controversial edits, that can be in the eye of the beholder. I've found in my early outreach / requests for help only silence, so I am hoping to find someone willing to look over my shoulder, and provide a non-conflicted perspective. I'll watchlist this page, but also feel free to leave a comment on my Talk page.

First things first, the articles Q&A (talk show) and Q & A (C-SPAN) are about the exact same C-SPAN series. I've proposed a merger on the former's Talk page, and while I suppose it's as unobjectionable an edit as can be, demonstrating good faith is important to me as I get started. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 19:31, 11 October 2010 (UTC)