Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Texas/Dallas–Fort Worth task force

WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth
a community collaboration about the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas (USA)
Started 16 May 2006

To increase participation

You need to put the banner up everywhere it might be relevant so that people know your project exists. I just now found out about it. Placing your banner on all the pages relating to your city, including buildings and residents, will definitely help you get the project known about. Also, I would strongly suggest that you place your project on the WikiPedia:List of WikiProjects. Badbilltucker 17:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

75080 Represent

Thanks for including us. If you'd like to expand your suburb history sections, I recommend going to your city library and asking for the local historian. I went to the Richardson Public Library and was able to attain access to a broom closet full of old photos and other historical artifacts -- they were very friendly and helped me determine which images were considered public domain (gov photos), etc. I'm now (for better or worse) scanning the entire archive and donating the digital images to the library and to the UNT Texas History Portal (another good source for North Texas history photos, many with Creative Commons licenses). --nathanbeach 16:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Project Membership

Is there a specific way/place to 'join' this project? Or is that not how it works? -- RedPoptarts 03:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

All you have to do is add your name to the member list! Just follow this link and add your name to the list using this syntax: # {{user2|RedPoptarts}}. You can also add {{User WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member. drumguy8800 C T 05:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Assessments?

I've noticed that the bot that updates the Assessments page hasn't run for 3 weeks. I added the template to Roger Staubach, but it has yet to appear on the page. Caknuck 20:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Dallas-Fort Worth articles by quality log and Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Dallas-Fort Worth articles by quality, its been added. Something like WP 1.0 Bot runs it now instead of Mathbot.. also be sure you're watching the Dallas-Fort Worth, not the Dallas assessment. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drumguy8800 (talk • contribs) 07:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC).

Oh. I get it. I fixed the Assessment page to show the DFW project instead of the Dallas project.. just hadn't been fixed to reflect the project move. drumguy8800 C T 07:16, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! The log shows the article, but the worklist doesn't. Does that need to be updated as well? Caknuck 07:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

That's what it was. I fixed it so the worklist is up-to-date now. Caknuck 07:41, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Articles on local charities

I would like to write an article on H.O.P.E Tutoring Center, an award-winning and locally notable Arlington literacy charity. However, I'm concerned that it might not qualify as notable by Wikipedia standards. What do you think? LoneStarDavid 01:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Graduates of Dallas ISD

I created a category last week for notable Category:Graduates of Dallas ISD. I also have been going through and adding notable alumni sections to the articles on the DISD high schools, where I can find notable alumni. Some of you may know of additional notable people whose articles don't yet mention the school from which they graduated, but for whom you are able to find published sources that document they graduated from that school; please make the addition in each relevant article — person, school, and adding to the category! One caution: While there is room within a high school's article to make a subsection for "Former students" to cover notables who attended that school but didn't graduate, it would not be appropriate to add them to the "Graduates" category. (A prominent example is Stevie Ray Vaughan, who went to J. F. Kimball High School but dropped out; another is Owen Wilson, who attended Thomas Jefferson High School after being kicked out of St. Mark's, eventually graduating from a military school out of state.) Thanks! Lawikitejana 07:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC), non-notable DISD graduate

A handy tip for researching if you live in Dallas!

Not everyone will be able to do this, but it will work for many: If you live in Dallas and have a Dallas Public Library card, you can sign on to http://www.dallaslibrary.org and use databases there that let you search The Dallas Morning News back to the 19th century, along with many other kinds of print resources. This can be handy when you're trying to source a detail about some Dallas person or neighborhood, etc. For those who don't live in Dallas, but do live in the U.S., your local library may have a similar program! Lawikitejana 18:07, 26 June 2007 (UTC) P.S. Be forewarned; it's addictive!

Tom Vandergriff rewrite, input requested

I drafted a rewrite of the Tom Vandergriff stub. Discussion here. I need some input before I copy it over the stub. davidwr (talk) 23:33, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I copied the draft over with minor changes. I still want input and an assessment. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 01:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

South Dallas

This is pitiful. South Dallas has a rich history and various notable places, as well as its own politics; the controversy over how that section of Dallas has historically been treated could make an article all by itself. There has been article after article in the DMN over the decades describing how all the industrial construction — and the attendant industrial waste — got dumped there over the years, the demographic differences, the politics, the tendency to vote as a bloc ... the schools are a story, too, and consist of far more than Madison and Lincoln. To say only "it's mostly black and is considered the poorest and most dangerous part of town" is inadequate and insulting; the statements to that effect need to be backed up with data, and the summary of the area needs to say far more than that 100% negative assessment. South Dallas Cultural Center, for example, needs an article of its own, and there could be articles or sections about notable South Dallas people, such as the artist Arthello Beck, and the many local politicians and businesspeople and professional athletes who originated or grew up in that part of town.

Be bold, you'll say — I'll do what I can, but the fact is that I'm a "North Dallas white girl" by background (speaking of which, just compare the North Dallas article to realize how we editors have shafted the South Dallas), and the history of South Dallas has been written largely by outsiders for outsiders. It'd be good if we could get a mixture of insights and info; the very subject unfortunately invites divisiveness and partisan editing, but that's life — it's better than the rude treatment it's getting in WP at the moment. Lawikitejana 14:31, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Southside Dallas

Hello,

I'd need some input from the locals on this merger proposal. Does a neighbourhood named "Southside" exist in Dallas? Or is it just a synonym for South Dallas? --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:53, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Ads and Newsletters

Do we have an ad? Do we have a newsletter? If not, we need to make them. Basketball110 02:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Template

Could someone from the project take a look at Template talk:WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth. It appears to be broken and is producing very bad code. See this use to see what its doing. Collectonian (talk) 23:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I second this request.(Mind meal (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC))

Newsletter again

Is there anyone who will volunteer to write April's newsletter? It needs to get done soon. Contact me, or list yourself below if you are interested. Basketball110 _{pick away...} 01:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Chapter proposal: Wikimedia Texas

I wonder if anyone is interested in creating a Wikimedia chapter serving the state of Texas. See: meta:Talk:Wikimedia_chapters#Chapter_proposal_-_Wikimedia_Texas WhisperToMe (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Dalworthington Gardens Article

I was reading about Arlington and happened to pop into the DWG article. I'll quote from the article:

"The town's northern border adjoins Pantego; both towns are completely surrounded by the city of Arlington. The town's borders are ambigious as to conceal the limits that the Dalworthington Gardens Police department can operate in, which has become notorious as one of the United States most prolific speed traps, including a questionable school zone operated during questionable hours, all in an effort to increase revenues for what some consider a corrupt police department and civil court system."

I made no changes to this, but thought I would bring it to the attention of the group. As a former resident of Arlington, I can attest that a drive through DWG is fraught with peril, but unless there are some citations, this entry should be removed. That being said, I'm sure there is a Star-Telegram article that talks about this (the notoriety, but I doubt seriously that someone can find an article that can verify this verbatim), but wouldn't you all agree that this detracts overall from what you are trying to do in creating a DFW community? --Txredcoat (talk) 21:58, 26 April 2008 (UTC)