Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States

US related pages lacking Template:WikiProject United States

I have compiled a list of several thousand US related pages that currently do not have Template:WikiProject United States. I have made every effort to exclude most of the other US projects and most of the links are red indicating there is no talk page and no banner of any kind. Many are redirects but there are also a lot that are not. Either way I think that these articles should be tagged with a project even if they are redirects so that someone can monitor for things like commments, redirects for deletion, etc. Here are links to the pages I have compiled so far:

• User:Kumioko/US articles needing banners (American)
• User:Kumioko/US articles needing banners (Lists)
• User:Kumioko/US articles needing banners (U.S.)
• User:Kumioko/US articles needing banners (United States)
• User:Kumioko/US articles needing banners (US)

I am also leaving these links on a couple of the more active projects to see if they want to account for them or if they want me to go ahead and throw them under this project. My question to all of you is, does anyone have any comments or concerns related to adding these articles to this project? I would like to get a bot setup to do this task in the next couple weeks if possible. --Kumioko (talk) 04:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

In addition to the above there are 517 new pages under Portal:United States that have not yet been tagged by the project. I previously tagged the others but these were created recently in order to get the portal to featured status. I would like to get these submitted in the next couple weeks so any commments would be greatly appreciated. --Kumioko (talk) 14:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Heya, it's possible for me to have a bot tag those pages as you also requested for portal talk! Petrb (talk) 18:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Asian American article scope

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#South Asian Americans are not considered Asian Americans. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:34, 28 March 2011 (UTC) (Using {{pls}})

United States Bill of Rights is a candidate for the U.S. Collaboration of the Month

The United States Bill of Rights article has been submitted as a possible candidate for the U.S. Collaboration of the Month. --Kumioko (talk) 16:20, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Soccer in the United States

Soccer in the United States has been requested to be renamed. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 04:47, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Requested task

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Petan-Bot_task_4 Petrb (talk) 17:19, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Just a note. The project already has all the other 1751 pages of the portal tagged as associated to the project so I submitted to have the other 500 or so tagged as well because they were recently created in an effort to get the portal to Featured status. --Kumioko (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Southwest Airlines Flight 812

The Southwest Airlines Flight 812 article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots (talk) 05:24, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Football in the United States

The usage of Football in the United States is under discussion, see Talk:Football in the United States

65.93.12.101 (talk) 17:54, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

This is currently a disambiguation page. American football is currently located at American football in the United States. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 02:57, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

April Newsletter for WikiProject United States

Archives The WikiProject United States Newsletter April 2011
Scope and Mission of WikiProject United States Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out WikiProject guidelines.	Articles of note This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States. New featured articles:  • U.S. Route 30 in Iowa  • 1950 Atlantic hurricane season  • History of the New York Jets  • Grand Coulee Dam  • Warren County, Indiana  • Morgan dollar  • Leslie Groves  • Luke P. Blackburn  • L. Ron Hubbard  • 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final  • USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente  • J. Robert Oppenheimer  • History of Sesame Street  • Kennedy half dollar  • Sacagawea dollar  • 2009 World Series New featured lists:  • Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album  • Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Album  • Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration  • Grammy Award for Best Rock Song  • Grammy Award for Best World Music Album  • List of Alabama Crimson Tide football head coaches  • List of Baltimore Orioles first-round draft picks  • List of Cincinnati Reds first-round draft picks  • List of Governors of Washington  • List of New England Patriots seasons  • List of New York Cosmos all-stars  • List of New York Cosmos seasons  • List of Oakland Athletics first-round draft picks  • List of Oakland Athletics managers  • List of Pittsburgh Pirates first-round draft picks  • List of Tampa Bay Lightning seasons  • List of WWE Divas Champions  • Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (E–F)  • Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster  • The Simpsons (season 13)  • U.S. state reptiles Project article statistics for March 31 2011 WikiProject United States assessment table Current statistics United States articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 11 74 203 809 10 1,107 FL 2 33 51 370 3 459 FM 1,156 1,156 A 3 30 57 1 91 GA 17 144 575 4,379 42 5,157 B 123 813 2,001 11,455 757 15,149 C 44 797 3,375 36,983 4 6,132 47,335 Start 7 810 6,799 151,324 32 19,922 178,894 Stub 123 2,123 149,724 67 9,188 161,225 List 3 162 1,060 12,833 206 2,086 16,350 Category 2 179 162,807 162,988 Disambig 1 28 1,667 1,696 File 15 25,466 25,481 Portal 3,044 3,044 Project 1 3 1,605 1,609 Redirect 40 216 5,292 43,080 48,628 Template 1 11 99 25,326 25,437 NA 1 3 95 123 222 Other 3 3 Draft 248 1,171 1,419 Assessed 207 3,002 16,450 373,893 265,754 38,144 697,450 Unassessed 1 1 324 13 7,820 8,159 Total 208 3,002 16,451 374,217 265,767 45,964 705,609 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 2,107,017 Ω = 5.15
Project news Since the last newsletter was sent there have been a number of significant discussions and events that pertained to the project and United States related articles in general. WikiProject American television has joined the family of WikiProjects that have agreed to share {{WikiProject United States}}. This project was started to improve Wikipedia's coverage of American television and the articles relating to that topic. If you are interested the project could use your help. There is an active discussion on the talk pages of WikiProject United States and WikiProject Government about the inactive project WikiProject United States Government being added to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. With the recent release of the 2010 US Census there have been multiple active conversations about how to update all the articles affected. If you have any ideas or want to help in this effort please leave your comments on the WikiProject United States talk page. The tagging of articles continues and we have added several thousand articles to the count since the last newsletter. We still have approximately 1300 articles in the project that need to be assessed so any help you can provide with assessments is greatly appreciated. Even 1 or 2 a day would be a big help. A bot request was submitted to tag the remaining 500 pages of Portal United States with the United States banner. The project already has over 1700 of the portal pages tagged so this would be just to finish off the remaining ones.
Portal Thanks to RichardF and a few others the United States portal is getting ever closer to achieving Featured portal status. The portal needs your help in filling in the Anniversaries (formerly known as On this day). Any help you can provide to help fill these dates in would be greatly appreciated. If you have any ideas or comments about the portal please feel free to leave them here.
Collaboration The collaboration for April 2011 is Chesapeake Bay The monthly collaboration is now in its third month since reactivation. The first article Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was improved significantly in February, as was George Washington (the second one) in March. Although the latter article was not nominated for GA, enough work was done for contributors to identify remaining content areas needing improving before an attempt is made, which is great progress. Thus anyone keen on reading up on Washington's role in the American Revolution and the presidency is most welcome to review and contribute. Magicpiano (talk · contribs) is planning on buffing material for the American Revolution segment by focussing on the daughter article, George Washington in the American Revolution first. Anyway, Chesapeake Bay is the new collaboration picked for April and anyone is welcome to work on it. For choosing new candidate articles for May and beyond, editors should think about articles which have a range of issues that a variety of editors can help with, from content (primary school to university level research) to copyediting. Having a look over current and past ideas (which can be seen here and here (even older ones). So folks have a think about which articles are in most in need of fixing, or alternately, have a clear pathway to GA or FA status.
Things you can help with Ideas for next months newsletter Help with the Anniversaries in the portal Help with the assessments Help with the Collaboration Comments in active discussions
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Get a bot?

Should we get a bot to deliver the newsletter? Seems like it'd be easier that way Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 02:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

You would think so and in principle I agree. The problem is that its such a long term hassle to get bot approval for even the most trivial task that for 200 users its just not worth it. Normally I can knock it out in an hour or less but today i had some computer troubles that caused it to drag out. Its all done now though. --Kumioko (talk) 02:19, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I'd be willing to help you get one approved. Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 03:23, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, its not so much a matter of needing help getting approved. I just didn't want to wait 2 or 3 months for the BAG to approve it. Unless you already have a bot approved or the task is a recurring one with thousands of articles or your a member of BAG its just not worth the hours of debate. The approval rate for new bots for members outside bag, especially AWB ones is extremely low. By the time the task got approved for one months newsletter we would be 2 months past it. They also seem to have a special dislike for AWB bots. There are a couple of newsletter bots already that we might be able to use though and your right that we should look into doing that for the next month. --Kumioko (talk) 12:46, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Kumioko alluded to existing newsletter bots -- EdwardsBot may be a good option. Instructions on how to use it are here: User:EdwardsBot/Instructions. Emw (talk) 12:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't work like that my bot is also already flagged but you need approval for task not account. Petrb (talk) 18:11, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

question about white house china collections

Hello. I'm trying to help someone represent their white house china collection, and was wondering if what I'm doing is within the scope of this project. Basically a private collector has amassed one of the largest white house china collections, and is looking to chronicle the history of how they were acquired and why they are important. Comments anyone? And please, comments like "go read this wikipedia article" are not helpful. I've already read and bookmarked many of the wikipedia guidelines. These items, among others in his collection, are of great historical significance (such as FDR's cape from World War II), beyond just their appraised monetary value.

Thanks 71.237.43.126 (talk) 16:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I personally don't have a problem with it as long as the article is written to Wikipedia guidlelines and there is sufficient documentation available to chronicle the history of the collection. Not including original research that is. I tend to agree that there is enough historical value to have the article though provided it meets those criteria. I would recommend starting by using the Article creation wizard. --Kumioko (talk) 16:48, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Navbox coloring

I would appreciate any comments at Template talk:Omaha#Orange. Thank you. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:17, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Asian American article Undue template discussion

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Undue tag. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC) (Using {{pls}})

Image:Battle of Los Angeles LATimes.jpg

File:Battle of Los Angeles LATimes.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 04:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)