Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States

See also: Discusión del Wikiproyecto Estados Unidos (Español)

Greetings from GLAM-Wiki US

Invitation to join GLAM-Wiki US

tight Hello! This WikiProject aligns closely with the work of the GLAM-Wiki initiative (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), a global community of volunteers who assist cultural institutions with sharing resources with Wikimedia. GLAM-Wiki US is a new community initiative focused on organizing cultural collaborations within the United States. GLAM organizations are diverse and span numerous topics, from libraries and art museums to science centers and historic sites. We currently have a backlog of interested institutions- and we need your help! Are you interested in helping with current or future GLAM projects? Join→ Online Volunteers We hope you'll join the growing GLAM-Wiki community in the US. Thank you! -Lori Phillips (Talk), US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator For more information visit→ The GLAM:US portal or GLAM-Wiki on Outreach

— Preceding unsigned comment added by LoriLee (talk • contribs) 24 March 2012

Alben W. Barkley

An RFC on whether this article is too long and contains too many references has been opened. You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alben W. Barkley#RFC. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 13:36, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Portal idea: American film

Would anyone be interested in starting a Portal:American film or Portal:Film of the United States? The French have fr:Portail:Cinéma américain but the English Wikipedia doesn't have it yet. Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 17:02, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

"Film of the United States" would be better. "American film" has weird interpretations considering what is considered foreign and not at the Oscars. -- 70.24.247.66 (talk) 04:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Alright, so "Film of the United States" would be a good title :) WhisperToMe (talk) 13:42, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Got an email about this talk....I can make the portal ...but dont know the topic at all...would need a list of content to fill the portal with (hopefully GA and FA articles). Also would need the colors that would be used. small list of portals I have done - pick a style!Moxy (talk) 18:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm taking a break but wanted to comment. Thanks Moxy for the help as always. May I suggest using the same naming as is used for Portal:Television in the United States and call it Portal:Cinema in the United States or Portal:Film in the United States rather than of? I would also recommending linking the portal to the USFilm parameter in Template:WikiProject United States. Kumioko (talk) 19:25, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Americana

Some time ago I got the Americana page to a reasonable state of consistency by weeding out all the examples, relevant and otherwise, to provide a reasonable guide to what the term means and encompasses. This is quite an important topic with around 500 hits a day.

Now, an editor is adding what I consider to be unbalanced and misleading material, making a case for including what may be completely wrong examples, certainly not sufficiently typical or iconic. An obsession with Lana Del Rey and David Lynch seems to underpin this. If there are going to be examples they need to be carefully balanced and cover a reasonable range of relevant subjects.

Help needed to sort this out. ProfDEH (talk) 06:08, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Vandal goes to town on US census data.

Hi. this user - Valdezmcc has lately been adding unhelpful content to articles of the "[someone] is gay" variety. But more troubling is that he has gone to town - over the summer - on quite a number of locations in the US changing all sorts of demographic/census statistics. I think his contribs need to be gone through (or you could just decide to revert him all over, I guess). I didn't know what to do for the best and you seemed the obvious project to alert. --bodnotbod (talk) 15:15, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

New article on film One Hundred Years of Evil

• One Hundred Years of Evil

I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 01:29, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Card trick.jpg

file:Card trick.jpg has been nominated for deletion, I assume because it's not believed that this is a work of the US military? -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 08:02, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

New article on novel Donkey Punch

• Donkey Punch (novel)

I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 18:20, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

File:360px-Henry-E-Erwin.png

File:360px-Henry-E-Erwin.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 07:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American infobox representatives open nomination period

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Selection nominations. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:12, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Template:Z48

List of U.S. states and territories by area

List of U.S. states and territories by area is messed up, it lists multiple different values for the same measurement -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 13:33, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Source on US Christianity: Red State v. Blue State

Hi, guys! See:

• Blake, John. "Do you believe in a red state Jesus or a blue state Jesus?" CNN. Friday November 2, 2012.

Could be a good source to use WhisperToMe (talk) 23:05, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression at Articles for Improvement.

Dear members of the United States WikiProject. This notification is sent from the Articles for Improvement team to let you know that the article Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, which has been tagged as part of the project, has been selected to receive a community improvement. Users and members of the project that are willing to help, may do so in the article's entry on the Articles for Improvement page.

Regards. — ΛΧΣ21™ 05:33, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

New article: Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

New article, created, at Freedom for the Thought That We Hate. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 08:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Top Hat's GAR

Top Hat, an article that your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the good article reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. GamerPro64 16:10, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Election article names

Please see discussion at Talk:United States presidential election, 2012#Article name, to change ", 2012" to "of 2012". Apteva (talk) 22:56, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Copyright on images of historical markers

This is just a general FYI for anyone who might include a photo of an historical plaque on any article. I just ran across Commons:Deletion requests, which would indicate there is a copyright issue in play. These are not my images, and I have no idea who took most of them. However, there are a couple of west Texas ones I vaguely remember seeing, and thinking they were obviously somebody just playing tourist and snapping the photo. However, it's something to think about if an editor has any kind of marker photos posted on Wikipedia somewhere. — Maile (talk) 23:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

FLRC

I have nominated List of U.S. states and territories by population for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Arsenikk ^(talk) 20:48, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

USPLACE RFC notice

Which U.S. cities require disambiguation by state? Example: Atlantic City or Atlantic City, New Jersey?

See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)#RfC: US city_names. older ≠ wiser 01:27, 13 November 2012 (UTC)