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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Factory in the background. This may need to be addressed. Dissapointing to see it, though. Thanks, CarpD, 17:45, July 13, 2007 (UTC)

Active

Is this grop active ? Bewareofdog 00:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not really, but feel free to join anyways! :-) Tan | 39 00:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm here, if that counts. BJ^Talk 01:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We should do a Wiki happy hour for whoever is in Phoenix. That's assuming a lot of people in this project are from Phoenix. Tan | 39 01:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in the "Phoenix-area". BJ^Talk 01:12, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on Portal:Arizona and want to know if there is more than seven featured articles ? Bewareofdog 23:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not that we know about. BJ^Talk 23:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I worked on Portal:Arizona and finished . Wish there were more featured articles relating to Arizona. Bewareofdog 02:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also interested in Portal:Arizona. Hopefully, I'll make some contributions. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 07:55, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article on South Phoenix

When I was a boy growing up in Phoenix--1940s and 1950s--I believe South Phoenix was an independent city with its own mayor, manager, and council. I believe it joined Phoenix in the late or middle 1950s. I do not think the South Phoenix article mentions this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjcayer (talk • contribs) 06:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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North/Northwest Phoenix

North/Northwest Phoenix is a very interesting article, but I believe it should be chopped up into a North (or Northeast, although I like North) Phoenix and a Northwest Phoenix. Except for work, I rarely go west of the Union Hills. I really don't have time to chop it up myself, but I fully invite someone else to do it, if they do. wilkyisdashiznit 19:35, 10 July 2008

Members of Congress

I was working on the Gabrielle Giffords page and noticed the page is ranked "mid" in importance.

I believe all of Arizona's congressional delegation deserves a higher ranking than that. Who is in charge of reviewing this?--Utahredrock (talk) 22:33, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no one "in charge of reviewing", but if you look at various talk page histories you will notice a handful of people usually perform most of the work within any particular Wikiproject. As to the importance rating for this person within Project Arizona, in my opinion it appears to be a little high (probably due to Wikipedia:Recentism) but not inappropriate. This individual is a first term U.S. Representative with only minor measurable impact upon Arizona to date. Has she really had more impact on Arizona than people such as Wyatt Earp, Lute Olson, John Noble Goodwin, Fife Symington , Joe Arpaio, and Stewart Udall? If her political career continues then it is likely that her impact upon the state will increase, but Wikipedia should not be predicting this impact in advance.

A significant percentage of currently rated article do seem to be somewhat arbitrarily assessed. Instead of dealing with individual articles a better course of action may be to start a discussion on creating a set of criteria to be used by this project for determining importance ratings. --Allen3 ^talk 00:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I updated the talk headers for all of the congress members and rated them high (just did Joe Arpaio as well). This project isn't really active improving articles so it doesn't really matter much. BJ^Talk 00:56, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone from Arizona State University?

(And/or) feel like taking a picture of John Alcock (the animal behavior one)? I'll be your friend... Richard001 (talk) 07:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, his picture will be helpful. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 07:49, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1844 articles are assigned to this project, of which 365, or 19.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subscribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]