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Please note that no shortcut currently exists, since the abbreviation WP:LA directs to Wikipedia's List of Administrators. If anyone out there has suggestions for a shortcut for WikiProject Louisiana, please feel free to add it. — ArkansasTraveler 17:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shortcuts have now been created. — ArkansasTraveler 16:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Louisiana-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/LouisianaSearchResult. Colchicum 14:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the Battle of Raymond page on the WikiProject Louisiana list? - Tony Gunter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.106.100 (talk) 21:13, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

It was misidentified. I just added it to Mississippi wikiproject and removed it from Louisiana wikiproject. -- doncram (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana is an article in progress that could use help! Pick any of the 53 listed NHLs, and develop its article, or help in the main list-table article. Photos needed! -- doncram (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal

I have added a basic Portal:Louisiana and added it to the directory. Feel free to make any improvements. Arundhati lejeune 00:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Loogaroo and Vampire

G'day all, a couple of us are working up vampire to FAC, and there's a stubby bit on loogaroo mentioned. I was wondering if anyone had a book on lousiaina folklore which mentions them which could work as an inline ref. Also it'd be good to expand teh article at loogaroo too. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Honey Island Swamp monster

I've just created the above article, but the only sources I could use were online (I live slightly outside the area!) Are there any Louisianans who could improve the article with local books or press articles? Also, I was unable to find an appropriate Louisiana-based category for it (there's no "Folklore of Louisiana" category, rather disappointingly). Perhaps someone could help with that? Thanks, Totnesmartin 18:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

8 Louisiana-related AfDs currently underway

Editor Billy Hathorn has been a prolific creator of biographies of lesser-known Louisiana political figures. Many of these articles have been deleted on grounds of notability. At issue has been the availability of references that meet the requirements of our Notability Guideline for Biographies. Additionally, many have cited Mr. Hathorn's master's thesis, which raises issues relating to our Original Research Policy and our Conflict of Interest Guideline. Complicating everything is the shortage of online references for politicans of 50 to 80 years ago; paper is just as acceptable per our Reliable Sources and Verifiability rules, but it is so much easier in AfDs to quickly verify notability for current newsmakers that are discussed online.

Here's the current crop of Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussions; your input pro or con is invited:

A concise summary of all of the Louisiana AfDs underway can be found at

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Louisiana

If you put that page on your watchlist, you'll automatically learn of new AfDs as they're added to the list.

More general discussions of Mr. Hathorn's articles can be found at:

User talk:Billy Hathorn
- Includes deletion notices for many more of his articles
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive114#User:Billy Hathorn
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Billy Hathorn

It would be good if we can somehow use this prolific body of work while staying within our content guidelines.
--A. B. ^(talk) 00:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Governors taken care of

The WikiProject Louisiana banner has now been added to all of the Louisiana Governor talk pages. Sf46 (talk) 02:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Census Charts added

Census charts added to parish pages. Sf46 (talk) 10:06, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Youngsville named after physician, not meaning "young village'"

Information posted in your article on Youngsville, as well as information on the town's official website is erroneous. Youngsville was so named after Dr Roy O. Young. It was named to mean "young village."

Joey Langlinais President Youngsville Historical Society —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.154.149.226 (talk) 21:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Camille GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" articles. I have reviewed Hurricane Camille and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article along with other WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 23:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Poverty Point - Image Request

Hi, would someone of you have images from Poverty Point State Historic Site? We could really need pictures of the mound(s), the rings as seen from the ground, and particularly of artifacts from the exhibition in the visitor center. Or does someone have contacts to the site administration or the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and get them to release some pictures? Or would someone be from the north east of the state and looking for ideas how to spend tomorrow or next weekend? --h-stt !? 15:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POV placement of pictures

I noticed this image gallery called "High School Views" placed in the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools article [1] - 1. How do we know that these images are of the high school? and 2. Why only have images of them? - This looks like obvious POV so the whole gallery will go. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need 2 volunteers

User:Steelbeard1 has said that the citation links to the specualted candidates on Louisiana's 6th congressional district special election, 2008 have become stale... I have checked the links twice and verified them but I need 1 or 2 other wikipedians to click on the links citing David Boneno, Hunter Greene, Chas Roemer, Jeff Taylor, & Mike Walker as potential candidates and then post a messae to Talk:Louisiana's 6th congressional district special election, 2008 specifically naming those five names as being cited. This will keep steelbeard from removing th enames once they actrualyy do become stale. Thanks.--Dr who1975 (talk) 02:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 20:54, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grapico

I just posted a detailed article on Grapico that you might find interesting. Best. Bebestbe (talk) 07:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1636 articles are assigned to this project, of which 223, or 13.6%, 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. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:42, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Louisiana State Senate...

...is a stub and needs to be cleaned up a bit. Thanks for any help. OtherAJ (talk) 20:17, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Radio Program on Swamp Pop

You should listen to the episode of radio program "The Beat Goes On" on Swamp Pop posted on The Public Radio Exchange. Here's a link to a version of the article from August, 2007. I couldn't find any credit given to Wikipedia or the authors, even though the article and the program's narrative are similar. Were you involved with this program? Dextex (talk) 17:35, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Gustav

Wikinews is covering Hurricane Gustav and we could use some help. Please see n:Hurricane Gustav batters Caribbean, threatens US Gulf Coast. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 22:40, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Louisiana

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Louisiana articles needing geographic coordinates

194 articles in Category:Louisiana articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Louisiana is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:07, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of City portals

Portal:Shreveport and Portal:Baton Rouge, Louisiana are up for deletion at WP:Mfd (Shreveport & Baton Rouge, Louisiana). The project's input would be welcome. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 07:15, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a good idea. Louisiana and New Orleans portals should be sufficient. In general, the city portals are unevenly represented, e.g. Lancaster, PA and Cumberland, MA have them, but Los Angeles and Miami don't. --Kkmurray (talk) 02:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LA house of reps members page

the house of reps page is in need of a major update as well as the template that goes with it

for a full list of everything that is i notice see Talk:Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Loosecannon93 (talk) 04:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Probably a good idea. Louisiana and New Orleans portals should be sufficient. In general, the [[:Category:United States portals by city|city portals]] are unevenly represented, e.g. Lancaster, PA and Cumberland, MA have them, but Los Angeles and Miami don't. --[[User:Kkmurray|Kkmurray]] ([[User talk:Kkmurray|talk]]) 02:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
-== LA house of reps ==
+== LA house of reps members page==
 the house of reps page is in need of a major update as well as the template that goes with it