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Hello. When people are listed in categories, they are typically listed under their last name, not their given name. To accomplish this, when adding a category, for example, Category:XYZ, to an article, for example, "John Smith", add Category:XYZ|Smith, John rather than simply Category:XYZ. This means that John Smith will be listed under "S" rather than "J" in the category. Thanks. McPhail 13:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I'm just going by the Wikipedia guidelines, which state that "sorting by last name is preferable". This is the approved means of categorisation within Wikipedia. You aren't obliged to follow this guideline, though. Thanks. McPhail 18:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I made the following changes to the Prince Albert Raiders article:
Standardized the season standings chart to the same format used for teams in the Canadian Hockey League.
Aligned the NHL Alumni colums.
Removed the following players from the NHL alumni. I know many of them are drafted by NHL teams, but I cannot find a record that they have played in the NHL. If they have played in the NHL, let me know what teams they played on. Thanks. Flibirigit 01:53, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Sherwood Park, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please find and add a reliable citation to your recent edit so we can verify your work. Uncited information may be removed at any time. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing! The article on Hitchcock says he was born in Edmonton, not Sherwood Park. --Yamla 20:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You said:
"Sherwood Park could be considered part of Edmonton even though it is still considered a hamlet and city due to it's size."
Yeap, it's quite likely. But a citation would be appreciated before adding Hitchcock's name. That said, if you are absolutely sure that he was born in Sherwood Park instead of in Edmonton, please do feel free to change the Sherwood Park article and even his article. I won't revert you again. Please be sure that he was born in Sherwood Park, though, rather than just living for a few years there. Also, for future note, please leave messages on my talk page, not my talk archive page. Finally, please do not remove my comments from this page. You can move them to the archive or leave them, please. Have a good day and a good weekend! --Yamla 21:02, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks for satisfying my pedantic desire for a citation! --Yamla 22:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is considered vandalism to remove other people's comments from this page. I already pointed this out to you. Please stop doing this. --Yamla 21:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies. I see you are moving them to the archive. Please ignore my comments above. --Yamla 21:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I noticed that you have identified yourself as an Anglican, and so I thought that you may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand articles related to Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion! Cheers! Fishhead64 23:43, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately I cannot delete the page you requested due to the fact that it has a revision history and you are not the creator of the page. If you want the page Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling roster deleted you need to follow either the WP:PROD or WP:AFD processes. 23skidoo 12:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the late response but I was on Wikibreak. About the ECCW roster, I personally made that article a redirect after a discussion I had to make it a redirect to the List of Independent circuit wrestlers. If I remember correctly, I think I took all promotion rosters that was not one of the major promotions like WWE, TNA, etc. I merged them into the article for Independent wrestlers. I don't think the ECCW article existed yet when this happened.
I have removed the prod tag and redid the redirect. I would redirect to the category roster, but since cross-namespace redirects are frowned upon, I wont. And since it's a semi-useful redirect to the list of wrestlers and it has a reversion history, I ain't putting it AFD. — The Kingof Kings 19:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry but I can't undelete an article that has gone through the Articles for Deletion process. It was listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top 99 of... on June 20 and you can see the results. Three is no requirement that article creators be notified when one of their articles are up for deletion; you need to make sure the article is on your watchlist and keep an eye out for these things. If you really want to challenge the deletion (incidentally I would have voted for deletion as well), you can state your case at Wikipedia:Deletion review. 23skidoo 21:11, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't add copyrighted text to Wikipedia[edit]
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your creation of the article, Lumière, but we cannot accept copyrighted text borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems for more information on this topic, or generally, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines. Please do not remove the copyright violation notice placed in the article or repost the suspected infringing text. However, if you would like to rewrite the article in your own words, follow the link in the posted notice to create a temporary subpage. If your new article is appropriate, and not a further copyright violation, the reviewing administrator will move that new article into place once the copyright status of the original has been resolved. Happy editing! Baseball,Baby!take a swing 17:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the message (and for not biting my head off!). Don't worry too much about the template message above - sometimes they can be pretty cold and harsh, but the powers that be want us to follow their procedure. (Somebody really ought to rewrite these messages. Have you ever seen the big page-blanking message? It scares me just to look at it. Paste {{copyvio | url=insert URL here}} into a message and see what happens, but don't forget to take it out. Eek.)
I understand that the entire article isn't from copyrighted text, but parts are and that's not allowed. If I hadn't tagged it, someone else would have and they quite possibly would have blanked the page in the interim with that huge, page-blanking, monster copyvio template. The copyright owner could - might not, but could - sue the Foundation for copyright infringement. The rules against copyright infringement are set in stone. This way, your page stays as it is while an admin sorts it out. If you have permission to use that text, you need to say so pretty quickly using the method on the copyright problems page – on a Google search for "In French, Lumière means light, in its purest, most transcendent form" the book pops up as the first 4 results. Amazon.com's sales page for the book has the text and it's the top result for me. Happy editing - Baseball,Baby!take a swing 13:44, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please stop adding all people with first name John into this article. Please read what disambiguation pages serve for: navigation between articles about topics with the same name. Only persons who are primarily known by their fisrt name "John" belong to the page. See wikipedia:Disambiguation for more. `'mikka(t) 07:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This article has been voted for deletion and I have only sub-paged it as an archive for merging. I have removed the categories and templates so they should no longer appear in the lists that were questionable before. Thank you for catching them for me!!!
Thats fine, I marked it for deletion because it looked like a vanity article or even something made up, since it only had two lines and bad spelling like you said. Now it is expanded and tidied and is much better, clearly it is a real show and I sorry if I trod on any toes. Keep up the good work--Jackyd101 17:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not replace Wikipedia pages or sections with blank content. It is considered vandalism. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. If you had a good reason for blanking the page, please use the edit summary to allow other users to know in future. JDdon't talkemail me 22:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delay in replying but I've been away. Regarding your request re:deleting the category Category:Treehouse TV shows, I can't do that on my own. If I created the category myself that would be a different matter. If you created the category and cannot delete it yourself then it needs to be listed at Wikipedia:Categories for Deletion. Hope this helps. 23skidoo 00:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the thing to do, then, is to take the non-Canadian duplicate entries out of the parent category, not to add more duplicate entries into it. Bearcat 22:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Can you point me in the right direction for a "How To" or "Getting Started" guide to starting categories. Thanks!--Gephart 20:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I added no content whatsoever to that article. My only changes were minor fixes to the text. Why don't you talk to the person who actually wrote the article? Everyking 03:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think you meant to direct your comments to User:142.167.243.107[1]. An understandable error on their part, so long they don't make a habit of it, and an understandable error on your part as well. Nonetheless, I think you owe Everyking an apology. Regards, Ben Aveling 04:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
TfD nomination of Template:Template:Infobox Professional wrestling announcers[edit]
You added some context to RCW Women's Championship, however it could use some additional information about RCW (what is it? where is it? etc.) — ERcheck (talk) 14:53, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The Simpsons is currently on Comedy Network up in Canada, not teletoon - I can't remember it ever being on Teletoon in the last, but if I'm wrong, please revert my The Simpsons edit (and if possible mention in the edit comment when it was on teletoon?) Thanks. TheHYPO 09:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK, no problem - I don't personally remember them being on teletoon and thought you might have confused it with Family Guy or another show which was on one network and then switched. TheHYPO 02:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Rob Feenie article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! 71.192.136.148 05:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC) MPW[reply]
Probably from around the same time as the Lumiere page. Please edit this page. I am sorry but I also put a copyright violation on the Lumiere page, it has been several months since you were notified but I think the changes were not extensive enough to count as writing it on your own.
By taking away the list of past personalities from that article, you are causing data loss and suppressing insight. Please keep that list there, using the category link as a "see also". -- Denelson83 15:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A category is not to be used as a substitute for a list. If you want to get the names off the main article, you can try creating a separate list at List of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personalities and see how that flies. You cannot, however, simply link to the category as if it were a list; for one thing, it's impossible for the category to include redlinks, and for another, a category is not simply a cached page on the server; the server has to actually generate the category each individual time it's called up, which generates far greater server load than is warranted. Bearcat 04:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The policy says: Occupation categories should not be divided into "current" or "former" categories.
That is the reason. -- ProveIt(talk) 01:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I actually prefer the Alumni name as well. However, the problem is really to do with mirror sites, printed copies and cds. On wikipedia we can update things any time, but once it's printed in a book thats it. Thus they want to avoid any kind of current/former classification scheme. -- ProveIt(talk) 22:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure how to populate it, as I have divided up all Dutch pianists by style (except for one who is unclear, yet not rock). Best regards, gidonb 14:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. A new WikiProject about Saskatchewan has been started as an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. If you would like to participate, you can Saskatchewan articles, add Saskatchewan content, or visit the project page, where you can join / edit the project and/or contribute to the discussion.WikiProject Saskatchewan
From your contributions, you have already written or edited some awesome articles on Saskatchewan! SriMesh|talk Julia 02:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello thank you for your note. As I was adding requested articles I tried to put a strike out through them and the date. I noticed that on other pages. I thought it would show progress, as the Wikiroads project was considered dormant even though it had been growing, just nothing to show changes. I have been adding the Wikiproject banner, as well as multiples if I find them, this has been quite good. I have been adding Sk or multiple banners to existing articles which were barren on the talk pages as well.SriMesh | talk 14:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Could you please help to create the first newsletter for WP SASK ? ... a pilot perhaps could start similar to....WP SASK Newsletter Do you have any other ideas ... it seems like other WP projects have tried to use newsletters, would it be helpful for WP SASK to also have one?.... SriMesh | talk 23:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there! I emailed Victor to see if he wanted to add the minutes of the meet up for the July newsletter edition, he took the notes, and has them on the meet up page, but would be nice to see also in the newsletter. So will wait for his reply, then shall start anew....: SriMesh | talk 04:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Haven't heard back from Victor, however started the July issue. Will you again help out?....Perhaps offer up the direction the Communities WP is headed and any other new items as you did so well last time. It is proposed at...WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 2 - July 2007. Thank you. SriMesh | talk 02:11, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If folks who wish the newsletter not as a link, but embedded it seems like the wiggly brackets will make it show in a user page. {{ link }} instead of [[ link ]] So that should be a choice on the bottom of the newsletter... how to receive it I suppose...SriMesh | talk 17:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Me again :-} If any subscriber wishes to receive the newsletter it seems like the addition of the following lines on their talk pages will suffice to receive the newsletter, and the changing of month, and year for the newsletter name will change the addition of the newsletter to their talk page. See this page...Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Outreach#Delivery options for example
Full content delivery: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} ~~~~
I removed the [[Category:WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletters|June]] from the newsletter or else is seems like the user talk pages also get added to the category if they subscribe to full content delivery .... SriMesh | talk 05:48, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There should be a section in the newsletter to ask members / subscribers to design a new newsletter name with its own banner or font style appear ance just as Wikipedia as a whole named their newsletter the Sign post and used old english font, we should have our own Wiki Project name for the new WP Sask newsletter such as the....Star Phoenix, Leader Post, Herald, Booster, or Times Herald (which are already in use)....but something else perhaps What do you think about this new - new newsletter - article? SriMesh | talk 05:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Talked to Delzentalk regarding his students and their contributions re wikipedia/ Saskatchewan in his information processing class, perhaps one newsletter edition could be by the students after school starts again...say September or October if Delzen thinks it would work out...SriMesh | talk 02:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did you want to add anything more re the WP communities area? before the July newsletter is delivered? I haven't heard back from Delzentalk re the fall as of yet. I emailed User:Ultraflame to see if he wanted to add a blurb regarding the highways WP, haven't heard yet. SriMesh | talk 18:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes...it seems like whenever I cruise around to see how other newsletters are getting along, they seem to be within the outreach area, with templates for newcomer welcome; newsletter info-subscribers, archives, delivery options; meet ups; WP Sk links, so it does seem to be a worthwhile thing. And it also seems like sith some WP areas like US roads, the reason why they almost failed a while back, is due to declining membership and non activity, so outreach seems to be viable to keep a WP alive and active. SriMesh | talk 05:27, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did you want to putter away at starting a new outreach page....I have been floating away scoping out Wikipedia:WikiProject India/OutreachWikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Outreach and they seem to be quite helpful at giving directions about 'what's new' info as well as info for 'who's new'... Kind Regards
I like what you have done getting the outreach page started ... that will be an awesome direction for the project I think.SriMesh | talk 01:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A collaboration page sounds also like a good idea. It seems like quite a few of the articles start at stub class, get elevated up to "B-class" and rather get stuck there. So maybe WP SK could get a few more above B and perhaps even featured which would be an honour for the province and all the members who are contributing. :-)
Hello again. Cruising around there are 3 choices for robot delivery. The way it is set up on the subscribers page needs a delivery person to add a link or full text delivery. Full text delivery in this mode does not see changes made to the newsletter page after delivery has been inititiated.
Checking out the three delivery robots which are functioning as per WP Newsletters, there is also another option available. HermesBot can be used to tag Saskatchewan related articles with a Wikiproject Template. Would this be a good idea or produce too many articles with WP templates and no ratings? SriMesh | talk 03:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes that is OK. I have to do a brief stint at work soon, but this is all right with me.
Do you want to add the new WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods to the newsletter, and when I return, I will let the members signed up that this rough draft is proposed for the first newsletter, so it can perhaps enlist folks for the meet up...Are you going BTW / ...I was thinking of offering rides from Saskatoon down to Craik for any Saskatoon members who are interesed, I think I do that on the meet up page. SriMesh | talk 18:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looks awesome! Did you want to stay with just residential urban communities and rural communities RM's or also add ie.... from....{{Subdivisions of Saskatchewan}} - Census divisions, SARM divisions, First Nations, Indian reserves, provincial electoral districts, and Federal Electoral Districts. I think right now those are the main divisions on Wikipedia for Saskatchewan. The School districts are seperate, and part of another WP, and the health districts aren't online yet. Saskatchewan has to have the most different areas ever, I have both Sk Atlases put out by the U of S, and each chapter seems to outline yet another way of describing Saskatchewan regionally!?!
I added a structure template, to help articles get started. It has some helpful URLs listed as well as internal Wiki links to get information about SK communities accessible and handy. SriMesh | talk 17:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I believe your reply to be good about the other divisions, it should rather go in order of notability and it makes more sense to get the actual communities and RM's started or further developed before the political divisions, etc. SriMesh | talk 17:33, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Today I will putter at a collaboration page, see how it goes... I will have to do a bit more research to get going on it. SriMesh | talk 17:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the comments about the collaboration page. We'll see how it goes...the Canada nationwide collaboration page collapsed, but it was saved online for ideas anyways. We'll see how this provincial one does...It would be cool to see an article worked on in a collaborative way and rise through the ranks quickly, as I have noticed that the various SK editors, each contribute in a different way which is unique, and fills in articles lovely. SriMesh | talk 00:44, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The main page newsletter is handy, it is like some WP announcements. It is a nice quick way to show improvements, changes, and growth since a user's last visit to the project, and rather gives direction as well. Good idea. I think even if there are no subscribers to the WP Sask newsletter, I will still update it here and there for the same reason, to show updates, and changes to the project.SriMesh | talk 00:47, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I looked at map quest, and Craik and Saskatoon are this far apart...
Total Est. Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 90.25 miles
The meet up is over lunch at Saturday, June 23 at noon 12:00. I am not sure what time frame to surmise about the actual meetup and the discussion - there isn't an agenda online yet - there is so much developed lately and potential as well.
So leave Saskatoon at about 10 a.m. Saturday as I don't know exactly where the eco-centre is to get there by 12:00.
... and arrive back in Saskatoon...before supper I would say for sure. Delzen was proposing 6-8 the night before - a couple of hours, so a couple of hours on Saturday would be what... 12 to 2 o'çlock ish ... and then 1-1/2 hours home would make it 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. arrival at Saskatoon - and if it went 12 to 3, then the arrival would be 4:30 - 5 p.m. arrival at Saskatoon.
There is only one meetup where they said the time was 1:00-4:00...
Anyways it is cool to catch a ride if you do decide you have the time avail. I am not sure what hour your evening shift begins, if this time frame would get you back in time for it. If you want to phone - email me. SriMesh | talk 01:01, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there :-) It seems like that's how it goes...Ultraflame has done an amazing job keeping the highways project alive pretty much on his own!!! It would be very cool to get a featured article, your 'feature' page offers incentive or a target to aim for. I guess a lot of work was done on Uranium City a while back when it was on the Canada WP collaboration pages to raise it to good and then it slipped back down to B. And it seems like the other SK cities have sort of stuck at B for a while here, and their talk pages have a lot of editors working on them. SriMesh | talk 01:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As you removed the PROD I've put it up for deletion at AfD. My problem is that the article does not assert notability, and a long roster list doesn't really help as it just looks like name dropping to make the fed look more important than it is. If you want it to pass AfD I suggest inline refs and more of them, and more third party support not just its own page, any backyard fed can get a homepage and solie page. Prove this fed is important. Darrenhusted 19:44, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I see both the talk page and the main page listed in the category, I think the project pages get the talk pages listed in categories as that is where the banner is placed, and the article with category at the bottom gets into the other type of category page. So I think your banner is working very well. I will try to place it on some articles also as I go along. Our busy season is abating somewhat at work, so I should be able to begin again online a bit more in a bit....SriMesh | talk 04:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello I tried it on Nutana, Saskatoon neighborhood, and the talk page shows up at WPSCN category articles, and this category is linked into...WPSCN category, so I think all is good to go. SriMesh | talk 02:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 06:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why would I want to expand an article about a subject I know nothing about? If you merely posted this as a stub wanting more information, please add the appropriate stub category. If this article is merely incomplete, put an {{underconstruction}} tag at the top. Realkyhick 06:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to scoop you a bit more info, for your article. :-) I am not a Prince Albertan, but I hope it is helpful so that you remain untouched from the CSD people. SriMesh | talk 05:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
University of Saskatchewan Celebrate the Anniversary[edit]
Please go to Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive and vote for this University of Saskatchewan article!!! Tell any and all other Saskatchewan editors / students you know who wiki to vote also please!!! I haven't heard from Victor re the newsletter, but I will start it soon, to let others know of this vote that is pending to improve the U of S to celebrate the anniversary!!SriMesh | talk 05:07, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your vote on the U of S! Has been progressing, soon will put article on peer review pages I think.SriMesh | talk 02:11, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed the article of Bethune, Saskatchewan was deleted. I am courious as to why it was deleted. If it notability, than that is an invalid reason as it would a long time to determine which articles on cities, villages, towns, hamlets, etc. are notable. Mr. C.C. 06:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The article was deleted because the contents were complete and total nonsense. If you can write a good article on the community, then feel free to do so. --Carnildo 06:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you could have put a clean up tag on the article instead of deleting it. But what's done is done. Mr. C.C. 06:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There was nothing there to clean up. Once you remove the made-up statistics, the nonsense, and the defamatory statements, you're left with the sentence "Bethune is in Saskatchewan". --Carnildo 06:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter July 2007[edit]
Now that July's newsletter is hot off the press, the proposed third edition (blank template awaiting / inviting updates) Volume 1 Issue 3 August 2007 newsletter. I thought maybe give this a try to see if it gets filled in over the next while, instead of doing it all in one go around .... then if you / others would like to add another article or two / another update for the August newsletter, that would be cool! (Thanks)SriMesh | talk 05:13, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, you didn't give any support as to why it was significant, which is your responsibility as the editor adding the content. Please read WP:V. Thanks, Deiztalk 06:06, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, forums / fan postings do not qualify as reliable sources.. please check out WP:RS, in particular: "Reliable sources are authors or publications regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject at hand. Reliable publications are those with an established structure for fact-checking and editorial oversight" Deiztalk 07:06, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It would appear the main article for JAPW currently has a few problems of its own. Articles like this should comply with WP:CORP. This should be your primary focus before creating categories etc. Deiztalk 08:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I note it was kept, although the discussion was closed by a non-admin (who mysteriously retired from Wikipedia soon after), and those who voted were apparently all interested in wrestling. I'd venture that an admin or more experienced closer would have taken slightly more account of the fact that the article was unsourced, and the voters failed to address this.. I'm not pushing for the article to be deleted as it seems a decent promotion, but the sourcing concerns are pretty clear. Hopefully there are some independent reliable sources which reference the promotion, as their own website and forums can help provide information but not establish notability. I have to say that from what I've seen I'm satisfied with my original opinion that without a solid, reliably sourced reference this does not appear to be a terribly significant event in the career of Bam Margera, the projects listed on his WP article such as Jackass, Viva la Bam etc are all major movies, MTV shows etc. that he created or was a major player in. He makes appearances at skating events, store openings, music events etc. in front of a few thousand fans several times a month. On the other hand, the appearance may well have been a fairly big draw for JAPW, hence an appropriately referenced mention could be probably be made on the JAPW article. Deiztalk 08:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there! I agree with you. The Rosetown article proper would very much benefit from the additional section. I don't think the article on the history will grow to reach feature status with enough information. Did you wish to do the merger? SriMesh | talk 21:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know where to find a citation for the statement It had one of the largest population increases of any town in Canada between 1921 and 1931. from the same article. SriMesh | talk 23:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Mr C.C - Just thought I would let you know something...you left a message on one of the admins talk pages, User_talk:After Midnight - you encased the message in a wikibox, on which you used the <div> tag. You forgot to close the div, which you must do or all subsequent entries become part of the box!!! :) When you finish, use </div> to shut the code... Not being fussy, just letting you know for future ref. Regards, Thor Malmjursson 10:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Modified Outreach page and welcome template![edit]
Hello there. I added Wikiproject Communities and Neighbourhoods to the welcome template...Just use the syntax in the grey box at Outreach, and you will be good to go. I will check off yes to all the options as I add it to user pages...so that folks can check out all the various options, as SK grows online!
See this testing welcome where I also filled in the interest option with a blurb ;-) ....
Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject! The Saskatchewan WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Saskatchewan.
As you have shown an interest in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.
Please re-read the articles started at August 2007 newsletter... We were discussing the portal...Should this news item be worded differently or copy edited for other concepts. Thank you for the communities additions, you were speedy. I have left a message to ultraflame regarding roads and highways... So far the articles don't repeat each too much. I find that is interesting when looking around at other WP newsletters. Have a wonderful long week-end....! SriMesh | talk 01:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello - reply on several Saskatchewan topics[edit]
Invitiation Template
You did an awesome job on the invitation template...I try to use it every time I add a wp banner and rating...I just thought it would be cool to add the WP communities to it as well, I think you must have done the template before the WP...It is cool to peek into the other WPs to see how they are making out such as ....WikiProject Novels
The template is good, I just popped in WP comunities as an add in, I didn't find the WikiProject Novels template yet. SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Bethune, Saskatchewan article has no categories on the main page of the article. What categories do you suggest?...Did add some statistics to this article, you added quite a lot considering what it had on it.
Categories I added Category:Villages in Saskatchewan, so I removed the category needed tag. I am not sure if it would be in any other categories at all.
For sections I usually try to add for towns and villages if at all possible....Info box, Introduction paragraph, history naming from the books published about SK names, law and government, geography like nearby parks or regional hills, rivers, lakes, Transportation old and new, Sites of Interest, education, Demographics, Notable peoples, map, image, sports, economics, media, published works like 1981 local history family biography books, area statisics, location in a chart thingie north south east west communities, See also area of wiki links and what links here where I also add WPs, and related lists, external links, references using template, categories, related Sk community templates, sister links and thats about it for sections. SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have spent a little time here when I had web pages open for Bethune, sometimes the main source pages that I use like national archives and becquet maps and sask gen web give info for more than one place at a time... However, please also put it up for adoption in the Adopt-An-Article departmant of WP:SKCN the more editors which focus on an article, the more it grows.
Hello again...I hope you don't mind,... but is it ok if I ask you to do this... Could you pop back to St. Louis, Saskatchewan and place into the text your sources directly where you made your refernce to another article. A short cut way is just to type
<ref>[http:www Title of WWW URL as given at top of browser] URL accessed today's date</ref>.
A formal way which is needed for feature status is on...Wikipedia:Citation templates wherein you would then type instead...
<Ref>{{cite web
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title =Title of WWW URL as given at top of browser REQUIRED
| work =
| publisher =
| date =
| url =http:www REQUIRED
| format =
| doi =
| accessdate = }}</ref>
and fill in the appropriate fields {any not filled in won't show up}..the only two fields which are required are URL and title. Then this way of citing sources will give a little superscript number in the text...and if you have a section named....References or notes, the only thing that needs to be in that section is this code...<div class="references-small"><references/></div>
and the formal bibliographic style of citation will magically auto number and appear nicely referenced down below for you. I hope you don't mind this note.SriMesh | talk 23:45, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Reply...Mayor name was taken from Municipal Directory System that would be the place I used as a source. Don't know other than that.
St. Louis Light seems to have a tag on it...so it may not survive much longer. Perhaps if it got added into St. Louis, Saskatchewan, the info would still be available at wikipedia.SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Saskatchewan Portal
This would be an awesome idea for the August newsletter. I too have been having it roam around in my thoughts. The portals seem to be an awesome way to show the WWW and wiki editors the development of the area, and bring attention to the successes so far. It would be awesome now that more Sk folk are getting together, and more editors are grouping together to add articles in their strengths. Thought of also User talk:Royalguard11 in this respect, as they had made a note that they had also thoughts of starting up the WP SK project.
Yes I hope this gets some feedback, I also agree it would be an awesome benefit.SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
August Newsletter
Speaking of which I suppose it is time to start to put articles together here as well for another delivery.
Thank you for adding any articles / new items you can. Should also find a robot to help find newly created articles which mention Saskatchewan in them to make sure they get entered into the newsletter... Have added roads and highways direction from ultraflame. Have tried to contact Victor re the meet up result progress, to see if he likes how that is worded thus far, as I put his name on it, as he was the recording secretary at the meet up.SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
From the July newsletter, some articles were suggested that may help Saskatchewan. This article has been begun Sports in Saskatchewan, and....I notice that you have an interest in wrestling ;-) ...can you improve this section, or any of the rest of the article,... please and thanks.
If you can expand the wrestling area it would be awesome, so far all that is in the 'martial arts' type section is boxing I believe which does not fairly represent them all :-( If you know enough about wrestling to have the section not be lumped together, by all means make a new and separate wrestling section, it is awesome how much SK is growing in the sports arena, and such. SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Saskatchewan articles
Have been adding more to the U of S article, but it is so ginormous, that everything starts a new main article which expands from the U of S section...so now there is on wikipedia more about the U of s such as the academics and alumni. It is so hard to just tweak the main article, without starting another article anew on another tangent. So besides having the U of S article at ACID I have started to place it at other areas of wikipedia for advice for direction of improvement. I also tried the reward board...I made an article for Jainism...and see if they will do a SK one now...should be interesting to see how this works. Maybe I should also post a reward board notice thingie for WP SK.
SriMesh | talk 21:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
University of Saskatchewan thanks for any peeks you are able to take in regards to this article. Sometimes it is easier to go from scratch and run, rather than editing an existing article. I keep comparing it to the other university articles listed on the talk page...and I think most things are covered, that the other feature universities have sections and info on. Perhaps the article will soon be ready for peer review or good article status review...A comment was made to add more about the buildings first though.SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Govenlock Saskatchewan - there are a few places to have a go at... to find info. I use most of the links at the bottom of the pages I help out with...See also St. Louis, Expanse, Xena, or Bethune...etc, either under External links or references....Expanse, Xena, are also unincorporated areas and I believe there was an article saying only one building was left at Expanse, and Xena was not listed on the 2005 map any more. They (Expanse, Xena) should probably also be on the ghost town listing.... The following paragraph is where I roam around to on the WWW and why I visit them for info.
The Post Offices and Postmasters - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada will help out and give the date of P.O. incorporation, change of post office naming, and the legal land description township, range.... The GeoNames Query will also probably list most places...or type in a neighboring town name and then geo names will find it by that town's radius function....GeoNames Query also gives the legal land description ie the township, range; as well as longitude and latitude; and if you go to radius, it gives the local attractions nearby such as conservation areas and what not. Stats Canada 2006 Community Profiles will give the RM it is enumerated within if it is an unincorporated area... 2006 Community Profiles gives the actual numbers of population and demographic section information for larger communities to fill into the Demographics template. The Municipal Directory System will give the reeve of the rm for governing body if it is too small for mayor, Municipal Directory System gives mayor, and actually all the other council people too for villages, towns, cities. The Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project will give historical schools of the community whereas Sask Schools gives todays consolidated schools. The Online Historical Map Digitization Project will give which rail line it was located upon, if it had a station or not, and what were neighboring (perhaps also ghost towns) to it from a long long time ago. CTI Determine your provincial constituency gives the provincial constituency for the voters and it gives the MLA whereas Elections Canada On-line gives the federal constituency and the MP. University of Saskatchewan Online Library Database gives the 1981 local history family biography book written for the ghost town sometimes however, the closest existing (larger) town needs to be typed in to find the right book. To find the closest town I use the Online Historical Map Digitization Project to find the name/location. Saskatchewan City & Town Maps - Directory gives the 2005 provincial gov't road map, so it gives you what highway/s the place is located upon, the north south east west communities, and the area...Allan Hills, Cypress hills, etc... Sometimes Saskatchewan Gen Web Regions go into detail about links/info available for communities. These following WWW resources I haven't used as of yet on wikipedia... For more tracking down about ghost towns.....Saskatchewan history, genealogy/history starting, Main Street, Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewn Archives - Saskatchewan Wheat Pool: old elevators I don't know if the above rambling helps or not... but that is where I peek around to when I do a town or etc and then I google for other sections, and I do what links here at the bottom of the wikipedia article for the notable natives... SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Crichton, Saskatchewan that is pretty bad for an article, hardly even a stub, and it has survived?1?! Sometimes deletions just don't make sense at all, articles with more info, and sources get the axe, and one worded like that,...how long did it stay online??? SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Uranium City it is amazing how high in rating that one was at one time!SriMesh | talk 03:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Next time I answer, I won't nest, as this article is getting looooong :-)
Coming all very well. Much better info than just dry stats and whatnot. Re the references had a peek ... all I did was remove the double http:http: and the [[ ]] around the dates was a good idea...and the usual way to stuff dates into text, but in the automatic template, the template wikifies the date on automatic pilot so users don't have to [[ ]] on the month day year thingies. Good job. user Jeepday gave me a hint recently at... User:Jeepday/Cite Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 02:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Invite To WikiProject Saskatchewan Commnunities & Neighbourhoods[edit]
Thank you so much for your invitation. I am more than interested, though I confess that I am only knowledgeable as to Regina, the Qu'Appelle Valley and environs and towns along Number 1 Highway between Regina and the Manitoba border. But I shall certainly keep an eye on the project and add my two bits worth when I can. Masalai 03:44, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I added a newsletter tip that was recently added. I will await to hear from fremte to see if the re-wording is all right and then probably set out to deliver the newsletter this weekend. Do you have more to add? I will also contact Sniper Sarge, and see if they have any ideas...from the tip page... SriMesh | talk 05:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As you peek at newly created articles at WikiProject Saskatchewan Commnunities & Neighbourhoods, add a sugggestion to the Did You Know? page. It will let more WWW visitors have a peek at the new article, which will help its visibility. The rules to making a Did You Know?sugggestion are posted here. So articles have to be entered while still young for example be no more than five days old. It is rather fun to do :-) SriMesh | talk 05:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looked at the talk page re Birch Hills and entered my opinion on your comment regarding Notable Persons. Hopefully some sort of resolution can be found. Good item to choose to review. SriMesh | talk 05:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't put notes in wiki articles in a box (like with Backmasking for instance). It makes them not print, and just in general, scroll boxes suck. There's no problem with having notes take up space: wiki is not paper, and people who are not interested don't have to scroll to the bottom. --jacobolus(t) 00:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The August newsletter has been delivered. Did you want a newsletter delivered, when you are a contributing editor, and probably peek in and out regularly? SriMesh | talk 05:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for invite to "WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods"[edit]
I have signed up at your kind invitation. Fremte 17:42, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Re your message to me: I am a bit confused as to why you posted the WP: SKCN navigation box on my talk page. Mr. C.C. 17:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Because I am sometimes an idiot, and made a stupid mistake. Just wanted to thank you! I fixed it just before I got yuor message. And now as I write this, I see you have responded to my correction. You are a fast writer. I must make sure to use the 'preview', eh?! Sorry!! Fremte 17:49, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping.
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Hello there your edit to Birch Hills looks good IMHO. Hopefully the copy editor who added it is OK also.
Kind Regards BTW what do you think of suggest bot? It is kind of interesting, to see related articles of interest to previous edits, and helps to find a few SK articles that also need TLC. SriMesh | talk 04:28, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, playing with the portal concept idea thingie.[edit]
Hello I am puttering at the concept of the portal. Please peek in and see what I mean.... I started on my sandbox, and it wasn't a good idea there, so I really really started one under the actual name...so it is a portal under construction... at...Portal:Saskatchewan Making portals is different from making articles because one portal absorbs into itself a bizzilion articles...each little box on the page is actually its own page which is unique...see the Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions under Wikipedia:Portal. I picked green and yellow as they seem to be common SK colours, but tis easy to change.... That is where I am now...but I am puttering this afternoon, but come putter with, or change whatever...I am playing for now... :-) Trying to get used to the new concept of embedding pages. Thank you that's all for now. Thanks SriMesh | talk 20:41, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I made the portal all random with the pages that were transcluded-the sections that rotate the content are introduction, biography, feature article, feature picture, and DYK. All the other sections transclude ordinary article type pages with static non changing content, unless an editor edits them. I was reading the talk pages of other portals, and the dormancy was a problem, and the number of volunteers who have time to continually refresh the portals to make them look new was a factor. So if you want to see an item that was within a section box previously, open up itx transcluded page. To do that...you can place the Saskatchewan portal in edit mode, and all the transcluded page are listed at the bottom of the web browser, or just click on the link that says...Read more or more... Then you will see the listing of the grouping of other transcluded pages that can be added to or edited. If you just wish to view various pages hit the Show new selections below the introduction section. For more info about this transclusion concept. Another idea, that isn't done yet, would be to categorize all pages under a category called Portal:Saskatchewan, and they would also be easy to find. I am not sure what you were looking for....but hopefully this is clear as mud :-) Kind RegardsSriMesh | talk 19:38, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there. I understand. Thank you for updating the news page. I re-added it to the portal page. I had it on and was so nervous that it would look stale dated, as it is one section that really can't rotate random articles, as it is supposed to be current and here you are making it current and alleviating all my worries :-) Oh Thank you. The Canada Portal is in the same way. There is discussion on the talk page they want the current events section re-added on, but the same concern was why it was put into just the source coding. Anyways you made some awesome additions to the current events section BTW. SriMesh | talk 17:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wow! Good additions to the portal! Didn't realize Leslie William Nielsen was from SK, just that he was from CA. Still awesome news additions as well. Cool. SriMesh | talk 01:35, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your note re above. I found on Joni Mitchell's official website that she was born on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, and named Roberta Joan Anderson. After the end of World War II they moved to North Battleford. at 9 years old, Joni and her family moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,which Joni claims as her hometown.Joni Mitchell biographySriMesh | talk 00
Hello there - Haven't said hello for awhile. How have you been doing? Fall is definitely here :-)
I have updated the next newsletter for October, as there is a bit of a rush to get Louis Riel fixed to remain at feature article status. Would it be possible to add a few items to the newsletter, so it can hit the press at the beginning of October, rather than the first week into October? In that way, perhaps those who wish to help out with Louis Riel can get their feet wet? SriMesh | talk 02:48, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! I hope this will be a good source of news to those people interested in what's happening around our pro wrestlimg community. I plan to release it every Sunday.
This newsletter will just be a way to get the community announcements to people who don't have the time to check the mesageboards, as well that to those just curious about the news. The newsleter will consist of a project news section (to do with what's happening on Wikipedia), and a current events section (relating to news in the "real world"). The newslette will also contain the Collaboration of the Week announcement.
That's all. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please post them at this talk page.
Talk page banners are being changed ~ More Information. See the main page for links to discussions started. It is an awesome idea I think - makes assessing more uniform and keeps everything together. Though I would give you a heads up. Kind Regards Julia SriMesh | talk 20:27, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
Christopher Irvine (known as Chris Jericho) returned to WWE after a two year hiatus, debuting on the November 192007 edition of RAW following months of speculation.
Welcome to the second issue of the WP:PW newsletter. We apologize for the delay. There was an issue regarding the delivery process.
Anyways, we had a lot of good feedback for the last newsletter. We not only received feedback at the newsletter's talk page, but I also received some messages on my talk page as well. Thank you to those who responded. The only complaint we received was about typos, and we will try our best to keep the newsletter error-free.
Please continue to offer feedback and new ideas for the next issue. The more we have, the more we'll know how to improve the newsletter. Again, thanks!
The beginning steps of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/December 2007 are underway, Seems like mid month appears to be a delivery rotation as of late. Did you wish to add anything, and wishing you all the best for the season coming up! SriMesh | talk 02:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
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The Assessment Department is new. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template{{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }} along with the Assessment guidelines.
See also wikiproject template for other work groups with their wikiprojects as well as provinces which can be added to the Canadian template
The new template and assessment table worklist is produced periodically and was created by Arctic Gnome. Thank you very much! Please take a moment to send an award or other recognition
New Template Saskatchewan
AT Bot requests, another very kind user has also offered to help with the transition process (Thank you also to Ρх₥α )
The request conglomerated together the following tasks to help show the quantity / quality of Saskatchewan related articles:
tag all articles in Category:Saskatchewan and all of its subcategories with {{WikiProject Canada |sk = | class=| importance=}}and if{{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
all articles which have a Saskatchewan related stub Saskatchewan-politician-stub / Saskatchewan-stub / Saskatchewan-geo-stub to be tagged in their talk pages for wikiproject Saskatchewan and be classified as stub as such: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=stub| importance=}}
add GA or FA to to the class parameter of {{WikiProject Canada}} articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
add stub to the class parameter if a stub tag is present on the article page.
Replace the old tag {{Saskatchewanproject}} with the new parent wikiproject tag: {{WikiProject Canada |sk =yes | class=| importance=}}and if{{WikiProject Canada | class=| importance=}} already exists, then can just |sk=yes be added to the Canada template?
add to the class area FL for any Featured-class lists articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
add to the class area List if the Saskatchewan related item in category:Saskatchewan articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
What's New?:Portal:Saskatchewan has a new section! This new section gives access to complete instructions on adding articles and images directly into the portal - step by step. The Saskatchewan Portal was created via instructions in creating a boxportal. Clicking the edit button on the main Saskatchewan Portal page does not help at all to add to the various sections as is usually the case with creation of wikipedia articles. The instruction page give immediate access to the transcluded pages which need to be accessed to change additions to the Saskatchewan Portal!
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's seventh full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us. The actual WikiProject Saskatchewan began on April 19, 2007, with its first newsletter delivered in June, and the Saskatchewan Portal with its randomly featured articles and images of Saskatchewan was created August 18, 2007. As the year 2007 comes to an end, Saskatchewan has a stronger presence on wikipedia and we look forward to exciting innovations and expansion in 2008.
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Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
New template See Template:WikiProject Canada for the full template, however for Saskatchewan roads, add {{WikiProject Canada |class=
|importance= | sk=yes |road =yes}} to the talk pages.
A pilot project has also started in the creation of the to do listing. This project helps to narrow down the scope of Wikipedia's tags which relate to existing Saskatchewan articles.
Did You Know
The will help to identify articles which should be noted on the "Did you know?" talk page. Those articles selected should be added to Portal SK Did you know creation page. Just click on a red link, and add the DYK question. This will make the new DYK article randomly appear on the main portal page.
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In Your House 1 and Vengeance (2006) have each been listed for peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for their improvement. Their respective peer reviews can be found here and here.
The recent focus on improving stub articles has reduced the number of stubs from 777 to 732 since December 15. For more information, check out the stub article subpage.
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A time to reflect on 2007 and prepare for the future bringing in the new 2008 year. Personal wikipedia Saskatchewan members new year's resolutions are here:
Learn something new about Saskatchewan. SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Add your one or several Personal member New Years Resolutions here!
Wikipedia Saskatchewan Project New year's resolution
If the Wikipedia Saskatchewan Project pages could talk - what would they wish for - the types of growth and changes for 2008 for Wikipedia Saskatchewan pages.
Develop a bizzilion awesome articles about Saskatchewan so the WWW visitor is wowed by our province ( and survive those silly AFD tags!!! ) SriMesh | talk 02:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Add your one or several Wikiproject New Years Resolutions here!
Develop quality articles. Increase the amount of good and Featured articles about Saskatchewan related content.
Develop top importance articles about Saskatchewan such as those about crown corporations. the provincial government and its several departments. From the Saskatchewan wiki meeting held back on 23 June 2007 it was discussed to develop an article on Health in Saskatchewan, and to improve to feature status articles: Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Regina.
The University of Saskatchewan became a good article to celebrate the 2007 anniversary of campus, and should now have a peer reveiw to continue on to becoming a feature article. The List of University of Saskatchewan alumni was developed to assist this article and help would be appreciated providing citations for each entry, and to help add to the list.
What's New?
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter!
Improve articles of Saskatchewan quality which have been tagged. Some of these are listed [[2]] and have been compiled with AWB.
Outreach
Create a Saskatchewan Roads and Highways outreach template to help new members become informed about the presence of this project online.
Highway Picture Template
Just as there is only one image needed for upload for Saskatchewan locator maps, and then various towns can be updated upon this image. So, too there should be a highway picture template, so that the various numbered highways 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914, etc can all have their own image without needing to create a bizzilion numbered images online.
2004 Election
Our 2004 Saskatchewan election has resulted in an amazing number of politician biographies coming online! This was an awesome achievement, and something to be proud of!
Qyd (talk·contribs) and Arctic.gnome (talk·contribs) are editors of a wide variety of Canadian related articles, and of note as of this date is the enormous amount of work they have undertaken to help amalgamate all the various provincial wikiprojects and Canadian sub projects into one umbrella assessment department. This unique assessment department means that Saskatchewan related articles can be assessed for their own provincial merit, and also belong to the Canadian wikiproject as well. It also means that editors from both Canada wikiproject and Saskatchewan wikiproject can unite in their efforts to provide banners and ratings to articles. This will result in a huge improvement in quality on wikipedia, resulting in Saskatchewan's spotlight award for Qyd (talk·contribs). January 2008 newsletter Please pop into the Spotlight Department and read all the brief introductory Wikipedia Saskatchewan bio. Congratulations are sent out to Qyd (talk·contribs)] and Arctic.gnome (talk·contribs) at this time.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Just as panic begins to settle in as to what in the world the next newsletter should mention, new areas of development and growth come about. The coming year of 2008 should provide not only more Saskatchewan articles, but also more articles with higher ratings with the assistance of more editors, and a new assessment department umbrella. The highways and roads project has given a good base for development, and to strengthen the presence and notability of roads and highways and effort is being called upon to help these articles improve, now that they too are under the assessment umbrella.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
The WikiProject Canada Roads is undergoing an overhaul. It is aiming to produce some Good articles and Featured articles of highway content pertaining to Canada, and for the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways for Saskatchewan highways. As Saskatchewan is still a work in progress this is a challenging endeavour for as the guidelines are followed as laid out at either Highway wikiproject, they become red link farms because wikilinked articles have not been developed regarding the communities, provincial and regional parks and rural municipalities which the highways meander through. Please keep apprised of the progress, and if any Saskatchewan articles rise above stub we will list it on the main page.
There is also discussion started about assessment and navigation boxes on the talk page. Please peek in to add any comments you may have.
Recently articles Saskatchewan Highway 1, 33, 34, 58, 913, 914 have been improved, but they need more help so they can become articles nominated as Good articles. Please help out if you are able, even to create community and rural municipality articles for these Highway articles would be an enormous help.
The List of ghost towns in British Columbia has given a base to create a new article named Ghost towns in Saskatchewan. Please help to contribute, as Saskatchewan has about 1/5 the number of towns that it had in its heyday between the boom years of the 1920's and the industrial revolution of the 1940's.
Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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The focus on improving Stub-class articles is continuing to pay off, as the number of stubs has reduced from 732 to 717 over the past week. To see a list of important stubs that need some work, or to suggest a stub that you think should be improved, check out stub article subpage.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Due to the length of the queue list, we will begin doing two interviews a week. This week's interviewees are The Chronic (link) and Gavyn Sykes (link).
Next week's interviewees are Speed CG and Nikki311. Submit a question to ask them here.
You are receiving this because because you are listed as a member of the Professional Wrestling WikiProject. By default, the full newsletter is sent to your talk page. However, you have several delivery options at your disposal. Below are the options:
SummerSlam (1994) and Royal Rumble (2005) have been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions on how they can be improved before they are nominated for Good Article status. Their respective peer reviews can be found here and here.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Several wrestling news sites report that former Total Nonstop Action Wrestling stars Ron Killings and Chris Harris have been in talks with WWE. In addition The Big Show is said to be returning as well. Be on the look out for unsourced claims of these signing being added to their respective articles as well as the WWE Roster article.
The focus on improving Stub-class articles is continuing to pay off, as the number of stubs has reduced from 717 to 706 over the past two weeks. The goal for this week is to get it down to 700, so please check out the stub article subpage to see what you can help with.
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We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are featured by our editors.
Welcome to our We Love Saskatchewan Valentine Day Contest.
Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.
Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know.
Or write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of stubs, or other short articles that have expanded fivefold and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!!
On 24 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Transportation in Saskatchewan Did you know...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan?. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Looking forward toward more to contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
This would be WikiProject Saskatchewan's ninth full-fledged edition of our Newsletter, and we'd like to start by saying we are very happy to have you among us.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At WikiProject Saskatchewan New articles please check our new Saskatchewan related articles. There are approximately 50 new articles since the last news letter!
There has been quite a number of Saskatchewan community articles created as of late. Experienced editors are requested to help improve articles to good article or feature article status.
{{Saskatchewan topics}} template needs new articles such as Tourism in Saskatchewan. The template currently wikilinks to articles, lists and categories. The lists and categories should be replaced with new articles where appropriate.
Drm310 (talk·contribs) is our current editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Drm310 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through creation. Articles already existing have seen improved lead paragraphs, sections, section headings, consistency and standardized formatting. Drm310 has tirelessly contributed to the expansion and improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Drm310 at this time. Pop by and give Drm310 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
....Your participation will contribute enormously to the success of future newsletter editions! We look forward to working with you and thank you for your support.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
Hope this delivery is finding you well!SriMesh | talk 02:04, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for signing up as newsletter editor! If you receive a note regarding the Valentine's contest, please pass out an I Love Saskatchewan Award. Please feel free to add any articles to WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 2008 Kind Regards and happy Valentine's Day! SriMesh | talk 02:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
Royal Rumble (2005) has been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions on how it can be improved before being nominated for Good Article status. The peer review can be found here.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Ron Killings and The Big Show are still being reported as to having signed WWE contracts. As there is no reliable source for anything of the sort, be prepared for their names to be continually added to the WWE Roster article and information about their returns being added to their own articles. There is also apparently an audio interview with Killings where he states he will be returning to WWE with his old K-Kwik gimmick.
Bobby Lashley is being reported to have been released by WWE. His profile has been removed from WWE.com. But again, there is no reliable source for his release, so be prepared to revert his removal from the roster article and edits to his own article.
*The number of stub articles increased this week, but a large jump in the number of total articles means that the percentage of stub articles still dropped from 21.63% to 21.51%. Please check out the stub article subpage to see what you can help with (even if you can only add a reference or two).
Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
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That is a good idea regarding Current, kept, and deleted articles. Which newsletter was it, and how did they find the articles? I think Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser would be able to do quite a lot of these as I used it to compile a list of recent tagged articles for Saskatchewan, so could use it to find those in Category Saskatchewan and Category Deletion as well. ... as Saskatchewan is quite unique for a word. How are you doing? You are still very busy on wikipedia! 'Tis getting time to get the February newsletter as the end of month is rolling around too fast this time. On a side note...with the leap year, met someone getting married on the last day, which will make their anniversaries very interesting. Kind Regards Julia —Preceding unsigned comment added by SriMesh (talk • contribs) 03:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC) \[reply]
Tried to surf around, and google, to find some of these deleted articles and current under discussions. Already deleted ones I am finding hardest to find...AutowikiBrowser I haven't found the right comparison yet to uncover too many there. I listed in the Mar newsletter the ones I could find....
As all of the SK wikiprojects are still young and growing, I think it would be a good idea to honour any and all folks who contribute to Saskatchewan on wikipedia in any way. So, I think, yes, it would be excellent way to provide positive feed back to those who enjoy writing articles about SK. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 02:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have someone in mind for the spotlight award who could be honoured in the March newsletter? Kind Regards again.... SriMesh | talk 03:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
These aforementioned editors have made considerable additions and improvements to the content and quality of Saskatchewan related articles, and have received an I love Saskatchewan award on their talk pages.
Article Improvement Drive
Article Improvement Drive: Articles can now be assessed, and this is the showing for top rated GA and FA class articles as well as stub articles. Please help rate articles, and contribute to improved status.
There are currently about no Saskatchewan articles at WP:GAN waiting to be reviewed. :-( If you have not considerably edited one of the articles, you can perform a review by following these instructions.
There are currently no Saskatchewan related articles waiting to be assesed for feature article... :-( FACs.
Please help B class articles move into GA class and GA class articles move toward Feature status.
Add content to stub articles to improve their status.
In December there were over 797 articles which needed template changes from the original Saskatchewan talk page banner to the new Canada - provincial talk page banner. This has been completed!!!
Wikiproject Saskatchewan now has 0.5% FA articles 0.22% GA articles, about 5% B class articles, about 35% Start class articles and 68% stub class articles.
Saskatchewan related articles contribute 1,799 / 19,566 articles, or 9.19 % of Canadian related articles!!!
Please help to tag articles! On the assessment page are the actual articles listed which have been tagged with Canadian projects and Saskatchewan content. The result is...please, if you read this, help to tag Saskatchewan sports articles with both Saskatchewan, and Canadian sports project templates checked off as yes! Some sports articles may also need the appropriate general sports wikiproject talk template or a Wikiproject biography talk template as well.
There are 6 articles written which overlap both the 1850 tagged Saskatchewan and the 870 tagged Canadian Music articles.
Canadian Federal Government articles which relate to Saskatchewan are the following 14 articles, a couple of which are rated FA.
The most tagged articles are Saskatchewan communities. Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods comprise 551 articles - tagged with both the Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods template, as well as the new Canadian - provinces template.
The Portal Saskatchewan peer review has produced some excellent suggestions, many of which have been enacted. Some of the portal categories should be added to Saskatchewan wikiproject such as the instructions on how to add content to a box portal concept.
To go forward to apply for PORTAL feature status, 10 articles, 10 biogrphies, 10 images which are qualified as good or feature should be added to the portal in the various areas.
Shanemcd (talk·contribs) has contributed to the organization of which placenames are town, villages, hamlets, etc by going above and beyond the call of duty. Sorting out List of communities in Saskatchewan and the various section lists have shown significant improvements. Consistency and attention to detail on the various incorporation dates, and status of the many and several communities is producing more accurate lists for visitors to wikipedia viewing Saskatchewan articles. This provides an improvement in quality on wikipedia and so a large thank you goes out to Shanemcd at this time.
So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Rschen7754 commented about Highways notability guidelines in the latest USRD newsletter. To see how discussion is coming along, and how it may affect Canadian / Saskatchewan roads and highways see:
The several new templates, and template revisions have been included in the highway template for standardization and improvements for highway articles.{{subst:Saskatchewan Highways}}
Saskatchewan There is a new Saskatchewan related article on Wikiquote. If you know of any notable quotations which refer to Saskatchewan, please add them to Wikiquote.
Wikinews Saskatchewan
Category:Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan news articles entered into wikinews are also now a part of the Saskatchewan Portal. If you know of a late breaking news story that would be awesome to add to Wikinews, and would like to try being a wiki-reporter, add it to Wikinews!
Wikicommons Saskatchewan
2007 Grey Cup There are new Saskatchewan images on WikiCommons! Please let us know of anymore images which have been added. If you are a photographer or artist and would like to add Saskatchewan related media, sign in to Wikicommons. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when uploading images for any Saskatchewan related content.
Wikisimple Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan There are some Saskatchewan articles on Wikisimple! If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, add the content to Simple English using easy words and shorter sentences. Remember to include a category for Saskatchewan when adding new articles for any Saskatchewan related content.
Wikitionary / Simple English Wiktionary: Saskatchewan
Wiktionary: Saskatchewan and Simple English Wiktionary There is a definition on Wiktionary for Saskatchewan. If you have written an in-depth article on a Saskatchewan related topic, and have used a term unique to Saskatchewan, add the definition to either wiktionary.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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New condensed format delivered by: SriMesh | talk 02:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(Borrowed also the collapsible format from your wrestling newletter!) SriMesh | talk 02:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Saw your note about coming together in the formation of a banner - I can peek in and see how I can be of help - on the following evenings, but my next day off won't be till Friday when I can devote some time to a project - will keep in touch. Kind Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by SriMesh (talk • contribs) 03:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
On a quick peek around a about in WikiProject banners...this banner may be easy to adapt... Template:WikiProject Cincinnati Your textual rating of Kinoosao, Saskatchewan gives good direction. If you also add the general Canada-provincial rating banner, folks who make robots can slip the ratings schemata from one banner to another. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 03:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Royal Rumble (2005) and Over the Edge (1998) have been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Their peer reviews can be found here and here.
Ron Killings is still being reported as having signed a WWE contract. As there is no reliable source for anything of the sort, be prepared for his name to be continually added to the WWE Roster article, and information about his return being added to his article. There is also, apparently, an audio interview with Killings where he states he will be returning to WWE with his old K-Kwik gimmick. Recent SmackDown! Taping spoilers indicate that he debuted under the name Kwik Killings in a Dark match. No reliable source has reported this as of now, however.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
LAX has been promoted to admin status. His RfA can be seen here.
Next week's interviewees are D.M.N. and 3bulletproof16. Submit a question to ask them here. 3bulletproof16 has confirmed that he will indeed be taking part in the interview, even though he has retired.
Professional Wrestling Article Stats
Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has dropped by 45 while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).
Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Thanks for the invite, I've been a member for a little while already, but maybe not active enough to be noticed, eh? I'll see if I can do a lttle more. Thanks again, Fremte (talk) 01:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
Ron Killings is still being reported as having signed a WWE contract. As there is no reliable source for anything of the sort, be prepared for his name to be continually added to the WWE Roster article, and information about his return being added to his article. There is also, apparently, an audio interview with Killings where he states he will be returning to WWE with his old K-Kwik gimmick. Recent SmackDown! taping spoilers indicate that Killings has already debuted under the name Kwik Killings in a Dark match. However, no reliable source for this information has been found yet.
The article collaboration for March 3 through March 16 is Ric Flair. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, March 16.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has dropped by 45 while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).
Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Hi there. According to the deleted history of the article Chef at Home, the single and only user content edit that ever existed in that article was from a user who has no surviving contributions on Wikipedia. The single and only content edit consisted of test links, such as those to Example.jpg, Insert text, and even his own signature. Therefore no content as such has ever existed on this article.
Hope this is helpful and assists you further if you wish to write an article on the subject yourself - I'd say an edit of this kind from a onetime user wouldn't prohibit a genuine article on this subject being made, if you feel you can do so. Bobo. 11:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
On User talk:Bobo192, Fishhead2100 said: I was asking as you were the one who deleted the article. Chef at Home is a cooking show on Food Network Canada.
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to write an article containing actual content relating to the subject. The previous content of the article had nothing to do with the subject itself — which I assume is notable enough by Wiki guidelines. All the best. Bobo. 17:54, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there...I added some content all over for the new newsletter, do you wish to adapt, modify or add a few notes or tweaks? Do you know of a kind soul to nominate for the spotlight award? Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:34, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
SummerSlam (2000) has been listed for Peer review. Please review this article and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. It's peer reviews can be found here.
Jeff Hardy was suspended by WWE for 60 days on March 11 for violating WWE's Substance Abuse and Drug Policy. On March 14, he lost his home in, Cameron, North Carolina, late friday night due to a fire. Fire Department officials currently cannot confirm what was the cause of the fire. Reports also say that Jeff's brother, Matt Hardy, saw smoke coming out of Jeff's house. RAWCommentator, Jim Ross, reports on his blog, "He lost essentially every thing he had and most sadly his dog".
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).
Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Obtain this awesome javascript code from this page,(not the edit page ) to help assess articles. It will supply the banner template, allow you to place your default rating in, and show the current rating of the article on the article page if any banners have rated the article. So you are allowed to check out the talk page banner from viewing the article page. Install the following code on your User:YourUserName/monobook.js file page.
see full code for Canada talk page banners on this talk page
It is time to award the April Fools barnstar to April Fool pranksters who have made an April Fool prank in good faith...From April Fools' Day; Quotes about April Fools' Day; :"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." — Mark Twain
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter!
There is now a Wiki for left handed viewers of wikipedia. Please help to edit our right handed articles for the new left handed wikipedia! The new format will be ready to view on April 1, 2008! Please help rotate all content on existing Saskatchewan related articles from the left side of the article to the right side of the article by 180 degrees for ease of clicking on links and handling article content for left handed viewers.
New Talk Page Banner Addition
The Saskatchewan communities has been joined by Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities. Now all communities, neighbourhoods, cities, towns, villages, hamlets, rural municipalities, and any place name can have a rating within the Canada talk page banner. In this way, all articles can be rated as belonging to Canada, and any province or territory as well as any demographic can have their own rating.
The full Canada template is located at Template:WikiProject Canada. When rating articles for Saskatchewan related content, add supporting work groups also such as: cangov, ppap, riding, canlaw, education, tvshow, music, road, sport, geography, and now community!!
Hackers have infiltrated Saskatchewan related articles
Hackers have "hacked" into Wikipedia, and into this wikiproject site, breaking through our security. For some time now the hacker who was named ap®1L_f001$’ has been making attempts to break through our security on this site, and has now gained access and has made changes to website articles on wikipedia and wikiproject Saskatchewan articles. Please see this article for how you can help.
Wikinews
Does anyone have the notion to be a news reporter for Saskatchewan events. Saskatchewan wikinews content has very historical news reports.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
New highway change for Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan adopted the International metric system in 1971, and even though school trustees would like the imperial system returned to the classrooms, there is a new change intended for Saskatchewan. The latest news to hit the province of Saskatchewan is to adapt the new traffic directionality concept that Saskatchewan drivers will undertake. As of the beginning of the month, drivers will begin driving on the left side of the road rather than the right side. Which Side Of The Road To Drive On? Left Or Right For more information on changes to Saskatchewan Highways.
Prince Albert is one of the Saskatchewan city articles which has been growing by leaps and bounds. Many communities are being created and are picked up by the new article robot. Please help to tag these and all community articles with the new assessment talk page banner at Template:WikiProject Canada. *Stub class just barely introduces the topic, much is missing.
Start class gives a bit more knowledge but it shows one of these to expand upon a stub article;
a particularly useful picture or graphic
multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
B-Class checklist
1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited.
2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies.
3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content.
4. It is free from major grammatical errors.
5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
This months Spotlight Award goes to SriMesh (talk·contribs). She is the creator of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan, the project newsletter, and countless other departments within the project including starting the Saskatchewan portal. She has also took it upon herself to start, edit, revamp many Saskatchewan based articles. As well, she is an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods. SriMesh has tirelessly worked towards improving the quality of Saskatchewan related Wikipedia articles.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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Thank you very much for the nomination for spotlight! It was such a surprise to sit down and start editing today, and see that! Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 02:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delay in reply...your template looks good, I think you will be also happy once the AWB is figured out to do list comparing again. The snapshot of compared lists is awesome...Compare what is tagged as CA communities to what is tagged as SK in general is a good way to see what is what. They have revamped it to only do 500 which is not enough, So awaiting reply. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 03:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well it is defintely a bug in the AWB system. For example in the first 500 articles grabbed from template Canada communities and the first 500 grabbed from template Saskatchewan...these are SK communities with banners on them Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods/Tagged Hopefully soon there can be a snapshot of all the category articles and not just the first few. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 22:19, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
Backlash (2004) has been listed for Peer review. Please review these articles and make suggestions for how it can be improved in preparation for a Good article nomination. Its peer review can be found here.
At WrestleMania XXIV, Shawn Michaels defeated Ric Flair after executing the Sweet Chin Music, which as a result, meant that Ric Flair was forced to retire from professional wrestling. The next night, at Flair's retirement ceremony on Raw, Triple H congratulated Flair for his 35 year career, and brought out retired and current superstars to thank him. Michaels, and the whole WWE roster came out later to thank him as well.
The Undertaker defeated Edge to become the new World Heavyweight Champion forcing him to submit to the Gogoplata. During the pyro celebration for Undertaker's 16-0 streak, a freak accident occurred just before WrestleMania went off-air. During the pryo shooting to the entrance stage, a firework went to the upper-level section of the crowd on top. Forty-five fans were injured, and currently, WWE is trying to investigate what was the cause of the pyrotechnic malfunction
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).
Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
The time has rolled around again...for the May newsletter for Saskatchewan. Do you have ideas/expansion/ etc. I added more schools than communities for the Royal connections for Victoria Day celebrations on Wikipedia in regards to SK. Do you want to plop a couple more in as well? I only knew of one comment about your area of WP communities, and it first arose in regards to a highway article, but would be appropos for community infoboxes as well perhaps. Kind Regards and happy spring (saying this in the middle of a spring blizzard :-) SriMesh | talk 23:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
WWE has invited Democrats running for president, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to Raw to settle their differences in a wrestling match. The invitation video can be found here.
On the April 21 edition of Raw, the King of the Ring tournament will return for one night only. The entire tournament will take place on Raw.
Since the last newsletter, the number of stub articles has continued to drop, while the total number of wrestling articles continues to grow. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve. Please check it out and see what you can help with (even if you can only add a few details or a couple of references).
Based on the active members list, there are currently 41 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Next week we will start the Editor of the Week. This will take the place of the Member Interviews. The EOTW will be given their own interview instead. To be fair, this week we will post all of the interviews that were on the schedule. Click the link next to the user's name to see their interview:
The goal of WikiProject Christianity is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity available on Wikipedia. WP:X as a group does not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Christianity, but prefers that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented.
Projects and Sub-projects ie SK communities template[edit]
Finally AWB is working properly! There is listed at Canadian project overlaps an AWB list comparison of those articles tagged with both the Saskatchewan = yes and community = yes! This list comparer can also compare the listing of those in either FA, GA. A,B,Start, Stub, class and High, mid, low importance etc. SriMesh | talk 03:16, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Finally the newsletter is going to more than 30 folk, so a robot is being signed up for the May 1 delivery. So now any editing can be made each month up until the 1st, when the robot will send it around and about to the members of SK and Sk C&N and SK roads! Kind Regards...SriMesh | talk 03:16, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
May Day, May 1, marks the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere. To celebrate May Day in Saskatchewan expand Geography of Saskatchewan climate section with photos or articles of spring weather. Expand or create some festival articles to fill out the Saskatchewan festival template.
What's New?:
The new articles are now being identified by a robot, and new members are being invited. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles please check out our new Saskatchewan related articles - of which there are an assorted variety numbering close to 50 new items since the last news letter! Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles about curling, crown corporations, Government ministries, aviation pioneers, and communities are a small sampling of the newest arrivals about Saskatchewan!
Assessment of articles has shown improvements since the last update in the March newsletter. At that time there were 1,799 assessed articles, compared to 2,138 today; a 119% increase. Feature articles and lists were at 5, and have climbed to 8 articles. 4 GA class articles for Saskatchewan have increased to 6 at GA. 39 B class articles have increased to 89 at B Class, a 228% increase. Start class are currently at 505, Stub at 1,503, and List class at 27. There are currently 2 articles which rate top importance, 40 at high, 652 at mid, and 1,444 articles rated as low importance.
Canadian Projects which overlap with Saskatchewan articles have been listed. The Canadian projects are:Music, Television, Geography, Governments of Canada, Education, Electoral Districts, Politics, Law, Roads, Communities, Military History, Sport and CFL. There are now more than 31 sports articles with both Saskatchewan and the sports project tagged. The Saskatchewan communities have both the Saskatchewan and community tag upon several articles. The Saskatchewan TV section is the shortest listing. Please help out discussing if Electoral districts in Canada should be merged with WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada. The discussion is here...Merge Proposal
Barnstar Contest
Would you like to receive or present a barnstar to someone? Enter a challenge or task for Saskatchewan at the Award Center. View this page as an awarder and/or an awardee.
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before Sunday May 18. The answer to Trivia Question #1 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Trivia Question #2: Does anyone wish to submit the second trivia question to Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008. Pre-requisite: the answer shouldn't be in the top 10 google results. :-)
The WikiProject and newsletter keep members up to date with new research and articles, helps to expand their wikipedia editing skills and provide an outline for article creation in various Saskatchewan topics. WP SK is growing, both in terms of the range and variety of topics available about Saskatchewan, and the number of subscribers willing and able to assist. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated on how we could improve our newsletter in the coming months. This spring issue is being created during an April blizzard, very Saskatchewan for our spring months ;-)
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
If you would like to get involved, we welcome feedback on existing newsletters, and suggestions for further topics. Any and all contributions to the Newsletter are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
There is a discussion started for M of S procedures when providing rural municipalites in a listing, infobox or template. Please feel free to add your two cents to the discussion as well.
Signed..Mr. C.C. 08:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Wyldkat (talk·contribs) has contributed several articles about the province of Saskatchewan amongst these have been Politics of Saskatchewan, Fort Carlton, Fort Carlton, and Malcolm Norris to name a few. As well, Wyldkat keeps an eye on existing articles, categories and listings and brings them into line with many of Wikipedia's policies and Manual of Style proceedings. Presently Wyldkat has been maintaining talk page banners and initiates the rating system. For the past few years Wyldkat has provided coherency and standardization for Saskatchewan related articles.
Bot newsletter delivery
On May 1, 2008, the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletters will be delivered by ENewsBot which uses a program called AutoWikiBrowser. This is one of the several bots suggested at Newsletters Wikiproject Council. Let an editor know if there are any problems with the new delivery, however, they have had past successes with newsletter delivery. It will be sent out using the new condensed format with show / hide features for your talk page if your are signed up to any of these lists: WP Sk Members, WP SK C&N Members and WP Sk Roads Members.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on Sk WP Members, SK WP C&N Members and Sk WP Roads Members. If you do not wish the new condensed format of the WP SK Newsletter, send an e-mail to an editor or write a note here.
Provide us with your news tips on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter issues.
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate sectionWikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers .
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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
Since the last issue, the number of stub articles has decreased again. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 38 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Started new discussion linked to other Wikipedia discussions on the talk page regarding robotic creation of articlesSriMesh | talk 02:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
Canadian Rivers Day occurs on the second Sunday of June, this year, June 8, 2008. Please help commemorate this special day by expanding existing SK river articles or creating Sk river articles which do not yet exist!
In 2008, the solstice occurs and summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 at 7:59 p.m. EDT or 6:59 p.m. CST. Help celebrate summer in Saskatchewan by taking pictures of various communities in Saskatchewan as things are greening up and submitting them to wikicommons with the proper Saskatchewan category.
National Aboriginal Awareness Day
June 21 is National Aboriginal Awareness Day in Canada. In order to celebrate, honour and acknowledge the culture, heritage and achievements of Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan, please create the needed articles at Indian reserves in Saskatchewan.
July 1 Canada Day
Help to celebrate Canada day in Saskatchewan by completing a National Historic Site in Saskatchewan article!
Saskatchewan Elementary Schools
For those elementary schools which cannot stand alone due to notability, The information about current schools can be written up in the locality in the manner prescribed by WP Education in Canada. The school article title would then have a redirect to the locality such as Saskatoon Public School Division.
What's New?
What's New?: The new articles are now being identified by a robot at Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles. Come welcome to members to wikipedia, send an invite to join Saskatchewan wikiproject, and help rate new articles by added the Saskatchewan banner to the talk pages.
I am attempting to revive WP:WikiProject Sports facilities... I want to invite you stop back by the project and participate in getting things going, again.
Would you like to receive or present a barnstar to someone? Enter a challenge or task for Saskatchewan at the Award Center. View this page as an awarder and/or an awardee.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Creativity Help - Does anyone feel creative and wish to replace the Saskatchewan emblem which was on the Wikiproject user box template with another image?
For more new updates of new items happening amongst editors of Wiki Project Saskatchewan stay tuned at: Wikipedia talk WP SK
#M@sk (talk·contribs) and Bohunk8283 (talk·contribs) have each been creating a plethora of new article on wikipedia in relation to Saskatchewan. M@sk has been filling in some requested articles and gaps in existing templates which is much needed. Bohunk828 has been creating a wide variety of Saskatchewan articles. A thank you and Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight goes out to both of you at this time.
Creativity Help - Does anyone feel creative and wish to replace the Saskatchewan emblem on the spotlight award with another image?
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Trivia Question
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest - Trivia Question #2- will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to -Trivia Question #2- before the end of June. The answer to Trivia Question #2 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #1: Gillies, District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories established in 1903, is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Answer Trivia Quesion #1: Blaine Lake, Sasaktchewan. (From May Newsletter )
Trivia Question #2:Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan?
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the Wrestling event infobox, please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles.
The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class.
The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion."
WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home.
Previous Issue | WikiProject Saskatchewan Volume 2, Issue 7 - July 2008 | Next Issue July special events • Sk error tags • Image moving • Work the wiki • Quick links template • Canada commons wikiproject and Canada wikimedia • Higher Education in Saskatchewan • Spotlight • Road news - Trans Canada • Community news - Two million new articles • Trivia question
Dominion Day now known as Canada Day is celebrated July 1, 2008. Please help develop our members of parliament articles, and National Historic Site in Saskatchewan articles!
July 18 is defined as Canada's Parks Day across the nation, and July 12 to 18 as Parks Week in Saskatchewan. "Take A Hike" is the theme in 2008. Please take time to read a parks article, edit or create an article on Saskatchewan parks and hiking trails.
Work the Wiki Saskatchewan is an independent article about wikipedia and writing Saskatchewan articles for this encylopedia. Are there any comments in regards to work the wiki web site.
Saskatchewan quick links template
Add this template {{Saskatchewan quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Saskatchewan on Wikipedia. This template has been modeled after the {{Canadian quick links}} template.
Please assist students of this Class project to wikify and produce citations for the various provincial articles coming online. The article for Saskatchewan has been started, and if there is any assistance you may be able to offer the students please mention it on the appropriate talk page. Watch also for tags on the articles such as AFD and guide the students for Wikipedia principles. Thank you.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Looking forward toward more contributions from you! Happy Editing!!
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
The user template: {{user Saskatoon}} needs some TLC as its image has disappeared! If someone has some photographic / image manipulation talents, and a good idea to improve the user template, it is much appreciated.
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer to Trivia question #3 before month end. The answer to Trivia Question #3 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 7 - August 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #3: Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?
Answer Question #3: Will be announced August 1, 2008
Trivia Question #2:Bonnington, Assiniboia, North West Territories is now known as which community of Saskatchewan? from the June Newsletter
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter July 2008[edit]
The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start-Class, but less than B-Class.
Immediately put into effect, our project has begun use of the List-Class rating. The List-Class rating is for list articles that are of less quality than B-Class articles.
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 631. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
As I'm sure you noticed above, this is the 20th edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! It has come a long way since the first issue, and I'm sure it will only improve from here. I'd like to thank everyone reading this for continuing to read the newsletter, biweekly.
Also, lastly I'd like to thank Misza13, for sending the newsletter out for us, though his bot. His bot has to be the most important part of the process, because without it, the newsletter would not get sent to project members.
I know that's a long list, but they all deserve recognition for their hard work towards the newsletter. So again, thank you to that list of people, and thank you to all of the newsletter's biweekly readers. If you have an questions, comments, or feedback about the newsletter, remember those links below.
Thank you for your note again. I perservered, and I believe by Jove I may have it now. I reduced the main image width, and removed cell padding and cell spacingSriMesh | talk 17:22, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am glad even on your computer and resolution, the portal looks better now. Thansk you also for the award! My goodness! SriMesh | talk 01:55, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The folks who are contributing the most to the template are Qyd and Arctic Gnome. I will mention your request to them and see what can transpire. SriMesh | talk 02:01, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Cool Great!!! idea to nominate Mitchazenia. He was the orignal creator of SK roads wikiproject. He has also started conversation to re-organise the project. He is right now going great guns in getting a bizzilion NY road articles to GA status. SriMesh | talk 03:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Invitation to WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods[edit]
Hi, thanks for the invitation, but I'm already a member! :-) Drm310 (talk) 06:02, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Per this edit and the discussion here, date linking is not mandatory in articles. This mainly applies to the project's pay-per-view expanded articles. Please take this regulation in notice and apply it to the project's expanded pay-per view articles.
New parameters have been added to the {{Infobox Wrestling event}} template, for the discussion explaining these parameters, see the discussion here
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Delivered: 16:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)
Sk Communities assessment using Canada template[edit]
Got a reply!! It can be done, giving the child wikiproject an assessment table from the parent talk page template!!! See reply here Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Challenge:_assessment_lists, so I will putter at this advice over the next while Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 23:37, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Sk communities and neighborhood articles are being assessed using the Canada template. Rate new articles under Saskatchewan and communities and they will appear on the assessment page. The new assessment table combines the province and community department for this wikipeoject!!! SriMesh | talk 23:45, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has undergone a new facelift and revamping just in time to putter away at new civic articles on the August civic holiday, the first Monday of August. Drop by and see the new colour scheme which corresponds the the provincial colours. The assessment department provides quality ratings to articles via the talk page. At the current moment the assessment department combines the communities project with the province on the Canada talk page bannerr. There is a request out to make an assessment table from the parent talk page banner or if a new banner is advised. The challenge has been met! User:CBM figured out the coding necessary! A number of various editors and administrators puttered at applying the code, and it works!! Thank you very much.
C class assessment is the newest addition for articles which need more TLC before being assessed as B class such as citations or wiki clean up. The article is more useful than a start class article, but isn't quite as rounded as a B class article.
A class articles will need more than one reviewer for reaching A class article criteria.
Chcek out the List of basic Canada topics which brings to the forefront a grouping of material about Canada for the WWW surfer. The variouse lists of basic topics has recently been undergoing an overhaul.
Canadian related articles for deletion have been listed here to encourage article development and conversations at the AFD talk page. There is now discussion to identify such articles via robot similar to Australia's notice board, to enable a better canvassing of deletion tags on articles. Should there also be discussion started for a robot notification of Saskatchewan articles for deletion? A new proposal by Wolterding encompassing Article alerts would identify tagged as well as promoted articles to give a rolling new view of articles moving forwards as well as articles in need of TLC.
Ghost towns
Please contribute to the converstation regarding ghost towns of Saskatchewan, as there is a robot deleting pages from the Category:Ghost towns
Barnstar Contest
Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards! Some wonderful new maps have been added to Saskatchewan Highway articles for the latest addition. In return, work of equal kind was offered to the Alaska Portal and a barnstar offered to this contributor.
Trivia Question
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before the end of August 2008. The answer to Trivia Question #4 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #3: , Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Mitchazenia (talk·contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Mitchazenia. Even though he might not be heavily involved all things Saskatchewan, one area he is greatly involved in is roads and highways. Not only that he started the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways WikiProject. His other edits don't go un-notice. So much so that he was even awarded the WP: Sask Barnstar for his contributions to highway and road articles of Saskatchewan.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
The SKCN navigation template has been slightly re-designed. The colours have been changed. Let us know what you think.
The assesment template for SKCN is still in the works. Stayed tuned for more developments on this issue.
The Assesment Department has been undergoing some updates, additions, and changes. The new sections have of the Assesment Department have modeled after the WP: Saskatchewan Assesment Department. Many articles need assesments or re-assesments. Go to the Requesting an assesment of Assesment Department to see what needs an assesment.
As always, we are looking for new members. Don't hesistate to join WP: SKCN. We look forward to welcoming you to the project.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
Please look at the New articles section to keep updated on new articles related to Saskatchewan.
WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has undergone a new facelift and revamping just in time to putter away at new civic articles on the August civic holiday, the first Monday of August. Drop by and see the new colour scheme which corresponds the the provincial colours. The assessment department provides quality ratings to articles via the talk page. At the current moment the assessment department combines the communities project with the province on the Canada talk page bannerr. There is a request out to make an assessment table from the parent talk page banner or if a new banner is advised. The challenge has been met! User:CBM figured out the coding necessary! A number of various editors and administrators puttered at applying the code, and it works!! Thank you very much.
C class assessment is the newest addition for articles which need more TLC before being assessed as B class such as citations or wiki clean up. The article is more useful than a start class article, but isn't quite as rounded as a B class article.
A class articles will need more than one reviewer for reaching A class article criteria.
Chcek out the List of basic Canada topics which brings to the forefront a grouping of material about Canada for the WWW surfer. The variouse lists of basic topics has recently been undergoing an overhaul.
Canadian related articles for deletion have been listed here to encourage article development and conversations at the AFD talk page. There is now discussion to identify such articles via robot similar to Australia's notice board, to enable a better canvassing of deletion tags on articles. Should there also be discussion started for a robot notification of Saskatchewan articles for deletion? A new proposal by Wolterding encompassing Article alerts would identify tagged as well as promoted articles to give a rolling new view of articles moving forwards as well as articles in need of TLC.
Ghost towns
Please contribute to the converstation regarding ghost towns of Saskatchewan, as there is a robot deleting pages from the Category:Ghost towns
Barnstar Contest
Check out the Sk Hwys Contest and win awards! Some wonderful new maps have been added to Saskatchewan Highway articles for the latest addition. In return, work of equal kind was offered to the Alaska Portal and a barnstar offered to this contributor.
Trivia Question
The winner/s of the Wikiproject Saskatchewan Trivia contest will be announced in the next newsletter. To win this months trivia barnstar submit your answer before the end of August 2008. The answer to Trivia Question #4 will be published in the Volume 2, Issue 9 - September 2008 newsletter.
Trivia Question #3: , Where is Canada's longest pedestrian bridge and what is it named?
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the Newsletter. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Mitchazenia (talk·contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Mitchazenia. Even though he might not be heavily involved all things Saskatchewan, one area he is greatly involved in is roads and highways. Not only that he started the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways WikiProject. His other edits don't go un-notice. So much so that he was even awarded the WP: Sask Barnstar for his contributions to highway and road articles of Saskatchewan.
Please feel free to sign up as a Spotlight administrator and nominate more excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
The SKCN navigation template has been slightly re-designed. The colours have been changed. Let us know what you think.
The assesment template for SKCN is still in the works. Stayed tuned for more developments on this issue.
The Assesment Department has been undergoing some updates, additions, and changes. The new sections have of the Assesment Department have modeled after the WP: Saskatchewan Assesment Department. Many articles need assesments or re-assesments. Go to the Requesting an assesment of Assesment Department to see what needs an assesment.
As always, we are looking for new members. Don't hesistate to join WP: SKCN. We look forward to welcoming you to the project.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
Please look at the New articles section to keep updated on new articles related to Saskatchewan.
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
TNA has posted a notice on their official website detailing a release of wrestler Kaz. This has been reported to be kayfabe by numerous other sites, but be prepared to revert edits to Kaz's article regarding this as well as List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling alumni
The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status.
The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined.
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Future class rating has been incorporated into the project's assessment. It's intended use is for pay-per-views articles or video games that have not occurred or have been released, respectively.
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 596. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
It was announced on the August 25 television episode of Raw that John Cena had suffered a herniated disc in his neck. Cena received successful surgery the following day, and will be inactive for 2-4 months.
Labour Day & Saskatchewan's Anniversary Article Drive
Labour Day is Monday September 1, and Saskatchewan celebrates its 103 anniversary of joining confederation on September 4, 1905. Goal would be to improve the Saskatchewan article to feature status. Please leave a note on the tip line, if you are able over the next month to make improvements to the provincial article.
A class reviews
Some of the larger wikiprojects are doing their own peer reviews to pass articles from GA to A. See the introduction at A class reviews Is Saskatchewan membership large enough for this undertaking? Should there be a collaboration with Canada wikiproject in this regards?
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Leafschik1967 (talk·contribs) This months spotlight award to goes to Leafschik1967 . Amongst several editors, it was again hard to select only one for representation in this latest edition of the newsletter. This editor is diverse, editing a variety of SK sports related articles, SK communities and SK flora articles, helping out with Good article nominations and contributing to talk pages. Thank you for your assistance as Saskatchewan grows on wikipedia.
Most Commonly Visited Pages
To help keep Saskatchewan current and visited at wikipedia... The Beijing Olympics, Summer Games and athletes were amongst the most commonly visited wikipedia pages last month. It would be good to have articles about our Saskatchewan Olympic competitors started, upgraded, and tagged on the talk pages as belonging to SK wikiproject. As well as Saskatchewan competitors in the upcoming September paralympics. Saskatchewan at olympics. Up and coming in the news is the international interest in the Arctic waters, and Greg Poelzer, associate professor of Political Studies has related that there will be growth in the Mining sector of northern Saskatchewan during this impetus.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Hello there
I did see it, and tried to get a pic of it in the past one day, will drive by on Sunday and get another pic that hopefully turnes out better, it woul be a good addition. How's it going with you? I followed your lea when you re-vamped the looks o WP communities, I changed the looks of the newsletter also. Haae a good one Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 04:37, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done, Buena Vista and North Park-Richmond Heights added. Thanks for the heads up. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 586. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Nathan Jones was injured in Thailand, after he was hit by a truck. Jones had recently signed a deal with TNA, but will now be out for at least 3 months.
Collaboration of the Week
The Collaboration of the Week has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 586. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
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 23:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC) - Articles selected for Saskatchewan[reply]
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
The election has now been called, so as with all elections we'll need to keep a close eye on the main article, party articles and candidate articles to make sure everything is conforming to policy (read: NPOV) and to watch out for likely edit wars.
Of course it will all be nothing compared to what happens on election night, October 14th, as packs of anon editors update ridings according to who won the first 1% of the vote, so mark that date on your calendar too. -Royalguard11(T) 18:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC) -Canadian Federal Election 2008[reply]
Selected picture:'55 Bel Air dragster 'Touch 'N' Go' at SIR
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Hi Fishhead, I was not able to convince myself on the usefulness of this article. Since it came from a seasoned editor like you, I didn't want to blindly nominate this for deletion. I can see that you have spent considerable amount of energy in coming up with this data and I am not undermining that. But please convince on why wikipedia needs this kind of information. Thanks.--Anshuk (talk) 06:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you the it is a good resource to see who has been on the show. But I am still not convince on why anyone will need this data. It is looking more like a Wikipedia:Trivia sections. I can't expect you to justify your article in front of a random editor. I will try to ask around and get views from others too. Thanks. --Anshuk (talk) 20:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 588. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
Why? He's not known as Shayne Bower... at all. RandySavageFTW (talk) 13:19, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Read WP:UCN. Bower's better known as Wellington. Terry Gerin and Terry Brunk have their respective names because of the Sabu and Rhino articles. RandySavageFTW (talk) 20:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So having a shitty name for a long time means it can't have a good name now? Nice. RandySavageFTW (talk) 09:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 591. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
Individual categories for each rural municipality are being created. It would be good to gather consensus as to which articles should be tagged with an individual RM category. The places names which an RM provides rural government for should be within the individual category for the RM. However, should these areas also be added into the individual RM category: political divisions, points of interest, notable people from the RM, towns with their own urban governments which host the RM office? Add your comments.
Masalai (talk·contribs) The November 2008 award is presented to Masalai for continuous contributions to several articles focusing mainly upon southern Saskatchewan. The knowledge Masalai brings to these articles combines statistical data with diverse notable events pertinent to the topic. Thank you and in this regards please receive a Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight award. Spotlight Award
Extinct Settlements proposed wikiproject
A new wikiproject is being proposed .... Extinct Settlements. Please feel free to add your comments, support or opposition for such a project on wikipedia. There was initially also conversation begun here on WP Cities as well as at WP SK communities.
Curling Wikiproject work group proposal
A Curling task project is being proposed.... As curling is Saskatchewan's provincial sport it may help out some of our community pages. Please feel free to join the discussion with comments, your support or non-support.
Hallowe'en was mild, above seasonal norm for temperatures, and without snow this year!!! On this note a new a new Saskatchewan Communitiessubstitution template has been done up adding the weather statistical table. SriMesh | talk 00:05, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
A posting from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada Roads A bot is going around tagging various articles for missing coordinates. One recent tagging was on Highway 8 (Ontario) (see [3]). Given that a road will have numerous coordinates, what sort of coordinates should be defined for Canadian road articles, if any? Terminus points, perhaps control cities would be obvious candidates. Dl2000 (talk) 02:21, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 592. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
There are currently 601 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
No, there was no deletion debate for the image, it was simply tagged as having no fair use rationale. If one was not added after five days, it would be deleted. This method is closer to a prod than AfD. J Milburn (talk) 10:20, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Get acquainted with the characteristics of Good Articles and help a fellow member get an article to WP:GA.
Use the Newsletter. Add a tidbit that has helped you create an article on a Saskatchewan topic such as research materials, and ideas.
Help out another Saskatchewan editor and provide a peer review on their articles. Feedback can range from brief comments after skimming through a page to a full blown dissection of grammar, structure, and references. Either way, every bit helps. Reviewing another editor's article can help sharpen your writing skills, which in turn can improve the articles you write.
Happy Birthday!
Birthday Cake
According to the December 2007 newsletter, it is one year since Saskatchewan articles have had an assessment department which enable Saskatchewan articles to be rated for importance and quality. The Canadian banner was modified one year ago to help improve Saskatchewan content. Please help to assess via quality and importance Saskatchewan articles by using the parent Canada wikiproject template{{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }}
One year ago the new article department was also established. This new articles department introduces new wikipedia editors who are interested in Saskatchewan and also helps to monitor the expansion of Saskatchewan related articles. The new article department also alerts editors to fledgling articles which may receive tags for improvement.
Natural resources of Saskatchewan
A request has been sent out for information regarding natural resources of Saskatchewan. Can there be an organisation of articles, categories or a list in this regards to satisfy the query?
Saskatchewan Wikiproject facelift request
There will be a Saskatchewan barnstar sent out to any editors who can provide a facelift to the Saskatchewan wikiproject over the next few weeks. There has been a large influx of material to the wikiproject since its inception, and now the material should be re-organised and re-distributed for ease of access.
Maps as reliable sources
There is a l-o-o-ong discussion on the use of maps as reliable primary or secondary sources for wikipedia articles at Regarding maps as primary sources. This has a direct influence on highways and roads articles as well as town and placename articles.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Cocopie (talk·contribs) The December 2008 award is presented to Cocopie who has set up various categories and populated those categories with articles. Cocopie has updated and started various Saskatchewan articles and has also been able to start their talk pages with the wikiproject banner. Thank you for your various contributions to SK related topics.
So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else to Saskatchewan related articles, why don't you give them a reward to show your gratitude? Nominate excellent and notable Saskatchewan editors on Wikipedia who deserve attention, and honour. For every wikipedia user who is mentioned in the spotlight department, they will receive a Wikipedia Saskatchewan Ribbon on their user pages for excellent service! Every newsletter will bring an update to the Spotlight Department, so please keep tuned for other excellent contributors.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
This is a new section in the newsletter to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style, which should help them in editing not only professional wrestling articles, but all articles in general.
Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
If you do not want your information removed from articles, please use proper grammar and cite your sources.
Avoid jargon such as face/babayface, heel, turn, etc. in articles. People unfamiliar with professional wrestling will not understand what these words mean. See WP:JARGON for more information.
Professional wrestling article stats
There are currently 601 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Hello and seasons grettings! I notice you did some puttering on Shaunavon. Would you care to help out... a new editor Amazona with the article Arnold Tremere a nutritonist then agricultural buiness person with the Government of Canada. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 03:45, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
This is a new section in the newsletter to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
There is a new consensus to remove notes such as most reigns, first reign, last reign, etc. in the championships and accomplishments section. See here for more information.
Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
The television show RAW should now be written as Raw per WP:MOSCAPS.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
If a sentence seems like it may not be true or is partially controversial, remove it or add {{fact}} directly after it.
Professional wrestling article stats
There are currently 616 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Signed up the wikiproject for article alerts via B. Wolterding robot. They should show up on the bottom of the main wikiproject page when detected by the robot.
Spotlight Award
Skookum1 (talk·contribs) The January 2009 award is presented to Skookum1 who has diligently upgraded articles in compliance with references, point of view and other wikipedia standards. This generally enriches the quality of articles providing more enhanced encyclopaedic content. January 2009 newsletter
Standardisation for Saskatchewan school division naming
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
We hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of WikiProject Saskatchewan on Wikipedia. Comments and suggestions on improving this newsletter are always welcome, and help us at the wikiproject improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing articles, the portal, the project and the newsletter. Don't hesitate to contact any wikiproject member or post on the WikiProject Saskatchewan talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article. Please put a new sample picture into the next newsletter!!
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
Per WP:MOSCAPS, television shows, such as RAW and iMPACT!, should be written as Raw and Impact!.
Due to a new consensus formed by Wikipedia users, dates should be unlinked in all articles, per WP:MOSNUM.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again, unless the length of the article requires it to be linked a second time. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
Professional wrestling article stats
There are currently 617 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
There are currently 616 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
A search bar has been added to the archive box on the PW project talk page for easier navigation through the archives.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of January.
Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
When editing an article, use the edit summary to provide a brief summary of your edits; this helps users understand what was changed in the article.
There are currently 583 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of January and February.
After debating over a competitive role, it was announced on January 31 by WWE that Mickey Rourke, the star of The Wrestler, would appear at WrestleMania XXV as a guest and not as a competitor.
Editing tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
This list is of topics that may be easy (or are fairly close) to Good Topic status. Consider helping by improving an article on the list that is not yet at Good Article status.
Consider expanding an article from the project's list of stub articles and nominating it at Did You Know?. The project's goal is to have 100 total DYKs by the end of the year.
All Wikipedia articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources.
When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
Addition of content that is likely to be challenged in an article needs to be verified with a reliable source
Do not overlink terms in an article, only make links where they are relevant to the context.
When creating an article that has an image, make sure the image is right-aligned in the lead or in the infobox, per MOS:IMAGES.
Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Article Just How Much You Care On Valentine's Day.
Place a Saskatchewan related article up for peer review, good article nomination or Feature article nomination, and automatically receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Write in to the editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know. We hope you'll enjoy visiting our WikiProject. Our Portal showcases articles we love! Discover the wonderful new articles, images, news items and quotations that are selected by our editors.
Show Your Favorite Saskatchewan Biography Just How Much You Care On Family Day.
Write in to our editors or leave a note on the talk page letting us know of notable upgrades or additions of Saskatchewan biography and receive an I Love Saskatchewan Award!! Saskatchewan biographies are harder to find unless they have a category relating to Saskatchewan or the wikiproject Saskatchewan banner on the talk page. Check point for changes related to Saskatchewan articles
Jwkozak91 (talk·contribs) is a new editor to receive the Spotlight Saskatchewan Award. Jwkozak91 has contributed to the growth of Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia through updates of current information mainly to political articles joining the editorial crew there. Jwkozak91 has shown significant additions to the improved quality of articles, which is the current focus of the Wikproject. A large thank you goes out to Jwkozak91 at this time. Pop by and give Jwkozak91 a pat on the back for their work on WikiProject Saskatchewan.
Bearcat (talk·contribs) The February 2009 award is presented to Bearcat who has kept abreast of political party and people (PPAP) articles and their content. Bearcat not only improves and updates politically inclined articles but provides guidance and coaches others in their edits of political articles as well. Swing on over to the talk page of Bearcat and present them with a barnstar or two, along with a thank you or two for their contribtions to wikipedia as a veteran editor, and for keeping articles with dated content up to date.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
There are currently 584 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Broken external links and Dead links tools that assisted the project in fixing external links has not been updated for a period length of time, and as a result, it is not functioning any longer.
Events Calender
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of February.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Consider expanding an article from the project's list of stub articles and nominating it at Did You Know?. The project's goal is to have 100 total DYKs by the end of the year.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Addition of content that is likely to be challenged in an article needs to be verified with a reliable source
Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
When adding an image to an article, follow MOS:IMAGES and align the image based on the direction the subject of the image is facing.
I am so slow this month. I finally drafted a newsletter to deliver today newsletter, do you have nay additions? This is for next month April...Oh my goodness. SriMesh | talk 21:44, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
T. Mazzei (talk·contribs) The March 2009 award is presented to T. Mazzei who upgrades and creates numerous Saskatchewan articles on a regular basis. It is good to have an editor monitoring articles, and adding wikilinks where needed. A thank you is extended for your consistent efforts.
Please add to the newsletter
Feel free to add to the newsletter, the blank format for the following month is at April issue. Any additions about the direction of the wikiproject, assessment, task forces, issues and opportunities or article improvements are welcome.
Saskatchewan photographs
when you are traveling or looking through old pictures, if there are any of Saskatchewan roads, highways or Saskatchewan highway signs that you would wish to upload to wikimedia commons, it would be appreciated. It would be good to show our highways in various seasons as well as with various geographical terrains. Of especial import when getting involved with photographing highways are junctions, scenic points of interest, historical markers, intersections, divided highways, road crews, historical road crews, historical travel on highways, overpasses, underpasses and road signs showing concurrencies between various highways.
If you have started an article for Saskatchewan, and wikimedia commons does not have a related Saskatchewan image, then place this code on the article's talk page below the banner for Saskatchewan {{reqphotoin|Saskatchewan}} and your request will be added to the above category.
If you have added a request for a map, there are now locator maps for Saskatchewan available which should alleviate some of the requests added at Wikipedia requested maps in Saskatchewan For example see Saskatoon for a locator map in use.
Coordinators and A Class Review
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
. The video games wikiproject took some time to devleop what was important within the scope of their wikiproject for the importance assessment.
TO DO
Saskatchewan clean up and SK communities and are lists 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.
Place this articles for deletion page on your watchlist to know if any Saskatchewan articles are under discussion. Likewise if there are issues with improvements for Saskatchewan check out articles to improve periodically. At the moment this article name has been changed Rural Division has been changed to Saskatchewan Rivers School Division(NPOV) and there has been discussion if placenames require the added note that it is Foo, Saskatchewan or if the article can remain as the placename name: Foo. In this regards this article which needs disambiguation has not been reduced to placename title only. Regina --> Regina, Saskatchewan
Please welcome new editors to wikipedia who are trying their hand at writing articles, at new Saskatchewan articles
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
There are currently 581 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The WP:PW Cleanup listing was updated this week by the bot for the first time since October. A number of Featured lists, Featured articles, and Good articles are listed as having problems. Anyone who fixes an problem with an article should remove it from the listing, so we can accurately keep track of it. All members are encouraged to help out.
There is an ongoing discussion here regarding what constitutes a "World Championship". All members are encouraged to particpate in the discussion.
Events Calender
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.
It was announced on the February 16 episode of Raw that Terry and Dory Funk, Jr. will be the second and third inductees, into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009; they will be inducted by Dusty Rhodes.
HDNet announced that episode airings of Ring of Honor would begin on March 31.
It was reported by a Nielsen Media Research ratings report that the February 19 broadcast of TNA's Impact earned a 1.3 television rating, the highest rounded number the promotion has ever drawn.
WWE announced the release of Scotty Goldman from the company.
On an episode of Friday Night SmackDown, WWE announced the return of Gail Kim to the promotion via a video promo.
It was reported on February 21 that Sonjay Dutt had been released from his TNA contract, and this was confirmed with the removal of his profile from TNA's official website.
On February 20, it was reported that Freddie Prinze, Jr., a scriptwriter for Friday Night SmackDown, had been released from his contract with WWE.
On February 23:
Afa Anoa'i, Jr., known by his ring name "Manu", was released from his WWE contract.
On Raw, it was announced that Ricky Steamboat will be the fourth inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009; he will be inducted by Ric Flair.
On February 25, WWE announced that they had discontinued the WWE One Night Stand name, and that their 2009 event would be replaced with the name 'Extreme Rules'.
ROH taped the first episode airings of their television series for HDNet on February 28 from the The Arena.
Editing tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Do not overlink terms in an article, only make links where they are relevant to the context, and only link each item once. Tables are the exception to this rule, e.g. the results table in pay-per-view articles.
When editing an article, use the edit summary to provide a brief summary of your edits; this helps users understand what was changed in the article.
I was around and about, and saw this page WP Ice Hockey Peer review. Methinks it is slick, and mayhaps this WP SK pr should get changed in emulation What thinks you? SriMesh | talk 03:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
There are currently 559 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Events Calender
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.
There are currently 564 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
The Article alerts for WP:PW is now up and running. This page lists recent changes that affect the status of an article in a variety of categories. Please use this in maintaining the articles of the project.
Events Calender
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of April.
It was reported by a Nielsen Media Research ratings report that the March 19 broadcast of TNA Impact! earned a 1.34 television rating, the highest number the promotion has ever drawn.
Howard Finkel was announced as the seventh inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009 via WWE's official website.
Editing tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Consider expanding an article from the project's list of stub articles and nominating it at Did You Know?. The project's goal is to have 100 total DYKs by the end of the year, and we are currently on 74.
When editing an article, use the edit summary to provide a brief summary of your edits; this helps users understand what was changed in the article.
All Wikipedia articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
Participate in Wikimania 2009. Wikimania 2009 will be held August 26-28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the San Martín Cultural Center. They are accepting presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open space discussions, and artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects. Deadlines are April 15 and April 30. Would anyone like to assemble a poster about WP SK?
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
From April 10 to May 10, WP:PW will be hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found here and all memebers are encouraged to get involved.
Events Calender
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of April.
Hey there, I noticed your work with NHL alumni on the Telus Cup article. Because it's such a large list, what do you think about giving it its own article? Orlandkurtenbach (talk) 03:58, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
WP:PW is currently hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found here and all members are encouraged to get involved, with two weeks left to go.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of April and May.
Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
Place Saskatchewan articles on your watchlist to help prevent vandalism. Peek in on the newly created high school articles periodically as well as the Saskatoon article.
Saskatoon
There is a renovation and upgrade project being tackled on the Saskatoon article. Please Be bold and join the discussion or help promote the article to GA.
Caronport, Saskatchewan
Please expand city, town, village and hamlet articles especially if you have first hand knowledge of them, which would develop facts and help in knowing where to find resources, citations and sources. For example Caronport, Saskatchewan is a recent request
Please register new DYK, GA, FA, news articles and any photographs or media at the WP talk page, newsletter tips or the Portal talk page for inclusion into the Portal and the next news letter. The portal has been through peer review, and is awaiting more inclusion to proceed to Featured Portal nominations.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
Over the past month, WP:PW hosted the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. In one month, the number of stub-class articles was reduced from 562 (13.84% of the project's total articles) to 477 (11.64%). More work expanding stubs is always appreciated. See here for more information.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of May.
WWE signed April Jeanette, better known by her ring name Miss April, to a developmental contract.
On May 8, WWE signed Fred Sampson to a developmental contract.
TNA announced a new television show, TNA Epics, that will broadcast its inaugural show on May 15 on Bravo in the United Kingdom.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of May 10, we are at 11.64%, with 483 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source an improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of May and June.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
Please vote on the featured article status of this article, as it was promoted to FA quite awhile ago, and FA status requirements have changed. The above list was merged into the List of universities in Canada.
Use the Outreach welcome template and extend a welcome to new users who are writing about Saskatchewan.
Biographies
With father's day upcoming, focus is on writing up some biographies on some notable Saskatchewan people. Please categorise these with one of the sub categories from Category:People from Saskatchewan and use the talk page banner and check off Saskatchewan=yes as biographies are harder to trace for inclusion than other Saskatchewan titular articles. With such categories-banners being used, the articles are more likely to be found and expanded by other Saskatchewan users. Take some time to find biographies of Saskatchewan folk on wikipedia currently and categorise-banner them as well.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads 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.
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.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 7, we are at 11.76%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 21, we are at 11.73%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
The WP:PW cleanup listing was updated for the first time in three months. Please help out with fixing any of the problems listed, and removing them from the list.
There is an on-going discussion here regarding the "In wrestling" section of biographies, and what should and should not be included. All opinions are welcome.
Events Calendar
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June.
Triple H returned to WWE television after a two-month hiatus.
On June 9, WWE reported that Batista had suffered a complete torn left bicep. He underwent surgery to repair it the followingday, and is expected to have at least four months of rehabilitation.
Referee Ted Tanabe died at the age of 46, after suffering a heart attack in the ring the previous night while officiating a match at a live event for Osaka Pro Wrestling.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, tou can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain consensus from the project first.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
Amidst summer festivals, tourism and agricultural activities, the July newsletter is out amongst us. While you are out and about, take a festival photog, or photograph a visit to the park, or perhaps a flax field. Perhaps, add an article about your favourite festival or Saskatchewan tourism destination, increase what is online about our national, provincial or regional sites.
Dominion Day now known as Canada Day is celebrated July 1, 2009. Please help develop articles about our members of parliament articles, and National Historic Sites in Saskatchewan!
Museums
Several community museums are only open during the summer months in Saskatchewan, please visit them, ask questions, take photographs, place them on wikipedia. Virtual Museum of Canada - Calendar of Events - Discover events which are offered during the summer months.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.97%, with 499 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
The WP:PW cleanup listing was updated again on June 21. Please help out with fixing any of the problems listed, and removing them from the list.
Events Calendar
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of July.
Two midget professional wrestlers, La Parkita and Espectrito Jr, were killed in a hotel room in Mexico, allegedly overdosing on a drug used to spike their beverages.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.72%, with 492 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
A discussion is currently ongoing regarding the "In wrestling" sections of biographies. Please join in here.
Events Calendar
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of July.
On July 3, during a WWE live event in San Diego, California, Edge suffered a torn Achilles tendon while wrestling in a match. He underwent surgery on July 7, and will require rehabilitation which will sideline him from in-ring competition.
It was revealed that WWE had signed Nick Dinsmore to a contract.
Brian Lawler was jailed for 30 days after failing to attend an in-patient treatment center as part of his plea agreement, following his arrest for public intoxication on June 26.
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a {{fact}} tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain consensus from the project first.
It has been one year since the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods underwent a facelift and assessment banner update. The Banner helps to identify the quality of placename articles and which to focus attention on, and the wikiproject helps to coordinate the efforts of all interested editors! Thank you very much.
This is your newsletter and we want you to be part of it as well. Provide us with news tips on the Newsletter tip line for future beginnings of the next newsletter edition.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 2, we are at 11.96%, with 505 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
The style guide has been updated to reflect the new consensus on the formatting in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and the new format can be found at WP:PW/SG#In wrestling. Please help out in converting all biographies to the new format.
Events Calendar
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of August.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
Be aware of the new format in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and apply the relevant section (WP:PW/SG#In wrestling) to new articles that you create, or previously created articls that have not yet been updated after the change.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.13%, with 519 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of August.
It was announced through various wrestling news sites that Jeff Jarrett had sold his final shares of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to the Carter family and would be returning to the promotion as a wrestler only.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.09%, with 518 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of September.
On the August 20 episode of TNA Impact!, an eight-team tournament to crown the first TNA Women's Knockout Tag Team Champions was announced. The tournament will commence on the August 27 episode of Impact!.
On August 27, WWE announced that, effective of September 2, they will be suspending Rey Mysterio for a violation of the Wellness Program.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a [citation needed] tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
Labour Day & Saskatchewan's Anniversary Article Drive
Labour Day is Monday September 1, and Saskatchewan celebrates its 104 anniversary of joining confederation on September 4, 1905. Goal would be to improve the Saskatchewan article to feature status or add main Saskatchewan topical articles or improve topics of Saskatchewan articles.
The Portal:Saskatchewan is undergoing its second anniversary showcasing to the WWW wikipedia articles about Saskatchewan content which have achieved good or featured class criteria. Please add more contributions to wikipedia and to the portal itself. If you have suggestions for the portal or want help with the "box formatting style of programming" drop a note on the portal talk page.
With fall and school starting up this late August and early September, it is time to start or upgrade the various secondary and post secondary education and Higher education in Saskatchewan articles for Saskatchewan or help with requests . Ensure that principals, vice principals, and current curricula and extracurricular activities are accurate for the 2009-2010 school year. Notable changes in curricula and extracurricular activities could be added to a history section. The newest education article seems to be an U of S article on the University of Saskatchewan Physical Activity Complex. List of universities in Canada this article was recently demoted from Featured list status. If anyone can work on this article and the new requirements to get it re-instated this would be awesome.
Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter[edit]
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of September.
Bryan Danielson won the PWG World Championship by defeating Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain consensus from the project first.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of October.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
If there was a collaboration department, then the North-West Rebellion, and its several child articles such as its battles and people would be excellent articles to find references for, expand and achieve GA or FA status. In the words of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell who proclaimed, that "the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today."[1]
At this time, as well, the articles Aboriginal peoples in Canada and First Nations are undergoing GA review. For an idea of updating the Northwest Rebellion articles watch these two articles or assist with their upgrade.
Feature articles are being re-called due to a lack of "alt tags" for the images included in the articles, as in the ongoing screening of FA articles; Canada and Territorial evolution of Canada. When beginning or updating a Saskatchewan related article, ensure the use of alt tags, which will save time later when upgrading the article.
Please make use of Wikipedia School and University projects and project instrutions on wikipedia, inform fellow students, classes, or school instructors. Higher education in Saskatchewan, was a part of a project that encompassed higher education in all the provinces and territories of Canada. As well students in public schools have been working on Saskatchewan town articles in the past.
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan wikiproject and Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue! Any and all contributions are welcome.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of October 21, we are at 11.96%, with 524 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
On October 2, the project reached its goal of 150 DYKs, and the number has continued to rise. Congratulations to everyone who helped in achieving this goal.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of October.
The Perros del Mal promotion announced a television deal with Televisa Canal 9.
On the September 29 episode of ECW, William Regal was announced as the interim general manager, as Tiffany had been injured in a kayfabe car crash. This storyline was put in place as Tiffany suffered a broken humerus at the Florida Championship Wrestling television tapings on September 24, but she was able to return to television on the October 6 episode of ECW.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of October 25, we are at 11.79%, with 520 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of October and November.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to WrestleMania XXIV, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. TJSpyke 22:10, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you had read my edit summary, you would also see that I don't think the "award" is notable. If I thought it was notable, I would have tried to source it. Also, you should archive your talkpage since it is really large. TJSpyke 00:13, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am not alone, another veteran editor removed it as being not notable. I like PWR and listen to their podcast, but I don't think their awards are that notable. TJSpyke 15:13, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The burden of proof is you to prove their awards awards are notable, not on us to prove they aren't notable. Also, 2 editors think they are not notable vs. 1 who thinks they are. As for "Chuck Taylor", I don't know who you are talking about. There are lots of possible uses for that name. TJSpyke 19:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi you have added information to the Jim Ross Article that is sourced by a Youtube video of a non notable award if you can find a source that proves its notability we would be happy to add the information to the page.--Dcheagle (talk) 07:48, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of November.
Hulk Hogan held a press conference to announce that he has signed with TNA. It was later revealed that Eric Bischoff has also signed, and he and Hogan will be the new bookers.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of November 8, we are at 11.76%, with 521 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of November 22, we are at 11.68%, with 558 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of November and December.
WWE's official website announced the retirement of Jamie Noble on November 10.
On November 11, it was announced that TNA had released Sojournor Bolt from her contract.
On November 12, BBC News reported that Welsh wrestler Orig Williams, better known as El Bandito, died at the age of 78.
Paul London won the NorthEast Wrestling Championship on November 13 by defeating Jason Blade.
Dragon Gate announced that they had released Cyber Kong from his contract. Kong suffered a neck injury in late October, and did not feel he was healing well enough to return to wrestling, and so requested his release.
Sky Sports announced that it would begin to broadcast Superstars in Britain on December 11. It will also start broadcasting This Week in WWE, which will first air on January 3.
On November 20, it was reported that WWE had re-signed Mikey Batts to work as a referee.
It was reported on November 21 that TNA had signed British wrestler, "Sweet" Saraya Knight to a contract.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
Converting a list to prose is advised under these WP guideline type pages...Embedded listsWP:USCITY and WP:UKCITIES The list or bulleted style can be changed back if desired, tis best if all collaborating editors are working in the same happy point of view especially as you are probably the main contributor. I will try over the next little while also to find a way to bring both list/prose format together better / more eloquently. If perchance the article were to go to GA or FA nomination it may need a precedent in another GA/FA article with an embedded list which passed criteria. I will also try to get to look at the neighbourhood article rating over the next while as well, which was your previous note on the talk page. Sorry for the delay hugely swamped at the moment in activity. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 03:53, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
-->What thinks you of this table format List_of_people_from_Youngstown,_Ohio, keeps tiny bit of prose, and the best features of a list together, keeps the notable folks orderly and easy to find, while stating the reason for their notablity briefly along with a citation in the table field. I think a table format would succeed at a nomination process in GA or FA and the article is indeed getting so terribly close to this step.
Adding a note on research so far.
SriMesh | talk 01:27, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. Ok I will proceed again with changes in a bit. I don't know why I only got part way through the notable people in prose and point format mixed, and didn't finish, I think it may have been other conflicts of time, and then I forgot where I left off, but now will get back, and follow along with your notes, perhaps the table format without sections will be a good way to start up and see how it goes. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 16:42, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well got a start on the table format, but not all the people are verified with a citation to prove that they are not spammed entries. And I don't have notes on all of them about why they are particularly notable. But the nice thing is it is consistently formatted now, and not half and half, my goodness!! SriMesh | talk 20:48, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is the third December newsletter for the Saskatchewan wikiproject, and two years since we inaugurated the assessment template! It is also how the anniversary of our Saskatchewan new article robot page which helps to identify new articles with Saskatchewan content and future contributors. 2007, 2008
Holiday greetings to everyone editing on wikipedia and especially those helping Saskatchewan find its niche so others on the WWW can know something of this prairie province of Canada. Please invite a fellow editor for a nice cup of tea and a sit down
Photography city scavenger hunts
In the same vein as this Wikipedia Takes The City Scavenger Hunt Contest, please roam around Saskatchewan taking important photographs of your local area, city or neighbourhood or town, school, park, forest, statue, memorial, main street, cityscape view which are needed for various wikipedia articles. If you wish just use this online tool to help upload available public domain and fair use images to wikimedia commons.
Assessment
With 2,442 stubs, there are 73% of articles relating to Saskatchewan which are stubs, describing the province in minimal detail. There are 6 articles and lists which reached feature status. These detailed, and informative feature quality sections amount to 0.2% of the Saskatchewan content. It would be nice if these percentages could be reversed. Everyone's help is requested to make the drive a success.
Portal Saskatchewan
Please make regular visits to the portal and perhaps make it your browser home page. Nominations for selected articles and pictures for the portal are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just worke on to achieve Good Article status or the super picture you took the last time you attended a festival in Saskatchewan.
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives are listed since the conception of the wikiproject and show the evolution of Saskatchewan wikiproject and Saskatchewan articles on wikipedia. Please feel free to contribute to the Next Issue!(January 2010 - Post your news years resolution) Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help improve it in the coming new year. Keep contributing and editing articles, and don't hesitate to contact the wikiproject talk page if you need help. Any and all contributions are welcome.
Please add new articles and as the newsletter acquires new information an update will be sent out to all subscribers signed up on WikiProject Saskatchewan Subscribers
There has been a surge of growth in communities around and about Saskatchewan. Please look at the New articles section to keep updated.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of December 6, we are at 12.63%, with 601 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of December.
On November 24, it was reported that British wrestler "Sweet" Saraya Knight had not signed a contract with TNA, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
On November 25, it was reported that ring announcerLauren C. Mayhew had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
On November 27, 2009, it was reported that wrestler "Sexy" Lexi Pillman (Alexa Pillman), Brian Pillman's step-daughter, had died due to injuries sustained in a car accident earlier that day.
On November 30, British Sky Broadcasting announced they had signed a new five year contract with WWE.
On December 1, WWE and Titan Publishing announced the creation of a comic book, WWE Heroes, with the first issue set to be released in March 2010.
Eddie Fatu, better known as Umaga, died on December 4 due to a heart attack. He had been rushed to the hospital earlier that day in a critical condition after his wife found him unresponsive with blood running from his nose.
On December 5, TNA announced that they would be holding a live, three-hour special Monday edition of TNA Impact! on Janauary 4, 2009 to compete against WWE Raw.
Editing Tips
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and we only have short amount of time left to achieve them this year. Please consider helping out by achieving an aim listed.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of December 20, we are at 11.29%, with 531 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of December and January.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Contributors to this Issue
From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!
Hello! Here is the new October newsletter for WikiProject Saskatchewan, showing recent developments, challenges, and successes for the 'Saskatchewan wikipedia community. Thank you for perusing our newsletter!
Please help develop the November newsletter by adding your new Saskatchewan related article contributions on wikipedia. Also add any considerations for WikiProject Saskatchewan|SK articles, roads, communities and neighbourhoods article growth on Wikipedia. Or just pop a note in to add a seasons greetings to others on Wiki Saskatchewan. SriMesh | talk 02:25, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
. Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next article for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, October 28.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to WrestleMania XXIV, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. TJ Spyke 22:10, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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