Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Diego/Archive 2
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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
San Diego April 2015 meetup idea
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
San Diego County meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:37, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
- Location and time finalized. Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Murder of Shaima Alawadi#Blanking
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Murder of Shaima Alawadi#Blanking. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:21, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
You're invited to a local meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:25, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Convention panel participation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#January 2016. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
Late April Early May works
In case others would be interested in collaborating, I am working to improve the article South Bay Salt Works and a section which should interest this project Floods in the United States: 1901–2000#Southern California Floods - January 1916. As we're coming on its 100 year anniversary, the latter should be improved IMHO. I will ping individuals who have worked on the article History of San Diego to see if I can garner interest: MelanieN, SusanLesch, Rjensen, Lrd1rocha.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:36, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2015
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:46, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!
- What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
- When? June 2015
- How can you help?
- 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
- 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
- 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)
Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.
Thanks, and happy editing!
About Cabrillo
Anybody from Project San Diego - could you please take a look at Talk:Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo? There has been a possibly historic discovery about our buddy Cabrillo, but I am not sure how to handle it in the article. Thanks for any opinions. --MelanieN (talk) 17:47, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
San Diego Wiknic - July 9, 2016
You are invited to the annual picnic of San Diego-area Wikimedians on Saturday, July 9. Join us! --Worldbruce (talk) 22:21, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions
--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:42, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Start a usergroup?
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#Late October 2016 meetup . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 02:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
LocationSearch
@MelanieN: and others please see this post about a subject that falls within this project's scope: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force#Move Locaid Page & Update Content.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:31, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Invitation to a San Diego edit-a-thon
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/May 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:08, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject San Diego/Archive 2/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject San Diego.
We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
- The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
- The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
- The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).
We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject San Diego, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.
Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Invitation to San Diego wiknic and bonfire
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2017 Wiknic. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:44, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Invitation to June 2017 San Diego meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:11, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
San Diego meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/November 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:29, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Invitation to December meetup event
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/December 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:22, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
San Diego January meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/January 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:09, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Class-A Review of Goat Canyon Trestle
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport/Peer review . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Invitation to San Diego 2018 Bonfire
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/April 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:44, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Invitation to attend a meetup in Temecula
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/May 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:41, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Invitation to attend a meetup in San Diego
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:06, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 11:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Invitation to attend a meetup in Balboa Park
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:11, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
San Diego meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/October 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:42, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Mission Valley meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/September 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 14:34, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Chula Vista meetup invitation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/November 2018 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 02:27, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Invitation for a Edit a thon in Chula Vista
Who: All members of the public
What: A Edit a thon in Chula Vista.
When: Sunday 11 November 2018, 2:00PM PST / 1400 until 4:00PM PST / 1600
Where: Chula Vista Public Library Civic Center Branch
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to limited space available.
The City of Chula Vista Public Library does not advocate nor endorse the views or positions expressed by the users of its facilities.
— Chula Vista Public Library Meeting Room Policy
(Delivered: 21:29, 1 November 2018 (UTC) You can unsubscribe from future invitations to San Diego Wikimedians User Group events by removing your name from the WikiProject San Diego mass mailing list.)
Problem of climate data of Los Angeles and San Diego
Please read: Talk:Los_Angeles#Climate_data_-_problem. Subtropical-man (talk / en-2) 00:44, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Invitation to attend a mini Unconference in Mission Valley
Who: All members of the public
What: San Diego mini Unconference.
When: Sunday 3 February 2019, 6:00PM PST / 1800 until 7:30PM PST / 1930
Where: Starbucks at Fenton Marketplace
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to the limited size of the cafe.
(Delivered: 01:30, 25 January 2019 (UTC) You can unsubscribe from future invitations to San Diego Wikimedians User Group events by removing your name from the WikiProject San Diego mass mailing list.)
Invitation to attend a Southern California Regional mini Unconference
Who: All Wikipedians & Wikimedians
What: Southern California Regional mini Unconference.
When: Sunday 3 March 2019, 2:00PM PST / 1400 until 4:10PM PST / 1610
Where: Philippe's at Chinatown, Los Angeles
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to the limited size of the cafe.
(Delivered: 00:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC) You can unsubscribe from future invitations to San Diego Wikimedians User Group events by removing your name from the WikiProject San Diego mass mailing list & the Los Angeles mass mailing list.)
Invitation for a Edit a thon in Chula Vista
Who: All members of the public
What: A Edit a thon in Chula Vista.
When: Sunday 14 April 2019, 2:00PM PST / 1400 until 4:00PM PST / 1600
Where: Chula Vista Public Library Civic Center Branch
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to limited space available.
The City of Chula Vista Public Library does not advocate nor endorse the views or positions expressed by the users of its facilities.
— Chula Vista Public Library Meeting Room Policy
(Delivered: 06:10, 18 March 2019 (UTC) You can unsubscribe from future invitations to San Diego Wikimedians User Group events by removing your name from the WikiProject San Diego mass mailing list.)
Wikimedia movement strategy conversation
You are invited to join the discussion at meta:Talk:San Diego Wikimedians User Group#Wikimedia movement strategy conversation . RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 23:50, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
- – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Invitation for a Edit a thon in San Diego
Who: All members of the public
What: A Edit a thon in Mission Valley, San Diego.
When: Sunday 9 June 2019, 1:00PM PDT / 1300 until 3:00PM PDT / 1500
Where: Mission Valley Branch Library
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: DrMel (talk · contribs) & RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to limited space available.
Granting permission to use library facilities does not constitute endorsement by the San Diego Public Library, the Board of Library Commissioners, or the City of San Diego. No advertisement or announcement implying such endorsement is permitted, unless written permission to do so has been previously given by the Library.
— San Diego Public Library Meeting Room Policies
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Invitation for a Edit a thon near Comic-Con International 2019
Who: All members of the public
What: A near Comic-Con International Edit a thon.
When: Sunday 21 July 2019, 1:00PM PDT / 1300 until 3:00PM PDT / 1500
Where: San Diego Central Library
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: DrMel (talk · contribs) & RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, due to limited space available.
Granting permission to use library facilities does not constitute endorsement by the San Diego Public Library, the Board of Library Commissioners, or the City of San Diego. No advertisement or announcement implying such endorsement is permitted, unless written permission to do so has been previously given by the Library.
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Southern California Wiknic & Bonfire invitation
Who: All members of the public
What: Southern California Wiknic & Bonfire.
When: Sunday 1 September 2019, 2:00PM PDT / 1400 until 10:00PM PDT / 2200
Where: La Jolla Shores
Sponsor: San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )
Your host: RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs)
Please add your username to our attendees list so we know how many will be attending, and please add your intended potluck contribution to the list.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject San Diego at 18:27, 1 August 2019 (UTC). You can unsubscribe from future invitations to San Diego Wikimedians User Group events by removing your name from the WikiProject San Diego mass mailing list, and from the Southern California meet-up group by removing your name from the LA meet-ups mailing list.
Cultural school
I am curious as to where best to place a red link to Filipino School? It is an educational institution but not a primary, secondary, or post-secondary school. I am of the opinion that it meets WP:ORG. It has received WP:SIGCOV per the following sources: KNSD, GMA News, Rappler, ABS-CBN News, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and NBC News.
I was thinking should it be at Culture of San Diego, or Demographics of Filipino Americans#San Diego County, or Education in San Diego.--RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 21:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- Definitely the Demographics article. I don’t see a good place for it at San Diego/Education or Culture of San Diego. But here’s a thought: I can almost envision an overall article called Filipino cultural schools, built around the NBC News piece. That source highlights the Filipino School of New York and New Jersey - another redlink - as well as the ones in San Diego and Cerritos. Google also finds schools in Norwalk (or maybe Artesia), Bellflower (founded in 1965)… there’s probably a lot more. Could be a big job needing a lot of research but I think such an article would certainly meet guidelines. -- MelanieN (talk) 22:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Invitation to attend event
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/March 2020/International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon . RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 03:57, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Request for help: San Diego Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon in March 2020
Hi everyone!
I am organizing an edit-a-thon in the last week of March that will focus on women artists relevant to the San Diego community. What is the best way for me to connect with members who might be interested in 1) participating either in-person or online and/or 2) be willing to help as a trainer/instructor/helper during these events? Please, any guidance is appreciated! Thank you so much. Praxis2020 (talk) 16:42, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Praxis2020: Is this for the Edit-a-Thon which is linked above? If so, this is as good a place as any on Wikipedia, as this WikiProject is open to all editors who want to improve articles related to the geographic scope of San Diego County. Not all who edit within this field of articles are local to the geographic scope, but many are. Other WikiProjects which might be good places to ask for assistance is WikiProject University of California, and WikiProject California. Other groups that are thematically relevant are WikiProject Women in Red and Art+Feminism User Group. Also contacting the Wiki Education Foundation may also provide additional resources.--RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 03:02, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
San Diego in-person Wikimania 2021 mixer
| Saturday 14 August 2021: San Diego in-person Wikimania 2021 mixer | |
|---|---|
 You are invited to the San Diego in-person Wikimania 2021 mixer on Saturday 14 August, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm at American Legion Albert J. Hickman, Post 460, in Kearny Mesa, San Diego. Join Wikimedians from San Diego, and from throughout Southern California, at one of a few in-person events happening throughout the world to commemorate the virtual Wikimania 2021. Visit our event page for more information at your convenience. We hope to see you there! --RightCowLeftCoast (talk · contribs) | |
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:16, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
SoCal WIKNIK Summer 2020 Meetup - far reaching! Help Plan?
Hi all, anyone want to help me start planning a SoCal WIKNIK Summer 2020 Meetup?! Invitation/reach would include much of California, soCal, Inland Empire, Riverside, possibly Tijuana Mexico, ..but invites would specifically reach especially LA, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego... Is anyone interested in helping to plan this? Please contact me. Thanks! --From Peter a.k.a. Vid2vid (here's his talk page), 🖋 on 18:51, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Vid2vid: Such a large reaching event would need to involve Wikimedians of Los Angeles, which has the large geographical scope of Greater Los Angeles, as well as Wikimedia Mexico whose geographical scope includes Baja California.--RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 02:03, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
I am looking for help to preserve an important and rich SD story regarding a now defunct University (USIU).
I was trying to get the page started and then let the wider community contribute as there are so many rich threads associated with this (and I am a total novice on Wiki). There are disparate pages on Wikipedia out there which I have included below, but I believe this needs to be organized into one page.
Wiki Admin has told me the page already exists so I can't publish it, referring to Alliant International Univ. However, these two organizations are now really distinct. Alliant is a for-profit corporation (2015), USIU was a not-for-profit liberal arts school with a rich collegiate background. It was suggested that I publish it all to the Alliant page which 'exists'. Then later suggest a separate page for it. I need help to accomplish this (novice).
The fact is that for +50 years of existence USIU was always in financial trouble. In 2001 it merged with another school, California School for Professional Psychology (CSPP). CSPP was also in equally dire straits. The new entity was called Alliant International University. Somehow CSPP's legacy has been preserved with its own Wiki Page, but USIU does not have one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_School_of_Professional_Psychology
In 1966, The Cal West Univ president created USIU. It was a beautiful attempt at creating one university with campuses all around the world - To bring the world closer (in 1966 can you imagine). The land for their main campus is now Point Loma Nazarene. It had an athletics program that produced professional NFL and NHL players (yes Ice Hockey in San Diego at a university, at the time any ice hockey west of Colorado was considered ridiculous - and still is?). The mascot was the 'Gulls" - Which is now the SD pro Team's namesake. There are numerous articles I have found, from Sports Illustrated as well as coverage by the Union Tribune, Reader, etc. Not just Ice Hockey, USIU produced NFL players and had one of the most legendary coaches in Football history did a stint there. For basketball there is even a documentary about one of its basketball players, who still holds a Division 1 record for his time there. He was made homeless when the program got cut and he lost his scholarship. This is really a forgotten SD legacy.
The larger community has tried to establish some sort of legacy with its own Alumni page (Separate from Alliant).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_International_University_alumni
And an: Ice Hockey Team has a page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_International_Gulls_men%27s_ice_hockey
It is odd that these exist without a link to USIU.
Now to make things a little worse, in 2015 Alliant International became a For-Profit Corporation (no athletics, completely different entity as well.) I feel this is big distinction with USIU, and further warrants USIU to have its own distinct page in the large encyclopedia context as a point of reference. The goals of Alliant are now drastically different from USIU.
I think it is a great read so far and definitely can become better with retrieval of more articles especially from the school archives. For example, one thread I have only brushed the surface on is about the wealthy international students who attended. For example, there was a Saudi Prince's there who had a road paved for his luxury car because he didn't like the gravel (ridiculous right?). Another is, at the height of the cold war USIU had Russian and American kids together here in SD on one Ice Hockey team.
Can anyone out there help me preserve this which is: the good, bad and visionary legacy of the USIU story better on Wiki?
--Happy2Help619 (talk) 14:55, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Happy2Help619 (talk • contribs) 03:58, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Update: I stumbled across this notice in February 2021 and immediately realized that of course USIU needs an article - a university with a 80-year history! The proposed draft had been rejected as "already covered at Wikipedia", but there was no article, just a redirect. So I improved the draft a little (it was already in very good shape) and moved it to mainspace as an article. It is now at United States International University. Better late than never. -- MelanieN (talk) 20:37, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
You're invited to an Edit-A-Thon on Monday 25 September 2023
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/September 2023. RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 22:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
"Hillcrest, California" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Hillcrest, California has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 29 § Hillcrest, California until a consensus is reached. RL0919 (talk) 02:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Alvarado station#Requested move 13 September 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Alvarado station#Requested move 13 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 04:04, 21 September 2024 (UTC)