Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Government Agencies

The Project

I just started work on this, I will finish up the page soon. Feel free to contact me on my talk page. I would love for others to get involved CuBiXcRaYfIsH 08:06, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Proposed portal

I'm not sure if this WikiProject is active now, but I'd be willing to help out. It ties together with a new portal that I have proposed to cover U.S. Government topics. I have been working on Portals for a while, and find them a useful way to organize information by topics. The proposal is at Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals#United_States_Government, with a mock-up of the portal at User:Kmf164/United States Government. For a better idea of how portals work, check out Wikipedia:Featured portals. My thoughts were to use part of the portal to highlight featured articles and pictures. Another part of it could highlight current events (news stories, as well as things like current/pending legislation, nominations, Supreme Court cases/decisions, etc.). The third part could be some topic directory. The last section could highlight WikiProjects and things to do. I'd like to know if has suggestions on improving the draft. Also, would anyone here be interested in helping to maintain it, should it be approved. Maintenance would most importantly involve keeping the current events updated, but also choosing articles and pictures to feature, maintaining the list of articles/categories, etc. I think the best place to provide input is at User_talk:Kmf164/United_States_Government. Thanks. --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:28, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Question

Whats the Difference between the FBI and CIA (Im not from the US)

The FBI, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is basically the "police force" for the Federal government, and deals primarily with criminal matters which extend beyond any single state's boundaries. The CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, is the United States' primary intelligence agency, and deals primarily with intelligence-related matters, much like MI5 (James Bond's agency) or other similar agencies elsewhere. It operates more with matters of intelligence and national security. I hope that helps a little. As I don't know which country you're from, I can't point to any specific counterpart from your own country. Badbilltucker 16:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Scope of Project

Is it the project's intention to deal with matters beyond the governmental entities per se? Would, for instance, cabinet secretaries, heads of agencies, etc., fall in the project's scope or not? I'm only really asking the question so I can know whether you would want the project's banner placed on any of the various officeholders or not. Badbilltucker 16:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Template for agencies?

I was editing the Selective Service System article and I wanted to change the intext {|class="toccolours"....} bit with a template. So, I started looking at other agencies and departments to find a standard template. To my surprise I found out that there isn't one being used. I was wondering if such a template exists and where would I find it. If it doesn't, I'd be willing to create one for the project. --Kimon^talk 20:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Feedback request for navboxes

In Category:United States government navigational boxes, I'm looking for feedback on the layout of these templates. Please see {{US Presidents}} version here which uses {{Navigation with image}} and the other version there which uses the {{Dynamic navigation box with image}}. Similar comparisons can be seen at Template talk:US First Ladies and Template talk:USChiefJustices. — MrDolomite • Talk 02:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Peer review of Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy

The article Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy touches on presidential, congressional and government-agency wikipedia projects. In case you're interested, a peer review request has been posted to Wikipedia:Peer review#Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. – Yellowdesk 14:55, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Revamp

Hello, I just joined this group as my main interest in editing (at least to start) is going to be looking at government agencies. My main interest will be in looking for POV, and also fact checking/sourcing/etc. Anyway, I think the main page here at the project could use a major overhaul, and I would like to start there. Any members have objections/suggestions? Thanks! Drake Maijstral 19:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Announcing the birth of...

Template:Infobox Government agency, a new baby infobox template weighing in a 3.25kb, born to proud parent Thewinchester and delivered in the birthing suite by Orderinchaos. Designed as a decent and well strucutured infobox for government agencies, both it and its parent are doing well. We look forward to watching this infobox grow into into a healthy template. Thewinchester ^(talk) 15:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Generalizing {{Infobox Government agency}} to handle more than just agencies

Hi everyone. I just made a proposal at {{Infobox Government agency}} to generalize it to handle more than just agencies. In a nutshell, it would move the code to {{Infobox Govt Unit}} and then the agency template would call that. For non-agency pages, they could just use the more general {{Infobox Govt Unit}} instead of the agency template {{Infobox Government agency}}. This will allow all of the articles on government departments, offices, bureaus, commands, administrations, and programs to have a standard infobox, instead of just agencies. Right now this template is used in departments and offices (for example United States Department of Defense), but with incorrect subtitles, which my proposal will fix. I'd appreciate people reading the proposal and commenting on it at Template talk:Infobox Government agency#Proposed new version. Thanks, --CapitalR 00:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

It should be noted this user has been unwilling to even discuss this matter at the infobox's talk page, being more inclined to enter a revert war over it yesterday which led to the article's protection. There now appears to be a bit of forum shopping going on to find a venue amenable to his ideas. I would suggest the talk page of the template is a better venue. Orderinchaos 04:15, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Request for Peer Review

I have requested a peer review of the CIA main article, in order to gain some new perspective on the page. I invite anyone interested to please contribute their thoughts. Please find the peer review page for it here. Thanks! (Morethan3words (talk) 10:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC))

Wholesale replacement of USPS content

See Talk:United States Postal Service#Wholesale replacement of USPS content. – Tcncv (talk) 03:30, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Merger

This WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Government should merge - neither seems to have enough critical mass (participants) as is. – John Broughton (♫♫) 13:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Agree. We should merge this WikiProject to WP:USG as US Government agencies fall under the US Government's control.--Xp54321 ^{(Hello! • Contribs)} 21:37, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm being bold and merging the projects and members. We'll work on changing {{USGOV}} to the new project's template on article's talk pages. « Diligent Terrier (talk) 22:00, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

• Support – I support the merger. Leonard^(Bloom) 22:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Problem with talk page template

{{USGOV}}, for article talk pages, is extremely incomplete - it needs parameters for assessing articles (class, importance), at a minimum, as is done for virtually every active WikiProject on Wikipedia. – John Broughton (♫♫) 13:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

AfC submission

Could any of you have a look at this submission? Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)