Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arizona/Archive 3

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Request for article

My apologies for being redundant; the 'Request' page seems to be inactive. There needs to be an article for Lew King -- Arizona old-timers will know why; young-uns need to see bio:[1]. Thank you for your attention on this matter. --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:A073:98E5:BA6B:E905 (talk) 18:24, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions
--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:38, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Psychonautic Sun

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Would somebody from WP:AZ mind taking a look at this stub and assessing it. The file was prod'd for deletion by Marvellous Spider-Man, but it was removed by an IP who seems to be associated with the band. I think this might be a case of WP:TOOSOON since none of the sources (except maybe one) are independent or appropriate for establishing notability. I googled the band, but all I could find were social media accounts or other trivial mentions. I was going to take it to AfD, but figured I'd ask for feedback here first in case I am missing something. FWIW, I am posting here because the band seems to be from Mesa and someone in this Wikiproject might have heard about it. Thank in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:31, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:10, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Arizona participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Arizona. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:50, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Potential AfD interest

Greetings. There is an article under discussion at AfD which might be of interest to you: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreamland Villa, Arizona. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 01:53, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Arizona barnstar

I've created a barnstar for this WikiProject and its related articles.

		The Arizona Barnstar
		Put your message here. MB298 (talk) 06:45, 20 November 2016 (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 Arizona/Archive 3/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Arizona.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

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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 Arizona, 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.

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Gila River Valley

Gila River Valley seems to overlap with Gila Valley (Graham County) and Gila Valley (Yuma County). Are these (parts of) the same valley? I don't know the area at all, so I'm not sure whether to propose a merger. Can a local please advise? Certes (talk) 20:33, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, Certes, they are all part of the valley which follows the Gila River from New Mexico to where it empties into the Colorado River in Yuma County. It also flows through Pinal and Maricopa Counties, although there are no articles on those particular sections. I think a merge is entirely appropriate. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 00:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

AFD of local list of historic properties

There is a whole series of list-articles like List of historic properties in Jerome, Arizona which are being produced and included in wp:Arizona and in wp:NRHP. These seem too ad hoc to me, undermining development of the straightforward corresponding NRHP HD articles like Jerome Historic District. Please consider commenting at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of historic properties in Jerome, Arizona. --Doncram (talk) 03:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

New Arizona userbox templates

New Arizona userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Arizona and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 22:20, 25 April 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.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

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Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC at Talk:Martha McSally

There is a RfC at the Martha McSally talk page found here that members of this project might be interested in taking part in. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 01:50, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Scott Smith (American politician) GAR

Scott Smith (American politician), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:29, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

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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) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

AFD about historic properties in Williams, Arizona

Please consider contributing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of historic properties in Williams, Arizona. --Doncram (talk) 23:35, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

No Grand Canyon wikiproject?

I'm posting this here as well as at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Protected areas and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America because it's under the WikiProjects' areas. I was just about to start the GAN review for Grand Canyon (book) and was surprised to not see a Grand Canyon WikiProject, or a task force relevant to one of the three mentioned WPs, on its talk page. I think that as a book on the subject, it may not be deemed relevant to Protected areas/Arizona/Indigenous p. of N. America individually, but that because of the subject matter it was surprising that there's no associated WikiProject to assess its coverage. I would propose a Grand Canyon project/task force myself, but am working a lot in article improvement at the moment. If any of the wikiprojects addressed would consider e.g. collaborating on a task force, I would probably join in, though! Just thought I'd leave the message and the idea. Kingsif (talk) 14:01, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

A second wave mass AfD nominations on Arizona towns

Chairing Cross, Arizona, Arizona First multiple town nomination for deletion. Was a Speedy Keep, nomination withdrawn. I don't know why they didn't include them all. What they have done is repackaged their effort: 'Old wine in new bottles.' No longer being sold by the case.

A couple of these are not presently AFDs, but they all need to be improved.

Coal Mine Mesa, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion Coal Mine Mesa, Arizona (Second nomination)

Coconino, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion Coconino, Arizona (Second nomination)

Corva, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion Corva, Arizona (Second nomination}

Cosnino, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion Cosnino, Arizona (Second nomination)

Coyote Basin Ranch, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coyote Basin Ranch (Second nomination)

Cucamonga Junction, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cucamonga Junction, Arizona(Second nomination)

Darling, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darling, Arizona (Second nomination)

relisted 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:21, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Daze, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daze, Arizona(Second nomination)

Durfee Crossing, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Durfee Crossing, Arizona (Second nomination)

Echinique Place, Arizona (Second nomination)

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• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Echinique Place, Arizona (Second nomination)

A couple of those articles are not up for a second nomination. They appear in red.
I know that Darling, Arizona has lots more sources. I have not done homework on the rest of the articles. All the AFD discussions started with a startling omission, and only peripherally mentioned (buried) the prior AFDs. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:22, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

It might help if each of those articles were tagged with a Stub template. Category:Geography stubs Wikipedia allows stubs. — Maile (talk) 01:01, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Flagstaff, Arizona

A Good Article reassessment has been opened for the article Flagstaff, Arizona, which your WikiProject might be interested in. Kingsif (talk) 01:54, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Review of notable Phoenix resident's page

Hello Arizona Editors! When you get a moment, would you review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Joseph_Podlesnik ? He lives in Phoenix and has created a few fine art photo books on the area. This is my first Wiki page. Thank you! Katherine311MH (talk) 01:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Grand Canyon proposal

Hi there, editors at your Wikiproject may be interesting in the related WikiProject Grand Canyon proposal, which you can see and support here! Kingsif (talk) 08:38, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

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.

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Request for Comment about Kari Lake

There is a Request for Comment at Talk:Kari Lake § Request for Comment: politician or political candidate? that may interest members of this WikiProject. Please participate at the talk page. ––FormalDude (talk) 07:50, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Featured article review for Hurricane Nora (1997)

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Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting

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Arizona Republic article

Hi there! Could I check if anyone in WP Arizona has a subscription to the Arizona Republic? I'd like to confirm if this article describes the mercury spill as the worst spill in Arizona history. --Prosperosity (talk) 23:25, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Phoenix, Arizona or Phoenix?

A discussion at Talk:Phoenix, Arizona#Requested move 1 February 2023 may be of interest. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:47, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting 05/09/2023

Wikimedia US Mountain West

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

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