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Immediate Goals

We need some immediate goals. May I suggest we get one of the Kentucky Derby Festival Events to Feature Article status in time for them to be the Featured Article the day they occur? Thunder Over Louisville, Great Steamboat Race, and the Kentucky Derby are strong candidates for this. Heck, the Derby should already be a FA. If five of us can have a DYK, a GA, and something featured, we can get a Triple Crown award for our WikiProject, and if any group should have a Triple Crown award, it should be Louisville, for obvious reasons.--Bedford 05:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I wish I wasn't so busy with other things these days, but I think this is a very good idea, and I'll lend whatever support I can muster. I also think we need to bring History of Louisville, Kentucky back up to GA status, if not FA. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 07:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Over at Portal:Louisville/Things_you_can_do, I listed several projects which I thought would be best to do first. I definitely put the return of GA of History of Louisville near the top. I am also trying to keep on there the top 5 Louisville articles that need to be GA, and Top 5 that need to be created. Let me know what you think of the list. BTW, we need to add "Portal" as an assessment selection.--Bedford 07:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Top 10 requested articles for the Portal

I could do with a list of the Top 10 requested articles, by importance, for use on the Portal. Any suggestions?--Bedford 20:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I understand the usefulness of such a list, but who would decide what the top 10 requests are, and how would that be maintained? Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 20:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

On further reflection, it wouldn't bother me if you simply used your editorial judgment and listed what you think are the top 10 requested articles at any given time. Since you're really the only one working the portal (kudos!) -- this makes sense, right? Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, I keep a Top 5 on the Portal, choosing which five by 1) possible interest, 2)ease of construction, and 3) notability. having a list of 10 gives me a quicker replacement.--Bedford 22:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Article for cleanup

Just ran across a new article for the Louisville Academy of Music that needs some attention. Just thought I'd point it out to this group to see if you all can help. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 16:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I added everything encyclopedic from the 11 articles the CJ has written that mention the Academy since 1999. There might be some older stories. It could still use more links and a better category (and a picture). --W.marsh 17:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

FA nom of Richard Mentor Johnson

I know this isn't really a Louisville-related article, but several of you folks have been helpful with my FA noms in the past. It actually took more than a week this time for someone to tell me that the article I revamped on Richard Mentor Johnson needs a thorough copy-edit before it can pass FA. I should just start all of my FA noms by opposing myself and saying the article needs to be copy-edited. As is usually the case, I fear I'm too close to the prose (since I wrote almost all of it) to clean it up effectively. Would someone (or multiple someones) care to have a look? While you're there, please leave any additional comments you may have on the article's nomination page. Thanks. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 12:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Project change patrol restored to full glory this weekend

Starting sometime this weekend, JoshurBot will start regularly filling in the "Watchall" page that is utilized for project change patrol. The previous bot that performed this duty discontinued its service last August, and ever since, our ability to do comprehensive change patrol was degrading. I hope everyone finds this development helpful in their Wikipedia work. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 06:13, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Linking graphic for WikiProject Louisville

I would like to link to WikiProject Louisville from my Louisville discussion board, but we don't currently have an official linking graphic to use for that purpose. If anyone would like to make one, my current requirements are that the image be a .gif and .jpg and be no bigger than 120 pixels (w) x 100 pixels (h). If nobody else wants to do it, I may do it myself. At any rate, it would be nice if had one. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 18:59, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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

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

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

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

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1591 articles are assigned to this project, of which 198, or 12.4%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Did You Know on the Hall of Fame page

Should we bother with DYK on this page? Anything from Louisville on DYK i put on the Portal, and if we did list all, it would almost be an ego page of mine.--King Bedford I ^{Seek his grace} 04:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Maybe a link to all the DYK's on the portal would suffice. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 05:18, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Louisville

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

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

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

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Assigning "Image" class to images in our project

Since our project template was changed to use {{WPBannerMeta}}, it gave us a new class, "Image", that we can assign to all images in our project. Most of the images currently have "NA" assigned to them, and thus they need to be reassigned "Image". Please help change them if you have any time. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 03:32, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Man, to think of all the pictures I've taken... *shudder* --Gen. Bedford ^{his Forest} 04:03, 17 December 2008 (UTC)