Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support Ohio and Cincinatti

Someone recently suggested that this project as well as WikiProject Cincinnati be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there has been no activity on either the project page or the talk page since 2010. Please feel free to contact me if there are any comments or questions.

If the members of the project do not want to be supported by WikiProject United States I would like to propose adding WikiProjects Cincinnati and Youngstown as a task force of this project. --Kumioko (talk) 18:21, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

(1)This project is fairly dead, but I'm not sure how appropriate a WP:US banner would be on some of the pages where we currently have WP:OH banners. The project has cast a pretty wide net. (2)When WP:US begins to "support" a project does that project receive increased activity? I want to make sure that such a change would be beneficial to both projects before making a choice either way. (3)A while ago I privately messaged a few people about incorporating city projects Youngstown, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. If I remember correctly whoever was running things at WP:CITIES didn't want to cede that much control to WP:OH. If things have changed there I would be happy to help turn the cities into task force projects. (4) I hope I don't come off as unwelcoming/defensive. I'm just curious what all we could expect to happen if WP:US took a leading role. ShepTalk 17:57, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Good Questions Let me try and answer those in order.
  1. That should be fine, American Old West includes articles that go down into Mexico and include articles for things that predate the US like some of the Indian tribes and territorys.
  2. For the next couple months the activity will increase a fair bit for several reasons. I use AWB to run through all the articles and look for a variaty of things like typos, formatting, etc. Additionally several bots will be unleashed doing other things to both the article and the talk page (assessments, adding templates and categories, adding portals, persondata and infoboxes, adding/fixing citations, etc). It takes time to tag the articles, update the templates and add the structure and categories that the WPUS banner supports (Needs infobox, needs image, needs maps, etc) and currently most of the individual state templates do not. I am currently working with several bot operators to tag additional articles as well (about 3-5000 on average per state so far), add parameters for things the articles need (like needs infobox or image), assess articles, etc. In the next couple months I am planning on doing some drives to recruit for the projects (not just US but all the supported projects), do some article improvement/creation drives, etc. Many of the bots will be recurring so they will pass through once a month or so (at least) to check on any new updates. Additionally if there is other support/functionality that you want let me know what ideas you have and we might be able to incorporate those to other projects as well.
  3. This isn't a hostile takeover and as far as I'm concerned cities can share the projects with us (as in we both tag the articles). I have said to several people that my preference is for multiple projects to tag articles and have overlapping scopes so that when one project isn't doing something in theory another might be. Each incrementally improving the article. Rather than approach it as a switch from those projects falling under cities to falling under Ohio I would recommend looking at it as a shared event with both projects supporting them. If we add these project to US we will be creating categories and parameters to track the problems and tagging them as such so all cities has to do is watch from afar. With that said I haven't noticed much activity from cities anyway.
  4. Nope no worries you don't seem defensive at all. --Kumioko (talk) 19:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
What about Townships taskforce and WikiProject Cleveland? Should it be pulled under WikiProject United States as well? JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 20:07, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I didn't notice Townships earlier my apologies. If possible I would prefer to pull in any taskforces if this project gets added. --Kumioko (talk) 20:27, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the answers. This looks like a good idea and I'll support the merger. ShepTalk 16:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

 

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 03:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Ohio politicians

I wanted to say good work to everyone, and to let everyone know that we have just seen nine pages of current state legislators deleted due to vandalism. If someone is willing to recreate those nine pages, each current state legislator will be represented. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by WittTigers (talkcontribs) 15:03, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Do you know what those 9 pages were? What kind of vandalism caused these to get deleted? --Kumioko (talk) 15:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
WittTigers is apparently a sock of OSUHEY, who was blocked for copyright violations and has been banned for copyvios and for socking while blocked. They were deleted under speedy criterion G5, which permits the deletion of pages created by banned or blocked users editing in violation of their bans or blocks. Nyttend (talk) 02:11, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion to modify Member list structure

If its ok with the members of the project I would like to change a couple things about how the members list displays to be like the one here. There are a couple reasons for this:

  1. Changing the format to the one on the subpage allows us to see how many members there are
  2. Changing the format to the one on the subpage also allows us to easily see the members contributions so if they go inactive we can move them to the appropriate section
  3. Changing the format would put it in the same format used by most of the other US related projects and will make it look more consistent across US related projects. --Kumioko (talk) 00:48, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate

One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

 

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--Kumioko (talk) 01:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

 

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:15, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Featured article review for Katie Holmes

I have nominated Katie Holmes for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 17:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Diamond Match Company

Is there someone that can look at the article Diamond Match Company for possible copyright violations. I transferred most of the article (listed as a history section with references) to the talk page until this can be checked out. Otr500 (talk) 21:15, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Erie Railroad station photos

Hi. Was wondering if there were some good/adequate photographers in Ohio who might be able to help this Jerseyan with a favor. I do a lot of research on the Erie Railroad which was quite extensive through Ohio, and am in desperate need of photos for certain stations, most of which are gone, but of the ones that stand, I'd appreciate someone who is in the Cleveland suburbs and can get to Warren with ease, as the sandbox is almost ready for publishing and I am photoless. If someone wants to inquire here or on my talk I wouldn't mind. Mitch32(There is a destiny that makes us... family.) 00:13, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Cincinnati-area request: Comair HQ near Erlanger, KY

I would like for someone to photograph the corporate office buildings, including the Comair General Office Building, the Comair corporate headquarters at 77 Comair Boulevard, and the building at 82 Comair Boulevard, both in Erlanger, KY, at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport. Since Comair is shutting down on September 29, 2012, I would like for someone to take this photo as soon as possible. I do not want for the Comair markings to be taken off of the buildings. If you want to, please photograph the Comair buildings. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 12:05, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process

There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:13, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

merge of request photo categories

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ohio has a large number of sub-categories, most of which only have one or two request in them or go down to town categories with only a few requested for images. I propose that these categories be deleted and the requests there moved to the State level. The exception to this would be Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people of Ohio, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Cincinnati, Ohio and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Cleveland, Ohio which have a reasonable number of requests. The categories are not intended to classify photo requests but to aid people identify requests and find pictures. Clicking though a hundred sub-categories is not productive, particularly as the requests can be mapped to google or bing using the links top right of the page. Comments? --Traveler100 (talk) 18:23, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me; I've never understood why it's been subdivided. Nyttend (talk) 17:08, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Template:User in Ohio issue

I finally added userboxes to my user page after who knows how many years. I tried {{User in Ohio|option=54}} and fiddled around with it somewhat. It seems to return the output of either option 1 or 99, but definitely doesn't say that I was born in Ohio, which is what I want it to say. Any hints if I'm doing something wrong here?RadioKAOS (talk) 04:35, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

redirect pages

I have been wondering why not all articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ohio have been showing up with google map plot. I now believe it is to do with the many articles that are actually redirect pages. There are {{reqphoto}} templates on a number of talk pages where the article page is a redirect page, but the actual article's talk page does not have a {{reqphoto}} template on it. Also some real article talk pages have a redirect status in the {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places}} template. Any ideas how best to sort this out? --Traveler100 (talk) 12:50, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia requested photographs in Ohio counties

The Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ohio currently has 375 requests pending. It also has eight subcategories, including two specific counties, Butler County and Warren County.

This section is to suggest that photographs should be requested by county in most instances. Ohio is a big state, (List of counties in Ohio is a list of the eighty-eight counties in Ohio, shows how big.) and residents of Cleveland are unlikely to take photographs in Butler County, or even of nearby sites, when it is difficult to learn which of the 375 requests is for a nearby site. This change is a big job, but the result of requests being answered with new photographs will be well worth it.

This suggestion is related to the redirect pages section above.

Comments on this idea welcomed.--DThomsen8 (talk) 15:44, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

This is always an interesting discussion and decision. When a requested photograph category is too large then it makes sense to split, however splitting too much does not help. 375 requests is not many, over a 1000 then it is worth looking at as running scans over such a number is a challenge. Look at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state), if you do not know the state well and are visiting the area, how to you find the right places. Splitting these into counties would mean many counties would have only one or two requests. Clicking up and down these sub-categories is annoying. To find the location of a requests you can use the google map functionality. Having said all that, over 300 is on the boarder of wanting to split into sub-categories. What I would suggest is creating a few sub-categories where there are concentrations of requests, usually metropolitan areas that match WikiProjects and task-forces. As actually is the case here with Cincinnati and Cleveland. Could also consider Toledo and Columbus.--Traveler100 (talk) 16:55, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Look at talk:Ahold, which has the template {{reqphoto|in=Pennsylvania|in2= Cumberland County, Pennsylvania|of=Ahold USA offices}}, which causes the request to be for Category: Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania and for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:52, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
In a few instances, only the state is relevant. Consider Talk:Pennsylvania Bluestone, which is a stone quarried in much of Pennsylvania. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:27, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Yes well they were added by the user WhisperToMe, although most of the time he get it right but he does sometimes go over the top on requests. This should just be in the county. --Traveler100 (talk) 19:07, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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Eddie Dew Memorial Airpark

Hi all, longtime admirer of your Wikiproject. Wanted to let you know that Eddie Dew Memorial Airpark near Toronto, Ohio has been nominated for deletion. If any editor has constructive history, data, events, or other material to add to the article I'd appreciate it! Thanks again. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 20:00, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:48, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:28, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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Popular pages tool update

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Request for those in Cincinnati in/near the University of Cincinnati

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_California/Los_Angeles_task_force#Request_for_copy_of_master.27s_degree_thesis_at_California_State_University_LA_for_Spanish-language_AFD_discussion

If anybody lives in or near the University of Cincinnati, are you willing to scan copies of this master's thesis for me:

It is important because there is an AFD on the Spanish Wikipedia about the es:Liceo Mexicano Japonés (English article) es:Wikipedia:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés

Worldcat says there should be a copy of this thesis here: http://www.worldcat.org/title/japanese-immigrant-community-in-mexico-its-history-and-present/oclc/16517074

Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 05:39, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to Participate in a User Study - Final Reminder

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Columbus Zoo GAR

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Leaflet For Wikiproject Ohio At Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

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Notice re OH politician article nominated for deletion

See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Kissick. – S. Rich (talk) 22:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

TFAR notification

I've nominated an article relevant to this project for WP:TFAR consideration, discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/George B. McClellan. — Cirt (talk) 20:15, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Interview for The Signpost

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Expert attention

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Proposed deletion of Motophoto

 

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Category:Ohio State Route 4

Category:Ohio State Route 4, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 20:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

 

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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April 1st TFA nomination

Hi all, I've nominated Toledo War to be this year's April 1st TFA. Please see Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Toledo War. Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:46, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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Suggestion

Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

RfC

 B An RfC: Should the article mention that the firearm used in the shooting is a SIG Sauer P320? has been listed at Shooting of Samuel DuBose. Interested editors are invited to comment.- MrX 02:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission

See Draft:Uptown Athens. Thanks, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 02:48, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Ohio State student group grant request

Hey all - I'm Kevin, president of Wikipedia Connection. We're a student organization at Ohio State University that works on bringing Wikipedia to the campus scene. We currently have a grant request over at Meta to fund our projects next semester. If anyone is interested, please feel free to provide endorsements, comments, or criticisms. Also: anyone in the area who is also interested in getting involved with our club and joining our future events, please reach out to me! Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:13, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello, people of WikiProject Ohio. I've created this message to notify active members of the project, maybe to some who may live in Sandusky County or a nearby county, and who may know about the Clyde cancer cluster in Clyde, Ohio. Regardless of whether you do or don't live in that county or whether or not you've heard of the incident, if Ohio is an interest for you, you may be interested in this event. I have come to basically recruit editors for this article. It is definitely not a bad article. It just needs some small improvements. I'm not at all saying minor edits or improvements are bad, but I'm specifically looking for people who can help me long-term with a lot of co-research to improve the article to reach Good Article status. If you're interested in helping, the things needed to be improved are listed on Talk:Clyde cancer cluster#Improvements. In other words, more material needs to be added to improve the article, and I want more people to edit because I feel like I'm the sole editor. Regards, Philmonte101 (talk)

Re: Billboard of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz

Project members may be interested to help expand the Billboard of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz article. ---Another Believer (Talk) 00:23, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:International League Hall of Fame inductees has been nominated for discussion

 

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Page move

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US 50,000 Challenge invite

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2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

 

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OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository

Please see this. 103.6.159.75 (talk) 13:20, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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Lubrizol edit request

I am posting here to reach editors interested in editing articles about Ohio-based companies. I made an edit request at Lubrizol to replace the article's About section with this draft. I have discussed my draft with Devopam on the Lubrizol Talk page, but we could benefit from another look. I have a conflict of interest as I work for The Lubrizol Corporation. Can an editor, or editors, review the draft, as well as the discussion on the Lubrizol Talk page? Lz maor (Talk · COI--Lubrizol employee) 21:25, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

  Done Lz maor (Talk · COI--Lubrizol employee) 13:46, 10 March 2017 (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 Ohio participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Ohio.


For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer (Talk) 15:05, 11 April 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 Ohio/Archive 4/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Ohio.

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 Ohio, 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)

Lubrizol edit requests 2017

Editors, my request for edits on the Lubrizol Talk page might interest WikiProject Ohio participants. With this request I ask editors to update the revenue and employee figures in the infobox and introduction. Here I ask editors to clean up the History section and add a paragraph that can replace potentially misleading material from Operations. Lastly, there is this request asking editors to include the number of Lubrizol facilities and offices to Operations. An editor had answered the last request, but it was reverted by another because I had used Lubrizol's website to verify the information. An additional voice would be helpful in reviewing that piece of the edit request. I work for Lubrizol and I am aware of my conflict of interest; can an editor, or editors, review the draft and move the edits into the live article if they are neutral and appropriately cited? Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Lz maor (Talk · COI--Lubrizol employee) 13:04, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Who is currently active?

Hello everyone! I have joined this project and while I mostly contribute photographs I have lately been working on starting and improving several Ohio articles. I am wondering who else is currently active on this project? Is anyone assessing articles? What is the current state of the project. Best regards, -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 16:49, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

New Member

Hello! My name is Colman2000, and I just joined WikiProject Ohio a few days ago. I am delighted to be a new participant in this fine WikiProject, and I would love to help out in any possible manner! I have loved Ohio since I was a kid, and this may be a funny reason, because I got interested in the state when it was discussed on the Little Bear episode Date With Father Bear. If you have any questions or concerns, any edits you think I should make, or if you want my honest opinion on an article or any edits that are made to any article regarding Ohio, please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for reading this message, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in this wonderful WikiProject! Colman2000 (talk) 02:04, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Locator Map for Columbus Ohio

You now have a locator map for Columbus. It was requested for Mount Carmel East, where it has been used in the infobox. It can also be used as a standalone map, an example is to the right. Details at Module:Location map/data/USA Columbus Ohio...Jokulhlaup (talk) 11:31, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Peer review

I am looking for a peer reviewer for Forest Fair Village as I would like to get the article to WP:GA status. Please view the peer review page here and offer any suggestions. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 06:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

New Ohio userbox templates

New Ohio userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Ohio and Template:User WP United States. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk contribs 23:52, 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.

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   07:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Draft TravelCenters of America article for review

  Resolved

Hello! I'm seeking one or more editors to review an expanded and improved article for TravelCenters of America (TA), which I am submitting on behalf of the Westlake, Ohio-based company. There are several issues with the existing article, which I've outlined in more detail on the article's talk page. For those who may not be familiar, TA is the largest operator of truck stops and travel centers in the United States. I'm curious, are any WikiProject Ohio participants willing to come take a look at the expanded and updated "History" section I've proposed here? Thanks in advance for any help. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:42, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

This edit request has been answered. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:36, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Central Ohio

A new user moved the page Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio to Central Ohio (currently a redirect to the metro Columbus article), but I reverted the move since it seems like something that should be discussed first. I have opened a discussion at Talk:Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio#Central Ohio. --JonRidinger (talk) 00:56, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Draft article for Aleris

  Resolved

Hello! On behalf of Aleris, which is based in Beachwood, Ohio, I have drafted an expanded and improved Wikipedia article for community review. The existing article is outdated and has some problematic sourcing, so I've worked to provide a more complete and up to date overview of the company's products, history, and corporate affairs with appropriate sourcing. I do not edit articles directly because of my COI, and I'm seeking help from volunteers to review and implement the proposed draft. Interested WikiProject Ohio members can learn more at Talk:Aleris and view my draft here. Thanks for any assistance. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:09, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

This request has been answered. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 17:42, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Outdoor sculptures in Columbus, Ohio

I'm working to create a list of outdoor sculptures in Columbus, Ohio: Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture/Columbus, Ohio. Not all may qualify for standalone Wikipedia articles, but creating a list may identify some missing articles and help if we decide to create List of public art in Columbus, Ohio.

Feel free to help expand the list of sculptures or turn some red links blue. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 04:43, 17 October 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 15:46, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Discovery Bridge vs. Broad Street Bridge, Columbus

A new stub was created for Discovery Bridge (Columbus, Ohio) during WikiConference North America. Google Maps displays "Discovery Bridge", which seems to have replaced the Broad Street Bridge, but now another editor and I are wondering if Discovery Bridge (Columbus, Ohio) or Broad Street Bridge (Columbus, Ohio) is the more appropriate title, per common name. WikiProject Ohio participants may know more and weigh in on the discussion on the article's talk page. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:58, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Know anything about this memorial?

 
Memorial along the waterfront in downtown Columbus

Does anyone know anything about this Central Ohio Labor Council, ALF-CIO memorial, which seems to commemorate (at least in part) victims of the the 9/11 attack? I'm struggling to find much information. ---Another Believer (Talk) 03:20, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Axis Nightclub nominated for deletion

---Another Believer (Talk) 02:54, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

East Liverpool, Ohio - seeking consensus on a dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:East_Liverpool,_Ohio#History_-_seeking_consensus_on_this_information_for_re-addition — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.70.84.42 (talk) 22:05, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Yeshiva of Cleveland

I recently created the above article, but can't find any more sources to expand it with. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks — Puzzledvegetable (talk) 19:13, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Spelling argument in Charles Martin Hall

There has been a discussion on how to spell the word "aluminum"/"aluminium" at Talk:Charles Martin Hall#Re my revert. It will be greatly appreciated if you see the discussion and provide your opinions.--R8R (talk) 12:29, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta

Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:46, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Aglamesis Bro's deletion discussion

There is a deletion discussion for the historic Cincinnati ice cream parlor due to excessively local sources. Please feel free to help improve the page or contribute to the discussion. Thanks, Enwebb (talk) 19:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Cleveland for deletion

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Cleveland is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cleveland until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 05:57, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Hello WikiProject Ohio/Archive 4!

We are looking for editors to join WikiProject Cleveland Museum of Art, a GLAM project to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of CMA-related content, including artworks and artists featured in the Museum's collection. Based on your editing history, we thought you might be interested and hope that you will join us on our members page. Thank you! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:19, 2 September 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)

Greetings from GLAM-Wiki US

Invitation to join GLAM-Wiki US
 
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Hello! This WikiProject aligns closely with the work of the GLAM-Wiki initiative (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums), a global community of volunteers who assist cultural institutions with sharing resources with Wikimedia. GLAM-Wiki US is a new community initiative focused on organizing cultural collaborations within the United States. GLAM organizations are diverse and span numerous topics, from libraries and art museums to science centers and historic sites. We currently have a backlog of interested institutions- and we need your help!

 Are you interested in helping with current or future GLAM projects? Join→ Online Volunteers

We hope you'll join the growing GLAM-Wiki community in the US. Thank you!
-Lori Phillips (Talk), US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
For more information visit→ The GLAM:US portal or GLAM-Wiki on Outreach

John Tiedtke up for deletion

Putative lack of notability. The article should be examined in that light. 7&6=thirteen () 13:02, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

2022 Ohio gubernatorial election

Was trying to make the article for the election but got denied twice, it has more information than other pages already made for 2022 gubernatorial races. Here is the article: Draft:2022 Ohio gubernatorial election — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sksksks hydroflask (talkcontribs) 01:18, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Articles

Are Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Articles and its 30 subpages still useful to this project? The lists are extremely outdated, and it seems futile to try to maintain 30 separate lists. If the goal is to create a watchlist that can be monitored using Special:RecentChangesLinked, then I could create a replacement Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Watchlist as a consolidated list of all WikiProject Ohio articles, categories, files, and templates. -- Black Falcon (talk) 21:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Notice of reassessment

Bexley, Ohio, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual 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. ɱ (talk) 05:00, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Public transportation article in The Signpost

I thought this would be of interest to members of this wikiproject. Please post comments in the talk section of that article. Thanks! Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:48, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Curious about a specific public artwork in Columbus

If you know anything about the public artwork Newspaper Carriers by George Danhires (described as "Two life-size figures of children, a boy and a girl... depicted preparing newspapers for delivery"), please let me know. I had mistaken the work with The Newsboy, but I'm curious to learn more about the Danhires piece. Please ping me, visit Talk:The Newsboy, or reply on my user talk page. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:47, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of George Payne (actor) for deletion

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article George Payne (actor) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Payne (actor) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Right cite (talk) 15:56, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Heads up

Just a head up for the participates of the WikiProject Ohio, Impeachment inquiry against Mike DeWine. Elijahandskip (talk) 21:29, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Ohio Wesleyan University FAR

I have nominated Ohio Wesleyan University for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 07:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Update to peer review page

Hi all, I've boldly updated your project's peer review page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Review) by updating the instructions and archiving old reviews.

The new instructions use Wikipedia's general peer review process (WP:PR) to list peer reviews. Your project's reviews are still able to be listed on your local page too.

The benefits of this change is that review requests will get seen by a wider audience and are likely to be attended to in a more timely way (many WikiProject peer reviews remain unanswered after years). The Wikipedia peer review process is also more maintained than most WikiProjects, and this may help save time for your active members.

I've done this boldly as it seems your peer review page is pretty inactive and I am working through around 90 such similar peer review pages. Please feel free to discuss below - please ping me ({{u|Tom (LT)}}) in your response.

Cheers and hope you are well, Tom (LT) (talk) 22:47, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Sherwin-Williams article updates

Hi, my name is Mira and I am the employee representative for Sherwin-Williams here on Wikipedia. I posted a request on the Sherwin-Williams talk page to hopefully work with editors to make improvements to the article while following the site's guidelines for editors like me with a conflict of interest. As an employee, I will refrain from editing the article and related articles directly. I won't list my full request here, but you may review it on the Sherwin-Williams talk page.

I posted as well to WikiProject Cleveland, as the company is based there, which led me here as well to see if there may be any interested editors.

Please let me know if this is the preferred way for a conflict of interest editor like myself to best collaborate with editors! I welcome your questions and feedback if they arise. Thanks in advance! MiraSherwin-Williams (talk) 21:57, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello again, I'm just closing the loop here to say that I received assistance with my initial suggestions for improving the Sherwin-Williams article. I also learned new tricks for requesting future help. Other interested editors here are welcome to join the conversation at the Talk:Sherwin-Willams page and assist with future requests. I will continue to suggest edits to the article, while refraining to edit the content myself, due to my conflict of interest. Thanks again! MiraSherwin-Williams (talk) 21:12, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

New request: History section draft: Hello editors, MiraSherwin-Williams here again to see if there are any interested editors willing to take a look at my most recent request on the Sherwin-Williams Talk page. Specifically, I have drafted content to add a History section to the current article and posted it, along with references, for the community's review. I included the edit request template with my original post but it remains unanswered so far. I am requesting reviewing editors to check my work and integrate some version of this new draft into the current article on my behalf. I will not do so myself because of the site's guidelines for conflict of editors like me. Thanks in advance for any assistance offered! You can view my full request HERE Thanks! MiraSherwin-Williams (talk) 14:37, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Bob McEwen for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 01:03, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Youngstown, Ohio

I have nominated Youngstown, Ohio for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c) buidhe 20:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

William Tecumseh Sherman Featured article review

I have nominated William Tecumseh Sherman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:35, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 04:27, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

A "digital PR agency" is editing pages for Republican Ohio politicians

I'm bringing attention to revelations on the COI noticeboard[1] that a company that bills itself as "Ohio's #1 GOP digital agency" has been editing pages for Republican Ohio politicians. I hope you can help in finding out the extent of the damage and help in fixing the damage caused by this PR agency. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 21:00, 5 October 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

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.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Natalie Clifford Barney Featured article review

I have nominated Natalie Clifford Barney for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:31, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Natalie Clifford Barney

There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Natalie Clifford Barney/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:27, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

FAR for School for Creative and Performing Arts

I have nominated School for Creative and Performing Arts for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 22:40, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Toledo War Featured article review

I have nominated Toledo War for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:01, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Economy of Ohio

Economy of Ohio has been nominated for a 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. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:02, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

  You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {CX}) 06:50, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Article for Deletion

There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fire stations in Columbus, Ohio that may interest members of this WikiProject. ɱ (talk) 22:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Disappearance of Brian Shaffer

There is an ongoing discussion at Deletion requests/Disappearance of Brian Shaffer, wether CentralOhioCrimeStoppers.org is a fraudulent source, that may interest or welcome input by members of WikiProject Ohio. 89.206.112.10 (talk) 07:30, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Rougarou (roller coaster)

Rougarou (roller coaster) has been nominated for a 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. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 03:37, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Help with a couple Cleveland Plain Dealer articles from the 90s

I'm looking for help accessing 2 Plain Dealer articles from the 1990s. Specific articles here:Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive_157#Cleveland Plain Dealer articles from 1990s (on Newsbank) Thanks, Rjjiii (talk) 16:17, 22 December 2023 (UTC)