Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Seattle Mariners

Latest comment: 2 years ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic User script to detect unreliable sources

Collaboration idea edit

So, now that the project has been re-born, why don't we start a collaboration? And where better to start then at the beginning. I recently updated the colors in the inaugural navbox → {{1977 Seattle Mariners}}. Maybe we should work on all of the players (I have started with Dan Meyer (first baseman)) and the 1977 Seattle Mariners season article. GA status goal for all of them should be reasonable. Any thoughts? --Brian Halvorsen (talk) 06:18, 20 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Featured articles edit

Just so you know, this is going to be a space where GA and FA class content will be featured, as well as DYKs, etc. You can see how it looks by going to Wikipedia:WikiProject New York State routes/Recognized content. The bot runs weekly on Sundays, so this will be blank until then. --Admrboltz (talk) 21:58, 22 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Very good work. Now all we have to do is get to work on promoting them. Haha. --Brian Halvorsen (talk) 22:23, 22 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Well I take credit for List of Seattle Mariners Opening Day starting pitchers :p --Admrboltz (talk) 22:35, 22 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

John Ellis edit

I've been disambiguating baseball articles for a few days, and have been surprised to see there doesn't seem to be an article for Mariners exec/chairman emeritus John Ellis. I guess the right title style would be John Ellis (baseball executive). There is an existing article at John Ellis (baseball) for an older player, and the redirect John Ellis (baseball player) goes there. I guess John Ellis (baseball) ought to be made into a dab page and existing links to the player should go to the (baseball player) version.

Any objections or thoughts? Woodshed (talk) 20:27, 11 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal edit

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) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject X is live! edit

 

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

RFC on sports notability edit

An RFC has recently been started regarding a potential change to the notability guidelines for sportspeople. Please join in the conversation. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 23:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool edit

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)Reply

User script to detect unreliable sources edit

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}

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