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USRD Newsletter, Issue 4

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WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

Issue II - May 2008

From the editor: Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May. The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Selected Article: Indian Head Rock There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it. With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value. After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river. Billy Massie Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} Article Achievements New Featured and Good articles Ohio was listed as a Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed. Please help get Ohio to GA status! Port Columbus International Airport was listed as a Good Article. WikiProject Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Contributors Stepshep & Billy Massie

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WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

The WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

Issue III - June 2008

From the editor: This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June! The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Getting the Project Moving WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter! Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage. Selected Article: Central Avenue Historic District (Dayton, Ohio) The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences. On December 16, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at the NewsDesk. Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! 'Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class! Article Info Good Article Nominees, FAR, FLC List of Governors of Ohio was nominated for featured list status. Teh result was promote. Bruce Johnson (politician) underwent a featured article review. The result was demote. William Henry Harrison underwent a GAN The result was promote. Paul Tibbets underwent a GAN. It is currently undergoing review. Columbus Blue Jackets underwent a GAN It is currently undergoing review. Articles for Deletion Results Afd W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was nominated at Afd. The result was Delete Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were nominated at Afd. The result was Keep All Ohio High School Conferences were nominated at Afd. The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles here. Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Article Importance Scheme A new article importance scheme has been proposed at the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system. Ohio NHLs Tabulated The 25 of Ohio's 69 National Historic Landmarks that were red-links all got articles this month, as part of a WP:NRHP drive to finish beginning the 2,430 or so NHL articles needed for nation-wide coverage. WP:OHIO members Stepshep and Sanfranman59 were busy. Contributors Stepshep, Clariosophic, & Doncram

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Jump-Starting the Ohio Highways WikiProject

Hi! I noticed you've started up some new Ohio State Route pages in the last few days, and after having been doing some minor additions here and there, I'd like to start working toward ramping up the Ohio Highways WikiProject on a much larger scale. There is a lot of work to do on the project, but we definitely have the people out there to make it happen. I wanted to talk to you about some of the possibilities for this; please let me know your thoughts when you get an opportunity. Thanks! DanTheMan474 (talk) 15:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

We wanted to begin looking at upgrading how many of the Ohio State Route pages are done, most likely even from the point of start-up. I think Ohio State Route 716 may best serve as a guide for how we want to start building the Ohio pages. As I mentioned, though, with so many routes represented by stubs, if not nothing at all, this might be a good time to evaluate how to proceed, and start building up the project. I'm going to talk with some of the others who have built up Ohio State Route pages in recent months, and ultimately I'd like to do a live chat (via AIM or MSN or something like that) with some of you, to that point. Let me know your thoughts or suggestions, and when I am back from my vacation next week I can do more follow-up then. Thanks! DanTheMan474 (talk) 13:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Oregon communities stubs

Nice work starting all those stubs. One of these days I'll help flesh them out a bit! Katr67 (talk) 23:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter, Issue 5

Apologies for the late delivery; here is the June edition of the newsletter.

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Wingville, Oregon

Thank you for creating the Wingville, Oregon article. I added the GNIS feature number and the coordinates which I found at http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic --Eastmain (talk) 01:51, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter, Issue 6 (FINAL ISSUE)

—Rschen7754bot (talk) 03:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

An invitation to join WikiProject Ohio

Hi, you are listed under Category:Wikipedians in Ohio or one of its subcategories. WikiProject Ohio has been slowing down and we're looking for active Ohioans to turn that around! But first, let us introduce ourselves; we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Ohio and we're sure there's somewhere you'll fit in just fine. The project's departments include article quality assessment: We have over 5,000 articles to assess for class alone, newsletter writing: This has been delayed by a few months, and new page patrolling: Which has also been slowing down. We also have a newly formed taskforce on our over 1,000 townships at WP:OHTWP.

We have 132 members, many of which are not active within the project. If you are listed there and still received this message please accept the auotmated porcess's apologies. If you are interested in joining us please list you name here. If you're not interested please note this is a one time invite and you will never hear from us again.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to leave a message at our talkpage or with any member of the project, we'll be happy to answer any of your questions. We look forward to seeing you around!

Delivered by: §hepBot (Disable) 04:02, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Ohio!

Hi, and welcome to the WikiProject Ohio! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Ohio.

A few features of the project that you might find helpful:

• The open task box is updated frequently. You can watchlist it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including {{Ohiotasks}} on your user page.
• All important discussions take place on our project's main discussion page; you can also watch this page to keep up with discussions.
• The project has some departments, which handle article quality assessment, newsletter writing, and new page patrolling.
• We also have a taskforce on our over 1,000 townships at which can be found at WP:OHTWP.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or any other member of the project, we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!
§hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

2009 Ohio Roads Meet

DanTheMan474 here. Hope all is going well for you. After taking a little break from the Ohio Highways WikiProject, I hope to jump back into helping to improve the project here in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, although it has been a bit since you have been editing in the Ohio Highways Wikiproject, I still wanted to give you a heads up about an upcoming event you might be interested in. Every year, at some location in the Buckeye State, a group of us that enjoy hitting the road every chance we get gather, do a meet-and-greet over lunch at a local eatery, and then take a tour of highways & projects of note in the meet area. This year, we're doing the gathering in the Youngstown vicinity. It takes place on Saturday, 5/09, starting at 12:00 PM. By the time the tour (including OH 711, I-80, etc.) is completed, we would be done by 4:30 PM or so. I can attest that these are always fun experiences, and you come away learning a lot more than you thought you would about a given area...in this case, around Youngstown.

If you would be interested in finding out more about the 2009 Ohio Roads Meet in Youngstown, please message me, and I will give you the specifics. Thanks. Have a great weekend! DanTheMan474 (talk) 06:47, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Robert Giguère

Hi, If you really have an interest in this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gigu%C3%A8re) and similar pages, I strongly suggest you get acquainted (and eventually intervene) with this link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Demande_de_restauration_de_page#Robert_Gigu.C3.A8re.C2.A0.28d.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0h.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0j_.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0.E2.86.B5.29

In short, Utilisateur:LPLT in the French Wikipedia eliminated the french version of the page 3 hours after I posted the first draft of it.

What do you think if I cite page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability ?

it is important to not just consider whether notability is established by the article, but whether it readily could be. Remember that all Wikipedia articles are not a final draft, and an article can be notable if such sources exist even if they have not been added at present. Merely asserting that such sources exist is seldom persuasive, especially as time passes and actual proof does not surface. If it is likely that significant coverage in independent sources can be found for a topic, deletion due to lack of notability is inappropriate unless active effort has been made to find these sources. For articles of unclear notability, deletion should be a last resort.

This guy apparently has not read that, nor the french version. He is on a rampage to eliminate all biographical pages he judges are only of a genealogical nature and his list includes the English page on Robert Giguère, and possibly more pages YOU care about.

Thanks for your support, Alainr345 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alainr345 (talk • contribs) 20:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

The first Wikipedian meetup in Ohio

Thanks! --Rkitko ^(talk) 19:53, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Date linking

Please do not link dates. See WP:MOSNUM. See, generally, WP:OVERLINK. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

April 2010 USRD newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 1 • April 2010 • About the Newsletter
Departments Assessment roundup This month in USRD history	Features US Roads Portal celebrates April Fool's Day Portal selected article and photo	State and national updates Project reports
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

— JCbot (talk) 19:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Project Cleveland

You are invited to participate in Project Cleveland, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about Cleveland, Ohio.

(Sorry to mess up your stream-lined page, but we could really use your help!) Ryecatcher773 (talk) 06:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Summer 2010 USRD newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 2 • Summer 2010 • About the Newsletter
Departments Assessment roundup News in brief	Features Infobox road upgrade Editing needed near bottom of leaderboard Junction list updates	State and national updates Project reports
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

— JCbot (talk) 02:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Fall 2010 USRD newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 3 • Fall 2010 • About the Newsletter
Departments Assessment roundup News in brief Portal selected articles and pictures	Features Bot automates graphics creation, saves work Featured Article, eh? Reviews needed at ACR	State and national updates Project reports for Delaware Maryland Michigan Minnesota
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

— JCbot (talk) 01:21, 24 October 2010 (UTC)