• NEW! The meaning of all this is that the 'startup' phase of the ID project is finished. The project now switches to its 'mature' phase. I encourage you to put your name in the todo page after one of the remaining tasks. You can also aim to be Coordinator if you so desire. Thank you again and see you around, --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 05:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
  • Great day kids! All 2022 ID pages are now importance-assessed. From now on, let's increase article quality! (2010-05-20)
  • NEW! We reached another important milestone: all ID pages are now quality-assessed. Let's finish importance assessment! (2010-04-15)
  • Hello guys and dolls, good news! Our first meaningful Cleanup listing is now available. (2010-03-24)
  • Auto-assessment is finished: 1719 pages are now assessed. We now move in the manual edit mode phase of the project as of... TODAY. So, no more excuses for laziness, let's get to work, all of us... (2010-03-20)
  • Big news again, we now have 1000 images within the project scope with more to come soon! (2010-03-04)
  • Current monthly ranking stats for the WikiProject Industrial design articles is here. (2010-03-01)
  • Good news team: the first automated tagging yielded 530 articles for the project, let's grow this number! (2010-02-14)
  • Hello everybody! Now that we are at least 5 members, we are able to officialize this thing. Don't you think it would be great if each one of us proudly displayed his membership by placing the Industrial design Userbox on its user (or talk) page... (2010-01-24)
  • Hi supporters of the WikiProject Industrial design! And thanks for your support. Now that we are more than 5 supporters, I gather from the Wikipedia guidelines that we CAN proceed with the groundwork, for releasing the project and portal in the open soon. To that effect, we would appreciate it very much if you could copy your name in the List of participants page. (2009-12-31)
  • All members of WikiProject Industrial design are urged to install the Centralized Announcement System on their talk page. (2009-12-23)


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June 2008

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Welcome

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Welcome back to Wikipedia. To learn more about how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means, and on Notability (music) for more detail. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:

JohnCD (talk) 14:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Notability of Voice of eye

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A tag has been placed on Voice of eye requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 14:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

December 2009

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WikiProject Industrial design and Design Portal

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I recently posted the following text on Wikipedia regarding the creation of a new Visual arts/Technology-related project in Wikipedia:

WikiProject Industrial design is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to Industrial design (also called Product design).

  • If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 1850 articles on Industrial design in Wikipedia...
  • At least, it's more than for Typography, and there IS a Typography WikiProject...
  • And it's more than the Fashion WikiProject with 482 articles...
  • There is also an Urban studies and planning project and a Video games portal so...
  • Now you can also see a proposal for the Design Portal. (that portal would be for Industrial design AND Graphic design/Interior design)

Please support this initiative,
--  Alain  R 3 4 5 
Techno-Wiki-Geek
18:53, 23 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks schluum for your support. Could you please put yourself on the list of Charter members here... --  Alain  R 3 4 5 
Techno-Wiki-Geek
21:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

January 2010

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Hello Schluum.

You have been invited to join WikiProject Industrial design, a WikiProject dedicated to improving the Industrial design-related articles on Wikipedia. You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits relating to or within the scope of the project. If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of project members.

You may also wish to add to your userpage:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Userbox}}
and to the top of your talk page:
== WikiProject Industrial design (announcements) ==
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/Announcements}}

Know someone who might be interested? Please pass the message to others by pasting the code in their talk page:
== WikiProject Industrial design ==
{{subst: Template:WikiProject_Industrial design/Welcome|~~~~}}

Thanks,
--  Alain  R 3 4 5 
Techno-Wiki-Geek
21:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)Reply


OK Mr. schluum, now that you're a member of this distinguished club, what do you say you quit your extended vacation (LOL) for some work on the project... We do not officialize the project yet until we have a couple more members but work is progressing nevertheless, as you can observe by going to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial_design/Things_you_can_do. Naturally you can involve yourself any which way you want. But until the 2 first automated tagging operations are done, and since you are a Design whiz kid, I had a special and delicate task I thought you could do better than others: take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial_design/List_of_articles_uncategorized; those are Wikipedia articles that are probably not categorized already under Category:Industrial design (or a subcategory), although they possibly should be. Your mission, if you accept it, is to classify these articles as Good, Bad or Unclear candidates (for inclusion as 'Industrial design' articles). As you classify them (replace the ?s), you can also immediately tag the Good candidate articles with [[Category:Industrial design]] (or a more detailed subcategory thereof). That action of yours will dramatically boost the count of articles under the project wings. What do you think about that? (this tape will auto-destruct in 10 seconds... just kidding).
--  Alain  R 3 4 5 
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05:18, 6 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi again. I see that you've done already quite a job on the list! In order to reduce the false positives to a minimum, I changed the Search on which that list was based (as can be seen on the to_do page) from this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&redirs=1&search="Industrial design" -incategory:"Industrial design" -incategory:"Industrial design awards" -incategory:"Industrial design firms" -incategory:"Product design" -incategory:"Consumer goods" -incategory:"Industrial designers" -incategory:"Automobile designers" -incategory:"Cycle designers" -incategory:"Furniture designers" -incategory:"Motorcycle designers" -incategory:"Textile designers" -incategory:"Computer-aided design" -incategory:"Industrial designs"&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special:Search&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced search

to that more complicated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&redirs=1&search="Industrial design" -incategory:"Industrial design" -incategory:"Industrial design awards" -incategory:"Industrial design firms" -incategory:"Product design" -incategory:"Consumer goods" -incategory:"Industrial designers" -incategory:"Automobile designers" -incategory:"Cycle designers" -incategory:"Furniture designers" -incategory:"Motorcycle designers" -incategory:"Textile designers" -incategory:"Computer-aided design" -incategory:"Industrial designs" -incategory:"American industrial designers" -incategory:"British industrial designers" -incategory:"Danish industrial designers" -incategory:"Dutch industrial designers" -incategory:"French industrial designers" -incategory:"German industrial designers" -incategory:"Italian industrial designers" -incategory:"Japanese industrial designers" -incategory:"Norwegian industrial designers" -incategory:"CAD file formats" -incategory:"Computer-aided design software" -incategory:"Consumer electronics" -incategory:"Furniture" -incategory:"Furniture stubs" -incategory:"Toys of the 1980s" -incategory:"Audio equipment manufacturers" -incategory:"Clothing stubs" -incategory:"Cargo airlines" -incategory:"Commercial item transport and distribution"&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special:Search&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced search

Based on that I removed about 60 false positives from the list. Keep up the good work. --  Alain  R 3 4 5 
Techno-Wiki-Geek
09:42, 8 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Cool. I'll keep plugging away at it. Schluum (talk) 12:30, 8 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

I saw you have a good judgment about that; based on a 15% success rate, we should extract one or two hundred articles from that. I understand it may be a tad cumbersome, but remember it is done only ONCE (after that we will be noticed automatically about possible new Industrial design related aticles by a bot). The only one I doubted was the Tesla Roadster but you were right, stricly speaking. Why do you think they put the Category:Vehicles outside of Category:Industrial design (and also Tools and Home appliances for that matter): isn't a Volkswagen Beetle the epitome of Industrial Design?... By the way, are you aware of my other initiative on that front, the Design portal: could you comment on that in the talk page (I'm not referring mostly to colors, fonts, layout, etc. for which obviously there could be various solutions, but to the content areas, which I restricted much more than for my other Portal)? Thanks, --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 21:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

That's a good question, re: vehicle design. I haven't really decided myself on it. That's a little bit of the reason I'm breaking the list down into categories - it allows me a little bit more overall view of what we're throwing our Category umbrella over. The individual products (i.e., Trintion televisions, Canon cameras) are certainly products of industrial design, but are they essential to the project? I don't know. Now, something like the Tulip chair article which includes a statement like "...the chair is considered a classic of industrial design." Well, I think that's a pretty good fit. Still pondering what our qualifications for putting them under the project heading though. I'm leaning towards items which, rather than simply being generated by an industrial design process (which pretty much every manufactured thing is), are considered either hallmarks of the industrial design movement, or somehow show some impact in the field. I think your design portal kinda reflects that as well. Schluum (talk) 21:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
As for cars, I'd rather not go into that, as there is already an Automobiles Project. For the rest, I understand what you're saying but on the other hand I advise you not to be too finicky about it. All articles under Category:Industrial design will be tagged with the project banner as soon as it goes official anyways. A WikiProject is maybe more like a Ford-T plant than a Boutique hotel. Also, it's not as if say the Walkman is essential to the project but the reverse... By tagging articles, we can then rate them and then improve them selectively and then..., well you know the rest of it... Bye now, --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 00:03, 10 January 2010 (UTC) P.S. I'm also into Comic books but of the European kind.Reply


February 2010

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Hi again Schluum. Now that we opened the Design portal and had our first massive tagging (530 articles), your contribution will become ever more important to grow this thing to about 1000 articles. I understand it's a bit like finding a needle in the haystack... Keep up the good work! --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 19:07, 15 February 2010 (UTC)Reply


WP:DESIGN - Scope questions

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This text is extracted from here. Please give it a thought as a member of WikiProject ID and put your ideas back there:

The first tagging operation of February 13, 2010 revealed some lingering scope questions that we want to discuss with each member of the project:

The question is... What do we do about that?

  1. We keep that situation 'as is'.
  2. We ask somebody else to possibly automate all the rest of it.
  3. We reselect some of those categories for automation (which ones?) and do the rest by hand on an article-by-article basis.

As always each solution has its advantages and inconvenients... So, team, what do you think?

--AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 19:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)Reply


WP:DESIGN - Auto-assessment tagging operation

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Hi again Schluum, could you put your OK on this here, it's just a confirmation for the bot, thanks, --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 04:09, 12 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hey, I noticed you're using this template in your userspace, I wasn't sure if I should replace it or let you do it. Someone else said that they replaced it with {{infobox person}}. Let me know if you want me to do anything. Peace, delldot ∇. 01:47, 4 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Brevard Childs

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I've gone ahead and created an article on Brevard Childs, using your stub. Thanks! StAnselm (talk) 07:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Jeffrey Niehaus

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Appears to fail WP:ACADEMIC. I have been unable to find reliable sources to satisfy the notability requirements for an academic.

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See my response here. Schluum (talk) 17:20, 22 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

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