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Zedla 17:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

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Acdixon 13:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I was actually...

Refering to it being an odd thing to tag cn due to the fact hat it would be almost as easy to find a source for that info as it would be to tag it with a sn tag, not over if it needed a citation or not, :) (I thought Seicer had tagged it and I was ribbing him. I'd never tease a newer user in such a manner, especially since citation templates can be messy)

Anyhow, I found one from WSAZ that says it all and I will be adding it to the article in a second. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 23:24, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I was just going through the article doing other grammar editing, etc. I noticed it and tagged it since, at the time, I did not have the time to find a source. I am doing this in between other "jobs" and committments. Vbofficial 23:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

And a fine job of it you are doing. Keep up the good work. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 23:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Award

Check your userpage. Congratulations. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 23:33, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality?

Why the Neutrality tag at Volleyball in the United States? Of the various problems that article has, I don't see NPOV as one (other than its inherent US focus which isn't an issue per the title/subject). BTW, when I talked about adding HS/college info/links, I meant to broader/higher levels than just Ohio orgs. AUTiger » talk 04:17, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

As for the links...I was just adding to the list since there was nothing on the site at the moment. It had to start somewhere. As for the neutrality...the article has a lot of cleanup work or desperate need of citations/sources before it becomes a good article. At this point it is basically opinions and editorials. The articles needs to be factual and written in material suitable for an encyclopedia. Vbofficial 04:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

The article is looking much better; thanks for all the work! As for the cites/references on the diffs between men's and women's programs, I know the NCAA website has a participation report that lists the number of programs and athletes competing in all sports. I imagine there is someplace you could find the same info for HS. I know the Title IX statement in the article used some weasel words, but even though was uncited, there was truth in it. SEC (and believe NCAA now too) rules require two more women's sports than men's at each school. Also the men's popularity varies regionally, although finding published references talking about that are probably difficult. AUTiger » talk 21:37, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Lou Groen

A tag has been placed on Lou Groen, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Kevin 03:07, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I removed the speedy tag on the article in question, since you have done a good job making it into a nice little stub, complete with references. Good work. A tip for the future.... it is probably better not to save a new page with only a word or two on it... either wait till you have a bit more information or add a tag such as {{ Underconstruction }} so that people give you some time to get things done before putting annoying tags on the article! Thanks again for your contributions. Slp1 03:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

RE: RHLSD & RHSHS

Hello - I am somewhat new here - and my contributions are only the Rock Hill Sr. HS, and the RHLSD - so I am uncertain on some things here, including the citations, and I am very glad that you pointed them out. The citations will, in my opinion, reflect well on the district, as they are proof that I am not simply making them up. I added the sources for the Rock Hill Senior High School and the Rock Hill Local School District, as per the tags that you made on the pages. I am not sure if I organized them satisfactorally, but they are there, all that were pointed out, with the exception of one. The one in question is the last on the Rock Hill Senior High School page, where it is needed for " The school song is of original tune, composed by the school's first band director, Mr. John McCoy. The lyrics to the school song were written by Betty Adams. " I could not find anywhere on the internet for this specific piece of information, however, I do have it in programs from current RHSHS football games. Should I cite that? Thanks again for listening, and keeping our district's page accountable. Rhlsd 07:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

At least you are trying. To make the information on the Rock Hill sites more valuable and more reliable, try to find third party sources. It can be hard at times, especially in our area where newspapers have not done a great job of archivng articles, etc. Not all of my edits and writing meets other approval as well. It is an on-going process. I have created cites for Clay High School and the schools within the district and the Southern Ohio Conference. I am also trying to update, expand, and improve most of the sites of the schools within the conference. It is a long process. Of course, I am fairly new as well, and I am trying my hand at editing and contributing with differing degrees of sucess.

All those pictures

You keep uploading more and more good pictures! Thanks — they look great! Just one question for you: would you be willing to upload future pictures to the Wikimedia Commons, so that they're more accessible? Nyttend 02:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm a newbie and a little naive. I thought by uploading pictures, I was loading the pictures to a common area? Instructions. Vbofficial 02:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, anybody looking at the English Wikipedia can use the picture. However, nobody else can. For example, some time ago, I found a picture of a town in Kansas, on the German Wikipedia. Because it wasn't on the Commons, I couldn't possibly add it to the same town's article on the English Wikipedia, so instead I had to download it and upload it to the English Wikipedia before adding the image to the page. If the picture had been on the Commons, all I would have had to do is add the image to the page the same way that you do with an image uploaded to Wikipedia.

It's quite easy to upload to the Commons. Just go to the Commons (there's a link at the bottom of the Main Page) and create an account, and then begin uploading files as if it were on here. Please just remember that (1) your account there is different, so you'll have to set up another account {you can use the same username and password, as I do}, and (2) each picture needs to be in at least one category, just like articles do on Wikipedia.

Thanks much! Nyttend 02:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I will see what I can do. Vbofficial 02:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I created my commons account and have added two pictures. I plan to add more and plan to move/transfer the pictures I already uploaded to wikipedia. Any suggestions. It would be nice to know I am doing it right so far. Also, I wanted to link my commons pictures to my talk page. I tried using your example, but it indicated I have no files at the moment. Is there a delay? Thanks for all the help. Vbofficial 20:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

school name

Changing an article with the wrong name is not done by deleting the article, but by moving it (which is also called Renaming it--they do the same thing) Since you seem to be editing a good deal here, learn to do it yourself. The first step is to be sure you're right, and say what you are going to do on the talk page of the article. If you think it is not 100% obvious, you need to discuss it first on the talk page or follow the steps for contested moves at WP:RM. This seems obvious, &, checking the history, & his user contributions the previous ed. just did this & left. so, first, edit the article to reflect the new name. Then do the steps at WP:MOVE. This will leave a redirect at the old name; you can ask for it to be removed, but in this case I'd leave it. Ask me if there are any questions--I'll check to see it goes OK. DGG (talk) 15:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I am learning. On the other hand, I need some clarification. There is already a correct school name/article Dawson-Bryant High School. The Coal Grove High School is not correct. Neither site currently has much on them, but at least the D-B site is the correct name and is being developed. Consquently, wouldn't we need to either merge it or delete it, referring to the article that needs to be corrected (the Coacl Gove page)? Vbofficial 17:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Montpelier

Problem fixed. What happened is that, instead of typing </ref> at the end of your reference, you typed <?ref>. Don't worry about it; it's a simple error, one that I've made several times and I'm sure most committed editors have done at some point. Nyttend 02:25, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Something might have happened

Hey, I was just doing some RC patrol, and came across one of your edits where the edit summary said "Undid revision 147082632 by Wuditduz1332". Was that intentional? I'm asking because the diff showed "Toledo "Scott" Bullfrogs" being changed to "Toledo "Scott" Niggers". Thanks for your time! Neranei ^T/C 15:29, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully, we got everything back in order. I orginally was trying to remove one edit, which was vandalsim, and then realized I had to back further. I hope between the two of us we have corrected the problems. Thanks. Vbofficial 15:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Educ Template

Thats brilliant - I mean correcting them. I don't think you are the only one ... I did some! If you do find any stubs that don't have schools templates then do ad them and mark them as stub/low if its a fair guess. I go love the wikipedia globe gif. At the moment Education only have a few 100s of real articles so they'd lose them if we add the schools in. Victuallers 18:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Commons

You seem to have done quite well with your files. You can have an image on both Wikipedia and Commons, but it's a bad idea: anything on Commons is useable on Wikipedia as well, so it's needlessly taking up Wikipedia space. As a result, there's a process whereby an image already moved to Commons can be deleted from Wikipedia. Using an image from Commons is the same as using an image from Wikipedia. Check out pictures on articles in Category:Logan County, Ohio: most of these pictures are ones that I've added and uploaded to the Commons.

As far as categories: when you're adding categories, it's best to check to see which categories already exist — for example, you had several pictures in the nonexistent Category:Ohio state parks when there was already a Category:State parks in Ohio. It's not a big deal, but it's best to ensure that you have them in the right place.

Two other things, neither of which are essential, and both of which are optional:

• In image descriptions, it's often helpful to add links to comparable Wikipedia articles. This is done by typing {{w|ARTICLE NAME|WHAT YOU WANT TO DISPLAY}} instead of [[ARTICLE NAME|WHAT YOU WANT TO DISPLAY]] as on Wikipedia. But remember, you don't have to.
• Images can have spaces in their names, such as Image:Dinsmore Township, Shelby County, Ohio.jpg. However, they don't have to.

Hope this is helpful! Nyttend 19:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 22:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

USRD Inactivity check and news report

Hello, Vbofficial. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:

1. Please update your information at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
2. There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

updated Vbofficial 17:46, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
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Rosemount Primary School

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Rosemount Primary School, because another editor is suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of the page. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 21:49, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Outcome

I have redirected the article title to Clay_Local_School_District#Rosemount_Primary_.28K-3.29, which is an empty section that I presume was intended for expansion. I believe the issue regarding notability of this school (I was not the PROD nominator) revolves around the unavailability of 3rd-party reliable sources focusing on the school primarily as opposed to incidentally. I would not encourage reconstituting the article as such prior to identification of these. Further, I would encourage the production of a suitable section at the article target so that Template:Main might be used to provide a cross-reference should the article be able to stand on its own in the future. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 21:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Ohio Portal

I noticed you stated last year you had an interest in starting an Ohio Portal. I went ahead and made one and thought you may be interested. Portal:Ohio

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WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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The Ohio WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - Month 2008
From the editor This is the first issue of WikiProject Ohio's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you would like to suggest something to be included in the next newsletter please see:The Newsdesk Project News *New features have been added to the project banner. All articles now need to be assessed for importance as well as class. There are approximately 60,000 articles under Category:Ohio that still need the banner added to their talk pages as well. Editors and Contributors Needed *We are in need of editors for this newsletter. If you are interested please visit:The Newsletter Project Page. Also, the The Ohio Portal is seeking Wikipedians to nominate selected articles, sports teams, biographies, and images. The portal is also seeking maintainers. Areas needing attention Assessment requests: There may be Requests for assessment needing to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watch the assessment page. Article assessment: Unassessed Ohio article need you help visit Category:Unassessed Ohio articles & Category:Unknown-importance Ohio articles Featured and Good Articles Recently a number of Ohio related articles have achieved featured status. We at WikiProject Ohio would like the editors of those pages for their hard work. Featured Jack Warner, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Superman Good Articles Halle Berry and Jack Nicklaus Contributors Stepshep 23:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Ohio Roads Meet

Hi - This is Dan, a frequent contributor to the Ohio Roads Project, and also the webmaster of Ohio Highway Ends (http://www.state-ends.com/ohio/). I just wanted to give you a heads up that there is a gathering of roads enthusiasts, if you will, taking place in Dayton on Saturday, 5/10 at Logan's Road House, 2819 Centre Dr., Fairborn, OH 45324. The first part is a meet-and-greet over lunch, giving people a chance to shoot the breeze, with some attendees potentially bringing some interesting maps, atlases, pictures and more. There may even be a freebie or two floating out there at the gathering (such as a free map). After lunch, we'll divide up and take a tour of some highlights from Dayton area highways, including the almost-completed I-70/75 interchange (the "Freedom Veterans' Crossroads"), reconstruction of the I-75/OH 4 interchange, the newly-reconstructed US 35 through downtown Dayton, and a side tour to an historic crossroad: Dixie Highway & the National Road. We should be wrapped up with the tour by 4:30-5:00 PM. That's a brief synopsis of what the event will entail; I am sending a special invite to all of the Ohio Roads Project editors. These events are always fun, unique and very informative. If you have the opportunity on that day, I would like to invite you to join us. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please let me know in the coming days. Thanks, and have a great week! DanTheMan474 (talk) 13:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject North Carolina May 2008 Newsletter

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News Cape Lookout Lighthouse Hello WikiProject North Carolina members! A few of us at the The Newsroom Team decided to get together and re-energize the project, through these newsletters. This newsletter is hopefully the first of many to come. We want this project to be active in creating and expanding articles related to our state. If you're a current or former resident of the state, we hope that you will help spread the knowledge of how much there is to learn about North Carolina. A great way to expand new articles is by keeping track of the new articles list. Please add any new NC-related articles or older ones you come across that have not been tagged with the project banner. When you notice an article has been added to the list, read over it and check for citations, grammatical errors, and spelling. If you've written a NC-related article in the past 5 days, read the requirements for Did you know... and add your article to the DYK nomination list. It might be chosen for the Main Page! If you see a new member added to the project list, a great idea would be to leave them a welcome message on their talk page. Show them we notice new members and that we want them to become active participants. Congratulations to the editors who helped promote List of tallest buildings in Charlotte, List of North Carolina hurricanes (1900–1949), List of North Carolina hurricanes (1950–1979), and List of North Carolina birds to featured lists. Let's try to get a few more articles to featured status. North Carolina would be a great (and obvious) choice. Congratulations to the editors of Climate of North Carolina as well. This article was recently promoted to Good article status. A few suggestions for articles we can work on for GA are Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, Geography of North Carolina, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If you're a history buff, check out List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina. There are many articles to be written and your help would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions in regards to the project, feel free to contact someone from The Newsroom Team. Thanks for all of your hard work and happy editing!
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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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AfD nomination of Greater Western Ohio Conference

An article that you have been involved in editing, Greater Western Ohio Conference, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pioneer Conference. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence

Hello. I'm contacting you and other members of WikiProject Books in order to find if you are interested in collaborating to expand and improve The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence article to make it worthy of becoming a featured article candidate, in light of the fact that it is the first book the U.S. government ever went to court to censor before its publication. --Loremaster (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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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The first Wikipedian meetup in Ohio

Thanks! --Rkitko ^(talk) 23:17, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Invitation

Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force		An invitation to join us!
		You're invited to be a part of the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region of Kentucky. To accept this invitation, click here!

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Vbofficial! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 21:22, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup

Hi just wanted to see if you would be interested in helping with this article 2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup? This is an Olympics qualification tournament for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Intoronto1125 (talk) 17:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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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.

 
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December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

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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.

 
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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012

Volume 5, Issue 1 • Winter 2011 • About the Newsletter
This edition is going out to all USRD WikiProject members (current, former, or potential) in addition to other subscribers as part of a roll call to update the participants list. Anyone that would like to continue to receive this newsletter in the future needs to update the subscription list if they are not already subscribed.
Departments Assessment roundup Portal selected articles and pictures	Features U.S. Roads consolidates M-6 article makes headlines Planning Department debuts Stub drive concludes early, successfully Editorial	State and national updates Project news Task force reports for MD, MI, PA, and VA
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Seattle Public Library

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012 Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104 Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand. Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki. Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration. Yours, Maximilianklein (talk) 03:45, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Several upcoming Wikipedia events in Kentucky

Meet up with Wikipedians in Kentucky! All are welcome to attend!

Lexington, KY Wiki Loves Pride 2015

Lexington Pride Festival : June 27, 2015. Location: Lexington Pride Festival venues. Take photographs of the Lexington Pride Festival and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.

Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon : June 30, 2015. 7:00 pm. Location to be determined.

Lexington, KY/Wiknic 2015

Meet up for a picnic with other Wikipedian in Kentucky on July 25, 2015 from 12:00-3:00pm.

Sign up on event pages. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 01:16, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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You're invited! Great Buckeye Wiknic 2016

Hello there! You are invited to attend the Great Buckeye Wiknic in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, July 10th from 1:00 to 5:00 PM! Join us for a day in the park for food and socializing with others from the Wikimedia movement. We'll be meeting up at Fred Beekman Park, a park on Ohio State University's campus.

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Invitation to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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Coordinators and help needed

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