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[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°1

Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:

  • In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
  • I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
  • I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
  • There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
  • What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).

[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°2

It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!

Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time, ChrisDHDR (18:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).


[edit] External map links

Hi! Thanks for creating new articles in Wikipedia. I noticed that they all have external links to map sites, in addition to the coordinates. Have you seen that when the {{coord}} template is used, it's possible to click on the coordinates and get a selection of map services appropriate for the area? To keep Wikipedia neutral and not support any single service over others, such links shouldn't be added to articles directly, and there is an active project for removing them from all articles. Is there any way you could clean them out from the articles you've created? If you have any questions, feel free to ask here, on my talk page, or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. --Para (talk) 19:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi - Yes, I've loads of links to map sites on the French communes I've copied / translated from fr:wiki where the links seem to be standard. I'll cut them out in all future editions. Those 250+ I've done will receive attention as and when I've time (unless you'd like to help !? ) Dickie (talk) 11:35, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

It would be a bit tedious to do manually, but shouldn't be too hard to have a bot do the job, as all the links are in the external links sections and each on a single line. All we need to make a bot request is a list of articles and beginnings of the links to remove. --Para (talk) 16:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello. You have been identified as having added or removed direct external map service links in articles. There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:External links#Issues with inclusion or exclusion of map service links about which should be done, and some more opinions would be good to find community consensus. --Para (talk) 17:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French Communes - Somme

Hi, I notice you are creating articles on communes in the Somme region. Would you be so kind as to add wikilinks to the Réseau des Bains de Mer and Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme articles as appropriate? Some of them have interwiklinks, so it will just be a case of changing them. Mjroots (talk) 13:28, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes - I can do that. Happily, I started with the A's and now I'm on the B's, It seems that none of the stations/lines ran through these first towns (Except perhaps Abbeville, which I haven't touched) Kind regards Dickie (talk) 13:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I've expanded those covered so far, but adding that info to the French articles is beyond my talents. Mjroots (talk) 15:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, any chance of a page to remove the redlinks to Population without double counting?

Mjroots (talk) 15:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Yes - that's a good idea. I seem to remember some discussion about this from some months ago, though. I'll check on that before going any further. Dickie (talk) 15:54, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Ault, Somme seems to have been missed! I have a bit of info to add in once it has been done. Mjroots (talk) 23:11, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Emery Molyneux: Translation of non-English terms

Hi, thanks very much for your help with the translation! I've updated the article accordingly. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 14:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French communes

I moved your question to the owner of a bot. I will keep you abreast. Yves-Laurent (talk) 19:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc

Bonjour. J'ai vu sur ta page personnelle que tu es bilingue anglais et français et que tu appartiens au Wikiproject France. Je souhaiterais faire de cet article un featured article à terme sur la wikipédia anglophone malheureusement je ne suis pas parfaitement bilingue en anglais. Il y aurait notamment une relecture à faire et une correction à faire en fonction des recommandations du peer review suivant Talk:Vincent-Marie Viénot, comte de Vaublanc . Es-tu intéressé?, j'attends ta réponse, merci d'avance. Aymeric78 (talk) 00:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok thank you for your answer. The main problems are about the style and the prose of the article.see you soon Aymeric78 (talk) 14:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French communes

Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes:

I would like to welcome you back to the project. With some help from User:AlbertHerring, User:Blofeld of SPECTRE, and User:Jj137, I have successfully revived the project. Welcome back, we hope to see you there, Basketball110 what famous people say ♣ 17:10, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats!

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
Congrats Dickeybird, you have been awarded this barnstar for your hard work on Wikipedia and your recent contributions. Keep up the good work!!! Dustitalk to me 17:07, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject French Communes Newsletter
The French Communes WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 2 • April 5, 2008 • About the Project • Written by: Basketball110 and Editorofthewiki
News

Project and team news:
Features

Featured French commune articles of the week:
Collaboration of the Month
  • The push for cantons has begun! See Canton of Champagne-en-Valromey for an example of what the canton articles are to look like. We want to get articles on all of them by the end of the month.
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[edit] Etretat

Awesome! I'd love various pictures of the Nungesser/Coli monument from different angles, plus anything around that's to do with L'Oiseau Blanc or Lindbergh.  :) Will you also by any chance be in Paris? I'd like a photo of the Nungesser monument outside Le Bourget airport, too. And I hear there's a "Rue Nungesser et Coli", so a picture of a street sign would also be wonderful.  :) --Elonka 14:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC) If you make it to Paris - Le Bourget Airport, here's what I'm looking for, pics of both the sculpture and the engraved text.[1] I'd also like a picture of the White Bird's landing gear from inside the Air & Space museum there, but I don't know what their photography policy is. --Elonka 14:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Beautiful photos, thank you so much for creating and uploading them! I now get a much better feel for the scope and look of the memorial.  :) I've gone ahead and added them to the appropriate Commons categories, and will also add some to Wikipedia articles on both EN and FR.  :) --Elonka 06:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)