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[edit] March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter
Issue II - March 2008
From the editor

This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany'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 think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk
Other areas where you can help
  • Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page.
  • More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics:
    • Transportation in Germany
    • German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians)
    • German Democratic Republic

Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it).

  • Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
Project news
  • Cities and municipalities task force

The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here

  • Article Assessment:

There are now way over 26.000 articles tagged as part of our Wikiproject and many still need either an importance or a quality assessment. Also there are many more out there that do need to be tagged like approx 8000 municipalities. If you would like to help take a browse through Articles needing Importance assessment or Articles needing a basic quality assessment.

- Newsletter Bot Talk 15:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:Photoreq

I'm trying to consolodate Template:Reqphoto. Template:Photoreq is one of fourteen templates that redirect to Template:Reqphoto. I've cleared out most of them. If you have the time, would you go through each of the Pages that link to Template:Photoreq and have then directly link to Reqphoto (e.g., switch out Photoreq for Reqphoto on each article talk page. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 02:32, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Pages that link to Template:Picture needs to be directly link to Reqphoto as well. GregManninLB (talk) 03:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I notice that Category:Wikipedia requested photographs is growing quicker than I can remove articles :-) . As I go through adding subjects to the template I do change it to reqphoto or to needimage in a project and remove any of the other older templates. It is however a very slow process. The Picture template will not be to big an issue but with the photoreq some have subject and place values; is there any advantage to just replacing the template without adding more detail?Traveler100 (talk) 20:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Replacing Template:Photoreq and Template:Picture will concentrate all pages in Template:Reqphoto. Once that is done, we can get an overview of Template:Reqphoto and figure out a better way. For example, I am (slowly) incorporating the location request of Template:Reqphoto into the WikiProject U.S. state templates so that we can get rid of Template:Reqphoto on articles having United States topics. GregManninLB (talk) 19:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC
Also, you might want to review this TfD. GregManninLB (talk) 17:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Graphics - New!

Inspired by your WikiProject Photography discussion, I created WikiProject Graphics in hopes of finally getting a handle on all this. If you would be so kind, please consider listing your name on the project (so they don't delete it as having only one member). Thanks! GregManninLB (talk) 22:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I revised WikiProject Graphics request templates based on the project talk page discussion. Reqmap and Reqphoto are very good and I think we can work with many of the other request image templates. GregManninLB (talk) 17:12, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Reqphotoin

Template:Reqphotoin has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — GregManninLB (talk) 17:12, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] reqphoto

Why are you adding a reqphoto category which doesn't exist?Zigzig20s (talk) 18:22, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I am trying to reduce the number of image requests in the top level and place them somewhere useful so others can actually address them; moving to in=locations and subject sub-categories that project teams are watching. The group in question has been getting in the way and, as you say, it does not have a category. I did not however want to get into the argument about if this is appropriate type of photograph for Wikipedia or not, so though someone who in active in that subject could create the page and decide in which category that sub-category belongs in. The articles still have a reqphoto tag and are now removed from the 3000 mixed collection and group together. Traveler100 (talk) 18:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't really get it. For instance, this George Weinberg (psychologist) would probably be a reqphotoin|United States, or possibly NYC...It would at least appear in a category...Where do the tags go after ur edits?Zigzig20s (talk) 01:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I can see this one is not optimum, I base the classification on what WikiProject templates are on the page, usually works. It is better then just putting it into the top reqphoto group with thousands of other non related articles. The idea is to bring the request to the attention of people, which it has, to then improve on it. This article should have a WPBiography template or at least {{reqphoto|people}}. If you can see a better sub-category then please improve it. On a related point, if you are going to invest the time in adding reqphoto tags to lots of pages please place them in a topic group, there is a better chance of someone seeing it and it being addressed. Traveler100 (talk) 05:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't always have time to find a good category that goes with the tag, but frankly I don't agree with your adding a tag that doesn't exist. I do think my reqphoto's should sometimes be finetuned, but please do sort them in existing categories.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:10, 17 May 2008 (UTC)