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Project Banners: multiple banners and other features

I have added a note to the Template:BCproject doc file with a link to the instructions for the use of the Template:WikiProjectBannerShell where there are several templated banners on an article talk page. --KenWalker | Talk 22:18, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Looking into this a little further, I came across the Military History Template. It has some good features. It includes a parameter "Nested=" that we may already have implemented in our template code as part of banner shells. It includes Task Force groups which go beyond what we need here but might be of use in the future. It also includes a check list setup for moving articles to B class. I think this would be useful to help us recognize the steps needed to bring articles up to B level. See Talk:Prize of war and click on the Show link to see an example. The other way to do this is the way the Biography project is doing it. The other way to provide some guidance for editors about the steps to move the article up to B class and to see that they really are B class before being so assessed, would be to do what the WPP:BIO is now doing with some added code outside of the templated box. See the Biography Assessment Rating Comment section at Talk:Ingo Steuer for an example. I am not sure whether editors here think this would be useful, but I think it is worth doing. I am slightly in favour of the WPP:BIO approach. Comments? --KenWalker | Talk 17:07, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I see value in both, the checklist is very appealing for its simplicity, but the WPP:BIO approach is more informative and links to the actual help articles associated with creating an article. Maybe they could eventually be combined somehow. Like a simple checklist as a first step and for boxes that aren't checked, links to the specific Help articles to fix the area that still needs work. While we're in the topic, I've always been a tad leery of rating my own articles, unless they're an obvious stub, as the rules for start and B Class seem rather subjective, and the importance ratings are even more so. I think that articles often need fresh eyes to rate them, much as a book needs an editor. But I don't want to be creating extra work for other editors either. What are the usual conventions? Rate your own articles or not?CindyBo 18:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:British Columbia Provincial Police officers???

I noticed there was a Category:Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and was thinking that a similar category would be valuable for our provincial police officers as many were notable and there are probably several articles written (and forthcoming) on them. For example I did Sperry Cline and William Pinchbeck (and had nowhere to put Cline except in History of BC). Or is there a similar local/ historical law enforcement category that I missed?CindyBo 09:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

  • I added Cline to Category:Canadian police officers, the parent of the RCMP officer category. If there are more than just Cline and Pinchbeck, I say go ahead and add BC Provincial Police officers as a sub-category to the category of Canadian police officers. Canuckle 17:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm not sure how many more BC provincial police there are with articles so, for now, I'll just leave that category as something to make later.CindyBo 19:00, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Project

The 17 people who are members of WikiProject Saskatchewan are doing a great job. There are several things I have come across browsing their project, that they have running at a more advanced level than we do:

It is worth a look at what they are organizing with an eye to adopting some of their ideas. --KenWalker | Talk 05:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)