Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)

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[edit] Name of WikiProject

Just occured to me after creating a bunch of cats for article assessment that this project needs to be named "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" instead of "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. State)" for consistency with all other Georgia (U.S. state) articles/cats? What do you think? Wish I had noticed this before creating all those cats. --Roswell native 06:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Roswell native,

I agree, it should be "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" to be more consistent. Great work on the cat work, btw! Reb 13:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" userbox

I've sort of jumped the gun and created a userbox for the project members. Opinions?

 This user is a member of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state).

Reb 01:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I like it. I'm not so sure about the "proud" part, though...maybe you could take that out? PTO 01:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Edited out the "proud". What do you think about it now? Reb 02:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Excellent! PTO 02:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

To use this box, add the following to your userpage: {{User WikiProject Georgia (US)}} Steevo714 21:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't the Wikiproject Georgia userbox follow the format of most userboxes? Example:

ATL This user lives in or hails from Atlanta.

-Connor Carey 16:03, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


Another thing, remember the font/background contrast. Maybe you should make the text white. -Connor Carey 16:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

Should I move the Georgia WikiProject to (U.S. state), or leave it where it is? PTO 01:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

PTO,

Just my opinion, but I'd move it to have it more closely resemble the category stubs and any article, such as Georgia (U.S. state) with the lower-case format. Reb 02:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I definitely think we should rename as I'm guessing we'll eventually have to do it anyway for consistency. So might as well do so at the beginning of the process. --Roswell native 06:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Done.

[edit] Wikiproject Banners

I have asked for help in adding the WikiProject banner onto relevant talk pages at Wikipedia:Bot requests. I would suggest stop putting banners on manually and let the bot handle it; it will save you a lot of effort. Cheers, PTO 02:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That's good news. --Roswell native 03:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Why would the Astrodome be included in this project? Postoak 18:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC) (WikiProject Houston)
Not sure what you mean, Postoak. Where in the project is the Astrodome included? Reb 18:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Nevermind, I see. That is curious. Probably just a bot error.Reb 18:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
We're working on fixing that right now. Please be patient, it's kind of a pain...:D. Cheers, PTO 18:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Is this still ongoing? I've noticed there are a lot of articles about towns and cities in Georgia that aren't tagged. I think it'd be easy for a bot to traverse the list of articles with names such as *,Georgia and tag those Akubhai 16:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Or it looks like a bot could travese List of cities in Georgia, USA and List of towns and villages in Georgia (U.S. state) although I don't think those lists are exhaustive. Also, since GA doesn't officially have towns or villages what is the 2nd list based on?Akubhai 16:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First collaboration?

Just ran across Ty Cobb which failed GA review in March of 2006. Might be a good one to try to get to GA status - doesn't look like it needs a lot of work based on the reasons for failure on Talk:Ty Cobb --Roswell native 05:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll add that to the main page. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Great idea. We might also want to work on the Georgia article. It's B class right now. What do y'all think? Reb 17:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I agree with Reb, while Ty Cobb is important. The Georgia article is in worse shape and is a cornerstone of our project. Seeing this article brought up to snuff should be our first priority. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 18:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Ganymead. I've been looking over the Georgia article and it does need a lot of work. I actually have some suggestions. Should I put them here to talk about them or on the article's talk page? Reb 15:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
My preference would be to discuss it over at the Talk:Georgia (U.S. state) page. -- Satori Son 22:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I put those suggestions on the article's talk page. Reb 22:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I've been working on the Georgia (U.S. state) article some the past few days and I think I've made some good headway. However, I'm having some difficulty trying to write a Culture and Health care section. Anybody in the Project interested in helping? Reb 15:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal

Georgia has its own portal, too: Portal:Georgia (U.S. state). There isn't a whole lot there yet, though. I think that this project should help maintain the portal. Comments? PTO 16:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

PTO,

I agree and I'm willing to do whatever's needed to help out there. Also, what about getting involved with WikiNews Georgia (U.S. state)? No news articles have been written there in over a year. Reb 17:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I also created a Wikiquote page for Georgia if interested and expanded on the existing Wikipedia Commons category for Georgia. Also, the Project template is set-up to tag articles/images/etc. that are/were featured on the Georgia portal.--Roswell native 22:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Just a heads up for everyone. A Wikipedian called Rocketmaniac and I have been working on the Portal for the past couple of days. If anyone is interested in helping out please come on over and sign up and help us out. It's looking good so far! Reb (talk) 19:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot tagging of articles

Is User:WatchlistBot the bot we used earlier to tag potential Georgia articles? If not, does this look useful? Looks like it also compailes a list of all Project articles so we can monitor recent changes. What do you think? --Roswell native 22:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the United States state of Georgia.

Temporary project page:
User:PullToOpen/Wikiproject Georgia (U.S. state) (extremely rough and informal stuff)

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

  • Unless anybody has any objections, I'll go ahead and move this into the project namespace and do all the formal listing stuff in a day or two. PTO 21:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Not sure what you mean by the "formal listing stuff". No objections to moving it into projectspace, but if you clarify that statement, I might be able to help out a little. Badbilltucker 22:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, I'd move it into project space, list it at the WikiProject Directory, and probably post a notice on the Community Portal asking for contributors. I might also go to related WikiProject pages and add this wikiproject to their "related WikiProjects" list if it's acceptable. PTO 00:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
More than acceptable. There actually is some sort of template most of the projects use that I can't find right now to list the related projects. I'd recommend waiting a day or two until the community portal list gets shoter anyway though. I'll try to find it by then and insert the updated version. Also, I'm looking to update the directory, maybe this weekend or next week, with all the other new projects that a bot is discovering for me this weekend, and will ensure that it and all the others are put in the appropriate locations in the appropriate pages. Badbilltucker 00:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! Thanks for your help. I'll go ahead and move it to its appropriate location and begin working. Cheers, PTO 00:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Y'all, I'm Ed Williams, the Juliette, Georgia based writer, and I was asked to send a pic to be used here and on my wiki listing, what do I need to do or where do I need to send it?

[edit] Georgia World Congress Center

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has a good picture of the GWCC that they would be willing to place on the page. I've added to the page and noticed that a picture, probably an easily found one, could greatly increase the article, as well as any more information that could be added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mastrchf91 (talk • contribs) 23:21, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

There are a few on flickr under the creative commons license. Here is a list of some, not the best but better than nothing.Akubhai 14:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] City Maps

A few cities have maps of their location in the county (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alpharetta_Fulton.png, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snellville_In_Gwinnett.PNG). I think it'd be useful to generate maps like this for other major cities in Georgia. I don't know if that is within the scope of this project or another project. Thoughts? Akubhai 13:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Be sure to include the GPS system on the maps so people can locate a business or residence in any location on the map. For example: Where is the Great Bend in the Chattahoochee River, or Millers Bend in the same river, or the Shoals all mentioned in the discription of the border of the great state of Georgia? There are many other important cites that need a Lat. and Long. to locate them.74.234.216.20 19:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atlanta Project or Task Force

Would anyone be intersted in creating a separate Atlanta WikiProject? Or would it be more appropriate to create a Task Force within the Georgia Project? Akubhai 13:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think we have enough activity to create a task force, but Atlanta could be a future focus of this project. // PTO 13:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with PTO. It's a great idea - and I will be one of the first members - but still a little too soon. -- Satori Son 13:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Looks like someone else went ahead and did it: WP:ATL -Akubhai 14:24, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional Districts

This page needs major help: Georgia Congressional Districts. Anyone talented enough to draw new maps? There are some here [1] but they are copyrighted, maybe the institute will allow wikipedia to use the maps. There are some maps on a few Congressmen's sites but I dont know the copyright of them.

I think this is a pretty important article for GA and needs to be fixed.Akubhai 13:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey all

I'm actually a fellow resident of Georgia. I'm not a formal member of this project (maybe one day), but I am a member of WP:PW (Project Wrestling). I came to inform you that one of our articles, which also happens to relate to the great state of Georgia, is up for a Good Article review. The article is History of World Championship Wrestling. I went ahead and added your template to the talk-page...I was surprised that it wasn't already there. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know, so you could keep an eye out for it and add it to list of Good Articles (if it passes). Thanks. Nikki311 04:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geography of Georgia (U.S. state)

Hey y'all,

I'm trying to work on the Geography of Georgia (U.S. state) article but have hit a snag; geography really isn't my strong suit to begin with. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in helping out, especially with the rocks and soils section and the inlets section of the article? Once this one gets to B article I'd like to focus on Culture of Georgia (U.S. state) and several others, creating summaries in the Georgia article where needed in the hopes of bringing that article up to featured article status. Reb 22:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Assessments

Hey. I just (finally) joined this project. I'm currently the assessment team for WP:PW and an experienced assessor in the assessment team for WikiProject Schools. I noticed that there are some problems with the rankings and assessment in many of your articles: they are over, under, or not rated at all. I was wondering if anyone would have a problem with me going in and cleaning up the assessments. This may mean that I lower the ranking of an article you work on from B to Start. I'll leave an edit summary detailing what needs to be worked on to become a B article. Mostly, I just don't want anyone to get offended, and I don't want to surprise anyone by changing the assessments on a bunch of articles. I'll wait a few days before I begin encase anyone has any questions. Nikki311 00:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Nikki311,
Sounds good to me. Any help you can give to make the Project and its articles better is greatly appreciated. Reb 02:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Historic Landmarks and NRHPs in Georgia--Photos and edit help needed

Photos needed! And other help needed. I'm contributing to List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia, of which there are 47, and could use some help. FYI, I believe the List is of importance=High. Each NHL is to get a separate article, which I am rating as importance=mid. For other NRHP sites that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places but are not also NHLs, I am inclined to give importance=Low. Comments here or on the list talk page would be appreciated. doncram 19:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Towns and Villages

There is a list of towns and villages on Wikipedia, and while I don't think the wikiproject Georgia is responsible for it, I would like someone to look into it. Now, I live in Augusta, and last I checked, every municipality that is incorporated in this state is, in fact, a city. So is a list of "villages and towns" not senseless? I've tagged it for speedy deletion, but someone's probably going to get angry at me for it. Anyways, I just want to verify that "town" and "village" have no legal status in Georgia. Thanks! Iamanadam 17:24, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know you're right, Iamanadam. That list does need to be looked into. I'll go check it out Reb 18:05, 30 October 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Proposal to move Georgia

Hey everyone, I thought some of you might be interested in a poll that's currently underway over a proposal to move Georgia. The discussion is taking place here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Georgia#Updated_Poll You can see the archived discussion of a previous poll on that issue here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Georgia/Archive1#Poll Helvetica 20:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flag template(?) help

I hope someone here will look at List of U.S. states by coastline and tell me how to get the "(U.S. state)" out of the table while keeping the flag intact. I had used just "Georgia", but that produced the flag of the country (which I didn't notice until someone changed it to what it is now). I can't seem to find the template page. Never mind. Found it. You have to call countryflag instead of flag. Counterintuitive, ain't it? --Milkbreath 14:08, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redundant disambiguation

The disambiguation basically state "United States state". It seems to be that "United State" is the only disambiguation necessary, so it should be Georgia (U.S.) or Georgia (United States). This seems like a no-brainer to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisjnelson (talk • contribs) 04:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creating Georgia article task forces

Has there been any consideration to establishing specific task forces to concentrate on specific articles (i.e. an Atlanta, Georgia task force, a Georgia Board of Regents task force, a Georgia cities task force, etc.)? I'm beginning to see many of the articles marked with the Georgia Wikiproject banner are being neglected and could probably use some consistant maintenance. Thoughts? Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The possibility of creating a task force or WikiProject for Atlanta came up a while ago and someone went ahead with the creation of that project (see above). In regard to other task force ideas, I think it's a great idea but I'm not sure there is enough activity in the Georgia WikiProject at the moment for any task force to really get off the ground. That's just my opinion, though. If other project members are willing to do task forces I'd love to see them get started. Reb (talk) 16:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Since the Atlanta task force is active maybe we can look at a few more here's an small list:
  • Regional task force - can be broken into different regions of the state and focus on just those articles from a particular area.
  • Georgia cities task force
  • Georgia colleges and universities task force - focusing on educational articles
  • Georgia military task force - military units, bases, and history in Georgia
  • Georgia transportation task force - maintain highway and interstate pages
  • Georgia history task force
  • Georgia musicians task force
Perhaps this will help focus our efforts. Absolon S. Kent (talk) 19:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey Absolon. Those are some great task force ideas. If I might make a suggestion, though, what about changing "colleges and universities" to "education" and let it deal with all types of education articles instead of seeming to focus on higher education. Also, the musicians task force - what about "Culture" task force? Just a couple of ideas I thought I'd throw out. Thanks for coming up with these ideas and for being so passionate about the need for task forces. Reb (talk) 19:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Reb: Thanks. I don't want to start the Task Forces if there is no real interest. Perhaps we should look at some way of advertising the idea or setting up someplace in the Project that people can sign up for a Task Force they are interested in. Absolon S. Kent (talk) 20:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
That's probably a good idea, Absolon. There are currently 37 members of the Project. Maybe we could divide them up somehow and each of us could mention it on member's talk pages and have a section under Members on the Project page for Task forces? Reb (talk) 20:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I created a new sign up section on the main project page and transferred the list of possible projects. To invite editors to join you can use the template message I just created here. Display should look like this:

[edit] Invitation

I'd like to invite you to join the new task forces proposed in the Georgia WikiProject. We are currently looking for new members to join our proposed task forces and work groups. With your help we can make it one of the best WikiProjects. Remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards ~~~~


Feel free to update it. Absolon S. Kent (talk) 13:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Climate article

I am currently trying to work on a Climate of Georgia (U.S. state) article in my sandbox and was wondering if any other project members would be interested in helping out? I'm having a doozy of a time trying to find information on the climate of South Georgia or any really good information on Spring, Summer and Fall in Georgia. Any help would be much appreciated. Reb (talk) 18:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

created the article.Reb (talk) 17:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
It's ridiculously warm right now! But I'm sure you already new that!►Chris NelsonHolla! 18:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red links

Hey y'all,

We've got two red links on the project page, /Articles and /Organization. Does anybody know where I can find examples of each at other projects so I can begin working on creating those pages? Reb (talk) 19:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey Johnny, This "might" help you, this is the Wikipedia:WikiProject South Carolina/Articles page. I'm not saying this is the best article ever. Rocketmaniac (talk) 02:28, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Rocket. I'll take a look at that asap. Reb (talk) 16:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] possible demographic vandalism

I checked the demographics of Morrow and McDonough with http://factfinder.census.gov/ and everything added up except the race info. I changed it. There may be inaccurate demographic info for other Georgia cities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CptPicard (talk • contribs) 00:58, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Created infobox

Just wanted to let y'all know I've created an infobox for Protected areas of Georgia (I'm currently working on that article in my sandbox). Here's the template. It's fairly simple and is needs some color for it. Reb (talk) 02:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meredith Emerson

Would article on Meredith Emerson warrant to be part of WikiProject Georgia? Currently it is marked as afd.

Chirag (talk) 23:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Seeing as it happened in Georgia I would think so, Chriags. Any thoughts from anyone else?Reb (talk) 23:31, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Music of Athens, Georgia

The article is going under FAR here because I believe it no longer meets the criteria. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 03:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:WikiProject GeorgiaUS

I posted this on the talk page at Template:WikiProject GeorgiaUS, but since I haven't gotten any response to that I thought I would also post here. There were some bugs in the class flag that caused category, list, etc. to show up incorrectly in Category:Unknown-importance Georgia (U.S. state) articles. I have fixed that issue and tested my fix out (see the template talk page for the link to test page if interested). It appears to work, but I wanted to give folks notice before I update it so they aren't caught unaware. If anyone has an issue with me replacing with my updated version, please let me know on the template talk page, otherwise, I will probably overwrite it with the updated version later this week.--Roswell native (talk) 05:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Andersonville National Historic Site

Please look at new material added to Andersonville National Historic Site under "deadening" and see if it is appropriate. I've deleted it once, but it is back. The same stuff was in Deadening, but PRODEDed and deleted. Now the same thing is in Deadener, which I PRODed. Bubba73 (talk), 03:56, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

The newly added material has been deleted by someone else. Bubba73 (talk), 21:42, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia Lakes - Lake Blackshear

The picture accompanying this article is of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River on the Nevada/Arizona border and has nothing at all to do with Georgia Lakes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.235.245.185 (talk) 03:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state)

I revised Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state) to include county subcategories to make it easier for Wikipedian photographers in Georgia to locate articles about subjects near where they live. User:Roswell native revised Template:WikiProject GeorgiaUS so that photo location(s) can be specified. Many of the 1,100 images at Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles needing images need to have photo request county locations specified. GregManninLB (talk) 20:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest

The article says that it has five ranger districts and five of the six districts I found say the same thing. There are, Armuchee-Cohutta Ranger District, Brasstown Ranger District, Chattooga Ranger District, Oconee Ranger District, Tallulah Ranger District and Toccoa Ranger District. Brasstown is the one that is not listed in the parent article. Would sombody like to sort it out. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 09:38, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

Any thoughts on doing a newsletter for this project? - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 18:19, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lakewood Speedway

A new contributor started an article on Lakewood Speedway on April 28. I saw great potential, so I greatly expanded the article and nominated it for DYK. Do you have an additional sources to expand it farther, especially a source to verify that it was used in the AWESOME movie Smokey and the Bandit? It would love to see the DYK hook changed to a fact about the movie. The should run on DYK in about 2 days. Royalbroil 14:14, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia Barnstar

I was bored the other night, and I created a Georgia Barnstar for y'all. Tell me what you think; I already rewarded it to someone.

The Georgia Barnstar
{{{1}}}

--Bedford Pray 11:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

It looks great to me, Bedford. Thanks for doing this and thanks for the barnstar. Reb (talk) 14:39, 24 May 2008 (UTC)