Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indiana

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Indiana
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2
Good article GA 2 6 4 12
B 11 44 78 56 189
Start 5 57 321 878 1261
Stub 1 19 204 2373 1 2598
Assessed 19 120 611 3311 1 4062
Unassessed 1 2 3
Total 20 120 613 3311 1 4065

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[edit] Thanks to everyone!

I just wanted to express my appreciation for those involved with the WikiProject Indiana. Your hard work is much appreciated and is beneficial for us to provide articles of the highest quality. I understand that we are involved in a wide range of tasks, from page maintenance (which is what I do) to stub creation--and everything else in between. Keep up the good work!Wikichange 02:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contributions

I don't have much description or history to add, but for the past few months, I've been adding aerial photos to various Indiana towns I fly over. My hope was to spur others who noticed the changes to those pages to contribute. I don't know if that's what sparked this project, but I'm happy that something did. Just last weekend, as it happens, I drove around and shot ground photos of the local towns of Bourbon, Nappanee, Wakarusa, Lakeville, La Paz, and Walkerton. You can see all of my Indiana aerial photos on my aerial project page. --Tysto 03:52, 2005 August 23 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I'm trying to get my USB scanner working so I can scan in various photographs I've taken of southwestern Indiana and the rest of the state (no digital camera). And yeah, I've seen the aerial photos on many of the city pages I've been taging! Kurt Weber 14:42, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I moved to Montpelier about a year and a half ago, and have taken up digital photography out of boredom. I'm not terribly interested in editing wikipedia, mainly due to the politics: about three years ago I tried to make one minor edit and started a riot on the page. However, I have put some photos up on my flickr page for Blackford Co (which will probably also include Grant, Jay, Delaware and Wells counties). I've tried to pick a reasonably liberal license for all of them, and if anyone wants to they're welcome to help themselves and add them to relevant pages. As per the notice below, I'll try to get photos of the county courthouses as I visit them. If the licenses I've picked are incompatible with Wikipedia, get in touch with me somehow and I can probably change them. Elggawf 17:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

Perhaps it would help for us to set some goals to work towards--it'd be an easy way to measure progress (although, of course, we'll never be finished with the project altogether, and the nature of a wiki means that some goals that were reached may become un-reached because of future changes). For our first goal, I'm suggesting getting all the articles in the various Indiana categories and subcategories tagged as well as the category pages themselves. Comments/suggestions/ideas/abuse/hate mail? Kurt Weber 14:40, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Agreed, also it might be a good idea to just pick and Indiana related topic to work on each month(or topics to avoid loss of interest). Falphin 23:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Great...any suggestions for a topic? Kurt Weber 22:00, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
      • Lets make the November contribution something like Evan Bayh(decent but would be cool to expand), or former Governor Frank O'Bannon. Falphin 01:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subjects related to rail transport

I noticed one of your project members just added {{WikiProject Indiana}} to some of the railroad pages that I monitor. WikiProject Trains is actively adding and updating information related to rail transport, and we've agreed on some standards for articles about railroad companies. While we haven't put these down in a style guide yet, the standards that we've developed (for example, in article titles, we use the word "and" instead of the character "&" and include the word "Railroad" or "Railway" where appropriate) have been discussed on the Trains project talk page. If you have any questions, feel free to discuss there or ask me directly. slambo 22:57, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I tagged the articles referring to Amtrak routes that stopped in Indiana or to railroads that were based or operated primarily in Indiana. Naturally, I'm willing to work with y'all on areas where our projects overlap. Kurt Weber 14:00, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
A few maybe, the list of school districts could be complete, and/or a few cities could be expanded and pictures added like Fort Wayne. Falphin 21:41, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Can somebody please help with Jim Jones?

See talk:Jim Jones. Jones, originally from Indiana seems to be a mythical person and untruths and myths keep creeping in and I can not keep the article "clean" alone. Please help to find references and revert bad edits. Thanks. Andries 14:36, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] West Side Nut Club Created

I was tired of seing this on the "to create" list. I have no firsthand knowledge of the club, so if anyone out there wants to guide it in teh right direction, it would be much appreciated! Indiana Fats 04:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] County courthouses

I added a request to the project page for pics of county courthouses. I've been snapping photos of courthouses in my travels in northeastern Indiana and western Ohio. I've now photographed all the courthouses in northeastern Indiana and a few in central Indiana, including Indy and added them to the town pages and county pages. I know this is not the best time of year for municipal photography, but please keep this request in mind when the snow melts and the decorations have come down. --Tysto 22:53, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

I've just uploaded a picture of the courthouse in my hometown of Princeton, Indiana...I've got another one I took at the same time, and it would be a better picture except for the power lines coming across the picture (I didn't have a wide-angle lens so I could stand on the other side of the lines and still get the entire building in the picture). Anyway, if I can figure out how to edit those out I'll upload it; otherwise, I'll just wait until I get a new lens. I'll also take some pictures of other southwest Indiana courthouses as I get around to it. Kurt Weber 18:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
The Scott County and Washington County courthouses are also uploaded on WIkipedia.--Bedford 18:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana-stub

You may wish to propose a stub type for articles relating to Indiana. This would enable persons who are part of WikiProject Stub Sorting to identify stub articles that might be of interest to your project. Since the stub would have an associated WikiProject it would require according to the Stub Sorting guidelines only 30 or more stub articles exist that would qualify for the stub in order for it to be readily approved. Caerwine Caerwhine 22:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnic Makeup?

Most pages for large cities have a few sentences in regard to the biggest ethnic populations in the cities (i.e. Boston's Irish and Italian populations). Has anyone considered adding this for Indy? Jvadnais 18:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chesterton, Indiana

Hello, everyone. As a quick introduction, I'm from Chesterton. I would love to contribute to this WikiProject. I was wondering what exactly should I do first? I was thinking about either making the page for our high school or for the Wizard of Oz festival we had (...or, at least used to).

Um, perhaps if anyone could point me in the right direction? That would be quite lovely. --thisJude 01:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of cities in Indiana by population

I made a page for the list of cities in Indiana by population. I borrowed the format from a similiar page of Arizona. The populations are of the cities themselves rather than metropolitan area. I listed the cities by population rather than alphabetic. I only went down to cities of 25,000 people because I could not find complete information after that. Have a look and make any change that you feel would be necessary. Jablair51 03:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project userbox

I updated the project userbox {{User WikiProject Indiana}} so that it adds participants to Category:WikiProject Indiana. I also added it to the list of project templates here and the list of geography project userboxes. Rfrisbietalk 17:05, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hinkle Fieldhouse

I recently discovered that the relatively in-depth Hinkle Fieldhouse article was copy-and-pasted from Inside Indiana Business and it has been replaced with a stub. If anyone has in-depth knowledge about the fieldhouse the article could use some attention. --HonztheBusDriver 02:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] State Capitol building(s) from 1821 to 1888

Does anyone have any information about where the Indiana General Assembly met from 1821, when the capital was moved to Indianapolis, until 1888, when the current building was completed? I have searched the web for such info, but as of yet have not found anything. I think this information would be a good addition to Indiana State House. --rogerd 04:05, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I just found this and added some content to the article. --rogerd 01:54, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flags of Indiana cities

I have recently added the flags of Speedway, Evansville, and Fishers to the wikipedia database. It would be nice if we could get the flags of all of the cities above 50,000 people. If anyone can find good representations for the flags of South Bend, Gary, Bloomington, Muncie, Lafayette, Anderson, Terre Haute, and Elkhart please let me know or feel free to add it yourself. Jablair51 06:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History buff needed

Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that Indiana's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article.   JEK   19:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nominate articles for Portal:United States

I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to Indiana (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 23:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New "People from [city]" Categories

Hello, everybody. I am the bozo who just recently created the new subcategories in the "People from Indiana" category. I thought that some of you might want to know why they were created, and why they often have so few pages in them.

The majority of the states have "People from [state]" categories which have at least 200 entries, sometimes over 1,000. This is clearly an unworkably large number for anyone wishing to use the category for research purposes. In 8th grade in Rapid City, South Dakota, the social studies class asked us to write, over the course of the year, reports on two or three people who were or had been residents of the city. Because of that, I have reason to believe that they could be used and probably are used for research purposes. To make such research easier, I looked at the list of metropolitan statistical areas and basically entered in one new category for each metropolitan statistical area.

I know that many of these categories might well be, in the eyes of you who know more about the cities in question much better than I do, misnamed or otherwise faulty. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made along those lines, and I would welcome any corrections, including deletion, that any of the rest of you might choose to make. With that in mind, I have also generally populated the categories with only one or two names, to ease in the process of deletion or renaming.

I thought you all should know why these categories were created, and felt some degree of responsibility for letting your know. I wish you all the greatest good fortune in making the coverage of your state in Wikipedia of the greatest scope and quality possible, and I hope that I haven't annoyed too many of you by my recent actions. Badbilltucker 13:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Various Pictures

I've uploaded a picture of the George Rogers Clark Memorial that I took, as well as a picture of the Knox County courthouse. The GRCM picture is GRCM_01.jpg, and I put it on the GRCM page. The courthouse picture is KCIC_01.jpg, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Have at it. I should also have the Pike and Daviess courthouses photographed within the next month.--Agentmoose 03:57, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Phoenix Theatre

Just created an article on the Phoenix Theatre. Scottandrewhutchins 17:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Now I've added one for Indiana Repertory Theatre as well. Scottandrewhutchins 00:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Wanted to let you know that WP:BIOGRAPHY has added a "work group" called Politics and government, and so wanted to invite you to participate on any biography-type articles. The section for Indiana is here and if there's interest, we can beef it up to look like the newly-created Virginia one plange 05:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Version 1.0 assessments

I set up the basic template, classification categories, and page for the Version 1.0 assessments. For more information about Version 1.0, see WP:1.0, WP:WVWP and this project's assessment page. Rfrisbietalk 00:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] City & town importance ratings by population & location

I'd like to suggest a rough population and location rule of thumb to rate Indiana city and town articles by importance.

  • Metropolitan areas: Top
  • Micropolitan areas: High
  • Populations over 10,000 and suburbs: Mid
  • Everything else: Low
  • Counties, townships & school districts: Match the highest rating if their cities & towns

Feel free to adjust individual cases as you see fit. Rfrisbietalk 15:40, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

(from talk:Indiana#City & town importance ratings by population & location)
I think if a city has historical importance, it should rank higher than population would dictate. Corydon is a prime example of this.--Bedford 15:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Of course, I'm just suggeting a "starting point," since the project has over 1,300 unassessed articles these days. Corydon would rate higher on an "Indiana history" criterion. Any "article" should be given the highest importance rating based on all criteria that apply. I also moved this topic to the more appropriate WikiProject Indiana talk page. I started it here by mistake. :-) Most of the discussions about article classification and importance probably should talk place there. Rfrisbietalk 16:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Draft WikiProject Indiana importance scale

I started a draft WikiProject Indiana importance scale to help us fine-tune those ratings. I based it on the main topics in the Indiana article. It includes some city & town population suggestions to get the ball rolling. Suggestions for other topics can be added as well. Rfrisbietalk 19:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging talk pages and assessing articles

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Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. --Kingboyk 13:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to new WikiProject

A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana Climate

This article lacks information about climate.
Please add it if you can, citing reliable sources
Many consider a climate section in an encyclopedia article about a nation/state/geographic region to be required.
Please remove this message once this section has been written.

Surely, there must be something notable about Indiana's weather/climate worthy of mentioning in the article ? Jcam 20:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indianapolis

Hi guys...just wanted to bring it to your attention that I've come across the fact that as of right now, you actually have two separate categories dedicated to Indianapolis: one's called Category:Indianapolis and the other's called Category:Indianapolis, Indiana. I've temporarily slapped a {{categoryredirect}} tag on the one without the state name in it, but I'm going to leave it up to you guys to decide which of the two categories should actually be used, and merge the two. Thanks. Bearcat 07:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Across Indiana

Up for deletion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Across Indiana. Not my doing or my gig, but I thought y'all might want to know. Tubezone 05:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notre Dame Dorms

It is certainly impressive that every ND dorm has its own page, but realistically it would be more reasonable to combine many of the least notable ones into a "List of Notre Dame Dormitories" or something like that. Otherwise, every notable college and university... and then EVERY college and university... will want to have an article on every dorm, even if it is some ghastly concrete edifice put up two years ago. I AFDed a dorm at Penn State, and someone in fact raised the issue that "every dorm at ND has an article, why not Penn State?" Could someone perhaps go through and prune back the ND dorm articles? --Brianyoumans 18:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Settlements?

Do Hoosiers think of their cities as settlements? Well, check out Category:Settlements in Indiana that's as of today in your category hierarchy. I reverted it out for Kentucky, and I recommend all states do it as well. Kentucky uses "Subdivisions" and Massachusetts uses "Administrative divisions" (both reasonable). "Settlements" are for pioneer days, not for contemporary political subdivisions. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 04:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation of Terre Haute

Question here. Thanks for your input. Tomertalk 02:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible Indiana-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/IndianaSearchResult. Colchicum 14:42, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dot Maps

Hello all. I am considering replacing the red dot maps that I made for Indiana with new-fangled SVG versions, using more "standard" map colors, the Superimpose template, blah blah blah. Something like this:

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Locator Map

Anyway, I am somewhat curious about if people in general prefer the maps the way that they are or this new full-color style, or the more usual boring maps that are used on several other states, like these. - Marvin01 | talk 05:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I also made a locator map for Indiana. Similar ones are in use in infoboxes in state park articles (for example Itasca State Park) or city articles (for example Elmwood, Louisiana). I hope this is useful, Ruhrfisch 02:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism to Lafayette article

Hello, I'm not associated with this project and wanted to alert you to some vandalism at the Lafayette, Indiana article, which is rated "high-importance" by your project. Maybe some of you might want to keep an eye on the article? The following is copied from my notice at Talk:Lafayette, Indiana: --Malepheasant 00:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed that User:74.38.50.249 has changed the US Census demographic data (such as the city's racial makeup and median income) several times since late February (see here, here, here, and here), apparently without anybody else noticing -- nobody seems to have undone the damage, in any case. I reverted the "demographics" section to the 2/24/07 version, which I checked against the original automated upload from back when this article was started in 2002. The article might benefit from having some responsible editors place it on their watchlist, so that they can revert such vandalism when it occurs. --Malepheasant 23:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your friendly neighbor to the South

I can't remember if I have approached WikiProject Indiana before, but I founded WikiProject Louisville around a year ago, making it cover the entire Louisville metropolitan area, which includes four Southern Indiana counties. Because of this, WPLouisville considers itself a child project of not only WP-KY, but also WP-IN. If anybody in WP-IN has a particular interest in Southern Indiana, we welcome them to join WPLouisville as well. We already have achieved pretty good coverage of Southern Indiana subjects, but certainly, more assistance is a good thing. Also, if there's any special assistance WPLouisville can provide to WP-IN, please let us know. Thanks for your time! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

There's actually five counties included: Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, and Washington. I know, I know, nitpicking. I am quite tempted to make a Southcentral Indiana portal, so I can include this five in an area separate from Louisville, and maybe add a few more counties to it: Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Orange, and Crawford.--Bedford 21:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I think that Scott County is not currently in the Louisville MSA, but rather it's in the Louisville CSA, which also adds two additional counties in Kentucky, Hardin and Larue. If you think WPLouisville should cover the entire CSA, that's something we could discuss. Also, couldn't the Indiana Portal add more emphasis to Southern Indiana instead of creating a whole new portal? Just a thought. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Hoosier page

Just wanted to make note that there is an on-going controversy on the Hoosier page. If anyone here is passing by, please take a look at the more recent history regarding the inclusion of the so-called "St. Louis" use of the word and the question of whether it is an appropriate addition. Thanks!! Wildhartlivie 06:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana Wesleyan University

Please help! There has been repeated severe and obscene vandalism on IWU's page by the user "Lilmissjess." Please notify Wikipedia authorities and have him blocked immediately. This is the type of things you guys should be watching out for - not innocent comments that are cited improperly. Please deal with this ASAP.

Thank you,

-manutdglory

Well, thank goodness, someone else already beat you to it and blocked that freak. Please keep an eye out for those types of nuts.

-manutdglory

[edit] Project Participants....

Shouldn't the Project Participants for this page be listed in alphebetical order, like many of the other states?

AAARanger5 03:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Done -JT 20:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Murat Shrine

Suggesting an article on the Murat Shrine. --Scottandrewhutchins 14:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAR notice

The Jackson 5 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. --RelHistBuff 15:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] County templates

All 92 of the counties now have templates. It should be noted that the lists of unincorporated communities in these templates come from the USGS GNIS and include designated places that may never have articles or that are extinct towns and may have historical articles but should not be listed as extant communities. I will work on weeding those back out, but naturally people from those areas will have more direct knowledge of those situations. Omnedon 05:17, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Virtually all of the cities and towns in Indiana now have county navigational template applied to them. Omnedon 04:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Townships

As of last night, all 1008 townships in Indiana now have articles. Omnedon 14:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana Wesleyan University

The IWU article was recently vandalized by user: 199.8.26.10, who deleted the entire school "History" section. I tried to restore it, but I was not able to do so. Could you please investigate and restore what was vandalized?

Thanks,

-manutdglory

[edit] Photo and other content for ME's Zoo

If anybody is planning to visit ME's Zoo in Parker City, would you consider taking a picture and adding it to the article? I'm a native Hoosier now living out of state. I won't be home for Christmas in time to catch the holiday light display. Any other additional content would be welcome, too. Thanks! Eseymour (talk) 21:43, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Bend

I have been working (very slowly) over the last couple of years to improve the article on South Bend. At this point I don't know if anyone else is even watching the South Bend article, so I am looking for help here. I would like to get it up to Good Article standards soon. At this point I am having difficulty finding decent, up to date sources other than websites, especially for the history after the 19th century. Anyone know of any good books that might help me out? Anyone want to help me out with this? cntrlaltdel33t (talk) 15:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

South Bend has now reached good article status... Anyone want to help bring it up to meet featured criteria? - cntrlaltdel33t (talk) 13:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Indiana is up for Featured portal candidate discussion

Portal:Indiana is up for Featured portal candidate discussion. Your comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Indiana. Cirt (talk) 11:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

The Indiana Portal has been promoted to featured status. Rudget. 15:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Indiana Barnstar

To recognize the many editors who have made excellent contributions to Indiana-related articles, there is now an Indiana barnstar. You can award it by adding the following to a user's talk page: {{subst:The Indiana Barnstar|message ~~~~}} Huwmanbeing ☀★ 15:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad one was finally made. I've already awarded one to Cool10191, as he's done some excellent work on several Indiana articles, especially for Harrison County.--Bedford 20:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments

We need editors to help assess articles, we have nearly 800 unassessed articles. I had it chizled down to near 300 recently until a large influx of articles became included. If everyone assessed like 5 articles during each editing session we can knock this out fairly quick. -Jahnx (talk) 05:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Furhter comment Lists that are classified properly as Lists such as a featured list is FL-Class will be displayed still as needing assessment. This needs to be fixed to be listed in with other Featured status articles and so they will delist from unassessed articles. Jahnx (talk) 10:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

I recently authored a Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frederick_Hunziker. It appears to have been automatically picked up by WikiProject Illinois. I think it is more appropriate for WikiProject Indiana as the subject main contributions were through Purdue University. I have looked on the WikiProject Indiana sites and cannot determine whether and how an author can request assessment by this WikiProject.--Rpclod (talk) 15:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana Wesleyan University

I am the primary editor of the IWU article. It has been getting repeatedly vandalized by users without usernames in the past week. Please help by identifying the vandals and blocking them ASAP. Thanks.

Manutdglory (talk) 07:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Well your page is semi-protected so I think your fine for a little while, I did some cleanup work to make the page more presentable for you. Like converting lists into wikitables, placed imaged in the body of the article, and moved the image gallery to the bottom of the page. Jahnx (talk) 05:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History of Indiana

Another user and myself have spent the last month contributing heavily to History of Indiana, an article of top importance in the project. We have taken it from a stub and made it pretty nice. If someone would be so kind as to review the article and make a new assessment along with any pointers for improvement (to do list) I would be glad to follow up on them :) Thanks Charles Edward 15:00, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

History of Indiana had just passed the Good Article review! The only Top importance with Good Article Status in the project too I see. Hooray! Charles Edward 23:01, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2008-Jan-Indiana

This belongs to you now. Cheers! bd2412 T 10:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana highways

I've recently noticed that many of the articles in [[Category: State highways in Indiana]] are not tagged for WP:Indiana. Are these being left out on purpose? If not I would be glad to go through and add the tag to all those articles. Charles Edward 00:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't see that anyone has opposed adding the WPIN tag to all the Indiana highway articles.. so I am going to proceed to add them. Charles Edward 21:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana Wesleyan University

Greetings,

An editor named "Me" has placed a tag on the IWU page, of which I am the primary editor. His reason for doing so is simply because I am affiliated with the school - not that I made any biased POV comments. The vast majority of Wikipedia contributors edit a page they are affiliated with, so I don't know where he's going with this. He even admits that I cited everything, but that he just wanted other people to know that I'm affiliated with IWU. I'm sorry, but you don't place a massive warning tag on the top of an article just because you feel like it. I've never had any problems with this page and do everything by Wiki guidelines. This guy is clearly overstepping his authority - I think he's a wanabee Wikipedia administrator. Please remove his tag and tell him not to put it back.

Thanks,

Manutdglory (talk) 19:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Major Flooding

Hey guys, I started this article: June 2008 Indiana Flood. Any help would be appreciated. Charles Edward 18:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)