Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Walt Disney World

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[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
  • User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
  • User:Badbilltucker/Science 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 to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. 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 21:01, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 23:45, 23 October 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 16:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template for Disney World Resort

I created a template for the Disney World Resort based on Template:DLR. I have it on a temporary page here and would like to get some feedback before I move it to its own page and use it as a template. Any comments would be appreciated. Phydend 15:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Meetup/Miami 2.

The meetup in Miami was originally planned for August/September, but we'll probably be having it around January. Feel free to participate in the planning (exact date/place not decided upon) if you're interested. ยท AndonicO Talk 23:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project Activity

Since this project has been tagged as inactive, I was wondering if anyone is still interested in working on it? I don't think the project got off the ground really, but we can start it up again if people are willing to work on these articles. I think the most important thing would be for now to tag articles as a part of the wikiproject with a template created for this project (kind of like Template:WP Disney). Once we get some articles tagged, then it would be possible to see what articles we have, find out if we have any featured articles (doubtful) or articles that are close to featured status (maybe), and perhaps get a workforce going to improve some articles. I'm going to get this started and create a template and start tagging some pages. I'm probably going to make the template so that we can assess the articles and put them into categories like these to automatically update assessments. Anyway, I'll do that and try to revive the project so hopefully people will work on it again. Phydend (talk) 03:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Well I created the template and the categories so hopefully if others get back here then we can tag all the articles. A page on assessment needs to be created (Wikipedia:WikiProject Walt Disney World/Assessment) that assesses an article's quality and importance and those importance standards need to be determined. I'm going to add the template to a few pages and do some assessing, but will hopefully create the assessment department tomorrow and hopefully get a dialog going. Phydend (talk) 05:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I can help, just point me toward what needs some attention. Arrjay74 (talk) 21:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Logo?

I am currently working on a logo for this project. Project London Transport has a logo (which I did not design), why can't we? Malpass93 (talk) 17:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

We don't have one currently because the project was pretty much inactive for a few months. I think a logo would be nice and we could add it to the project template to help differentiate this project from WP:Disney (both use the same picture of Cinderella's Castle for the templates on the talk page). Phydend (talk) 16:41, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Maybe used stylized image knockoffs of Spaceship Earth, the Earfel Tower, and the Tree of Life?--Bedford (talk) 19:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Here's one of my ideas. Image:ProjectWDW.PNG I wasn't sure what to license it as. Malpass93 (talk) 22:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Not bad for a first attempt, but needs some fine-tuning. What I would like to see is a Disney Barnstar for both this WP and Disney to use. A Barnstar with Mickey's ear, and maybe Donald's beak, perhaps?--Bedford (talk) 22:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Should I add images to this WP?

Covered it in the title. Your thoughts? Malpass93 (talk) 22:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Since the infoboxes have spaces for photos, should we begin obtaining photos of the attraction entrances for the various articles? I've noticed it's kind of spotty as to which ones do have photos and which ones don't. Is that something we want to strive for? Thanks.
McDoobAU93 (talk) 22:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
I haven't been paying attention much lately, so sorry if this is not in question anymore, but tagging the images could help us know what we have, so I don't see any objections to it. I also just was reading WP:Gallery on something unrelated and noticed that since galleries are allowed in project space we could create another project page with a gallery of images that would be useful for the project. This would have to be just free pictures (no logos), but we could use them to sort what pictures we have (I know there are multiple pictures of Cinderella's Castle some of which aren't on the article) and what articles would need pictures. We could sort the galleries by the parks and it lets everyone in the project know what pictures we have that they could use for new articles. Thoughts on this? (Sorry if this hijacks the original question, if this discussion gets big I'll split it to it's own section) Phydend (talk) 17:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The weather was nice on Sunday, so I grabbed attraction sign photos throughout Adventureland, which is probably a good starting point. I noticed the only MK attraction that had one was Enchanted Tiki Room. Should I go ahead, be bold, and add them to the infoboxes, or put them somewhere for comments and suggestions? --McDoobAU93 (talk) 17:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes. That would be swell, as Mickey would say! Malpass93 (talk) 21:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peer Review: Disney's Polynesian Resort

You all are encouraged to participate in the peer review of Disney's Polynesian Resort (direct to link to the review page). I've completed a major article overhaul recently, and am interested to hear feedback and what others think is needed to promote the article to GA status. Thanks. csaribay (talk) 18:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)