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Revision as of 18:35, 25 October 2006

Hello and welcome to the Misplaced Pages Project United States. I am very busy in my non-virtual life this morning (Pacific time) so please help me build this project and add to the main page. Thank you and once again Welcome! Signature 15:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. states - Matrix worksheet

We have a "worksheet" for coordinating U.S. state stuff at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. states/Matrix. CQ 16:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you I will use the worksheet to expand the main project page and use it as a model in combination with a couple of other projects. Regards, Signature 17:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Household income in the United States up for FA

Hi, the GA Household income in the United States is up for FA status see the nomination here:. Please tell me your thoughts righ here. Thanks. Signature 04:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Maps of US. States

Can someone tell me how these maps were created? I cant find the parameters on nationalaltlas.gov to reproduce them. I would like to have them in a bigger resolution on commons with a naming standard. --Huebi 08:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Finally i found them. I uploaded all of them into commons with the naming convintion Map_of_statename_NA.png in a size of 2100x1600 px. --Huebi 11:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Sorry for not responding earlier but I'm on vacation currently and only check my watchlist briefly. Signature 17:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

New GA-American middle class

The article on American middle class just received GA status-after my vacation I will put it up for peer-review and try and nominated for FA. Also, the article Household income in the United States failed its FA nomination but remains a GA. Reasons cited were: The article lacks an explanation of how Census data is being used as well as chronological comaprsions. Regards, Signature 20:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

US Airforce Memorial

A section should be added to the USA Airforce article about the new Air Force memorial getting reading to open in Washington, D.C. From what I have heard and read, it will be something to behold and nearly all members of the Air Force from the top down are very happy with the final result. I would add the section, but I'm not a military aficionado like others. Reynoldsrapture 03:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

American Civil War

Anyone here interested in helping me start Misplaced Pages:WikiProject American Civil War? • CQ 18:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

The American Civil War task force is now a "reality". Please join. • CQ 19:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

News

How about Misplaced Pages:WikiProject United States/News? Any takers? • CQ 19:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Featured article review=

Poetry of the United States is up for Featured article review. Please go here to leave comments and help us maintain its featured quality. Joelito (talk) 01:03, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Bill O'Reilly

Discussion is ongoing at Talk:Bill O'Reilly as to whether the Bill O'Reilly page should redirect to the commentator, the cricketer, or neither. Your input would be appreciated. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 04:01, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I just cast my vote in that discussion; thank you for bringing that discussion forth. Regards, Signature 05:36, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

New template

Hi, we have a new template: {{Demographics of the United States}}. Add this template to any article disucssing the social, economic, racial, ethnic, or relgious demographics of the US. Fruthermore if you now of more "...in the United States" articles that discuss demographic attributes of this country feel free to add them to the template! Best Regards, Signature 21:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Your template has a graphic suggesting that the data all comes from the Census Bureau, but you're including articles on religion. In as much as the Census Bureau hasn't collected religion data for decades, and is forbidden by law from collecting religion data, either the Census Bureau graphic, or the links to religion pages needs to disappear.

I recommend the religion links disappear, as you have a rather bizarre selection, including the Episcopal Church, which has only 2,314,756 members in the US, while leaving out the Assemblies of God, the Latter Day Saints, the ELCA Lutherans, the Missouri Synod Lutherans, the Jews, the Presbyterians, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Methodists, all of whom have larger memberships. What's more, if you don't have criteria for who to include and who to exclude, (and I don't any criterion mentioned anywhere), even an advocate for the Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America, with 395 members in two churches in the US, could reasonably demand they be included in your links. ClairSamoht - Help make Misplaced Pages the most authoritative source of information in the world 22:47, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Religion is part of the American demographics. The template is not near finished and if you look in its mark-up you'll see that I ask for other editors to add more reiligions, if there are articles about these religion's in presence in the US here on WP. The Albanian Orthodox Diocese should be included if there is an article for their presence in the US here on WP. I did not set any criteria for exclusion. Now we have two choices, I guess, list all religions with an article about their presence in the US here on WP-which is what I originally intended, or not list any. I do see your point about the Census graphic, I wasn't aware that it would be perceived in that manner-so I just left the religion article in.Signature 23:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Quality Scale

Hi, have started developing a quality scale for article in this project. It is supposed to be a more simplified version (for now) of those found on other Wikiproject. Please feel free to help me built a sustainable quality scale. One editor can only do so much ;-) I you have suggestion post them right here or edit the quality scale itself. Anyways, I should have a complete blue-print up and running in a day. Regards, Signature 20:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Misplaced Pages: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 18:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)