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I've put a suggestion on the talk page for the also very new Wikipedia:WikiProject San Francisco that the two projects should be merged. My suggestion would be to move everything to this project for now, and put redirects from there to here. BlankVerse 08:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
The result of the debate was Merge
Since there seems to be pretty much unanimous support after having this poll up for several weeks, I'm going to merge the two projects some time in the next few days, unless anybody objects. (Or would like to do it themselves and save me the work. :) Peter G Werner 06:31, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I've gone and merged the articles and will archive the above discussion unless anybody has anything to add. I've moved the "articles to be improved" list under open tasks to its own page, which is linked to under open tasks. I've divided up the list into general Bay Area topics and various County topics. Science and culture topics I've put in the "general" category. I've also put Museums and Universities under "general", even though strictly speaking, they could be said to be part of various city/county topics. That was a judgment call on my part; if there's not consensus on that, change it - no big deal. I've listed elementary schools through community colleges under local topics. However, its highly questionable whether we should be creating articles about elementary and middle schools at all – if I'm not mistaken, they generally don't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Please list more articles in need or work, as I've only added general, SF, and Marin-related topics so far. Anyway, hope I didn't jump the gun on all of this. Peter G Werner 05:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to get some opinions on this. What do you think should be the convention about State and National Parks vs the geographical features located in them? Specifically, I mean when that park is pretty much synonymous with its main geographical feature. The article on Mount Diablo State Park handles both in the same article (Mount Diablo redirects to the other article). Other articles treat the two separately, but usually at least one of the articles is a stub:
So, merge such articles or keep separate? Peter G Werner 23:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Should Santa Cruz County be included in the scope of this WikiProject, or should that be set aside until there's a WikiProject Central Coast? Peter G Werner 11:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
So, for the purposes of this WikiProject, what shall be our scope? Just the nine Bay Area counties? Or...? --210physicq (c) 00:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Two very notable (and controversial) figures in San Francisco history do not have any article on them at all – Michael O'Shaughnessy (early cheif city engineer, best known for the O'Shaughnessy Dam at Hetch Hetchy, but did a lot of other things that was important in SF history, such as coming up with the name "Golden Gate Bridge") and Justin Herman (1960's SF Redevelopment Agency head best know for the massive redevelopment of the Western Addition). Also the article on John McLaren (park superintendent) – the man who built Golden Gate Park – is only a stub. These three, for better or worse, played a big role in shaping San Francisco – it seems like they deserve more mention in Wikipedia. Peter G Werner 06:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
As of now, we have five members. Considering the Bay Area has a population of 6 million, I know we can do better. We must invite more members, add more pages and features to this project, and do a lot of work. So far I've added a userbox and a rating system for tagged articles, but there are a lot of pages left to create. I've taken shamelessly from WikiProject LGBT studies, but I think that with some work we can eventually get to the level that that project is at. — Emiellaiendiay 07:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
As I see it, the top two goals as of now are:
From there we can add more goals, such as expanding the options this WikiProject offers (adding a Peer Review, for example).
But what do you all think? Should there be any other major goals as of now? Any ideas how to meet these goals?
(Oh, and another goal of mine is to make sure this Talk page is actually used.)
— Emiellaiendiay 04:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to Ingrid, we now have a watchlist for all relevant articles! You can see the recent changes here [1].
— Emiellaiendiay 06:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I created a template for inviting new participants:
You have been invited to join the WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Bay Area. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading! |
There's also a "Welcome" template for those who to join:
{{SFBA Welcome}}
Hi, WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force, and welcome to WikiProject We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles relevant to the Bay Area. Here are some points that may be helpful:
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We hope you enjoy working on this project. |
I went over the history pages for all the FA, A, and GA-class articles, looked for users who made large or repeated contributions, and invited those who's userpages seemed to indicate they'd be interested in this topic. Also, users from WikiProject California indicating a specific interest in the Bay Area. Hopefully, this will drum up some interest. Peter G Werner 20:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
After decades of studying and tutoring California history, it's a bit surprising to find we lost one of the 9 Bay Area counties. What's missing? Why? KP Botany 04:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
It is The City and County of San Francisco and should be listed as such. — Athænara ✉ 01:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
This is either a Wikipedia project, in which case consensus needs to be reached, or it's a personal project, in which case it belongs in user space, not in WP space. Which is it to be? — Athænara ✉ 04:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I thought the neighborhoods template was terrific the first time I saw it. I still do. It stands quite well on its own, and I see no reason for it to be absorbed into any other template. For the other, the city and county template in Physicq's subpage seems excellent. — Athænara ✉ 08:13, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I've added the Collaboration of the Month feature. This month's, I hope you don't mind my choosing, is Oakland, California. Basically, the idea is for all project members to focus improving one article a month to FA status, even if some people can only contribute a little. We can discuss the collaboration and possible future articles on the collaboration talk page. — Emiellaiendiay 04:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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 16:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
There is curently a proposal for a WikiProject California Award. I proposed expanding it to include this WP. Check out the link and feel free to comment. --evrik (talk) 21:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I've added the Jumpaclass feature. Please participate! Pick a stub, start, or B-class article and improve at least one level within a week. Direct any questions to the talk page. I suspect that people already work on improving stub/start/B class articles, and so this is just an opportunity to be recognized for your work and to encourage it.
— Emiellaiendiay 18:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
There's an issue about whether to describe the region as a single metropolitan area or not in the intro. Describing the entire region as a single metropolitan area is misleading since most other metro area articles do not use a multiple core definition, or indicate that the article refers to a group of metro areas. I have suggested using "metropolitan region" as an alternative description. Any thoughts you have on this matter would be helpful. Thanks. --Polaron | Talk 15:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
San Francisco Bay Area articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 9 | 14 | 29 | 52 | |||
FL | 1 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 29 | ||
FM | 37 | 37 | |||||
A | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 2 | 12 | 64 | 114 | 12 | 204 | |
B | 25 | 114 | 208 | 276 | 101 | 724 | |
C | 22 | 121 | 417 | 933 | 2 | 405 | 1,900 |
Start | 13 | 149 | 912 | 3,719 | 4 | 922 | 5,719 |
Stub | 13 | 179 | 3,545 | 3 | 453 | 4,193 | |
List | 1 | 57 | 109 | 22 | 189 | ||
Category | 1,811 | 1,811 | |||||
Disambig | 2 | 7 | 9 | ||||
File | 68 | 68 | |||||
Portal | 1,138 | 1,138 | |||||
Project | 20 | 20 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 7 | 10 | 201 | 367 | 586 | |
Template | 1 | 3 | 233 | 237 | |||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
Assessed | 64 | 428 | 1,877 | 8,944 | 3,693 | 1,915 | 16,921 |
Unassessed | 2 | 68 | 70 | ||||
Total | 64 | 428 | 1,877 | 8,944 | 3,695 | 1,983 | 16,991 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 63,930 | Ω = 5.00 |
Hello, I am joining the project. Question: was assessment of importance intentionally omitted? —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-25 03:58Z
Done I've added the importance= parameter to {{SFBAProject}} and set up the corresponding categories and such. I've rated some articles. The bot is working. See the table —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-27 14:09Z
Should we have some kind of criteria for importance ratings? The current assessments seem idiosyncratic in some cases. Perhaps we should have a table or list that shows the minimum or expected level of importance for types of articles, such as :
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hjal (talk • contribs)
Great discussion Hjal and Peter G Werner. A consistent importance grading scheme is indeed important. Since I was the first to start rating importance I'm sure some of the articles I rated are inconsistent at the moment. I'm of the opinion that with this kind of thing it's best to just jump into it and start rating articles, and as you go you'll figure out what previous ratings should be changed, and criteria will evolve from that. Feel free to upgrade or downgrade any articles I rated. I've started off the importance grading scheme at Wikipedia:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area/Assessment#Importance scale based on input here. Hjal, great start, and I agree with Peter's points about SF neighborhoods and biographies. Go ahead and make changes to it and we can keep discussing here. Especially if you have any input on the quantitative decisions like how many cities to put in each stratum, go ahead and edit the page and note the changes here. (bold, revert, discuss :). —Quarl (talk) 2007-04-08 06:16Z
For reasons that I can't even begin to fathom, the assessment bot seems to have stopped working. The log (Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/SFBA articles by quality log) shows that the last time it ran was June 4, 2007. I know for certain that there have been changes in article ratings because I went on a spree and assessed over 100 articles. Anyone have any idea what the problem may be and how to fix it? Running it manually seems to have no effect. MissMJ 19:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
While closing AFDs I stumbled upon George Starbird and saved it from deletion (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Starbird). I noticed that List of mayors of San Jose, California has a ton of redlinks to notable people; we can easily write at least stubs for all of them. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-25 04:04Z
The Sonoma County, California article was recently nominate for FAC. It's a WP:SNOWjob, though. The article is dreadful. Can folks go and start editing it? It's a stack of lists without context. The lists can be made into their own articles, but the article desperately needs prose. I hope that other county articles are not as dreadful as this one, but would it be possible to focus on the counties first, rather than cities? KP Botany 20:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
There is an important debate occurring at Talk:Wine Country. Anlace 14:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
As leader of WikiProject California Schools, I would like it if you would link to our page as a "sister/brother" project. We will be especially focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area, as I am a resident of San Jose myself. I am a member of the SF Bay WikiProject, and this would be a good deed towards unifying Wikipedia... lol ... thanks
--Wikimania1011-Wikimania1011 UserTalk 23:27, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco 2. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-02 21:31Z
There are a couple of articles on Marin County shopping centers, all of which way or may not be notable enough for a wikipedia article. Therefore, I propose merging all of them into one page, something along the lines of Shopping Centers in Marin County, CA. All the different shopping venues would have their own subsection. The articles in question are:
Comments? Suggestions? Metallic 95 User Page | Talk 13:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you have a new article announcement board (if so, I can't find it), but this is a new article written by a new Wikipedian. I've been helping him with verifiability and notability concerns, and I'm sure he'd appreciate any help. Thanks, Fang Aili talk 20:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
User:Jeepday has proposed that every neighborhood listed on the East Oakland, Oakland, California article be merged into that article. The discussion at the moment is mainly between Jeepday and one other editor. Since the articles in question are part of this project, I'm posting this here to alert the members to the discussion. -Nogood 03:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
-- I have nominated the article Leo J. Ryan Federal Building as a Wikipedia:Good articles candidate. If you can review it and either pass it as a Good Article, and/or give a Review on the article's talk page as to how the article can be improved to increase its article quality eventually to Featured Article Status, it would be most appreciated. Thank you for your time. Smee 08:02, 27 May 2007 (UTC).
I have just recently created a new template devoted to Bay Area cities and counties. Link to template is here: Template:SF Bay Area. At this time it isn't finished, and it'll still need a lil more tweaking to it. GETONERD84 21:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Input at Talk:Union Square, San Francisco#Requested move would be appreciated, and particularly at Talk:Union Square, San Francisco#Discussion where the possibility is raised that this may set a precedent for the rest of Category:San Francisco neighborhoods. Andrewa 01:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
San Jose, California 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. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Joshua A. Norton (a.k.a Emperor Norton I) which was demoted from FA status last fall, is currently a Feature Article Candidate.--Paul 21:12, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm chasing down articles to add to the project but I keep running into close calls in a couple areas:
1. Biographies. There are often people who were born and raised here, then left. For example, Laurence Tribe, one of America's most distinguished legal scholars. I would love to count him in here, but I don't think he has any real ties. I've been tagging them "people from San Francisco" or "People from the Bay Area" but not adding the SFBAProject tag. Other national figures, like Maya Angelou, Mark Twain, or even Jack Keroac, [[have deeper roots in that their time in the Bay Area seems to have affected them, they have left a lasting impression on SF, or their personal histories are more closely entwined with those of the city. So I include them.
2. Social and art movements. For example, Hippies, the Hells Angels, sourdough bread, and the Beat Generation are international phenomena but are either associated with the Bay Area in everyone's mind, contain important sections on the history or culture of SF, or had a major local impact. So I add them to the project.
Any thoughts? Wikidemo 05:48, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Who operates the assessment bot? It doesn't seem to have collected the counts on articles lately. It would be nice to have a fairly up to date running total of good articles, unrated articles, high importance articles, etc. Also, any chance of getting links on all the elements on the class-versus-importance matrix? For example it would be nice to link to a list of all important articles that are stubs, or B class articles with unrated importance. Thanks, Wikidemo 05:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
In the area? You're invited to | ||
San Francisco Meetup 3 | ||
Date: September 16th, 2007 | ||
Place: Yerba Buena Gardens, 3pm | ||
San Francisco Meetup 2 |
-- phoebe/(talk) 06:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, following User:Zzyzx11 recommendation - i'm posting a message here. I really need some help/consulting regarding the dynamics of a mass-collaboration platform. If you are an active & experience wikipedian and you're interested, i would really appreciate if you can leave me a note on my user page so I can tell you more about it. --Eyalmc 00:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
In the area? You're invited to | ||
San Francisco Meetup 4 | ||
Date: Nov 10, 2007 | ||
Place: Help us choose it! | ||
prev: Meetup 3 - next: Meetup 5 |
-- phoebe/(talk) 03:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Operating on the belief that libraries are friendly to wikipedia, doesn't it seem possible that the SFPL might be willing to grant a blanket usage of their historical photos to wikipedia? (I'd just call 'em, but it's almost midnight here...) So that prompts three questions:
MrRedwood 06:50, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
October 2007 Alum Rock earthquakeatWikipedia:Articles for deletion/October 2007 Alum Rock earthquake (31 October 2007)
Alum Rock earthquakeatWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alum Rock earthquake (31 October 2007)
I've recently joined this project and to contribute, I have rated articles on their class and importance. This is a really easy thing for me to do, so I do it quite a bit. Many Wikiprojects allow their members to adopt an article or a task. Maybe this WikiProject should start doing this? If so, I'll be happy to adopt rating articles on their class and importance. Paul Italiano (talk) 01:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Please see Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco County, California. GregManninLB (talk) 23:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I am looking into starting Wikimedia California. Anyone interested? Geoff Plourde (talk) 03:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
The Big Al's article has been nominated for deletion (see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Big_Al's). The impression I get is that it's a significant local landmark, if nothing else, but I'm not from SF so contributions from anyone more knowledgeable about the subject than I would be welcome. Debate (talk) 08:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Although this article is listed as a Featured Article, it no longer meets the criteria. For the most part, it looks very good. There is a lack of references throughout the article, though. If the article can be thoroughly referenced, I have no problem with it remaining as a Featured Article. I wanted to mention this to the relevant WikiProjects to see if anyone is willing to work on the sourcing for this article. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
A request for comment has been posted at Talk:Harvey Milk#REQUEST FOR COMMENT: Milk's involvement with Jim Jones/Peoples Temple. Other editor's input would be appreciated. Banjeboi 04:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Many of the articles on lighthouses and light stations included in List of Registered Historic Places in California have been moved from "Foo Point Lighthouse" or "Foo Point Light Station" to "Foo Point Light." This is done without discussion in most cases. Some existing articles were simply changed to redirects to new articles with the new naming convention adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses.
Please review the discussion regarding the propsal to move Point Reyes LighthousetoPoint Reyes LightatTalk:Point Reyes Lighthouse.--Hjal (talk) 07:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Anonymous editors have been changing the wording of Berkeley Oak Grove Protest, and article in your project's scope, and have recently added a NPOV template. I'd like opinions from other editors, so please stop on by and leave a comment here! Thanks! --Falcorian (talk) 20:07, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Ohlone and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a few issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 814 of the articles assigned to this project, or 24.4%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I have prototype Userboxes for eight of nine Counties for consideration by this WikiProject; I saw no need to include the City and County of San Francisco in my proposal (aTemplate:User San Francisco and variants already existing). Suggestions, if any, may be left at User talk:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes. And DO keep me posted on which ones are adopted. - B. C. Schmerker (talk) 08:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Templates for review:
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Contra Costa County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Alameda County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Santa Clara County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User San Mateo County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Marin County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Solano County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Sonoma County
User:B.C.Schmerker/User boxes/User Napa County
I've just created Agnew's Village, California. If appropriate, a project member may wish to add the {{SFBA Project}} template to its talk page. I don't participate in this project, so it would be presumptuous for me to do so.— Preceding unsigned comment added by TJRC (talk • contribs) 16:43, August 4, 2008
A vigorous but newish editor has created an article on Mother's Motors, a motorbike shop of the sixties. It seems potentially interesting but is also problematic, with vague claims that are unsourced and a lot of what at this point looks like little more than name-dropping. It has already been flagged for speedy deletion (not by me) and had the template removed (neither by its author nor by me). I sense that the subject is worthwhile and hope that some of the denizens of this talk page will know how to help the article. -- Hoary (talk) 00:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
San Francisco, California 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. GaryColemanFan (talk) 15:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge 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. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:14, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object if I changed the Project page to a style similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses? Most of the project page, and the project itself also appear to be inactive so I was also thinking of polling participants to get an accurate count of active members. -Optigan13 (talk) 06:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Well I've updated the page with the redesign and polled everyone with {{subst:SFBA Rollcall}}. As pointed out to BoL on his talk page his banner ad for the project is up {{Wikipedia ads|ad=153}}
and only one is allowed per project, but I noticed that WP:California doesn't seem to have an ad so if you want to roll your ideas into an ad for them that would probably help. -Optigan13 (talk) 11:09, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Recently, the quality scale introduced a C-class, with the B-class criteria becoming more restrictive. However, the restricting of criteria is an project-by-project opt-in procedure, which entails fiddling {{SFBAProject}}, demoting all B-class articles to C-class, and reassessing such articles individually against a defined set of criteria in order to regain B-class status. I think we should do this to more accurately gauge the quality of the articles in our scope, and concentrate improvement where needed (and we only have 286 B-class articles right now, so it's manageable). Thoughts? —kurykh 17:46, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Due to lack of opposition, I invoked WP:BOLD and implemented the changes. The effects seemed to have been more than I anticipated; B- and C-class articles were actually demoted to start-class. To re-acquire their former ratings, they need to be checked against a list of criteria found on the doc page on the template or in Wikipedia:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area/Assessment. So, let the reassessments begin! —kurykh 06:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Lately I noticed a lots of Politician articles are POV using weasel words and generalizations to frame them in a positive manner. For example using words such as "Best" or generalizations such as "worked with environmentalist" or reference their campaign/government websites. I think it is critical that we fix these mistakes to make it NPOV and not make it seem wikipedia supports them.--Cs california (talk) 06:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone else see this topic, the now dismantled Key System of electric streetcars, as being historically significant to the urbanization of the East Bay? I question its "low" importance ranking?Critical Chris (talk) 01:40, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
"Funny" edit in Phil Bronstein ("the executive vice president and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle", and "was formerly executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner.")
- On 17 June 2008, User:Chloe702 made an edit with summary as follows: "Changed "Fong" to "Fang," and "sold" to "transferred" and added "politically well-connected." I was the Executive Production Editor of the Examiner at the time. The Fang family used its"
(This is User:Chloe702's only edit to Wikipedia.)
Is any of this correct? Can any of this be cited?
As far as I know, "I'm the source for this info" is not acceptable under WP:VERIFY and WP:OR. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 21:51, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could someone please visit this article and consider re-rating it, it has been completely rewritten. -- Banjeboi 02:32, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Any and all eyes on the peer review would be appreciated. Much of it includes general issues in San Francisco in the 1970s. Thank you. --Moni3 (talk) 02:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Just to let you know: Harvey Milk is at FAC. If you think it deserves to be promoted, please respond on that FAC page. If you think something should be changed or fixed in the article, please respond on that FAC page. There have been fewer FAC reviewers lately. I am concerned that the article will go unnoticed for the most part and archived for lack of response. It will probably stay at FAC for another week. I'm going to leave similar messages at other WikiProjects. --Moni3 (talk) 14:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to nominate List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations for FL status. It is currently under peer review. So if anyone could help improve it or offer comments, that would be great. Thanks —Chris! ct 19:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello to everybody in this project. The WikiProject Ice Hockey is currently looking for editors to help update team articles about the 2008-09 NHL season. If you are interested in the NHL, please consider helping us keep these article current. To sign up, go to this page and add your name beside the team or teams you wish to particpate in. For a guide to expanding the article, see 2007-08 Pittsburgh Penguins season which is currently listed as a Good Article. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at WT:HOCKEY or at my talk page. Hope to here back from you, GrszReview! 16:56, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
In the area? You're invited to | |
San Francisco Meetup # 8 | |
Date: November 8th, 2008 | |
Time: 2PM | |
Place: Metacafe, Palo Alto, California | |
prev: Meetup 7 - next: Meetup 9 |
I just uploaded a collection of stereographs taken after the 1906 earthquakes. Many historical landmarks are depicted. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 02:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I've just moved Chinatown, San Francisco, CaliforniatoChinatown, San Francisco, but realised I should have got consensus first. Would it be an idea to remove the ", California" from SF-related articles now that the parent article's name is just San Francisco? I would probably think that WP guidelines would suggest a degree of consistency here, the closest thing that WP:PLACES mentions is consistency within a country. Regards, --Joowwww (talk) 23:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Some SFBAProject members probably already noticed this going on... I completed adding mountain range stubs to get the redlinks out of List of mountain ranges of California (talk). Many of these were in the Bay Area counties. I also added a geobox, locator map, coordinates and a ref from USGS GNIS for existing mountain range articles that didn't already have them, since those were easily cut&pasted from the output of the program that generates the stub article text. Ikluft (talk) 08:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi! The Italian consulate is at 2590 Webster Street - http://www.conssanfrancisco.esteri.it/Consolato_SanFrancisco - Does anyone mind taking a photo of it? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Several San Francisco categories are up for renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 February 24. I figure other folks on this WikiProject might be interested in having their say. Cheers,--Stepheng3 (talk) 17:42, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I have a disagreement with Clab6 (talk · contribs · email) about whether Roseland should have an article separate from Santa Rosa, California. I'd be grateful if someone could provide us with a third perspective on the matter. If interested, please respond on Talk:Roseland, California. --Stepheng3 (talk) 03:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
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Back in late January/early February 2009, I extensively revised and expanded the article, Electric Transit, Inc., which is about the company that built most (273) of S.F. Muni's current fleet of trolley coaches. However, the quality assessment noted on the article's talk page remains "stub-class", an assessment made a full year earlier, in February 2008. Could someone please reassess the article when convenient? Thanks. SJ Morg (talk) 10:37, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Oakland Unified School District. This project's template is defaulting to B Class and placing both Unassessed and B class categories. Please fix this. Thanks. Adam McCormick (talk) 05:32, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Would someone mind photographing the Viz Media at 295 Bay Street [6]? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:13, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I deprodded this article about the SF City Attorney and added some references; someone hear might know more about him to knock the article into shape. Fences&Windows 23:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI: I created a new category Category:Mountain ranges of the San Francisco Bay Area as a subcat of Category:Mountain ranges of Northern California and Category:Landforms of the San Francisco Bay Area. I recategorized 25 mountain range articles from Northern California into it, which are all the ones in USGS GNIS for the Bay Area counties. Ikluft (talk) 01:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
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If you would all be so kind as to review the issue being discussed at this article and weigh in with your opinion I would appreciate it. We'd like to incur a larger, more objective, unemotional share of input then what exists right now. Thank you very much for your time and we really appreciate it. 68.52.42.38 (talk) 03:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
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Should the two US Servicemembers woes hometown were registered as being in San Mateo County have articles written on them? They have meet minimum notability requirements, but some would argue that it would be POV pushing, or be an obituary article if created. The individuals in specific are as follows:
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(help)--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:49, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Based on the general project activity level, number of participants, and the overlap of pages in scope with WP:WikiProject California (2984/4637 ~64%), I feel this project should be changed to a task force of WikiProject California. Right now this would involve replacing all instances of {{SFBA Project}} with {{WikiProject California|sfba = yes |sfba-importance =
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(or something to that effect). It would also mean a lot of what is laid out at WP Med's task force conversion checklist.
Personally I'm not in favor of carrying over the B-list checklist from {{SFBA Project}} into {{WikiProject California}}. Although it's helpful when assessing an article, I think the number of articles in both SFBA and Cal's scope would dwarf any uses of it. Any thoughts, objections, etc? -Optigan13 (talk) 03:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
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we've had that since August 2008 File:Qxz-ad153.gif. -Optigan13 (talk) 04:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)(outdent) I've moved the project and adjusted categories for being a task force. I'll place a bot request to update the template usage in the next few days. I've temporarily disabled the cleanup listing and article alerts until that is done. -Optigan13 (talk) 01:45, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Harold Sturtevant Steve Dufour (talk) 07:52, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
can someone add the david hewes building to wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.236.69.9 (talk) 04:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Due to the demotion of this project and associated changes to the project templates, the following categories are no longer in use:
Unless someone objects, I plan to delete these using {{db-c1}}. --Stepheng3 (talk) 06:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
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should be in use everywhere at this point, so deleting those categories should be fine. -Optigan13 (talk) 21:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
We need to post the link to the SFBA portal in every SFBA-related article. Through the portal people can learn about this task force. Hopefully it can get its participation up so it can become its own WikiProject again. With the highly educated population and abundance of companies in the region, one would expect a high level of participation from the SFBA area. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Henry Edwards (entomologist) has been listed for review at Featured Article. The guy was an actor in SF and an early member of the Bohemian Club. Binksternet (talk) 09:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Green Day/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found a number of concerns with the article which will need major work so I have delisted it. Please see Talk:Balboa High School (San Francisco, California)/GA1 for further information. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:53, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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Temple Sinai (Oakland, California) is currently a Featured Article Candidate. Comments, suggestions, improvements welcome. The discussion is here. Jayjg (talk) 22:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I have been working on Saint Joseph Parish (Mountain View, California), and am using it as a template to do the parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California. I would very much appreciate some input. I have flagged it for attention and submitted it for peer review.
Thanks, Alvincura (talk) 21:15, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
There's a user, Geoffrey100, revising many SF Bay Area related articles and removing cities, transit agencies, radio stations, etc., without explanation and based upon his narrow definition of "Bay Area". Please review these changes. --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 04:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Can somebody get a snap of the Russian cruiser Varyag (1983)?
Thanks. > Best O Fortuna (talk) 03:51, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Someone may want to look in on Cliff House, San Francisco, and especially its talk page. Someone has weighed in saying that our article is riddled with errors, and I believe he's right, but San Francisco history is not particularly an area of my expertise, so I leave it to someone on this project to follow up. - Jmabel | Talk 05:28, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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Commons:File:Kearney Street Plaza (Plazza), San Francisco, Cal, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.png (and a few others that show the same image): does anyone know where this would have been? Clearly "Kearney" is "Kearny". Is this Portsmouth Plaza, or somewhere else? - Jmabel | Talk 05:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
A piece of San Francisco history that certainly deserves an article: Woodward's Gardens. See http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/woodwardsgardens/index.html. I ran across this because of work I was doing on Commons. See Commons:Category:Stereo cards of Woodward's Gardens. Looks like in its heyday it was quite a place. - Jmabel | Talk 06:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
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Would someone mind photographing the SEGA North America HQ? It is at:
WhisperToMe (talk) 15:55, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
The Starhawk article was moved/renamed today to Starhawk (author) without discussion by a proponent of the new video game of the same name. Now Starhawk (and all 100 Wikilinks to her name) redirects to a disambiguation page. Please note my Requested Move discussion about moving it back to the original article title. If inspired to vote, please note Wiki policies that support this, such as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, etc. Softlavender (talk) 12:18, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
AtTalk:U.S. cities with most sports champions#Metro areas linked???, we are trying to decide if the table on the article page should have separate entries for San Francisco and Oakland (and perhaps San Jose), or rather one entry for the entire Bay Area. If there is something we are missing, please leave a comment on that article's talk page. Thanks! ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 15:08, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Comments are invited on the discussion page for subject article about California Historical Landmark #968 and alleged duplication of coverage in articles about historic aircraft using the site.Thewellman (talk) 01:36, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Should American Indian Model Schools and American Indian Public Charter School be merged? The three American Indian schools all have the same philosophy... WhisperToMe (talk) 20:29, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm a novice at wikipedia, and want to help contribute to articles in the Los Altos area. One page I started was regarding the National Register of Historic Places home Paul Shoup House. Feedback on specifics in the page that could help improve it would be appreciated. Wjenning (talk) 00:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Please help out at Talk:Mountain View – Winchester (VTA)#Opening dates for the eastern Tasman West stations on this line. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:38, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
The chart showing class and importance was broken, as someone had legitimately changed the name of the categories from SFBA to San Francisco Bay Area, but this change was not reflected in this charts editing. i made an effort to edit the source of this chart, and seemed to have succeeded. If, for any reason, i should not have done this (maybe theres an automated process for this which does it properly), my apologies, but it does seem fixed now. before, all the items were redlinked.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:26, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
This is the correct page to use, and i have no idea how to have the task force page access this one instead of the current one, which results in redlinks: User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/San Francisco Bay Area. The incorrect page, which is what is being used, is User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/SFBA. I hope someone can fix this.(mercurywoodrose)75.61.135.200 (talk) 06:34, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
I created Template:San Francisco Bay watershed for topics related to the water bodies of the bay, rivers, streams, crossings, history. the streams section is not organized yet, not sure how to do it: region, tributaries, alpha. Maybe I should remove all the streams that dont empty directly into the bay, to make it more manageable.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:44, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a stalemate in discussion with the Tagged social media article. Any advice, contributions or general help from editors of this project would be greatly appreciated. Thanks NCSS (talk) 04:39, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
I would like to create a discussion on the naming of the Placer county unincorporated area that is Olympic Valley. In Wikipedia it is referred to as Squaw_Valley,_Placer_County,_California. This community should be called Olympic Valley, as that is the official name. You will also notice that Placer County, California also refers to this article as Olympic Valley, not Squaw Valley. Squaw Valley is the name of a ski resort that is located in this valley. If you guys feel this is not under the jurisdiction of the SF Bay Area, please suggest a more relevant location for this discussion and ask an admin to move it there. I propose this article be renamed Olympic Valley Thanks. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 15:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
I wonder if anybody has more info on Tiffany Building (San Francisco)? Why did Qantas sell the building? When did the airline offices vacate? When did the Australian consulate vacate? Why was the building named after Tiffany and Co.?
I noticed the building upon finding out that Cathay Pacific moved its US HQ in here... WhisperToMe (talk) 10:19, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Does anybody have any photos of One Maritime Plaza? It is where Del Monte Corporation has its HQ WhisperToMe (talk) 06:37, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I found:
WhisperToMe (talk) 14:28, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Revisiting AfD. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
We are trying to decide on a location and date. Please participate in this survey! Thanks! SarahStierch (talk) 16:03, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#Immigration status. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:40, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if anyone wants to make an article on the cuisine of San Francisco, but I found:
A copy on webcitation is at Wikipedia:Resource requests WhisperToMe (talk) 08:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for a photo. Did any of you see numbers in the sky? Did you take a snapshot? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:59, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Category:Alcatraz inmates, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:26, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, if anyone can help me I would be very appreciative. I am trying to get the Touro University California article reassessed. It is currently ranked C class and believe it is now ready to potentially be promoted to a B class article. It probably needs a bit more work before it's GA status. You can reach me on my talkpage anytime, thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 06:20, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
WP has used Category:Bottom-importance articles for a while now, and i am curious why its so rarely used. I think it would be appropriate here and at the California task force.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:20, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed that we have hundreds of Start and Stub SFBA articles with no assessment. For a native, assessing as top, high, mid, or low is fairly easy. Ive done it for the GA, B and C articles, and a few of the start and stub.(Mercurywoodrose)76.232.10.255 (talk) 20:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Are there Wikipedians who can get to Sausalito/Marin City easily? If so, I have photo requests for the public school system Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 06:24, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
All the stub and start class articles are now assessed (most of course were low importance). there are about 1,000 or more articles on academics, primarily UC Berkeley and Stanford, which i believe are not even added to the project yet (but are categorized as UC/Stanford profs). this based on starting through the list of ucb faculty, where most were not in the project (or in the UC project, which is inactive). many of the other categories i have checked, but there are of course a lot of stragglers. I just found that Mark Twain was not in the project, a huge oversight. Ive also fixed up some of the category headings for the project, and improved the assessment page.
I have a really big question: do articles here automatically get combined with the US Wikiproject? that project includes the less notable states within its umbrella, but ours, like some other states, have stand alone projects, and very few of our articles are crosscoded for WPUSA. I will add WPUSA to our FA, GA ,A B articles at some point, but i hope this organizational issue has been addressed somewhere.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 00:42, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
I reviewed all High, and Mid importance articles of Stub class, to see if they were ready for Start (or C) class designation. many were.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
the New Article link has been unreviewed since its earliest lists. i have begun to review all the new articles that showed up as possibly sfba related, and am categorizing them or placing the sfba project banner on their talk page if missing. its a lot to go through. many of the articles which qualify have not been categorized/added.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering the opinions of a montage for the San Francisco page. Here is one I have selected off of wiki commons. I was wondering your opinion on a montage for SF. Should we:
A) Use my selected montage
B) Use a better montage or have me or someone else create a better montage to use
C) Keep the current picture
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pollack man34 (talk • contribs) 18:48, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Now at 9000. It should be relatively easy to make it to 10000.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 20:39, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I have put together a list of requested articles for California, with some of the SFBA requests broken out. list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Requested Articles, and i linked it at the Cali project and on our page.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:05, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#Blanking of content verified by multiple reliable sources. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Gnom from Hamburg, Germany. I'm a trainee lawyer and I'm going to spend the months of July through September as an intern with the legal department of the Wikimedia Foundation. I usually only edit the German Wikipedia, so you probably haven't seen my name around here a lot. I've never been to California, so I'm greatful for how much information you guys have put together - I've been going through some of the articles you're looking after in the past few days. I'm looking forward to maybe meeting some of you if you plan to do a Meetup some time during the summer. Anyway, just in case someone knows of a room I can rent in the said period, please let me know! Cheers, --Gnom (talk) 13:29, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
A significant discussion is underway at Talk:History of California#Dublin IP editor contributions. Additional input would be appreciated. --MelanieN (talk) 18:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
I recently created an article about the (California-based) company I work for. Another user questioned the notability and neutrality of the piece, and I would appreciate any independent perspectives.--Wurtis65 (talk) 22:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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