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Wikipedia Day NYC
You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 9th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Sunday January 24, 2010 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends!
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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (January 2010)
 The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter | |||
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| Project News | Article Alerts | ||
| New Statistics Table There has been an upgrade to the WP 1.0 bot that updates our project's summary table. The new table lists all page classes including Portal-class, Redirect-class, and Disambig-class. We now have a better picture of the scope of the WikiProject and the pages that we cover. New York Times to charge for access The New York Times is an invaluable resource for properly referencing articles, but especially due to its extensive archives and coverage of New Jersey issues. The announcement that metered content will be started in 2011 has the potential to make article sourcing much more difficult. It also causes a need to update linked sources in articles before all of the NYT links go dead. Any link can be archived on demand by using WebCite. We can help avoid dead links by archiving any article sources from the NYT. |
The following articles may be in need of attention:
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| All BLP, All the Time | New WPNJ members | ||
| BLP Issue Boils Over There are discussions all over the 'pedia about deleting close to 50,000 unreferenced Biographies of Living People. We won't get into a rehash here, but let's just look at what we can do. There is a new item on the project task list for sourcing BLPs. All articles that are in both Category:People from New Jersey and Category:All unreferenced BLPs are now available on this work list. These articles need to be sourced, PRODded, or sent to AfD. An ounce of prevention Unreferenced BLPs are one of the catgories regularly listed in the WPNJ Cleanup listing. New articles are also a prime location to find articles that do not yet have references. You can keep an eye on the New Articles list to help prevent the workload from getting any larger. Can we do more? There are bots that will automatically add the WPNJ Project Banner to all articles in our designated categories if we have consensus to request it. Join the discussion here. |
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
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| In NJ, politics means article updates | Help Wanted | ||
| New Leaders in NJ Government Over the past 2 weeks, new legislators have been sworn in, the legislature has new leadership, the 55th Governor of New Jersey has been inaugurated, and we have our first Lt. Governor. All new members of the Legislature have at least stub articles, and many of the templates have been updated. Updating templates Many New Jersey articles utilize stadardized templates to convey information. With elections happening as often as they do in this state, January is always a good time to review these templates and update them with new information. Does your town or county have new elected officials? It's maintainance time on many of our articles on municipalities and counties as well. |
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| Editor's news Must have been some winter holiday season in New Jersey, because the project talk page has been unusually quiet. I thought with all that snow, many of us would be inside and doing things here at WP. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying a healthy and happy 2010!! - Jim Miller See me | Touch me | |||
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- Newsletter delivery by xenobot 13:45, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Autoreviewer
Hi Chris, I just came across one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has been contributing articles since 2004 hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 19:18, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, WereSpielChequers. I've been out of things for a while, so that is new procedure for me. Much appreciated. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 19:31, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- Not really back, just scratching an itch. But, thanks. :) --ChrisRuvolo (t) 19:47, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
NYC Wikipedia Meetup Sunday, March 21
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New York City Meetup
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikipedia Day NYC, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia at the Library and Lights Camera Wiki, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, for example User:ScienceApologist will present on "climate change, alternative medicine, UFOs and Transcendental Meditation" (see the November meeting's minutes).
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back. And if the weather is good, we'll have a star party with the telescopes on the roof of Pupin Hall!
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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File:2nd ave subway.svg
The MTA is merging the M and V lines, among other things. — Rickyrab | Talk 15:48, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
- The idea is for the new line to run from far northern Brooklyn (and perhaps a small chunk of Queens) down the current "brown" tracks and use the Chrystie St. cut to switch over to the "orange" lines uptown, where it takes over the route of the V. This eliminates a link between Manhattan and Brooklyn (currently served by the M), but otherwise, all stations are still served by trains. The new line will have the color of the V and the letter of the M (yup, an orange M). — Rickyrab | Talk 16:01, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
- Hi. Yes, I'm aware of the change. I will update the map when the change takes place. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:17, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Done. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 22:34, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Hi. Yes, I'm aware of the change. I will update the map when the change takes place. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:17, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
NYC Wikipedia Meetup Saturday, May 22
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New York City Meetup
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikimedia Chapters Meeting 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wiki-Conference NYC and Wikipedia Cultural Embassy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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Need your opinion
Hi. Can you offer your opinion on this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 04:09, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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- Restored to article. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:13, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
You are now a Reviewer
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 04:34, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. Is it just me, or is the all-seeing-reviewer-eye logo kind of creepy? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:43, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Wiki-Conference NYC (2nd annual)
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC has been confirmed for the weekend of August 28-29 at New York University.
There's still plenty of time to join a panel, or to propose a lightning talk or an open space session. Register for the Wiki-Conference here. And sign up here for on-wiki notification. All are invited!
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While this NJ article seems to have been saved from the scalpel, an retained its FA status, there is now a discussion regarding how to define the Pulaski Skyway. In light of contradictory information and opinions your input would be appreciated Djflem (talk) 07:27, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Bergen County signage
Hi there. I hope you find the references regarding the road signage to be adequate. The pictorials are embedded deeply within the refs. The refs are legitimate, although refs are extremely difficult to find on an issue like this. But if you're well familiar with Bergen County roads, you'll know that these four-municipal directional signs are not only ubiquitous but actually very practical in navigating around the county's towns and have been around for decades in conjunction with the county's development. They also are not found anywhere else, to my knowledge. Thus, I believe they warrant mention in the article. Best, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.217.91 (talk) 14:49, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
- Hi. We know the signs exist, we need references that show that they are somehow notable and to back up the claims that they are unique and ubiquitous. Unfortunately, the references cited don't meet the wikipedia criteria of a reliable source, so I am removing them. I know you are editing in good faith and are trying to meet the policy criteria, so please do keep looking for reliable sources. I would also encourage you to create a user account so people know they are talking to the same person and not random people behind a IP NAT address, HTTP proxy or a shared computer. Cheers, and thanks for your contributions. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Will look for these refs as efficiently as possible, thanks :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.217.91 (talk) 18:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia NYC Meetup Sat Oct 16
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New York City Meetup
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wiki-Conference NYC 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia Ambassador Program and Wikipedia Academy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the May meeting's minutes).
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4
Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.
A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying "WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.
This will be a museum touring and partying meetup, so no excuses about being a shy newbie this time. Bring a friend too!
You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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