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Archives The WikiProject United States Newsletter April 2011
Scope and Mission of WikiProject United States Welcome to WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain the United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out WikiProject guidelines.	Articles of note This section highlights US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last month: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States. New featured articles:  • U.S. Route 30 in Iowa  • 1950 Atlantic hurricane season  • History of the New York Jets  • Grand Coulee Dam  • Warren County, Indiana  • Morgan dollar  • Leslie Groves  • Luke P. Blackburn  • L. Ron Hubbard  • 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final  • USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente  • J. Robert Oppenheimer  • History of Sesame Street  • Kennedy half dollar  • Sacagawea dollar  • 2009 World Series New featured lists:  • Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album  • Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Album  • Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration  • Grammy Award for Best Rock Song  • Grammy Award for Best World Music Album  • List of Alabama Crimson Tide football head coaches  • List of Baltimore Orioles first-round draft picks  • List of Cincinnati Reds first-round draft picks  • List of Governors of Washington  • List of New England Patriots seasons  • List of New York Cosmos all-stars  • List of New York Cosmos seasons  • List of Oakland Athletics first-round draft picks  • List of Oakland Athletics managers  • List of Pittsburgh Pirates first-round draft picks  • List of Tampa Bay Lightning seasons  • List of WWE Divas Champions  • Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (E–F)  • Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster  • The Simpsons (season 13)  • U.S. state reptiles Project article statistics for March 31 2011 WikiProject United States assessment table Current statistics
Project news Since the last newsletter was sent there have been a number of significant discussions and events that pertained to the project and United States related articles in general. WikiProject American television has joined the family of WikiProjects that have agreed to share {{WikiProject United States}}. This project was started to improve Wikipedia's coverage of American television and the articles relating to that topic. If you are interested the project could use your help. There is an active discussion on the talk pages of WikiProject United States and WikiProject Government about the inactive project WikiProject United States Government being added to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. With the recent release of the 2010 US Census there have been multiple active conversations about how to update all the articles affected. If you have any ideas or want to help in this effort please leave your comments on the WikiProject United States talk page. The tagging of articles continues and we have added several thousand articles to the count since the last newsletter. We still have approximately 1300 articles in the project that need to be assessed so any help you can provide with assessments is greatly appreciated. Even 1 or 2 a day would be a big help. A bot request was submitted to tag the remaining 500 pages of Portal United States with the United States banner. The project already has over 1700 of the portal pages tagged so this would be just to finish off the remaining ones.
Portal Thanks to RichardF and a few others the United States portal is getting ever closer to achieving Featured portal status. The portal needs your help in filling in the Anniversaries (formerly known as On this day). Any help you can provide to help fill these dates in would be greatly appreciated. If you have any ideas or comments about the portal please feel free to leave them here.
Collaboration The collaboration for April 2011 is Chesapeake Bay The monthly collaboration is now in its third month since reactivation. The first article Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was improved significantly in February, as was George Washington (the second one) in March. Although the latter article was not nominated for GA, enough work was done for contributors to identify remaining content areas needing improving before an attempt is made, which is great progress. Thus anyone keen on reading up on Washington's role in the American Revolution and the presidency is most welcome to review and contribute. Magicpiano (talk · contribs) is planning on buffing material for the American Revolution segment by focussing on the daughter article, George Washington in the American Revolution first. Anyway, Chesapeake Bay is the new collaboration picked for April and anyone is welcome to work on it. For choosing new candidate articles for May and beyond, editors should think about articles which have a range of issues that a variety of editors can help with, from content (primary school to university level research) to copyediting. Having a look over current and past ideas (which can be seen here and here (even older ones). So folks have a think about which articles are in most in need of fixing, or alternately, have a clear pathway to GA or FA status.
Things you can help with Ideas for next months newsletter Help with the Anniversaries in the portal Help with the assessments Help with the Collaboration Comments in active discussions
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If anyone has ideas or thoughts about the newsletter for next month please speak up so we can get working on them. I am sure that some folks out there have some great ideas of projects they are working on are interested in that could use more help and this is how to get the word out there for others to assist.

I have added a tab to the WikiProject for the Newsletter to help Market it to anyone who might stop by the page. This is a good tool for us to communicate with each other. It contains infomration about the Portal, the Collaboration of the Month, New featured articles and other bits of information but it needs more voices than just me so any advice, comments, suggestions or assitance is greatly appreciated and welcomed. --Kumioko (talk) 20:27, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone from this project please let us know if Rosie O'Donnell should be a part? And remove the template if not? Jnast1 (talk) 22:35, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Rosie O'Donnell#Removal of templates from Wikiprojects

IMO Its fine. She is a major celebrity in the US and her article gets a lot of hits and a fair amount of vandalism. The more eyes the better. --Kumioko (talk) 23:33, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, thank you for the response. Jnast1 (talk) 23:36, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly oppose. We can't have every celebrity in this WikiProject if they're in a child WikiProject. If this belongs here then where's the line for what doesn't belong? Royalbroil 01:12, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would say major ones like Rosie, Oprah and Johnny Carson are ok. John Wayne or Elvis even. I would say lesser ones not so much. I don't really care all that much either way though I just don't mind them being there. I do think we need some bounderies though like they won X number of Grammies or the article gets X hits per month (something fairly high like 50, 000).--Kumioko (talk) 01:36, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Bios which properly belong under this project include: 45 Presidents, maybe a 1000 senators, possible several thousand congressmen, at least 1000 ambassadors, hundreds of cabinet members, 100 appointed territorial governors, more than several hundred justices of supreme and lower federal courts, several thousand flag officers, etc. This should keep the project occupied for awhile.

The questioner was trying to "officially" discover why someone had put a series of apparently unrelated banners/projects on the O'Donnell' article. When I see unrelated banners, I just rm them, having been around awhile. It may not be vandalism, but it often poor judgment, at best. Since O'Donnell is not a clear candidate, her "membership" in this project should be dropped. No "show person" should be here, except Ronald Reagan, and him for a different reason. Student7 (talk) 13:23, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I admit I don't really feel strongly about her being included one way or the other. There are a few though besides Reagan, but as you suggested for reasons other than just show business. --Kumioko (talk) 22:15, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Should there be an article on the April 2011 St. Louis, Missouri storm ? I notice that Lambert Airport currently has a "current" tag on it. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 12:28, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There could be an article I suppose. A lot of folks are pretty wrapped up about notability so I'm not sure what makes the storm more notable than other storms. --Kumioko (talk) 12:39, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Rosie has reached the stature of the others mentioned above and should not be included. — DocOfSoc • Talk • 01:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is presently a debate over whether the list article Declaration of independence ought to include a hatnote pointing specifically to the United States Declaration of Independence. Those in favor argue that historical, demographic, and practical factors justify this treatment, while those in opposition argue that no country's document should receive special treatment under any circumstances. I am bringing the discussion to your attention because United States Declaration of Independence is included in this wikiproject. Please see here if you are interested in weighing in on the matter. Thank you. —Bill Price (nyb) 17:45, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The usage of Thanksgiving is under discussion at Talk:Thanksgiving, with the proposal that US usage should be placed at the primary location. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 10:15, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment at Talk:Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges#Requested_move on moving Rod Blagojevich corruption charges → United States v. Blagojevich.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:05, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to join the discussion at WP:RSN#sandiegostreetcars.org. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC) (Using {{pls}})[reply]

File:Lolo Soetoro Ann Dunham Maya Soetoro-Ng Barack Obama.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 05:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is a final discussion taking place here about WikiProject United States supporting WikiProject United States Government. All editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 02:35, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The usage of Hayley Smith is under discussion, see Talk:Hayley Smith (American Dad!). This is a character in "American Dad" and "Home and Away" (see Hayley Smith (Home and Away)). 65.93.12.8 (talk) 05:57, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to join the discussion at WP:BLPN#Leroy A. Mendonca. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:10, 3 May 2011 (UTC) (Using {{pls}})[reply]

Wall Street, a page within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. --Kumioko (talk) 20:43, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.--Kumioko (talk) 01:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is a content dispute currently going on at Natural born citizen clause of the U.S. Constitution over whether material in Emerich de Vattel's work The Law of Nations may, or may not, be cited as an influence (or a potential influence) on what the framers of the Constitution meant by the phrase "natural born citizen". The question has given rise to various different opinions, as well as some edit-warring, and I'm unsure of whether a credible consensus for any position can be reached at present with only those editors currently involved. Participation from others (no matter what side they might end up taking) would be helpful. Richwales (talk · contribs) 18:08, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]