A new assessment system has been implemented - we have tagged and assessed over 1100 articles so far! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
A fledgling monthly LGBT Collaboration has been started, with Homosexuality as the December article and Gay stereotyping as our January article. Please contribute to this if you can, even if it's just correcting typos.
A Translation department has been set up, to translate LGBT articles from foreign language Wikipedias that may have more information than our equivalent article. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
We have a brand new unique Project! Jumpaclass is a new semi-competition to improve our lower quality articles - see the subpage for more information. Please sign up and get it going!
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Project Gender Studies
Hi CaveatLector, I'm asking some Project Gender Studies members for their opinions on a few changes to the project templates. The discussion is here. If you're interested please have a look. I'd also like to have the project page unprotected so it could be editted to give due balance to the Gender Theory activities of the project as well as the removal of systemic bias activities - what would be your opinions on this (discussed here)?--Cailil01:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Atlantis
Caveat, thanks for your supportive comments. I expect some crackpottery at Atlantis, given the article's subject, but that guy is just off the charts. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you.
Project News
The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together.
The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this.
A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute.
With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on.
It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to watchlist it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across.
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Please do what you will with Classics. I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes. Obviously, every WP editor acts as an individual with all the short-comings that entails. According to your userpage, you are a genuine expert on
the subject and as far as I'm concerned Wikipedia needs a lot more people like you.
Cheers! Wassupwestcoast17:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is just a quick, automated note to let you know that there is an election being conducted over the next 7 days for the position of "Coordinator" for the LGBT WikiProject. Your participation is requested. – SatyrTN (talk·contribs)
Cupid
I began an article about Cupid as a holliday character. It has been edited a bit. Anyway, you mentioned something about starting it somewhere and then moving it, I don't know how to do that but would like to. (you can see that I had to revise it several times, I wish I would have read you messege first) Thank you for your help. amyanda19:21, 28 February 2007 (UTC)amanda[reply]
Monthly Challenge: Find 5 editors to LGBT articles and invite them to the project! Check out our recruitment tips if you need them. Good luck!
Project News
With such rapid development of the project, it was decided that a Coordinator was needed to ensure all the fiddly maintenence was kept up. Elections were held and Dev920 (talk·contribs) has been elected Coordinator for the next three months. She said "I am honoured and proud to be at the helm of such a fantastic WikiProject and look forward to our future". Congratulations Dev!
The assessment system continues to be a great success, we have tagged over 5200 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
Jumpaclass is proving to be quite successful! The winner at the end of the year gets to pick the January collaboration, so sign up and get going! Or challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
A new Community department has been set up to foster community amongst our members. It mostly acts as other WikiProjects' Outreach department, but also has a Quilt to which every member is entitled to add a square containing anything of their choice.
The peer review is not getting much custom - please notice you can cross-list other peer reviews from different projects that also fall within our scope.
Many people still seem to be unaware that the Deletion sorting subpage exists for XfDs to be listed: please use and watch that page instead of issuing "alerts" for ordinary AfDs on the project talkpage.
WP:FILM has a current drive to give every film article an infobox. WP:LGBT successfully gave all 105 LGBT infoboxless films infoboxes, so a big thank you to everyone who participated.
A new template, LGBT, has been created for articles which are becoming to cluttered with infoboxes. Thanks to WJBscribe and SatyrTN for creating it.
A very basic resources page has been started. Please add to it as you come across useful sites.
A promotional poster for the project has been created: http://wplgbt.tripod.com/Wikipedianeedsyou.doc (you have to directly cut and paste the url, or it won't let you download it). Please distribute anywhere and everywhere you desire, such as gay libraries, cybercafes, community centres and so on. Also, please let Dev920 know where you have put it up, so she can keep track of our coverage.
An LGBT Publications Taskforce has been proposed. Please sign up here if you are interested in being involved.
An LGBT WikiProject has been set up on the Spanish Wikipedia! Set up by Raystorm, it has already gained six members and is developing an assessment system. If you speak any Spanish, please consider going up and lending a hand if you can!
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thank you for raising this matter
You directed me to the NPOV section and the NOR section. I would like to make my own counterpoints. Those articles raised some core issues about heroes. WHAT ARE THEY? I agree they were not fully neutral, but I am putting them on the talk pages to find out what other people think. I also would like for some people to look at what research HAS been done on it. The issues of masked Heroes, the difference between superheroes and normal heroes, finding out WHAT is a hero and the other things all need to be raised. Only after they have they been raised, and research put forwards, can we advance the page. At the moment it is ignoring a lot about the hero genre, and these articles were raised in the hopes of fixing that.
Would you please pouint out EXACTLY I have not followed the NOR and NPOV rules? i would appreciate it for the next bunch of articled I post on talk pages. Corrupt one03:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Anna Nicole Smith
Hi,
You changed my "born to a U.S. citizen" to "since her biological mother was a U.S. citizen" (I may be paraphrasing without looking). I am pretty sure that if the father was a U.S. citizen, that would be OK also. Do you have any evidence otherwise? By the way, at some early adult age, the person has to elect to continue her/his U.S. citizenship.
Bellagio9920:30, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please Explain
Why did you remove what someone had re-added? i can understand removing sections you deemed to be off topic and like that, but some of the things you removed WERE on topic. that is what i am restoring it how it was just before you removed it. As I mentioned to you before when you sent me a message on my talk page (which is STILL up there), that it is to get people to think about the matter, and hopefully change things. Also, there weer some other things that had been added since then that you removed, and I consider it fair to have them still up there.
If you want to remove a section, just remove that section, not everything that had been added since that section was added, and please notify the person of what you are doing and why. It is exreamly impolite not to!
Corrupt one05:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You said that it ws not a page to discuse matters? If not there, then where? I was not using any originial research. I asked you before how you considered not to be relevant, and you did not reply. If you can't tell me how my posts are not relevant, then what right do you have to remove them.
Not just that, but were were removing NOT just those posts, but all the other posts that had been put up since the time you reset it to. Why not just remove the posts deemed not to be releveant?
I have put those posts back up, but gone over them and made sure that they ARE relevant, and they all use referancable material, which I should not have to!
Do not remove them, until you can tell me WHY they should be taken down, and let me reply. You may have a good reason to take them down, but how can I know unless you TELL me!
I even removed one post that would piss off a lot of people, and part of another. Not because they were not relevant, rather, I think they WERE extramly relevant, but because I think there is more chance of the rest of the work staying up if I took them down.
I think you cut a little too much this last time. It seems to me only the second part of that paragraph (after the note) was POV. Haiduc03:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
DavidShankBone deserves kudos for his current drive to provide quality LGBT photos from the NYC area. One of the more recent photos is posted on Michael Musto, and you can check out the gallery on David's user page.
Project News
There is now the beginning of a list of core topics to possibly be included in the Wikipedia 1.0 release. Your suggestions are welcome; there may be many core LGBT topics still missing.
SatyrTN identified all the articles that were in subcategories of Category:LGBT but not yet tagged with the project's banner, about 1,400 articles. These have been completed, though SatyrBot will make periodic runs through the cats to find any new entries. Thanks Satyr!
The number of articles within our project's spectrum (6,667 currently) should now be relatively stable and only grow with article creation. However, if you find a category that should be included, please let SatyrTN know so it can be included in the bots runs.
Work is underway to improve the LGBT Portal. Please add any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles to the gallery here. Also if anyone would like to volunteer to help in maintaining the portal, please make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage.
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I've removed the offending comment and warned Aubyte (talk·contribs). Your instinct was right that it was a violation of WP:NPA: note that "Racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, religious, political, or ethnic epithets directed against another contributor" are included in that page's list of the type of comments that are never acceptable. Aubyte's comments easily fall into that category, in my judgment.
That said, it was a good idea to contact an uninvolved third party rather than respond in anger (even righteous, justified anger). I've been busy in real life lately, and may not be able to keep a close eye on the user's contribs, as I normally would in a situation like this, but please let me know if he continues to make personal attacks and incivil remarks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 16:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A taskforce dealing with LGBT publications has been proposed. If you are interested in getting involved, consider signing up at the projects' page.
Our core topics list is looking good. It's still a bit slim on LGBT history articles, non-American LGBT media, and important LGBT biographies. Do you have suggestions?
David Shankbone has done an amazing job taking photographs of LGBT celebrities. Thanks David! People interested in collaborating with him and setting up a photography taskforce should contact him or drop a note at the project's talkpage.
The LGBT Portal still needs a bit of love and attention :-). Again, any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles can be added to the gallery here. Volunteers to help out with the Portal are extremely welcome- make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage. Updates to the current news items are helpful.
Deputy coordinator elections
WikiProject LGBT studies is looking for new Deputy Coordinators to help out with various essential tasks in organising the project. To nominate yourself or contribute to the discussion, please go to: Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Coordinator/May 2007. The deadline for nominations is May 5 and the elections will last a week after that.
The elections will be pretty simple- everyone just endorses their favourite candidate(s). The three with the most votes at the end of the week are the new deputy coordinators, who will assist Dev920 in keeping the project running.
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Monthly Challenge: June Stub Review! Take a moment and sift through the roughly 3,600 Stub-class LGBT articles. Are they still stubs? If not, make an assessment change. Even better, do you see anything you can add/edit to increase the rating? Let's see if the project can lower the number of stubs down below 3,000!
Project News
WP:LGBT Exceeds 200 Members!!
Two editors have been selected by project members as co-coordinators. Their duties are still a bit unclear, but having a few more janitors around the project will help keep us running smoothly. Please feel free to message Fireplace or SatyrTN if you have any project questions or concerns.
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Monthly Challenge: Submit an article to our Jumpaclass competition! Languishing unloved, it is a great way to improving that article you always meant to improve but never got round to. Challenge someone else to go head to head and see who can improve their article most!
Our Deputy Coordinators have been doing a fabulous job so far. Well done!
The portal is now looking very snazzy, well done to Fireplace for all his hard work.
The list of LGBT people to be sorted has now beed reduced by 20%. Please help us with it, all of us adding just one person a day would have a dramatic effect!
The Core Topics is now largely complete. The original aim of getting some kind of publication out of it is extremely long term - any short term uses we can make of it are welcome on the project talkpage.
A suggestion was made this month that we start our own wiki. Although the conclusion was that we felt we were a part of Wikipedia rather than a stand alone organisation, it seems there is an LGBT wiki already, at http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Main_page . Members may be interested in getting involved there.
The Collaboration is now getting rather short on suggestions. Article nominations for August through December would be welcome on the talkpage.
There is now a list of Missing LGBT Topics. Help is needed to work out which topics can be made redirects or need to be created. Please contribute is you can.
An LGBT banner that was created for Wikipedia's internal ads system has now been adapted so it can be placed on blogs and websites. The html is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LGBT"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Qxz-ad48.gif" height="53" width="445"></a> Please credit Miranda and link to her userpage: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Miranda">Miranda</a>. The banner can be seen in action here. If you have a blog or a website, please consider adding the banner, either in a post or as part of your profile.
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Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).
Replacing coin images
The reason I believe the coin images are replaceable is that someone could go to a museum or collection where the coins are located and photograph them. If you have information showing this is impossible, please present it on the image talk page. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Humor
Thanks for injecting a bit of it into frequently acrimonious deletion debates. Nice job. --Eyrian 22:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Christian mythology in art and literature, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 18:34, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think the problem here is that it's not precisely clear where this category fits in amongst others, such as Category:Christian art. --Eyrian 18:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I was unaware that those Categories actually existed, and I suppose I should have checked before creating this category (had my mind on many other things at the time). This makes articles like Spear of Destiny in popular culture even more useless. I'll let it be known that I assent to and recommend the deletion to proceed. CaveatLectorTalk03:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cussing at a member is uncivil
No matter what your intention was you were clearly being uncivil. I had thought that you were a respectable member, but will have to reexamine my opinion.--Amadscientist06:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am going to apologise for my negative reaction. I was obviously already mad with the situation and became overly offended by a perceived accusation of my participation in an edit war. The war was against me and I was following wikipedia policy and the advice of admin on how to handle the situation.
I cuss far worse than you did, which is why I believe it should remain off the written page. As it is defined at wiki as uncivil. I looked up "in-civil" and wiki simply doesn't use that term. Any way I extend an olive branch.--Amadscientist22:40, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Archiving
How often do you suggest archiving. I really don't have that much activity on my talk page but I copied this code directly from another page that archives every day. Today was actually the first day it archived as I just added it yesterday.--Amadscientist05:19, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
