Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States governors

message: This project should be moved to Wikipedia:Wikiproject US Governors. See the Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects - it's a common convention. CP/M comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 16:34, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a notice: one colon is used, so it becomes Wikipedia:Wikiproject US Governors. -- CP/M comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 16:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The P in Project is usually capitalized. - PatricknoddyTALK (reply here)|HISTORY 11:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject US Governors already existed, actually (as an inactive project), so Wikipedia:WikiProject:US Governors couldn't be moved over it. However we've now begun discussing the latter on the former's talk page... I'm going to mention this over at Requested Moves to see if an Administrator can help clear this up. -- nae'blis 06:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't required - you can just scrap useless stuff from the old wikiproject and copy-paste text there. It's not a good idea to fork wikiprojects, if one is inactive; just replace the old one. CP/M comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 06:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I just done that. All the old stuff was a standart template, not worth keeping. Just use the new page now. I'll put a redirect on the old one. --CP/M comm |Wikipedia Neutrality Project| 07:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ummm...page move weirdness 

message: I'm concerned with the accuracy of Lists, Succession boxes and Templates, concering the governors. Acting Governors should not be included, as they're only Lieutenant Governors or Secy's of State etc. GoodDay 15:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Listing of Acting Governor

message: Would somebody please check that article? It's claims that upon Governors Dale Bumpers & David Pryor's resignations, their Lieutenant Governors Bob C. Riley & Joe Purcell (respectively) didn't become Governors. GoodDay (talk) 20:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Governors of Arkansas

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thread_title: Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people

message: Does this project have a list of members? I'd like to join. I have done extensive work all the Governors of Indiana. Almost all of them are of B quality of better. List of Governors of Indiana is FL, Jonathan Jennings and Oliver P. Morton  and Governor of Indiana are GA. William Henry Harrison and Thomas R. Marshall is FA. I am working on an article on historic gubernatorial elections in my sandbox. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 16:23, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated some parts of this project recently because it had fallen into disrepair. If you'd like to start a list of members and start recruiting, that would be great. As far as I know, we are the only two current members of this project. -Mabeenot (talk) 21:33, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, maybe there are three of us, depending upon whether  is here to stay. He's cleaned this place up even more recently than I have. -Mabeenot (talk) 21:45, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. Well I am glad to collaborate or offer any assistance on governors of Indiana or Indiana Territory. I am quite familiar with those topics. I am familiar with some governors of other states to a lesser degree. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 21:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Members 

message: Since this WikiProject seems to be in a state of revival, now might be a good opportunity to try attracting some new members through the Signpost's WikiProject Report. I'm a writer for the Report and the project I've been trying to cover for next week has been uncooperative. An interview with Designate and Charles Edward about what you've done the past couple weeks and where you'd like to take the project would make for a very interesting read. What do you think? -Mabeenot (talk) 03:23, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: While I would be glad to cooperate, I've not been active as a member of this project really. I have worked on dozens of articles in the scope of this project, bringing some to FA quality, but have done so within the confines of WP:INDIANA. I do look forward to future collaborations though, and do intend to assist this project were I can. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 03:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You could talk about what you've done with those articles, since there don't seem to be many old members still around at this project. Maybe even talk about how WP:INDIANA and other state projects could collaborate with this project. It's just an idea. -Mabeenot (talk) 03:47, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't really worked on any governor articles other than the occasional list, and I probably won't be an active member here. I just wanted to put the infrastructure in place because it seemed like there were a few people interested in this subject. —Designate (talk) 04:09, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

text: I'd be willing to do that. That was actually my interest in this project, was to see if we could put together some sort of standardization for governor's articles. Maybe a kind of template on what should be included, in the articles like other projects have. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 13:11, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've put together some questions for the Signpost article. Feel free to give your honest opinion and write as much or as little as you like for each answer. I also included a question directed at each of you to specifically highlight your contributions/background. If there's anything else you'd like to add that wasn't covered by the questions, feel free to leave a comment at the end. Here are the questions. Thanks for participating and let's see what we can accomplish with a little publicity! -Mabeenot (talk) 22:05, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I'm going to pass on this. Designate (talk) 23:23, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signpost article 

message: This project seems marginally more active than WikiProject Illinois, so maybe I'll get more of a response here.  I am interested in putting together an Illinois Governors work group.  Much of the coverage for Illinois governors is as bad as any state's - stubs, for many of them.  Is anybody interested? Fishal (talk) 16:42, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently not :-(.  Shame. Fishal (talk) 00:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This project seems to be pretty dead. There was a short attempt at revival earlier this year but it didn't get past the planning stage. -Mabeenot (talk) 20:57, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's really a shame.  Well if anyone out there is interested in collaborating on the Illinois governors, contact me.  I've just expanded Ninian Edwards and nominated him for GA status, so we'll see how that goes. Fishal (talk) 20:03, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

text: Ninian Edwards has been reviewed.  I have fixed some ref tags and am changing the lead section to address a reviewer's concern. Fishal (talk) 18:35, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illinois governors work group 

message: I see that John Winant, former governor of New Hampshire, is described first as a teacher and second as a politican. I think this should be reversed. He was briefly a teacher but spent his life in politics, first in New Hampshire, then in Washington and then as an ambassador to England. Can I change it?
Granitesprite (talk) 17:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Winant a politican more than a teacher? 

message: It has been suggested that this project be merged into WikiProject United States as a task force. Since the project appears to be inactive and fter reviewing this project I could find no evidence that there are any members associated to it or meaningful activity on the project page or talk page in almost a year. I have reviewed all the memebrs on it that seem to have commented or edited the project and I will be contacting each of the editors who seem to still be active for their input. If anyone has any comments, suggestions or concerns please let us know. --Kumioko (talk) 13:52, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Its not entirely inactive, but I am ok with the merge. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 17:45, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh ok. Thank you. I apologize for not waiting longer to move forward with the merger. I couldn't find any member list or anything so I thought that the project was inactive and didn't think I needed to wait. I'll stop for now and see if anyone else has some comments. Do you know if there are any other active members? --Kumioko (talk) 18:32, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, User:Designate is the only other active member. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 20:03, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I left a comment on his talk page and I noticed there was a problem with JLbot that I need to fix so I will see if I can get that sorted out. --Kumioko (talk) 21:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Based on the discussions above (especially #Members) I would not consider this an active project. I cleaned up the main page last year but there's been very little activity. Merging it sounds like the best idea. —Designate (talk) 23:16, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok thank you. I will continue with the migration of the articles into the WPUS template then. I apologize for the waffle with JL-bot. I'll get that fixed. Please let me know if you have any other concerns. --Kumioko (talk) 23:32, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger of this project into WikiProject United States as a task force 

message: I assume that editors working on this project are aware that these two men were Mexican governors of Alta California, not U.S. governors. WCCasey (talk) 03:38, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alvarado and Gutiérrez? 

message: Hi, everyone, 
I see this WikiProject has been rather quiet. I have recently developed the habit of tracking which Wikipedia articles gain especially many page views, from the  weekly list of top 5000 pages and from the  2014 annual list of most viewed pages. On both lists, we can see that Jesse Ventura is a very frequently viewed article, probably the most viewed article in the scope of WikiProject United States governors. With other editors looking on and providing advice, I think it would be fun to try to expand and refine the article on Jesse Ventura until it can be submitted for good article review. Articles on living persons are always the trickiest to edit, but there are abundant reliable sources on Ventura's life and career. I see that recent edits to the article have come from an editor who works a lot on articles about professional wrestlers. Because of Ventura's varied career, the article about him is of interest to several WikiProjects, and should be able to draw in a lot of interesting perspectives. Anyone interested in joining in? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 14:16, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation to project editors to join in editing article on Jesse Ventura 

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thread_title: Jon Corzine Good Article Reassessment

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thread_title:  User script to detect unreliable sources 

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