Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennessee/Archive 3

message: Sigh! In its infinite wisdom, the new Republican majority in the General Assembly has decided to dump the old http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ URL and change everything over to http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ . Suffixes also have been changed from "htm" to "html". This means that many links in reflists and EL lists are now bad and will need to be updated. --Orlady (talk) 17:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: FYI: New URLs for [[Tennessee General Assembly]]

message: This article says that Judge Norman was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1962. Online records don't seem to go back that far; is anyone in a position to verify this with offline resources? Thanks. Gonzonoir (talk) 09:20, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Seth Walker Norman]] 

message: Chattanooga's Hunter Museum of American Art is one of sixteen art museums that is participating in the Wikipedia Loves Art project. If you're going to be anywhere near Chattanooga during the month of February, bring your camera to the museum and join the contest. More details are here. Kaldari (talk) 22:01, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering Chattanooga is just down I-24 from me (Murfreesboro), I do hope I'll be able to take part. Hopefully we can get a number of Tennesseans (and surrounding state-ians) involved, perhaps pick a day and go as a group. Kaldari, think it would be a good idea to post to the Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina groups? Atlanta (116 mi) and Huntsville (108 mi) are about equidistant from there as myself. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 04:52, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I should be able to make it at some point during the month.  Bms4880 (talk) 15:08, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget to register if you're interested in participating. Kaldari (talk) 19:55, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

text: I went ahead and registered, in case I can make it. Will be a Saturday, Sunday or Monday, given my work schedule. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 11:12, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If anyone goes to this, swing by the downtown area and get a picture of the Hamilton County Courthouse for its infobox.  I'm not sure if I'll make it or not.  Bms4880 (talk) 22:23, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I plan on going, likely the 21st or 22nd. I'll grab a pic. Any courthouses (or other stuff) between Murfreesboro and there that you're needing? I don't mind detouring a little. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 22:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Coffee is the only other county in the Murf. area without a courthouse image for its infobox, as far as I know.  Not sure how far out of the way it is, but we also need a picture of Tims Ford Dam (near Fayetteville), as it is the only major TVA dam of which we lack a photo.  Bms4880 (talk) 19:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Some results for the competition have been posted, including several interesting blog installments by the Brooklyn Museum curator who was most involved.  Linked from the Flickr website covering the competition, see "Thoughts and feedback" and "Current standings" links. doncram (talk) 23:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Participate in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art|Wikipedia Loves Art]] in Chattanooga! 

message: I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks!  - Jarry1250 (t, c) 22:23, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Milestone Announcements

message: Here are the first hundred or so people covered in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture:
*Adelicia Acklen
*Roy Acuff
*Jesse F. Adams
*James R. Agee
*William Thomas Alderson
*Lamar Alexander
*David Allison
*William Robert Anderson
*Archaic Period
*John Armfield
*Samuel Mayes Arnell
*Eddy Arnold
*Francis Asbury
*Chet Atkins
*Attakullakulla
*Stanley Irving Auerbach
*Marilou Awiakta
*Herman Baggenstoss
*Deford Bailey
*Howard H. Baker Jr.
*Howard H. Baker Sr.
*Edward Emerson Barnard
*Paul Weisiger Barret
*George Washington Barrow
*William Brimage Bate
*Kathy Bates
*Mary Frances Battle (Fannie Battle)
*Jere Baxter
*James Baxter Bean
*Hubert Bebb
*John Bell
*Madison Smartt Bell
*Montgomery Bell
*Persa Raymond Bell (P. R. Bell)
*Thomas Hart Benton
*George Leonard Berry
*Mary Frances Berry
*John Houston Bills
*Lloyd T. Binford
*Adolpho A. Birch
*Gideon Blackburn
*Leonard Ray Blanton
*Anthony Bledsoe
*Isaac Bledsoe
*William Blount
*Willie Blount
*James Lafayette Bomar Jr.
*James Bond
*Samuel Bond
*Arnaud W. Bontemps
*Daniel Boone
*Ralph Boston
*Elias Boudinot
*George Thomas Bowen
*William Bowen
*Duke C. Bowers
*Eva Lowery Bowman
*Henry Allen Boyd
*John W. Boyd
*Richard Henry Boyd
*Virginia Frazer Boyle
*Reese Bowen Brabson
*Roark Bradford
*Owen Bradley
*Braxton Bragg
*John Bragg
*Lloyd Branson
*Carson Brewer
*William Herbert Brewster Sr.
*Beverly Briley
*William E. Brock III (Bill Brock)
*Frederick William Brode
*Cleanth Brooks
*Harvey Broome
*Aaron V. Brown
*Arthur Brown
*Clarence Brown
*Dorothy Lavinia Brown
*John Calvin Brown
*Lizinka Campbell Brown
*Milton Brown
*Neill Smith Brown
*Gordon Weaver Browning
*William Gannaway Brownlow (Parson Brownlow)
*Charles Faulkner Bryan
*Andrew Hays Buchanan
*James Mcgill Buchanan
*John Price Buchanan
*Lewis C. Buckner
*Calvin Adam Buehler
*Carroll Gideon Bull
*Lucius E. Burch Jr.
*Aaron Knox Burrow
*Raymond Arthur Bussard
*Jacob Franklin Butcher (Jake Butcher)
*John Washington Butler
*Joseph W. Byrns
*Robert Cain Jr. (Bobby Cain Jr.)
*Rogers Clark Caldwell
*Frances Boyd Calhoun
*Burton Callicott
*Callie House
*Ebenezer Calvert
*Peter Ross Calvert
*Alexander Cameron
*James Cameron
*Alexander Campbell
*Archie Campbell
*Arthur Campbell
*David Campbell
*Judge David Campbell
*Francis Joseph Campbell
*George Washington Campbell
*Will Davis Campbell
*William Bowen Campbell
*Newton Cannon
*Charles Warner Cansler
*Guy Carawan
*Allen Dickenson Carden
*Kate Augusta Carl
*Edward Ward Carmack
*J. Edwin R. Carpenter
*Leroy Carr
*William Carroll
*George Lafayette Carter
*John Carter
*Landon Carter
*Peter Cartwright
*Johnny Cash
*Clifton Bledsoe Cates
*John Catron
*Tracy Caulkins Stockwell
*Hiram Sanborn Chamberlain
*Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
*Kitty Cheatham
*William A. Cheatham
*Amos Uriah Christie
*Paul Revere Christopher
*Chuqualataque
*Robert R. Church Jr.
*Robert R. Church Sr.
*Jay Guy Cisco
*Ed Clark
*Sam Lillard Clark
*Philander Priestley Claxton
*Robert E. Clay
*Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
It looks like we're missing about half of them in Wikipedia. Kaldari (talk) 02:21, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice compilation. The fact that we have that many still blows my mind, lol. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 03:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I just fixed two three of those redlinks by creating redirects to other variants of the names. Some of the others may be equally easy to fix... --Orlady (talk) 00:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing biography articles 

message: From searching the DYK archives:
*...that the town of Rogersville, Tennessee was founded in 1789 by Irish-born pioneer Joseph Rogers and his father-in-law Thomas Amis?
*...that the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust?
*... that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless, Tennessee?
*...that prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
98.166.139.216 (talk) 23:23, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  DYK suggestion 

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thread_title:  Coordinators' working group 

message: Hey there, I am going to rate the unrated TN articles for quality and importance in the next few days. For the TN project, it looks pretty bad that there are new articles accumulating that do not receive a rating, it looks like no one cares about additions and changes to articles related to TN. Ratings do not only help Wikipedia to classify articles and to get the status quo regarding the quality, it also gives feedback and encouragement to users who created the article. If - like it was the case many months ago - there are different opinions about my ratings, feel free to just change it without complaining in a 1000 words about something that can be fixed in 2 seconds. If - like months ago - you feel that one of 100 articles was rated wrong, please just change the rating without filling a book of complaints which would take another book to answer. If you think that 99% of my ratings are fine, please just correct the 1% that you think I got wrong to the rating you find appropriate without leaving a book full of comments about why you would have done that differently. If you can fix my mistake in two seconds, please do it, do not waste hours on explaining why. Thank you! doxTxob \ talk 06:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have rated all identidied TN articles for quality and priority. For the priority issue, see below. doxTxob \ talk 05:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article ratings 

message: Hey, is it possible to implement the B-class quality criteria checklist into the TN project banner like the Military history project does? Example here: Talk:Andrew Jackson Caldwell. The criteria are listed in the banner code and can be checked yes or no there and the result is on display in the banner. That is pretty neat and it would let article creators know about the criteria and give help to the one who rates the articles. Thank you, doxTxob \ talk 07:06, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Project Arkansas uses a similar banner. (See here Talk:Parkin Archeological State Park). Would that be neat for the TN project or not? Is there opposition to just try this out? It would realy encourage newer editors to understand and  apply ratings up to B class. The B class rating option pops up at articles that at at least start class, so you do not have this in the stubs. That would really help. Any ideas or opinions? I would like to at least try. doxTxob \ talk 04:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project banner suggested improvements 

message: Does anyone know why Trousdale County, Tennessee is lacking a infobox? I tried searching for it but it redirected to the Tennessee State Box. Terrancee (talk) 22:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I attempted making the box, but something is wrong witht the linkage. Can someone help me with it? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Trousdale_County,_Tennessee&action=edit Terrancee (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. One of the nowrap templates needed }} to close it. -NatureBoyMD (talk) 23:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trousdale County Info Box 

message: Since Tennessee's weather has entered into warm Spring weather, fellow members are encouraged to expand articles about Tennessee's Protected Areas including State Parks and State Forests.  If you find yourself visiting any of these areas this Spring, Summer, or Fall why not take a few pictures and/or report about the history of the area?  --Ichabod (talk)21:22, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected Areas of Tennessee 

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thread_title: GA Sweeps invitation

message: Just a heads up - I've tagged the article with your project. APK straight up now tell me 14:45, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Temple Adas Israel (Brownsville, Tennessee)]] 

message: Could someone familiar with NRHP verify that Cades Cove is not a historic district?  Apparently I'm confused as to what constitutes a historic district and what does not.  User:Nyttend says it is not a historic district, but rather a series of individual listings.  Bms4880 (talk) 14:13, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if the application was approved, and it is labelled on the app as a Historic District, then that would most definitely be the appropriate term to use. This website also calls it a historic district, and given the number of "also known as" codes, it looks like it is a historic district that encompasses multiple individual listings, much like Murfreesboro's East Main Street Historic District encompasses several houses/etc that are also on the register. That's just my take. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 21:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Cades Cove]] 

message: I'm submitting a request to have this project indexed by "popular pages" (at this link), which produces lists of the pages with the most page views. This could be useful in identifying articles deserving of editing attention. --Orlady (talk) 00:42, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As near as I can determine, page view counts will be available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tennessee/Most-viewed pages starting on or around August 1 (when July data will be posted). --Orlady (talk) 17:46, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Spiffy Orlady, should be some interesting stats. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 21:38, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The data is now available here. --Ichabod (talk) 04:06, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So Megan Fox is the single most popular Tennessee article, huh? Note that the total page views for the month in that table are too low by a factor of 10. --Orlady (talk) 02:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for "popular pages" feature 

message: Their url has for years been tennesseeencyclopedia.net.  Did it change?  Our reference sections may contain several hundred links to their articles.  Bms4880 (talk) 20:03, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I also noticed that it's not working. Earlier when I searched for them to see if I could identify the problem, I found that the Tennessee Historical Society, which sponsored the Encyclopedia, still has a link to that URL. The domain registration is good until 2011, registered to University of Tennessee Press.  The site is hosted somewhere at utk.edu. My hopeful guess is that there's a temporary problem with their server(s) or DNS. --Orlady (talk) 02:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it's just down now.  When I tried to load the page yesterday, it redirected to a site that simply said "Work Group" and prompted for a username and password.  Bms4880 (talk) 13:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The site is working fine now. --Orlady (talk) 02:46, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture online 

message: I've just overhauled the Interstate 40 in Tennessee article, adding a route description and history section.  While I know the section of I-40 between Cookeville and North Carolina very well, I'm not familiar with I-40 west of Nashville, having only driven it a few times.   Someone familiar with the Middle and West Tennessee sections of I-40 may want to check and/or expand these sections under the article's route description.  Bms4880 (talk) 14:55, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I-40 in Tennessee - West Tennesseans and Middle Tennesseans needed 

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thread_title:  WP 1.0 bot announcement 

message: Would anyone be interested in forming a WikiProject based on the City of Memphis and the surrounding area? Normally I would propose a task force, but the metro area is in multiple states (AR, MS, and TN), so I am instead proposing a WikiProject as the group cannot be a task force of any one state. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject proposal: Memphis (metro area)

message: A User:Talamachusee is adding large blocks of unsourced information to the Chiaha article, and I'm going to commit 3RR if I go any further in reverting it.  If someone could check on this, I would appreciate it.  Bms4880 (talk) 21:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Chiaha]] 

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thread_title: GA reassessment of [[Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball]]

message: Okip   23:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced living people articles bot

message: Tennessee aficionados may wish to weigh in at Talk:Old Natchez Trace. The issue at hand is whether Old Natchez Trace should redirect to Natchez Trace or be a disambiguation page pointing to potential articles about National Register of Historic Places listings that include the words "Old Natchez Trace" in their record names. --Orlady (talk) 06:05, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natchez Trace  

message: I'm interested in finding someone in the vicinity of Asheville, North Carolina, to take a photograph for me. If you're interested, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Picture_needed. Raul654 (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture request

message: I'm going to overhaul the Knoxville Whig article, and I'm planning to move it to title that is more encompassing of all incarnations of Brownlow's Whig paper (it was basically the same paper, published under various titles at various locations over the years). I was wondering, what would be the best title?  Possibilities are "Brownlow's Whig", which is a common name for all of his newspapers, or Whig followed by something in parentheses.  Bms4880 (talk) 18:07, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

message: The Political Cesspool has been nominated as a Featured Article. The discussion is here. Feel free to contribute. Stonemason89 (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Political Cesspool]] 

message: Someone is trying to add this link to the Norris Dam article - would this qualify as spam?  Microsoft's Commercial Intent tool dubs it non-commercial, but there are an awful lot of banners on it.  It doesn't add much to the article.  Bms4880 (talk) 15:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Whois runs it back to an address in Knoxville...so I think it's legit...just not very well designed. --Smashvilletalk 20:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, we'll let it stay for now.  Bms4880 (talk) 14:54, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norris Dam - spam? 

message: Could a member of this project living in the Memphis area possibly take some photographs of Temple Israel (Memphis, Tennessee)? It's currently over 54kb (and over 5200 words), and a WP:GA candidate, but has not one picture! Jayjg (talk) 02:58, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture request - [[Temple Israel (Memphis, Tennessee) ]] 

message: This page has been initiated - any help in filling in missing federal courthouses, or providing missing information on listed courthouses (especially pictures) would be appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 00:38, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of United States federal courthouses in Tennessee]]