Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Abortion/Archive 2

message: * Why is it not listed in Wikipedia:List_of_WikiProjects?
* Is this a stand-alone WP or is it a daughter of another project? Most WP are listed in hierarchic form in the list of WP.
--Steven Fruitsmaak | Talk 15:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a good point. So where would we go? Under Science->Health or Social sciences and Society->Law or Politics and government? --Andrew c 15:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A WP can be classified under multiple categories, so I'd go for Health and Law.--Steven Fruitsmaak | Talk 15:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  About this project 

message: There have been some dramatic changes (most of them for the better) over at mifepristone and Depo Provera. However, I have not been able to go over each change with a fine tooth comb, so maybe with the combined efforts by the editors on this project, we may be able to get one or both articles up to GA or FA status, now that we have momentum from a single editor.--Andrew c 22:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Add Misoprostol to the list of pages to watch for recent changes.--Andrew c 20:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  a couple articles to watch 

message: I noticed that your project is not listed on the Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects.  It might benefit from greater exposure if it were. Badbilltucker 16:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to be done. NCurse  work 12:11, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of WikiProjects 

message: Would it be worthwhile to create an infobox to be used throughout articles in :Category:Forms of abortion? This template could provide information such as whether the abortion method is surgical or chemical, in which gestational time frame it is used, when the method first arose and/or when it approximately fell out of favour. Potential risks and the national accessibility and/or legality of various methods are further information which could be quickly conveyed in this format.
Is there a formalised protocol for proposing and creating an infobox? Is anyone here familiar with it? -Severa  (!!!) 01:02, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not aware of any protocol other than needing someone who understands the code involved in writing a template with variables in it.  I think it's more of a "be bold" sort of thing. -GTBacchus(talk) 06:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, I just didn't want a repeat of the stub incident, so I thought I'd err on the side of caution. I suppose we could model our infobox off the one used throughout articles related to specific methods of contraception (eg., IUD). -Severa  (!!!) 06:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough.  As for borrowing code: Picasso said it best.  "Good artists borrow; great artists steal!" -GTBacchus(talk) 07:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't that the wonderful thing about GNU? :-) -Severa  (!!!) 09:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Abortion method infobox

message: Would it be useful for us to create a sort of "watchlist" for this project? This would include a list of the most vandalism-prone articles — our own take on Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol. It could also feature a "Current disputes" noticeboard where users could post information on active editorial disputes in articles. Hopefully, this would aid in dispute resolution by attracting outside opinions, as well as keeping users abreast of project happenings. -Severa  (!!!) 21:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How do you see this happening technically?  Would it be a section of the project page, or a subpage, or what?  I like the idea, but I'm not sure about the details. -GTBacchus(talk) 06:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I envision it as a supbage, Wikipedia:WikiProject Abortion/Watchlist, which could be linked from the main project page or from this talk page. Where it was linked from would depend upon whether we deemed it a part of the project, like the Tast List or Category Tree, or an extension of the discussion page. Thoughts? -Severa  (!!!) 07:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And pages would be added to and and removed... manually?  Based on people deciding to add or remove them?  I see no harm in giving it a try.  Sounds like sort of a noticeboard, letting project members know where their attention may be needed. -GTBacchus(talk) 19:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the idea.  Editing it manually can't be too different from adding and removing {disputed} tags, and we do that all the time. --BCSWowbagger 05:54, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Project watchlist

message: I just created a pro-abortion violence article, as has been disccussed off-and-on here for a while, and tagged it with the WP:Abortion tag.  Reviews of the article (well, stub), are requested, but, more urgently, does anyone know anything about adding an article to the WP:Abortion category tree?  Thanks.  --BCSWowbagger 03:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work. Mind if I merge this with Anti-abortion violence to create Violence in the abortion movement? Thus, our coverage would be in one comprehensive article, which would help to avoid POV-forking and asymmetric wikilinking issues. -Severa  (!!!) 14:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent.  That's a solid article, and the right way to handle POV forking.  Thanks!  --BCSWowbagger 21:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pro-abortion violence tagged 

message: I have nominated :Category:Abortion and reproductive rights advocacy groups in the United States for renaming as :Category:United States pro-choice organizations in order to maintain consistency with the titling of other categories in this project. Please go to the CfD nomination page if you would like to lend your input. -Severa  (!!!) 16:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This proposal failed due to no consensus. I initially weighed in, but never was too busy to check in on how the discussion was going. Some people ignored the existing structure of our category tree and made political comments regarding the accuracy of the self-identifying term "pro-choice". I have reposted this move request. Someone has suggested that "United States" is ackward as an adjective. Would "American" work better? And should we rename the "US pro-life organizations" to "American pro-life organizations" as well? I think so, but I wanted to run it by the project first.--Andrew c 14:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Yet another CfD

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 00:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: I encourage everyone to consider a new name for Parental notification (abortion) over at Talk:Parental notification (abortion). One editor made an out of process move to Parental involvement (abortion), and I reverted that. Let's try to build consensus for a new title before making bold moves. The issue is that this article covers not only parental notification, but also parental consent laws. (also, it seems like the editor made a find and replace in the actual article text to introduce a term that is not the most commonly used term, which I feel violated the naming conventions).--Andrew c 22:59, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parental notification (abortion) 

message: User:Piccadilly  has created a number of national subcategories under :Category:Pro-life activists. However, some of these new categories are redundant, or do not comply with our WikiProject Abortion titling conventions. Please feel free to comment at the renaming nomination I have begun here. -Severa  (!!!) 03:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any other volunteers for handling CfD nominations from now on? -Severa  (!!!) 07:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New CfD

message: I have nominated :Category:Pro-life commentators, which was overlooked in the recent CfD, for deletion in an effort to clean up my error in judgment in creating the new Activist by profession categories. Please feel to comment here. -Severa  (!!!) 04:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CfD, again

message: Should we become involved in WVWP? We would go through all of the articles within our project and assess their quality. This would help us to determine the strongest articles within our project and those which are still in need of improvement. Perhaps we could break down articles alphabetically in order to avoid concerns of favouritism in review selection. We could also each post a list of articles of which we'd like to opt out of reviewing due to our own in-depth involvement in them. Please let me know your thoughts on this. I am eager to see this project move forward. Thanks. -Severa  (!!!) 10:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have (hopefully!) set up our Assessment Department. Please let me know if you are interested in participating so that we can begin the task of assessing our articles. -Severa  (!!!) 09:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WVWP

message: Violence in the abortion movement has been home to a number of problematic recent changes. Monitoring and input from other users would be appreciated. -Severa  (!!!) 09:26, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Violence in the abortion movement

message: Abortion and Evangelical Christians has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion page to comment. -Severa  (!!!) 03:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AfD