Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States regions/Archive1

message: *Looks good to me. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 13:21, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion 

message: The Map of the "East Coast" is completely wrong, and obviously submitted by someone from New England. Not including Virginia or Pennsylvania in the universal defition of east coast is ludicrous.
: Concur - Jmabel | Talk 20:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: East Coast

message: Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] cooperation 

message: Hi everyone, I'm from chinese wikipedia. I'm translating the english content into chinese. However, I'm wondering that is it possible for the authors of the maps to upload them to wiki commons so that it's easier to share maps among different languages of wikipedias. Thanks Mike9133 22:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can these pictures be uploaded to WikiCommons? 

message: While I like the current coloring scheme used (such as :Image:US map-Midwest.PNG), I think we should use a better U.S. map to base these region maps on.  For instance, Michigan's Lower Peninsula is largely errored around the Saginaw Bay region, as well as the continental 48 states being shown almost "squeezed" into a disproportionate shape.  I think we should remake these maps into images derived from :Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG, or :Image:Blank map of the United States.PNG.
:Thanks for you suggestion. I'll see what I can do in creating a map per your suggestions, but please note that any change will have to be approved by the project participants. In the mean time, please consider joining WikiProject US regions. -JCarriker 05:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recreating U.S. maps 

message: The Wiki Project United States just opened. This project aims at improving the collaboration between the many projects and editors working on US related articles; thus increasing the quality of US related articles. Please feel free to join and leave your suggestions on the talk page. Thank you. Best Regards, Signaturebrendel 17:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:WikiProject United States 

message: Friends: thanks for the nice maps, but I would suggest that a color change and/or bolder striping is used so that the differentiated states are visible in the thumbnails.  TotoBaggins 00:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stripes not visible in thumbs 

message: How, if at all, does this project relate to the 13 regions which the US government had had in place, I think before Clinton took office? Badbilltucker 15:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I, for one, am not sure what you are talking about, and since it's been a few days since your comment, apparently no one else does either. If there are (or could be) articles on them, then they would be within the scope of this project. Can you point us to something? - Jmabel | Talk 05:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, there were only ten, and they are listed at List of regions of the United States#Standard Federal Regions. Badbilltucker 18:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governmental regions 

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thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 22:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: I have nominated :Image:US map-New England.PNG for deletion because :Image:Map of USA New England.svg is available. Conscious 12:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image:US map-New England.PNG 

message: The deletion of Esperanza was a clear indication that similar beauacracy must be removed from wikipedia. I have therefore removed the "beaucracy" from this project unilaterally, lest it become fodder for the projects deletion.- JCarriker 04:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section removals 

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thread_title:  FAR notice 

message: I noticed that the policy is to have region names under articles with -ern endings, such as Midwestern United States, Southern United States, and Northeastern United States, even though those regions are referred to as the Midwest, the South, and the Northeast throughout their respective articles (since those are the common names). It seems they are to reduce confusion, but Midwest redirects to Midwestern United States and in the disambiguation page for The South, the Southern United States page is listed as "The South."
Is there any reasoning behind not simply using the common name for each region as is done with the smaller regions within these areas, such as Pacific Northwest? Of course most of these terms such as the South and the Northeast are too generic by themselves, by why isn't the common name in the title with United States in parentheses for instance? Midwest (United States) and so forth? Just curious. Wangry (talk) 06:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why -ern endings rather than just their names for the article titles? 

message: It has been suggested that this project be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject United States due to a long state of inactivity. Please comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States#Close out some Inactive/nonfunctional US related WikiProjects. --Kumioko (talk) 16:58, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Archived and redirected to WPUS. --Kumioko (talk) 21:18, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion to Merge this project with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States]]