Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palestine/Archive 1

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 20:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Our discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Zaghab could use some help from experts. --Kevin Murray 22:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Zaghab]]  

message: Now that we have that snazzy WikiProject Palestine template, we can rate articles for their importance and level of development (i.e. class).  Myself and a few others have started to assess articles, mostly with regards to importance.  This can be done by adding the parameter "importance=???" parameter, the value of which can be either "Top", "High", "Mid", "Low" or "NA.  Have a look through the following importance categories to see how we assessed things so far and feel free to assess some articles yourself:
* :Category:Top-importance Palestine-related articles (26 articles)
* :Category:High-importance Palestine-related articles (27 articles)
* :Category:Mid-importance Palestine-related articles (62 articles)
* :Category:Low-importance Palestine-related articles (58 articles)
* :Category:Unknown-importance Palestine-related articles (486 articles)
--70.51.232.124 03:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessing article importance 

message: The other WikiProjects have user boxes, this project should probably have one as well.  --70.51.232.124 06:36, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also needed: WikiProject Palestine UserBox 

message: Hello. Since your banner supports nesting, would you mind if I added it to the list here: Template:WikiProjectBannerShell#Converted projects? -- Avi 17:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Eminently reasonable, although if it is on a three-fer, things may get crowded. Good luck with the project! -- Avi 17:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again Avi! After we have gotten settled in, I would definitely reconsider. :) Tiamut 17:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project banner 

message: It is my belief that having two pages for the same purpose reduces their overall effectiveness because it dilutes effect and attention.  Right now we have two pages that appear to me to serve the same purpose.  Can we delete or redirect one of them?
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine/to do (this one is included in Template:WPPalestine Sidebar creating by Ian Pitchford)
* Portal:Palestine/Opentask (this one is included in Portal:Palestine, Template:WikiProject Palestine and Notice board for Palestine-related topics)
I myself prefer the second one as it is more compact than the new one.  --Abnn 19:26, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Good suggestion. I've also just run the bot to populate the table . If there are any suggestions for "collaboration of the week" go here. --Ian Pitchford 19:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I've inserted the assessment table into the project's main page.  I was really hoping it was a bot generated table.  --Abnn 19:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for getting rid of the redirect and for improving the sidebar. I was relieved to find the bot too! --Ian Pitchford 19:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two pages with same purpose, delete/redirect one of them? 

message: I'm going to be working first on the university articles, just to bring up their quality to B across the board.  Hopefully, I get the time to complete this project and I don't leave it half done.  I'm tracking progress so far on my user page.  I know there are a lot of POV conflicts going on, but someone has to raise the quality of the core Palestinian articles.  Sometimes it seems that the POV conflicts prevents us from presenting the Palestinians as real people with real lives, which is something I would like to remedy.  WikiProject Palestine needs all types.  --Abnn 00:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Working on the university articles