[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
• User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
• User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
• User:Badbilltucker/Science 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 to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. 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 22:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 13:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article suggestion

I'm not very familiar with how these projects work, so I don't know if I can go ahead and add the banner code to articles that I feel are appropriate, or if I'm expected to suggest articles here and leave it up to a vote, or something like that. Anyway, the point of this babbling is that I think that the O RLY? article is a prime candiate for this sort of thing. It's probably not "good article" material, but the subject matter is definitely relevant. - Ugliness Man 19:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overlap WikiProject (Merge?)

I just stumbled upon this WikiProject while tagging articles for the Internet pop culture WikiProject. It seems to me that the two projects have enough overlap to warrant a potential merge. Both projects suffer from a lack of participants (just over a dozen on WP:IPC; even fewer on this one) and putting everyone's heads together might get a lot more accomplished.

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

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 16:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exploding whale FAR

Exploding whale has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Merge

I have now officially proposed a merge between WikiProject Internet culture and WikiProject Internet pop culture as both projects cover the same thing. I understand that IPC has more members, but this name makes the scope more broad and (hopefully) there will be less disputes over what is in and what is out of the scope (ie. "That wasn't popular! I have never even heard of it!"). Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

• Support ~ As stated above -- user|TALK 20:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merged

I've merged Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet pop culture into Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture, and updated lots of the project page. Don't hesitate to edit the project page, to do box and whatever else as you like. --h2g2bob 02:40, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment scale

I've added an assessment scale to Template:WP Internet culture. This is basically a rip of Wikiproject Books' (and many other WikiProjects') article scale. This may help identify articles which need to be improved. --h2g2bob 03:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New article

• New article - Scieno Sitter, let me know what you think on the talk page. Heavily sourced. Thanks for your time. Smee 06:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

  Good job, Smee - perhaps you should suggest it for good article review? --h2g2bob 20:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Internet brigades

I'm not quite sure if this is within the scope of this project, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Some help is needed in making a potential article over here - about the alleged flooding of the internet with information by secret police used by a few governments (currently the Russians and the Chinese have been alleged of doing this). Some notable sources are available in the references section.

Internet brigades(english language version)

russian language version
cinese language version —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.83.163.172 (talk) 20:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

The original article (which was very problematic and was deleted) was purely based on the FSB allegations, and an attempt is being made to make the future potential article more international. It is currently up for deletion review over here, where there is a tie of votes (9 to 9) between those who endorse its deletion and those who want it overturned and relisted.

This is a very controversial topic, but in my view there seem to be enough notable sources to make a decent article out of it, so I hope that someone here may be able to help. Esn 01:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, but what do you think yourself? I remember that you made some reasonable changes in the article. Since then more sources have been included. A rather questionable segment was about a possible editing by CIA people in wikipedia, with references to BBC and Reuters (now deleted). I guess that was a reason for one of the users to start AfD discussion (he first deleted the CIA part over my objections).Biophys (talk) 21:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Does Wikipedia belong here?

Is Wikipedia in the scope of this project? What about Digg? Pizzachicken 18:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd say yes. Blast ^{[improve me]} 14.05.07 1426 (UTC)

I'd say yes too --h2g2bob (talk) 03:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube video bloggers?

Are they covered here, in blogging, or neither? There almost seems to be enough of them to sustain their own project: YouTube celebrities. Ichormosquito 05:57, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

We sort of cover everything :D. There is WikiProject Blogging but it seems a bit quiet. --h2g2bob (talk) 03:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rhain Davis: Internet meme?

I've come here per a recent AFD, I don't dispute the reasons given for deletion as he hasn't made a senior appearance BUT I believe that he is as an Internet meme in the similar vein as Peter Oakley. This BBC article [1] seems to suggest that he is, saying that his video was watch on YouTube by 3million, implying this earned him a contract. I was wondering if anyone had any imput in this seems though this is the wikiproject that deals with this kind of thing? Englishrose 18:45, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tay Zonday

Pull some strings, he needs a page on wikipedia. You guys can do it! Come on, he's a huge meme at this stage, everyone knows about him.

• He's already got one, man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Zonday Belfunk (talk) 19:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bullet proof baby viral video

I have created an article for the bullet proof baby video and website that launched the viral video as part of a guerilla marketing campaign for the movie Shoot 'Em Up. I would appreciate input and expansion efforts. --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 17:18, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject_Internet

I'd always been shocked that there was no WP to organize even the basic Category:Internet standards. Apparently one did exist, but was simply inactive. I and at least two other editors have recently expressed an interest in reviving it. Anyone else want to help? The tubes are hurting for attention in many cases, given the wild variance in format and content and the vast number of stubs in just the protocol articles alone. MrZaius^talk 15:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong link in the Template?

I've spent the last half an hour trying to figure out what to do about the fact that at the moment, the link to the "importance scale" actually goes to the "quality scale" on the WP Internet Culture template (the link to the quality scale also goes to the quality scale). I don't have the time to figure out the parser functions required to edit a template. I noticed this last week also and am surprised that no one has noticed this before. This raises a question for discussion: does anyone actually use or pay attention to these scales? If they do note the template and it's important to them, do they understand what they think that are paying attention to? DPerkel 20:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Blogology

• Blogology (via WP:PROD on 2007-10-07) Deleted

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Thread hijacking

• Thread hijacking (via WP:PROD on 2007-10-02) Deleted

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for Deletion: Adoptables

The article that is the subject of the AFD below would appear to describe a part of internet culture:

• Adoptables at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adoptables (2007-09-26 – 2007-10-05) Delete

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for deletion: MadV

MadV at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MadV (2007-10-07 – 2007-10-13) No consensus (keep)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 20:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Web snacking

Web snacking (via WP:PROD on 2007-10-18) Deleted

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 05:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Webisphere

Webisphere (via WP:PROD on 2007-10-18) Deleted

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:48, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 05:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: KitchenBug

KitchenBug (via WP:PROD on 2007-11-12) Deleted

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

updated --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 05:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article for deletion: Page widening

Page widening at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Page widening (2007-12-31 –)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 05:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cassiopedia?

May I suggest an article on the now defunct wiki encyclopedia Cassiopedia? Is it notable? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm... Hakluyt bean (talk) 21:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Importance Scale Assessment for Anonymous

The Importance Scale Assessment for Anonymous should be raised to the highest possible. Anonymous has been a crucial element in bringing the Intellectual Community together, on the Internet, to fight for what matters most. Hopefully, as time progresses, Anonymous' Projects will grow in size and significance, eventually enlightening the entire Internet Community of the true evils of our Society. Anonymous seems to be the most important thing on the Internet these days, and it should be the most important thing on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Internet_culture.

--HockeyInJune (talk) 17:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Update on The Internet Portal

• -- Update: Portal:Internet has recently become a Featured Portal. All of the articles at Portal:Internet in the "Selected article" section are of Good or Featured Quality Status. Thanks to the efforts of folks from this project, for churning out such great high-quality material! Keep up the great work getting articles to WP:GA and Featured Quality Status ! Cirt (talk) 16:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Church of Google

I've included this article to your project. Note also that there is an AfD debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Church of Google (3rd nomination). Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 18:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BlogTV

This article is in desperate need of improvement. Please can you guys help me make it a better article?

Thanks

--TwentiethApril1986 (talk) 12:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A discussion

An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - , member of WikiProject Council. 14:35, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A discussion

An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - , member of WikiProject Council. 14:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Serdar Argic disagreement

A disagreement has arisen over the use of the words denial and refute in the Serdar Argic article. Personally, I feel that refute is inappropriate because it can mean "disprove" and I am unaware of any proof that Serdar Argic gave that the Armenian Genocide didn't happen. Autarch (talk) 17:28, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 291 articles are assigned to this project, of which 136, or 46.7%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription}}

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:56, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RFC at Christian the lion

A user has opened a RFC on a page which is under this project's scope at Talk:Christian the lion#Viral video as its own section. Any input from this project's members would probably be appreciated. -Optigan13 (talk) 20:30, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Caitlin Hill at AfD

Caitlin Hill, a minor YouTube celebrity is up for AfD. You can view the discussion here. TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 04:46, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anonymous

Who is Spidern? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nahum Reduta (talk • contribs) 05:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia does not make Culture

There are a lot of entries on Wikipedia that are listed as culture but the only reference I've seen use is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is there to record culture not make it. It's not culture unless the majority of the people use said entry on a regular basis. As it stands right now Godwins Law is entry is being used to spread the use via Wikipedia thats not culture thats propaganda. Everuntested (talk) 14:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)