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Contents 1 Chicago A-Class review 2 WP:ANIME assessment drive 3 Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review 4 Milhist Quality Scale 5 Combatant redux 6 Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Harriet Tubman

Chicago A-Class review

Woody has suggested that I talk to you about overhauling {{ChicagoWikiProject}} so that it operates an A-Class review like yours does. He said it will likely need an overhaul. If you would be willing to assist in that regard, it would be great. Elkman has previously handled all our template tweaking so you may want to coordinate with him. Also, we have a bot adding our template and parameterizing it on various articles. Stepshep‎ runs our bot and any changes probably should not interfere with his bot programming.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

For reference: Wikipedia:Help_desk#A-Class review setup assistance and User_talk:TonyTheTiger#A-class_for_chicago. I say it needs an overhaul because it currently uses {{WPBannerMeta}} which I haven't come across before. I can't find a parameter that would allow the A-Class system that we use to be integrated into it. Regards. Woody (talk) 19:34, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Curious; I was under the impression that the meta-template could show such reviews. Tony, you might want to ask Happy-melon (talk · contribs) whether the meta-template can handle this for you; if it doesn't, I'll be happy to add something directly your template; but I'm probably going to have to rewrite it completely to do so, so using a built-in feature might be a less drastic step. Kirill ^(prof) 00:36, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I was not watching your page. Sorry for the delay. I will check with him.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:33, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

It depends on what you want to do - probably you want a note, which involves adding just a couple of parameters. Do you have a demonstration or another project to copy off, so I can see what you want to achieve? Happy‑melon 16:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I believe MILHIST's banner works like I would like. What I basically want is a banner that initiates a discussion page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I've added some code which should do something like you wanted. Of course there's still a lot that can be changed - hopefully it's fairly obvious how to get the effect you want. Any issues, do let me know. Happy‑melon 13:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

When I added A-Class=current to one of the talk page templates nothing happened. There was no link appearing on the banner to start a discussion page. What do I need to do?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I'd called the parameter |a-class= rather than |A-Class=, as all the other parameter names are lowercase. I've changed it to be the same as MILHIST's, so what you did would now work; however I'd personally recommend using the lowercase version for consistency with your other parameters. You can see what I did to change it, if you prefer the lowercase version, all you have to do is change it back. Give it a try now - it should work properly. Happy‑melon 14:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you make the parameter insensitive to case?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Maybe. I'll have a look. Happy‑melon 18:12, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you add a project peer-review parameter as well?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been distracted. I'll take a look. Happy‑melon 11:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC) Hehe, I remember now. I've actually already done it; I just forgot to mention it here. |peer-review=yes displays the 'current peer review' note, and |old-peer-review=yes displays the "archived old peer review" note. If any of the links are incorrect do let me know and I'll try and correct them. Happy‑melon 11:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you tell me if Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Project banner is now correct and whether you have desensitized it to case.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:20, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

That parameter list is correct; however only the |a-class= parameter is case-insensitive. Happy‑melon 12:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I am testing the new parameter at Talk:Jay Pritzker Pavilion and am unable to generate a review page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:51, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hmn.... not entirely sure why it wasn't working before, but it's Fixed now. Happy‑melon 09:44, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible to make it a little more like WP:MILHIST in the sense that the page hierarchies are Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Assessment/Name of nominated article and Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Peer review/Name of nominated article instead of both using Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review/Name of nominated article for both.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:54, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure. You mean Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Assessment/Name of nominated article for A-Class review, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Peer review/Name of nominated article for Peer review, right? Happy‑melon 18:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Exactly.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:47, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Y Done, I hope. Was that what you wanted? Happy‑melon 20:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:ANIME assessment drive

Hi Kirill Lokshin,

We at the Anime wikiproject intend to (re)assess all of our articles to have an updated view of the quality thereof. I have seen that you helped WP:MILHIST to create the necessary subpages to do so, e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008/100.

Can you give us some pointers as how we can set up similar pages, or help us do it?

Regards,

G.A.S 05:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Reply cross posted from my talk page

The listing pages themselves are generated by a script. If you can tell me what articles you want in the listing, I should be able to generate it for you (provided the criteria are not overly complex). Kirill ^(prof) 00:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply, and thank you for the offer. The articles are all listed in Category:Anime and manga articles by quality. We have decided to work through all of them, so I do not believe that criteria is an issue per se: it would be preferred if the pages are in the same format as WP:MILHIST's, as that seems to work; and located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008. Your help is appreciated. G.A.S 04:53, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

We have now set up the assessment page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Assessment, and following some minor issues, we should be able to start with the assessments. G.A.S 07:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

That sounds reasonable. I'll try to put together the worklists when I have some time; hopefully, either this week or next week. Kirill ^(prof) 12:26, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I have created all of the pages for the assessment drive. Thanks for the offer. G.A.S 15:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review

I am starting to set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review like MILHIST. Do you have any suggestion on handling GA discussions that are currently at level 2 subsections instead of level 3.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I understand that WP:MILHIST is so much more mature/active/successful than WP:CHICAGO. I see that you do not include WP:GAR community assessment discussions. However, do you think that if WP:GAC GAonhold and WP:GAR individual assessment GA discussions were at the proper subsection level you would transclude them? Is there a reason you do not transclude GAR community assessment discussions? You may want to comment at Wikipedia_talk:GA#GA_review_pages.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 13:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Discussion moved to Wikipedia_talk:GAN#GA_review_pages.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Milhist Quality Scale

Hi Kirill!

Is there any reason why we can't transclude the A and B class criteria into the quality scale? It would make it much easier to refer to them if they were separate articles. I trust all is well with you :) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 18:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Incidentally, I've moved the see also bits back to the Quality Scale for reasons which will be apparent shortly.

Also, may I ask you please to take a look at this?. I'm not sure I have anything coherent to contribute there but I'm sure you do :) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 04:48, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I've left a comment on the template talk page.

Incidentally, I've just been looking at your contributions and I'm in awe of the speed with which you do the task force notifications :) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 05:51, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the dynamic date in {{WPMILHIST A-Class Review alerts}}. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 06:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Combatant redux

Please tell me what you think re. comments here. I don't find the archived discussion particularly helpful; it strikes me that ""W.W.2!" amateurs have a habit of enforcing whatever sounds "snazziest" in their field of interest, forgetting about, you know, the rest of Wikipedia. Our tendency to internalize news stories about "unlawful combatants" doesn't help either, nor does our tendency to forget that the English language existed long before the international bureaucracy whose codes we, at WP:MILHIST, apparently now obey. In any event, I'm sure you'll agree a mistake was made. Albrecht (talk) 23:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Harriet Tubman

Regarding this edit, please see Harriet_Tubman#Scouting_and_the_Combahee_River_Raid. There's more reason to include Tubman among MILHIST FPs than the "Rosie the Riveter" photos: Tubman actually served in combat. Durova^Charge! 18:07, 13 August 2008 (UTC)