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AfC submission

Could I request comments on this draft? Draft:Green Space in Los Angeles, California. Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 21:24, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

The tone of this article is not neutral and rings of advocacy. I wouldn't approve it, on that alone. Wikipedia is not a tool to be used to advance a position. Perhaps some of these sources can be used to improve articles such as Geography of Los Angeles, but the tone of the draft article raises red flags.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Maps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/Archive 6

Discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2015

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2015. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:48, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Archive 2 - Wikipedia

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Taking Larry Itliong to FA

I have never been able to advance an article to FA before, and am wondering if any other editors would like to help me get the article Larry Itliong to FA status.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Evolution of Wikipedia's medical content: past, present and future ...

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The Walt Disney Company listed at Requested moves

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James Shields listed at Requested moves

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Moscone-Milk assassinations listed at Requested moves

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indian roads/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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TowerData listed at Requested moves

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Big Hero 6 (film) listed at Requested moves

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BBCN listed at Requested moves

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Wiki Loves Pride!

There is no photo of Chato Galvez in Geyserville, California wikipedia.... -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.244.148 (talk) 14:31, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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5th Annual Wiknic

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Wikinic rescheduled

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R U Professional - featured article candidate

I've nominated the article about the song "R U Professional" for Featured Article consideration.

It's a satirical song and a form of parody music using sampling.

Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/R U Professional/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

-- Cirt (talk) 21:50, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.--Lucas559 (talk) 22:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

CA Legislature Pages Need Moving

If you go to the California State Legislature page, you will see a list of sessions. The titles of these articles have a high-ascii character in them and I believe they should be changed. I am putting a note on the talk page for some of the sessions also. Please let me know if you can think of a reason why this should not happen.

What one sees now is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/California_State_Legislature,_2015%E2%80%9316_session

That could be just "2015-16", using a plain old everyday 0x2d hyphen. There is nothing added by this being an em-dash.

Of course, I could be wrong. Please let me know. I will wait a bit before making the moves. Thanx.

(time passes...)

Actually, it turns out that I am wrong about this. But the MOS (MOS:DASH) says that if a page has a en dash in its title, there should be a re-direct page that uses a hyphen. I have asked the re-namer to do this. We will see.

RayKiddy (talk) 22:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Done Int21h (talk) 00:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

No, they don't need moving and I will revert to the correct title if they get moved.

This is wrong. 2015-16 is a punctuation error; 2015-16 is correct. Thus an article's initial sentence says:

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

The date of birth and date of death are separated by an en-dash. If it had given only the years, it would have said Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874-1965), with no blank space before and after the en-dash. Similarly, ranges of pages use en-dashes, thus: The Gathering Storm pp. 170-71. If a hyphen rather than an en-dash had appeared there, I would have changed it to an en-dash with an edit summary saying I'm correcting a punctuation error. It's used in things like this: "Butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, 40-50 million years ago." Note the en-dash in "40-50". It is also used in physical measurements, e.g. 2.5-3 kg, and with letters of the alphabet, e.g. A-F.
If I'm not mistaken, all this is codified in WP:MOS. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:49, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

South Dakota - mistake?

Greetings all. At talk:South Dakota Wing Civil Air Patrol there is an indication that the page is of interest to WikiProject California. At this point, I'm assuming that this was a mistake of some type, possibly because of a copy/paste error when the article was created. That said, I'm planning to remove the reference in a few days unless someone indicates a rational reason why it should remain. I'm asking that any discussion for the issue continue on that page, especially if there is a reason for it to be there, since the question is likely to come up again and any discussion here will probably get buried in the archives. Etamni | ? 05:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Nobody having objected here or on the above-mentioned talk page, the WikiProject California template/banner has been removed from that page. Etamni | ? 08:34, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hello all! I was curious if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to make a (nonbinding) guideline on how all the individual US state WikiProjects should organize themselves, to help standardize them. I originally put this suggestion in the WikiProject United States talk page, so feel free to look there if you're interested. It's pretty empty though; basically all they said was to see what each of the individual projects thought about it. Please tell me if you have any concerns with this idea; hopefully we can find a way for everyone to love it! Also, I'm new at making proposals, so please forgive me if I do anything silly. :) Hope that you like this idea! JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 04:59, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Draft pages for missing California Supreme Court justices

I have created the following draft pages for persons on the List of Justices of the Supreme Court of California who are missing articles. Once these have been filled in with appropriate biographical information and references, they can be moved to mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 23:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Come on guys, help me out here. I've done half of the heavy lifting. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:54, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposing deletion / redirection for Citrix Online

Hello! I'm searching for editors interested in (California-based) software companies. If anyone here is interested in this topic, it would be great to get your feedback on what I've proposed over at the Citrix Online article. I am working as a paid consultant to Citrix, and won't make any edits, instead I'm hoping to discuss possible blanking and redirection over here on the article's talk page. Let me know what you think! Cheers, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:57, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

photographs

I am wondering if anyone in the group has PD photographs of any of Harriet Moody's cottages. Seems if so many of them are protected monuments, the photos would be PD, but I find none on commons. Any help in obtaining images of her 36 known cottages would be appreciated. SusunW (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

This Thursday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center

You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:26, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Delancey Street Foundation

The article for the Delancey Street Foundation reads like a puff-piece. It needs to be rewritten to have a NPV (plus some small grammatical errors fixed). Does anyone else agree?Doug1943 03:30, 22 October 2015 (UTC) -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug1943 (talk o contribs)

"Los Angeles Football Club"

We are discussing "Los Angeles Football Club" at Talk:Los Angeles FC -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 06:17, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Objectivity of article on Salvation Mountain

The article (esp. the section "The Toxic Nightmare" - simply this title is already hilarious) does not seem very objective, esp. if you read things like the last two sentences which have no citation ("Knight was always extremely careful of what went into his mountain, as he did not want to harm the environment [...]") and are expressing a personal opinion of the author ("Salvation Mountain stands as a monument not only to God or to Knight, but to an ideal and determination."). -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.217.141.90 (talk) 22:16, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

EDIT: another example: "In 1998, Knight wanted to expand the mountain a bit.". What is "a bit"? 1% 5% 10%? How many square meters? And how does this sentence even make any sense in comparison to the rest of the section it is in?

AfC submission

See Draft:Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel and Draft:Frank D. Lanterman. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 19:41, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship

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Lecompton Democrat

Lecompton Democrat Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 06:20, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Wik-Ed Women Session #5

How would it be possible "seceed" from the WP:USPLACE rule

It's pretty clear that many locations in California, and for that matter many other states), are commonly referred to by just their names, even though the WP:USPLACE guideline dictates that the state be included in the article title. Such locations include Oakland, Anaheim, and Beverly Hills. It's probably a good idea to create a separate guideline on this WikiProject to account for this discrepancy. Thoughts?--Prisencolin (talk) 02:39, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure what a separate guideline here would accomplish. Per WP:Local consensus, "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope" (emphasis added). What also works against this is that this WikiProject has been relatively semi-active for some time (I alluded to this back in 2010 when I commented that it has been difficult to maintain regular active participants here, as more people seem to want to focus on more specific topics) -- so even if you do get sufficient supporters here to "secede from WP:USPLACE", will they be active when someone challenges it later? The only thing that can basically be said is that "Articles on cities and incorporated towns in California should comply with the WP:USPLACE guidelines: except for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco (which fall under the so-called 'AP Stylebook rule'), their article titles need the state appended to them". But then, again because of the lack of regular active participants here, there are not really any WikiProject-specific guidelines here anyway. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:20, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Request for comment

Your attention is called to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#Request for comment, where a discussion is being held concerning the Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, article. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 19:39, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Help needed on Village Pump

Would someone in Southern California who is interested in automobiles and/or attends car shows in Southern California please try to help the person at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 51#Pays, ville et circonstances? ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:57, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Los Angeles City Government template

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Los_Angeles_Government

The "Elections" sections (excuse the rhyme) are missing information and seem like a lot to maintain. Should we take them out/move to somewhere else? I think it's a little confusing anyway because to me the template is meant to be an org chart. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Chursaner (talk o contribs) 02:50, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes

Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

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Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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Spring Valley, Butte County

According to an autobiography of Fred J. Dodge (listed in the references there), he was born in Spring Valley in northern Butte county in 1854. It is not listed as a location in Butte County, California, nor in Spring Valley, California, nor can I find it in contemporary maps. But there is a Spring Valley Elementary School, and a Spring Valley Reservoir in the area, and perhaps a Spring Valley Mountain. There were also companies with Spring Valley in their names from the gold rush days. So it probably was a name used in the 19th century, maybe just a mining camp. If anyone can figure out exactly what/where it was and what the area is now called, I think it should be mentioned as a former name. MB (talk) 16:32, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

The USGS GNIS Geographic Names Information System may be of help. http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:2:0::NO:RP::

Not really. It showed that there is a school, reservoir, and a gulch in the area named Spring Valley, just as I found on maps. I'm looking for a little more historical context. I did find a newspaper article on the mining ghost town of Cherokee, California that says the local mines all consolidated into the Spring Valley Mine (Spring Valley Mining & Irrigation Co.) But the GNIS does not show Spring Valley as a variant name of Cherokee. MB (talk) 03:47, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Naming discussion at Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles

There is currently a discussion at the Talk:Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles article regarding the name. It is requested that members of this WikiProject comment for more opinions on what the actual name of the article should be. Thanks, Corkythehornetfan 03:44, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

List of fatal shark attacks in California

I am wondering if someone from this WikiProject would mind taking a look at List of fatal shark attacks in California and assessing it. There seems to be a lot of detail provided about some of these attacks which might be taking things a bit too far, but I am not sure if that is common for these types of articles. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:35, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Gwen Stefani for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Snuggums (talk / edits) 18:57, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions
--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:38, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Anyone in LA?

Hey, I was wondering if there's anyone here that lives in LA that would be able to go take a picture of an art installation for me. I recently created an article for Liquid Shard and I think that the article would be much improved with an image. It's in Pershing Square and should be up until August 11, if anyone can make it up there. I live in Virginia, otherwise I'd totally go and take a picture. There are various pictures up on the Internet, but I'm not sure whether or not any of them would fall under fair use or not. It's a shame I live on the other side of the US - I'd love to see it in person since videos and pictures like this one make it seem like it'd be pretty neat. Tokyogirl79 (?????) 04:54, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Announcing WikiConference North America in San Diego, Fri-Mon 7-10 October

I am not a regular participant to this WikiProject, so please excuse my intrusion. Still, I thought this would be of interest. Thanks RightCowLeftCoast for introducing this conference in a previous note here.

I am inviting participants in WikiProject United States to WikiConference North America to be held in San Diego Friday to Monday 7-10 October. Here are further details:

We are accepting submissions until 31 August.
We are accepting scholarship applications 9 August - 23 August. About 40 scholarships are available only for people in Canada, the US, and Mexico. Last year about 200 people applied for scholarships.
More volunteers are needed. In the usual wiki-way, anyone may comment on program submissions. At the conference in person, all staff will be volunteer and all attendees are encouraged check in with conference organizers about volunteering for the task queue even for an hour. Anyone interested may contact FloNight and Rosiestep to offer volunteer support.
Major sponsorship for the conference comes from the San Diego Public Library who are providing the venue and a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
This is the third year of this conference, with WikiConference USA being in New York in 2014 and in Washington DC in 2015. Check the schedules of those for examples of what kinds of programming will be offered this year.

Discussion about the conference on-wiki could happen at meta:WikiConference North America.

I am one of the organizers for this event. I thought that I should share this information here, as this conference includes the regional focus of this WikiProject. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:01, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:44, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Ballot proposition articles

I have started a discussion about California ballot proposition articles at WikiProject Elections and Referendums - please do contribute if you have an opinion. Cheers, Number 57 16:57, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Start a usergroup in San Diego?

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/San Diego#Late October 2016 meetup . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 02:59, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Reminder: Please contribute to articles about California on the Spanish and other language Wikipedias

Hi, guys!

I found that a Los Angeles Times article about Central American students in Los Angeles's Belmont High School is available in Spanish. Therefore I added content to both the English and Spanish versions of en:Belmont High School (Los Angeles) / es:Escuela Preparatoria Belmont (Los Ángeles)

While most people in California speak good English, some don't. Those of you who know Spanish are encouraged to contribute to the Spanish Wikipedia, especially when the topic is relevant to the Spanish-speaking community and/or involves a city or state government or the federal government. Also pay attention to Spanish language publications like La Opinión and Hoy Los Angeles of the Los Angeles Times. They may have information and points of view not found in the English-language newspapers. To a lesser extent please pay attention to publications in other immigrant languages/languages of foreigners such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Russian, Hmong, etc. and those of you who know these languages can add content about California to their respective Wikis (White Hmong/Hmong Dawb sadly doesn't have a Wikipedia yet, but if anyone knows people who want to start one please let me know)

WhisperToMe (talk) 14:40, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.? Dr. Blofeld 15:11, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject California/The 1000 Challenge

Challenge for California is up and running, needs contributors!? Dr. Blofeld 18:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Guidelines for assessing importance.

I think we need to review articles to determine whether within this project their importance has been appropriately assessed and that requires defining importance scale. Poaching from elsewhere something like the following:

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of investigating California needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Wikipedia.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience--but which are of high notability in other places--should still be highly rated.

Thoughts? --Erp (talk) 03:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject California/Archive 6 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman -- Delivered: 17:56, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

February 18 Wikipedia Day event in DTLA

Commons:Photo challenge February 2017 is Multilingualism

FYI, take a look in commons:Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - February - Multilingualism if you have any file you'd like to upload, maybe in some of your archive at home. So far nothing from California.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Long Beach template

Hi, guys! I notice the Template:Long Beach, California was deleted back in 2011 by a discussion here: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_March_11#Template:Long_Beach.2C_California - Only one other user participated, and the rationale was "Well-linked articles which do not need a navbox. Unused. " - Since then multiple California municipalities have gotten infoboxes and I think it's time this template was revived. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:26, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Pinging @This, that and the other: @GreatOrangePumpkin: and @Gfoley4: WhisperToMe (talk) 05:12, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

No idea what I was thinking six years ago :) If you now think it should exist, please recreate it. -- This, that and the other (talk) 09:48, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! I ended up doing so: Template:Long Beach, California WhisperToMe (talk) 15:22, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Photo request for Los Angeles Wikipedians?

Hey, all- I'm working on Mexican Repatriation, which is currently unillustrated. There is a plaque at the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes that commemorates the repatriation, but I've been unable to find an appropriately licensed image to use in the article. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to swing by (when the weather clears ;) and take a picture for me/the article? Could also add some photos to the LA Plaza article while you're at it :) Thanks! --Luis (talk) 17:36, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Years in Northern+Southern California

Several categories within the scope of this project have been nominated for merger. I have proposed that Category:20th century in Northern California, Category:21st century in Northern California, Category:21st century in Southern California, Category:20th century in Southern California to Category:20th century in California and their by-year and by-decade sub-categories be merged to the equivalent California-wide category.

A discussion is taking place to seek a consensus on whether this proposal fits with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at these categories' entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) o (contribs) 09:47, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Merger discussion at Talk:Deltopia

I started the merger discussion at Talk:Deltopia#Merge into another article?. I invite you to comment. --George Ho (talk) 05:37, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:51, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Invitation to a San Diego edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/May 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:10, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

USER:CORRECTOR

Hi! It may be useful to look into @CORRECTOR:'s edits. I found he/she changed the name and location of USP Victorville even though its name is still Victorville and from a map search I did, I determined the facility is still in Victorville. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:52, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

@CORRECTOR:, please do not unilaterally remove my edits as was done here. I do have concerns about the accuracy of some of your edits but I don't have time to go through all of them. Please participate in this discussion. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Your comments about CORRECTOR--are inappropriate. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by CORRECTOR (talk o contribs) 18:15, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

@CORRECTOR:, on what basis did you change the location of USP Victorville? WhisperToMe (talk) 11:07, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

San Francisco-based Tides (organization)

Hello, I am looking for editors interested in California-based organizations for help improving Tides (organization). I left a note on the San Francisco Bay Area task force, but I figured I should leave a message here, too. I placed an request for edits on the Tides Talk page to update and fix inaccuracies in the introduction and infobox. For those who do not know, Tides is a public charity and fiscal sponsor whose work focuses on social equality, human rights, the environment, education and health. Its main office is located in the historic Presidio National Park, in Tides' Thoreau Center for Sustainability. (Please note that I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, as I work for Tides. Rather than direct edit, I posted my suggestions at the discussion page.) Thank you, RD at Tides (talk) 22:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

@RD at Tides: According to WP:BFAQ#RULES, you should avoid editing articles directly related to your organization because of the conflict of interest. Is there any particular reason why you have an interest in this Wikipedia article? Woebegone (talk) 05:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Seems like he is aware that he will not be directly editing WhisperToMe (talk) 13:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both for replying. As WhisperToMe says, I'm aware I shouldn't edit directly, that's why I'm trying to get help via a request for edits. Per my note above, I work for Tides which is why I'm interested in the article, and I want to help fix some issues. Can either of you help? Thanks, RD at Tides (talk) 18:50, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

@RD at Tides: I can take a look. Woebegone (talk) 22:37, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

@Woebegone: Please let me know if there are any questions when you review the Tides edit request. Thank you, RD at Tides (talk) 21:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Quatloos.com

It's not an important article, and it looks fairly similar to a stub, but the Quatloos.com article now reflects the entirety of RS mentions for Quatloos!. It'll never be a GA, just because it's lacking some basics (even if I forced a Lead into the article, I'd need to replicate almost the entire body to satisfy the Lead length requirements). However, I'd suggest that it's now "well organized and essentially complete", so should be bumped up to an A grade. A quick review would be appreciated. Cheers, Bromley86 (talk) 00:11, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Come and join us at the Wiknic

Invitation to San Diego wiknic and bonfire

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/July 2017 Wiknic. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:47, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to June 2017 San Diego meetup

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/June 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:10, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We - Community Tech - are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Archive 6/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject California.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject California, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC) ??? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.251.170.125 (talk) 17:33, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Elijah Daniel for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elijah Daniel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elijah Daniel (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sagecandor (talk) 21:01, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red's new initiative: #1day1woman

Seeking input on Culver City-based Woven Digital name change and update

Hello! I'm reaching out here to see if members of this WikiProject would be able to look at some updates for the Culver City-based digital media company, Uproxx Media Group (formerly Woven Digital), which owns brands including Uproxx and BroBible. For the company, I have written an updated draft seeking to improve the current article and in my edit request, I've also proposed moving the article to the company's current name, Uproxx Media Group. As I do have a conflict of interest, I'm seeking uninvolved editors to review the proposed draft and weigh in on the name change suggestion. Would anyone here be able to help? Thanks in advance. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 16:57, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Pinging back to see if anyone would be able to look at a couple of small additions to this article? The main update has been completed, but there is a new source that can be added, so I've opened a small edit request. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:44, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

LA event this Thursday

Help on San Francisco Bay Area

Hey everyone, I am currently working on a rework of the Bay Area's article. It is currently not in a great shape, with a lot of missing citations and entire sections that are completely blank. I could use some help on this immense task, so if any editors are free and have time to help out, please check out my sandbox at User:haha169/sandbox and help me fill it in. Much appreciated! --haha169 (talk) 09:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

San Diego meetup invitation

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/November 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:29, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Proposed draft for "Move (company)" article

On behalf of Move, a California-based company, I am proposing expanded and updated Move (company) and Realtor.com articles. Given my conflict of interest, I will not edit either article directly and ask independent editors to review them for accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. During this project, Move has provided feedback to ensure accuracy. I've saved my Move draft here and my Realtor.com draft here.

Both articles have edit requests on their respective talk pages, which you're welcome to review if you're interested. I think an editor is in the process of reviewing the Realtor.com article, so I am wondering if a member of WikiProject California might be willing to review the Move draft.

Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:11, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to December meetup event

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/December 2017 . RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:23, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Blake Ricciardi

Would someone from this WikiProject take a look at Blake Ricciardi? I am unable to find any sources which show that this person in Wikipedia notable enough for a stand-alone article per WP:GNG or WP:BIO. Googling gets a number of hits, but these seem to be mainly primary sources or trivia mentions and not the significant coverage in independent reliable sources needed for Wikipedia notability. It has been suggested that the article be taken to AfD, but I'm asking here to see if someone might be aware of better sources which can be used. The article was recently heaviy edited by an IP (most likely someone connected to the subject) who turned it into a mish-mash over promotional content. It was also most likely created by someone connected to subject. The article has been restored to the last table version before the IP editing, but even that doesn't seem good enough to avoid AfD. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Stop revisionist history

For several years, there has been an effort to edit into Wikipedia a false revisionist version of early California history. The central false claim is that in 1836 (or before), California freed itself from Mexico and became an independent republic like Texas. Revisionist favorite articles include California Republic, Juan Bautista Alvarado, and List of Governors of California before 1850. Help me maintain the historical accuracy of WP articles on California! WCCasey (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Help desk#Help me stop fake California history. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:53, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Source of the article : Wikipedia

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