WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 11 - November 2008

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Rural municipalities and cities • City naming • Coordinates • Spotlight • Curling • Defunct Communities • FA article drive

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Rural municpalities
Individual categories for each rural municipality are being created. It would be good to gather consensus as to which articles should be tagged with an individual RM category. The places names which an RM provides rural government for should be within the individual category for the RM. However, should these areas also be added into the individual RM category: political divisions, points of interest, notable people from the RM, towns with their own urban governments which host the RM office? Add your comments.

City naming / Missing coordinates
Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Cities - Per WP:NC, an incomplete review of which cities in Canada do or don't merit moves to their undisambiguated city names.

Category:Canada articles missing geocoordinate data - Follow the instructions at Template:Coord to add co-ordinates to these articles.

Bearcat has made this announcement.

Spotlight Award
Masalai (talk · contribs) The November 2008 award is presented to Masalai for continuous contributions to several articles focusing mainly upon southern Saskatchewan. The knowledge Masalai brings to these articles combines statistical data with diverse notable events pertinent to the topic. Thank you and in this regards please receive a Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight award. Spotlight Award

Extinct Settlements proposed wikiproject
A new wikiproject is being proposed .... Extinct Settlements. Please feel free to add your comments, support or opposition for such a project on wikipedia. There was initially also conversation begun here on WP Cities as well as at WP SK communities.

Curling Wikiproject work group proposal
A Curling task project is being proposed.... As curling is Saskatchewan's provincial sport it may help out some of our community pages. Please feel free to join the discussion with comments, your support or non-support.

Featured Article Drive
A new Featured article drive is being proposed here which hopes to produce WP:FAC articles for the 25 largest cities in the United States. See how the Top 25 Canadian Cities Classes rate as was the beginning for the US city assessment classes.

Setting weather records
Hallowe'en was mild, above seasonal norm for temperatures, and without snow this year!!! On this note a new a new Saskatchewan Communities substitution template has been done up adding the weather statistical table. SriMesh | talk 00:05, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
Saskatchewan articles	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	May
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	600
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2056
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	45
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2845
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	61
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2906

Saskatchewan B Class articles and Importance ratings
An opportunity to Be bold and find out what is required to raise an aritlce past B class into GA or FA. Some information is included below about how to raise an article to B-class
This is an article written about the Wikipedia assessment process Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers. The video game wikiproject reviewed what enabled a topic to be classified and ranked as important within the scope of their wikiproject and was reviewed in their Newsletter
For B-class articles the pre-requisites have been posted also at a few wikiprojects for the minimums required for B-class before advancing on to GA. Some wikiprojects offering B class outlines are Military History FAQ, Ships WP FAQ and WP UK roads The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
Saskatchewan articles	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	62	1068	1682	91

Use of coordinates?
- A posting from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada Roads A bot is going around tagging various articles for missing coordinates. One recent tagging was on Highway 8 (Ontario) (see [1]). Given that a road will have numerous coordinates, what sort of coordinates should be defined for Canadian road articles, if any? Terminus points, perhaps control cities would be obvious candidates. Dl2000 (talk) 02:21, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Member news
The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.

The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
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