Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albemarle County

Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

Hello! Would anyone be willing to help me expand the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy page? I'm pretty new here and could use some help. Since it's an underdeveloped page I was thinking we could add some more content sections. Since I work at Batten as an intern, there might be some COI issues which is also why I'm asking for help, I'm wholeheartedly interested in writing an unbiased piece and could use some cooperation to ensure that happens.

Here's some articles I pulled together from fairly reliable sources on possible tidbits of info, etc.

Overview

• http://www.uvacontemplation.org/content/frank-batten-school-leadership-and-public-policy
• http://www.appam.org/spotlight-the-frank-batten-school-of-leadership-and-public-policy-at-the-university-of-virginia/

Quote for Batten’s vision for the school

• http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/education/education-features/2008/12/16/colleges2008/

Faculty/Staff

• http://www.nbc29.com/story/23778851/uva-batten-schools-founding-dean-stepping-down
• http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/02/batten-hires-shimshack-mbiti
• http://jenniferdoleac.com/
• https://www.coursera.org/instructor/gerrywarburg
• https://sites.google.com/site/ericpatashnik/home
• http://leavittpartners.com/team_members/ray-scheppach/

Faculty (etc.) with Wikipedia pages

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Childress
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ferzan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harding_(political_scientist)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hitz
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Holt
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Savage
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wilson
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Brogdon (source saying he’s a Batten student: http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/malcolm_brogdon_791198.html)

Degrees

• http://uvamagazine.org/articles/batten_school_seeking_new_undergraduate_degree/

Other

• http://uvamagazine.org/articles/a_new_kind_of_leader -“ Batten School takes hands-on approach to develop ‘challengers of the status quo’”

http://internsdc.com/internship-opportunities/special-interview-kellie-sauls-frank-batten-school-leadership-public-policy/

Virginia Policy Review

• http://virginiapolicyreview.com/

I also have easy access to the University of Virginia's library system if including any information book or special resources here is applicable.

--Wannesa (talk) 19:15, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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WikiManOne (talk) 04:17, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

focus?

I notice this new wikiproject has started. If it were me, i might have suggested you try a bigger area, as many single-city or even single-state wikiprojects have never taken off, due to too few members / too little interest. Or to just work within WikiProject Virginia. But, given that you are started up, good luck. What articles do you want to focus upon?

I happen to work mostly on NRHP-listed topics. I presume you might want to develop National Register of Historic Places listings in Albemarle County, Virginia list-article and some or many of the NRHP places it indexes. Towards helping with that, I'm gonna try to share some tools/material at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Albemarle County, Virginia, would be happy to see any activity there. Cheers, --doncram 22:25, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm doing a little with Bellair (Charlottesville, Virginia) article now. It's in Albemarle County, near Charlottesville, not sure if the disambiguation in the name is the best possible way to name its article.

Not sure either, searches about it don't seem to bring up much. this pay wall article seems to indicate that someone of importance got married at the farm... If I find anything else, I'll let you know _WikiMan^One 22:59, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

It brings up for me: is Charlottesville, Virginia included in the focus for this WikiProject? From the Charlottesville article, i gather it is surrounded by the county, although i understand it is an independent city and not part of the county legally. But including it in the scope of this Wikiproject would be a good thing, i think, because there is plenty of history-related and university-related and other material to work with, and maybe more editors. On the NRHP front, there is National Register of Historic Places listings in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Yes, this wikiproject covers Charlottesville, as it says, it covers Albemarle County and the surrounding areas. :) Also, even if an independent town, Charlottesville is the county seat so its still very important to the county. _WikiMan^One 22:55, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of making the inclusion of Charlottesville more explicit in the descriptive text. Legally, Charlottesville is not part of Albemarle County (despite being the county seat), and so some strengthening on this note appeared necessary, since I was confused as well. Now the project description and the tag both have "and the city of Charlottesville, Virginia" on them. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Barracks Road Shopping Center

Seeing Barracks Road Shopping Center in the list of requested articles, I decided to look and see what I could find in the way of sources. Best I could find was this, though it's more about local government than about Barracks Road. Highbeam Research turns up a lot of trivial mentions (with the main topic being the stores within, not the shopping center itself), but nothing substantial, and so I'm going to need some help with sourcing before we can pull an article out of this. After all, why bother writing a weak article if it's going to get speedied or AFD'd. With the proper sourcing, I can write a GA-class article (see Fraser Mansion and October Rebellion), but I'm going to really need some help on this one... SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:57, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I think notability is easy to establish on this one, but writing a quality article is going to be tricky. I'm obviously very willing to help. Here are some sources I found:

• http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=8313613&nav=menu496_2_1
• http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/cdp-news-local/2008/may/13/planned_shopping_center_change_raises_objections-ar-79016/
• http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/charlottesvilles-downtown-mall-is-32-years-old-and-still-thriving/354/
• http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2009/03/council_cip_work_session.html
• http://www.readthehook.com/79879/food-dish-ciao-tutti-area-welcomes-ibeaucoupi-additions
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IqIcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4GgEAAAAIBAJ&dq=barracks-road-shopping%20construction&pg=5922%2C2193579
• http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2010/11/03/the-cross-roads-of-charlottesville/
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IqMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CXAEAAAAIBAJ&dq=barracks-road-shopping%20construction&pg=6380%2C2847104

There's a lot more behind pay walls as well... I'll shout if I find more.. _WM^O 04:23, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Actually I wonder if a local history book might be a good source. Like this one [1] or this one [2]? Might require a trip to an old fashioned library, but seems like it has what we need. Sailsbystars (talk) 04:33, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

The two canopy stories, as amusing as they may be, actually are what, in my mind, satisfy WP:CORP to give us an article with staying power (i.e. it will survive an AFD). Fleshing out all the details, on the other hand, will be difficult, since most of these sources are trivial mentions which give just a factoid or two, or discuss tenants rather than the center itself. I think it's doable, however. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:53, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Ken Boyd

I did quite a bit of work on the Ken Boyd article. If anyone has a chance, it could definitely use another set of eyes to look over it before it gets moved out to mainspace. _WM^O _{Please leave me a wb if you reply} 02:23, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks good. I'm moving it out of mainspace, without a redirect (seems unnecessary to leave one). Now located at Ken Boyd (politician). SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Sweet. I removed the article from the "Requested Articles" list as well. now for the next project. ;) _WM^O _{Please leave me a wb if you reply} 03:27, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Two local AfDs

Not sure how many people watch this pages, but 2 politicians that should fall under the project are up at AfD:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher J. Dumler
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cynthia Neff‎

Cheers, Sailsbystars (talk) 15:12, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Virginia/Albemarle County

It was recently suggested that WikiProject Virginia be included in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project and leaving a comment I noticed this project and after reviewing its talk page and project page it appears that although there have been a couple active discussions on the talk page there doesn't appear to be any updates to the project page since it was created in February. Its no problem to me I just wanted to drop a note here and ask. Please let me know if you have any questions. --Kumioko (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Alben W. Barkley

An RFC on whether this article is too long and contains too many references has been opened. You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alben W. Barkley#RFC. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 13:41, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Laura Ingraham

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