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Bill Marsilii - article request

I have posted a request for an article on Bill Marsilii, a Delawarean screenwriter, at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Culture and fine arts/Literature#M. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Colm Connolly

Just a heads up - I created this article earlier this week, and now he's been nominated for the district court judgeship. Might be a good idea if someone else wants to help expand it. Raul654 (talk) 21:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal - Delaware Diamond

See Talk:Ursa Major#Merge proposal - Delaware Diamond for proposal (made by me) and discussion. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 10:25, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Miss Delaware

I have recently tagged Miss Delaware as in-scope for this Project, as well as all winners of that competition who have articles (6). Several of those biographical articles have been tagged as lacking notability and need some care to stave off eventual challenge as non-encyclopedic. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 13:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Request to begin article for Christiana Care Health System

I am a communications manager for Christiana Care Health System. I would like to encourage and assist the development of an article about Christiana Care Health System and its two hospitals, Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital. In order to abide by Wikipedia's COI guidelines, I will not edit any pages pertaining to Christiana Care directly. However, I have begun an article draft at User:Shhoffman/newarticle that I hope might serve as a starting point for an experienced Wikipedia editor. Once a stub is created, I will volunteer information on the article's talk page, and I am happy to be a resource to anyone interested in this topic. Thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to help!

I am new to Wikipedia, but I am interested in assisting the WikiProject Delaware in articles unrelated to health care as well. I can be contacted via my talk page --Shhoffman (talk) 18:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you have a bibliography of references to Christiana Care Health System's history — books, periodicals, etc. — that have been at one time available to the general public, regardless of whether they are now out of print or not available on-line, and in which the system or hospital(s) are the primary topic (i.e. article or chapter about topic as primary topic). This would provide material from which a set of reliable sources could be assembled. Reference to historical information on web sites that are associated with the organization or self-published literature would not be suitable for core reliable source material, but could be used for fact verification. Once a potential sources list is available (put it here, I think), folks can go about determining availability - which would be useful information for you to include in such a bibliography (e.g. if item X is available in organizational archive or UDel archive). related policies and guidelines: WP:NOTE, WP:RELIABLE, WP:VERIFY. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:02, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Assessment of existing references to topic in Wikipedia

This is a look at how the related terms suggested are referred to in Wikipedia today. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 23:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

• Christiana Hospital (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  • incoming links: List of hospitals in Delaware; Delaware Route 58
  • google: "christiana hospital" site:en.wikipedia.org -"User:" → 7 hits
• Wilmington Hospital (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  • incoming links: List of hospitals in Delaware; Margaret Irving Handy
  • google: "wilmington hospital" site:en.wikipedia.org -"User:" → 3 hits
• Christiana Care Health System (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  • incoming links: Portal:Delaware/Intro
  • google: "Christiana Care Health System" site:en.wikipedia.org -"User:" → 6 hits
  • has been previously deleted → speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A3 (no content) and WP:CSD#G11 (advertising)
• Christiana Care (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  • incoming links: Delcastle Technical High School
  • google: "christiana care" site:en.wikipedia.org -"User:" → 7 hits not included in 'Christiana Care Health Care System'

Bibliography for Christiana Care

• Cannon, Norman L. (1987). The History of a Hospital Merger: the Wilmington Medical Center, 1965-1985 (1st ed.). Wilmington, DE: HarpArt House. LCCN 86082513. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  
• Silliman, Charles A. (1966). The Delaware Hospital. United States of America.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  
• Reese Jr., Charles L. (1982). A Medical Marriage: One Man's Personal Account of the Events Leading Up to the Formation of the Wilmington Medical Center. Wilmington, DE.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  

Note: The three books above are available at the Christiana Hospital medical library at Christiana Hospital.Shhoffman (talk) 19:20, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Images for Christiana Care

Images of Christiana Care's Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital are available under Creative Commons non-commercial/share license here: [1]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shhoffman (talk • contribs) 19:55, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Minority business hiring practices in Delaware

I came across the following article today. I did not feel comfortable adding to the fragmentary facts format of the 'Economy' section of Delaware, nor did I see an article devoted to the Economy of Delaware, though there is a so named category.

Summer Harlow (2008-07-22). "Minority businesses get little state work". Delaware News Journal. Gannett. Retrieved 2008-07-23. Other than federal goals the Department of Transportation must follow, Delaware has nothing in place to ensure minorities receive a fair share of state dollars. If work costs less than $50,000, no formal bid process or public advertising is required.

The overall treatment of economic discrimination (though I really wouldn't call this economic discrimination, per se) is thin in Wikipedia, I think. Thoughts on where this (based on your further consideration of the article content) reported fact set might be put, if anywhere? (and yes, I do know that many have a low opinion of the quality of journalism evinced by the News Journal). --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1259 articles are assigned to this project, of which 180, or 14.3%, 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 a template on your project page.

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) 18:15, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Governors of Delaware FLRC

Hello, I've nominated the List of Governors of Delaware for Featured List removal. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Delaware

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Delaware articles needing geographic coordinates

0 articles in Category:Delaware articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Delaware is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)