Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Atlanta task force/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

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Atlanta articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Atlanta articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 21:54, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:26, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:42, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:03, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Photo request

Hi! I have a photo request for the Home Depot headquarters: Atlanta Store Support Center, 2455 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30339 WhisperToMe (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Lenox Square GA nomination

On April 16, 2011, the following post was made:

"Lenox Square article expanded! Please help to promote this article to GA status."

I was the one who nominated this article to GA status. The nomination is in danger of failure because of two reasons: I have made one single (non-major) edit to the article; and the issues are serious enough that fixing them in seven days will probably not result in high-quality work. If there is an editor who works for the Atlanta task force, I request some help from the editor so that the nomination does not fail. Jim856796 (talk) 02:50, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Loves Libraries

Apologies for the spam. We are hosting the Wikipedia Loves Libraries event at the Atlanta Central Library on November 19, 2011. Anyone interested in meeting with other Altanta Wikipedians are requested to sign up at the Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 2 page. Thanks. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Campanile Building

Hi! If anybody wants to write an article about the Campanile Building I found an article:

• Sams, Douglas. "Campanile may be renamed 1155 Peachtree." Atlanta Business Chronicle. Monday March 22, 2010.

WhisperToMe (talk) 07:31, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Should the mention of "Brookhaven" outside the small Georgia golf community be removed from Wikipedia?

This is a very touchy subject and an unresolved political matter. It was clear the first time I stumbled on this page that it was being used to promote city incorporation of Brookhaven. The first Wikipedia entries even went so far as to exaggerate the real boundaries of the area known as "Brookhaven' in an attempt to head off a federal law suit.

As can be deduced by the honorable Georgia State Senator Lindsey, "Brookhaven", the small white community built around a golf course encompassing a small area located in both Fulton and Dekalb county is not as was first described here on Wikipedia or in other places on the internet. Only a small portion of the area known as Brookhaven is located in unincorporated Dekalb. Even the park called "Brookhaven" is a fairly new park that was built on the location of the old Oglethorpe veterans hospital.

A large number of people, in the area the Georgia State Representative is attempting to call Brookhaven, do not want to be a part of the super majority white cities experiment of North Atlanta. (Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Milton, Chattahoochee Hills and now "Brookhaven or Ashford") The wealthy whites of northern Atlanta in Fulton and Dekalb county have been waiting for a Republican controlled state government to break away from minority control of "their tax dollars". It is the common belief by the whites in northern Atlanta area that the minority county commissioners are sending too much of "their tax dollars" to the southern poorer black communities in Fulton and Dekalb counties. The wealthy whites of North Atlanta are making a break during a super majority white Republican governance of Georgia calling for new super majority white cities to remove the local tax dollars from county level minority control.

Several Civil Rights cases have been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia seeking the dissolving of these new super majority white cities. The white Georgia State Representative defending the super majority white cities claimed the cities were "commonly known geographic areas". In an attempt to head off the federal courts review, the promoters of "Brookhaven" incorporation set out to paint an image of a large commonly known area of "Brookhaven" using the internet to bolster their false claim. There were claims Brookhaven has always extended up Ashford-Dunwoody Road to I285 and that Murphy Candler Park was a part of Brookhaven. These claims have been proven false by the lifelong residents of the area.

The attempt to make the name "Brookhaven" extend far past its real small golf community boundaries was a political move by a white Georgia State Representative with self serving interests that did not grow up in Georgia or attend school in the area. The State Representatives home was being considered for annexation into the City of Chamblee. The City of Chamblee is actively extending its borders to increase its tax base and dilute its new highly Hispanic community along Buford Highway. The white State Representatives home is located just outside Chamblee's City limits. Both the State Representative and a small advertizing rag called the Brookhaven Crier wanting to promote itself into relevancy have made an effort to bastardize Wikipedia and the rest of the internet into an image that promotes their political agenda, a political agenda that appears to violate the civil rights of minorities in the surrounding communities.

This was a shameful move and possibly unlawful under the Voter Rights Act of 1965. The neighboring community of Lynwood, a historically black community, has been taxed into near extinction. Many black families still reside in the same small homes. They were never considered part of the rich white golf community of Brookhaven until now when their vote can be minimized and the last few blacks can be chased out. By diluting the black vote of the historically black community of Lynwood, now governed locally at the county level by a black minority, changing it into a super majority white local governance under a city of Brookhaven, the black vote of Lynwood will no longer be relevant. The truly historic former slave community of Lynwood, in existence long before the name "Brookhaven" was ever used in Georgia, will be extinguished under super majority white local rule. These real descendants of former black slaves released from local plantations were likely used to build and maintain the all white Brookhaven golf community.

Promoting incorporation of Brookhaven with false claims was a shameful use of Wikipedia and possible criminal violation of the minority citizen's civil and constitutional rights. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.25.174.243 (talk) 06:29, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

TL;DR but I'm going to vote no. Anyway, this question is better posed on Talk:Brookhaven, Georgia.--RDavi404 (talk) 14:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Takes Atlanta

Hello ATL project members: We are planning to organize a photo walk in Atlanta downtown on September 15. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Atlanta. You are invited to sign up. User:Pharos suggested we check out the NRHP locations in Fulton County. I found this crowded section at the downtown, Google map. Any suggestions on what buildings/landmarks we should focus on? Thanks. — Ganeshk (talk) 16:15, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Atlanta ticket offices

For those of you wondering where Delta Air Lines had ticket offices: http://web.archive.org/web/20000818083712/http://www.delta-air.com/care/addresses/cto/index.jsp#georgia

• Atlanta - 6 locations
• Dunwoody - Perimeter Ticket Office
• Cobb County - Cumberland Mall
• Gwinnett County near Duluth
• Hapeville
• Cobb County near Kennesaw
• Cobb County near Marietta
• Morrow
• DeKalb County near Tucker

Non-Atlanta locations in Georgia: Savannah, Georgia WhisperToMe (talk) 02:22, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Portal:New York City FPO nomination

Hello. I have nominated Portal:New York City for Featured Portal status. Please give it a look and make any comments at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:New York City. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
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  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

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  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

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AfD: Georgia Southern–Georgia State football rivalry

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Georgia Southern–Georgia State football rivalry. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 12:41, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Neutral notification of move discussion

There is a discussion underway to move the article Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (with a single comma) to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please share your opinion on the matter at Talk:Martin Luther King, Jr. Day#Requested move 22 April 2016. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:00, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Requested move proposal, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please comment on a requested move to move numerous article titles which contain Dr. King's name. Randy Kryn 11:22, 11 July 2016 (UTC)