Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ghost towns/Archive 2
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Housing Developments as Ghost Towns?
So having always heard that ghost towns were former towns, I've noticed a proliferation of former housing developments are starting to pop-up as "ghost towns". The one for Airport_Villa,_Delaware is the latest to catch my eye to make me wonder why it would ever be included as a ghost town. Just my opinion, but I can't imagine it would. If that were the case, someone could start a housing development inside an established city today, abandon the development, and it would count as a "ghost town". There needs to be a line drawn somewhere, so where is it?Superman7515 (talk) 16:07, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
A new newsletter directory is out!
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello
Hi I’m new DannonCool (talk) 23:55, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Assessment request Scovern Hot Springs, California
Requesting a reassessment of Scovern Hot Springs, California, it would be appreciated. It was a small hot springs resort town and is now a ghost town, with little remaining after a 1971 California wildfire. I improved the article from a three sentence stub-class to a full article today. Thanks in advance! Netherzone (talk) 00:36, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion about a ghost town at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tomtown, Kentucky. It would be helpful if members of this Wikiproject can participate.--DreamLinker (talk) 13:07, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
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User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Riordan, Arizona
An afd for Riordan, Arizona was posted on 3 Nov 2022. – S. Rich (talk) 16:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
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FAR for Monte Ne
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Requested move at Talk:Pemberton Ferry, Florida#Requested move 4 June 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pemberton Ferry, Florida#Requested move 4 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 15:49, 11 June 2024 (UTC)