User:Jillaine/Article Project

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UPDATE: This project is now on permanent hold. There does not appear to be sufficient community interest in maintaining a categorical list of articles in the Article namespace to invest the time and energy into completing this project. jillaine 10:10, 9 June 2009 (EDT)


This is the beginning of a WeRelate Volunteer Project to clean up and organize (through use of Categories) the "Article" namespace. I've done an initial pass at what's in there (see below at "Resume at..." to see how far I've gotten). What I'm looking for includes feedback on the categories come up with so far. Please refrain from assigning categories at this time; we first want to come up with a good set of categories. Please use the Talk page to discuss. -- jillaine 22:45, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

NOTE: I excluded many pages that were already categorized as "Surname in Place". That said, these might deserve some additional attention; there are many that were started in early-mid 2008 and haven't been touched since.
Resume at [1] (Gunn in Mass.) -- jillaine 00:01, 1 March 2009 (EST)

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Candidates for Speedy Delete

Dallan recommends: Before we delete the articles for speedy delete, I think we should leave a message on their corresponding talk pages that the article will be deleted unless it is fleshed-out / fixed.

Pages I have no idea what to do with

Dallan responds: this needs to stay an article. What's going on here is that we decided that Source pages should contain just bibliographic information and usage tips, not the text of the actual sources themselves. So what if someone wants to upload the text of a source - a family bible or something - where do they put it? They have to create an Article page for it. We probably need a category called "Original sources" or "Source contents" or something like that.
Dallan responds: this needs to stay an article as well. [When] Person pages get renamed ... the subpages are *not* renamed. That doesn't seem right to me, but until I get around to fixing it, we have to allow people who have a lot to say about someone - more than they want to put on a person page - to break up the contents by creating articles for them. I don't think we should encourage this practice because eventually we should rename subpages when the person page is renamed, but until then I think we have to allow article pages for them.
  • Crozier,_1905 -- appears to be a bibliographic resource by Quolla; nothing links to it. Not sure if it's part of SW VA project or not. Unclear what it's for.
  • Draper,_1998 -- ditto
  • Quolla6/A_collection_of_observations_on_"Sources" -- seems more appropriate for (and possibly even originally intended for) a User:Quolla6 page.
  • Link_Rot - another one that looks like it should really be in User:Quolla6's user area
Dallan responds: - the pages by Quolla6 - the first two: Crozier, 1905 and Draper, 1908 should be Source pages that redirect to the proper sources. The second one looks like he thought we was creating it in his user space. Could you ask him to fix these?

Surname ARTICLES

Dallan on this topic: - the surname-in-place articles: we could either create a surname-in-place category for articles about people with a specific surname in a particular place, or we could move these to the category page. "Surname in place" articles was an idea I had that didn't "take" -- I thought that people would use the pages like message boards. I don't like the surname message boards at Ancestry because they're too broad - covering a surname for the entire world. So I thought we could do better by limiting the surnames to particular states/countries. But we don't have the readership and these articles never really went anywhere. So I think that cutting and pasting the text to the category pages is a good idea, unless the article is really well-done (do we have any?) in which case I might categorize it as a (surname) project.

Candidates for (Surname) Project

review the pages below for nicely done surname article pages and put here.

Family or Surname Projects

Move to Surname Category

Move to (Surname)-in-Place Category

Question: Is there a bar that if any of these fall below, the content is either deleted or moved to the surname category (as opposed to surname-in-place)?
Another question: My sense is that the bulk of these are defunct, efforts that never really got underway.

Move elsewhere

Categories that are coming to mind

Allen County Public Library

The bulk of the articles published by this library's genealogy department have been categorized by their topical area; this section lists articles specific to the library and not related to any other topic.
Dallan responds: - I would add all of the articles published by the Allen County Public Library to an "Allen County Public Library" category, in addition to any topical category they belong to. The "Anthony Wayne Family in The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library" article that you don't know what to do with was written by someone at the library and probably should be categorized in this category along with the other "genealogy gems" articles that they're posting.

Biographies

Some of these are candidates for moving to the text box of the appropriate Person page.

Colonial North America

Disambiguation Pages

(These should also be categorized with the appropriate surname category)

DNA Projects

Emigration / Immigration / Naturalization

Genealogy How-To

Genealogy Technology

Historical Interest Stories

Military

Newsletters (Genealogical)

One-Name Studies

Probate

Projects

Dallan writes: I would have a "Projects" category, and have Southwest Virginia and the other projects as sub-categories under the general Projects category. You can create a sub-category by adding a to the bottom of the sub-category page.

But I actually wonder if the Portals aren't a better place for this kind of thing (and Puritan Great Migration below, too)? I see that Quolla has already categorized his SW VA page as a "Portal" even though it's not in the Portal namespace. jillaine 23:28, 28 February 2009 (EST)

Puritan Great Migration

Religion

(major category; with subcategories underneath for each religious practice?)

Regional Genealogy Projects

WeRelate Resources

Dallan writes: Most or all of these should be copied&pasted into the WeRelate: namespace.

Research Guides

Many of these are already categorized as Research Guides. Do we need to categorize them further?
Should there perhaps be a Portal:Research Guides??

Research Guides (Geographical)

North America

Core Collection]]

Europe

Research Guides (Topical)

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