Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/November 2008

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• Rural municpalities
• :Individual categories for each rural municipality are being created. It would be good to gather consensus as to which articles should be tagged with an individual RM category. The places names which an RM provides rural government for should be within the individual category for the RM. However, should these areas also be added into the individual RM category: political divisions, points of interest, notable people from the RM, towns with their own urban governments which host the RM office? Add your comments.

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• City naming / Missing coordinates
• :Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Cities - Per WP:NC, an incomplete review of which cities in Canada do or don't merit moves to their undisambiguated city names.
• ::Category:Canada articles missing geocoordinate data - Follow the instructions at :Template:Coord to add co-ordinates to these articles.

Bearcat has made this announcement.

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• Spotlight Award
• : {{User|Masalai}} The November 2008 award is presented to Masalai for continuous contributions to several articles focusing mainly upon southern Saskatchewan. The knowledge Masalai brings to these articles combines statistical data with diverse notable events pertinent to the topic. Thank you and in this regards please receive a Saskatchewan wikiproject spotlight award. Spotlight Award

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• Extinct Settlements proposed wikiproject
• :A new wikiproject is being proposed .... Extinct Settlements. Please feel free to add your comments, support or opposition for such a project on wikipedia. There was initially also conversation begun here on WP Cities as well as at WP SK communities.

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• Curling Wikiproject work group proposal
• :A Curling task project is being proposed.... As curling is Saskatchewan's provincial sport it may help out some of our community pages. Please feel free to join the discussion with comments, your support or non-support.

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• Featured Article Drive
• :A new Featured article drive is being proposed here which hopes to produce WP:FAC articles for the 25 largest cities in the United States. See how the Top 25 Canadian Cities Classes rate as was the beginning for the US city assessment classes.

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• Setting weather records
• :Hallowe'en was mild, above seasonal norm for temperatures, and without snow this year!!! On this note a new a new Saskatchewan Communities substitution template has been done up adding the weather statistical table. SriMesh | talk 00:05, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Monthly Assessment}}

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• Use of coordinates?
• :*A posting from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada Roads A bot is going around tagging various articles for missing coordinates. One recent tagging was on Highway 8 (Ontario) (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Highway_8_(Ontario)&diff=241647731&oldid=236456643]). Given that a road will have numerous coordinates, what sort of coordinates should be defined for Canadian road articles, if any? Terminus points, perhaps control cities would be obvious candidates. Dl2000 (talk) 02:21, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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• Member news
• :The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 38 members.
• :The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.
• :The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways
• :To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{tlu|Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{tlu|Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

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