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Good article reassessment for Greyhound Lines

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Greyhound Lines has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MN redirect

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The redirect WP:MN goes to a section on notability for musical artists - I'm not really sure why it uses the abbreviation MN, it has three additional shortcuts listed already. So this project has WP:MINN and WP:WPMN. Perhaps there's some way to negotiate pointing WP:MN to this project? As a Minnesotan that is definitely the one I would think to use and prefer. Pingnova (talk) 01:10, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Pingnova. So, that redirect was created in 2006 and pointed to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Noticeboard until 2018, when it was redirected to Wikipedia:Notability_(music)#Criteria_for_musicians_and_ensembles for some reason. There is a hatnote at the top of that section that links to WikiProject Minnesota, but I think an argument could be made to redirect it to the project. The best way to proceed would probably be to list the redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion and request that it be retargeted. gobonobo + c 01:30, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I added it to Wikipedia talk:Notability (music)#WP:MN redirect in the meantime. Pingnova (talk) 01:58, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to reconfigure and delete some subpages

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I'm working on a proposed redesign of the WikiProject Minnesota main page (not completed yet), and I think that the subpages also need to be audited. A lot of the content on the current main page would be better as a subpage, and a lot of the existing subpages have not been edited in a long time and may no longer be useful to the project. Part of my proposal is making WikiProject pages as low maintenance as possible so that if the project ever goes dormant again, the remaining content will still be helpful to new users. Here's a list of the subpages and what I think we should do with them.

Please let me know what you think. If we get consensus, we can remove a lot of old pages and focus on keeping some of the most useful ones updated. I'm pinging @Myotus who has been active as well. Pingnova (talk) 23:59, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for working on a revamp, the main page could use an update. I think we should retain the article alerts and assessment modules on the main page. They're updated by bots and are a good way to monitor article activity and progress. I think we should also add the bot-updated Hot Articles list, which lists the project's most-edited articles from the last week.
As to deletions, the usual practice is to add Template:Historical to legacy pages and preserve them as a history of the project. I think many of those subpages could be marked as such. A lot of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/(topic) articles were created by Jonathan Kovaciny early on and don't really get any pageviews.
Maybe this?
I'd also love to see a logo or image that incorporates both Minnesota and Wikipedia at the top of the main page. I seem to remember there was a logo for the user group at one point. gobonobo + c 02:25, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with above -- keep everything bot-updated, including mainpage alerts, archive the manual updates. Deleting via turning them into historical archive feels better than full deletion as historical preservation is always a decent plan and we don't know what might be possible in the future
Also, a hotdish as a logo is a wonderful concept. ~Malvoliox (talk | contribs) 02:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, so edit the historical template onto the manually updated pages. Would it help to move the page names to Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/Archive/[pagename]?
I'll keep the bot updates on my draft of the new main page. Some of the bot updated pages need to be fixed since they were not displaying anything when I last checked - I'm not sure how to do that, so anyone who wants to work on that feel free.
I don't do logos, but a new logo sounds cool! @Myotus was working on a new one for the Minnesota User Group and might be a good person to lead that. Pingnova (talk) 06:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am all for bringing Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/GNIS cleanup to the attention of wikiproject participants. ☺

At the moment, Mangoe is working through the massive U.S.A.-wide backlog at the rate of a handful of articles per day, and is currently somewhere in the middle of Indiana. It takes me a significant amount of time at AFD to research each one against all of the gazetteers and histories. I had to take a break from systematically working through Kentucky and bringing it into line with what Rennick and Hodge (and others) actually documented (see, for example, Little Goose Creek (Kentucky)).

There are just under 800 bogus claims to forms of settlement that Minnesota does not have, still outstanding, many of which will turn out to be falsely described extinct rural post offices or railroad stations (or even other things) that Wikipedia is misleading the world about. At this rate, we'll be done in another quarter of a century, far longer than it took to rôte mass-create these articles in the first place.

Uncle G (talk) 14:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chet Anderson Stadium

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Can someone please find and add reliable sources to this stub? Bearian (talk) 04:47, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Huntington Bank Stadium

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Huntington Bank Stadium has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:28, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]