Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Austria/Archive 3

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Steyer

I just found the page Steyer (disambiguation). Does this page follow the rules of the english-language wikipedia? As I write at Talk:Steyer (disambiguation) Steyer is NOT a possible way to spell Steyr and is completely unknown in Austria (at least for the uses suggested on the disambiguation page). --Wirthi (talk) 12:26, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I think the disambiguation page you cited is a bit silly indeed, and it seems to be the common disambiguation page for Steyr and Steyer. I don't think it's a common typo. I suggest replacing the "Steyr" entries on it with a line "See also Steyr (disambiguation)" (which has to be created then). Markussep ^Talk 18:19, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I moved Steyer (disambiguation) to Steyr (disambiguation) since Steyer is not ambiguous, and modified the page accordingly. Markussep ^Talk 12:38, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Municipalities

As of now, all Austrian municipalities have an article with infobox in English wikipedia. Let's think of more ways to improve the articles. Markussep ^Talk 22:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Avanti Tankstellen

Kann jemand was zum Logo dieser Tankstellenkette sagen, insbesondere zur Ähnlichkeit mit dem von Ferrari? Könnte jemand ein Foto einer Tanke hochladen? -- Matthead Discuß 15:13, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Naming convention

Ongoing poll and discussion about a new naming convention at User_talk:Elonka/Hungarian-Slovakian_experiment#Proposed_naming_convention. Please take a look. Squash Racket (talk) 06:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested

Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 18:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Else Feldmann

I've attempted some expansion of this stub, but lack of English sources has hindered me. Would it be possible for someone to help in this article's expansion? Ani Mate 04:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Emil Fey

If anyone would like to help out with the Emil Fey article, that would be great. Thanks --DerRichter (talk) 16:25, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 2681 articles are assigned to this project, of which 161, or 6.0%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|banner=WikiProject Austria}}

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Austria

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:14, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Austria-related articles needing geographical coordinates

Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Austria, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Austria, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Austria articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 108 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?

By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?

The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 09:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC)