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Preferred Format for a City's Demographics Section?
[edit]I've made a Python script which uses the Census API and writes a demographics section based on the most recent American Community Survey that I'm planning on releasing once I clean up the code a bunch and comment it some more. I figured it'd be a good idea to have some degree of support on what these updated sections should look like, before I just start editing them en masse.
The first draft of formatting can be found for a medium sized city (New London, Connecticut), a large city (Los Angeles) page and a small city (Marfa, Texas).
One kinda important question is whether it's a virtue or a vice that the ACS updates every year? Would it be better to use Census data, either partially or solely?
A general question I have about this is what information should be included that wasn't, and what information should I get rid of that is included? Another general question is how can I make the wording/ordering better?
Some nittier-grittier questions:
- For the population/housing density citation (the one beginning with "to calculate the density"), should that be a note instead of a reference? Also, should it include the actual square mile figure from the Gazetteer file, or just point the reader in the direction where the actual figure can be found (which is what it does now)?
- Some of the race names are fairly verbose, is that fine?
- The ACS data for ancestry had a row for "French (excluding Basque)" which baffled me. I took it to mean simply French American excluding French Canadian American, was this right?
- Should "some other race" be included in the sort (it is in the current version), or should it be after all the named races, but before "two or more races"?
- Should any elements of the 2nd paragraph first sentence be sorted (or broken up into more than one sentence)?
- Is 0.5% a good cut-off for including ancestry (I only include an ancestry if at least 0.5% identified as it). In the same vein, is 0.1% a good cut-off for race?
- Is there a good way for it to be clear that "other" doesn't refer to races that weren't included because of this cut-off (e.g. in the Marfa one, it seems that a reader could conceivably think that other is referring to African Americans or Native Americans)?
GrapesRock (talk) 21:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hearing no feedback, I'm releasing the script out into the world, and plan on using it on various pages. It is found here: https://github.com/GrapesWikipedia/DemographicsWriter. If you use it, make sure to check the output before adding it to Wikipedia GrapesRock (talk) 22:30, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Reminder to everyone that Wikipedia:USCITY (a subset of WP:CITY) is where these types of questions should be asked. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 07:01, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Requesting assistance editing Ohio State University protest article.
[edit]I recently created an article detailing the college protests at Ohio State University. After this article was made extended-protected, I lost my ability to edit the article because I do not have EP permissions. Substantial details are missing from this article, so until I regain my permissions, I have been adding suggestions to the talk page of this article. But no one has been implementing my suggestions on the talk page, despite the fact they are supported by multiple sources and add significant missing details from the article.
If members of this community could please visit the talk page of this article and implement my requested changes, this would be deeply appreciated. Thank you! Onlineone22 (talk) 19:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- I put the page on my watch list....will respond to any Template:Edit request in a fair manner. PS thank you very much for this article. Moxy🍁 20:43, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Moxy,
- I've added a lot of edit requests to the talk page using the extended protected template, but so far, nobody has touched my proposed changes. If you could please do the honors, that would be greatly appreciated. :)
- Onlineone22 (talk) 05:36, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
has his name given as John Henry Smyth by the State Department and Google thinks he's the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name vs the British parliamentary backbencher we have parked at John Henry Smyth now. This was an ambassador to Liberia who was one of State's higher posted blacks/BIPOCs during Reconstruction so it's kind of obnoxious if we're getting his name badly wrong and putting a less important Brit over his namespace. Anyone able to look it up and figure out which one is correct? or, if both are, which one we should be using? — LlywelynII 10:40, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- If needed, the titles can just be disambiguated. Curbon7 (talk) 00:28, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
An apparently prolonged problem with the welcome center article
[edit]As evidenced by talk page threads on this subject going back to at least 2018 (which as of this writing was nearly six years ago), there is an issue with certain welcome centers that are listed as being located at an exit that doesn’t exist. I cite two examples in West Virginia, one was listed as “exit” 10 on I-64 eastbound, when the closest exits are exit 8 and exit 11, so the correct terminology would be “mile marker” or “milepost” 10. The other is on I-68 westbound on the first turn off after crossing out of Maryland, it is supposedly located at exit 31, only again, that exit doesn’t exist. The first actual signed exit you encounter going westbound after entering West Virginia is exit 29. Again, it needs to be written as “mile marker” or “milepost”, not “exit”, unless it is signed as an exit (some states do but not all of them, you can probably confirm that on Street View). I corrected those two errors. But someone needs to go and check every single entry on that list and then make sure that the exit actually exists; and if it doesn’t, replace with “mile marker” or the like. Because I imagine those aren’t the only two errors there are in that article. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 03:23, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have also posted comment at WikiProject U.S. Roads too. Don’t entirely know where to put it. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 03:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Edith Roosevelt FAC
[edit]Edith Roosevelt is currently nominated as a featured article candidate. Reviews or any other feedback/comments are greatly appreciated! Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:37, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Kris Kristofferson § Lyme Disease - revisited
[edit] You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Kris Kristofferson § Lyme Disease - revisited, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:59, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
FAR for Ann Arbor, Michigan
[edit]I have nominated Ann Arbor, Michigan for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 16:14, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
FAR for Thomas C. Hindman
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Woodrow Wilson has an RfC
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Woodrow Wilson has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Emiya1980 (talk) 02:42, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Udûn#Requested move 8 August 2024
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Good article reassessment for 130th Engineer Brigade (United States)
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Good article reassessment for Appalachian Trail
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Requested move at Talk:DeAnna Price#Requested move 12 August 2024
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Requested move at Talk:Armand Duplantis#Requested move 11 August 2024
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Requested move at Talk:Dark Phoenix (film)#Requested move 12 August 2024
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Good article reassessment for Gadsden Purchase
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Good article reassessment for D.C. United
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Requested move at Talk:Mohamed Atta#Requested move 19 August 2024
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Requested move at Talk:William L. ("T") Thompson#Requested move 19 August 2024
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Requested move at Talk:Children's Hospital & Medical Center#Requested move 12 August 2024
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