Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the
News Desk! Have a great May.
The Ohio Portal
The maintainers of the
Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the
Ohio River. This rock is known as the
Indian Head Rock
Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of
Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on.
A gentleman from
Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed,
Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on.
Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
Billy Massie
Article Assessment
Reedy Bot and
ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late
spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}}
Article Achievements
New Featured and Good articles
Ohio was listed as a
Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed.
If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new
Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by
the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist
our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June!
The Ohio Portal
The maintainers of the
Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
Getting the Project Moving
WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive
WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at
WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter!
Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in
Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage.
The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized
historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in
Dayton,
Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late
Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences.
Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at
the NewsDesk.
Article Assessment
Reedy Bot and
ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late
spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
'Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class!
W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was
nominated at Afd.
The result was Delete
Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were
nominated at Afd.
The result was Keep
All Ohio High School Conferences were
nominated at Afd.
The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles
here.
Ohio Barnstar of Merit
If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new
Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
{{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}}
Article Importance Scheme
A new article importance scheme has been proposed at
the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system.
Coordinate with
Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use.
Place the {{
WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess
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It looks like I've confused you with the Ohio county-level and region-level geostubs: I'm sorry. A place in just one county is supposed to have that county's stub template: for example, {{AuglaizeOH-geo-stub}}. A place in more than one county, if they're in the same stubsorting region (see
Category:Ohio geography stubs for the divisions) gets the regional template, such as {{NorthwestOH-geo-stub}}, and a place in multiple regions gets {{Ohio-geo-stub}}.
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