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who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in
January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at
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consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.
666:. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at
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was recently nominated for GA, but I had to fail it due largely to stylistic issues and organization leading to questions about broadness in scope. Since you are the scotland wikiproject, I thought I'd drop by and say that if several of you are capable of doing a good copyedit to it, making sure that
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Scotland. I'll get in tough once I've sussed it out. I have had very little spare time recently, but I am quite confident that I have
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proposal for an appreciation week to end on
Knowledge (XXG) Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals
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I have raised the topic of benchmarking on the Talk page, and I think that the most obvious deficiencies - lack of a
History section and lack of citations - have been raised by other users. Can those in the know please take a look at the article and try to help to bring it up to at least GA status?
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The majority of the placenames have not been translated into Gaelic - they are originally Gaelic with the
English version being derivative. Personally im uncomfortable with the use of literal Gaelic translations or neologisms for towns or places which are not either in posession of an anglicised
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Glasgow and Edinburgh. It however has been changed and is now called Transport in Scotland. Anyone interested? It will focus primarily on public
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are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please
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where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.
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Edinburgh article is a key one for this WikiProject as it has many thousand incoming links and should be providing a shop window or gateway to lots of our quality Scotland-related material here at Knowledge (XXG).
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