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Contents
- 1 Levantine Archaeology
- 2 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
- 3 Mark Lehner
- 4 Draft:The Museum of Underwater Archaeology
- 5 An AfD of interest here and confusion over what "Pre-Roman Iron Age" means
- 6 Dates of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (see Jericho wall, tower)
- 7 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
- 8 Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Margaret Murray/archive1
- 9 Excavation (archaeology) tagged as confusing, incomprehensible and too technical
- 10 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archaeological industry
- 11 Article alerts
Levantine Archaeology
Syro-Palestinian archaeology was moved today to Levantine archaeology. Most content overlaps, but any help expanding the page would be appreciated. Some excellent sources are. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant and The Archaeology of the Levant in North America: The Transformation of Biblical and Syro-Palestinian Archaeology Drsmoo (talk) 06:25, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
Mark Lehner
This has just been tagged, correctly IMHO, as a BLP with self-published sources. Needs some work. Doug Weller talk 14:56, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Draft:The Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Dear archaeology experts: This draft is about an online collection of archaeology images. Is this a notable topic? If it's not edited it will disappear soon under db-g13.—Anne Delong (talk) 02:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
An AfD of interest here and confusion over what "Pre-Roman Iron Age" means
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roman Iron Age. I got there from Talk:Pre-Roman_Iron_Age#Move_to_Pre-Roman_Iron_Age_of_Northern_Europe which could use comments from other editors. Our article on the Pre-Roman Iron Age suggests there wasn't one anywhere other than northern Europe. Doug Weller talk 15:07, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- I think this a case of editors from "northern Europe", who largely monopolize these articles (through lack of interest from others) taking terms that are fine in a clearly local/regional context, but need further specifying when turned into English and used as article titles. Btw, I have been giving articles such as Hallstatt culture, La Tène culture and Situla (vessel)/culture a going over and would welcome any comments, additions or corrections. Johnbod (talk) 17:22, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Dates of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (see Jericho wall, tower)
There is a 1500-year discrepancy between the PPNA dates given in 2008 by specialised archaeologists here, and the dates used by the WP articles on Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Jericho, the Wall of Jericho and the Tower of Jericho: ≈11,500–10,500 cal B.P. vs. 8000 to 7000 BC. The PNAS article is referring specifically to the PPNA site at Dhra', but Jericho is only a stone throw away, so regional differences can hardly play a part. Or is it connected to calibrated carbon dates vs. what has become common dating standards? Thanks, ArmindenArminden (talk) 19:56, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Margaret Murray/archive1
Hello everyone; there's an article languishing at FAC about Margaret Murray, a pioneering early archaeologist and folklorist. It doesn't seem to be capturing the attention of FAC reviewers (other than me)- if anyone has a few hours free, your comments would surely be welcomed by the article's author. Thanks, Josh Milburn (talk) 08:53, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Excavation (archaeology) tagged as confusing, incomprehensible and too technical
The article was tagged a couple of days ago by an editor but with no comments on the talk page. I fixed a few things and removed the tags. They've been replaced, and the editor has added a sentence to the talk page he doesn't understand, saying there are many more. Anyone want to have a go? Doug Weller talk 16:17, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- And as that is from Stratication (archaeology) it needs fixing there first. Doug Weller talk 12:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archaeological industry
Closed as redirect! Sometimes I despair. Johnbod (talk) 12:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
- I saw your post-AfD comment. Sorry about not notifying this project; I suppose I expect experts to eventually show up at AfD discussions, but sometimes they don't. I will keep it in mind for the future. The article was really quite poor, just a nearly unsourced stub that didn't do a great job of explaining the concept. I interpret the closing decision as the redirect target being a better discussion of archaeological industry than the current article, not that there cannot be an article on this important topic. That is, deletion due to WP:TNT rather than WP:GNG. I'd certainly support turning the redirect into a properly sourced article. --Mark viking (talk) 19:44, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Article alerts
This project has a useful tool Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology/Article alerts that as far as I can tell is not linked anywhere from the project's pages. I suggest adding it either to this talk page or the main page, as a transcluded template, and I further suggest all project members should watchlist it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)