Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Newsletter/May 2009

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• Watchlist

  Place Saskatchewan articles on your watchlist to help prevent vandalism. Peek in on the newly created high school articles periodically as well as the Saskatoon article.

• Saskatoon

  • There is a renovation and upgrade project being tackled on the Saskatoon article. Please Be bold and join the discussion or help promote the article to GA.

• Caronport, Saskatchewan

  Please expand city, town, village and hamlet articles especially if you have first hand knowledge of them, which would develop facts and help in knowing where to find resources, citations and sources. For example Caronport, Saskatchewan is a recent request

• May celebrations - Mother's Day

  • Help to celebrate May, write a biography about someone's mother to celebrate Mother's Day. Some women who are listed at Sk Requests are...MLA Anne Smart, Violet Stanger, Carol Carson, Suzanne Murray for example. Here is a conversation in regards to standardization of MLAs and MPs. Please feel free to add to this listing at requests

• May celebrations - Memorial Day

  • Write an article about War memorials or photograph notable Saskatchewan war memorials or Commemorative plaques to celebrate the American Memorial Day which would be Monday May 26. Some articles to be expanded have been heritage sites such as Next of Kin Memorial Avenue , Memorial Gates (University of Saskatchewan), Batoche, Saskatchewan and Veterans' Memorial Highway articles. Some articles to be created are heritage sites such as Gray Burial Site, and Pioneer (Nutana) Cemetery.

• May celebrations - Victoria Day

  • May 19 demarks Victoria Day, and a wonderful Saskatchewan wikipedia project would be to expand or create articles about the Monarchy in Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Monarchy in the Canadian provinces. There are communities, schools, and landmarks which have a Royal designation which could be created or expanded. Tweedsmuir community, King George School (Moose Jaw); King George Community School (Prince Albert); King Edward School (Saskatoon) ;Queen Elizabeth School (Lloydminster); Queen Elizabeth School (Weyburn); Prince Arthur Community School (Moose Jaw); Prince Philip School (Saskatoon); Princess Alexandra School (Saskatoon); Queen Mary School (Prince Albert); Princess Margaret School (Prince Albert); Prince Charles School (Prince Albert); Connaught School Regina; Massey School, Regina; Vincent Massey Community School (Prince Albert); Vanier Collegiate Institute, Moose Jaw; Earl Grey School, Earl Grey.

• Note: Some elementary schools such as Victoria School (Saskatoon) ; King George School (Saskatoon) now belong to their neighbourhood articles. Some elementary schools could belong to their community, town or village articles.

Saskatchewan articles	Months 2008-09
	April	May	August	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	March	April
FA	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
FL	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
GA	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	10	13	13
B	89	94	100	101	104	104	104	105	104	106	106
C	0	0	3		5	6	9	11	0	18	19
Start	505	537	542	547	548	554	563	574	579	589	595
Stub	1503	1550	1829	1883	1912	1934	1958	1972	1972	2006	2048
List	27	26	33	35	35	36	38	42	42	42	43
Assessed	na	2224	2521	2582	2618	2648	2687	2718	2727	2781	2831
Unassessed	0	0	37	33	28	30	38	46	50	60	59
Total	2138	2232	2558	2615	2646	2678	2726	2764	2777	2841	2890

• Content

  Please register new DYK, GA, FA, news articles and any photographs or media at the WP talk page, newsletter tips or the Portal talk page for inclusion into the Portal and the next news letter. The portal has been through peer review, and is awaiting more inclusion to proceed to Featured Portal nominations.

Saskatchewan articles	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	None
April	2	40	652	1444	na
May	3	46	694	1465	24
August	4	47	974	1489	44
September	3	48	1023	1498	43
October	3	48	1031	1523	41
November	3	48	1036	1546	45
December	3	48	1066	1544	65
January	3	50	1071	1566	74
February	3	50	1068	1577	79
March	3	61	1070	1618	89
April	3	61	1069	1668	89

• Range road

  • Some references have been added for Range road, however more clean up could be provided.

• Member news

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan now has 45 members.

  The WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods has 13 members.

  The WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan has 7 members.

• Saskatchewan Roads and Highways

  To keep updated on proposals, deletion debates, etc. add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News}} or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/News|right}} to your userpage to produce the box of notices in the above right.

See this page for new areas of discussion: talk page WP SK roads

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