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Today's featured article requests

• 02 Nov 2024 – Daniel Boone (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 29 Aug 2024 – Josh Habka (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Biogeographist (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 26 Aug 2024 – Augusta Wallace (actress) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by StefenTower (t · c): Longstanding stub, never properly sourced.
• 23 Aug 2024 - Columbia Heights, Lexington (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JoeNMLC (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 16 Aug 2024 - Category:Kentucky Dixiecrats (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Omnis Scientia (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 27 Aug 2024 – Michael F. Adams (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PCN02WPS (t · c); start discussion
• 21 May 2024 – Andrew T. Wood (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kentuckian (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 23 Aug 2024 - Papa John's (talk · edit · hist) move request to Papa Johns by Strugglehouse (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 27 May 2024 – Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to American Printing House for the Blind by StefenTower (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 29 Jun 2024 – Thomas Massie (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kodiak Blackjack (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 17 Jun 2024 – Draft:Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by William R. Wilks II (t · c)
• 24 May 2024 – Draft:Lexington SC 2024-25 USL Super League Season (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jhunt1123 (t · c)
• 24 Aug 2024 - Draft:2024 Morehead State Eagles football team (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by LakersFanatic15 (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 24 Aug 2024
• 23 Aug 2024 - Draft:David Miller (artist) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2600:1008:B12B:AA11:988B:89B4:721B:4EC6 (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 30 Aug 2024
• 08 May 2024 - Draft:Douglass Park (Lexington, Kentucky) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by FloridaArmy (t · c) was accepted to Douglass Park (Lexington, Kentucky) (talk · edit · hist) by OhHaiMark (t · c) on 30 Aug 2024

Neatsville, Kentucky

Does anyone know why the subject article is getting such an extremely high number of views? This has been going on for months. Of course, it's great when a Kentucky article gets a lot of attention, but this amount doesn't make sense. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 18:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

OK, now Neatsville is #1 on the Popular pages list. In my estimation at this point, the views for that article are illegitimate, and the true #1 is Abraham Lincoln. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 22:45, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

This is extremely weird and unusual. I really doubt that the views are from humans as articles with a lot of human traffic usually have a lot of edits, but this article has only had 6 edits within the past four years. It’s also strange how this has been going on for the past several years.  Kentuckian |💬   05:38, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Weird indeed. I'm convinced by information known so far that we're dealing with effectively bot hits. There is an ongoing discussion at the Village Pump about this. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 08:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Per the abovementioned Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 78#Inexplicably popular article (by views), I have temporarily boldly moved this article from Neatsville, Kentucky to Neatsville, Adair County, Kentucky, to see whether this breaks the disruptive pattern of pageview generation. I will move it back to its original title in one week (at 16:00, 24 June 2024 (UTC)). Cheers! BD2412 T 16:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

The Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–27, 2024 has been Nominated for Deletion

The Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–27, 2024, an article pretaining to this WikiProject has been nominated for deletion. You can participate in the deletion discussion here. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 03:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Past Week's Hot Edits list redesigned

The Past Week's Hot Edits list on the front page has been redesigned:

1. I'm no longer depending on a specific bot and instead using a general purpose bot that fills in the {{Database report}} template. In the past year, I've become a lot more acquainted with the wiki database and how to write queries against it, so this redesign puts that learning to good use. It's smarter to use a general purpose bot that gets wider use, since whenever it goes down, it gets a higher administrative priority to address.
2. Because I was more in control of the design, I was able to add another column showing our assessment rating for each article.

This list will update once a day like the previous version did. I also just added an update date in a hatnote above the list. Please let me know if you have any questions. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 04:56, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Improvements to project alerts

I'm busy today. :) I also just made the project alerts more prominent on the front page and added some current major backlogs to it. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 06:27, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Current major backlogs

Due to minor technical issues, I recently moved the list of current major backlogs out from alerts and into its own section on the project's front page. As of now, the table keeps track of

1. Stubs needing expansion or reassessment
2. Cleanup issues
3. Photo/image requests
4. Articles with old cleanup issues

If any WikiProject Kentucky members are interested, I can also track "Possibly undercategorized articles" (articles with 4 or fewer non-stub/non-hidden categories) like I do for WP Louisville. It would be straightforward to set up. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 05:11, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Photo/image requests

I've gone through and updated/sanitized our photo requests across Kentucky-related articles. We currently have approximately 1,100 such requests. As part of this, I have broken many requests down to the county level, although much more could be done this way. At any rate, see the "Current major backlogs" section on the front page for the most up-to-date total and link to a list of all requests. Stefen 𝕋ower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 04:57, 26 August 2024 (UTC)