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Currentlybeen working at cleaning up some of the Alaskan community articles. There's a small handful of new CDPs for the 2010 Census, plus an even smaller handful of communities which apparently are no longer CDPs as of this census. Most all of them currently lack articles or appropriate updates. There were other articles where 2010 Census data updates were reverted, likely for a lack of sourcing. The main purpose of this post is to address, and also ask questions, about a few problematic cases.

I'm working on updating and reorganization of Portal:Alaska and articles under this project. This is a placeholder paragraph for me to go back to. While I look over various articles, I may wish to ask for the opinion of others on certain items. If left up to me, I may make significant enough changes which may be subject to objection/review anyway.

(rating these as high importance while rating Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal as mid importance may reveal an anti-political bias. In both cases, neither is as notable as previous events of the same sort which currently do not enjoy articles; for example, the 1967 flood and the 1989 eruption of Redoubt.)

(in the case of the above two, I question whether the references are sufficient for B-Class, not only in terms of quality of the sources when compared with other sources which exist on the subject, but also in comparison to the article content)

(I question whether the above articles contain sufficient citations for B-Class. Susitna North needs cleanup/rewriting. Formerly Y, Alaska, the name was changed by the Census Bureau. The talk page of Unalakleet indicates that Flying Wild Alaska may invite activity not useful to the article, like Ice Road Truckers did for Dalton Highway.)

This list only covers articles graded B-Class or higher. I may start another similar list, but in all likelihood, it will be of articles which require opinions of others because I performed significant enough work on the article. Thank you. RadioKAOS (talk) 23:35, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Alaska will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Alaska's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Still working on shoring up the project as best as I can. The redirect and disambig categories are now somewhat populated, if anyone has the desire to scour them and gain a clue from them as to what improvements could be made. There were two issues I wanted to touch upon before I forget:

The project just now hit 5,000 pages. The 5,000th page to be tagged for the project was Talk:KBRJ. Unfortunately, rather than continue with the dozens of other radio stations and who knows how many other articles which have yet to be observed and tagged, I have to leave it alone for now and deal with some real world-type stuff. Holler at me if it's important. If not, I may deal with a Commons backlog before I resume with anything here. Oh yes, thanks to Rich Farmbrough for straightening out a few things at the portal and project level in response to a few minor housekeeping concerns.RadioKAOS (talk) 20:58, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article includes a lot of areas that might otherwise be considered Southwest or Interior Alaska, including Wade Hampton Census ares and Yukon-Koyukuk census area. This is a lot broader even than the State of Alaska's Alaska by Region map and differs from the regional descriptions in the Alaska article. My concern arises because I am trying to diffuse the Commons category Aerial Photographs of Alaska by region and would like to have the regions correspond the the WP entries. My first inclination would be to drop mention of Wade Hampton and Hooper Bay. We could include those parts of Yukon Koyukuk Census Area lying north of the Arctic Circle, that would roughly correspond to Alaska by Region map. Or we could do something else; So far on Commons I have been considering Interior Alaska to be pretty much coincident with the Yukon River drainage basin down to the junction with the Innoko but that may be too broad. I wanted to ask around and get opinions on usage before doing a lot of editing. Dankarl (talk) 16:28, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New Fairbanks radio station, KWMB (calls which appear to have been previously assigned to a TV station) at 90.7 FM. Looks to be the same group responsible for KWMD. So far, concentrated blasts of Gin Blossoms, Karate and Alex Jones, scattered other uptempo alternative music, and so far no legal ID that I've heard. It's definitely a legit radio station, from what I can tell. I think it just started broadcasting in the last week or perhaps two.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Propose moving Robert Hale (Alaska) to Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale, or alternately, Robert Allen Hale. News coverage of his activities in Alaska gave indication that he was a person of some note prior to moving there, as is reflected in the article. Plus, it appears odd to me that the article would have a title like this, yet it devotes more space to his early life in Texas than his time in Alaska. Judged by number of years, though, that would probably actually make sense, even if it is inverse to news coverage.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:47, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I left comments at Talk:Libby Roderick. Two major concerns: 1) It comes across too much like a work-for-hire of someone who may otherwise struggle for recognition. See also: Marian Call 2) From a strictly Alaskan perspective, if she is supposed to be some sort of political activist, it may be helpful if not necessary to explain that she is the daughter of Jack Roderick, currently an elder statesman of the Alaskan left.

I noticed one potentially more important issue, though. Could other editors look over the article and see if it qualifies as an unreferenced BLP? Thanks.RadioKAOS (talk) 21:15, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've been asking myself for quite some time whether Atz Kilcher qualifies as a notable person. He enjoys the distinction of having recordings released before his daughter became famous. Curious fact, but not necessarily an indication of notability. Well, something tells me that this issue will be decided for us before the end of the year. From Discovery Unveils 2012-13 Upfront Slate Including 4 New Series and 12 Returning Series, coming to a Discovery Channel near you along with all the other so-called depictions of Alaskan life:

ALASKA: THE FINAL FRONTIER

Welcome to the Kilcher family and their isolated community outside Homer, Alaska. The Kilchers, led by patriarch Atz Kilcher, have cultivated and lived on their homestead for four generations. These men and women of the wild live off the land, spending the limited months of summer and fall gardening, hunting and fishing for food, gathering supplies from the land and preparing their animals' safety in preparation for surviving the harsh Alaskan winters. Most live completely off the grid, with no running water and no electricity - and are proud of it.

Isolated community, huh? I've driven there before. Are they going to embellish things to the point of obscuring THAT fact? Someone has finally edited Ice Road Truckers to clarify that the Dalton Highway is, in fact, not an actual ice road. It would surely qualify as the eighth wonder of the world if they could lay that much gravel and pavement on top of ice and yet still have a road to drive upon.

Just noticed this. The abundance of redlinks of highly notable people just further illustrates how far behind we are at this point. I'm still trying to make biography articles a priority. See above for my comments on time considerations. For those of you outside of Alaska (or even outside of Southcentral), our reliance on oil for heat and electricity has economically choked us half to death. I'm finally in somewhat of a position to reverse the past two or three years' worth of being boned pretty hard financially. Doing this primarily from an older smartphone with 3G data doesn't give me opportunity to get a whole lot accomplished at times. I'll quit ranting; basically, I'm currently at the same baby-step level as a lot of the rest of us appear to be.RadioKAOS (talk) 07:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I managed to make just enough effort to prod someone into translating Segundo Llorente into English a while back. The article could still use some work, but that work probably isn't that high a priority. I just now came across de:Bernard Hubbard, who was fairly well-known during the mid 20th century as "The Glacier Priest". Any hints on how to get this translated, aside from what I did before? I can read German well enough to understand the text, but not enough to actually make a translation.RadioKAOS (talk) 21:57, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't listen to The Opie & Anthony Show, so I don't know where this started. I can't say whether the show even airs anywhere in Alaska. Besides, I prefer Phil Hendrie. Anyway, twice now (first by an SPA and second by an IP), a statement has been inserted into the article's lead that Wasilla was named for Opie's mother, "an Alaskan Oil Magnate." Right. I would continue to revert this, but don't want to run afoul of 3RR, as it's hard to say how determined someone is to keep this crap in the article. I'm guessing that most folks abandoned the article after Palinmania ran its course, so who knows who is really paying attention or not.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Especially, can anyone get a photo for George C. Thomas Memorial Library in Fairbanks? That is he last unphotographed item besides archeological sites in List of National Historic Landmarks in Alaska.

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