User:Shannon1/Orange County Creeks Project
Template:WikiProject status WikiProject Rivers of Orange County (colloquially known by Shannon as "WikiProject OC Creeks") is a very small (and unofficial) WikiProject that aims to improve river articles relating to Orange County, California. As of right now, the project has a grand total of 1 members. Its aim is to produce at least two featured articles from the topic and to ultimately create articles for all rivers of Orange County.
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Overview[edit]
Are you asking by now, "are you serious there are any creeks in this overdeveloped county that is paved over with layer by layer of concrete, seas of fake tile roofs and concrete stucco walls, fancy houses, giant shopping centers and the busiest freeways on the continent?"
The project aims to improve three existing articles to Featured status, four existing to Good status, and seven existing/non-existing to B-class status. It also is to create at least stubs for all major or notable rivers and streams of the county. Another purpose is to upload images for all these articles. It may seem like an insignificant WikiProject, but then again... remember that the topic of Orange County Creeks began (before the arrival of this WikiProject) with a solitary 4,000 byte stub. Today, nearly all the major drainages in the county have been written an article, some of which are pretty darn good compared with the state of most of the river articles. This WikiProject is a child of WikiProject Rivers. Perhaps one of its child WikiProjects is WikiProject Aliso Creek which we should know isn't really functional anymore (if you have read the article). Project pages and info[edit]A table of articles[edit]...which is most probably horribly incomplete.
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Template:Orange County major watersheds
Though not sure how to put it on a page - it is vertical, and unless a way is found to make it horizontal, there is no way it can make it cleanly. Putting it in the "References" section was an original thought, but that won't survive through FAC...
High-quality articles[edit]Any current things to do[edit]
UPDATE: Aliso Creek (Orange County) may be ready for a go at FAC! 22:43, 15 August 2009 (UTC) UPDATE: Aliso Creek is not getting any attention at FAC except for link-checking and dabs; will resubmit that right away when time is up. 01:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC) UPDATE: Aliso Creek finally gets attention from Ruhrfisch and Finetooth - big help -but too late, the deadline was too close... 01:36, 8 September 2009 (UTC) UPDATE: Aliso Canyon needs more references, please expand archaeology and biology (if possible) sections 00:32, 29 September 2009 (UTC) UPDATE: Aliso Creek listed for 2nd peer review History of the project[edit]In the great encyclopedia we all know as Wikipedia, there lay a forgotten corner. Its coordinates point to somewhere in California. Orange County to be exact. But most of the topics there had already gotten some sort of attention... in the form of Wikipedia articles. But if you look beneath the surface of the county you will notice something different - especially if you look down one of the little-cared-about concrete canyons - creeks and rivers. Or if you head for the mountains and peer down into a real canyon. The topic then unveils itself. So why did the troubled streams of Orange County get so little attention? All hope seemed to be lost when on August 31 of the year 2007, a little stub was created for a creek that is named San Juan Creek. All that was done in the following months was a little expansion, until it stood at four thousand bytes. Then on June 17, 2008, nearly ten months after that date, a river and stream addict somewhere in Orange County joined Wikipedia, and immediately proceeded to edit. At first, that user kept focusing on one Orange County creek - Aliso Creek - a stream just north of San Juan. But taking a look at those contributions, look at what has been created! Aliso Creek is now longer than several featured river articles, and is just as suitably referenced. It is well endowed with many images past and present and has been researched so perseverantly that one who reads the Wikipedia article can get more knowledge than from any other published source. Then the whole of the topic began to get attention as more and more articles were created - most stubs, unfortunately. The amount of stubs grew as Aliso Creek skyrocketed in growth, and on January 18, 2009 it became a GA nominee. On February 15 it was passed, a milestone in the success of the Rivers of Orange County project. The archives of the article when it was nominated for GA and when passed for GA can be found here. But the growth of the topic continued unbelievably fast. The next high-quality article to be written was Coyote Creek. This was followed by an almost complete rewriting of Laguna Canyon. Before the rewriting, the article looked like this. More recently, San Juan Creek was added to as well. In harmony with the rest of the section, here is the original article before expansion and here it is when first created. And as for the project's really weird stuff? Take a look at this article on a 4.7 mile creek. Records[edit]
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