Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Malta/Archive 5

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Help with article title needed

I have requested that the Holy Week in Malta article be renamed since the article is about far more than Holy Week. (It covers most of Lent as well as Easter.) Please provide suggestions here if you care. — AjaxSmack 00:32, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

List of windmills in Malta

I've created the list. Not sure if all spellings of names are completely correct. List would benefit from more photos if any Malta based editors are willing to add them. Mjroots (talk) 08:47, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Malta articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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WikiProject cleanup listing

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Photo requests

Hi! Would anyone mind taking a photograph of the following?

• head office of Air Malta plc - Luqa, Malta LQA 9020

WhisperToMe (talk) 06:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Divorce

I found:

• Cacciottolo, Mario. "Divorce in Malta: Referendum causes acrimonious split." BBC. 27 May 2011.

Divorce is a hot topic, and anybody's welcome to use this source to help the article about divorce WhisperToMe (talk) 00:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

A few Malta questions

1) What is a band club. Is it always politically affiliated?

2) Maltese village feasts. Are the feasts always centered around a band club? Are the feasts arranged by a band club? What part does the church play in a feast? I saw the feast parade in Naxxar on Sep 4th, and I saw no clerics, only people in red t shirts marching in front and cheering and a band marching behind them.

3) Who does the fireworks? The band clubs? The political parties? Do those individuals/clubs need licences to manufacture fireworks?

4) Is it true that there is no sexual education in schools, and even that teachers could get in trouble for teaching this. I have heard opposing accounts on this.

5) 'Our Lady of Victories' is the patron saint of Naxxar. Who was she? Why is the main statue at the feast holding a decapitated severed head in one hand and a bloody sabre/scimitar in the other?

6) Not a question, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Catherine_Band_Club. It is not very encyclopedic, and most information is not relevant.

213.165.179.229 (talk) 11:26, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Answers:

(1) Band clubs are "philarmonic societies" usually centred around a Brass band (although these days they's also social clubs engaged in many activities) providing music at village feasts to patron saints. None of them are politically affiliated in the strict sense of the word although, historically, many were associated with one political party or another.

(2) Not necessarily. Some places have a committee for external festivities bringing together the parish band club/s, the pyrothecnics club and the association for volunteers setting up street decorations. As you note, this might not include the participation (or even approval) of the ecclesiastical side. Relations vary from village to village.

(3) In the larger villages there are pyrothecnics clubs ("fireworks factories") but in some cases these are owned by a band club.

(4) There is no specific subject although there is "Personal and Social Education". I have not heard of any teacher getting in "trouble" whatever that could be.

(5) It's a very "Maltese feast". Not to be confused with the other Our Lady of Victories institued by Pope Pius V following the Battle of Lepanto and since renamed Our Lady of the Rosary. September 8 is actually the feast of the Nativity of Mary (in fact, in Maltese it is also known as "il-Bambina" apart from "il-Vitorja") but as on this day in 1565 the Ottoman army lifted the siege of Malta it was celebrated as a feast associated with victory. The figure with a decapitatedsevered head could be Judith and the head Holofernes'.

(6) Yes, sometimes festa enthusiasts get, er, over-enthusiastic.

Demdem (talk) 09:49, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyright concerns related to your project

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WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Malta will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Malta'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) 22:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Carmelo Caruana

Hello, we recently had an article created on a Maltese musician, Carmelo Caruana, then rapidly deleted following a truncated (30 minute) discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carmelo Caruana. I was unfamiliar with this person but it seemed that he might be notable and I argued the article should be kept until someone more knowledgeable of Maltese topics and Maltese sources could review it. In any event, the article has been deleted but copies of the article and my comments can be found at:

• User:LukeCollins12/Carmelo Caruana
• User talk:LukeCollins12/Carmelo Caruana
• Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Carmelo Caruana

I noted that the Maltese Wikipedia has had an article on the same person at Carmelo Caruana for a number of years. It would seem that if this person is notable on mt. wikipedia, they should be notable on this Wikipedia as well. There is no requirement that our sources be in English only -- only that they be "reliable" (per our reliable sources rules).

Are there reliable sources in English or Maltese that would establish this person's notability and provide a basis for a reliable article?

Please feel free to respond positively or negatively on the deletion talk page at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Carmelo Caruana.

Thank you for your help!
--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Ftira

Hungry? We need an image of the sandwich. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:29, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names

English_exonyms#Malta. No section? Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Request regarding FATCA

I added your WikiProject banner to the article Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, but someone else removed it. If you decide that this article is within your scope, then you can add your banner to the talk page. If it's not within your scope, then you don't need do anything. Thanks in advance, XOttawahitech (talk) 19:41, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Ħaġar Qim

This is to let you know that the article on Ħaġar Qim has been found to have substantial copyright violation problems, and is currently blanked from view and listed at the WP:Copyright problems page. The article needs to be almost entirely rewritten. The existing images and references can be accessed through the article history, but the existing text should not be re-used unless it can be shown to have been added recently (see this copyright investigation). I may try to make a start on it myself, but I hope that someone much better qualified will come forward. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:58, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses

Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 04:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Malta articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 16:34, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Map to be used in Malta

Your attention is called to a discussion at Talk:Malta#Which_map_should_we_use.3F concerning the above topic. 05:33, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

American University of Malta

That future school is on the "requested articles" list on the WikiProject page. Anyone working on this should look at Talk:List of unaccredited institutions of higher education#Semi-protected edit request on 18 December 2015, especially if they are doing it before the school opens for business or before it becomes a bona fide accredited university (there is some concern that it may be seeking an accreditation as a school of higher education instead of as a university). In particular, the references may be helpful. Due to the heavy local controversy surrounding this future school, it is very likely that any article created before the school opens will attract people who have a particular, non-neutral point of view to push. Consider creating the article as Draft:American University of Malta and getting it reviewed by someone through the WP:Articles for creation process to make sure it's neutral, then encourage all WikiProject Malta participants to watchlist it like a hawk until it's obvious that the article isn't being "gamed." davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:10, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Infobox for members of parliament

I've nominated the template Template:S-par/ie/oi for deletion. It relates to the way that members of the Irish parliament are represented in a peculiar infobox. The discussion here may interest this project as Malta is used in the rationale. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:25, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Looking for TV Channel Numbers

Hello all, I'm new to the WikiProject and currently working on creating content related to Maltese television channels. Is there anyone based in Malta who could provide me with the GO channel numbers for the main terrestrial channels: TVM, TVM2, NET, One, F Living, and Xejk? Melita Cable lists channel numbers on their website and Parliament TV lists its channel numbers on both... but GO's website just lists the package names. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 22:09, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

@RA0808: TVM is 101, NET is 102, One in 103, TVM2 is 104, Smash is 105, F Living is 106, Xejk is 107 and Parliament TV is 108. Xwejnusgozo (talk) 23:37, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

@Xwejnusgozo: Grazzi ħafna! (And thanks for catching that I forgot to mention Smash!) RA0808 ^talk_contribs 20:13, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments in Malta

Hi all, I just wanted to bring this photo contest to your attention, since it will indirectly be contributing to the goals of WikiProject Malta. Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest that runs throughout September which encourages the public to take photos of local monuments, buildings and heritage sites and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. It has been recognised as the largest photo contest of the world and is now being held in Malta for the first time.

For more information on the project please visit the project page or just contact me. We (Wikimedia Community Malta) are also holding an introductory workshop on Tuesday 6th September at 6pm at Spazju Kreattiv for those who are interested and would like to know more. Participation is free and open to all.

I know that some of the people contributing to WikiProject Malta do a fantastic job in creating and editing pages about local heritage sites, so it would be great if we could help improve these further through the photos submitted to Wiki Loves Monuments. --Nevborg (talk) 17:04, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Malta Convoys

Expanded and cleaned up, please reassess. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 22:11, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Qbajjar Bay

Greetings,

I need some help with editing and improving my article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qbajjar.

Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mate4Malta (talk • contribs) 19:01, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge

I add Malta to Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge. If you also want to help, give your signature here. Subtropical-man (talk / en-2) 23:59, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Gozo FC (women)

Please develop or remove.Xx236 (talk) 09:17, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in Malta needs expansion

Can anyone help build it up, particularly those that can read Maltese sources? Also perhaps this would be a good article to translate for Maltese Wikipedia? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 04:54, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Since it's just a grammatically simple one-sentence stub, I created mt:Kannabis f'Malta in case anyone wants to help expand that. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 07:48, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Documenting Maltese heritage through Wikipedia - public discussion

Hi everyone, I just wanted to bring to your attention a public discussion that is taking place this week. This discussion will involve a number of highly-experienced international Wikimedians and local cultural operators to discuss the the value of documenting local heritage, culture and current affairs through Wikipedia and other wiki-projects. The input of highly-active local wiki editors such as yourselves will be invaluable during the discussion, so I hope some of you will be able to make it.

The discussion will take place at Spazju Kreattiv (St James Cavalier) on Thursday 2nd February at 6pm. There's a Facebook page set up for the event (here), but please feel free to contact me on my Talk page if you have any questions or would like more information.

There is also going to be a small edit-a-thon on the topic of modern art in Malta on Friday morning. Everybody is welcome to attend, but places are limited so please contact me to register if you are interested in attending. --Nevborg (talk) 21:11, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Commons:Photo challenge February 2017 is Multilingualism

FYI, take a look in commons:Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - February - Multilingualism if you have any file you'd like to upload, maybe in some of your archive at home. So far nothing from Malta.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:42, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Malta participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Malta. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:02, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red November contest open to all

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Indian Maltese

I just compiled the article on this community and its history. Would anyone have any picture that could fit - either of Indian shops in Valletta, today or in the past (like this one), or of Hindu festivals in Malta. Grazzi, --Dans (talk) 23:27, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:38, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Siggiewi F.C.

This is what happens when WikiProjects don't have a MOS. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:12, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

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Architecture of Malta

I'm working on this page, you may find a work-in-progress draft here: User:Dans/Architecture of Malta. Thanks for any hint! --Dans (talk) 11:59, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Recent building collapses

Should the series of recent building collapses in Malta - particularly the collapse at Ħamrun two days ago in which a woman tragically died - be covered on Wikipedia? I'm not sure what the notability criteria for such cases are, but the accidents have received considerable news coverage over the past year so I guess they could be notable. If an article is written, should it focus on the 2020 collapse only or also previous collapses such as the number of incidents in 2019, or even the 2004 collapse in St Paul's Bay which killed two people? I would think an article entitled somewhere along the lines of Building collapses in Malta would be more appropriate than having multiple articles about individual accidents, especially given the similarities in the 2019-20 cases.

What are other editors' opinions on this? Should the articles be written, or aren't they notable enough? --Xwejnusgozo (talk) 17:52, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Xwejnusgozo: Opinion: There can be an article which incorporated buildings and partial buildings collapses. This should include the incidents at the citadel in Gozo when an old wall collapsed during construction, the collapse of a ceiling during renovation of the DB hotel in Mellieha Bay, the Mellieha apartments, the Pieta apartments next to St Lukes, the other Pieta apartments, Hamrun, and other relevant incidents in the country.

Reasons why they are notable is because of the political sphere around it, the overwhelming construction industry, the lack or soft of policies about the subject, the protests and reactions, overdevelopment in Malta, the involvement or reaction of several stake holders, the parliament debates, and several other reasons.Continentaleurope (talk) 20:13, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Translations

I've been translating into Italian the pages of all Maltese prime ministers. In the meantime, I've also been improving the EN-lang pages, adding sources from OPM and from Rudolf's Historical Dictionary. --Dans (talk) 09:32, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Proposed new template: parishes in Malta and Gozo

I am proposing a new template which would list all the Catholic parishes in the Maltese Islands, which can be located at Template:Parishes of Malta and Gozo. I made two draft versions and I would like some opinions on which one is best if possible:

Option 1: Listing and linking both the towns and the parish churches

Option 2: Listing and linking only the parish churches (this can be retitled Template:Parish churches of Malta and Gozo)

I personally prefer option 2 because it is less cluttered than the other one. What are your opinions please? --Xwejnusgozo (talk) 19:59, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

• Option 2 seems better than 1.Continentaleurope (talk) 16:49, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

• I just created the template at Template:Parish churches in Malta and Gozo. --Xwejnusgozo (talk) 11:54, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Comments on the following articles:

Please write down any comments on the following articles:

Ħal Farruġ

Benjamin Borg (Talk) 11:13, 18 October 2020 (UTC)