Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive
This week's improvement drive is a weekly collaboration to improve non-stub articles to featured article status. (For stub articles or topics with no articles, see Collaboration of the week.)
/History - For past winners.
Nomination and Voting
Articles to be improved can be nominated by anyone in the "nominations" section below, with an explanation of what work is needed. Each Sunday, the article with the most support votes is chosen. Opposing votes are not counted, see approval voting. Articles need three votes per week to stay on the list.
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Nominations
- The next project article is to be selected on Sunday 26 June.
Lhasa (July 2)
- Reason
- Article on Tibet's most important city and spiritual home, but with almost no content.
- Support
- Comments
- Looks like it is stubby enough for WP:COTW --Fenice 07:08, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. Falphin 01:04, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hypnosis (July 2)
- Reason
- This is a long article, but a poor one. It needs a total reorganisation, the input of some experts and more wikilinks and external links. Yes, there are short articles that need to be made longer - but this is a long article, about an important subject, that is not up to scratch yet.
- Support
- Batmanand 19:16, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Litefantastic 01:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Exir 01:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Niz 00:04, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Non-governmental organization (July 9)
- Reason
- NGOs are in the news everyday. These powerful organizations influence governmental policy in countries around the globe. Who are they? What do they do? A search on Google and Yahoo yielded no answers. Current article needs expanding, beyond a list of NGOs. to describe the complex structure and inter-relationships of these organizations. A worthwhile and timely challenge for Wikipedeans. (Also need re-direct for NGO to above).
- Support
- anache 03:33, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Mouvement 14:28, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
- Mstroeck 17:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Christopher Parham (talk) 21:50, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)
- Mark 22:38, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- KNewman 02:04, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Trade (July 2)
- Reason
Such little information is given for such a vast topic.
- Support
- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Fenice 07:51, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Meridius 18:51, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Sean Curtin 01:41, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
- The Kohninater 04:16, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Medieval art (July 2)
- Reason
- needs expansionFenice 12:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Support
- Fenice 12:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- CristianChirita 12:44, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Milena 11:05, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
- I am working on this article to be a gateway article, containing very (very) high level summary information, mainly serving as a navigation aide to the corpus of Wikipedia articles that cover this vast subject. I've started work on it and plan on working on it over the next few weeks, laying out the article structures based on known fields of study. I would not recomend this article be a COTW at this time. Stbalbach 04:36, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think the article should be turned into a list. Medieval art would make a good overview article. --Fenice 06:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- It's not a "list" it's an outline of what makes up Medieval art. This is a highly specialized field with special terms and areas, its not common knoweldge, there is a reason this article has sat idle for 4 years. If your saying these links could be worked in to a narrative, I would not disagree. Stbalbach 02:22, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- According to the latest updates in the article:
- In Western Europe there were seven major periods, or movements, of art in the Middle Ages. In approximate chronological order (with overlap) they are Celtic art, Early Christian art, Migration Period art, Pre-Romanesque art, Romanesque art, Gothic art and Trecento art.
You will notice almost none of these major articles has been developed, or even started. I would suggest we do a COTW on one of the major art movements and get those started. Otherwise, the high level summary will not be in line with whatever gets written later in detail. According to the style guidelines, summaries are usually written last, summarizing the detail. I would suggest Celtic art as a good place to start. Once it is done, a summary of the article can be worked into the Medieval art article, and so on. Stbalbach 02:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I will support a nomination of Celtic art on the COTW, good starting point.--Fenice 09:36, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Astrodynamics (June 25)
- Reason
- I've tried to rewrite this turkey, but I have come to realize that I am not expert enough to choose a good high-level structure for this article, and I am not novice enough to know what's generally interesting. --P3d0 06:10, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
- Support
- P3d0 06:10, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Game (July 2)
- Reason
- An entry level article on a vast and important subject that was just a few paragraphs long when I came across it. I've added a few more paragraphs with basic info on the anthropology of games; they themselves could stand expansion. Other views are also needed.
- Support
- Smerdis of Tlön 23:09, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Fenice 05:45, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Niz 00:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Textile (July 2)
- Reason
- A broad topic with technological and cultural aspects. This article is off to a good start, but is stagnating. Alot of the article is lists. People from many backgrounds will be able to contribute to this - maybe some good pictures of textiles from different parts of the world.
- Support
- ike9898 19:44, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
- Fenice 09:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The Kohninater 04:17, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Phonograph cylinder (June 25)
- Reason
- A FARC Handyman's Special
- Support
- Litefantastic 23:52, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
History of sculpture (June 25)
- Reason
- stops at the renaissance, middle ages missing
- Support
- --Fenice 09:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- --Vladdraculdragon 09:48, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
- This is part of the Medieval art topic above. Once an article on medieval sculpture is created, a summary of it can be worked in to the History of sculpture, and the Medieval art article (and any other appropriate article). But you need a Medieval sculpture article first before you can summarize it :) --Stbalbach 02:57, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Sometimes it works the other way around: the sections in the overview article grow larger and larger, and at some point a new article is created as a spin-off, and a summary plus a link to the main article is left at the overview article. In this case, a section on medieval sculpture would be written in Medieval art or History of sculpture and then an article Medieval sculpture would be created.--Fenice 05:32, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hummer H2 (July 2)
- Reason
- Love it or hate it, the Hummer H2 has become an icon of American society. The article itself seems to be under the control of editors pushing to demonize the vehicle and even the drivers (quote: For USA taxpayers with substantial income other than salaries (e.g. private practice income such as medical practitioners, attorneys, and real estate agents or other independent professionals).... Needless to say, this is far from being NPOV. I believe that this is a worthy article that can be improved to Featured Article status, but it needs a lot of love and dedication before it can come anywhere near being a good article. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 14:32, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
- Support
- Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 14:32, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
- Jacen Aratan 15:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Fenice 16:04, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- SFoskett 16:04, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
- Harmil 13:23, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
This article really has a neutrality-problem, and nobody is working on it, there doesn't seem to be an edit war going on right now.--Fenice 16:04, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) We have been working on improving this article. Please see Talk:Hummer H2 for details. However, to characterize any editor as "pushing to demonize the vehicle" smacks of a personal attack and is not supported by facts. That being said, I would welcome any improvements to the article and support this improvement drive. --SFoskett 16:04, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
American Motors (June 26)
- One of those companies that just sort of vanished off the face of popular culture.
- Support
- Litefantastic 23:04, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Second Industrial Revolution (June 27)
- Support
- Comments
Alps(June 28)
- Support
- Comments
Refugee (June 28)
- This is such a hugely important subject, yet the whole area is very sparsely covered on wikipedia. The Refugee article seems a bit 'bitty' to me, and I think it needs improving.
- Support
- MyNameIsClare talk 14:08, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- BanyanTree 14:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Comments
Templates
- {{AID}}, a notice for the talk pages of nominated articles
- {{AIDcur}}, a notice for current collaborations
- {{AIDvoter}}, a notice for people who voted for this week's winning article. Place on their talk page using {{subst:AIDvoter|NameOfArticle}}
- {{IDRIVEtopic}}, a banner to announce the current topic
- /History, for past collaborations