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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Nealmcb (talk | contribs) at 03:25, 14 May 2004 (re-link /History. Update deadline; Ask for new nominations at the bottom; Any good reason to list last week's winner here also?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Each week an Article of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the week, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, give users a focus and give us all something to be proud of. Anyone can nominate an article to be picked for the following week, there will be a vote open to users who registered at least one week ago, the winning article being the one with the highest number of votes.

The current article of the week is Dinosaur.

Previous winners can be found at /History.

Considerations

  • Please only nominate articles which don't currently exist or are stubs.
  • Giving reasons as to why an article should become the AOTW may assist others in casting their vote.
  • Can the wide community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a few number of people will know about?

Candidates for Next Week

The next winner will be selected on Thursday 20 May, 18:00 (UTC).

Please vote for as many of the following options as you like. Please add only support votes, or comments. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

Enter your votes by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~" which will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end. See the Talk page for discussions on how and when to prune old nominations.

dry stone wall

support

  1. Duncharris 10:25, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

comments Bit of a late nomination I know, but have just added a couple of external links to good resources. Good kind of encyclopedic topic. Duncharris 10:25, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Brazilian Tapir

Support

  1. 131.211.151.242 09:29, 10 May 2004 (UTC); forgot to sign in earlier: MGM 09:37, May 10, 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Angela. 01:00, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • Very stubby, sounds like interesting animal.

Seven-arm Octopus

Support

  1. UtherSRG
  2. Robinoke 18:09, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Angela. 01:00, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • Taxobox-only stub I created when making all of the family pages for Wikipedia:WikiProject Cephalopods. Would be a good article to get folks interested in the WikiProject, andwho can resist such an interestingly named creature! - UtherSRG

Hemicorporectomy

Support

  1. Oldak Quill
  2. fabiform | talk 23:21, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Kevin Saff

Comments

Advertising agency

Support

  1. Scarequotes
  2. ALargeElk 11:14, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  3. bodnotbod 12:36, May 8, 2004 (UTC)
  4. LUDRAMAN | T 18:14, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • At the moment it's a poorly written stub, but it's got the potential to be a really amazing article.

Comedy film

Support

  1. Bodnotbod
  2. MGM 21:02, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
  3. — Adam Conover †
  4. Jwrosenzweig 17:29, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Etaoin 02:33, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • This article is currently 8th on a Google search for Comedy film .
    • If that's the case we'd better make sure it's a good article. - MGM 21:02, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • I've laid out a skeleton to aid the efforts of a large number of editors.
  • A subject non-academics can get their teeth into. I volunteer to clear it all up if it wins. --bodnotbod 12:11, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Votevotevote! — Adam Conover † 17:26, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Accompaniment

Support

  1. Hyacinth
  2. Isomorphic

Comments

Conceptual blending

Support

  1. Gyan
  2. bodnotbod 12:37, May 8, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • This is an exciting and fruitful topic. It is a theory of cognition that aims to explain how humans are creative and in general how meaning is generated. I've added close to 50 links in the Talk section. These links taken together provide enough of a definitive base to write an accurate and comprehensive encyclopedic article. I currently have some finals and then projects left. So, I can't devote a lot of time. Even if this doesn't get chosen, please don't hesistate to draft an article. Within the Talk namespace, work on a draft here. Thanks -- Gyan 19:57, 7 May 2004 (UTC)- UPDATE: Currently 12th on Google search for 'Conceptual blending'.[reply]

European Union

Support:

  1. Kaihsu 13:48, 2004 May 5 (UTC)

Comments:

Duet

Support:

  1. LUDRAMAN
  2. Menchi 12:54, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  3. fabiform | talk

Comments:

  • I have to say that duo and duet do not seem like very encyclopedic topics to me. More of a definition and/or an anthology of works. Not to discourage someone from putting that together, but I don't see it as the most worthy. Btw, where is the voting conducted, just here? Taxman 17:50, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

Duo

Support:

  1. LUDRAMAN
  2. Menchi 12:54, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  3. fabiform | talk

Comments:

Indian Railways

Support:

  1. Kesava
  2. Angela
  3. Fredrik
  4. Kishore . We need a complete, good article about the Largest Rail network in the world (under a single management).
  5. User:MeenakshiM .World's one of the most popular and largest railway networks should be featured.
  6. Sundar. An organisation for which a Minister is in-charge, who spends months to strategise the operations, and gets the approval of both the Houses of the Indian Parliament for it's annual budget should definitely merit our attention.
  7. Bodnotbod. I favour this one as I'm sure Dinosaurs has a good chance of finding its own fanbase. This seems more likely to be overlooked if it does not win. As a newbie, I'd just like to note what a great idea Article of the Week is.
  8. Vote, but see comments Duncharris 16:22, 2 May 2004 (UTC).[reply]
  9. Ksheka 11:19, May 8, 2004 (UTC)
  10. Sander 19:14, 2004 May 10 (UTC)

Comments:

Advaita Vedanta

Support:

  1. Kesava

Comments:

  • This is already quite a long article. I think the article of the week should be something completely new, or a very short stub at the start of the week. Angela. 12:51, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree with Angela, it's already quite a good article. I don't think there's that much which general users could contribute. Tom- 14:08, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Battle of Breitenfield (1631)

Support:

  1. Den fjättrade ankan 15:44, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Comments: A revolution in military tactics where the old massive infantry formations that dominated European warfare was defeated by a new flexible linear tactics.

Academia

Support

  1. Isomorphic
  2. Tom-
  3. Etaoin
  4. Seth Ilys
  5. Meelar
  6. — Adam Conover †
  7. bodnotbod 12:39, May 8, 2004 (UTC)
  8. NealMcB 17:11, 2004 May 8 (UTC)

Comments

  • With the number of academics on Wikipedia we should be able to do much better than this. There's so much potential for a great article here. Isomorphic 18:12, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Agreed. — Adam Conover † 19:18, May 1, 2004 (UTC)

Chicken nugget

Support

  1. Johnleemk

Comments

  • You want 60,000 people to write about Chicken Nuggets for a week? Even in the UK Government this would be considered an inefficient use of resources. I say we should eat them whilst writing about the Indian Railway ;o) --bodnotbod 11:45, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Well, I'd like to know where the 'nuggets' are on a chicken. :-) GUllman 01:59, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Baluchitherium

Support

  1. Bensaccount 14:08, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Angela. 02:20, May 4, 2004 (UTC)
  3. Fredrik 07:15, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Dandrake 08:05, May 6, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

Unicode Collation Algorithm

Support

  1. NealMcB 01:48, 2004 May 8 (UTC)
  2. Angela. 01:00, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • Wikimedia is the sort of place (heh) that people want to sort lists of things that are written in different languages and scripts. Seems to me that the Unicode Collation Algorithm is the best candidate for helping with that process, and it is a new stub I just created according to my limited understanding of such things. Surely there are some multilingual experts out there?
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