Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Dinosaur collaboration

The current WikiProject Dinosaurs collaboration article is Confuciusornis.
The last article for collaboration was: Brachiosaurus.
Feel free to cast your vote for the next article.

The Dinosaur collaboration is a coordinated effort by WikiProject Dinosaurs to improve Wikipedia's dinosaur-related content. However, being a member of WikiProject Dinosaurs is not a prerequisite for participation in this collaboration. All Wikipedians, regardless of their level of expertise on the subject, are welcome to contribute.

Aside from the main benefit of creating better dinosaur articles on Wikipedia, it is hoped that the successful execution of this initiative will a) Attract new editors to work on the Project; b) Improve the writing skills of existing editors; and c) Demonstrate the value of collaboration on Wikipedia. The ultimate goal of the Dinosaur Collaboration is to get at least one dinosaur or dinosaur-related article featured every month.

Nomination procedure

A list of past collaborations can be viewed here.

Any user may nominate an article to be collaborated upon. Nominees should:

Be about any dinosaur or directly dinosaur-related topic.
Need a significant amount of work in terms of content, organization, prose, etc.
Not be in any edit conflict or be under protection.

If you would like to nominate an article, please add it at the bottom of the list of nominees along with a short note describing why you think it should be chosen. Every two weeks, the nominee with the most votes will be chosen for collaboration. The nominee will stay on the nominee's list for one week plus an extra week for every 2 supporting votes it recieves. It will gain extra time to stay on the list if it gains enough supporting votes. For example, if the article "Dinosaur" was nominated, it would remain for 1 week. If it received 4 supporting votes, it would be allowed to stay nominated an extra 2 weeks. Once selected for collaboration, an article will receive its own sub-page for discussion of how to improve the article.

For Nominators:
Please use the following code when nominating an article.

===[[ARTICLE NAME]] (1 vote, stays until [[DATE ONE WEEK LATER]])===
''Nominated [[MONTH DAY]], [[YEAR]]; needs at least 2 votes by [[DATE ONE WEEK LATER]], [[YEAR]]''

Support:

(sign with four tildes)

Comments:

(put your reason for nomination, sign again)

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For Voters:
Please use the following code when voting to support an article.

#~~~

Nominations...

Please list nominees below using the code laid out in the above section. Newer nominees should be placed on the bottom of the list. Feel free to vote for as many nominees as you wish, but only once per nomination. Please only vote to indicate support, do not vote in the negative. If you like, add a comment in the comment's section under nomination, or on the collaboration talk page. Articles which do not receive 2 votes per week will be removed from the list. For the current collaboration, see the template at the top of the page.

The next Dinosaur collaboration will be chosen on 1 August, 2006.

Ankylosaurus (7 votes, stays until 6 August)

Nominated 9 July, 2006; needs at least 8 votes by 6 August, 2006

Support:

My Vote (this is from, umm, 20.139.67.50)

Comments:

I don't think it would be too tough to get this article to FAC, and we haven't sent an herbivore yet. Sheep81 00:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's Psittacosaurus, chopped liver? ;) --Firsfron of Ronchester 03:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Right. I vaguely remember that. Sheep81 05:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

first job - anyone mind if I swap the headings to 'Discovery and Species' and then 'Paleobiology' (essentially reversing the first two heading texts) to go along with the dozens of others I have made similar headings for? Cas Liber 05:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do what you think needs to be done and we'll see how it turns out I guess! Sheep81 05:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go for this one, as it's veggie & will please Cas. - Ballista 17:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I asked my wife (who is not interested) to name dinos and she started with T rex, then Apatosaurus, then Pteranodon, then Ankylosaurus, Diplodocus, Allosaurus....
- Your wife guessed Pteranodon 3rd? She must be brainy... I only start off by looking at the band members of the Rolling stones! Spawn Man 22:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stegosaurus (4 votes, stays until 26 July)

Nominated 12 July, 2006; needs at least 4 votes by 26 July, 2006

Support:

Comments:

Righto, we got more voters (yippee!!). Lets throw some candidates in so we really get some dino-democracy :) Cas Liber 10:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Asked my five year old. First dinosaur she thought of was Stegosaurus, then T. rex, but she said T. rex was her favourite....Cas Liber 08:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

She sounds smart!--Firsfron of Ronchester 04:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Both Steg and Tric have about as much work done on them, but maybe this will spill over into the higher-level stegosaurian taxa ;) Dinoguy2 03:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agree-got Dong Zhiming's book so updating bits and pieces but would be good to do Stegosauria like Ceratopsia pageCas Liber 04:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Triceratops (3 votes, stays until 2 August)

Nominated 19 July, 2006; needs at least 4 votes by 2 August, 2006

Support:

Comments:

Yay! Finally someone who can get the formatting of a nomination right! Thanks! Spawn Man 07:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey...I nominated this before. Should there be a lock-out period? Don't care really - now to see which ofthe old notes are still applicable....Cas Liber 08:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ceratosaurus (1 vote, stays until DATE ONE WEEK LATER)

Nominated July 20, 2006; needs at least 2 votes by July 27, 2006

Support:

  1. Umm - (20.139.67.50)

Comments:

   * This person wanted to nominate but just stuck the name down. There's a beefy monograph of the beasty available online Cas Liber 11:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am seriously considering voting for this but am having major ideological conflict with voting for yet another #### therapod but I do like it. Oh this is so hard......Cas Liber 11:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For more complete articles...

If you think an article is good enough to be a Featured Article Candidate, feel free to nominate it. However, it is recommended that you have the article peer reviewed first. Peer reviewed articles are generally more polished and are often more likely to receive votes of support on the FAC page. If you would like to discuss a particular article before sending it to be reviewed, bring it up on the talk page of the article in question, of this page, or the WikiProject Dinosaurs talk page. If you do send an article for peer review or to the FAC page, please let us know by adding it to the appropriate list below so that we can support it!

Articles in peer review

none at this time

Featured Article Candidates

Tyrannosaurus. Link here.

Featured Dinosaurs

These articles have become featured! In the unlikely event that a dinosaur article is removed from the FA list, please add a note below but DO NOT remove it from the list.

Dinosaur (prior to Collaboration)
Psittacosaurus (prior to Collaboration)
Albertosaurus (prior to Collaboration)
Velociraptor

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