Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals

Islamic Award

File:IslamicBarnstar.png {{IslamicBarnstar}}

The Islamic Award was created to recognize any editor who has made exceptional contributions to Islam-related articles. This award is part of the Islam WikiProject and its related guilds. Proposed by JuanMuslim.

Note There was a previous discussion about this here. --evrik 15:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral Each wikiproject should be allowed to determine its awards, however, per our standard operting porcedure, before it gets placed on the page, it should be discussed here. --evrik 15:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Mildly Oppose I think a better image should be found. --evrik 14:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment Discussion is about the new image and not about the old image. Yes, the image in the previous discussion is pretty ugly. --JuanMuslim ^1m 19:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support. Discussion about the current image may be found here. --JuanMuslim ^1m 22:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support It is needed, and nice, and stuff. Zombiebaron 02:05, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I believe it is necessary to have a special award for the project --Suleyman Habeeb 12:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Award or barnstar, though?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- As a wikiproject award. I think there has to be a better image. --evrik 22:47, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I prefer the image to the right if one of the two images are to be used. --Gray Porpoise 18:01, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Qualified, I like the crescent and star. South Philly 02:44, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support as a WikiProject award. —SHININGEYES 03:12, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mildly Support I don't like either image. I think a better image should be found. --evrik 14:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Purple Star Award

I recently stumbled upon a forgotten ribbon. From what I understand, the creator (no longer editing) has intented it to be a Purple Heart like award, given to Wikipedians who have been hurt by others, for example by having their user pages vandalised, being mistakenly blocked (for too long, or affected by range blocks), being personally attacked, etc. I think it is not a bad idea for an award, although it would need a picture to accompany the ribbon. On a ribbon note, I think it would be good idea to merge the two lists at WP:RIBBON, and to add a note to every award that has a ribbon that it has a ribbon :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:54, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support as a PUA. -evrik 20:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but only if it is used for real injury, like Wikipedeans who get sacked from their jobs because some idiot troll writes to their boss. Some people have left WP for this. People who get blocked etc. have not received a real injury in the course of their work on WP. --Bduke 12:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Bduke. One question - who gets decide the injury? South Philly 02:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support as an ORA. --Gray Porpoise 21:43, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Olympics Barnstar

The Olympics Barnstar is awarded in recognition of excellent contributions to WikiProject Sports Olympics. Further discussion on the award proposal can be found here. Sango 123 20:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is another discussion about this Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/Archive8#Olympic_Barnstar. --evrik 20:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support as a Wikiproject Award. --evrik 20:55, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Project Award, however, you will probably need a different symbol; the IOC protects the torch as fiercely as the rings. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 21:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I believe Sango made the torch - the other thing is that there is a different torch for each olympics.Blnguyen | rant-line 23:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I tried to make the torch as generic as possible and didn't superimpose an image of a real Olympic Torch over the barnstar. If you have any suggestions on alternative symbols or ways to tweak the current proposal draft, I'd be more than happy to implement them. Thanks, Sango 123 00:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate proposal #1
Alternate #2 ... Colors made more closely to actual Olympics colors.
Alternate #3

Comment How about something like Alternate proposal #1, using the colours, but not the rings or symbols. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 15:04, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I do like that Alternate #4...I'll see if I can make one whose colors more closely match the Olympics colors. → JARED ^(t) 15:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. → JARED ^(t) 15:33, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks like you beat me to it, Jared. ;) Here's what I came up with. Sango 123 15:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I like the (+ rotated version of) Sango's more; it's a bit lighter, but both look great! smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 17:15, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yeah, lighter does look better. Here's mine...I just rotated Sango's so that it reflected the actual placement of the rings.
    - Is there anyway to get the colour to a more standard red, yellow, green? The Running Man Barnstar is standard yellow.Blnguyen | rant-line 00:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - How's the fifth draft? All five colors are more standard and web-safe. Sango 123 03:38, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I like both the 4th and 5th drafts. Oh hello again Sango. -- Riffsyphon1024 06:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Eh, I think it may be a little too light, or off-color perhaps. I guess I really don't care, but I think that the one you made, then I rotated, is the best choice so far. → JARED ^(t) 14:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like #4 South Philly 02:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- - Could someone put one ring around each arm of the barnstar? Gang sta E B 14:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I've removed one of the images (#7) as it was deleted on Commons at the request of the creator/uploader. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 13:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like the new #5 most now; it seems closest to the proper colours. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 15:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support version #4. —SHININGEYES 08:33, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support prefereably 5 but also 4.Blnguyen | rant-line 01:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support 2 or 4. 5's colors are a bit too loud. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gray Porpoise (talk • contribs)

Alternate #4 - Sango's rotated to reflect placement of rings.
Alternate #5 - more standard colors

Comment. So it seems like its mainly between 4+5. I personally like 4 better (not because I made it) because the colors are a little darker and maybe a little more accurate, but both are good. → JARED ^(t) 14:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Philadelphia Award

The Liberty Bell
The Liberty Star
Alternate version

I was looking at the main page today and saw this image. Could this be made into an award for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia? South Philly 02:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just created an idea, Image:liberty star.png.--evrik 16:19, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support idea; have created an alternate version. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 14:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I like smurrayinchester's version. evrik 15:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support alternate version. Much better styled. -- Riffsyphon1024 04:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support alternate version (Image:LibertyBellstar.png). —SHININGEYES 03:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I love the alternate image...seems like a great idea. → JARED ^(t) 14:09, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Can we make the second image a color image, with maybe a bronze colored star? --evrik 14:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, how do people feel about making this a free speech topical award? --evrik 14:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've recoloured the star to be closer to the real bell colours. I like that idea; perhaps extend the scope slightly to democracy-related subjects. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 14:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Medical barnstar

Based on the Star of life.
The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles.

The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles.

Medicine is a major part of Wikipedia, having tens of thousands of articles, but has no award. It falls awkwardly between Science and Life. It may not be suitable as a barnstar, but if not chosen for that, I'm sure WikiProject Medicine wouldn't mind having this as a WikiProject award. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 15:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have you seen this?

The Encephalon Cross for commendable contributions to medical articles.

--evrik 16:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Maybe a cleaned up version of this star could replace The Encephalon cross? Just a suggestion. --WillMak050389 16:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I hadn't seen the Encephalon Cross; perhaps it should be moved to the Topic-related awards part of Wikipedia:Personal user awards. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 17:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Do we need the permission of the creator? --evrik 20:43, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      - The creator went inactive over a month ago :(, but I don't think we need permission. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 19:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I like the cross, but think we should make an effort to contact the user brefore coopting the award. --evrik 14:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree; he seems to be not inactive as such, but very restricted; edits come once every few days. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 14:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Editor service awards

This is a proposed series of awards for service: WP:SERVICE

As I have it now, this is unlike other awards in that:

It is based strictly on a mechanical count of service time and number of edits. (Yes I know about editcountitis.)
It can be self-awarded.

There is no human judgement (=politics) involved here. If nobody likes you, you still get one (if you qualify). If everyone likes you, you still can't get one (unless you qualify).

Right now, I have it as only being for editors who are not admins. The reason being, I was thinking that there ought to be something, that is kind of hard to get, besides becoming an admin.

This would only be very useful if it catches on, though. I think this is kind of unlikely. Partly because people who are currently eligible are likely to be blasé and uninterested. But it's not for them, it's for editors who aspire to be like them, so perhaps they could be be jollied into going along, some of them anyway. (To get a list of eligible editors I'd need to query the database which I don't know how to do, but that's a detail. After the backlog is cleared, and supposing it did catch on, editors just help themselves, I guess.)

I'm wondering if this is even worthwhile. Anyway, I liked making the graphics, and suggesting an entirely different use for them would be fine, too.

Questions:

Does this make sense. Is it likely useful.
Does it make sense for it only to be for editors who are not admins.
Are the levels set too high or too low.
Other.

Comments welcome --Herostratus 05:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral I'd like to hear what others have to say. --evrik 15:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. There's always room for a fresh, new award that's different in nature than others. --Gray Porpoise 21:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support These are very prestigious awards that seem to be, as said above, new and interesting. --WillMak050389 00:49, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I added one more level and made a couple of the early "steps" be six months instead of a year. All open to criticism/comment of course. I was also thinking, removing the "no admins" idea makes it even simpler for one thing. Also very few editors with say four years service won't be admins. Herostratus
I don't know if this is what you were trying to avoid, but maybe there could be an entire ranking system from "newbie" all the way up to "Complete and Perfect Tutnum"? Just a thought. --WillMak050389 05:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Not trying to avoid that. Could be. Interesting Idea. I kind of like it. Herostratus 05:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Not that I'm trying to make parallels with Wikipedia at all, but it would be like messageboards have certain ranks for the number of posts a person has. Only these awards would be for number of edits and amounts of time. --WillMak050389 05:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Done. Although I think there are better terms than "snorf", "snorf klangtnor", and "snorf klangtnor angkt", but I can't think of any right off. "Mank" is OK I think because it references "manque" which is an obscure term for "wannabe". Herostratus 07:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      - Those look great, though, on a funny note, I'm still a "new editor" because I've only been here three months despite the fact that I have over 2500 edits. Oh well, I think it would be a great new system for us to have. --WillMak050389 14:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar of Constellations

The Barnstar of Constellations is awarded to those who make exceedingly good contributions to Wikiproject Constellations. Feel free to edit the image to your liking, as it needs some work. --Gray Porpoise 13:51, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support idea. The image needs to be edited, and I don't support this one, but I like the idea. → JARED ^(t) 14:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any support from the Wikiproject Constellations? --evrik 14:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]