Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Edit requests

Wikipedia:WikiProject Edit requests
Wikipedia:Edit requests

Description

To deal with COI and paid edit requests. Per discussion at the Village pump. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group

• Category:Requested edits (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Wikipedia:Edit requests (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles

Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.

• Wikipedia:Help Project (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Support

Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. As proposer, will join. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
2. Z1720 I will join.(talk) 02:28, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
3. I will join, as original supporter of this idea at the Village Pump. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 03:51, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
4. I would join. Sam-2727 (talk) 05:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
5. Count me in--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:48, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
6. I would absolutely join. WWB (talk) 16:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Discussion

A WikiProject is a group of people. If the group is small, then you should consider using your own user talk pages at this timmem, rather than setting up special WikiProject pages for it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Another option is that it could be a WP:TASKFORCE, associated with an appropriate Wikiproject.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: I'm open to that, given that I highly doubt that editors interested in edit requests will ever spill into the double digits (doing COI edit requests opens you up to accusations of being shills etc). I assume that such a taskforce would come under one of the WikiProjects at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia#Maintenance, probably Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation, but it appears to be defunct. Reviving a defunct WikiProject would probably have around the same effect as creating a new one in that there will be the same number of editors. Sdrqaz (talk) 15:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Pinging Possibly, as one of the few editors active at WP:COIN. Any advice would be appreciated. Sdrqaz (talk) 15:09, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

While it never took off, it's unfortunate that the community never bought onto my proposal for a Tour of Duty concept. I proposed this years ago and see that I even included Request Eedit as one of the options. Here is why it is perfect as a task:

• We need more people contributing — having only a single editor taking care of most of the requests is not good for the project
• We don't want to encourage brand-new editors to take this on — it's my opinion that it requires a bit of experience to understand the bias issues.
• Editors thinking about submitting an RFA could use this to give other editors a good sense of their understanding of issues related to bias, proper referencing, and, interaction with editors who might be aggressive about a point of view

While this is probably not the time or place to re-propose that initiative, as part of the process of identifying potential admin candidates, we might suggest that helping out at request edit would provide valuable insight. This obviously up to be coupled with a process to keep track of who does what.S Philbrick(Talk) 15:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)