Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive

The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive is a fortnightly collaboration to improve articles to featured article status.

/History - For past collaborations.

/Removed - For removed nominations.

/Maintenance - ACID upkeep.

Introduction

To vote or nominate you have to be a registered user with at least one contribution that is not a vote. Anyone who does so is encouraged to make at least one edit per vote or nomination to the currently chosen article, Sydney Forest (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 14 Sep 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF). Any and all articles may be nominated except:

• Articles that are currently at featured status
• Articles in edit wars

How to nominate

I

Add nomination Copy and paste the following template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. Please be sure to spell the article correctly, THE NAME IS CASE-SENSITIVE! ==={{la|Article}}=== {{acid|start=September 15, 2024|votes=1}} <!-- Remember to update the vote counter when you place your vote! --> ; Support: # ~~~~ ; Comments: * (put your reason for nomination) --~~~~ ---- Under "comments" section put explanation of what work is needed.

II

Notify After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article's talk page and put this at the top: {{ACIDnom}}

How to vote

Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the subhead. Opposing votes are not counted; see approval voting. You can vote for as many articles as you like. Additionally you can give a comment in the comment section; use terms such as appalling and shocking sparingly, remember that every editor that has ever edited a nominated article probably did so to the best of his of her ability.

How the article is selected

Article with the most votes every two weeks or so is selected as "The current Article Improvement Drive article". If two articles have same number of votes, the nominee with the higher number of hits per day over the previous month wins. The following template:

{{Template:ACIDcur}}

is placed atop the article talk page.

How an article is removed from the list

Nominated articles remain on this page for three "selections", after which that article entry is removed from and moved to the page for removed nominations.

Notes

New nominations go *AT THE BOTTOM* :-)

Nominations

Atom (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

18 votes, Nominated July 31, 2007; needs at least 20 votes by September 4, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 09:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
2. ♠TomasBat 14:50, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
3. Iotha 08:51, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
4. BigrTex 15:40, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
5. Cloachland 13:59, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
6. Hydrogen Iodide 22:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
7. Alvin6226 ^talk 21:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
8. Boy1jhn 20:36, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
9. --Freiberg, Let's talk!, contribs 20:02, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
10. Universe=atom^{Talk•Contributions} 15:36, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
11. Think outside the box 11:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
12. Zginder 12:58, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
13. Separa 20:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
14. User:Supershow Showmanship is the key 22:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
15. RJH (talk) 17:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
16. --Avala 19:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
17. AZ _t 21:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
18. EamonnPKeane 20:32, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• I really haven't had much to do with this article (I might have reverted vandalism on it once or twice ;)), but I feel that such an import subject matter as the atom deserves improvement from the shape this article is in at the moment. I hope others share my view. Cheers -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 09:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
• Article also nominated on SCotM. — RJH (talk) 17:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

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Egyptian hieroglyphs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

10 votes, Nominated August 13, 2007; needs at least 12 votes by September 3, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. --Birdman1 ^{talk/contribs} 15:32, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
2. ♠TomasBat 20:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
3. --Freiberg, Let's talk!, contribs 01:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
4. Hydrogen Iodide 05:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
5. Baridiah 22:02, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
6. — Zerida 03:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
7. Switchercat ^talk_cont 17:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
8. S.dedalus 05:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
9. --Procrastinatrix 21:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
10. --Avala 19:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• The authors have made a good effort, but this article is redundant and is not comprehensive. It covers few aspects of grammar and discusses the language's relation to other Egyptian languages to only a small extent. The article needs a detailed example section, and yet "Simple examples" only repeats several of the concepts stated earlier. In addition, this article contains only seven inline citations. A peer review held last year produced only an automated review; a much more detailed, specialized analysis of the article is needed. Hopefully, those who are not Egypt enthusiasts will understand the rationale for this nomination. --Birdman1 ^{talk/contribs} 15:32, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Edit: Another problem with this article is that it does not sufficiently discuss the evolution of the language. --Birdman1 ^{talk/contribs} 16:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• I would support any effort to improve this article, but it's important to point out that Egyptian hieroglyphs discusses the writing system rather than the language. The latter is covered in Egyptian language, although that one needs work too. — Zerida 03:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Egyptian language deals only with Middle Egyptian grammar. Even if Egyptian hieroglyphs deals only with the writing system, it is redundant and is not comprehensive. I think there needs to be some discussion at Talk:Egyptian language. --Birdman1 ^{talk/contribs} 16:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the latter part, though I think this article should remain focused on the script, like hieratic and demotic. There are separate articles for the different phases of the language itself, for example, Old, Middle and Late Egyptian, but they are stubs. I think Egyptian language should eventually contain comprehensive information about the language's history/grammar from the Old to the Coptic phases, and the Middle Egyptian grammar can go in its own article. — Zerida 20:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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Geography of New Jersey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

12 votes, Nominated August 17, 2007; needs at least 16 votes by September 14, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. ZeWrestler ^Talk 03:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
2. ChrisRuvolo (t) 11:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
3. Zginder 13:02, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
4. Hydrogen Iodide 05:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
5. Alansohn 22:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
6. NHRHS2010 ^Talk 22:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
7. EaglesFanInTampa 18:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
8. JimIrwin 18:15, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
9. CrankyScorpion 06:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
10. Wl219 20:55, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
11. AZ _t 21:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
12. Michael Greiner 01:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• An article that is bountiful in resources that can help beef it up yet still a stub. It is also an article of top importance by the NJ project. Should be a good and easy collaboration that lots of wikipedians can find info to fill in the barebones stubs in the article. ZeWrestler ^Talk 03:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
• This article needs some help, especially from some subject matter experts. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 11:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

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Rifle (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

10 votes, Nominated August 17, 2007; needs at least 12 votes by September 7, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Kotare 07:05, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
2. themcman1 _talk 15:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
3. Freiberg, Let's talk!, contribs 20:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
4. ♠TomasBat 20:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
5. ZeWrestler ^Talk 12:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
6. Jeltz talk 11:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
7. Hydrogen Iodide 17:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
8. Duran 20:16, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
9. P3d0 04:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
10. Aerobird ^{Target locked - Fox One!} 13:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This article is desperately in need of attention; A military invention which has shaped the course of history ever since, this article doesn't have even one inline citation and could do with major expansions with regards to the history of use of this weapon.

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Michael Vick (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

3 votes, Nominated August 27, 2007; needs at least 4 votes by September 3, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  22:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
2. -Flubeca^Talk 00:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
3. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 00:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
4. Showmanship is the key 16:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Article has been under heavy editing since all the recent controversy surrounding the athlete. Most of the edits have been very poor and the article is really in need of a major overhaul to get it up to standards. --Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  22:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

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Washing machine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

3 votes, Nominated September 3, 2007; needs at least 4 votes by September 10, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Showmanship is the key 16:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments

The paragraphs tend to drag and its kind of nauseating throughout the article. Needs an enhanced Table of contents. That's really all.

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