User:Tarquin/to do

Stuff to do when I suddenly find a spare life hanging around. (Anyone is welcome to beat me to doing any of the following!)

• upload picture of chives
• see Talk:Quadratic formula
• Get dates for Jacques Prevert
• see Talk:Louis IV of France
• merge North Pole and South Pole into something coherent & unstubbish, about geographic & magentic poles. (but please beat me to it, I know naaaaaaathing about all this)
• merge in all the types of computer kernel, maybe
• do some fiddling to floppy disk
• sort out Folly
• direct object and indirect object

• ponder some way to merge all these "walled garden" todo lists -- somehow resurrect "votes for rewrite"

The todo lists

Reasons:

• Many users now keep a "todo" list within their personal space -- but many users also add a "but please beat me to it!"
• Many articles' talk pages have notes & queries which go unresolved for months (qv my watchlist...).
• Recent changes goes by too quickly for people to see questions that they might be able to answer.

Instead of keeping personal lists, we should start using Wikipedia:Pages needing attention more -- but change it to be a hub of sorts. From this, we'd have pages for different sorts of things to do:

• deletion requests
• NPOVing
• factual questions (someone with knowledge of the subject is needed)
• copyediting / rewrites for clarity (ie work that someone can do with no knowledge of the subject other than what they read in the article itself)
• merging duplicates
• renaming
• Find or fix a stub, of course
• & maybe others