User:Benc/Todo

[edit] Articles to write

Currently under construction in my sandboxes:
- NFL timeline - User:Benc/Sandbox/3
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Blank maps should be a stubby link to a new article I'll create on wikisource, based on Wikipedia:Blank maps
Continuously variable transmission [1]
Dimorphism stub
Equal Time Provision
Police corruption currently redirects to political corruption
Police brutality stub
Rivanna River [2]
Transplanetary subway source: [3]
Auto racing flags should cover checkered flag, black flag, others(?)
Templates:
- Template:box office (parameterized) for filling in box office sales from boxofficemojo
Toilet training stub

Bolded entries are possible candidates for Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week.

Listed in approximate order by priority:

Wikipedia how-tos on templates, custom signatures, and watchlist
Official Wikipedia Manual... short, centralized document all Wikipedians should read
Major clean-up needed on Wikipedia:Template messages
To Help:Starting a new page, Wikipedia:How to write a great article, and Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia, link a new page discussing linking new articles up with others (Wikipedia:Don't write orphan articles?), including:
- redirects
- trade links with existing articles
- peer review to catch the links you missed
Add cone (mechanical) to cone disambig.

Make Template:fac and Template:fac-contested look nice like Template:featured.
Remove redirects for Messiah (Handel).
Smash out links to the Black Flag disambig.
Verify claim of 350 featured articles; synchronize with Category:Wikipedia Featured Articles.
Standardize E-1 m series of articles
Hip-Hop template does not belong on Grafitti (and a few other places). Drop them a note.
Div id's on WP:NOT like WP:DP?
Reduce VfD's page size:
- {{subst:rewritten|ArticleName}} for when article is rewritten and supported
- {{subst:toolong|ArticleName}} for when discussion gets huge
- Can the category and translations go in the footer template?
- Parameterized subst template for new VfD listing (pending subst: bug fix)
Add {{fac-contested}} to all articles listed on (low priority, bot work)

Discussions for deletion -- guidelines on how to be brief?
Admin tools, are there enough of them?
- Special:Recreations
- Special:Possiblerevertwars
Is there a discussion about hotlinking to wikipedia, and whether this is a bad thing?
Is there a consensus on template and category redirects and whether they're generally a bad thing, and how to stomp them out if they are?
Is there a central place for bots to hang out?
Is there a bot or query or something to:
- ~~Find spelling errors?~~ SpellBot
- ~~Change "See Also" and "External Links" to "See also" and "External links"?~~ Some efforts have been made
- Standardize where the following appears on the page (top or bottom):
  - disambig
  - category
  - language translations
  - stub
  - leading and trailing newlines
- Find mismatched talk redirects? (e.g., Talk:Gaia redirected to Talk:Gaia (mythology) but Gaia did not redirect Gaia (mythology))
- Find pages with "(redirect page)" in their title (if any exist)?
Are these bugs?
- Image having to be uploaded twice? (Or this a cache issue)
- Parameterize templates only work in Template namespace? Do they?