Wikipedia:Mormon collaboration

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The Mormon Collaboration is an effort to improve Mormon-related articles in Wikipedia, with a casual aim of creating a feature-standard article during the month-long cooperative editing process. Anyone can nominate an article or vote for a nominated article.

The project maintains a list of previously-nominated articles, a list of winning collaborations, and a partial list of participants in the project.

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v • d • e

1 Selecting the next collaboration
2 Nominations

[edit] Selecting the next collaboration

The January 2007 Mormon Collaboration article will be selected on Monday, January 1.

[edit] Nominating an article

To nominate an article for the Mormon collaboration, follow this process:

List Entry Addition

Edit this article, and append the following to the end of the list:

{{Wikipedia:Mormon collaboration/Article}}

Be sure to replace Article with the title of the article you are nominating. Please do not mark the edit as minor. Save the page. You should now see a link to the nomination page in the text; follow it.

For example, this is needed to add Emma Hale Smith to the list of nominations:

{{Wikipedia:Mormon collaboration/Emma Hale Smith}}

II.

Nomination Creation

Add this text to the new page:

{{subst:MormonCollaboration | pg=Article | reason=Reason for the nomination.| nom=~~~~}}

Put the page's name in place of "Article" and include your reason after reason=; nothing else should change. For example, the entry to nominate Emma Hale Smith would be:

{{subst:MormonCollaboration | pg=Emma Hale Smith | reason=Article about Emma needs to be of higher quality.| nom=~~~~}}

If the page was not originally empty, the above text should go at the beginning. Check the "Watch this page" box if you would like to follow the voting process in your watchlist. Save the page.

III.

Talk Page Notification

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add this text to the top of its talk page:

{{Possible Mormon COTM}}

[edit] Voting

If you support an article, please vote by clicking on edit by the article's title, and add a new line with the text "# ~~~~". This will add your username and the time you signed automatically. Please add comments that might help others .

Please only add support votes - opposing votes will not affect the result as the choice is done by approval voting (the most votes, wins). Note your opposition under the Comments section.
Vote for as many candidates as you like.
A vote implies that you will make some contribution to the article if it is chosen.
Only registered users should vote.
Being Mormon is not a requirement to vote!

[edit] Selection

Each month, the collaboration is chosen based on the article with the largest amount of support. In case of a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.

When a new selection has been made, the {{Current Mormon COTM}} template should be placed on the successful candidate's article page, and the following files need to be updated:

Wikipedia:Mormon collaboration
Wikipedia:Mormon collaboration/current, which will automatically update Template:Mormon COTM, Wikipedia:Goings-on and Wikipedia:Community Portal
Wikipedia:Mormon collaboration/History

[edit] Nominations

[edit] Lehi, son of Helaman

Article is a one-liner.
(vote or comment)

Support:

uriah923^(talk) 19:08, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
OneWeirdDude 01:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Book of Mormon chronology

Useful article, but incomplete.
(vote or comment)

Support:

uriah923^(talk) 21:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
OneWeirdDude 01:32, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Um, I may have completed it. See for yourself. OneWeirdDude 19:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Temple Square

This is Utah's most popular tourist attraction[1][2] and is expected to receive between 5 and 7 million visitors this year.[3]. It is also the headquarters of the LDS Church and one of the most important sites in the Church. The article itself is little more than a stub, and unfortunately cites no sources. If we work on it, however, I think we could get it up to at least GA standard by the end of the month.

I was originally going to nominate the Salt Lake Temple, but I like the wider perspective of this article. Of course, the temple is still a very important site, and I will probably nominate its article at a later time. --Lethargy 23:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
(vote or comment)

Support:

Lethargy 21:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
uriah923^(talk) 03:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Sylverdin 21:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Oscarsonthepond 09:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

[edit] Mormon pioneers

It would be great to have this article featured on the front page for Pioneer Day in 2007, the 160th anniversary of the first company's entry into the Salt Lake Valley.
(vote or comment)

Support:

Lethargy 23:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Tom Stringham 05:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

Since it takes awhile for an article to be approved for the front page, I'm guessing we should aim to have this up to featured status a month or two before July.
Also see Mormon handcart pioneers, which became a featured article a short time ago.