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Welcome to the Biography WikiProject Collaboration of the Fortnight! This effort seeks to identify biography articles that require improvement. Every fortnight, a single article will be selected as the collaboration, and everyone will work to improve it as much as possible.

Contents 1 Nominating articles 2 Candidates 2.1 Mikhail Baryshnikov 2.2 Khan Wali Khan 2.3 Laurence Olivier 2.4 George Washington 2.5 Malcolm X 2.6 Woody Allen 2.7 Brent Corrigan 2.8 Matt Tilley 2.9 Current collaboration nominations elsewhere 3 Current collaborations 3.1 India 3.2 Country Music 3.3 U.S. Congress 3.4 Orthodox Judaism Rabbis 3.5 Football (soccer) 3.6 Spanish translation 3.7 Khan Wali Khan 4 History 5 Maintenance

[edit] Nominating articles

To nominate an article, add

===[[Name of article]]===

Nomination text. ~~~~

'''Support'''

# ~~~~

'''Comments'''

at the bottom of the list of candidates, filling in the name of the article and the nomination text (which should indicate why the article would benefit from a collaboration and what needs to be improved).

Please remember to add collaboration-candidate=yes to the {{WPBiography}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Mikhail Baryshnikov

This is in WP's Core Biographies list of Top 125 Bios and it's in pretty bad shape. I'm not all the way through the list yet, but this is the first one I could at a glance give a Start class too (had no pictures, etc). plange 23:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. plange 23:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
2. ...._(Complain)^{(Let us to it pell-mell)} 02:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Khan Wali Khan

This articles not made FA status yet, I've worked quite a bit on it and have been struggling with imrpoving it further because of time constraints . Zak 23:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Laurence Olivier

Good Article that I have worked on a lot, needs to get to FA status. All sections need general expansion, and citing. ...._(Complain)^{(Let us to it pell-mell)} 03:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. ...._(Complain)^{(Let us to it pell-mell)} 03:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments

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[edit] George Washington

WP:AID is nominating this too and votes for this end on on Aug 3 - needs just 1 more vote on the AID page! This might be good for our first one to collaborate with AID. If you want to do this, vote here and there as well.... plange 02:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. plange 02:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
2. LordHarris 22:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Comments This keeps missing the deadline by just one or two votes each time. Now it needs just four more votes by August 17. Please vote there too if you support this nomination. plange 00:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Malcolm X

This is a really good article which with a bit of work could be brought up to FA statusFabio 02:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Fabio 02:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
2. I'll add it.--I'll bring the food 15:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Woody Allen

Currently rated B-class and GA nominee. The article is informative and relatively well referenced but it does need some extra meaningful content besides the "he did this and then he did that". Currently not rated on the importance scale but probably deserving of "high" as a major film maker with considerable impact and influence worldwide. Pascal.Tesson 07:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Pascal.Tesson 07:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
2. Justforasecond 17:24, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Brent Corrigan

Controversial porn star, notable for ongoing legal feud over his actual age when he starred in his first scenes. Article is the subject of frequent revert wars. Accusations fly back and forth about the lack of NPOV of editors. Needs more unattached reviewers to enhance NPOV.Jodyw1 04:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Strongly Agree. Been watching the article for the last few months, its exactly as Jody said - Which really just wastes Wiki Resources! Reedy Boy 10:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Matt Tilley

This article has recently been saved from deletion and is in need of some extra information. The article has had noticeable improvents over the past few weeks but more work needs to be done. Lakeyboy 05:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Lakeyboy 05:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Current collaboration nominations elsewhere

Below are nominations elsewhere which we may also pick from

Core topics COTF:

• Confucius

Article Improvement Drive

• Martin Luther King, Jr. - current ARCAID article
• Aleksandr Pushkin - 13 votes (stays until 18 September)
• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - 8 votes (stays until 18 September)
• Mark Twain - 15 votes (stays until 27 September)
• Jane Austen - 7 votes (stays until 19 September)
• Steven Spielberg - 4 votes (stays until 19 September)
• Michael J. Fox - 2 votes (stays until 14 September)
• J. K. Rowling - 1 vote (stays until 17 September)
• Tôn Đức Thắng - 2 votes (stays until 17 September)

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[edit] Current collaborations

Collaborations
Article Creation and Improvement Drive Article Referencing Drive Core topics Good articles Join in! Maintenance Spanish translation
Arts & entertainment
Anime and Manga Architecture Cinema Comics Novels
Games & sports
Football (soccer) Formula One Gaming (stubs) Rugby union
Geography & places
Africa Australia Canada India Indonesia NZ USA Vancouver
Government & politics
Military history U.S. Congress
Religion
Catholic Hinduism Judaism Orthodox Judaism Rabbis Mormon Zen
Science & technology
Airports new Cetaceans Chemistry Dentistry Dinosaurs History of science Mathematics Medicine Molecular and Cellular Biology Neuroscience Science Sharks
Miscellaneous
Numismatics Inactive collaborations v • d • e

[edit] India

• Sarod

[edit] Country Music

• Hank Williams

[edit] U.S. Congress

• Mel Hancock

[edit] Orthodox Judaism Rabbis

• Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl

[edit] Football (soccer)

• Ajax Amsterdam

[edit] Spanish translation

• Rafael Maroto

[edit] Khan Wali Khan

. Zak 23:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

	Date	Article	Votes	Edits	Improvement
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A full archive of past nominations is also available.

[edit] Maintenance

At the beginning of every fortnight, a new collaboration article should be selected. This should generally be the candidate with the most support (and the oldest candidate in case of a tie).

To archive the current collaboration:

1. Remove {{BioCOTWnow}} from the top of the current collaboration article.
2. Add the current article to the bottom of the history section.
3. Move the current article's nomination text to the archive.

To select the new collaboration:

1. Add {{BioCOTWnow}} to the top of the new article.
2. Move the new article's nomination text to the "Current collaboration" section.
3. Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Collaboration/Current to point to the new article.
4. Replace collaboration-candidate=yes with past-collaboration=<start date>–<end date> in the {{WPBiography}} project banner at the top of the new article's talk page.
5. Add {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Collaboration/Notice|Name of article}} ~~~~ to the talk pages of users who supported the new article.