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In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Pakistan Collaboration of the Week will be picked. The aim of each collaboration to focus on an underdeveloped or undeveloped Pakistan-related topic and impove it over the course of the week, ideally to the level of a featured article at the end of the week the article with most support votes wil be selected for collaboration.

The over-arching aim of this project is to improve Wikipedia's content about Pakistan and also to give users a focus and an opportunity to collaboratively edit content and to give us all something to be proud of.


Nominations
  • Any registered wikipedian can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Voting also indicates interest in contributing during the weekly collaboration cycle.
  • Please nominate only one article at a time.
  • You can nominate any Pakistan-related article that you feel needs improvement.
  • Please ensure that the article exists at least as a stub. If you are making a request for a non-existent article, please do it at requested articles page.
  • Select articles that interest a wider community of editors rather than those that attract only a small number of people.
  • Every Friday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.
How to Nominate an Article
  1. Copy the template below.
  2. Paste it at the bottom' of the Candidates for next week section below. Newer nominations go below.
  3. Add the article's name and nominated date (eg: August 14) in the appropriate place as indicated in the template below.
  4. Each time you vote, please update the votes tally for the article.
  5. State your reasoning on why the article should be selected under the comments section.
  6. Please preview your addition to make sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
  7. After nominating an article please place {{Possible Pakistan COTW}} on the article's discussion page.
  8. Ensure you nominate only one article at a time.
  9. Ensure that not more six nominations are there in the pipeline. If there are six nominations already, please wait.
  10. Please make sure that you don't nominate more than one article - other editors also would like to nominate articles!! Wait till none of the noms in the pipeline are your noms.

Template
=== [[Article Name]] (Number of Votes, Nominated date) ===
'''Support'''
# ~~~~
;Comments
Include a short description explaining why the article should
be the Pakistan Collaboration of the week

Template - Example

[edit] Allama Iqbal (One Vote, Nominated 25th March)

Support

  1. Wolverinetalk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Comments

Allama Iqbal played a key role in the creation of Pakistan as he was the first to openly discuss the fact the Muslim of south asia needed their own state on the basis of the Two Nation Theory


Voting

A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved.

Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).


Selection
  • The article with the highest votes each Friday will be selected as that week's collaboration. In case of a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.
  • If an article fails to garner support for more than a month, it's nomination will be removed.
  • At any given time, a maximum of 6 candidates must be open for voting. Please do not nominate additional articles when six nominations are already present.