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Welcome to the WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of, well, everything!

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(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals
  • First and foremost, to improve Wikipedia through the addition of new articles on notable subjects and the improvement of existing articles.
  • To parlay the efforts made on the Reference Desks into more lasting contributions to the encyclopedia.
  • To leverage the fact that questioners on the Reference Desk represent a broader spectrum of the overall population than Wikipedia editors in general, and that their questions can help address the Wikipedia bias.
  • To have fun in the process.
Scope
  • All topics are fair game.
  • Concentration will be on new articles and existing stubs.
  • While "controversial" articles are not specifically excluded, all participants are reminded that this is a collaborative effort and that FUN is a part of it.

Contents

[edit] Guidelines

Article selection

New articles can be nominated by any participant. Before starting a new article, some research and a brief discussion is appropriate to ensure that the material is not already presented elsewhere or under a different name. This project is, to a large extent, about adding articles; if there is doubt or dispute after discussion, then the default would be to add the article and let the larger community decide whether to delete it by means of normal deletion processes.

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Justanother (talk • contribs) (Mostly engineering/construction/cars/pool (the game)/who knows what else. But definitely not NRMs!!)
  2. Maelwys (talk • contribs)
  3. Rockpocket (talk • contribs) (biological science, particularly genetics)
  4. Sluzzelin (talk • contribs) (replying to questions that weren't posted, and asking unrelated follow-ups)
  5. V-Man737 (talk • contribs) (Most everything [except for bleach], especially interesting tidbits of miscellany, and a bit of religion)
  6. Dweller (talk • contribs) (Assuming that trolls are misunderstood hairy people who just like bridges)
  7. Vranak (talk • contribs)
  8. TenOfAllTrades (talk • contribs) (Mostly the sciences, but I'm flexible)
  9. Anchoress (talk • contribs) (Google Queen)
  10. AndonicO (talk • contribs) (Everything except The weather in London! :))
  11. AMP'd (talk • contribs) (Finally, a Wikiproject I can get involved in!)
  12. Danielfolsom (talk • contribs)

[edit] Open tasks (other than articles)

[edit] Articles

[edit] New article collaboration

Please feel free to list your suggestions here for articles to be created by the WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

  • Orvietan - most of the info is from two online links (an Italian site and German Wikipedia). The research was triggered by The Dark Side's question at the language desk on February 5th, 2007. Article started on February 16th, 2007.
  • Cork hat mentioned by Vespine in the Misc RD. V-Man737 05:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Had a go at this, but it really could do with an image (anyone own a hat they could take a photo of, ugly mug optional)? Rockpocket 08:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Latex paint - Neither paint not latex give decent treatment to this ubiquitous substance. --Justanother 17:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Hope it is OK that this came from a RD-type question on my talk page. --Justanother 17:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Hard yakka or Hard Yakka from the same posting. At the moment, Yakka is a disambig page with unsatisfactory information about the hard variety. Google search V-Man737 07:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Ojon. Google search V-Man737 07:20, 17 February 2007 (UTC).
    See my reply here. Once it can be established that Ojon is used by several notable cosmetics companies or magazines, and even if it actually is nothing else but the American oil palm, I think think it might be worth an article or at least a redirect and mentioning in the oil palm article. Obviously people are going to look it up. ---Sluzzelin 11:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
    Ok, this link] suggests that Ojon is a local word for the American oil palm used as a brand name. I don't know whether this warrants an article or not. I don't know enough about ad-spam concerns, and I'm not very familiar with wikipedia's cosmetics section. ---Sluzzelin 16:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Legal restrictions on naming children (by country). Moved down to collaboration on existing articles per TOAT's suggestion ---Sluzzelin 12:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC) Inspired by a frothy question here. I actually searched this online years ago, because of a discussion I had. I did find some things then, but had more trouble this time. The name is clumsy, please change it. ---Sluzzelin 11:41, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
    Perhaps this should start out as an expansion of the section Given name#Legality? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
    Excellent, and, once enough data from a significant amount of countries is collected, maybe even some historical facts, we could happily fork off a new article. ---Sluzzelin 16:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Compressed air canister clunky name for the compressed air clog buster. Also, cross-referencing needs to be added to a lot of the plumbing related articles. Anchoress 19:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Polarity flip (geology) (or something to that effect)

So I posted a question on the science desk about plate tectonics, and after a few unhelpful answers due to confusion, I got the answer I was looking for. Basically, a tectonic plate that was subducting stops when it carries continental crust to the plate boundary and the other plate starts subducting if it's oceanic crust. I'm sure we could add a nice diagram on this phenomenon. - AMP'd 22:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm unsure if this could ever be more than a stub BIO. She was the first female Speaker in the US, which is well referenced, but this bio is all else i could find.—eric 03:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Sonic repeller and Invisible Fence from WP:RD/M#Pets - unless there is a better name with an article already...? ("Sonic repeller?" I'm pulling a graveyard shift here, I have no clue what that actually should be called.) sauce... V-Man - T/C 10:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Existing article collaboration

Please feel free to list your suggestions here for existing articles for improvement by the WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

  • Preacher - a subject rich in culture and references; poor in Wikipedia.
  • Given name#Legality. Originally I wanted to suggest a new article on the history and worldwide variety of legal restrictions in naming your children (see above), but, as TOAT pointed out, this section of the Given name article needs expansion first. ---Sluzzelin 12:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • List of pieces which use quotation brought to our attention by meltBanana . The title is debatable and the scope isn't clearly defined yet, but this sounds like a fun one to expand.
  • Carnival#Europe needs a reference to Germany's Karneval (which redirects to the first link right now). V-Man737 01:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
    It could, specifically, use references to Fat Thursday and Berliners. V-Man737 01:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
    One of the, if not the most famous one is the Cologne carnival which happens to have an article. I took a swift look at the German Wikipedia's article on Fasching, Fastnacht und Karneval and it looks like something to start out with. I'll give it a try in a few days. ---Sluzzelin
    I'm going to attempt a timid translation of the German article on my user space. If it ends up looking correct, let's see about making it a full-on article. V-Man737 04:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
    Helau. I just saw Talk:Carnival#.22Germany.22-section_blank_.2F_deleted. I can't go though the history right now. ---Sluzzelin.
  • Wing walking - Great subject with lots of history and imagery, has just a line. --Justanother 17:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Cholera toxin - I just created this article based on a question on RD/S. (We had information in a couple of other articles that touched on cholera toxin, but nothing dedicated to this neat little protein complex.) It could probably use some beefing up from a biochemist, and some general formatting and copyediting from anyone. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 04:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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