Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW

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The current UK Collaboration of the Fortnight is British-Spanish relations.
Every fortnight a different UK-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked.
Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

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The UK Collaboration of the Fortnight is chosen each fortnight. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to the United Kingdom, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the fortnight, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps about the UK in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of UK articles on the todo list on the UK Wikipedians' notice board or you can look in List of United Kingdom-related topics or the UK Wikipedians' complete to do list. Anyone can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every other Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

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Contents

[edit] Selection

The next COTF will be selected on Sunday, 26 March 2006, 18:00 UTC (the current time is 06:56, June 14, 2008).

[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 if you wish.

  • Please only add support votes - opposing votes will not affect the result as the choice is done by approval voting (the most votes, wins).
  • Please vote for as many candidates as you like.
  • Only registered users may vote.
  • Being a resident or from the UK is not a requirement to vote!

[edit] Tie-breakers

To keep things simple, if two or more articles have both had the same number of votes by the selection time, the article nominated first is chosen as COTF.

[edit] Making Nominations

  • At the top of the list of nominees on this page, enter the text {{Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW/name of nominated article}}.
  • Click on the appropriate link in the new message box.
  • Enter the text === [[name of nominated article]] ===.
  • Enter your reason for the nomination, and sign it using ~~~~.

If the page you wish to nominate already exists, in addition to the above steps please add the text {{ukcotwc}} at the top of the article's talk page.

[edit] Considerations

  • Please only nominate UK-related articles which do not exist or are stubs (or are not stubs; but very short articles).
  • Giving reasons to why an article should be chosen will aid others in supporting.

[edit] Archiving

If a nomination does not receive enough votes (three votes for every month it is nominated) it will be archived. Older archives can be viewed at /removed (up to 10 February 2005). Articles which become nominated to COTW are viewable at /past collaborations.

[edit] Promoting

  1. Remove successful candidate from this list and add to /past collaborations with {{Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW/name of nominated article}}.
  2. Replace the current text in {{collab-uk}} with the name of the promoted article. This updates loads of other templates automagically.
  3. Add {{UKCOTW}} to the top of the successful article.
  4. Remove {{UKCOTW}} from the previous collaboration and add{{past ukcotw|date|year}} to its talk page.
  5. Leave a message on the talk pages of the nominator and supporters informing them of the promotion - you can use {{UKCOTW FYI}}.
  6. If you want you can leave a message on the talk page of related articles (but don't go overboard) as people who have a similar topic on their watchlist may want to join in.

[edit] Candidates

[edit] English drama

Originally nominated for AID, but it's better focused here. Humanities topics like this are what we need to improve. A quick random glance at this article makes it look all right - relatively long, nice images, and so on. But a closer look shows that it's a jumble of unorganized information, mostly name-dropping/"play-dropping", and by and large very poorly written. zafiroblue05 | Talk 23:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

This page is presently more about English theatre than drama, with its mentions of burlesque and music hall. The page ought perhaps to be broken down into History, Genres with datelines for easily-defined English styles such as Restoration comedy, Kitchen sink drama (missing at present and very significant!) and In-yer-face theatre, with a further section which differentiates between the attitudes of West End and regional theatre to English drama. Could do better. - Stevecov 17:52, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Oh yes, and I meant to say that Andrew Lloyd Webber has absolutely nothing to do with English drama, but I forgot first time out! - Stevecov 17:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Support
  1. zafiroblue05 | Talk 23:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
  2. Silence 10:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  3. Fluit 01:20, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
  4. Stevecov 17:52, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British and Irish current events

After over a month of inactivity, it recently survived an AfD. As it's considered important enough to Wikipedia to stay, we ought to make sure it stays in date. As the next collaboration it would receive the necessary regeneration to be a good article. BigBlueFish 16:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

  1. Pieboyjr 12:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terrorism Bill 2005

  • Was a redlink the evening after it led to Blair's first parliamentary defeat. Can't help but feel this is a after the horse has bolted move, but we may get a lot of people looking for something on this.

Support:

  1. bodnotbod 19:25, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
  2. TG312274 21:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
  3. Yellowmellow45 12:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  4. Waggers 14:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
  5. Nessuno834 18:41, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
  6. Richard75 19:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
  7. Computerjoe's talk 20:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  8. Kommondant 23:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  9. Barberio 13:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  10. duncan 19:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
  11. Dom0803 10:05, 22 June 2006 (BST).

[edit] Robson Green

  • Maybe the most important British TV actor of the last 15 years, who has starred in tonnes of TV series. My mum fancies him too!

Support:

  1. --Dangherous 14:59, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
  2. Computerjoe's talk 20:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC).