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Articles to write

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Bolded entries are possible candidates for Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week.

Discussions needing action

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Listed in approximate order by priority:

Content to add

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Refactoring

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  • Make Template:fac and Template:fac-contested look nice like Template:featured.
  • Remove redirects for Messiah (Handel).
  • Smash out links to the Black Flag disambig.
  • Verify claim of 350 featured articles; synchronize with Category:Wikipedia Featured Articles.
  • Standardize E-1 m series of articles
  • Hip-Hop template does not belong on Grafitti (and a few other places). Drop them a note.
  • Div id's on WP:NOT like WP:DP?
  • Reduce VfD's page size:
    • {{subst:rewritten|ArticleName}} for when article is rewritten and supported
    • {{subst:toolong|ArticleName}} for when discussion gets huge
    • Can the category and translations go in the footer template?
    • Parameterized subst template for new VfD listing (pending subst: bug fix)
  • Add {{fac-contested}} to all articles listed on (low priority, bot work)

Questions for Wikipedia:Help Desk

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  • Discussions for deletion -- guidelines on how to be brief?
  • Admin tools, are there enough of them?
  • Is there a discussion about hotlinking to wikipedia, and whether this is a bad thing?
  • Is there a consensus on template and category redirects and whether they're generally a bad thing, and how to stomp them out if they are?
  • Is there a central place for bots to hang out?
  • Is there a bot or query or something to:
    • Find spelling errors? SpellBot
    • Change "See Also" and "External Links" to "See also" and "External links"? Some efforts have been made
    • Standardize where the following appears on the page (top or bottom):
      • disambig
      • category
      • language translations
      • stub
      • leading and trailing newlines
    • Find mismatched talk redirects? (e.g., Talk:Gaia redirected to Talk:Gaia (mythology) but Gaia did not redirect Gaia (mythology))
    • Find pages with "(redirect page)" in their title (if any exist)?
  • Are these bugs?
    • Image having to be uploaded twice? (Or this a cache issue)
    • Parameterize templates only work in Template namespace? Do they?
  • How to explain the videotaping monitors effect?
  • Approval voting in the U.S. system?
  • "Certified Business Location" for Virginia cities?
  • Americans prefer tall presidents?

See also

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