Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW

Every week an Indian Collaboration of the Week will be picked using this page. The goal of each collaboration is to take an undeveloped or underdeveloped India-related topic and improve it over the course of the week, ideally to the level of a featured article. At the end of each week, the topic with the most support votes will be selected for collaboration.

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

The current collaboration of the week is ''none at the moment.

Change the current INCOTW:

Archive of: previous winners | removed nominations | initial supporters

How it works:

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. Every Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

Nomination criteria

• Please nominate only one article at a time.
• Please only nominate India-related articles that you feel need improvement. If articles close to FA-status need improvement, please request a peer review at the India WikiProject.
• Please ensure that the article exists atleast as a stub. If you are making a request for a non-existent article, please do it at Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/Requested articles.
• Giving good reasons will help others in supporting your nomination.
• Select articles that interest a wider community of editors rather than those that attract only a small number of people.

To nominate an article

To add a new nomination, please:

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 India 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 do not nominate more than one article - other editors also would like to nominate articles! Wait until none of the nominations in the pipeline are yours.

Template

=== [[Article Name]] ===
* '''(Number of votes: , Nominated date: )'''
'''Support:''' 
# ~~~~
;Comments
* <i>Include a short description explaining why the article should be
 the Indian Collaboration of the week</i>.

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 Sunday 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 and moved to the Removed Nominations page. Add failed-collaboration=Day Month Year to India project banner on the article's talk page.
• 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.

Procedure

• Remove {{Current India COTW}} from the current collaboration.
• Add {{Current India COTW}} at the top of the article selected for that week.
• Add past-collaboration=week of [[Month Day]][[Year]] to the India project banner on the talk page of article. Please add the project banner if it does not exist, {{WP India|past-collaboration=?}}.
• Update current.
• Archive the votes of the article selected under [[Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW/<Article Name>]].
• Update Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW/History. Update See column with the improvement of last week. And add the current selected article to the list.
• Use {{subst:INCOTWvoter|pagename|pagetitle}} at voter's talk page.

An example for the above procedure can be found here.

Candidates for next week

Lal Bahadur Shastri

• (Number of votes:2 , Nominated date:31/1/07)

Support:

1. Sfacets 10:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
2. utcursch | talk 14:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• 2nd Prime Minister of India, as well as a freedom fighter, deserves a better article.

Indian art

• (Number of votes: 1, Nominated date: 2/14/07)

Support:

1. +A.Ou 02:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Scheibenzahl 10:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• I would think that Indian art is of top importance. I am concerned that the article is probably in serious need of references and citations (there are only three listed sources and almost no footnotes the last time I checked), as there are some uncited statements that appear to be not credible without a proper citation - for example: "Indian art and architecture has brought India closer to the world." Generally, there should be more expansion/verification of content. You may also want to see its Swedish FA counterpart. +A.Ou 02:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Having a Swedish FA article represents the importance of the article. Plus it is handy, and we can be really make it a FA within a week.--Scheibenzahl 10:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Narasimha Rao

• (Number of votes: 1, Nominated date: 16/2/07)

Support:

1. Shahab 20:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This article is about the PM who oversaw one of the most important transformations in India's history. It needs to be heavily wikified. Kindly assist.

Earl Cornwallis

• (Number of votes: 2, Nominated date: 17/2/07: )

Support:

1. Rockfall 13:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Lanarion 23:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Cornwallis' tenure in India as Governor General saw the development of the Indian civil service and governmental structure. Much of the "Western" nature of India government is thanks to the reforms proposed by Cornwallis. The "Cornwallis Reforms", while ethnically inappropriate by modern standards (high civil positions were to be held by Europeans), they reduced much of the corruption that had been plaguing the sub-continent. The article on Cornwallis has next to nothing on his tenure in India, and this could do with being fixed..
• A very interesting point: for the India of today to exist, reforms had to occur that would bring it up to par - and so the Cornwallis reforms would be an interesting idea to look at. A nation that does not know its own history is suffering from amnesia. Knowledge of the past is vital to understanding how the present came to be - why and how India came to be the way it is today.

Nominations on other COTWs related to India

Archives

The following India-related topics have been nominated on other COTW projects. If you are interested in contributing to them, you should add your support.

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