Wikipedia talk:To-do list

Rating

Wikipedia should have some sort or rating or age check for pages containing images or discussion of mature content such as the page breast bondage. --Coolsafe (talk) 19:50, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Needs a hide/show button

This desperately needs a hide/show button, and a parameter to have it hidden by default. The code for this can be ripped from any of a number of other templates (I've even seen a WikiProject talk page banner that does this - it has a line reading something like "Project to-do list [show]" and it uses the same to-do list as this box template. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 01:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

That's an idea

Uhh, if this is in the wrong place, will somebody please move it? I wanted to suggest a page listing NFL 1-game or "special" records, like "most interceptions in a row". Trekphiler 15:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Shrink the size of the "to-do" box

I have a to-do box on my userpage. It is too big for some screens. in other words it begins below my userboxes as opposed to being beside it. How can that be fixed? Is there a way to shrink the box size? thanks, PGPirate 17:00, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Priority vs. urgency

The list currently has a 'priority' (popularity, more accurately) status, but what about the urgency of the work? Some articles only need minor adjustments or have very low urgency tasks such as 'improve related articles', 'maintain quality' etc. Should this also be a factor, as with class/importance in banners? Richard001 07:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

When you say urgent, do you mean important?--99.237.222.73 (talk) 22:02, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

i just have to check and see if it says that your saying this or it looks like me sayin it seperatley —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.177.109.231 (talk) 02:26, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Instructions please

Greetings. I found the instructions inadequate. This is complicated (for me) so please look over the step-by-step and see if it really works. Where to put the * bullet point tasks? Would help to have a screen shot or two. See my problems here, thanks. HG | Talk 13:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Change of surname Douchewich to Norman de Mattos Bentwich

I have altered on the Rosalind Franklin's page, the surname of Norman de Mattos Bentwich which was written as Douchewich but when that's translated from Dutch it is a "shower". But he was a lawyer and her uncle. When I was looking into her last year, his name was shown up correctly as Bentwich which was his father's name too.

They were important people for the UK in the last century 20th. As was his wife, Helen Caroline Franklin. A suffragette and a local councillor.

Feline23 (talk) 15:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Guys, help needed

There are few articles needed to be created on Russian topics. Very important!

• Russian Oven - Very important part of Russian culture.
• Metla - Yes, the Russian broom. Belive it or not but it is unique, an article needed.

Those two articles can be translated from the Russian Wikipedia.

The third one is Artamonov, and i'm surorised there aint an article on him on the Russian Wikipedia, he is reminded in the Bisycle. He invented the bisycle and there ain't an article on him. Very important.

Please do those things! It's important things i'm surprised were missed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.179.100.208 (talk) 21:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

To do lists are for existing articles, you want article requests. Richard001 (talk) 00:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

The article on Caspian tiger is in peril

If anyone is interested in preserving the place of the Caspian tiger in history - now is the time to act.

I was doing a research project on ancient/historic trade through Afghanistan and Central Asia in general, and jumped online to look at some pictures of Caspian tigers - In the course of which I checked out Wikipedia. I found that some gross changes had been made to the tiger pages that are threatening to sweep away the Caspian tiger's place on Wikipedia. As I have zero experience in Wikipedia as a contributor/editor - I desperately need to find someone to help.

Here's the situation - It so happens that very recent DNA research indicates that the Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) and the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris Altaica) are so closely related that they are for all intents and purposes - one and the same; that they once had a contiguous range that spanned from modern Turkey through Armenia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Northern China, and into southeastern Russia. Apparently it was only in the past 200 hundred years that the Caspian tiger and the Siberian tiger were separated by human pressures, and only recently (1950's) that the Caspian tigers in the Western ranges were entirely eliminated. The Siberian tiger is basically the last remnant. These wide ranging tigers kept mostly to the fertile riversides and alluvial marshes and were part of the rich history of these regions since man began to trade along the same routes as the tiger's range. These are the same tigers that are depicted in stone reliefs, sculptures, tapestries, miniature paintings, and prose, the same tigers that were encountered by caravan drivers, traders, emissaries, and religious travelers for thousands of years - and in Wikipedia there are serious threats to remove their page and are even now regulating them to a status below that which they deserve.

It must be noted that when scientifically classifying animals there is only one rank below the classification "species" (tigers in this case); there is only "subspecies." At times more than one person describes an animal and submits a name for it. This used to be common, and was due to distance, communication, and honest mistakes. In this case, the inaccuracy of early classification has been revealed with the aid of DNA. Two persons submitted a name for the same subspecies. The international governing body for animal classification, the ICZN, has a rule by which the first description always takes precedence (unless by a rare special ruling). Thus there can only be one subspecies. In this case the Caspian tiger (P. t. virgata) was described in 1815 by Illiger, and the Siberian tiger (P. t. altaica) years later by Temminck in 1844. Thus, the Siberian becomes what is known as a synonym, or a local common name. Most tigers have several synonyms. Synonyms are not an official scientific classification.

Prior to this latest published DNA analysis there were nine subspecies, including both the Caspian and the Siberian. Three were listed as extinct, including the Caspian. Apparently someone upon reading the study saw that both subspecies were in fact that same - but did not understand the ICZN rules, and have taken it upon themselves to cannibalize the Caspian tiger page and drag it contents over to the Siberian tiger page, change references throughout both articles to erroneously indicate that the Caspian is a synonym of the subspecies Siberian. Further the main Tiger page, which is semi-protected due to people having editing wars over minor (irrelevant) content, now lists the Caspian as a synonym of the Siberian - which by all rights is not a subspecies. There is a suggestion the remainder of the Caspian page be merged with the Siberian page.

I need to find somebody who knows Wikipedia, who knows how to form an editing group, who knows how to inform the greater Wiki-world of a project, who knows how to make the changes needed, and who knows how to protect the pages once they have been changed. I am so very new to this you wouldn't believe it, but I can already tell from reading the tiger discussion pages (and some of the minutia that they argue over) that there will be need for some page protections.

I see two options -

1.) Stick with previous knowledge, with both the Caspian and Siberian listed as subspecies - with a small note referencing the new DNA study. 2.) Apply the new understanding of the DNA relationships and fix all three related pages.

It is definitely not acceptable for things to remain as they are.

I have made my argument and have prepared a list of changes that need to be made, for all three relevant pages; these are posted on the discussion page for the article - "Tiger."

Someone with Wiki-experience and Wiki-clout - please help (Altalaya (talk) 23:40, 30 April 2009 (UTC)).

Help Please

Hi folks, over the past few months I've learned quite a bit about how Wikipedia works, and how the editing process works. Most importantly, I've learned that on heated topics related to religious or other "sacred" topics, a certain POV can be pushed by editors to the point that it dominates the article. Mormonism, and the "LDS Article Wiki Project" is evidence of that. I've been getting PWNED by Mormons from the LDS wiki project that have dominated the West_Ridge_Academy article, a place that can be best described at this website: www.MormonGulag.com. Every time I make an edit, this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Storm_Rider reports me for revert wars and has me banned. He knows me from another Mormon-related website I participate on (although I don't know him) and his personal mission has become controlling this Wiki article and protecting the Mormon Church's image on Wikipedia. Any help or advice, or maybe the support of a prolific editor will even this out. Thanks.--66.74.10.34 (talk) 16:04, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Family law

I propose a new child project "Family Law". There is currently a Family law article, but I don't think it's part of the Law Project -- and the article needs to be overhauled in any event. I don't know how to go about starting a new project or nominating it or even what the process is. Any suggestions or assistance appreciated. Minor4th (talk) 14:21, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

{{todo}} template on user and project pages?

While WP:to-do list only mentions adding {{todo}} to talk pages, the examples in template:todo mention adding it to project and user pages. Is it in fact legitimate to use {{todo}} to keep track of tasks on a user page? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 11:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)