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* Would be interesting to learn how people in different cultures welcome new babies into their communities. -- [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] 06:40, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
* Would be interesting to learn how people in different cultures welcome new babies into their communities. -- [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] 06:40, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
*If that's what you want to cover, the article would certainly need to be renamed. Baby shower is a very Americanism I believe. - [[User:Taxman|Taxman]] 17:46, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
*If that's what you want to cover, the article would certainly need to be renamed. Baby shower is a very Americanism I believe. - [[User:Taxman|Taxman]] 17:46, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
** There shouldn't be any problems with renaming and redirects, it's the same topic: we all "shower" the "baby" and the new mother with gifts. The timing varies. Traditional choices of gifts also are different. Some cultures may have interesting and unique foods at the party, too. -- [[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] 18:44, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)


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Each week an Article of the week will be picked using this page. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the week, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Anyone can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

The current article of the week is Medieval warfare.

Previous winners can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

Selecting the next Article of the week

The next winner will be selected on Sunday 1 August, 18:00 (UTC).

Voting

Please vote for as many of the following options as you like. 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). Only registered users should vote. The one nominated first wins in case of a tie.

Enter your votes by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~" which will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.

Nominations

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end. Please use the template. If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{AOTW}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to: Template:AOTW

Considerations for nominations

  • Please only nominate articles which don't currently exist or are stubs.
  • Giving reasons as to why an article should become the AOTW may assist others in casting their vote.
  • Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?

Pruning

A nominated page will be moved to /Removed if it has not received 4 votes after 7 days on the list, 8 votes after 14 days, 12 votes after 21 days, and so on. See the talk page for discussion of the pruning policy.

Candidates for next week

June 28 (Week 5: needs 20 votes by August 2)

Pravda

Support:

  1. Confuzion 16:35, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  2. Burgundavia 05:47, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
  3. ALoan (Talk) 13:10, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  4. Ravn 16:27, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  5. Dysprosia 05:49, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. [[User:Ævar Arnfjör<eth> Bjarmason|Ævar Arnfjör<eth> Bjarmason]] 15:05, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
  7. Tothebarricades.tk 23:17, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. ALargeElk | Talk 11:42, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. JamesTeterenko 00:00, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  10. Ravn 12:54, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  11. [[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 20:26, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  12. [[User:Avala|Avala|★]] 19:45, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  13. Marlowe 19:09, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  14. Secretlondon 11:49, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  15. Warofdreams 12:09, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  16. AaronSw 15:23, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  17. Matthewmayer 12:21, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  18. PFHLai 12:58, 2004 Jul 28 (UTC)


Comments:

  • A historically important newspaper, there's no info on the paper during the Soviet years.
  • I originally voted for this, but then I realised that I doubt there's all that much we'll be able to find, compared to some other topics. There's likely to be few enough information sources that one or two people could probably do just as good a job as everyone else would if it were selected AOTW. Ambivalenthysteria 22:41, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

July 4 (Week 4: needs 16 votes by August 1)

Livestock

Support

  1. Gentgeen 14:14, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC). Such a broad topic deserves more than two sentence fragments and a list.
  2. Burgundavia 06:42, Jul 5, 2004 (UTC)
  3. Peregrine981 14:13, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Bmills 14:35, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. – PlatinumX 16:04, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. ALargeElk | Talk 11:53, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC). Definitely. Let's start to fill in these big gaps.
  7. Krik 18:35, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC).
  8. Conti|✉ 08:21, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. Thue | talk 12:21, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  10. SimonP 19:49, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
  11. Omegium 19:30, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  12. Benc 04:20, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • Wikipedia is a bit lacking in agricultural information. Considering the importance, and widespread nature of agriculture this is a weakness. I would support Livestock as a way of broadening the type of information available on wikipedia. Peregrine981 14:14, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

July 7 (Week 4: needs 16 votes by August 4)

Baghdad

Support

  1. Pjamescowie 13:21, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Ambivalenthysteria 15:09, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Chopchopwhitey 15:23, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Conti|✉ 15:50, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. Taxman 02:03, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)
  6. Rmhermen 20:35, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)
  7. Brassratgirl 09:06, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. Lexor|Talk 21:23, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. PFHLai 05:57, 2004 Jul 14 (UTC)
  10. TPK 10:06, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  11. Secretlondon 11:51, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  12. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:06, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)
  13. Jacoplane 18:12, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  14. Thue | talk 09:30, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  15. Matthewmayer 23:51, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  16. Benc 04:19, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • As per Cairo, the article for Baghdad is pitifully short for such an historically important and currently newsworthy Middle Eastern capital. Pjamescowie 13:21, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • It mightn't be an exact stub, but that we have so little on a city likely to receive so many hits makes us look bad. Ambivalenthysteria 15:09, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

July 13 (Week 3: needs 12 votes by August 3)

Renaissance

Support

  1. Tothebarricades.tk 05:17, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Brassratgirl 09:06, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. ALargeElk | Talk 12:16, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Sarge Baldy 17:34, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
  5. JamesTeterenko 19:11, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. Conti|✉ 19:27, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  7. Lexor|Talk 21:21, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. ALoan (Talk) 22:42, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. SimonP 19:52, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
  10. Ohka- 10:46, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  11. —siroχo
  12. PFHLai 04:39, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
  13. Satori 19:17, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)
  14. →Raul654 01:23, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
  15. divadiane 12:55, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  16. TPK 14:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments

  • Just a series of lists. The "overview" amounts to a paragraph or two. Pretty weak considering the historical significance of this period.
  • I think this topic is too large. Like Roman Empire above, a Wikiproject may be more appropriate .... -- PFHLai 23:12, 2004 Jul 13 (UTC) On second thoughts, a more elaborated Renaissance page with short abstracts to serve as entry points (or intro's) to the many other related pages would be nice, too, rather than just having the list of "sub-topics" there right now. -- PFHLai 04:39, 2004 Jul 23 (UTC)
  • A good general topic with lots to be said. Ambitious, but parts can always be spun out into separate articles. -- ALoan (Talk) 22:42, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

July 17 (Week 2: needs 8 votes by July 31)

Diplomacy

Support:

  1. Lexor|Talk 10:20, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Conti|✉ 14:50, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Ambivalenthysteria 15:14, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. TPK 10:06, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. Dysprosia 11:46, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:02, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)
  7. Thue | talk 11:03, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. PlatinumX 07:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  9. J3ff 07:57, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  10. Burgundavia 09:04, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
  11. Benc 04:12, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
  12. →Raul654 01:23, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
  13. Peregrine981 14:30, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • This article is rather sad and very stubby, especially contrasted with the article on war and other former and proposed AOTW such as siege and medieval warfare. I move that that a decent article on diplomacy is highly appropriate and timely. --10:20, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Diplomacy is an important part of human civilization, yet very few people practice diplomacy for the sake of diplomacy. There are many, many war games, but few diplomacy games. (And most of those are simply war games in disguise.) Maybe that's why the article is so stubby. :-) Tangents aside, I support making diplomacy an AOTW. --Benc 04:12, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

Little Rock Crisis

Support:

  1. Ambivalenthysteria 15:09, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Conti|✉ 16:32, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. PFHLai 19:05, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)
  4. TPK 10:06, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. Dysprosia 11:46, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. Neutrality 03:20, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  7. PlatinumX 07:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)


Comments:

  • For such a crucial event in the civil rights movement, this is a pretty cruddy stub - and a fairly large hole in Wikipedia's coverage. I think it'd be perfect for AOTW - there's so much that could be added. Ambivalenthysteria 15:09, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Nice photo at Little Rock Nine. Let's merge and take the pic. -- PFHLai 19:05, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)

July 18 (Week 2: needs 8 votes by August 1)

Culture of Hungary

Support:

  1. PFHLai 18:42, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
  2. Sarge Baldy 21:03, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
  3. TPK 10:06, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Secretlondon
  5. Matthewmayer 12:28, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. Warofdreams 11:09, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  7. Peregrine981 14:38, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • User:SargeBaldy requested this topic at 'Opentask', and I thought this topic would make a good AOTW. Hence the nomination of this 'red' topic. Think about the food, the clothes, the dances, the music, the architecture ... loads to write about .... A Google search for 'Culture'+'Hungary' yields 1,400,000 hits ! :-) -- PFHLai 18:42, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
  • Hungary is a very unique country from other nations in Europe in a lot of ways and I think this could turn into a very interesting article. Sarge Baldy 21:03, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)

July 19 (Week 2: needs 8 votes by August 2)

Empire Windrush

Support:

  1. Secretlondon 11:59, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Warofdreams 12:09, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. ALoan (Talk) 11:13, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Andy Mabbett 21:30, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • It's an important topic in the history of multicultural Britain and deserves much better than my pitiful stub. It needs to talk about why they came, why they were needed etc. Secretlondon 11:59, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

July 20 (Week 2: needs 8 votes by August 3)

Babylonia

Support:

  1. Sarge Baldy 18:40, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
  2. PFHLai 21:57, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
  3. Neutrality 23:05, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. —siroχo 08:30, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
  5. Peregrine981 14:31, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • This article seems ridiculously weak for such an important civilization. Sarge Baldy 18:40, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • what Sarge said. Neutrality 23:05, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • I was going to support, but there is actually lots of 1911 Encyclopedia material (geography, history, culture, etc) on the pages linked to in Babylonia and Assyria. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:16, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Yeah, lots of related good content are already in Wikipedia. But this also means good content is easily accessible for merging and reorganizing to give Babylonia a makeover, and hopefully turn it into a nice 'featured article'. Two lines and 4 internal links are just too skimpy. -- PFHLai 10:00, 2004 Jul 22 (UTC)

July 21 (Week 2: needs 8 votes by August 4)

British military history

Support

  1. SimonP 00:08, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
  2. --Gerald Farinas 00:27, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Neutrality 04:16, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. ALoan (Talk) 11:18, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. Tothebarricades.tk 04:56, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  6. PlatinumX 07:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  7. Vasile 19:33, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. →Raul654 01:23, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
  9. Peregrine981 14:32, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Is currently just a long list of see also topics. It would be nice to have something comparable to military history of Canada.
  • I agree. It's a pity that an institution with such a history should be summarized as a mere list of lists. --Gerald Farinas 00:22, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

History of feminism

Support

  1. Neutrality 04:16, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Ambivalenthysteria 10:14, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. PlatinumX 07:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. RMG 23:29, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. Gkhan 21:11, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  6. TPK 14:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  7. Peregrine981 14:39, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Way to little for such an important subject Gkhan 21:11, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)

Attila the Hun

Support

  1. Taxman 16:51, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
  2. Conti|✉ 17:25, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Sarge Baldy 21:31, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
  4. Neutrality 21:52, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. FT 01:07, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
  6. Switisweti 10:00, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  7. PlatinumX 07:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  8. Benc 03:39, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
  9. Peregrine981 14:28, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Not much here on such a historically important individual. Could be a fun one too. - Taxman 16:51, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • More fun than Kofi Annan. ;) Neutrality 21:52, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Nice article, a lot of hardly known facts - Switisweti 10:00, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Article in need of some NPOVing. Sure, Attila ended up sacking Rome, but he wasn't quite the barbarian Western tradition has made him out to be. --Benc 03:39, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

July 22 (Week 2: needs 8 votes by August 5)

Wildlife

Support

  1. Neutrality 01:31, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. ALoan (Talk) 09:18, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  3. Andy Mabbett 10:17, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Conti|✉ 01:53, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  5. Burgundavia 09:03, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
  6. Benc 03:35, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

Space Race

Support

  1. Tom- 17:59, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  2. Sarge Baldy 01:48, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
  3. PlatinumX 07:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  4. Burgundavia 09:05, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
  5. Gkhan 21:12, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  6. →Raul654 01:23, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
  7. TPK 14:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Practically a stub, mostly taken up by a timeline of events. Needs much more background and historical information. Tom- 17:59, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

July 26 (Week 1: needs 4 votes by August 2)

Horseback riding

Support

  1. —siroχo 07:13, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  2. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:51, 2004 Jul 26 (UTC)
  3. Peregrine981 14:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Ugly (ugly!) dicdef substub vastly in need of improvement for what seems like an important topic considering its history, and even modern sports. Seems a very viable AOTW. —siroχo 07:13, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • There's quite a bit of material at horse about riding, which could be moved to this article. By the way, I think "horse riding" is the international term; "horseback riding" is American in flavor. Gdr 09:24, 2004 Jul 26 (UTC)
  • Well, policy would dictate that we go with whatever is most widely used; I get roughly the same # of google hits for either variation (1.04 million vs. 1.1 million). Thus, we go with the original usage, as per the Manual of Style.

July 29 (Week 1: needs 4 votes by August 5)

Baby shower

Support

  1. PFHLai 06:40, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Would be interesting to learn how people in different cultures welcome new babies into their communities. -- PFHLai 06:40, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
  • If that's what you want to cover, the article would certainly need to be renamed. Baby shower is a very Americanism I believe. - Taxman 17:46, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
    • There shouldn't be any problems with renaming and redirects, it's the same topic: we all "shower" the "baby" and the new mother with gifts. The timing varies. Traditional choices of gifts also are different. Some cultures may have interesting and unique foods at the party, too. -- PFHLai 18:44, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)

Coastal Plain

Support

  1. FZ 16:37, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Important geographic concept that's appearing in the news more frequently with debates over climate change and sea level changes; is on the "Most Wanted Stubs" list. -FZ 16:37, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Cocoa butter

Support

  1. Gentgeen 17:41, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comments:

  • Important food and cosmetic product that doesn't yet have an article. Gentgeen 17:41, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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