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Article improvement drive is a weekly collaboration to improve non-stub articles to featured article status. (For stub articles or topics with no articles, see Collaboration of the week.)

Two collaborations are selected each week by registered users from ten candidates. Nominations are placed under Pending nominations with an explanation of what work is needed, and held there until they are both seconded and the queue before them is empty. Each Sunday, the two articles with the least support are dropped, the two with the highest become the Article Improvement Drive and the remaining six are dropped to the bottom of the Pending list. Articles in the Pending category may receive votes, but cannot actually become Improvement Drive candidates until they cycle up through to Nominations again. Please place an asterisk next to an article's nomination for each time it enters the 'Nominations' category.

Current Article improvement drive articles are:


Last week's winners were Lake and Macrophilia
  • {{AID}}, a notice for the talk pages of nominated articles
  • {{AIDcur}}, a notice for current collaborations

Collaborations
Articles
Science and technology
Miscellaneous

Nominations

Next two project articles to be selected on Sunday 8 May. Ten nominations are voted on each week, please put overflow nominations under Pending.


Civil rights**

Reason
Nominated on COTW but may be too long to be a stub
Support
  1. Beland 01:21, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Stancel 15:38, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Fenice 06:54, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Paladine 18:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --Shredthrashgrind 01:21, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Phoenix2 15:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Dave (talk) 15:59, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
  8. Revolución 00:19, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Falphin 00:39, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Comments

Cinco de Mayo**

Reason
Article could be improved, in honor of today the 5th of May! VIVA MEXICO! ;-)
Support
  1. Stancel 16:23, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Kannur**

Reason
The article is slightly verbose and needs some expert editing to become a featured article . I hope wikipedians improve this article.
Support
  1. Sumalsn 21:33, 6 May 2005
  2. Sudheeren 06:52, 8 May 2005
Comments

Bumper sticker**

Reason
Currently a stub. Could be improved alot, including pictures and examples of bumper stickers. Their history, their political use, etc. Millions of people have some kind of bumper sticker on their car, so I think this article should at least be longer than it is now.
Support
  1. Stancel 01:02, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Litefantastic 20:12, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. ike9898 16:27, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
  4. Revolución 00:19, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Zapateria 11:27, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
  6. CristianChirita 13:47, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  7. RoceKiller 13:09, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Norman Borlaug

Reason
Currently tagged as a stub, but probably too long for COTW. Certainly needs expansion though, especially on his work, he is thought to have saved at least a billion lives and is very well known in developing countries.
Support
  1. --the wub (talk) 10:16, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Within the article we can be all NPOV but Borlaug saved the lives of more human beings than any other person in human history, and is a hero of highest magnitude. There should be reams written on this man. And setting my pov that saving hundreds of millions of people from starvation is an amazingly good thing aside, such an action is extrordinarily influential. --Zantastik 09:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Green Revolution mentions that Borlaug was instrumental in the Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program, but Wikipedia won't tell you precisely what that was. The "Green Revolution" page mentions Hybrid Strains and Agricultural techniques, and hints in the last paragraph at genetic engineering. Presumably, the man's science should be handled on other pages like this, with the Norman Borlaug page concentrating on his biography and specific contributions to the work, personal envolvement in the political controversy, etc. The "Green Revolution" page concentrates primarily on "Criticisms of the Green Revolution", so it appears that NPOV on Wikipedia extends naturally to covering a Nobel Peace Price winner. Wragge 18:02, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
Comments

Manx (cat)

Reason
This article has been very contentious until recently. There were multiple points of disagreement (the overall vigor of the breed, the effects of inbreeding, the pertinence of pictures, British vs American English, etc) that have finally been smoothed over, at least for a time. See the talk page for details. I proposed to the participants that perhaps some outside eyeballs might help resolve issues and improve what is a pretty fair article but for the conflicts. I believe that the idea intrigued all and may have contributed to a general calming of moods. So now it's time for me to live up to my end of the deal and propose Manx (cat) as a nominee for the Article Improvement drive. I think it would benefit from having a broader group of editors, especially to smooth over the points of contention.
Support
  1. -- Catbar (Brian Rock) 01:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. -- maltmomma 02:20, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
  3. ike9898 16:41, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
Comments
  • I don't think this is suitable for the Article Improvement Drive. The Manx is a tailless breed. Putting this article on the spot might attract vandals.--Fenice 06:42, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • ...I don't get the connection. -Litefantastic 16:31, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • Because its controversial, I forgot to say.--Fenice 05:27, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • It can be argued that the missing tail is really a deformed spine and that these cats cannot balance as well as other breeds. (Breeders will argue it is short, but sufficient to balance.) Still there are militant acitivsts against cruelty to animals, and if this article goes on the portal page they might discover Wikipedia as a promotional vehicle to spread their views, in a subtle or in a vandalistic way. AID should produce featured articles. We should improve articles that are suitable for that standard. --Fenice 05:46, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
        • If we only focus on non-controversial articles, we won't have a very useful or interesting encyclopedia. I'm not saying I don't understand your point, because I do, but hey, we have to run these kind of risks. In time, all of the special interests who are awake will discover Wikipedia. Let's be as ready for them as we can be. Catbar (Brian Rock) 10:23, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
          • The more users involved in an article, the protection it has against being used as a propaganda piece. I think controverisial topics benefit from the raised profile. ike9898 16:41, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

League of Nations

Reason
It has that whole things-that-went-wrong-after-World War One edge to it, and besides: it matters, but nobody really knows about it that much. -Litefantastic 16:36, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support
  1. Litefantastic 16:36, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Inland Sea

Reason
Needs more geographical information including water pollution. --Larus.r 21:05, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support
Comments

Software engineering

Reason
There is a long discussion on the article with a lot of topics not cleared up to now. In my opinion, the article is not state of the art. It could be structured better and some sections could be moved to articles of its own. It should be a start page for all articles concerning with tthe topic and an introductory article for the WikiReader Software Engineering. Simultaneously, I propose a German collaboration (Qualitätsoffensive). See Talk:Software engineering. --Hans-AC ✉ 15:56, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support
  1. --Hans-AC ✉ 14:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Pending nominations

John Langley

Reason
Needs style edit, and just a general overhaul. --To0n 6:09, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Support
Comments
  • This one might get more help from {{cleanup}} and {{wikify}}. 10:32, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Mother Marianne Cope

Reason
Needs to be beefed up now that it has a prominent link from the Pope Benedict XVI article which has high traffic. Mother Marianne Cope of Hawaii was the first person beatified by this Pope in particular, on the way towards sainthood. She needs an article befitting of that honor. I'm quite sure there is a wealth of information sitting around somewhere about Mother Marianne Cope's work with Father Damien in Molokai.
Support
  1. --Gerald Farinas 22:01, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comments



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