User:FT2/Project contributions

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This page lists some of the Wikipedia project work where I have either reorganized or cleaned up project pages, worked on disputes and mediation, added templates or categories, or otherwise made a significant contribution at project level.

Its no bad thing to pay especial attention to the quality of policy and project pages. Not only are they often an important resource for editors within Wikipedia, but made more usable, or with enhanced clarity and structure, they encourage and guide good editorship within the community at large rather than just within single articles or subject areas. Often they are pages used by people outside Wikipedia, to understand more about the project.

For articles I have written, rewritten, significantly reorganized or cleaned up, or otherwise made a significant contribution to, see here.

1 Wikipedia project-space editing
2 Templates and categories
3 Disputes and dispute resolution
4 Projects

[edit] Wikipedia project-space editing

Wikipedia:About	1. before after 2. diff	1. Rewrote; became the current stable format 2. Reworked disclaimer section and extra section on Editorial administration, oversight and management - important for many readers and for 3rd party understanding.
Wikipedia:Words to avoid	before after	Rewrote; became the current stable format
Wikipedia:Single purpose account	new	Authored; became the current stable format
Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic	new	Authored; became the current stable format
Wikipedia:Request for comments	before after	Rewrote; became the current stable intro
Template:AfD_header	before after	Rewrote; became the current stable intro
WP:NPOV and WP:NPOVFAQ	1. before after 2. before after 3. new	1. Clean-up and reorganize (not a policy that's easy to get consensus for major reworking) 2. Completed reorganization as promised. Consensus obtained; currently the stable format 3. Fork interesting but non-core material. Became the current stable format
Wikipedia:Sock puppetry	before after	Pretty much cleaned up the page into its current stable form, and rewrote section on meatpuppet groups and solicitation.
WP:BANAV	new	Unless page history is misinforming me, I think I authored this guide to basic navigation. Might be mistaken.
Wikipedia:Deletion policy	before after	Rewrote/reorganized; became the current stable format
Wikipedia:Press coverage	before after	Reorganization of sections and lists; remains current stable format.
WP:SIZE	diff	Cleanup; added sections to clarify what is/is not readable prose, and explain rationale.
Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset	before after	Cleanup; Reorganize from list of rules, to itemize important v. less important.
Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control	new	My current project as at 8 January 2007, drafting of a description of Wikipedia's editorial oversight and controls over editorship and quality. The page is intended to back up pages such as WP:ABOUT and Reliability of Wikipedia, which reference Wikipedia's self-regulation without going into much depth about it; information which third parties performing research or seeking to understand Wikipedia might wish to find in one location.
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest	before after	Add coverage of COI by administrators, checkuser, etc, within Wikipedia. (2007)

[edit] Templates and categories

June 2006 - :

New categories added and populated: Category:Rogue wave incidents ... Category:Polyamory

2004 - June 2006:

Template:Jew (to match Template:Christianity: before after)
Template:Neuro-linguistic programming (new)
New category added and populated: Category:Zoosexuality

[edit] Disputes and dispute resolution

Partial list of disputes and resolutions, probably a large number of others I can't remember

2004 - June 2006:

Cindy the Dolphin - solved categorization dispute for editors (new)
Homosexual recruitment (before after) - noticed an AFD dispute whether encyclopedic. Researched and mostly rewrote article, after which it was accepted it was.
Talk:Sexual intercourse - the "circumcision debate"
Trusted Computing (before after) - Precariously stable after previous editor dispute, rewrote introduction -- delicate!!
Cultural and historical background of Jesus - mediator following editors' RFC, later co-author of new article with user:Slrubenstein
Zoophilia - controversial, regularly attacked by POV warriors. Cool and level head needed!
Arbcom: Ciz AKA DrBat - Documented and presented case of POV warrior on zoophilia. Initial case Jan 2005, finally removed from article after 2nd arbcom Jan 2006. Previous steps included mediation, discussion, etc.
Arbcom: HeadleyDown and sock/meatpuppets - Documented and presented case of POV warrior on neuro-linguistic programming. Finally removed from Wikipedia June 2006. List of bans, blocks and socks, and their dialogs, needs to be seen to be believed. Several mentors got wikistress before this was concluded.

June 2006 - :
House Made of Dawn - mediation input
Kwanzaa - judaic symbols controversy
Big Love - dispute following editors RFC request
Foreskin - dispute over cited quotes that compare foreskins to condoms. NPOV and fair characterization issues. Redrafted paragraph to resolve.
Farmers Insurance Group - dispute following request on WP:AN/I; COI by both "grudge" sites and Farmers' own agents both editing, large chunk copyvio of promotional text, NPOV/RS problems.

[edit] Projects

[edit] "Reliability of Wikipedia"

Researched and authored Reliability of Wikipedia, to ensure that key reference articles such as Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia, WP:ABOUT and Wikipedia, have a cited article focussing on this aspect of Wikipedia. Article remains almost as written, despite presumably being controversial; no edit war yet over cites, representation, or neutrality.

[edit] "Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control"

Wrote Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control also, being the other major informational resource which readers unfamiliar with Wikipedia will need, in order to support WP:ABOUT and Reliability of Wikipedia.

This page provides formal coverage regarding the exercise of formal editorial control in an "encyclopedia that anyone can edit", how that actually works, and how quality control is generated on the project. It's important since some commentators discuss the apparent lack of editorial specialization and control (particularly in the context of reliability and/or vandalism), without much insight as to how editorial oversight operates in practice.

[edit] Copyright section reorganization and cleanup

The entire copyright, copyright questions, and copyvio checking and handling sections were fairly disorganized and not very unified. With copyright increasingly a focus of serious attention in the project, this wasn't fully helping or supporting editorial work to the degree needed.

The cleanup project of the various copyright pages into one organized section included: