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Each month a Science Collaboration of the Month will be picked using this page. The aim is to feature an article by the end of the month using widespread cooperative editing. For a discussion on the correct format of science articles, please see WikiProject Science.

Infrared is the current science collaboration of the month. Please help improve this article to featured article standard. Last month's collaboration was Oxygen - See improvements.

Stuck for nominees? Take a look at Science stubs or Requested articles in Applied sciences or Natural Sciences. Also check the /History, AID History and COTW History for articles that may have failed previously but are worthy of re-nomination, and Unreferenced Good Articles for articles that need citation work in particular.

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

If you want to participate in this project, you may add {{user scienceCOTM}} to your user page which will unfold to

Collaborations
Article Creation and Improvement Drive Core topics Good articles Spanish translation
Arts & entertainment
Alternative Music Architecture Cinema Novels
Games & sports
Football (soccer) Formula One Gaming (stubs) MMO (video game genre) Rugby union Tennis
Geography & places
Australia Chicago Hong Kong India NZ
Government & politics
Military history Taxation U.S. Congress
Religion
Anglicanism Catholic Hinduism Judaism Orthodox Judaism Rabbis Mormon
Science & technology
Aviation Birds Chemistry Dinosaurs Fungi Medicine Molecular and Cellular Biology Science U.S. Roads
Miscellaneous
Inactive collaborations v • d • e

Contents 1 Selection process 2 History of SCOTM 2.1 List of past and present maintainers 3 How to nominate an article 4 Nominations for the next SCOTM 4.1 X-ray crystallography 4.1.1 (5 votes), stays until December 30 4.2 Nuclear magnetic resonance 4.2.1 (5 votes), stays until December 30 4.3 Phthalates 4.3.1 (1 vote), stays until April 8 5 Related collaborations 6 Trophies 7 Maintenance instructions for this page 7.1 General 7.2 When an article is nominated 7.3 When an article is elected 7.4 When nominees fail their deadlines 7.5 List of subpages

[edit] Selection process

If there are more than five articles (5) candidates, nominations must get two votes every seven days to stay alive. Previous successful collaborations and unsuccessful nominations will be pruned and sent to /History. The first nomination to be pruned will be that which has the lowest number of votes among the expired nominees.

Users can add support for more than one nomination at a time. Users can only vote once for each nomination.

Collaborations will be selected every month by whichever one has the most votes. In the event of a tie, the earlier nomination wins.

[edit] History of SCOTM

The science collaboration of the week was originally started by Litefantastic on November 26, 2004. However, before an article could be selected, the project was unluckily deserted due to a lack of candidates and participants. On July 6, 2005, Toothpaste resurrected this project and the first collaboration was selected on July 20, 2005. A collaboration was selected approximately every week until June 28, 2006, when the collaboration became a monthly event with the aim of producing higher quality science articles.

[edit] List of past and present maintainers

1. Toothpaste, July to December 2005
2. Fenice, December 2005 to January 2006
3. Samsara, January to March 2006
4. Deryck Chan, March to May 2006
5. Samsara, May to August 2006
6. NCurse, August 2006 to present

[edit] How to nominate an article

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{SCOTW}} to the top of the article's talk page.

To add a new nomination, please:

1. Copy the template below
2. Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
3. Replace "[Date]" with the correct date and "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
4. Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
5. Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

 ===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===   
 ====(1 vote), stays until [Date + 7 days]====
 :''Nominated <u>[Date]</u>, needs 2 votes by [Date + 7 days].''  
    
 ;Support 
 #~~~~
     
 ;Comments
 *[a short description explaining why the article should be the Science Collaboration of the month] 

[edit] Nominations for the next SCOTM

The next SCOTM will be chosen on May 1, 2007.

[edit] X-ray crystallography

[edit] (5 votes), stays until December 30

Nominated November 24, needs 5 votes by December 30.

Support

1. Opabinia regalis 06:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Keesiewonder 21:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
3. RJH (talk) 20:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

   --Foundby 23:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC) stricken; sock of indefblocked User:Endgame1. Opabinia regalis 06:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

4. Bassophile 13:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC) (maybe a little late... sorry)
5. Rmky87 23:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Okay, just one more. Start-class and looks it, but a technique with such wide-ranging applications that's in such common use deserves more. Opabinia regalis 06:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Looks like another that has passed its deadline, but I'll vote for it just in case. The MCB and/or Physics portals may choose to pick it up too. It only has a start class quality but ranks with a high importance level! Keesiewonder 21:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• A pretty important topic in several scientific branches. — RJH (talk) 20:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• This too, see comments on NMR regarding atoms/molecules.--Foundby 23:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
• This is a very important but conceptually fairly difficult subject within Biochemistry/Biophysics. It does need more work, So please - dive in and be bold! Bassophile 13:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nuclear magnetic resonance

[edit] (5 votes), stays until December 30

Nominated December 9, needs 4 votes by December 30.

Support

1. Opabinia regalis 02:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

   --Foundby 23:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC) stricken; sock of indefblocked User:Endgame1. Opabinia regalis 06:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

   Questionable verb conjugation struck stricken strucken crossed out ;) Opabinia regalis 07:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

2. Keesiewonder 01:52, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
3. Rmky87 23:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
4. NCurse _work 06:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Samsara (talk • contribs) 15:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC) even though I think it should be "struck" not "stricken" cf. eingeschaltet vs. eingeschalten for those who know German

Comments

• Logical companion to crystallography. This is actually in reasonable shape, but it was a failed GA in June. Certainly underreferenced, and the division of material between this article and NMR spectroscopy is not optimal. Opabinia regalis 02:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
• Did you know all the atoms in the molecules can be identified using this? I think so? --Foundby 23:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Phthalates

[edit] (1 vote), stays until April 8

Nominated April 1, needs 2 votes by April 8.

Support

1. RJH (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• A group of common chemicals that studies have linked to allergies, decreased testosterone in men, abdominal obesity and insulin resistance. (Thereby possibly linked to recent increases in heart disease and incidents of type 2 diabetes.)[1] They also are used for a host of interesting applications ranging from nail polish to vinyl flooring. So it might make an interesting collaboration. The article has some content but it is uneven. — RJH (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Related collaborations

	The current Medicine Collaboration of the Week is Blood pressure.
	Last week's collaboration was Hysterectomy.

The current Computer Science Collaboration of the Week is — Computer security (Change current CSCOTW)

Probability theory The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Week is Probability theory. Please help improving this article to featured article standard. Last week's collaboration was False discovery rate

	The Neuroscience Collaboration of the Month for November is Brodmann area.
	Please help improving this article to featured article standard

RNA polymerase

This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is RNA polymerase. Please help to improve this article to featured article status.

Last month's collaboration was Signal transduction

[edit] Trophies

Featured article

• Hydrogen (SCOTM from August 1, 2006)
• Supernova (SCOTM from January 1, 2006)

Good articles

See Wikipedia:Good articles

• Alternation of generations (SCOTW from August 3, 2005)
• Nutrition (SCOTW from February 15, 2006)
• Natural selection (SCOTW from February 20, 2006)
• Orion Nebula (SCOTW from April 1, 2006)
• Ammonia (SCOTW from April 24, 2006)
• Human genome (SCOTM from September 1, 2006)

[edit] Maintenance instructions for this page

[edit] General

• Check that number of votes in header is correct.
• Check that deadlines have been updated in both lines.
• (Optional) Check whether Template:IDRIVEtopic or Template:CurrentCOTM are indicating the "current" article to be a science topic. If so, add the template ({{IDRIVEtopic}} or {{CurrentCOTM}}, respectively) to the section #Related collaborations.

[edit] When an article is nominated

• Make sure that {{SCOTM}} is displayed at the top of the article's talk page.
• (Optional) Make sure that regular and recent contributors to the article are notified.

[edit] When an article is elected

• Remove {{Current-SCOTM}} on the outgoing collaboration.
• Move current content of {{Collab-science}} to /lastmonth and add the edit history diff from nomination to today's date.
• Put the link to the new SCOTW on {{Collab-science}}.
• Save everything.
• Replace {{SCOTM}} with {{Current-SCOTM}} on the new collaboration; give it a clear edit summary, because you'll need to find it later!
• Move the voting section for the article over to /History, indicating today's date in the new header. Also add the "see how it was improved" from /lastmonth
• Adjust the "next selection" date. Science Collaborations are always selected on the 1st of each month.
• Notify each wikipedian who voted for the collaboration by putting a {{subst:SCOTMvoter}} on their talk page.
• Notify all regular contributors that did not vote for the article - they are listed in /regulars; you can use {{subst:SCOTMregular}} for the message body.
• Make sure the recipient's name is not on /nomessage when you leave a message
• (Optional) Notify each wikipedian who voted for the previous collaboration, and all who have since contributed to it, by putting a {{subst:SCOTMcontributor}} on their talk page. You may want to write three different messages: one for contributors who were not apparently originally aware of SCOTM, one for voters who contributed, and one for voters who did not find the time to contribute that particular week.
• Leave a note on talk pages of related articles and WikiProjects.

[edit] When nominees fail their deadlines

• When there are more than five articles (5) articles and one or more have overrun their deadline, those with the smallest number of votes get archived first, until all remaining articles reach their keeping standards or only five articles (5) candidates remain. The dropout entries are appended to /History#Unsuccessful nominations.

[edit] List of subpages

• /History
• /Prune to
• /regulars
• /nomessage
• /lastmonth (last week's collaboration template)
• /current (redirect to {{Collab-science}}