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U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, Shreveport, Louisiana is the US Collaboration of the Week. (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.

This is the page to deal with discussion and nominations for the U.S. Collaboration of the Week (USCOTW). The USCOTW is a collaborative effort led by participants to improve different United States articles, selected every two weeks. A mob of editors then deskeletonizes it, and the result is announced to wide acclaim. You do not have to be from the United States to help out with this collaboration.

As of now, 3 previous USCOTWs, History of New Jersey, Music of the United States, and Mount Rushmore have been promoted to featured article status. 3 additional USCOTWs have received good article status.

1 How to vote
2 Nominations
3 Participants
- 3.1 Maintenance
  - 3.1.1 Instructions for updating
- 3.2 Participants
4 U.S. topics on other COTWs
5 Templates

[edit] How to vote

To vote, click on the [edit] link on the right-hand corner beside each of the articles listed below. To vote, please sign your votes by adding a pound and four tildes (# ~~~~) to the bottom of the list of voters for that article, which will generate your name and the current date! If you want to be nice, please update the vote tally in the heading.

If you wish to make a comment underneath about a nomination, please bullet (*) your comment underneath the Comments: , and sign your comment with ~~~~.

In accordance with Wikipedia:Sock puppetry, please do not simply register an account for the sole purpose of voting on USCOTW or create more than one account to vote on this page. IP address votes will not be counted; please register! Your edit will not count if you use more than one account to vote, if your account is inactive for more than a month, or if you have edited fewer than 3 distinct Wikipedia articles outside of this one.

[edit] Nominations

The next USCOTW will be picked on Monday, October 23, by the highest number of votes. The current time is 04:57, March 29, 2007.

Nominations need to be supported by at least two voters per week to stay on the list. Failed nominations can be renominated any time. (Archived nominations) Past improvements and the results can be seen at Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTW/History.

In the event of a tie between two nominations, the one that was most recently nominated becomes the new USCOTW.

[edit] How to nominate

Select an United States-related topic that needs work and improvement. Generally, articles that would affect a greater range of editors are recommended over articles with a more regional focus. The article can be nonexistant, a stub, or a good article aiming for featured status. Articles that are ineligible for USCOTW include:
- An article that is already featured (note that articles that have been FARCed can still be nominated)
- An article that is the subject of content edit wars
Add {{USnom}} to the top of the talk page of the article.
Edit this page, and list the nomination at the bottom of the list of nominations, using the following template:
{{subst:USCOTWnom|Article name|~~~~~|Date in 7 days|~~~~|a short description explaining why the article should be the U.S. Collaboration of the week}}
Please replace "article name" with the actual name of the article, replace "Date in 7 days" with the actual date in 7 days, and add a rationale for the reason for the nomination.
Please preview the change using the "Show preview" button to double check that all of the required information has been filled in and ensure that no mistakes were accidentally made.

{{subst:USCOTWnom|Example|~~~~~|June 11|~~~~|I believe [[Example]] should become the new USCOTW because it is an article that is important for many Americans. It could use some work in referencing and expansion.}} yields in:

[edit] Example (1 votes, stays until June 11)

Nominated 15:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC); needs 2 votes by June 11 (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:

TheNominator 15:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

I believe Example should become the new USCOTW because it is an article that is important for many Americans. It could use some work in referencing and expansion. TheNominator 15:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Junior State of America (1 votes, stays until 15 January 2007)

Nominated 18:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC); needs 2 votes by 15 January 2007 (minimum 2 votes per week)

Support:

Agent 86 18:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

While I'm not American, I have come across this organization in the past and it seemed to be quite a large and successful organization. It certainly seems to have some notability in the United States. The article certainly could use more hands to bring it to a higher standard. Agent 86 18:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

Consider joining the US collaborative efforts by signing in the participants list below with * ~~~ ,which will generate your name.

This user participates in the US Collaboration of the Week.

{{User USCOTW}} is an userbox that will result as the template on the left, to be placed on user pages. Alternatively, putting [[Category:User USCOTW|{{PAGENAME}}]] will also add you to Category:User USCOTW.

[edit] Maintenance

[edit] Instructions for updating

Locate the article with the most votes; in a tie, the newest article to become nominated becomes the new USCOTW.
Adjust {{collab-us}} to the current USCOTW (keep the wikilink).
Remove Template:UScur from the old USCOTW and add it to the new one.
Add Template:USold onto the talk page of the new USCOTW, with two parameters: the current date and the year.
Correct the new changing date located above at Nominations. Cut and paste the above nomination and move it to WP:USCOTWN
Update the information on WP:USCOTWHIST, adding the information about the last USCOTW and the date, # of votes, article name, and # of words onto the top of the wikitable.

Maintenance also involves the updating of the "U.S. topics on other COTWs" section and the updating of vote tallies and removal dates.

[edit] Participants

Participants help out on the current USCOTW, nominate new articles, vote, and provide comments.

AndyZ _t
PDXblazers
General Eisenhower
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Hezzy
Iuio
plange 20:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Badbilltucker 20:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Morphh (talk • contribs)

[edit] U.S. topics on other COTWs

[edit] Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week

[edit] Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight

United States-Australia relations was selected for two weeks from 12 November 2006

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
The Second City is the current Chicago COTW Every week, a Chicago-related article that is in need of substantial improvement is selected to be the Chicago COTW. Visit CHICOTW to nominate and vote for future COTWs. Please help improve this week's article to a higher standard of quality. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see a list of open tasks. See past CHICOTWs. Note our good articles.
	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

The current Texan Collaboration of the Month is Strand National Historic Landmark District.
Every month, a different Texas-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked.
Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person	Beryl Anthony, Jr.
Place	Alabama's 8th congressional district
Thing	List of United States Representatives from California
Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.)

[edit] Templates

{{USCOTW}} - to announce the topic
{{Collab-us}} - the name of the current USCOTW
{{USnom}} - to be placed in the talk page of the nominated articles
{{UScur}} - placed on the current collaboration article
{{USvot}} - to be placed on voters talk page
{{USold}} - to be placed on the talk page of past USCOTWs
{{User USCOTW}} - an userbox for placement on user pages for users who frequently participate in USCOTW

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Contents

[edit] How to vote

[edit] Nominations

[edit] How to nominate

[edit] Example (1 votes, stays until June 11)

[edit] Junior State of America (1 votes, stays until 15 January 2007)

[edit] Participants

[edit] Maintenance

[edit] Instructions for updating

[edit] Participants

[edit] U.S. topics on other COTWs

[edit] WP:AID

[edit] WP:COTW

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Collaboration

[edit] Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week

[edit] Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight

[edit] Templates

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