Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW

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All previous winners can be found at /History. Removed nominations can be found at /Removed. Previous winners that have gone on to become featured articles can be found at /Featured.

What is INCOTW all about?

Every week a Indian Collaboration of the Week will be picked using this page. The candidate for weekly collaboration would be a topic which either has no article or a very basic stub page that is directly related to India or Indian interests. The aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the week, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to better Wikipedia content about India, to give users a focus, an opportunity to collaboratively edit content and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered wikipedia user can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Voting also indicates interest in contrubuting during the weekly collaboration cycle.

Every Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

INCOTW started with support from

INCOTW was started on 29 January 2005 with the active support of the following 17 wikipedians:

1. Arunram 08:07, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
2. Sundar 08:17, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
3. Soman 09:38, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
4. utcursch 09:58, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
5. Sanjeeth 12:31, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
6. Nichalp 10:07, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
7. Matthewmayer 17:57, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
8. Brhaspati 22:01, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)
9. iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 01:19, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
10. Amar 04:23, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
11. kunjan1029 05:25, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
12. Jam2k 09:19, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
13. Ramashray 2:05, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
14. pamri 15:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
15. AnjaliSinha 15:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
16. albertindian2001 12:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
17. Jishacj 11:36, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The support from the above is greatly appreciated. Participation is welcome from other wikipedians interested in India topics. You can actively participate here, but please do not add to this list. You may want to add your support here

Selecting the next Collaboration of the Week

The next winner will be selected on Sunday, June 26 (UTC).

• Voting
  • Users are allowed to vote only for those candidates that were nominated after they had registered. The votes of unregistered users will not be taken into consideration. Register at the Create account / log in page in order to be eligible to vote for future candidates.
  • To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
  • A vote will be taken to include a pledge that the voter will contribute to the article if it is selected.
  • 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).
• Tie-breakers
  • In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.
• Nominations
  • New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the template at the bottom of this page.
  • If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{Possible India COTW}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to:

• Considerations for nominations

• • Please only nominate articles which don't currently exist or are stubs. (Two paragraphs or less of information or fewer than 1,000 characters)
  • For non-stubs, submitting the article to Article improvement drive, pages needing attention, cleanup, peer review, or requests for expansion may be more appropriate.
  • Giving reasons as to why an article should become the COTW 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
  • The nomination will be moved to /Removed if it has not received 5 votes after 7 days on the list, 10 votes after 14 days, 15 votes after 21 days, and so on. Essentially, an article needs to get 5 nominations a week until the Sunday on which it has the most votes.

Candidates for next week

Flag of India

Nominated 2005-06-06;

Support:

1.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 13:29, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
2. Will be quite an interesting article, are we going to start from the very version of the flag (IRC, Annie Beasant ?) (sp).--IMpbt 06:24, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
3. Gd

PT Usha

Nominated June 12, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 19, 2005;

Support: 1.Sumalsn - The greatest female athelete India has ever produced needs a better article. I have slightly expanded it

History of India

Nominated June 17, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 24, 2005;

This is an important article and needs immediate attention and can be tremendously improved. It is quite shabby and incomplete at present. History of India article, just like Geography of India should be in top notch quality. I think this article should be the top priority.

Support

1. deeptrivia
2.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:11, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
3. SwiftRakesh 11:34, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
4. viyyer 18:16, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
5. IncMan 10:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Comments

• Indian history deserves a better article. --IncMan 10:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

• So the next COTW is History of India. Please contribute as much as you can!

Indo-Pakistani Wars

Nominated June 19, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 26, 2005;

The article would benefit from a basic coverage of the issues involved and the wars themselves, with references to the individual articles. Watch out for NPOV!

Support

1. Circeus
2. Falphin 19:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Comments That means that you have to contribute too, please do not leave us to do do all the work. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:38, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

I'll contribute as long as a voter tag is put on my talk page. Falphin 19:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, I hope accurate data is provided while editing the article. The Pakistanis claim that Indian aircrafts losses were thrice more than PAF's aircraft losses during the 1965 war, something which most Indians don't believe. Plus, both India and Pakistan claim that they won the 1942 war. Hence it is impossible for the article to be unbiased. --IncMan 19:48, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Yes but that doesn't mean the article shouldn't be expanded. Falphin 21:11, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If it gets selected, being an INCOTW, there is chance of its content being pro-Indian. The article should be expanded but it is not an entirely India-related topic (the wars involved 3 countries: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and hence I do not support its selection. --IncMan 21:30, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Would you rather this be nominated on the regular COTW? Falphin 21:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I think that will be a better option. --IncMan 21:35, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Done. Falphin 21:41, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sethusamudram_Shipping_Canal_Project

Nominated June 23, 2005; needs 5 votes by June 26, 2005;

The article would greatly benefit from more research and local input of the people living around that area. Article assumes prime importance because of its percieved environmental problems as opposed to tremendous economic & horticultural benefit if implemented.

Support

1. Ashwin49 20:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)