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Welcome to the WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of, well, everything!

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals
  • First and foremost, to improve Wikipedia through the addition of new articles on notable subjects and the improvement of existing articles.
  • To parlay the efforts made on the Reference Desks into more lasting contributions to the encyclopedia.
  • To leverage the fact that questioners on the Reference Desk represent a broader spectrum of the overall population than Wikipedia editors in general, and that their questions can help address the Wikipedia bias.
  • To have fun in the process.
Scope
  • All topics are fair game.
  • Concentration will be on new articles and existing stubs.
  • While "controversial" articles are not specifically excluded, all participants are reminded that this is a collaborative effort and that FUN is a part of it.

Guidelines

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Article selection

New articles can be nominated by any participant. Before starting a new article, some research and a brief discussion is appropriate to ensure that the material is not already presented elsewhere or under a different name. This project is, to a large extent, about adding articles; if there is doubt or dispute after discussion, then the default would be to add the article and let the larger community decide whether to delete it by means of normal deletion processes.

Participants

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Morrison1630 (talk · contribs) (Anything Middle East related/anthropology/linguistics/history/culture/dress/etc)
  2. Justanother (talk · contribs) (Mostly engineering/construction/cars/pool (the game)/who knows what else. But definitely not NRMs!!)
  3. Maelwys (talk · contribs)
  4. Rockpocket (talk · contribs) (biological science, particularly genetics)
  5. Sluzzelin (talk · contribs) (replying to questions that weren't posted, and asking unrelated follow-ups)
  6. V-Man737 (talk · contribs) (Most everything [except for bleach], especially interesting tidbits of miscellany, and a bit of religion)
  7. Dweller (talk · contribs) (Assuming that trolls are misunderstood hairy people who just like bridges)
  8. Vranak (talk · contribs)
  9. TenOfAllTrades (talk · contribs) (Mostly the sciences, but I'm flexible)
  10. Anchoress (talk · contribs) (Google Queen)
  11. AndonicO (talk · contribs) (Everything except The weather in London! :))
  12. AMP'd (talk · contribs) (Finally, a Wikiproject I can get involved in!)
  13. Danielfolsom (talk · contribs)
  14. Clio the Muse (talk · contribs) (History, philosophy, literature, politics, sociology, this, that and, of course, the other! )
  15. Ghirlandajo (talk · contribs)
  16. Dreftymac (talk · contribs) (common law, economics)
  17. Smurrayinchester (talk · contribs) (science/technology/machinery)
  18. Plasticup (talk · contribs)
  19. Neil (talk · contribs) - anything that catches my eye, particularly the mundane stuff we often let slip through the cracks
  20. Xn4 (talk · contribs) (language, literature, history, philosophy, this and that)
  21. Sandstein (talk · contribs) (The humanities – mostly topics related to Switzerland, the law, and history)
  22. Edison (talk · contribs) (Electricity, engineering, science, history, humanities, psychology)
  23. Esskater11 (talk · contribs) ( I do whatever i can)
  24. Marco polo (talk · contribs) (geography, history, language, economics)
  25. Gwinva (talk · contribs) (eclectic and random)
  26. Adam Bishop (talk · contribs) (history, popular cultue)
  27. Marianian (talk · contribs) (Velology and Paper money)
  28. Leif edling (talk · contribs) (Anything that I can help with)
  29. Dr_Dima (talk · contribs) (physics, biology, neuroscience, languages)
  30. Exxolon (talk · contribs) (music, video games, alternative culture)
  31. Ghmyrtle (talk · contribs) (music, geography, history, UK popular culture and other topics, placenames, urban planning, bios of interesting people, lots of random other stuff)
  32. Karenjc (talk · contribs) (history, particularly biographies, but anything else interesting that turns up)
  33. Alansplodge (talk · contribs) (history, biography and anything that sparks an interest)
  34. JackofOz (talk · contribs) (pretty much anything except computing; classical music specialist)
  35. IlluminatingTrooper (talk · contribs) (since a lot of my favorites articles on Wikipedia are, well under referenced and or poor referenced specimens, biographies of historical females and film are of a particular interested to me)

Open tasks (other than articles)

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Articles

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New article collaboration

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Please feel free to list your suggestions here for articles to be created by the WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Do you mean block capitals or simply the opposite of joined-up writing? Modest Genius talk 20:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Existing article collaboration

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Please feel free to list your suggestions here for existing articles for improvement by the WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Requests by nonmembers

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Requests by nonmembers are welcome. Please list your request here in brief and add any other detail to the talk page.

Recent improvements

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Listed here are the last 45 articles to have been created or significantly improved as a result of a question at the Reference Desks. If you are inspired to improve or create an article from a Ref Desk question, please list it here. If you improve one from the requests listed above, please also move it from there to here. Like all articles, please continue to improve these if you can. For a full list of the Wikiproject's output see here:

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Featured on the Main page at Wikipedia:Did you know...

Candidates

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Templates

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To indicate an article was created or significantly improved by WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration, add: {{WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration|LINK TO ORIGINAL QUESTION}} to the talk page (e.g. {{WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration|Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 February 5#I need help}}). The link to the original question can usually be found in the article's What links here special page. Be aware the link will change after archiving.

To indicate a Reference desk question has inspired an article to be created or significantly improved, add {{WPRDAC attention|NAME OF ARTICLE}} to the question.

You may add {{User WPRDAC}} on your user page to generate a userbox indicating project affiliation.

Categories

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Resources

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