Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW

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The UK Collaboration of the Fortnight was an article chosen each fortnight. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to the United Kingdom, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the fortnight, from widespread cooperative editing. The collaboration was active from October 2004 to August 2005.

The project aimed to fill gaps about the UK in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of UK articles on the todo list on the UK Wikipedians' notice board or you can look in List of United Kingdom-related topics or the UK Wikipedians' complete to do list. Anyone could nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every other Sunday, the votes were tallied, and the winner promoted for a week to potential contributors.

Selection

The next COTF will be selected at a date to be determined if the collaboration becomes active once more (the current time is 21:30, November 1, 2024).

Voting

If you support an article please vote, by clicking on edit by the article's title, and add a new line with the text # ~~~~. This will add your username and the time you signed automatically. Please add comments if you wish.

• Please only add support votes - opposing votes will not affect the result as the choice is done by approval voting (the most votes, wins).
• Please vote for as many candidates as you like.
• Only registered users may vote.
• Being a resident or from the UK is not a requirement to vote!

Tie-breakers

To keep things simple, if two or more articles have both had the same number of votes by the selection time, the article nominated first is chosen as COTF.

Making Nominations

• At the top of the list of nominees on this page, enter the text {{Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW/name of nominated article}}.
• Click on the appropriate link in the new message box.
• Enter the text === [[name of nominated article]] ===.
• Enter your reason for the nomination, and sign it using ~~~~.

If the page you wish to nominate already exists, in addition to the above steps please add the text {{ukcotwc}} at the top of the article's talk page.

Considerations

• Please only nominate UK-related articles which do not exist or are stubs (or are not stubs; but very short articles).
• Giving reasons to why an article should be chosen will aid others in supporting.

Archiving

If a nomination does not receive enough votes (three votes for every month it is nominated) it will be archived. Older archives can be viewed at /removed (up to 10 February, 2005). Articles which become nominated to COTW are viewable at /past collaborations.

Promoting

1. Remove successful candidate from this list and add to /past collaborations with {{Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW/name of nominated article}}.
2. Replace the current text in WP:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW/current with the name of the promoted article. This updates loads of other templates automagically.
3. Add {{UKCOTW}} to the top of the successful article.
4. Remove {{UKCOTW}} from the previous collaboration and add{{past ukcotw|date|year}} to its talk page.
5. Leave a message on the talk pages of the nominator and supporters informing them of the promotion - you can use {{UKCOTW FYI}}.
6. If you want you can leave a message on the talk page of related articles (but don't go overboard) as people who have a similar topic on their watchlist may want to join in.