User:Jackson Peebles/Adoption/Practical

Practical

Congratulations - you've almost made it! After the completion of this final practical, you will be done with my adoption program, and I'll give you all sorts of sweet swag and mad props for putting yourself through what I consider to be the most rigorous adoption course available on Wikipedia. This practical is quite easy, but I feel that it is necessary in order to prove that you know your stuff and can actually apply it. If you have already completed this, that's fine - I see no reason to punish one for doing work early. You may submit your previous work (see the submission section, below).

Options

• Create one (or more, of course) non-stub page from scratch. You may use the article creation wizard or do it by hand. However, there must not be substantial errors in this page, and it must be a real page. This means that it has to be notable, wikified, referenced, etc. It can be start-class, but it must not merit any maintenance tags.
• Bring one article up to GA or FA status (you must be the main cause of this).
• Untag five pages. This doesn't mean that you just untag them. You have to actually fix the problem. You may think you're being sneaky and take a bunch of pages that simply need grammatical copyedits, but I consider this to be very valuable work and do count it. Other options include adding references (much needed), turning lists to prose, etc. - the possibilities are really quite boundless.
• Participate in three Requests for Comment and two Requests for Adminship. This participation may not simply consist of "support per nom" or "support per (insert user's) criterion" for RfAs, and the RfCs must be well-thought-out and show consideration of both views.
• Revert fifteen instances vandalism. You may use semi-automated tools, including Twinkle and STiki.
• Fix twenty-five pages using AutoWikiBrowser (this can include any number of items).
• Welcome and/or warn and/or correctly report twenty-five users. You may only welcome users with at least two edits (to conserve server resources, per community consensus but not policy) and the welcomes must be appropriate (for instances, vandals should be greeted with the vandalism welcome and constructive editors should be greeted with the constructive editor welcome - all others can be generic, but page links are appreciated). Warnings can be any number of things but may not take place before the user has been greeted and must assume good faith unless there is substantial evidence otherwise. Remember not to bite newcomers and not to tag experienced users (unless you explicitly reject these notions).
• Alternatives: If you think of an idea that is not listed above but seems reasonable, let me know. Odds are high that I will like it and accept it. This includes starting a project, bot creation (that'd be awesome), running a grant, creating useful templates, or any number of other items.

Submission

Upon completion, just write on my talk page and tell me exactly what you did (without exact diffs). If you created a page or moved one to GA or FA status, you must post the link to the article at the course page in the box next to your name. Otherwise, you must post every single diff to the course page in the box next to your name. I realize that this is a pain. However; it holds me accountable and quantifies (in a way) whether or not the adopt-a-user program is helpful.

Good work.