Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/Removed

Purge the cache to refresh this page

This page contains nominations from the main collaboration of the week page which have been removed due to lack of votes or because they're unsuitable nominations. Successful nominations are listed at the history page.

List of failed nominations - A compact list of all nominations that didn't gain enough votes
2004 Archive - from May 5 to December 31, 2004
2005 Archive - from January 1 to December 31, 2005
2006 Archive - from January 1, 2006
- Archive 1 - from January 1 to February 19, 2006
- Archive 2 - from February 20 to April 2, 2006
- Archive 3 - from April 3 to July 8, 2006

Failed Nominations

Mud (4 votes, stays until July 8, 2006)

Nominated June 14, 2006; needs at least 6 votes by July 8, 2006

Given how much of it there is around, we ought to be able to write a better article, I think.

Support:

Comments:

Why not, could be fun. Davodd 07:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Legal history (3 votes, stays until July 11, 2006)

Nominated June 26, 2006; needs at least 6 votes by July 11, 2006

Could be a good summary article which I was surprised to find doesn't exist. We already have: History of patent law, History of international law, History of copyright law, History of Canadian nationality law, History of British nationality law, History of abortion law, etc. This article could be the main article for Category:History of law, and provide a good introduction and global perspective to these topics. I would prefer the title History of law for parallelism but more importantly, we need to get to work on this topic. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 16:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support:

Comments:

As a law student, myself. I am ashamed this is still a stub. Davodd 07:21, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Waterfowl (3 votes, stays until July 14, 2006)

Nominated June 28, 2006; needs at least 6 votes by July 14, 2006

the various waterfowl (eg ducks and geese), are some of the most common and most important birds in the world. Yet, this is a downright terrible stub. There is maybe a paragraph of actual content. The rest of this "article" is a section entitled "places to see waterfowl." This section is completely unnecessary, as waterfowl are almost everywhere, not to mention wholly unencyclopedic. This article needs some good old fashioned TLC.

Support:

Withdrawn vote

Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

And now it appears the earliest dinosaur/birds were waterfowl. Good catch! Davodd 08:53, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Maltese Falcon (yacht) (1 vote, stays until July 18)

Nominated July 11, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by July 18, 2006

Support

_└ ^VodkaJazz / _talk ^┐ 12:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

This is a new stub I just created. I put in some references to work on; will be doing some work myself in the coming days. A good article would need a sailing enthusiast since there is lots of stuff me, as most editors, do not understand. This is a great yacht, which has just sailed on its maiden voyage last week. It is extremely interesting given its high technology and the fact that it can reach decent speeds with the lightest of breezes. The original design was made during an oil crisis, and well... you all know. _└ ^VodkaJazz / _talk ^┐ 12:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eurasian nomads (3 votes, stays until July 27)

Nominated July 13, 2006; needs at least 6 votes by July 27, 2006

Support

Yvwv 15:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Jewbacca30491 22:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Protarion (utc)

Comments

A heterogenous group of peoples and nations sharing a similar lifestyle, having made a great impact on world history. Yvwv 15:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gay press (1 vote, stays until July 28)

Nominated July 21, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by July 28, 2006

Support

Davodd 02:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

One of the most important aspects of the LGBT community. Deserves more than one sentence. Rich in legal and factual history in many countries and many cultures globally. Davodd 02:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Entempo (1 vote, stays until 3 August 2006)

Nominated 27 July, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by 3 August, 2006

Support

Article needs a big update.

Comments

(put your reason for nomination, sign again)

Québécois (6 votes, stays until July 25, 2006)

Nominated July 4, 2006; needs at least 9 votes by July 25, 2006

Very important group in Canadian culture. How this is still a stub is beyond me.

Support:

PDXblazers 04:15, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
chemica 16:56, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
MattDell 17:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Davodd 02:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Jake34567 07:50, 17 July 2006 (UTC) 01:48 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CharlesM 20:08, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

I think the reason why the article on Québécois is still a stub is that a lot of Anglophones don't kow much about Québécois culture. --chemica 16:56, 8 July 2006 (UTC

Territorial marking (2 votes, stays until July 29)

Nominated July 22, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by July 29, 2006

Support:

Sean gorter^{{mind a chat?} e@ CVU}(U T C)
User: Halved sandwich

Comments

Needs to be updated from a stub to a featured article.

Sean gorter^{{mind a chat?} e@ CVU}(U T C)

2006 World Outgames (1 vote, stays until July 30)

Nominated July 24, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by July 30, 2006

Support

Ccccccccccc 22:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

This article details the first World Outgames, which will be starting on July 29 (one day after this vote closes). It is a major LGBT sports event, and a rival to the Gay Games. It is also a significant event in the sports history of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada. As it stands, this edition of the World Outgames will have more participants than 2006 Gay Games. Ccccccccccc 07:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This was suggested to be placed here per User:Silence as an alternative to Wikipedia:Article_Improvement_Drive.

Bonbon (1 vote, stays until August 9)

Nominated August 2, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by August 9, 2006

Support

PDXblazers 06:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

We all love bonbons, surely we could expand this.

Technological rationality (1 vote, stays until August 9)

Nominated August 2, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by August 9, 2006

Support

jwanders^Talk 12:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Interesting subject that was on the request list for over a year. I've stubbed it with a cited exerpt from a paper online, but there google alone has lots more info we could compile a great article from. --jwanders^Talk 12:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A Raisin in the Sun (2 vote, stays until August 9)

Nominated August 2, 2006; needs at least 3 votes by August 9, 2006

Support

Comments

One of the most significant plays of the 20th century. Rather stubby. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 22:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A Raisin in the Sun is not only a classic 20th century play, but also the first play written by a black woman to appear on Broadway. I think we should definitely expand on such a landmark piece of literature. --Nishkid64 19:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural history of the United States (5 votes, stays until August 12)

Nominated July 29, 2006; needs at least 6 votes by August 12, 2006

Support

Comments

The article acknowledges that it is a "broad topic", and yet I can't name a single article shorter than this that wasn't tagged for speedy deletion. It's already on Requests for Expansion without any improvement. C. M. Harris 22:35, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]