This is the proposal page for articles to be taken on as FA-Team missions. If anyone has an article that they think would fit the scope of the project, please add it here. Keep in mind that we are primarily looking for:
Articles written by groups of editors with little-to-no FA experience (e.g., a new or recently-reactivated WikiProject).
Articles where much of the researched content is already in place.
Articles that already have a group of editors keen to improve their quality.
Remember:
The FA-team doesn't "do" research.
The FA-team mostly deals with reviewing, copy-editing, MoS-ifying, guiding through FAC, and some other top-secret stuff we cannot disclose at this time :)
Please include a deadline; the FA-Team will only take on projects so long as at some point, as in every good James Bond movie, they end up racing against a ticking time-bomb.
When at least three of the FA-Team members commit to an article proposed on this page, then it will be moved at dead of night to Mission 3: Save Wikipedia from Itself. Once an article has been accepted, its editors are then bound to utmost loyalty, a vow of silence, and the nearest set of railroad tracks.
If you have a multiple-article proposal, then that can become a mission of its own.
This article was once a featured article and displayed on the main page. At the time it was one a very few articles about cities that had reached featured status. Over the last 3 years the article has become degraded and lost its star. The article could use a major overhaul. The reason this article has been specifically brought to you is that the 2010 Winter Olympics are fast approaching and Vancouver is the host city. By the end of January, Vancouver will become one of the most visited articles on Wikipedia, and it sure would be nice take this opportunity to showcase Wikipedia and its ability to be a resource for those curious about the city. We are in dire need of writers to take a look at the various sections whos turn of phrase and flow has been chopped up by the years of single sentence inserts.
Goal(s): Return Vancouver to featured article status.
Deadline(s): January 2009
NOTE: Dear review committee. As I was unsure if this process was still active, I invited the FA-Team members to participate in Operation Schadenfreude under the auspicious of the WikiProject Vancouver. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver/Operation Schadenfreude/Box}} was placed on their talk page and a number of them have joined up and been working diligently to update this article and get it into shape. Due to the these circumstances, I am hoping that this would be grounds for officially recognizing it as a project that's being worked on by the FA-Team. The article seems highly likely to receive featured status, and I would like to be able to put this article on the main page of this FA-Team as a successful article that was brought to featured status through direct collaboration with this project. Mkdwtalk18:15, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This would be suitable for the FA-team because it is a good article that already has good prose, is comprehensive, verifiable, and neutral. This article was recently peer reviewed by multiple editors and I still think it is lacking something, maybe the touch of more experienced editors. Ive been editing the article almost exclusively for quite some time, and Ive only been registered a few months. I think with a team effort, this article could realize its full potential and become featured without too much work. Thanks for you consideration.
This would be suitable for the FA-team because much of the content is already thoroughly recorded. This article recieved GA status quickly without any problems. I am ready to apply for FA, but I would like some opinions/reviews/help on the prose before I do so, seeing how this is my first article. Any reviewing, copy-editing, or MoS-ifying would be greatly appreciated.
This would be suitable for the FA-team because I've done my best to bring the article up to GA status, through two reviews and one peer review. However, as I'm the primary editor, I'm not sure I can take it any further by myself. I know the article can use more improvement, but I've just spent too much time on it to notice anymore. Editing overload, if you will. I'd very much appreciate the assistance of some established editors. Thanks!
Goal(s): Whatever needs to be done to make FA status.
Deadline(s): January 12, 2009, when I leave the country for an extended period and lose access to many of my resources.
This would be suitable for the FA-team because it has gone through two extensive peer reviews, a copyedit drive of the late LOCE and an exhaustive GA review, eventually making it to a GA status. All it needs is a few fixes in citation formats and copyedit to reach an FA status. Once there, it may serve as a guide for upazila articles on Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh. Shouldn't be too difficult, I reckon. Aditya(talk • contribs)06:51, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Goal(s): Fixing all citation formats, fixing all minor copy problems, and making a final check for preparedness
This would be suitable for the FA-team because I've been working hard at bringing the article up to FA-quality (it was recently listed as a Good Article); I've already received some great advice from the peer reviews but I don't have any experience with Featured Articles and I'm not really sure how to proceed from here. I'd really appreciate any assistance! Thanks Shoemoney2night (talk) 06:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Deadline(s): Hopefully FAC by... oh, I think November 4, 2008 would be appropriate.
Seems like a great article. I'd be glad to coordinate the mission, but we need some more comedy type stuff going for FA if we want this to be a mission. --Meldshal42?16:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support This sounds like an excellent mission (and it can be a mission by itself - we've had individual articles as missions before). Awadewit (talk) 17:34, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I was Meldshal changed usernames and I would be willing to coordinate this, as soon as we get some additional feedback. Unless Awit wants to just start it now? --Lord₪Sunday15:29, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This would be suitable for the FA-team because WikiProject Primates currenlty has only 1 FA article, and only 5 GA articles. None of its articles rated as Top importance are rated above GA. (Another lesser reason would be that by assisting me with Ring-tailed Lemur, I will learn how to write FA articles so that both a) I won't require as much assistance in the future as I continue my efforts to greatly improve all lemur articles, and b) maybe I'll strive to join your team someday.)
Goal(s): For the Ring-tailed Lemur article, the goal is to get it to FA status sooner rather than later. A broader (personal) goal, which may someday become a mission, is to get all lemur articles to FA or GA status. (And, yes, I have the drive, resources, and time to do it.)
Deadline(s): October 31, 2008 - I'm flexible, though ambitious. The deadline can be changed, although getting the Ring-tailed Lemur article to FA status is my top priority. I will work tirelessly in my spare time (or when I should be sleeping) to make whatever fixes you suggest, just as I did with the GA review, which took only a day. - Visionholder (talk) 20:18, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support in principle. This looks like a very good proposal to me. The article has plenty of content and reliable sources, but is somewhat scrappy. I think the FA team can help provided there's a team member who has some experience with this kind of article. Anyone? Geometry guy21:49, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I think the learning objective described by Visionholder will apply to me as well. I've been working on a few other important primate and cetacean articles and would like to get those up to GA and FA status eventually. But I'm not too sure what that will entail. So working on Ring-tailed Lemur with the FA-Team should help me improve those other articles (e.g., Primate, White-headed Capuchin, Mantled Howler) as well. Rlendog (talk) 01:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone else interested? We only need 1 more person. I've also started some revisions suggested by Casliber, so the push for FA status is under way. The FA-Team's guidance would be greatly appreciated. - Visionholder (talk) 17:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
After running a peer review and learning to copyedit (at amateur level), I have submitted this article for FAC. The initial response was that it is close to gaining support. Anyone on this team is encouraged to contribute, particularly in regards to MoS. Either way, Ruffed lemur was just promoted to GA today (going from Start class to GA in nearly a week), so that will be my next FAC. We can move on to that, if anyone is up for it. - Visionholder (talk) 19:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just posted this to the FAC review page for Ring-tailed Lemur, and I wanted everyone to see it: "My apologies to the FA-Team. I guess I misunderstood the deadline as a completion date, not a deadline to start. We were approaching the deadline, and I hadn't seen any activity for the proposal on the FA-Team proposal page. I also had a host of other reasons pushing me on. In the future, I will not make that mistake. Again, I'm sorry. Please don't take offense." - Visionholder (talk) 22:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This article was just promoted to FA (28 Oct 2008) thanks to the help of Ceran and Casliber. This proposal can be removed, although I will probably submit a new (nearly identical) proposal for Ruffed Lemur very shortly. This time, I will wait until the deadline. However, should I submit for a peer review first? - Visionholder (talk) 06:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
"In 2007, we've conducted an covert operation with an agent in search for the missing Star for an article. The last communication received was that he was caught with "grammar and MoS violations", and we haven't heard from him since. Subsequently, another team of copyeditors was sent in to investigate and find out what happened, only to be quickly obliterated. The FA-Team is our last hope now - will you be able to take up the mission?"
Or in more serious talk I've got an article that has got all the research and content filled in, but failed FAC twice due to copyediting and style issues, it's been two years since I last got an article successfully to FA (a lot has since in FAC and PR), and I need copyediting assistance to meet 1(a) criterion and hopefully someone to guide me through FAC to familiarise the process again. - Mailer Diablo19:16, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Goal(s): There is only one - Find and retrieve the missing Star, i.e. get the article to Featured Article Status.
Oppose - Mailer diablo has FA exp., your Boeing article is quite excellent. Singular members could help, but we can't take this on as a mission. :) —Sunday| Speak20:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This article has failed two FAC's in the past month/month-and-a-half mainly due to over-quoting (i.e. it's a quotefarm...) and its prose....can you guys help?
This would be suitable for the FA-team because it is a well referenced GA-status article. It's breadth of information covers most everything that could be sought in understanding the disease, however the prose of writing is by no means outstanding. I could really use some help in preparing this medicine-related article for FAC. Oh, and I this may fall under another project you are working on, as it is part of the WikiProject:AP Biology 2008. (Also, I do use PubMed as my main source of references and thus should be able to address any issues you may highlight.) NOTE: Just wanted to say that it's gotten minor to new views from FA team members. I will be steping up my editing in the weeks ahead in a push for FA but MOS-ing/copyediting or rewording would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
This is a bit of an odd proposal, which I'm not sure will be accepted. First, I do have experience with FAs, so that might be enough to tank this proposal in itself. However, most of the articles in this series are rather poor, with the exception of Hurricane Mitch. If accepted, this will be the FA-team's first tropical cyclone-related mission.
This would be suitable for the FA-Team because this article is already at GA status. I've never been involved with getting an article up to FA status and have no idea what to do, or even what this article needs. This is also a time sensitive goal, because the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing is July 20th.
Goal: Get Apollo 11 to be the "Today's featured article" for July 20, 2009.
Deadline: June 20, 2009? (Two months; can y'all handle it?)
Suitability: The article has been a GA for several years and is very stable. Up-to-date researched content is already in place, but I have no FA experience.
Goal(s): To get help with reviewing, copy-editing, MoS-ifying, and guiding through FAC.
I have now checked the article for deadlinks and have made the necessary updates to the references involved. But one important thing that needs to be done is getting consistent formats for citations throughout, and adding retrieved dates. Johnfos (talk) 08:08, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This would be suitable for the FA-team because, once the goal has been reached, it would discourage an inexperienced editor from bothering you again. The article has an active Work-in-progress and To-do-list. The GA review said the article was well referenced and well illustrated. There does not appear to be any citable evidence that the reviewer was bribed
Goals(s): To help make the article worthy of an FA nomination. In addition, to learn from those more experienced so that the rest of Wikipedia can be fixed
Kiefer.Wolfowitz has been the most active editor; editor David Eppstein started the article in October, outlining it and contributing the best graphic in world literature; David returned to editing today (02:14, 17 January 2011 (UTC)), providing many editorial and technical improvements. Editor User:Jakob.scholbach is finishing his thorough Good Article review these days. User:Paulmnguyen guided the article throught the peer-review process, upon which RJHall kibbitzed gainfully. User:EdJohnston suggested improvements on the economics section. The article is of interest to the Mathematics and Economics projects.[reply]
This would be suitable for the FA-team because...
The most active editor (Kiefer.Wolfowitz) is a newbie unfamiliar with the FA process, but has a record of responding to criticism --- in an earlier Peer-Review of this article, and the finishing Good Article review. Personally, Kiefer.Wolfowitz is tired from his recent editing to meet the GA-article criteria, and looks forward to finding a collaborator. Having focused on content, Kiefer.Wolfowitz would especially appreciate a copy editor familiar with technical writing.
Goal(s):
Receive quick-and-dirty feedback on what is required for FA status, particularly for an article whose primary audience would be potential researchers in mathematical economics and convex geometry. (Is it feasible for this article to appear as a featured article, or is it too technical?)
Receive help on technical problems of {{cite book}} templates: Notably citing different pages in the same book, and nesting a references; it seems that the Harvard citation templates offer hope, for these problems.
Provide a copy-editing review, starting with the lead.
Deadline(s):
A quick-and-dirty assessment for FA suitability by April.
