Wikipedia:Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board/NICOTW

The current Northern Irish Collaboration of the Month is WikiProject Belfast. Every month a different NI-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the WikiProject Belfast|nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

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The NI Collaboration of the Month is chosen each month. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to Northern Ireland, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the month, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps about NI in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of NI articles on the todo list on the Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board or you can look in List of topics related to Northern Ireland or the Northern Irish Wikipedians' complete to do list. Anyone can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Once a month, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

Selection

The next COTF will be selected on Sunday, 21st September 2006, 18:00 UTC (the current time is 04:20, December 23, 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 NI 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:Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board/NICOTW/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 {{nicotwc}} at the top of the article's talk page.

Considerations

• Please only nominate NI-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. 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:Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board/NICOTW/name of nominated article}}.
2. Replace the current text in Template:NICOTW article with the name of the promoted article. This updates loads of other templates automagically.
3. Add {{NICOTW}} to the top of the successful article.
4. Remove {{NICOTW}} from the previous collaboration and add{{past nicotw|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 {{NICOTW 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.