science Collaboration Of The Month

Conservation biology

(1 vote), stays until [Sept 13, 2009]

Nominated September 7, 2009, needs 2 votes by [Sept 13, 2009].

Support

1. Thompsma (talk) 01:13, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• [Conservation biology is a central theme and a highly important topic in context of the extinction crisis that is taking place. This article has received much attention in the past year, but it needs editing, reviewing, and a bit of clean-up. It would be great to direct some traffic toward this article.] Thompsma (talk) 01:13, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Prior instructions for how to nominate

1. Copy the template below
2. Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
3. Replace "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
4. Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
5. Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

 ===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===  ====(1 vote), stays until [Date + 7 days]====  :''Nominated [[{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}]], [[{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}]], needs 2 votes by [Date + 7 days].''   ;Support  #~~~~   ;Comments  *[a short description explaining why the article should be the Science Collaboration of the month] 

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{SCOTW}} to the top of the article's talk page.

Project's prior selection process

If there are more than five articles (5) candidates, nominations must get two votes every seven days to stay alive. Previous successful collaborations and unsuccessful nominations will be pruned and sent to /History. The first nomination to be pruned will be that which has the lowest number of votes among the expired nominees.

Users can add support for more than one nomination at a time. Users can only vote once for each nomination.

Collaborations will be selected every month by whichever one has the most votes. In the event of a tie, the earlier nomination wins.

Prior maintenance instructions

General

• Check that number of votes in header is correct.
• Check that deadlines have been updated in both lines.
• (Optional) Check whether Template:IDRIVEtopic or Template:CurrentCOTM are indicating the "current" article to be a science topic. If so, add the template ({{IDRIVEtopic}} or {{CurrentCOTM}}, respectively) to the section #Related collaborations.

When an article is nominated

• Make sure that {{SCOTM}} is displayed at the top of the article's talk page.
• (Optional) Make sure that regular and recent contributors to the article are notified.

When an article is elected

• Remove {{Current-SCOTM}} on the outgoing collaboration.
• Move current content of {{Collab-science}} to /lastmonth and add the edit history diff from nomination to today's date.
• Put the link to the new SCOTW on {{Collab-science}}.
• Save everything.
• Replace {{SCOTM}} with {{Current-SCOTM}} on the new collaboration; give it a clear edit summary, because you'll need to find it later!
• Move the voting section for the article over to /History, indicating today's date in the new header. Also add the "see how it was improved" from /lastmonth
• Adjust the "next selection" date. Science Collaborations are always selected on the 1st of each month.
• Notify each wikipedian who voted for the collaboration by putting a {{subst:SCOTMvoter}} on their talk page.
• Notify all regular contributors that did not vote for the article - they are listed in /regulars; you can use {{subst:SCOTMregular}} for the message body.
• Make sure the recipient's name is not on /nomessage when you leave a message
• (Optional) Notify each wikipedian who voted for the previous collaboration, and all who have since contributed to it, by putting a {{subst:SCOTMcontributor}} on their talk page. You may want to write three different messages: one for contributors who were not apparently originally aware of SCOTM, one for voters who contributed, and one for voters who did not find the time to contribute that particular week.
• Leave a note on talk pages of related articles and WikiProjects.

When nominees fail their deadlines

• When there are more than five articles (5) articles and one or more have overrun their deadline, those with the smallest number of votes get archived first, until all remaining articles reach their keeping standards or only five articles (5) candidates remain. The dropout entries are appended to /History#Unsuccessful nominations.

List of subpages

• /History
• /Prune to
• /regulars
• /nomessage
• /lastmonth (last week's collaboration template)
• /current (redirect to {{Collab-science}}