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Current time is 04:59, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
| Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|
| Blnguyen | 44 |
| Dreamafter | 4 |
| Eurocopter tigre | 36 |
| Kyriakos | 36 |
| LordAmeth | 34 |
| MBK004 | 22 |
| Narson | 9 |
| Nick Dowling | 35 |
| R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) | 8 |
| Roger Davies | 53 |
| Shibumi2 | 6 |
| TomStar81 | 39 |
| Trulystand700 | 2 |
| Wandalstouring | 33 |
| Woody | 31 |
Overview
The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.
The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Assistant Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.
A more detailed description of the coordinators' responsibilities is available here; some specific examples of day-to-day coordinator work can be found here.
Incumbents
| Name | Position | Standing for re-election? |
|---|---|---|
| Carom (talk · contribs) | Assistant | No |
| Cla68 (talk · contribs) | Assistant | No |
| Eurocopter tigre (talk · contribs) | Assistant | Yes |
| FayssalF (talk · contribs) | Assistant | No |
| Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs) | Lead | No |
| Kyriakos (talk · contribs) | Assistant | Yes |
| LordAmeth (talk · contribs) | Assistant | Yes |
| Roger Davies (talk · contribs) | Assistant | Yes |
| TomStar81 (talk · contribs) | Assistant | Yes |
More information on the history of the coordinator positions can be found here.
Election process
- The election will run for two weeks, starting at 00:00 (UTC) on February 15 and ending at 23:59 (UTC) on February 28.
- Any member of the project may nominate themselves for a position by adding their statement in the "Candidates" section below by the start of the election. The following boilerplate can be used:
=== Name ===
{{user|Name}}
: Statement goes here...
==== Comments and questions for Name ====
*
- The election will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the Lead Coordinator (provided he or she is willing to assume the post); the next eight candidates will become Assistant Coordinators. The number of Assistant Coordinators may be increased if there is a tie or near-tie for the last position.
- Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments.
Candidates
- Voting is now concluded.
Current time is 04:59, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Dreamafter
Dreamafter (talk · contribs)
- I have been part of Misplaced Pages for nearly 10 months, and in being here, I have created many articles, see here and here. Two others that are not listed there are Legion Belge and Ludwig Gehre. To a lot of those articles I have added many pictures, and do a lot of work in creating articles and fixing them. I am willing to check in here a lot and provide my input to those that want it, I take criticism well, and will do a lot to fix my faults, and would love to help the project as an Asst. Co-ordinator. Please take the time to consider me and what I may bring to the project. You can also see some of my work here. ~ Dreamy 19:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Dreamafter
- How do you respond to the accusation that you are "looking for status for the sake of status"? Woody (talk) 15:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- I think that that is out of line, however, if that is what's thought, it's what's thought. I am not doing this for status, nor anything for status, I am merely trying to help out there, but it seems as if they do not wish me to contribute, so I will have to accept that and move on. I do fell disheartened by it, but like I previously stated, I just have to move on with my Misplaced Pages life. ~ Dreamy 00:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- How much do you feel that you contribute to discussions on the Milhist talk page and Military history related topics? I ask this as I don't see many contributions (2 in the last 6 months) to Milhist project related discussions. Woody (talk) 15:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, well, I don't see a lot of conversations or threads there that require my personal opinion, and if they do, I respond. I haven't been responding a lot, because I feel that others may share my opinions, so I choose to stay back and if something jumps out at me, I choose to answer. ~ Dreamy 00:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Eurocopter tigre
Eurocopter tigre (talk · contribs)
- I am a member of the MilHist project since March 2007 and an assisstant coordinator since August 2007. I hope I made myself useful for the project during my first term, especially in certain areas such as review and assessement. I have also created the Romanian military history task force in October 2007. If re-elected, I will most likely continue the work started during my first term. Thanks and best regards, Eurocopter tigre (talk) 13:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Eurocopter tigre
Fairly recently we ended up on opposite 'sides' in the fairly heated discussion around the Iassy/Jassy/Yassy/Iaşi-Kishiniev/Chişinău offensive. I was wondering how you would avoid/resolve such situations in future, should they come up? Are there areas of MilHist guidelines we should establish in order to help establish a basis? Narson (talk) 13:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I'm sure that such situations can be avoided/resolved by establishing guidelines which would clearly explain when and which certain names should be used. I will propose this soon on the main project talk page. --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 13:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I wanted some clarification on this as well (though I should note for readers that I as well was on the opposing side). For this particular page, you moved the standard English language historical description of 'Iassy-Kishinev' to the Romanian names of the cities, and thus broke the[REDACTED] guidelines about referring to the event by its most commonly known English-language name. Would you please refresh for us your reasons for doing so, and state why as a coordinator you're not upholding the guidelines we're all supposed to work by? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- My opinion (which was supported by many other users), is that we should Iaşi-Chişinău name, because those were the oficial names of the cities in 1944, as well as in present. I also think I didn't disrespected the guidelines, as they can be easily interpretated in their current form. In fact, this is the reason for which I support the establishment of WPMILHIST's own guidelines. --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 15:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- How would you evaluate your performance as assistant coordinator? What, if anything, would you do better or differently this time?--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- During my first term I think I was one of the most active assistants, and as I also stated above, hope I made myself useful for the project and its activities. If i'll get a second term, I would try to get more involved in other parts of the project (for example, helping Kirill with the maintainance). --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 15:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you, I'm sure Kirill would appreciate any help you offer, just as our project would any help he can provide.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 17:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Kyriakos
- I have been member of WP:MILHIST February 2006 and have been a assistant coordinatior since February 2007. Since them I have contributed a large number of article to the project mainly on Greece but also in other areas. Three article I have written have become and Portal:Military of Greece, which I created and maintain is also a Feature portal. On the project, I help by putting in my two cents in A-class reviews and in FAC as well as helping in the GAC process. Thanks for your time. Kyriakos (talk) 21:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Kyriakos
- How would you evaluate your performance as assistant coordinator? What, if anything, would you do better or differently this time?--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- In my time as assistant cooridinator I think I have done a pretty good job. However, this term I had less time to contribute to discussions because of exams and because I began a new school. If I was re-elected I would endeavour to contribute more to community discussions as my time now free. Kyriakos (talk) 20:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 21:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
LordAmeth
- Hrm. What's to say? I've been a member of this project since before it was incorporated as Military History, and I've been an Asst Coordinator for quite some time now. I tend to lurk, creating articles now and then, doing cleanup, spelling, and grammar edits here and there, tagging and assessing... I like to think that I play some significant role in overseeing or fostering the Japan-related articles, but in fact that task force's page doesn't see much action, and in terms of actual contributions to articles I think the torch has passed.
- In any case, the last few months have been super busy and I don't feel I've contributed much at all, particularly not in my role as an Asst Coordinator. The real-life workload's looking to lighten up, and indeed there remains quite a bit of Wikiwork to be done on various Japanese topics, not to mention other Asian topics (e.g. pre-modern SE Asia - I love WP:CSB), so I may be up for contributing a bit more in the near future, but most likely I will simply continue to do what I have always done - tagging and assessing, commenting here and there on various important discussions, and doing clean-up work here and there.
- If you would like to have me back, I'm all for continuing to stand in the limelight. どうぞよろしくお願いします。
Comments and questions for LordAmeth
- Hello my friend! Just wanted to say it is good to see one of the original members still going strong...Carry on!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- Well in fairness I do have to ask now; How would you evaluate your performance as assistant coordinator? What, if anything, would you do better or differently this time?--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- The past six months or so I have been extremely busy IRL, and I feel as though I have contributed next to nothing to the project, though that's not really true. I hope in the future to be more active on discussions on the Coordinators page, and in the various aspects of tagging and assessing, incl. A-class reviews, Peer Reviews, and the Tagging & Assessment Drive itself. To whatever extent that one can I would like to manage, foster, oversee the Japanese and Southeast Asian task forces, though those seem quite quiet most of the time, while being active in the Korean, Chinese, and other task forces where it is relevant to my interests & expertise.
- Though I do regret not being more active in procedural things - the assessment department, the Coordinator page discussions, etc - I continue to feel that, for me, the keenest part about being an asst coordinator is answering questions; I enjoy helping people understand and follow the standards and guidelines we have, so that all the articles follow a similar format and thus look more professional and purdy; also, of course, to contribute to discussions to change those guidelines where appropriate, and to help answer questions regarding historical content.
- Now that I've said all of that, let me sum up. In a nutshell, I feel that my way of being an Asst Coordinator is simply to be active, and to be available, and I hope to do more of both in the upcoming term. Thanks for the question. LordAmeth (talk) 13:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the answers and consider my support a given:)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 14:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
MBK004
- Military history has always been one of my main interests, but I did not find this project until I literally dove into the assessment drive at WP:SHIPS, which was held just before our assessment drive which recently concluded. My contributions to this project mirror those to WP:SHIPS because I have focused on naval history, specifically the capital ships of the United States Navy. The best example of my contributions can be seen at USS Texas (BB-35), which was thoroughly expanded by TomStar81 in January 2007, but lay dormant until I successfully co-nominated the article for Good Article status in December 2007. Afterwards I personally began to expand the article, which is still in progress. I have not involved myself heavily in the traditional coordinator activities such as peer reviews, and A-class reviews, but I plan to start regardless of if I am selected or not. I am also somewhat responsible for placing the seed for two ideas into the minds of the present coordinators:
- Encourage TomStar81 to continue his work on the Iowa-class battleships to the point that it qualifies as a Featured Topic.
- RfA notices - This proposal was completely thought-out and implemented by the coordinators and I had no involvement except for having my RfA during the time this was in-utero. My RfA was the first to be mentioned on WT:MILHIST using the new boilerplate template which was developed. This is a new responsibility of the coordinators of this project, and it is one that I feel I can fulfill, because I am active at RfA
- I am currently active at WP:SHIPS, a project which does not have coordinators, but I believe I am one of the more-active behind-the-scenes members there. Since my work there is primarily military history-related, I feel that I can help this project by serving as an Assistant Coordinator and coordinate cross-project events (possibly including the next assessment drive), along with participating in the review (Peer, A-class, FAC) process and make the RfA notifications.
- I appreciate your consideration, -MBK004 06:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for MBK004
Narson
- At the suggestion of a fellow project member and after pondering, I have decided to toss my hat/beret/fez into the ring. I have been a member of the project for the last several months, and a member of[REDACTED] in general for, well, a few years now (I did a few edits back in 05 and 06, my main bulk of editing started a year ago). I am afraid that I cannot match a few of the other candidates in terms of articles created and brought up to FA or GA standards, partly because most of the things I care about have already been created, but also because it is not where I tend to focus my attention. I try to spend my time working on protecting articles (Anti-vandalism and anti-POV) and also writing in minor changes and tweaking. My current little project is a re-write of the article on the Thingmen of Anglo Saxon England, which probably constitutes my largest project to date. One of my main activities is also promoting the use of talk pages in order to solve and debate through a lot of the conflicts that tend to occur on military and Formula One (my other[REDACTED] passion) articles. I think that the MILHIST is probably one of the key wikiprojects for wikipedia, considering that, as the Chinese said, all of the 'interesting times' in history occur during war and I would hope to become involved in helping ensure we maintain the standards that[REDACTED] requires, both by bringing more voices to debates on[REDACTED] guidelines that affect us, and by helping in the upcoming article tagging and assessment drive. I also look forward to helping in informal dispute mediation, which I have got a taste for with, among other things, the Falkland Island articles. Narson (talk) 00:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Narson
- Don't worry too much if you 'cannot match a few of the other candidates in terms of articles created and brought up to FA or GA standards', everyone has there strength and weaknessess, and we work to togather to overcome our weaknessess rather than lord them over other people's heads. Look at me, I can't spell to save my soul but others here make sure that the things I type get editting for readability when it counts. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Nick Dowling
Nick Dowling (talk · contribs)
- I have been a member of this project for about two years and have been consistently impressed by way in which it has encouraged the development of high quality articles. I have participated in many article reviews and was kindly awarded the project's Content Review Medal. I have also often taken part in discussions of issues on the project's talk page and at WP:SHIP's talk page and for the last month have regularly gone through the articles listed for deletion and added relevant articles to the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Though it is not a requirement for this role, I am also an administrator and am able to help provide any admin services the project requires.
- Aside from my work on the project itself, I have contributed to hundreds of military history-related articles and Portal:Military of Australia. I played the lead role in writing two FAs with other editors (Axis naval activity in Australian waters and Australian Defence Force) and have made significant contributions to a number of other articles which reached FA or A class standard. I have also been asked by other editors for advice on ways to improve articles.
- If elected an assistant coordinator I will propose that monitoring AfDs be made one of the regular tasks performed by coordinators and will offer to take the lead in this role (though, of course, all editors are able to do this). I feel that this task is important as AfD discussions on military-related articles should include the views of editors who take an interest in these articles. I will also encourage the development of high quality articles by encouraging editors who make impressive contributions to gain recognition through submitting articles for peer and A class reviews. --Nick Dowling (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Nick Dowling
R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine)
R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk · contribs)
- I was one of this project's early members. Though many of you newer participants may not know of me, I'm sure all of you know of our Task force concept. What few of you realize is, the idea was originally mine. Without it, this largest and best of Misplaced Pages's projects would have probably split into at least a half-dozen feuding daughters, spin-offs and splinters by now.
- If this sounds like too much boastful, trumpet-blowing, I also came up with some less successful ideas, such as the Cartography and Translation departments. Nevertheless, I'm proud of the small role I've played so far in helping to shape and make this Military History project what it is today. I humbly ask that you grant me the opportunity to play a greater role within it, at least for the next six months, as your lead coordinator.
For more of my views and ideas, please read my extended candidate statement.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 10:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine)
Is it necessary to have this leader thing in mind when devoting oneself to a project? Wandalstouring (talk) 11:01, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- No, but it is necessary to be devoted to the a project to be an effective leader of it. This is one of the differences between leaders and politicians who are motivated primarily by other considerations.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 11:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I remember the reasons leading to your abstinence from editing. It was a pretty heated discussion. You can make a good coordinator and possibly a leading one, but under the current circumstances you are someone out of exile and not yet proven again to be a good editor. My personal suggestion is that you take things a bit easier. Work out some good things for the projects first and really run for leadership in 6 months. If you really want to devote yourself, than try the Misplaced Pages: WikiProject History. I'd be happy to give there the lead to you and see some achievements. Wandalstouring (talk) 12:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind comments and advice. I will most certainly take it into consideration. I am aware that as a self-imposed exile I'm taking a chance. But certainly no more so than those whose deeds we record! As Churchill said; In war you can only die once, in politics you get to die repeadedly...:)Also, I made some fairly harsh, heated pronouncements in the discussion to which you refer. I heartily apologize for any harm or offense they may have caused.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Couple of points. First, you've not been very active over the last year, notching up less than 200 edits in total, and logging on sometimes weekly or fortnightly. It this going to change significantly if you are elected and, if so, do you need to be lead coordinator to be motivated to contribute? Second, it seems you are offering to stand on a "strong leadership" ticket. Why do you think this is appropriate to (a) Misplaced Pages and (b) Milhist? Thanks, --ROGER DAVIES 11:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- In answer to your first question; If elected, yes, I will have little choice but to come out of retirement:)It would indeed help to motivate me:) Do I need it? Not really, Assistant Coordinator would do just fine, but I've decided to be bold and run for the lead... Caesar or Nothing!. Your second question, I believe, is answered in my mega statement. I'm trying to offer an alternative to the current leadership...a different kind of leadership ("I am the candidate of change!":). If my quixotic quest somehow succeeds, I will work, in so far as possible, exclusively within the confines of Mil Hist and ignore the rest of Misplaced Pages. A big reason why I "retired" was I failed to do so and allowed myself to get dragged into political dramas. Having the burdens and responsibilities of LC would force me to focus my attentions to where they should have been all along.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 11:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- :) I trust that the Caesar (dictator of Rome) model was humorous hyperbole and that you really see yourself as primus inter pares? (This latter being a role that Kirill excells in.) --ROGER DAVIES 12:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- Indeed it was an attempt at humor, when dealing with me you must get accustomed to such things I fear:) And yes, my regime would be a continuation of the Principate and certainly not the beginning of a novo Dominate:)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, are you one of the administrators on Wikitruth.info? Cla68 (talk) 13:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- Cla68, isn't that a rather tricky question? Wandalstouring (talk) 13:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- But a fair question deserving of an answer. No, I am not an admin at Wikitruth. I don't even know who the admins really are there (They like it that way and so do I:). But I've made little secret of and make no apologies for my admiration of that site and the fine folks who run it. Believe it or not, they are actually some of the best friends Misplaced Pages has. Unless, of course, one believes that Misplaced Pages and its power structures are one in the same. I don't...I still foolishly make the distinction between the idea of Misplaced Pages and the reality of it. The idea is noble even if the reality is too often comically flawed. So if you are digging for a McCarthy moment, I'm a commie symapthizer but not a member of the Politburo or even the Central Committee.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 14:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- To make it clear, if you were an administrator at that site I wouldn't necessarily hold it against you. I support constructive, outside criticism of Misplaced Pages. Cla68 (talk) 20:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- Understood, I was actually a bit flattered by your question. And, no surprise, I also support you on point two. If constructive, inside criticism of Misplaced Pages were not so openly discouraged, if not actively prosecuted, there would be a lot less outside criticism of it.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 21:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- To make it clear, if you were an administrator at that site I wouldn't necessarily hold it against you. I support constructive, outside criticism of Misplaced Pages. Cla68 (talk) 20:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- But a fair question deserving of an answer. No, I am not an admin at Wikitruth. I don't even know who the admins really are there (They like it that way and so do I:). But I've made little secret of and make no apologies for my admiration of that site and the fine folks who run it. Believe it or not, they are actually some of the best friends Misplaced Pages has. Unless, of course, one believes that Misplaced Pages and its power structures are one in the same. I don't...I still foolishly make the distinction between the idea of Misplaced Pages and the reality of it. The idea is noble even if the reality is too often comically flawed. So if you are digging for a McCarthy moment, I'm a commie symapthizer but not a member of the Politburo or even the Central Committee.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 14:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Roger Davies
Roger Davies (talk · contribs)
- I have been an assistant coordinator for the past six months. My regular contributions have been peer and A-class article reviewing. Otherwise, I particularly enjoyed helping develop and implement Tag & Assess 2007. (I also tagged some of articles myself - though nothing like as many as some others - and have the
callusesbarnstars to prove it.) There are a couple of special Milhist projects on the horizon - our upcoming article improvement drive and the new tagging and assessment drive - which greatly interest me. They will improve the encyclopedia; enhance the project; and have considerable outreach/recruitment potential. Oh, and I nearly forgot to mention I have been an admin for nearly a day. --ROGER DAVIES 10:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Roger Davies
- How would you evaluate your performance as assistant coordinator? What, if anything, would you do better or differently this time?--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Shibumi2
- I ran for assistant coordinator last year and received several votes. I would like to run again. Much of what follows is from my statement at that time.
- I have partial Japanese ancestry and I have made the Imperial Japanese Navy and related articles at Misplaced Pages my personal mission. I noticed for three years this area is a weak spot in Misplaced Pages article coverage. Since February 2007, my English language skills have improved. I am sometimes awkward on the Talk pages because I hurry. But my edits to article mainspace are as good as anyone who speaks English as his native language. In recent months I have worked to raise awareness of Misplaced Pages WP:MILHIST project through "Did you know?" I have produced several features on Misplaced Pages main page under "Did you know?"
- I have also tried to make articles conform with requirements of WP:SHIPS and WP:MILHIST in all cases. It is very important to coordinate our efforts with neighboring Wikiprojects wherever this is appropriate. I have worked with TomTheHand from WP:SHIPS to make these articles better.
- I have expertise on the Pacific War. It is not honorable to brag about my achievements. I am a university student with much spare time for the project. My grandfathers served in the war on opposing sides (Imperial Japanese Navy and Royal Australian Navy). I inherited their libraries and I have many research materials, including unpublished diagrams, blueprints and navigation charts. I also have many books published in Japan.
- English is not my first language but I will always concentrate on correct use of the language. I will be happy to serve the project in any capacity the voters choose for me. I welcome any questions. Thank you for this opportunity. Shibumi2 (talk) 23:02, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Shibumi2
TomStar81
- I first ran for assistant coordinator last election cycle, and having enjoyed the experience I have decided to stand for reelection. Among other things I have tried to be active in the review and assessment departments, and suggested a few things for better internal management, incuding an edit to our Milhist Mos. I remain interested in the project and its task forces, and have enjoyed the learning experiences arising from this position and its additional responsibilities. For the record, I disclose that I remain as poor a speller as ever. I am in the middle of a school semester at the moment, but that won't stop me checking in with the project when time and circumstance permit. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for TomStar81
- How would you evaluate your performance as assistant coordinator? What, if anything, would you do better or differently this time?--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- Respectively: Good, overall; I would like to think that I have helped the project if only by chipping in on the A-class reviews and peer reviews. I will confess that I need to budget more of my free time to look into our internal review departments, A-class article candidates and Peer Reviews need more input, and I agreed to take on a more active role in both of these when I ran for AC last time, but I underestimated the amount of careful reading required to give meaningful feedback to those who take andvantage of these processes. I hope that tweaking my schedual a little to increase my free time will allow me to invest more time in the review process to get my two cents out to the masses. TomStar81 (Talk) 19:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Wandalstouring
Wandalstouring (talk · contribs)
- I sign up, so we have a reason to vote. My intention is to work on images and maps, perhaps turning it into a kind of task force. I developed the underused external images template with Kirill and have been active acquiring contracts for the use of images under acceptable licence agreements. Other fields would be organizing our B-class assessment I screwed up some time ago. Our current criteria are equal to the lowered criteria for GA. This area needs some development because we have a huge number of unassessed B class stuff.
- Kirill is shocking me. OK, I would do the leader job if elected, but not in single-leader-style, rather with a strong second in command to balance my temper.
Comments and questions for Wandalstouring
- What makes you think you screwed it up? And how would you improve it? --ROGER DAVIES 11:24, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I find hardly articles where the assessment system was used, but they even get rated B without(not our old backlog). Improving is the more difficult thing. One question to solving this thing is whether our B class is still underneath GA quality or already above. This needs to be discussed on a broader basis. Wandalstouring (talk) 11:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- How would you evaluate your performance in your earlier stint as assistant coordinator? What, if anything, would you do better or differently this time? --R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- In my opinion I defined the role of assistant coordinator as an active one and contributed to the point that there are more people doing the maintainance work. I failed on the broad designs of organization with reliance on editors I didn't know. That is really difficult to organize and the last coordinatorship did achieve progress in this area in a way I wouldn't have recommended. And certainly did I fail in the field of contributing to articles because wikipolicy consumed too much time. Wandalstouring (talk) 13:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- A very honest evaluation. However assistants do tend to be more concerned with maintainance work. It is the lead coordinators who should deal more with the broad designs, as you say. One more question/comment; You mentioned above the possibility of setting up task forces to deal with maps and images. I would be very Gung-ho for this idea, except that we've already tried it. Remember the cartography department? I tried to keep it alive...I even managed to find a curator for it. Unfortunately it didn't work out and the department died (Actually was put on life support, then got its plug pulled). The ridiculous levels of copyright paranoia and the jihad on fair-use, would make any task force's job in such areas much more difficult. Still, I would support your attempts, given how important images, and especially maps, are to our subject. Besides, there's no real harm in trying again:).--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Woody
- I have been a member of the project for a while now, and have written 5 FAs and 6FLs at last count. My primary area of interest in terms of article writing is Victoria Cross related articles. I am currently revamping all of the recipients lists, hopefully all to FL. I helped to write the 4 articles of the Victoria Cross featured topic. I know most of the ins and outs of the project and how it runs. I help contribute to A-Class reviews and Peer reviews as part of the excellent in-house review process. I am also an active reviewer at FAC, FAR and FLC. Currently I am involved in converting deprecated infoboxes for the project as well. If I am elected as an assistant coordinator I will continue to help maintain the project and help it to continue work so smoothly. Woody (talk) 19:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments and questions for Woody
- The peer review system does not run very well in[REDACTED] as a whole, however WPMILHIST has always impressed me with the speed and quality of its review system. Do you have ideas on improving the system further?
- First off, I think you should have a look at the new system at WP:PR. It has been automated somewhat and completely overhauled, mainly as a result of the content review workshop. The whole systems that we use on Misplaced Pages to review and verify information are undergoing complete structural change. I have seen Milhist peer review held up as a process to aspire to. We churn out verified and neutral articles, many of which become featured content, which has to be a huge positive.
- Recently I feel we have seen a bit of a reduction in the number of Peer reviewd at Milhist from new editors. We need to encourage new editors in their efforts to improve articles. I think in some ways, it needs to be a more user-friendly process. We need to encourage people to offer more reviews, and we need people who are knowledgable on the subjects. I think the new peer review volunteers page will take a part in that. We need to fully advertise the options available to editors and encourage the use of our processes by all editors and not just existing stalwarts. Woody (talk) 18:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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