User:Benc/Todo

Articles to write

 * Currently under construction in my sandboxes:
 * NFL timeline - User:Benc/Sandbox/3
 * Portrait of Dr. Gachet
 * Blank maps should be a stubby link to a new article I'll create on wikisource, based on Blank maps
 * Continuously variable transmission
 * Dimorphism stub
 * Equal Time Provision
 * Police corruption currently redirects to political corruption
 * Police brutality stub
 * Rivanna River
 * Transplanetary subway source:
 * Auto racing flags should cover checkered flag, black flag, others(?)
 * Templates:
 * Template:box office (parameterized) for filling in box office sales from boxofficemojo
 * Toilet training stub

Bolded entries are possible candidates for Collaboration of the week.

Discussions needing action
Listed in approximate order by priority:
 * User talk:Benc/Archive/1
 * User talk:Benc
 * User talk:Benc
 * User talk:Benc/Archive/1

Content to add

 * Wikipedia how-tos on templates, custom signatures, and watchlist
 * Official Wikipedia Manual... short, centralized document all Wikipedians should read
 * Major clean-up needed on Template messages
 * To Help:Starting a new page, How to write a great article, and Contributing to Wikipedia, link a new page discussing linking new articles up with others (Don't write orphan articles?), including:
 * redirects
 * trade links with existing articles
 * peer review to catch the links you missed
 * Add cone (mechanical) to cone disambig.

Refactoring

 * Make Template:fac and Template:fac-contested look nice like Template:featured.
 * Remove redirects for Messiah (Handel).
 * Smash out links to the Black Flag disambig.
 * Verify claim of 350 featured articles; synchronize with Category:Wikipedia Featured Articles.
 * Standardize E-1 m series of articles
 * Hip-Hop template does not belong on Grafitti (and a few other places). Drop them a note.
 * Div id's on WP:NOT like WP:DP?
 * Reduce VfD's page size:
 * ArticleName for when article is rewritten and supported
 * ArticleName for when discussion gets huge
 * Can the category and translations go in the footer template?
 * Parameterized subst template for new VfD listing (pending subst: bug fix)
 * Add to all articles listed on (low priority, bot work)

Pictures

 * New lava lamp image would be nice
 * Mona Lisa coffee mug

Questions for Help Desk

 * Discussions for deletion -- guidelines on how to be brief?
 * Admin tools, are there enough of them?
 * Special:Recreations
 * Special:Possiblerevertwars
 * Is there a discussion about hotlinking to wikipedia, and whether this is a bad thing?
 * Is there a consensus on template and category redirects and whether they're generally a bad thing, and how to stomp them out if they are?
 * Is there a central place for bots to hang out?
 * Is there a bot or query or something to:
 * Find spelling errors? SpellBot
 * Change "See Also" and "External Links" to "See also" and "External links"? Some efforts have been made
 * Standardize where the following appears on the page (top or bottom):
 * disambig
 * category
 * language translations
 * stub
 * leading and trailing newlines
 * Find mismatched talk redirects? (e.g., Talk:Gaia redirected to Talk:Gaia (mythology) but Gaia did not redirect Gaia (mythology))
 * Find pages with "(redirect page)" in their title (if any exist)?
 * Are these bugs?
 * Image having to be uploaded twice? (Or this a cache issue)
 * Parameterize templates only work in Template namespace? Do they?

Questions for Reference Desk

 * How to explain the videotaping monitors effect?
 * Approval voting in the U.S. system?
 * "Certified Business Location" for Virginia cities?
 * Americans prefer tall presidents?