User:Casliber/Golden Gnome

The Golden Gnome award is a short (three day) contest focussed on cleaning up and updating various article and article-talk templates. The premise is that accurate templating helps us keep track of global progress, assists suggest-bot, and improves the 'pedia by general housekeeping. Entrants log each of their entries as a log item. Each item scores one point.

Actions include:


 * 1) Rerating article talk assessment templates to reflect quality of page (stub to start, B-class to C-class (for old B-class rated articles with insufficient referencing), unassessed to stub/start/etc.), List class + removing stub tag if necessary.
 * 2) Refining generic stubs listed at Category:Wikipedia stub sorting backlog into more specific categories, also with parameters. e.g. like this
 * 3) Adding relevant wikiprojects to templates
 * 4) making a collapsible banner if more than three wikiprojects listed.
 * 5) changing unreferenced to refimprove tags if some references added.
 * 6) removing multiple issues tag if all but one issue fixed.
 * 7) removing an orphan tag if links identified or pertinent links added to other pages.
 * 8) adding relevant navbox
 * 9) formatting a reference from a bare url to a proper citation
 * 10) finding another link (or using wayback machine etc.) to fix dead links in articles with dead external links

See talk page for discussion on what else we can judge/assess. A potential source of articles to clean up is at Database reports

The prizes would be awarded as follows: The top pointscorer would receive a £50 voucher, while the other nine vouchers (each worth £25) would be random. Each item submitted gets a number and from the total tally, nine numbers get a voucher. Thus, the more submissions one makes the greater chance one has of getting a prize.