User:Tarquin/to do

Stuff to do when I suddenly find a spare life hanging around. (Anyone is welcome to beat me to doing any of the following!)


 * upload picture of chives
 * see Talk:Quadratic formula
 * Get dates for Jacques Prevert
 * see Talk:Louis IV of France
 * merge North Pole and South Pole into something coherent & unstubbish, about geographic & magentic poles. (but please beat me to it, I know naaaaaaathing about all this)
 * merge in all the types of computer kernel, maybe
 * do some fiddling to floppy disk
 * sort out Folly
 * direct object and indirect object


 * ponder some way to merge all these "walled garden" todo lists -- somehow resurrect "votes for rewrite"

The todo lists
Reasons:


 * Many users now keep a "todo" list within their personal space -- but many users also add a "but please beat me to it!"
 * Many articles' talk pages have notes & queries which go unresolved for months (qv my watchlist...).
 * Recent changes goes by too quickly for people to see questions that they might be able to answer.

Instead of keeping personal lists, we should start using Pages needing attention more -- but change it to be a hub of sorts. From this, we'd have pages for different sorts of things to do:


 * deletion requests
 * NPOVing
 * factual questions (someone with knowledge of the subject is needed)
 * copyediting / rewrites for clarity (ie work that someone can do with no knowledge of the subject other than what they read in the article itself)
 * merging duplicates
 * renaming
 * Find or fix a stub, of course
 * & maybe others