Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Edit requests


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was created at WikiProject Edit requests. Sam-2727 (talk) 04:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Description
To deal with COI and paid edit requests. Per discussion at the Village pump. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
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 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.



Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) As proposer, will join. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 2) I will join.Z1720(talk) 02:28, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 3) I will join, as original supporter of this idea at the Village Pump. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 03:51, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 4) I would join. Sam-2727 (talk) 05:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 5) Count me in-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:48, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 6) I would absolutely join. WWB (talk) 16:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 7) I'm in! Mary Gaulke (talk) 03:00, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Discussion
A WikiProject is a group of people. If the group is small, then you should consider using your own user talk pages at this timmem, rather than setting up special WikiProject pages for it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Another option is that it could be a WP:TASKFORCE, associated with an appropriate Wikiproject.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  14:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm open to that, given that I highly doubt that editors interested in edit requests will ever spill into the double digits (doing COI edit requests opens you up to accusations of being shills etc). I assume that such a taskforce would come under one of the WikiProjects at WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia, probably WikiProject Cooperation, but it appears to be defunct. Reviving a defunct WikiProject would probably have around the same effect as creating a new one in that there will be the same number of editors. Sdrqaz (talk) 15:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Pinging, as one of the few editors active at WP:COIN. Any advice would be appreciated. Sdrqaz (talk) 15:09, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks for the ping Sdrqaz. I'm very, very rarely involved in requested edits, so no opinion on this.  Possibly (talk) 20:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. No worries! Sdrqaz (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

While it never took off, it's unfortunate that the community never bought onto my proposal for a Tour of Duty concept. I proposed this years ago and see that I even included Request Eedit as one of the options. Here is why it is perfect as a task:
 * We need more people contributing — having only a single editor taking care of most of the requests is not good for the project
 * We don't want to encourage brand-new editors to take this on — it's my opinion that it requires a bit of experience to understand the bias issues.
 * Editors thinking about submitting an RFA could use this to give other editors a good sense of their understanding of issues related to bias, proper referencing,  and, interaction with editors who might be aggressive about a point of view

While this is probably not the time or place to re-propose that initiative, as part of the process of identifying potential admin candidates, we might suggest that helping out at request edit would provide valuable insight. This obviously up to be coupled with a process to keep track of who does what. S Philbrick (Talk)  15:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)


 * That's a shame. As we saw from the Village Pump discussion, Spintendo's absence has meant the backlog has ballooned and any help, even if it's for the purpose of passing an RfA (imagine that!), would be appreciated. I think I pretty much agree with your points: doing COI edit requests is quite an "unsexy" area and having admin hopefuls do more of them would translate to greater experience when dealing with promotional accounts, COI/paid editors later down the line if the RfA is successful. Sdrqaz (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I rarely participate in this because d I do not think complex issues can be dealt with by going through a list of changes  and arguing over each one. . What I'd want a coi editor to do is to propose a new version, and let a reviewer either accept, not accept, or change it. And then what I'd expect is that they'd leave it rest, and let volunteer editors go further if they think necessary. I know that's not our current stanadard practice, but I've sometimes done it.  DGG ( talk ) 06:17, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , I think that would be an ideal practice. A related point is that sometimes, we are declining changes over really silly and easily fixable formatting errors (totally expected since these are new editors). Like AFC, an edit request should not be declined because of the formatting of the edit request, but it is common practice to do so currently. Sam-2727 (talk) 04:06, 19 February 2021 (UTC)