Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher education/COTM

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This Collaboration of the Month (COTM) by WikiProject Universities is a collaborative effort to improve higher education articles on Wikipedia. The collaboration project was originally established as a Collaboration of the Fortnight by Jameson L. Tai in November 2007. The project was briefly revived in November 2008 as a Collaboration of the Month and returned in November 2009 with a new moderator. Contact Mabeenot with any questions.

How to help

 * We're looking for editors to help upgrade B-Class articles to GA-Class and Start-Class articles to B-Class
 * You can contribute by:
 * Increasing coverage and accuracy
 * Adding supporting materials
 * Improving references and citations
 * Refining the article's structure and organization
 * Copyediting grammar, punctuation, and spelling
 * Improving the quality and clarity of the writing
 * Establishing and maintaining the article's neutral point-of-view
 * Providing well-rounded coverage of the subject
 * See GA/FA requirements for more details
 * General guidelines
 * Help verify/supply new sources
 * If the article lacks a universities infobox, create one
 * Update figures. (Enrollment figures and number of awards fluctuate every semester/year.  It drastically affects the accuracy of this encyclopedia to make sure the data displayed in the article is up-to-date.)
 * Check to see if the article is following the suggested WikiProject Universities article structure breakdown
 * Make sure the article is NOT an advertisement. The last thing we need is a misplaced online university trying to solicit to students through our services.  If it is written like an advertisement, fix it.  If you cannot, notify us on the appropriate subject header on this talk page.
 * Remove any instances of academic boosterism.
 * Be Bold
 * And most importantly...
 * Have fun!

Article Selection
Every month, two articles will be selected for this Collaboration project to improve, one B-class and one Start-class. The selection process shall be as follows:

Each calendar month, a list of ten (10) B-class articles will be chosen by the moderator out of Category:B-Class Universities articles, upon which editors will then vote. Topics that receive three (3) votes but are not selected as the People's Choice Collaboration of the Month will automatically be retained for the next month's vote. Topics that fail to receive any votes will automatically be eliminated. All other topics will be retained or eliminated at the moderator's discretion.

A Start-class article will be selected my the moderator from Category:Start-Class Universities articles to act as the Head Start topic, an alternative for editors who feel more comfortable working on a less-advanced article. While the moderator retains control over the selection of Head Start articles, anyone may suggest an article by writing on the moderator's talk page.

A designated moderator, currently Mabeenot, will be assigned to operate the COTM. Moderator assignments will be fixed until a need arises for changing the moderator.

Current People's Choice Selection
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 * Support:
 * 1) --Chriss.2 17:35, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Racepacket (talk) 01:39, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 17:30, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Nominations
To vote, you have to be a registered user. Anyone who votes is encouraged (but not required) to make at least one edit to the current COTM. Please do not add nominations that were not selected by the moderator.

Sign with " # ~ " on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the subhead. Opposing votes are not counted (see approval voting). You can vote for as many articles as you like. Additionally you can give a comment in the comment section, but remember that every editor that has ever edited a nominated article did so to the best of his of her ability.

Massachusetts, United States


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Nova Scotia, Canada


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Illinois, United States


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

District of Columbia, United States


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)


 * 1) Comparativist1 (talk) 00:41, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Ontario, Canada


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

England, United Kingdom


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Scotland, United Kingdom


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Western Australia, Australia


 * Support:


 * Comments:
 * Official Nomination -Mabeenot (talk) 01:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Previous Collaborations Chronicle
WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Fortnight Project

WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Month Project

* The first edition of COTM was extended due to a delayed launch and the moderator's WikiBreaks.

Active COTM Editors
To add your name into this section, please type in  # ~  to the bottom of the list. I will contact people on the following list of COTF updates, questions, urgent issues, and RfCs on the COTF program.


 * 1) - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 05:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Madcoverboy (talk) 13:17, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3)  Noetic   Sage  19:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Timrollpickering (talk) 01:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Samwisep86 (talk) 21:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 7) Mabeenot (talk) 21:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 8) Marco Guzman, Jr (talk) 05:36, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 9) Adavis444 (talk) 19:33, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) Dualus (talk) 06:09, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

How the COTM is selected
The article with the most votes at the end of each month will be selected as the following month's People's Choice COTM topic. If two articles have the same number of votes, the older article (judged by earliest edit in article history) wins.

Please add your signature below the college you wish to vote for and manually change the number of votes for that college. Colleges with more than 3 votes may be renominated for the next month.

Nomination Instructions
 Instructions for moderator for article selection.

The moderator is to select ten (10) articles from Category:B-Class Universities articles. While the selections are ultimately up to the moderator's discretion, the moderator will keep in mind that geographic diversity brings together editors from distant places in a common pursuit. To ensure fairness and objectivity, the following types of articles cannot be nominated.


 * Articles that are outside of the WikiProject Universities scope.
 * Articles that are currently at featured status or good article status
 * Articles currently engaged in edit wars
 * Articles that have already been elected to serve as WikiProject Universities COTF or COTM

How to nominate

Templates
UniversitiesCOTM puts the COTM announcement as shown at the top of this page.

WikiProject Universities includes the ability to denote an article as being a nominated, current, or past COTM. Add the following syntax to the article's WikiProject Universities template on its talk page:
 * Nominated COTM:
 * Current COTM:
 * Past COTM:

Defunct templates

 * UniversitiesCOTF-Now, which puts a box at the top of the current COTF articles.
 * UniversitiesCOTF-Was, which puts a box at the top of previous COTF articles' talk pages.