Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Collaboration/Archive 1

Amount of votes needed.
Hey, I'd like to suggest that you lower the number of votes needed for an artical to be used in the next by to 3 like the GCOTW has. You only have to do this until the BCOTW gets popular. Its a suggestion, you don't have to take it if you don't want to. --ZeWrestler 02:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for suggestions and feel free to edit it how you see fit its as much of my collaboration as anyone elses. Falphin 02:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I won't be here from July 13-31.(was 30 but staying an extra night in Nashville) Could you make sure articles are updated and added? Falphin 13:53, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bio COTW
This wasn't "accidentally" selected 24 hours early. This was selected because the person in charge of the collaboration did not know if he would be there tomorrow to update it, so he did it early. I'm reverting and putting the templates back to the way they were. Instruction creep much? Mike H (Talking is hot) 16:38, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * With due respect to Falphin for the fine work done on this page, I don't think this should be a matter of any one person being "in change"; imagine if some other candidate got more votes in the interim, what needless controversy there might be. It would be better that the winner be selected a few hours late because the most dedicated maintainer of the project is detained, than that the winner should be selected too early.  Anyway, there is more than one person watching this page; that's the virtue of the wiki concept.--Pharos 28 June 2005 06:38 (UTC)

Weekly or fortnightly?
Falphin, I changed the wording on the template from one week to two weeks because I rather thought this was what "Collaboration of the Week" implied (there are other projects called "Collaboration of the Fortnight"). This is what I meant when I, probably too curtly, wrote "no one supported" the two weeks system; there did not seem to be any indication of it on the page, and I figured it might have been some capricious, spontaneous change.

Now I see the page had in fact said "Every other week", which is sort of brief but it's there (or at least was). Considering this, if you want to operate this as a biweekly collaboration I certainly would not oppose it, but I really wonder what others thought the intended period was.--Pharos 4 July 2005 04:33 (UTC)


 * Well, I thought that people were to work on articles for 2 weeks .... :) Not too many people worked on the first article Sheikh Hasina Wajed in the first week ... I thought people were saving edits for the second week. --Ragib 4 July 2005 04:54 (UTC)
 * Well, I've never used the term Fortnight sorry. But it really doesn't matter to me. And I personally though the Sheikh article did really well if you compare it to the Jap,USSouth, or other collabs during that period. It didn't see to be the most active of weeks. Falphin 4 July 2005 23:15 (UTC)

-->It's officially biweekly then? I will adjust it to the new duration.--Fenice 08:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

3 votes
I won't be here to update the article as I will be on a cruise at the time(and the next weeks in Prudhoe Bay I won't be able to update it. If there are still 3 votes tie and not much work is done I wouldn't object to expanding the BioCOTW another week. I will leave it up to those here at the time.Falphin 00:34, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

John Steinbeck
Would anyone object to keeping him for one more week???? A whole lot more could be done, and no other topics are getting many votes. Falphin 20:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't this be updated by now?Newbie222 02:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Hiatus
I left a note for Falphin, but I guess he's busy. Accordingly, I think we should move forward & keep the project going. Based on the rules we've established, it looks like Pope Damascus, the earliest nominee with 3 votes. Kaisershatner 17:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Louis Pasteur and Elton John archieved
I have archievd Louis Pasteur and Elton John, but looking other nominees all of them must be archieved. Is this project dead, looks like there is not much attention. Will we archieve old unsuccesful nominees or not?--Ugur Basak 13:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This project looks dead. feydey 08:21, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

If this collab is returns
President of the United Nations General Assembly has a significant number of red-links for past-Presidents of the UN General Assembly which could be done --Midnighttonight 01:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)