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U.S. Collaboration of the Week These two weeks, North Carolina is the US Collaboration of the Week.  (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW  +/-) Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.

This is the page to deal with discussion and nominations for the U.S. Collaboration of the Week (USCOTW). The USCOTW is a collaborative effort led by participants to improve different United States articles, selected every two weeks. A mob of editors then deskeletonizes it, and the result is announced to wide acclaim. You do not have to be from the United States to help out with this collaboration.

As of now, 3 previous USCOTWs, History of New Jersey, Music of the United States, and Mount Rushmore have been promoted to featured article status. 2 additional USCOTWs have received good article status.

[edit] How to vote

[edit] Nominations

The next USCOTW will be picked on Monday, October 23, by the highest number of votes. The current time is 00:42, December 16, 2006.

Nominations need to be supported by at least two voters per week to stay on the list. Failed nominations can be renominated any time. (Archived nominations) Past improvements and the results can be seen at Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTW/History.

In the event of a tie between two nominations, the one that was most recently nominated becomes the new USCOTW.

[edit] How to nominate

[edit] Ohio River flood of 1937 (6 votes, stays until October 18)

Nominated 02:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC); needs 2 votes by October 18 (minimum 2 votes per week)

Support:

1. Bedford 02:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 02:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Chris24 04:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
4. ᎠᏢ462090 02:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
5. SNIyer12 01:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
6. (Iuio 07:17, 11 October 2006 (UTC))

Comments:

• It is the worst flood in American history, and has for too long been ignored. Plus, it covered so many states that it is too big for just one single local WikiProject Bedford 02:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Also agreed that this is such a big subject that has been ignored for too long. This definitely needs some national attention. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 02:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ohio Valley (1 votes, stays until December 6)

Nominated 11:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC); needs 2 votes by December 6 (minimum 2 votes per week)

Support:

1. lots of issues | leave me a message 11:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

• There is no article, just a redirect. An important frontier in American history. lots of issues | leave me a message 11:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maine (2 votes, stays until December 19)

Nominated 02:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC); needs 2 votes by Date in 7 days (minimum 2 votes per week)

Support:

1. Deyyaz ^{[ Talk | Contribs ]} 02:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
2.  Shardsofmetal  02:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

• This is one of the most ignored US state articles on Wikipedia. It definitely needs to be brought up to standards. This article is a classic example of a subject that has bounteous amounts of information on it, yet still remains in disrepair. Deyyaz ^{[ Talk | Contribs ]} 02:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

Consider joining the US collaborative efforts by signing in the participants list below with * ~~~ ,which will generate your name.

{{User USCOTW}} is an userbox that will result as the template on the left, to be placed on user pages. Alternatively, putting [[Category:User USCOTW|{{PAGENAME}}]] will also add you to Category:User USCOTW.

[edit] Maintenance

• AndyZ _t
• PDXblazers
• Iuio

[edit] Instructions for updating

1. Locate the article with the most votes; in a tie, the newest article to become nominated becomes the new USCOTW.
2. Adjust {{collab-us}} to the current USCOTW (keep the wikilink).
3. Remove Template:UScur from the old USCOTW and add it to the new one.
4. Add Template:USold onto the talk page of the new USCOTW, with two parameters: the current date and the year.
5. Correct the new changing date located above at Nominations. Cut and paste the above nomination and move it to WP:USCOTWN
6. Update the information on WP:USCOTWHIST, adding the information about the last USCOTW and the date, # of votes, article name, and # of words onto the top of the wikitable.

Maintenance also involves the updating of the "U.S. topics on other COTWs" section and the updating of vote tallies and removal dates.

[edit] Participants

Participants help out on the current USCOTW, nominate new articles, vote, and provide comments.

• AndyZ _t
• PDXblazers
• General Eisenhower
• ᎠᏢ462090^Contribs
• Hezzy
• Iuio
• plange 20:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Badbilltucker 20:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. topics on other COTWs

[edit] WP:AID

• NFL Draft

[edit] WP:COTW

• Fourteen Points

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Collaboration

• Battle of Wake Island

[edit] Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week

• Stuyvesant High School
• Hurricane Felix (1995)
• United States

[edit] Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight

• United States-Australia relations was selected for two weeks from 12 November 2006

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea is the current Chicago Collaboration of the Week Every week, a Chicago-related article that is in need of substantial improvement is Selected to be the Chicago Collaboration of the Week. Please help improve it to a higher standard of quality.
	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

The current Texan Collaboration of the Month is Strand National Historic Landmark District. Every month, a different Texas-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person:	Mel Hancock
Place:	Missouri's 7th congressional district
Thing:	Establish boilerplate for congressional district articles
Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or Red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations; See past collaborations)

[edit] Templates

{{USCOTW}} - to announce the topic
{{Collab-us}} - the name of the current USCOTW
{{USnom}} - to be placed in the talk page of the nominated articles
{{UScur}} - placed on the current collaboration article
{{USvot}} - to be placed on voters talk page
{{USold}} - to be placed on the talk page of past USCOTWs
{{User USCOTW}} - an userbox for placement on user pages for users who frequently participate in USCOTW