CZ:Proposals/Ad hoc

These are proposals that are being managed on an ad hoc basis by selected individuals.

Simplify Core Articles Initiative

Summary: The Core Articles initiative has not exactly been a screaming success; it is not achieving its primary aim of getting articles started about the most important 4,000 topics in our ~40 workgroup areas. Therefore, I propose that it be greatly simplified--even "stripped down"--in a way designed to motivate people to contribute to the effort. Original proposer: Larry Sanger 20:54, 21 March 2008 (CDT) Next step: Refine proposal. Driver: Anthony Argyriou To be done by: 1 May 2008

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Unified Feature-Rich Workgroup page design template

Summary: Many workgroups are highly developed; some are marginally developed, and others are not developed. It could be beneficial to have a single flexible template that would be easy to implement for all workgroup home pages. Original proposer: --Robert W King 12:21, 1 April 2008 (CDT) Next step: Community Discussion and Polling Driver: Robert King To be done by: April 30th

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Naming Conventions for Biographies

Summary: to adopt conventions for the naming of articles about people, living and dead. The basic principle proposed is: In general, an article about a person ought to live at the name at which the person is best-known to educated English-speaking people, with redirects from all common alternates. Significant levels of detail are offered. Original proposer: Anthony Argyriou 14:31, 14 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Prepare final versions of the two variant proposals; put up to a vote. Driver: Anthony Argyriou To be done by: 24 March 2008 Notes: originally proposed at CZ Talk:Naming Conventions#Names of articles about people, with no response.

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Romanization

Summary: Create a page called CZ:Romanization to deal with issues of how to romanize foreign words, placenames etc. that are normally written in other scripts, with subpages for individual languages, e.g. CZ:Romanization/Japanese. These pages would initially be for interested parties to discuss which romanization systems to adopt, eventually leading to official guidelines. Original proposer: John Stephenson 02:25, 4 March 2008 (CST) Next step: Decision by the Editorial Council Driver: John Stephenson To be done by: Friday May 29, 2008 Notes: I foresee a series of rows about this in the future because, for example, Japanese words can be rendered in the Latin alphabet in several different ways even within the same system, and there is more than one romanization system in use anyway.

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