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The New Draft of the Week is a chance to highlight a recently created Citizendium article that has just started down the road of becoming a Citizendium masterpiece.
It is chosen each week by vote in a manner similar to that of its sister project, the Article of the Week.

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To add a new nominee or vote for an existing nominee, click edit for this section and follow the instructions


Table of Nominees
Nominated article Vote
Score		 Supporters Specialist supporters Date created
The Age of Ra 1 Drew R. Smith August 23, 2009

If you want to see how these nominees will look on the CZ home page (if selected as a winner), scroll down a little bit.

Recently created pages are listed on Special:NewPages.

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The next New Draft of the Week will be the article with the most votes at 1 AM UTC on Thursday, 17 September, 2009. I did the honors this time. Drew R. Smith 22:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


Nominated article Supporters Specialist supporters Dates Score
Developing Article The Age of Ra: A book by James Lovegrove [e]
The Age of Ra is a science-fiction novel by British author James Lovegrove. It was published in 2009 by Solaris, ISBN-13: 978-1-84416-747-0. The book retails for $7.99 in the United States and $9.50 in Canada.

Plot

The entire story is centered around the idea that men and gods literally co-exist, and that the Ancient Egyptian gods, particularly the first family (Shu, Tefnut, Geb, and Nut), defeated all the gods of all the other pantheons a century prior to the start of the book.

The beginning starts with Lt. David Westwynter being ambushed and captured by Nepthysians (supporters of the goddess Nepthys) along with two other members of his squadron. They are then taken and interrogated, with glued lips and nostrils being the primary method of interrogation.

Eventually the Osirisiac (supporters of Osiris) military bombs the interrogation site, supposedly to cover up the fact that David had ever been there. The resulting explosion allowed David and one of his two men to escape relatively unharmed. The other man eventually commits suicide before getting back to civilization.

After a few different mishaps and run-ins with slave traders and bandits, David ends up in Freegypt (formerly Egypt, and the ony place free of the gods' control) face to face with a man called the Lightbringer. The Lightbringer wears a mask and challenges David to a game of senet that David lost. After a few rematches David finally wins, and the lightbringer reveals that he is, in fact, David's younger brother Steven, thought to be dead years before.

Steven tells David about his grand ideas of waging war on the gods, to end the constant wars between supporters of the various gods. David eventually joins and begins commanding Stevens armies, maneuvering them closer to their ultimate objective.

Meanwhile in the heavens, Ra attempts in vain to end the quarrels of the various gods. He first goes to Nepthys who says she will try to get her brother/husband Set (deity) to end his quarrels with Osiris, though nothing ever came of it. He then tries to convince the first family, Set, Osiris, and Anubis to end the quarrels, all in vain. Anubis say's he cannot help, but does point out the Lightbringer to Ra, who then states that the lightbringer is clouded to him. Ra then uses the lightbringer to bring the gods to peace, and unites them against the lightbringer. (Read more...)

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Current Winner (to be selected and implemented by an Administrator)

To change, click edit and follow the instructions, or see documentation at {{Featured Article}}. Les Paul (9 June 1915 - 13 August 2009) was best known as a guitarist, and as one of the most important figures in the development of modern electric instruments and recording techniques. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar (the Gibson Les Paul he helped design is one of the most famous and enduring models), multitrack recording, and various reverb effects.

Career

Paul, born Lester William Polfus (Polsfuss) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, first became interested in music at the age of eight, when he began playing the harmonica. After an attempt at learning to play the banjo, Paul began to play the guitar. By 13, Paul was performing semi-professionally as a country-music guitarist. At the age of 17, Paul played with Rube Tronson's Cowboys. Soon after, he dropped out of high school to join Wolverton's Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri on KMOX.

In the 1930s, Paul worked in Chicago, Illinois in radio, where he performed jazz music. Paul's first two records were released in 1936. One album was credited to 'Rhubarb Red', Paul's hillbilly alter ego, and the other was in the backing band for blues artist Georgia White.

The Log

Paul was unsatisfied by the electric guitars that were sold in the mid 1930s and began experimenting with a few designs of his own. Famously, he created 'The Log' which was nothing more than a length of common "4 by 4" fence post with bridge, guitar neck, and pickup attached. For appearances he attached the body of an Epiphone jazz guitar, sawn lengthwise with the 'Log' in the middle. This solved his two main problems - feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body. (Read more...)

Previous Winners

Rules and Procedure

Rules

  • The primary criterion of eligibility for a new draft is that it must have been ranked as a status 1 or 2 (developed or developing), as documented in the History of the article's Metadate template, no more than one month before the date of the next selection (currently every Thursday).
  • Any Citizen may nominate a draft.
  • No Citizen may have nominated more than one article listed under "current nominees" at a time.
  • The article's nominator is indicated simply by the first name in the list of votes (see below).
  • At least for now--while the project is still small--you may nominate and vote for drafts of which you are a main author.
  • An article can be the New Draft of the Week only once. Nominated articles that have won this honor should be removed from the list and added to the list of previous winners.
  • Comments on nominations should be made on the article's talk page.
  • Any draft will be deleted when it is past its "last date eligible". Don't worry if this happens to your article; consider nominating it as the Article of the Week.
  • If an editor believes that a nominee in his or her area of expertise is ineligible (perhaps due to obvious and embarrassing problems) he or she may remove the draft from consideration. The editor must indicate the reasons why he has done so on the nominated article's talk page.

Nomination

See above section "Add New Nominees Here".

Voting

  • To vote, add your name and date in the Supporters column next to an article title, after other supporters for that article, by signing <br />~~~~. (The date is necessary so that we can determine when the last vote was added.) Your vote is alloted a score of 1.
  • Add your name in the Specialist supporters column only if you are an editor who is an expert about the topic in question. Your vote is alloted a score of 1 for articles that you created and 2 for articles that you did not create.
  • You may vote for as many articles as you wish, and each vote counts separately, but you can only nominate one at a time; see above. You could, theoretically, vote for every nominated article on the page, but this would be pointless.

Ranking

  • The list of articles is sorted by number of votes first, then alphabetically.
  • Admins should make sure that the votes are correctly tallied, but anyone may do this. Note that "Specialist Votes" are worth 3 points.

Updating

  • Each Thursday, one of the admins listed below should move the winning article to the Current Winner section of this page, announce the winner on Citizendium-L and update the "previous winning drafts" section accordingly.
  • The winning article will be the article at the top of the list (ie the one with the most votes).
  • In the event of two or more having the same number of votes :
    • The article with the most specialist supporters is used. Should this fail to produce a winner, the article appearing first by English alphabetical order is used.
    • The remaining winning articles are guaranteed this position in the following weeks, again in alphabetical order. No further voting should take place on these, which remain at the top of the table with notices to that effect. Further nominations and voting take place to determine future winning articles for the following weeks.
    • Winning articles may be named New Draft of the Week beyond their last eligible date if their circumstances are so described above.

Administrators

The Administrators of this program are the same as the admins for CZ:Article of the Week.

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