Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week

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Welcome to the Biography Collaboration of the Week Project Page! Every one to two weeks a collaboration is selected — usually a biographical article or topic related to biography that either has no article or can be drastically improved, with the goal of achieving a feature-standard article from widespread cooperative editing.
Previous winners can be found at /History.

The current Biography Collaboration of the Week is
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria.
Last week's was Jerry B. Jenkins.
See how it improved:[1]

The next winner may be selected on Sunday, October 23, 17:40 (UTC). The current date and time is 01:56, November 9, 2005.

Collaborations

Weekly:

Fortnightly:

Monthly:

Inactive collaborations

1 Selecting the next Collaboration of the week
2 Nominees
3 Templates for the BioCOTW winner
4 Post-BioCOTW
5 Biography topics on other COTWs

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Selecting the next Collaboration of the week

- All registered Users are eligible to vote.
- The Votes of unregistered users will not be counted.(Register here)
- Voters may consider only candidates nominated after their date of registration.
- New nominations can be added to the end of this page at any time.
- Voters may vote once for as many candidates as they choose.
- To vote, edit the nominee's section, inserting "# ~~~~" to add your username/time stamp
- Voters may provide reasons why they think an article should become the BCOTW.
- Only votes in support are counted (opposing votes do not influence the results).
- Voters are expected to contribute to the article if it is selected, and encouraged to contribute to any ongoing collaboration.
- Voting is concluded at the end of the announced period, but extended for 24 hours in case of a tie.
- If there is a persistent tie, the earlier nominee wins.
- Nominees may be removed to /Removed if they do not receive

3 votes in 14 days

6 votes in 28 days

9 votes in 42 days

- Please add {{BioCOTWs}} to the top of the nominee's talk page. This expands to:

This article is a nominee for Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week.
The Biography Collaboration of the Week is an effort to improve a Biography-related topics, stub or requested article up to featured article status.

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Nominees

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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria(Current)

Nominated:October 11, 2005. Needs 3 votes by October 25, 2005

Falphin 02:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Gareth Hughes 00:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Waltwe 10:18, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

The current Pope of the Orthodox church needs expansion. Falphin 02:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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Sigismund II of Poland (November1)

Nominated:October 18, 2005. Needs 3 votes by November 1, 2005.

Support:

Falphin 23:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus
Newbie222 01:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

^Talk 23:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC) Comments:

He united two great empires in Europe the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland to create a massive slavic empire. Falphin 23:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- I support the nomination, but I wouldn't call the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth a 'slavic empire'. Commonwealth (compared to its contemporaries) was fairly pacifistic, which doesn't fit the empire defintion too well :) And none of those countries had an empire before the Union. It is a minor detail, but I don't want to see word 'empire' added to the bio. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 23:20, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  - I have no intention on adding the word empire since it is never used elsewhere. For the sake of an arguement... The Kingdom was pacifist but that doesn't change the fact it was involved in several major wars, and that it ruled over multiple ethnic groups. I likewise would consider the Duchy of Lithuania an empire, because it ruled over multiple ethnic groups and extended form the Baltic to the Ukraine. I will grant the Kingdom of Poland doesn't fit in most leniant definitions of an empire but nonetheless it was a signficant power in Europe. And come on if the Central African Empire can be considered one, surely the commonwealth can. I guess I was exaggerating a bit. :) Falphin 23:57, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Cleopatra VII of Egypt(November 4)

Nominated:October 21, 2005. Needs 3 votes by November 4, 2005.

Support:

Falphin 22:02, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Newbie222 01:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

She is probably the most well known Egyptian ruler, and she was a very powerful ruler and was a master of economics making the Egyptian economy only second to Rome. The article doesn't go into detail about her plan to have her son enthroned on an Empire, whether Eygptian, Roman, or Indian. The article doesn't even talk about her plan to leave Egypt to to establish an empire with her huge amounts of wealth. Nor does it go into detail with her relationship with Caesar or Mark Antony. I'm not saying it is a bad article but it lacks in a lot of areas for such a signficant figure. Falphin 22:02, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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Henry the Navigator

Nominated:October 23, 2005.

Gameiro 21:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Falphin 21:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Newbie222 01:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

The "father" of the Portuguese Empire. Great historical figure and a visionary of exploration. Urgently needs a far better article. Has plenty of potential. Gameiro 21:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
- Of course, I guess this is where the reality of Wikipedia:Systematic Bias can be seen. This if it succeeds would be the fourth Portuguese biocotw. Falphin 21:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

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Irna Phillips (Date+14)

Nominated:Date, 2005. Needs 3 votes by [[Date +14]], 2005.

Support:

Dowew 03:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
JamesB3 04:50, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Newbie222 01:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

As the mother of the soap opera was of the most successful television genres she could use a more in depth article. I have recently added some additional info to her page and from the sounds of it would be a really fasinating person to research Dowew 03:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Irna was not only the inventor of the modern-day soap opera, she helped to popularize many elements that are widely used today in and out of daytime, like amnesia. She created and presided over one of the few shows to make a lasting transition from radio to television. The Guiding Light is the longest-running program in broadcast history, if I remember correctly. She was also, as Dowew mentions, a fascinating person, very very tough. --JamesB3 04:50, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

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Thomas Cole (November 8)

Nominated:October 25, 2005. Needs 3 votes by November 8, 2005.

Support:

KingTT 22:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Falphin 00:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

A very notable American painter mainly responsible for the Hudson River school, Thomas Cole greatly influenced several landscape artists of the second half of the 19th century, yet his article is practically a stub. KingTT 22:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

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Templates for the BioCOTW winner

When an article wins, please add {{BioCOTWnow}} to the top of the article:

This is a current Biography collaboration of the week!
Please help improve it to featured article standard.

and add the {{BioCOTWvoter}} template to the talk pages of people who voted for the winner.

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Post-BioCOTW

If you believe the former Biography Collaboration of the Week still needs improvements please post it on this page.

Henry Fonda is a Featured Article.
John III of Portugal was a Featured Article Candiate.
Fernão Mendes Pinto is currently under peer review.
Tenzin Gyatso is currently under peer review.

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Biography topics on other COTWs

This is a list of Biography topics that are currently nominated on other boards. Please add your support to them if you are interested in contributing. If they become the next collaboration they will get mention on this page.