CZ:Proposals/Ad hoc: Difference between revisions

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
imported>Jitse Niesen
(move "Simplify Core Articles Initiative" here from New Proposals page)
m (Text replacement - "IRAQI FREEDOM" to "Iraqi Freedom")
 
(6 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
'''These are proposals that are being managed on an ''ad hoc'' basis by selected individuals.'''
'''These are proposals that are being managed on an ''ad hoc'' basis by selected individuals.'''


== Simplify Core Articles Initiative ==
== Standardizing nomenclature for wars and conflicts, with system to link in partisan names ==


{{proposal
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Simplify Core Articles Initiative
|Brief descriptive title = Article names for wars and conflicts
|Summary of proposal = The [[CZ:Core Articles|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.
|Summary of proposal = We have had confusion, and some arguments, on the nomenclature for events involving "the extension of politics (group or national) through military or paramilitary means."  The confusion involves both semantics and syntax. We need standards.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 20:54, 21 March 2008 (CDT)
|Username of driver = [[User:Anthony Argyriou|Anthony Argyriou]]
|Next step = Refine proposal.
|Target date for next step = 1 May 2008
|Notes =
}}


== Unified Feature-Rich Workgroup page design template ==
Semantic:
*neutral name, with partisan and other names mentioned early in the article and with redirects to them (e.g., War Between the States, War of Yankee Aggression)
*Partisan names (e.g., Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 US invasion of Iraq).
*specialized (e.g., POLO STEP vice Iraqi Freedom)
*high-intensity combat vs. occupation/nationbuilding/resistance


{{proposal
Syntax means choosing the format of:
|Brief descriptive title = Unified Feature-Rich Workgroup page design template
*[location], conflict in [dates]
|Summary of proposal = 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.
*conflict (war) in [location] [dates]
|Name and date of original proposer = --[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 12:21, 1 April 2008 (CDT)
 
|Username of driver = [[User:Robert_W_King|Robert King]]
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 09:58, 24 July 2008 (CDT)
|Next step = Community Discussion and Polling
|Username of driver = [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]]
|Target date for next step = April 30th
|Next step =  
|Target date for next step =  
|Notes =   
|Notes =   
}}
== Recipes Subpage and Accompanying Usage Policy ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Recipes Subpage and Accompanying Usage Policy
|Summary of proposal = A new subpages option will be added to the subages template and an accompanying content policy will be written on [[CZ:Recipes]].
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 16:50, 12 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Supten Sarbadhikari|Supten Sarbadhikari]]
|Next step = Review by Editorial Council
|Target date for next step = May 15, 2008
|Notes = What should we do about listing, and/or cataloging, and/or indexing the recipes that I am beginning to put into various preexisting articles. Various people discussed this in the talk page of [[Bolognese sauce]] but nothing concrete appears to have come of that discussion. Even without any definitive policy being put into place in the near future, I will continue to add recipes to various articles. I imagine that it will not be difficult to catalog, or subpage them, or whatever, when the time comes. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]]
}}
== Naming Conventions for Biographies ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Naming Conventions for Biographies
|Summary of proposal = 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.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Anthony Argyriou|Anthony Argyriou]] 14:31, 14 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Anthony Argyriou|Anthony Argyriou]]
|Next step = Prepare final versions of the two variant proposals; put up to a vote.
|Target date for next step = 24 March 2008
|Notes = originally proposed at [[CZ Talk:Naming Conventions#Names of articles about people]], with no response.
}}
== Romanization ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Romanization
|Summary of proposal = 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.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] 02:25, 4 March 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]]
|Next step = Decision by the Editorial Council
|Target date for next step = Friday May 02, 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.
}}
}}


{{Proposals navigation}}
{{Proposals navigation}}

Latest revision as of 04:16, 31 March 2024

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

Standardizing nomenclature for wars and conflicts, with system to link in partisan names

Summary: We have had confusion, and some arguments, on the nomenclature for events involving "the extension of politics (group or national) through military or paramilitary means." The confusion involves both semantics and syntax. We need standards.

Semantic:

  • neutral name, with partisan and other names mentioned early in the article and with redirects to them (e.g., War Between the States, War of Yankee Aggression)
  • Partisan names (e.g., Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 US invasion of Iraq).
  • specialized (e.g., POLO STEP vice Iraqi Freedom)
  • high-intensity combat vs. occupation/nationbuilding/resistance

Syntax means choosing the format of:

  • [location], conflict in [dates]
  • conflict (war) in [location] [dates]
Original proposer: Howard C. Berkowitz 09:58, 24 July 2008 (CDT) Next step: Fill in next step
Driver: Howard C. Berkowitz To be done by: Fill in target date for next step
Complete proposal


Proposals System Navigation (advanced users only)

Proposal lists (some planned pages are still blank):

Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=CZ:Proposals/Ad_hoc&oldid=948127"