CZ:Proposals/Ad hoc

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

Recipes Subpage and Accompanying Usage Policy

Summary: A new subpages option will be added to the subages template and an accompanying content policy will be written on CZ:Recipes. Original proposer: Hayford Peirce 16:50, 12 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Leaving CZ:Recipes to evolve with time and getting the proposal formalized. Once the newly formed Editorial Council takes charge, the proposal can be put there for acceptance by acclamation. Driver: Supten Sarbadhikari To be done by: April 03, 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. Hayford Peirce

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Standard naming of biomedical (and other) articles

Summary: Encourage and facilitate usage of the National Library of Medicine's MeSH browser (browser search plugins are available) in order to select canonical terms to be used as titles (when such terms are available). The benefits of this are: 1) reduce the chance of two authors independently writing two articles in parallel on the same content (but with different titles), 2) offer standardized definitions of terms that can be used at the beginning of articles, 3) anticipate common alternative terms that can be set up as redirects when the article is written, 4) facilitate the linking to CZ from other biomedical databases when web 2 arrives. As an example, we have an article titled Concussion of the brain which according to MeSH, might be better titled 'Brain concussion' with a separate page called 'Cerebral concussion' that redirects to this page. Original proposer: Robert Badgett 00:23, 14 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Vet this proposal to see if worth carrying forward. Driver: Robert Badgett 00:23, 14 February 2008 (CST) To be done by: 3/1/2008

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Article Content Request help

Summary: Article Content Request should exist in order for authors to request article assistance on particular topics within a subject. This is not intended to be a request for editorial review, rather, it is a system devised to empower citizens to help out on subjects that they might know about. It is meant to spur activity and input from those who might have knowledge in a discipline. Original proposer: --Robert W King 14:09, 11 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Community Discussion Driver: Robert King To be done by: 14 March 2008 Notes: Theoretical page located at CZ:ACR using template:request.

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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 policy. Original proposer: John Stephenson 02:25, 4 March 2008 (CST) Next step: Develop proposal page and request feedback from other contributors Driver: John Stephenson To be done by: 11 March 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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