User:Coppertwig/Notices

I'll post notices from time to time at User:Coppertwig/Notices about my activities or about things I think may be interesting to Wikipedians. I'll plan not to edit it often, so that it will be easier to watchlist it than my talkpage. I got the idea of a Notices page from Abd; see User:Abd/Notices.

September 2009

An arbitration case in which I participated (though not as a party) has just concluded: full decision is at
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley; brief summary is on the arb noticeboard
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The page
First Roumanian-American congregation, written by Jayjg and with which I helped a little with the editing, is now a featured article candidate; discussion is here
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May 2009

Proofreading offer

I've been accused of having a tendency to quibble over details. Well, put that to good use! If you ever want someone to quibble over details (i.e. proofread/copyedit an article), feel free to call on me. I like being asked to look over articles, and tend to come up with a lot of fiddly little changes. You can get an idea of what you'll be in for if you look at the comments I made going over these articles for example:

comments on Beth Hamedrash Hagadol and comments on ScienceApologist's Optics article at wikisource

. The former became a featured article after I fiddled with it, so I must not have totally messed things up. The latter might become the first featured article written by a banned user. I also made even smaller changes directly to each article. There's no guarantee that I'll have time, or that I won't get into content disputes.

Judea/Samaria placename guidelines

Comments from more editors would be helpful. I've moved the draft guidelines to a separate page,

Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration/Placename guidelines

and refactored the discussion on the talk page. (The top of the talk page has the older discussion; lower sections contain my refactored/summarized versions of the discussion, to which people are welcome to add more comments.) I'll probably start a policy RfC on it within a few weeks, but hope to get consensus for a single version of the wording first. Opinions from more editors could help to work out consensus wording.

Neutrality enforcement

Discuss ideas on how to enforce neutrality policy: Wikipedia:Neutrality enforcement. My own suggestion is here: Modification: Edits are paired up.

RfC on processes for resolving content disputes

The Arbitration Committee opened this request for comments: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Content dispute resolution

Arbitration cases I've been commenting in

The Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria case is closed. Eight editors are topic-banned.
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Abd and JzG is currently ongoing but looks as if it may wrap up soon.

23:08, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

April 2009

I've proposed draft guidelines for the use of the terms "West Bank", "Samaria" and "Judea". Please participate in discussion here. See also current Arbcom case, in which I've been participating.
Flagged revisions: a poll for a two-month trial has been closed with strong support for a trial. Implementation details are being worked out here.
I've participated in a user-conduct RfC about JzG; JzG has started an MfD discussion here to delete the RfC (21:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC))
I plan to be on wikibreak Monday to Thursday each week for several weeks.