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Each month a Science Collaboration of the Month will be picked using this page. The aim is to feature an article by the end of the month using widespread cooperative editing. For a discussion on the correct format of science articles, please see WikiProject Science.

Carbon is the current science collaboration of the month.
Please help improve this article to featured article standard.
Last month's collaboration was Surface science - See improvements.

Stuck for nominees? Take a look at Science stubs or Requested articles in Applied sciences or Natural Sciences. Also check the /History, AID History and COTW History for articles that may have failed previously but are worthy of re-nomination, and Unreferenced Good Articles for articles that need citation work in particular.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Every Tuesday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

If you want to participate in this project, you may add {{user scienceCOTM}} to your user page which will unfold to

This user participates in the Science Collaboration of the Month.



Collaborations

Core topics
Biography

Arts & entertainment

Alternative Music
Rock Music
James Bond
Novels
Discographies

Games & sports

Baseball
Professional wrestling
Rugby union

Geography & places

Australia
France NEW!
India
New Zealand
Peru

Government & politics

Taxation
U.S. Congress

Religion

Anglicanism
Catholic

Education

Universities

Science & technology

Birds
Mammals
Mathematics
Medicine
Molecular and
Cellular Biology

New York State routes
Plants NEW!
Pharmacology
Robotics NEW!
Science
Space

Miscellaneous

Inactive collaborations

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Contents

Selection process

If there are more than five articles (5) candidates, nominations must get two votes every seven days to stay alive. Previous successful collaborations and unsuccessful nominations will be pruned and sent to /History. The first nomination to be pruned will be that which has the lowest number of votes among the expired nominees.

Users can add support for more than one nomination at a time. Users can only vote once for each nomination.

Collaborations will be selected every month by whichever one has the most votes. In the event of a tie, the earlier nomination wins.

History of SCOTM

The science collaboration of the month was originally started by Litefantastic on November 26, 2004. However, before an article could be selected, the project was unluckily deserted due to a lack of candidates and participants. On July 6, 2005, Toothpaste resurrected this project and the first collaboration was selected on July 20, 2005. A collaboration was selected approximately every week until June 28, 2006, when the collaboration became a monthly event with the aim of producing higher quality science articles.

List of past and present maintainers

  1. Toothpaste, July to December 2005
  2. Fenice, December 2005 to January 2006
  3. Samsara, January to March 2006
  4. Deryck Chan, March to May 2006
  5. Samsara, May to August 2006
  6. NCurse, August 2006 to present

How to nominate an article

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{SCOTW}} to the top of the article's talk page.

To add a new nomination, please:

  1. Copy the template below
  2. Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
  3. Replace "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
  4. Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
  5. Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
 ===[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]===   
 ====(1 vote), stays until [Date + 7 days]====
 :''Nominated <u>[[{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}]], [[{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}]]</u>, needs 2 votes by [Date + 7 days].''  
    
 ;Support 
 #~~~~
     
 ;Comments
 *[a short description explaining why the article should be the Science Collaboration of the month] 

Nominations for the next SCOTM

The next SCOTM will be chosen on August 1, 2008.

Related collaborations

Cholesterol
The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is Cholesterol.
Please help to improve this article to featured article status.
Last month's collaboration was Restriction enzyme.
  The current Computer Science Collaboration of the Week is — Computer security

(Change current CSCOTW)

The current Chemistry Collaboration of the Month is
Catalysis.

Every month a different chemistry-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked.
Please improve the article any way you can.

Trophies

Featured article
Good articles
See Wikipedia:Good articles

Maintenance instructions for this page

General

When an article is nominated

When an article is elected

When nominees fail their deadlines

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