User:Casliber/Golden Gnome

The Golden Gnome award is a short (three day) contest focussed on cleaning up and updating various article and article-talk templates. The premise is that accurate templating helps us keep track of global progress, assists suggest-bot, and improves the 'pedia by general housekeeping. Entrants log each of their entries as a log item. Each item scores one point.

Actions include:

1. Rerating article talk assessment templates to reflect quality of page (stub to start, B-class to C-class (for old B-class rated articles with insufficient referencing), unassessed to stub/start/etc.), List class + removing stub tag if necessary.
2. Refining generic stubs listed at Category:Wikipedia stub sorting backlog into more specific categories, also with parameters. e.g. like this
3. Adding relevant wikiprojects to templates
4. making a collapsible banner if more than three wikiprojects listed.
5. changing unreferenced to refimprove tags if some references added.
6. removing multiple issues tag if all but one issue fixed.
7. removing an orphan tag if links identified or pertinent links added to other pages.
8. adding relevant navbox
9. formatting a reference from a bare url to a proper citation
10. finding another link (or using wayback machine etc.) to fix dead links in articles with dead external links

See talk page for discussion on what else we can judge/assess. A potential source of articles to clean up is at Wikipedia:Database reports

The prizes would be awarded as follows: The top pointscorer would receive a £50 voucher, while the other nine vouchers (each worth £25) would be random. Each item submitted gets a number and from the total tally, nine numbers get a voucher. Thus, the more submissions one makes the greater chance one has of getting a prize.