User:Roninbk/Article rescue contest II

The Article Rescue Squadron cordially invites you to "put your money where your mouth is"!

There are plenty of people who vote keep on Articles for deletion with the reasoning that there is the potential for an article to be encyclopedic—even Featured—even though the article that currently exists there is in serious need of cleanup, and frankly, is usually downright awful. Then the AfD is closed, the article is kept, and nobody touches it ever again.

This contest seeks to change all of that. We're encouraging people to actually put their money where their mouths are and do something when they say an article topic has potential: prove it!

Yes, the general idea (and the format of this page! ha!) is blatantly modelled after Danny's contest. Something about the sincerest form of flattery, and all that.

Rules

These are the proposed rules. Be bold in editing them!

1. The article must have had a valid nomination on AfD. You must not be the nominating editor, this prevents someone from nominating something just so that they can enter it.
2. Feel free to place the {{Rescue}} tag on the articles that you are working on
3. Kept or deleted: recreation of a deleted article under the same title is OK, if they are not substantially the same as a previously deleted entry.
4. We'll also accept articles that have been saved from speedy deletions, but subsequently left unattended.
5. Rewrites of copyright violations are also accepted.
6. The article must be found to have been in need of a rewrite to be encyclopedic *or* deleted outright. The point isn't just to rescue articles that have been listed for deletion (although that's a fine thing to do), but to rescue those where people doubt that a good, encyclopedic article can even be written.
7. At least five articles must be entered for the contest to take place. Tell your friends.
8. Ideally, pick an article which is of general interest so as to attract as many Wikipedians to help out.
9. Or, something you improved which was coordinated through the Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce

All entries subject to judges' discretion and the merciless editing of your peers

Best practices

There is a strong possibility that you will find your work mindlessly mercilessly deleted before you can complete it — articles that have grown by a factor of eight have been obliterated without a second glance. You can keep a backup, either off-line or in userspace, to be restored once you are ready to submit it to the judge. You can also request an administrator to undelete the article.

Date

All entries must be submitted by 23:59 UTC on (TODO: Determine closing date).

Prizes

The top three improvements will be enshrined on this page once the contest is completed, for millions and millions to admire your l33t editing skillz...

Judges

• RoninBK _{T C}
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD
• TBD

Sample submissions

Here is an example of a submission, (one of my own personal history):

• Prostitution in the Czech Republic (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (Use {{la|article name}} to get this listing)

AfD Debate (Omit if submitting a speedy deletion improvement)

Before Diff

After Diff

-- RoninBK _{T C} 16:19, 16 March 2008 (UTC)