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This is the page to deal with discussion and nominations for the China Collaboration of the Month (ZHCOTM), previously China Collaboration of the Week (ZHCOTW). The ZHCOTM is a collaborative effort led by participants to improve articles on China-related topics on wikipedia. Its initial incarnation (as ZHCOTW) lasted for one week in November 2004, and was marked as inactive in 2005. In July 2011, the Collaboration was reactivated for a trial, to see if some articles might be improved collaboratively to good article or featured article level, and Shanghai was a popular pick for the first collaboration. However, little editing took place apart from an extended argument over population figures. Thus the China Collaboration of the Month was allowed to lapse back into inactivity.

The idea of a collaboration is that new editors might work alongside more experienced editors and the overall coordination might result in some high profile or large articles being worked up that might have proven too arduous for one editor. Anyone can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Selecting broader articles with a range of issues is preferable, so that a few areas of missing content can be investigated and formatting and prose/copyediting be examined.

The project aims to fill gaps about the China in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of China articles on the Todo list on the China-related topics noticeboard or you can look in List of China-related topics or the China-related topics complete to do list.

You can see a list of current featured articles on China subjects here.

• Previous winners can be found at /History
• Removed nominations can be found at /Removed

The next winner will be selected on Sunday, 1 September, 2011, by the highest number of votes. The current time is 20:48, April 20, 2024. In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.

Voting

To vote, click on the [edit] link on the right-hand corner beside each of the articles listed below. To vote, please sign your votes by adding a pound and four tildes (# ~~~~) to the bottom of the list of voters for that article, which will generate your name and the current date! If you want to be nice, please update the vote tally in the heading. And yes, voting for more than one nomination is allowed.

If you wish to make a comment underneath about a nomination, please bullet (*) your comment underneath the Comments: , and sign your comment with ~~~~.

Only registered users should vote. Any Wikipedian can vote on this page. You do not have to be from China!!!

Nominations

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the template.

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add ((Possible China COTM)) to the top of its talk page. This expands to:

This is a candidate for China Collaboration of the month. Please visit that page to support or comment on the nomination.

How to nominate

1. Select a China-related topic that needs work and improvement. Generally, articles that would affect a greater range of editors are recommended over articles with a more regional focus. The article can be nonexistent, a stub, or a good article aiming for featured status. Articles that are ineligible for ZHCOTM include:
   • An article that is already featured (note that articles that have been FARCed can still be nominated)
   • An article that is the subject of content edit wars
2. Add ((Possible China COTM)) to the top of the talk page of the article.
3. List the nomination at the bottom of the list of nominations below.

For Nominators:
Please use the following code when nominating an article.

Pruning

The nomination will be moved to /Removed if it has not been selected within three months (i.e. each article gets three chances to be nominated).

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