User:Vanished user 342562/Nerd Task Force/Random Article Contest

The Random Article Contest

This contest is for any former member of the original cabals. Click on the "random article" link or press [alt-x]. Take note of the article you landed on and write it beside your name on the following chart. Whoever gets their article to one step above its previous assessment will receive a prize. Thank you and good luck.

		Random Article Contest Winners
		The first editor to have their article promoted to GA (EinsteiNewton) status will receive this Golden Wiki barnstar. The second editor to have their article promoted to GA status will receive the Silver Wiki barnstar. The third editor to have their article promoted to GA status will receive the Bronze Wiki barnstar.

Competition

Editor name	Article selected	Status	Class
Basketball110	Alexander Grant	Peer review / Also nearly at B-Class	Start
Milk's Favorite Cookie	Edmonton Oilers seasons	N/A	Start
Maximillion Pegasus	Pseudotyphlops	N/A	Stub
Jj137	Coat of arms of Kosovo	N/A	Stub
Uga Man	Kylix (drinking cup)	N/A	Start
Diligent Terrier	Lake Harris (Florida)	N/A	Stub
Stormtracker94	Milkweed (novel)	N/A	Stub
AlbertHerring
Burner0718
RC-0722	Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales	N/A	Stub
Thisisborin9	Retaining wall	Peer reviewed	B
Einsteinewton	Harry Potter	Peer reviewed	GA
Carerra	List of characters in the Animal Crossing series	N/A	Start
Mr.crabby	Billy Davis (American football)	N/A	Start
RyRy5	Roger Clemens	Will nominate for good article soon	B
ComputerGuy890100	Campus of Texas A&M University	Peer Review/GA Nomination	B
Parent5446	Alchemist (band)		B
Editorofthewiki	Poviglio		Stub

Comments

• I hope you all don't mind, but I am watching all of your articles, to see how far ahead of me you are. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 19:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
  • They are mostly stubs. This might be hard. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 19:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Really hard. Mine doesn't have a single reference. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 19:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• I don't think it is currently possible to get mine to GA due to the fact it has to do with a one month old country.   jj137 (talk) 19:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
  • By the time this contest is over, I will be an admin, and Billy Graham will be dead. You should be able to get it to GA... someday. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 19:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Every article has the potential to be GA. Some may take more research than others and it may seem impossible at times, but we can still try. In the long run we will improve the encyclopedia.--Uga Man (talk) UGA MAN FOR PRESIDENT 2008 20:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Good point. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 20:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
    • I'm already screwed. I know nothing about the Oilers -.- Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Are you kidding me? I didn't even know how Alexander Grant was! I'm sure you heard of the Oilers, right? Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 22:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Yeah, I'm sure my neighbor could help - he's from Canada :) _{I'm not cheating...} And, also, it's impossible to get the article to FA, would FL work? - Milk's Favorite Cookie 23:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
        • I don't see why not. I also don't see how I am going to get mine to GA. Can someone point me to a snake or any genus article that is a GA? Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 23:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Maybe yours could be the first.--Uga Man (talk) UGA MAN FOR PRESIDENT 2008 23:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• The seemingly impossible task just got a lot easier thanks to an "Infobox Person" template. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 03:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  • OK, I'm going to move this to my userspace, per today's discussion with Basketball110, so that Nerd Cabal members can also participate. - DiligentTerrier ^{and friends} 16:53, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
    • I say we duplicate this page, one for me and one for Diligent, and temporarily merge the cabals... we have most of the same members anyway. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 17:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
      • How about we create a template (which would be the content above) and include it in both cabal's pages? - DiligentTerrier ^{and friends} 17:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
        • Yes, but on a sub page... wouldn't it be easier if you created a Nerd Cabal page with {{User:Basketball110/Mr. Potato Head Cabal/random article contest}}? Then, all the discussion goes here, but can be viewed there. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 17:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
        • See User:Basketball110/Sandbox#11. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 17:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
          • The best option would be moving this to a page like User:Basketball110/random article contest or User:Diligent Terrier/random article contest, and including it at both cabals. Then when you click on the edit section link at any place, it would skip right to the main page, where all the discussion is in sync. - DiligentTerrier ^{and friends} 17:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
            • If you know how to do that, go ahead. The link on the Mr. Potato Head Cabal page will have to be changed though. Another option could just be inviting all the members you have that we don't and automatically accept them. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 17:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
              • I'm going to give this a try. - DiligentTerrier ^{and friends} 17:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
                • Okay. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 17:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• I've invited the 42nd Cabal to join us in this. Basketball110 _{Go Longhorns!} 17:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• LOL, the first time I clicked "random article", I got Daniel Webster, which was already a featured article! I WIN! ☺☻☺☻ lol. Thisisborin9^talk/_contribs 03:57, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• Really!? I guess I will go work up a nom statement for you :) Just kidding :) But I like your article a lot better than mine. Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• Can I change my article? There is nothing on the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales. I did a google search and found nothing! Kimu 22:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• Pretty much the same thing for mine. The information I found was mostly what is in the article. But then everyone would want to change. Maybe everyone gets 2 chances? Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 22:57, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• Lucky for me, the first random article I got (apart from a disambiguation page) was something I already know a ton about! --EinsteiNewton 23:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• Oh well, I better just stop my complaining and get to work. Kimu 23:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• lol, Harry Potter was a former good article. You could've gotten the gold wiki barnstar! Thisisborin9^talk/_contribs 06:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

• Sorry, but this is promoting adminship. It's no big deal, remember? You shouldn't have to win a competition to get it. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 22:16, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
  • What do you mean? - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 23:39, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
    • I think WBOSTIG means that a contest award shouldn't include an RfA. So we have to change the prize for getting the article to FA to something else more legitamite... Thisisborin9^talk/_contribs 19:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
      • Why is this page still here? The cabals have been deleted, it's over. Basketball110  Talk  21:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
        • Well.. luckily, this page is a subpage of Diligent Terrier and not a subpage of the MPHC. Thisisborin9^talk/_contribs 23:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
          • But all of the cabals were deleted. Basketball110  Talk  00:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
            • What I'm trying to say here is that even though the CABALS were deleted, this RAC wasn't part of any cabal's subpage. When they deleted those cabals, They also deleted all of their subpages, so that's why the FIO contest is gone. But on the other hand, this RAC is located at User:Diligent Terrier/Random Article Contest, not at User:Diligent Terrier/Nerd Cabal/Random Article Contest. And by the way, do you want to start a WikiProject called "WikiProject Random articles"? We could improve our articles there. Get back to me on my talk page. Thisisborin9^talk/_contribs 02:15, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

If this was still a subpage of the Mr. Potato Head Cabal, it would have been deleted, but Basketball110 and I made a deal to move it before the night of the deleted cabals. - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 13:22, 7 May 2008 (UTC)