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Islamic Award

File:IslamicBarnstar.png {{IslamicBarnstar}}

The Islamic Award was created to recognize any editor who has made exceptional contributions to Islam-related articles. This award is part of the Islam WikiProject and its related guilds. Proposed by JuanMuslim.

Note There was a previous discussion about this here. --evrik 15:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Islamic Award


Philadelphia Award

The following discussions are an archived debate. Please do not modify it.

Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

  • The Liberty Bell
    The Liberty Bell
  • First proposal
    First proposal
  • The Liberty Star - Final version
    The Liberty Star - Final version
I was looking at the main page today and saw this image. Could this be made into an award for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia? South Philly 02:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Democracy and free speech

Also, how do people feel about making this a free speech topical award? --evrik 14:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Medical barnstar

Medicine is a major part of Wikipedia, having tens of thousands of articles, but has no award. It falls awkwardly between Science and Life. It may not be suitable as a barnstar, but if not chosen for that, I'm sure WikiProject Medicine wouldn't mind having this as a WikiProject award. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 15:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Have you seen this?
The Encephalon Cross for commendable contributions to medical articles.
--evrik 16:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Editor service awards

This is a proposed series of awards for service: WP:SERVICE

As I have it now, this is unlike other awards in that:

  • It is based strictly on a mechanical count of service time and number of edits. (Yes I know about editcountitis.)
  • It can be self-awarded.

There is no human judgement (=politics) involved here. If nobody likes you, you still get one (if you qualify). If everyone likes you, you still can't get one (unless you qualify).

Right now, I have it as only being for editors who are not admins. The reason being, I was thinking that there ought to be something, that is kind of hard to get, besides becoming an admin.

This would only be very useful if it catches on, though. I think this is kind of unlikely. Partly because people who are currently eligible are likely to be blasé and uninterested. But it's not for them, it's for editors who aspire to be like them, so perhaps they could be be jollied into going along, some of them anyway. (To get a list of eligible editors I'd need to query the database which I don't know how to do, but that's a detail. After the backlog is cleared, and supposing it did catch on, editors just help themselves, I guess.)

I'm wondering if this is even worthwhile. Anyway, I liked making the graphics, and suggesting an entirely different use for them would be fine, too.

Questions:

  • Does this make sense. Is it likely useful.
  • Does it make sense for it only to be for editors who are not admins.
  • Are the levels set too high or too low.
  • Other.

Comments welcome --Herostratus 05:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Neutral I'd like to hear what others have to say. --evrik 15:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. There's always room for a fresh, new award that's different in nature than others. --Gray Porpoise 21:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support These are very prestigious awards that seem to be, as said above, new and interesting. --WillMak050389 00:49, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: I added one more level and made a couple of the early "steps" be six months instead of a year. All open to criticism/comment of course. I was also thinking, removing the "no admins" idea makes it even simpler for one thing. Also very few editors with say four years service won't be admins. Herostratus
    I don't know if this is what you were trying to avoid, but maybe there could be an entire ranking system from "newbie" all the way up to "Complete and Perfect Tutnum"? Just a thought. --WillMak050389 05:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Not trying to avoid that. Could be. Interesting Idea. I kind of like it. Herostratus 05:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • Not that I'm trying to make parallels with Wikipedia at all, but it would be like messageboards have certain ranks for the number of posts a person has. Only these awards would be for number of edits and amounts of time. --WillMak050389 05:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • Done. Although I think there are better terms than "snorf", "snorf klangtnor", and "snorf klangtnor angkt", but I can't think of any right off. "Mank" is OK I think because it references "manque" which is an obscure term for "wannabe". Herostratus 07:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
          • Those look great, though, on a funny note, I'm still a "new editor" because I've only been here three months despite the fact that I have over 2500 edits. Oh well, I think it would be a great new system for us to have. --WillMak050389 14:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment How about changing this to an order-like decoration (e.g. the OBE)? The new award would include ten different classes:
    • New Editor → Member
    • Journeyman Editor → Officer
    • Yeoman Editor → Lieutenant
    • Established Editor → Commander
    • Experienced Editor → Knight Commander
    • Veteran Editor → Grand Officer
    • Veteran Editor II → Grand Cross
    • Veteran Editor III → Knight Grand Cross
    • Senior Editor → Master
    • Master Editor of the Encyclopedia → Grand Master

In line with the British honours system, we can also create post-nominal letters for each class, and a motto for the Order (e.g. Scientia potentia est). What do you think? —SHININGEYES 17:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a good idea; perhaps better than using strange words like Tutnum and Snorf Klangtnor Angkt. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 18:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • This whole idea seems rather silly and self-serving. --South Philly 00:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmmm, I think maybe that Knight Grand Cross and so forth is too formal. And anything military like "lieutenant" would be straight out. The Counter-Vandalism Unit has been attacked for sounding too "military" already. This is Wikipedia, I think we have way more anti-militarists than not. I don't know, though. I think various shades of "editor" are straightforward, somewhat formal, and to the point, while the various shades of "Tutnum" are kind of like "Pooh-bah" or such, to be taken less seriously. What WOULD be cool if there was someone who knew heraldry or medal design to make a third "more formal" path, using the Knight Grand Cross and whatnot (which I personally like as an additional third path, not replacing the others.)
  • South Philly, you have a point, but the reasoning is not to serve self but serve the 'pedia by enticing editors to keep it up to "get to the next level", granted it seems silly that people would care about that... but some do. I know I would.
  • I also note that two people already (at least) have awarded these to other editors, I don't know how they even found it. Herostratus 03:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think we should post a link to this idea at the village pump before it goes any farther. --evrik
  • Support. -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 14:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Constellation Award

  • The Constellation Award
    The Constellation Award
  • A version with lines between the stars is also available.
    A version with lines between the stars is also available.

The Constellation Award is awarded to those who make exceedingly good contributions to Wikiproject Constellations. Feel free to edit the image to your liking, as it needs some work.

--Gray Porpoise 13:51, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Youth Barnstar

This barnstar can be user to award Wikipedia Youth. I, as a member of the Wikipedia Youth Foundation, believe that young editors should be commended with a seperate, more appropriate star. (Like a Barnstar looking like a plush toy). I don't know how to create barnstars, though. Could someone make it?--walkingencyclopedia 16:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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