Welcome to the Biography Collaboration of the Week Project Page! Every one to two weeks a collaboration is selected — usually a biographical article or topic related to biography that either has no article or can be drastically improved, with the goal of achieving a feature-standard article from widespread cooperative editing.
Previous winners can be found at /History.
The next winner may be selected on Sunday, December 18, 17:40 (UTC). The current date and time is 16:29, September 1, 2025.
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Selecting the next Collaboration of the week
- All registered Users are eligible to vote.
- The Votes of unregistered users will not be counted.(Register here)
- Voters may consider only candidates nominated after their date of registration.
- New nominations can be added to the end of this page at any time.
- Voters may vote once for as many candidates as they choose.
- To vote, edit the nominee's section, inserting "# ~~~~" to add your username/time stamp
- Voters may provide reasons why they think an article should become the BCOTW.
- Only votes in support are counted (opposing votes do not influence the results).
- Voters are expected to contribute to the article if it is selected, and encouraged to contribute to any ongoing collaboration.
- Voting is concluded at the end of the announced period, but extended for 24 hours in case of a tie.
- If there is a persistent tie, the earlier nominee wins.
- Nominees may be removed to /Removed if they do not receive
- 3 votes in 14 days
- 6 votes in 28 days
- 9 votes in 42 days
- Please add {{BioCOTWs}} to the top of the nominee's talk page. This expands to:
- Please add {{past bcotw|date|year}} to the talk page of past collaborations.
Nominees
Louis Pasteur (December 18)
- Nominated:December 4, 2005. Needs 3 votes by December 18, 2005.
Support:
Comments:
- This man was one of the most important people in bringing modern medicine into being. He created the vaccine for Rabies and is viewed as a secular saint in France. Magicmonster 23:23, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Elton John (December 20)
- Nominated:December 06, 2005. Needs 3 votes by December 20, 2005.
Support:
Comments:
- This article needs improvement because because Elton John was one of the biggest selling musician of the '70s, and the current article is horrible. Carolaman 20:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (December 24)
Support:
Comments:
- This article needs improvement because Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. was a very important landscape architect in the earlier half of the twentieth century and literally has hundreds of projects to his name, including many government facilities and university campuses. The article on his father Frederick Law Olmsted is decent but the son, who did just as much landscaping work as well as a lot of environmental advocacy efforts, has nothing to his name. --Cyde Weys talkcontribs 07:49, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Adrienne Clarkson (December 26)
- Nominated:December 12, 2005. Needs 3 votes by December 26, 2005.
Support:
Comments:
- This article is important because. . .Adrienne Clarkson is credited with revitalizing the office of the Governor General of Canada and was a promenant newsmaker in Canada during her tenure. She also also a Canadian broadcasting institution hosting numerous shows for the CBC from the 1960's-1999. There is a wealth of information out there, but the page is currently a big mess (most of the controversy section looks to have been plagarized from an encyclopedia article). WIth not too much work this could be brought up to FA status. It is also nominated for Canadian Colaboration of the Week Dowew 19:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Templates for the BioCOTW winner
When an article wins, please add {{BioCOTWnow}} to the top of the article: Template:BioCOTWnow
and add the {{BioCOTWvoter}} template to the talk pages of people who voted for the winner.
Post-BioCOTW
If you believe the former Biography Collaboration of the Week still needs improvements please post it on this page.
- Henry Fonda is a Featured Article.
- John III of Portugal was a Featured Article Candiate.
- Fernão Mendes Pinto is currently under peer review.
- Tenzin Gyatso is currently under peer review.
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This is a list of Biography topics that are currently nominated on other boards. Please add your support to them if you are interested in contributing. If they become the next collaboration they will get mention on this page.
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