Biocrawler:Nooks and corners of Wikipedia that should be frequented

Think you have been around Biocrawler? Well, Biocrawler is not just about making articles and reading them. There is a lot of "behind the scenes" action; (though it's not really behind the scenes, it's completely open). These are the pages you could visit to become more participative in Biocrawler.

See also: Biocrawler:Watch for links to current affairs.

Peer Review

Although Biocrawler is not uniformly peer-reviewed, authors may request an article review using this page. Share WikiLove and give these hardworking authors feedback (positive or negative). Help these pages on their way to being featured articles.

Cleanup

Did you notice any Biocrawler article that looked totally out of place like a single line or an unwikified article? NPOV is one of our aims; did you notice any article that is exceptionally POV ridden? You can find a cleanup category for it here or find other pages that need to be cleaned up and developed into articles.

Featured article, picture and list candidates

Is Moorgate an exceptionally well-written article — to boldly feature as a good Biocrawler article and even place on the Main page? We are discussing this and other articles at Biocrawler:Featured article candidates. Give your valuable opinion or nominate an article to be featured.

Is this GFDL photograph by Raul654 of Fireworks at Disney World a beautiful, fascinating or brilliant image? Does it add significantly to the Magic Kingdom article? Come and look at all the pictures people have nominated on Biocrawler:Featured picture candidates and share your opinion with us.

Is the List of popes particularly comprehensive, accurate and informative? Discuss this and other potentially brilliant lists at Biocrawler:Featured list candidates.

Pages needing attention

Every entry on Biocrawler deserves attention. But some deserve tender loving attention. If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, list it at Biocrawler:Pages needing attention.

The page contains a list of articles that need serious attention from someone familiar with the subject, and others that where the person listing them had no idea how to approach the problems with the page. There are listings under many different subject areas, so you might find something that you can help to fix.

Votes for deletion

Articles being considered for possible deletion are indexed by the day on which they were first listed.

• Wednesday, 22 June
• Tuesday, 21 June
• Monday, 20 June
• Sunday, 19 June
• Saturday, 18 June
• Friday, 17 June

We are currently discussing these articles and trying to build a consensus for them and many others which have been listed by users on Biocrawler:Votes for Deletion. Some of us have put our opinions there... maybe you have a different perspective. Just as the diversity of Biocrawlerns makes Biocrawler articles great, we need your opinion to make a broad-based decision process at this page. Also note our new guidebook Guide to Votes for Deletion.

We also have a Biocrawler:Votes for undeletion page. Have you noticed any article being deleted that didn't deserve to be deleted?

Requests for adminship as of 22 June 2005:

BrandonYusufToropov – Willmcw – Ta bu shi da yu – Sn0wflake – JoJan – Eequor – TenOfAllTrades – Weyes These are some of the candidates we are considering for being given adminship at Biocrawler:Requests for adminship. What do you think about their candidacy? Have you noticed anything special about their contribution to Biocrawler which would make them a good admin or a bad admin? You are encouraged to give your opinion at this page and make Requests for adminship a broader-based decision making process. You can also view a list of Recently created admins.

Village Pump and Reference Desk

Got a question about Biocrawler that's not answered in the FAQ? Ask away at the Help desk. Or help new users by answering their questions.

Reference Desk is for questions not related to Biocrawler. Ask a question about a topic you are interested in OR (preferably) answer some questions new users ask by looking them up on Biocrawler. Note: we like answers that just point to the relevant Biocrawler articles.

Biocrawler:Village pump is for general discussion and announcements--things that don't really fit anywhere else.

If you have questions or comments about the economics or business section of Biocrawler, you can go to the business and economics forum.

What else can you do besides contributing articles or reading them?

• Try visiting the Department of Fun
• Revert vandalism. See Biocrawler:Vandalism in progress.
• Do some Biocrawler maintenance items.
• Sign up for a cleanup task at the Cleaning department.
• You saw something odd in Recent changes but don't know what to do about it? Post a comment to Biocrawler:RC patrol.
• Found out how popular Biocrawler is becoming! Visit Biocrawler:Awareness statistics to find out how popular it is now, and help spread the word about the greatest encyclopedia ever created!
• Found something, (anything!) weird/interesting/questionable in any article? Discuss it on its talk page. Just leave a comment. Don't be afraid to start a new talk page. There is no fixed format, although signing your comment (by writing ~~~~) is always a good thing to do.