Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/WikiProject Jupiter

This WikiProject would be a sub project of WikiProject Solar System and would focus on and improve articles related to the Solar System's largest planet. The emphasis would be collaboration with the parent project (similar to WikiProject Mars) and editor input. Novus Orator 22:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. Novus Orator 22:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. ☩Damërung ☩. -- 06:56, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
3. I will join the project. However, the project needs a lot of support to survive. I agree with the comments at the parent project talk. I will try to remain a strong support for the project. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:19, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
4. I am also ready to join this project and give support. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 10:48, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am currently working on the project formatting within my userspace so it will be ready to go live once enough support is shown. I will provide links to it as it develops...--Novus Orator 04:56, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting is now complete. The project will go live once one more editor joins up. Please feel free to click here and look at the release candidate while also offering any suggestions on the talk page...--Novus Orator 09:44, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to state opposition to the creation of this project. You cite WikiProject Mars as an example, however with the exception of a brief discussion in June, that project has been pretty much dead for two years. And Mars probably had a larger scope than Jupiter. Given the ongoing reorganisation discussion regarding space-related WikiProjects and the recent abolition of several similar subprojects on the spaceflight side of things, you should have raised the issue on the reorganisation page before pressing ahead with an independent proposal, or at least informed participants in that discussion of it. I would suggest instead that WikiProject Solar System should look at establishing a Jupiter task force, if there is sufficient interest. --GW… 17:06, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my answer to similar criticism here. I gave notice of the formation of this project on the parent project page (WikiProject Solar System). Since this project will not be reporting directly to WikiProject Space (An enormous and far reaching Project), I did not note it there.--Novus Orator 04:20, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you've made yourself a coordinator. You don't need coordinators in a second-level project with four members. There is nothing to coordinate. And you certainly shouldn't declare yourself one unilaterally. --GW… 17:18, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that for any size of project you need leadership and a direction-otherwise it ends in failure (such as you cited for WikiProject Mars. I wouldn't be surprised if this is why that project has gone stale). I am happy to resign my position as coordinator if anyone else wants to take up that responsibility, but until I hear differently, I and Damërung will lead this Project. We DO NOT own this project. We will merely provide help and guidance to editors who work on this project. There is a difference...--Novus Orator 04:20, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The idea is nice, but WP Mars is probably pretty dead. If anything, I would suggest create a taskforce within the Solar System wikiproject. Nergaal (talk) 04:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that might actually be a good idea. As it is, WikiProject Jupiter would be relying a lot on the Parent Project's infrastructure and assessment department, and integrating it to the Parent Project as a task force would probably be the best compromise solution.--Novus Orator 05:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have started this as a Taskforce here. Please participate. This proposal is now closed per consensus...--Novus Orator 05:16, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.