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WP:Intensive Care Unit

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The Wikipedia Intensive Care Unit is a place for articles written about a subject that one or more editors believes is likely notable, but the article itself is in such poor condition that it may face deletion on other grounds. It is an effort to turn bad articles about good subjects into those that meet Wikipedia standards.

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The ICU came about through an idea by Realkyhick, a self-described deletionist who spends quite a bit of time on new-page patrol. He had nominated some articles for AfD which were about subjects that were possibly notable, but the articles themselves were sorely lacking in many respects such as reliable sources. During the AfD process, other editors improved the articles to the point where they then met Wikipedia standards. Realkyhick then withdrew the nominations, satisfied that the issues prompting the nominations had been fixed. Some editors criticized him for what they saw as an abuse of the already-overloaded AfD process, so Realkyhick came up with the idea of the ICU for such articles, to perhaps take some strain off of AfD and put these articles in a place where those with expertise in specific issues such as references, citations, verification, style and copy editing, and so forth.

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Editors would first place an {{tl|icu}} tag on the article page, and then a {{tl|icu-triage}} tag on the article's talk page that lists the problems that need to be fixed (in a parameter to the tag), in a process similar to triage in a hospital or emergency room.

The ICU concept was created on September 2, 2007. The concept is very much a work in progress. Any and all suggestions and help are most welcome. This cannot succeed as a one-editor project, so round up all the friends and neighbors. Let's put on our surgical masks, scrub up and get to work. (We may need a screen shot from an episode of M*A*S*H here.)

To Admit an Article to the ICU

  • Place a {{tl|icu}} tag on the article page
  • Place a {{tl|icu-triage}} on the article's talk page, with the issues to be fixed as a parameter, such as:
    {{tlx|icu-triage|Additional sources needed; removal of promotional language; general cleanup; lead paragraph needs rewrite to conform to WP style.}}

:*Similar criteria would apply for articles admitted directly, bypassing triage.

::{{subst:ICUarticle |Article name}}

:*This may be cut directly from here and pasted at the top of an article's ICU page.

:*Note that whitespace must not be placed between the {{!}} character and the article name.

:*The article's ICU page should be named Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Article name, using the article's actual name.

  • List the article as having been admitted by inserting a line similar to the following into the appropriate section of this page, specifying the appropriate article name:

::{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Article name}}

To Discharge an Article from the ICU

=Treated Articles=

  • If the article has survived an AfD, remove the {{tl|icu}} and {{tl|icu-triage}} templates. Please label the article's talk page with {{tl|icu-saved}}. Then move the article from the main listing below to the Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Article archive.
  • If the article never came to an AfD, remove the {{tl|icu}} and {{tl|icu-triage}} templates as above, and tag the talk page with {{tl|icu-treated}}. Then move the article to the archive as above.

=Untreated Articles=

  • If an article has been in the ICU for two weeks without ever being treated, and you feel that there is limited potential for improvement, the article can be removed from the ICU. To do so, remove any icu tags, and add whatever cleanup or dispute you feel are needed. Then de-list it from this list.
  • Also, consider adding {{tl|findsourcesnotice}} to the talk page as a way to suggest where editors may find reliable source material for the topic.
  • In severe cases, articles may be nominated for deletion under the deletion policy. However, this should be a last resort for removing articles from the ICU, and is not a substitute for treatment.

User box

If you care to join our merry band of meatball surgeons, you can add one of those user boxes to your user page:

{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#fff |info-s=8 |info-fc=#000 |id=ICU |info=This user is a member of the Wikipedia Intensive Care Unit and helps saving notable but poorly written topics from deletion.}}



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|border-s = 1

|id-c = #fffacd

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|id = 50px

|info = This user is a member of the
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Archive of treated and released articles

News (Updated July 26, 2008)

It's still been a bit slow around this project, perhaps because it seems that there aren't many "borderline cases" that needed treatment. The vast majority of articles have been fairly cut-and-dried — they are either easily bound for deletion or not, with little in between.

On July 26, 2008, User:Inclusionist took it upon himself to, in essence, hijack W*I*C*U and the Article Rescue Squadron and merge them into another project. Inclusionist did post a proposal to merge the projects on our talk page, but then waited a whopping two hours before merging the projects himself. Inclusionist redirected our talk page to that of ARS, and also changed or redirected all of our user boxes and templates. I'm still repairing the damage. While Inclusionist may have been well-meaning, it was definitely unwelcome, at least without gathering a consensus first. Please check our templates, user boxes and any articles still in "treatment" to see if I missed anything. Meanwhile, please go to our talk page and express your opinion on a propsed merging of the related projects. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 20:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

=It doesn't have to be in AfD yet=

Remember that an article does not have to be in any sort of deletion procedure (speedy, prod or AfD) to qualify for an {{tl|icu}} tag and our attention. If it's an article that looks like it needs immediate attention before it does face deletion, go ahead and tag it. Don't be shy.

Articles admitted for treatment

Click the article names below to access their activity logs.

To add an article, edit this page and add the article using a similar format to the articles already listed.

=Articles in ICU that are also in AfD=

=Articles in ICU that are not (yet!) in AfD=

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/NetShops}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Industrial and organizational psychology}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Jay Perez}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Adolf Hitler in popular culture}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Battle of Yavin}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Aghunato}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Ahmed Soultan}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Christian media}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Community Education}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Courtney Crutcher}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Aaron Fisher}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Sukyo Mahikari}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Carla Moran}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Apprentices mobility}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Chekism}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Cycle of poverty}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Pushead}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Position paper}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Open Voting Consortium}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Mission: Wolf}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Jewish Internet Defense Force}}

{{Wikipedia:Intensive Care Unit/Chums Scout Patrols}}

Members

To join, simply add " * ~~~ " to the list. That will post your name automatically without a timestamp. If you have a "fancy" signature, feel free to use it instead. (We wouldn't want to infringe on your creativity. :-) )

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