Wikipedia:WikiProject Opinion Editorial

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This project and page is in development since 2013.

Scope/Description[edit]

This is a collaboration to encourage editors to write periodic "Opinion Editorials" for the Editor Retention main page. The idea is simple. Stay within Wikipedia norms, MOS, policy, guidelines and protocols. Be responsible for your own words and expressions.

This projects sister projects include Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention, Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week and Wikipedia:WikiProject Conflict Resolution.

Overview[edit]

There are not too many limits on the subject matter. However, since it is to be something we link to our main WP:Retention page, and the intent and purpose is to move discussion forward, editors will be encouraged to make editorials that help improve the Wikipedia and/or improve the retention of editors by expressing our views on ways we might be able to achieve that and allow some expression of what we feel or think at a given moment. This is not unleashing the dogs of war, but simple pulling back the drapes a little and letting some sun shine through.

It is possible that some will attempt to use this as a platform for a particular point of view or original research. I would say that we should follow talk page procedures and allow this within that limit. However, as always, this is not a soapbox to vent, ramble or spew. This is a platform where you can be heard and seen. Think more Cicero on the Rostra speaking to the community, not "random guy on the street with a bullhorn".

The concept will either be a request basis where the editors ask on this talk page to write an editorial, and after consensus may create a new Op Ed or opened for normal editing as a trial to see if there is interest and momentum.

Sign up[edit]

This is not a sign up to write an opinion piece but to join the collaboration and project.

--Mark Miller (talk) 21:56, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
--John from Idegon (talk) 22:50, 6 November 2013 (UTC) The concept is a little too vague to be workable as of now, but that is not to say it is not a great idea.[reply]
--I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} I think this might be a helpful addition. We could consider have a small repository of opinion pieces that could randomly cycle for a given visit to the project page. LikeBuster Seven Talk
-- ```Buster Seven Talk 23:15, 6 November 2013 (UTC) Kind of like a speakers' corner in Hyde Park. The WER project needs to expand beyond the current talk page. Further comment: OK. I admit it. Speakers Corner in Hyde Park is, more or less, the same as "random guy...street...bullhorn" but who the heck is Cicero? 00:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
— 74.192.84.101 (talk) 22:37, 11 November 2013 (UTC) ...and as a bonus, I promise to be one of the helpers, not an op-ed contributor. :-) I mean really, no bullhorn, where's the fun in that? Strongly suggest we do *not* advertise Op-Eds via automated talkpage messages, even though that seems like a common tactic.[reply]