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This contest, provisionally titled '''The [[Peter M. Bowers]] International Award For Meritorious Service in the Pursuit of Aviation Knowledge''' or '''PeMBoInAwMeSPAK''', aims to motivate increased quality in aviation articles and improve participation in the Aviation WikiProject by offering a form of friendly competition for project members. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles, as originally developed by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest|Military History WikiProject]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiCup]].

When the contest is won, a special template will be placed on the winning contestant's user talkpage, and their name will be placed in the contest section of the  '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Awards|Awards page]]'''.

==Entering the contest==
#Sign up at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Contest/Signups]]
#Wait for your personal submissions page to be created at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Contest/Submissions/YOURUSERNAME]], or create it yourself with the information at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Contest/Submissions]]
# Enter articles you work on to your submissions page.
# At the end of the month—or earlier, by request—the articles will be evaluated, and points will be awarded based on its standing in the project's [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment#Quality scale|quality scale]] before and after the improvements made.
# Editors' point totals will be tracked, and monthly, quarterly, and annual winners will be recognized on the '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Awards|Awards page]]'''.

== Contest rules ==

The contest is fairly simple in structure:

To get points for article or other featured content work, the article '''must''' fall under the Aviation Projects Scope (i.e. be tagged with {{tl|WPAVIATION}}, and you '''must''' submit the article's information on your submissions page.
* '''Maintenance''' points are not given for improving articles you recently created, but for clearing the backlog of the related categories.
* To receive points for '''Article Improvement''' ('''Level Ups'''), the article '''must''' have been '''recently assessed''' with a B-Class Checklist completed '''prior''' to your article improvements. This determines beginning Class. In other words, points are given for ''improving'' the article, which results in a change in Class, not for simply adding the checklist or changing the Class to suit the current article state. (Note: Exceptions to this rule are articles ''above'' B-Class; these have individual review processes which determine Class and  do not require the checklist.)
* To receive points for '''Article Creation''', assessments ''above'' Start-Class must be completed by another user, and not the article creator.
* Articles or other media raised to any other status (featured or good) must have also been nominated ''and'' passed/promoted during the individual month. If your article is promoted during the next month it ''will'' count for that ongoing month.
* Don't overload the [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates]], [[Wikipedia:Good article nominations]] and [[Wikipedia:Peer review]] systems. If you nominate an article for review, consider reviewing someone else's article, whether it's an aviation article or not.
* New articles written for [[WP:DYK|Did you know?]] must have been written and nominated '''during''' the individual month.
* You must have written and nominated your [[WP:ITN|In the news]] fact during the month.
* To find the "Wikipedia Page Statistics of the Article", go [http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl here], change the drop down list to "en-wikipedia", and enter the article. Only the judges will use the link to see the page statistics.

=== Scoring ===
'''''Note: The scoring rules are still under discussion, this is the most current version.'''''
{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|+ '''The points are awarded in the following way'''
|-
! Maintenance (see below)
! [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Peer review|Peer review]]
![[WP:DYK|Did you know?]]
![[WP:ITN|In the news]]
![[WP:FL|Featured list]]
|-
| align="center"| .1
| align="center"| 1
| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| 5
| align="center"| 40
|-
![[WP:FP|Featured picture]]
![[WP:FS|Featured sound]]
![[WP:FT|Featured topic]]
![[WP:GT|Good topic]]
![[Template:WPAVIATION creator|Article Creation]] and Improvement
|-
| align="center"| 40
| align="center"| 40
| align="center"| 10 per article in topic
| align="center"| 5 per article in topic
| align="center"| See next table
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"
|+ Article Creation and Improvement Points (Level Ups)
|-
|
! colspan="8" | Ending class
|-
! rowspan="8" | Beginning<br/>class 
|
! Stub !! Start !! C !! B !! GA !! A !! FA !! Total
|-
!Create
| +1 || +1 || +1 || +5 || +10 || +20 || +40 || 78
|-
! Stub 
| || +1 || +1 || +5 || +10 || +20 || +40 || 77
|-
! Start 
| || || +1 || +5 || +10 || +20 || +40 || 76
|-
! C
| || || || +5 || +10 || +20 || +40 || 75
|-
! B
| || || || || +10 || +20 || +40 || 70
|-
! GA 
| || || || ||  || +20 || +40 || 60
|-
! A
| || || || || || || +40 || 40
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"
|+ Maintenance Points
|-
|[[:Category:Unassessed aviation articles|Assess an article]]
|-
|[[:Category:Aviation articles with incomplete B-Class checklists|Complete a B-Class checklist]]
|-
|[[:Category:Aviation articles needing infoboxes|Add an infobox]]
|-
|[[:Category:Aviation articles needing images|Add an image]]
|-
|[[:Category:Aircraft without specifications|Add aircraft specifications]]
|-
|[[:Category:Aircraft engines without specifications|Add engine specifications]]
|}
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== Standings ==
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