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Every week an '''Indian History Collaboration of the Week''' will be picked using this page.  The goal of each collaboration is to take an undeveloped or underdeveloped topic related to Indian history, and improve it over the course of the week, ideally to the level of a [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article|featured article]]. At the end of each week, the topic with the most support votes will be selected for collaboration.

{{COTWs}}
The over-arching aim of this project is to improve Wikipedia's content about Indian history and also to give users a focus and an opportunity to collaboratively edit content and to give us all something to be proud of. 

'''Archive of:''' [[/History|previous winners]] | [[/Removed|removed nominations]] | [[/initial supporters|initial supporters]]

== How it works: ==
Any [[Wikipedia:Username|registered wikipedian]] can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles. Voting also indicates interest in contributing during the weekly collaboration cycle. Every Friday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

== Nomination criteria ==
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* Please nominate only one article at a time. 
* You can nominate any Indian history related article that you feel needs improvement.
* Please ensure that the article exists at least as a [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|stub]]. If you are making a request for a non-existent article, please do it at [[Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/Requested articles]].
* Select articles that interest a wider community of editors rather than those that attract only a small number of people.
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== To nominate an article ==
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To '''add a new nomination''', please:  
# Copy the [[#Template|template below]]
# Paste it at the '''bottom'''' of the ''Candidates for next week'' section below. Newer nominations go below.
# Add the article's name and nominated date (eg: August 14) in the appropriate place as indicated in the [[#Template|template below]]. 
# Each time you vote, please update the votes tally for the article. 
# State your reasoning on why the article should be selected under the comments section.
# Please '''[[Help:Show preview|preview]]''' your addition to make sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
# After nominating an article please place '''&#123;{[[Template:Possible Indian History COTW|Possible Indian History COTW]]}}''' on the article's [[Wikipedia:Talk pages|discussion page]].
# Ensure you nominate only one article at a time.
# Ensure that not more six nominations are there in the pipeline. If there are six nominations already, please wait.
# Please make sure that you do not nominate more than one article - other editors also would like to nominate articles! Wait until none of the nominations in the pipeline are yours.
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== Template ==
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 === [[Article Name]] (Number of votes, Nominated date) ===   
'''Support:''' 
# ~~~~
;Comments
<i>Include a short description explaining why the article should be
 the Collaboration of the week</i>.
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== Voting ==
{{FAPath}}
A vote or a show of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to so that this collaboration's goals of expanding and improving articles can adequately be achieved. 

Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see [[Approval voting]]).

== Selection == 
* The article with the highest votes each Friday will be selected as that week's collaboration. In case of a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.
* If an article fails to garner support for more than a month, its nomination will be removed and moved to the [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject History of India/COTW/Removed|Removed Nominations]] page. The template <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Failed Indian History COTW|Failed Indian History COTW]] | Date=Day Month Year<nowiki>}}</nowiki> is placed in the article's talk page.
* At any given time, a maximum of 6 candidates must be open for voting. Please do not nominate additional articles when six nominations are already present. 
* Use &#123;{[[Template:Current Indian History COTW|Current Indian History COTW]]}} at the top of the article selected for that week.
* Use <nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>[[Template:INHCOTWvoter|INHCOTWvoter]]|''pagename''|''pagetitle''<nowiki>}}</nowiki> at voter's talk page.
* After the INHCOTW period for an article passes, insert this on the talk page:
:<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Old Indian History COTW|Old Indian History COTW]] | Date=day Month | Year=Year | URL = diff<nowiki>}}</nowiki>.

== Candidates for next week ==

{{India quick links}}

[[Category:Wikipedia collaborations|Indian Collaboration of the week]]
[[Category:Past Indian collaborations of the week|Indian Collaboration of the week]]