User:Agradman/template
suggestion for how to maximize productivity - read this, even if you can't respond :)
[edit]Hi,
A few weeks ago, Drilnoth and I collaborated to create Template:Refideas.
- This template goes on talk pages and features links to "public domain or freely licensed material that may be incorporated into this article".
- It also displays a wikilink which takes you to a list of all articles thusly labeled as linking to free content -- i.e., Category:Articles which could have free content incorporated from elsewhere.
- Most of the 142 pages that I've placed in this category feature CRS Reports -- i.e., government research reports written in an encyclopedic tone.
Thus, even if you didn't know a bloody thing about the Military-industrial complex, the category would direct you to talk:Military-industrial_complex, where you will find a reference to Congressional Research Service: The US Defense Industrial Base: Trends and Current Issues, from which you can rather liberally copy-and-cite content.
In the long run, with the help of this category, I expect that some of the most transformative edits to articles like Coalworker's pneumoconiosis will be made by middle-school students who have no knowledge of the topic whatsoever :)
cheers,