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Every entry on Wikipedia deserves attention. But some deserve tender loving attention. If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, list it here if:

  1. It needs serious attention from someone familiar with the subject, or
  2. You have no idea how to approach it

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Anthropology, ethnology

  • Pashtun - lots of information added and deleted by 63.166.37.229 -- needs more than simple reverting.
    • did some work on June 28 Marlowe 21:05, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Ethnomethodology is rather confusing to someone who doesn't know anything about ethnology. --Khym Chanur 07:41, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Chysauster Ancient Village still needs expansion and possibly NPOV. -Sean Curtin 18:10, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Art, artists and art history

Biology, anatomy, animals, plants

See also #Medicine, surgery, health

Anatomy

  • Arm - medical mumbo-jumbo, I didn't understand a word in the article :( Jay 11:22, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • Medical Terms required for proper description of structures, but point taken. Have made some minor changes, but I suspect rewrite is necessary. --inks 14:07, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Chest - matter is copied from an old encylopedia. There is so much that can be written. Jay 10:49, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Erogenous zone needs attention. (Sounds dirty!) Original author wrote front matter, concentrated on the female organs,, then forgot about the rest. --Long, Tall Texan 09:48, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Abdomen is a mess. --Dominus 19:15, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Biology

Botany

  • Theales needs to be brought into line with other biology articles. It needs editboxing, reorganization, detail, etc. --Slowking Man 07:09, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Monocotyledon states that the taxon should now be called Liliopsida. There is however a redirect by that name. Could someone do the biz for me (delete and rename) ?? Thanks, GerardM 19:53, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • The class should be called Liliopsida. The group is called the monocotyledons, both as a common name and as a as a formal name for the clade. No rename should take place.
      • Indeed the class should be called Liliopsida. However, this is the same as the class (!) Monocotyledons. The latter is te more common and widly known name. The official name however, is Liliopsida. This change of names is one of many in an attempt to create a more systematic nomenclature (St. Louis version of ICBN. Since Monocots is still widly used, I suggest to keep the name. Eef (A) 18:58, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Zoology

  • Eastern Wolf needs some specialist attention from someone with zoology knowledge. Really a stub, but the organisation of this page seemed liked the right place to put it. PASD
    • I have done some editing. Should be OK now JoJan 20:11, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Seahorse - could use some reformatting, what to do with this seahorse list for instance, my knowledge on seahorses is limited. --Solitude 15:03, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Spotted moray contains useful information but needs wikification and formatting, plus additions by someone knowledgeable. Cecropia 02:46, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • Still a stub, but probably could be removed from this page. 21:20, 13 June 2004 (UTC)
  • Bradypodion and Lepidophyma - list of red links. What is their common name? Doovinator 22:00, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Other

  • Structural alignment is vague; needs more info; should be more specifically named (perhaps Protein structural alignment --Stewart Adcock) +sj+ 09:52, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • F wave - needs simpler language. What does antidromically mean? Onebyone 00:35, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC) (from cleanup)
    • Reworked for clarity and factual accuracy. And even included a definition for antidromically ;-) --Diberri 09:39, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Involuntary control of respiration - unwikified and reads like its been cut directly from a medical text. --Pm67nz 09:25, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Passes the Google test for copyright infringement. Message sent to user regarding source, no reply expected. -Smack 00:02, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Categories

Communication

  • Mayra gomez kemp - Hoo, boy. I stumbled on this mess when I was wandering the new pages area. Anyone know enough about this individual to fix this before it goes on VfD? - Lucky 6.9 01:22, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Communication - Needs work as an article. Needs lots of work as a subject link from the main page. Zigger 16:48, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • reorganised Peter Ellis 03:31, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Callmanager - Apparently a Cisco systems software product, this article is extremely informal, probably written by a bored Cisco employee. Kevin Saff 20:54, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Telephone - Mess of "related articles" needs subdivision in some orderly manner. (Excellent article cluster; overall revision also needed -- article could be better divided into paragraphs and topics; move to PNA when "related articles" is cleaned up +sj+)
    • Began the process of re-working this article. The actual content in the history section was mostly a massive quote from a circa 1900 project Gutenberg book (Heros of the Telegraph) -- the article needs an introduction which describes what a telephone IS, and some discussion of the various types... Then, we need LINKS to sub-pages for telephone(history) and telephone(signaling) and telephone(Switching). The basic link cluster at the bottom is EXCELLENT.... it's the stuff on the telephone ITSELF that sucks. Rick Boatright 16:19, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • information theory is leaking information. --Eequor 07:38, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Computer and information science

Algorithms

Communications

  • List of device bandwidths - All speeds have to be verified, some are wrong (conversion Bit/s to Byte/s seems strange) (moved from cleanup Onebyone 22:58, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)) +I added disclaimer of why some values look wrong by an order of magnitude, but the bit-to-byte conversion won't work. See Talk (Scott McNay 17:03, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC))

Companies

  • Datakortet needs NPOV detail; a stub. (originally by an ex-employee)
    • After reading this attempt at an article, I have no idea what this company does. --Smack 22:59, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Computer architecture

Computer science

History

  • Timeline of computing 1990-forward -- Update this timeline (it ends at Nov 2001) with 2002 and 2003 events in the field of computing. Other related timelines (Internet, etc.) need care too.

Internet

  • OpenFacts Hello, press release. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 14:10, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Yahoo! -- I just happened to stumble upon Yahoo! and found services like Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger had very little information. Being so popular, they definitely deserve more. I created the Yahoo! Mail page, though only as a stub. More information about these services needs to be provided. Jam2k 21:25, 10 May 2004

People

  • Vannevar Bush -- The link "associative trails" links to Hyperlink, which is wrong. According to Bush's paper "As we may think", a trail is a set of connected pages, i.e. a trail is indeed a graph whose vertices are pages and whose edges are links. Therefore a trail is by no means just a hyperlink, as the article suggests. I don't know what to do, of course it would be nice to set up a page explaining what a trail really is, but the easiest solution for the moment would be just to remove the linking to Hyperlink. 129.132.179.41 17:04, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Programming and other languages

  • HTML tag - Needs clarif. What should this article be? A how-to for writing HTML, an overview of current and past HTML specs, what? - I moved a lot of content to HTML element
  • Visual Basic - Needs rewriting. awful writing. I did what I could, but died of crap writing fatigue half way through. There's a pile of other pages linked from it on Microsoft techologies which need similar work. - David Gerard 11:27, Jan 14, 2004 (UTC)
    • cleaned more; still far from perfect. - Cpm 17:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET are rather similar - maybe we could share content between the two articles? After all, the latter is only a newer version, albeit with lots of new features Enochlau 13:53, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Not quite. The .NET business rather enlarges the contexts within which Visual Basic can be used. that's a major change, albeit not much at the language syntax level. This significance of this is likely to be hard to get across to those whose experience is at the syntax level and within a single machine / architecture. ww 20:00, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Found an error in the Evolution of VB section and fixed it. Wikified a little there too. --raylu 22:50, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • I rewrote the Advantages/Disadvantages section and attempted to elimiate the negative point of view, but it now needs some peer review. Wuzzeb 20:43, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Software

  • XyMTeX should be expanded. Particularly, the new TeX markup it uses should be described in detail, possibly on XyMTeX markup. External links to a site written in English would be helpful as well (the XyMTeX homepage is entirely in Japanese). --Eequor 17:42, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Similarly with PPCHTeX and PPCHTeX markup. --Eequor 16:08, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Toolchain reads as if it was written by a non-native speaker of English. It's also focussed on Linux from Scratch, rather than talking generally about the meaning of "toolchain" in relation to computers. It could use some TLC from someone with experience in the area. --pne 10:36, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • I rewrote it so that it covers the general meaning in computer programming. Gdr 20:01, 2004 Jul 3 (UTC)
  • GnuFU -- What doesn't it need? Overlong, unwikified, POV, semi-advertorial - yet somewhere under that is a decent article struggling desperately to get out. Needs work from someone with knowledge and/or more patience than I can muster. --ALargeElk 22:20, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I know nothing about the subject matter, but attempted to make it slightly more wikified - apologies if I've lost valuable detail in making the text sound slightly less personal. Still needs lots of work by somebody knowledgeable about the subject. Underscore 20:16, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Winsock - way out of date, contents c+p from FOLDOC, all external links dead --Kwi 23:34, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)

Terminology

  • Password - needs copyediting due to poor grammar and organization. Perhaps needs further information of a less technical nature. Quadell 15:21, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I've tried to clean it up a bit. I'd like to delete unimportant bits, but haven't for fear of offending. - A.U. (25 Apr 2004)
    • considerable reorganizing done by now, perhaps better? ww 20:27, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Terabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte -- Please triple-check the histories of the prefixes by checking various Internet sites that talk about these. Are what was written before Hephaestos edited them correct, or are what Hephaestos made it say correct?? 66.32.123.29 15:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • For zettabyte and yottabyte, Hephaestos' definition is certainly better than "...was chosen for some reason that is to be explained," which was there before his edits. For terabyte, most sources I've seen use the 'monster' root, but those sources may be wrong. --Wapcaplet 16:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • All Internet sites I have seen that talk about the history say that zettabyte and yottabyte come from Greek letters. I wrote "for some reason that is to be explained" because I wanted to make sure someone can explain why those Greek letters were chosen. 66.32.113.34 17:00, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I've left some comments on Talk:Terabyte. Probably better to continue discussion there. --Wapcaplet 17:07, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Countries

Currency

Economics, business(es), business leaders, sales

  • Anthropological theories of value - improving; needs broader economic NPOV.
  • Business ethics - recently rewritten a bit; needs someone who knows what they are talking about to separate out overlapping topics. +sj+
  • Commercial Revolution - good dense info; needs fmt, clarif'n. +sj+ 20:03, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Cost of goods sold- needs context, fmt, like many accounting terms.
  • Diebold Focused too much on current events criticisms of Diebold for the page title; should be separated into a page on the Co. and one on the 2000-2004 debates about their product robustness. More company info is needed.
  • Direct marketing is an A to Z of some Direct marketing topics of personal relevance to the author. Telemarketing says it is a subset of Direct marketing so this needs a serious article.
  • Global financial system - confusing and incomplete
  • Group 28 project (now the Individual Visit project). - Needs a thorough copyedit.
  • Job creation program: A questionable section on Switzerland was removed on August 9, 2003; article is now NPOV, but stubby; needs much more information from countries around the world.
    • Third country added today - plenty more scope - Robin Patterson 22:12, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • List of subsistence techniques - looks like this could be a great list; incomplete. Can someone fix up the format, and create stubs for more of the linked concepts? (requires linking to existing pages under slightly different names) Knowledge of Marx not necc, but might help.
  • Option (finance) needs some theoretical background and history. Kwertii 15:57, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory Contamination. Once listed for deletion but kept. Needs NPOV, more. Angela 31 Jan. 2004 Angela
  • Socialist economics: a terrific topic for someone who knows some economic theory and history. It is needed to complement Socialism, which is all politics and no economics. Adam 14:11, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Supply-side economics -- needs NPOV, see talk page. AaronSw 23:38, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Standard Oil: Basically, the bottom part looks like unsubstantiated anecdotes (and POV). However, I don't know the subject well enough to just scrap it. Averell 16:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Technical analysis has many specific techniques listed and linked, but most of these techniques don't have their own article. Kwertii 02:43, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Uneconomic growth - needs NPOV; should focus on the (new) term and notion in its title, not on the policies of George W. Bush.
  • Unified Knowledge Management - orphaned article, stubby, could be good info if handled by someone with knowledge. Otherwise, maybe should be VfD. Ocon 03:40, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek - rewriting needed. Many confusing sentences and grammar/spelling problems. Sport section worse than others. punishinglemur 22:14, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Welfare reform. Newly rewritten article, abandoned shortly after birth, could use NPOV love. / Plus, only talks about US welfare reform, whereas welfare reform is a political topic in many countries. David.Monniaux 16:47, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Education, learning, pedagogy

Environment, geology, earth sciences, weather

Food, agriculture

  • Food is mostly a list of lists. ~ Jake 23:58, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC).
    • I have started work on improving the food entry. Any suggestions / comments / ideas welcomed at Talk:Food. Thanks David Thrale 23:18, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • American lager - previous version was extremely POV. Current version is loaded with weasel terms. There must be a middle ground here. - Hephæstos|§ 05:18, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • I've been working on it - I think I've helped, but I'm probably not done yet. Brian Rock 02:47, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Food quality starts off with "Food quality is the quality of food." and doesn't get any better. Should at the very least mention quality systems and good manufacturing practice David Thrale 23:06, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done some work but there is still a lot that could be done here. Rjstott 09:25, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Apple Jacks -- Go to the external link at the bottom and use it as a reference tool for why the green jacks became X-shaped. 66.32.156.73 00:56, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • World Food Program. I have improved this a lot. Can someone who knows about aid for trade, add something to this article or create an article on this linked to World Food Program? David Thrale 10:46, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Wine and related pages require some work. There seems to be a lot of duplication, as well as confusion about varietals and brands. Furthermore, the issues are muddied by the fact that the terminology in the US differs from that in the rest of the world. - Burschik, 09:23, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • The section of chocolate on "the economics behind chocolate definition" has some useful information, but seems to me to have a POV problem. Also it needs grammar corrections. --Dominus 19:17, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Games, entertainment

  • Turok - just created by IP only user. I have never played this so I can't really help beyond simple wikification. Burgundavia 06:36, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • I fixed up the structure and added some info. The info is correct, although it might be best to remove some of the enemy details. Aramgutang 11:39, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • The article has been expanded, but needs a complete rewrite for spelling and appropriateness. Most of the additions are in the form of a game guide.
  • Currently contains the phrase ?nuclear mother fucker? Don?t videogame guides go to wikibooks? 63.107.135.116 22:16, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Final Fantasy - It is a very complete summary article, but the problem is, not every Final Fantasy has an article written for it. Going to, say, "Final Fantasy II" redirects to this page. We need to correct these redirects with actual full articles complete with pictures, etc. Lockeownzj00 2:54, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
  • All Video Game Consoles need to be uniform in format. Some do not have the system specs. Pictures are being looked into. Contacting the makers of www.vgmuseum.com to see if their system images can be used. Lockeownzj00 8:30, 13 June 2004 (UTC)
  • Rayman needs more information. Lots of it. MajorB|MajorB 02:27 PM, July 14, 2004

Geography

  • Arthur's Seat, Victoria almost an Orphan stub, didn't have a stub message until I found it during a randompage wander. It's only incoming link is from the disambiguation page Arthur's Seat. There are other obvious problems. See the talk page. SkArcher 21:30, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Apparently written by someone who knows the place, which is good, but also obviously written from that person's perspective. Not exactly POV, but more of a tourist come-on than an encyclopedia article. Lee M 18:42, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Bathinda much of this article is quite badly written and needs alot of TLC. User:ChicXulub 22:11, 4 May 2004 (GMT)
  • Elizabeth Islands off Massachussetts. Is only links. older≠wiser 17:23, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Geneseo, New York and Geneseo (village), New York need to be both merged and separated in various ways. (also added to DA) --♬ bdesham
  • Haywards Heath near Brighton, England -- Undoubtedly written by people living in that area, the article lacks statistical data and some more. <KF> 14:38, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Long Island - An extraordinary incomplete list of towns of Long Island exists in this article. The entries for Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York (both counties of Long Island) have reasonably complete lists - someone is needed for the job of taking the names of these towns from these two other articles and also adding them to the Long Island article. Moncrief 01:26, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • River - data given for ten longest rivers frequently doesn't match the data given on the actual page for that river.
  • Kaliningrad Oblast and Yasnaya Polyana - Nicely written, but some of the descriptions seem somewhat over the top: It was a scene of earlier massive Soviet Union military build-up and now the scene of total massive breakdown. These surrealistic visions stand in stark contrast to the vanished city of Königsberg, the city of Immanuel Kant and the city of kings. -- Someone who knows more about this history of Kaliningrad/Konigsberg, Russia, and East Prussia should have a look. --BCorr ¤ Брайен 22:54, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Latin names of regions - factual problems. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • List of Ontario rivers - The hierarchal view is in bad shape; the entire St. Lawrence system is in a non-hierarchal order (the Great Lakes do drain into each other!), and some major rivers seem to go missing when many minor ones are piled on. Radagast
  • Kastamonu Province - Needs wikification, also a bit of NPOV'ing - not serious enough to merit a dispute or anything, but article appears to have been written by the hotels and tourism board. 209.149.235.254 22:50, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • NPOVed as much as I can, needs edit by SO who has lived/visited here. Auric The Rad 03:34, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)
    • I tried my best to add information and remove further POVs, correct geographical facts. The text was indeed taken from a tourism site. I will add more info tomorrow. However I need SO to check the grammar.23:31, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Georgia - There is too much talk about whether Georgia should be the same page as Georgia (country) or Georgia (disambiguation). This should come to an agreement by the time 2005 starts. 66.32.69.62 23:31, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Minnesota and Pennsylvania - Okay, these pages are fine, but many of the articles for towns in these states are not. There are hundreds of articles of towns from these states that haven't been updated since the dawn of 2003. One good suggestion is to put MediaWiki boxes at the bottom for the states of Minnesota and Pennsylvania for all towns. 66.245.78.247 23:22, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Missouri Bootheel -- barely a sub-stub, and violative of the naming convention. (If everybody did this, half of the Wikipedia articles would start with "The"!) I will try to write a reasonable Missouri Bootheel stub and then we can do away with this. Rlquall 13;31, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Government, politics, bureaucracy

See also Political science, law

Historical figures

  • James H. Lane - aside from the obvious spelling/grammar/formatting issues, it appears that there may be two Civil War Generals named James Henry Lane -- see [1] and [2]. This could really use the attention of someone more familiar with Civil War history. Radicalsubversiv 02:51, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I've cleaned it up a bit, but it still needs a thorough lookover by someone who's an expert in this! Miss Puffskein 01:32, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Homer Lea - great bio; needs fact-checking, NPOV, dates filled in
  • List of Mughal emperors - needs help getting links and names standardized, formatting.
  • Genghis Khan - the page needs info on Khan uniting the tribes before his conquest, and needs info on Khan's aborted conquest of Europe.
  • Menander - aside from having 1911-ese (and a whole lot of screwed up Greek words), it also doesn't have anything recent about him (such as Girl Of Samos, and whatever else may have been discovered since 1911). Adam Bishop 20:37, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • I cleaned up the Greek titles and added romanizations and translations of them, but rewriting and reorganization are still needed to bring the article up to date and make its contents easier to grasp quickly. A list of plays with extant fragments might be a good addition. Flauto Dolce 03:11, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Maltese Nobility needs some serious formatting by someone who is good at that (ie, not me :-) ). As it looks copypasted, it might also need copyright-checking, but note that the original contributor seems to be the owner of www.maltagenealogy.com.
  • William III of the Netherlands - needs encyclopedic tone and some basic facts like year of inauguration. Rmhermen 19:44, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've improved the writing style, but it's still unclear in places and needs a good going-over by someone familiar with Dutch history. -Smack 21:38, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Fernando Lopes - Needs to be formatted into Wikipedia coventions. And needs to be edited. Kingturtle 18:11, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lajos Kossuth - contains some worryingly opinionated statements ("With marvellous energy he kept in his own hands the direction of the whole government"). Needs fact-checking and neutralising. Onebyone 01:11, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Like it or not, the facts have been checked. The man * was* a charismatic leader - unkamunka. 16:34, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I believe that, I'm just not sure I know enough about the subject to make the language better without introducing errors. I think the request for fact-checking was just something I passed on from the entry on cleanup - I now see that this article is in fact pretty close to the 1911 Britannica, so is probably accurate. That also explains the flowery prose... Onebyone
      • Having done an initial NPOV some time ago, I am slowly going through and boiling down the prose; probably originally written by an Anglophone Hungarian shortly after Kossuth's death - unkamunka. 12:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Rosa Parks makes a claim about Irene Morgan which is probably false.
  • Eleftherios Venizelos - needs copyediting by someone familiar with the material - the major contributor, while obviously knowledgeable about the subject, is not comfortable with standard written English. 209.149.235.254 20:00, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach has some external internet links on abstract concepts for some reason. Dbiv 18:30, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Karl Schnörrer this page has a link and very little information about who the person is. Needs much expansion.
    • Have added some information. Found a good source, if someone has the time to add info from there (second external link). Not a major person though... --raylu 22:16, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
  • Peter II of Brazil portrait at top of page aligns to left. I'd fix it, if I knew how.
  • James S. Voss Not encylopedaic, not wikified,,,
  • Gudit is confusing and unenlightening. (I think it's supposed to be "Aksumite" dynasty, too, but i'm not sure.) Pyrop 06:28, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Heseri Dead-end-page. needs wikification desperately by a specialist in chinese history. Panta rhei 13:28, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Modern world The list of personalities is extremely POV and shows some odd preferences (Lucas and Spielberg may be popular filmmakers, but they will probably be forgotten one century from now, just as we have forgotten many popular artists of the 19th century). David.Monniaux 06:58, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Nostradamus desperately needs a healthy dose of skepticism. Thunderbunny 15:54, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Macedonian Empire seems to be a text on the history of the Macedonian empire only, needs lots of work and more information on the empire itself, also after Alexander the Great, it jumps to the conclusion and ends the empire, it needs serious formatting, is copied/pasted from here (http://members.fortunecity.com/fstav1/macedon.html) although it could be written by the user himself.
  • Soviet Navy - Linked to by 25 articles. I created the stub and some basic information, however I have no good documentation on this subject. # Jacoplane 21:26, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Menilmontant - Seems like some kind of city, but it really needs a general explanation. I can't actually figure out what it is. Andrevan 01:28, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Indian independence movement - Started it ages back, but nobody's really brought content to this article. It summaries the first 10-20 years of the movement, and then stops abruptly. I don't know enough about this part of India's history to write stuff. If there are any experts about, please help! Gaurav 02:54, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Battle of Changsha (1944) - More information (especially background), proper translation, and what is the source? - Sid 17:01, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • History of Fiji and/or Politics of Fiji - excellently written, but much has changed in the government over the past two years. These pages need tremendous updates. See: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] --Kingturtle 03:24 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Africa - Shockingly Eurocentric! Could use a couple hours of time from someone familiar with basic African history, and much cutting back of duplicate European content. That any article on African history doesn't detail black African states like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, Kano, Ashanti, Oyo, Benin, Ife, Monomontapa, or the Swahili-speaking city-states in East Africa, just to name some of the most notable. --172, May 3, 2003
    • Agreed, and phrases like "Spain had completely thrown off the Muslim yoke" aren't what you'd call exemplary NPOV either. The subject is far too big for the way that ths article tries to treat it. Really, it should be a very general overview of regions and centuries peppered with links to other articles. A bit like History of the United States only several times the area and at least 10 times the timespan --Onebyone 18:44, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Spain needs a lot more information. --Alex S 14:38, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • seems bizarre that this supports a Greater Albania entry when we have no equivalent for Serbia unkamunka 21:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Immigration to the United States is hardcore POV. Meelar 18:15, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • POV seems improved but historical account is still very sketchy. Needs more from some knowledgeable historians. Dr. Z 04:15, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Babylonia and Assyria - all the articles linked on that page will desperately need some attention, as they apparently all come from the 1911 EB. I'm pretty sure they'll be extremely out of date by now. Adam Bishop 04:25, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Bretton Woods Conference. Needs refactor by knowledgable person. See Talk:Bretton Woods.
  • Consequences of German Nazism -- Not too bad now as an introduction to the post-war situation. However, the article will probably benefit from many readers skimming it, adding things (or at least suggesting additions), creating links, etc. <KF> 23:28, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did a rewrite of the German section of it --Kathrynn 14:45, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Is the title correct? (My copy is different.) Also, article does not even touch on the theme of this influential book: the fall of the Roman Empire. llywrch
  • Egyptian_Mythology - needs fleshing out, theres hardly anything there, just lots of headings.
    • not too bad, in need of images though. allie 13:01, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • History of Puerto Rico needs to be wikified. I started one section. Right now is mostly a long scroll of unwikified text. Bkonrad 22:21, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified section was the end. Did some wikifying in general and added some headers. Bulleted text at bottom. There was a commented section with a note that said it could be merged. I merged it and put a comment around it because I'm not sure where it is supposed to go. --raylu 22:34, May 12, 2004 (UTC)----
  • Kinsky-horse, Elena Ceausescu, - work in English - read like poor babelfish translations of de:Kinsky-Pferd Needs someone fluent in German and English horse-speak!
  • Massacre in Koniuchy is in need of NPOV editing. --Baldhur 13:53, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Regained Territories needs attention from a knowledgable neutral individual(s) (do any exist?) Maximus Rex 04:19, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • that knowledgable person should ideally be a native (or at least more fluent) speaker of English, as well Orange Mike 04:32, 2004 Feb 6 (UTC)
  • Nepalese People's War - Well commenced article requires additional research and current-events archiving from any and all quarters! prat 02:24, 2004 Apr 6 (UTC)
  • Persia - I have filled in the info that was missing, but the article begs for a picture/timeline. Fishal 01:43, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman Empire - Article does not really explain a lot about the Empire itself but is a simple overview of some emperor's reigns. Colipon 18:57, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) Also, there is no text at all from the Crisis of the Third Century onwards. Arkuat 22:54, 2004 Jul 8 (UTC)
  • Unit 731 (World War II Japanese biological warfare research unit) has outline in place and needs more facts Astudent 05:16 21 May 2003 (UTC)
  • Watergate Scandal - there is a discrepancy regarding the tally of votes against the Articles of Impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee. See Talk:Watergate Scandal for details. - Dominus 01:59, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Dominus, is this resolved? It's been on this page sunce October. Kingturtle 20:59, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. I'm the primary author of this page, but it's outside my real expertise, and there is a lot of misinformation in print and on the web relating to this subject, so I've had a tough time researching. See Talk:Civil Constitution of the Clergy for further comments. Jmabel 07:01, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Prussia has been made quite a mess of. john 06:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC).
    • This article has been lovingly restored and is now (if I say so myself) adequate. It needs constant vigilance to fend off the Polish nationalists. Adam 04:59, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • History of California was formerly full of factual errors & wishful thinking (see Talk:History of California). (One possible external PD source is [8], but it is quite long and I haven't had a chance to distill it down.) --hike395 01:25, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I think the section looks as good as any other on Wikipedia! It still needs some stylistic tweaking. Perhaps a paragraph or two of trivia could be deleted.--Wighson 01:34, 2004 Apr 1 (UTC)
  • Harlem Renaissance is embarrassing. jengod 00:21, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wu Hu, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Han Zhao, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Prussian people (ie, the Balts, not Prussia, etc!). Someone with knowledge on these Baltic people should flesh out their history, most especially at their first appearance in literature (such as Tacitus) and also their culture and a summary of the Old Prussian Language. Archaeological info would be valuable. Info in Origins of Prussia are a bit too general and specific to geography, not ethnology. Contributions of famous Prussians would be useful.
  • Please remember to add more info. on the current movement to revive Prussian culture on the modern descendants of the Prussian Balts.
  • 1920 in Germany, 1921 in Germany, 1922 in Germany - incredible amounts of info with no subheads and humongous paragraphs; maybe some unacademicizing editing needed, too
    • Ive added alot of stuff from 19th c to 1918, and broken the whole article into sections. Some of the later sections need some information Theon 21:31, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • The 20th Century in Review requires NPOV from someone who knows their history --Graham :) | Talk 01:09, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC). Iv'e made a start by adding some structure. It now needs someone with a good overview. Julianp 02:32, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Needs more information. Jorend 19:37, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Expulsion of Germans after World War II and World War II evacuation and expulsion should be merged, the language is neither neutral nor in correct English, the content is questionable. Get-back-world-respect 23:39, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • The content wars here have settled down. I have tried to improve the language while not disturbing the content. Gwimpey 05:59, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Renaissance needs massive expansion - very little detail about such a significant period Deus Ex 23:23, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • 1950s has an overview section since its merging with 1950's - this is a good thing but it is completely U.S.-centric. Any historians care to expand its scope? --Lancevortex 13:46, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wars of Independence - I'm not really a history person and it is clear that this title should cover a whole lot more area than this piece (which needs reworking/formatting anyway) does. There is a disambig page at War of Independence which makes a start - maybe this page should have a new title and become a redirect to the singular? Will try to work on it if nobody picks it up and runs with it though. --VampWillow 00:14, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Paris Commune - needs expansion and elaboration. --Tothebarricades.tk 00:45, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Upper and Lower Egypt. Useful content, but looks as if two or three articles have been concatenated. Knowledgeable merging required. --Heron 13:11, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Ottoman wars in Europe -- should include all the various information that its German counterpart page includes (regardless of the format). --Shallot 20:17, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Literature, language, authors, writers, reporters, media, newspapers, books, journalism

Mathematics, mathematicians

Medicine, surgery, health

See also #Biology, anatomy, animals, plants

Medicine

Optometry

Pathology

  • Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome -- needs a thorough copyediting. Don't know if the current content is copyrighted or not. Alex.tan 08:10, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Endometriosis needs some TLC to make it sound like an encyclopedia article instead of a pamphlet. Alex.tan 10:04, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Diabetes mellitus - not up to the standard of scientific knowledge. Kpjas
    • I've tried piecemeal changes in this and related pages. The structure here needs more help, and more tweaking. There is some question as to whether the focus should be on information for diabetics or the science (as known) about diabetes, or both. I suggest both as diabetics should certainly understand more than a little about the science. More detailed stuff (how to test for blood glucose, diabetic menus/cooking, ...) should probably go elsewhere. ww 20:12, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - needs TLC --Graham :) | Talk 15:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Done some work on this. Still needs more. Also might be better as Spinal Muscular Atrophy rather than infantile SMA. Thoughts anyone? Markalex 16:59, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Pharmacology

Other

  • Human echolocation needs some review and I suspect it lacks NPOV. I am not an expert in this field, but this article seems to present as fact something that I understood to be just a theory. Also it is written and edited by a single, anon, user. Pasd 15:34, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Electrical quackery - needs a more sedate tone! - redcountess 23:41, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Nurse assistant skills - written by high school student, edited for language by non-medical person, needs professional review for content Dpbsmith 03:13, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Military, war, peace, international relations

Movies, television, radio

  • Elf (movie) - I do not think any article here should end with 'and that's where all the fun begins' -Litefantastic 13:55, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • List of movies that were financial failures is neither primarily a list nor does it limit itself to money-losing movies. EX: Waterworld, believe it or not, turned a hefty profit for the studio that released it. As it stands, this article should probably be both renamed and edited to be more tightly focused in purpose. Davodd 07:47, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Santa Barbara (television) I know very little on the subject, and I've added all I can. It was very popular (and I mean very) with teenagers in the '80s, so hopefully some thirtysomething can add a bit more. I mean, I could make a stab at it, but it would only end up being something like "the supercouples on the show were Cruz and Eden and Julia and Mason" and that's not sufficient. TheCustomOfLife 18:45, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Notable actors without pages: Jonathan Silverman, Frank Finlay and Judi Dench (!), need to be created and expanded - MGM 22:14, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Seraphin, Terreis, Dahak, Cristina, Chilapa, Solari, Najara, Alti. Livia/Eve, Cyane, Hope (fictional character), Velasca, Amarice. All of these are characters on Xena: Warrior Princess, however the articles were written by a vandal who seems to update based on the reality of her fanfiction universe instead of the television show. These all need to be gone over by someone who watches the show and can actually say who these characters are and what they did. Snowspinner 03:17, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tyler Hoechlin and David Gallagher Sufficiently famous IMO, but stubby, needs expansion. -MGM 14:54, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • sitcom needs input from NON US/UK contributors or, at least, anyone that knows about sitcoms on; mainland Europe; Africa; Russia; Far East; Middle East; Australia; South America...anywhere other than UK/US, frankly... --bodnotbod 17:51, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Television comedy used to be a redirect to sitcom. I felt that was misleading and unsatisfactory. I've made a start. Please help make it less British. ...
  • Film criticism: The distinction between critics and reviewers isn't as clear cut as this article makes out. Could use a new approach, more history and many more names/sites of active critics. Scarequotes 22:17, Sep 15, 2003 (UTC)
    • There also appears to be some serious confusion about the difference between film critics and film theorist/analysts. --Chips Critic 21:36, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Home on the Range (movie) - Put information about the characters in this movie as well as the actors and some songs, if you can.
  • International broadcast of Japan a bit of a mess SimonP 19:19 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Radio programming - Someone with a good sense of radio history should do a better sorting job -- right now, "old time" and "modern" are the only two categories, which means the latter is quite a catch-all. More information on programming would be nice, too. --Scarequotes 23:10, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • List of male television actors and List of female television actors are both pitifully short compared to the list of male/female movie actors. I'm not sure most contributors know these lists exist. Fabiform 05:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • List of radio stations in Georgia Just about all Atlanta FM radio stations except WNNX-FM are there, but can you add more Albany, Georgia stations?? User 66.32.73.125 March 27, 2004
  • CIDC This article is messed up, but I don't know anything about Canadian radio stations. Can someone more versed in this subject fix the grammar and information? Also, is the notation used for the call sign abbreviation (C)I)D)ouglasC)) some kind of radio standard notation or is it a typo? - DropDeadGorgias 23:30, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Ringer - On Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fandom. Good content, but poorly written and organized. --Seth Ilys 15:16, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Articles on characters in Power Rangers (eg. Lothor, Tori Hanson, Adam Park) - Is a page on each character particularly necessary? Many of these are merely plot summaries. kelvSYC 06:34, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Would like to see merge of characters with Power Rangers - MGM 14:54, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • The Matrix Revolutions Needs some big time help. Really confusing and stuff. I tred to fix some of it but i can't even begin to clear it up. Kirvett 01:39, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Fame (movie, TV series, and theme song) - moved to Fame, which was made a disambig page. Individual arts on the movie, Broadway show, TV series, and song need creatin'. +sj+ 00:44, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Al Pacino needs a lot of work. Right now it's nothing more than a filmography. RADICALBENDER★ 16:38, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Banned films is frighteningly clumsy. 207.69.2.153 20:19, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • The Return of Jafar could use some explanding. While I'm not much of a fan of the film, I think it should have more than a list of characters and a synopses. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 20:56, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Speaking of the Aladdin trilogy, can someone help out Aladdin and the King of Thieves? Again, I'm not much of a fan, but it needs more than what it has... --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 23:22, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • 28 Days Later Synopsis ends halfway through the film! Gerry Lynch 14:36, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Music, musicians

  • List of Britpop musicians - seems to have become just a list of British bands and not focused on the mid-90s movement Britpop WorthyDan 12:35, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Contemporary Christian music Needs more artists added, and list needs to be alphabitised-Joiz 15:02, Apr 1, 2004 (CST)
    • Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about contemporary Christain music, but I can alphabetize. ^_^ I put all the bands starting with "the" in the T section; I know this isn't exactly standard, but neither is alphabetizing by first name. So, hope helped at least a little. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 06:03, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • S Club 7 Candidate for expansion (ideas: tv series, discography links, external links, S Club 8, individual member bios)-MGM 14:56, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • 2004 in music repeatedly Michaeled -- accuracy therefore questionable. Maximus Rex 23:48, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • List of arrangers - Stubby and poorly formatted. Moreover, arranger is a redirect to this page, which seems wrong. -mhr 06:01, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Redirect fixed, page still needs work... perhaps delete and replace by a category? Andrewa 05:57, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Jobriath - needs NPOV attention, any aging glam rockers out that can help???? quercus robur 09:34, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Saxophone - i don't know where else to place this request. We really should have a Wikipedia:Images needing attention page. My request involves the bottom-most image of the saxophone article. It really should be placed horizontally, rather than vertically. Kingturtle 02:06, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did my changes fix it to your satisfaction? I guess the image was placed rotated since it was too wide; I put a smaller (properly oriented) version in the article, with a link to properly oriented large image. --Infrogmation 18:24, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran - To borrow a phrase commongly used for humans:Something might come out of it, but only if we shape it into a good article being, hehehehe...in other words, theres potential there but someone needs to fix it. -- Antonio Suffered soul Martin
    • Have spent what seems an age trying to work out how to deal with this. Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran is unlikely to be entered as a search term (as is anything with an and in it I reckon) and the only link is from the eurovision song contest for that year with all other contenders not having pages. Lynsey already has a page though so will reorganise her page to reflect this and amend this page to be about Mike (as there is no page for him presently and he can justify a page) --VampWillow 13:44, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lawrance Livermore, Lawrence Livermore, Green Day, Lookout! Records - First article is orphaned. First 2 articles seem to overlap (and are small). Needs attention from one who cares or knows ... Zigger 15:45, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • First is a spelling error, redirected to the second, to which I've added a bit more detail. Still needs more, as does the record label page. The Green Day page looks fine to me. - David Gerard 16:12, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • What Is Soul - Not really sure what's going on here. Hasn't been touched in over a year --Spikey 23:33, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Dave Blood - I can barely find anything on the Web! You'd think a member of such well-documented band would be easier to find. The Billboard obit doesn't even give his age. --Charles A. L. 21:31, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hardcore punk - according to the talk page, needs someone to sort out the genres, fix mistakes, make it less California-centric, clean up bias...
  • Music of Missouri and Music of Kansas - time starts about the year 1980 in both of these articles. The tremendous influence of Kansas City, Missouri on jazz would be a welcome addition to the music of Missouri. The rock band Kansas (band) gets no mention in the Kansas article other than a disambiguation link. On my 'to-do' list, but I'm not a high-powered jazz expert. Brian Rock 01:41, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Vonda Shepard -- Please complete the list of songs on her album. If any songs on the album are NOT covers of oldies, just write "original". Also, can you add her birth year to this article?? 66.245.11.49 01:00, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Moonspell & Slayer - Both need attention from someone who knows more about the bands than I do. Cbguder 00:30, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Erik Satie - see: Talk:Erik_Satie --Francis Schonken 20:58, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Mick Jagger - I believe Wikipedia can do better than that -- there's no biography there! <KF> 22:33, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

People, professions, organizations, groups

  • Ryosuke Cohen - short and written in very poor english.
  • John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell - way too detailed and complicated, someone with the time and interest should short out what's essential Alex S 16:01, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Arborist - currently a "how to hire" guide, should be a better description of what an arborist does. Also seems to have a POV about particular methods. --Finlay McWalter 03:49, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Ernest Borneman -- Lots still missing from Borneman's biography. In the 1980s and 1990s in Germany and Austria, no one knew that he had had a life before becoming a "sexologist". Some claim he had a strange attitude to paedophilia. His books must also be mentioned. Finally, his suicide came as a surprise to many who had been listening to him on TV talking positively about life. <KF> 08:53, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Chang and Eng Bunker: says "They were joined at the side by what was discovered after their death in 1874 to be only a superficial connection involving skin tissue." I think this is incorrect. I believe their livers were also conjoined. Dominus 21:26, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Derek Vestey -- confusing relationships need clarifying from someone with knowledge of the Vestey family. 08 May 2004.
  • William Caxton -- not quite sure what should be done with the big slice of source text that dominates the article. Bmills 12:01, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Gordon Campbell - this article has not been edited since December, 2003 and needs to be updated with recent developments. 142.179.125.20 01:54, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Some updating done, and some partisan corners filed off. Godot May 31 2004
  • David B. Danbom is a very very sad article. It might even be deletable, if it turns out that this person isn't at all famous and just made a vanity page. --Alex S 22:10, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Some googling shows that he * is* a multiply-published historian. Not necessarily famous, but not necessarily not famous either. DS, March 4 2004
    • Yeah, I know this guys work -- I used some of it in my research, but what a lame page -- possibly a good candidate for deletion depending on the pedia's stand how many bios to include ... Dr. Z 04:36, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Anne Hutchinson - is a caricature of her biography, I already added link for a source for rewriting. andy 19:41, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Poul Martin Moller - one-author article on this philosopher needs wikifying, expanding, and maybe a little NPOV. All I could do was remove the e-mail address and request for information. Paullusmagnus 01:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Jerry Lucas - long, lauditory (auto?)biography, needs NPOV, wikification, organization --Cyan 17:51, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
  • Japanese person needs work. Maximus Rex 21:17, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • John Kluge: All that's here is a history of Metromedia, really; it could be moved to "Metromedia" and re-edited. We need a real biography page for him, but I don't know enough about him to flesh it out. -lee 17:26, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
    • Where does Metromedia stop and Kluge start? He's always let VERY little into the public record. Anyhow, I've put about as much as I can be certain of in. unkamunka 22:17 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Karl Eberhard Schongarth - first paragraph makes little sense. The second paragraph is mainly a series of phrases with unknown acronyms. RedWolf 06:22, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • N. Senada - requires verification. Onebyone 22:50, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lew Wallace - Just a list of bullet points with the heading "Notes toward an article". --Paul A 06:51, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Wachowski brothers - out-of-date. TwoOneTwo 15:10, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Waiter -- slightly imbalanced; also needs spicing up. <KF> 02:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Shock jock - Somewhat POV, not very descriptive. --Spikey 03:06, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) --- I rewrote this to expand, NPOV, and wikify. Should be much better, improvements welcome. KeithTyler 01:02, May 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • List_of_members_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives - This page is fine, but nearly ALL the members need work. Check Jim Nussle, Leonard Boswell, Dennis Moore for what I'm trying. Vote totals are at this link and committees can be found at member homepages (Google them) or committee homepages. Power 08:44, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Donald E. Williams - Unwikified...
    • looks like a direct copy of the source page at NASA. Copyvio? Markalex 08:06, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Joseph Henry Pendleton - Good info, probably, but I didn't look closely - unwikified, possibly copyvio? ugen64 15:55, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Richard Clarke - He's been in the news a lot, so it'd be good to get this in better shape. --Wapcaplet 18:49, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • James Caan - fanography. Needs wikification, NPOV'ing, copyedit Ellsworth 16:27, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nikola Tesla: the Early Years section reads more like a polemic on his ethnicity than a biography. needs copyediting, NPOV.
    • It's worse than that; a mixture of ethnic polemics, conspiracy theory weirdness, crackpottery, and idolatry that greatly exaggerates his undoubted genius. There are a whole series of Tesla-related articles linked from a sidebar, and most are even worse. Securiger 16:59, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • It definitely needs copyediting, but the information is pretty factual and follows a timeline of his life in a neat flow. It seems to have little to do with his ethnicity except for the fact that his ethnicity played a major role in his immigration to the US. Copyedit yes, rearrange if necessary. The entire article is long and exhaustive, so we should expect a section on his ethnicity and background to be relatively long as well. It contributes to a complete encyclopedia article. Abqwildcat 22:16, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
      • It is not "pretty factual". See Talk:Nikola Tesla for some of the fairly major errors and exaggerations I have picked up so far. That's five hours' research and I am less than a third of the way through just the main article. Hence, the request here for assistance. Securiger 05:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Florence Ballard - Article is replete with misinformation, wrong information and misspellings. Seems to have been written from hearsay or urban legend or something. (I have checked many websites on Florence Ballard). --User:Oobopshark
  • SNI - Article currently consists of long, linkless passage, copied ad verbatium from another site. (May or may not be copyvio, since source site does not appear to have a copyright notice) Hasn't been touched for a long time. Fangz 13:14, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Jessica Mitford - mostly has info on her early years & social life, only minimal detail on her (fairly popular & influential) writing; needs work from someone familiar with the subject. -FZ 17:30, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • List of Austrian Jews was compiled by anonymous users over a period of three months and would have needed some fact checking. However, now another user has drastically shortened the list, claiming that the names s/he deleted were non-Jewish and/or non-Austrians. Cf. List of Austrians, where the problem has been solved differently. <KF> 23:27, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Philosophy, Larry's Text

  • Yoga Sutra. This article contains two separate entries (both good), one after the other. They need to be combined and organized. Good luck! Quadell 23:32, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I think it would be better for the first part of the article to be merged with Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The second part is what actually talks about Yoga Sutras in general. Jam2k 13:23, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • The Enlightenment. Too many cooks spoil the broth it seems, at least when it comes to describing, in general terms, the main characteristics of this revolutionary era. An introduction to enlightened 18th century thought is needed here, with lots of cross references leading off to politics, literature, etc. etc. Also, the split into The Enlightenment and Enlightenment (concept) (plus a disambiguation page Enlightenment) might be reconsidered. <KF> 00:31, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - final section "Misc" ends in what appears to be a tangential essay with no clear connection to Nietsche's ideas --llywrch
  • Larry's Text is a set of pages input by Larry Sanger in the early days of Wikipedia. It is 350+(!) pages of introduction to philosophy lectures he gave at Ohio State University. Rendering it all encyclopedic has been a daunting task, and many of these articles still need a lot of work.
  • Voltaire - needs re-organizing, updating, editing for style (most of the article is 1911EB); and some judicious trimming probably wouldn't hurt. --Paul A 06:01, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Will (philosophy) - says copyediting in progress, but that way is May last year. andy 23:08, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Forms of state - Oof! I don't know anything about this topic, but I know this needs some reorg. and rewording. --Spikey 02:49, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • subject-object problem -- needs work; contains an extremely far-fetched analogy to quantum mechanics; too verbose. +sj+ 10:41, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • transhumanism needs a non-transhumanist to take a look at it. There's bias here, I think--I just don't know enough to correct it. Meelar 20:00, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • physicalism: Larry's Text has been removed, but now this article needs to be edited from the ground up. This is a pretty critical position in philosophy of mind, so come help out!
  • sophistry - Moved two POV paragraphs from the article to the talk page. How can we rework these paragraphs to NPOV? Kwertii 02:46, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Socratic method - needs more organization and references, currently sounds more like one person's interpretation of it, than an encyclopedia article. --zandperl 15:00, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Essentialism - Needs someone who knows more about Essentialism than I do to pull the page together. Before I made it a disambiguation page, it was a mixture of the first two topics. jaredwf 11:28, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Chaordic - unclear. Onebyone 22:57, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Places

Political science, law

See also #Government, politics, bureaucracy

  • Extremism - here from VfD. Bmills 11:48, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • School choice -- reads like a pamphlet from the Pioneer Institute. It needs heavy attribution to replace "critics say", "advocates want", etc., with actual, real examples.
  • What is Property? - asks for more on "Property is theft", which it needs. --Spikey 02:22, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Boynton v. Virginia - currently just text of U.S. Supreme Court decision, needs summary and context. - jredmond 22:54, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC) 2004 (UTC)
  • International Web Police. I think I have made a fairly good start, but the topic needs much more research and perhaps input from people with inside knowledge. My patience on the topic is fairly exhausted but I have some additional material for anyone who is interested. Peter Manchester 23:01, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom needs lots of work! --The Anome 15:47, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Astroturfing - awkward, redundant, and mildly POV. Also needs clearer and more diverse historical examples of the practice. - jredmond 20:04, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Police oppression - This reads like it was written by someone with an ax to grind against police. I'd say quite POV, and generally rambling and incoherent. Joyous 03:34, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • Worker safety and health. This seems to be a summary of some American legislation with which I am not familiar. I am no more knowledgable about the subject after reading the article than before! If someone actually knows anything about the subject, maybe they could the article some attention? (I was actually expecting it to be a more general article about workplace health and safety, maybe detailing relevant legislation in different countries. Tjwood 18:39, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies has had facts inserted by someone angry at them for an alleged conservative bent. I don't know enough about this to NPOV, and the facts might themselves be valid, but needs another view. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 16:40, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Southern Poverty Law Center needs NPOVing by someone who knows about their fundraising controversy. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 12:47, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Philosophy of copyright needs lots of help, content porge 12:24, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • War Powers Resolution doesn't seem to have had much editing beyond copyediting for almost a year; might have inaccuracies, I don't know; feels flimsy. - dcljr 05:43, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Psychiatry, psychology

Recreation, hobbies, games

  • The Hunting page needs a good edit - see also Talk:Hunting - MPF 20:26, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • I added sections and modified and edited the first three paragraphs of the history section - mennonot 22:02, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • I have started making additions to the postage stamp section but am unsure how far this should be taken. If there is anything that people want added, especially relating to GB postal history let me know and I will do what I can. All information from my website can be freely used if required - www.devoted,to/stamps Tallanent 19:07, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Cottabus - contains ASCII-encoded Greek words that need converted to Unicode, by somebody who knows more Greek than I do. Salsa Shark 08:14, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Cleaned up the article a bit, put more information about the Greek words on the Talk page porge 06:29, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Tightlacer - Those who have been at work on this article seem to be real aficionados who keep adding names and external links without ever having a look at the very stupid definition. --KF 18:17, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I've worked on the text, and renamed it to Tightlacing as it seems to me that the practice is a better encyclopedic article name than the people who do it. -- Morven 07:56, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Underwater photography -- Is poorly laid out with little prose, but mostly lists with little explanation. --Frecklefoot 14:47, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Lansquenet appears to be copied out of a nineteenth century book and needs modernizing. --Imran 13:07, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of chess topics lists players alphabetically by their first name --TwoOneTwo 21:44, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Tie (draw) needs some work. Moved from VfD. See the talk page for suggestions. --Cecropia 02:44, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Kikaider - I've no idea what this article is about! Is it a toy, a fictional series of books, a computer game, a cartoon on TV? Someone must know! David Thrale 22:13, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • On the swimsuit page there is an illustration that is bizarre and misleading. It depicts a woman wearing a bikini swimsuit and a metal neck collar with a leash ring. Metal neck collars are not typical components of swimsuits. It would be better if the example illustration on the swimtui page depicted a more typical swimsuit that did not include a metal collar. --Dominus 17:25, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Religion, mythology, holidays, cults, self-help

  • !Kung mythology - Please add more myths and detail; also improve prose. fascinating. cf. List of deities
  • Akashic Records - Rewrite necessary. --Schnee 20:05, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Wikified and formatted a little better. Content seems relatively clear to me, but someone recently commented on the discussion page that it was not. Comments on the content? If necessary, I'll try to clarify, but I need guidance on what exactly needs to be clarified. Spectatrix 01:16, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)
    • Upon further review, I concur that the content needs to be revamped, which I plan to do. Specific suggestions are still welcome, though. Spectatrix 03:20, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)
  • Varnas is a concept from Hinduism, but this article is very hard to understand and needs going over, probably some wiki-ing as well. Meelar 05:05, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • I did some wikification to give better clarity to the article.Jam2k 19:57, May 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Divine is a stub that could use a good broad survey of the concept incorporating different religious views. Alcarillo 04:22, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Goddess -Article is almost entirely about modern Goddess worship. Very short on historical goddessess. Rmhermen 23:23, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Alms - Needs lots of work and clarification to be a useful article. --Αλεξ Σ 01:23, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I waded into the fray, but it's still very stubby.--Puffy jacket 13:25, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • civic religion - I find much of the content implausible. That all "civic religions" are atheistic, that they exist only under dicatorships, that they are necessarily dogmatic. I thought the term referred to ritual displays of patriotism of the sort practiced in all countries, such as crowds singing the national anthem on certain occasions, displaying the flag on patriotic holidays, etc. See Talk:civic religion for more. Warning': not to be confused with civil religion. Michael Hardy 02:09, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Heathenry - nothing much about the religion itself, just some semantic points regarding the derivation of the name. Should this maybe be combined with Asatru? Kwertii 10:39, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • No. A may equal B but not all B are A. Be wary of merging articles. Invariably someone has to demerge them. Sjc 04:39, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done a full rewrite, but it badly needs a bit more attention. SetarconeX
  • Witchcraft An unholy mess of merged articles which need resolving and putting under correct and discrete headings with the article in question then being rewritten top to bottom. Sjc 04:39, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Persecution of Muslims - some people are working on it, but it needs help. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • St. Casimir's Day needs a going over for NPOV by someone who's not Lithuanian (or at least a neutral Lithuanian).
  • The Bible in Islam serious NPOV problems here. Seems like it was written by Ali-Sina or someone from an anti-islam propaganda/agitation group many verses being quoted into fabricated contexts. Might be best for someone to re-write it.
    • IMO, this article looks much better now, but it still needs some modern scholarship. RK 22:09, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)
  • Voice of the Martyrs: usefule article, but somewhat POV-ish. --Khym Chanur 11:38, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
    • I've gone over it a couple of times, mostly for typos. An article of this nature probably can't help appearing somewhat POV. Any specific suggestions? - Rlvaughn 20:23, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Upanishad - needs ugly formatting and the diacrita in the main upanishads section fixed. --Finlay McWalter 01:31, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Korean mythology: contains stuffs from a famous apocryphal book that was cooked up in the 20th century and is believed by cult religions. --Nanshu 00:58, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Irish mythology - really just a set of lists of wikis to other articles. Bmills 11:28, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Marduk - contains both some wiki-authored content and a 1911 article. -Smack 06:42, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Islamic eschatology -- I know that houris and sex aren't the be-all and end-all of this, but I don't know much more than that. The article needs much more about Islamic ideas of personal eschatology (death, judgement, reward, punishment) and general eschatology (ad-Dajjal, the end of the world, etc.) from someone with some knowledge of this topic. --MIRV 22:08, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • All pages edited by User:66.207.39.62/User:DonaldSutherland on 8th Jan. He has made consecutive and numerous edits to some pages. It is very difficult to look at the changes using the Diff display. Requires lot of patience to go through the articles. The contents do not seem to be copied from anywhere. Here are the pages : Yoga, Yoga_Sutras, Krishna, Bhagavad_Gita, Prayer, Brahman_(god), Tantra, Hinduism.
  • Joseph de Maistre - needs wikification RedWolf 06:04, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
    • Now edited, wikified. Still could use verification of translations of titles of works. --Jmabel 05:22, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Seven stages - marvelously obscure description of the stages of yogic progress. --Smack 05:59, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • High Priest -- This redirect is correct in the Judaic sense, but not the Pagan/Wiccan sense. --Spikey 02:39, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Genesis - makes no mention of the very common belief that the Bible is divinely inspired and infallible --Smack 17:36, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Slavic fairies - the article includes several older semi-stubs and needs sorting out the nymphs from the ghosts from whatever by someone who knows Slavic mythology. The title may be improper too. --Shallot 11:41, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Friends of the Western Buddhist Order reads mostly like a publicity handout. Lumos3 20:31, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Sharia has some pov statements and many parts that could be reworded for clarity, particularly the "practice of sharia" section. --Rhobite 04:32, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Perun, apparently "the highest god of the Slavic pantheon" -- middle paragraphs especially are in poor shape, but I can't make much sense of them without a better background in Slavic mythology. Triskaideka 15:26, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • spell - kind of slender article which really does not even begin to do the subject justice, also needs a disambiguate rubric to other manifestations of the word spell. Sjc 06:41, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Geri and Freki - very little information. --Eequor 10:13, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Science

To propose improvements to an otherwise correct article, please use the To do list of the WikiProject Science instead.

Astronomy

Chemistry

Optics

  • Aberration in optical systems is a wordy theoretical article from the 1911 Encyclopedia. It cries out to be rewritten in readable English and peppered with diagrams. EdH 16:43, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've added scans of the original illustrations from the 1911 Encyclopaedia. The article still needs tons of work, though. --DrBob 21:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Physics

  • Nuclear fission Seriously cut-and-paste; headings handled wrong - I could fix that, but - not well organized; history is spotty, in places unclear or misleading. Dandrake 05:49, Oct 22, 2003 (UTC)

Other

  • Pathogen. This article seems very rudimentary. I have done some tidying, but it really needs someone more expert than I. David Thrale 00:19, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • I gave it a bit of attention but it definitely needs more. heidimo 16:42, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Chemical oceanography has good info, but needs organization and more depth. --Flockmeal 20:50, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Reliability testing is virtually devoid of useful information. --Smack 18:41, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Therblig Too small. Somebody write more? Optim 07:45, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Mel Frequency bands - incoherent cut-and-paste, but sounds like the topic might be worthwhile. Anyone able to clean this up and make it useful? Otherwise it probably gets deleted. Isomorphic 06:28, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sociology, culture

  • Commercialism - inaccurate and simplistic, it starts with a dicdef [10] and moves on to speculate about cave men bartering with each other. I put it in sociology but I'm not sure if this is the right category. Rhobite 15:37, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Trust metric - minimal but informative article. --Eequor 13:37, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Rural sociology, Types of rural communities, Exurb, Role homogeneity, Agribusiness, List of literature on rural issues, and Demographic history of the United States seem to be a collection of interlinked articles which portary a particular anti-corporate perspective on the economics of rural America. These articles need substantial work by someone familiar with (or willing to learn more about) rural economics and culture to establish NPOV and factual accuracy. I think managed to mostly save Rural exodus, but if you are familiar with the subject, you can probably improve it. If you do statistical research for Demographic history of the United States, you may find that the "rural exodus" is not happening everywhere that Rural exodus might imply. (I haven't checked, but the original author did not seem to take care to make the article neutral, so now I'm suspicious.) --Beland 01:10, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Counterculture - A number of the statements and arguments here seem highly contestable and POV. AndyL 01:12, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Arcology is currently a personal essay (maybe a book report?), but it does contain some history of the topic. Someone who is familiar should rework it to be more encyclopediaic. SSherris 03:22, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Arab anti-Semitism --Elian, on the talk page, put it best:
    • What this article is missing is a thorough analysis of the development of anti-semitism (how much effect had the creation of Israel?), a critical debate of how much is anti-Israelism and how and if the terms are seperable, a description of the practical institutionalization of anti-semitism (are there any laws in the arab countries which discriminate against Jews, i.e. especially Jews, not just adherents of other religions?). A mere collection of anti-semitic statements of arab jounalists and politicians does not make it an encyclopedia entry.
    • —No-One Jones 17:51, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • I initially added a whole lot of information about The Kallikak Family, but I have since split it off into its own entry (The Kallikak Family) and simply linked it. I don't know as much about the Jukes however. --Fastfission 00:07, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Closure (sociology) -- badly needs a rewrite/rename. --Taak 23:26, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Coming of age, surprisingly, is mainly about Australia and Japan. It would probably be best to start the article from scratch and then incorporate the material that is already there. <KF> 13:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Gang is rather minimal. I've put some suggestions on its talk page, but I someone much more expert than I am should work on this one. --Jmabel 06:33, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Jukes and Kallikaks - needs more specific information about the families, accuracy of data, and the way the information was used. Cecropia 22:48, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Gender and sexuality

  • Rind et al. has a completely inappropriate title, the first name of one of the authors of a scientific journal article. It seems to have been singled out because some pedophiles see it in support of their fight for the right to have sex with children. Other scientif material in the area of child sexual abuse and pedophilia is neglected. Get-back-world-respect 07:35, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Incest has an NPOV header on it, and also needs sections and embedded references. zandperl 23:27, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Heteronormativity has tremendous POV isues, and is a term mainly found on the wikipedia and forks Sam Spade 05:13, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • The page has evolved somewhat since this posting, and then took at look at it with an eye toward NPOV and such on 3 July. I think it's OK now; someone else should remove this listing if they concur. --Beland 00:47, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Leather virgin -- it's in the list of lifestyles, and I got mad that there was no article, so I took my best guess. That my guess makes sense makes it worse, I suppose, since "a leather virgin is a type of chicken" would be obviously wrong. I put an accuracy warning because I could be completely off-base; surely someone does know, however. --Charles A. L. 23:39, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)

Sports

  • Ashes series badly needs information about the history of the contests (ie.) who won it in which year Jam2k 19:38, May 31, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dog agility needs information, mostly links, about the sport for countries other than the USA. Also needs addition of correct (per international agility rules) metric measurements.
  • Dan Gable I started the intial artical, now people need to fill it in and improve it. ZeWrestler 11:21, June 08, 2004 (UTC)
  • Japanese Baseball needs a lot more...it's pretty pathetic as it is right now. There's lots of info on the jp page if someone wants to try translating even? Kurohone 01:45, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Babe Ruth is really well-written, and then cuts off immediately. It reads like a to-do list from his divorce onwards. Meelar 05:36, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Riddick Bowe needs to have the timeline information incorporated into a real article. Also needs updating from his subsequent trial, imprisonment and release (see: [11]). RADICALBENDER★ 16:22, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Association of Chess Professionals needs help from someone who knows the organization and its dispute with FIDE. Scout3214:26, 22 May 2004
  • Indianapolis 500 is missing a lot of information about the race's history. Not a lick of info about the controversy of the CART-IRL split in the 1990s and the Indy 500's role in that, for example. Nor is there much about the uniqueness of the race: the qualifying (Bump Day, etc.), the drinking of the milk, even the name "Gasoline Alley" is never mentioned. RADICALBENDER★ 03:52, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Symbols, terminology

Technology

  • Stirling engine - two thirds of this article is a huge external links section. The information in the external links should be incorporated into the article, and the external links trimmed down somewhat.
  • Alternative technology is more of an informal rant than an article. Needs major re-write and wikification. I think it's redeemable, however. heidimo 23:58, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Not much wikification to be done. I didn't rewrite but I edited. Still seems like an "informal rant." --raylu 22:44, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • I rewrote and expanded some. I think it's probably fixed well enough to be taken off this list, though help is needed to think of examples of technologies once considered "alternative" that have since been widely adopted and thus are perhaps "alternative" no longer. See the talk page for details. --Beland 02:02, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • High level equilibrium trap - needs to be much longer. Kwertii 18:18, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Transportation, tourism

  • Tourism - Most of huge article is one heading - History. Needs sections, organising, swapping, re-editing (move stuff to other articles?) Zoney 00:21, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • major copyedit & reorganization done -- 10 May 2004
  • Individual Visit Scheme - information is not comprehensive, should stated more on the different impacts such as economic and social aspect
  • Zytec Lotus Elise - stub on electric sports car, w/ garble & ambiguity listed in Talk:Zytec Lotus Elise. Jerzy (moved from cleanup Onebyone 01:58, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC))
  • Resort. I'm the author of this page, but I do not know how to go about expanding it. Is there a major difference between a resort and a hotel? --Johnleemk 13:20, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Peugeot - Needs more information, the models need some articles as well.
  • Renault - Missing a lot of models, needs more history.
  • MARTA - All the stations on the orange line are mentioned, but can you add the blue line?? 66.32.90.202 02:40, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Dodge Viper appears to have been written by someone whose primary language was other than English. Lots of metric measurements, few Imperial measurements. No mention of the coupe or tuner models from the likes of Hennesey Motors. - Lucky 6.9 05:24, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Mazda - needs more attention, both old models like the Mazda 929 and new ones like the Mazda Mazda6. - Sfoskett
  • Air traffic controller has a very defensive, pro-air traffic control tone and doesn't really read like an encyclopedia article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 04:22, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

  • Afterimage - Do you have any pictures to put in?? Make sure you have read carefully.
    • I've re-written the article to make it more clear. I'd like someone to check over the explanation of why afterimages occur, to see if the explanation makes better sense; I had a little trouble putting that into my own words. It's better than it was, though. Joyous 03:08, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Adar 2, Adar 1 - suggest these are merged into Adar, there seems to be some confusion/contradiction between the three articles and Hebrew Calendar as to which is the extra month and which is "really" Adar. Onebyone 23:56, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Beard - Apart from not being wikified, the newly added history section contains some cryptic references: Gynick games, Septa, [pg 291], 2 Sam. c. x. v. 4. etc. Can anyone make head or tail of them? <KF> 19:35, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Certificate -- More examples are needed -- just think of all those language certificates (http://www.cambridge-efl.org/exam/general/bg_cpe.cfm etc. etc.). <KF> 18:27, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Death rock fashion -Not putting down rookies as I myself was one once, but the info in this page is typical of a rookie. Antonio Poser Martin
  • Hephthalite - Can anyone verify the origin of the statements with ?s after them. Also needs some more Chinese Characters if anyone can add them.
  • "Independent, Neutral, Turkmenistan State Anthem"
  • Intellectual property education Probably needs self promotion removed as does perhaps presumed autobio Shaheen Lakhan; Human memory process by same IP (noted at #February 4, 11th item), and those labelled "(Top)" at Contribs of (surely) the same person are also not yet edited by others, and may (or not!) still deserve scrutiny
  • Payola could use more work from somebody who knows more. heidimo 22:56, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Semi-detached -- needs some historical & sociological data, and also a picture. Anyone living in a semi-detached, please go ahead. Wikikiwi 22:14, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • AutoShapes -- Please try to expand, as well as putting links to this page at whatever Wikipedia pages it is appropriate for. 66.32.141.228 17:26, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • List of first names -- Please try to make the classification of these names into 2 groups as close to being complete as possible, only half are currently mentioned. 66.32.118.139 23:18, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Ricochet the article seems fine, but it should be moved to Ricochet(Half-Life-Mod) and replaced by a disambig page (see it's "what links here"). We also should check weather Ricochet(Psychology) or something related exists and if not create a stub. I'm too tired for something that complicated Lady Tenar
  • Function --This page is okay, but for pages that link here, please dis-ambiguate the link, making sure that no one goes here thinking it is a re-direct. 66.32.121.159 16:31, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • List of flags with blue, List of flags with red, List of flags with white, List of flags with green, List of flags with yellow, List of flags with black -- Please complete these lists to inlcude all flags of world countries. If they get large, you may change them from a single list to multiple lists by continent at one article. For extra credit, you may also add sections of these lists for states of the United States and provinces of Canada. 66.245.114.155 19:51, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Interdependence - The current version is just a dicdef. --Kieff 06:19, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Solace - three issues that need seperating or formatting to make sense. I thought the computer club bit should be deleted! David Thrale 15:48, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Chinhai - I am suspecious because the anonymous user posting this wrote in the edit summery Military post taken by the British in the First Opium War (which is true), but in the article wrote about slang for a beard. So this smells of false information. Thue 21:19, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Imperial Seal - important but still a poor deadend stub
  • Open standard - currently obviously working entirely within the domain of computing, which is a little too specific. Also does not clearly put that domain in a wider context. Probably needs attention from someone who knows about standards processes. Andrewferrier 18:09, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)
  • Halloween Havoc - what is this supposed to be? jbinder 18:29, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia

  • Wikipedia -- Needs much more timely overview info, in addition to the long history. Links to news, press releases, stats, etc. 140.247.101.94 22:07, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC
  • Wikipedia:List of images Im hoping that this will eventually be a comprehensive list of images on wikipedia, but for now it needs to be filled in! Theon 20:10, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:List of images should be merged into Category:Images and Category:Image galleries. --Eequor 21:12, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Votes for deletion: Whilst this page is clearly needed, it is poorly thought out. It should be divided in such a way that weekly, or monthly imput can be displayed on seperate pages... Further it seems only to be activly used by a limited number of prople, with good intentions, but given this it is clear that it needs a beter method of administration, as imput remains on the page farrr to long to be of value to users wishing for feedback. Faedra
  • All the http://wikisophia.org/ links on WikiTeX are broken. --Eequor 16:12, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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