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Anthropology, ethnology

Architecture

  • Architecture I would like some other opinions on the Architecture page, original author KRS seems to be a bit AWOL. Also, page seems to be inappropriately categorised on the main page under technology (I recommend society) but is under "arts" when I browse the category:main page separately, I don't understand why. Chwe 23:44, 17 Aug 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)

Art, artists and art history

  • indigo, violet, and purple - violet is not closer to blue than indigo, and these all use odd values. --Eequor 14:29, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Rollout photography - needs expansion of history before 1972, more attention & POV cleanup, from someone familiar with the subject. -FZ 18:13, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Amateur pornography -- Just not very well written. --Spikey 02:34, 14 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • looks better to me now Chwe 23:35, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Reads like a prison blotter, needs less repetition of words. Bastique 00:24, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • I gave it a shot... - dcljr 07:15, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Meditative art - needs grammar and format work, detailed information on separate artists should be moved to articles about the particular artist by someone who knows who is important. rhyax 06:12, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Illustrator Brian Froud needs expansion by someone familiar with his life & work -FZ 20:39, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Biology, anatomy, animals, plants

See also #Medicine, surgery, health

Anatomy

  • 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)
  • Superficial anatomy used to contain content of an old encyclopedia (now on Talk:Superficial anatomy), now a stub that needs looking over from someone that knows more about biology/medicine. Rvollmert 09:32, 2004 Aug 20 (UTC)

Biology

Botany

  • 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

  • Ponerinae - see talk page, needs editing for layman. rhyax 06:41, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Bos - I did my best to clean it up, but ITIS conflicts with the page and other parts of Wikipedia and I am way out of my depth. Also check the redirects from the species names; do they point to the right thing(s)? grendel|khan 21:32, 2004 Aug 8 (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)
  • Bradypodion and Lepidophyma - list of red links. What is their common name? Doovinator 22:00, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Is there anything to say about white horses from a biological point of view? |l'KF'l| 11:15, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)

Other

Categories

Communication

  • 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

  • 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)
    • I added some text to the intro and features. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) - Talk 19:33, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Software

  • Arianne is unencyclopedic and written mainly from first person perspective; apparently the article was written by Arianne's developers. Needs a lot of work. --Eequor 15:15, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • 36 edits later, I reckon it meet the average. --Cfailde 12:44, 2004 Oct 8 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Winsock - way out of date, contents c+p from FOLDOC, all external links dead --Kwi 23:34, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)

Terminology

  • Syslinux Isolinux redirects to Syslinux, syslinux talks about isolinux and syslinux but it is not clear whether these are two names for the same thing or are related OS's. See discussion page - I am not the only person confused by this -- Chris Q 07:27, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Currency

  • Mint (coin) - Mostly about the US. Onebyone 16:45, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Large-sized note Are there any differences between those notes and today's small-sized notes missing from this page?? Try adding an extra column to the table in this article for the designs on the back; use http://www.currencygallery.org as a reference tool. 66.32.129.167 14:06, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • I just asked it to be clarified so no one will mess with it. That is, no one makes the mistake of thinking the table is about the present. 66.245.29.166 15:11, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguation

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+
  • 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)
  • 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]
  • 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)
  • Payola could use more work from somebody who knows more. heidimo 22:56, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Option (finance) needs some theoretical background and history. Kwertii 15:57, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Supply-side economics -- needs NPOV, see talk page. AaronSw 23:38, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • 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.
  • Environmental economics could use an upgrade. Structure needs makeover; few mentioning of recent developments.
  • Global financial system - confusing and incomplete - Restarted it j heisenberg
  • 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)
    • Added more details for Canadian job creation, plus an external links section. --Westendgirl 05:47, 18 Sep 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.
  • Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory Contamination. Once listed for deletion but kept. Needs NPOV, more. Angela 31 Jan. 2004 Angela
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Uneconomic growth - needs NPOV; should focus on the (new) term and notion in its title, not on the policies of George W. Bush.

Education, learning, pedagogy

  • Preschool education Previously listed on cleanup, but that doesn't seem necessary. Needs looking over by someone familiar with the subject, and possibly some extension. Rvollmert 16:24, 2004 Aug 21 (UTC)
  • Dalton Plan and Helen Parkhurst seem to be fascinating subjects. Moreover, a quick Google check reveals that there are "Dalton" schools all over Europe (Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, wherever), not just in New York City. A summary by a practitioner would be great. |l'KF'l| 08:37, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Lifelong education Was a stub that was cleaned up from an unformatted article previously listed on cleanup; it needs far more work from someone familiar with educational practices. Alcarillo 16:58, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have merged Lifelong education with lifelong learning because it is just two sides of exactly the same thing. Still needs improvement, which I'll try, time permitting. <KF> 21:35, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Efficient learning method Another stub that was cleaned up; needs a lot of work. Alcarillo 16:58, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Homeschooling is nowhere near NPOV--it's written from a pro-homeschool perspective, and even the "opposition" section just attacks any critics. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 13:40, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • It seems a lot more neutral to me now. Someone else give this a look and see if anything needs to be changed still. Buddhainabucket 11:05, Aug 19, 2004
    • The part on opposistion is still very NPOV, the author is just giving reasons why the critics are wrong, and not just presenting the opinions of the critics. Sept 6, 2004/ CJrs 79
    • I did some work on the neutrality of the oppositon section - actually added in some argument. Trisk 03:16, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Public library Had some information about the origins of the public library from a now deleted page first public library merged in. I actively welcome editing and expansion of the merged section and also the whole article could do with some attention and possible restructuring I think. Oska 05:34, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi comes straight from the 1911 Britannica. What about pedagogy during the last 95 years? <KF> 02:42, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • 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

Engineering and applied science

  • Seismic retrofit needs a civil or mechanical engineer to give it a once- or twice-over. I've already done some copyediting and rephrasing. - jredmond 03:03, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC).

    The article also needs illustrative pictures of retrofit details, especially the kinds of modifications that a homeowner can perform to secure the building, furnishings, and appliances. - Leonard G. 04:09, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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)
  • 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). Have started to make some heaadway on this as I add German wine comprehensively. There are a lot of things missing and a lot of reorganisation needed. Please start commenting on Talk:Wine Justinc 13:34, 5 Oct 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)
  • Soup- article of the week did a lot of work, but the History section is short and the Western and Non-Western sections have no text in them.--Alsocal 04:42, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Games, entertainment

  • Morrowind, Tamriel, Vvardenfell, Dagoth Ur. These articles are incomplete, have many red links, and need a lot of attention from anybody with an unhealthy interest in the game :). --ClarityMS07 16:28, 18 Sep 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
  • Zidane Tribal - A character from Final Fantasy IX. Much of the article cannot be understood by those who have not played the game. Guanaco 21:49, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Geography

General

Alba 13:08, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • The Amazon River. An article I feel has a lot of potential and already a great deal of information. It is, however, not very readable. I needs some skilled editing to improve the writing as well as the layout (headings etc.) -- Solitude 10:08, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Brussels - the part about Brussels' linguistic history regularly contains partisan matter, including an ongoing a revert war. --Edcolins 20:34, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • All the articles created by Rambot. --Eequor 18:14, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
More evidence that Rambot is evil:
  • Most of these have irrelevant statistics, including percentages less than 1% and mentions of 0%.
  • All are poorly wikified (inconsistent, redundant, unintuitive), particularly with regard to ethnicity.
  • All are under-wikified. Except for the lead section, links within the article are limited to the following:
  • Hispanic and Latino groups are poorly recognized by the U.S. Census, and the Rambot articles propagate this error.
  • The section on marital status reflects antiquated notions of gender role.
  • The articles seem to use "village" and "town" interchangeably. Every occurrence of each (and any other synonyms used) should be replaced with "city".
    • Absolutely not. In New York State, and possibly other states, "town", "village" and "city" are clearly defined types of municipalities. To replace "town" or "village" with "city" is incorrect. What Rambot did screw up in N.Y. is to label CDPs as "towns". I had to manually adjust most of these in Westchester County, hoping people will hit the other counties.[[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 09:17, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
  • Most of the statistics would be better presented by a table. Perhaps a link to the Census Bureau would suffice?

Countries

Places

  • some London underground stations User:andycjp
  • Rumtek - a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, India. Some more information and a good picture would be more than welcome. AndyBrandt 21:22, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Spring Creek, Oklahoma - aaaah, bad shape. 95% of the article is vague, uninformative, or just pointless. blankfaze | ?­? 00:04, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Ravenna has historical information, but nothing about the modern city. Walt Pohl 06:12, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Kerman copyedit, wikify, check info --ran 14:10, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Barton (village), Vermont and Barton (town), Vermont have identical text but different demographics, combine? It looks weird if you open them in two tabs and switch between them :) Dori 05:43, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
  • Jastrowie: I've done what I can to clean this up, but it still needs some attention from someone familiar with Polish history and/or language. See Talk:Jastrowie for particular questions. —Triskaideka 18:46, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • List of British Columbia rivers attempts to list rivers ordered by watershed, yet has various blank and questioned entries. It needs someone familiar with the topic and area to finish the job. If no one steps up to that, then it needs to be converted to an alphabetical or other ordering that mere mortals could more easily contribute to... 66.167.139.215 00:40, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Pisa - t's in Italy and it has a tower, but otherwise this article is not very informative. Adam Bishop 22:46, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Ormond Castle - Not wikified, seems copy and pasted from elsewhere, like an advertisement. Jelly441
  • Andijk needs work, but im not quite sure what to do with it. May need to be split up into different articles. ----ScottyBoy900Q∞ 04:03, 01 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Government, politics, bureaucracy

  • United States Army and similar pages - No information about what soldiers do, how they are enlisted, the options of a soldier, and how they leave the army, perhaps a page is needed for life in the army, or soldier life.

See also Political science, law

Historical figures

  • John Ireland(archbishop) - Needs a look by someone with better knowledge and historical resources about the man. Look into his political activity. --69.5.156.155 07:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Borjijite - needs looked at by someone who knows about this. Borjijite needs to be closer to the top and define what it is a lot better. rhyax 00:34, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Muhammad Thakurufar Al-Azam - needs fact checking.
  • Robert Abbot - information about his actual significance is still needed, from cleanup. rhyax 07:12, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Sant Cassia - Edit wars, vfd, copyright issues. you name it. rhyax 08:15, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Philip Freneau - He needs some information on him. His poetry was quite important.
  • 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 [2] and [3]. 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.
    • I am trying to do what I can. Added a full title for Aurangzeb. Changed and moved Bahadur Shah Zafar around a bit. His title as emperor should be Bahadur Shah II; he is known to history more often as Bahadur Shah Zafar because of his stature as an Urdu poet (Zafar being his pen name).
  • 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)
    • It seems quite tidied up right now, although it wasn't me.--leandros 22:01, 3 Aug 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)
  • 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)
  • The illustration on Henry P. Baldwin, a Senator from Michigan, which is on the Bioguide site appears in my Oxford Companion to the U.S. Supreme Court as that of Justice Henry Baldwin. The illustration on the Supreme Court Historical Society site could be the same fellow. Can anyone clarify?PedanticallySpeaking 17:28, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
I've contacted Heather Moore, photo researcher at the U.S. Senate Historical Office, and she e-mailed me on August 31, 2004, to say she'll look into this. PedanticallySpeaking 14:15, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Lou Rawls, actually listed a *few* things. If someone starts the outline and some text I'll flesh it out more. New, not knowing how to write a bio hurts me... see his own bio for startsJoeHenzi 06:58, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Vietnam Syndrome I created this stub about the US societal reaction to the Vietnam War to allow a link to this rather than PTSD for a Bill_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_1992. It needs some work by someone familiar with this issue. --CloudSurfer 07:36, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Council of Four - dates, context - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 08:17, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
  • Molly Maguires - woof, this needs work. It's a stub, POV, and very light on factual information. - Scooter 21:59, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Gettysburg Address - factual accuracy disputed. - biggins | talk 13:18, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Gian Giacomo Medici - a stub on a brother of Pope Pius IV whose «early career connects itself with the romantic rise of his elder brother». How? Looks like they are not part of the Medicis. IMO it's better to expand than merge and redirect--Nabla 04:19, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - it's not really NPOV in its historical presentation, clearly written by the church supporters/members. It rather downplays Ukraine's traditional Orthodox status and overemphasizes the differences with Russia. Ornil 22:43, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Period of Japanese Rule (Korea) - It doesn't seem to be NPOV, I can't tell what claims made in the article are true and which aren't. Need someone with more specialized knowlege about Korean and Japanese history who can verify the claims in this article and make the content more specific. --210.91.223.73 11:49, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Democratic Kampuchea -- This article has no mention of US, Thai and UN support to the Khmer Rouge against the Vietnamese-sponsored Cambodian government after the Khmer Rouge had been driven from power - this is both a serious gap in the history of Cambodia and also a serious NPOV problem. Given that the content in the article is taken from the Library of Congress Country Studies an omission of American assistance to the Khmer Rouge is perfectly understandable, nonetheless to mantain NPOV this needs to be radically revised. --Ce garcon 07:41, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Black People's Convention - pov, maybe expand out some of these acronyms rhyax 22:46, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Chinese nobility needs attention by someone familiar. remove if you think it's ok. rhyax 18:16, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • St. Francis Dam should be terribly interesting, but reads like a poor term paper. I tried to fix some phrasing ("Today this is a big no-no ..."), but don't know the subject. Kbh3rd 02:02, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Cleaned up a few more bits. Looks okay to me, but could do with some additional facts, quotes, and fact-checking. Bryce 22:47, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Architectural history Would like some help to better integrate this with the architecture page (the only page linking to it?) also would like some help on the page itself, I think I've made it a bit too abstract, or not abstract enough... Chwe 23:39, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
    • I added a little, it still need some work Zarxos 02:41, Aug 21, 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.
    • Although it's kind of encyclopedic, it's a big big long long paragraph with lots of information on the history only, but not on why the empire fell. Someone with knowledge on the subject has to look into it. --leandros 22:12, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
    • This page appears to be much better though a bit scant on details. Remove stub listing at the bottom. Anyone else think it should be removed from here as well --enceladus 02:37, 3 Sep 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)
    • The text appears to be abandoned part way through.
    • The most obvious Menilmotnat on the net appears to be a village since incorportated into Paris.Jackiespeel 16:38, 17 Aug 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: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] --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-The title is correct. The often-used short title, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a later invention and should be a redirect, which it is. But I agree the article has bigger problems. --Bishonen 07:31, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • 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 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 [9], 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.
  • 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)
    • 1920 and 1921 in Germany have been tidied up by someone. Jackiespeel 16:38, 17 Aug 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)
    • (1) No mention of: the flight of tens of thousands of the bourgeoisie who fled Paris to escape the implementation of the Commune; the destruction of the Tuileries Palace, the City Hall, the Palace of Justice, (and almost the Notre Dame) by the supporters of the Paris Commune; the décret des otages - arrest of hostages and their executions, including the Archbishop of Paris (Monseigneur Georges Darboy) at the prison of La Roquette; the suppression of newspapers; the arbitrary arrests of many members of the Commune (Bergeret, Assy, Cluseret, Lullier, Rossel, &c.) by the Commune. (2) When was "war declared on Paris"? This was a suppression of an insurrection. (3) Overall this seems a bit of a white-wash of the Commune, but perhaps that's just my POV. RJH 19:23, 20 Aug 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)
  • Kurt von Schuschnigg -- description of his office -- User:Docu
  • The Revolutions of 1848 in France -- seems like a translation. Definitely encyclopedic, but needs work. Dukeofomnium 13:17, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • 498 BC — For the Leontini entry, should the word "subjected" instead be "subjugated"? — RJH 20:36, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Lists

  • 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)

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

This seems to already have been done. Pls remove unless it is felt that it still needs improvement.Thanks.--Jondel 00:35, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Alex Rider
    • cleaned up, but still a stub. ··gracefool 11:41, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Greek lexicon - written in first person, article includes comments, table needs alphabetization, additional data needs integration into table with greek translation, etc., etc...--> fixed up the number section to be more accessible [Lareti]
  • North Germanic languages - for a lay-person it seems as depreciated theories have a tendency to return to the page. Expert overview is needed.212.181.86.76 09:47, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of German-language poets -- very much like List of German-language authors: did Gunther Grass, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil or Max Frisch ever write poetry? I heard that Herman Hesse and Heinrich Boll did, but even so they are known as novelists. If I'm right, it's a shame (3 of the above are Nobel prize winners, I think) . Maybe it should be merged with the author's list. Curero 10:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • French literature This article doesn't know what it wants to be about. DanKeshet 23:34, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • F. Van Wyck Mason - Van Wyck Mason wrote about fifty crime and adventure novels with action in all parts of the world, some about historical people....but this article doesn't say much about that. Kingturtle 21:20, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Medieval poetry - Needs more detail to make a decent article. Rednblu 04:04, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • I've been adding, mostly, a list of links to more specific topics. If someone wants to add some kind of interpretation here, feel free. --Smerdis of Tlön 01:05, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Nibelungenlied needs smoothing into proper English and would benefit from more information. Maximus Rex 06:43, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC).
    • Tried smoothing the English a bit, but it still needs work. Idril 16:10, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Ellery Queen -- A lot more needs to be said about the various authors who used the name "Ellery Queen". --KF 21:49, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Sindbad the Sailor - incomplete. Dominus 04:55, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Tian Han -- From Wikipedia:Cleanup - most of the text in unintelligible. Maybe a machine translation.- would have to be fixed by someone who knows Tian Han (moved here by Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 18:55, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC))
    • Rearranged the information, hopefully, it reads a little better. Dylanwhs 18:24, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • On the Road -- If you have recently read the novel, you might enjoy editing this term paper and turning it into an encyclopaedia article. Should be great fun. --KF 19:43, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Caribbean English -- There's a hint as to what these languages might be on the List of dialects of English page but zero actual info. Anybody out there who could help? jengod 08:10, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Characterization -- Potentially could be an interesting article, but needs a great deal of work to eliminate some of the more prescriptive elements. --ALargeElk 11:32, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Did my best to eliminate some of the prescriptivism, and otherwise neaten it up a bit. It could still use some work. Mariko
  • Information literacy -- Needs to be more like an article and less like an essay, and desperately needs to be wikified. Radagast 01:28, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
    • Simplified some of the text, changed some of the headings, and fixed some of the format issues but there is a lot left before it will sound like an article instead of an essay. It really needs a new structure... jaredwf 12:34, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Handwriting foreign accent - Needs renaming and a rewrite. According to comments on the talk page, some of the info might not even be correct. -- uriber 19:19, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Nonsense verse - A lot can be said about the origins, history, style and contributions to nonsense poetry. Jay 08:14, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • South Caucasian languages is now a redirect to Georgian (Kartvelian) languages, but it should be the other way around (Georgian and Kartvelian are less used, politically charged, and arguably incorrect).Jorge Stolfi 14:50, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ilonggo vs. Hiligaynon language - I don't know which is the better title for the article but I do not think there should be two. The two-sentence stub at Ilonggo should be merged with the rest; can someone who knows something about languages of the Philippines comment on which title would be better for the combined article? --pne 15:18, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Chinese family name - needs someone who knows Min Nan and Peh-oe-ji to fill the new column --ran 13:29, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • Interpreter (spoken language) - needs a lot of work --Farside 11:47, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Father Damaso - seems sloppy and inaccurate. is there anything worth salvaging here? --ScottMorrison 20:31, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think I cleaned this up. --Jondel 05:47, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Paul Jennings There are two of these, both fairly well known and with tiny stubs in the same article. Need expanding and separating. DJ Clayworth 17:32, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Underground newspapers Article is written like a diary entry. Salvagable aspects should perhaps be merged with some other article. LegCircus 19:21, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Mathematics, mathematicians

  • Glossary of matrix theory - Not really a glossary at all; has languished for a year with no significant content; apparently a pressing "issue" needs to be decided before work can begin; someone needs to decide it. - dcljr 00:51, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Measurement in quantum mechanics - "I think this is a mess but I lack the skills to fix it. Someone who knows QM well might comment" from cleanup >2 months, needs someone knowledgeable on subject. rhyax 06:24, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Alexandrov topology - requested to make understandable by laypeople from cleanup. rhyax 20:48, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Syllogism - needed cleanup, so I edited the layout. I also added a bit of info from memory, but I don't know much about formal logics. Needs attention from someone who knows what they are talking aboutsaturnight 22:56, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • Information theory - originally listed on cleanup as unclear, wandering, and, ironically, poorly explained. Rvollmert 11:18, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)
  • List of numbers - Becoming increasingly bulky. Either the large numbers need to be removed (are they even genuine?) or possibly separated into different pages. 212.104.142.178 23:12, 15 Jun 2004 (BST)
    • I've cleaned it up a lot. Somebody went berserk with the formatting. --Eequor 06:12, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
      • A lot of people have put a lot of work into improving the page since it was listed here, so I have removed the attention notice. PrimeFan 17:52, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Correlation ratio, mutual information - poorly explained. --Eequor 03:39, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Nonagonal number - Can anyone explain what objections there are to having this article being renamed Enneagonal number?? Please put any on Talk:Nonagonal number. 66.245.3.155 22:30, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Net (mathematics) - I fixed some serious problems with this page, particularly the definition of subnet, but I don't know all the terminology (particularly regarding final/cofinal sets), don't know enough about nets in general, and am not skilled in Wiki, so probably got some technical stuff messed up. Dfeuer 15:01, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Super-exponentiation -- is this notation genuine? The source given is a mathforum link to where the notation is "invented" by a enthusiastic student. It seems like a dup of Knuth's up-arrow notation. Motor 19:48, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Henstock-Kurzweil integral --Walt Pohl 20:59, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Flow rate - Optim 03:57, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Law of averages and Law of large numbers - are these one and the same principle? -Smack No, the former comes from a common misunderstanding of probability, while the latter is well-founded mathematics. The former is, more or less, misinterpretation of the latter - this needs to be explained and cross-referenced. -Paul G 19 Dec 2003
    • I cleaned up law of averages only to discover that Gambler's fallacy covers essentially the same ground in a different style. They should probably be merged and one of them made into a redirect. Isomorphic 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Costate equations - is this correct? Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • List of relativistic equations - blanked for a long time; could be a useful list, but needs some explanations. --Minesweeper 23:54, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Quantum electrodynamics - I fixed the broken LaTex formula to conform to the author's apparent intent. I'm not sure if the "D" in the sentence following the formula should also be slashed. Could someone who knows QED double-check this please? --Ortonmc 23:22, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • cleaned up some Latex, but it still needs a lot of work lethe
  • Fisher-Tippett distribution -- needs a thorough rewrite, and possibly a merge with extreme value theory

Medicine, surgery, health

See also #Biology, anatomy, animals, plants

Medicine

Optometry

Pathology

  • Iron overload disorder, haemochromatosis - the former is crossreferenced to the latter, regarding topics which are not found in that article. Especially, dietary iron overload and parental iron overload are not covered. --Eequor 22:13, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- mostly a sort of op-ed based on one web page. --Zero 06:54, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The main entry for PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder. This is unfortunate as the DSM-IV spells it posttraumatic stress disorder which, as you might see does not lead anywhere at the time of my writing this. I believe the contents of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be moved to the talk page of PTSD where some of it could be incorporated into the main article. A redirect from that page should then lead to the main article which should be moved to rename it in keeping with the DSM-IV spelling and the old main article page should be a redirect to the new spelling. I think I understand what I just wrote. --CloudSurfer 10:10, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Pharmacology

  • cocaine needs a little POV adjustment and cleanup.Pedant 05:29, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Surgery

Other

  • Forensics - big subject, currently just a list of see alsos. I'm going to lsit on WP:COTW. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:34, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Childbirth... happened to most of us once... this article needs serious updating and massage. Where are all the mothers? Erich 19:44, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Starts out organized, but devolves into a rambling mess. Davodd 23:38, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • White Base from Gundam, this user's contributions all need attention from someone who is familiar. rhyax 07:33, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • 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
    • The list isn't complete and we are still sorely lacking in pages for actual radio stations, but I've added stations for Albany, Augusta, Carrollton, Macon, and Savannah. Valdosta (and maybe Columbus) still needs to be done though. Maclyn611 00:33, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
    • Your comments sound like my reaction to the movie ;-)
    • Made some editorial changes to the plot outline; will do more later.
  • 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)
    • I did a huge update of it, and it's ready for lots and lots of contributions! BuddhaInABucket/talk Aug 19 2004
  • 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)
  • The Brandy Bunch in the White House needs lots of work - the content there now is very POV Exabyte (talk)­ 05:32, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC).
  • Is the Orgasmatron the correct name for the disparate but similarly affective devices in the movies Barbarella and Sleeper? -- Leonard G. 04:12, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Music, musicians

  • Jennifer Charles - needs some organisation and rewritting, possibly split to Elysean Fields (music) --Valmi 18:26, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Dokken - needs formatting, copyediting, and some clean-up and expansion. - Scooter 05:29, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Neposedi - should be looked at by russian for fact-check. rhyax 23:27, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Vinnie Vincent needs fact check, from cleanup but some of the syntax was so odd I'm not sure if i parsed correctly and I'm no KISS expert. rhyax 06:45, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • List of band name etymologies - Anyone who knows the etymology of a band name is welcome to add to the list. Aecis 14:03, 16 Aug 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)
    • I have re-alphabetized it in a more standard fashion and have been adding artists. -- Holford 16:30, 9 Aug 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)
  • Mick Jagger - I believe Wikipedia can do better than that -- there's no biography there! <KF> 22:33, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Freestyle house - I submitted a great article with permission of its original author ... but it needs a serious formatting job done up and wiki linking. its waaay too long for me to do it all myself. Alkivar 01 Aug 2004
  • Murderdolls - I stumbled across this and it needs serious formatting and grammar corrections. It could also use a content boost, more information, or maybe just delete it altogether.
  • Black & White Records and Black & White Records Part 2 -- may need compression (this is mostly a discography of their releases, with somewhat odd formatting). Tregoweth 01:52, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hideto "hide" Matsumoto probably does deserve an article, but this one is pure fansplurge. Anyone want to do it justice? jpgordon 16:37, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I merged it in hide (musician), and rephrased some sentences to make them less fansplurging ;). The article stills need to be expanded extensively. --xDCDx 13:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

People, professions, organizations, groups

  • James Gabriel - badly needs to be NPOVed. Currently little more than a screed. - Montréalais 04:18, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Joe Shea - NPOV, wikified
  • Angus G. Wynne - doesn't really say anything much about the man or his life. -- Solipsist 07:23, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Churchill - a new photo has been added to the table at the top of this entry which has not been thumbnailed and has therefore messed up the formatting of the page. Not experienced enough, and don't have time, to fix this myself right now but will find out how asap. --Jerry cornelius 10:38, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Richard Blumenthal - can we have more info about his major achievements, more about his career? - Ta bu shi da yu 11:11, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • City and Guilds College Union - laudatory, NPOV, wrong voice: not convinced it is actually a viable article. MattJ 18:17, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Hamid Etemad - needs context. ··gracefool |☺ 13:41, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Herdsman - How come no one is focusing on the question at Talk:Herdsman?? 66.245.103.69 01:43, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • A.I. Shlyakhter - very little information about this Russian physicist. --Eequor 00:31, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Dev Sol is a stub but a badly written one. Needs someone familiar to them to check its POV as it is regarded as a terrorist organization with international relations, also serious formatting.--leandros 14:46, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Ramon Valdez--is this the right name, or is it Valdes, and where do the accent marks go? If the name is in doubt, it makes me wonder about the article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:10, 2004 Aug 7 (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Ryosuke Cohen - short and written in very poor english.
  • 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 and 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • University of Prince Edward Island - Currently very jumbled. I gave it a few headings, but I don't have the patience to clean it up and wickfiy it the way it needs. Spinboy 21:32, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Philosophy, Larry's Text

  • Core ontology - poorly explained. --[[User:Eequor|η υωρ]] 20:41, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Metaphysical subjectivism - Basically, the first section of the article seems glib and non-encyclopedic, and I would like the information to be backed up by some external sources (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/objective.html). -Seth Mahoney 22:05, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Right opinion - could be clearer, more formatted, more explanatory; about Plato's philosophy. from cleanup [[User:Cohesion|cohesion | ☎]] 01:23, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Land ethic. This article is something of a mess. Unformatted, and mostly citations. Should this rather go in the Environment-section? Rvollmert 10:38, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Political science, law

See also #Government, politics, bureaucracy

  • District Court has no indication of what country/jurisdiction it covers. Mentions Glasgow, so maybe Scotland. It may need to be moved to a title that more accurately describes what's being described. Review of the content by someone knowlegeable in this subject would be good, along with a bit of cleanup. -- Kbh3rd 17:13, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Quantum meruit needs to make sense to lay-people, context [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 01:24, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Affirmative action - Please give a hand, this article needs a lot of work, and a lot of help from as many editors as possible. Big POV/personality conflict problems, as well as some vandalism and a lot of reverting. Sam [Spade] 18:25, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • 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 knowledgeable 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)
  • Mental health law - This is a stub I created to provide an overview of this subject which is more largely addressed in two separate articles linked to in the second paragraph. As a psychiatrist rather than a lawyer I entreat any lawyers to have a look at this page and correct and add to it. I have also created a new subcategory under Law of Mental health law for this and related articles. --CloudSurfer 21:53, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Psychiatry, psychology

  • Personality - this looks like student "cram" notes. It is set out in point form and has no flowing text. The contents are good but it needs a rewrite as prose with a bit more commentary to explain it and contrast the differing views. --CloudSurfer 09:09, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Anomalous operation - this is not how the topic is best described. --[[User:Eequor|η υωρ]] 21:32, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Homosexual panic - The article seems to deal only with a very limited part of the topic. Some of it also sounds very dubious to me. A psychologist should have a look at it. — David Remahl 19:42, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • affection - this is a horribly bad article which reads like a medical textbook. Worst description of affection ever. --[[User:Eequor|η υωρ]] 04:40, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychology of torture needs editing for structure by someone familiar. rhyax 18:33, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Lloyd deMause and related articles needs to be updated. Apparently Mr deMause himself responded to some claims on Talk:Lloyd deMause, so his response should be incorporated. Przepla 21:53, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Logorrhoea -- Should have more about the mental illness aspects, and less silly attacks on Postmodernism. Pyrop 18:54, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Panic attack -- needs merging, see Talk:Panic attack. --Eequor 20:01, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder - just a stub. -Sean Curtin 07:08, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • The stub has now been expanded, but it still needs some information on treatment of the disorder. Joyous 03:58, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hans Asperger - better. +sj+ 00:11, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Psychiatric hospital While there is much to criticise in the treatment of psychiatric patients, this entire article is riddled with criticism. I think the aims of such institutions need to be laid out and then criticisms/controversies discussed later in the article. It needs much NPOV and untangling. I don't feel qualified for that. --bodnotbod 11:31, May 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychopharmacology -- could use a lot of expansion Kwertii 05:31, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Bipolar disorder is very chaotically organized and contains a number of contradictory statements. --Seth Ilys 05:44, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) I've only read the beginning, but I am assuming this is a joke, yes? --bodnotbod 15:03, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dissociation -- Just a list of see also's --Graham :) | Talk 23:03, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychology of Religion -- disjointed, needs wikifying, NPOV, clarification, expansion. Alba 04:35, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • How the pathology of schizophrenia relates to symptoms -- requires someone to look at the talk page and improve it. --User:SimonMayer 18:59 2nd March 2004 (UTC/GMT)
  • Feldenkrais -- Reads like a sales brochure. Only Alexander Technique and F. Matthias Alexander link to this article, and those also sound like sales brochures. Tempshill 22:15, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • Did some formatting and NPOVing, but still needs lot of work. Stw 13:15, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • MCS --Trying to alert interested parties about the cluster of pages which I have listed under MCS. The pages are a mixture of psychology and information processing.
    • Never mind. I found a link: [10]. It appears to be real. 169.207.90.93 02:43, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Co-dependency - We should have more than a stub for this. Pyrop 23:00, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Donald Broadbent - Not sure if this article is even on the right track. --Improv 11:36, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Psychohistory -- In spite of quite a bit of editing, still reads like a sales brochure. Needs help to attain NPOV. --Puffy jacket 01:23, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • History of mental illness -- Ok, needs some major factual rewrites, plus needs another 500 years worth of information. Implies that Islam started around 600 BC(!) rather than 600 AD, and information ends around the middle ages.

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)
      • The article seems to be too BDSM-oriented, and not nearly enough on the historical context. It also seems to need much more editing. -- RJH
  • Lansquenet appears to be copied out of a nineteenth century book and needs modernizing. --Imran 13:07, 16 Mar 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]
  • Item - This page seems to generalize from relatively particular experience. I don't know if it deserves to be rewritten or deleted.MOE37x3 01:47, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Religion, mythology, theology

Cosmogony

Deities

  • Marduk - contains both some wiki-authored content and a 1911 article. -Smack 06:42, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Eschatology

  • 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)

Holidays

  • St. Casimir's Day needs a going over for NPOV by someone who's not Lithuanian (or at least a neutral Lithuanian).
    • Also, it's almost word for word from here. jpgordon 23:26, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Magick

  • Goetic magick seems mostly written from the perspective of a person who accepts the Magick belief system. Needs to be more neutral. RJH 21:12, 25 Aug 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)

Mysticism

Mythology

  • Orochi - a monster featured in both Japanese folklore and pop culture. Currently focuses almost entirely on its appearance in one rather obscure video game ~ FriedMilk 01:50, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Perun - the article needs rewriting almost from scratch. The text was copied from a (probably) Polish source and translated poorly. --Gene s 13:33, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • 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)
  • Polish mythology - Article should be partially merged with Slavic mythology, but first it needs to be revised by some specialist. There are lots of typos (both in the titles of the articles and in their content) and several of the linked phenomena seem forged or simply improbable. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 21:53, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Perperuna -- Wikipedians who understand Slavic languages and are knowledgeable in Slavic mythology are invited to sort out the "text" now in Talk:Perperuna. -- PFHLai 01:27, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)
  • I guess there's a lot to say about white horses in mythology, and that page would be the place to do so. |l'KF'l| 11:11, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Japanese mythology. From a brief glance it seems to be reasonably well written, but certain sections are empty, and it badly needs wikification. Possibly it needs copyediting. I am also uncertain if the names should be italicized. DocWatson42 06:07, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Geri and Freki - very little information. --Eequor 10:13, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Irish mythology - really just a set of lists of wikis to other articles. Bmills 11:28, 4 Dec 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)
  • !Kung mythology - Please add more myths and detail; also improve prose. fascinating. cf. List of deities

Organizations

People

  • 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)
  • Takla Haymanot -- copy and paste job by owner of source. I'll do some work on it later, but help is appreciated. --Slowking Man 08:35, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

Religion

  • Islam around the world - This seems redundant, as the information is reproduced in Islam#Islam_around_the_world --StoatBringer 23:48, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Mennonite had a huge, unwikified section added recently by an anon. It needs to be fact-checked and integrated with the article. Rhobite 19:57, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Upanishad - needs ugly formatting and the diacrita in the main upanishads section fixed. --Finlay McWalter 01:31, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • I did a bit of work on the formatting, but the "List of Upanishads" is still fugly, and I'm not knowledgable enough of the topic—or HTML—to fix it.. DocWatson42 08:59, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • The Farewell Sermon - expansion?

Religious persecution

Ritual

  • Rain dance - Article is more about the computer jargon term than the original ritual. - Skysmith 10:35, 7 Sep 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)

Saints

  • Saint Vasilije is saintly POV, does not have a single wikilink, has "example images" and possibly copyvio.--leandros 21:55, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • The images are replaced now, but the article is copyvio from [11] and [12].--leandros 22:26, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Spirituality

  • 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)

Terminology

Theology

  • Concupiscence -- This article really needs review by a theologically educated Catholic, and a theologically educated Protestant. It could also do with a broader range of sources, some concrete examples, and information on the views of the Eastern Orthodox. rhyax 18:36, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • I just finished refactoring Apocrypha, which was something of a mess. I'm not sure it's factually accurate anymore, or really that it was to begin with. I also noticed that there are many related articles which contain a lot of the same information. In particular, there are several comparison charts between different Biblical canons. Someone needs to give each chunk of content a "home" article, and make sure that other articles contain only terse summaries of this contents, with links to the "home" article. Someone more familiar with the subject should check Apocrypha (and probably related articles, especially after any re-factoring) for historical and theological accuracy. The related articles include: Books of the Bible, Biblical canon, Bible, Bible and Tanakh, Septuagint, Old Testament, New Testament, and probably many others. This larger project may be worthy of a Bible-related Wikiproject, if someone wants to start one. I'm surprised one doesn't exist already. -- Beland 06:04, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • I created the Wikiproject, and we are presently discussing strategy of how to respect both Christian and Jewish sensibilities. Input is welcome.—Mpolo 08:35, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)

Science

Astronomy

  • Heliocentrism has some problems with clever remarks on relativity that I don't think are correct, and that are confusing the issue.

Chemistry

Actually, they're not circular. The bit about parallel p orbitals comprises the definition. Maybe a picture would be useful. –Floorsheim 03:41, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Heh. No, she means the articles refer to each other and don't really tell you anything. But you are right. CHL 00:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Atomism - a total train wreck. horrible grammar, non-sequitur images with nonsense captions, possible inaccurate information, etc. article satrts out ok then quickly devolves into incoherent philosopical rambling, and an evolution/creationism debate. --Deglr6328 03:04, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Competitive inhibitor is mostly a subset of information in Rate of enzyme mediated reactions. Can more info be added, or should it be merged? Even more problematic is page for inhibitor. Brona 21:14, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Colors of chemicals is written in schoolteacher form, has some format problems, and also has some factual errors as brought up on it's talk page. Needs help. --Alex S 04:51, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Suggest move of relevant information to Color under the heading 'Chemistry of color' and keeping info on specific ion colors on this page. Needs discussion on it's talk page.MGM 19:30, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)

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)
      • Only want to add, that I (and others) do an occasional edit there, and I suppose it will slowly evolve into fine article. Contrary to other opinions, I'd say that the 1911 article is a good starting point. -- Pjacobi 20:49, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Optical interferometry needs work from someone who's done it mroe recently- it's little mroe than a dicdef. FZ 16:53, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Physics

  • Liquid helium Could use a lot of info, such as uses of liquid helium and some technical informations and charts.
Should be merged with Helium and Superfluid, I think. Zaha 15:57, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've taken a stab at rewriting and expanding this article. It would be nice if phase diagrams could be included. The article could be merged with Helium, but liquid helium is not always superfluid, especially in its commercial applications; so it would not be appropriate to merge it with Superfluid. M. S. Pettersen, 29 Sep 2004.
  • Electromagnet This article is pretty poor at the moment. Definitely not a stub, but the signal:noise ratio is low. The physics could be explained a lot better. There is potential for an excellent image. — David Remahl 00:25, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Testatika This sort-of perpetuum mobile has already the loving attention of User:Reddi, which I explicitely do not accuse of bad faith. But his ever more involved descriptions of how this engine is supposed to work, I don't know what to say about. See also the VdD discussion [13] -- Pjacobi 18:19, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test is incomprehensible to someone who doesn't already know what the article's talking about. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:42, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)
    • Not knowing any better, I tried linking to a book which is a popular treatment on the subject. The article's main author disagrees with the book, and subsequently reverted. Thus the article and related articles and comments currently serve as balance for quantum entanglement, for which the author states there is no experimental basis, in contradiction with the book I referenced. By the way, the experiment examines a consequence of a POV which Albert Einstein tried to use, to disprove quantum mechanics. The issue is local reality versus non-local reality. Teleportation is a consequence of non-local reality. It's an important subject. Ancheta Wis 01:05, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Given that Quantum entanglement now says that the phenomenon has been proven, it's probably OK to add that reference back in. -- Beland 01:27, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
One of my objections to that reference was that it was clear that it did not deal specifically with the CH74 test, which is the subject of the article. It could perhaps be given as a ref from Quantum entanglement. However, I suspect it of factual inaccuracy, e.g. in relation to Aspect's experiments. Probably it is no worse than other popular books though.
Incidentally, contradictory though it may seem, "quantum teleportation" does not necessarily (according to Braunstein, one of the experts) involve nonlocal effects. Caroline Thompson 21:18, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I've added a little "background reading" to Bell's theorem. Other popular books can be added here. I don't see the need to suggest other reading from pages such as Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test as these are not intended to be treated as anything other than subpages of the Bell's theorem page.
The book list is preceded by a caveat regarding the likely accuracy of the information on actual experiments. This may perhaps be seen as presenting a biased view, but this is only right in the context. Bell's theorem is based on the local realist point of view and it is only fair that the world should be warned that popular books are riddled with mistakes. Contact me for refs.Caroline Thompson 10:45, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • The following articles should be checked for factual accuracy and NPOV by someone familiary with quantum theory and who believes in the dominant professional scientific view: Bell's theorem; CHSH inequality; Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test; Bell test experiments; Local hidden variable theory. -- Beland 01:27, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • A question: Is someone who "believes in the dominant professional scientific view" likely to have made a specific study of the loopholes in Bell test experiments, or know the difference between the assumptions behind the various Bell tests? These are not subjects covered in standard physics courses. I'm afraid there's a problem here: knowing the facts it's impossible to have a neutral point of view! I very much doubt if any of the material in the new Bell's theorem page is wrong. It has been checked by an expert who has been involved in the subject since Bell's time. Caroline Thompson 21:18, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Hamiltonian constraint--I had to look at the category to even know what area to file it under. WAY too complex for an encyclopedia article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:48, 2004 Aug 9 (UTC)
  • Josef Schneider -- allegedly Germany's first producer of electricity. Anyone good at physics can probably turn these notes into complete sentences and nice paragraphs. I can't. <KF> 22:37, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Other

  • Wardenclyffe Tower I'm no expert but parts of this article read like pseudo-scienntific junk. G-Man 19:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Islamic calendar - so when, exactly, do leap years occur? --[[User:Eequor|η υωρ]] 04:26, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Laboratory - fairly short and poor for such an important topic (not sure if it fits in this heading) -- Whosyourjudas | (talk) 01:28, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Fiber simulation - a stub way too high in the Category tree but I don't know where it fits in--Nabla 16:30, 2004 Aug 24 (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)
    • More added. RJHall 21:34, 19 Aug 2004 (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

  • Carpet - inadequate stub. --[[User:Eequor|η υωρ]] 22:30, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Gattaca World - The content of this article could be useful, particularly in relation to the film Gattaca, but as it is, the article is completely unencyclopedic. Suggestions or ideas on what to do? - Katherine Shaw 13:08, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
    • It seems to me that it is describing how Gattaca can be considered a Dystopia. Maybe something can be done allong these lines? -- Ben Axelrod Sep. 25, 2004
  • Commune — Commune is a disambig with a link to Intentional Community. Intentional Community lists various types of communities, including commune, which is a link back to the disambig page. So we have no specific information on what a commune (in this sense) is. Please, would anyone care to elaborate? --Heron 13:00, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Fashion — Should there be a general category tree for all things related to fashion? There is a fair number of articles now and nowhere to categorize them in general. (Ex: Fashion designers, &c.) Not sure where to put the category. Under "Human image" perhaps?
  • Humanism - this important subject needs more whole-hearted treatment; Renaissance humanism treats it as a historical phenomenon. Wetman 18:42, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Commercialism - inaccurate and simplistic, it starts with a dicdef [14] 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)

    • I've given it a good bit of work and better NPOV. Some more discussion of arcologies in fiction and the social implications of arcology living would be appropriate. Alba 13:37, 1 Oct 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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

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)
  • 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)
  • Erotic electrostimulation is currently mostly how-to and safety information. Guanaco 03:27, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Egale Canada is taken right off of Egales website BUT was done so by someone within the organization. Needs NPOV, Wification, layout management, and fleshing out. Arcuras 17:54, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Gender inequality needs NPOV, wikification, and may already be covered by Gender studies. -- Scott Burley 09:21, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Sports

  • Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics - if there are any interested people, could use some help bringing this page up to date with the latest results. It's fallen behind a bit in the last few days. dave 21:36, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • 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: [15]). 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]
    • Taken care of. I've done a text, but it's mostly about the history of the Indy 500. More details here. --Pc13 17:01, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • John L. Sullivan (boxer) has a bunch of history problems. Look at Marquess of Queensberry rules for an example. Most sources say the first fight under Marquess of Queensberry rules was in Cincinnati, Ohio 1885 while his page says different. Seems his page is just wrong in many aspects... any boxing historians in the crowd? BTW: his own external link says the dates are wrong. Thanks JoeHenzi 07:19, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Symbols, terminology

Flags

Seals

Technology

  • Electronic tagging - controversial subject in the UK and we have nothing (the see also refs are better but neither mentions the use of these devices on criminals).--[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:43, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Pin - The article should not be a "disambiguation page". "Pin" has a primary meaning, namely a small metal spike that is used for fastening together objects such as sheets of paper or fabric. The other meanings are derivative of this. And the page has no discussion of actual pins! Pins have a fascinating history, and are an early example of preindustrial mass production.
  • 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)
    • Added a few more to the list of alternative technologies. The page can be removed from here now. Bryce 23:38, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • High level equilibrium trap - needs to be much longer. Kwertii 18:18, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Weaponry

Photography

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
  • 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)

Transportation

Aerospace

  • 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)
  • Austral - I am unable to sort out the very complicated reltionship between Austral Airlines, Aerolíneas Argentinas, and Cielos del Sur. See Talk:Austral for more details. Kevyn 09:49, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Automobiles

  • Peugeot - Needs more information, the models need some articles as well.
  • Renault - Missing a lot of models, needs more history.
  • 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)
  • 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))
  • Mazda - needs more attention, both old models like the Mazda 929 and new ones like the Mazda Mazda6. - Sfoskett

Rapid transit

  • 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)

Other

  • Interstate 475 and several other 3-digit interstate highway articles - Can anyone expand any section of this article so that the highways can have separate articles?? 66.32.244.69 01:12, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

  • Owlman from cleanup, is this real? delete? rhyax 06:24, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Public relations - Could use some more input in the "Methods, Tools and Tactics" section --Dablaze 13:45, Aug 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • Coupe Femina - Currently a stub. — マイケル ₪ 20:33, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Halloween Havoc - what is this supposed to be? jbinder 18:29, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hephthalite - Can anyone verify the origin of the statements with ?s after them. Also needs some more Chinese Characters if anyone can add them.
  • Anniversary - Can anyone try to ask about naming a 6th anniversary mentioned at Talk:6 (number)?? 66.245.75.145 22:36, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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