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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bryan Derksen (talk | contribs) at 23:24, 24 June 2002 (removing some year articles that have had templates added). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

  • Political media
    • maveric149 May 9, 2002, because : discoherent and off topic
    • Eclecticology May 17, 2002, because : It could start with a definition
      • Gianfranco May 18, 2002, says "wait a minute" because : A "cache bug" was fixed to restore a version that tried to improve it.
    • RobLa May 25, 2002, because : <i>This is not an accurate description of \"politcal media\". Do a Google search for \"political media\" to see common use. \"Face The Nation\" definitely qualifies as political media, but not under current Wikipedia definition. This page is more accruately titled \"Government propaganda\"</i>
  • Special:Vote
    • Toby Bartels May 12, 2002, because : What the heck is this? Is there an explanation of it somewhere? I mean, I think that I can figure out the idea, but there's no explanation for new users, or even old users that this user of a couple months knows to look for.
  • State
    • DanKeshet May 19, 2002, because : the first paragraph was written by six committees
  • Equal rights
  • Jean-Charles de Borda
    • The Anome May 21, 2002, because : this is an interesting rant, but it needs lots of editing to be an encyclopedia article
      • RobLa May 26, 2002: Rewritten. I was limited to a hodgepodge of conflicting Internet sources, so fact checking would be useful. Moving old content to Talk:Borda count
  • Final Fantasy
    • Eclecticology May 21, 2002, because : The long series of stubs should be deleted and combined in this article
      • psychofish May 21, 2002: they were originally combined. It was split up to allow more in depth articles to be written on each game individually. I may do it myself in a few days.
  • Wikipedia:Canonization
    • maveric149 May 21, 2002, because : needs organization and checking to make sure it applies to current software;
  • special:Special Pages
  • Turki bin Faisal
    • DanKeshet May 26, 2002, because : <i>huh? some geneology would be nice...</i>
  • I'll Be Home For Christmas
    • Bryan Derksen May 27, 2002, because : <i>this stub does not fill me with confidence</i>
  • Neil Kinnock
    • GWO -- very short, and pretty low quality. Wholly unimformative.
    • I've put in his leadership dates, corrected the detail about who followed him (no-one remembers John Smith). It's not fixed, but it's a tad better. Tarquin June 9 2002
  • Archimedes' screw
    • The Anome May 27, 2002, because : <i>this needs so much more written...</i>
  • Digital video
    • The Anome May 27, 2002, because : <i>DV and digital video in general have been conflated in this article</i>
  • Dreaming doubt
    • Karen Johnson May 27, 2002, because : <i>seems to be a lengthy personal essay</i>
  • Ernest Hemingway/Frederic Henry
    • Karen Johnson May 27, 2002, because : <i>partly a personal entry \'i think\' etc</i>
  • Side stroke
    • Karen Johnson May 27, 2002, because : <i>this needs modernising! It comes from the \'boys own book of sports 1900 edition\' and it\'s a quaint essay.</i>
  • Dead weight loss,Supply and demand
    • Karen Johnson May 27, 2002, because : <i>this makes zero sense to me... I know I\'m a layman but shouldn\'t reading an article inform me at least a little as to the contents?</i>
  • Max Weismann
    • maveric149 May 28, 2002, because : <i>more information on this guy is needed so that people outside of academia can understand why he is important.</i>
  • surrealism
    • Daniel C. Boyer May 29, 2002, because : <i>there are still some outright falsehoods, such as "The movement successively drifted left, adherence to the Moscow communist party line became a requirement," and the article could stand to be expanded.
  • Local currencies
    • jheijmans May 30, 2002, because : <i>one might at least tell what a local currency is... I can guess it, but still</i>
      • Take a look, and see if this is now good enough to remove this entry. Vicki Rosenzweig, Friday, June 7, 2002
        • Yes, better now. But I'll move it to a singular titled page. jheijmans
  • Sabotaje mexica
    • Karen Johnson June 1, 2002, because : <i>it\'s in spanish...</i>
  • Mnemonic/Major System
    • PierreAbbat June 1, 2002, because : <i>Needs to be put in a coherent order and has too much white space.</i>
  • 1956 Suez War
    • Roadrunner June 3, 2002, because : <i>Needs to be rewritten to include Britain/France war goals which were different from Israel\'s</i>
  • Psychogenic mode
    • the Epopt June 3, 2002, because : <i>bizarre content without context</i>
  • 73 BC
  • Comments
    • the Epopt June 4, 2002, because : <i>it is just barely conceivable that a useful article might exist under this name (made singular, of course)</i>
  • 885
  • 715 BC
  • 939
  • 581
  • 102 BC
  • 14 BC
  • 909
  • 590
  • 466
  • History of painting
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 6, 2002, because : Needs massive expansion and besides just going through the history of painting should mention anti-painting tendencies such as Miro's "murder of painting" and the advent of conceptual art, &c.
  • Joan Miro
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 6, 2002, because : Needs expansion and correction of this idea about Miro being an abstract painter. Miro was violently opposed to the abstract; this shows a gross misunderstanding of all of his work.
  • Aesthetics
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 6, 2002, because : Should also mention anti-aesthetic tendencies and movements, most importantly surrealism.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 6, 2002, because : This whole article reads as if it is from an FBI brochure! Shouldn't there be a more NPOV presentation of criticisms and accolades, the views of critics and defenders?* 461
    • Bryan Derksen June 7, 2002, because : <i>needs template</i>
  • 887
  • 408 BC
  • Augustus III
    • Bryan Derksen June 8, 2002, because : <i>There\'s something odd going on here, Augustus III gets linked to Augustus II.</i>
  • GiveTheAuthorAChanceDebate
    • jheijmans June 11, 2002, because : <i>this should propably be moved to some place sensible (orphan)</i>
  • Dagobah
    • jheijmans June 12, 2002, because : <i>empty page, but is linked</i>
  • 593
  • 884
  • 897
  • 146 BC
  • 1200 BC
  • 585
  • 334 BC
  • 986
  • Words that should not be used in wikipedia articles
    • jheijmans June 14, 2002, because : <i>is not a encyclopedia article - probably belongs in meta</i>
  • Svalbard
    • Karen Johnson June 14, 2002, because : <i>It has no information on the main page to tell us anything about this country... only the links to the subpages.</i>
    • I pulled some info off the subpages. (It's not a country, it's a rather barren Norwegian territory. Please take a look) Vicki Rosenzweig
  • Nunchaku
    • jheijmans June 15, 2002, because : <i>empty page, but linked to</i>
  • Edmond Yu
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 15, 2002, because : <i>needs to be significantly expanded</i>
  • Political media
    • maveric149 June 15, 2002, because : <i> It\'s a mixture of several different articles, intermixed with nonsense </i>
  • Flub
    • maveric149 June 15, 2002, because : <i>needs more info or it goes back in the deletion queue</i>
  • Ukonline.gov.uk
    • maveric149 June 15, 2002, because : <i>Needs more if it is to remain off the deletion queue</i>
  • United States of America/OldPage
    • maveric149 June 15, 2002, because : <i>This material is more wikified than the material on the subpages and is slightly different. This poses a version control issue that needs to be resolved. </i>
  • William Shakespeare/quotations
    • Deb June 15, 2002, because : <i>Needs a wider selection of quotes and a more logical arrangement</i>
  • Black helicopter
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 17, 2002, because First the phenomenon or alleged phenomenon should be described, i.e. what is different about the "Black Helicopter" than any old black helicopter (i.e. that people claim to see them without running lights, or large formations of them, or at a lower than usual altitude, or in places one would not typically expect to see a black helicopter, or the helicopters look different than usually-seen helicopters, or whatever the claim is), and then the [alleged] significance and the different theories about them laid out. Not very precise the way it is.
  • Jim Knopf
    • jheijmans June 17, 2002, because : <i>orphan old userpage, but has no new userpage to redirect to</i>
  • NormanWerner
    • jheijmans June 18, 2002, because : <i>orphan old userpage, but has no new userpage to redirect to</i>
  • automatism
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 18, 2002, because : Should legal meaning be the main one? What is the basis for this?
  • postage stamp
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 20, 2002, because : Cinderellas should be further explained. Or a separate article should be written about it.
  • Goblin
    • Toby Bartels June 21, 2002, because : <i>Little more than a dictionary definition now. Needs history of the concept in folklore -- Tolkien is just a small part of this.</i>
  • Bachian
    • JeLuF June 23, 2002, because : <i>The article is from 1911 and does not cover post-colonial history</i>
  • Red Army Faction
    • jheijmans June 24, 2002, because : <i>good page, but what where the objectives of the RAF? The page only says they were leftist and supported by the DDR.</i>
  • psychedelic
  • Commandos
    • Daniel C. Boyer June 24, 2002, because : Mentions game when it should only mention game after the people, commandos.