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Of course, every entry on Wikipedia deserves attention. But some entries deserve tender loving attention. If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, but have no idea how to approach it, list it here so that others can find it.

Do not add articles to this list in the following categories

Other pages that frequently require loving attention

Please date your entries here. This makes it easier to judge when pages no longer need attention. Undated entries may be arbitrarily removed. You can sign and add the date at the same time by inserting ~~~~ (four tildes).

Please indicate the reason for listing a page. Pages listed with no reason given may be arbitrarily removed.

A code of honour applies -- for each time you add an article to this list, try to fix an article already on the list.

See also: Wikipedia:reference desk, current events, Wikipedia:Requested articles, Wikipedia:Americocentrism, wikipedia:boilerplate text, wikipedia:boilerplate request for permission

Articles that have good information, but need work for some reason

Animals, Biology, Anatomy

Anthropology, ethnology

Art, Artists and Art history

  • Happening - Perhaps should redirect to performance art, which grew out of the 1960s form; or perhaps should be a separate subject. The content there, mentioning one artist, is surely inadequate. -- Smerdis of Tlön 00:25, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Lettrisme - article doesn't currently say what it is. Onebyone 03:52, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Cristi Minculescu - very big photo. almost no information included. stub. Optim 19:14, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Neen art - reasons for the need of a rewrite are discussed on its talk page. Angela 18 Aug 2003. Still true 23 Nov. Angela
  • Sacred art - a small stub, surely there's lots to write about it. At18 00:28, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Computer science, Computing and Internet

  • ALOHAnet -- needs copyediting of first section, and more research via primary or secondary references into the development of the protocol (eg did the first version listen at all before sending, how did the protocol evolve from the initial version, what features were added in what order...) -- The Anome 18:01, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • Did some work on first section. Tualha 16:36, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Certification - stubby, could use more for list. Tualha 17:10, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Computer surveillance - Not wikified, vague (POV?) "beware of Microsoft firewall", style could be better, and uses "you" lots. Paullusmagnus 01:40, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Datakortet, European Computer Driving Licence, and International Computer Driving Licence. They need to be NPOVed, think they were written by an employee of Datakortet. Gentgeen 07:18, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Design pattern (computer science) - a large article that apparently was inspired by, or copied in part from, a 1995 book, with about 52 links with names like "Interpreter pattern" and "Memento pattern". These in turn are articles whose contents are useless entries like "In computer programming, the interpreter pattern is a particular design pattern." with some "see also" links. Some of the links from the master article, like anonymous subroutine objects pattern, may be copyvio, with the initial article note saying it's "stub from perl design pattern book". Tempshill 18:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • DLL-hell - this goes off on a tangent about halfway through and ends up talking a lot about Linux distributions and the Windows OS itself, rather than sticking to the topic of what "DLL Hell" is.
  • HTML tag - should this be a how-to for writing HTML, an overview of current and past HTML specifications, or what?
  • OpenOffice.org

Countries, Bulgaria

The pages below could use some wikifying, will try and do it for some of them. Dori 07:15, Nov 19, 2003 (UTC)

Countries, North Korea

Countries, China, Hong Kong

  • China Southern Airlines - Only lists accidents that occured on CSA, does not give information about the airline whatsoever.

Crime

Economics, business, businesses, business leaders, sales

  • Anthropological theories of value - once listed on VfD, but suggestion made by Anjouli to list it here instead. Angela. 05:31, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Business ethics - was once a floundering article. I gave it a slight re-write to get it going again...but it really needs someone who knows what they are talking about. Kingturtle 00:30, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Commercial Revolution - class notes of some sort; lots of good information, but needs work. Delirium 02:34, Sep 17, 2003 (UTC)
  • Diebold Reads more like a current events criticism of Diebold voting machine with only a token mention (and incomplete) of other things the company does. I removed the worst of the current events which helps get closer to a NPOV, but a lot more should be removed, and a lot more info is neededhank.
  • Exogenous variation I don't know much about the subject, just added something I found on google. Ralph 06:27AM 14 Dec 2003 (GMT -8)
  • Freiwirtschaft. Needs to have cons to the theory added. It only has pro agruments for it. I personally would consider this nonsense, but there seem to be enough people who believe it that it needs to be rebuted, rather than just deleted. The article is wildly optimistic about the theory, but completely ignores the problems that it would create. Jrincayc 21:36, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Group 28 project - This page needs a thorough copyedit, plus the article no longer actually mentions the Group 28 project but focuses on something called Individual Visit. Bmills 14:46, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Job creation program: anyone from, or with knowledge of Switzerland able to tackle this one? -- sannse 12:54 Mar 19, 2003 (UTC)
    • The questionable section on Switzerland was removed on August 9, 2003.
    • The article may be NPOV, but it needs much more information. -Smack 00:47, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • List of subsistence techniques - looks like this could be a great list. I don't know what parts are legit and what parts are contrived. Can someone fix this one up to look nice? It may take someone with knowledge of Marx. Kingturtle 23:47, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Norsk Hydro-(from Cleanup) - delete - possibly copyvio, but the text can be rewritten. It's a big Norwegian oil company, and worth a mention. - don't think copyvio, needs article - wikified and copyedited, still a bit stubby (moved here by Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 11:28, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC))
    • Added a note on the WW2 history of the Rjukan plant, and links to the company history parts of their website, also some minor grammar alterations. Arwel 13:32, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Old Navy - major NPOV problems currently. Isomorphic 02:12, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Pacific Forum Line - "is a national shipping line of Nauru." more info needing. Optim 19:17, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory Contamination. Once listed for deletion but kept. Needs NPOVing and other work. Angela 27 Sep 2003. Still true 23 Nov. Angela
  • Socialist economics: a terrific topic for someone who knows some economic theory and history. It is needed to complement Socialism, which is all politics and no economics. Adam 14:11, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Steel tariff is very un-encyclopedial. -- Khym Chanur 07:43, Jan 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Timeline of U.S. economic indicators - This page hasn't been touched in over six months and is very incomplete. Either someone should invest a lot of time bringing it up to date, or it should be removed. -- Minesweeper 11:31 Apr 20, 2003 (UTC)
  • Uneconomic growth - To be NPOV, this shouldn't focus solely on the policies of George W. Bush. —Minesweeper 09:39, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Welfare reform. When removed from VfD, some were saying the rewritten article isn't NPOV.

Environment / Geology / Earth Sciences / Weather

Food, nutrition, plants and agriculture

  • Egg. Currently houses everything from gametes to Caesar salad. There are (old) suggestions on the talk page to turn this into a disambiguation page because eggs as food and eggs in reproduction are two rather different things. --KF 02:02, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Food is mostly a list of lists. ~ Jake 23:58, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Geography

  • Bachian - An island in Indonesia (or there abouts). This entry was taken from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, and much of the information is obsolete. It's also an orphan. Anthropos 22:44, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Kaliningrad Oblast and Yasnaya Polyana - Nicely written, but some of the descriptions seem somewhat over the top: It was a scene of earlier massive Soviet Union military build-up and now the scene of total massive breakdown. These surrealistic visions stand in stark contrast to the vanished city of Königsberg, the city of Immanuel Kant and the city of kings. -- Someone who knows more about this history of Kaliningrad/Konigsberg, Russia, and East Prussia should have a look. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 22:54, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Latin names of regions - factual problems. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Sarajevo - Someone started writing a historical overview a bit too wide and didn't get anywhere. It's in a very bad shape now. -- Vedran 16:46, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Syracuse - I was frankly amazed at how little there is on this city and its history. Sarge Baldy 07:59, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)

===Government / Politics / Bureaucracy === (also see below Political science / Law)

Historical figures

  • List of Mughal emperors - needs help getting links and names standardized, formatting.
  • 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)
  • William III of the Netherlands - needs encyclopedic tone and some basic facts like year of inauguration. Rmhermen 19:44, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Athens is almost bare of information, makes hardly a reference to anything that happened over 150 years ago. I've imported two articles into this one, but a lot of merging needs to be done, and there's still a lot of information missing. -Smack 05:13, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Aviation history - needs integration (see bottom of article) -- 213.231.204.211 15:31, 21 Dec 2003 (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)
  • Battle of Edgehill - what there is, is a bit messy so could do with re-writing, but then the author gave up and added a note to the bottom that more needs adding. I don't know enough about it myself, or I would do it. Francs2000 00:58, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Consequences of Adolf Hitler - an absurd title, but it is also the content that is contentious. --KF 11:42, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Egyptian_Mythology - needs fleshing out, theres hardly anything there, just lots of headings.
  • History of Arab and Ottoman Egypt is currently a huge mass of unedited 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica material. It needs a bit edit by someone who knows the field. Adam 13:03, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Africa - This article is Eurocentric to the point of being racist. It's shocking 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. I'd also suggest that 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 Cossacks is in dire need of some work for NPOV reasons, especially the final section. Chrism 20:48, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • It is in even more dire need of some copyright experts. It's a very difficult case. Requesting your input at Votes for deletion/copyvio. -Smack 22:13, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • 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: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] -- Kingturtle 03:24 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Spain needs a lot more information. --Alex S 14:38, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Kosovo War currently hopelessly biased, looks like it could have been written by the Slobodan Milosovic propaganda department G-Man 20:45, 18 Oct 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    • Greetings RickK (again), I don't see how the page is out of context. The Magic Belt of Poland is a part of the history and folklore of their culture. Unless if the page should be somewhere else, I don't see how I got it out of context. ~Margi B.
  • WTO Fighting of 1999: a mess. I gather a lot of people have already tried fixing this, but judging by the result, it's been short on native-level English speakers who have either first-hand knowledge or have done research. I threw a bunch of comments into the talk page, but I'd like some responses to those before I jump in and edit. I'm waiting at least a week before I do so. Jmabel 09:49, 20 Dec 2003 (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)

Literature, authors, writers, reporters, Media, Newspapers, Books and critics, Journalism

  • Crime fiction -- it is very academic and dry. I did not find to be very organized either. -- Two Halves April 13, 2003
    • A fair bit of refactoring done. Content split into three articles, and some added to other existing articles. I guess fit to be removed from here chance 09:10, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)
  • Fei Xiaotong. Extremely POV. RickK 03:54, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Some NPOV-ing done. More needed. olivier 11:41, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • More done -- enough? till we *) 14:04, Nov 30, 2003 (UTC)
  • French literature This article doesn't know what it wants to be about. DanKeshet 23:34, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • Thomas Hamilton - contains info about two unrelated persons named with the same name. this to become disambig and move the info to two appropriate-named articles.
  • History of literature - Although the title suggests this topic is so all-encompassing it could have its own wiki, we might succeed in giving a well-balanced survey no longer than the usual article of that kind. Right now, however, this seems to be work in progress abandoned by a sadly missing Wikipedian. --KF 22:48, 3 Jan 2004 (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)
  • 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)
  • 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))
  • Vernon God Little bmills
    • I gave this page a reasonable structure and a spoiler warning, but it's still very much a stub. -Smack 07:07, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Ohmynews is POV, but not so much so that it should be listed on the Disputed NPOV page. -- Khym Chanur 05:06, Oct 30, 2003 (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)
  • Performance poetry -- needs a lot, down to uppercase letters at the start of sentences. Bmills 11:37, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Mathematics & Mathematicians

  • Correspondence - I created this page, and while I don't think any of it is actually incorrect, it could use some clarifying. Wasn't sure whether to post it here on on Peer Review. Isomorphic 09:06, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Costate equations - is this correct? Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Fourier transform is pretty awful. It contains many factual errors, and it is primarily a discusion of Fourier series, rather than of the Fourier transform. Dominus 04:54, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC) Now it's better than it was, but it could still use attention. A Fourier inversion theorem ought to be added. The space of Fourier transforms of Lebesgue-integrable functions (i.e., functions, the integrals of whose absolute value is finite) is not well understood, last time I heard. The Fourier transfrom of such a function may fail to be Lebesgue-integrable, so "properly" improper integrals appear in the inversion theorem. The set of tempered distributions is its own image under the Fourier transform, so that version of the inversion theorem works out neatly. Then there's the whole matter of quadratically integrable functions.
  • 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)
  • The Sheaf article is mising any explanation of why this is interesting or anyone cares about sheaves. Dominus 18:40, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Standard deviation has very little information and doesn't explain how to calculate the SD. r3m0t 10:13, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Law of averages and Law of large numbers - are these one and the same principle? Law of averages needs to be cleaned up anyway, as it talks mostly about misinterpretations of the principle. -Smack 03:19, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • They are different - 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 14:31, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Spherical coordinate system -- needs thorough formulae vs. words checking
  • Fisher-Tippett distribution -- needs a thorough rewrite

Medicine / Surgery / Biology /Health

  • Hans Asperger - could use a once over. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Diabetes mellitus - not up to the standard of scientific knowledge. Kpjas
  • Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry -- anyone out there know from it? I'm amazed all but two of the links I made link to something; I'm in the soft sciences. I only wrote something after coming up bare when I looked it up after having it done. --Charles A. L. 15:47, Nov 24, 2003 (UTC)
  • Involuntary control of respiration - unwikified and reads like its been cut directly from a medical text. -- Pm67nz 09:25, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Passes the Google test for copyright infringement. Message sent to user regarding source, no reply expected. -Smack 00:02, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Lamaze is, strictly speaking, POV; if there's anti-Lamaze viewpoint, it's not represented --Charles A. L. 18:20, Nov 12, 2003 (UTC)
  • Medical ventilator - little information and poorly written. Although I have contributed on related subjects, I don't feel overwhelmingly competent to fix it. Kosebamse 22:15, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Myasthenia gravis - needs links --bdesham 14:34 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)
    • this needs major rewriting to make it sound more like an encyclopedia and less like a brochure Alex.tan 11:09, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Snoring - overemphasizes the fact that there are a number of reasons that result in someone snoring but then fails to specify. KF 07:51, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • Cleaned up the phrasing--now much more readable, but still needs a bit more info from someone who knows about it. Meelar 19:50, Dec 7, 2003

Military / War / Peace

US Army Rangers

Movies / Television / Radio

  • ATV News Channel - currently an advert. Onebyone 03:09, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Rick Berman Come on you Star Trek fans! This is one of the most important people behind the franchise, and he has a terrible stubby entry which is mostly wrong! DJ Clayworth 16:00, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Comedy film: User Koyaanis Qatsi makes this great suggestion..."Maybe we could start with a historical overview of comedians in the silents, going through to early talkies and different movements (physical comedy, intellectual comedy, etc. and their overlaps). On through to maybe absurdist & postmodern comedy." Wish someone could or would. Kingturtle 07:56, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Development hell is defined on the main page in a way that doesn't seem quite correct: it implies that "development hell" is a natural part of the filmmaking process, like casting, or hiring a location manager. Several other pages which link to it have been edited to reflect this definition. Puffy jacket 23:22, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Hackers (movie) - has some info, still needs plot, more details. I will give it a shot soon myself, but in case someone else has an urge to improve it in the meantime I am listing it here. Dori 18:14, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC) I sat down and wrote a detailed coverage of the film, its plot and details, hope you like it, affraid I like the film so it might be POV. -Bob 06:30, Jan 01, 2004.
  • 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)
  • Ken Watanabe (actor): There's very little about him in English on the Web, but I'm sure any Japanese film fan could flesh this out. (Just saw *Last Samurai* and he's absolutely marvelous--Best Supporting Actor!) jengod 22:33, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Music and musicians

People, professions, organizations and groups

  • Albert Abrams - total mess, but with interesting information - see talk page - Muriel Gottrop 08:37, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC) (this first two)
  • 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)
  • Edie Bukewihge - obscure U.S. political candidate, needs improvement. --Minesweeper 06:21, Nov 23, 2003 (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)
  • Centenarian can't decide whether Daniel F. Bakeman or George Fruits is the last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary war. Dominus 18:31, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Anne Hutchinson - is a caricature of her biography, I already added link for a source for rewriting. andy 19:41, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Poul Martin Moller - one-author article on this philosopher needs wikifying, expanding, and maybe a little NPOV. All I could do was remove the e-mail address and request for information. Paullusmagnus 01:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Jerry Lucas - long, lauditory (auto?)biography, needs NPOV, wikification, organization -- Cyan 17:51, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
  • Japanese person needs work. Maximus Rex 21:17, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • John Kluge: All that's here is a history of Metromedia, really; it could be moved to "Metromedia" and re-edited. We need a real biography page for him, but I don't know enough about him to flesh it out. -lee 17:26, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
    • Where does Metromedia stop and Kluge start? He's always let VERY little into the public record. Anyhow, I've put about as much as I can be certain of in. unkamunka 22:17 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Karl Eberhard Schongarth - first paragraph makes little sense. The second paragraph is mainly a series of phrases with unknown acronyms. RedWolf 06:22, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Ordo Templi Orientis - weird, just weird (needs an introduction and tons of work) Daniel Quinlan 08:52, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • Lew Wallace - Just a list of bullet points with the heading "Notes toward an article". —Paul A 06:51, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Alija Izetbegovic - This page is riddled with inaccuracies and a pro-Serb POV. Discussed in Talk:Alija_Izetbegovic - User:Vedran 16:49, 25 Nov 2003

Philosophy and Larry's Text

  • Albert Camus/the Absurd. Wikification/rewrite. Move to non sub-page. Angela 19 Aug 2003. Now moved, but just an unwikified essay. Maybe delete? Angela 05:45, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • 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)

Physical science

  • Camphor I made this page, however I would rest better at night if someone with a proper reference checked to make sure I have the correct isomer for the chemical name as in the diagram. Maximus Rex 04:23, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Nuclear fission Seriously cut-and-paste; headings handled wrong–I could fix that, but– not well organized; history is spotty, in places unclear or misleading. Dandrake 05:49, Oct 22, 2003 (UTC)
  • Moment (physics) now consists of two separate articles, each author ignorant that the other was writing on that topic. One of them is material formerly at moment, which is now an article on the more abstract mathematical concept of moment, applied in probability theory, that evolved out of the physical concept of moment.

===Political science / Law === (also see Crime, Government, etc.)

  • Fascist manifesto -- after reading it, I still don't know what the "fascist manifesto" is. Tuf-Kat 00:25, Oct 27, 2003 (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.
  • International Military Tribunal for the Far East missing much information -- JeLuF 14:35, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • SCO v. IBM is now way behind events, in particular the recent court hearing related to discovery. -- The Anome 13:04, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Debt bondage holds the unmerged former contents of three articles. -Smack 18:32, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Psychology

  • Unconscious mind - article structure breaks down after the first section. --bdesham 01:05 14 Jul 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: [6]. It appears to be real. 169.207.90.93 02:43, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Recreation, Hobbies Games

  • 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)
  • Indrema - sub-stub. Developers of the L600. See Slashdot archives for many stories. Tualha 20:22, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Spades (game) is poorly written, and not wikified. -- Khym Chanur 08:17, Nov 20, 2003 (UTC)
  • L600 - stub. Was to be possibly the first Linux based game console. See Slashdot archives for many stories. Tualha 20:22, 18 Dec 2003 (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)
  • Underwater photography -- Is poorly laid out with little prose, but mostly lists with little explanation. —Frecklefoot 14:47, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Religion, Holidays, Cults, self-help

  • Jerusalem syndrome - this needs to be edited so the everyday reader knows what it means. it is a bit sloppy, and assumes the reader knows what Jerusalem syndrome is already. Kingturtle 03:57, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • New Year's Eve - this is a smattering of bits of information strewn together. Please give it body and substance :) Kingturtle 19:55, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Persecution of Muslims - some people are working on it, but it needs help. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (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)
  • Voice of the Martyrs: usefule article, but somewhat POV-ish. -- Khym Chanur 11:38, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
    • I've gone over it a couple of times, mostly for typos. An article of this nature probably can't help appearing somewhat POV. Any specific suggestions? - Rlvaughn 20:23, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Upanishad - needs ugly formatting and the diacrita in the main upanishads section fixed. -- Finlay McWalter 01:31, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Korean mythology: contains stuffs from a famous apocryphal book that was cooked up in the 20th century and is believed by cult religions. --Nanshu 00:58, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Irish mythology - really just a set of lists of wikis to other articles. Bmills 11:28, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Marduk - contains both some wiki-authored content and a 1911 article. -Smack 06:42, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Self hypnosis - stub, and poorly written IMo --Steinsky 17:25, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Islamic eschatology -- I know that houris and sex aren't the be-all and end-all of this, but I don't know much more than that. The article needs much more about Islamic ideas of personal eschatology (death, judgement, reward, punishment) and general eschatology (ad-Dajjal, the end of the world, etc.) from someone with some knowledge of this topic. --MIRV 22:08, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Science

  • Therblig Too small. Somebody write more? Optim 07:45, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Atom
    • As of 16:42, 17 Dec 2003, the article currently states, "the sizes of these atoms are generally in the range from 10 pm to 100 pm." This is impossible: a picometre is a one-dimensional measurement, and everything in our "reality" must be three-dimensional. I image that fixing this would simply be a matter of changing it so that it says the diameter of the atom is 10 pm to 100 pm, but I'm not sure of that, so I don't feel prepared to edit it. Maybe someone knowledgeable can fix it.
      • The New York Public Library's Science Desk Reference (ISBN 0-02-860403-2) has 1 ångström (ie, 100pm) as the approximate diameter of an atom. Changing (if I can access the entry). -- Paul G 18:36, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • M-theory simplified - so far, this is mostly a rather basic introduction to (super)string theory, without actually discussing M-theory save for mentioning it in the first sentence. -- Schnee 15:53, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Reptilian humanoid - This page has been in extreme flux, between those with extreme-dinothrope opinions, and those who question the existence/dominance of "Reptiloids". Both make sweeping edits, and I hope that the end result will be a page showing concern for both reptiloids, and for those who believe in them :) JackLynch
  • Perspective -- an important subject in Cognitive Science. The article lacks any reasonable structure; lacks the "perspective" :-). As a first step, I spawned the article "Perspective (graphical)" (not the best name, I admit) to deal with painting, drawing, etc. Mikkalai 23:56, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Mel Frequency bands - incoherent cut-and-paste, but sounds like the topic might be worthwhile. Anyone able to clean this up and make it useful? Otherwise it probably gets deleted. Isomorphic 06:28, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sports

  • Middle distance track event suffers from an "insider" POV amongst other ills. Wake 05:19, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • W. G. Grace has only very short article but long text from 1911 encyclopedia, written before his death. Needs integrating. Warofdreams 16:13, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Transportation,Tourism

  • Sheremetyevo International Airport - Anyone who knows Russian should retrieve the airline list for that airport. I do not know russian, and the website's English section doesn't work. Whisper 04:59, August 31, 2003 (Greenwich Mean Time)
    • The article also sounds a bit toungue in cheek.Vancouverguy 22:46, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • The effect of the automobile on the United States a school essay. Maximus Rex 07:34, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • I put this on Votes for Deletion, but people wanted it to stay. I am actually shocked at the result. I don't know if people really read through it. It had a phone number in it! Anyway.....I just gave it a major edit. There is still a lot that is vague; important details (like years) need to be inserted. I removed redundancies and irrelevant bits, but it still needs a lot of work.
  • Individual Visit Scheme - information is not comprehensive, should stated more on the different impacts such as economic and social aspect

Pronunciation guides

Moved discussion to: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (pronunciation) -- Smerdis of Tlön 14:42, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Misc

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