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20 January 2004

Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari - possibly a joke, possibly a DVD somebody is planning to put together. Author doesn't seem to respond to "talk" page comments.

Image:Cameroon_sm03.jpg: replaced by PNG image (Cameroon_sm03.png) (7x less filesize)

The Triumph of Technique: The Industrialization of Agriculture and the Destruction of Rural America - needs lots

Harry Hill's Fruit Corner - needs writing seriously

Reies Tijerina - unformatted

Harry Williams - unformatted +wikified and stubbified

Rolls Royce plc - unwikified, awkward

Tony Yayo - unwikified; unclear

Mechanically separated poultry - unwikified

19 January

Real Book - Huge chunk of source text, needs work

this user (Robartin) seems to be adding copyvio about meat, see Mechanically separated meat compare[1] (half way down the page) someone had better check their other contributions and leave a message on their talkpage? Fabiform - been told this isn't copyvio (sorry Robartin!), but unwikified. Fabiform

Moisture wiktionary? Fabiform

Jason Woliner copyvio, see [2] -Fabiform

Snitter and Rowf - wikify or VfD? Lupo

C206 time displacement - sub-stub, suggesting redirect to John Titor

Outlaws - unwikified sub-stub

18 January

Wireless Campus - needs info about the subject.

List of area codes make it stop [down with lists!]

Kendall Bruns - selfpromotion

Marketroid - Jargon File entry.

Dorothy Hamill unwikified

Submission content does not match title

Sam Manning - mess

Alex Campbell unwikified

Brett Hull

Carbon nanotube - (and all of our bleeding-edge sexy-technology articles?) needs Adult Supervision by someone up on nanotech (see its Talk) Jerzy

Marwari - Subject doesn't meet title. Which one is real?

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - needs NPOVing Magikarp - needs NPOVing + text moved to Talk:Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (note extra 2 article-title words) for evaluation and work before inclusion in thats corresponding article. This article to VfD. Jerzy

History of slavery in the United States - needs to be written. ~~

MER-A - Timeline type article. Needs more then one person updating it. Anyone want to help out?

Miss Van - needs work

Experiential knowledge huh? - Needs someone w/ modern philosophy chops, i think epistemology (see Empirical knowledge and Qualia); they should decide whether to trash content or move into one of the others before turning into redirect to Empirical knowledge. Jerzy

17 January

Miriam - Wiktionary?

Mise Eire - source text

All the links stemming from the table at Funkadelic. Just lists of songs most of them...

Body-centered cubic - unwikified, some unencyclopedic language

Stephen Hunt - unwikified fabiform

Mixing chiropractic - needs lots

Wei Chen unwikified - seems to be a copyvio: [3] --Vardion

Hahnia - needs wikified - and general cleaning by someone who understands prehistoric animals

Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton unwikified, context?

Financial services - unwikified

Jason David Frank - unwikified, many typos, needs rewrite, not even about JDF! its about a toy called Tommy so needs its name changed

Blob (comics) - unwikified, needs rewrite

Toad (comics) - same

SM-4 - needs intro/context

Diode bridge - needs somebody with an electronics background to write an intro - Needs more than that; i made off-line copies last week to aid planning changes for it & Rectifier (which needs disamb), links to Power supply, reference to voltage doubler & tripler... Jerzy + substantial rewrite of Diode bridge only; its talk now discusses diagram changes but a matching one for half-wave bridge would be a plus. I've not touched the related articles yet. Jerzy

Suffocation (band) - unwikified, needs NPOVing, especially by someone with knowledge of the subject

16 January

Tipping point actually has ____ instead of a key name. Needs much editing. fabiform, isn't this a pop name for catastrophe theory? ledgerbob

Mascara needs someone who wears makeup. fabiform

Amiga Religion bogosity +VfD

Technocapitalism more gibberish? DJ Clayworth - gets 500 google hits, seems to be a real concept, but this isn't a real article (yet)

Deportation substub started by myself but I have no means to improve it

Gabrielle please will somebody with Xena Warrior Princess knowledge sort this out. DJ Clayworth

Mercer County, New Jersey, County Highway 653 does this exist?

Architecture - is today's entry a foulup? Wetman

Macedonian Slavs - needs heavy NPOVing and rewriting.

Acorn Standard Ballot - same incomprehensible as Ballot design acorned. Duplicate? - not quite: this one is to delete, along with protest vote, as simply eccentric. Protest vote re-written. +VfD

Ballot design acorned can someone make sense of it? + clean up notice posted Wetman (italics copied from 14 Jan by Jerzy) +VfD

Protest vote some type of form, important topic, a good author is needed to do it justice. (italics copied from 14 Jan by Jerzy)


Stippling - probably worth an entry, but certainly not this. Toby W

Manicure, Pedicure, and Nail diseases - School project alert! (See Page History.) Lupo

Mixing chiropractic - we have straight chiropractic. Term exists? Needs grammar & wikification. Lupo

Bhuvaneshvari - about a Hindu goddess, but no context

Mimamsa weird grammar - hard to understand

Little League is a substub.

Computer services - see Talk:Computer services

Lazar house: merge with the above? -Seems like a separate, but related, entity Meelar

15 January

Nichiren Buddhism and Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism. Not the same thing, but I'm not competent to explain the difference.

Nichiren and Nichiren Daishonin - articles about same person....can't tell if they're identical. If not, they need merging. +redirected Nichiren Daishonin, a branch from an old version of Nichiren.

14 January

Albert Camus: The Absurd Hero textdump? copyright? Wetman 13:05, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Svend-Allan Sørensen if of any importance, please add why +VfD

Samstock Music Festival. POV

Similarity transformation - probable vandalism, check for possible accuracy - muddled stub, perhaps merge into similarity (mathematics)

Willow - Dictionary definition. Should be expanded into a real article. Gentgeen +Note on movie Meelar

Gruner und Jahr blatant ad. WP should have an article about this publishing house, but not this one. -Now on VfD for copyvio

Eyebrows and Eyebrow makeovers - what can I say?Bmills + I say "school project": see Page History of Manicure. Lupo

Son, Byong-Hi npov

March 1st Movement npov

Ring armature just a definition

Ramzi Yousef should have shorter paragraphs

13 January

Cyberculture is tough to figure out, but it is a valid topic, receiving a large # of relevant google hits. No VfD. Meelar

Shiina Ringo unwikified

David Warthen - substub

Mount Bromo what is it?

Charlie Daniels - needs expanding

Melanoma quite short and unreferenced

How to find a book - to Wikibooks? Needs justification in talk at least.

Ralph Nader - Too many external links?

Perhaps excusable? if he is up for election people will want to know
all about him and his connections maybe?

Preston_North_End_F.C. written by fan and mostly nonsense. Some Brit with knowledge of football please fix.

12 January

Civil Rights Commission - unwikified, messy

Zire - POV; barely any conent

Fulcrum - orphan, might wish to mention most common meaning

Dan Cohn-Sherbok - sub-stub

Balamani Amma - is review of one specific poem of the poet, not poet himself

Basic Combat Training - POV (see Talk) - more information could be added

Ladder Theory. Previously on VfD. See talk page

Anonymous remailer faq. Rewrite.

11 January

The Hunger Project - POV

Bar (diacritic) — needs heavy editing by someone who knows these diacritic characters. — Jor

Captain Harlock - needs wikification, copyedification

Empath. Wiktionary?

Bielefeldverschwörung - nonsense

Gavin Rossdale - mostly unwikified+looks OK to me - Scooter

Slave rebellion - needs proper intro

Principal of Locality - orphan. someone who knows about the subject can determine if this is an article - tidied, title sp. remedied, but thi should be merged into locality of reference

ISO_8859-6 (table) - Can someone who knows Arabic and has a Unicode browser + Arab Unicode fonts look if it is correct? I might have made a mistake with a few of the characters. — Jor

10 January

Show runner - a personal rant, with some basic info. - replaced with a stub, Delirium

Lovemap - unwikified, needs more

Crystal growth Thin-film deposition very poor and not on the topics I would expect

Queen Min of Joseon POV problems, and the title of the article isn't clearly related to the subject. -- Ortonmc 04:06, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Janice may refer to a real person, but I doubt it. --Merovingian 01:34, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC) + It's linked from The Muppet Show, where there's a real (muppet) character called Janice. I think she was a guitar player. I don't remember if the bit about Floyd is right.

many links to Dalai Lama are instead intended for Tenzin Gyatso

The purpose of government and The justification of the state: I suggest to merge them, see their Talks. Mikkalai 01:09, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Many articles based on Larrys Text contain "the"s in titles. How about dedefinitearticulazing them? Mikkalai - how about chucking them and starting again? ;-)

9 January

image:Shuttle-enterprise.jpg - It's actually NASA Photo ID S91-36415 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

Techwiki - messy advertisement, fixable

+ tidied it up a bit, not sure what to link it from so not an orphan ledgerbob

Social cost - Close cousin of Private cost Bmills

Cingulate sulcus - single sentence stub and pic. Bmills

Private cost - very short stub I tidied up. Bmills

Algiers Motel Incident - says what the motel is, but not what the incident was. Don't leave me in suspense!

Odalism - copyedit, NPOVing needed. And if there is a relation to neo-Nazi movements, it should be mentioned.

Henry Clay Frick - I'm sure there is an article to be written about this person, but this isn't it.

8 January

Asian Tigers - stub. I did a quick copyedit and removed ambiguous reference to Tiawan/China. Bmills

Puerto Rico - mess - trimming - summarized - details being explained in other articles

GamesNET - POV, wikify, general cleaning

Wilfredo G. Santa - unwikified article dump (but not copyvio, see talk) wilfredo santa-good deserves it, fond more about this person at Encyclopedia of Famous Puerto Ricans- http://puertorriquenosparalahistoria.exactpages.com

Christmas television special - currently just a very short list.

Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - somebody's homework

7 January

Mass media in India- rewrite and wikify

David B. Frohnmayer - no introductory sentence, no organization (at all!)

W. Thomas Smith, Jr. - autobiography dumped here from elsewhere by Mr. Smith so not a copyvio (see talk); famous enough to wikify, or send to VfD?

Sidney M. Cohen - autobiography dumped here from elsewhere by Mr. Cohen so not a copyvio (see talk); famous enough to wikify, or send to VfD?

Nihil - clearly an album of some sort. Bmills +added band info --MIRV

Ultimates - needs a lot. Bmills

I spiffed it a bit, but you're right, it needs more. - Scooter

Huey Lewis - short stub. I have polished a bit. Bmills

List of countries where language is a political issue - was on VfD. POV issues? See talk page

Religious freedom in Poland not much in english.

Pattani United Liberation Organization POV (terrorist... liberator.. etc)


The purpose of government - convert from first person to third +changed person, OK now? Meelar

6 January

Aoi Mac Ollamain -- currently redirects to Ai, which is a disambiguation page, which should have a link to Aoi Mac Ollamain. I think the solution is to write a real article (even a stub) for Aoi Mac Ollamain, but I haven't a clue, beyond what it says at Ai.

Afghanistan (1911 Encyclopedia) needs to be merged with Afghanistan. See Talk:Afghanistan

American Revolutionary War (1911 Encyclopedia, part 1) and American Revolutionary War (1911 Encyclopedia, part 2) need to be merged with American Revolutionary War. See Talk:American Revolutionary War

Gypsy Rose Lee an anon seems to be disputing the accuracy, removing some stuff

Charles Stanley needs context

Abuse -- signed by author, non-encyclopedic, needs wikification, etc.

Bengali language - Requires Wikifying, NPOV-ing and expansion on the language (rather than its political significance)

Thistledown - List of short definitions and facts, not really a disambig page.

David the Builder - POV, with some info. But did this guy invent sliced bread?

Yuukichan's Papa - do we know this guy? vfd?

Tribe of Judah - two sections need to be merged

Yaohushua should be merged with Jesus Christ (not worth an article) and redirected

5 January

Washington Generals is this factually correct?

I believe so, although I'm not sure they had only one straw-man team to beat. Jmabel 09:36, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Tibetan Buddhism - see talk page Lupo

A Hacker History - needs wikifying, copyvio?, merge into History of computing? - See its Talk page. Mikkalai 00:27, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Sabotage (album), Vol. 4 - very POV, no real contents

Scam baiting - Wiktionary?

The Spark - what's the problem?

Socialist Workers Party (Greece)

Committee for a Marxist International - all three created by same user, with useful info but unwikified and often unclear

Socialist Workers Party (Northern Ireland) - now merged into SWP(Ireland)

Comment-Wouldn't it make more sense to have SWP(Ireland) be the redirect?

Strategic enterprise management - complete mess. Format, and the content is completely confused, too. Complete rewrite or delete. Lupo

I doubt if this is fixable. mydogategodshat

Closer (Nine Inch Nails) is an album review, and stubby at that. Worthy topic, needs work. Meelar.

Pop (album) - unwikified, strangeness

multiple coil magnet. - Needs explanation.+ Added a bit, could do with expanding further theresa knott

Sean Matgamna. A real mess.

4 January

Peace movement - very messy (various parts need to be merged)

Iraq crisis of 2003 needs to be merged with Iraq disarmament crisis

List of Iraqi Information Ministers - only contains one item on the list +found another one.

George Francis Robert Henderson - bad OCR, may be unsalvageable.

Cybermedicine sub stub

MSW. Too Americanised

New Age Ancient Near East Chronology - See talk:New Age Ancient Near East Chronology

Roger Boyle - needs expansion

Moral character - make into an article or delete

3 January

James Harrison - unwikified orphan

Talk:Electromagnetic field Physics wikipedians: comments?

Out of Control - unwikified

List of historical animals and the similarly titled pages it links: are these, and should these be, for "individual animals of historical significance" or other than fictional individuals and/or species, and once that's clear, "historic" or "historical", & should it exist? See its Talk-Jerzy

Guanosine diphosphate - needs some text

Kayaku-Jutsu - needs re-writing

2 January

William Vander Zalm POV - what's the issue? Explain details on the talk page.

31 December or older

Claims of Parapsychology - Mess Davodd

List_of_A_Postal_Codes, List_of_B_Postal_Codes, List_of_C_Postal_Codes, List_of_E_Postal_Codes, List_of_K_Postal_Codes, List_of_L_Postal_Codes: naming, formatting, see also delete.

Al Gore has become a paean to Al Gore, especially many recent changes. +the current (3rd Jan) edit skirmish should settle the issue eventually.

No-kernel (and other contributions of that anonymous user) - sounds like nonsense, needs at least wikification. -Not nonsense, but I don't know whether it's true. Onebyone

It isn't nonsense, nor is it entirely false (though some of it seems to be), but it's skewed. There are many reasons why an operating system should have a kernel, none of which are listed here. Metasquares 14:45, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

50 Cent contains 2 contradicting dates of birth (1976 and 1975), makes me question veracity of whole article (do we really need his supposed arrest record?)

Dr.Wilfredo G. Santa - messy; does the subject even warrent an article?

Dbpoweramp - messy, pov

Dulah Marie Evans - external text dump (but not copyvio; see talk)

Microsoft Lots o' POV

NEWEST

Perspective - long, chaotic, difficult to extract knowledge from it.Mikkalai 20:14, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral - messy; maybe wants merging with Cologne Cathedral?

Rainer W. Kühne - previously on vfd, POV issues

Lambda programming language - stub. Needs checking by someone who knows programming. Bmills

F wave - quoting the first sentence: F waves are action potentials that are elicited by the excitation of motor neurons by an antidromically travelling electric impulse applied to the distal part of an extremity. Huh?

Alkaline foods - poor little article

Algebra/set analogy - needs intro

Stain + moved to In vivo staining, made Stain into disambig page. Both still need help!

Aircraft attitude - makes no sense, needs intro/context setting

Youth rights movement in the United States -- an anon user has introduced POV into this article.

Internet service provider - seriously out of date - including much false information. Davodd

History of Bible translation is problematic.seglea + ok, I've at least put the credit in now seglea Verbose, not high-grade material

System 36 - Has lots of good info, but not written for an encyclopedia. I did some wikifying, but will need more, once rewritten.

Aleksandr Lukashenko - POV problems

Recommended reading: India - completely non-NPOV to suggest we recommend these

Adar 2 - makes no sense - suggest this and Adar 1 are merged into Adar

Wiki communities by topic and Wiki communities by type. - Would these be better in the Wikipedia namespace? - no content.

Who's Next. - Highly POV.

Shirley Q. Liquor - does this even merit an article? Should move to Vfd?

Wiley Brooks - consists more of quotations than wikitext.

Marcel_Reich-Ranicki - formatting, English

Activation framework - needs some context

April Glaspie - needs a great deal of NPOVing.

Tamagno. - Needs a first name and destubification.

Lyrics

- is as much about Wikipedia policy on lyrics as about lyrics themselves. Needs to be split; expanded.

Corporate nationalism - diatribe, low information content

Tyler Durden - Needs wikification, as well as a discussion of the book which the movie is based on.

Residential garden +VfD DJ Clayworth

Julian Delphiki - unwikified; semi-coherent


EIS - disambig?

Long boat - what's a long boat? Dysprosia - a real long boat is like a sea-going barge? + Mentioned Viking longboats, and moved to Longboat Adam Bishop + Scratch that, redirected to longship Adam Bishop - Dictionary says long boat is longest boat on a ship.

Peace Pilgrim - expand, decide whether to place under pseudonym or real name + still stubby; see talk re name & title.Jerzy

fish farming and aquaculture - dupes + cross linked. Needs a careful sort out because the two concepts are not quite identical. seglea

NEW

L600 - stub, needs work. Not sure if it was actually released. Slashdot has several relevant stories. Same goes for Indrema. Tualha

Mahmoud Tawallbe - seems somewhat POV but I have no expertise in this area. Bmills

Danzig Law - what is it? - some leads added on its talk. Jerzy

Mint (coin) - US-centric; rambles a bit.

Evolution to 3g - needs a copyvio check and an appropriate move/cleanup

OLDISH

Arnold Matthew - needs someone knowledgable to sort out mess, see talk

Andrew Vachss - stub. Tualha

Rojam - stub, listed on VfD, will probably be deleted unless improved. Tualha


Chaordic - currently a good candidate for VFD. Deserves a good article.

Center for Creative Imaging - needs a bit of POV mods, plus it needs some parents, as it's an orphan.

Maqam - what is this? There's a very long Japanese article about that, I assume it's some kind of system of districts?—Eloquence The Japanese article is evidently on the music meaning. Charles Matthews - This article only on an Arabic meaning, and not very clear about it

Carvaka - extremely long and unwikified.

N. Senada - N. Senada, where the N. may or may not stand for Nigel, may or may not exist

Figure painting - LOT of work to make a decent article, but prolly deserves one. Pakaran

Exilarch - beginning stylistically challenged, end copy-paste from old pd encyclopedia

Audio sequencer - is there a difference between this and Music sequencer? If not, redirect.

Iranian revolution and History of Iran - Revolution become redir to sec'n in History (which needs sec'n headings anyway IMO)? Shorten revolution portion of History, with link to expanded Revolution article that would get at least the removed material? I incline twd this second refactoring, esp. since next ten years will probably add a lot to the Revolution article. Hmm, or does the next ten years mean we want Revolution to be a redir to a section of Islamic Republic of Iran? Jerzy + I've linked to History of Iran#Islamic Revolution because the software doesn't support redirects to sections.

Build Up Studio Sigma and Dolphin Factory - two stubs, also orphans. About kigurumi costume makers. Kigurumi is, apparently, a Japanese form of mask-acting (though we currently have not article for that, either).

White Crane, Pak Mei, San Da, Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu - need some rewording/introduction to make them understandable to people knowing not much about Kung Fu

Archbishop of Riga - actually extremely old, but I'm not sure what to do with it...it looks like something about coinage at the moment. Adam Bishop

Charles Peace - huge, barely wikified, needs major trimming. also nearly an orphan, keep an eye out for possible links. Tualha

veld - see Talk:Veld

Mia X - tiny stub. Meelar

Linux User Group - expand

Fatick region - laconic stub. Bmills

Mikulas Dzurinda - needs everything, good luck Muriel Victoria awaiting confirmation that this is not a copyvio DJ Clayworth

legacy support - needs expanding

Isaac Newton's occult studies - needs a new name! Also wikify, perhaps NPOV

List of device bandwidth speeds - All speeds have to be verified, some are wrong (conversion Bit/s to Byte/s seems strange)

Some More - needs to be merged. See Talk:Some More

Quantum turbulence - sub-stub

Peter Wiggin - unwikified - needs merging with Enders Game DJ Clayworth

Russian Marines - sub-stub

St.George Cross - should there be a space? - Also, mention St George's cross to avoid confusion

Datsun 240Z - style - This car deserves a better write-up llywrch

Re Kevin - validity of marriage of transsexual - Source text moved to Wikisource, leaving a sub stub.

OLD

Berlin Air Safety Center, (BASC) - NPOV, formatting (looks copyvio but can't find it) Allied Control Authority (ACA) ditto - not too POV but need integrating with Allied Control Council and Four-Power Authorities DJ Clayworth

Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina A single sentence on a writer. Bmills

Science of Israel - needs serious copyedit by someone who knows some science. Bmills

Edited for grammar and NPOV--azwaldo 21:07, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hybrid electric, Hybrid car, Gas-electric hybrid engine - Title Hybrid electric is an unhyphenated compound adjective. All are about gas-electric hybrid vehicles, except 1st sentence of Hybrid car, which admits theoretically to alternatives but fails to mention any. Probably make 1st sentence of Hybrid car a disamb stub under that name, move rest of Hybrid car and text of other two into one article. I'd choose Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, keeping Hybrid electric and Gas-electric hybrid engine as redirects, but that's just me. Jerzy

LEFTOVERS

The following are sub stubs:

The following are in need of formatting/wikilinking:

Other problems (should probably go to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention when removed):

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