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22 January 2004

Mary Docter - although she deserves an article, this is not it.

photo trubs -- see Talk:Music of England, Talk:Music of New Zealand, Talk:Music of South Africa, Talk:Minstrel show, I am not capable of doing anything with photos, and the ones I have are too large. Can someone resize and place them in the article? Tuf-Kat 04:20, Jan 23, 2004 (UTC)

Lumis and Umbra - needs lots of help.

done, but maybe vfd?

Lancashire cheese - needs help from someone who knows about cheese.

done, although i know nothing about cheese

Sachs-Wolfe_effect - needs Physics major to clarify

Plinking - Wiktionary? JoeBoucher

The Breetles - formatting + are they famous?

No 4th Wall to Break - Web comic nobody's heard of. (I thought this had already been deleted; maybe it's back)

Folk devil - deserves better than this I think

Foul shots and other work by the same contributor

Rossby wave - needs work

Cristi Minculescu picture needs shrinking (don't know how myself) Fabiform

Sherwin Wine, Judith Seid - not about the subject

John A. Gambling confusing, unwikified, about 3 people or 1 person? Fabiform

Jason Reso - is the article about the same person? anyone know prof. wrestling?

Francis Godwin unformatted data dump from 1911 encyclopedia

Curitiba - unwikified epic

Blood worm - unwikified + inserted taxotable and done a bit of wikification on the first para but the rest of the text needs some work seglea Opposum shrimp: unwikified. paragraphs. Optim + title also misspelled; I moved it to opossum shrimp. Ortonmc

  • I've improved it some, still needs more work. - UtherSRG
  • Look under the order name for this animal (Mysidacea), there's an excellent external link there which should provide some more material seglea

Saint Patrick's Battalion - duplicate article inserted; needs merging.

Carol Harris-Shapiro - needs work

Smoking fetishism - Needs wikification. Reads like a copy-and-paste +I copy-and-pasted part into google, no hits. Also wikified.

21 January 2004

DoomConnector - only a logo and external link

Cf-pollable - needs clarifying

Asphodelus - just a taxobox

United Nations Convention Against Torture - no content

Dawn Silva unwikified Fabiform

Phalacridae - just taxobox and photo

Tom Holmes blanked by author

Exchanged trash - VFD? Can someone rescue? Does anyone want to?

Canadian flag football - needs translation into English +VfD

Alder has a link to a .gif at the top Fabiform

Drunken Master I would have stubbified it, but I went to the IMDb and got confused: [1] Fabiform

U.S. Democratic Party Presidential Primary, 2004 currently trash that adds almost nothing new to U.S. presidential election, 2004


James Salter - stub. Bmills

Disability rights movement - very stubby stub. Lupo

20 January 2004

User:Craigbutz has a long list of pages vocational students are working on -- many have been listed on VFD, most need serious help. All are linked from his user page. - Davodd

List of national parks of Argentina 1 item + enlarged, but may still be incomplete

List of Puerto Rican comedians 1 item

List of Japanese Football League Teams 1 item

Ammonium bicarbonate -only a picture +I'vew stubbified it

Institute of Cetacean Research - Needs work

Cinchonism - unencyclopedic, no context, irrelevant comments

Basava - needs context, wikification

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

  • I think this is a special feature on Disney's the Lion King special edition DVD. Why it deserves its own article is beyond me. PMC 23:55, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch - The quote is longer than the entire rest of the article - the quote has been taken out and replaced with an external link to the quote (Paul A) +VfD

Vincent Saint John - Needs work

Columnist - Move to Wiktionary? now a redirect

Gold code - needs context.

Metropolitan State Hospital +VfD - delete?

Megaesophagus +VfD

Jolly Cola - General mess, needs copyed +clarified

Shirley Q. Liquor - was on VfD. See talk page.

User 196.28.48.100 has created about 20 pages about Mage, Werewolf etc, - these all appear to be copyvio e.g. [2] DJ Clayworth + all listed on copyvio

Suave a joke or unwikified? Also graffitied by "josh"? Fabiform

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

Harry Hill's Fruit Corner - needs writing seriously +done +added to Radio programming

Reies Tijerina - unformatted

Harry Williams - unformatted +wikified and stubbified

Rolls Royce plc - unwikified, awkward +done

Tony Yayo - unwikified; unclear +done

Mechanically separated poultry - unwikified +done

19 January

Real Book - Huge chunk of source text, needs work

  • "source text" is in fact an intentionally formatted quotation. What needs work is fake book. Real Book is only the tip over the fake book iceberg. What is said about Real Book would then be almost enough. Besides, page history is too short to jump to conclusions. Mikkalai 05:19, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Fake book created, although not much more thana stub. DavidWBrooks
      • Merged Fake book and Fake Book. Don't use capital letters for subsequent words! Stw 21:10, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
        • Merged Fake book and Fake Book. Copying and pasting the text of one article into the other isn't merging, because the edit histories remain fragmented. —Paul A 08:30, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

this user (Robartin) seems to be adding copyvio about meat, see Mechanically separated meat compare[3] (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 +VfD

Jason Woliner copyvio, see [4] -Fabiform

Snitter and Rowf - wikify or VfD? Lupo +wikified

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

Outlaws - unwikified sub-stub +wikified

18 January

Wireless Campus - needs info about the subject.

Kendall Bruns - selfpromotion

Marketroid - Jargon File entry.

Dorothy Hamill unwikified +wikify/expand

Submission content does not match title

Sam Manning - mess +wikify

Alex Campbell unwikified + wikified now; but needs context badly. Also: famous?

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? - Expanded slightly (Smerdis of Tlön)

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. -- Fixed. Mikkalai 06:13, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Stephen Hunt - unwikified fabiform +wikify

Mixing chiropractic - needs lots

Wei Chen unwikified - seems to be a copyvio: [5] --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 +wikify

Toad (comics) - same +wikify

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

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

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

Macedonian Slavs - needs heavy NPOVing and rewriting.

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: definition.

15 January

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

14 January

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

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

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?

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

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

Captain Harlock - needs wikification, copyedification

Empath. Wiktionary?

Bielefeldverschwörung - nonsense. - No, an article about a joke.

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

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

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!)

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

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?

Committee for a Marxist International, Socialist Workers Party (Greece) - created by same user, with useful info but unwikified and often unclear

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?)

Dbpoweramp - messy, pov

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

Microsoft Lots o' POV

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

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

Wiley Brooks - consists more of quotations than wikitext.

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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