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JUST IN

February 8

Nagpur - one sentence

Royal Norwegian Air Force - needs wikification +wikified Vacuum

Star Wars and the theory of plagiarism can someone think of a less loaded name for this page

pixel, dot pitch, etc. need clarification of how dot pitch/pixel/native resolution relate to each other, whether native resolution applies to CRTs, and how CRTs and LCDs can display varying pixel resolutions when the color mask/LCD cells are built in.

Michael Corris just a bibliography

Back in the USSR doesn't even seem accurate - fine Vacuum

February 7

Harry Belafonte current unwikified biog needs merging with wikified stub in revision history fabiform | talk - made it suck slightly less Mrdice 02:49, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC)

Aranes - was created as advertising vehicle for aranes.com, advert has been removed. Is this a real place?

Release Part 1,2 & 3 should probably be brought to vfd

National Revolutionary Army - sub-stub, possibly factually inaccurate

Furbo - real place, but needs a little work

List of music videos by year - consensus on VfD not to delete, but needs massive cleanup + listified and wikified; now we need ideas on how best to organize and present. See Talk:List of music videos by year

Aquemini needs NPOVing from a hip hop fan.

were and wight both seemed trivial and/or nonsense to me. I have redirected wight to Isle of Wight, as any content it had seemed to duplicate material there; I propose to delete were in short order if no-one objects. + no obvious nonsense; copied the overwritten text of wight to Talk:Isle of Wight, in case it might inspire an addition to the corresponding article.

Battle of Jutland was Jellico considered a hero? needs overview section

image:Shuttle-enterprise.jpg This is actually a pic of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Could someone who knows anything about images rename it and find/fix all uses of it? -Move of images is not (yet?) possible, so need to re-upload with correct name.

Sandia National Laboratories - formatting +was a copyvio, rewritten into stub

February 6

Traditional medicine - essay needs complete overhaul Jwrosenzweig 22:50, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Textile workers Strike (1934) - copyedit +redirected to clean title, copyedited, wikified

Pearl Took and her relatives need to be merged into a larger article, as discussed on the talk page. Nice editing job if you are looking for something to do. DJ Clayworth

Swampy - legit? name makes googling impossible ... linked to by M6 Toll & Have I Got News For You episodes list -he's real, and was relatively famous in the UK ten years ago. Found old text (which was nonsense) and wrote new stub DJ Clayworth

Cost management, internal control, management accounting, maybe others (these are the only ones by User:81.248.9.34-- all selfpromotion added to normal article. a more qualified economist than I can weed out the dross, but as is it's BAD. -Sean 09:00, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Computer-aided engineering Automated translation, probably from some website. Unreadable, unless you already know what it is. Mikkalai 08:48, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Tai Chi Chuan needs NPOVing Meelar

KiddChris non wikified, accuracy check from someone in US? + for a radio personality he doesn't get very many Google hits [1]

February 5

Divine retribution - looks irredeemably awful from any point of view I can think of seglea

Lap joint - no text, just an svg file. (Do we even use svg here?) SVG is proposed. Anyway, this article is less than a day old. Give it some time.

Christian Heritage Party of Canada - copyediting, NPOV, perhaps copyvio and/or VFD +copyvio DJ Clayworth

Graffiti - is about graffiti art--merge w/graffiti art--and needs info on graffiti as problem; Graffiti art needs serious edit Elf

Ferdinando Provesi - copyedit, fact checking

Colligative properties needs rewrite for non-specialist +de-experted, now needs expansion ike9898 02:29, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)

Impressment needs spelling, wikification, fact checking.

The Dark Side of the Sun - needs, well, some content! -OK stub DJ Clayworth + have added a plot description Paul A

Propafenone - context needed

Zlotow - no article, just facts

Big Buddha - needs work

All for one, and one for all - keep or not to keep? Messy non wiki, saying.

Artistic computer game modification - mess

Tuna - embarrassingly stubby article. Tuna are not warm-blooded.

Pepsi ONE needs much more

Negative resistance -- see my comment in talk:Negative resistance

School discipline -- hugely POV article, takes a U.S. pro-authority position - It's a copy straight from here - Move to Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements then? - not copyvio, source states it is public domain

Swindon_Town_F.C. needs NPOV and copyedit

February 4

Eidolon -- principal deity of the twentieth century? Has anyone heard of this? - So last-century!

[2] - select new pages, many need formatting, expanding, or deleting

Santurce Crabbers (basketball) - nasty stub.

Chant - straight copy from hyperdictionary. Is this copyvio? Any way it is not encyclopaedic and needs a total rewrite or early deletion. seglea

Zlotow County - needs wikification etc

Kinsky-horse - reads like a poor babelfish translation of de:Kinsky-Pferd (as do all the "Kinsky" articles). Needs someone fluent in German and English horse-speak! Lupo Slightly upgraded, but still needs work! +Sj+

Molly Brown House -sub stub

Walking like an Egyptian - fast-track for deletion?

Neuromodulators - needs some context. Bmills

Ugly Rumours - needs a complete rewrite. Bmills - Spoof text and image removed. User:Tony The Tiger added both of these, as well as adding nonsense to Tony Blair. All his edits need to be checked. Pete/Pcb21 (talk)

A Knight's Tale - needs sorting out by a movie buff --Orlando Rivenstone 11:24, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC) Iv'e redirected this to the correct entry - much better content, but still short.

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.

The Epic Jack Kerouac, TheEpicJackKerouacBibliography, and other eds by Special:Contributions/67.74.194.65, needs checking for being essay-like, and structuring/moving around... - no need to keep these, same stuff already at On the Road + listed on VfD and RfD. Bmills 12:12, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The Auteurs - british band. The article is more about Luke Haines, their front man... Lupo

Watch out for self promotion by 66.30.30.130. He's adding his own original research to articles.

Greek lexicon - written in first person, article includes comments, table needs alphabetization, additional data needs integration into table with greek translation, etc., etc...

Harold P. Brown - stub

Stimorol - mini-stub

Ancient philosophy - crap from long ago

February 3

Sport is a wordy, meandering contemplation of the concept. Needs sharper focus.

Hyperpower needs to be rewritten. Meelar

Communications management is an essay. Meelar

Janez Puhar needs context for what he did. Meelar

Video game industry practices. Unwikified

OmniVoid: Is this a new proposed networking standard or a product from a private company? Web search didn't help. Needs serious edit. User:Elf - Absent a website or any Google hits whatever (that I can find) it sounds like a proposal rather than an extant thingy (and if it's just a proposal I figure it falls under Wikipedia:No original research). I say leave it for a few days to see if the author returns and posts a link or too, and if not, file on VdD. User:Finlay McWalter

Beijing_Agricultural_University: Delete--a request for help. How does wiki deal with these? Elf +stub now

February 2

Aso Kumiko - just a list of awards

Sally Rand - significance? + was famous 40 years, since in the 1930s, added external link, more can be written + more has been written. Jerzy

Lonnie Jordan - fix or delete

Nisse - wiktionary - Norwegian or Swedish wiktionary unless someone is interested in writing a little more of course... --Mikez

PsOpt - need wikification, context, copyedit, fact checking

Nazi human experimentation - need wikification and copyedit

Haimirich - just needs a good copyedit -tried it, please have a look user: Lady Tenar

Special:Contributions/130.88.96.65 - many POV edits related to Islam

List of Swearwords used by Captain Haddock - needs editing, consistent formatting, and maybe a little more context. +On VfD. + Apparently no longer on vfd.

Tim Girvin - vanity page? 300-some Google hits. Linked from The Evergreen State College. According to own website he was responsible for the design of the electronic version of EB. Explain importance or VfD.

February 1

Ray Stevens Collector's Series - is there more to this than just a track listing?

François-Michel Gonnot - expand, is he important?

Michael Corris - just references

Count Kinsky, Elena Ceausescu, Kinsky - work on English

Riot control -- NPOV'ed it ... but needs more; Needs Law enforcement informtaion ... JDR

air travel is a poor thing, which should either be dumped or properly linked to the innumerable places it could link to. seglea

Jamie Murphy (soldier) - will there be an article on every person, US, Canadian and Iraqi, killed in Iraq?. I've stuck on VfD so this gets a wider audience.

Agnes Grey - stub at best

Wikipedia:Ignored feature requests - archiving needed

Motion Picture Association of America is highly POV and non-encyclopedic.

31 January

tai chi chuan very POV, "works miraculously" etc.

Bajirao needs NPOVing and wikifying.

Sportpalast speech - source text, no context

Gilad Sharon is a stub. Meelar

Republic of Prussia: NPOV problems?

Federal Standard 1037C. Too many links to pages that shouldn't be created.

Bretton Woods. Duplicate article/ needs to be a disambig page. See Talk:Bretton Woods

Tiger Electronics little more than a picture

Usury - currently just a dictionary definition, but definitely warrants an article.

DNA computer - fix or delete - merged with an redirected to DNA computing --Lexor

Bev Harris Does Harris warrant an article? Needs formatting help.

Velvet Revolver - reads like an article created by banned User Michael - Info seems correct [3][4] Mrdice 17:24, 2004 Jan 31 (UTC)

  • Not the point. Hard banned users are to have all of their input deleted on sight. RickK 19:58, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Really? Surely the point is content? Flobster
    • See User:Michael: This user is under a hard ban - see User Talk:Michael/ban for details. All edits by this user will be reverted. Please do not reinstate any edits made by this user. RickK 00:14, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Normally the point is content, but i for one have no problem trusting the sysops and Jimbo's judgement that this is an abnormal case where the disincentive given a vandal is more important that speeding up the improvement of a few articles, or avoiding frustration for a few editors who get caught in the crunch. --Jerzy 02:04, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC)
  • What i have written just above notwithstanding, i am flabbergasted and embarrassed that those who are pointing out the hard-ban can't give a more coherant defense of the policy. If nothing else, start out by pointing out Jimbo's EMail instead of making us wade thru the heated rhetoric to its link. People should stop editing the Michael-IDed stuff, and stop whining about it. But someone better informed than i should do more to relieve the impetus to whine. --Jerzy 02:04, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC)

30 January

Alex Smith and Ocean City: Poems and Artwork. What-huh? Context where? Meelar

Organizational theory - needs spell checking, paragraphs

Cromwell current -Any oceanographers out there? Needs fleshing out theresa knott

Education system in Singapore - sub stub. Bmills

Luwan unwikified Fabiform

Wen Tianxiang unwikified

Sangeetha Kalanidhi unwikified

Sinulog festival unwikified

DNA binding protein list of 4 wikilinks

Amritsar substub

Perspective Distortion, Source textdump, where are the images from?

+ source has been added on image description pages. -- Pat Kelso
-so it has, but eight pictures all from something published in 1992, is this legal? Fabiform
-as the author, I hold the copyright. Note, copyright symbol is included with the original article in the journal now cited on the image description pages. -- Pat Kelso

Niger Delta Field needs more wikification

Richard Haynes unwikified - personal promotion, Vfd?

Capital good unwikified substub

Commercial hemp - stubbish, perhaps added/moved to hemp in some way? Also needs "Industrial Hemp" redirected to it when it's completed/moved - should just merge and redirect to "hemp"

Calicut Medical college Alumni Association orphan

Blue-collar crime unwikified substub, could be interesting if well written Fabiform

Medieval warfare - good structure, no meat.

Polish brethren - A mess, but probably has valuable info to clean up and include in Socinianism. See Talk:Polish brethren Jerzy

29 January

Jeffrey Zeldman - either a self-promotion or a fan page

Fan page. Zeldman would never stoop to creating something as unformattable as a wikipedia page.

Gackt - nonsense? Real J-pop person

Signing Off - needs work

Automatic data processing equipment - Needs reformating.

Hetto-Iberian - can someone verify that this (or its related topics) is a theory held by someone other than a single Wikipedia contributor? llywrch 02:44, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Moral character - replaced substub (see talk), can people read this and see if it makes sense (editing late at night!), and desperately needs history section Fabiform

List of comic and cartoon characters. Needs merging. See talk page.

28 January

Biodynamic Agriculture - stub

Active learning - Copied in pretty much verbatim from a PD resource. Needs Wikification, copyediting, NPOV, the works.

Angelwings and Finerthings - selfpromotion?

Pokémon Red Japanese - stub, not wikified, not written as an encyclopedia entry.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film) - needs rewrite or deletion.

Don Messick - wikification, style, copyvio? (can't find)

Mirth - something about Ultima, no context; nonsense? self-promotion. orphan.

List of actors who played Rangers in movies - List with one item

Toledo Strip - needs context; what is TS?

List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations - U.S.-centric. See the talk page. - Scooter

27 January

Generative grammar -needs explaining and expanding + I have formatted and added stub note, but so much more could be done. Bmills + more expanded now Bmills

Aerobiz - SNES game review written by an anon who left their email address.

Ooststellingwerf, Stein, Netherlands, Elsloo, Train stations in the Netherlands - Both Ooststellingwerf and Stein (municipalities in the Netherlands) link to Elsloo as a town located within them. Elsloo redirects to Stein. Meanwhile, Train stations in the Netherlands also links to Elsloo, but which one? Can someone sort this out?

Steve Linford - need copyedit and more facts

Leucoplast - needs context, wikification, and copyediting.

26 January

DXM - I've been working on this article significantly, it probably needs a NPOV edit from someone with less (clears throat) personal interest in the subject - we do NOT want to sound like WP is advocating abuse of DXM... Pakaran.

Beaumont Community, Oliver Close - expand? merge into Leyton?

MS/8 -sub stub is it an operating system?

Sant Cassia - need copyedit and enlargement

Wei Chen - first version (see page history) may contain something salvageable.

Reliability testing - needs lots of help

Inxire iO - reads like a sales brochure

25 January

Lagardere Active - sub stub

Conscientiology - religion?, science?, VfD? also Waldo Vieira, the inventor.

RealSoft3D - just a release note, no real contents

Brian Harvey - could use some help +stubbed, needs more content.

CodeCon - POV -rewrote

Luapula - Needs work

Saarlooswolfhond - blank +stubbified

Palm-size PCs - redirect to nonexistant article - now redirects to the stubby but not terrible Palm-size PC

Worldwide government positions on war on Iraq has present-tense text - Its NPoV & less ambiguous title is Governments' pre-war positions on invasion of Iraq --Jerzy

Thomas Chittenden - substub

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - POV, too many capitals, needs a rewrite

Susan Webber Wright - substub +info, reformat

Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary someone should transwiki all the entries, and the page can be redirected/deleted

Windex -was on VfD, needs to be less like an advert. + Killed trademark-character, discussed as primary generic term, massive copy edit; left stub notice, but maybe it's done. Jerzy - My edit, which addressed the concern raised here and on VfD, altered every sentence, and nearly doubled the article, has been reverted by a previous (during VfD) editor and had a limp afterthot sentence ("... occasionally ...") added. Someone else should try. --Jerzy + I've re-expanded, largely based on Jerzy's version, and suggested problem areas be discussed rather than simply removed -- IMSoP Windex is not primarily a generic term. The additions were largely useless. IMSoP's compromise looks fairly good, though. Anthony DiPierro

24 January

Dan Hicks - Needs wikification. More? + discography

Siege of Jerusalem - source text, could be made into a redirect to First Crusade (where it is already discussed, using that very source text in fact), or I suppose I could turn it into a stub...just thought I'd ask here first. Adam Bishop + redirected to First Crusade

The International Journal of Psychiatry - substub

Inpatient - dictionary

Ishy Bilady - a national anthem? orphaned and no google hits - United Arab Emirates links

Medjimurska zupanija - major grammar problems/not in complete sentences - move?

23 January

Lachrymatory - stub. Bmills

Constitution of 1782 - about the Irish parliament - should it be? + All that links to it is about Irish history. If there's another 1782 Constitution, a disambig page can be made if needed. (Smerdis of Tlön)

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

Lumis and Umbra - needs lots of help. +done, but maybe vfd?

Sachs-Wolfe_effect - needs Physics major cosmology or astronomy to clarify - probably not utter nonsense; likewise needed on Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect

22 January 2004

Plinking - Wiktionary? JoeBoucher

The Breetles - formatting + are they famous? -435 google hits


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 + Rewritten (Smerdis of Tlön)

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

Phalacridae - just taxobox and photo

Canadian flag football - needs translation into English +VfD

Disability rights movement - very stubby stub.

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

Basava - needs context, wikification


Vincent Saint John - Needs work

Gold code - needs context.

Metropolitan State Hospital +VfD - delete?

Jolly Cola - General mess, needs copyed +clarified

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

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

Reies Tijerina - unformatted

Harry Williams - unformatted +wikified and stubbified

Rolls Royce plc - unwikified, awkward +done

Tony Yayo - unwikified; unclear +done

19 January

this user (Robartin) seems to be adding copyvio about meat, see Mechanically separated meat compare[5] (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

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

Sam Manning - mess +wikify

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

Brett Hull - nanostub

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

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

17 January

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

Mixing chiropractic - needs lots/wikification

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

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

16 January

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

Mascara needs someone who wears makeup.

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

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

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

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

Bhuvaneshvari - about a Hindu goddess, but no context

Mimamsa weird grammar - hard to understand

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.

LEFTOVERS

The following are sub-stubs:

The following are in need of formatting/wikilinking/encyclopedia-friendly language:

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

  • March 1st Movement npov
  • Crystal growth Thin-film deposition very poor and not on the topics I would expect
  • Odalism - copyedit, NPOVing needed. And if there is a relation to neo-Nazis movements, it should be mentioned.
    • + copyedit, links improved, NPOV improved but the abstract stuff needs more help. Someone with better understanding of neo-Nazism could do much more.
  • GamesNET - needs verification
  • Tibetan Buddhism - see talk page
  • Strategic enterprise management - complete mess. Format, and the content is completely confused, too. Complete rewrite or delete. + I've attempted a stub, but I don't really speak "management" and the references I found online were mostly adverts, so it could be wrong.
  • Peace movement - very messy (various parts need to be merged)
  • Perspective - long, chaotic, difficult to extract knowledge from it.
  • F wave - needs simpler language. What does antidromically mean?
  • Adar 2, Adar 1 - suggest these are merged into Adar - seems to be some confusion/contradiction between the three articles and Hebrew Calendar.
  • Long boat - currently redirect to longship, but also means something else. Also longboat.
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