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Wikipedia:Index > Wikipedia:Pages needing attention

Every entry on Wikipedia deserves attention. But some deserve tender loving attention. If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, list it here if:

  1. It needs serious attention from someone familiar with the subject, or
  2. You have no idea how to approach it

Else (if it needs a little detail, proofreading, NPOV, etc) list it on the cleanup page. If you're looking for pages to attend to, other pages likely to need attention include Newly created articles and Ancient pages.

Some usage guidelines:

  • Date your entries (just add ~~~~ (four tildes) after a comment).
  • Indicate the reason for listing a page.
  • For each article you add to this list, try to fix an article already on the list.

Do not add articles to this list in the following categories

Article CategoryWhere to go instead
Not yet created Requested Articles
Should be deleted Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
Needs merging w/ other articles on same subject Wikipedia:Duplicate articles
Needs renaming under the avoid subpages convention Wikipedia:Subpages to be moved
Possible copyright infringement Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/copyvio
 
Not in English Wikipedia:Pages needing translation
Needs detail (Stub article) Add to Wikipedia:Cleanup or add a stub msg
Needs image(s) Wikipedia:Requested images
 
Inaccurate content Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
Biased content Wikipedia:NPOV dispute
Needs watching for bias Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
Needs peer editing Wikipedia:Peer review

Other pages that frequently require loving attention

Newly created articles || ancient pages || Articles to clean up

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

  • Cristi Minculescu - photo fixed; just a stub. +sj+ 11:07, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Figure painting - needs more detail. Onebyone 22:55, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Happening - Improving. Could use more detail, examples of happenings as contrasted w/ performance art.
  • Lettrisme - A stub. dave 03:15, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sacred art - Needs more informed detail, particularly examples from before and after the Renaissance. +sj+ 11:11, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Svend-Allan Sørensen - a stub. Bmills 12:53, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Color space - this article needs expert input: at the moment, it is extremely informal, and needs lots of work by experts in the field to give a good account of this highly technical field. —Noldoaran (Talk) 02:34, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Black and white Go to the Discuss this page part of this article and see if you can do either of 2 never-thought-of-before color schemes mentioned there
  • Circulo de Bellas Artes - a new page about a Fine Arts complex, country uncertain, reads like an ad, but content shouldn't be discared. zandperl 04:44, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified intro, located facility (Madrid spain) Rick Boatright 06:58, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Stippling - requires content -- Graham  :) | Talk 14:56, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Communication

  • Communication - Needs work as an article. Needs lots of work as a subject link from the main page. Zigger 16:48, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Computer science, Computing and Internet

  • CPU electrical consumption - Needs updating. page has been neglected Crusadeonilliteracy 14:30, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • CPU locking - Needs updating. Crusadeonilliteracy 14:30, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Datakortet needs NPOV detail; a stub. (originally by an ex-employee)
  • Design pattern (computer science) - Needs rewriting. A large article inspired by, or copied in part from, a 1995 book, w/ 50 links to substubs with names like "Interpreter pattern" and "Memento pattern". 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)
  • Dialer -- The corresponding article in the German Wikipedia ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialer ) is much more informative and also avoids creating the impression that dialers are always to do with Internet porn. Who knows enough to write a longer, thorough article? <KF> 14:36, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Front side bus - Needs much general updating in lieu of advances such as the AMD64's memory system, and other expansion. Crusadeonilliteracy 14:30, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • HTML tag - Needs clarif. What should this article be? A how-to for writing HTML, an overview of current and past HTML specs, what?
  • List of device bandwidths - All speeds have to be verified, some are wrong (conversion Bit/s to Byte/s seems strange) (moved from cleanup Onebyone 22:58, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)) +I added disclaimer of why some values look wrong by an order of magnitude, but the bit-to-byte conversion won't work. See Talk (Scott McNay 17:03, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC))
  • No-kernel - Now a stub; needs work.
  • System 36 - Needs conversion to third person, more formal tone and removal of personal information and anecdotes. Onebyone 16:55, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) (from cleanup)
    • Plurals also need to be changed from posessives after abbreviations. --Falcon Kirtaran 05:27, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • I edited the page and I think it's good now. (BTW, Falcon, I'm not sure what you mean: the plural of 'IPL' is 'IPL's,' because 'IPLs' looks like a different acronym.) Brian Kendig 12:01, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Visual Basic - Neds rewriting. awful writing. I did what I could, but died of crap writing fatigue half way through. There's a pile of other pages linked from it on Microsoft techologies which need similar work. - David Gerard 11:27, Jan 14, 2004 (UTC)
    • cleaned more; still far from perfect. - Cpm 17:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET are rather similar - maybe we could share content between the two articles? After all, the latter is only a newer version, albeit with lots of new features Enochlau 13:53, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Starvation - awkward stub -- The Anome 10:23, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Color space encoding Content, style, wikification --Gutza 11:06, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • GamesNET - factually disputed, see Talk:GamesNET -- Graham  :) | Talk 14:57, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Countries, Bulgaria

These pages could use some wikifying.: History | Military | Politics | Communications | Demographics

Countries, East Germany

Culture of East Germany needs a major rewrite by someone who can understand it in the first place, or is more familiar with the subject. heidimo 03:27, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Countries, El Salvador

Economy of El Salvador - Huge block of text, seeks wikification, formatting, long walks on the beach.

Wikified and Formatted, may still need some work, but I think it could probably be removed now.Theon 02:03, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)

Countries, Liechtenstein

Culture of Liechtenstein: Surely there is more culture in Leichtenstein than living in apartments. Theon 00:45, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)

Countries, Ukraine

History of Ukraine is much better now. +sj+ 18:28, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)

Crime

Triads - Seems to have been written by a Hong Kong resident and is badly in need of Wikification. Also, several important areas are not covered nearly as much as they should be, such as the history of the group. --Alex S 22:14, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

===Economics, business, businesses, business leaders, sales===\

  • businessman is a stub with a LOT of links pointing to it
  • Résumé -- has an example resume that needs more fleshing out. zandperl 20:54, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Business Workflow Analysis / Business Management Systems p2p - raw test; links to a french company --Magnus Manske 14:48, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Anthropological theories of value - improving; needs broader economic NPOV.
  • Business ethics - recently rewritten a bit; needs someone who knows what they are talking about to separate out overlapping topics. +sj+
  • Commercial Revolution - good dense info; needs fmt, clarif'n. +sj+ 20:03, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Cost of goods sold- needs context, fmt, like many accounting terms.
  • Diebold Focused too much on current events criticisms of Diebold for the page title; should be separated into a page on the Co. and one on the 2000-2004 debates about their product robustness. More company info is needed.
  • Economic growth - reads like a school essay. cleaned up; dense; could use a few minutes of an expert's time +sj+ 20:24, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
    • Page edited and cleaned up - comments welcome at the talk page --Geordieandy 11:59, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Global financial system - confusing and incomplete
  • Group 28 project (now the Individual Visit project). - Needs a thorough copyedit.
  • Job creation program: A questionable section on Switzerland was removed on August 9, 2003; article is now NPOV, but stubby; needs much more information from countries around the world.
  • List of subsistence techniques - looks like this could be a great list; incomplete. Can someone fix up the format, and create stubs for more of the linked concepts? (requires linking to existing pages under slightly different names) Knowledge of Marx not necc, but might help.
  • Most favored nation - Americocentric; assumes the U.S. is the only nation that gives Most favored nation status to other nations. The article needs to discuss the concept of Most favored nation in general terms first. Then a section on the U.S. can be discussed. I don't know enough on the subject to tackle this one. Kingturtle 10:23, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory Contamination. Once listed for deletion but kept. Needs NPOV, more. Angela 31 Jan. 2004 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)
  • Supply-side economics -- needs NPOV, see talk page. AaronSw 23:38, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Uneconomic growth - needs NPOV; should focus on the (new) term and notion in its title, not on the policies of George W. Bush.
  • Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek - rewriting needed. Many confusing sentences and grammar/spelling problems. Sport section worse than others. punishinglemur 22:14, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Welfare reform. Newly rewritten article, abandoned shortly after birth, could use NPOV love.

Environment / Geology / Earth Sciences / Weather

  • Petoskey stone Improved! Needs an image to go with it.
  • Sahara Much remains to be said about this vast place; needs loving attention. (Feb 2004)

Food, plants and agriculture

  • Rice cooker techniques needs all kinds of help. heidimo 17:07, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Egg. Currently touches on 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)
    • Contains a lot of archaic text about a Chinese method of cooking eggs, but not much that people actually want to know about. -Smack 21:38, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Food is mostly a list of lists. ~ Jake 23:58, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC).
    • I have started work on improving the food entry. Any suggestions / comments / ideas welcomed at Talk:Food. Thanks David Thrale 23:18, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • American lager - previous version was extremely POV. Current version is loaded with weasel terms. There must be a middle ground here. - Hephæstos|§ 05:18, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I removed nutrition, as I did a lot of work on it recently. Not perfect, mind! TonyClarke 19:11, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • Eating very rudimentary. Worst line is "individual grabs foodstuff and bring it to his mouth" David Thrale 23:01, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Food quality starts off with "Food quality is the quality of food." and doesn't get any better. Should at the very least mention quality systems and good manufacturing practice David Thrale 23:06, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I've done some work but there is still a lot that could be done here. Rjstott 09:25, 14 Mar 2004 (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)
    • I've rewritten it, but it could still do with fleshing out. I've also moved the article to Bacan, the modern (and, according to Google, more common) name. -- Vardion 07:30, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Garigliano River - Says it's a river in Italy and nothing more. Davodd 07:36, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
    • Partially fixed: added what I know (more precise location, origin of name and reference to the WWII Monte Cassino battle) but it is still short. Diatarn_iv 20:30, Mar 4, 2004 (YTC)
  • 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)
    • The same could be said of any number of Ancient Greek cities (Corinth, and Ephesus immediately come to mind)
  • List of regions in Australia - An actual Australian could make a great deal more of this than I have. jengod 00:33, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)
    • Regions in Australia very often exist more in the eye of the beholder than in reality. For example the entry on New England states "New England has no defined boundaries, and the term has several possible definitions." and where I am sitting can be in "Western Sydney", "Greater Western Sydney" or "North Western Suburbs" and probably a couple of others none of which has any real official status - see the Gazetteer of Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/nmd/products/thematic/gaz.htm. Albatross2147
  • Hillsborough, California - Last paragraph says avg income for males is $0, for females $55,882--this seems interesting but probably wrong; similar $0/large discrepancy between household & family.
  • List of Ontario rivers - The hierarchal view is in bad shape; the entire St. Lawrence system is in a non-hierarchal order (the Great Lakes do drain into each other!), and some major rivers seem to go missing when many minor ones are piled on. Radagast
  • Pazin and Rovinj - no information apart from they are both cities in Croatia. Deus Ex 20:03, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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

  • Case mix -- seems to be an esoteric Medicare term -Smack 08:06, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • The people on List of Seigneurs of Sark are all sub-stubs. Maximus Rex 07:50, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Numerus clausus -- An incredibly one-sided article which suggests the concept petered out some time in the 1930s never to be revived again. Should be revised by a (former) student at a German university. --KF 20:47, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman senate - it would be interesting to add some more history. It's in my to do list. Muriel Gottrop 14:33 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Sandro Pertini -- biography of an eminent Italian politician, does not only need wikification; should be checked, preferably by someone from Italy. --KF 01:23, 28 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Subject-object problem - POV. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Political correctness - has a POV note on the top. Former content focused on the satirical aspect and not the purpose of it. I did a major rewrite and would like further contributions. --zandperl 00:05, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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)
    • I've improved the writing style, but it's still unclear in places and needs a good going-over by someone familiar with Dutch history. -Smack 21:38, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Fernando Lopes - Needs to be formatted into Wikipedia coventions. And needs to be edited. Kingturtle 18:11, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lajos Kossuth - contains some worryingly opinionated statements ("With marvellous energy he kept in his own hands the direction of the whole government"). Needs fact-checking and neutralising. Onebyone 01:11, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Like it or not, the facts have been checked. The man *was* a charismatic leader - unkamunka. 16:34, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I believe that, I'm just not sure I know enough about the subject to make the language better without introducing errors. I think the request for fact-checking was just something I passed on from the entry on cleanup - I now see that this article is in fact pretty close to the 1911 Britannica, so is probably accurate. That also explains the flowery prose... Onebyone
      • Having done an initial NPOV some time ago, I am slowly going through and boiling down the prose; probably originally written by an Anglophone Hungarian shortly after Kossuth's death - unkamunka. 12:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Francis Marion, aka the Swamp Fox. Currently just a list of the places named in his honor. jengod 02:41, Jan 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Rosa Parks makes a claim about Irene Morgan which is probably false.

Her case was in fact taken up by the NAACP, see: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_morgan.html I'm asking for help because I feel that I am not the best person to edit this article.

  • Eleftherios Venizelos - needs copyediting by someone familiar with the material - the major contributor, while obviously knowledgeable about the subject, is not comfortable with standard written English. 209.149.235.254 20:00, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Archbishop of Riga- I'm not sure that the stuff about 'coinage' belongs in this article, but then I can't say I really understand this article at all. Definetly needs attention. ike9898 02:24, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I fixed it, somewhat. It still needs work, but at least now it sort of makes sense. DS - March 2 2004
  • Aviation history - needs integration (see bottom of article) -- 213.231.204.211 15:31, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • working on fleshing out individual history bits and adding stuff, work in progress Theon 05:02, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • Ive added alot of stuff from 19th c to 1918, and broken the whole article into sections. Some of the later sections need some information Theon 21:31, Feb 16, 2004 (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 German Nazism -- Not too bad now as an introduction to the post-war situation. However, the article will probably benefit from many readers skimming it, adding things (or at least suggesting additions), creating links, etc. <KF> 23:28, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC) -- Did a rewrite of the German section of it -- Kathrynn 14:45, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Egyptian_Mythology - needs fleshing out, theres hardly anything there, just lots of headings.
  • History of Africa - Shockingly Eurocentric! Could use a couple hours of time from someone familiar with basic African history, and much cutting back of duplicate European content. 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. 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 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 Puerto Rico needs to be wikified. I started one section. Right now is mostly a long scroll of unwikified text.Bkonrad 22:21, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • History of Spain needs a lot more information. --Alex S 14:38, 4 Nov 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)
  • Immigration to the United States is hardcore POV. Meelar 18:15, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • POV seems improved but historical account is still very sketchy. Needs more from some knowledgeable historians. Dr. Z 04:15, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Indian Removal Act needs a lot of context and detail. Kwertii 02:42, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Massacre in Koniuchy is in need of NPOV editing. --Baldhur 13:53, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • National myth -- Looks promising, but needs expanding. <KF> 01:32, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Persia a 'deserted' article for one of the best known empires of the ancient world; nothing about Alexander the Great or the 'greek' period Curero 11:04, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • [Public education] history section is just a list of possible topics.
  • Regained Territories needs attention from a knowledgable neutral individual(s) (do any exist?) Maximus Rex 04:19, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • that knowledgable person should ideally be a native (or at least more fluent) speaker of English, as well Orange Mike 04:32, 2004 Feb 6 (UTC)
  • Roman Empire - Article does not really explain a lot about the Empire itself but is a simple overview of some emperor's reigns. Colipon 18:57, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman province - stub article; I was looking for Phrygia or Lydia (not provinces, but they should be mentioned somehow; no article for the Asia province) Curero 11:13, 8 Mar 2004 (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)
    • Dominus, is this resolved? It's been on this page sunce October. Kingturtle 20:59, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • History of California is full of factual errors & wishful thinking (see Talk:History of California). One possible external PD source is [6], but it is quite long and I haven't had a chance to distill it down. -- hike395 01:25, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Prussia has been made quite a mess of. john 06:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC). This article has been lovingly restored and is now (if I say so myself) adequate. It needs constant vigilance to fend off the Polish nationalists. Adam 04:59, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Harlem Renaissance is embarrassing. jengod 00:21, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wu Hu, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Han Zhao, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Unified Silla, added very basic information only, more inputs required. sjc196 11:36, 30 Jan 04
  • Stamp Act - confusing, poorly worded, sketchy; spelling errors. Dominus 15:55, 1 Feb 2004

Literature, Language, authors, writers, reporters, Media, Newspapers, Books, Journalism

  • Shakespearean Long Poetry - The current page seems to be somebody's "poem"" which is a mess based on Lewis Carrol. I'm going to blanked. Bmills 11:03, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • this is now a redirect going to a non-existant page -- time to delete? ssd 06:29, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Canadian poetry -- very much a stub. Bmills 15:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Bengali poetry -- currently an intro and TOC. Bmills 15:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • List of German-language poets -- very much like List of German-language authors: did Gunther Grass, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil or Max Frisch ever write poetry? I heard that Herman Hesse and Heinrich Boll did, but even so they are known as novelists. If I'm right, it's a shame (3 of the above are Nobel prize winners, I think) . Maybe it should be merged with the author's list. Curero 10:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Slovak poetry -- another stub. Bmills 15:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • English poetry -- a very unencyclopaedic intro followed by a list of links. I hope to make a start on some of it today, but I need a hand or ten. Bmills 12:16, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • French literature This article doesn't know what it wants to be about. DanKeshet 23:34, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Archibald MacLeish - I created this from Most Wanted Pages. The biography is solid, but I don't know literature so the discussion of his actual work is embarassingly short. If someone with more literary knowledge could expand it, that'd be appreciated. Isomorphic 15:39, 17 Feb 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). Tried smoothing the English a bit, but it still needs work. Idril 16:10, 17 Feb 2004 (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)
  • Sindbad the Sailor - incomplete. Dominus 04:55, 1 Feb 2004 (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))
    • Rearranged the information, hopefully, it reads a little better. Dylanwhs 18:24, 25 Feb 2004 (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)
  • 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)
  • Caribbean English -- There's a hint as to what these languages might be on the List of dialects of English page but zero actual info. Anybody out there who could help? jengod 08:10, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wood-elves is about the ones from The Hobbit; I've expanded it from a v cute but not particularly encyclopedic article by a little girl, but it could use work from a Tolkien expert. Bth 10:15, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • I've expanded and mostly rewritten it. Jor 02:18, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Characterization -- Potentially could be an interesting article, but needs a great deal of work to eliminate some of the more prescriptive elements. --ALargeElk 11:32, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Information literacy -- Needs to be more like an article and less like an essay, and desperately needs to be wikified. Radagast 01:28, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Handwriting foreign accent - Needs renaming and a rewrite. According to comments on the talk page, some of the info might not even be correct. -- uriber 19:19, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mathematics & Mathematicians

  • Flow rate - Optim 03:57, 21 Feb 2004 (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 slash is not necessary as the gamma matrix is shown explicitly in the Lagrangian. slash = gamma matrix. cleaned up some Latex, but it still needs a lot of work lethe
  • The Sheaf article is mising any explanation of why this is interesting or anyone cares about sheaves. Dominus 18:40, 2 Nov 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)
      • I cleaned up law of averages only to discover that Gambler's fallacy covers essentially the same ground in a different style. They should probably be merged and one of them made into a redirect. Isomorphic 15:29, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Spherical coordinate system -- needs thorough formulae vs. words checking
  • Fisher-Tippett distribution -- needs a thorough rewrite, and possibly a merge with extreme value theory
  • Positional notation -- I tried to clean this one up but it still looks confusing. Big edits were needed because parts were redundant (to other articles), not in wiki markup, etc. Perhaps someone with a slightly better understanding should make the edit. alerante 23:23, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Formula for primes Can you make any more rules on determining what characteristics n has to have for n to be prime?? (Anon comment - on Talk page, please. Charles Matthews 09:28, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC))
  • Complex number - reads like it was originally copied from an old source. -- Walt Pohl 18:19, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Henstock-Kurzweil integral -- Walt Pohl 20:59, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Super-exponentiation -- is this notation genuine? The source given is a mathforum link to where the notation is "invented" by a enthusiastic student. It seems like a dup of Knuth's up-arrow notation. Motor 19:48, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Medicine / Surgery / Biology /Health

  • Mixing chiropractic needs renaming and rewriting - not my area so I don't know how much of what's here is any use, but I suspect not a lot. Toby W 23:15, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Sphygmomanometry - Optim 03:55, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Motoneuron - Optim 03:55, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • I've rewritten the entry completely. --Diberri 09:37, 3 Mar 2004 (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)
    • I own a DEXA scanner. I have updated the page with appropriate references. --user:statkit1 21:20 Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • F wave - needs simpler language. What does antidromically mean? Onebyone 00:35, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC) (from cleanup)
    • Reworked for clarity and factual accuracy. And even included a definition for antidromically ;-) --Diberri 09:39, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Hans Asperger - could use a once over. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 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)
    • I found Lamaze to be well written and fact based. It links to Natural childbirth providing information on other natural methods, which in turn links to childbirth for a more general discussion. Debates between various natural methods or childbirth methods more generally should, IMO, appear on the other pages respectively. BTW, childbirth needs some rewriting. --- Database 04:17, 19 Mar 2004 (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)
  • Nurse assistant skills - written by high school student, edited for language by non-medical person, needs professional review for content Dpbsmith 03:13, 31 Jan 2004 (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
  • Bipolar disorder is very chaotically organized and contains a number of contradictory statements. -- Seth Ilys 05:44, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Conventional medicine is basically a stub, with some recent signal added to the noise in the talk section - irismeister 14:52, 2004 Feb 19 (UTC)
    • No longer a stub, but a mess. A lot of the content is venting or personal and looks to me like it belongs in talk and not an airing of wiki-dirty-laundry hostility. heidimo 15:20, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Conventional medicine is a total mess. It should be deleted. Looks like it was created by somebody who is mentally ill because they are insisting on mainting their mess as it is. -- Mr-Natural-Health 13:40, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • talk Conventional medicine talk took over some of the burden of Alternative medicine but did not reduce the heat in the alternative medicine talk archive. Proposals for more solutions talk here - irismeister 14:52, 2004 Feb 19 (UTC)
  • Electrical quackery - needs a more sedate tone! - redcountess 23:41, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Starvation -- very stubby -- The Anome 10:24, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • No longer a stub, but could still use more info. On my to-do list. --Diberri 00:44, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - needs TLC -- Graham  :) | Talk 15:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Military / War / Peace

Movies / Television / Radio

  • Cinema of Japan - history needs to be fleshed out; needs treatment of endemic genres (samurai, yakuza, pinkku); lots of links' targets are stubs. Nateji77 07:18, 14 Feb 2004 (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)
     There also appears to be some serious confusion about the difference between film critics and film theorist/analysts. --Chips Critic 21:36, 17 Mar 2004 (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.
  • Home on the Range (movie) - Put information about the characters in this movie as well as the actors and some songs, if you can.
  • 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)
  • List of male television actors and List of female television actors are both pitifully short compared to the list of male/female movie actors. I'm not sure most contributors know these lists exist. Fabiform 05:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie - signed POV review. - David Gerard 20:58, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of radio stations in Georgia Just about all Atlanta FM radio stations are there, but can you add more Albany, Georgia stations?? March 19, 2004
  • CIDC This article is messed up, but I don't know anything about Canadian radio stations. Can someone that is more versed in this subject take up the task of fixing the grammar and information? Also, is the notation used for the call sign abbreviation (C)I)D)ouglasC)) some kind of radio standard notation or is it a typo? - DropDeadGorgias 23:30, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of television stations in Ohio This page has a link to WSTR-FM, which is a radio station in Georgia.
  • Ringer - On Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fandom. Good content, but poorly written and organized. -- Seth Ilys 15:16, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Articles on characters in Power Rangers (eg. Lothor, Tori Hanson, Adam Park) - Is a page on each character particularly necessary? Many of these are merely plot summaries. kelvSYC 06:34, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Music and musicians

  • Dead (musician) - new article. I did a bunch of copyediting, needs more info. --zandperl 20:47, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • 2004 in music repeatedly Michaeled -- accuracy therefore questionable. Maximus Rex 23:48, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Akashic Records - Rewrite necessary. -- Schnee 20:05, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • This topic has nothing to do with music. heidimo 03:55, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of arrangers - Stubby and poorly formatted. Moreover, arranger is a redirect to this page, which seems wrong. -mhr 06:01, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • List of classical music competitions - Please add some, very stubby right now. Tualha 23:07, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
  • Carl Thompson - stub. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • List of choral works new page, rather stubby (see Talk:Choir for background) Toby W 09:28, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Jobriath - needs NPOV attention, any aging glam rockers out that can help???? quercus robur 09:34, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Bambuco - Stub. The French wiki has a large entry on this, maybe someone could translate? Davodd 02:49, Jan 3, 2004 (UTC)
    • Rewrote the article, referring to the more generic use of the term and the "New Real Book". Could still do with some addition. Nick04 19:58, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Saxophone - i don't know where else to place this request. We really should have a Wikipedia:Images needing attention page. My request involves the bottom-most image of the saxophone article. It really should be placed horizontally, rather than vertically. Kingturtle 02:06, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did my changes fix it to your satisfaction? I guess the image was placed rotated since it was too wide; I put a smaller (properly oriented) version in the article, with a link to properly oriented large image. -- Infrogmation 18:24, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran - To borrow a phrase commongly used for humans:Something might come out of it, but only if we shape it into a good article being, hehehehe...in other words, theres potential there but someone needs to fix it. -- Antonio Suffered soul Martin
  • Lawrance Livermore, Lawrence Livermore, Green Day, Lookout! Records - First article is orphaned. First 2 articles seem to overlap (and are small). Needs attention from one who cares or knows ... Zigger 15:45, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • First is a spelling error, redirected to the second, to which I've added a bit more detail. Still needs more, as does the record label page. The Green Day page looks fine to me. - David Gerard 16:12, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • What Is Soul - Not really sure what's going on here. Hasn't been touched in over a year --Spikey 23:33, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Dave Blood - I can barely find anything on the Web! You'd think a member of such well-documented band would be easier to find. The Billboard obit doesn't even give his age. --Charles A. L. 21:31, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Men who sing like women - Expand this article by including more singers of this kind, as well as, if you can think of any, an article for women who sing like men. Also, look for pages to put a link to this article in. User 66.32.89.129 Mar 20, 2004

People, professions, organizations and groups

  • 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)
  • Ernest Borneman -- Lots still missing from Borneman's biography. In the 1980s and 1990s in Germany and Austria, no one knew that he had had a life before becoming a "sexologist". Some claim he had a strange attitude to paedophilia. His books must also be mentioned. Finally, his suicide came as a surprise to many who had been listening to him on TV talking positively about life. <KF> 08:53, 10 Mar 2004 (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)
  • William Caxton -- not quite sure what should be done with the big slice of source text that dominates the article. Bmills 12:01, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Gordon Campbell - this article has not been edited since December, 2003 and needs to be updated with recent developments. 142.179.125.20 01:54, 29 Feb 2004 (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)
  • David B. Danbom is a very very sad article. It might even be deletable, if it turns out that this person isn't at all famous and just made a vanity page. --Alex S 22:10, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Some googling shows that he *is* a multiply-published historian. Not necessarily famous, but not necessarily not famous either. DS, March 4 2004
    • Yeah, I know this guys work -- I used some of it in my research, but what a lame page -- possibly a good candidate for deletion depending on the pedia's stand how many bios to include ... Dr. Z 04:36, 6 Mar 2004 (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)
  • N. Senada - requires verification. Onebyone 22:50, 3 Feb 2004 (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
  • Wachowski brothers - out-of-date. TwoOneTwo 15:10, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Waiter -- slightly imbalanced; also needs spicing up. <KF> 02:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Shock jock - Somewhat POV, not very descriptive. --Spikey 03:06, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Orlando Bloom Nothing wrong with this page but it would be good to have more content here - this is a major pull for new users - see What Google Likes. akaDruid 14:05, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • List_of_members_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives - This page is fine, but nearly ALL the members need work. Check Jim Nussle, Leonard Boswell, Dennis Moore for what I'm trying. Vote totals are at this link and committees can be found at member homepages (Google them) or committee homepages. Power 08:44, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Donald E. Williams - Unwikified...
  • Joseph Henry Pendleton - Good info, probably, but I didn't look closely - unwikified, possibly copyvio? ugen64 15:55, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)

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)
  • The Enlightenment. Too many cooks spoil the broth it seems, at least when it comes to describing, in general terms, the main characteristics of this revolutionary era. An introduction to enlightened 18th century thought is needed here, with lots of cross references leading off to politics, literature, etc. etc. Also, the split into The Enlightenment and Enlightenment (concept) (plus a disambiguation page Enlightenment) might be reconsidered. <KF> 00:31, 30 Jan 2004 (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)
  • Forms of state - Oof! I don't know anything about this topic, but I know this needs some reorg. and rewording. --Spikey 02:49, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • subject-object problem -- needs work; contains an extremely far-fetched analogy to [[quantum mechanics]; too verbose. +sj+ 10:41, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • transhumanism needs a non-transhumanist to take a look at it. There's bias here, I think--I just don't know enough to correct it. Meelar 20:00, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Places

  • Afium-Kara-hissar orphan. From the 1911 Encyclopedia. Badly needs updating. (moved from cleanup Onebyone 22:35, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)).

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

Psychology

Recreation, Hobbies Games

  • The Hunting page needs a good edit - see also Talk:Hunting - MPF 20:26, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Tukhta-e-Nurd - a right mess. Bmills 15:38, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • I have started making additions to the postage stamp section but am unsure how far this should be taken. If there is anything that people want added, especially relating to GB postal history let me know and I will do what I can. All information from my website can be freely used if required - www.devoted,to/stamps Tallanent 19:07, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
    • A lot of work seems to have been done at Spades since November - still not hugely wikified, but much better. Is there more to do? Toby W 15:22, 19 Jan 2004 (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)
    • I've worked on the text, and renamed it to Tightlacing as it seems to me that the practice is a better encyclopedic article name than the people who do it. —Morven 07:56, 12 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)
  • Role-playing game is fairly rubbish for the main article on such a topic, especially compared against the pages for say Dungeons & Dragons and MUDs. However, I have absolutely no expertise. --Bth 12:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)~
  • Jack (playing card) Talk about who in particular the figures on the jacks are.
  • Queen (playing card) Talk about who in particular the figures on the queens are.
  • King (playing card) Talk about who in particular the figures on the kings are
  • Lansquenet appears to be copied out of a nineteenth cnetury book and needs modernizing. --Imran 13:07, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Religion, Holidays, Cults, self-help

  • Cosmotheism - This article has been very recently created, and while it is a real subject, the creater (I believe) and honestly the most knowledgable people on the subject (I hope they are!) have either been listed as vandals, or simply suffer from being VERY new and having trouble w grammer and formatting (they are also mainly anonymous IP's). It would be easier to clean up after, but the article is a source of a great deal of reverts and rewrites, and while I am interested in the subject, I can't claim much expertise on this particular variation, despite my research. Jack
  • Heathenry - nothing much about the religion itself, just some semantic points regarding the derivation of the name. Should this maybe be combined with Asatru? Kwertii 10:39, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done a full rewrite, but it badly needs a bit more attention. SetarconeX
  • 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)
    • This is much better now.... I didn't do it, but no one was noting the improvements here.. Rick Boatright
  • 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)
    • mostly this needed redirection to New Year which it was trying to duplicate, I left the new years eve specific stuff. It still needs editing. Rick Boatright 22:32, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Persecution of Muslims - some people are working on it, but it needs help. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • St. Casimir's Day needs a going over for NPOV by someone who's not Lithuanian (or at least a neutral Lithuanian).
  • 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)
  • All pages edited by User:66.207.39.62/User:DonaldSutherland on 8th Jan. He has made consecutive and numerous edits to some pages. It is very difficult to look at the changes using the Diff display. Requires lot of patience to go through the articles. The contents do not seem to be copied from anywhere. Here are the pages : Yoga, Yoga_Sutras, Krishna, Bhagavad_Gita, Prayer, Brahman_(god), Tantra, Hinduism.
  • YHWH, YHVH, Tetragrammaton and Yahweh all say slightly different things about the word and should probably be reconciled. DJ Clayworth 15:23, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Science

  • Nelson's_syndrome- Very poor at the moment - is barely a defintion of what it is. Someone add some actual content please.
  • Dust | Interstellar dust | Interstellar cloud | molecular cloud - the dust page needs more information, and should either have MORE about dust in the astronomy context, or remove all info about it and have a link to interstellar dust. Currently interstellar dust is a redirect to interstellar cloud, but that's slightly inaccurate. Interstellar cloud and molecular cloud are separate pages that I believe should be merged. --zandperl 16:02, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Colors of chemicals is written in schoolteacher form, has some format problems, and also has some factual errors as brought up on it's talk page. Needs help. --Alex S 04:51, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Eye exercises is poorly written and informal. Timwi 23:55, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC) Should be better now, although lacking specific examples of exercises one could do Enochlau 14:06, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • More copy editing, link to Bates method article and couple other examples of exercises from Asia. That probably covers it, but your mileage may vary. heidimo 15:37, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Aberration in optical systems is a wordy theoretical article from the 1911 Encyclopedia. It cries out to be rewritten in readable English and peppered with diagrams. EdH 16:43, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've added scans of the original illustrations from the 1911 Encyclopaedia. The article still needs tons of work, though. -- DrBob 21:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Therblig Too small. Somebody write more? Optim 07:45, 22 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)
    • I have completely revamped this entry, hopefully making it a bit more focused on basic M-theory stuff. I definitely think there are still some improvements to be made and content to be added. Jcobb 10:06, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • 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)
  • Reciprocal System of Theory - needs review from people experienced in Physics Daniel Quinlan 19:43, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)
  • Nibiru and Marduk (planet) - two pages on what seems to be the same crackpot theory. They need to be merged and improved. -Smack 07:04, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Wave model
  • Statistical hypothesis testing - after attempting to read it, I don't really understand what it is.
  • 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.
  • Thermodynamics has a lot of unclear information that probably shouldn't be in the article in the first place. Has virtually no information on the development of thermodynamics, notable contributors, etc. -Smack 23:29, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Reliability testing is virtually devoid of useful information. --Smack 18:41, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Chemical oceanography has good info, but needs organization and more depth. --Flockmeal 20:50, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Friction -- this article contains some dodgy-looking physics which needs checking and revising by someone who knows about this field in detail. -- The Anome 12:31, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Pathogen. This article seems very rudimentary. I have done some tidying, but it really needs someone more expert than I. David Thrale 00:19, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • I gave it a bit of attention but it definitely needs more. heidimo 16:42, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sports

  • Middle distance track event suffers from an "insider" POV amongst other ills. Wake 05:19, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Super Bowl XXXVIII needs game descriptions for 2 divisional round games, 1 conference championship game, and "the big game," once it gets finished.
  • Dog agility needs information, mostly links, about the sport for countries other than the USA. Also needs addition of correct (per international agility rules) metric measurements.
  • McLaren racing team refers more to the automotive company than the racing team and needs a split. Sportsdude820
  • Nelson Piquet looks forlorn. It seems to be the beginning of a long biography - I would suggest that someone remove it and write a proper stub.
  • Brooklyn the section on defunct NFL teams, and the pages on the teams it links to, needs reviewing by someone with a knowledge of NFL history.
  • Cricket in India: I've put in what I know, but needs a lot more, especially on recent years.--ALargeElk 13:47, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Technology

  • Daub and wattle: limited subject, but of interest in early architecture. I don't have much knowledge of it, though. Jxg 03:27, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Doubled article length - use in pre-historic settlements in Ireland added. Still needs more work, was used extensively for lots of stuff. Zoney 18:02, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Stirling engine - two thirds of this article is a huge external links section. The information in the external links should be incorporated into the article, and the external links trimmed down somewhat.

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 list is pretty complete, it only lacks minor domestic and charter airlines unlikely to ever make it to Wikipedia. I added some recent info and made some minor corrections and clarifications. Would some one have a look? I only live here, you know. apoivre 19:43, 9 Mar 2004 (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.
      • I put a bit of work into this, but it still needs more. No longer begs for deletion. heidimo 16:22, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Individual Visit Scheme - information is not comprehensive, should stated more on the different impacts such as economic and social aspect
  • Image:TokyoDisneyResortMap.png - the map is great, the spelling errors are not! - David Gerard 23:47, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Zytec Lotus Elise - stub on electric sports car, w/ garble & ambiguity listed in Talk:Zytec Lotus Elise. Jerzy (moved from cleanup Onebyone 01:58, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC))
  • Resort. I'm the author of this page, but I do not know how to go about expanding it. Is there a major difference between a resort and a hotel? --Johnleemk 13:20, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Misc

  • Afterimage - Do you have any pictures to put in?? Make sure you have read carefully.
  • Adar 2, Adar 1 - suggest these are merged into Adar, there seems to be some confusion/contradiction between the three articles and Hebrew Calendar as to which is the extra month and which is "really" Adar. Onebyone 23:56, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Beard - Apart from not being wikified, the newly added history section contains some cryptic references: Gynick games, Septa, [pg 291], 2 Sam. c. x. v. 4. etc. Can anyone make head or tail of them? <KF> 19:35, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Blood libel - a brute-force merge which needs severe trimming and copyediting -- The Anome 22:36, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Major copyediting completed. It still needs a lot of work, though. See my suggestions on the talk page. Thalia/Karen 22:45, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
  • Certificate -- More examples are needed -- just think of all those language certificates (http://www.cambridge-efl.org/exam/general/bg_cpe.cfm etc. etc.). <KF> 18:27, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Chaordic - unclear. Onebyone 22:57, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Doppelganger
  • Death rock fashion -Not putting down rookies as I myself was one once, but the info in this page is typical of a rookie. Antonio Poser Martin
  • England: Absolutism and Constitutionalism - Apparently originally from lecture notes; lots of good info, but needs rewriting and wikifying. Delirium 02:35, Sep 17, 2003 (UTC)
  • Facade pattern: Result of odd merges, it appears. Introduction sentence abruptly ends, structure is odd, some flakiness with regard to source... Jake 05:01, 2003 Aug 14 (UTC)
  • Hephthalite - Can anyone verify the origin of the statements with ?s after them. Also needs some more Chinese Characters if anyone can add them.
  • "Independent, Neutral, Turkmenistan State Anthem"
  • Barton (village), Vermont and Barton (town), Vermont have identical text but different demographics, combine? It looks weird if you open them in two tabs and switch between them :) Dori 05:43, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
  • Supermodel lists several people who are probably not supermodels by any reasonable definition; see the talk page for more discussion. Dominus 03:37, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Synergy -- an important phenomenon which deserves a longer and better article, preferably with an interdisciplinary approach. --KF 21:32, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Drainage -- techniques are 125 years out of date. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 02:40, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Mint (coin) - Mostly about the US. Onebyone 16:45, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman architecture -- Expanded from a stub, but could still use illustrations; I'm thinking one showing the five orders, one of a mosaic, and a couple examples of Roman buildings. - Djinn112 23:07, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Renting -- There's not much useful here, but I don't think it needs deletion, just lots of work. Very non-encyclopedic. --Spikey 02:07, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • School discipline -- needs a major rewrite to add different points of view, NPOV
    • Have put a note at top identifying the source of the article and begun writing a new stub article -- kiwiinapanic 15:40, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Now has 4 paragraphs above the ERIC Digests #78 import - someone should peer review. -- kiwiinapanic 16:50, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Semi-detached -- needs some historical & sociological data, and also a picture. Anyone living in a semi-detached, please go ahead. Wikikiwi 22:14, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Shirt -- Lots of information, but not very readable. Looks easy to skim, but isn't. --Spikey 03:12, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • restructured and deleted a lot of weird stuff Rick Boatright 07:14, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Verb -- Almost a stub. Description as a "doing word" could be improved. Examples of concepts shown by verbs in different languages are needed (e. g. languages where copulas aren't verbs). Types of verbs and case systems are severely mixed up. --Pablo-flores 01:53, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • For all the times I've linked to it, I feel embarrassed at having not yet noticed. I've tried to expand it, mostly with information about English paradigms. -- Smerdis of Tlön 01:30, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Integument has been moved to Wiktionary:Transwiki:Integument. Someone who understands interwiki links needs to delete it and replace it with whatever redirects are appropriate. Tannin 14:17, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Talk:U.S._two_dollar_banknote -- Please look at the links and compare these pages to the page for the $2 bill.
  • Large-sized note Are there any differences between those notes and today's small-sized notes missing from this page??
  • United States dollar and Large denomination bills in US currency -- Both of these pages were edited by someone very silly who believes in the existence of a $200 bill with Theodore Roosevelt. Please try to find whatever the reason this was done is.


Wikipedia

  • Wikipedia -- Needs much more timely overview info, in addition to the long history. Links to news, press releases, stats, etc. 140.247.101.94 22:07, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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