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April 17

Weequay ???? Girls' Middle School - very POV. Not sure there'll be anything left once the POV is excised, so maybe VfD?? +copyvio

Sudanese Air Force - POV

New Providence - needs editing, wiki, formatting.

April 16

Down's syndrome - "Down's syndrome's sociology" section needs NPOVing and clarifying (see talk page)

Scenario planning - interesting but unsure about reliability of "A step-by-step guide to scenario planning" (contained in article)

Lunchbox (Marilyn Manson Album) - messy

United Hockey League - more detail?

Venedes - uh? Can anyone make sense of this? About Wends, no? Good idea to merge and save anything useable about the historic names for them.

SMDS - incomprehensible sub stub.

Afghan Turkestan - very dated 1911.

The Dune Encyclopedia - where do I start? RickK +put on VfD DJ Clayworth

Hand training - needs lots of work

Sodium chloride (salt) - Needs several subheads & reorganization, including random list of facts at end

April 15

The Thing, NPOV and possibly off-topic (last paragraph)

Laurence Janifer, unwikified

York Chocolate cat terms like "new" and "not yet widely recognised" trigger the "is it encyclopedic" alarms.

Epitome - dict. def.

Jonas Martin Panik - 9/11 victim +VfD

Georgine Rose Corrigan - 9/11 victim +VfD

Deborah Jacobs Welsh, 9/11 victim +VfD

Michael Madsen - needs to be rewritten into a real stub.

Ross Noble - some taken from Ross Noble Biog (on his website, see link in article), so possible copyright issues.

Autolysis - O dear, it is sooooo ... ugly.

Courier is a very small stub. Needs lots of work.

Ronia the Robber's Daughter reads like it was machine translated from Swedish

Max and Moritz should be on wikisource, no?

Home dels nassos is either a Bad Joke in need of rapid deletion, or, if there is such a custom the article needs some TLC who knows something about it. seglea

Critical rationalism needs wikification, context, possible rewrite

Stance dict def.

Mnemonic link system - needs major rework, doesn't give definition, mainly list of links currently.

Economics of biodiversity has had no content since 2002

The War Chief horrible capitalization, messy, confusing, horrible

April 14

Liberalism and conservatism in Latin America - needs context/merging

Creativism - looks like an ad + There's a reason it looks like one; to VfD. (Smerdis of Tlön)

Intravertebral Dictionary definition. Might be better as a redirect

Pakistani English - poor definition, borderline vfd

Tomb of Shah Jamal - seems unnecessary in its current state - probably quite celebrated

Precising definition - lacks precision, definition and much else Charles Matthews

Soviet submarine K-77 possible copyvio, has been unwikified since 2002

G protein - no wiki and the name of the contributor. Suggest merging with G protein-coupled receptor. JFW | T@lk 20:28, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 13

Experiment 345 and a whole lot more Experiments - lilo stich stuff, needs context

Diyarbakir - messy

British Rail Class 10 - cleanup in general (context, fmt, lang etc) + context & some wiki links --Tagishsimon

Pan-atheism - a sentence on context would be nice.

Fear (movie) just an incomplete sentence + completed the sentence --Tagishsimon

Common preference, legitimate?

K. M. Peyton unresolved comment in article.

Sunjata and Sunjata Keita look interesting enough, just lack wikification

QR algorithm - seems to be a topic, but needs better context and info.

Ikari Shinji - no context

Sonata da chiesa - no context

Abdominal pains - messy

Shadow Game originally listed for speedy deletion, it's kind of ok just needs context

Free machine - obscure, is this a real topic?

Fractional calculus, Differintegral, initialization of the differintegrals, differintegration of some elementary functions, basic rules of differintegration: this whole raft of articles is a logical tangle and needs sorting out (the fractional calculus topic is valid, but NPOV and some fresh order is badly needed, and exceeds what can be done via discussion on one talk page). In detail there are the following problems:

Point (spatial) -- badly needs a rewrite

List of neo- and quasi-Hindu movements needs formatting, NPOVing, etc.

The Garden of Cyrus - PoV (& copyvio?)

64-bit needs updating/merging

Reconciliation - (from Reconcilation to this) needs content

Iraqi National Accord Iraqi anti-Saddam group, article has not been updated since 2002

Shannara family tree unwikified, poor format, should probably be merged somewhere

Emergent philosophy - POV, is this a legitimate term, vfd?

Wood burning - ancient sub-stub, legitimate?

Kelowna Heat - Abbotsford Saints - Regina Storm - Kamloops Critters - Nanaimo Navigators - Red Deer Outlaws - Calgary Outlaws - Lethbridge Dust Devils - All are said to be a part of the Canadian Baseball League, but that league no longer exists.

Pokémon Blue written in 1st person, references to 2nd person, non-encyclopedic language Guanaco 00:37, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Plant City - about a place in Florida - needs more detail - just two short sentences at the moment

Sanctification - messy, only from a Christian POV

April 12

Johannes_Brahms early life all wrong; needs better external source.

Synod of Bishops sub stub

Moniker Dictionary definition. Looks ago to me. --Lukeisham

Culture of Japan - research could provide basis to restore part of highly suspect info i removed to Talk:Culture of Japan; also needs more info. --Jerzy(t)

RFA Wave Emperor - lacks context, wikification + context and minor wiki-ing --Tagishsimon

Good complements and Complements should be merged, but I don't know ehere

Cometbus

Tunnel Vision Keith Lowe wikif.; redirect one?

Comcom wiki,accuracy. Fixed: redir to communicative competence Mikkalai 20:13, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Felix Manalo wiki, accuracy.

April 11

Witch Hunter Robin - icky

Robert Trujillo - needs work

QUA - if true it looks like it's in the wrong place - Graham  :) | Talk - Patent nonsenses, to VFD. Smerdis of Tlön


Dragon Ball Z Live Action Movie needs wikif.

Brampton, Ontario, Bramalea City Centre -- repeated text in the Communities section. The shopping centre article (from 66.185.84.208, a source of vandalism) could have any relevant information merged into the main article and become a redirect. -- Zigger

Matias, Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard, List of Matias products, Edgar Matias -- not quite sure if there should be an article on this and, if yes, which of the four should be its title. --User:Docu


Iraqi Revolution Command Council - very little information - needs expansion

Kanuri - substub

Mental bandwidth - no sure what can be done with this, looks psuedoscientific

absolute tripe, should be deleted. I will put it on VfD seglea

More than a week old

April 10

Pokemon/Damage subpage, rewording, check conversion of formula, general cleanup Guanaco

List of postal codes in Poland — All the Polish characters are broken; might need introductory paragraph; should probably all be wikified

Film soundtrack could do with some examples of good soundtracks, or a link to a List of film soundtracks -- Graham  :) | Talk

Eye_surgery - format, slight copyvio potential, wikify

List of radio stations in Serbia and Montenegro moved from VfD, organize, copyedit, expand

Boiler Efficiency: taken straight from technical paper (possible copyvio?) - Vardion

Caliculation Routines: same as above - Vardion

Social organization of cyberspace POV / original research

Electional astrology - looks like a dump, needs speculativeness hilighted vfd

Fusient Media Ventures: unwikified

Neofeudalism accuracy, NPOV, etc

Bugger - unwikfied, dict. def.

contributions regarding Panama which need some reformatting, linking and stub messages - Fennec

April 6-9

Benign - dictionary definition, vfd?

Walo is it Walo or Wala?, wikify, expand

Mikhail Lukin sub-stub, unwikified

Percy Bass no indication of relevance or importance, vfd?

Scott Steiner - unformatted data dump, maybe a copyvio

Casablanca class escort carrier - Majority of carriers on this list have empty information tables.

Kino no Tabi - needs some NPOV-ing

H. Irving Hancock needs lots of work

Morios to wikify, link, etc. Mikkalai 10:30, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Brody Armstrong - unencyclopedic wording ||| Moved to Brody Dalle - Guanaco

Disambiguate the 2 dozens links at Prussian. --Menchi

April 5

Vyacheslav Mescherin is this page factually accurate?

I can't find anything about him on Britannica Online, but a Google search turned up a couple of British sites selling the Easy USSR records Jonel

Chanco - needs NPOVing and wikifying

Myrine - Xena character, with little information, unwikified

The Fever - The Twilight Zone episode, needs making clear what it is at start. Also may need structure tweaking.

Llama - rather long article that work on sentence structure, etc. +some done, still problems

April 4

Emilie du Chatelet been needing cleanup since 2002. Just thought I'd bring it to everyone's attention. Danny 17:01, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Izmir Province - not only does this article need to be wikified, it describes the city, not the province! -- llywrch +There is also Izmir article on the city, merge? Andris

Edward Livingston imported from 1911 EB, needs wikification and some editing for style Bkonrad | Talk

Dawn of the Dead (2004) - substub

Incompetence - copyed, expand. Could be fun. Denni

P2 - odd wording Brian Rock

Learning Support Systems - just a list of internal/ext. links

Creature of statute - substub (one sentence) - needs expansion, preferablly by someone with legal/business knowledge Silverfish

Goh Keng Swee - substub

Animal hides - expand

More than two weeks old

April 1-3

THC Ministry - POV, famous?

Maîtresse Hounon'gon is another stub. Information? -- Slowking Man

Table setting, in need of rewrite. Non-encyclopedic language, unwikfied

Security camera, unwikified, language

Patient- care, unwikified, language

Nurse assistant skills, only partillay wikified

Preschool education has a rewrite, but needs more.

Wachovia Bank of Georgia - the building or the company?

Wikipedia talk:Make only links relevant to the context - conversation too long and convoluted, needs cleanup, but is rightfully POV --rs2

Particle_velocity_level - goes through the motions of describing a physics? term and its use w/o any clarity or understanding

Ito Noriko - sub-stub

March 29-31

Michael I of Serbia - sub-stub, unwikified

Symbolics seems to repeat itself; also some overlap with Lisp machine.

Wilderness first aid Needs either serious professional attention or serious deletions.

Half Caste - poem explanation needs expanding, poem itself should be cut to a small quote or moved to wikisource

Machiko Soga - data dump, possible copyright violation. Fuzheado

John E. Blaha currently a resume, needs transforming into an article.

Bachelor herd - needs confirmation of facts. + checks out thru Google. 315 links, eg to national geographic. --Tagishsimon 01:47, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum - NPOV, wikify, etc. Bearcat

March 26-28

Latitat - substub (single sentence) - needs work from someone with legal knowledge. Silverfish

Lea Bridge and Lea Bridge road currently only the location, can anything else be added?

Minister of State - should be a disambig page

Michael Pennington - see talk page

Rohan Gavaskar - lacking content, poor format, sub-stub

Cobra probe - obscure -- Khym Chanur

Quantum brain dynamics - long but hard to understand, pseudo-science vfd?

E-Work - marketing-speak -- Khym Chanur

Melbirn - advert vfd?

Ghostigital - unwikified

Nina Serrano - stubstub?

March 25

Susning.nu - I don't even know where to start. -Gamera2

Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem - some more well-meaning wikification necessary

Ethical Will - needs wikifying and a lot of well-meaning care ;-)

Children of Eber, aka Bnei Eyver can someone verify that this is an actual concept in Judaism? Nothing substantial on Google

Ambassadors (from Germany to Burkina Faso) 1 redlink does not a list make -- Graham  :) | Talk

PGAL - fragmentary, not sure about accuracy --??? - ...huh? This article is totally impenetrable! o_O --Eequor - just needs some cleanup by someone with a little biochem. It's basically about glycolosis, which is about as fundamental a cell process as you can get. Removing accuracy dispute tag. Denni

March 24

Vassula Ryden About a 'modern era prophet'. Very POV at the moment.

Sarah Gordon expand, wikify, format

List of English words of Polish origin needs copyedits and fact checking (isn't vodka also Russian?)

It is. The problem here is that there are many words which are both Polish and Russian - that's why I suggest merging these two pages into List of English words of Slavic origin. There are even more problems with Polish words since some of them came into English through other languages - like intelligentsia (Polish inteligencja) through Russian, or nudge noodge (Polish nudzić) through Yiddish. --Kpalion (Nudge comes form Norwegian dialect & has quite different pronunciation and meaning. Jerzy(t))
There are other problems as well. What do the words Sejm or szlachta or congnates of them mean to an English speaker? Cecropia 18:15, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sabalan needs more content, formating

Publixtheatre Caravan - rather POV at present. Tualha

Toll-like receptor - need a lot more context, deadend, sub-stub

New health measures - more context, or merge into Panama Canal -- Khym Chanur

Via net loss - unwikified, more context

History of Kansas - loads of grammatical errors. I tried to start clearing up, someone who knows more about the subject should finish. PeterC

Sid and Marty Krofft - needs a little TLC

U.S. constitutional right to medical treatment essay with many wrong assertions

March 23

Geodesy for the layman - needs rewrite to sound encyclopedic

Sexual chat roleplay probably original research and/or rumour, see its talk Andrewa VfD?

Mswlogo May be just an advert. Not sure whether it should be deleted. VfD?

Poland's betrayal by the Western Allies -- needs some NPOVing and perhaps a new title?
See also: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion Kpalion

Garden Maple (Acer micranthum) lacking content, just photos

Processing - Is this an ad? Certainly nothing that links there is appropriate - Conrad Leviston

Eve Ellis style, pverly gushing, unencyclopeic language

Stairway - needs wikification (particularly towards end), better sectioning and probably a good copyedit for measure. Zoney

March 22

Copyright Act of 1976 sub-stub, needs huge help from someone who knows anything about the act

Variomatic looks like it's been machine translated from German, incomprehensible. moink

Ship articles from List of ships of the United States Navy linked variously to "Mare Island", "Mare Island, California" and "Mare Island Naval Shipyard", for which there were no articles. The first is now a redirect to the 2nd and there are now 2 separate articles for the last 2--fix links to point to proper place.

[[Communes_of_the_Calvados_d%E9partement]] - many articles need the empty sections commented out, and the stub message added

Proof-Carrying Code no content, just external links

Alternative technology - language, too many external links not enough internal ones

Starmie - sub-substub!

Angmering - unwikified ad, but is encyclopedia

Into the Unknown - sub stub, formatting

Tintin and the Golden Fleece - sub-stub

March 21

Alexandrov topology - please edit this so a numbskull like me can actually understand it... -- Graham  :) | Talk

EGBU-15 - just a table

Frank Carlucci - a list

Havana Conference of 1940 - unwikified, sub-stub

Megacycles - POV issues "Geologists agreed that..." Nanocycles method - POV issues - internal inconsitency ("586.2385 million years" from a calculation accurate to +/-0.03 million years? Google gives 4 hits for Megacycles Nanocycles ... we may be in tinfoil hat territory, tonto --Tagishsimon

March 19-20

Wong Wah-bo - sub stub, unwikified

Fathers 4 Justice - Slight NPOV, see discussion on Talk:Fathers 4 Justice

ARA Santisima Trinidad unwikified, needs copyedit, but not sure about accuracy of article

MIRABAI, Mirabai - submitted by User:Karlajohnson, need NPOV and possibly deletion.

Spiritual evolution - Seems to be written for theologians, and after reading the page I still don't have a clue what spiritual evolution is supposed to be. Needs to be much more accessible. --Egomaniac

Imperial College Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society - wikify and NPOV

Layer 4 router - context, expand

Afghanistan timeline 1901-1910 - too long paragraphs and probably unreadable as it is. Pfortuny

IGN Boards links to two "see" articles, no explanatory text. Make into article, redirect, or delete. - merge IGNCB into it? Mrwojo

Citeaux Abbey - I'm sure someone with the knowledge can do a better writing. Map possibly interesting. Pfortuny

Nannyberry - needs beautifying and classification and photo :) Pfortuny

Al Gore's views - Needs copyed for tense

March 17-18

Freaked Out And Small - wikify and format

Cave In - If anyone has heard of this band please take a look. +Slightly hacked around, based on cursory web research. Might now make some sense to someone unfamiliar with their musical genre. --Tagishsimon

The annual customs - needs context, relation to Dahomey (merge?)

Rennaz - Complete mess. - wouldn't call it a complete mess, but more info would surely help. Some stuff on the net, but almost all in French/German Denni

Software engineering demographicsNeeds to be wikified...but it looks like some of it might be copyrighted.

Pokemon/Damage - Subpage, no Wikification, extremely informal style, et cetera et cetera. Fennec - fix, merge w. pokemon, delete Denni

Midwest a recent addition to the article needs a careful review; mildly POV and unwikified; it also significantly changed emphasis of the article. Bkonrad | Talk

Super 17 - Tragic mess

Burnham Thorpe - stub, wikify -- Khym Chanur

Kalmyk language - unwikified, one long paragraph. fabiform | talk + Links added; there's history that needs NPOV and might be better in a separate article about the ethnic group or the province. (Smerdis of Tlön)

Interdisciplinary Qualifying Project - Wikifiy, obfuscated -- Khym Chanur

Also, Major Qualifying Project and Sufficiency in the Liberal Arts have the same problems as Interdisciplinary Qualifying Project, and are probably related, since they were all created by the same user, who's from the university the articles talk about. -- Khym Chanur
VfD all of them Isomorphic

Cao Cao Unification of the North - Wikify, context, (re)unification?, maybe better title

Wikipedia:Words to avoid - proofread and NPOV edit by me. r3m0t 12:48, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

More than a month old

March 14-16

Messali Hadj - needs explanation of TLAs, unwikified

German literature - needs intro/abstract and links to existing articles.

Richard Lyons - sub-stub

Reelin - unwikified, orphan, content questioned in article

Redemption of First-born - lacking context, orphan

Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - amateurish, merge elsewhere, VfD

Muhammad Thakurufar Al-Azam needs fact checking.

Orthomyxoviridae - wikify

King Zhuangxiang of Qin - NPOV, wikify Muriel

What goes around comes around - possibly incorporate content into List of clichés and then vfd?

Jesuit High School - should be a disambiguation page; needs to address that there are multiple Jesuit High Schools, and what they are.

Islamic views of homosexuality - questionable material about same-sex marriage

March 12-13

Technology acceptance model mostly unwikified, orphan, copyvio?

Pain of Salvation - passes the Google test but needs complete rewrite.

Michael Anissimov - stub, info needs verification

Thomas S. Wootton High School unencyclopedic style. This high school is well-known in my area.

Computer numbering formats - very long article, lots un-wikified. Much info needs redistributed to constituent topics Binary numeral system, Integer (computer science), Floating point, ASCII, Binary coded decimal and Data type. Removed a request to merge with Integer (computer science). See Talk page. Zoney

MediaWiki:Cults - POV and inaccurate

Attribute - far more than just a telecommunications term

Nucleoid region - substub (one sentence) - needs expanding - if subject worth including Silverfish

March 8-11

Frank O'Connor currently in point form, don't know who he is enough to fix.

Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. was on VfD; wikified, needs copyed to be reader friendly

42 BELOW: advert

National War Labor Board: substub

Meditative art: needs grammar and format work, wikified

Joni Dourif pseudoscience, self-promotion

Exotic Probability: are parts of this a spoof? Checking needed. - Looks clean to me. A whack of solid Google hits on Feynman and negative probability. Denni No, it's a carefully-constructed hoax, I believe Charles Matthews

March 2-7

Hancock Place - needs NPOVing

Balancing network - needs in-depth description and a bit of non-engineers-only text.

Cabrini-Green - needs NPOVing

Corinth, Greece needs to be divided between into 2 articles: one about the city, the other about the prefecture

VEISHEA needs wikification, formatting, organization.

How to care for a pet cockatoo was listed on VfD consensus to keep byt needs TLC

February 20 - March 1

Intellectual property education Probably needs self promotion removed as does perhaps presumed autobio Shaheen Lakhan; Human memory process by same IP (noted at #February 4, 11th item), and those labelled "(Top)" at Contribs of (surely) the same person are also not yet edited by others, and may (or not!) still deserve scrutiny

Folk_music - This is no way NPOV. It's one particular, very persuasive, and often-argued POV, but Louis Armstrong has his supporters (myself amongst them).

Marshall Rosenberg - NPOVing due -some done, mainly by removing vast swaths of fawning. Needs someone who knows about peace & conflict resolution to take a look.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda - see talk page, not in standard format and POV

Thutmose I of Egypt - birth date makes no sense, German entry has altogether different dates

Steve Rochinski - poor stub, famous?

Danny Rolling - idiosyncratic, check facts, rewrite

Aaron J. Fink, POV tract

February 25-29

Animation:Master - reads like an advert

Chairman of the National Defence Committee of North Korea - bogus crap, Kim Jong-il is not head of state

Fernando Lopes - needs formatting

Dahrumasan ga Koronda - needs wikifying

Bregenz - parts of it could benefit from list format

Tourism of Argentina - expand, context, wikify, npov

February 20-24

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie - first-person film review that has been here since October.

Serous - dictionary definition

Southern All Stars - messy

Iain Cameron - substub; unwikif.

February 16-19

List of English competitions add to list! only one item.

KOMPILER - another jargon filled FOLDOC entry

Escuela Moderna - sub-stub

Lists of cities by country, most with only a coupld of cities: from the break-up of list of cities. Please help expand them.

Somalia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Ted Husing - not copyvio, but needs wikifying and editing

Iraqi opposition - update? stub.

Flighted pet parrots - who wants to make an article out of this? rename to Pet parrots, link from species-listing page Parrots?

February 18

Mark Satin - resume style mini-bio. needs npov, reduction, formatting and fleshing out.

February 17

Bokharaby -- merge with Bessarabia?

Guthlac - somebody's homework: an essay containing first person singular and plural. Needs major cleanup by someone familiar with Old English poetry. Lupo

Donny Hamzik - related to Manowar; stub; needs context.

List of Croatians - Most linked pages need copyediting, as do the pages about Croation locations. Needs fact checking by non-anonymous Croatian w'pedians; much anon contrib. Check also for exactly duplicated entries with slightly different spelling or phrases in the title that shd be redirects.

Practical equine psychology needs wikif. +copyvio warning

Fusient Media Ventures - fmt, NPOV if that's (excuse my POV) possible w. WWF wrestling... Denni

The Sun Don't Lie - needs album fmt

Paralus sub-stub. needs context.

February 9-15

Ibo needs deletion/merging w/Igbo for context, clarification. See Talk:Igbo for more.

Mike Herrera, Tom Wisniewski, Yuri Ruley - just bullet lists now

February 14

Ricochet the article seems fine, but it should be moved to Ricochet(Half-Life-Mod) and replaced by a disambig page (see it's "what links here"). We also should check weather Ricochet(Psychology) or something related exists and if not create a stub. I'm too tired for something that complicated Lady Tenar

February 13

Yiyang - every section just one sentence often stating not really special things.

Starving Time of 1610 - needs more, or merging somewhere

Siege of Viana - not an article yet

Leftovers

See Wikipedia:Cleanup/Leftovers