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April 27
List of Spanish newspapers - 'list' contains only one newspaper
Fallout - a reasonable article, more or less, followed by a scrambled pile of facts. Some content would be happier at radioactive contamination.
Asana - needs some NPOV and cleanup from someone who knows about this.
List of SAT words and subpages - belong to Wiktionary?
Community inquiry labs - needs context
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.
April 26
Prophet Onias - very definitely POV, needs fact checking. - Mustafaa
Salic law - needs cleaning, strange introduction on top. -- Edcolins + Moved the text of the law into the body of the article. Reads OK to me now. Smerdis of Tlön
Berenger Sauniere - needs fact-checking and possibly NPOV. Google search suggests that he's controversial and/or surrounded by some conspiracy theories and legends.
Comic book collecting - Wikification and the last paragraph is very yucky. TimothyPilgrim
Pinky Lee - Needs context badly. - Sheldon Lee provides a little context, but now why is Sheldon notable? Isomorphic PL: + Still a stub; SL: +Dunno, but noted in talk a Pinky Lee referenced by same editor.
Take That - the band. I don't know enough about them to fix it myself, but it seems highly POV and incomplete. also find phrases like "post-climactic decline" a bit inappropriate. Rossrs
Geneva Accord (Vietnam) unformatted + Corrected spelling and created links. Camerong
Vito Genovese - one big paragraph, sentences beginning with prepositions, run on sentences etc. Could do with edits for style and clarity.
+ Did full edit (since when are mafioso mafiosi stars?), but still feels it needs to be expanded. External links with information are included. - MGM
Buck or Two - needs edit for style from someone who knows this chain of stores
Japanese numerals - this edit added a whole new column of readings for Japanese numerals - I'm suspicious because they also added 8080000 to the list, which is a nonsense page. sjorford - the hi/fu/mi/yo readings are fine, as in futatsu=twice, so perhaps no need for suspicion (format, though) Charles Matthews The guy was basically right - he just misunderstood the meaning of yaoyorozu, which I've fixed. No worries, mate. - Mustafaa
April 25
Pyrroloquinoline quinone - legitimate? Claims of "new vitamins" are always suspicious. - It's purportedly a vitamin in mice. No deficiency disease has been shown in humans, so it's certainly not a human vitamin.
Prelog - I assume it's a city in Croatia? Please let us know what country it's in.
The_George_Inn- needs wikification and general style + rewrite and links added, some reformatting
Ernest Mason Satow - a mess.
Theoprax-Method - This looks like an ad for http://www.theoprax-research.com/, assuming user:GMermi == Dr. G. Mermigidis. Otherwise, it's a copyvio.
Respiratory distress syndrome - Just one line, needs expansion!
continuity, continuity error -- could probably be merged.
April 24
Billy Corish - listed on VfD, but nothing a lot of work can't fix.
Srila Vishnupada, H.D.G. Ramakrishnananda Swami - puff piece, profoundly POV.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! ok, its got a nice summary now, but some context would be nice. Is this a porn movie? foreign flick? what?
Ozone-oxygen cycle needs to be rewritten
Lada - Needs NPOV
Property damage - VfD voted to keep and list on cleanup, see Talk:Property damage. -- Graham :) | Talk
Nanjing University - ungrammatical ---revised and still need to improve. Thanks for your help ---Dictioner 01:25, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC) Don L. Lind - currently in resume format.
- Rewritten with given information, added headings (reformatted) - MGM 20:34, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
University of Kentucky - horrible, dreadful mess after last anon edit. -was reverted. --- Still needs a lot of help. Apparently nothing of consequence is taught there (I thought as much), so sports are its only focus. -- Smerdis of Tlön
Authorial intentionality - Dead end, non encyclopedic, non wiki, POV. I'd VFD except it might be a real thing.
Tim Hardaway - Needs copyediting, Wikification, fact-checking...everything.
Early flying machines - messy - worse than messy-an unravellable ball of theory/history/philosophy which essentially needs to be deconstructed and totally rewritten. Denni
April 23
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - format, POV
Vande Mataram Controversy - ??? + now listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems
Ronnie Dunn - format, wikifying, general cleanup
- Wikified somewhat, added that he's a country singer (this wasn't originally included). Rewrote in NPOV with punctuation (!). Added link to official site and reference for awards. Needs extra attention from country music fan - MGM 06:06, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Kix Brooks Needs similar edit, maybe combine both with band name as article name and Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks as redirects? - MGM 22:03, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Okay, merged/redirected Kix Brooks & Ronnie Dunn into Brooks & Dunn; brought list of CMA awards up to date. Now can somebody flesh this out? A. J. A. DeWitt 01:52, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Ibo needs deletion/merging w/Igbo for context, clarification. See Talk:Igbo for more.
Tom Wisniewski, Yuri Ruley - just bulleted lists
Mobb Deep -needs expanding
Definitions of Homosexuality - lots of vague assertions, needs expansion and rewriting. - blanking and redirection to homosexuality might be a better idea.
Devil's beatin' his wife can anything more be said about this?
Toaster museum author doesn't seem to know anything about it
Royal Lao Air Force - poor, one line stub.
Ragdoll and Ragdoll cat should be merged; then one page should be made a redirect to the other. - (done)
April 22
Futami Jouwa - I'm totally confused. - Apparently a Ryukyuan song; to pages needing translation. (Smerdis of Tlön)
Dad (Earthbound) - Needs context, further wikifying, clearer explanation. + did some cleanup (esp. context) -- Jonel
Management Creativity - orphan dicdef
Kemocite - some context?
Fact sheet needs better wikification- near text-dump as-is
April 21
Bioacoustics - needs to be expanded, just a dicdef now.
Fiction based on World War II - Needs wikifying, expanding.
RFA_Salviola (A502) needs table filled in.
Phat short article in dictionary format, needs refactor
Salvage Pathway -needs expanding
Virtual ground much better now, but still a stub. Is there a "expand this stub" list this can be moved to, or is cleanup good enough?
Srila Vishnupada, H.D.G. Ramakrishnananda Swami - dumped-in external text
Beogradjanka - cleanup and expand
Sin#Muslim views of sin - POV, hostile tone. I assume atonement from sin is possible in Islam, but am short of particulars. (Smerdis of Tlön)
Roberto Tirado - from vfd, consensus to keep but requires cleanup. See Talk:Roberto Tirado -- Graham :) | Talk
Norman Lamm unwikified and POV, copyvio? + copyvio from [1] -- Jonel
More than a week old
April 19-20
Gregory Lauder-Frost unwikfied, needs some loving attention from a neutral Irish Wikipedian. + toned down (self?-)promotional tone, but probably needs yet more NPOV
Starving Time of 1610 - needs more, or merging somewhere
Chris Phoenix - famous? vfd
Child_safety_lock - put in context of other locks; link to this art.
IO-APIC - current issue or not? incomprehensbile to a layman.
Agent Cody Banks - outdated information, info on sequel needed. - MGM 07:43, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)
RJ Sternberg - sub-stub
Charles Kinsey data dump Guanaco
1999: Hore, Mitakotoka! Seikimatsu Apparantly a japanese monopoly game, anyone ever heard of it?
Engagement ring needs to be combined with Wedding band with a new article title. TimothyPilgrim
- Better, move the "Engagement ring" section from the latter to the former. The latter page needs a lot of work; see Talk:Wedding band. Gdr
Velocette unwikified, in timeline format
April 18
E-Consensus. Is this just original research or is it a real thing worth an article? Maybe VfD? - "Actually it's an overlap of electronic forums and consensus decision making. partly origional research in Information Theory regarding the mathamatical nature of consensus in open issue fourms. It also offeres others core ideas in electronic decision systems. I would hope for a Vote for Inclusion VFI.
Blue Tears - Alice Cooper fans take note and give this some help, format, sub-stub.
Concupiscence - Extant request from 2002 for theologically trained Catholic & Protestant to review this article.
Tim Eyman unformatted + Some cleanup done, needs more work. Jonel
Marine aquarium fish species - Subedit, tone of voice
Remote concentrator - Some sort of telephone exchange multiplexor?
Magnification - poor stub.
Soundhog - needs a lot of work.
Beno Gutenberg - needs formatting, maybe copyvio?
April 17
Bread and Roses - not sure if it's a copyvio, but it is POV. Rick
Patient empowerment -- unresolved factual dispute
ARY Group grammar, POV
Dazzle orphaned advert, vfd?
GRAM - advert? vfd?
Baker Brook, New Brunswick - requires NPOV editing
Culture of Saudi Arabia - messy, incomplete
Imgv. portable image viewer - non-famous? vfd?
Cyprus Mines Corporation - not written like a encyclopedia article
Abstract music - what?? vfd?
Wenura Dissanayake - just a list of stats, last sentence bizarre
White Night riots - unwikified
April 16
Scenario planning - interesting but unsure about reliability of "A step-by-step guide to scenario planning" (contained in article)
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. + I've wikified it a bit more and changed a few words ('E.' to 'east' and 'sq. m.' to 'square metres') but I don't know enough about the place to significantly update anything. BillyH
April 14-15
Laurence Janifer, unwikified
Ronia the Robber's Daughter reads like it was machine translated from Swedish
Max and Moritz should be on wikisource, no?
Mnemonic link system - needs major rework, doesn't give definition, mainly list of links currently.
The War Chief horrible capitalization, messy, confusing, horrible
Liberalism and conservatism in Latin America - needs context/merging, unwikified
Tomb of Shah Jamal - unwikified sub-stub
Precising definition - lacks precision, definition and much else Charles Matthews
G protein - unwikified and the name of the contributor. Suggest merging with G protein-coupled receptor. JFW | T@lk 20:28, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
More than two weeks old
April 13
K. M. Peyton unresolved comment in article.
Sunjata Keita look interesting enough, just lacks wikification
QR algorithm - seems to be a topic, but needs better context and info.
Sonata da chiesa - no context, unwikified
The Garden of Cyrus - PoV (& copyvio?): Not copyvio; see talk page. (Smerdis of Tlön)
64-bit needs updating/merging
Iraqi National Accord Iraqi anti-Saddam group, article has not been updated since 2002
Abbotsford Saints - Regina Storm - Kamloops Critters - Nanaimo Navigators - Red Deer Outlaws - Lethbridge Dust Devils - All are said to be a part of the Canadian Baseball League, but that league no longer exists.
Sanctification - messy, unwikfied only from a Christian POV
April 10-12
Johannes Brahms early life all wrong; needs better external source.
Synod of Bishops sub stub
Cometbus, unwikified, POV
Dragon Ball Z Live Action Movie needs wikif. and definition early in article. Data needs to be rearranged.
Iraqi Revolution Command Council - very little information - needs expansion, wikification
Kanuri - substub
List of postal codes in Poland — All the Polish characters are broken; might need introductory paragraph; should probably all be wikified
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 vfd?
Neofeudalism accuracy, NPOV, etc
Bugger - unwikfied, dict. def.
April 6-9
Walo is it Walo or Wala?, wikify, expand
Casablanca class escort carrier - Majority of carriers on this list have empty information tables.
Kino no Tabi - needs some NPOV-ing, wikification
H. Irving Hancock unformated, unwikified
Morios - unwikified
Disambiguate the 2 dozens links at Prussian. --Menchi
April 4-5
Chanco - needs NPOVing and fact checking
The Fever - The Twilight Zone episode, needs making clear what it is at start. Also may need structure tweaking.
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
Incompetence - copyed, expand. Could be fun. Denni
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
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
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.
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
Ghostigital - unwikified
Nina Serrano - stubstub?
More than a month old
March 23-25
Ambassadors (from Germany to Burkina Faso) 1 redlink does not a list make -- Graham :) | Talk
Vassula Ryden About a 'modern era prophet'. Very POV at the moment.
Sarah Gordon expand, wikify, format
- 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)
Publixtheatre Caravan - rather POV at present. Tualha
Toll-like receptor - need a lot more context, deadend, sub-stub
Via net loss - unwikified, more context
U.S. constitutional right to medical treatment essay with many wrong assertions
Geodesy for the layman - needs rewrite to sound encyclopedic
- nonononono it needs to be moved to Wikibooks, which was made for things like it. -- EmperorBMA / ブライアン 22:27, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Processing - Is this an ad? Certainly nothing that links there is appropriate - Conrad Leviston
Eve Ellis style, overly gushing, unencyclopeic language
Stairway - needs wikification (particularly towards end), better sectioning and probably a good copyedit for measure. Zoney
March 21-22
Copyright Act of 1976 sub-stub, needs huge help from someone who knows anything about the act
[[Communes_of_the_Calvados_d%E9partement]] - many articles need the empty sections commented out, and the stub message added
Into the Unknown - sub stub, unwikified, formatting
Tintin and the Golden Fleece - sub-stub
Alexandrov topology - please edit this so a numbskull like me can actually understand it... -- Graham :) | Talk
EGBU-15 - just a table
March 17-20
Wong Wah-bo - sub stub, unwikified
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
Citeaux Abbey - I'm sure someone with the knowledge can do a better writing. Map possibly interesting. Pfortuny
Al Gore's views - Needs copyed for tense
The annual customs - needs context, relation to Dahomey (merge?)
Software engineering demographicsNeeds to be wikified...but it looks like some of it might be copyrighted.
Midwest POV
Cao Cao Unification of the North - Wikify, context, (re)unification?, maybe better title
March 14-16
Messali Hadj - needs explanation of TLAs, unwikified
Richard Lyons - sub-stub
Reelin - unwikified, orphan, content questioned in article
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
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 2-11
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
Meditative art: needs grammar and format work, wikified
Joni Dourif pseudoscience, self-promotion
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
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.
Southern All Stars - messy
Iain Cameron - substub; unwikif.
February 16-19
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.
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?
Mark Satin - resume style mini-bio. needs npov, reduction, formatting and fleshing out.
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. -×-IOHUser talk:IOH]]