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June 22
Power Stone Unwikified video game article (sigh)
Cradle of Filth Lazy article that suffers from a severe un-NPOV and was just coped from some web site.
A Separate Peace + I cleaned up the spelling, but it really needs sentence structure and grammar help. I haven't read the book or I'd do it.
- I haven't read it either, or I would, but this one is desperately bad (seems like a book report from a high school student). Geogre 18:48, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Rex Lease Actor substub, but an old one. I put in the imdb link. Geogre 18:18, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Ramstein Air Base Needs more wikifying
The Alabama Theatre Unwikified
Settlers of Catan Massive article includes the entire rule book for the game, numerous illustrations from the board game, etc. Is this copyvio? Is it necessary? While we're at it, how about
- Settlers of Catan, Seafarers expansion. That's the actual article title, and it's not so wikified nor notable. Anyone want to clean it or VfD it?
- See Talk:Settlers of Catan/copyright and fair use. This article and its numerous spinoffs have had a long and contentious history which, IMO, is wrong. *I* believe that much of this material is a copyvio, but others disagree. RickK 18:45, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
Gucci Cut and paste from web site (possibly not copyvio, though). Needs a dose of logical ordering and a minor re-write.
Pie method Currently a POV article. No longer exists. - TB 16:07, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
Pranayama A very long, possibly promotional, POV piece about the glories of a type of Yoga.
FleetBoston one line stub. This needs to be saved from WP:VfD. Now redirects to FleetBoston Financial - TB 16:07, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
Dave Batista - needs a lot of work
Arthur Avenue - needs much work
- Aside from the ugliness of the entry, isn't it possible to VfD this on the rationale that other common street names have been deleted in the past. Arthur Ave isn't that notable, and there are many others by that name. (I won't VfD it if it's in CU process.) Geogre 17:25, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Claro M. Recto - needs work
Template:Russian oblasts Template:Russian republics Template:Russian krais Template:Russian autonomous districts and autonomous oblasts -- these have been combined into Template:Russian federal subjects. need help in switching all the 80+ pages using the old boxes into using the new box. a few (about 15) are already done.
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
- Further, the poem is, by virtue of its date, entirely within copyright. The article author should offer up proof of permission, or this is absolutely a copyvio, unless we cut the whole poem (and we should, but not before finding out if there is permission). Geogre 12:59, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Wolf Szmuness - poisonous little AIDS conspiracy theories piece, been here since April 1 (ha-ha); half the top 10 Google hits are wikiclones who copied it from us. Added an intro, but needs verification and serious NPOV, or deletion. (Was listed here before, but cleanup notice was removed from untouched article after a week.)
- Horrid. Is it ok if we cut the POV and conspiracy language in "The Story?" It's possible to report the conspiracy theory in a neutral manner. (E.g. Opus Dei is controversial, but it's not fascist. It isn't weird that a professor in Poland gets a job as a lab tech in the US. It isn't weird that a Cornell lab would want a researcher from abroad, etc.) I'll do some, and others can revert it, if necessary. Geogre 13:05, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
June 21
Lauchlin Currie - listed on VFD, needs general cleansing and wiki.
Power beaming - Almost Unwikified.
- + some wikification, potential copyvio (towo)
Holland Smith - copied from a (public domain) US military website. Needs linking and possibly NPOVing. →Raul654 22:44, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)
The Alternate Asphygmo-Pyramidal Syndrome - What is this? And what is that last sentence? Is it a copyvio? If kept, the "The" needs to come out of the title.
Structure of the draft EU Constitution: needs proper capitalization, and more expansion -- Kaihsu 22:01, 2004 Jun 21 (UTC)
Simple majority voting: misspellings, non-sequitur, possible POV -- Kaihsu 21:59, 2004 Jun 21 (UTC)
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem - Dosn't sound like a make beleive band, possibley cut and paste?
- It's the band on "The Muppet Show." It should be an easy clean. Geogre 02:15, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Not the Muppet Show, but The Muppet Movie. KeithTyler 06:26, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
- They're in both, actually.
Yuri Kasahara - substub about a Japanese opera singer. Do we really need to know her blood type...? - Lucky 6.9 21:19, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Catholic Encyclopedia - Large block of POV unwikified text.
Young Buck - lots of badly spelled and punctuated urban slang. Even has a future tense problem. - Lucky 6.9 17:38, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Alphabet of human thought - looks like a cut and paste job. -Seth Mahoney
List of Persian given names see List of Hebrew names for what this should be.
Church rank needs formatting, information on other religions
Morios - format, shouldn't this page entitled either 'Moriae' or 'Moria'?
Elvis Presley's influence Just one substub sentence saying that his influence has been profound. Originally speedily deleted, I complained to Marcus2 that you couldn't say this without justifying it and remaining NPOV and the response was that it's a stub so it doesn't matter that it doesn't say anything (or words to that effect). So I'm listing it here. -- Graham ☺ | Talk
- Um, shouldn't the Elvis Presley article have a section divide with "Influence," and shouldn't that have this single sentence (and, um, I'd say a few paragraphs about every significant rock pop band citing him and hip hop folks sampling him)? Not because it's wrong to talk about the influence, but because no one is going to WP and putting in "Elvis Presley's influence" in a search box. Geogre 16:34, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Lakeside School I don't trust myself with VfD these days, but this needs a move and clean. If one goes to Peterson's Guide to secondary education in the US and Canada, one will find a hearty 20-30 private schools named Lakeside. Further, one would find any number (inestimable) of public schools by the name. Having this be the one, the only, and for it to replicate, essentially, a Peterson's entry, just seems wrong to me. Geogre 14:13, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
HP-10B Wikify. Dunc_Harris|☺ 13:14, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Fuck Off" - by anon user. Need to verify due to potentially attractive content for trolls? Dunc_Harris|☺ 13:14, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Verified, but the source I found was in French. Perhaps it would be better if there were a "Chinese Avant-Garde" or "Chinese Avant Garde" article & this info were folded into it in the absence of a fuller article on this exhibit. Geogre 14:18, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Call originator - Currently little more than a dicfef.
North Park, Chicago wrong style
- From a tourist/real estate brochure? Pretty queersome. Full POV and boosterism. Any Chicago folks who can neuter this? Geogre 14:22, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Astrosociobiology is this a legitimate topic?
Nikola Tesla - recent changes are extremely POV
Reactive attachment disorder - needs work. Do we need all of those footnotes?
Baptism of the Holy Spirit - needs wikification
- It's not deathless prose, but it is now NPOV and wikified. Geogre 17:43, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Trickle-down theory - NPOV supadawg
Karl Lieberherr - have wikified and tidied the spelling, but it needs someone who knows computer programming to take a look. -- Graham ☺ | Talk
Lea Bridge and Lea Bridge road currently only the location, can anything else be added?
E-Work - marketing-speak -- Khym Chanur
Balancing selection - wikification and plain english required
Hylden wikification required -- Graham ☺ | Talk
Potatoes on the Half-Shell - wikify, make less recipe-like
June 20
Taylor Miller oh-oh. Actor substub. Dunc_Harris|☺ 23:29, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- It's from the same person who was reported for their work: the same work you tried to pin on me when I first got here. Anyway, she only seems to know the obvious roles: she completely missed that Taylor Miller played Sally Frame on Another World. You know it's the same person with the ominous, unchanging present tense. Blah blah stars in something that happened fifteen years ago. TheCustomOfLife 02:19, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I reported this idiot on the vandalism page...and was advised that this isn't vandalism. I strongly and vehemently disagree. However, the same sysop suggested converting them into redirects. Easy as pie and fast, too. It'll save us all a bunch of trouble, that is, unless TheCustomOfLife puts his encyclopedic knowledge of soaps to work. Hell, even I knew about the "Cliff and Nina" love affair on AMC, and this refugee from a booby hatchery couldn't be bothered to mention that, a la the original posts for Anthony Geary and Genie Francis! - Lucky 6.9 06:35, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I disagree with redirects. It's suggesting that the fifty or so actor profiles I've already created were for naught. TheCustomOfLife 15:51, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Not so, as you now know. Your contributions are fabulous. The ones by the knuckle-dragging moron responsible for the substubs in the first place are not. - Lucky 6.9 17:40, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Solo climbing - needs wikification and spellcheck, also serious disconnect between title and contents. Niteowlneils 23:13, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Paul Collyer merge into Championship Manager? Dunc_Harris|☺ 23:04, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Virgin New Adventures - needs work
Bulletproof glass - minor tidy, could be an interesitng article. Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:09, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Added some stuff, see talk. OK now? --Opqdonut 15:23, 2004 Jun 21 (UTC)
Joe Rush substub. Necessary or is Mutoid Waste Company sufficient? Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:08, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Without birth year and location, this entry simply occupies a title that might go to one of the other Joseph Rushes out there. Seems like Mutoid Waste Company would be more than enough to contain this information. Geogre 11:41, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC) (Yeah, I know I'm quick on the trigger.)
Brynn Hartman substub. Notable other for being the missus of some actor? If not improved, delete it. Dunc_Harris|☺ 20:53, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC) + added info (she shot him then turned the gun on herself) - still needs serious work
- More near-nonsense from the B-Movie Bandit. I'm amazed that this squirrel would list this woman only as Phil Hartman's wife! - Lucky 6.9 21:23, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The Battle of The Champions Loads of folks have tinkered with it, but the POV is thick, and it sounds like it was ripped from a sports page (literally)
Junemba needs work from someone who knows Dragon Ball Z. [anonymous]
- May need to be moved to the respective 'characters' list. [[User:Poccil|Poccil (Talk)]] 17:08, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)
Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch - needs some formatting, NPOVing.
Trader Media Group - unwikified - blankfaze | •• 10:28, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
List of Chilean newspapers - unwikified - blankfaze | •• 07:23, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Kenneth E. Boulding - totally unwikified, awful formatting! not even sure he's notable enough for the WP. blankfaze | •• 07:15, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
National Space Institute - unwikified, could use some formatting perhaps. blankfaze | •• 06:37, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Beauchief Abbey - unwikified, could use some formatting perhaps. blankfaze | •• 06:27, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Battle of Kulm - English cleaned up, but needs a quick check for historical accuracy. --dcf 19:09, 2004 Jun 20 (UTC)
Grow (game) - Was on Vfd, no consensus was reached on deletion, but consensus was reached that if it is to be kept it needs work. See its talk page for details. -- Jmabel 18:29, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
Holland Park Theatre - not wikified & possible copyvio. Currently ad-like
Selhurst Park - not wikified & possible copyvio
June 19
Oklahoma City Cavalry - substub
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - needs basic encyclopedic information; NPOVing
Katrine Gislinge - NPOVing
Marc-André Hamelin - needs basic encyclopedic information; NPOVing
Mohammad Ali Shah - substub
Simon Barere - needs basic encyclopedic information; NPOVing
Bezique unwikified + wikified (not a whole lot to do here), looks like a cut and paste job; copyvio? (Smerdis of Tlön)
Gakkou Kaidan quote from text: This article is based on only my memory of one volume of the series, so please excuse any mistakes I make.
Manuel Chong Neto context, wikify + was copyvio, now a stub. Vardion
Flavio and Maurita context, people, context. Oh, and wikify
- Been quite a few of these odd little tidbits from an "Animaniacs" fan. S/he also seems to like secondary Tex Avery characters.
-A guy, thank you. And you'll find my encyclopediac knowledge of animation fairly useful here. Let me know if you have any specific areas that need data. --The Iconoclast
- Cool! That's a favorite subject of mine as well. I may just take you up on that offer. It blew me away to see anything on the Animaniacs, let alone the secondary characters. Long live Pinky and The Brain! NARF!
Doggystyle Records - needs wikification, NPOVing and copyediting.
Possible crisis in Western publishing wikify, more context
Toll-like receptor - need a lot more context, sub-stub
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)
Keiko Agena stub about a character in a tv show + fixed up a bit. Vardion
June 18
Robert Abbot unimproved since August 2002, I tried to have a go but the academic text was too much for me. -- Graham :) | Talk + clarified somewhat, but information about his actual significance is still needed. Vardion
- Difficult case. The people he's confused with are significant, and I could write about them, but this fellow just wrote books. It's also pretty confusing in the text: he persecuted non-conformists (Puritans), and he's a Puritan? 17th c. language of schism is pretty torturous, and these non-conformists might be Anabaptists, etc. In other words, I'm not sure it can be cleaned more, but the subject passes the significance test. Geogre 13:39, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Kachikoshi - this may be terminally a dicdef: a winning record in some unspecified type of competition. If someone has a clue, there might be article potential here, or replacement with a redirect. -- Jmabel 22:11, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC) + contextualised (sumo wrestling), but I don't know if it can ever be more than a dicdef - it basically just means "winning more matches than you lose". Vardion
Bugz - just a cut'n'paste from [1].
- It's also on showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=183. Been listed on the copyvio page, too.
Pierre Audette - substub.
Noémi Lopinto - substub.
Katie Ka-Boom is an amusing, but not yet very encyclopedic, article on a character who apparently appears in several animations. -- Jmabel 21:26, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
JCreator - reads like an ad. -- Jmabel 21:13, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
- I removed the advertising copy and the POV. What's left ain't a lot. If there are Java programmers who want to say explanatory words about this program, it can be cleaned more. Otherwise, it's a substub once it's no longer spam. Geogre 13:44, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
WapTV - needs wiki, looks like a copyvio but can't find it.
Warden's Five Rings - orphan, jargon
Water Boarding - a type of torture -orphaned
Wetlook - getting wet whilst wearing clothes....
Wild Youth - are they important? vfd?
Wildlife rehabilitation - one sentence dict def.
Will to Power - a selection of quotes from Nietzsche
- I cleaned it, but I feel pretty sure that our text dumper was dropping copyrighted material on us. Nietzsche's in the public domain, but translations are not so open. Can anyone verify that this translation is PD? Geogre 13:28, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Shel Goldstein actress/failed politician. dum dum doo. + expanded somewhat, wikified. Vardion
Béjart Ballet - substub since February 2004: single line, single link.
White perch - the article is about how to catch white perch in NYC. POV, mess, not at all about the fish, completely unlike other fish pages.
Jack Irons - celebrity substub (think how poor the world would be without this entry!)
Cracovia vodka - substub. Need to ascertain whether encyclopedic. Dunc_Harris|☺ 16:49, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Pop rap - Subsubstub, poorly written.
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
Bellovaci - unwikified substub with odd carbunkle "was Belgae". Go figure.
Bedford-Stuyvesant - Possible copyvio, unwikified.
Dougherty and others by User:213.224.175.16 special:contributions/213.224.175.16 - can someone check their validity too?
- The meta subject is real enough Phantom island, and our contributor is now inking in descriptions of each Phantom island. I opine they're probably the real thing (to the extent that phantoms can be, of course). I'll do some linking to provide context. --Tagishsimon
Superficial anatomy - "from an old encyclopedia", in need of wikifying since November, 2002
- Eek! This is not only obsolete and cumbersome (who searches for "superficial anatomy?"), but it's from an "old encyclopedia" that dates from the era of racial types. CU seems a waste, unless medical schools are still teaching a class called "Superficial Anatomy" and a MD wants to fill in this article with a description of such a course of study. Geogre 14:52, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Journal of Consciousness Studies - advert? data dump? needs extensive re-edit and cleanup.
- It's real enough. User Mporch did most of the work about 3 weeks ago, it seems. It needs cleaning, but the journal is really peer reviewed and significant. It's not a dump or plumper. Geogre 13:12, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I cleaned up the Book section however I feel that the areas of study section ought to be removed, shortened or made into a Table of Contents like section. 10101001011 15:47, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- How about we put the "areas" into a narrative sentence, with the items in a line, rather than occupying .5 screen of scroll? I'll try that. Geogre 16:34, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Done it now. Looks ok. The famous contributors should probably be in a table, though. Geogre 17:11, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Medicine bag - I thought about VfD'ing this, but I think it might have potential for a stub. blankfaze | •• 09:52, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Ikkakumon - Substub, wikify.
- Wiki'ed up to a stub 10101001011 15:54, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Kunststiftung_NRW - substub, mess.
- Probably VfD, since all Google links are in German. It seems to be a museum in Austria. The German Wikipedians could fill it out, but if the English Wikipedia users need this article, they need more context than a non-German speaker can provide. Geogre 17:15, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Keto-enol_tautomerism - ???
Shithead (Game) - needs wikification -- merge with Shithead (game)
- Moved from "Shithead" to "Shithead (Game)" to at least clear that up. Still needs major CU or VfD as trivia. (I play a game called "Richard Nixon": do I get to make an article by that title?) Geogre 13:18, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Produce only an image
June 17
Boston accent phonology - New article I've been working on, fairly complete, but complete enough? Poccil
- Looks good, but getting the precise vocalic position (esp. around liquids) with the character set is really difficult. Could you put in any outside links? (I'm thinking about the values of post-vocalic r clipping compared to, e.g. a New Orleans, accent.)
Zsuzsanna Budapest - I'm not entirely sure what this means.
ZiRC - Ad or information? You decide.
Attainder - dicdef
Atrophy - dicdef
- Hypertrophy isn't too much better.
Asian Highway Network - unwikified and style problems; links to but maybe distinct from (maybe not) Asian Highway
Medicinal psychology - One big unwikified headache.
- Wik'ed it up a tad. 10101001011 16:12, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Aquatics at the 1924 Summer Olympics - is there any pattern for Olympics pages? This one seems scanty. Candidate for redirection?
American Liberty League - Possible copyvio, unwikified, style problems. US labor history.
Phosphodiesterase inhibitor, Phosphodiesterase - quite a bit of revision/expansion/correction is in order
Tradewars - wikify
- I gave it the POV-ectomy, turning it to an article about the Trade Wars game (which goes by any number of names, etc.). I'm not sure that it's worth keeping, though. If folks want to clean & improve it with specific dates and iterations of the game, that would be worthwhile. Otherwise, this is probably a VfD candidate. Geogre 02:12, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Studley from VfD, needs fact checking, expansion
Tintin and the Golden Fleece - sub-stub
Alexandrov topology - please edit this so a numbskull like me can actually understand it... -- Graham :) | Talk
Visual short term memory I have justed added my first article. I would be grateful if people could read through it, wikify it, shorten it etc. There is a pre-existing article on short-term memory, but this is a somewhat different topic and my feeling was that it was better keep two separate pages, but if anyone wants to try merging the two that would be great.
Shosholoza unwikified, needs rewriting. Orphan.
Management by Jugaad Huh? The writing completely obscures whatever it is that this is about. Any Indians want to clarify or nominate for deletion, if not?
Grant Nicholas unwikified
June 16
Buttons and Mindy possible copyvio (but google can't find it), nevetheless needs lost of wikifying., also Slappy Squirrel by same user.
WiDEN Help, telephony folks: if this is true, then it needs CU. If it's not true, then it needs to go to VFD.
Layer 4 router - context, expand
Thefacebook.com notable?
- I think so, at least for now. It's been tremendously popular in colleges, though it appears to be a fad. --Timbo 16:35, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I made a fairly major edit to bring it a little more up to date and add information, but I'm new here and so not sure how helpful I was. I would definitely argue that it's notable, it's become a bit of an obsession at the school I'm an undergraduate at.
William Crawford Sherrod collection of source texts.
- Done by an anon, too. The man rates, but not his autobiography (which is there twice). (sigh) A cleaning is a lot of blanking. Any Civil War folks want to?
Wolfsheim's Discography format, context, unwikified
World in Common notable?
Christopher McCandless wikify.
Russian name - the style is too personal and casual. + fixed, by people other than me. Vardion
Homeschooling is entirely POV. Needs an expert rewrite.
Famous political quotations Wikify, at least. Wikibooks for things like this? I love commonplace books, but this gets into Bartlett's territory, doesn't it? Geogre 13:19, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Gantzs Wikify. Confirm. POV. + improved and verified somewhat. Vardion
Festa wikify
- Needs other "festae," too, as it's also a Latin word, and this article bleeds into 'fete' and 'feast days,' doesn't it? 206.205.115.3 15:35, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
International Risk Governance Council wikify
Microreactors wikify, check for copyvio -- checked, not a copyvio
When a Man Loves a Woman and Jason Scott Lee - More BS from the B-Movie Bandit. Still can't get the cleanup boilerplate to show. I've listed this user on the "vandalism in progress" page.
- You can tell that it's the same person due to the constant use of the present tense: "So-and-so B-movie-actor stars in so-and-so movie fifteen years ago." TheCustomOfLife 01:25, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, yeah. "When A Man..." is still a stub, but I changed "Jason Scott Lee" into a redirect to "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story." It too is a stub, but a more detailed one. - Lucky 6.9 07:18, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Simmern wikify, check for poss copy vio, maybe in German
Barbara Behr wikify, fact check
Yellowstone Plateau check for copy vio --copyvio, write new stub at Yellowstone Plateau/Temp
Gba roms, wikify, complete rewrite, check the url for usefulness
- This page looks like chatspeak from one of the many warez friends I know. I'll rewrite. KirbyMeister 09:30, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Finished rewrite, please check page for accuracy. The original page contained a myth as fact, advertized a roms website (illegal) and also had poor grammar. KirbyMeister 09:52, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Explosive limit needs work. I can barely understand what it's aiming for. EddEdmondson 13:54, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
More than a week old
June 15
Balan K. Nair - Substub
Alexius Petrovich - awful bunch of text
Peter I of Russia, Paul of Russia, Alexander III of Russia, Nicholas I of Russia. - sections like in Nicholas II of Russia and Alexander I of Russia not just bunch of text
Media controversy POV & limited to videogames
Wendy O. Koopa: Substub about a character from a videogame. Does this entry do anything? Geogre 14:19, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
CineMagic (film festival): Substub, just a pointer to a website. Geogre
Paper chromatography of amino acids: I'm really unsure about this. Is it a paste from a lab manual? Is anyone going to go to an encyclopedia & fill in all that in the search box? Is it a how-to and therefore subject to VFD? Can it be cleaned up by a bio-specialist filling in what paper chromatography has done for the world? Geogre 13:50, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Basil Blackwell sub-stub
Bruce Dinwiddy needs formatting. Possible copyvio. Academic Challenger
Alkaline battery - Hoo-wee! Bordering on nonsense. - Lucky 6.9
Innerspace, The Witches of Eastwick - from our favorite B-movie troll. TheCustomOfLife
K1A1 - needs wiki format, folks knowledgeable about tanks/military/warfare
- Actually, it's a rip from globalsecurity.org. Listed on copyvio. Ocon 06:59, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Al Gore's views - Needs copyed for tense
June 14
51forth Doesn't look like it should have it's own article, or should be expanded. Without further information about why this variant is special, it looks like it should just be a part of the main Forth article Andy_Christ
Tolerance has been edited by various folks, but still has an uncomfortably polemic feel.
Subliminal message is very pro a subject that almost everyone believes to be tin-foil hattery.
Stanislav Petrov lessen PoV
Richard Lyons - sub-stub, FAMOUS?
Guttenburg - move to a ship's name Guttenburg?
Lord Basava - Wikify, language cleanup
- Also need to check facts. Is this the same person? I cannot find information about anyone else, but the website contradicts the date and place of birth. --Caliper
Humbug Mountain only a picture
Luigi Denza - a stub about what appears to be a 19th century musician, but which seems rather incoherent in its current form. Bryan
Liberal Elite, elite media -stubby, POV. -Sean Curtin
Sabians - non-standard layout, non-encyclopaedic tone, no internal links, talk page stuff dumped in the main article, and an edit war, oh my!
Kimberly McCullough, Elizabeth Pena, Daphne Reid, The Jungle Book (1994 film), Tim Reid, Tracey Ross, Circle of Friends, Embeth Davidtz, The Mask of Zorro, Capitol (television), The Jungle Book 2 Always, Jonathan Goldstein, Donna Peele, The Newton Boys, Paula Jai Parker, Walter Nichols, Jonathan Goldstein. More sub-substubs. - Lucky 6.9
June 13
Muhammad Thakurufar Al-Azam needs fact checking.
King Zhuangxiang of Qin - NPOV, wikify Muriel
Charles Coughlin probably de-PoV & remove source material to WikiSource
Julio Dam could use quick readthrough by someone with biblical knowledge. --Caliper
USNS Kingsport (T-AG 164) only a picture
Alive (story) style, facts
Diethyl benzyl benzoate rubbish?
Samkhya cosmology - doesn't explain the term, depends on an external link to do most of the work
June 12
White Base needs attention from a Mobile Suit Gundam fan. As do the rest of that user's contributions. Please?
Islamic views of homosexuality - questionable material about same-sex marriage
Technology acceptance model mostly unwikified, orphan, copyvio?
Shimazu sub-stub
Nice guy syndrome - survived VfD but needs serious revision--NPOV, research or other evidence to substantiate claims. -The related Attraction pathology also needs serious NPOVing.
Kim Criswell - Tiny stub for a stage actress and singer. She's notable enough to escape VFD, except there's not much point in an article this small.
Sayeret Matkal - seems to stray somewhat from NPOV. I Also, much of it seems to be a copyvio from http://www.specwarnet.com/world/matkal.htm - some of which has been substantially edited, but much hasn't. - MykReeve
Ishibashi Chie - Stub at present; the lady is a voice actress in anime, but article is a stub
Prime Minister of Afghanistan - needs more information
Arsinoe IV - Horribly garbled writing, not even consistent on the spelling of the person it is about. -- Jmabel
The Ataris needs fact-checking (has been target of Michaelish disinformation vandals in the past)
June 11
American Eagle flight 4184 - hard to understand.
Ex parte Endo - Apparently important court case, relating to Japanese-American internment during World War II. Article is stubby & unwikified (& needs copy edit). -- Jmabel
Akmal - Is this verifiable? No Google hits for "akmal tightrope seattle". -- Jmabel
Free networks - POV, sub-stub, might be obsolete
Port Adelaide Enfield - about a place in Australia, looks promotional as it stands. -- Jmabel
Express - poorly written stub about a clothing company. -- Jmabel
Kuwaiti oil fires - there is no article about the fires themselves, just a dispute between two scientists on their possible impact on the environment.
- I took a swipe at it. I will leave it to the nominator to remove the "dispute" and original content, if my revision is sufficient. Geogre
Security Armored Express - looks self-promotional, but might be encyclopedia-worthy. Needs rewrite if it's worth keeping. -- Jmabel
Shape dissection - written like textbook, not encyclopedia article. If it's a copyvio, it's not of anything Google finds, so probably just clean it up. -- Jmabel
Blag looks more like a candidate for vfd than cleanup. - Lady Lysine Ikinsile
Love Hina incidental characters== Huh?
Stephen Nichols another substub for our endless amusement. - Lucky 6.9
New Flyer - Stub. Who feels like expanding it? Grunt
June 10
Birmingham Wire Gauge Company I copy edited this a bit (from awful up to bad). It needs fact-checking, expansion, references. The IP address of the original creator is one of a series used by User:Nick Boulevard. See also Talk:Birmingham. Andy Mabbett
Eiko Kadono, Second paragraph of this stub is almost incomprehensible (author of paragraph writes: "She published Kiki in 1985. She's a very kind and generous person.", but then goes to explain the mother's kindness and generosity.). Somebody who knows the story needs to clarify exactly who the kind and generous one is, and give an appropriate example. See also Talk:Eiko Kadono.
William Campbell is credibility-challenged.
Overachievement is a 2-sentence sub stub, and if NPOV'd right now would end up as 1 sentence. Needs content.
Grant Show substub from the anonymous moron, pretty much useless as is.
Aswang - POV, no wikis. Aswangs are apparently preternatural creatures in Filipino folklore, but the guy wrote this as if they're real.
Moral core - I'm not sure what this article says, or if it's even a concept. I think it should be merged with something else or clarified as to what it means. Just sloppy.
Count Charles Andreas Kinsky - needs wikifying, fact checking, and it reads as if it might come from some external (print?) source. And who is "Father Octavius"?? Lupo
Control theory equation example 1 Certainly a useless title; I suspect this should be integrated into Control theory, the only article that references it. -- Jmabel
American analog set unwikified
Guardo - Medium-length article apparently put through a translation program. In a few places the translation makes no sense. SWAdair | Talk
June 9
Civil Rights Act of 1957 - at best, an unwikified mess that begins in mid-thought. At worst, a copyvio
The Heatskores - Copyvio? At best, an unwikified, POV screed.
Quality engineering - cut and paste from external site. Needs work. - From [2], could require a complete rewrite, probably better to start from scratch. - porge
Vespin Love Kit seems like legitimate band, if small. Currently bordering on vanity page
Aramaean same author as the more substantial mess at Chaldeans
Broadway Is My Beat just a stub but needs wikification (and content rephrasing?)
More than two weeks old
June 7-8
Departmentalization, cleaned up text a bit, but still needs some work - porge
Enjoy Incubus Just a track listing in HTML (non-wiki) format. sub-stub as it wasn't a particularly history-changing album. --Long, Tall Texan
Levantine Arabic - sub-stub
Polynesian mythology - little description, mostly a jumbled unnavigable list.
Yuming - malformatted
Meenas - Good content, poor English - needs puntuation, spelling and grammer tidied up and wikification.
Wolf Szmuness - wikify, probably some misc attention needed
June 5-6
Directive - disambiguation, stub or VfD? See Talk:Directive --Hdk 14:14, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Contributions by User:64.252.89.86 - see special:contributions/64.252.89.86, special:contributions/69.37.75.93
Owlman - seems not to be patent nonsense [3], but needs further investigation, as in further research I mean. Dunc_Harris|☺
Oropharyngeal lesion - wikify, possible copyvio
Ranked Majority Defeat Disqualification - ugly lack of wikification
How to Heal Traumas -- Probaby just needs some TLC, emphasizing from the beginning that the articles concerns psychological (not physical) traumas, moving further from the base copyrighted text (see article history), etc. SWAdair
June 3-4
Convalescence - dicdef at present, but might be expandable.
Nancy Sullivan - a totally vacuous sub-stub
LIN Television - content does not match title, also wikify, gram, fact-check
Lisa Crystal Carver, Cindy Dall, Costes, - all POV by same author
Johann Philipp von Stadion wikfy expand
George Kalafatis needs some more context
FNN DATE LINE I cleaned up everything I could actually understand, but it was poorly translated from the Japanese article and some of it is incomprehensible. Probably needs someone who can either read & understand the Japanese or research independently. -- Jmabel 09:07, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Paper Computer Game wikify, fact check
Nix 5-6 wikify, add more info
Nezahualcóyotl unwikified, sub-stub, context
Sangli wikify, remove POV, verify accuracy
June 2
Portuguese personal pronouns - context and formatting
Sailor Art Thomas - substub
Ikkakumon - wikify, align with other digimon articles
South Azerbaijan unwikified, POV
Ethics of technology not an article
The Farewell Sermon. Check copyright; I guess the translation could be copyrighted. Write introduction. Thue
- Source text - replaced with a stub and link to wikisource. Still needs a better introduction. --Robert Merkel 02:24, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Center for the Advancement of Genomics ad
Vivisection A complete mess needs some NPOVing and some ordering
Gramophone Awards unformatted, no intro
Battle of Vysehrad needs major copyediting, wikify
May 31 - June 1
El Oro rewrite
Spring Creek, Oklahoma - Major copyedits, wikis and additional facts needed - Lucky 6.9
Integrate Departments of Bolivia with the departments added here [4].
CEMAC Looks like an ad. Rewrite or list on vfd.
Permanent press sub-stub, poss dict def
Muzafer Sherif format, fact verify
Atelier sub-stub
Code 128 poss copy vio, format and explain more clearly
Battle of Khadesh and Battle of Kadesh (Redirected from Battle of Qadesh) - the accounts seem similar. Same battle. Merge.
Ward Churchill - substub
E paul du pont - substub
Funchain ad for a website? GreatWhiteNortherner
- I vote it gets moved to VfD. Long, Tall Texan 19:45, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
The University of Sri Lanka is written like an ad, but too important to delete. Needs rewrite.
Australia v England 2001 is a incomplete news report and Jam2k
Rafael Alers - substub
Water jet rapids in need of help. Tom-
May 29-30
Punjab University and Panjab University - duplicate articles, must be merged. Apparently, Punjab University was recently renamed as Panjab University. Also more detail is required about the institution. Jam2k
Offal - dict. def.
List of Presidents of Madrid put the entire listing in table format, the rest of the article badly needs wikification. All links lead to non-existent pages Jam2k
Fireball Zone needs context. Who is the band or artist?
Roquepertuse wikify, format
Tourism in Egypt wikify, format
Avant garde metal unwikified needs complete rewrite
John C. Stennis Space Center - IRC channel sez: <DopefishJustin> looks too poorly written to be copyvio
May 28
Anon user 69.37.176.35 insists on posting sub-stubs regarding TV shows, B-movies and their actors. Content is obviously valid, but how does one show this individual how to do it right? - Lucky 6.9. IPs used:
- 64.252.53.43
- 69.37.176.35
- 64.252.172.185
- 69.37.40.95
- 64.252.165.90
George Gabashvili - wikification
- improved the page a bit, but not I still think it needs more work MvD 11:33, June 11, 2004
Duca de Northumbria - unwikified, poss copy vio
Carver Mead is a sub-stub about the founder of Foveon Electronics in Santa Clara. - Lucky 6.9
Psychology of torture - overwrought hysterical tone needs desensationalizing -- Rewrote a few grafs, but there's lots more to tackle. KeithTyler
Columbia College of Columbia University wikification
Moe Smith - sub-stub
Da Band - needs info, copyediting, wikification. (aka, needs a lot of help.)
Front Matter | New | >1wk | >2wk | >1mo | Old | Instructions
To better help us, please work on older articles first.
May 26-27
Wangen an der Aare - seems to have been machine-translated from German to English.
Vultures (band) - unwikfied, famous?
Metanephridium - need biology professional
Urogenital opening sub-stub, need medical professional
Project Censored reads like a press release
Caraga, Davao Oriental personal account
Guadalupe Caracara - unformatted, incoherent. Fuzheado
Megan Marshak - totally unwikified, not a copy vio
List of murdered porn stars - unwikified, inaccurate (L.F.)?=
- Now fully wikified and with more information. However, the accuracy (from the one source) is still questionable. Cluster 08:47, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Sabine Herold - format
Koos de la Rey - wikify. Very POV, perhaps need total rewrite.
Jubilo Iwata - bad english.
Miscible - unwikified dict. def.
Stars are falling - wikifi, POV.
Shivneri fort - needs some explanations
Saitwal - some translation?
Elitesecurity fmt, famous?
May 25
Maxim Kammerer - wikify
Rollout photography - unformatted, unwikified
Mizuame, Suikazura - unwikified substubs.
Palmas Del Mar Beach Resort - Reads like an ad. Wikify.
Selhurst Park unformatted
These anon contributions - Not vandalism, but clearly promoting a set of related web sites. I'm not sure what to do with these but am loathe to leave them as they are. UninvitedCompany
Kedarnath, Badrinath - Wikify, merge with other articles?
Duchsustus - Wikify.
Telegraph code only info on chinese telegraph
Kenneth E. Boulding unformatted (copyvio?)
Untitled Brain/Buckethead/Bernie Worrell Collaboration - retitle? wikify
Pawel Delag - stub, wikify, english, general lookover
Political history and modern state of the inhabitants of the Alps - Really needs help.
Mutor - substub, encyclopedic? Andrewa
May 23-24
Francisco I. Madero - parts of it very poorly written, needs editing
Espelands Falls - google cannot find Skrijkofossen (the rest seems to be true)
Vincenzo Balsamo - unwikified article. little relation to person. needs biography of Balsamo Yardcock
Indian numerology - does not make any sense. Needs complete re-write from someone who knows astrology. Jam2k
David Weiss HaLivni - format
Post-war Germany vs post-war Japan - rename, rewrite, and if all else fails, vfd
Biodanza - some context?
Verbal Behavior - we never stop talking
- truly awful. Anyone who's ever read any B. F. Skinner should be able to do better than this, even if they hate every word he says. It's not even POV, it's just vacuous. seglea
ModPlug Tracker slightly POV
More than a month old
May 21-22
Otto Maria Carpeaux - needs extensive NPOVing and wikification
Maldivian Democratic Party - needs NPOV editing
Igigi, Nanium, Imi, Elulu, Shu-turul - sub-stubs.
Xu Chu - seems to possibly be a mix of fact and fiction Guanaco
spekkie, Gary Ablett, need cleanup. Newbie User:Skankfest created. valid articles I think, but need tweaks, preferably from someone who knows about Aussie football. Duncharris
C.L.SF.N.S - needs wikification, fails Google test (see full name in article)
Poul Schlüter not sentences
- Also, needs someone who knows about him to work on it. There's not enough clear info. Astarael
Pashtunwali - Needs links, NPOV, correcting of vowel-less deity names and other idiosyncratic spellings; contains self-contradictions. - Various edits and wikifications, still needs much work... --Eequor
How to care for a pet cockatoo was listed on VfD consensus to keep but needs TLC
Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava - Seriously POV
May 18-20
Pashtun - rather POV and subjective, lacking depth, and not all that well written - Jmabel
Looking at United States Naval reactor rthere are some discrepancies between the vessels listed under each reactor type and the reactors namd in the articles describing the individual reactors and vessels (e.g. S3G reactor, USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659), USS Gato (SSN-615) and USS Triton (SSN-586). This will have to be sorted out by somebody with accurate knowledge!
Software engineering demographicsNeeds to be wikified...but it looks like some of it might be copyrighted.
Zogam seems like a copyvio, but nothing on google
Mary L. Cleave, Mark N. Brown, Martin J. Fettman unwikified NASA people
Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik - POV, style
27Mhz CB27/81 Bandplan. No context.
Managing Urban America - Reads choppily. Needs general work, too many quotes.
Jakki Degg, Jinty Stewart, Jane Swinnerton - all very brief, unwikified bios.
Southern All Stars - messy and also a little POV at the end.
RACA and all it's related pages need verification, POV-ectomies, copyright status checking, wikification, amd merging. see RACA index of articles.
May 14-17
Lach - A band, apparently, and I almost speedied it, then almost VfD'd it, and now I wonder if it should perhaps be salvaged. Not much use in its present condition, I'm afraid. UninvitedCompany
ISO 3166-2:SO - needs some type editing/wikification
STF - poss. disambig, ugh indeed
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule - format
Toledoth_Yeshu - totally incoherent - copied directly from Sources about Jesus Christ
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=64.252.170.3. The user has created a large number of one-sentence stubs
Sousveillance and inverse surveillance need merging and dePOVing
Specialist lexicon - poster waas mostly posting back whole chunks of Wikipedia under wrong names, mixed with apparent copyvio risks -- this is a sub-stub of what remains...
Silver Jews - needs work from someone who has an idea what it's about.
May 10-13
HMCS Baffin - needs rewrite to make it an article, not list, plus wikify
Cloudless Sulphur - copy edit, formatting -copyvio, see [5]
Aramaean needs fewere quotes. should be merged with Arameans
Metapsychology, Anamnesis in Traumatic Incident Reduction, Frank A. Gerbode, Traumatic Incident Reduction all are long quacky POV (have copy permission)
Direct therapeutic exposure Needs context, content. Says who first used it, what books talk about it, but never what IT is.
Organ transplant -- gives conflicting information on when the first heart-lung transplant occured (and this is a front-page featured anniversary!). Page states both 1981 and 1987 as the first. Some cursory research shows 1981 may be right but I don't have a definitive source. PxT
Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act taken from govt source; needs more wikifying, and some editing.Alcarillo
TVCG 3 - is it the main network or only the entertainment channel?
Democratic egalitarianism dic definition
Video game industry practices needs NPOV +perhaps we could incorporate this into video game industry?
Pharaoh gives different years than articles on individual Pharaohs (e.g. Amenhotep I or Thutmose I of Egypt). There are disputes about Egyptian chronology but could we try to be consistent between different articles?
Mehdi Mahdavikia needs more links, content, less newspaper crap language +added some links, but I don't know the man Sid 14:00, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
May 4-7
Soviet tank production during World War II - lacks insightful layout, should be renamed list in it's current form. - MGM 08:36, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
National Chi Nan University - proper formatting; grammar Alcarillo
Statism- The article as written seems to need work on NPOV. Sounds like an entry from the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Gwimpey
Egg tempera unwikified, format
Chromophil substance - needs context and copyedit
Lockergnome forums needs to be rewritten or deleted (was on vfd)
Copy info from List of books by award or notoriety into List of prizes, medals, and awards and vice versa, create some link between these lists to prevent redundancy
Mystic Records could use a sentence
Historia Britonum - cut down excessive quotes?
- No. I've never worked on this article. But I know the the work well and though I see possible additions I might make and minor changes, the sections quoted are very important in respect to later influence and I would let them stand rather than being turned into summary which no matter how well done always distorts in some way. jallan 14:28, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Vinnish is this accurate?
May 1-3
Will to Power mostly just quotes
James Blake - Somebody needs to make an article out of what is currently a wall poster Chancemill
Vinnie Vincent - needs wikifying, possible fact-check, NPOV, etc. Similarly, Mark St. John, Bruce Kulick, although those look better. Possibly worth checking other KISS related entries too.
Chinese nobility - needs to cover noble titles up to the Qing Dynasty
Louis Crane unformatted
Ian McKenzie Anderson - unwikifed, noteworthy enough?
Gaetano Badalamenti only DOB and DOD
U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance - needs edit to a user-friendly article directed to the general public (has a lot of military terms).
Ezo - wikify, update (taken from 1911 encyclopedia)
John Demjanjuk looks like story was unfinished, even before yesterday's news that his deportation is underway. --Jerzy(t)
April 26-30
Colon Hydrotherapy (Colonics) Clearly this article has got issues.
Oakworth Hall sounds like sales brochure
Futami Jouwa from vfd, no consensus, needs tidying up
Daryl F. Mallett - fan article about some SciFi editor. Needs massive trimming and rewrite, removing of excessive linking, trimming bibliography, fact check (I couldn't verify the film credits). Maybe even a copyvio? But from where? Lupo
Feijoada completa recipe, style, to wikibooks?
Spiritual socialism POV, context
Bear Son Tale huh? context, relevance, etc.
Boris V. Morukov has been wikified, needs to be structured
Asana - needs some NPOV and cleanup from someone who knows about this.
Community inquiry labs - needs context
Berenger Sauniere - needs fact-checking and possibly NPOV. Google search suggests that he's controversial and/or surrounded by some conspiracy theories and legends.
April 20-25
Property damage - VfD voted to keep and list on cleanup, see Talk:Property damage. -- Graham :) | Talk
University of Kentucky - 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 - needs an English major to sort it out.
Tom Wisniewski, Yuri Ruley - just bulleted lists
Toaster museum author doesn't seem to know anything about it -[6] for your reference Ed Cormany
IO-APIC - incomprehensible to a layman, lacks links
- The topic is one which probably should be thus. Links to interrupt and API might be good. It's not bad (of its ilk) as of today. ww 15:18, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
More than two months old
April 17-19
RJ Sternberg - sub-stub, famous?
Velocette unwikified, in timeline format
Concupiscence - Extant request from 2002 for theologically trained Catholic & Protestant to review this article.
Marine aquarium fish species - Subedit, tone of voice
Soundhog - unwikified, needs a lot of work.
Patient empowerment -- unresolved factual dispute
Cyprus Mines Corporation - not written like a encyclopedia article
April 14-16
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.
- Actually no, I believe it's a point of contention as to whether they're the same or not. --Shallot 14:58, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
SMDS - incomprehensible sub stub.
Mnemonic link system - needs major rework, doesn't give definition, mainly list of links currently.
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
April 10-13
QR algorithm - seems to be a topic, but needs better context and info.
Sonata da chiesa - no context, unwikified
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. +They were supposed to play there in 2002 season but I'm not sure if the 2002 season actually took place. Andris
Sanctification - messy, unwikfied only from a Christian POV
Cometbus, unwikified, POV
Iraqi Revolution Command Council - very little information - needs expansion, wikification
April 1-9
Casablanca class escort carrier - Majority of carriers on this list have empty information tables.
The Fever - The Twilight Zone episode, needs making clear what it is at start. Also may need structure tweaking.
- I gave it a first sentence -- Jmabel 05:17, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)
Incompetence - copyed, expand. Could be fun. Denni
- should be moved to Wiktionary. --Robert Merkel 04:56, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Nurse assistant skills, only partially wikified
Preschool education has a rewrite, but needs more.
Symbolics seems to repeat itself; also some overlap with Lisp machine.