User:Beland
Top priority
Politics
- Peer review UN Reform and later sections of United Nations, possibly organize its talk page
- Should the following be merged? United States territorial acquisitions History of United States imperialism Historic regions of the United States
- Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson
- Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
- Note that many modern Americans reject the label "empire/imperialism".
- De-Americanize Separation_of_powers, incorporate comments on the UK. (See section "Other countries").
- Merge Checks and balances with Separation of powers
Sexuality
- History of sexuality and Prevalence_of_heterosexuality need attention. May need to merge from Anthropological classification of homosexuality.
- Add something like the following to Nature_versus_nurture_debate and/or Causes_of_sexual_orientation. Or maybe make a "multi-determined" article.
- Multi-determination: A car owner notices the check engine light on their dashboard is on, but continues driving for 3 days. On the highway, the engine suddenly fails. A second car that has been tailgating crashes into the first one. A nearby philosopher asks whether the cause of the accident was the way the car was built, or the way it was operated by the owner. In fact, if the car had been built differently, operated differently, or followed differently, the accident would not have happened. The accident is "multi-determined". Cite that STS book.
- Reconcile Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology with Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language.
- Genetic basis for homosexuality may need attention; it might get moved to see Genetic basis for sexual orientation depending on VFD discussion. See the following articles for more potential problems: Homosexuality, Sexual_orientation, Causes_of_sexual_orientation, Definitions_of_homosexuality, Heterosexuality
Science
- Elminate "fluid" metaphor from Electromagnetic field
- E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
- Electromagnetic field should say it's part of electroweak theory and is special relativity-compliant.
- Electric_field should say that it's part of EM/electroweak theory/standard
- Peer-review Scientific_method and read Talk:Scientific_method
- Scientific_skepticism: Categorize, check for accuracy, NPOV. Add to official list of Controversial topics?
Easy Meta Tasks
- Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention needs to have science categories like bio, etc. put under Science.
- Special:Longpages (May need chopping up)
- Are these listed for cleanup anywhere individually? Is this page pointed to with that in mind?
Supreme Court History project
- Reading book on history of the Supreme Court
- May also need to check out the Supreme Court "encyclopedia" book
- Related articles to fix:
- Corporate personhood
- List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
- Reconstruction
- Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
- List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases
- Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
- Write an article on the Charles River Bridge case, find out more about the history of Charles River crossings.
- Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
West Springfield/Pioneer Valley History
- Obtained source materials
- Extract and summarize
- Post full text of non-copyrighted content?
Meta-Categorization
Policy questions
- Construct an automated tool to enforce the same-name article-category rule, if it's approved?
Initial categorization and conversion from "See also"
- Convert all "See also" sections in to category associations (unless there's a good reason not to).
- Do the same for "Related lists" sections as "See also".
- Test cases:
- Heterosexuality, homosexuality, etc. (see "what links here)
- Almost all articles associated with Oceania need to be categorized by geography and political association.
- Clear out geographical categories on Category:Orphaned_categories
- List_of_reference_tables, Category:Lists
- All articles under Category:Militaries should also be under the category of their country, and the country article should be integrated into the category structure.
- List_of_airlines, Low_cost_carrier, List_of_low-cost_airlines
- Noun, Verb, Parts_of_speech, etc.
- List_of_environment_topics put non-existant articles in todo list on talk page.
- Military history: Convert lists to categories as appropriate
- See Special:Uncategorizedpages (alphabetical)
- To convert manually, for each item on the "See also" list, make sure that both the referred and referring articles are members in common of at least one category. Or, if they aren't that closely related, then make sure they are both members of "nearby" categories which are connected by intuitive links. (It may not be possible or easy to replace a given reference with the category system; skip and move on.) Then, delete any "See also" links you were able to obviate with category assignment.
- Electromagnetic field, Electroweak force, Fundamental force, SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1), Standard_Model
- E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
- Link from/to Category:Orphaned categories.
Fundamental automation
- Construct an automated tool for hierarchical view of categories.
- Post a dump periodically
See also automation
- Construct an automated tool to find all See also: sections, and create a list of clusters (to be used as suggestions).
- Clustering
- Consider common See also links
- Consider common categories
- Don't consider "What links here"
- Dump results onto a Wiki page.
- Make a wiki-editable list of "Articles that intentionally have See also sections". The tool should ignore these.
Categorization automation
- Produce a list of articles that have no associated category that aren't covered by "See also automation".
- Cluster by "What links here"
- Post this as a list of suggestions for category initialization
- Special:Deadendpages (Don't have any inbound links?)
- Suggest categories by content similarity? Or maybe this should be done manually.
Redirect automation
- Find all double-redirects
- Post a list
- Write a bot that can automatically fix them.
- Ask for permission to fix them automatically.
- Find all redirects
- Write a bot that can automatically fix them.
- Ask for permission to fix them automatically.
Fixme automation
- Write a bot to find all instances of the string FIXME in live pages?
Random Topics
United States Categorization
- Make sure that articles in Category:United_States don't belong in an obvious subcategory.
- Clean up Category:United_States_history. Most articles belong in a subcategory; some new subcategories need to be created, including Category:US history by year. Many articles need to be assigned to multiple categories. Cross-referencing by year would be useful.
- Category:CIA operations shouldn't be listed individually in Category:United States history.
- Recreate Category:United States history (terrorism)
- Recreate Category:United States military history
- Category:Companies_of_the_United_States (top level needs sorting out)
Random peer review
Science
- Civilization
- Temperature (intro is not public-friendly)
- Decimal_time
- National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration
- Gravitational_radiation
- Thermopower
- Peltier-Seebeck_effect
Politics
Controversial
General interest
World legal systems
- Goal: Write an article on Legal systems of the world
- Historical derivation of current systems
- Main ideas of each historical/ideological system
- Add to Category:Legal_history, Category:Law
Problems
- Legal_system is probably missing a number of fundamental references, including many kinds of law listed in religious law. It should either reference or summarize or be Legal systems of the world
- Legal_history is also somewhat fluffy, and might actually be the best place to put Legal systems of the world.
- Legal_code is very fluffy and could probably use a merge or a re-write. It also has broken links and grammatical issues.