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For articles that just need wikification, you should use the {{wikify}} template. See Category:Articles that need to be wikified for articles that need wikifying.

If an article needs further cleaning up, add {{cleanup}} to the top of the article. To see articles with this tag added, see Category:Cleanup

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November 14

November 13

November 12

Performed by more magicians than just him. I'll have a look at it in light of Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic. However, I think writing how the illusion is performed, would break copyright against the illusion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]]

November 11

  • Dario Di Martino - unwikfied text dump, written by a non-native English speaker. RickK 23:24, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Selection (genetic algorithm) - needs a little work. Sarge Baldy 23:04, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Oscar van Dillen - to conform to wiki-bio style and some de-wikifying (in fact its generally quite confusing) -- Solipsist 17:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Auckland University Students Association - two lines on the AUSA, then the rest of the article is on other student associations in New Zealand. Either it needs to be on the AUSA alone (with other articles for other associations) or it should be renamed University students associations of New Zealand or similar Grutness 12:14, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Darwinian happiness, erm, not sure what this is. Dunc|☺ 11:36, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Changed article so dramatically that cleanup isn't needed anymore. It's a stub now. Wyllium 04:11, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
  • Darwinian medicine formatting. Dunc|☺ 11:21, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Opotiki Some interesting reminiscences, but do they belong in Wikipedia?Grutness 07:49, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Reminiscences deleted. -R. fiend 18:08, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Implicant Some kind of math concept? It's almost patent nonsense and an orphan, so I can't tell. Academic Challenger 05:31, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Saint Methodius - contains a text dump from some apparently free encyclopedia that should be integrated into current stub. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 03:37, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • That "free encyclopedia" is a Wiki mirror. Removing cleanup tag. Wyllium 21:25, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
  • Wang Shiwei - looks like the start of an interesting article by an author whose native language is not English. Needs copyediting, fact-checking, Wikification, possible linking to the zh: wikipedia if there is an equivalent already there. -- Karada 00:14, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 10

  • Lisa Cheung - new page, I redirected it from Lisa cheung, but it seems awfully incomplete. Reads like vanity. Does anyone know her? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:07, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Didn't find anything about a notable teacher, so I changed to an artist that gets plenty of hits. Still a micro-stub, as I need to get to the bank. Niteowlneils
  • Tlahuelpuchi - is this real or fictional? Needs fmt, and some context in which the term is found. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:01, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dominical letter - Someone copied material straight out of [1] Catholic Encyclopedia with some escape sequences (e.g. =92) all around. -- Paddu 20:15, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • canton of Villeneuve-l'Archevêque needs a term rewritten - "recutting of the districts": the historical event to which this refers to could be given a mention elsewhere.
  • Gers (France): the Condom link still leads to the object rather than the place.
    • fixed. -- Paddu 20:15, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Patrick Matthews substub on some bassist. Dunc|☺ 17:50, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Maxim (saying) - bad, borderline speedy to be honest -- Graham ☺ | Talk 10:21, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Medha Hari - a Indian Bharatanatyam ballet dancer, seems notable, but the language is poor and it reads like an advert. -- Netoholic @ 04:39, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
  • Paul Harris - unwikified text dump, but probably too rambling to be copyvio. He apparently is a musician of some not (try searching "Paul Harris" magic), but much seems hard to verify, movie claim runs counter to IMDb (diff Paul Harris) Niteowlneils
  • I think you meant magician instead of musician. Anyway, I'll give a look and see if there's something salvagable in there. couldn't hurt my WikiProject Magic either :) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:56, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • D'oh! Yes, I meant magician. Niteowlneils 22:49, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 9

  • Echeveria - taxobox covers text and isn't aligned to the right. Can't find what's wrong, coding seems similar to box on Horse. If it's fixed, can someone leave an interesting factoid from the article at Template talk:Did you know? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:51, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • The coding is probably fine, it's just that there's no contraint on the width of the taxobox, as far as I can tell. Since this box has some REALLY long text in it, it takes up the entire article width. As a stop-gap measure, I placed the taxobox inside another table with a given width. Can anyone think of a better solution? - RedWordSmith
The only other solution I can think of (done in the article) would be to put linebreaks in the long entries, but that's arguably just a hack that requires more work. Could/Should Template:Taxobox_begin set the width, preferably from a passed parameter? Or have a Template:Taxobox_begin_width_30_percent for these cases? Niteowlneils 02:14, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Shoe horn - start of a good article but needs wikis and grammar checks. - Lucky 6.9 18:56, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Somewhat improved: needs more detail, including the dating. Jackiespeel 19:35, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Why not add a pic as well? I've done some more wikification, and I bolded title in lead. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:59, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • The anon that created the article cut a whole bunch of text and removed the cleanup notice. I wikied a word, but with so little content left, I'm not sure what to do. - RedWordSmith
This same anon re-added the information back again. The article needs cleanup...again, because he deleted what little wikification was there. I'd clean the article up myself, but I have no idea who John Morrison is, and the article in its present form doesn't really explain much (there are too many terms a reader is supposed to be familiar with, which I do not know). Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 15:03, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Gapan City lacks lead (where is this place?) needs wiki, possible copyvio; basically just a huge chunk of text, bits of which seem interesting, if true. --Woggly 10:11, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Condorcet Criterion needs a once-over for mos, wfy, etc.
  • In Search of Space - Huh? RickK 09:06, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Calamity Jane (movie) - unwikified, extremly POV. RickK 08:38, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Haider - some kind of bio--nixie 08:05, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • New Trier High School - I deleted large chunks of text which were copies from the school's website and newspaper articles. This leaves unwikified text and not much worthwhile. I'm not going to list this on VfD because I *know* it's a notable school, but it should be clear in the article that it is. RickK 07:10, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Lotte Giants. Basically an ad for a baseball team, as it stands. Needs wikifying, deletion of ad elements, and expansion so it actually says something worthwhile. -R. fiend 06:17, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Need for Speed poor stub, lacks relevant informaiton SYSS Mouse 04:47, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Major League Baseball television contracts needs wikifying -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:19, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Heredity - super-stubby for a major concept. --Fastfission 00:40, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Fur trade - poor stub, POV, no real information Jeeves 02:38, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 8

  • Working on it. --Phils 17:34, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • It needs a cleanup, but it is a valid phenomenon. Since there's a separate entry on it, there's no need for so much here though. Grutness

November 7

  • I have reverted the article to how it was before the "Homosocialism" nonsense was added by the same anon who created nonsense article Homosocialism, now on VfD. Homosocial doesn't IMO need any further cleaning, it is now a respectable stub. "Homosocial" was coined in the 1980s and is a well-established term even if Geogre doesn't like it.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (Talk)]] 19:45, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Yeshu a series of merges have produced this article. Needs re-structuring, and readability improvement. CheeseDreams 17:42, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Ordnungspolizei - a compendium of Orpo-related fragments from other articles, edited together. Needs fact-checking, copyediting. -- The Anome 13:48, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delta Tau Delta - ugly. RickK 08:52, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Major re-format. Needs a table. Auric The Rad 22:13, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Never mind, it's a copyvio. RickK 06:41, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
Done--nixie 06:39, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Blood and Chocolate Contextless text dump. Academic Challenger 02:53, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Protei-5 Russian diver-rider - All of 5 hits, even for just Protei-5 diver-rider--seems like there's got to be a different/better name (and if "Protei-5" is best, why not just that?) Niteowlneils
    • Blame its makers for their choice of name. If I web search for merely "Protei", I am drowned in hits to web pages about bacteria. The device certainly exists: see [2]. Anthony Appleyard 10:35, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - NO lead section (as opposed to a short one)
  • Aps protei ida71 - Zero hits for the article title--if no one can figure out what it should be named, probably should go to VfD. Niteowlneils
    • This page was a "shell" for an image that I made, showing a frogman using three Russian frogman's devices as listed on the page. The name is made from the names of the three devices. The page was pointed to from the 3 full pages that describe each of the 3 devices. OK, OK, delete page Aps protei ida71: I have now bypassed it and linked those 3 pages directly to the image, now that I know about putting a colon before "Image:" to point to an image instead of embedding it.Anthony Appleyard 10:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Eldar Harlequins (Warhammer 40,000) And yet another long rambling game article that needs a copyedit and wikification. --LeeHunter
  • The Perfect Matrimony - almost an ad. JFW | T@lk 03:23, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Merrick Baliton - Power Rangers character. Needs a lot of formatting. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 23:07, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

November 6

Maybe this site contains some useful information. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]]
  • XXXHOLiC - Text is confusing in sections, e.g., "Watanuki is confused, but the woman is confirmed for some reason and says..." - RedWordSmith
  • Edgar Cayce on Karma - an essay. Needs tightening, stylistic help. - RedWordSmith
  • Marble sculpture - Uneven tone, not really substantial, copy reads oddly, and why are tools given in Italian? I'm not a sculpture expert, so didn't dare touch, but the article seems inconsequential. — Bill
  • Brazilianization - Four sentences and a quote. Not at all clear. - RedWordSmith
  • Reworded the article slightly and did some formatting.
  • Organized list some, wikified a bit, still needs work. Auric The Rad 20:55, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

The Wiki Syntax Project needs your help

I've just added some new lists of malformed wiki syntax to the newly created Wiki Syntax Project. This includes malformed wiki square brackets (not closed or opened properly), malformed ordinary brackets (not actually a wiki syntax, just grammatically wrong), malformed headings, malformed bold or italics quotes (usually that haven't been closed at the end of the line), and malformed curly-brace constructs. There are simply far too many items for just one person to do - so I am posting to Cleanup asking for help. For each item there is a link to the article that has the problem, a description of the problem (the type of unclosed or unopened syntax), and the beginning of the line that has the problem (so all the problems should hopefully be easy to locate). This second and more complete run follows on from a very successful first run (in which 68 people fixed 1500 brackets in around 4 days). This new second run is larger, as it includes checks for more problems, plus it's for the whole English Wikipedia (the previous run covered half of the Wikipedia, and focussed mostly on square brackets). -- Nickj 03:52, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC) - Off topic, should it be moved to WP:VP, e.g.?

November 5

  • Registeel: colloquial
  • Elsa, Yukon: Not sure if this one can be salvaged...will probably end up on VFD at some point, if you ask me. -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 03:26, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • I trimmed it down to the one salvageable bit of information, leaving a substub. SWAdair | Talk 04:32, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • added some more. Pity, the original article was enjoyable. Grutness
  • Software patent debate - (just created from splitting the "software patent" article) - too long (59 k), full of NPOV, unfactual, almost no source are cited, structure needs fresh ideas. --Edcolins 23:02, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Nacho Vidal - written by a non-native English speaker ike9898 22:49, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman needs making more grammatical.
  • Ozone-oxygen cycle - oversimplifications in several places. Pakaran. 14:15, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • IEF needs wikification. jni; article also needs context. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 22:47, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
from the lead of this page:

For articles that just need wikification, you should use the {{wikify}} template. See Category:Articles that need to be wikified for articles that need wikifying. text dumps generally need some copyediting as well. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:35, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Does anybody peruse the category to see which articles are listed there and actually do any cleaning of them? RickK 20:37, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
Don't know. But even if no one was, we should be trying to get people there, right? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 22:41, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Kamui no Ken is completely unwikified textdump. jni
    • I did some wikification. It still needs copyediting. Babomb
  • Primitive Methodism - needs wikifying and editing JoJan 19:38, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Whew. This thing reads like a term paper. Working on it but doubt I'll get all the way through. Lots of last-name-only source references. 198.67.17.9 23:05, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • York Mills : Where is this place ? Needs a lot of work JoJan 19:40, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Fall of Saigon : Should be merged with Vietnam war JoJan 19:48, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Daniela Akerblom : needs a lot of work - year of birth ? JoJan 20:35, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Ritt Bjerregaard : needs a lot of expanding by someone knowing Danish politcians JoJan 20:50, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 4

  • Justin Yifu Lin Copyvio? VFD?
  • Tony Knowles (politician) I'm not sure if I should be putting this problem on this page, but someone put a copyvio notice on this article and moved the content to a temporary page almost three months ago. Since then, noone has either addressed the copyright problem or added to the temporary article, even though Knowles just ran for US Senate and lost the election this week. Academic Challenger 05:49, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Masturbation - a self-indulgent (no pun intended) mess of an article - Nunh-huh 04:18, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Arthur Symington - in need of wikification -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:53, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Baiotomeus -- A prehistoric...uh...mammal...? This page is really messed up; there's no other way to put it. Author refers to himself. I'm not sure what to do with it. There are several like it I've found in the Category list of Prehistoric mammals and almost the entire category of Mesozoic mammals. --DanielCD 22:35, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Spanish alphabet - Pronunciation section should be on seperate lines, in columns, or in a table.--Apollo2011 21:42, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

21:05, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

  • Bagratuni: New, needs help with phrasing. --Zigger 17:12, 2004 Nov 4 (UTC)
  • Hung parliament. "Current parliament of Canada" - a date would be useful.
  • Most Emperors of Vietname linked from Nguyen Dynasty, need copyedit, lead section, vietnamese name in article, succession footer boxes... Also some redlinks, may be able to translate the French version. Dunc|☺ 12:45, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Gothic rock - choppy, could be better organized, especially 3rd generation or even whole article. Grice 12:00, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Ethelfleda consists of two bits of duplicate text which need merging together. G-Man 13:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Stewart Swerdlow was listed for deletion, but it appears to be a valid subject. At the moment it contains little more than crackpottery presented as a fact and needs complete reworking. (The changes that were made so far were just cosmetic.) - Mike Rosoft 13:54, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 3

Formatted and expanded. Not sure about "context". Niteowlneils 02:51, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • now fully cleaned up at Ice sculpture. Could still use expansion though. --Air 14:50, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Is now properly formatted substub. Needs serious expansion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] )
  • Germany, actually. Added some information from the German article. A decent stub now. I don't know what to do with the genealogical links on the talk page, though. 82.210.114.165 10:53, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Gazpacho

November 2

  • Controversy - needs general editing for uniform style.
  • Wyatt Matthew Halliwell - needs Charmed context and wikification. Seems like a minor character. Maybe it should be included in the Charmed article. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:38, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Runaways (comics) - I tidied the worst of it, but could still use help from someone who actually knows/cares about the topic. Niteowlneils
  • Cape fox
    • A stub, but not sure why it's on cleanup. Mrwojo 23:53, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Modern world needs some additions and some of the language is slightly colloquial
  • Jirachi WishMaker and Shadow pokemon - Pokemon stubs Gazpacho
  • Nanyang - Not too bad, but needs NPOV in a few sections and wording improvements. (e.g. "Nanyang's cattle are famous. They look beautiful...") - RedWordSmith 02:58, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Scrolling - Scrolling (computing) was merged into it, and IMO improvements made in each of them, w/o a successful restructuring into one article with a logical flow and w/o sufficient development to permit judging whether the merge was a good idea. See Talk:Scrolling for specifics. --Jerzy(t)
  • Gonzo journalism - this article has large portions copied from this site [3] --The_stuart
    • Nononono... that site copied Wikipedia! It even says at the bottom: "This article is from Wikipedia." - RedWordSmith 02:58, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 1

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