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Anthropology, ethnology

  • Inca Empire - written in a fairly casual style. --Eequor 21:53, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • worked on Religion part; still needs lots of style fixes: Barfooz Oct 28, 2004
      • copyedits throughout, style, tightening. still needs cleaning up, my eyes started to glaze. Katefan0 21:14, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Pashtun - lots of information added and deleted by 63.166.37.229 -- needs more than simple reverting.
    • did some work on June 28 Marlowe 21:05, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Ethnomethodology is rather confusing to someone who doesn't know anything about ethnology. --Khym Chanur 07:41, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Chysauster Ancient Village still needs expansion and possibly NPOV. -Sean Curtin 18:10, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Turkmen people - the term "Turkmen" apparently refers to different groups of people. A knowledgeable person could clrify that. See also the articles linking to Turkmen. olivier 08:13, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

Architecture

  • Forms in architecture - not written encyclopedically, has personal point of view --Erauch 23:45, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Architecture I would like some other opinions on the Architecture page, original author KRS seems to be a bit AWOL. Also, page seems to be inappropriately categorised on the main page under technology (I recommend society) but is under "arts" when I browse the category:main page separately, I don't understand why. Chwe 23:44, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Semi-detached -- needs some historical & sociological data, and also a picture. Anyone living in a semi-detached, please go ahead. Wikikiwi 22:14, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Integument has been moved to Wiktionary:Transwiki:Integument. Someone who understands interwiki links needs to delete it and replace it with whatever redirects are appropriate. Tannin 14:17, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Nuer tribe - this is an important tribe in the history of anthropology, but the article needs a lot of work...

Art, artists and art history

  • Rollout photography - needs expansion of history before 1972, more attention & POV cleanup, from someone familiar with the subject. -FZ 18:13, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Meditative art - needs grammar and format work, detailed information on separate artists should be moved to articles about the particular artist by someone who knows who is important. rhyax 06:12, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Illustrator Brian Froud needs expansion by someone familiar with his life & work -FZ 20:39, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Western calligraphy - currently mostly just a history of writing systems in the west. Pyrop 00:41, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Waita Uziga — I can't really tell, but is the string of obscenities on this page an accurate translation, or has somebody corrupted this article? — RJH 20:39, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Bharatanatyam - Kind of spamming and advertisement vandalism (sock puppet, severe). See Talk:Bharatanatyam --Rrjanbiah 10:03, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Biology, anatomy, animals, plants

See also #Medicine, surgery, health

Anatomy

  • Chest - matter is copied from an old encylopedia. There is so much that can be written. Jay 10:49, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Biology

  • Somitogenesis - Did what I could, but someone who knows more about it should take it from here. --Improv 19:26, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Transcriptome -- this page is just a skeleton with lots of headings and little else. And while the word is a bit dubious, the other xxxome-pages (expressome!? regulatome? give me a break) referenced smack way too much of creative word games. In addition, I don't think the definition is the only one possible; I'm fairly sure transcriptome is used to refer to the set of transcribed sequences, i.e. all the different transcripts produced from a genome. Ketil 2004-11-04

Zoology

  • Ponerinae - see talk page, needs editing for layman. rhyax 06:41, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Bos - I did my best to clean it up, but ITIS conflicts with the page and other parts of Wikipedia and I am way out of my depth. Also check the redirects from the species names; do they point to the right thing(s)? grendel|khan 21:32, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC)
  • Seahorse - could use some reformatting, what to do with this seahorse list for instance, my knowledge on seahorses is limited. --Solitude 15:03, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Bradypodion and Lepidophyma - list of red links. What is their common name? Doovinator 22:00, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Is there anything to say about white horses from a biological point of view? |l'KF'l| 11:15, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)

Other

Categories

Communication

  • Communication - Needs work as an article. Needs lots of work as a subject link from the main page. Zigger 16:48, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • reorganised Peter Ellis 03:31, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Callmanager - Apparently a Cisco systems software product, this article is extremely informal, probably written by a bored Cisco employee. Kevin Saff 20:54, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Telephone - Mess of "related articles" needs subdivision in some orderly manner. (Excellent article cluster; overall revision also needed -- article could be better divided into paragraphs and topics; move to PNA when "related articles" is cleaned up +sj+)
    • Began the process of re-working this article. The actual content in the history section was mostly a massive quote from a circa 1900 project Gutenberg book (Heros of the Telegraph) -- the article needs an introduction which describes what a telephone IS, and some discussion of the various types... Then, we need LINKS to sub-pages for telephone(history) and telephone(signaling) and telephone(Switching). The basic link cluster at the bottom is EXCELLENT.... it's the stuff on the telephone ITSELF that sucks. Rick Boatright 16:19, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • information theory is leaking information. --Eequor 07:38, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Computer and information science

Algorithms

  • LL parser -- Needs someone knowledgable to fill in the section on LL(k) Parsing - the information isn't generally available on the web. 7:49 24 April 2004 (GMT)

Communications

  • List of device bandwidths - All speeds have to be verified, some are wrong (conversion Bit/s to Byte/s seems strange) (moved from cleanup Onebyone 22:58, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)) +I added disclaimer of why some values look wrong by an order of magnitude, but the bit-to-byte conversion won't work. See Talk (Scott McNay 17:03, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC))


Computer architecture


Computer science

  • Bryn Dole - I'm not sure of the accuracy of this page, but it needs a major overhaul including wikifying and rewording.--[[User:Gabriel Webber|Gabriel | talk]] 07:30, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Ternary logic - Essentially nothing but headers. Needs major attention. 17:59, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Tail recursion modulo cons - neither well written nor accessible. --Eequor 07:32, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Computer graphics - Needs a rebuild. The focus is too narrow on 3d-rendering. It lacks important events in CG-history, and a good discussion on the increasingly broad application of CG. MrMambo 17:17, 28 March 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Design pattern (computer science) - Needs rewriting. A large article inspired by, or copied in part from, a 1995 book, w/ 50 links to substubs with names like "Interpreter pattern" and "Memento pattern". Some of the links from the master article, like anonymous subroutine objects pattern, may be copyvio, with the initial article note saying it's "stub from perl design pattern book". Tempshill 18:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • I have tried to work on the main article. I still intend to revise it more and add more content to the different classifications. Khalid 21:00, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

History

Internet

  • Yahoo! -- I just happened to stumble upon Yahoo! and found services like Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger had very little information. Being so popular, they definitely deserve more. I created the Yahoo! Mail page, though only as a stub. More information about these services needs to be provided. Jam2k 21:25, 10 May 2004

Operating systems

People

  • Vannevar Bush -- The link "associative trails" links to Hyperlink, which is wrong. According to Bush's paper "As we may think", a trail is a set of connected pages, i.e. a trail is indeed a graph whose vertices are pages and whose edges are links. Therefore a trail is by no means just a hyperlink, as the article suggests. I don't know what to do, of course it would be nice to set up a page explaining what a trail really is, but the easiest solution for the moment would be just to remove the linking to Hyperlink. 129.132.179.41 17:04, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Done. PhilHibbs 17:13, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Programming and other languages

Software

Culture

  • Culture of Zimbabwe Surely deserves more than 3-4 lines. I know nothing about it unfortunately. Katefan0 23:38, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Encyclopedia Judaica - stubby and doesn't make much sense. Pyrop 00:12, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Celtic knot - could use some example pictures and some specific information on how the knots are constructed. Kwertii 05:27, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Currency

Large-sized note
  • I just asked it to be clarified so no one will mess with it. That is, no one makes the mistake of thinking the table is about the present. 66.245.29.166 15:11, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Series (U.S. currency) Please triple check everything in this article to make sure everything in this is correct, as well as thinking of Wikipedia articles besides the dis-ambiguation page Series to have links here. 66.245.89.64 21:50, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Economics, business(es), business leaders, sales

Education, learning, pedagogy

  • Education reform. Not sure if this is the right place, but the article has previously had serious POV, accuracy, logical, and rhetorical problems, and while I've put in a lot of work on it lately it needs more eyes than mine. If I'm barking up the wrong page, just yell at me. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 23:58, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Preschool education Previously listed on cleanup, but that doesn't seem necessary. Needs looking over by someone familiar with the subject, and possibly some extension. Rvollmert 16:24, 2004 Aug 21 (UTC)
  • Dalton Plan and Helen Parkhurst seem to be fascinating subjects. Moreover, a quick Google check reveals that there are "Dalton" schools all over Europe (Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, wherever), not just in New York City. A summary by a practitioner would be great. |l'KF'l| 08:37, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Lifelong education Was a stub that was cleaned up from an unformatted article previously listed on cleanup; it needs far more work from someone familiar with educational practices. Alcarillo 16:58, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have merged Lifelong education with lifelong learning because it is just two sides of exactly the same thing. Still needs improvement, which I'll try, time permitting. <KF> 21:35, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Efficient learning method Another stub that was cleaned up; needs a lot of work. Alcarillo 16:58, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Homeschooling is nowhere near NPOV--it's written from a pro-homeschool perspective, and even the "opposition" section just attacks any critics. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 13:40, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • It seems a lot more neutral to me now. Someone else give this a look and see if anything needs to be changed still. Buddhainabucket 11:05, Aug 19, 2004
    • The part on opposistion is still very NPOV, the author is just giving reasons why the critics are wrong, and not just presenting the opinions of the critics. Sept 6, 2004/ CJrs 79
    • I did some work on the neutrality of the oppositon section - actually added in some argument. Trisk 03:16, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Public library Had some information about the origins of the public library from a now deleted page first public library merged in. I actively welcome editing and expansion of the merged section and also the whole article could do with some attention and possible restructuring I think. Oska 05:34, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi comes straight from the 1911 Britannica. What about pedagogy during the last 95 years? <KF> 02:42, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • 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

Engineering and applied science

  • Seismic retrofit needs a civil or mechanical engineer to give it a once- or twice-over. I've already done some copyediting and rephrasing. - jredmond 03:03, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC).

    The article also needs illustrative pictures of retrofit details, especially the kinds of modifications that a homeowner can perform to secure the building, furnishings, and appliances. - Leonard G. 04:09, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Environment, geology, earth sciences, weather

Food, agriculture

  • Food is mostly a list of lists. ~ Jake 23:58, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC).
    • I have started work on improving the food entry. Any suggestions / comments / ideas welcomed at Talk:Food. Thanks David Thrale 23:18, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Apple Jacks -- Go to the external link at the bottom and use it as a reference tool for why the green jacks became X-shaped. 66.32.156.73 00:56, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • World Food Program. I have improved this a lot. Can someone who knows about aid for trade, add something to this article or create an article on this linked to World Food Program? David Thrale 10:46, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Wine and related pages require some work. There seems to be a lot of duplication, as well as confusion about varietals and brands. Furthermore, the issues are muddied by the fact that the terminology in the US differs from that in the rest of the world. - Burschik, 09:23, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC). Have started to make some heaadway on this as I add German wine comprehensively. There are a lot of things missing and a lot of reorganisation needed. Please start commenting on Talk:Wine Justinc 13:34, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • The section of chocolate on "the economics behind chocolate definition" has some useful information, but seems to me to have a POV problem. Also it needs grammar corrections. --Dominus 19:17, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Soup- article of the week did a lot of work, but the History section is short and the Western and Non-Western sections have no text in them.--Alsocal 04:42, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Pumpkin - needs de-1911'ed and cleaned up. A lot could be said about the history, etc., that is missing. Brassratgirl 02:59, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Games, entertainment

  • All Video Game Consoles need to be uniform in format. Some do not have the system specs. Pictures are being looked into. Contacting the makers of www.vgmuseum.com to see if their system images can be used. Lockeownzj00 8:30, 13 June 2004 (UTC)
  • Rayman needs more information. Lots of it. MajorB|MajorB 02:27 PM, July 14, 2004
  • Zidane Tribal - A character from Final Fantasy IX. Much of the article cannot be understood by those who have not played the game. Guanaco 21:49, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Fixed, a little. Let me know if it needs more help. Nikki 06:20, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • TWERPS this page says "..."Some of the installments also came with a plastic dice."
    • Was it one die? or Were they dice? Dice is plural, die is singular. I would edit this but I don't know which is correct: 'a die or dice... also how many sides? May I suggest " came with a six-sided die" or whatever is accurate, since role playing games often used dice of more or less than the standard six sides of a cube-shaped die. Thanks for your helpPedant 06:01, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)"
    • "Die" is indeed singular, while "Dice" refers to the plural (two or more) with the phrsae "a pair of dice" representing two die. Further numeric increments follow standard English with the plural I believe, although you would also be correct in "I tossed the five dice to the table and hoped for the best. I was disappointed as one lucky die took a nasy hop into my new gal's drink, and two more die hit the floor." Dented 04:02am 2004 Nov 17 (UTC)

Geography

General

All need overhaul and major TLC. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 19:56, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • The Amazon River. An article I feel has a lot of potential and already a great deal of information. It is, however, not very readable. I needs some skilled editing to improve the writing as well as the layout (headings etc.) -- Solitude 10:08, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • I edited this for readability and appearance. This could use some attention to the metric vs english system of measurement, some units are feet, some are metres, some are both. Also the article slips back and forth between American English and English at times. there is also a bit, noted on its discussion page, about someone exploring "fifty metres inland" seems to be a verrrry minimal exploration if that measurement is correct. Can someone with the resources check that figure? I've done all I can for the night Pedant 08:07, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)
  • Brussels - the part about Brussels' linguistic history regularly contains partisan matter, including an ongoing a revert war. --Edcolins 20:34, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • All the articles created by Rambot. --Eequor 18:14, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
More evidence that Rambot is evil:
  • Most of these have irrelevant statistics, including percentages less than 1% and mentions of 0%.
  • All are poorly wikified (inconsistent, redundant, unintuitive), particularly with regard to ethnicity.
  • All are under-wikified. Except for the lead section, links within the article are limited to the following:
  • Hispanic and Latino groups are poorly recognized by the U.S. Census, and the Rambot articles propagate this error.
  • The section on marital status reflects antiquated notions of gender role.
  • The articles seem to use "village" and "town" interchangeably. Every occurrence of each (and any other synonyms used) should be replaced with "city".
    • Absolutely not. In New York State, and possibly other states, "town", "village" and "city" are clearly defined types of municipalities. To replace "town" or "village" with "city" is incorrect. What Rambot did screw up in N.Y. is to label CDPs as "towns". I had to manually adjust most of these in Westchester County, hoping people will hit the other counties.[[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo

>>Talk<<]] 09:17, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

      • In Los Amgeles there are places (for want of a better term) such as Northridge, Granada Hills, Canoga Park which are not towns, not villages, and not cities. They have borders, and names, but they are not political entities, nor are they postal zones, nor are they communities, as there are communities within them which overlap the boundaries of these 'named places'... what would one consider these places to be ? I have no word for what they are that seems to be an accurate description, can someone enlighten me as to what these might be called? Locally they are referred to as cities by many folk, but they are definitely not cities, but are PART of a city. An answer on my talk page would be appreciated.Pedant 08:22, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)
  • Most of the statistics would be better presented by a table. Perhaps a link to the Census Bureau would suffice?

Countries

  • "Douvrin is a chief town of canton of northern France, in the département of Pas-de-Calais (zone 62), arrondissement of Béthune." I'm stumped. This desn't seem to parse. Is this supposed to be 'chief town or canton'? At any rate, this is a stub, and someone familiar with France might want to take a look.Pedant 05:21, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)
    • I did some changes which should clarify this. It still remains a stub, though. olivier 10:22, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

Places

  • Architecture of Winnipeg, Manitoba needs some content. All it has is a photograph and a hyperlink to a website.
  • Holmsund -- Images on page don't appear to have copyright information, and the map looks like a total copyvio. -- RJH
  • Sobieski, WI. Too much POV and trite information, mostly about alcohol consumption Chris Corrigan 23:36, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC) 00:36 28 October 2004 (UTC)
  • New Delhi, capital of India is without substantial text!
  • some London underground stations User:andycjp
  • Rumtek - a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, India. Some more information and a good picture would be more than welcome. AndyBrandt 21:22, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Spring Creek, Oklahoma - aaaah, bad shape. 95% of the article is vague, uninformative, or just pointless. blankfaze | ?­? 00:04, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Ravenna has historical information, but nothing about the modern city. Walt Pohl 06:12, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Kerman copyedit, wikify, check info --ran 14:10, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Barton (village), Vermont and Barton (town), Vermont have identical text but different demographics, combine? It looks weird if you open them in two tabs and switch between them :) Dori 05:43, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
  • Jastrowie: I've done what I can to clean this up, but it still needs some attention from someone familiar with Polish history and/or language. See Talk:Jastrowie for particular questions. —Triskaideka 18:46, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • List of British Columbia rivers attempts to list rivers ordered by watershed, yet has various blank and questioned entries. It needs someone familiar with the topic and area to finish the job. If no one steps up to that, then it needs to be converted to an alphabetical or other ordering that mere mortals could more easily contribute to... 66.167.139.215 00:40, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Ormond Castle - Not wikified, seems copy and pasted from elsewhere, like an advertisement. Jelly441
    • Had my first go at wikifying a document. Corrected some minor grammar and punctuation, but it's still a bit vague. mrb712 18 Oct 2004
  • Andijk needs work, but im not quite sure what to do with it. May need to be split up into different articles. ----ScottyBoy900Q∞ 04:03, 01 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Oettingen looks a bit like tourism propaganda with no wikification. There's a lot of content, but it needs considerable work. RJH 00:12, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Government, politics, bureaucracy

See also Political science, law

  • African Christian Democratic Party - author seems to belong to party and claims to be allowed to translate from source. Style, NPOV, etc. Tried to cleanup corresponding Afrikaans article. --af:Gebruiker:Alias 15:55, 12 Nov, 2004 (UTC)
    • I wouldn't call the article excessively biased, but I have expanded on the introduction bit to give readers a better idea of the essence of the party. Miles 6:15, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • United States Army and similar pages - No information about what soldiers do, how they are enlisted, the options of a soldier, and how they leave the army, perhaps a page is needed for life in the army, or soldier life.
  • Postal savings systems--I saw a request for this and compiled a short article from the books I have and my personal knowledge, but this could benefit from others. E.g. details of UK privitization, other countries' systems. PedanticallySpeaking 16:36, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Electronic tagging - hugely controversial in the UK and we have virtually nothing. One possible source: [2] --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:36, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've added what I know about the electronic tagging system that's in use in the UK at the moment. Hopefully that's the kind of thing that's required Gypsum Fantastic 18:47, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Structure of the draft EU Constitution - needs expansion and proper capitalization. ··gracefool |☺ 00:59, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Fiscal neutrality -- should be edited so as to balance the view of neoclassical economists (welfare trap and all that) with that of social-democrats David.Monniaux 09:50, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Case mix -- seems to be an esoteric Medicare term -Smack 08:06, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • The people on List of Seigneurs of Sark are all sub-stubs. Maximus Rex 07:50, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Numerus clausus -- An incredibly one-sided article which suggests the concept petered out some time in the 1930s never to be revived again. Should be revised by a (former) student at a German university. --KF 20:47, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Politics of Algeria needs updating. Phrases such as "The next round of legislative elections are scheduled to take place in 2002" and "as of 31 December, 1990" make me cry. Quadell (talk) 16:14, May 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sandro Pertini -- biography of an eminent Italian politician, does not only need wikification; should be checked, preferably by someone from Italy. --KF 01:23, 28 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Subject-object problem - POV. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Chief executive - A disambiguation page. I'm not sure if Head of government is the correct disambig. for non-CEO uses, though. School district is a particulary tricky case. I mostly just don't know such things. -Spikey 19:49, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • sovkhoz is barely a dicdef; it could use a good encyclopedia article from someone versed in Soviet economics. Alcarillo 20:24, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nationalist Congress Party ad for an Indian political party, POV GreatWhiteNortherner 04:53, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
    • Actually, the previous content was a copyvio. I NPOVed it completely. Still a stub that needs (non-partisan) work. Alcarillo
    • Made a few more changes but I feel the long list of party principles is way too wieldy. Virendra
  • Senate Internal Security Subcommittee: I know nothing about this topic, but the current article seems likely to be wildly inaccurate even so. Bryan 01:44, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Péter Medgyessy: POV; probably a disputed person on the long run. --195.56.230.102 22:23, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Foreign relations of Côte d'Ivoire: Currently, the article reads as thought the French Republic enjoys good relations with Ivory Coast; this needs to be updated, and French/African politics is not my strong point. Needs work. --Ce garcon 08:08, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Historical figures

  • John Ireland(archbishop) - Needs a look by someone with better knowledge and historical resources about the man. Look into his political activity. --69.5.156.155 07:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Borjijite - needs looked at by someone who knows about this. Borjijite needs to be closer to the top and define what it is a lot better. rhyax 00:34, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Muhammad Thakurufar Al-Azam - needs fact checking.
  • Robert Abbot - information about his actual significance is still needed, from cleanup. rhyax 07:12, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Sant Cassia - Edit wars, vfd, copyright issues. you name it. rhyax 08:15, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Philip Freneau - He needs some information on him. His poetry was quite important.
  • James H. Lane - aside from the obvious spelling/grammar/formatting issues, it appears that there may be two Civil War Generals named James Henry Lane -- see [3] and [4]. This could really use the attention of someone more familiar with Civil War history. Radicalsubversiv 02:51, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I've cleaned it up a bit, but it still needs a thorough lookover by someone who's an expert in this! Miss Puffskein 01:32, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Homer Lea - great bio; needs fact-checking, NPOV, dates filled in
  • List of Mughal emperors - needs help getting links and names standardized, formatting.
    • I am trying to do what I can. Added a full title for Aurangzeb. Changed and moved Bahadur Shah Zafar around a bit. His title as emperor should be Bahadur Shah II; he is known to history more often as Bahadur Shah Zafar because of his stature as an Urdu poet (Zafar being his pen name).
  • Genghis Khan - the page needs info on Khan uniting the tribes before his conquest, and needs info on Khan's aborted conquest of Europe.
  • Maltese nobility needs some serious formatting by someone who is good at that (ie, not me :-) ). As it looks copypasted, it might also need copyright-checking, but note that the original contributor seems to be the owner of www.maltagenealogy.com. See User talk:Tancarville
  • William III of the Netherlands - needs encyclopedic tone and some basic facts like year of inauguration. Rmhermen 19:44, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've improved the writing style, but it's still unclear in places and needs a good going-over by someone familiar with Dutch history. -Smack 21:38, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I'll have a looksy at it when I have time/ am near some books again -AR 22:20, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Fernando Lopes - Needs to be formatted into Wikipedia coventions. And needs to be edited. Kingturtle 18:11, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lajos Kossuth - contains some worryingly opinionated statements ("With marvellous energy he kept in his own hands the direction of the whole government"). Needs fact-checking and neutralising. Onebyone 01:11, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Like it or not, the facts have been checked. The man * was* a charismatic leader - unkamunka. 16:34, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I believe that, I'm just not sure I know enough about the subject to make the language better without introducing errors. I think the request for fact-checking was just something I passed on from the entry on cleanup - I now see that this article is in fact pretty close to the 1911 Britannica, so is probably accurate. That also explains the flowery prose... Onebyone
      • Having done an initial NPOV some time ago, I am slowly going through and boiling down the prose; probably originally written by an Anglophone Hungarian shortly after Kossuth's death - unkamunka. 12:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Rosa Parks makes a claim about Irene Morgan which is probably false.
  • Leonard Peltier seems to have a POV problem. -- Dominus 19:20, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Eleftherios Venizelos - needs copyediting by someone familiar with the material - the major contributor, while obviously knowledgeable about the subject, is not comfortable with standard written English. 209.149.235.254 20:00, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • It seems quite tidied up right now, although it wasn't me.--leandros 22:01, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach has some external internet links on abstract concepts for some reason. Dbiv 18:30, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Karl Schnörrer this page has a link and very little information about who the person is. Needs much expansion.
    • Have added some information. Found a good source, if someone has the time to add info from there (second external link). Not a major person though... --raylu 22:16, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
  • James S. Voss Not encylopedaic, not wikified,,,
  • Gudit is confusing and unenlightening. (I think it's supposed to be "Aksumite" dynasty, too, but i'm not sure.) Pyrop 06:28, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Heseri Dead-end-page. needs wikification desperately by a specialist in chinese history. Panta rhei 13:28, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • The illustration on Henry P. Baldwin, a Senator from Michigan, which is on the Bioguide site appears in my Oxford Companion to the U.S. Supreme Court as that of Justice Henry Baldwin. The illustration on the Supreme Court Historical Society site could be the same fellow. Can anyone clarify?PedanticallySpeaking 17:28, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
I've contacted Heather Moore, photo researcher at the U.S. Senate Historical Office, and she e-mailed me on August 31, 2004, to say she'll look into this. PedanticallySpeaking 14:15, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Lou Rawls, actually listed a *few* things. If someone starts the outline and some text I'll flesh it out more. New, not knowing how to write a bio hurts me... see his own bio for startsJoeHenzi 06:58, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Deng Xiaoping, article hardly has any information from Deng's revolutionary days. This important part of his life cannot be ignored. [[User:Colipon|Colipon+(T)]] 22:26, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Portuguese 1807 Fleet needs some contextual TLC. Katefan0 18:42, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Corset (before 1500) is a mess, as is the later entry. The main entry for corset seems quite good -- should they be merged? Katefan0 23:00, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Blockade of Africa discusses the American blockade of Africa against the Slave Trade. It is only one paragraph with no Wikis. I know nothing of Naval History and hopesomeone can lend hand. It looks like an interesting subject. [[PaulinSaudi 16:36, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)]]
  • Occupation_of_Palestine: Restarting this page (which was subject to numerous edit-wars) from scratch. Please, we need more unbiased editors to write an NPOV article (see Talk for facts and disputes.) HistoryBuffEr 03:46, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)
  • List of noteworthy individuals in the Warsaw Uprising page looks decent, with the exception of the "Allied Politicians". The later is full of negative polemic observations with nothing to back them up. No such commentary appears in the "German" section, the primary perpetrators of the action. Appears to be editorial bias at work. -- RJH 20:08, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Fiji Constitutional Crisis of 1977 needs both wikification and expansion. Alba 15:38, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • German South-West Africa could use a lot of expansion. Kwertii 06:00, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Vietnam Syndrome I created this stub about the US societal reaction to the Vietnam War to allow a link to this rather than PTSD for a Bill_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_1992. It needs some work by someone familiar with this issue. --CloudSurfer 07:36, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Council of Four - dates, context - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 08:17, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
  • Molly Maguires - woof, this needs work. It's a stub, POV, and very light on factual information. - Scooter 21:59, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Gettysburg Address - factual accuracy disputed. - biggins | talk 13:18, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Gian Giacomo Medici - a stub on a brother of Pope Pius IV whose «early career connects itself with the romantic rise of his elder brother». How? Looks like they are not part of the Medicis. IMO it's better to expand than merge and redirect--Nabla 04:19, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - it's not really NPOV in its historical presentation, clearly written by the church supporters/members. It rather downplays Ukraine's traditional Orthodox status and overemphasizes the differences with Russia. Ornil 22:43, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Period of Japanese Rule (Korea) - It doesn't seem to be NPOV, I can't tell what claims made in the article are true and which aren't. Need someone with more specialized knowlege about Korean and Japanese history who can verify the claims in this article and make the content more specific. --210.91.223.73 11:49, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Democratic Kampuchea -- This article has no mention of US, Thai and UN support to the Khmer Rouge against the Vietnamese-sponsored Cambodian government after the Khmer Rouge had been driven from power - this is both a serious gap in the history of Cambodia and also a serious NPOV problem. Given that the content in the article is taken from the Library of Congress Country Studies an omission of American assistance to the Khmer Rouge is perfectly understandable, nonetheless to mantain NPOV this needs to be radically revised. --Ce garcon 07:41, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Black People's Convention - pov, maybe expand out some of these acronyms rhyax 22:46, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • St. Francis Dam should be terribly interesting, but reads like a poor term paper. I tried to fix some phrasing ("Today this is a big no-no ..."), but don't know the subject. Kbh3rd 02:02, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Cleaned up a few more bits. Looks okay to me, but could do with some additional facts, quotes, and fact-checking. Bryce 22:47, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Architectural history Would like some help to better integrate this with the architecture page (the only page linking to it?) also would like some help on the page itself, I think I've made it a bit too abstract, or not abstract enough... Chwe 23:39, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Modern world The list of personalities is extremely POV and shows some odd preferences (Lucas and Spielberg may be popular filmmakers, but they will probably be forgotten one century from now, just as we have forgotten many popular artists of the 19th century). David.Monniaux 06:58, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Nostradamus desperately needs a healthy dose of skepticism. Thunderbunny 15:54, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • I added a little, it still need some work Zarxos 02:41, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Macedonian Empire seems to be a text on the history of the Macedonian empire only, needs lots of work and more information on the empire itself, also after Alexander the Great, it jumps to the conclusion and ends the empire, it needs serious formatting, is copied/pasted from here (http://members.fortunecity.com/fstav1/macedon.html) although it could be written by the user himself.
    • Although it's kind of encyclopedic, it's a big big long long paragraph with lots of information on the history only, but not on why the empire fell. Someone with knowledge on the subject has to look into it. --leandros 22:12, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Soviet Navy - Linked to by 25 articles. I created the stub and some basic information, however I have no good documentation on this subject. # Jacoplane 21:26, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • This page appears to be much better though a bit scant on details. Remove stub listing at the bottom. Anyone else think it should be removed from here as well --enceladus 02:37, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Menilmontant - Seems like some kind of city, but it really needs a general explanation. I can't actually figure out what it is. Andrevan 01:28, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • The text appears to be abandoned part way through.
    • The most obvious Menilmotnat on the net appears to be a village since incorportated into Paris.Jackiespeel 16:38, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Indian independence movement - Started it ages back, but nobody's really brought content to this article. It summaries the first 10-20 years of the movement, and then stops abruptly. I don't know enough about this part of India's history to write stuff. If there are any experts about, please help! Gaurav 02:54, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Battle of Changsha (1944) - More information (especially background), proper translation, and what is the source? - Sid 17:01, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • History of Fiji and/or Politics of Fiji - excellently written, but much has changed in the government over the past two years. These pages need tremendous updates. See: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] --Kingturtle 03:24 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Africa - Shockingly Eurocentric! Could use a couple hours of time from someone familiar with basic African history, and much cutting back of duplicate European content. That any article on African history doesn't detail black African states like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, Kano, Ashanti, Oyo, Benin, Ife, Monomontapa, or the Swahili-speaking city-states in East Africa, just to name some of the most notable. --172, May 3, 2003
    • Agreed, and phrases like "Spain had completely thrown off the Muslim yoke" aren't what you'd call exemplary NPOV either. The subject is far too big for the way that ths article tries to treat it. Really, it should be a very general overview of regions and centuries peppered with links to other articles. A bit like History of the United States only several times the area and at least 10 times the timespan --Onebyone 18:44, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Spain needs a lot more information. --Alex S 14:38, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • seems bizarre that this supports a Greater Albania entry when we have no equivalent for Serbia unkamunka 21:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Immigration to the United States is hardcore POV. Meelar 18:15, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • POV seems improved but historical account is still very sketchy. Needs more from some knowledgeable historians. Dr. Z 04:15, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Babylonia and Assyria - all the articles linked on that page will desperately need some attention, as they apparently all come from the 1911 EB. I'm pretty sure they'll be extremely out of date by now. Adam Bishop 04:25, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Bretton Woods Conference. Needs refactor by knowledgable person. See Talk:Bretton Woods.
  • Consequences of German Nazism -- Not too bad now as an introduction to the post-war situation. However, the article will probably benefit from many readers skimming it, adding things (or at least suggesting additions), creating links, etc. <KF> 23:28, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did a rewrite of the German section of it --Kathrynn 14:45, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Is the title correct? (My copy is different.) Also, article does not even touch on the theme of this influential book: the fall of the Roman Empire. llywrch-The title is correct. The often-used short title, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a later invention and should be a redirect, which it is. But I agree the article has bigger problems. --Bishonen 07:31, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Egyptian_Mythology - needs fleshing out, theres hardly anything there, just lots of headings.
    • not too bad, in need of images though. allie 13:01, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • History of Puerto Rico needs to be wikified. I started one section. Right now is mostly a long scroll of unwikified text. Bkonrad 22:21, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified section was the end. Did some wikifying in general and added some headers. Bulleted text at bottom. There was a commented section with a note that said it could be merged. I merged it and put a comment around it because I'm not sure where it is supposed to go. --raylu 22:34, May 12, 2004 (UTC)----
  • Kinsky-horse work in English - read like poor babelfish translations of de:Kinsky-Pferd Needs someone fluent in German and English horse-speak!
  • Massacre in Koniuchy is in need of NPOV editing. --Baldhur 13:53, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Regained Territories needs attention from a knowledgable neutral individual(s) (do any exist?) Maximus Rex 04:19, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • that knowledgable person should ideally be a native (or at least more fluent) speaker of English, as well Orange Mike 04:32, 2004 Feb 6 (UTC)
  • Nepalese People's War - Well commenced article requires additional research and current-events archiving from any and all quarters! prat 02:24, 2004 Apr 6 (UTC)
  • Persia - I have filled in the info that was missing, but the article begs for a picture/timeline. Fishal 01:43, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman Empire - Article does not really explain a lot about the Empire itself but is a simple overview of some emperor's reigns. Colipon 18:57, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) Also, there is no text at all from the Crisis of the Third Century onwards. Arkuat 22:54, 2004 Jul 8 (UTC)
  • Unit 731 (World War II Japanese biological warfare research unit) has outline in place and needs more facts Astudent 05:16 21 May 2003 (UTC)
  • Watergate Scandal - there is a discrepancy regarding the tally of votes against the Articles of Impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee. See Talk:Watergate Scandal for details. - Dominus 01:59, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Dominus, is this resolved? It's been on this page sunce October. Kingturtle 20:59, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. I'm the primary author of this page, but it's outside my real expertise, and there is a lot of misinformation in print and on the web relating to this subject, so I've had a tough time researching. See Talk:Civil Constitution of the Clergy for further comments. Jmabel 07:01, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Prussia has been made quite a mess of. john 06:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC).
    • This article has been lovingly restored and is now (if I say so myself) adequate. It needs constant vigilance to fend off the Polish nationalists. Adam 04:59, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • History of California was formerly full of factual errors & wishful thinking (see Talk:History of California). (One possible external PD source is [10], but it is quite long and I haven't had a chance to distill it down.) --hike395 01:25, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I think the section looks as good as any other on Wikipedia! It still needs some stylistic tweaking. Perhaps a paragraph or two of trivia could be deleted.--Wighson 01:34, 2004 Apr 1 (UTC)
  • Harlem Renaissance is embarrassing. jengod 00:21, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wu Hu, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Han Zhao, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Prussian people (ie, the Balts, not Prussia, etc!). Someone with knowledge on these Baltic people should flesh out their history, most especially at their first appearance in literature (such as Tacitus) and also their culture and a summary of the Old Prussian Language. Archaeological info would be valuable. Info in Origins of Prussia are a bit too general and specific to geography, not ethnology. Contributions of famous Prussians would be useful.
  • Please remember to add more info. on the current movement to revive Prussian culture on the modern descendants of the Prussian Balts.
  • 1922 in Germany - incredible amounts of info with no subheads and humongous paragraphs; maybe some unacademicizing editing needed, too.
    • Ive added alot of stuff from 19th c to 1918, and broken the whole article into sections. Some of the later sections need some information Theon 21:31, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)
    • 1920 and 1921 in Germany have been tidied up by someone. Jackiespeel 16:38, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
      • Whew, this thing is dense. Copyedited, major precis tightening, only a sliver of the way done. Will tackle more tomorrow. Katefan0 07:33, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • The 20th Century in Review requires NPOV from someone who knows their history --Graham :) | Talk 01:09, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC). Iv'e made a start by adding some structure. It now needs someone with a good overview. Julianp 02:32, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Needs more information. Jorend 19:37, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Expulsion of Germans after World War II and World War II evacuation and expulsion should be merged, the language is neither neutral nor in correct English, the content is questionable. Get-back-world-respect 23:39, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • The content wars here have settled down. I have tried to improve the language while not disturbing the content. Gwimpey 05:59, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Renaissance needs massive expansion - very little detail about such a significant period Deus Ex 23:23, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • 1950s has an overview section since its merging with 1950's - this is a good thing but it is completely U.S.-centric. Any historians care to expand its scope? --Lancevortex 13:46, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wars of Independence - I'm not really a history person and it is clear that this title should cover a whole lot more area than this piece (which needs reworking/formatting anyway) does. There is a disambig page at War of Independence which makes a start - maybe this page should have a new title and become a redirect to the singular? Will try to work on it if nobody picks it up and runs with it though. --VampWillow 00:14, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Paris Commune - needs expansion and elaboration. --Tothebarricades.tk 00:45, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • (1) No mention of: the flight of tens of thousands of the bourgeoisie who fled Paris to escape the implementation of the Commune; the destruction of the Tuileries Palace, the City Hall, the Palace of Justice, (and almost the Notre Dame) by the supporters of the Paris Commune; the décret des otages - arrest of hostages and their executions, including the Archbishop of Paris (Monseigneur Georges Darboy) at the prison of La Roquette; the suppression of newspapers; the arbitrary arrests of many members of the Commune (Bergeret, Assy, Cluseret, Lullier, Rossel, &c.) by the Commune. (2) When was "war declared on Paris"? This was a suppression of an insurrection. (3) Overall this seems a bit of a white-wash of the Commune, but perhaps that's just my POV. RJH 19:23, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Upper and Lower Egypt. Useful content, but looks as if two or three articles have been concatenated. Knowledgeable merging required. --Heron 13:11, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Ottoman wars in Europe -- should include all the various information that its German counterpart page includes (regardless of the format). --Shallot 20:17, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Kurt von Schuschnigg -- description of his office -- User:Docu
  • The Revolutions of 1848 in France -- seems like a translation. Definitely encyclopedic, but needs work. Dukeofomnium 13:17, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • 498 BC — For the Leontini entry, should the word "subjected" instead be "subjugated"? — RJH 20:36, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Uch - I can't tell if this is the same as one of the other Alexandrias we have articles on or not. Pyrop 03:50, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman Military History -- this page could use some serious copyediting. Spelling and grammer aren't my strength. Maastrictian 22:28, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Normanby_Hall -- This reads more like a tourism pamphlet than a encyclopedia article. Maybe someone who has heard of this place can take a whack at it? --MaxPower 14:46, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Lists

  • List of first names -- Please try to make the classification of these names into 2 groups as close to being complete as possible, only half are currently mentioned. 66.32.118.139 23:18, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Literature, language, authors, writers, reporters, media, newspapers, books, journalism

This seems to already have been done. Pls remove unless it is felt that it still needs improvement.Thanks.--Jondel 00:35, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Alex Rider
    • cleaned up, but still a stub. ··gracefool 11:41, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Greek lexicon - written in first person, article includes comments, table needs alphabetization, additional data needs integration into table with greek translation, etc., etc...--> fixed up the number section to be more accessible [Lareti]
  • North Germanic languages - for a lay-person it seems as depreciated theories have a tendency to return to the page. Expert overview is needed.212.181.86.76 09:47, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of German-language poets -- very much like List of German-language authors: did Gunther Grass, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil or Max Frisch ever write poetry? I heard that Herman Hesse and Heinrich Boll did, but even so they are known as novelists. If I'm right, it's a shame (3 of the above are Nobel prize winners, I think) . Maybe it should be merged with the author's list. Curero 10:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • French literature This article doesn't know what it wants to be about. DanKeshet 23:34, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • F. Van Wyck Mason - Van Wyck Mason wrote about fifty crime and adventure novels with action in all parts of the world, some about historical people....but this article doesn't say much about that. Kingturtle 21:20, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Medieval poetry - Needs more detail to make a decent article. Rednblu 04:04, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • I've been adding, mostly, a list of links to more specific topics. If someone wants to add some kind of interpretation here, feel free. --Smerdis of Tlön 01:05, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Nibelungenlied needs smoothing into proper English and would benefit from more information. Maximus Rex 06:43, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC).
    • Tried smoothing the English a bit, but it still needs work. Idril 16:10, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Ellery Queen -- A lot more needs to be said about the various authors who used the name "Ellery Queen". --KF 21:49, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Sindbad the Sailor - incomplete. Dominus 04:55, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Tian Han -- From Wikipedia:Cleanup - most of the text in unintelligible. Maybe a machine translation.- would have to be fixed by someone who knows Tian Han (moved here by Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 18:55, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC))
    • Rearranged the information, hopefully, it reads a little better. Dylanwhs 18:24, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • On the Road -- If you have recently read the novel, you might enjoy editing this term paper and turning it into an encyclopaedia article. Should be great fun. --KF 19:43, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Caribbean English -- There's a hint as to what these languages might be on the List of dialects of English page but zero actual info. Anybody out there who could help? jengod 08:10, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Characterization -- Potentially could be an interesting article, but needs a great deal of work to eliminate some of the more prescriptive elements. --ALargeElk 11:32, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Did my best to eliminate some of the prescriptivism, and otherwise neaten it up a bit. It could still use some work. Mariko
  • Information literacy -- Needs to be more like an article and less like an essay, and desperately needs to be wikified. Radagast 01:28, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
    • Simplified some of the text, changed some of the headings, and fixed some of the format issues but there is a lot left before it will sound like an article instead of an essay. It really needs a new structure... jaredwf 12:34, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Handwriting foreign accent - Needs renaming and a rewrite. According to comments on the talk page, some of the info might not even be correct. -- uriber 19:19, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I've done a rewrite and reformat on it, to be less US-centric and less China-focused and omit the more dubious examples. I don't know what to rename it. Tverbeek 00:14, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ilonggo now redirects to Hiligaynon. I think this is resoved and should be deleted . A professional lingguist who could comment would be User:Christopher Sundita.--Jondel 05:45, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I think I cleaned this up. --Jondel 05:47, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Underground newspapers Article is written like a diary entry. Salvagable aspects should perhaps be merged with some other article. LegCircus 19:21, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Singlish - suggest split to Phonetics and Vocab sections (too long!)
  • TI-84 Plus Silver Edition - This article has a Pages needing attention message, but I can't find the attention it needs. 66.245.122.28 21:36, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Nuer language - I keep meaning to fix this article, originally put together by the well-meaning adoptive sibling of a Nuer child, but I never seem to get around to it, so if anyone else wants to, there's an extremely informative link at the bottom... - Mustafaa 19:15, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • The Satanic Verses - Too much about the circumstances of the book, not enough about the content. Anyone whose recently read it is more than welcome. -Jrka 13:33, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Folk etymology, Fake etymology, Popular etymology — the distinction is fragile and could use some linguist attention. — mendel ☎ 16:53, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

Mathematics, mathematicians

Medicine, surgery, health

See also #Biology, anatomy, animals, plants

Medicine

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) - Delighted that there is material on this subject. This text, however, reflects the old convention that HRT was strictly applicable to females. The endrocronologists and others working in this field have expanded it to cover the treatment of males and even refer to the age problem of males as "andropause". There are now "andrologists" and others treating "andropause" with HRT. Need an expert to redo this subject.

Optometry

Pathology

  • Iron overload disorder, haemochromatosis - the former is crossreferenced to the latter, regarding topics which are not found in that article. Especially, dietary iron overload and parental iron overload are not covered. --Eequor 22:13, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome -- needs a thorough copyediting. Don't know if the current content is copyrighted or not. Alex.tan 08:10, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Endometriosis needs some TLC to make it sound like an encyclopedia article instead of a pamphlet. Alex.tan 10:04, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Diabetes mellitus - not up to the standard of scientific knowledge. Kpjas
    • I've tried piecemeal changes in this and related pages. The structure here needs more help, and more tweaking. There is some question as to whether the focus should be on information for diabetics or the science (as known) about diabetes, or both. I suggest both as diabetics should certainly understand more than a little about the science. More detailed stuff (how to test for blood glucose, diabetic menus/cooking, ...) should probably go elsewhere. ww 20:12, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - needs TLC --Graham :) | Talk 15:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Done some work on this. Still needs more. Also might be better as Spinal Muscular Atrophy rather than infantile SMA. Thoughts anyone? Markalex 16:59, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- mostly a sort of op-ed based on one web page. --Zero 06:54, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The main entry for PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder. This is unfortunate as the DSM-IV spells it posttraumatic stress disorder which, as you might see does not lead anywhere at the time of my writing this. I believe the contents of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be moved to the talk page of PTSD where some of it could be incorporated into the main article. A redirect from that page should then lead to the main article which should be moved to rename it in keeping with the DSM-IV spelling and the old main article page should be a redirect to the new spelling. I think I understand what I just wrote. --CloudSurfer 10:10, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Pharmacology

this seems oriented towards abuse only including phrases like 'produces an exhilarating rush' etc... this article's POV is that of someone commenting on drug abuse, and recreational use, should be more clinical in tone IMO, and separate abusive/recreational aspects from the pharmacological/therapeutic/clinical aspects.Pedant 02:06, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)

Surgery

Other

  • Corn syrup May be linked to diabetes, but current article is rather incoherent on this point, and I don't have the expertise. Web searches show definite media interest, but need someone with some qualifications to write something both NPOV and informative Gwimpey 04:07, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
I'm new, but I'm pretty sure Gwimpey's requests have been met, and it can be removed from the 'needy list' although I still have it labeled as 'stub.' rmbh 21:55, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Forensics - big subject, currently just a list of see alsos. I'm going to lsit on WP:COTW. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:34, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Childbirth... happened to most of us once... this article needs serious updating and massage. Where are all the mothers? Erich 19:44, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Human echolocation needs some review and I suspect it lacks NPOV. I am not an expert in this field, but this article seems to present as fact something that I understood to be just a theory. Also it is written and edited by a single, anon, user. Pasd 15:34, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Electrical quackery - needs a more sedate tone! - redcountess 23:41, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Nurse assistant skills - written by high school student, edited for language by non-medical person, needs professional review for content Dpbsmith 03:13, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Military, war, peace, international relations

  • Bulgarian April uprising - This article was vandalized and it seems a large portion of the opening was deleted and replaced with gibberish. Also, it does not seem to give an overview or complete the history. A summary is really all that is necessary in the short term to turn it into a stub. ScottieB 12:53, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Crime against humanity - no evidence that "crime against humanity" phrase occured in the Hague (IV) 1907 which is stated in the second sentence of the article. Some one who knows more about this than me, either ought to give a source or fix it. Philip Baird Shearer 12:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Religious war - incomprehensibly biased article that mentions only the hacker notion. We effectively don't have an article on the concept of religious war in general; the crusades are specific instances. JRM 14:16, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
    • I've added a brief intro that deals with actual religious wars. It's still rather stubly though. --FOo 18:59, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Fourth Geneva Convention - although the most important information seems to be there, most of the article remains unwritten. This is an essential article for an encyclopaedia, and with Fallujah about to be flattened, many people might be looking for information on what the Geneva Conventions actually say about collective punishment and other war crimes. - pir 12:27, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Cyprus_dispute - translated from German, needs English cleanup, wikification, and possibly some political correctness edits, maybe also some re-organisation. snchduer 12:10, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC+1)
    • I have fixed the English grammar, however it may need more cleanup. Gotalora 02:56, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Ammunition for infantry - only discusses subject circa 1911

-- I added some information about current infantry, somebody else check if it's ok? The history section is still a bit confusing, I think. Ketil 2004-11-04

Movies, television, radio

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Starts out organized, but devolves into a rambling mess. Davodd 23:38, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • White Base from Gundam, this user's contributions all need attention from someone who is familiar. rhyax 07:33, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Elf (movie) - I do not think any article here should end with 'and that's where all the fun begins' -Litefantastic 13:55, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • List of movies that were financial failures is neither primarily a list nor does it limit itself to money-losing movies. EX: Waterworld, believe it or not, turned a hefty profit for the studio that released it. As it stands, this article should probably be both renamed and edited to be more tightly focused in purpose. Davodd 07:47, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Santa Barbara (television) I know very little on the subject, and I've added all I can. It was very popular (and I mean very) with teenagers in the '80s, so hopefully some thirtysomething can add a bit more. I mean, I could make a stab at it, but it would only end up being something like "the supercouples on the show were Cruz and Eden and Julia and Mason" and that's not sufficient. TheCustomOfLife 18:45, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Notable actors without pages: Jonathan Silverman, Frank Finlay and Judi Dench (!), need to be created and expanded - MGM 22:14, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Seraphin, Terreis, Dahak, Cristina, Chilapa, Solari, Najara, Alti. Livia/Eve, Cyane, Hope (fictional character), Velasca, Amarice. All of these are characters on Xena: Warrior Princess, however the articles were written by a vandal who seems to update based on the reality of her fanfiction universe instead of the television show. These all need to be gone over by someone who watches the show and can actually say who these characters are and what they did. Snowspinner 03:17, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tyler Hoechlin and David Gallagher Sufficiently famous IMO, but stubby, needs expansion. -MGM 14:54, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • sitcom needs input from NON US/UK contributors or, at least, anyone that knows about sitcoms on; mainland Europe; Africa; Russia; Far East; Middle East; Australia; South America...anywhere other than UK/US, frankly... --bodnotbod 17:51, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Television comedy used to be a redirect to sitcom. I felt that was misleading and unsatisfactory. I've made a start. Please help make it less British. ...
  • Film criticism: The distinction between critics and reviewers isn't as clear cut as this article makes out. Could use a new approach, more history and many more names/sites of active critics. Scarequotes 22:17, Sep 15, 2003 (UTC)
    • There also appears to be some serious confusion about the difference between film critics and film theorist/analysts. --Chips Critic 21:36, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Home on the Range (movie) - Put information about the characters in this movie as well as the actors and some songs, if you can.
  • International broadcast of Japan a bit of a mess SimonP 19:19 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Radio programming - Someone with a good sense of radio history should do a better sorting job -- right now, "old time" and "modern" are the only two categories, which means the latter is quite a catch-all. More information on programming would be nice, too. --Scarequotes 23:10, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • List of male television actors and List of female television actors are both pitifully short compared to the list of male/female movie actors. I'm not sure most contributors know these lists exist. Fabiform 05:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • List of radio stations in Georgia Just about all Atlanta FM radio stations except WNNX-FM are there, but can you add more Albany, Georgia stations?? User 66.32.73.125 March 27, 2004
    • The list isn't complete and we are still sorely lacking in pages for actual radio stations, but I've added stations for Albany, Augusta, Carrollton, Macon, and Savannah. Valdosta (and maybe Columbus) still needs to be done though. Maclyn611 00:33, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • CIDC This article is messed up, but I don't know anything about Canadian radio stations. Can someone more versed in this subject fix the grammar and information? Also, is the notation used for the call sign abbreviation (C)I)D)ouglasC)) some kind of radio standard notation or is it a typo? - DropDeadGorgias 23:30, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Ringer - On Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fandom. Good content, but poorly written and organized. --Seth Ilys 15:16, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Articles on characters in Power Rangers (eg. Lothor, Tori Hanson, Adam Park) - Is a page on each character particularly necessary? Many of these are merely plot summaries. kelvSYC 06:34, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Would like to see merge of characters with Power Rangers - MGM 14:54, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • The Matrix Revolutions Needs some big time help. Really confusing and stuff. I tred to fix some of it but i can't even begin to clear it up. Kirvett 01:39, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Your comments sound like my reaction to the movie ;-)
    • Made some editorial changes to the plot outline; will do more later.
  • Fame (movie, TV series, and theme song) - moved to Fame, which was made a disambig page. Individual arts on the movie, Broadway show, TV series, and song need creatin'. +sj+ 00:44, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Banned films is frighteningly clumsy. 207.69.2.153 20:19, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • I did a huge update of it, and it's ready for lots and lots of contributions! BuddhaInABucket/talk Aug 19 2004
  • Is the Orgasmatron the correct name for the disparate but similarly affective devices in the movies Barbarella and Sleeper? -- Leonard G. 04:12, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Jackass:_The_Movie is a royal mess. An exhaustive plot summary, with no recognisable formatting. It needs some attention, POV adjustment, and grammar correction... QuantumEleven 15:05, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Music, musicians

  • Rose Royce, highly effusive article, needs NPOV attention, also has as excess of (often incorrect or inappropriate) links. I don't know enough about them to fix correctly Rossrs 07:55, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Shalamar, highly effusive article, needs NPOV attention, also has as excess of (often incorrect or inappropriate) links. I don't know enough about them to fix correctly Rossrs 07:55, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Keith Levine - needs (lots of) NPOV attention. 1 Nov 2004.
  • Jennifer Charles - needs some organisation and rewritting, possibly split to Elysean Fields (music) --Valmi 18:26, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Dokken - needs formatting, copyediting, and some clean-up and expansion. - Scooter 05:29, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Neposedi - should be looked at by russian for fact-check. rhyax 23:27, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Vinnie Vincent needs fact check, from cleanup but some of the syntax was so odd I'm not sure if i parsed correctly and I'm no KISS expert. rhyax 06:45, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • List of band name etymologies - Anyone who knows the etymology of a band name is welcome to add to the list. Aecis 14:03, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Contemporary Christian music Needs more artists added, and list needs to be alphabitised-Joiz 15:02, Apr 1, 2004 (CST)
    • Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about contemporary Christain music, but I can alphabetize. ^_^ I put all the bands starting with "the" in the T section; I know this isn't exactly standard, but neither is alphabetizing by first name. So, hope helped at least a little. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 06:03, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • I have re-alphabetized it in a more standard fashion and have been adding artists. -- Holford 16:30, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • S Club 7 Candidate for expansion (ideas: tv series, discography links, external links, S Club 8, individual member bios)-MGM 14:56, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • 2004 in music repeatedly Michaeled -- accuracy therefore questionable. Maximus Rex 23:48, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • List of arrangers - Stubby and poorly formatted. Moreover, arranger is a redirect to this page, which seems wrong. -mhr 06:01, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Redirect fixed, page still needs work... perhaps delete and replace by a category? Andrewa 05:57, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Jobriath - needs NPOV attention, any aging glam rockers out that can help???? quercus robur 09:34, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Saxophone - i don't know where else to place this request. We really should have a Wikipedia:Images needing attention page. My request involves the bottom-most image of the saxophone article. It really should be placed horizontally, rather than vertically. Kingturtle 02:06, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did my changes fix it to your satisfaction? I guess the image was placed rotated since it was too wide; I put a smaller (properly oriented) version in the article, with a link to properly oriented large image. --Infrogmation 18:24, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran - To borrow a phrase commongly used for humans:Something might come out of it, but only if we shape it into a good article being, hehehehe...in other words, theres potential there but someone needs to fix it. -- Antonio Suffered soul Martin
    • Have spent what seems an age trying to work out how to deal with this. Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran is unlikely to be entered as a search term (as is anything with an and in it I reckon) and the only link is from the eurovision song contest for that year with all other contenders not having pages. Lynsey already has a page though so will reorganise her page to reflect this and amend this page to be about Mike (as there is no page for him presently and he can justify a page) --VampWillow 13:44, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lawrance Livermore, Lawrence Livermore, Green Day, Lookout! Records - First article is orphaned. First 2 articles seem to overlap (and are small). Needs attention from one who cares or knows ... Zigger 15:45, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • First is a spelling error, redirected to the second, to which I've added a bit more detail. Still needs more, as does the record label page. The Green Day page looks fine to me. - David Gerard 16:12, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • What Is Soul - Not really sure what's going on here. Hasn't been touched in over a year --Spikey 23:33, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Dave Blood - I can barely find anything on the Web! You'd think a member of such well-documented band would be easier to find. The Billboard obit doesn't even give his age. --Charles A. L. 21:31, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hardcore punk - according to the talk page, needs someone to sort out the genres, fix mistakes, make it less California-centric, clean up bias...
  • Music of Missouri and Music of Kansas - time starts about the year 1980 in both of these articles. The tremendous influence of Kansas City, Missouri on jazz would be a welcome addition to the music of Missouri. The rock band Kansas (band) gets no mention in the Kansas article other than a disambiguation link. On my 'to-do' list, but I'm not a high-powered jazz expert. Brian Rock 01:41, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Vonda Shepard -- Please complete the list of songs on her album. If any songs on the album are NOT covers of oldies, just write "original". Also, can you add her birth year to this article?? 66.245.11.49 01:00, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Moonspell & Slayer - Both need attention from someone who knows more about the bands than I do. Cbguder 00:30, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)
  • Mick Jagger - I believe Wikipedia can do better than that -- there's no biography there! <KF> 22:33, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Freestyle house - I submitted a great article with permission of its original author ... but it needs a serious formatting job done up and wiki linking. its waaay too long for me to do it all myself. Alkivar 01 Aug 2004
  • Murderdolls - I stumbled across this and it needs serious formatting and grammar corrections. It could also use a content boost, more information, or maybe just delete it altogether.
  • Black & White Records and Black & White Records Part 2 -- may need compression (this is mostly a discography of their releases, with somewhat odd formatting). Tregoweth 01:52, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hideto "hide" Matsumoto probably does deserve an article, but this one is pure fansplurge. Anyone want to do it justice? jpgordon 16:37, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I merged it in hide (musician), and rephrased some sentences to make them less fansplurging ;). The article stills need to be expanded extensively. --xDCDx 13:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Dramarama - needs biography about the band. -- Mike Garcia 01:32, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • And Vendetta Red - needs biography too. -- Mike Garcia 01:11, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Covenant (band) - needs to be fragmented in articles about their albums, which are all crammed into the band's article. Also need a biography.
  • Vic godard - apparently this guy was pretty big in the punk scene. Needs a lot of cleanup to make it a good article. --Wolf530 19:46, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

People, professions, organizations, groups

  • Prince Sa'ud al-Faysal Desperately needs expansion. Katefan0 21:48, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • John Nebthos - I think this is a copyvio, but I have no idea. The mass of text is intimidating and reads like a biography... Could anyone verify this? - fiveless 07:39, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Zionist Federation - mass of unstructured text of unknown content created anonymously in August and untouched since. I got there from Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax due to poor formatting which I fixed a bit, but don't have the time nor knowledge to improve further. --Malyctenar 12:58, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • W.E.B. Du Bois - nothing difficult. I recently moved it to W.E.B. DuBois (properly, there's no space in the last name) and got a prompt about checking redirects. I think I corrected all "Du Bois" references within the article, but I have no clue about redirects. Would someone please take care of it for me? Tx. deeceevoice 12:36, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Are you sure? Googling gets about 60k hits for each, but "Du Bois" wins out by just under 10%. My copy of Black Reconstruction in America (no ISBN, 1962 Meridian version) also lists it as "Du Bois". 68.81.231.127 22:39, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • David Levering Lewis's The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader concurs with "Du Bois", as does the New York Times. [11] However, a number of sources in his hometown of Great Barrington use "DuBois". The Berkshire Eagle seems to use both; Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington has a "DuBois Scholars Program" and "DuBois Memorial Lecture Series". --FOo 19:14, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • I fixed the links to W.E.B. Du Bois so that they all link to the article without the space without having to be redirected. Mo 01:05, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • James Gabriel - badly needs to be NPOVed. Currently little more than a screed. - Montréalais 04:18, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Joe Shea - NPOV, wikified
  • Angus G. Wynne - doesn't really say anything much about the man or his life. -- Solipsist 07:23, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Churchill - a new photo has been added to the table at the top of this entry which has not been thumbnailed and has therefore messed up the formatting of the page. Not experienced enough, and don't have time, to fix this myself right now but will find out how asap. --Jerry cornelius 10:38, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Richard Blumenthal - can we have more info about his major achievements, more about his career? - Ta bu shi da yu 11:11, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • City and Guilds College Union - laudatory, NPOV, wrong voice: not convinced it is actually a viable article. MattJ 18:17, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Hamid Etemad - needs context. ··gracefool |☺ 13:41, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Herdsman - How come no one is focusing on the question at Talk:Herdsman?? 66.245.103.69 01:43, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • A.I. Shlyakhter - very little information about this Russian physicist. --Eequor 00:31, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Dev Sol is a stub but a badly written one. Needs someone familiar to them to check its POV as it is regarded as a terrorist organization with international relations, also serious formatting.--leandros 14:46, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Ramon Valdez--is this the right name, or is it Valdes, and where do the accent marks go? If the name is in doubt, it makes me wonder about the article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:10, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)
  • List of Austrian Jews was compiled by anonymous users over a period of three months and would have needed some fact checking. However, now another user has drastically shortened the list, claiming that the names s/he deleted were non-Jewish and/or non-Austrians. Cf. List of Austrians, where the problem has been solved differently. <KF> 23:27, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Jessica Mitford - mostly has info on her early years & social life, only minimal detail on her (fairly popular & influential) writing; needs work from someone familiar with the subject. -FZ 17:30, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • SNI - Article currently consists of long, linkless passage, copied ad verbatium from another site. (May or may not be copyvio, since source site does not appear to have a copyright notice) Hasn't been touched for a long time. Fangz 13:14, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Ryosuke Cohen - short and written in very poor english.
  • Derek Vestey -- confusing relationships need clarifying from someone with knowledge of the Vestey family. 08 May 2004.
  • William Caxton -- not quite sure what should be done with the big slice of source text that dominates the article. Bmills 12:01, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Gordon Campbell - this article has not been edited since December, 2003 and needs to be updated with recent developments. 142.179.125.20 01:54, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Some updating done, and some partisan corners filed off. Godot May 31 2004
  • David B. Danbom is a very very sad article. It might even be deletable, if it turns out that this person isn't at all famous and just made a vanity page. --Alex S 22:10, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Some googling shows that he * is* a multiply-published historian. Not necessarily famous, but not necessarily not famous either. DS, March 4 2004
    • Yeah, I know this guys work -- I used some of it in my research, but what a lame page -- possibly a good candidate for deletion depending on the pedia's stand how many bios to include ... Dr. Z 04:36, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Anne Hutchinson - is a caricature of her biography, I already added link for a source for rewriting. andy 19:41, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Poul Martin Moller - one-author article on this philosopher needs wikifying, expanding, and maybe a little NPOV. All I could do was remove the e-mail address and request for information. Paullusmagnus 01:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Jerry Lucas - long, lauditory (auto?)biography, needs NPOV and organization --Cyan 17:51, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
  • Japanese person needs work. Maximus Rex 21:17, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • John Kluge: All that's here is a history of Metromedia, really; it could be moved to "Metromedia" and re-edited. We need a real biography page for him, but I don't know enough about him to flesh it out. -lee 17:26, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
    • Where does Metromedia stop and Kluge start? He's always let VERY little into the public record. Anyhow, I've put about as much as I can be certain of in. unkamunka 22:17 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Karl Eberhard Schongarth - first paragraph makes little sense. The second paragraph is mainly a series of phrases with unknown acronyms. RedWolf 06:22, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • N. Senada - requires verification. Onebyone 22:50, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lew Wallace - Just a list of bullet points with the heading "Notes toward an article". --Paul A 06:51, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Wachowski brothers - out-of-date. TwoOneTwo 15:10, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Waiter -- slightly imbalanced; also needs spicing up. <KF> 02:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Shock jock - Somewhat POV, not very descriptive. --Spikey 03:06, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) --- I rewrote this to expand, NPOV, and wikify. Should be much better, improvements welcome. KeithTyler 01:02, May 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Donald E. Williams - Unwikified...
    • looks like a direct copy of the source page at NASA. Copyvio? Markalex 08:06, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Joseph Henry Pendleton - Good info, probably, but I didn't look closely - unwikified, possibly copyvio? ugen64 15:55, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Richard Clarke - He's been in the news a lot, so it'd be good to get this in better shape. --Wapcaplet 18:49, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • James Caan - fanography. Needs wikification, NPOV'ing, copyedit Ellsworth 16:27, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nikola Tesla: the Early Years section reads more like a polemic on his ethnicity than a biography. needs copyediting, NPOV.
    • It's worse than that; a mixture of ethnic polemics, conspiracy theory weirdness, crackpottery, and idolatry that greatly exaggerates his undoubted genius. There are a whole series of Tesla-related articles linked from a sidebar, and most are even worse. Securiger 16:59, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • It definitely needs copyediting, but the information is pretty factual and follows a timeline of his life in a neat flow. It seems to have little to do with his ethnicity except for the fact that his ethnicity played a major role in his immigration to the US. Copyedit yes, rearrange if necessary. The entire article is long and exhaustive, so we should expect a section on his ethnicity and background to be relatively long as well. It contributes to a complete encyclopedia article. Abqwildcat 22:16, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
      • It is not "pretty factual". See Talk:Nikola Tesla for some of the fairly major errors and exaggerations I have picked up so far. That's five hours' research and I am less than a third of the way through just the main article. Hence, the request here for assistance. Securiger 05:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Florence Ballard - Article is replete with misinformation, wrong information and misspellings. Seems to have been written from hearsay or urban legend or something. (I have checked many websites on Florence Ballard). --User:Oobopshark
  • John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell - way too detailed and complicated, someone with the time and interest should short out what's essential Alex S 16:01, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Ernest Borneman -- Lots still missing from Borneman's biography. In the 1980s and 1990s in Germany and Austria, no one knew that he had had a life before becoming a "sexologist". Some claim he had a strange attitude to paedophilia. His books must also be mentioned. Finally, his suicide came as a surprise to many who had been listening to him on TV talking positively about life. <KF> 08:53, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List_of_members_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives - This page is fine, but nearly ALL the members need work. Check Jim Nussle, Leonard Boswell, Dennis Moore for what I'm trying. Vote totals are at this link and committees can be found at member homepages (Google them) or committee homepages. Power 08:44, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Arborist - currently a "how to hire" guide, should be a better description of what an arborist does. Also seems to have a POV about particular methods. --Finlay McWalter 03:49, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Chang and Eng Bunker: says "They were joined at the side by what was discovered after their death in 1874 to be only a superficial connection involving skin tissue." I think this is incorrect. I believe their livers were also conjoined. Dominus 21:26, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • University of Prince Edward Island - Currently very jumbled. I gave it a few headings, but I don't have the patience to clean it up and wickfiy it the way it needs. Spinboy 21:32, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Philosophy, Larry's Text

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  • Essentialism - Needs someone who knows more about Essentialism than I do to pull the page together. Before I made it a disambiguation page, it was a mixture of the first two topics. jaredwf 11:28, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Forms of state - Oof! I don't know anything about this topic, but I know this needs some reorg. and rewording. --Spikey 02:49, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - final section "Misc" ends in what appears to be a tangential essay with no clear connection to Nietsche's ideas --llywrch
  • Land ethic. This article is something of a mess. Unformatted, and mostly citations. Should this rather go in the Environment-section? Rvollmert 10:38, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)
  • Larry's Text is a set of pages input by Larry Sanger in the early days of Wikipedia. It is 350+(!) pages of introduction to philosophy lectures he gave at Ohio State University. Rendering it all encyclopedic has been a daunting task, and many of these articles still need a lot of work.
  • Metaphysical subjectivism - Basically, the first section of the article seems glib and non-encyclopedic, and I would like the information to be backed up by some external sources (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/objective.html). -Seth Mahoney 22:05, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • physicalism: Larry's Text has been removed, but now this article needs to be edited from the ground up. This is a pretty critical position in philosophy of mind, so come help out!
  • Right opinion - could be clearer, more formatted, more explanatory; about Plato's philosophy. from cleanup [[User:Cohesion|cohesion | ☎]] 01:23, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Socratic method - needs more organization and references, currently sounds more like one person's interpretation of it, than an encyclopedia article. --zandperl 15:00, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • sophistry - Moved two POV paragraphs from the article to the talk page. How can we rework these paragraphs to NPOV? Kwertii 02:46, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • subject-object problem -- needs work; contains an extremely far-fetched analogy to quantum mechanics; too verbose. +sj+ 10:41, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Time: Just generally an absolute mess. I read the article and I son't think it told me one thing about time. Fishal 01:16, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • The Enlightenment. Too many cooks spoil the broth it seems, at least when it comes to describing, in general terms, the main characteristics of this revolutionary era. An introduction to enlightened 18th century thought is needed here, with lots of cross references leading off to politics, literature, etc. etc. Also, the split into The Enlightenment and Enlightenment (concept) (plus a disambiguation page Enlightenment) might be reconsidered. <KF> 00:31, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Voltaire - needs re-organizing, updating, editing for style (most of the article is 1911EB); and some judicious trimming probably wouldn't hurt. --Paul A 06:01, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Will (philosophy) - says copyediting in progress, but that way is May last year. andy 23:08, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Yoga Sutra. This article contains two separate entries (both good), one after the other. They need to be combined and organized. Good luck! Quadell 23:32, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I think it would be better for the first part of the article to be merged with Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The second part is what actually talks about Yoga Sutras in general. Jam2k 13:23, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

Political science, law

See also #Government, politics, bureaucracy

  • Racialism stub subject to POV rewrites [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 00:28, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • District Court has no indication of what country/jurisdiction it covers. Mentions Glasgow, so maybe Scotland. It may need to be moved to a title that more accurately describes what's being described. Review of the content by someone knowlegeable in this subject would be good, along with a bit of cleanup. -- Kbh3rd 17:13, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Quantum meruit needs to make sense to lay-people, context [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 01:24, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Affirmative action - Please give a hand, this article needs a lot of work, and a lot of help from as many editors as possible. Big POV/personality conflict problems, as well as some vandalism and a lot of reverting. Sam [Spade] 18:25, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Extremism - here from VfD. Bmills 11:48, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • School choice - reads like a pamphlet from the Pioneer Institute. It needs heavy attribution to replace "critics say", "advocates want", etc., with actual, real examples.
  • What is Property? - asks for more on "Property is theft", which it needs. - Spikey 02:22, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • International Web Police. I think I have made a fairly good start, but the topic needs much more research and perhaps input from people with inside knowledge. My patience on the topic is fairly exhausted but I have some additional material for anyone who is interested. Peter Manchester 23:01, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom needs lots of work! - The Anome 15:47, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Astroturfing - awkward, redundant, and mildly POV. Also needs clearer and more diverse historical examples of the practice. - jredmond 20:04, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Police oppression - This reads like it was written by someone with an ax to grind against police. I'd say quite POV, and generally rambling and incoherent. Joyous 03:34, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • Worker safety and health - This seems to be a summary of some American legislation with which I am not familiar. I am no more knowledgeable about the subject after reading the article than before! If someone actually knows anything about the subject, maybe they could the article some attention? (I was actually expecting it to be a more general article about workplace health and safety, maybe detailing relevant legislation in different countries. Tjwood 18:39, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies - has had facts inserted by someone angry at them for an alleged conservative bent. I don't know enough about this to NPOV, and the facts might themselves be valid, but needs another view. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 16:40, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Southern Poverty Law Center - needs NPOVing by someone who knows about their fundraising controversy. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 12:47, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Philosophy of copyright - needs lots of help, content porge 12:24, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Mental health law - This is a stub I created to provide an overview of this subject which is more largely addressed in two separate articles linked to in the second paragraph. As a psychiatrist rather than a lawyer I entreat any lawyers to have a look at this page and correct and add to it. I have also created a new subcategory under Law of Mental health law for this and related articles. --CloudSurfer 21:53, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Psychiatry, psychology

  • Creature of Habit - not sure what to make of this article. Wolfman 00:52, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Persuasion and attitude change - sounds like part of a larger whole; needs context Gwimpey 00:49, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Personality - this looks like student "cram" notes. It is set out in point form and has no flowing text. The contents are good but it needs a rewrite as prose with a bit more commentary to explain it and contrast the differing views. --CloudSurfer 09:09, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Anomalous operation - this is not how the topic is best described. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 21:32, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Homosexual panic - The article seems to deal only with a very limited part of the topic. Some of it also sounds very dubious to me. A psychologist should have a look at it. — David Remahl 19:42, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • affection - this is a horribly bad article which reads like a medical textbook. Worst description of affection ever. --[[User:Eequor|ηυωρ]] 04:40, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychology of torture needs editing for structure by someone familiar. rhyax 18:33, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Lloyd deMause and related articles needs to be updated. Apparently Mr deMause himself responded to some claims on Talk:Lloyd deMause, so his response should be incorporated. Przepla 21:53, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Logorrhoea -- Should have more about the mental illness aspects, and less silly attacks on Postmodernism. Pyrop 18:54, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Panic attack -- needs merging, see Talk:Panic attack. --Eequor 20:01, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder - just a stub. -Sean Curtin 07:08, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • The stub has now been expanded, but it still needs some information on treatment of the disorder. Joyous 03:58, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hans Asperger - better. +sj+ 00:11, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Psychiatric hospital While there is much to criticise in the treatment of psychiatric patients, this entire article is riddled with criticism. I think the aims of such institutions need to be laid out and then criticisms/controversies discussed later in the article. It needs much NPOV and untangling. I don't feel qualified for that. --bodnotbod 11:31, May 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychopharmacology -- could use a lot of expansion Kwertii 05:31, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Bipolar disorder is very chaotically organized and contains a number of contradictory statements. --Seth Ilys 05:44, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) I've only read the beginning, but I am assuming this is a joke, yes? --bodnotbod 15:03, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dissociation -- Just a list of see also's --Graham :) | Talk 23:03, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychology of Religion -- disjointed, needs wikifying, NPOV, clarification, expansion. Alba 04:35, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • How the pathology of schizophrenia relates to symptoms -- requires someone to look at the talk page and improve it. --User:SimonMayer 18:59 2nd March 2004 (UTC/GMT)
  • Feldenkrais -- Reads like a sales brochure. Only Alexander Technique and F. Matthias Alexander link to this article, and those also sound like sales brochures. Tempshill 22:15, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • Did some formatting and NPOVing, but still needs lot of work. Stw 13:15, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • MCS --Trying to alert interested parties about the cluster of pages which I have listed under MCS. The pages are a mixture of psychology and information processing.
    • Never mind. I found a link: [12]. It appears to be real. 169.207.90.93 02:43, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Co-dependency - We should have more than a stub for this. Pyrop 23:00, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Donald Broadbent - Not sure if this article is even on the right track. --Improv 11:36, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Psychohistory -- In spite of quite a bit of editing, still reads like a sales brochure. Needs help to attain NPOV. --Puffy jacket 01:23, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • History of mental illness -- Ok, needs some major factual rewrites, plus needs another 500 years worth of information. Implies that Islam started around 600 BC(!) rather than 600 AD, and information ends around the middle ages.

Recreation, hobbies, games

  • The Hunting page needs a good edit - see also Talk:Hunting - MPF 20:26, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • I added sections and modified and edited the first three paragraphs of the history section - mennonot 22:02, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • I have started making additions to the postage stamp section but am unsure how far this should be taken. If there is anything that people want added, especially relating to GB postal history let me know and I will do what I can. All information from my website can be freely used if required - www.devoted,to/stamps Tallanent 19:07, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Cottabus - contains ASCII-encoded Greek words that need converted to Unicode, by somebody who knows more Greek than I do. Salsa Shark 08:14, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Cleaned up the article a bit, put more information about the Greek words on the Talk page porge 06:29, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Tightlacer - Those who have been at work on this article seem to be real aficionados who keep adding names and external links without ever having a look at the very stupid definition. --KF 18:17, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I've worked on the text, and renamed it to Tightlacing as it seems to me that the practice is a better encyclopedic article name than the people who do it. -- Morven 07:56, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • The article seems to be too BDSM-oriented, and not nearly enough on the historical context. It also seems to need much more editing. -- RJH
  • Lansquenet appears to be copied out of a nineteenth century book and needs modernizing. --Imran 13:07, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Tie (draw) needs some work. Moved from VfD. See the talk page for suggestions. --Cecropia 02:44, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Kikaider - I've no idea what this article is about! Is it a toy, a fictional series of books, a computer game, a cartoon on TV? Someone must know! David Thrale 22:13, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Item - This page seems to generalize from relatively particular experience. I don't know if it deserves to be rewritten or deleted.MOE37x3 01:47, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Religion, mythology, theology

Cosmogony

Deities

  • Osiris-Dionysus - this article is seriously lacking in content (given the potential that it has) or wikipedia like appearance CheeseDreams 03:52, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Marduk - contains both some wiki-authored content and a 1911 article. -Smack 06:42, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Eschatology

  • Islamic eschatology -- I know that houris and sex aren't the be-all and end-all of this, but I don't know much more than that. The article needs much more about Islamic ideas of personal eschatology (death, judgement, reward, punishment) and general eschatology (ad-Dajjal, the end of the world, etc.) from someone with some knowledge of this topic. --MIRV 22:08, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Holidays

  • Blót could use some expansion

I'm not sure the word elves fit in. Not exactly incorrect, but invokes images from Tolkien and DnD, which are definitely wrong. Not sure what to use instead, though Ketil 2004-11-04

  • St. Casimir's Day needs a going over for NPOV by someone who's not Lithuanian (or at least a neutral Lithuanian).
    • Also, it's almost word for word from here. jpgordon 23:26, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Magick

  • Goetic magick seems mostly written from the perspective of a person who accepts the Magick belief system. Needs to be more neutral. RJH 21:12, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • spell - kind of slender article which really does not even begin to do the subject justice, also needs a disambiguate rubric to other manifestations of the word spell. Sjc 06:41, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Mysticism

Mythology

  • Orochi - a monster featured in both Japanese folklore and pop culture. Currently focuses almost entirely on its appearance in one rather obscure video game ~ FriedMilk 01:50, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Perun - the article needs rewriting almost from scratch. The text was copied from a (probably) Polish source and translated poorly. --Gene s 13:33, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • apparently "the highest god of the Slavic pantheon" -- middle paragraphs especially are in poor shape, but I can't make much sense of them without a better background in Slavic mythology. Triskaideka 15:26, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Polish mythology - Article should be partially merged with Slavic mythology, but first it needs to be revised by some specialist. There are lots of typos (both in the titles of the articles and in their content) and several of the linked phenomena seem forged or simply improbable. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 21:53, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Perperuna -- Wikipedians who understand Slavic languages and are knowledgeable in Slavic mythology are invited to sort out the "text" now in Talk:Perperuna. -- PFHLai 01:27, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)
  • I guess there's a lot to say about white horses in mythology, and that page would be the place to do so. |l'KF'l| 11:11, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Japanese mythology. From a brief glance it seems to be reasonably well written, but certain sections are empty, and it badly needs wikification. Possibly it needs copyediting. I am also uncertain if the names should be italicized. DocWatson42 06:07, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Geri and Freki - very little information. --Eequor 10:13, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Slavic fairies - the article includes several older semi-stubs and needs sorting out the nymphs from the ghosts from whatever by someone who knows Slavic mythology. The title may be improper too. --Shallot 11:41, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Irish mythology - really just a set of lists of wikis to other articles. Bmills 11:28, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Korean mythology: contains stuffs from a famous apocryphal book that was cooked up in the 20th century and is believed by cult religions. --Nanshu 00:58, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • !Kung mythology - Please add more myths and detail; also improve prose. fascinating. cf. List of deities

Organizations

  • Friends of the Western Buddhist Order reads mostly like a publicity handout. Lumos3 20:31, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Voice of the Martyrs: usefule article, but somewhat POV-ish. --Khym Chanur 11:38, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
    • I've gone over it a couple of times, mostly for typos. An article of this nature probably can't help appearing somewhat POV. Any specific suggestions? - Rlvaughn 20:23, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • I've re-worded it slightly to make it sound more objective, without changing its meanings. - Miles 6:12, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

People

[Spade] 01:15, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I dispute the above. I think Mpolo did a great job with the article, and that Sam has listed it here for POV reasons. CheeseDreams 10:54, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Joseph de Maistre - needs wikification RedWolf 06:04, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
    • Now edited, wikified. Still could use verification of translations of titles of works. --Jmabel 05:22, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Takla Haymanot -- copy and paste job by owner of source. I'll do some work on it later, but help is appreciated. --Slowking Man 08:35, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)

Religion

  • Free Church of England needs expansion. Katefan0 01:35, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Linji, Rinzai, and Rinzai school may need more community involvement. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 11:20, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Primitive Methodism Reads like a term paper, has sources sprinkled throughout referenced only by last name, needs wikifying and major editing for style and lots of tightening. I took a crack at the top half but my eyes are glazing over. Katefan0 23:12, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Atheism a month of debate has gone nowhere, badly in need of impartial, NPOV editors. Sam [Spade] 20:52, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Islam around the world - This seems redundant, as the information is reproduced in Islam#Islam_around_the_world --StoatBringer 23:48, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Mennonite had a huge, unwikified section added recently by an anon. It needs to be fact-checked and integrated with the article. Rhobite 19:57, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Witchcraft An unholy mess of merged articles which need resolving and putting under correct and discrete headings with the article in question then being rewritten top to bottom. Sjc 04:39, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • civic religion - I find much of the content implausible. That all "civic religions" are atheistic, that they exist only under dicatorships, that they are necessarily dogmatic. I thought the term referred to ritual displays of patriotism of the sort practiced in all countries, such as crowds singing the national anthem on certain occasions, displaying the flag on patriotic holidays, etc. See Talk:civic religion for more. Warning': not to be confused with civil religion. Michael Hardy 02:09, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Sharia has some pov statements and many parts that could be reworded for clarity, particularly the "practice of sharia" section. --Rhobite 04:32, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Heathenry - nothing much about the religion itself, just some semantic points regarding the derivation of the name. Should this maybe be combined with Asatru? Kwertii 10:39, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • No. A may equal B but not all B are A. Be wary of merging articles. Invariably someone has to demerge them. Sjc 04:39, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done a full rewrite, but it badly needs a bit more attention. SetarconeX
  • Upanishad - needs ugly formatting and the diacrita in the main upanishads section fixed. --Finlay McWalter 01:31, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • I did a bit of work on the formatting, but the "List of Upanishads" is still fugly, and I'm not knowledgable enough of the topic—or HTML—to fix it.. DocWatson42 08:59, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Chungdo needs to be NPOV'd and made suitable for Wikipedia. --Ce garcon 19:13, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Religious persecution

Ritual

  • Rain dance - Article is more about the computer jargon term than the original ritual. - Skysmith 10:35, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Should these be diverged if expanded? Katefan0 00:01, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Alms - Needs lots of work and clarification to be a useful article. --Αλεξ Σ 01:23, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I waded into the fray, but it's still very stubby.--Puffy jacket 13:25, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Saints

  • Saint Vasilije is saintly POV, does not have a single wikilink, has "example images" and possibly copyvio.--leandros 21:55, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • The images are replaced now, but the article is copyvio from [13] and [14].--leandros 22:26, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Spirituality

  • Akashic Records - Rewrite necessary. --Schnee 20:05, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Wikified and formatted a little better. Content seems relatively clear to me, but someone recently commented on the discussion page that it was not. Comments on the content? If necessary, I'll try to clarify, but I need guidance on what exactly needs to be clarified. Spectatrix 01:16, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)
    • Upon further review, I concur that the content needs to be revamped, which I plan to do. Specific suggestions are still welcome, though. Spectatrix 03:20, 2004 Jul 30 (UTC)

Terminology

  • Catholic reads like a term paper. Did some work on format today, but there's several times a "Denziger" given a source with no information what book that refers to; I added a guess at the end of the text, but verification would be good. Also, sometimes I found it hard to determine where a quote actually ended. That also would require access to aforementioned unknown book. -- AlexR 12:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Varnas is a concept from Hinduism, but this article is very hard to understand and needs going over, probably some wiki-ing as well. Meelar 05:05, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • I did some wikification to give better clarity to the article.Jam2k 19:57, May 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • High Priest -- This redirect is correct in the Judaic sense, but not the Pagan/Wiccan sense. --Spikey 02:39, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Divine is a stub that could use a good broad survey of the concept incorporating different religious views. Alcarillo 04:22, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Goddess - Article is almost entirely about modern Goddess worship. Very short on historical goddessess. Rmhermen 23:23, May 1, 2004 (UTC)

Theology

  • Concupiscence -- This article really needs review by a theologically educated Catholic, and a theologically educated Protestant. It could also do with a broader range of sources, some concrete examples, and information on the views of the Eastern Orthodox. rhyax 18:36, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • I just finished refactoring Apocrypha, which was something of a mess. I'm not sure it's factually accurate anymore, or really that it was to begin with. I also noticed that there are many related articles which contain a lot of the same information. In particular, there are several comparison charts between different Biblical canons. Someone needs to give each chunk of content a "home" article, and make sure that other articles contain only terse summaries of this contents, with links to the "home" article. Someone more familiar with the subject should check Apocrypha (and probably related articles, especially after any re-factoring) for historical and theological accuracy. The related articles include: Books of the Bible, Biblical canon, Bible, Bible and Tanakh, Septuagint, Old Testament, New Testament, and probably many others. This larger project may be worthy of a Bible-related Wikiproject, if someone wants to start one. I'm surprised one doesn't exist already. -- Beland 06:04, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • I created the Wikiproject, and we are presently discussing strategy of how to respect both Christian and Jewish sensibilities. Input is welcome.—Mpolo 08:35, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • The Bible in Islam serious NPOV problems here. Seems like it was written by Ali-Sina or someone from an anti-islam propaganda/agitation group many verses being quoted into fabricated contexts. Might be best for someone to re-write it.
    • IMO, this article looks much better now, but it still needs some modern scholarship. RK 22:09, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)
  • Atomism - a total train wreck. horrible grammar, non-sequitur images with nonsense captions, possible inaccurate information, etc. article satrts out ok then quickly devolves into incoherent philosopical rambling, and an evolution/creationism debate. --Deglr6328 03:04, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Note: This article has been listed under chemistry for a while now. While atom is usually associated with chemistry, I think you folks under philosophy and theology will better know how to deal with this.

Science

Astronomy

  • Heliocentrism has some problems with clever remarks on relativity that I don't think are correct, and that are confusing the issue.
    • Weird relativistic argument removed. --Wikimol 16:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Chemistry

  • Hybridisation - I'm fairly knowledgable about chemistry, and this is poorly explained and may be inaccurate in some places (such as how hybrids occur etc). I will probably edit this myself, however if someone else wants to do it thats good too. --EagleFalconn 1:08 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • I've basically overhauled/rewritten the entire article. Any comments? -- EagleFalconn
I think it could have more cross-referencing for the introduction, and a more focused body. There's perhaps just two much writing that's introductory, and it makes it a bigger read than necessary. I think another article shoud introduce the theory of atomic orbitals, in terms of the solutions to the Schrodinger equation for electrons. I'm going to see if something like that exists. Then, the hybridized orbitals can be introduced as a mixing of the atomic orbitals, as a linear combination of basis (linear algebra)states. This would improve the understanding that hybridized orbitals are the result of multiple basis states existing in superposition, with a significant energetic stabilization due to resonance in hybridized orbitals compared to atomic ones. So I think this could use more work (yes, I'll do some!) rmbh 07:08, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

Note: The rest of this conversation has been moved to the Talk:Hybridisation page to keep things clean here.

Actually, they're not circular. The bit about parallel p orbitals comprises the definition. Maybe a picture would be useful. –Floorsheim 03:41, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Heh. No, she means the articles refer to each other and don't really tell you anything. But you are right. CHL 00:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Colors of chemicals is written in schoolteacher form, has some format problems, and also has some factual errors as brought up on it's talk page. Needs help. --Alex S 04:51, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Suggest move of relevant information to Color under the heading 'Chemistry of color' and keeping info on specific ion colors on this page. Needs discussion on it's talk page.MGM 19:30, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)

Optics

  • Aberration in optical systems is a wordy theoretical article from the 1911 Encyclopedia. It cries out to be rewritten in readable English and peppered with diagrams. EdH 16:43, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've added scans of the original illustrations from the 1911 Encyclopaedia. The article still needs tons of work, though. --DrBob 21:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
      • Only want to add, that I (and others) do an occasional edit there, and I suppose it will slowly evolve into fine article. Contrary to other opinions, I'd say that the 1911 article is a good starting point. -- Pjacobi 20:49, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Optical interferometry needs work from someone who's done it mroe recently- it's little mroe than a dicdef. FZ 16:53, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Panchromatic has some very confusing wording. Expert attention appreciated. JRM 12:24, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)

Physics

  • Cosmic censorship hypothesis - the article is not very well written, the narration is weak, I had to reread it a few times before I noticed some of the factual statements (even though it's very small and relatively simple). For example, in one place it says "special situations just mentioned", but it's not clear, what are these situations. Paranoid 19:41, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • J/Psi particle - this could be better-written; it's too verbose. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 04:29, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Electron configuration: Contains a lot of information duplicated at Atomic orbital, and a bit of advanced math that's far over my head. If someone could move the math over to Atomic orbital in some sensible fashion, I'd eventually get around to fixing the rest of the article. --Smack 00:05, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Bubble universe theory - big unwikified lump, may be POV or inaccurate. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 05:03, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Permittivity, dielectric constant, permeability - these should be explained more thoroughly; in particular, it's unclear what any of these mean. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 14:36, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Fractional quantum Hall effect: Article appears to be completely bogus, I'm sure someone could do this article more justice than I could. ENGIMa 14:20, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Astrodynamics#Historical_approaches: needs to be re-written. Just throwing in names of famous scientists in history is useless. -- PFHLai 23:04, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)
  • Molecular orbital Unclear, poorly wikified. I know a lot more about atomic orbitals than molecular ones, so I'm unwilling to do much here. --Smack 03:58, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Also see: hybridisation,atomic_orbital,electron_orbital, and sp2 bond. And as Smack says above, electron configuration. Lot's of conceptual overlap. rmbh 01:31, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Liquid helium Could use a lot of info, such as uses of liquid helium and some technical informations and charts.
Should be merged with Helium and Superfluid, I think. Zaha 15:57, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've taken a stab at rewriting and expanding this article. It would be nice if phase diagrams could be included. The article could be merged with Helium, but liquid helium is not always superfluid, especially in its commercial applications; so it would not be appropriate to merge it with Superfluid. M. S. Pettersen, 29 Sep 2004.
  • Testatika This sort-of perpetuum mobile has already the loving attention of User:Reddi, which I explicitely do not accuse of bad faith. But his ever more involved descriptions of how this engine is supposed to work, I don't know what to say about. See also the VdD discussion [15] -- Pjacobi 18:19, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test is incomprehensible to someone who doesn't already know what the article's talking about. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:42, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)
    • Not knowing any better, I tried linking to a book which is a popular treatment on the subject. The article's main author disagrees with the book, and subsequently reverted. Thus the article and related articles and comments currently serve as balance for quantum entanglement, for which the author states there is no experimental basis, in contradiction with the book I referenced. By the way, the experiment examines a consequence of a POV which Albert Einstein tried to use, to disprove quantum mechanics. The issue is local reality versus non-local reality. Teleportation is a consequence of non-local reality. It's an important subject. Ancheta Wis 01:05, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Given that Quantum entanglement now says that the phenomenon has been proven, it's probably OK to add that reference back in. -- Beland 01:27, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
One of my objections to that reference was that it was clear that it did not deal specifically with the CH74 test, which is the subject of the article. It could perhaps be given as a ref from Quantum entanglement. However, I suspect it of factual inaccuracy, e.g. in relation to Aspect's experiments. Probably it is no worse than other popular books though.
Incidentally, contradictory though it may seem, "quantum teleportation" does not necessarily (according to Braunstein, one of the experts) involve nonlocal effects. Caroline Thompson 21:18, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I've added a little "background reading" to Bell's theorem. Other popular books can be added here. I don't see the need to suggest other reading from pages such as Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test as these are not intended to be treated as anything other than subpages of the Bell's theorem page.
The book list is preceded by a caveat regarding the likely accuracy of the information on actual experiments. This may perhaps be seen as presenting a biased view, but this is only right in the context. Bell's theorem is based on the local realist point of view and it is only fair that the world should be warned that popular books are riddled with mistakes. Contact me for refs.Caroline Thompson 10:45, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • The following articles should be checked for factual accuracy and NPOV by someone familiary with quantum theory and who believes in the dominant professional scientific view: Bell's theorem; CHSH inequality; Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test; Bell test experiments; Local hidden variable theory. -- Beland 01:27, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • A question: Is someone who "believes in the dominant professional scientific view" likely to have made a specific study of the loopholes in Bell test experiments, or know the difference between the assumptions behind the various Bell tests? These are not subjects covered in standard physics courses. I'm afraid there's a problem here: knowing the facts it's impossible to have a neutral point of view! I very much doubt if any of the material in the new Bell's theorem page is wrong. It has been checked by an expert who has been involved in the subject since Bell's time. Caroline Thompson 21:18, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Hamiltonian constraint--I had to look at the category to even know what area to file it under. WAY too complex for an encyclopedia article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:48, 2004 Aug 9 (UTC)
It is incomprensible.
It is with no doubt copied from somewhere and is excerpted from somewhere as clear from the sentence "So, using Occam's razor again (we used it the first time ...) ...". AnyFile 12:08, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
It is obviously copied from a (may be copiright or may be free copirighted) article, book or note of an advanced course of theoric physics. I have a degree in Physics but I can not understand it, in the sense that I could neither read it. It is only an excerpt. It does not explain the argument. It is ruther far from the article wanted in wikipedia. For me, as well maybe copyvio it is a candidate to WP:VFD AnyFile 12:08, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Josef Schneider -- allegedly Germany's first producer of electricity. Anyone good at physics can probably turn these notes into complete sentences and nice paragraphs. I can't. <KF> 22:37, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Geology

Other

  • Varginha incident - This article is listed as being of disputed neutrality, but there is no accompanying talk page. Could someone please look into why this is so, and what the actual dispute is - besides the subject matter being rather loopy? - Scooter 03:45, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Wardenclyffe Tower I'm no expert but parts of this article read like pseudo-scienntific junk. G-Man 19:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Islamic calendar - so when, exactly, do leap years occur? --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 04:26, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
They don't. From the article: On the other hand, Muhammad forbade the intercalary month (released the calendar from the seasons) near the end of his life. There aren't leap years or leap months.rmbh 08:34, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Laboratory - fairly short and poor for such an important topic (not sure if it fits in this heading) -- Whosyourjudas | (talk) 01:28, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Fiber simulation - a stub way too high in the Category tree but I don't know where it fits in--Nabla 16:30, 2004 Aug 24 (UTC)
  • Chemical oceanography has good info, but needs organization and more depth. --Flockmeal 20:50, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Reliability testing is virtually devoid of useful information. --Smack 18:41, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Therblig Too small. Somebody write more? Optim 07:45, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • More added. RJHall 21:34, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Mel Frequency bands - incoherent cut-and-paste, but sounds like the topic might be worthwhile. Anyone able to clean this up and make it useful? Otherwise it probably gets deleted. Isomorphic 06:28, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan and takwin could stand some elaboration from someone familiar with the subjects. Kwertii 19:42, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sociology, culture

  • Nonverbal communication - this article really should not be a stub. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 18:03, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Gattaca World - The content of this article could be useful, particularly in relation to the film Gattaca, but as it is, the article is completely unencyclopedic. Suggestions or ideas on what to do? - Katherine Shaw 13:08, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
    • It seems to me that it is describing how Gattaca can be considered a Dystopia. Maybe something can be done allong these lines? -- Ben Axelrod Sep. 25, 2004
  • Commune — Commune is a disambig with a link to Intentional Community. Intentional Community lists various types of communities, including commune, which is a link back to the disambig page. So we have no specific information on what a commune (in this sense) is. Please, would anyone care to elaborate? --Heron 13:00, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Fashion — Should there be a general category tree for all things related to fashion? There is a fair number of articles now and nowhere to categorize them in general. (Ex: Fashion designers, &c.) Not sure where to put the category. Under "Human image" perhaps?
  • Humanism - this important subject needs more whole-hearted treatment; Renaissance humanism treats it as a historical phenomenon. Wetman 18:42, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Commercialism - inaccurate and simplistic, it starts with a dicdef [16] and moves on to speculate about cave men bartering with each other. I put it in sociology but I'm not sure if this is the right category. Rhobite 15:37, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Trust metric - minimal but informative article. --Eequor 13:37, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Rural sociology, Types of rural communities, Exurb, Role homogeneity, Agribusiness, List of literature on rural issues, and Demographic history of the United States seem to be a collection of interlinked articles which portary a particular anti-corporate perspective on the economics of rural America. These articles need substantial work by someone familiar with (or willing to learn more about) rural economics and culture to establish NPOV and factual accuracy. I think managed to mostly save Rural exodus, but if you are familiar with the subject, you can probably improve it. If you do statistical research for Demographic history of the United States, you may find that the "rural exodus" is not happening everywhere that Rural exodus might imply. (I haven't checked, but the original author did not seem to take care to make the article neutral, so now I'm suspicious.) --Beland 01:10, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Counterculture - A number of the statements and arguments here seem highly contestable and POV. AndyL 01:12, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Arcology is currently a personal essay (maybe a book report?), but it does contain some history of the topic. Someone who is familiar should rework it to be more encyclopediaic.

SSherris 03:22, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

    • I've given it a good bit of work and better NPOV. Some more discussion of arcologies in fiction and the social implications of arcology living would be appropriate. Alba 13:37, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Arab anti-Semitism --Elian, on the talk page, put it best:
    • What this article is missing is a thorough analysis of the development of anti-semitism (how much effect had the creation of Israel?), a critical debate of how much is anti-Israelism and how and if the terms are seperable, a description of the practical institutionalization of anti-semitism (are there any laws in the arab countries which discriminate against Jews, i.e. especially Jews, not just adherents of other religions?). A mere collection of anti-semitic statements of arab jounalists and politicians does not make it an encyclopedia entry.
    • —No-One Jones 17:51, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Closure (sociology) -- badly needs a rewrite/rename. --Taak 23:26, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Coming of age, surprisingly, is mainly about Australia and Japan. It would probably be best to start the article from scratch and then incorporate the material that is already there. <KF> 13:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Gang is rather minimal. I've put some suggestions on its talk page, but I someone much more expert than I am should work on this one. --Jmabel 06:33, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Beard - Apart from not being wikified, the newly added history section contains some cryptic references: Gynick games, Septa, [pg 291], 2 Sam. c. x. v. 4. etc. Can anyone make head or tail of them? <KF> 19:35, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Death rock fashion - Not putting down rookies as I myself was one once, but the info in this page is typical of a rookie. Antonio Poser Martin
  • Working class needs alot of work/additions/rewrite, and probably merged w similar articles (Blue collar, proletariat, etc...) Sam [Spade] 17:41, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Gender and sexuality

  • Yiff was listed as a candidate to move to Wiktionary, but it looks like more than a dictionary entry to me. Since someone thought it might be, though, that suggests to me that it should probably be listed here.
  • Rind et al. has a completely inappropriate title, the first name of one of the authors of a scientific journal article. It seems to have been singled out because some pedophiles see it in support of their fight for the right to have sex with children. Other scientif material in the area of child sexual abuse and pedophilia is neglected. Get-back-world-respect 07:35, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Then again, that does seem to be how the '98 study is referenced, and one might argue it merits an article for its infamy. +sj+ 14:25, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Incest has an NPOV header on it, and also needs sections and embedded references. zandperl 23:27, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Leather virgin -- it's in the list of lifestyles, and I got mad that there was no article, so I took my best guess. That my guess makes sense makes it worse, I suppose, since "a leather virgin is a type of chicken" would be obviously wrong. I put an accuracy warning because I could be completely off-base; surely someone does know, however. --Charles A. L. 23:39, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Erotic electrostimulation is currently mostly how-to and safety information. Guanaco 03:27, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Egale Canada is taken right off of Egales website BUT was done so by someone within the organization. Needs NPOV, Wification, layout management, and fleshing out. Arcuras 17:54, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Sports

  • Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics - if there are any interested people, could use some help bringing this page up to date with the latest results. It's fallen behind a bit in the last few days. dave 21:36, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Ashes series badly needs information about the history of the contests (ie.) who won it in which year Jam2k 19:38, May 31, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dog agility needs information, mostly links, about the sport for countries other than the USA. Also needs addition of correct (per international agility rules) metric measurements.
  • Dan Gable I started the intial artical, now people need to fill it in and improve it. ZeWrestler 11:21, June 08, 2004 (UTC)
  • Japanese Baseball needs a lot more...it's pretty pathetic as it is right now. There's lots of info on the jp page if someone wants to try translating even? Kurohone 01:45, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Babe Ruth is really well-written, and then cuts off immediately. It reads like a to-do list from his divorce onwards. Meelar 05:36, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Riddick Bowe needs to have the timeline information incorporated into a real article. Also needs updating from his subsequent trial, imprisonment and release (see: [17]). RADICALBENDER★ 16:22, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Association of Chess Professionals needs help from someone who knows the organization and its dispute with FIDE. Scout3214:26, 22 May 2004
  • Indianapolis 500 is missing a lot of information about the race's history. Not a lick of info about the controversy of the CART-IRL split in the 1990s and the Indy 500's role in that, for example. Nor is there much about the uniqueness of the race: the qualifying (Bump Day, etc.), the drinking of the milk, even the name "Gasoline Alley" is never mentioned. RADICALBENDER★ 03:52, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • Taken care of. I've done a text, but it's mostly about the history of the Indy 500. More details here. --Pc13 17:01, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • John L. Sullivan (boxer) has a bunch of history problems. Look at Marquess of Queensberry rules for an example. Most sources say the first fight under Marquess of Queensberry rules was in Cincinnati, Ohio 1885 while his page says different. Seems his page is just wrong in many aspects... any boxing historians in the crowd? BTW: his own external link says the dates are wrong. Thanks JoeHenzi 07:19, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Symbols, terminology

Flags

Seals

Technology

  • Electronic tagging - controversial subject in the UK and we have nothing (the see also refs are better but neither mentions the use of these devices on criminals).--[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:43, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've a friend who's tagged at the moment, so I've added what I know--Gypsum Fantastic 23:43, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Pin - The article should not be a "disambiguation page". "Pin" has a primary meaning, namely a small metal spike that is used for fastening together objects such as sheets of paper or fabric. The other meanings are derivative of this. And the page has no discussion of actual pins! Pins have a fascinating history, and are an early example of preindustrial mass production.
  • Stirling engine - two thirds of this article is a huge external links section. The information in the external links should be incorporated into the article, and the external links trimmed down somewhat.
  • Alternative technology is more of an informal rant than an article. Needs major re-write and wikification. I think it's redeemable, however. heidimo 23:58, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Not much wikification to be done. I didn't rewrite but I edited. Still seems like an "informal rant." --raylu 22:44, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • I rewrote and expanded some. I think it's probably fixed well enough to be taken off this list, though help is needed to think of examples of technologies once considered "alternative" that have since been widely adopted and thus are perhaps "alternative" no longer. See the talk page for details. --Beland 02:02, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Added a few more to the list of alternative technologies. The page can be removed from here now. Bryce 23:38, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • High level equilibrium trap - needs to be much longer. Kwertii 18:18, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Weaponry

Photography

Tourism

  • Tourism - Most of huge article is one heading - History. Needs sections, organising, swapping, re-editing (move stuff to other articles?) Zoney 00:21, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • major copyedit & reorganization done -- 10 May 2004
  • Individual Visit Scheme - information is not comprehensive, should stated more on the different impacts such as economic and social aspect
  • Resort. I'm the author of this page, but I do not know how to go about expanding it. Is there a major difference between a resort and a hotel? --Johnleemk 13:20, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Transportation

Aerospace

  • Air traffic controller has a very defensive, pro-air traffic control tone and doesn't really read like an encyclopedia article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 04:22, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)
  • Austral - I am unable to sort out the very complicated reltionship between Austral Airlines, Aerolíneas Argentinas, and Cielos del Sur. See Talk:Austral for more details. Kevyn 09:49, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Gennady Strekalov is just a list of un-wikified information taken straight from NASA. -- FirstPrinciples 16:54, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Automobiles

  • Peugeot - Needs more information, the models need some articles as well.
  • Renault - Missing a lot of models, needs more history.
  • Dodge Viper appears to have been written by someone whose primary language was other than English. Lots of metric measurements, few Imperial measurements. No mention of the coupe or tuner models from the likes of Hennesey Motors. - Lucky 6.9 05:24, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Zytec Lotus Elise - stub on electric sports car, w/ garble & ambiguity listed in Talk:Zytec Lotus Elise. Jerzy (moved from cleanup Onebyone 01:58, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC))
  • Mazda - needs more attention, both old models like the Mazda 929 and new ones like the Mazda Mazda6. - Sfoskett

Rapid transit

Other

  • MarqTran seems to be written by a clueless newb. Real company, though, running a real service. Worth expanding?--Fangz 22:42, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Interstate 475 and several other 3-digit interstate highway articles - Can anyone expand any section of this article so that the highways can have separate articles?? 66.32.244.69 01:12, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

  • Owlman from cleanup, is this real? delete? rhyax 06:24, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Public relations - Could use some more input in the "Methods, Tools and Tactics" section --Dablaze 13:45, Aug 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • Coupe Femina - Currently a stub. — マイケル ₪ 20:33, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Halloween Havoc - what is this supposed to be? jbinder 18:29, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Open standard - currently obviously working entirely within the domain of computing, which is a little too specific. Also does not clearly put that domain in a wider context. Probably needs attention from someone who knows about standards processes. Andrewferrier 18:09, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)
  • Solace - three issues that need seperating or formatting to make sense. I thought the computer club bit should be deleted! David Thrale 15:48, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • AutoShapes -- Please try to expand, as well as putting links to this page at whatever Wikipedia pages it is appropriate for. 66.32.141.228 17:26, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Certificate -- More examples are needed -- just think of all those language certificates (http://www.cambridge-efl.org/exam/general/bg_cpe.cfm etc. etc.). <KF> 18:27, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Hephthalite - Can anyone verify the origin of the statements with ?s after them. Also needs some more Chinese Characters if anyone can add them.
  • Anniversary - Can anyone try to ask about naming a 6th anniversary mentioned at Talk:6 (number)?? 66.245.75.145 22:36, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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