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

If an article needs further cleaning up, add {{cleanup}} to the top of the article. To see articles with this tag added, see Category:Cleanup. For cleanup processes on several related articles, please head over to Wikipedia:Help wanted.

Some editors prefer that helpers work on leftovers and older articles, just to deal with them and get them out of the way. See the cleanup calendar for requests from previous months. But either preference, new or old; all help is appreciated. If you have a cleanup routine, add your name and your routine preferences (how often, old/new articles, what subjects, etc ) to the cleanup routine list.

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November 23

  • La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec - says nothing in the article than can't already be read in the title (oh, except that Quebec is in Canada). -Rholton 03:51, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Pac-Man World 2 - unwikified jibber-jabber. Andre (talk) 23:47, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Entropia (band) - it looks like the original author did not know good English, similar problems to SIX OF THE BEST also created by the same IP. - Frank 22:12, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Praful Nargund - vanity, VfD of SpeedDel, but should be nicely explained to the user :-) Genuinely tryied to improve the article. Wikimol
  • House of Kabob - long on POV, short on proof Denni☯
  • No U Turn - move to No You Turn, wikify
  • Delores "Dee Dee" Kennibrew - extremely short Deus Ex 18:47, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Rudolf Brandt - wikify
  • Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember - wikify
  • VEF - messy indescripable page Estel 12:58, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Juan Cole - unwikified text dump. Copyvio? RickK 07:22, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Celldweller - unwikified text dump. RickK 07:11, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
    • NPOVed, and formatted, still needs some expansion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:21, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
    • Edited and expanded, sorry for the sloppy beginning --BoomerangBob
    • I'm not sure about it, but i think its in better shape, can we remove the cleanup? --63.194.157.166
  • Whitewater - Whitewater in the U.S. section needs to be rewritten. Bear in mind the rapid article. --Smack
  • Adirondack guideboat - general wikification needed --Smack
  • Alex Kaleta - presumably a hockey player? The article contains nothing but sketchy statistics. RickK 06:19, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Damon Armstrong - self-promotion, excessive external links. Notable? RickK 05:05, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
    • Actually, you'll want to put this on Votes for Deletion. --Idont Havaname 05:46, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • I was trying to get some idea of whether this is a person I've never heard of who might be worth an article. RickK 06:19, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Quezon City — Huge grammar/semantics mistakes in Commerce & Economy section. Please edit if you can figure out what this person was saying; I don't know enough about the topic to edit it myself. --Idont Havaname 03:07, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Lestat de Lioncourt — Style is very conversational and could do with expansion. — OwenBlacker 00:43, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Danny Hillis - needs work, esp. the insertion of material from another site. RickK 00:31, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Fright Night — Appalling substub. I've wikified it a little but haven't seen the film recently (nor am I lucid enough) to do it justice. — OwenBlacker 00:13, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
    • And please reword it from scratch — it's all terribly POV and un-PC. — OwenBlacker 00:20, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
    • Edited and expanded, although I've left the somewhat-editorial comment in: do we really want that? --Phil | Talk 10:09, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

November 22

looks like a "Micronation" [[User:Grutness|Grutness talk ]] 03:36, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

g and formatting. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 10:37, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

  • Coppull - unwikified text dump, can't really make sense of it. --Flockmeal 03:31, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
    • Parts of text may be copyvio. See [2]. May need copyediting. - Mailer diablo 18:36, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Zwingenberg- needs to be written more clearly in English and wikified --nixie 01:17, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Abbot_Beyne_School - Crown copyright. See edit page for comments, I'm not sure if this is a copyvio. If it isn't needs serious wikifying. - Mailer diablo 01:27, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Rigas Feraios- needs wikification and removal of POV--nixie 01:54, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Velella - needs taxonomy-box, someone to check if the classification is correct, general rewrite. --Pyrop 02:04, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Charles E. Sorensen - not biographical or descriptive in the least. --DMG413 02:36, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • List of municipalities of the Prefecture of Achaea- there's something odd going on with the special characters --nixie 06:51, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Addressing LDS Leaders needs a definite work over, and possibly a move to a page with a better title, as the current one doesn't fit the content (How to adress members of the Church of Latter Days Saints). Arcuras 15:14, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

November 21

Needs expansion, otherwise needs to be merged with insect article. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 10:49, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sidewalk Surfing! - wikify. Also needs fact check--there seem to be two releases by the challengers with basically the same name, but radically different track lists. Niteowlneils 23:02, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Zenata--very little content, poorly written, I've fixed what I can but needs someone who knows vaguely about this Moroccan tribe. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:03, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Battle of the Beanfield -- highly POV, needs fixing. -- Anon.
  • Herbert Huncke - wikify Deus Ex 12:02, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Sisterson - 'A short-run comic book which ran for three or for issues around 1990' - notable?
  • Nico Demonte - NPOVing, non-encyclopedic style, possibly non-notable artist (no allmusic.com page, only ~230 Google hits). User added links to this page in about 10 different genres Lexor|Talk
  • Miller Puckette - unwikified text dump, possible copyvio. --Flockmeal 05:40, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Was a text dump from my own thesis on Pure Data, wanted to save before wikifying. Article might need further cleanup to articulate better. Not copyright infringement. --User:Seb(not registered) 5:43, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Joanna Pettet - unwikified text dump. Again, Copyvio? --Flockmeal 04:51, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Tartarus (Halo) - unwikified text dump. Copyvio? --Flockmeal 04:32, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Offensive marketing warfare strategies, Defensive marketing warfare strategies, Flanking marketing warfare strategies, and Guerrilla marketing warfare strategies all get bogged down in military metaphor. Might need to be sent to PNA, but I think we can add some context to the leads first, see "Defensive" changes. - RedWordSmith
  • Felicia - unwikified text dump. Notable? Copyvio? RickK 00:57, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
    • Not encyclopedic at all. "Felicia" was just an Internet pseudonym of an unidentified anonymous person, posting in a few comic book message boards, and raising up a stink for a couple of weeks. Her effects at Marvel were pretty much negligible. The story was cute at the time, but in a couple of years nobody will remember "Felicia". In order to understand this, you'd have to know that at the time Bill Jemas was Marvel's president, Joe Quesada the EiC, Mark Waid the FF writer, and Rich Johnston a rumor monger. I'd VfD it. --Pc13 14:26, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Sultana (steamboat) - much of it unwikified and in non-encyclopedic style (from a 1925 newspaper article, as far as I can see) - Marcika 18:29, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Stencil shadow volume - in particular, someone who knows more about computer graphics than i do should give this a working-over. --Pyrop 21:44, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

November 20

Copyvio--nixie 00:40, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
No copyvio. Did some basic cleanup --Cnu 10:09, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

lot being that this is a music article --Szyslak Worked on it - Sprafa

  • Glenlair - unwikified. RickK 10:18, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Science of Value - unwikified text dump. Copyvio? RickK 10:11, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Jihad - User:134.22.70.218 has added several copyright violations to this page in the last four or five days. Unfortunately, several users have edited this page since he/she first started editing it. Unless someone objects, I am going to revert the entire page to just prior to 134.22.70.218's first edit. RickK 08:43, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Foreign relations of the Philippines - needs to be divided into sections, and reorganized so it's clearer and makes more sense. Also should be linked to other Philippines articles. JesseW 08:38, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Liedertafel - unwikified text dump about a Australian choir. Also listed on Template:Wikify. JesseW 08:35, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Roughnecks - unwikified text dump. Might could use another name. RickK 08:19, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Boyne mountain - unwikified, advertising, should be at Boyne Mountain. RickK 08:15, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Zaat ?? --nixie 06:48, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • A very unencyclopedically written review/essay/transcription of the cult movie "Zaat", a.k.a. "The Blood Waters of Dr. Z". Actually minorly notable as the subject of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode; probably a good idea to create a redirect that'll attract the MiSTies to work on it. -- Antaeus Feldspar 16:35, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Kidding on the square Not encyclopaedic
  • Giovanni lindo ferretti wikify

November 19

  • Ethnic Albania neededs POV editing/rewording by someone that knows about the subject Deus Ex 23:51, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Bill "DigitalBill" Douthett I'm not sure if this person is really notable. Anyone care to comment? Deus Ex 23:46, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Though I'm sure he's a fine person, it looks like a glorified resume to me. Katefan0 00:36, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Farah islam is this a real person?
  • E-negotiation what is this about?
  • Book and snake wikify
  • Vanagon: "this is terribly messy, and disorganized, i know, but i would appreciate anyone editing in any missing or incorrect info. thank you." Maybe we should just salvage what we can and redirect to VW Type 2 which has an extensive section on this model already. --rbrwr±
    • Reorganised, some bit of editing. It'd be nice to make this a full main article with a summary on VW Type 2. Some info can be brought over from the latter that may not appear in this page. - Mailer diablo 22:44, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Theory of conduct This was probably listed before but i came across it randomly...it is big and scary and needs alot of cleanup! -Mkrupnic 21:04, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • CEM integration This makes no sense to me. Katefan0 21:01, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • EarthSave Is this encyclopedia-worthy? Looks like an ad for a company. Katefan0 20:56, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Polymorphism in object-oriented programming — two article parts not yet melded together, plus comment "Lots more to be said here, including generics..." OwenBlacker
  • Twiztid - extremely chatty. Copyright vio? Danny
    • Thank god. It's a copyvio. Saves me having to spend my valuable time editing that crap. -R. fiend 16:36, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • actually, if you go to the page the copyvio notice points to, they claim their source is wikipedia, not the other way around. Suppafly 22:59, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
        • Crap. Just what we need: more bad publicity. Why can't people learn to write an encyclopedia article? -R. fiend 23:40, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Washim - needs context badly. Also needs expansion (substub to stub, at least). [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]]
  • David McCullough Text dump. Possible copyvio? Definitely a notable historian who needs a good article. Academic Challenger
    • Seems it's a cut-and-paste from several sources, at times badly melded together. Should we list it as a copyvio? -R. fiend 06:32, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Modern Antiques - orphan, chatty, wikify etc - maybe merge into another article --JTN
    • Did a 100% re-write. Is it worth keeping though? Not sure how much this term is used. -R. fiend 08:47, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • DPPX -- Sarge Baldy 06:24, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
    • Rewritten. Check for any minor mistakes I made. :) - Mailer diablo 22:15, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • List of corset periods - was merged with a number of articles after listing on VfD. Needs serious cleanup, and also probably a different name. - Mike Rosoft 13:18, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Chakra - the introduction sounds a little bit strange, may be biased in favour of the existence of chakras, and doesn't seem to adequately represent the diversity of the traditions mentioned later in the article. The section on modern New Age notions is also strange with its many slashes, and may even be nonsense (I haven't put up any mental effort to determine this). arj 14:16, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Did restructuring, may need some expansion on acupuncture within the article and some points from non-believers. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:49, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

Insert non-formatted text here

November 18

Done, still needs fact-cheking (especially contrasting dates in table and lead, which were both in the original article). [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:25, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Private candidates - as a non-UKan, this article means absolutely nothing to me. I have no idea what it's saying, and the abbreviations have no meaning and there are no links to explanatory pages. RickK 01:12, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Panelology - unwikified, leaves a hole to be filled in. RickK 01:04, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Abner Orick -- - PoV, chronologize, find out what "and 1997" means, since he lost that year. But consider just VfDing.
  • Mairinque -- a city in Brazil. Looks like some struggling translation and maybe some cut-and-paste.
I've tidied up the English - can someone check I haven't misinterpreted some of the facts in translating? Grutness 08:12, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Sexology -- article that's been mostly a skeleton with some lists for a long time. Now trying to turn it into prose in normal article form. -- Anon.

November 17

  • Billie Sol Estes -- Very narrow account focusing exclusively on mysterious deaths...possible regurgitation from conspiracy theorist? Ellsworth 21:24, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Mary the elephant -- Not very grammatical, article starts with its death? Ashibaka tlk 20:34, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Did some work, found website info that needs including. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:11, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • Portuguese 1807 Fleet -- An unwikified, unformatted mess. Katefan0 17:56, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
    • formatted, but needs context if it's to be at all useful. -R. fiend 06:33, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • Looks so much better. I am flagging as needing attention and will post to attention list. Katefan0 18:40, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Syracuse on the Wikipedia:Requests for expansion list (from last November) links to the disambiguation page, rather than the town itself. Jackiespeel 17:10, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • South African Art Music - Text dump that looks like a copyvio, but doesn't appear to be. Needs wikification, and probably alot more. -R. fiend 17:00, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • The links to the lists of items to be expanded seems to have disappeared off the main community portal pages.
  • Trusted Email Open Standard -- substub, points to a dead website. Is this still a live topic, and is it even of historical interest? -- Karada 14:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Scotism -- my own import from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia text, needs heavy editing for POV and style. -- Karada 16:36, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Satellite Internet -- I've had a good go at cleaning this up, but more is needed. -- Karada 19:46, 17 Nov 2004 (UTc) +Additional cleanup done - if you cannot find an issue here, remove the cleanup notice and remove title from this list. Denni☯ 21:22, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

November 16

  • Rap nigerien - unwikified mess without context. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:00, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Teddy Ruxpin - needs info on the cartoon next to the toy, maybe an image. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:00, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Mondlango - chatty intro, sparse information.
Also lots of small paragraphs with own heading. Needs to have similar layout as other language articles. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:06, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
How does Monnlango differ from Esperanto?
  • Te Puea Herangi - one paragraph of unwikified textdump. Needs TLC. Grutness
  • Atheist Jew - wikification. grammar. Redirect to atheism or Judaism??
    • rewriten, but still sounds strange. does anybody know if this is a recorded phenom? Humble Fool
    • Suggest redirecting to Jew. -Sean Curtin 04:38, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Rejected - Huh? RickK 00:49, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done a major rewrite; see if you agree that it's better. I'm removing the cleanup notice on the presumption that it is. -- Antaeus Feldspar 07:46, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • Much better, though the storyline doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.  :) RickK
  • Hobbit (Denham) - POV, excessive use of bolding. RickK 23:39, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
    • Maybe another title like Hobbit etymology fits better... [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:31, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
    • Have cleaned up somewhat. Could do still do with a little more attention Arthur Holland
  • Folk och Rackare Argh! Supposedly a Swedish pop band from the '70s, but it reads like a personal plea for more information on them, complete with someone's email address. I know nothing about this subject -- is it even salvageable? Katefan0 22:52, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
moved request to Reference desk. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:43, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • VIM and Emacs commands - orphaned, unwikified comparison of how Emacs and Vim differ in the commands used for three (count 'em, three) functions --rbrwr±
  • Totenkopfring - unwikified, pov, with personal comments by the author here and there. A mess, basically. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 22:09, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified and removed first-person comments and a bit of POV, but there's still a huge block of German text in the middle of the article. - RedWordSmith
  • Moritz Schlick--needs majour cleanup and translation. 198.164.135.108 22:06, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Just check the history next time as all it needed was a revert. :) Maybe some cleanup still, but its back to english. -- [[User:Tomf688|tomf688]] 00:46, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Kevin Heffernan--what sport did he play? Needs clarification. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:13, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Perry Como -- The Talk page was a huge mass of copyvios. I can't confirm that the main article is a similar mass of copyvios but it reads like a transcription of articles written about Perry Como while he was still alive -- the familiarity, the present tense, the emphasis on what a great guy he is, rather than encyclopedic facts. Needs a massive re-write even if it's not copyvio. -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:46, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Wow. WORST ARTICLE EVER. Did a big cleanup, but someone should probably go back and sweep the floors. Deleted tons of stuff. It was a tribute, not an article. -R. fiend 23:48, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Filet mignon--I can't believe we didn't have an article on this. Is this a mis-spelling? [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:46, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
    • No, that's proper spelling. Katefan0 20:41, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wind-up below says "See nhang for a wind-up that has so far not been spotted by wikidemics." Might need checking. - RedWordSmith 18:01, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
    • Oh ha-ha, very funny. I get it now -- the message in wind-up is a wind up. [Rolls eyes] If someone could confirm please. - RedWordSmith
  • Wind-up could be made more elegant - and the meanings separated.
  • Arsenicosis - can someone fact check this one, sounds fishy. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 14:00, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
Alcohol poisoning by another name?
Moved to Frederich von Mellenthin as per wikipedia naming policy/wikified and heading formatting, if copyvio, then needs rewording. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:07, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
Seems to be proper stub now. Needs expansion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 14:02, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Shrone Hill - unwikified POV piece about a location in (I think) Ireland- I'm not sure where to begin, or whether to just send it to vfd. -FZ 02:10, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Male homosexuality and vasopressin -- needs copyvio checking (see its talk page), editing for style, fact-checking. Possibly contact original author? -- Anon.
    • Original research, to Vfd. Wyllium 11:35, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
  • John Nebthos, thick prose needs to be broken down. T.PK 18:17, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • If this is some guy's thesis, which it appears to be, should it even be an entry? Katefan0 17:45, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

November 15

  • Public credit. Unwikfied text dump. I listed this here yesterday, but someone seems to have deleted it without doing any work on the article. RickK 23:32, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Viera context please! might be patent nonsense but i'm not quite sure -is seemingly some final fantasy stuff Lady Tenar 23:26, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • It's a race from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, which links to it -- I've put a merge notice on it, since it's detail too granular considering that this race only appears in this one game.
  • Walden O'Dell - Blatent POV, poor English, probably some factual errors - do "most" people vote on Diebold machines? Pakaran (ark a pan) 17:48, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Punk - This disambiguation page needs a major cleaning up, it's way too long, most of the meanings need to be trimmed and/or moved to separate pages to keep it ballooning into a monster. --Lexor|Talk 17:13, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
Shortened, remains are on talk page for inclusion in more specific articles. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:42, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • StarCraft Diplomacy - needs formatting [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:29, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Five Patients Text dump. Copyvio? Academic Challenger 04:28, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Tabou Combo Probably a magazine article or something like that. Academic Challenger 04:22, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Alexander Hamilton - see [4]
    • Gee. A bit of a wake-up call. Made some fixes, but others should read the article and work on this too. -R. fiend 05:23, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • Really needs grammar and spelling fixes. JesseW 07:15, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
        • Copyedited a little bit, but looks pretty good now I think. Katefan0 21:24, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Winx Club Huh? Apparently some kind of animated TV show. Academic Challenger 03:02, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Grouphug.us - no consensus to delete on vfd -- Graham ☺ | Talk 02:12, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Retinoic acid - unwikified text dump. Copyvio? RickK 00:46, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • The beginning seems to be from the American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language. See [5], [6]. The rest seems to be from [7]. I'll list it for speedy deletion. --Falsifian 04:08, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
    • Sorry, I mean under copyright violaions, not speedy deletion. --Falsifian 04:14, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
  • Cunning folk lots of irrelevant asides, filler material and spelling mistakes. Bacchiad 08:56, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 14

  • Reddiar - The English on this needs work. probably heading to vfd if it can't be fixed up. --DMG413 23:20, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Chris Barnes - needs a less breezy style and some NPOV; maybe we need a whole new page devoted to cleaning up these fannish music articles --Szyslak
    • In fact, I propose that the following words and phrases be banned from Wikipedia for all time: "influential," "famous," "groundbreaking," "pioneer," "innovative," "devoted following," "beloved by fans around the world" --Szyslak
  • Women's fiction - stubby, POV? --rbrwr±
  • Nuestra Señora de Monserrate - Spanish/Portugese non-wikified article. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:43, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
    • It's in Spanish. I've tried searching for it on the Net, and couldn't find it, but I'm still convinced it's a possible copyvio. From the way it's written, I'd wager it's a press-release or a newsitem copied from a possibly local Christian magazine. --Pc13 18:14, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • The Spire - non-encyclopedic [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 19:43, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)+wikify, minor copyedit Denni☯ 20:29, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
  • Beberrua - some text dump. Claims it was researched by writer. Needs serious wikifying and general tidy + possible rewrite. Estel 17:48, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Spacesynth - never heard of genre, needs fact checking, could be a "vanity" genre. --Lexor|Talk 16:16, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Knysna - full of trivia about some non-notable couple from Kent going on hilliday there. Joe D (t) 15:36, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • removed the trivia and folksiness to leave useful information. Still needs workGrutness
  • Arana - something to do with a comic strip character. Deb 11:24, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • It's about the main star from the restarted Amazing Fantasy comic book, published by Marvel Comics. I'll take a look at it, possibly merge it with the Amazing Fantasy entry. --Pc13 18:16, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Ol' Dirty Bastard - full of spacing issues, capitalization issues, and the whole article has a POV-ish feel, mentioning that he was highly influential over and over. CryptoDerk 07:04, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Tani tabbal Unwikified. Possible copyvio? If not, needs to be moved to Tanni Tabbal. Academic Challenger 05:15, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Polyculturalism - very short, second sentence is unclear, references and external links need vetting; one's commented out because it's 404 right now. - RedWordSmith
  • Gundam Seed Astray - wikification - MattTM | talk 00:41, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Imeta - no consensus to delete on vfd, suggest leaving it here for a month to see if it improves. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:37, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 13

November 12

  • How about merging/redirecting with fever? Joyous 02:57, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • may also need a disamb for rock band The Chills, too (article coming very soon!)Grutness
  • Anna Chlumsky — Makes sense only intermittently. Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit
  • King Rising Levitation - Is this illusion only performed by this one magician? Is this magician noteworthy enough to have an article about? If the answer to the first question is yes and the second is no, then we need to get rid of it. If the answer to the first is no, then get rid of the Cory King info and write an article about the illusion and how it's performed. If Cory King is a notable magician, we need an article about him. If this trick is only performed by him, redirect to article about him. RickK
Performed by more magicians than just him. I'll have a look at it in light of Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic. However, I think writing how the illusion is performed, would break copyright against the illusion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]]

November 11

  • Dario Di Martino - unwikfied text dump, written by a non-native English speaker. RickK 23:24, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Selection (genetic algorithm) - needs a little work. Sarge Baldy 23:04, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Oscar van Dillen - to conform to wiki-bio style and some de-wikifying (in fact its generally quite confusing) -- Solipsist 17:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Darwinian medicine formatting. Dunc|☺ 11:21, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Implicant Some kind of math concept? It's almost patent nonsense and an orphan, so I can't tell. Academic Challenger 05:31, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Wang Shiwei - looks like the start of an interesting article by an author whose native language is not English. Needs copyediting, fact-checking, Wikification, possible linking to the zh: wikipedia if there is an equivalent already there. -- Karada 00:14, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 10

  • Lisa Cheung - new page, I redirected it from Lisa cheung, but it seems awfully incomplete. Reads like vanity. Does anyone know her? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:07, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Didn't find anything about a notable teacher, so I changed to an artist that gets plenty of hits. Still a micro-stub, as I need to get to the bank. Niteowlneils
  • Tlahuelpuchi - is this real or fictional? Needs fmt, and some context in which the term is found. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:01, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • Dominical letter - Someone copied material straight out of [8] Catholic Encyclopedia with some escape sequences (e.g. =92) all around. -- Paddu 20:15, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • canton of Villeneuve-l'Archevêque needs a term rewritten - "recutting of the districts": the historical event to which this refers to could be given a mention elsewhere.
  • Gers (France): the Condom link still leads to the object rather than the place.
    • fixed. -- Paddu 20:15, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Patrick Matthews substub on some bassist. Dunc|☺ 17:50, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Maxim (saying) - bad, borderline speedy to be honest -- Graham ☺ | Talk 10:21, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Medha Hari - a Indian Bharatanatyam ballet dancer, seems notable, but the language is poor and it reads like an advert. -- Netoholic @ 04:39, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
  • Paul Harris - unwikified text dump, but probably too rambling to be copyvio. He apparently is a musician of some not (try searching "Paul Harris" magic), but much seems hard to verify, movie claim runs counter to IMDb (diff Paul Harris) Niteowlneils
  • I think you meant magician instead of musician. Anyway, I'll give a look and see if there's something salvagable in there. couldn't hurt my WikiProject Magic either :) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:56, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
  • D'oh! Yes, I meant magician. Niteowlneils 22:49, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I tried to find some information about him that would make him signifcant for an encyclopedia, but failed... He seems to be neither very notable as a composer, nor as a physicist. Delete? Marcika 23:30, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)


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