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*[[Bezant]] Confusing and internal contradictions.
*[[Center Tagumpay ng Katotohanan (Triumph of Truth)]] This page has multiple problems. The tone is unencyclopedic, there are several possible copyright violations, the subject is possibly not notable (its diccicult to tell since the article never makes it clear if the subject is a religion or one particular church in that religion). I tried to start cleaning and added some clean up tags but the editor who created the article reverted me.[[User:Sbacle|Sbacle]] 10:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
*[[Center Tagumpay ng Katotohanan (Triumph of Truth)]] This page has multiple problems. The tone is unencyclopedic, there are several possible copyright violations, the subject is possibly not notable (its diccicult to tell since the article never makes it clear if the subject is a religion or one particular church in that religion). I tried to start cleaning and added some clean up tags but the editor who created the article reverted me.[[User:Sbacle|Sbacle]] 10:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)



Revision as of 13:27, 30 August 2007

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  1. --Senators
  2. --Lendorien 18:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --edi 23:39, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Mr.Knowitall 15:31, 29 July 2007 (AEST)
  5. --Tullerk 1:53, 29 July 2007 (ACST)
  6. --Danielspencer91 15:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. --Jordanhatch 14:24, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  8. -- Jake1stbase
  9. --Unknown_Interval 12:07, 2 August 2007 (EST)
  10. --Zachary91119 02:41, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  11. --Borisshah 11:41, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  12. --Deadman 13 14, 15:03, 4 August 2007 (EST)
  13. --Mr.Taylor 18:14, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  14. --Accustephen 18:19, 5 August 2007 (EDT)
  15. --Chiaange
  16. --proskairos
  17. --Eleland 04:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  18. --Coleman84 23:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  19. --Jonathanmills 12:48, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  20. --itiscertain
  21. --danielsta123
  22. --danielsta123Marlith]] T/C 22:50, 11 August 2007 (UTC) I shall do copyediting.[reply]
  23. --Bartman1776
  24. --Sfrantzman
  25. --User:Zan Nordlund
  26. --reverie98 15:26, 17 August 2007 (EST)
  27. --LeonidasSpartan 14:52, 20 August 2007 (MST)
  28. --v1nc3 19:09, 22 August 2007 (MST)
  29. --Ridernyc 19:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  30. --Nevermind567 18:48, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  31. --Leviel 18:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  32. --GranddaughterMHW 8:14, 30 August 2007 (EST)
  33. --Sswaraj 18:47, 30 August 2007 (IST)

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August 2007

August 28, 2007

  • Bezant Confusing and internal contradictions.
  • Center Tagumpay ng Katotohanan (Triumph of Truth) This page has multiple problems. The tone is unencyclopedic, there are several possible copyright violations, the subject is possibly not notable (its diccicult to tell since the article never makes it clear if the subject is a religion or one particular church in that religion). I tried to start cleaning and added some clean up tags but the editor who created the article reverted me.Sbacle 10:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August 26, 2007

August 25, 2007

August 24, 2007

August 22, 2007

Turned filmography into a list, titles still needs to wikified and the list needs to be pruned from non-notable entries as it is pretty long.--Sus scrofa 00:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August 21, 2007

August 16, 2007

  • Skype has too much technical detail and computer jargon so consequently does not read well and the product is not explained. The article at the moment would be better placed in a specialist computer magazine.

August 15, 2007

  • Book 3 (Inheritance trilogy) may need to be updated. I had heard that a release date had been released for the third book. I believe it was set for early March, 2008, unless I heard false information.

August 13, 2007

August 12, 2007

  • Rape statistics desperately needs a rewrite. It's currently a POV editorial that rape statistics are unreliable. For example, here's the first sentence: Statistics on rape are among the most unreliable for serious crimes. The article goes on to prove that thesis. See my comments on its discussion page for more details. Guanxi 17:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August 11, 2007

August 9, 2007

  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq grammar, repeated sentences, sections read like it was written by some teenager unfamiliar with the language. As the general's place in Pakistani history is important, I would like someone with academic knowledge to review, since the article has changed since the last time I read it. Mac

August 8, 2007

August 7, 2007

  • Abduction phenomenon is a godawful mess; see Talk:Abduction phenomenon#Numerous massive problems Eleland 04:27, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jealousy is based upon an inaccurate/limited definition of the word "jealousy." Does not cover any of the other meanings of the word beyond that in a romantic context. Includes poorly organized, non-encylopaedic content. Entire 3rd paragraph is such high-level summary that it reads like a elementary school project - was worse than useless, far below the quality I've come to expect from Wikipedia. Punctuation is poor -I'm sure I could go on, but overall, I felt this was a very disappointing article.

August 6, 2007

August 5, 2007

August 2, 2007

August 1, 2007

July 2007

July 29, 2007

July 27, 2007

July 26, 2007

July 25, 2007

July 24, 2007

  • Kshatriya - needs extensive editing for grammar, to remove redundancy, and generally to make it encyclopedic. -- Whateley23 20:58, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cave diving - Needs to be completely re-organised. Too much of some info, others are lacking. Lacks proper headings. History section is particularly scrappy (ricjl)
  • Atheistic Deism - I've merged this together from three stubs by the same author. The terms used in the article appear in numerous places on the Internet, but I can't find any cites from reliable sources to back this up. It needs sourcing, and then a complete rewrite -- or deletion, if no sources can be found. -- Karada 10:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]


July 20, 2007

July 19, 2007

July 17, 2007

July 15, 2007

July 14, 2007

  • Deleted a LOT of material from this page following the Wikipedia Video Game Article guideline. Also spent some time rewriting several portions of the article correcting grammar, spelling, and poor writing. Some portions I have decided to leave alone for the time being, especially the Controversy section... I think it could be left, but rewritten to be neutral, as the controversy is an integral part of the game... lneely42 06:18, 14 July 2007 (CST)

July 13, 2007

July 12, 2007

I will definitely try to help, but most of the help I can offer is to clean up the language. It currently sounds very stilted. Sean Montgomery 14:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July 11, 2007

July 10, 2007

July 8, 2007

  • Non-synchronous transmissions - Article needs serious improvements. It repeats information, it has no illustrations to explain the text, and it is written in an unencyclopedic manner. It also promotes the American Trucker Association, & Professional Truck Driver's Association school at the Houston Community College N.E. campus in northeast Houston, TX (USA)! Why? — CZmarlin 02:26, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ranger's Apprentice (series) - A large amount of spelling and gramatical errors. Way to many for me to fix on my own. The content at parts can also sound very unprofessional
  • Bob Clampett - very subjective text in the lower sections - e.g. he wrote some of the 'most outrageuous and funniest cartoons'.
  • Focus III - this reads like a review, and is incredibly positively biased.
  • Edith Pringle: Aussie pol activist. Needs sourcing. --Lendorien 16:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July 7, 2007

  • Mii (Jungle de Ikou!) - This article is about a cartoon featuring a ten year old girl with large breasts. The writers of this article do not deserve good faith; the depraved tone is hideously unencyclopedic. A gx7 02:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Chuck E. Cheese's - a fairly notable chain, that happens to be watchlisted by nearly no one, and also frequented by new and anonymous users. Problem is, Chuck E. Cheese's is a kid's restaurant, and the quality of the article looks like it's greatest fans are the contributors. Please, this is a notable subject, and the article stinks. The Evil Spartan 19:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July 5, 2007

July 3, 2007

July 2, 2007

June 2007

June 30, 2007

June 29, 2007

  • Object composition - A new section about Aggregation in COM was included, which may be confusing or unclear for some readers. Rjgodoy 05:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles - Non-neutrality, promotional flavour. Excessive editing of this article without explanation has made it hard to trace its roots. An update made June 29 attempted to correct this problem but supporters of the Brave Words marketing team have removed the content (again) Article seems to promote Magazine but when any information is inserted which discusses aspects not in the Magazine's promotional advantage these sections get conveniently removed leaving the article with a Biased or POV feeling. Case in point: Latest edition of magazine is on display in the picture section and data seems to be updated each month. There is excessive use of Weasel words and Peacock language! The accusation that the document is somehow being Vandalized by those of us who claim this is silly... Address the problems with the document and those claiming issues. 64.229.206.12 11:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 27, 2007

June 25, 2007

June 24, 2007

Help:Merging and moving pages seems to be the place to start. I've never done a merger before myself. I did a look at one of the episode pages, and it seems well-maintained, so you might want to start with a merger proposal as outlined in the "merging & moving pages" section to avoid an edit war. Good luck.  :) --Moonriddengirl 17:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 23, 2007

June 22, 2007

June 21, 2007

  • Hardware - Only its meaning is displayed and no other infos are available like it's history and types etc.. The information is limited, not very brief. A turn off for Wikipedia. Little teen02 18:38, 21 June 2007 (GMT+8)

June 17, 2007

June 16, 2007

June 15, 2007

June 14, 2007

June 13, 2007

June 12, 2007

  • TV3 (Catalonia) This entry has been turned into a perfect clone of the TV3 corporate web site. It seems that Wikipedia has chosen to neuter well-documented public criticism concerning the public debates on TV3 (some of it from highly-placed individuals in Catalonia's Parliamentary Control Commission). Furthermore, the entry has been protected from any further editing except by "Andromeda" (the TV corporation's self-appointed publicist).

June 12, 2007

June 11, 2007

June 10, 2007

June 9, 2007

June 6, 2007

sean quinn is a local gay man who attends seminole high school in florida

June 5, 2007

June 3, 2007

June 2, 2007

  • Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin - It was taken pretty much word for word from the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was published in 1911 (it has since entered the public domain). I understand this edition Encyclopædia is frequently used as a resource, but the style of writing is outdated and is not consistent with the rest of Wikipedia. Even though it appears there have been some changes in the past to make it sound more up-to-date, the content of the article still sounds rather archaic. The article might also need the attention of someone who knows a bit about the artist. --Neinfraulein 03:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I updated the tone of the article, but I'm not much of an art buff. It's probably fine the way it is, but if someone's into art it could use his or her expertise. ryright 04:54, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lauren London - The article already has an Unreferenced tag, but could also benefit from a general cleaning up of the Early Life and Career section. Arrow 00:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 1, 2007

May 2007

May 31, 2007

Article reads well enough to me. Issue seems to be lack of references, not messiness. Matt 19:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC).

May 30, 2007

May, 29, 2007

May 26, 2007

  • Hells Angels is really poorly written, controversy aside. There are all sorts of grammatical errors and odd syntaxes. I'd be bold, but I don't know enough abuot the subject to figure out what some of the article is trying to say --xAlpha 23:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe a "subject matter expert"? What subject would that be? It may just need to be re-written - both the article and talk are a bit out of control.Lightwiki 01:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Timebase correction repeats a lot of the same information and is poorly organized.
  • Multimedia Fusion has mostly bad English grammar, there are misspelled words, and it just doesn't look gay.

May 25, 2007

Very fan focused - unencyclopedic character. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 13:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 24, 2007

  • Royal visits to Australia contains incorrect links and confusing third person pronouns such as a he which can refer to a few people. It's also a long article requiring organization.

May 23, 2007

  • Sacramento High School contains unencyclopedic lists that may require cleanup.Rjgodoy 07:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Simon Necronomicon Tone changes between it being an ancient book translated in the 1970s, a book written on it's own merits in the 1970s, and a hoax version of the Lovecraft Necronomicon written in the 1970s. I thought I could possibly fix it, but it's just too much. Might even want to just delete the nonsense and add it as a footnote to the Necronomicon page. 69.64.10.249 14:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Filippino Lippi: (Renaissance painter) - I'm still relatively new at all this, but it seems to me that this article is completely lacking in references. I would tag it, but am still uncomfortable with taking such liberties. There also seems to me some NPOV violations, given a lack of critical reference in such sentences as this, "His first works greatly resemble those of Botticelli's, but with less sensitivity and subtlety" and "Eventually Lippi's style evolved into a more personal and effective one...." I hope a more experienced editor might have time to take a look and decide if those issues need tagging. --Moonriddengirl 14:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 22, 2007

-Cleaned up the grammar a little but still some incoherent phrases that I didn't get.jtimshel 20:34, 30 July 2007

May 21, 2007

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May 5, 2007

May 3, 2007

May 2, 2007

  • Sean Avery - Starts to get choppy and seems be more of a day-to-day type article after that adding many things with no relevance at all and is also missing citations for a majority of the article. May be written like a fan-site, in some areas, as well, but I am not sure abudabee.

May 1, 2007

April 2007

April 26 - 30, 2007

April 25, 2007

April 24, 2007

  • Well, vandelism isn't all. The introduction for this article is longer than the main body text. It rambles and lacks direction and any sourcing. It probably needs to be moved to somewhere else int he article. A former Featured Article candidate, it seems to have significantly degraded.--Lendorien 15:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh... my... god... This article desperately needs cleaning up. I have done a few basic things, but I could do with some help. Both because African-American culture is not my area of expertise, and because it's almost bedtime in this part of the world. Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention, 207.75.214.177. AecisBrievenbus 22:44, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
this diff is the article roughly when it was put up as a FAC; it was much better then than it is now. -- phoebe/(talk) 07:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April 23, 2007

April 22, 2007

April 21, 2007

April 20, 2007

April 19, 2007

  • Cleaned it up a bit - 27 May 2007.

April 18, 2007

April 17, 2007

April 16, 2007

April 15, 2007

  • Channel 4 programming is a new article that combines material lifted from Channel 4 (which was becoming too big) and material merged from the former List of Channel 4 television programmes. It is divided into genres of programming some of which are highly specific with others being vague and mixed-up. It also contains content from many different editors, describing specific programmes individually, which tends to make the prose seem very disjointed. It generally needs a tidier structure, but given the amount of content, is a pretty big endeavour. It is also separately tagged as requiring references. -- Fursday 00:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April 14, 2007

  • Supernatural - This is an important article, but unfortunately it contains many forward claims that require attribution to reliable sources, chief among them a strong support of methodological naturalism in science. It lacks references for many of its other claims, which I have marked with "citation needed" tags. It uses numerous weasel words. "Competing Explanations and Criteria of Preference" as well as the end of "Alleged instances of supernaturalization" have a naturalistic POV and should be cut down unless reliable sources can be found to support their statements. See what I wrote under "Unsourced." Good day.Schmitty120 19:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April 13, 2007

April 12, 2007

  • I have done a complete revision of the text in this article, cut out some of the rambling content. Some content moved to talk page pending sourcing. Desperately needs citations and examination by an expert. --Lendorien 20:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April 11, 2007

April 10, 2007

April 9, 2007

April 8, 2007

April 7, 2007

  • Quality control - completely uncited, seems like the bulk of the history is OR/speculation. style issues. over half the text is on quality assurance, which has its own article. (though there is a merge discussion on the two). Ripe 15:48, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April 5, 2007

March 2007

March 26-30, 2007

  • I took a jab at it. A lot of the work simply required naturalization of the English grammer, so that's done. I can't say anything about the informational content itself. Still needs sourcing. --Lendorien 17:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 23, 2007

March 19, 2007

  • Dronfield - This article has been subject to many small, unstructured additions producing an incoherent and somewhat unintelligible read. The information in the main body is delivered in a short and almost truncated manner for the most part, explicating very little as the topics progress. Secondly, half of the text under “History” relates very loosely to history; distinct sections relating explicitly to their own content may solve this. -- Naqahdah 14:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)Naqahdah[reply]

March 18, 2007

  • Olivia_(singer) - Proofreading for typos and general cleanup required, e.g. same facts are stated multiple times in several locations (bio, music career)
  • Erotic Lactation - Article needs general proofreading. Spelling errors, non-words, and some colloquial speech detracting from encyclopedic tone.
  • This still needs more editing. I attempted to make spelling/grammar changes, but short on time and unable to finish it now. I cannot in good conscience recommend leaving the bit about lesbians breastfeeding each other being commonplace. The citation for that bit was dated to 1934: too old for anything current and scholarly. I left it there, though. Snackar 09:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 17, 2007

  • Noelle Pikus Pace - This article is poorly written and from a first person perspective. The person is real and seems notable but the text of the article needs much attention. Sadly more than I hace this morning. JBEvans 10:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Social studies - This article needs clean-up, streamlining or a complete rewrite and/or a possible merge? I tried some by correcting spelling but I do not have enough time, interest nor experience to format the layout and content. Also not sure about the validity/nobility of the subject, as it seems to be some sort of set of study hints for students; therefore un-encyclopedic? I also tried to make the layout look a bit better, it's better looking but still is a poor article in my opinion. Hopefully someone will look at this to help clean it up, expand it, merge it, or delete it. I did add a stub tag. Dunno :/ -Jeeny 19:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I tried to break up the material in the introduction into subsections as well as removing some redundancy and confusing sentence structure. I also rephrased the Digital Technology section to be easier to understand and to sound less like a commercial. I don't know enough about the teaching methods to know what to do with them, but I recommend perhaps just creating a new page or linking to an existing one that covers the method of teaching. The current lists are not very informative and seem more like a brochure than an encyclopedia entry. SPH. 17, March 2007.
  • General Hospital - This article is in need of some basic cleanup and reformatting. If left untended, it will essentially turn into a recap/fansite page. I don't have a problem with posting storyline-type information, but it needs to be brought up to WP Quality standards. Also, fans keep adding new couple and supercouple pages for practically every set of characters, most of which is in blatant violation of WP:NOR. I would think most of the "couple" pages are good candidates for deletion. A few, like Luke and Laura Spencer are definitely Notable for their contribution to the modern Soap Opera, but most are frivolous and unnecessary.--66.91.225.99 02:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 16, 2007

  • Rachel Stevens - The article seems to have too many sections, and become very messy and untidy to look at. Blacksilkandy 22:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Spread of Islam - This article has a few passages with clearly biased points of view and should be written much more neutrally. Examples of quotes include "The infamous Hakim (Al-Hakim bi-amr-Allah, the sixth Egyptian Caliph, 996-1021, who became the god of the Druze) determined to destroy the Holy Sepulchre (In 1010.)" Infamus? God of the Druze? What?
  • Attempted to fix some of the biased phrasing. Still needs some work. --Drsexlove 16:00, 3 June, 2007 (UTC)

March 14, 2007

  • Library - Could probably be divided up into several articles: one section has a request for development. -- Jackiespeel 19:09, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sri - The article is just totally misformatted and repeats paragraph, spacing is all wrong. The whole thing is royally screwed up.
  • Jared Ingersoll - All the information is there, the page needs formatting work, wikification and sources.
  • Sunflower_oil - Is nearly an advertisment. No NPOV, and no hear-say claims.
  • I did fix the overzealous capitalization. -- Sci girl 04 May 2007
  • Rancho San Joaquin Middle School - Seems a little one-sided, don't you think. It is only talking about one humanities teacher, Kay Gee, there are other humanities teachers and other teachers there who deserve to have their name on their as well, not just her. Please do something about it, I didn't want to touch it, but I might fix it a bit... just a bit.
  • Shorts - The section 'Motivation' is poorly worded. -- Bitbut 01:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree, but that's not the half of it. For a start, it seems to be written, without realising it, from an entirely monocultural (North American) point of view, but this is a subject on which attitudes and practice vary a lot even within the English-speaking world, never mind everywhere else. There are also a lot of terminological and definition problems. Unfortunately I know a lot about this subject, so I suppose I shall have to get down to work on it. Woblosch 22:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 8-11, 2007

  • Varalaru - History of Godfather - Many grammatical and clarity errors. Much of the content essential to a good article on a film is there, but it is also confusing to read. Most of the spelling errors have been addressed, but the original author(s) may not be familiar enough with English (no criticism intended). A good copy editor is essential, and familiarity with the film may be beneficial. The article will benefit from much paring of excessive detail, and significant citing. Also, many, many incidences of what appears to be original research, or at least, personal interpretation. :  Jim Dunning  talk  :  03:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 7, 2007

March 6, 2007

  • British African-Caribbean community - Is supposed to be about the African and Caribbean communities in Britain but instead is completely about the Caribbean, please clean it up. I already tried but somebody changed it back.
  • I think you're misunderstanding the term 'African-Caribbean'; think of it like 'African-American', ie Caribbean citizens of African descent (not Caribbean citizens and African citizens). Hope that helps. Jonathanmills 20:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • American Pie - Has words run together, misspellings of McLean's name, and far too many other errors and REALLY needs a good cleanup by someone with good grammar.
  • Praieira revolt - This article needs cleanup. Needs more context and details. It's badly in need of sourcing and a general reorginaziation of the info. It reads like a philisophical essay rather than an article and is light on any real meat. --Lendorien 00:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 5, 2007

  • Cleaned up grammer a little, but I didn't want to touch it much because I know nothing on the subject. --postofficebox

March 4, 2007

  • Ranger's Apprentice (series) - Requires checking of detail, an info bar, a table of contents, locations, cleanup of messy character section, and better summary of the books.
  • Biotechnology - Needs a cleanup of the formatting and on the info. It is currently too messy and hard to retrieve information from...
  • Europa-Park - Added the Infobox, but will not format properly. Can somebody take a look and help out? Also the article is in need of some general reformatting to make it easier to read. Poeloq 21:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 2, 2007

February 2007

February 26 - 28, 2007

  • I did a lot of copyediting and rewording for clarity, and removed some redundant text. However, this still needs a look from someone familiar with the topic. --DoorsAjar 00:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

February 16 - 20, 2007

  • RMI-IIOP It assumes too much background knowledge. It has no general discussion about what this protocol is, what various forms it takes, what it's used for, it's history, etc. I already know a little bit about them and use them but came here to learn something more and went away without the info I was looking for. Dougher 04:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Web crawler - This page appears to have been purposefully defamed. AarrowOM 15:49, 20 February 2007
  • Geophagy - Screwy formatting and wikification, and an over-emphasis on cultural issues at the expense of medical content.
  • Muv-Luv - This article is written in a very confusing way. The character information appears to be the central feature rather than the main story itself. Aparently, the information came from a japanese source, so it needs a cleanup to meet up the standards of an article written in english. Thank you, Minako-Chan* 14:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hoodlums (Rayman) - someone recently added a load of information which is not found in game, and did not give a source. The additions are rather poorly written and have an informal tone (some of it is grammatically incorrect, too) RobbieG 21:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Shaba I - Article appears to include a lot of good information, but I can't make head or tail of it. It has been tagged for a short while. J Milburn 22:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

February 11 - 15, 2007

February 6 - 10, 2007

  • Marques Houston - Poorly written in terms of the English, and just doesn't read like an encyclopedic article. First section looks like an overview, and just generally looks untidy. Also not inparticularly thorough and has some formatting issues. Also uses the term "sophomore" a lot which I think is outlawed by the Manual of Style (due to it not being used outside of the US and Canada). Esteffect 18:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Frank Stanford - Article has no headings and needs citations and references. -Cavykatie

February 1 - 5, 2007

January 2007

January 25 - 31, 2007

January 21 - 25, 2007

  • Los Angeles News Service - Article needs to be rewritten in a more consise style, with headings and proper sourcing. I've made some attempt to clean it up. There's some personal info in there about the founders. Not sure it's appropriate for the article, but the founder's article was merged with this one some time back. --Lendorien 14:41, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Romance novel - This article is a little confusing - it has no introduction and kind of just jumps into some bulleted points. I'd clean it up myself but I'm not really qualified to write a good introduction to an established article in this area CredoFromStart 20:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bat Boy: The Musical - This article is ridiculously convoluted in its Synopsis section. It jumps in an incredibly confusing and distracting way, and in certain regions it plagiarizes directly from the blurb of the book. And frankly, being an ex-actor in this musical, I frankly don't think I'm objective enough to rewrite this. Also, might want to keep an eye on the Controversy and External Links -- far too many high schools have been advertising in there. Ryoji.kun 04:31, 25 January 2007
  • Psychological warfare- Poorly written, reads like a bad high school paper. Tagged this as suggested on the talk page.
  • Dumba - Looks like a vanity page, little encyclopedic content. Needs severe pruning. - Mike Rosoft 16:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alex Rackley - reads like a poorly written newspaper article; needs grammar correction and general cleanup. --Matthew K 03:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Green Politics - needs a complete makeover
  • Allu Arjun - needs almost complete rewrite - reads like a vanity article at this time. VirtualSteve 10:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comet (passenger car) — Format is highly unlike encyclopedic content; article reads like a school essay. Tone is highly informal; language is imprecise; descriptors of varieties of names for railcars cited in article are incomplete and sometimes misapplied.
  • Cyber-bullying - Badly in need of overhaul in every sense. Needs more valid, verifiable information. Lacks citations, what citations it has relate to single source, which, while valid enough, risks POV. -- Zeraeph 13:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Muraqabah - Doesn't use sections, is a guide on meditating or something (possibly shouldn't be in Wikipedia?), I'm not also sure this is WP:N. Maybe someone should nominate it for deletion, but at the very least it needs substantial work. --SLi 19:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

January 6 - 20, 2007

January 1 - 5, 2007

  • Zygosity - A mess. jkhjkSomeone has combined three reasonable articles into one strange amalgam, using copy & paste rather than merging histories. This needs someone to right the wrongs who also knows enough of the science to know what they're doing. --Grutness...wha? 01:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2006

December 2006

December 16-21

  • Considerably cleaned up now, for grammar/syntax/typos/spelling, style, tone of voice, etc. but still is missing a lot of sources and I think also a bit repetitive. Could probably be boiled down a bit.Woblosch 00:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I made style changes to be more consistent with the other sections of the MN Vikings article, but it's my first edit of a WP site, so please feel free to provide feedback.

December 1-15

Started work on this, copied in election boxes I could find, will get onto the rest soon.
  • I propose that safety climate and safety culture be merged, as they appear to be very similar concepts, perhaps one being the European and the other the American terms for in effect the idea. timtregenza 07:19, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

November 2006

November 16 - 30

  • Did some copyediting. Still has issues that I can't fix, mostly due to lack of familiarity with the subject and the fact that it was probably written by someone with English as a 2nd Language. I'm not familiar with the subject so someone else more familiar with ancient persia probably needs to look it over. Also, it needs citations desperately. There's a good start on a solid article here, but it needs more work.--Lendorien 00:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • History of Cuba - Cuban Rebels section has seemingly random information, and needs fluidity. Its kind of a mess, really. G.bargsnaffle 19:42, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Chinese language - Many sections are disorganised and do not conform to the language template recommended by the Wikiproject of Languages. Also, subsections are misplaced, such as loanwords, which shouldn't be listed under morphology and the content is quite difficult to read. Another discrepany is when you search for Sinitic languages, it redirects you to the Spoken Chinese entry; however, when you type Chinese languages, it brings you to Chinese language. The section on Chinese characters is still unnecessarily long even though there is already a detailed article on Chinese characters. And the whole entry is just too long, it is 57kb in size, some of the clumsier sections should be rewritten for sub-articles. I do not understand how this article managed to become a featured article before, or maybe it was much better. Please contact me if anyone would like to work together on this Shingrila 05:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alice Academy - Information on the article, mostly on the characters are very confusing... -210.213.159.187
  • Aureal Semiconductor - Minor punctuation, typo, and grammar issues. At least one "editing comment" appears in the body. Structure could use a cleanup. --Dan Hendricks 02:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Xine - Needs references for the "DVD Issues" section.
  • Forest_School,_Horsham - indiscrimate and redundant listing of everything associated with the school 19:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Rashied Ali - Currently a mess of unsourced, unformatted articles, including one in French (???). I didn't want to revert back to a stub, and I suspect there may some useful information in there, but I don't have time to read through a dozen pages to find it.
  • I gave it a copy edit and deleted the more obvious puffery and POV. Unfortunately the school's website is so poorly designed for non-Australians not connected with the school, it would take a braver person than I to wade through it looking for information. I hope a student of the school will take this on, and invited that. Accounting4Taste 22:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

November 1 - 15

  • Article (especially in the introduction) needs to be rewritten to make it more accessable to the layman. No-one but major computer geeks will ever really know what the heck it's talking about as it currently stands. I can't help because I'm one of the laymen.--Lendorien 23:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

October 2006

  • Reverse mortgage has a tag saying that it's been labeled for cleanup since October 2006. I've worked on it but it still needs a good bit of help (mostly citations and a look from someone who understands the topic better than I do), so I'm sliding it back into the queue.--edi 06:08, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • List of PlayStation 1 games - needs references for every game listed. Each game is also missing the entries for it's developer, publisher, and release date. Ceros 02:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Word Of Life - Probably needs some content checking for POV and nuetrality. Also need sources. --Lendorien 22:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • History of the United States (1988–present) - This article needs more external sourcing. It also has some formatting errors (including overlap at the bottom of the page). This article should also include a little more information about this time period (demographic trends, economic trends, important issues, etc ((which can possibly become separate articles in the future)) ) 5ptcalvinist T.u.L.i.P
  • Podiatrist Introduction is not bad, but the rest of the article needs a lot of work. The sections for the various countries are particularly hard to follow and repetitive, and have no wiki markup. The list of conditions(?) also seems unnecessary, although some items could be incorporated into a more informative section on the work of a Podiatrist. I also get the feeling, from many parts of the article, that the text has just been copied from another source. —anskas 23:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • This issues remain outstanding. The article is still in need of editing and wikifying. It seems to jump around a bit and doesn't flow very well at all. I would do it myself, but I don't feel comfortable with my lack of knowledge of the subject. --Lendorien 16:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

September 2006

  • There appears to be active discussion on this subject, but they lack guidance of how to organize the article. I think it would really help if someone knowledgable in general article organization could step in and offer advice. --Lendorien 19:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A little better than it was orginally, but it still needs some work to make it more coherant. The various sections do not segway into one another very well. I would work on it, but I'm not very knowledgeable about the subject. --Lendorien 19:27, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Magnetic moment - There's a problem here and elsewhere with "magnetic poles," which are discussed as if they were magnetic monopoles. The magnetic moment is first defined as the pole strength times the separation. The correct definition (current times area) is given later in the article, but the earlier reference to poles is both confusing and wrong. The initial discussion of diamagnetism on this page is also confusing. --Bjheiden, 11:25 PM (EDT), 13 September 2006
  • Egyptian burial - Poor grammar in several sections, and the section on The Indestructibles completely neglects the precession of the equinoxes, although the full article on the indestructibles is a bit more informative.
  • have tried the obvious grammar/spelling/undisclosed conspiracy theories, but needs the attention of an Egyptologist (amateur or otherwise) to be truly cleaned. --Callix 12:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delta Upsilon - Not scholarly at all, trivial paragraphs, needs to be seriously worked on. Reads like it was copied from a fraternity brochure.

August 2006

  • John Stafford (US politician)(born abt 1940, military lawyer)- No sense, no chrono flow, excessive admiration, PoV about how he almost stopped Vietnam War & unverifiable & PoV "faithful Catholic". Continue wikification.Jerzyt
  • This article seems like original research with a lot of subjective comments in it that need to be weeded out. The introduction needs to be expanded to include a very brief overview of the series. --Lendorien 16:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July 2006

  • Polish Catholic Church - A Polish wikipedian on February 25th, 2007 did some translation. He did not do all of the text, but a significant part was taken care of. Some additional translation of the portions near the end after the fall of communism would be useful to round out the article as it currently ends in 1951. Sources needed as well. --Lendorien 23:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nomad - This entry gives the impression that nomadism and pastoralism are the same thing. Pastoralism or animal husbandry is a subsistence method, and nomadism is not, although the term is sometimes used as shorthand for pastoralism. However, any society which does not remain sedentary for a significant length of time is considered nomadic. This includes most hunter-gatherers, but the entry makes no indication of this. Also there is no logical organization of the information that is presented. An expert's contribution would be best.--LC | Talk 22:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]


2005

  • Arguments for and against drug prohibition - reads like a debate, some arguments are very weak e.g. The charge of "immorality" is subjective, and can be defined differently according to different perspectives and beliefs, all of which may be valid. Thus, with such conflicting views, a law based on "morality" cannot be fairly applied to any population. Needs to be gone over for NPOV, and probably merged somewhere. Pakaran 04:44, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Seems to be fairly fair in its overview of arguments now. But there are serious sourcing issues. The article uses three different methods of sourcing. Needs to be converted to footnote intext references for entirety of article. --Lendorien 19:51, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I did some cleanup of POV, but I don't really know much about Australian politics so I don't know how much of a help I am. It really needs someone with some knowledge about the topic. ryright 03:23, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]