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{{TAFI nom|article=Silent Spring|class=start|hits=1199}}
{{TAFI nom|article=Silent Spring|class=start|hits=1199}}
*It is a highly influential book that pretty much single handedly launched the [[Environmentalism#Origins|modern-day Environmentalist movement]] in the United States, along with the banning of DDT there. Unfortunately the article is in need of some expansion, restructuring, and the weeding out of [[Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words|weasel words]]. [[User:Secret Saturdays|<font color="orange">Secret Saturdays</font>]] ([[User Talk:Secret Saturdays|<font color="blue">talk to me</font>]])<sup><small>[[ Special:RecentChanges|<font color="#0044AD">'''''what's new?'''''</font>]]</small></sup> 19:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
*It is a highly influential book that pretty much single handedly launched the [[Environmentalism#Origins|modern-day Environmentalist movement]] in the United States, along with the banning of DDT there. Unfortunately the article is in need of some expansion, restructuring, and the weeding out of [[Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words|weasel words]]. [[User:Secret Saturdays|<font color="orange">Secret Saturdays</font>]] ([[User Talk:Secret Saturdays|<font color="blue">talk to me</font>]])<sup><small>[[ Special:RecentChanges|<font color="#0044AD">'''''what's new?'''''</font>]]</small></sup> 19:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support'''.--[[User:Coin945|Coin945]] ([[User talk:Coin945|talk]]) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support'''.--[[User:Coin945|Coin945]] ([[User talk:Coin945|talk]]) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)


{{TAFI nom|article=Liberal arts education|class=start|hits=1653}}
{{TAFI nom|article=Liberal arts education|class=start|hits=1653}}
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#'''Support''' --[[User:Horai 551|<font color="#4B088A">'''Horai'''</font>]] [[User talk:Horai 551|''551'']] 06:09, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
#'''Support''' --[[User:Horai 551|<font color="#4B088A">'''Horai'''</font>]] [[User talk:Horai 551|''551'']] 06:09, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support''' --[[User:NickPenguin|<font color="darkgreen">Nick</font>]][[User talk:NickPenguin|<font color="darkblue">Penguin</font>]]<sub>([[Special:Contributions/NickPenguin|<font color="blue">'''contribs'''</font>]])</sub> 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support''' --[[User:NickPenguin|<font color="darkgreen">Nick</font>]][[User talk:NickPenguin|<font color="darkblue">Penguin</font>]]<sub>([[Special:Contributions/NickPenguin|<font color="blue">'''contribs'''</font>]])</sub> 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

{{TAFI nom|article=420 (cannabis culture)|class=start|hits=27597}}
* As April 20 approaches, this article is receiving many more page hits. Lots of sources available about this topic. [[User:Northamerica1000|Northamerica1000]]<sup>[[User_talk:Northamerica1000|(talk)]]</sup> 14:21, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
#'''Support''' - I'm actually surprised that the [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries]] crew has allowed this article to be featured on the main page every April 20th with it being so short on content (though it is well referenced). I also would have thought [[WikiProject Cannabis]] would have been more active in bumping this article up to at least B class. If this does pass I would hope that it gets featured on TAFI in March so we can take advantage of the increased page visitors and get it up to a better shape by the time next April 20th gets around. [[User:Agne27 |Agne]][[Special:Contributions/Agne27|<sup>Cheese</sup>]]/[[User Talk:Agne27|<sup>Wine</sup>]] 22:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support''' --[[User:NickPenguin|<font color="darkgreen">Nick</font>]][[User talk:NickPenguin|<font color="darkblue">Penguin</font>]]<sub>([[Special:Contributions/NickPenguin|<font color="blue">'''contribs'''</font>]])</sub> 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support''' - Given how important this is to the Cannabis culture, I'm too am suprised at how short the article is. Could definitely use some expansion. --[[User:Secret Saturdays|<font color="orange">Secret Saturdays</font>]] ([[User Talk:Secret Saturdays|<font color="blue">talk to me</font>]])<sup><small>[[ Special:RecentChanges|<font color="#0044AD">'''''what's new?'''''</font>]]</small></sup> 19:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
# '''Support'''. Fine. But when the irrational people star yelling "Won't somebody please think of the children?" and running around in hysterics, (AND THEY WILL!), I'm not gonna be the one to allay their fears. :D--[[User:Coin945|Coin945]] ([[User talk:Coin945|talk]]) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)


{{TAFI nom|article=Conspiracy theory|class=C|hits=2660}}
{{TAFI nom|article=Conspiracy theory|class=C|hits=2660}}

Revision as of 04:09, 28 April 2013

Articles

The following are nominations to become a today's article for improvement (TAFI) entry. Please do not nominate an article unless you are fairly certain that it meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Any nomination of an article that does not meet this criteria may be removed. Any user may nominate and support or oppose an article below, however only members of this project may close nominations as successful or unsuccessful.

Successful nominations have few or no objections and at least 3 supports. They are then moved to the holding area and from there into the schedule. Unsuccessful nominations can be archived after 10 days of no discussion.

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Arts


Massimo Gabutti – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

  • Gabutti was a famous producer in Italy in the 1990s, and the Wikipedia article on him is not written very well and has several referencing, citing and source problems. EditorE (talk) 21:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ode to Joy – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 635 daily hits


Rewind YouTube Style 2012 – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 129 daily hits


Tug of War (Carly Rae Jepsen album) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)


Adolf Hyła – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

  • Adolf Hyła has been famous for his painting relating to the Chaplet to Divine Mercy, and I feel that this article has some incompleteness and need's improvement. EditorE (talk) 02:35, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Europop (album) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)


Ketama – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)


Horrible Histories – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 200 daily hits


Stand-up comedy – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1500 daily hits


Comedy – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1500 daily hits


Humour – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1500 daily hits


Cantopop – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 350 daily hits

Although it's graded "B-class", this article needs more improvements and research. In fact, there is a lot of unreferenced information. Cantopop is a prominent genre for those who are into Cantonese language songs. --George Ho (talk) 17:31, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Purple Naked Ladies – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

  • Lot of errors and citation format issues need to be fixed, and the critical reviews are not being used to describe the album's music, sound, composition and lyrics, and much opinions the critical reviews need to be put here. EditorE (talk) 01:59, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Head over Heels (2001 film) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

EditorE (talk) 01:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Ann Lee (singer) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

  • I searched on Google and I've found a few interviews on sites like Eruodance Encyclopedia, where there's also a bio on there, Digital Spy, reportnet, and Weird Music that can be cited, used, and have added info with here in the article. That's really the issue her. Only the chart positions of Lee's songs are cited here.

And Then There Were None (band) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

EditorE (talk) 20:38, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Bruce Woolley – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)


The Oprah Winfrey Show – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1000 daily hits


Toy Story (franchise) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support --Horai 551 08:09, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Baauer – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

EditorE (talk) 18:13, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support after the recent popularity of Harlem Shake I'm sure this article could be easily improved by new editors. Yaneshü (talk) 11:47, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Nankervis – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

EditorE (talk) 14:13, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Papa Winnie – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

EditorE (talk) 12:19, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Caress of Steel – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 300 daily hits


Shoes (Kelly song) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 25 daily hits


J. Dash – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - ? daily hits


PowerSource (musical group) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)

  • This group is famous for their song "Dear Mr. Jesus", and I've seen sources with info about Sharon Batts and the song not included here that should be, such as this one: [4].

EditorE (talk) 23:59, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Jasmine Villegas – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 757 daily hits

  • This article was nominated for deletion before because the nominator thought the article was not notable. That's not true. The subject is notable. It's just the article needs a lot of work. (EditorE (talk) 00:52, 18 April 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Bono – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 3000 daily hits

  1. Oppose. We should probably focus on stub, start, and C class articles for TAFI. Revolution1221 (talk · email · contributions) 00:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose. B-Class articles don't leave a lot of wiggle room. It'd be constrained to more experienced editors, and TAFI wants to encourage new ones right now. Braden 12:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Artist's interpretation – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 0 daily hits

  • This article does not exist. I know. I'm as shocked as you are. Approximately 50 articles contain the well-known phrase, yet no article exists on Wikipedia. We do have the woeful Aesthetic interpretation, but artist's interpretation does not redirect there, and I'm not certain they are the same thing. In any case, an article on this very notable topic must be made. When we don't know what something actually looks like (for examples things that are very big or very small or very old or in the future), what do we use to have some sort of visual guideline to build off of? An artist's interpretations, that's what.--Coin945 (talk) 15:30, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Larson – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 214 daily hits

  • This article, according to the tags, has some formatting issues and maybe there could be some bits of info that are being left out. There were also some unneeded and useless info that I had to remove from "the game" section. I'm hoping that this article can get to a GA or FA status. EditorE (talk) 02:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Oppose. We should probably focus on stub, start, and C class articles for TAFI, and Larson doesn't seem that notable in the scheme of things. Revolution1221 (talk · email · contributions) 00:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose. TAFI should focus on lower-class articles. Braden 12:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I probably should have to have to say this. Yes, maybe it's better for the TAFI project to focus on article with lower-than-B classes, but there's still lot of things that can be improved here. There's also 2 news articles that have coverage on Michael Larson (a November 1994 article from the Los Angeles Times and another March 2003 one from the Associated Press), though I've haven't been able to read them. If anyone could find those sources, please try to use whether info from those sources you can use in the Wikipedia article and cite them. I've also added info from the Dayton Daily News article about Larson working at a local Wal-mart, so I wouldn't say Larson isn't notable to not have GA status. (EditorE (talk) 14:20, 20 April 2013 (UTC))[reply]



Billy Elliot – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1600 daily hits

  1. Comment It's a drama, not a comedy! MChesterMC (talk) 15:38, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Moswento talky 09:17, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Surprising to see something so well-known with such a short article. Yaneshü (talk) 10:16, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Applied Sciences and Technology


Buggy (automobile) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 35 daily hits

  1. Support --Horai 551 08:09, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NML Cygni – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1500 daily hits


Popular science – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 459 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Apollo astronauts – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 370 daily hits

Everyday Life


Hot dog – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2500 daily hits


Chocolate gravy – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 30 daily hits

  1. Support --Horai 551 08:09, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Auto mechanic – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 554 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dessert – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2500 daily hits

  1. Support Moswento talky 09:18, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support. Yaneshü (talk) 11:49, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Buffet – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1000 daily hits

  1. Support. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Cut-off – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 180 daily hits

  1. Support. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:09, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Geography


Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 15 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 800 daily hits

  1. Support Braden 20:13, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Nature park – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 30 daily hits

  1. Support. Revolution1221 (talk · email · contributions) 00:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Low Countries – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 600 daily hits

  1. Support'Sadads (talk) 15:41, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

History and Politics


History of geography – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 193 daily hits

  1. Support - AgneCheese/Wine 22:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support--Coin945 (talk) 20:11, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hammer and sickle – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 730 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support--Coin945 (talk) 20:11, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mansion – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 995 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 15:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support. Yaneshü (talk) 10:42, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support--Coin945 (talk) 20:11, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Austria-Hungary – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2245 daily hits

  • The former empire played a significant role in starting World War I, shaped the history and society of several central and eastern European nations, and is currently ranked as a "High-importance" article for several WikiProjects. And yet the article is in need of some serious reformatting, contains a lot of "citation needed" tags, and needs more information in several sections. Secret Saturdays (talk to me)what's new? 02:51, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Support - AgneCheese/Wine 22:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support. Yaneshü (talk) 10:42, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Star of the South – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 25 daily hits

Language and Literature


Citation – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2000 daily hits

I thought about Wikipedia in terms of who would be using it most, and what sorts of articles they commonly look up. I then thought about which of those articles would have been overlooked or otherwise not developed very well...perhaps due to being too obvious or too broad. I landed on the article on "citation", a common area of confusion and annoyance for high school and university students, and low and behold, the article is a listy mess. We have the tools to turn this into a comprehensive, easily navigatable work to make this convoluted concept more approachable to all. I say we go for it. :)--Coin945 (talk) 15:22, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


The Sword of Truth – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1200 daily hits

Mathematics and Computer Science


Saunders Mac Lane – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 50 daily hits

Natural Sciences


Germ layer – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 597 daily hits


Blue Tit – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - April 2013: 403-597 daily hits

  1. Oppose - We are ideally looking for C class or lower articles for TAFI. B or higher class articles can hardly be modified at all. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 22:23, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose - TAFI shouldn't be focusing its energy on B-Class articles. Braden 12:08, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Oppose per above. New, inexpericenced users are honestly more likely to do damage to a page than help it when it has such a high class already. Yaneshü (talk) 10:46, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Meteoritics – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 8 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 15:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Phidippus audax – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 265 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

People/Organisations/Products


Debi Austin – (page view stats • edit • talk • history)


Richard M. Karp – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 40 daily hits

  1. Support. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:41, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support. Yaneshü (talk) 10:32, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Parrhasius (painter) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 22 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Torin Thatcher – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 70 daily hits

Philosophy and Religion


21st century – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2,813 daily hits


Yom Ha'atzmaut – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 10000 (today) daily hits

  1. Support Moswento talky 09:22, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Timaeus (dialogue) – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 260 daily hits

  1. Support Moswento talky 09:22, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ethics of technology – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 100 daily hits

  1. Support - Very relevant for today. AgneCheese/Wine 22:40, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Calendar of saints – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 450 daily hits

  1. Support - AgneCheese/Wine 22:40, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Moswento talky 09:22, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Omnibenevolence – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 280 daily hits

  1. Support. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:45, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support. Braden 20:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Society and Social Sciences


Silent Spring – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1199 daily hits

  1. Support.--Coin945 (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Liberal arts education – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1653 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Boom and bust – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 64 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support.--Coin945 (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of phobias – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2208 daily hits

  1. Support - Very surprised to see such a high number of daily hits. AgneCheese/Wine 22:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support.--Coin945 (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

¥ – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 802 daily hits

  1. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support.--Coin945 (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gym – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 1250 daily hits

  • Comment I'm reluctant to support this one. In many respects this is one of the strongest candidates on this page: very basic with a solid daily hit count. But I fear that a large proportion of editors would attempt to add information about health clubs, and am worried that the handling of such edits might drive those editors away. —WFCFL wishlist 01:21, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Support --Horai 551 06:09, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support --NickPenguin(contribs) 03:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy theory – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 2660 daily hits

  1. Support - Another one with a high level of daily hits, AgneCheese/Wine 22:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Club drug – (page view stats • edit • talk • history) - 150 daily hits

  1. Support Hardly even a start-class article, this could probably be raised up to good article status. Braden 12:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support - Massive room for improvement. Carrite (talk) 17:55, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]