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Last 16 Days
October 28: List of 1500 malformed wiki brackets for cleanup
I've got a list of wiki pages with malformed syntax - in particular malformed wiki brackets (not closed or opened properly). At first I tried fixing these pages myself, but quickly realised that there were far too many for just one person to do - so I am posting to Cleanup asking for help. For each item there is a link to the article that has the problem, a description of the problem (the type of mismatched brackets), and the beginning of the line that has the problem (so all the problems should hopefully be easy to locate). -- Nickj 00:56, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Malformed wiki brackets - Page 1. (long page)
- Malformed wiki brackets - Page 2. (long page)
- Malformed wiki brackets - Page 3. (long page)
- Malformed wiki brackets - Page 4. (medium-length page)
- Malformed wiki brackets - Page 5. (short page)
- Malformed wiki brackets - Page 6. (short page)
Malformed wiki headings (not brackets) - Page 7. (short page)Completed.Possibly malformed wiki tables (not brackets) - Page 8 (for the more adventurous, likely to contain more false positives). (short page)Completed.
Today's other items
- Factoradic and Combinadic - substubs that consist of only a definition and duplicate information already found in Mixed radix. Not sure whether to redirect to Mixed radix, move to Wikitionary, or just delete. Munkymu 00:07, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Adelantados and first rulers - needs a different title. RickK 23:41, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
- Wood Router - not in encyclopedic format; needs cleanup & wikification. Munkymu 23:28, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Michael Dixon - needs dates rather than ages.
- Robert Steele - da woiks (maybe should be at Robert David Steele[1]). Niteowlneils 21:19, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Abd al-Rahman ben Uqba - was written by someone whose first langauge was not English, just needs general tidy up. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 18:51, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Rabindra Nritya Natya - a difficult-to-understand substub. Needs expansion and editing by someone familiar with the topic. Munkymu 18:27, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Jean-Baptiste Drouet (Napoleonic soldier) - more of a timeline than an article. -R. fiend 16:46, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The Thin Red Line (1962 novel) Reads more like a school essay than an encyclopedic article. Joyous
- Bouches-du-Rhône - Istres prefecture leads to the air base of that name, rather than the place with which it is associated.
- Guild of One-Name Studies - notable organisations, it's also one that I belong to (!), just needs wikifying. I'd do it myself but I don't have time just now. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:01, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Oradour-sur-Glane - now consists primarily of what seems to be a highly improvisational Nazi justification of an atrocity Nunh-huh 04:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Saint Dominguito del Val - Would like an NPOV rendering of the event. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 02:51, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
- Born in Flames: Needs editing into Wikipedia NPOV style: at the moment it's advocacy. -- The Anome 02:11, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Cleaned quite a bit. Took out as much POV as I could without compromising too much of the film's theme (from what I could tell; I haven't seen it. someone who has should probably check it too). -R. fiend 18:05, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Vitor Belfort Needs much copyediting and wikification. --LeeHunter 18:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Commercialism: well wikified, but naive. Mikkalai 18:50, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Radar History: Badly needs cleanup or to be deleted. Possible copyvio? Sarge Baldy 22:27, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
October 27
- White trash - Needs POV, grammar and punctuation cleanup. [[User:Davodd|DAVODD «TALK»]] 02:07, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
- Category:Presidents of Guatemala -- could use sort by surname.
- Download music festival - incoherent. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 21:21, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
- Clermont from the Oise page leads to a mostly undone disambiguation page, and Cognac on the Charente page is mostly about the drink Jackiespeel 17:00, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Regional planning - reads like lecture notes. At least needs wikification. --Keith Edkins 09:52, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Al-Muntasir Starting from this. Keep clicking on "Succeeded by" All these articles need clean up. The text comes from a public domain book. If someone can fix the archaic language, I can fix spelling to Arabic names, internal links, and other factual errors (if there are any) latter. OneGuy 12:25, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Emotional Freedom Techniques - survived VfD. Looks like an ad at present. Should be fixed. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:11, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Cleaned a bit. Deleted advertizing (there wasn't much left, really) -R. fiend 18:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- List of companions of the prophet Muhammad -- just merged from a couple of web sources, (information non-copyrightable because of Feist v. Rural) -- needs name verification, formatting
October 26
- Metagonimiasis - more medical info from Vogon - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 08:34, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
- Sullivan's Cove - needs context, wikification - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 08:31, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
- Boer (goat) just needs some general cleanup and improvement. —siroχo
- Orange (word) - basically says there's no word that rhymes with orange. Needs fact-checking given the VfD listing of quorange. - RedWordSmith
- Interesting number paradox a mathematician has to rewrite this article away from its sensationalist, rather than encyclopedic style. Some statements are plain false if under scrutiny (I've already removed the most evident one). Mikkalai 00:03, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- IDrive - Confusing substub. Norman Rogers 23:26, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Direct Worship - unwikified text dump. RickK 23:13, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Wikified and cleaned up, some searching doesn't show a direct copyvio from other webpages indexed by Google. --ABQCat 01:47, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Gothia - written by non-native English speaker, unwikified. RickK 23:11, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- cleanup done WpZurp 03:22, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Liberation Day - unwikified. There are probably more Liberation Days that can be discussed here. RickK 23:08, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Whittier, Minneapolis - unwikified text dump. RickK 22:57, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Gäufelden - was originally written in German, has been badly translated into English, has red links which shouldn't be red, bad image formatting. RickK 22:55, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Tuluá - unwikfied text dump. Reads like a copyvio, highly POV, unencyclopedic style. RickK 22:54, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- The Oxford Student - unwikified. RickK 21:56, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Los Caifanes: Messy
- Duban - unwikified text dump. RickK 21:22, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Jeans - needs a lot of work including wikification and rewriting. Lots of material reads like it was copied from other places. Were jeans really invented in Genoa, or do they just derive their name from there? RickK 21:11, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Vella-Clary--nobility ultra stub. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:56, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Integrative Psychotherapy is written in first person and with a conversational tone.Lumos3 19:43, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- "stephen d. lee" needs factcheck, wikification, and (obviously) a move to a real title. -R. fiend 18:11, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Lorraine needs some tidying up/NPOVing: and can Condom-the-place, Gers, be separated from the object (slightly inappropriate in a library). Likewise Saint Gaudens from Haute Garonne leads to a person. Jackiespeel 17:31, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Edgar Cayce on Karma - Inclusion dispute; merge proposal. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 06:42, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Oberon-V - Someone who can make sense of this should clean it. Otherwise it should be sent to VfD. -R. fiend 05:33, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Reggio Emilia approach - This article is yelling at me :'( Sarge Baldy 04:28, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Might be a copyvio; the sentences I checked turned up alot of verbatim google hits. Is it public domain? Are they all wikiclones? Well, I got it to stop yelling at least, Sarge (there there...) -R. fiend 05:40, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Eric Schmidt - Most likely press release from Google; probably copyvio; needs dePOVing. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 01:24, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Norfolk Southern, while wikified, reads like a corporate brochure. Doesn't seem to be a copyvio though. I don't know anything about this company, so I can't even try to fix it. Kiand 01:17, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I did a bit of cleanup on it today slambo 23:40, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Avraam benaroya looks like someone's rather long speech. There is useful information here, but it is certainly not in the format of an encyclopedia article. Needs some serious pruning, formatting, TLC. SWAdair | Talk 07:40, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 25
- Vauxhall Carlton - I wikified it a bit, but it still contains POV and dubious claims that need checking. Norman Rogers 23:53, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Young's Literal Translation - two sentences and a long quote. RickK 23:40, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Albert Schatz - factual dispute. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 23:13, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Barony of Castel Cicciano - not much there. There is quite a bit of more information at http://user.orbit.net.mt/fournier/castelcicciano.htm. 22:40, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Barony of Djar-il-Bniet e Buqana. RickK 22:44, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- In fact, all of the contgributions of User:Tancarville. RickK 22:45, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Barony of Djar-il-Bniet e Buqana. RickK 22:44, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Nano tech spy eyes - Extensive raw text dump--gotta be copyvio (35K), but I can't find it. Niteowlneils 21:16, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Burton Raffel - author for the Penguin books publisher, otherwise not known by me. Is it worth expanding? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:04, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Butterfinger Needs cleanup and please see the talk page. GRider 21:17, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg — Bits of it read like they've not quite been translated or something. OwenBlacker 22:32, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
October 24
- Incarnations of Immortality - needs copyediting badly. Could use some more information other than spoileriffic plot synopses, plus a lot of wikification. Copyedited "On a Pale Horse" and "With a Tangled Skein" sections, but needs a lot of attention from someone who has read the other books recently. Munkymu Oct 25, 2004
- 3dmm - unwikified text dump. I'm convinced this is a copyvio, but I can't find where from. RickK 05:11, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Oera Linda - The book itself is almost suredly a hoax. The atricle does not make this clear. See http://www.earth-history.com/Europe/eur-oera-intro.htm http://www.nsm88.com/articles/oeralindabook.html and others. If this book is going to shake up the known history of Europe, why doesn't the article tell us what it says? RickK 04:56, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg - Not an encyclopedia article at the moment, in that it talks entirely about his role in the Valmy campaign. Plus, it's at the wrong place, since he was Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Plus, Duke of Brunswick oddly redirects there...and so forth. -- john k 04:52, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Politics of Hong Kong - Need to update and refactor the summary of the Article 23 controversy. Need to Tidy information imported from the CIA factbook. The lists of political parties, leaders, and pressure groups should be merged with List of political parties in Hong Kong. It would be nice to have short summaries on the list page of their positions, but the NPOV requirement may make terse summaries problematic. -- Beland 04:33, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 needs to be re-factored. Right now, it's too much of a chronology of news events. It also needs (another) copyedit and NPOV/fact check. See the talk page for more notes. -- Beland 01:02, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Max Alvis. The initial entry is plaggued by errors and omissions, so I made a new one. MusiCitizen 21:33, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Digital Network Theory - reads like ad for book. Needs lead on actual subject and wikiformat. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:16, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Ue o muite aruko - not sure what to do with this Deus Ex 19:02, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Expect it's Japanese or Chinese song translation, unless notability can be shown, I suggest it be VfD. Needs format at very least. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:20, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Seven Seas - not sure this page is necessary Deus Ex 19:02, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I think it is valid, but it needs to be moved to Seven seas and it could do with some context (pirates and such).
[[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:18, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Richard Coyle - wikify
- The Shadows potential to be a great article, but several 1 sentence paras, and various sloppy organization. Someone with more knowledge of the band should approach this. —siroχo
- Ultras - was on Cleanup back in September, but has since been expanded (so I've removed the earlier listing). Currently needs someone to check the grammar. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:58, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Inertia (DC Comics) - needs context from someone who knows their DC Comics. —Stormie 11:00, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Done. Although I don't know why someone bothered creating it, considering he isn't even mentioned in his only enemy's page. --Pc13 15:36, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Union (proposed future of the EU) - is this really "the proposed future to the evolution of the European Union", or just some anon's rambling?—Stormie 11:00, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Rambling. The EU has already turned down Morocco.Probably need to put on VfdGeni 13:51, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Judging from the history of the user, this is some anonymous rambling worthy of very speedy deletion. Aecis 14:14, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Lynda Lee-Potter - unwikified text dump. RickK 06:57, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- I've wikified the text as much as possible. It's not yet where it should be though. Aecis 14:10, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Gurvantes, Ömnögovi - again, huh? RickK 06:53, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Andronovo - Huh? RickK 06:27, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Chromotropic acid - there is no article there. RickK 06:26, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- After some research on http://www.chemfinder.com I've come to the conclusion that not much can be said about this acid. And we're not a chemical database. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:51, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Edah - Um, okay, but what is it? RickK 06:21, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- A group on the left wing of Modern Orthodox Judaism JFW | T@lk 22:53, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Leech (comics) - was tagged but it seems never listed. I was halfway through cleaning it when I realized it looks completely bogus. Google wasn't too helpful. If anyone knows more about X-men than I do (ie anyone), then please confirm or deny this and then clean it or send it to VfD (or do a speedy if it's nonsense). -R. fiend 02:25, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- There was a minor character named Leech in the X-Men, but all that stuff about leeches called Steve and Durwin sounds like a load of crap. See [2] for some info that sounds a lot more like what I remember. —Stormie 11:04, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- That's basically what I thought. Deleted 90% of the info and made a substub. Feel free to expand, anyone. -R. fiend 18:18, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- There was a minor character named Leech in the X-Men, but all that stuff about leeches called Steve and Durwin sounds like a load of crap. See [2] for some info that sounds a lot more like what I remember. —Stormie 11:04, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Transthyretin - smells of copyvio, but no source could be Googled. Is worthy of an article (the protein that carries thyroid hormone in the blood) but the present is frightfully bad. JFW | T@lk 22:53, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 23
- Popobawa - Accuracy dispute. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 23:06, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Max Alvis - unwikified, no context. RickK 22:55, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Harry J. Anslinger, Carla Gannis - not encyclopedic at all. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 22:50, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Bill The Butcher Poole - unwikified text dump. RickK 22:48, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- wikified 172.145.240.90 03:40, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The Livestrong Yellow Band - I did some work and exsized POV and ad-language. This needs to be moved to comply with WP naming conventions, but I'm not sure what the official name is. Maybe it should be merged with Lance Armstrong Foundation? Any help appreciated. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:59, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros - unwikified text dump. RickK 21:37, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- In fact, all of the contributions of 81.51.120.79. RickK 21:38, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Saltwort - unwikified. RickK 21:23, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Jeff Crowe. Data dump, might be copyvio too. Moriori
- Spyro the Dragon - wikify, NPOV, encyclopedize. Andre (talk) 17:28, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Done substantial work on this. POV is pretty much gone and wikifying is on the right track. This article requires work from a Spyro specialist, which I am not, though.
- Daisuke Matsuzaka - Looks like it was translated from Japanese. Needs better translation and POV removal. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]]
- Quinquagesima Sunday --[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]]
- Backergunje - Unwikified mess. Looks like it was added by a text-recognition program? [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]]
- World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools - A POV mess. RickK
- Manuel Fraga Iribarne - POV. Needs some help from someone with a knowledge of Spanish politics. Mashford
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - a long article with little wikilinks. The Gameplay-chapter is also just a huge text dump that could probably use a few sub-headings. --ZeroOne 18:12, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Silkmore: POV
- Rosemont - needs expanding and cleanup. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:36, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 22
- Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - needs work. This article is not an encyclopedia article. RickK 05:39, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Nihilist paradox - unwikified. RickK 05:33, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Michael Jackson - wikipedia is not a fan site. this article needs to be biographical and have its content in some chronological order. it now has tidbits and trivia in random order.
- Mike Laure - best to start over. Even the birth and death dates are out of step chronologically with the rest of the article. - Lucky 6.9 02:45, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Address space -- this should be an article, not a vfd; the concept of "space" here is taken from the mathematical idea of a space, in particular by analogy with a vector space. -- The Anome 22:37, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Permit to Travel, Song of the Mary White, Student Life, Corporate Knowledge --[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 20:53, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Business Administration, Financial Freedom -- eh?
- Comment: vfd... [[User:Tomf688|Tom]] 22:03, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Aidan Quinn - substubby, more to be said. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:45, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC) - Expanded this. ffirehorse
- Anansi the Spider - missing context (fictional or mythical?); is this the proper title for the article? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:36, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Comment:Turns out that that was about a cartoon hero, right now it's a disambig to an African folk hero and the cartoon hero. Kappa 02:35, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- We Three Kings Of Orient Are - no context. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 18:13, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Toyota Estima --[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 18:13, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- The subprefecture Thiers entry on the main Puy-de-Dôme page leads to the gentleman of that name, not the place. Has an entry for the latter been created?
- From the Yonne subpage, the Avallon heading leads to the fictional place Avalon, while Sens is just a listing of subdivisions. Jackiespeel 16:08, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ayra (Fire Emblem) many, many grammatical errors and seems to have some POV issues, but I've never played the game or series. A quick skim also shows a severe lack of wikification. Evilweevil 10:09, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Template:English dialects convert this into a footer.
- Comment: if this is changed into a footer, the placement of this template in the articles that use it needs to be changed as well. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:46, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Dave Sim unsubstantiated hyperbole, not even close to NPOV -- Rick Block 01:18, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Captain Albert Steiner was posted as a cleanup but not listed here. He's a character from "Final Fantasy IX" which my son happens to have. See, it does pay to have a game console at home. :^) I've cleaned and formatted it somewhat. - Lucky 6.9 00:13, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ecclesiastical dic. def. Sam [Spade] 00:07, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Polemic dic. def. Sam [Spade] 00:05, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Emo - Messy and inconsistent on the very definition of the word. See talk page for details. ~ Resister 00:04, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 21
- Gregg Alexander - an absolute mess. RickK 23:43, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Kisii - unwikified text dump, possibly copyvio translation from http://www.kisii.com. RickK 23:21, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo - unwikified text dump. RickK 23:02, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Birzebbuga - one short sentence about the town, one long paragraph about the town's marching band, huge photos of questionable copyright status. RickK 22:39, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Andrea Spinks - a POV mess, reads like a copyvio. RickK 22:29, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Heart Mountain War Relocation Center - Kiddie-wiki sans real wikis, but a good start to a legit article. I'm surprised this wasn't already listed! - Lucky 6.9 22:08, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The Foot Shooting Party - thought it was patent nonsense, but it really is a Leonardo DiCaprio flick. Fannish and breezy style, no wikis, no formatting, no external links and lacks info. - Lucky 6.9 21:51, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- OID and Object identifier should be merged into one article. Ray Dassen 20:58, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
- Servite--what name should this article go under? Needs wikifying as well. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 19:23, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Painting -- while it would of course need more content, it's also needed that someone cleans up all the different link lists. ✏ Sverdrup
- David carson - google scores plenty of hits so appears notable, article needs overhaul though. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 17:37, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Cleaned it, now it's a regular sub-stub and should be expanded. --ZeroOne 17:54, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Mugwump needs formatting, better flow, and additional information --thames 13:36, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Lionel Robbins was mostly an unwikified text dump. I improved it a little, put it still would benefit from wikification and verification/fact checking. jni 13:33, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Economy of Switzerland needs formatting and factchecking. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:49, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Mulayam Singh Yadav needs to be reverted, vandalism--nixie 07:58, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Reverted vandalism, could still use expansion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:53, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Mahler measure --[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 04:40, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- It seems to be an important formula that pops up in several fields in maths on several occasions. Could someone add, why it's so important? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 07:44, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Second Test Match - No prose--just unwikified tables, too general a name, likely copyvio. Niteowlneils
- First Test Match - No prose--just unwikified tables, too general a name, likely copyvio. Niteowlneils
- Cuulong Delta Rice Research Institute - needs wikifying, and there's a lot of irrelevant info / contact details for staff that should be deleted or rephrased Ziggurat 06:50, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Hungarian prehistory - needs wikifying, proper paragraphs, to be made less of an essay, etc --Joy [shallot] 09:36, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 20
- Sabbatai Zevi - NPOV checking needed.Iain 16:35, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Portlands Energy Centre - unwikified text dump. RickK 05:41, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Communes of the Lot département - almost every active link leads to the wrong page or to a disambiguation page. Anyone know the standard disambiguation for French communes? Rmhermen 03:43, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Red Herring (magazine) - Judging by IP, obviously the editors of this magazine have been adding to this entry. Lots of self-promo-type stuff. [[User:Davodd|DAVODD «TALK»]] 01:19, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Chen Duxiu - Have corrected much of the original problems which resulted in cleanup request; still needs some copyeditting and some reworking of the biblio (chinese needs to be in parenthesis). Watch for continuous reverts by users meaning well but new. [[User:Tomf688|Tom]] 01:17, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Naron--is this from Portugal? Spain? Needs formatting, context. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:32, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Warlock Lord - substub that couldn't be substubbier - he's a character from Terry Brooks' novels, if you need context, but that's all I know. —Stormie
- Dong Khanh - Some sort of vietnamese emperor? --Pyrop 04:11, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Cainta, Rizal and Teresa, Rizal - Towns in the Phillipines, little or no context. Pyrop 04:19, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Mancur Olson - unwikified text dump. jni 14:36, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Synderesis - text enclosed in question marks is scanning errors for Greek text; someone learned in Greek needs to read the article and put the appropriate Greek words in. -- 00:28, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 19
- LEPrecon is extremely breezy and fannish (hey, that kinda works!) not to mention unwikified. Could grow into a nice article. - Lucky 6.9
- It's wikified now, but with more attention could grow into an even better article than it is currently. -sbeath
- Agreed. Much better. - Lucky 6.9 21:53, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I thought it seemed a bit... "fannish" still. I did a little copyeditting. And tried to get rid of the places where it said "I think that"...
- It's wikified now, but with more attention could grow into an even better article than it is currently. -sbeath
- Lisp Machines, Inc. - unwikified text dump. RickK
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Some parts are pretty messy, for example the part where it describes the things that Dr. Weird as done in the opening sequences, or the part about Meatwad's brain + I cleaned up meatwad and dr wierd a bit, not sure if its much better though. —siroχo
- Jakob Maria Mierscheid - a confusing mess, not yet in English, and not yet clear what it's saying; it resembles to some extent its counterpart on de: (which has further ext lks) but does not parallel it. Is "he" notable, or VfD fodder? (Removed from LoPbN where "fictitious politician" is reason to disqualify, since article is too vague to change that description.)
- He is a fiction (a kind of joke actually) although a well known one. His "personal data" really is on the website of the German parliament, "his" article in the social democratic paper exists and sometimes he is mentioned in publications of the Bundestag. -- Zeitgeist 18:40, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Niger at the 2004 Summer Olympics - certainly a valid start to a list...but is this ever a tiny one. Not quite speedy delete fodder, but close IMO. - Lucky 6.9
- History of East Germany. This particular section of it which probably contains important information . I'd attend to it myself by am not sure exactly what it all means. Moriori
- It's from a user who was permanently banned on the German wikipedia for trying to insert blatantly pro GDR POV statements in articles. I guess its best if you just delete the section. -- Zeitgeist 18:42, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Maghazaji syndrome A single reference to a medical journal. In google I found - [3]. But this reads like a single case? Could someone with medical knowledge either create a proper article or (if not notable) propose for deletion? --Cje
- Elements of Interior Design - no wikis, improper formatting. Otherwise well done and referenced. - Lucky 6.9
- William_Wilberforce - Not sure what's happened here - the replacement of quotes with question marks looks like vandalism, but the re-write would indicate otherwise. Comments about style of writing? -- Agendum - The editor probably copied it into a text editor and then pasted it back, and in the process the quote marks got changed to something Wikipedia finds inedible. RickK
- Glens Falls, New York - latest additions need checking/wikifying -- Graham ☺ | Talk
- The Cask of Amontillado, ditto -- Graham ☺ | Talk
- Margo Dydek needs clean up, wikifying--nixie
- Jeremy Wolfenden needs NPOV and general tidy. -- Graham ☺ | Talk
- Myth of Er - Simplistic context in Classical Greek culture needs improving; quotes from Plato might help characterize the actual content of this rhetorical figure; Plato's use of the "myth" is untouchedWetman
- The 1993 Superstorm - Needs expansion and wikifying. Aecis
- Physics of skiing - Needs wikification too. Aecis
- Cephalic disorder - On Wikipedia:Requested articles, someone asked "who doscovered (sic) Anencephaly and when". I've removed the comment, but the question remains. Does anyone know who discovered anencephaly, and when? And would that person be so kind as to add that to the anencephaly section of cephalic disorder? Aecis + Nothing specifically responsive to the question should be added to the article, but i've put a temporary pointer where the question was asked, and responded at Wikipedia talk:Reference desk#Anencephaly where the question should have started out. No further attention warranted.
Grr - Very, very silly.Pyrop - See its Talk:Grr. Mikkalai
October 18
- Query By Humming (QBH) --[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 22:32, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
- Wikification started 19 October. More work needed. --129.44.112.13
- Dextropropoxyphene - unwikified, Darvocet is propoxyphene napsylate and acetaminophen, etc. Niteowlneils
- Müggelturm is apparently a dump of some potentially worthwhile machine-translated German. Needs improvement because as it stands is in effect incomprehensible in English. ffirehorse 17:06, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Prince lincoln - unwikified--nixie 15:16, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Weimar Timeline - dormant discussion on talk page; general cleanup. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 05:56, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
- Roman art - same contrib/issues as Romans and Etruscans. Niteowlneils
- Looked like a copyvio, cleaned it up and made it into a stub nixie 03:08, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Pudendal nerve entrapment - seriously unwikified, needs review and factchecking -- The Anome 10:02, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 17
- Macedonian Empire All one paragraph, not in Wikipedia style, needs NPOV ("From this world of daring and passion, of questing and contradiction the robust Hellenism of Macedonia carried the art of man to the ends of the inhabited world, bestowing poetry upon the mute and, in the infancy of mankind, instilling philosophical thought.")
- Leroy Chiao no lead section, not in complete sentences
- Heinz Leymann - not sure if the subject is encyclopedic, but the current content belongs at mobbing, if anywhere. Niteowlneils
- Mobbing itself could do with some tidyup. Jackiespeel 16:52, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Rufus Anderson - reads like a translation, could use some editing. Spatch 21:39, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler, killed Malcolm X. two lines of text. two hundred lines of court findings. Dunc|☺ 19:54, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Snowboarding - unformatted. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 19:45, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Formatted, added sectioning, some clean up. May need a snow boarding aficionado. Zen Master 11:13, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Beatsteaks - context, formatting, get rid of non-encylopedic language. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 17:56, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan - looks like a copyvio, but doen't seem to be from my quick search. Needs serious cleanup, wikification, and factcheck. Could probably be trimmed down too. -R. fiend
- Rebecca Riots - needs npov work - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]]
- [[List_of_stations_of_the_Paris_M%E9tro]] The stations, except a few, shouldn't have their own page. Isn't there a map of the Paris Metro? [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]]
- The talk page has a big discussion about this problem from an old VfD. Someone went in and fired off pages for all of them, now they sit stagnant. Half a year ago there was much talk, but nothing was done - the VfD essentially didn't go through. If the deletion call succeeded, you'd probably end up with something like the TTC subway, which I prefer, personally - stations are listed on a page for their line, rather than a page for every station. The other extreme is the London Underground approach. The difference between the Paris and London pages, of course, is that there were enough Londoners (and there was possibly enough history) to flesh out a good number of the London station pages... Any volunteers for Paris? Krupo
- Cleanup instructions: If any station page linked there is just a few lines long, redirect to [[List_of_stations_of_the_Paris_M%E9tro]] and remove the link from that page. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 06:09, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
- Wachovia Financial Center - Bulleted list that smells of a copyvio, but google doesn't find anything. --Kbh3rd
- Copyscape.com showed one 2-sentence bullet to be a copy from the Miami Herald, which I've fixed. It needs bullets-into-prose. -R. S. Shaw
- I'm not sure its a clean-up issue, but JongPark has made a number of new pages for unused scientific neologisms regulome, funcomics and expressome (that do need clean up and wikifying if they stay), and seems to have replaced content on the Genome and Proteome pages--nixie
- I've moved funcomics to functomics, and changed everything currently here[4] to more standard formatting, but they do still need help rather badly--high headline to paragraph ratio, let alone issues like whether the topics are actually valid. Niteowlneils
- I assume that the same person was also making changes from here 211.230.32.87 since they were happening at the same time. Some topics might be candidates for the wiktionary, but I would err on the side of deleting a few--nixie
- Oy vey! OK, I've cleaned up the IPs formatting, as well as User:Jong. Niteowlneils 21:58, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I assume that the same person was also making changes from here 211.230.32.87 since they were happening at the same time. Some topics might be candidates for the wiktionary, but I would err on the side of deleting a few--nixie
- I've marked the entries that are really obscure to go to the wiktionary--nixie 02:18, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I've moved funcomics to functomics, and changed everything currently here[4] to more standard formatting, but they do still need help rather badly--high headline to paragraph ratio, let alone issues like whether the topics are actually valid. Niteowlneils
October 16
- Estelada flag - POV, bad prose, possible copyvio --Aramգուտանգ
- Athrun Zala at first glance looks to be nonsense but is in fact the plot for a book. Very slimly got out of being speedily deleted. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 15:25, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- NT (temperament) - Looks like one of the Myers-Briggs types. This might be a copyvio, but if not it need formatting and wikifying. It must be likely that there are some similar articles for the other types. -- Solipsist 08:38, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Searches on a couple of strings in that turn up only Wikipedia mirrors, so probably not copyvio. -- Mithent
- Gadag. gadfium 05:12, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Elastance. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]]
- The Sleepwalkers - survived vfd but requires cleanup -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:43, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Cleaned it up, but could use a little expansion. I've never read the book or I'd do it myself. -R. fiend 19:35, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Pseudo data - User:Sw5000 wants an NPOV rewrite, external links, and expansion on this article. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 00:32, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
October 15
- Gastronomy [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]]
- Hors and Dodola - unwikified, written by non-native English speaker. RickK 19:30, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
- cleaned Hors up a little more. Not enough information to be more than a stub. Also, looks like someone has done some work on this already. Munkymu 18:55, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- D4 - this is possibly interesting about 4 being unlucky, but doesn't belong here; should this redirect to Dublin 4 as it used to? - Mithent
- T.J. Hamblin - notable person? [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 17:37, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
- Wikified, deleted the part that read like a resumé. Is he notable though? -R. fiend 19:52, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Isaac_Asimov_Complete_Bibliography partially wikified by a number of wikipedians, but a lot more needs doing. Any Isaac Asimov buffs ready to help out? -- Cje 11:07, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC). I've added a number of wikilinks. Ray Dassen 16:19, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
- Some details would be nice, like publication dates and whether the book is fiction or non-fiction. MK 07:11, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Chemical hazard, Nuclear hazard - basically empty. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 05:36, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
- List of biographers - This article is so incomplete it's a joke. Obviously it can never be truly "complete", but right now it's a list of random authors that must have popped into someone's mind. Of the thousands of biographers out there I don't know why these few made the list. Needs work or it should go. -R. fiend 04:30, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Autonomous Learning - don't know if this is nonsense that should be deleted. It certainly needs a cleanup. GreatWhiteNortherner 03:19, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
- I see some potential in this article. Corrected grammar, set as stub and deleted POV paragraphs (which was half the article). --Sw5000 16:30, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Cyropaedia (Xenophon)--wikify, style, verify?
- Jacqueline Susann -- Run-on sentences and trivia listed as "facts".
- Tshwane university of technology - In desperate need of cleanup. Might be some copyright issues too.
- History of Tajikistan - The information could be used as long as it is not copyrighted, but it would need to be wikified. --Sesel 04:32, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Water in the garden, text dump from an old book, not wikified or vaguely encyclopedic, candidate for deletion?--nixie 05:36, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 14
- Decontamination, Naked - rewrite both to be encyclopedic. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 22:30, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Decontamination cleaned. Second article seems pretty neutral. --Sw5000 16:10, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Napoleon Dynamite - overwhelming amount of POV.--The_stuart 16:40, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Committed proposed POV cleanup, perhaps quotations should just be removed Zen Master 18:02, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
i removed them and tried some filler i hope its good enough anyone feel free to add of course--Larsie 21:34, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Floridadata.doc - On the 2000 election controversy in Florida. Misnamed; POV check.
- Offshore_Industry_Liaison_Committee - Very POV. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 06:59, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
- I've wikified the content as much as possible, and I've removed the POV statements, which turned the article into a stub. Aecis 14:43, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Alkaliphile - informal
has anyone tried the link on this "article" the info is almost an exact copy and needs to be either changed immediatly or deleted--Larsie 21:42, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Particle (band) - are these guys notable? I'm thinking of listing of VfD if not. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:52, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I'd be inclined to VFD - one album on an independant label, it seems. I'd probably vote to delete. —Stormie 11:21, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Hydrogen fuel - section headings, there may also be a duplicate to merge this article into. Rhobite 00:12, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC) Note: It's copied from a USGov site, so it's not a copyvio, but it still needs cleanup and possible merge. Rhobite 01:46, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Whitby Town F.C. - nonwikified and very long JFW | T@lk 11:29, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- List of state leaders in 2004 - The list of Asian countries is far from complete Aecis 14:34, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 13
- Pneumoconiosis#Incidents - Ominous tone. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 22:04, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Skytrax - unwikified. RickK 19:47, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- List of Charmed Good Beings/Temp - a mess. Unwikified, uses British terminology (series instead of season) for an American show, uses phraseology which sounds like it's copied from elsewhere -- "Her face lined with years of wisdom, her hands the fountainhead of a power beyond belief, the Warren witch" for example. I assume this is about the TV series Charmed? The article certainly doesn't SAY so. RickK 19:40, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Rudolf Benesh - unwikified text dump. RickK 18:59, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Captain George Shelvocke - a mess Sarge Baldy 14:58, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Toxic mold - Needs less conversational tone. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 13:31, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- First pass at POV cleanup. added info, needs more scientific info. Zen Master 21:02, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Peace of Passau - needs to be reworked, am reading around subject but anybody who knows about it want to have a go? edd 08:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Vladislav Vancura - Oy! RickK 07:26, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Alson Weber - POV, non-Wikipedia standard format. RickK 07:18, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- NPOV-ified, rewrote in more standard format. Is he actually in the hall of fame individually, or as part of the team? May need to be rolled into a page on Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA Volleyball Team, unless he did something else notable. Munkymu 18:27, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Thank God He Met Lizzie - also needing the works. Movie substub sans wikis but with some POV problems. - Lucky 6.9 02:51, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I did some POV expungement and added a couple appropriate wikilinks. It might now have grown from substub to stub. —Anville 23:13, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Geoffrey Moore - the works Niteowlneils
- Mineriad - copyedit, wikify--only 5 displayed hits--is there a better term? Niteowlneils
- Lucida - quite an important font family, worthy of a serious technical article. Currently a sub-stub. -- The Anome 00:00, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
October 12
- Gray's Anatomy - general cleanup needed. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 23:20, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Psychopathic Rydas - copyedit/-pov. Niteowlneils 23:02, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- More than POV, this looks like a public-relations press-release(!)... that thing needs to be re-written from the ground up. Krupo 06:04, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey informal, messy, nonsensical in some areas. –Andre (talk) 21:57, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Jakarta International School - a touch promotional. - RedWordSmith 21:56, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Royal Radar Establishment - context. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]]
- List of books on Croatian grammar This has been sitting with VfD boilerplate, but not actually on VfD, since July. Needs wikifying or a fresh proposal to delete. --Cje
- Latin conjugation - incomplete. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]]
- Dosatron - written by someone whose first language is not English, needs wikifying/verifying -- Graham ☺ | Talk
- KCRA - POV. Reads like a press release. RickK
- De-POVed. [[User:Davodd|DAVODD «TALK»]] 02:43, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
- Range encoder - just one large chunk of text with no headings, confusing appearance and little or no wikilinks.
- Austrian steam battleships -- lonelypage, a partially-completed list with many ??? entries, not wikified --66.102.74.57 23:43, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Psybnc A personal affirmation of an IRC proxy. Needs work on grammar, wikifying, establishing some sort of notability. Joyous
- Ecodesign -- reads like a brochure. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 01:50, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)