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Joseph Bradish

I'm a descendant of the Bradish family and have researched Bradish in the UK archives. He did not sail with Kidd, except when he was a prisoner on the same ship enroute from Boston to London. The timing of Kidd and Bradish is very close and each sailed on different ships named Adventure, hence much confusion. Eventually I hope to write this all out, if I can read my notes.

Rick Clarke

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I think this article has many content gaps, for example there is only one sentence in his personal information. I think that he has become a rising figure in the community and this post is out of date. Some of the references are closely paraphrased but that is mostly because they are direct facts. To improve this article I would add current information and his personal information. Chem2017 (talk) 01:32, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Debbie C. Crans' Biography Article

Epm98f (talk) 19:24, 2 September 2016 (UTC)Why is the ultimate impact of her scientific findings not stated in the article? It doesn't go into any more depth than besides saying it's for diabetes. I also think the first paragraph should be restructured to mention what she is most known for, which is her work with Vandium. Her current job at Colorado State is not what she is known for.Epm98f (talk) 19:24, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GAR for Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. More details are available on the re-assessment page. Please ping me if you need anything as my watchlist is already quite large and I'd prefer not to add seven or eight more wikiprojects to my watchlist on top of the ones that I already have. Mr rnddude (talk) 23:35, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Recreation of deleted article?

Fede Pistono could possibly be a recreation of Federico Pistono. - Brianhe (talk) 13:54, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Same guy, text is different - David Gerard (talk) 14:02, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
From a spot check of the sources, and the subject's own official website, Federico Pistono is the WP:COMMONNAME. - Brianhe (talk) 05:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline section of a biography

I am being told that timeline sections are not allowed in biographies, does anyone know what !Wikilaw is being cited? Another editor added this to the timeline section, a tiny part of the article: {{prose|section|date=September 2016}} The other editor wrote: "Timelines are allowed for year, century, decade, etc articles; biographies are appropriately presented as prose." Anyone have thoughts? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:24, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline
  • 1911 Birth of Eddie Schneider in Manhattan, New York on October 20.
  • 1915 (circa) Move to Red Bank, New Jersey.
  • 1920 (circa) Move to Jersey City, New Jersey.
  • 1920 Living in New Jersey.
  • 1927 Death of Inga Pedersen, Eddie's mother, on December 26.
  • 1927 Graduation from William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City.
  • 1928 Returning from trip to Norway and Germany.
  • 1929 Became the youngest person in the United States to receive a commercial pilot certificate and the youngest certificated airplane mechanic in New York.
  • 1930 Living at 114 Carlton Avenue in Jersey City.
  • 1930 Sets east-to-west junior transcontinental air speed record on August 19.
  • 1930 Sets west-to-east and round-trip junior transcontinental air speed record on August 25.
  • 1930 National Air Tour: Won Great Lakes Trophy, eighth place overall.
  • 1930 Living in Hempstead, Long Island with Carl Schneider (no known relation)
  • 1931 at Miami Air Race in January with Richfield Oil Corporation as his sponsor.
  • 1931 National Air Tour. He won first place for single engine planes, third place overall.
  • 1932 Working for Hoover Air League.
  • 1934 Marriage to Gretchen Francis Hahnen on June 23, 1934.
  • 1935 Living at 209 Sip Avenue, Jersey City
  • 1935 Leases Jersey City Airport on January 1, 1935.
  • 1935 Engine dies at 100 feet and he and Fred Weigel (1904-?) crash into Newark Bay.
  • 1935 Jersey City Airport closes to make room for sports stadium on December 31.
  • 1936 Flying in Yankee Squadron in Spanish Civil War.
  • 1936 Living at 50 Jones Street in Jersey City.
  • 1937 Moves to Manhattan from Jersey City after return from Spain.
  • 1938 Living at 38 Broadway in Manhattan.
  • 1940 Work at American Airlines.
  • 1940 Registered for draft on October 16.
  • 1940 Death in crash at Floyd Bennett Field on December 23.
  • 1948 Papers donated to Institute of Aeronautical Sciences archive
  • 2007 Nominated to the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame.
  • 2008 Nominated to the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
My first thought is that it's hard to form an opinion without knowing what article you're talking about. Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:36, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a hard rule about it, but there are plenty of guidelines which suggest a prose approach for better readability, such as the one linked from the prose template you provided and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists. I also find prose makes it easier for later editors to expand on some details in the article, whereas expanding one entry in a list makes the list look very odd. 1bandsaw (talk) 20:23, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A prosefied list of chronological facts is called a biography, a bulleted list of chronological facts is called a "timeline". ... why would we need to have a biography written twice, a bulleted list of chronological facts serves a different reader. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:52, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I can't cite a policy against it, but this seems like a bad idea to me. Biographies should be in prose format. This seems like it takes all the negatives of infoboxes but avoids the positives. Infoboxes are useful because they're concise, present the most pertinent information, and are positioned such that you see them at a glance. This presents mountains of trivia. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:44, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Summoned by bot. Agree that timelines for biographies are not a good idea in general, as they are duplicative of text. Timelines should be reserved only as stand-alone articles in special situations, such as the Sept. 11 attacks. Coretheapple (talk) 12:56, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment if it's collapsed at the bottom of the article, it's not a distraction yet it's still helpful for readers who serve to benefit. Atsme📞📧 13:20, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I do not recall any policy/guideline on this subject matter; but the idea of a timeline in biographical articles doesn't appeal to me. To summarize key contents of an article, we already have infobox template that serves the purpose.
  • 1915 (circa) Move to Red Bank, New Jersey.
  • 1920 (circa) Move to Jersey City, New Jersey.
  • 1928 Returning from trip to Norway and Germany.
  • 1930 Living at 114 Carlton Avenue in Jersey City.
  • 1932 Working for Hoover Air League.
  • 1934 Marriage to Gretchen Francis Hahnen on June 23, 1934.
  • 1935 Living at 209 Sip Avenue, Jersey City
  • 1935 Leases Jersey City Airport on January 1, 1935.
I found above texts from the collapsed box (i.e. probably suggested information to be included in a proposed timeline). If we are going to write that kind of stuffs in a separate section and call it timeline-feature; I've a definite "no" for that suggestion/proposal. That makes, timeline = infobox + tons of trivia. Anup [Talk] 05:30, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of run-off vote

There is currently a poll taking place regarding the infobox image at the Donald Trump article talk page that project members might be interested in here. The polling is set to conclude on September 20, 2016. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 19:09, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RM notification 28 June 2024

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:First Spouse of the Philippines#Requested move 3 September 2016, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, — Sam Sailor 00:25, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RM notification 28 June 2024

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Megan Marcks#Requested move 3 September 2016, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, — Sam Sailor 01:10, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ross Kemp

I am not sure if he should be a protected article or not. But I've watched a number of IP editors cause vandalism, then revert their own vandalism. It's a bit strange at times. Maybe an admin can add the article to their watchlist to monitor it. Govvy (talk) 12:47, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an admin, but I added it to my watchlist. Maybe more eyes on the article will help. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:47, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Doug McMillon request

Hello, Wikipedians! I'm hoping editors experienced editing biography articles can review a discussion on the Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Talk page.

A brief history: This article was badly outdated so I, as one of Walmart's representatives on Wikipedia, prepared a new draft and posted an edit request in March. Editor Checkingfax implemented my proposed draft the next month. In August, editor HighKing posted an {{autobiography}} tag atop the article. On the Talk page, HighKing wrote that the article contains "too much detail that has nothing to do with the reason Doug is notable".

While I disagree and believe the information is important to Mr. McMillon's role with Walmart, it is also my understanding that Wikipedia's notability guidelines are for whether a person or topic qualifies for a Wikipedia article, whereas the content of an article is governed by other policies, such as Neutral point of view, Verifiability, No original research, What Wikipedia is not, and Biographies of living persons.

I would appreciate another view on this. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks, JLD at Walmart (talk) 21:46, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I would say that it has too much detail, but it certainly paints a rosy picture of Mr. McMillon, almost as if it had been written by Walmart's PR department. I can't dive in to this myself but it could use some attention. Kendall-K1 (talk) 03:05, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Actor John P Ryan

His page doesn't credit him with his appearance in "Rent-a-Cop" in 1987...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752636/?ref_=nv_sr_1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mojazz40 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah Tiana

I was wondering if someone from this WP:BIOG would mind taking a look at Sarah Tiana. I've been trying off and on to find better sourcing for the article, but haven't had much luck. There was discussion at Talk:Sarah Tiana#Possible sources of the possibility of a redirect to another article, but AfD is also another alternative. Any suggestion or other feedback would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:17, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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