Wikipedia:Cleanup

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NEW

AIDS reappraisal - needs smoothing, structure

Edie Bukewihge - advert

Deep Ecology (company) - full wikify needed; first person POV

Kenneth O'Keefe - also listed on VFD - needs serious pruning

Zeitun - unwikified, no intro -vfd? could be copyvio but claims to be written by the author

Cathy Jones - merge with This Hour Has 22 Minutes

26th century - sub-stub, premature - VFD?

She-Ra - cartoon character, merge + Expanded (Smerdis of Tlön)

Porto Velho - stub, edit, format, expand, merge

Geolibertarian - sub-stub, 242 Google hits, expand, merge, delete,

Diary of an Ordinary Woman - 121 Google hits, format, edit, delete, merge

Pre-industrial - fragment, format, edit, delete, merge

Withdrawal method - merge with Birth control

Malacology - dictionary entry, expand or merge with Mollusc

Home Depot - sub-stub, dubious value

Polish-Soviet war - format, edit, delete, merge

Ski school - detail, format etc

Pheidole - prob needs deleting

either - barely better than dictionary entry

Articles by 202.154.157.117 - substub, need wikification or deletion. andy 09:10, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Monday Report - reads like a press release Secretlondon

Trichloromethyl chloroformate and Chloromethyl chloroformate- layout, detail etc. I corrected spelling Secretlondon 21:35, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)

Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany -layout, detail, fact checking... Secretlondon 21:25, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC) Also Polish areas annexed by Soviet Union and Polish-Soviet war

California Pacific International Exposition- doesn't appear to be copyvio, but needs detail, NPOV etc Secretlondon 21:25, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)

Careertimes.com.hk - dunno how websites are formated

Independent Commission Against Corruption - no context, not even what country

Oath of the Peach Gardent - insufficient context

Furman_v._Georgia - layout, doesn't explain why important (if it is) Secretlondon

Owen mab Urien - layout, name needs checking ~~

Color perception - sub-stub; fix or delete


The Wuzzles - stub, needs wiki, rewrite

Reptilian humanoid - fake science? +totally crap science, but when did that make it unwikiworthy? DJ Clayworth common in conspiracy theories cf. antisemetism Secretlondon

King Edward's school - unwikified, needs rewrite +stubbed DJ Clayworth

Domestic free television programme services - Poor name, sub-stub, merge elsewhere? +moved and copyedited. Now at Free television services (Hong Kong) Secretlondon

Sidewinder - needs cleanup, make into disambig page?

Geneon Entertainment (USA) - unwikified, nearly sub-stub

Baltimore Development Corporation - unwikified

Persecution of Muslims - fragment

Phillips artificial neural network law - no Google hits

Kravica - POV and contextless - as contextless as any other city/village page

Things Falling Apart - needs wikification and formatting

Festivals of Plagiarism - ????? - nonsense, source material?: delete immediately. + listed at VFD


Phoenix Television - advert, needs formatting

NEW

Comparative Historical - makes no sense - VfD + Redirected to Comparative method (Smerdis of Tlön)


Competitions for classical music - needs some more or needs deleting

Daisho - doesn't make sense - Now redirected to wakizashi.

Subject-object problem - POV nonsense.Smerdis of Tlön

Cheung Man Yee - unwikified. + wikified Secretlondon

Christer Pettersson - stub

Carl Thompson - stub

Cardiac arrhythmias - needs proper intro merging with cardiac arrhythmia

Carolina Shag - a mess

Proxima Centuri - sub-stub. redirect to the novel it comes from? + this is factual and fine Secretlondon

Cubicle desk - rewrite (contains things like "on a personal note...") + rewrote that section only, rest ok

Creme Anglaise - needs wikifying and stuff + fixed spelling, added links; perhaps someone has a more complete recipe?

Siege of Sarajevo - (insufficient) + vfd Secretlondon


Primitive Lyrics - (slangy, POV)

Legally separated - (overly specific)

Chisholm Trail District - (unencyclopedic)

Courtisanerie - not really wiktionary, but not quite encyclopaedic either

Pseudo - half dictionary, half nonsense + Reworded; probably still dictionary material. No idea what to do about equations and control theory.

Costate equations - nonsense?

Fresh

Emishi - new contents need to be wikified + wikified, fine

Gennifer Flowers - no biographical info on her; make into article or delete

Faith Fancher - linked to recent deaths, but article has no dates + does now - fine

Tachinid - only has photo with messed up html

Latin names of regions - factual problems

Fresh

Desknote - reads like an advertisment. - anybody have any balancing dirt on Desknote? - outdated. Updated body text, needs more wikification and work, as do the computer types it references.

Virtue (economics) - huh? - would be dictionary definition, if it only made sense

The Peoples of Middle-earth - what? + it's a book in the History of Middle-earth series. If the book is worthy of inclusion, the article should stay or at least be moved to the article about the series (which IS worthy).

Tony Shryane - offtopic - unencyclopaedic, even if not copyvio

Poznan (old article) - duplicate + is redirect now, was created by vandal after Poznan was protected

Objective, Subjective - dictionary

Namibian dollar - unwikified and sub-stub

Fresh

Girl's Not Grey - need wikification and checking + made stub + made redirect to AFI

Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics - needs factual checking

L. J. Magnus - Can't find any relevant Google hits

Tradeoff - off topic? + expand/tidied, wikified

Free-kick - merge with football somehow

Bobbing for apples - nonsense, not encyclopedic

Fresh

Hillel Slovak - sub-stub - looks OK to me + looks Fine.

Cullen Inquiry - only external links

Mesannepada - sub stub, delete? - work in progress, just maybe?

Tryphaena Cleopatraina - sub stub

Building construction - a mess + fixed a few paragraphs + total rewrite; now OK stub

Fresh

Beefcake - Winad. Needs to be merged with some list of slang somewhere - merge and redir to Glamour photography

Tian Han - most of the text in unintelligible. Maybe a machine translation. - would have to be fixed by someone who knows Tian Han

Josef Duchac, Werner Eggerath, Rudolf Paul, Herrmann Brill, and Werner Bruschke - too concise - have been fixed

Ancient listings

Wikipedia:Cleanup - obscure; incomprehensible; sinister - dont use it then, its a free wiki,戴&#30505sv - warm, fuzzy, cuddly, cute, and sweet

Eastern Armenian verb table - source info.

Red Rus - should be merged with appropriate article(s), then deleted if the term is not in wide use - no real content, just redirect where appropriate

Norsk Hydro - delete - possibly copyvio, but the text can be rewritten. It's a big Norwegian oil company, and worth a mention. - don't think copyvio, needs article


Black Lake, Louisiana - unwikified, content only about Bonny & Clyde

Educational behaviorism - (merge with Philosophy of education) - no - should be/has been merged with behaviourism

Hans Asperger - (merge valid content with Asperger's disorder)

Ancient listings

Spider Woman - needs wikification

Dolphin Intelligence - (a lot esoteric nonsense, possible copyvio as partly identical with [1])

Contractarianism - (idiosyncratic?)

Felix Wakefield - (idiosyncratic, probably valid, but unwikified) + (wikified)

Ancient listings

Sniggle - (wiktionary) - maybe WP:VFD?

Subsistence farming - (wiktionary) - perhaps merge somewhere

Example - (wiktionary)

History of Poland -- World War II 1939-1945 - (shoddy outline with little content) - History of Poland already covers this - keep, maybe in progress - no, last major edit was done over a year ago + copied to VFD

Panda Hotel - (advert?) - one of the MANY hotels in Hong Kong, nothing special, would delete - interesting, neutral, wikified. Compare rambot, smaller places - granularity problem, move to "List of Hong Kong hotels

Erotophobia - (idiosyncratic?) - merge with Love-shyness