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Every entry on Wikipedia deserves attention. But some deserve tender loving attention. If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, list it here if:

  1. It needs serious attention from someone familiar with the subject, or
  2. You have no idea how to approach it

Else (if it needs a little detail, proofreading, NPOV, etc) list it on the cleanup page. If you're looking for pages to attend to, other pages likely to need attention include Newly created articles and Ancient pages.

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  • For each article you add to this list, try to fix an article already on the list.

Do not add articles to this list in the following categories:

Article Category Where to go instead
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Should be deleted Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
Needs merging w/ other articles on same subject Wikipedia:Duplicate articles
Possible copyright infringement Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/copyvio
 
Not in English Wikipedia:Pages needing translation
Needs expansion (Stub article) Add to Wikipedia:Requests for page expansion or add a stub msg
Needs image(s) Wikipedia:Requested pictures
 
Inaccurate content Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
Biased content Wikipedia:NPOV dispute
Needs watching for bias Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
Needs peer editing (you wrote most of the content) Wikipedia:Peer review

Articles that have good information, but need work for some reason

Animals, Biology, Anatomy

Smallpox needs some heavy - duty copyediting. --Lee1026 23:01, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Anthropology, ethnology

Art, Artists and Art history

Communication

reorganised Peter Ellis 03:31, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Callmanager - Apparently a Cisco systems software product, this article is extremely informal, probably written by a bored Cisco employee. Kevin Saff 20:54, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Telephone - Mess of "related articles" needs subdivision in some orderly manner. (Excellent article cluster; overall revision also needed -- article could be better divided into paragraphs and topics; move to PNA when "related articles" is cleaned up +sj+)
    • Began the process of re-working this article. The actual content in the history section was mostly a massive quote from a circa 1900 project Gutenberg book (Heros of the Telegraph) -- the article needs an introduction which describes what a telephone IS, and some discussion of the various types... Then, we need LINKS to sub-pages for telephone(history) and telephone(signaling) and telephone(Switching). The basic link cluster at the bottom is EXCELLENT.... it's the stuff on the telephone ITSELF that sucks. Rick Boatright 16:19, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Computer science, Computing and Internet

  • Shock site. Was going to put this up for VfD, but it looks like maybe 5% of this 32kb-long article may be worth saving. Suggest massive amounts of deletion. Self-promotion and vanity.
It was already discussed in Shock site:Talk and elsewhere. It's quality and important information on the topic, which may not seem very important to some. What self-promotion you find there, I don't know? You do not seriously think it's being edited by Bob Goatse, do you? Paranoid 16:51, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Computer graphics - Needs a rebuild. The focus is too narrow on 3d-rendering. It lacks important events in CG-history, and a good discussion on the increasingly broad application of CG. MrMambo 17:17, 28 March 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • CPU electrical consumption - Needs updating. page has been neglected Crusadeonilliteracy 14:30, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • CPU locking - Needs updating. Crusadeonilliteracy 14:30, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Datakortet needs NPOV detail; a stub. (originally by an ex-employee)
    • After reading this attempt at an article, I have no idea what this company does. --Smack 22:59, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Design pattern (computer science) - Needs rewriting. A large article inspired by, or copied in part from, a 1995 book, w/ 50 links to substubs with names like "Interpreter pattern" and "Memento pattern". Some of the links from the master article, like anonymous subroutine objects pattern, may be copyvio, with the initial article note saying it's "stub from perl design pattern book". Tempshill 18:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Front side bus - Needs much general updating in lieu of advances such as the AMD64's memory system, and other expansion. Crusadeonilliteracy 14:30, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Genetic algorithm and associated articles: crossover (genetic algorithm), recombination (genetic algorithm), mutation (genetic algorithm), chromosome (genetic algorithm), genome (genetic algorithm) Kwertii 16:23, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • HTML tag - Needs clarif. What should this article be? A how-to for writing HTML, an overview of current and past HTML specs, what? - I moved a lot of content to HTML Element
  • List of device bandwidths - All speeds have to be verified, some are wrong (conversion Bit/s to Byte/s seems strange) (moved from cleanup Onebyone 22:58, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)) +I added disclaimer of why some values look wrong by an order of magnitude, but the bit-to-byte conversion won't work. See Talk (Scott McNay 17:03, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC))
  • Password - needs copyediting due to poor grammar and organization. Perhaps needs further information of a less technical nature. Quadell 15:21, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I've tried to clean it up a bit. I'd like to delete unimportant bits, but haven't for fear of offending. - A.U. (25 Apr 2004)
    • considerable reorganizing done by now, perhaps better? ww 20:27, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • RAID - either wikification or explanation of techspeak needed -- Kimiko 21:14, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • Intro etc re-written in plain English. Would suggest that this might be adequate; the detailed stuff is mostly going to be of interest to people who understand the jargon. 08 May 2004.
  • Visual Basic - Needs rewriting. awful writing. I did what I could, but died of crap writing fatigue half way through. There's a pile of other pages linked from it on Microsoft techologies which need similar work. - David Gerard 11:27, Jan 14, 2004 (UTC)
    • cleaned more; still far from perfect. - Cpm 17:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET are rather similar - maybe we could share content between the two articles? After all, the latter is only a newer version, albeit with lots of new features Enochlau 13:53, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Not quite. The .NET business rather enlarges the contexts within which Visual Basic can be used. that's a major change, albeit not much at the language syntax level. This significance of this is likely to be hard to get across to those whose experience is at the syntax level and within a single machine / architecture. ww 20:00, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Found an error in the Evolution of VB section and fixed it. Wikified a little there too. --raylu 22:50, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
  • Color space encoding Content, style, wikification --Gutza 11:06, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • GamesNET - factually disputed, see Talk:GamesNET -- Graham  :) | Talk 14:57, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • The article should now be accurate Simon Arlott 21:39, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Winsock - way out of date, contents c+p from FOLDOC, all external links dead -- Kwi 23:34, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Terabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte -- Please triple-check the histories of the prefixes by checking various Internet sites that talk about these. Are what was written before Hephaestos edited them correct, or are what Hephaestos made it say correct?? 66.32.123.29 15:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • For zettabyte and yottabyte, Hephaestos' definition is certainly better than "...was chosen for some reason that is to be explained," which was there before his edits. For terabyte, most sources I've seen use the 'monster' root, but those sources may be wrong. -- Wapcaplet 16:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • All Internet sites I have seen that talk about the history say that zettabyte and yottabyte come from Greek letters. I wrote "for some reason that is to be explained" because I wanted to make sure someone can explain why those Greek letters were chosen. 66.32.113.34 17:00, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I've left some comments on Talk:Terabyte. Probably better to continue discussion there. -- Wapcaplet 17:07, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Fedora Core -- this is currently a redirect to the "Fedora Linux" article. But "Fedora Core" is the official name of the linux distro. We need to swap the two while preserving the edit history of "Fedora Linux"... I've tried using the move function, see Talk:Fedora Linux for details, with no luck. So we need an admin to sort it out...
    • Can be ignored; move is complete. [ alerante | “” 18:53, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) ]
  • Andre Thi Truong -- It's just an interview from Wired.com. Jonel 21:12, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • LL_parser -- Needs someone knowledgable to fill in the section on LL(k) Parsing - the information isn't generally available on the web. 7:49 24 April 2004 (GMT)
  • GnuFU -- What doesn't it need? Overlong, unwikified, POV, semi-advertorial - yet somewhere under that is a decent article struggling desperately to get out. Needs work from someone with knowledge and/or more patience than I can muster. --ALargeElk 22:20, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • We must use CAT when... -- Needs a heavy rewrite, restyle and contexting. jschwa1 6/5/04
  • Yahoo! -- I just happened to stumble upon Yahoo! and found services like Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger had very little information. Being so popular, they definitely deserve more. I created the Yahoo! Mail page, though only as a stub. More information about these services needs to be provided. Jam2k 21:25, 10 May 2004
  • Timeline of computing 1990-forward -- Update this timeline (it ends at Nov 2001) with 2002 and 2003 events in the field of computing. Other related timelines (Internet, etc.) need care too.
  • Field Upgradeable Systems Environment and Reconfigurable computing - in layman's terms, please --Smack 21:52, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Countries

Economics, business, businesses, business leaders, sales

  • Anthropological theories of value - improving; needs broader economic NPOV.
  • Business ethics - recently rewritten a bit; needs someone who knows what they are talking about to separate out overlapping topics. +sj+
  • Commercial Revolution - good dense info; needs fmt, clarif'n. +sj+ 20:03, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Cost of goods sold- needs context, fmt, like many accounting terms.
  • Diebold Focused too much on current events criticisms of Diebold for the page title; should be separated into a page on the Co. and one on the 2000-2004 debates about their product robustness. More company info is needed.
  • Direct marketing is an A to Z of some Direct marketing topics of personal relevance to the author. Telemarketing says it is a subset of Direct marketing so this needs a serious article.
  • Global financial system - confusing and incomplete
  • Group 28 project (now the Individual Visit project). - Needs a thorough copyedit.
  • Job creation program: A questionable section on Switzerland was removed on August 9, 2003; article is now NPOV, but stubby; needs much more information from countries around the world.
  • List of subsistence techniques - looks like this could be a great list; incomplete. Can someone fix up the format, and create stubs for more of the linked concepts? (requires linking to existing pages under slightly different names) Knowledge of Marx not necc, but might help.
  • Option (finance) needs some theoretical background and history. Kwertii 15:57, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory Contamination. Once listed for deletion but kept. Needs NPOV, more. Angela 31 Jan. 2004 Angela
  • Socialist economics: a terrific topic for someone who knows some economic theory and history. It is needed to complement Socialism, which is all politics and no economics. Adam 14:11, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Supply-side economics -- needs NPOV, see talk page. AaronSw 23:38, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Standard Oil: Basically, the bottom part looks like unsubstantiated anecdotes (and POV). However, I don't know the subject well enough to just scrap it. Averell 16:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Technical analysis has many specific techniques listed and linked, but most of these techniques don't have their own article. Kwertii 02:43, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Uneconomic growth - needs NPOV; should focus on the (new) term and notion in its title, not on the policies of George W. Bush.
  • Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek - rewriting needed. Many confusing sentences and grammar/spelling problems. Sport section worse than others. punishinglemur 22:14, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Welfare reform. Newly rewritten article, abandoned shortly after birth, could use NPOV love. / Plus, only talks about US welfare reform, whereas welfare reform is a political topic in many countries. David.Monniaux 16:47, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Education / Learning / Pedagogy

Environment / Geology / Earth Sciences / Weather

Food, plants and agriculture

  • Samovar needs to have all the second-person edited out.
  • Rice cooker techniques needs all kinds of help. heidimo 17:07, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Egg. Currently touches on everything from gametes to Caesar salad. There are (old) suggestions on the talk page to turn this into a disambiguation page because eggs as food and eggs in reproduction are two rather different things. --KF 02:02, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Contains a lot of archaic text about a Chinese method of cooking eggs, but not much that people actually want to know about. -Smack 21:38, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Food is mostly a list of lists. ~ Jake 23:58, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC).
    • I have started work on improving the food entry. Any suggestions / comments / ideas welcomed at Talk:Food. Thanks David Thrale 23:18, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • American lager - previous version was extremely POV. Current version is loaded with weasel terms. There must be a middle ground here. - Hephæstos|§ 05:18, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • I've been working on it - I think I've helped, but I'm probably not done yet. Brian Rock 02:47, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Food quality starts off with "Food quality is the quality of food." and doesn't get any better. Should at the very least mention quality systems and good manufacturing practice David Thrale 23:06, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done some work but there is still a lot that could be done here. Rjstott 09:25, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Apple Jacks -- Go to the external link at the bottom and use it as a reference tool for why the green jacks became X-shaped. 66.32.156.73 00:56, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Games and Entertainment

  • Turok - just created by IP only user. I have never played this so I can't really help beyond simple wikification. Burgundavia 06:36, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

Geography

  • Bathinda much of this article is quite badly written and needs alot of TLC. [[User:ChicXulub>]] 22:11, 4 May 2004 (GMT)
  • Elizabeth Islands off Massachussetts. Is only links. older≠wiser 17:23, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Geneseo, New York and Geneseo (village), New York need to be both merged and separated in various ways. (also added to DA) --♬ bdesham
  • Haywards Heath near Brighton, England -- Undoubtedly written by people living in that area, the article lacks statistical data and some more. <KF> 14:38, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Long Island - An extraordinary incomplete list of towns of Long Island exists in this article. The entries for Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York (both counties of Long Island) have reasonably complete lists - someone is needed for the job of taking the names of these towns from these two other articles and also adding them to the Long Island article. Moncrief 01:26, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • River - data given for ten longest rivers frequently doesn't match the data given on the actual page for that river.
  • Kaliningrad Oblast and Yasnaya Polyana - Nicely written, but some of the descriptions seem somewhat over the top: It was a scene of earlier massive Soviet Union military build-up and now the scene of total massive breakdown. These surrealistic visions stand in stark contrast to the vanished city of Königsberg, the city of Immanuel Kant and the city of kings. -- Someone who knows more about this history of Kaliningrad/Konigsberg, Russia, and East Prussia should have a look. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 22:54, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Latin names of regions - factual problems. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Sarajevo - Someone started writing a historical overview a bit too wide and didn't get anywhere. It's in a very bad shape now. -- Vedran 16:46, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • List of Ontario rivers - The hierarchal view is in bad shape; the entire St. Lawrence system is in a non-hierarchal order (the Great Lakes do drain into each other!), and some major rivers seem to go missing when many minor ones are piled on. Radagast
  • Kastamonu Province - Needs wikification, also a bit of NPOV'ing - not serious enough to merit a dispute or anything, but article appears to have been written by the hotels and tourism board. 209.149.235.254 22:50, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Georgia - There is too much talk about whether Georgia should be the same page as Georgia (country) or Georgia (disambiguation). This should come to an agreement by the time 2005 starts. 66.32.69.62 23:31, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Dubbo - Needs copyediting. Won't take too long, but thought I would list it here cause I probably won't get around to it --Chuq 13:00, 23 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

===Government / Politics / Bureaucracy === (also see below Political science / Law)

Historical figures

  • James H. Lane - aside from the obvious spelling/grammar/formatting issues, it appears that there may be two Civil War Generals named James Henry Lane -- see [1] and [2]. This could really use the attention of someone more familiar with Civil War history. Radicalsubversiv 02:51, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Homer Lea - great bio; needs fact-checking, NPOV, dates filled in
  • List of Mughal emperors - needs help getting links and names standardized, formatting.
  • Genghis Khan - the page needs info on Khan uniting the tribes before his conquest, and needs info on Khan's aborted conquest of Europe.
  • Menander - aside from having 1911-ese (and a whole lot of screwed up Greek words), it also doesn't have anything recent about him (such as Girl Of Samos, and whatever else may have been discovered since 1911). Adam Bishop 20:37, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • I cleaned up the Greek titles and added romanizations and translations of them, but rewriting and reorganization are still needed to bring the article up to date and make its contents easier to grasp quickly. A list of plays with extant fragments might be a good addition. Flauto Dolce 03:11, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Maltese Nobility needs some serious formatting by someone who is good at that (ie, not me :-) ). As it looks copypasted, it might also need copyright-checking, but note that the original contributor seems to be the owner of www.maltagenealogy.com.
  • William III of the Netherlands - needs encyclopedic tone and some basic facts like year of inauguration. Rmhermen 19:44, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've improved the writing style, but it's still unclear in places and needs a good going-over by someone familiar with Dutch history. -Smack 21:38, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Fernando Lopes - Needs to be formatted into Wikipedia coventions. And needs to be edited. Kingturtle 18:11, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lajos Kossuth - contains some worryingly opinionated statements ("With marvellous energy he kept in his own hands the direction of the whole government"). Needs fact-checking and neutralising. Onebyone 01:11, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Like it or not, the facts have been checked. The man *was* a charismatic leader - unkamunka. 16:34, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • I believe that, I'm just not sure I know enough about the subject to make the language better without introducing errors. I think the request for fact-checking was just something I passed on from the entry on cleanup - I now see that this article is in fact pretty close to the 1911 Britannica, so is probably accurate. That also explains the flowery prose... Onebyone
      • Having done an initial NPOV some time ago, I am slowly going through and boiling down the prose; probably originally written by an Anglophone Hungarian shortly after Kossuth's death - unkamunka. 12:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Rosa Parks makes a claim about Irene Morgan which is probably false.

I'm asking for help because I feel that I am not the best person to edit this article.

  • Eleftherios Venizelos - needs copyediting by someone familiar with the material - the major contributor, while obviously knowledgeable about the subject, is not comfortable with standard written English. 209.149.235.254 20:00, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach has some external internet links on abstract concepts for some reason. Dbiv 18:30, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Karl Schnörrer this page has a link and very little information about who the person is. Needs much expansion.
    • Have added some information. Found a good source, if someone has the time to add info from there (second external link). Not a major person though... --raylu 22:16, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

History

  • Indian independence movement - Started it ages back, but nobody's really brought content to this article. It summaries the first 10-20 years of the movement, and then stops abruptly. I don't know enough about this part of India's history to write stuff. If there are any experts about, please help! Gaurav 02:54, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Battle of Changsha (1944) - More information (especially background), proper translation, and what is the source? - Sid 17:01, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cavemen - Apparently, this article doesn't exist. Can someone knowledgeable do something about that? - MGM 22:08, May 7, 2004 (UTC) "Caveman" is a most unscientific term. This should link to Neolithic. Adam 08:49, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • History of Fiji and/or Politics of Fiji - excellently written, but much has changed in the government over the past two years. These pages need tremendous updates. See: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] -- Kingturtle 03:24 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Africa - Shockingly Eurocentric! Could use a couple hours of time from someone familiar with basic African history, and much cutting back of duplicate European content. That any article on African history doesn't detail black African states like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, Kano, Ashanti, Oyo, Benin, Ife, Monomontapa, or the Swahili-speaking city-states in East Africa, just to name some of the most notable. -- 172, May 3, 2003
    • Agreed, and phrases like "Spain had completely thrown off the Muslim yoke" aren't what you'd call exemplary NPOV either. The subject is far too big for the way that ths article tries to treat it. Really, it should be a very general overview of regions and centuries peppered with links to other articles. A bit like History of the United States only several times the area and at least 10 times the timespan -- Onebyone 18:44, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Spain needs a lot more information. --Alex S 14:38, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • seems bizarre that this supports a Greater Albania entry when we have no equivalent for Serbia unkamunka 21:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Immigration to the United States is hardcore POV. Meelar 18:15, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • POV seems improved but historical account is still very sketchy. Needs more from some knowledgeable historians. Dr. Z 04:15, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Babylonia and Assyria - all the articles linked on that page will desperately need some attention, as they apparently all come from the 1911 EB. I'm pretty sure they'll be extremely out of date by now. Adam Bishop 04:25, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Battle of Edgehill - what there is, is a bit messy so could do with re-writing, but then the author gave up and added a note to the bottom that more needs adding. I don't know enough about it myself, or I would do it. Francs2000 00:58, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Someone else added info, the note is gone. A good bit cleaner, some wikification done. Jonel 00:17, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Bretton Woods Conference. Needs refactor by knowledgable person. See Talk:Bretton Woods.
  • Consequences of German Nazism -- Not too bad now as an introduction to the post-war situation. However, the article will probably benefit from many readers skimming it, adding things (or at least suggesting additions), creating links, etc. <KF> 23:28, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did a rewrite of the German section of it -- Kathrynn 14:45, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Is the title correct? (My copy is different.) Also, article does not even touch on the theme of this influential book: the fall of the Roman Empire. llywrch
  • Egyptian_Mythology - needs fleshing out, theres hardly anything there, just lots of headings.
    • not too bad, in need of images though. allie 13:01, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • History of Puerto Rico needs to be wikified. I started one section. Right now is mostly a long scroll of unwikified text. Bkonrad 22:21, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified section was the end. Did some wikifying in general and added some headers. Bulleted text at bottom. There was a commented section with a note that said it could be merged. I merged it and put a comment around it because I'm not sure where it is supposed to go. --raylu 22:34, May 12, 2004 (UTC)----
  • Kinsky-horse, Count Kinsky, Elena Ceausescu, Kinsky - work on English - read like poor babelfish translations of de:Kinsky-Pferd (as do all the "Kinsky" articles). Needs someone fluent in German and English horse-speak! Lupo Slightly upgraded, but still needs work! +Sj+
  • Massacre in Koniuchy is in need of NPOV editing. --Baldhur 13:53, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Regained Territories needs attention from a knowledgable neutral individual(s) (do any exist?) Maximus Rex 04:19, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • that knowledgable person should ideally be a native (or at least more fluent) speaker of English, as well Orange Mike 04:32, 2004 Feb 6 (UTC)
  • Nepalese People's War - Well commenced article requires additional research and current-events archiving from any and all quarters! prat 02:24, 2004 Apr 6 (UTC)
  • Persia - I have filled in the info that was missing, but the article begs for a picture/timeline. Fishal 01:43, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman Empire - Article does not really explain a lot about the Empire itself but is a simple overview of some emperor's reigns. Colipon 18:57, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Unit 731 (World War II Japanese biological warfare research unit) has outline in place and needs more facts Astudent 05:16 21 May 2003 (UTC)
  • Watergate Scandal - there is a discrepancy regarding the tally of votes against the Articles of Impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee. See Talk:Watergate Scandal for details. - Dominus 01:59, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Dominus, is this resolved? It's been on this page sunce October. Kingturtle 20:59, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. I'm the primary author of this page, but it's outside my real expertise, and there is a lot of misinformation in print and on the web relating to this subject, so I've had a tough time researching. See Talk:Civil Constitution of the Clergy for further comments. Jmabel 07:01, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Prussia has been made quite a mess of. john 06:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC).
    • This article has been lovingly restored and is now (if I say so myself) adequate. It needs constant vigilance to fend off the Polish nationalists. Adam 04:59, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • History of California was formerly full of factual errors & wishful thinking (see Talk:History of California). (One possible external PD source is [8], but it is quite long and I haven't had a chance to distill it down.) -- hike395 01:25, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I think the section looks as good as any other on Wikipedia! It still needs some stylistic tweaking. Perhaps a paragraph or two of trivia could be deleted.--Wighson 01:34, 2004 Apr 1 (UTC)
  • Harlem Renaissance is embarrassing. jengod 00:21, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wu Hu, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Han Zhao, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Prussian people (ie, the Balts, not Prussia, etc!). Someone with knowledge on these Baltic people should flesh out their history, most especially at their first appearance in literature (such as Tacitus) and also their culture and a summary of the Old Prussian Language. Archaeological info would be valuable. Info in Origins of Prussia are a bit too general and specific to geography, not ethnology. Contributions of famous Prussians would be useful.
Please remember to add more info. on the current movement to revive Prussian culture on the modern descendants of the Prussian Balts.

Literature, Language, authors, writers, reporters, Media, Newspapers, Books, Journalism

Featherboy - Novel by Nicky Singer, TV series by BBC. - MGM 22:11, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

  • How to learn a language - Needs layout and rephrasing. -MGM 08:34, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Alex Rider - Stubby. Needs indepth discussion of stories and characters (all in one page)
  • Anthony Horowitz - non-existant. Needs to be written in order to link to Alex Rider and BBC
  • Greek lexicon - written in first person, article includes comments, table needs alphabetization, additional data needs integration into table with greek translation, etc., etc...
  • North Germanic languages - for a lay-person it seems as depreciated theories have a tendency to return to the page. Expert overview is needed.212.181.86.76 09:47, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of German-language poets -- very much like List of German-language authors: did Gunther Grass, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil or Max Frisch ever write poetry? I heard that Herman Hesse and Heinrich Boll did, but even so they are known as novelists. If I'm right, it's a shame (3 of the above are Nobel prize winners, I think) . Maybe it should be merged with the author's list. Curero 10:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • English poetry -- a very unencyclopaedic intro followed by a list of links. I hope to make a start on some of it today, but I need a hand or ten. Bmills 12:16, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • French literature This article doesn't know what it wants to be about. DanKeshet 23:34, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • F. Van Wyck Mason - Van Wyck Mason wrote about fifty crime and adventure novels with action in all parts of the world, some about historical people....but this article doesn't say much about that. Kingturtle 21:20, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Medieval poetry - Needs more detail to make a decent article. Rednblu 04:04, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • I've been adding, mostly, a list of links to more specific topics. If someone wants to add some kind of interpretation here, feel free. -- Smerdis of Tlön 01:05, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Nibelungenlied needs smoothing into proper English and would benefit from more information. Maximus Rex 06:43, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC). Tried smoothing the English a bit, but it still needs work. Idril 16:10, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Ellery Queen -- A lot more needs to be said about the various authors who used the name "Ellery Queen". --KF 21:49, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Sindbad the Sailor - incomplete. Dominus 04:55, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Tian Han -- From Wikipedia:Cleanup - most of the text in unintelligible. Maybe a machine translation.- would have to be fixed by someone who knows Tian Han (moved here by Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 18:55, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC))
    • Rearranged the information, hopefully, it reads a little better. Dylanwhs 18:24, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Vernon God Little bmills
    • I gave this page a reasonable structure and a spoiler warning, but it's still very much a stub. -Smack 07:07, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • On the Road -- If you have recently read the novel, you might enjoy editing this term paper and turning it into an encyclopaedia article. Should be great fun. --KF 19:43, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Caribbean English -- There's a hint as to what these languages might be on the List of dialects of English page but zero actual info. Anybody out there who could help? jengod 08:10, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Characterization -- Potentially could be an interesting article, but needs a great deal of work to eliminate some of the more prescriptive elements. --ALargeElk 11:32, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Information literacy -- Needs to be more like an article and less like an essay, and desperately needs to be wikified. Radagast 01:28, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
    • Simplified some of the text, changed some of the headings, and fixed some of the format issues but there is a lot left before it will sound like an article instead of an essay. It really needs a new structure... jaredwf 12:34, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Handwriting foreign accent - Needs renaming and a rewrite. According to comments on the talk page, some of the info might not even be correct. -- uriber 19:19, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • E-Prime - I honestly have no idea what this is about. Maybe it's just late.  :) Sounds informative, but it needs some conext and news style. --Spikey 04:21, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Hmm. Looks fine to me, but maybe because I already know the topic. What is confusing? -- Jmabel 04:33, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Nonsense verse - A lot can be said about the origins, history, style and contributions to nonsense poetry. Jay 08:14, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • South Caucasian languages is now a redirect to Georgian (Kartvelian) languages, but it should be the other way around (Georgian and Kartvelian are less used, politically charged, and arguably incorrect).Jorge Stolfi 14:50, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Mathematics & Mathematicians

  • E Study - Created in order to disambiguate from study. Article needs to be moved to the proper name but I could only find references to him by first initial. Rossami 22:22, 19 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Flow rate - Optim 03:57, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Costate equations - is this correct? Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Fourier transform is better now. Is the inversion theorem discussion sufficient? The space of Fourier transforms of Lebesgue-integrable functions (i.e., functions, the integrals of whose absolute value is finite) is not well understood, last time I heard. The Fourier transfrom of such a function may fail to be Lebesgue-integrable, so "properly" improper integrals appear in the inversion theorem. The set of tempered distributions is its own image under the Fourier transform, so that version of the inversion theorem works out neatly. Then there's the whole matter of quadratically integrable functions.
  • List of relativistic equations - blanked for a long time; could be a useful list, but needs some explanations. -- Minesweeper 23:54, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Quantum electrodynamics - I fixed the broken LaTex formula to conform to the author's apparent intent. I'm not sure if the "D" in the sentence following the formula should also be slashed. Could someone who knows QED double-check this please? -- Ortonmc 23:22, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • cleaned up some Latex, but it still needs a lot of work lethe
  • The Sheaf article is missing any explanation of why this is interesting or anyone cares about sheaves. Dominus 18:40, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Law of averages and Law of large numbers - are these one and the same principle? -Smack No, the former comes from a common misunderstanding of probability, while the latter is well-founded mathematics. The former is, more or less, misinterpretation of the latter - this needs to be explained and cross-referenced. -Paul G 19 Dec 2003
    • I cleaned up law of averages only to discover that Gambler's fallacy covers essentially the same ground in a different style. They should probably be merged and one of them made into a redirect. Isomorphic 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Spherical coordinate system -- needs thorough formulae vs. words checking
  • Fisher-Tippett distribution -- needs a thorough rewrite, and possibly a merge with extreme value theory
  • Positional notation -- I tried to clean this one up but it still looks confusing. Big edits were needed because parts were redundant (to other articles), not in wiki markup, etc. Perhaps someone with a slightly better understanding should make the edit. alerante 23:23, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC) This article is not bad but, I agree, it could be improved. I will attempt to get to it within a week. robert chamberlain 19:11, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Formula for primes Can you make any more rules on determining what characteristics n has to have for n to be prime?? (Anon comment - on Talk page, please. Charles Matthews 09:28, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC))
  • Complex number - reads like it was originally copied from an old source. -- Walt Pohl 18:19, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Henstock-Kurzweil integral -- Walt Pohl 20:59, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Super-exponentiation -- is this notation genuine? The source given is a mathforum link to where the notation is "invented" by a enthusiastic student. It seems like a dup of Knuth's up-arrow notation. Motor 19:48, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Frieze pattern -- Do you know of any Wikipedia pages that can have a link here?? 66.32.71.96 02:12, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Functional equation is very stubby and I'm far from convinced that it can be construed in a way that makes it correct as it stands. Michael Hardy 01:52, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Natural deduction is inaccurate and/or confusing. What is needed is a discussion of Dag Prawitz's Natural Deduction rules for classical propositional logic, possibly also including weaker systems and first-order logic. MarkSweep 05:42, 2004 Apr 22 (UTC)

Medicine / Surgery / Biology /Health

  • Abdomen is a mess. -- Dominus 19:15, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Mixing chiropractic needs renaming and rewriting - not my area so I don't know how much of what's here is any use, but I suspect not a lot. Toby W 23:15, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Sphygmomanometry - Optim 03:55, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Diabetes mellitus - not up to the standard of scientific knowledge. Kpjas
    • I've tried piecemeal changes in this and related pages. The structure here needs more help, and more tweaking. There is some question as to whether the focus should be on information for diabetics or the science (as known) about diabetes, or both. I suggest both as diabetics should certainly understand more than a little about the science. More detailed stuff (how to test for blood glucose, diabetic menus/cooking, ...) should probably go elsewhere. ww 20:12, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • F wave - needs simpler language. What does antidromically mean? Onebyone 00:35, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC) (from cleanup)
    • Reworked for clarity and factual accuracy. And even included a definition for antidromically ;-) --Diberri 09:39, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Hans Asperger - better. +sj+ 00:11, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Involuntary control of respiration - unwikified and reads like its been cut directly from a medical text. -- Pm67nz 09:25, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Passes the Google test for copyright infringement. Message sent to user regarding source, no reply expected. -Smack 00:02, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Myasthenia gravis - needs links --bdesham Jul 2003 ...and major rewriting to make it sound more like an encyclopedia and less like a brochure Alex.tan Sep 2003 slightly better now. +sj+ 00:11, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Nurse assistant skills - written by high school student, edited for language by non-medical person, needs professional review for content Dpbsmith 03:13, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Bipolar disorder is very chaotically organized and contains a number of contradictory statements. -- Seth Ilys 05:44, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) I've only read the beginning, but I am assuming this is a joke, yes? --bodnotbod 15:03, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Electrical quackery - needs a more sedate tone! - redcountess 23:41, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • Traditional medicine - essay needs complete overhaul Jwrosenzweig 22:50, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC) - Did minor editing. heidimo 03:53, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - needs TLC -- Graham  :) | Talk 15:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychiatric hospital While there is much to criticise in the treatment of psychiatric patients, this entire article is riddled with criticism. I think the aims of such institutions need to be laid out and then criticisms/controversies discussed later in the article. It needs much NPOV and untangling. I don't feel qualified for that. --bodnotbod 11:31, May 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Monocotyledon states that the taxon should now be called Liliopsida. There is however a redirect by that name. Could someone do the biz for me (delete and rename) ?? Thanks, GerardM 19:53, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • The class should be called Liliopsida. The group is called the monocotyledons, both as a common name and as a as a formal name for the clade. No rename should take place.

Military / War / Peace / International relations

Movies / Television / Radio

  • Notable actors without pages: Jonathan Silverman, Frank Finlay and Judi Dench (!), need to be created and expanded - MGM 22:14, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Seraphin, Terreis, Dahak, Cristina, Chilapa, Solari, Najara, Alti. Livia/Eve, Cyane, Hope (fictional character), Velasca, Amarice. All of these are characters on Xena: Warrior Princess, however the articles were written by a vandal who seems to update based on the reality of her fanfiction universe instead of the television show. These all need to be gone over by someone who watches the show and can actually say who these characters are and what they did. Snowspinner 03:17, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tyler Hoechlin and David Gallagher Sufficiently famous IMO, but stubby, needs expansion. -MGM 14:54, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • sitcom needs input from NON US/UK contributors or, at least, anyone that knows about sitcoms on; mainland Europe; Africa; Russia; Far East; Middle East; Australia; South America...anywhere other than UK/US, frankly... --bodnotbod 17:51, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Television comedy used to be a redirect to sitcom. I felt that was misleading and unsatisfactory. I've made a start. Please help make it less British. ...
  • Development hell is defined on the main page in a way that doesn't seem quite correct: it implies that "development hell" is a natural part of the filmmaking process, like casting, or hiring a location manager. Several other pages which link to it have been edited to reflect this definition. Puffy jacket 23:22, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Film criticism: The distinction between critics and reviewers isn't as clear cut as this article makes out. Could use a new approach, more history and many more names/sites of active critics. Scarequotes 22:17, Sep 15, 2003 (UTC)
    • There also appears to be some serious confusion about the difference between film critics and film theorist/analysts. --Chips Critic 21:36, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Home on the Range (movie) - Put information about the characters in this movie as well as the actors and some songs, if you can.
  • International broadcast of Japan a bit of a mess SimonP 19:19 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Radio programming – Someone with a good sense of radio history should do a better sorting job -- right now, "old time" and "modern" are the only two categories, which means the latter is quite a catch-all. More information on programming would be nice, too. -- Scarequotes 23:10, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)
  • List of male television actors and List of female television actors are both pitifully short compared to the list of male/female movie actors. I'm not sure most contributors know these lists exist. Fabiform 05:42, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • List of radio stations in Georgia Just about all Atlanta FM radio stations except WNNX-FM are there, but can you add more Albany, Georgia stations?? User 66.32.73.125 March 27, 2004
  • CIDC This article is messed up, but I don't know anything about Canadian radio stations. Can someone more versed in this subject fix the grammar and information? Also, is the notation used for the call sign abbreviation (C)I)D)ouglasC)) some kind of radio standard notation or is it a typo? - DropDeadGorgias 23:30, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Ringer - On Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fandom. Good content, but poorly written and organized. -- Seth Ilys 15:16, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Articles on characters in Power Rangers (eg. Lothor, Tori Hanson, Adam Park) - Is a page on each character particularly necessary? Many of these are merely plot summaries. kelvSYC 06:34, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Would like to see merge of characters with Power Rangers - MGM 14:54, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • The Matrix Revolutions Needs some big time help. Really confusing and stuff. I tred to fix some of it but i can't even begin to clear it up. Kirvett 01:39, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Fame (movie, TV series, and theme song) - moved to Fame, which was made a disambig page. Individual arts on the movie, Broadway show, TV series, and song need creatin'. +sj+ 00:44, 2004 May 7 (UTC)
  • Al Pacino needs a lot of work. Right now it's nothing more than a filmography. RADICALBENDER★ 16:38, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Music and musicians

  • Contemporary Christian music Needs more artists added, and list needs to be alphabitised-Joiz 15:02, Apr 1, 2004 (CST)
  • S Club 7 Candidate for expansion (ideas: tv series, discography links, external links, S Club 8, individual member bios)-MGM 14:56, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • 2004 in music repeatedly Michaeled -- accuracy therefore questionable. Maximus Rex 23:48, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Akashic Records - Rewrite necessary. -- Schnee 20:05, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • This topic has nothing to do with music. heidimo 03:55, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of arrangers - Stubby and poorly formatted. Moreover, arranger is a redirect to this page, which seems wrong. -mhr 06:01, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Jobriath - needs NPOV attention, any aging glam rockers out that can help???? quercus robur 09:34, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Saxophone - i don't know where else to place this request. We really should have a Wikipedia:Images needing attention page. My request involves the bottom-most image of the saxophone article. It really should be placed horizontally, rather than vertically. Kingturtle 02:06, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Did my changes fix it to your satisfaction? I guess the image was placed rotated since it was too wide; I put a smaller (properly oriented) version in the article, with a link to properly oriented large image. -- Infrogmation 18:24, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran - To borrow a phrase commongly used for humans:Something might come out of it, but only if we shape it into a good article being, hehehehe...in other words, theres potential there but someone needs to fix it. -- Antonio Suffered soul Martin
  • Lawrance Livermore, Lawrence Livermore, Green Day, Lookout! Records - First article is orphaned. First 2 articles seem to overlap (and are small). Needs attention from one who cares or knows ... Zigger 15:45, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • First is a spelling error, redirected to the second, to which I've added a bit more detail. Still needs more, as does the record label page. The Green Day page looks fine to me. - David Gerard 16:12, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • What Is Soul - Not really sure what's going on here. Hasn't been touched in over a year --Spikey 23:33, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Dave Blood - I can barely find anything on the Web! You'd think a member of such well-documented band would be easier to find. The Billboard obit doesn't even give his age. --Charles A. L. 21:31, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Hardcore punk - according to the talk page, needs someone to sort out the genres, fix mistakes, make it less California-centric, clean up bias...
  • Music of Missouri and Music of Kansas - time starts about the year 1980 in both of these articles. The tremendous influence of Kansas City, Missouri on jazz would be a welcome addition to the music of Missouri. The rock band Kansas (band) gets no mention in the Kansas article other than a disambiguation link. On my 'to-do' list, but I'm not a high-powered jazz expert. Brian Rock 01:41, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Vonda Shepard -- Please complete the list of songs on her album. If any songs on the album are NOT covers of oldies, just write "original". Also, can you add her birth year to this article?? 66.245.11.49 01:00, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

People, professions, organizations and groups

  • Ryosuke Cohen - short and written in very poor english.
  • John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell - way too detailed and complicated, someone with the time and interest should short out what's essential Alex S 16:01, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Arborist - currently a "how to hire" guide, should be a better description of what an arborist does. Also seems to have a POV about particular methods. -- Finlay McWalter 03:49, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Ernest Borneman -- Lots still missing from Borneman's biography. In the 1980s and 1990s in Germany and Austria, no one knew that he had had a life before becoming a "sexologist". Some claim he had a strange attitude to paedophilia. His books must also be mentioned. Finally, his suicide came as a surprise to many who had been listening to him on TV talking positively about life. <KF> 08:53, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Chang and Eng Bunker: says "They were joined at the side by what was discovered after their death in 1874 to be only a superficial connection involving skin tissue." I think this is incorrect. I believe their livers were also conjoined. Dominus 21:26, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Derek Vestey -- confusing relationships need clarifying from someone with knowledge of the Vestey family. 08 May 2004.
  • William Caxton -- not quite sure what should be done with the big slice of source text that dominates the article. Bmills 12:01, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Gordon Campbell - this article has not been edited since December, 2003 and needs to be updated with recent developments. 142.179.125.20 01:54, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • David B. Danbom is a very very sad article. It might even be deletable, if it turns out that this person isn't at all famous and just made a vanity page. --Alex S 22:10, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Some googling shows that he *is* a multiply-published historian. Not necessarily famous, but not necessarily not famous either. DS, March 4 2004
    • Yeah, I know this guys work -- I used some of it in my research, but what a lame page -- possibly a good candidate for deletion depending on the pedia's stand how many bios to include ... Dr. Z 04:36, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Anne Hutchinson - is a caricature of her biography, I already added link for a source for rewriting. andy 19:41, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Poul Martin Moller - one-author article on this philosopher needs wikifying, expanding, and maybe a little NPOV. All I could do was remove the e-mail address and request for information. Paullusmagnus 01:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Jerry Lucas - long, lauditory (auto?)biography, needs NPOV, wikification, organization -- Cyan 17:51, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
  • Japanese person needs work. Maximus Rex 21:17, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • John Kluge: All that's here is a history of Metromedia, really; it could be moved to "Metromedia" and re-edited. We need a real biography page for him, but I don't know enough about him to flesh it out. -lee 17:26, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
    • Where does Metromedia stop and Kluge start? He's always let VERY little into the public record. Anyhow, I've put about as much as I can be certain of in. unkamunka 22:17 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Karl Eberhard Schongarth - first paragraph makes little sense. The second paragraph is mainly a series of phrases with unknown acronyms. RedWolf 06:22, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • N. Senada - requires verification. Onebyone 22:50, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lew Wallace - Just a list of bullet points with the heading "Notes toward an article". —Paul A 06:51, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Wachowski brothers - out-of-date. TwoOneTwo 15:10, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Waiter -- slightly imbalanced; also needs spicing up. <KF> 02:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Shock jock - Somewhat POV, not very descriptive. --Spikey 03:06, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) --- I rewrote this to expand, NPOV, and wikify. Should be much better, improvements welcome. KeithTyler 01:02, May 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • List_of_members_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives - This page is fine, but nearly ALL the members need work. Check Jim Nussle, Leonard Boswell, Dennis Moore for what I'm trying. Vote totals are at this link and committees can be found at member homepages (Google them) or committee homepages. Power 08:44, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Donald E. Williams - Unwikified...
  • Joseph Henry Pendleton - Good info, probably, but I didn't look closely - unwikified, possibly copyvio? ugen64 15:55, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Richard Clarke - He's been in the news a lot, so it'd be good to get this in better shape. -- Wapcaplet 18:49, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • James Caan - fanography. Needs wikification, NPOV'ing, copyedit Ellsworth 16:27, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nikola Tesla: the Early Years section reads more like a polemic on his ethnicity than a biography. needs copyediting, NPOV.
    • It's worse than that; a mixture of ethnic polemics, conspiracy theory weirdness, crackpottery, and idolatry that greatly exaggerates his undoubted genius. There are a whole series of Tesla-related articles linked from a sidebar, and most are even worse. Securiger 16:59, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • It definitely needs copyediting, but the information is pretty factual and follows a timeline of his life in a neat flow. It seems to have little to do with his ethnicity except for the fact that his ethnicity played a major role in his immigration to the US. Copyedit yes, rearrange if necessary. The entire article is long and exhaustive, so we should expect a section on his ethnicity and background to be relatively long as well. It contributes to a complete encyclopedia article. Abqwildcat 22:16, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
      • It is not "pretty factual". See Talk:Nikola Tesla for some of the fairly major errors and exaggerations I have picked up so far. That's five hours' research and I am less than a third of the way through just the main article. Hence, the request here for assistance. Securiger 05:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Brigands - too many style codes, needs more info

Philosophy and Larry's Text

  • Yoga Sutra. This article contains two separate entries (both good), one after the other. They need to be combined and organized. Good luck! Quadell 23:32, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I think it would be better for the first part of the article to be merged with Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The second part is what actually talks about Yoga Sutras in general. Jam2k 13:23, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Albert Camus/the Absurd. Wikification/rewrite. Move to non sub-page. Angela 19 Aug 2003. Now moved, but just an unwikified essay. Maybe delete? Angela 05:45, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • The Enlightenment. Too many cooks spoil the broth it seems, at least when it comes to describing, in general terms, the main characteristics of this revolutionary era. An introduction to enlightened 18th century thought is needed here, with lots of cross references leading off to politics, literature, etc. etc. Also, the split into The Enlightenment and Enlightenment (concept) (plus a disambiguation page Enlightenment) might be reconsidered. <KF> 00:31, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - final section "Misc" ends in what appears to be a tangential essay with no clear connection to Nietsche's ideas -- llywrch
  • Larry's Text is a set of pages input by Larry Sanger in the early days of Wikipedia. It is 350+(!) pages of introduction to philosophy lectures he gave at Ohio State University. Rendering it all encyclopedic has been a daunting task, and many of these articles still need a lot of work.
  • Voltaire - needs re-organizing, updating, editing for style (most of the article is 1911EB); and some judicious trimming probably wouldn't hurt. —Paul A 06:01, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Will (philosophy) - says copyediting in progress, but that way is May last year. andy 23:08, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Forms of state - Oof! I don't know anything about this topic, but I know this needs some reorg. and rewording. --Spikey 02:49, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • subject-object problem -- needs work; contains an extremely far-fetched analogy to quantum mechanics; too verbose. +sj+ 10:41, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • transhumanism needs a non-transhumanist to take a look at it. There's bias here, I think--I just don't know enough to correct it. Meelar 20:00, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • physicalism: Larry's Text has been removed, but now this article needs to be edited from the ground up. This is a pretty critical position in philosophy of mind, so come help out!
  • sophistry - Moved two POV paragraphs from the article to the talk page. How can we rework these paragraphs to NPOV? Kwertii 02:46, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Socratic method - needs more organization and references, currently sounds more like one person's interpretation of it, than an encyclopedia article. --zandperl 15:00, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Essentialism - Needs someone who knows more about Essentialism than I do to pull the page together. Before I made it a disambiguation page, it was a mixture of the first two topics. jaredwf 11:28, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Places

===Political science / Law === (also see Crime, Government, etc.)

Psychology

Recreation, Hobbies, Games

  • The Hunting page needs a good edit - see also Talk:Hunting - MPF 20:26, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • I have started making additions to the postage stamp section but am unsure how far this should be taken. If there is anything that people want added, especially relating to GB postal history let me know and I will do what I can. All information from my website can be freely used if required - www.devoted,to/stamps Tallanent 19:07, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Cottabus - contains ASCII-encoded Greek words that need converted to Unicode, by somebody who knows more Greek than I do. Salsa Shark 08:14, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Tightlacer - Those who have been at work on this article seem to be real aficionados who keep adding names and external links without ever having a look at the very stupid definition. --KF 18:17, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I've worked on the text, and renamed it to Tightlacing as it seems to me that the practice is a better encyclopedic article name than the people who do it. —Morven 07:56, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Underwater photography -- Is poorly laid out with little prose, but mostly lists with little explanation. —Frecklefoot 14:47, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Lansquenet appears to be copied out of a nineteenth century book and needs modernizing. --Imran 13:07, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • List of chess topics lists players alphabetically by their first name -- TwoOneTwo 21:44, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Tie (draw) needs some work. Moved from VfD. See the talk page for suggestions. -- Cecropia 02:44, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Kikaider - I've no idea what this article is about! Is it a toy, a fictional series of books, a computer game, a cartoon on TV? Someone must know! David Thrale 22:13, 9 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • On the swimsuit page there is an   that is bizarre and misleading. It depicts a woman wearing a bikini swimsuit and a metal neck collar with a leash ring. Metal neck collars are not typical components of swimsuits. It would be better if the example illustration on the swimtui page depicted a more typical swimsuit that did not include a metal collar. -- Dominus 17:25, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Religion, Holidays, Cults, self-help

  • Varnas is a concept from Hinduism, but this article is very hard to understand and needs going over, probably some wiki-ing as well. Meelar 05:05, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Divine is a stub that could use a good broad survey of the concept incorporating different religious views. Alcarillo 04:22, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Goddess -Article is almost entirely about modern Goddess worship. Very short on historical goddessess. Rmhermen 23:23, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Alms - Needs lots of work and clarification to be a useful article. --Αλεξ Σ 01:23, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Cosmotheism - This article has been very recently created, and while it is a real subject, the creater (I believe) and honestly the most knowledgable people on the subject (I hope they are!) have either been listed as vandals, or simply suffer from being VERY new and having trouble w grammer and formatting (they are also mainly anonymous IP's). It would be easier to clean up after, but the article is a source of a great deal of reverts and rewrites, and while I am interested in the subject, I can't claim much expertise on this particular variation, despite my research. Jack
  • Heathenry - nothing much about the religion itself, just some semantic points regarding the derivation of the name. Should this maybe be combined with Asatru? Kwertii 10:39, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • I've done a full rewrite, but it badly needs a bit more attention. SetarconeX
  • New Year's Eve - this is a smattering of bits of information strewn together. Please give it body and substance :) Kingturtle 19:55, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • mostly this needed redirection to New Year which it was trying to duplicate, I left the new years eve specific stuff. It still needs editing. Rick Boatright 22:32, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Persecution of Muslims - some people are working on it, but it needs help. Kingturtle 23:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • St. Casimir's Day needs a going over for NPOV by someone who's not Lithuanian (or at least a neutral Lithuanian).
  • The Bible in Islam serious NPOV problems here. Seems like it was written by Ali-Sina or someone from an anti-islam propaganda/agitation group many verses being quoted into fabricated contexts. Might be best for someone to re-write it.
    • IMO, this article looks much better now, but it still needs some modern scholarship. RK 22:09, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)
  • Voice of the Martyrs: usefule article, but somewhat POV-ish. -- Khym Chanur 11:38, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
    • I've gone over it a couple of times, mostly for typos. An article of this nature probably can't help appearing somewhat POV. Any specific suggestions? - Rlvaughn 20:23, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Upanishad - needs ugly formatting and the diacrita in the main upanishads section fixed. -- Finlay McWalter 01:31, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Korean mythology: contains stuffs from a famous apocryphal book that was cooked up in the 20th century and is believed by cult religions. --Nanshu 00:58, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Irish mythology - really just a set of lists of wikis to other articles. Bmills 11:28, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Marduk - contains both some wiki-authored content and a 1911 article. -Smack 06:42, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Self hypnosis - stub, and poorly written IMo --Steinsky 17:25, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Islamic eschatology -- I know that houris and sex aren't the be-all and end-all of this, but I don't know much more than that. The article needs much more about Islamic ideas of personal eschatology (death, judgement, reward, punishment) and general eschatology (ad-Dajjal, the end of the world, etc.) from someone with some knowledge of this topic. --MIRV 22:08, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • All pages edited by User:66.207.39.62/User:DonaldSutherland on 8th Jan. He has made consecutive and numerous edits to some pages. It is very difficult to look at the changes using the Diff display. Requires lot of patience to go through the articles. The contents do not seem to be copied from anywhere. Here are the pages : Yoga, Yoga_Sutras, Krishna, Bhagavad_Gita, Prayer, Brahman_(god), Tantra, Hinduism.
  • YHWH, YHVH, Tetragrammaton and Yahweh all say slightly different things about the word and should probably be reconciled. DJ Clayworth 15:23, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Joseph de Maistre - needs wikification RedWolf 06:04, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
    • Now edited, wikified. Still could use verification of translations of titles of works. -- Jmabel 05:22, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Seven stages - marvelously obscure description of the stages of yogic progress. --Smack 05:59, 12 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • High Priest -- This redirect is correct in the Judaic sense, but not the Pagan/Wiccan sense. --Spikey 02:39, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Genesis - makes no mention of the very common belief that the Bible is divinely inspired and infallible --Smack 17:36, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Science

  • Competitive inhibitor is mostly a subset of information in Rate of enzyme mediated reactions. Can more info be added, or should it be merged? Even more problematic is page for inhibitor. Brona 21:14, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Scientific method is a long article that's nearly been having an edit war. I think fresh blood will help. --zandperl 22:44, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Nelson's_syndrome- Very poor at the moment - is barely a defintion of what it is. Someone add some actual content please.
  • Dust | Interstellar dust | Interstellar cloud | molecular cloud - the dust page needs more information, and should either have MORE about dust in the astronomy context, or remove all info about it and have a link to interstellar dust. Currently interstellar dust is a redirect to interstellar cloud, but that's slightly inaccurate. Interstellar cloud and molecular cloud are separate pages that I believe should be merged. --zandperl 16:02, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Colors of chemicals is written in schoolteacher form, has some format problems, and also has some factual errors as brought up on it's talk page. Needs help. --Alex S 04:51, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Suggest move of relevant information to Color under the heading 'Chemistry of color' and keeping info on specific ion colors on this page. Needs discussion on it's talk page.MGM 19:30, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Eye exercises is poorly written and informal. Timwi 23:55, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC) Should be better now, although lacking specific examples of exercises one could do Enochlau 14:06, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • More copy editing, link to Bates method article and couple other examples of exercises from Asia. That probably covers it, but your mileage may vary. heidimo 15:37, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Aberration in optical systems is a wordy theoretical article from the 1911 Encyclopedia. It cries out to be rewritten in readable English and peppered with diagrams. EdH 16:43, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • I've added scans of the original illustrations from the 1911 Encyclopaedia. The article still needs tons of work, though. -- DrBob 21:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Therblig Too small. Somebody write more? Optim 07:45, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Perspective -- an important subject in Cognitive Science. The article lacks any reasonable structure; lacks the "perspective" :-). As a first step, I spawned the article "Perspective (graphical)" (not the best name, I admit) to deal with painting, drawing, etc. Mikkalai 23:56, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Mel Frequency bands - incoherent cut-and-paste, but sounds like the topic might be worthwhile. Anyone able to clean this up and make it useful? Otherwise it probably gets deleted. Isomorphic 06:28, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Reciprocal System of Theory - needs review from people experienced in Physics Daniel Quinlan 19:43, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)
  • Marduk (planet) - two poorly-written texts on one topic are not better than one well-written text. -Smack 07:04, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Wave model As of 05:15, 18 Dec 2003, the external links section seems inconsistently written.
  • Statistical hypothesis testing - after attempting to read it, I don't really understand what it is.
  • Camphor I made this page, however I would rest better at night if someone with a proper reference checked to make sure I have the correct isomer for the chemical name as in the diagram. Maximus Rex 04:23, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • Checked with Chemfinder. Diagram is correct. Also added table of properties. - MGM 09:14, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Nuclear fission Seriously cut-and-paste; headings handled wrong–I could fix that, but– not well organized; history is spotty, in places unclear or misleading. Dandrake 05:49, Oct 22, 2003 (UTC)
  • Moment (physics) now consists of two separate articles, each author ignorant that the other was writing on that topic. One of them is material formerly at moment, which is now an article on the more abstract mathematical concept of moment, applied in probability theory, that evolved out of the physical concept of moment.
  • Thermodynamics has a lot of unclear information that probably shouldn't be in the article in the first place. Has virtually no information on the development of thermodynamics, notable contributors, etc. -Smack 23:29, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Reliability testing is virtually devoid of useful information. --Smack 18:41, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Chemical oceanography has good info, but needs organization and more depth. --Flockmeal 20:50, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Friction -- this article contains some dodgy-looking physics which needs checking and revising by someone who knows about this field in detail. -- The Anome 12:31, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Pathogen. This article seems very rudimentary. I have done some tidying, but it really needs someone more expert than I. David Thrale 00:19, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • I gave it a bit of attention but it definitely needs more. heidimo 16:42, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Quantum phase transition This needs to be verified and wikified by someone who can understand it. Thue 18:54, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Sociology

  • Coming of age, surprisingly, is mainly about Australia and Japan. It would probably be best to start the article from scratch and then incorporate the material that is already there. <KF> 13:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Gang is rather minimal. I've put some suggestions on its talk page, but I someone much more expert than I am should work on this one. -- Jmabel 06:33, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Incest has an NPOV header on it, and also needs sections and embedded references. zandperl 23:27, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Heteronormativity has tremendous POV isues, and is a term mainly found on the wikipedia and forks Sam Spade 05:13, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Jukes and Kallikaks - needs more specific information about the families, accuracy of data, and the way the information was used. Cecropia 22:48, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sports

  • Dog agility needs information, mostly links, about the sport for countries other than the USA. Also needs addition of correct (per international agility rules) metric measurements.
  • Japanese Baseball needs a lot more...it's pretty pathetic as it is right now. There's lots of info on the jp page if someone wants to try translating even? Kurohone 01:45, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Babe Ruth is really well-written, and then cuts off immediately. It reads like a to-do list from his divorce onwards. Meelar 05:36, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Riddick Bowe needs to have the timeline information incorporated into a real article. Also needs updating from his subsequent trial, imprisonment and release (see: [10]). RADICALBENDER★ 16:22, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Association of Chess Professionals needs help from someone who knows the organization and its dispute with FIDE. Scout3214:26, 22 May 2004
  • Indianapolis 500 is missing a lot of information about the race's history. Not a lick of info about the controversy of the CART-IRL split in the 1990s and the Indy 500's role in that, for example. Nor is there much about the uniqueness of the race: the qualifying (Bump Day, etc.), the drinking of the milk, even the name "Gasoline Alley" is never mentioned. RADICALBENDER★ 03:52, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Technology

  • Stirling engine - two thirds of this article is a huge external links section. The information in the external links should be incorporated into the article, and the external links trimmed down somewhat.
  • Alternative technology is more of an informal rant than an article. Needs major re-write and wikification. I think it's redeemable, however. heidimo 23:58, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Not much wikification to be done. I didn't rewrite but I edited. Still seems like an "informal rant." --raylu 22:44, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
  • High level equilibrium trap - needs to be much longer. Kwertii 18:18, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Transportation, Tourism

  • Tourism - Most of huge article is one heading - History. Needs sections, organising, swapping, re-editing (move stuff to other articles?) Zoney 00:21, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • major copyedit & reorganization done -- 10 May 2004
  • Individual Visit Scheme - information is not comprehensive, should stated more on the different impacts such as economic and social aspect
  • Zytec Lotus Elise - stub on electric sports car, w/ garble & ambiguity listed in Talk:Zytec Lotus Elise. Jerzy (moved from cleanup Onebyone 01:58, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC))
  • Resort. I'm the author of this page, but I do not know how to go about expanding it. Is there a major difference between a resort and a hotel? --Johnleemk 13:20, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Peugeot - Needs more information, the models need some articles as well.
  • Renault - Missing a lot of models, needs more history.
  • MARTA - All the stations on the orange line are mentioned, but can you add the blue line?? 66.32.90.202 02:40, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Dodge Viper appears to have been written by someone whose primary language was other than English. Lots of metric measurements, few Imperial measurements. No mention of the coupe or tuner models from the likes of Hennesey Motors. - Lucky 6.9 05:24, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Mercedes-Benz 300SL - same problems as with Dodge Viper. - Lucky 6.9 04:18, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Misc

Wikipedia

  • Wikipedia -- Needs much more timely overview info, in addition to the long history. Links to news, press releases, stats, etc. 140.247.101.94 22:07, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC
  • Wikipedia:List of images Im hoping that this will eventually be a comprehensive list of images on wikipedia, but for now it needs to be filled in! Theon 20:10, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)
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