Wikipedia:Pages needing attention

Of course, every entry on Wikipedia deserves attention. But some entries deserve tender loving attention.

If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, but have no idea how to approach it, list it here so that others can find it.

This page is very similar to the other pages like: Requested articles, Current events. However it is more utilitarian than those pages, being intended for the editorial community alone.

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

Imprecise language - no longer in first person, but still needs work
Alchemy - a great article, but written in an academic essay style
poets - not only are the page titles messed up, very possibly the page itself should be redirected to listing of poets
Black Sabbath - from the article: and someone else can write 1979 to date
Military History - should probably be moved to Military history. Also this article is badly organized, but I don't know how to fix it.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode - this article is nearly ready but needs final editing and checking
Wends- general re-write and information needs
Sigismund I Jagiello -- at present, this is just bad prosopography. Needs an infusion of context and coherence
Cracow - has a lot of good info, but also has some claims that fall outside the NPOV.
Symbionese Liberation Army - formation of group is there, and a link to Kathleen Soliah, but the middle is missing
Alexandria, Virginia - the data is old and needs updating, and a reference to "Alexandria County" is totally outdated.
Articles from the 1911 Encyclopedia
Irian Jaya - requires merging and NPOVing
Martin Luther King Jr. - much more needs to be written, in more depth
Holocene extinction event - more species are needed, and some help with NPOV, since I think the whole thing is tree-hugger bogosity
Religious aspects of marriage - Larry wanted this article, but I doubt he wanted it quite like this. (Not so bad now that the original has been replaced.)
Miyuki - may have violated copyright.
Balloon - could use some more examples.
PDP-11 - huh? this needs to be more easily understood
Sugarhill Gang - needs reorganization
Kashmir - long on bathic emotion, short on facts
Fascism - needs watching for NPOV
Thirteen years war - needs editing and clarification
Zarnowiec - translation problems
English Civil War - looks like some parts of paragraphs are missing, it doesn't quite make sense in some bits.

Articles that seem to be nothing more than definitions

Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and an article which simply defines a word is useless. Sometimes, those articles can turn into bona fide encyclopedic treatments of a topic; sometimes they should just be deleted.

Police -- David Ricardo
organization -- trade organization -- hierarchy member -- immediate superior -- immediate subordinate -- subordinate -- rooted hierarchy -- hierarchical tree structure -- rooted hierarchical tree structure -- containment hierarchy (See talk)

Articles containing outdated text

The following articles were drawn from out-of-date public domain texts, such as the 1911 Encyclopedia Anglicana, the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia, or the 1881 Household Cyclopedia. Or, they may contain large sections drawn from such texts. In any event, they require fact-checking, modernization, and deletion of anachronisms. (This may be the best way to deal with the flood of dubious material from 62.98. It's a lot more constructive than flame wars.)

Abgar -- Club

Series of articles by 62.98.178.73, containing large chunks of outdated Household Cyclopedia material: Marl -- Fertilizer -- Mineral matter in plants -- Guano -- Humus -- Compost -- Harrowing -- Tillage -- Soil -- Moss -- Sowing -- Wheat -- Seaweed -- Corn -- Hay -- Straw -- Flax -- Hemp -- Drainage -- Crow --Weed -- Fermentation -- Brewing -- Cider -- Crop rotation -- Age of cattle --Horse teeth

More articles by 62.98.xx.xx containg Household Cyclopedia material. Added to previously existing articles. Dog -- Rowing

Hop (plant) - more Household Cyc stuff, needs to be redirected and/or merged with Hops
Some of the Wikipedia Cookbook entries are also from Household Cyc and should be translated into more modern recipe notation.
Fish entries by 62.98.137.73 (again), excerpts from A Boys' own Book of Outdoor Sports, early 1900s: Lake pike -- How to fish -- Bass (fish) -- Trolling for fish -- Mackerel -- Yellow pike -- Weakfish -- Sunfish ---- Fishing hook -- Perch -- Black trout -- Catfish -- Fishing for pike -- Flounder -- Chub -- Sinker -- Salmon -- Fishing line -- Pickerel -- Black bass -- Fishing reel -- Trout -- Buffalo carp -- Spotted bass -- Eel
And more fishies, somewhat edited: White bass -- White perch

Articles of dubious merit, accuracy and/or validity

Corporatocracy
Masculism (NPOV problems) --

The following articles are by an author who does not tend to follow the consensus NPOV - rather, he/she has their own concept of wikipedia:Natural point of view. All these articles, and other works by this author, need close attention and review to place them in an NPOV format. Although they have not created a login, more pages by this author can be found at special:contributions&theuser=24.150.61.63.

The user has also been using the main page at meta.wikipedia.com to draw attention to his views and agenda. It is perfectly legitimate to air personal views about Wikipedia on meta - that is what it's there for. However, the main page is there chiefly as a contents page to the articles on meta, not to advertise particular ideas.

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