Wikipedia:Peer review

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Item name

Item: Some article
Talk: Talk:Some article, Talk:Some related article
Description: I've just written Some article and think there may be some problems with factual accuracy; if some experts could check it out and offer suggestions, that'd be great!
Posted by: Wapcaplet 18:48, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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World map

Similar to the maps already done for U.S. states, I'm working on a world map that will highlight each country. Please check out the preliminary version. Since I am not a geography expert, I would appreciate corrections or other comments on the outline map before proceeding with highlighted versions. Please refer to discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries; leave comments there or on my talk page. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 04:21, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hungary-Croatia and Indonesia-East Timor borders are missing. --Wik 13:46, Sep 3, 2003 (UTC)

And Czech-Slovakia border as well. andy 14:46, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the corrections! Please note any further corrections at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries or on my talk page. -- Wapcaplet 18:16, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

We Didn't Start the Fire

I know that generally we don't want pages on songs with lyrics listed, but have a look at what I've done with Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire. It needs work (not all the links are right - perhaps an American might have more insight), but I think it's a great starting point for browsing. CGS 17:16, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC).

I like the page, but I'm still worried whether it is ok from a copyright perspective. Andre Engels 09:43, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Ancient Rome directory

I would like to invite everybody to criticize my proposal for reorganization of Ancient Rome topics. I plan to create a Home Page for Rome following the links: Wiki Main Page – History – Ancient History – Ancient Rome. This directory – I think – will make life easier for people looking for Rome's topics. The proposal for the directory can be found in Ancient Rome Proposal. If there are no serious objections I'll make the substitutions during the weekend. Cheers all Muriel Gottrop 13:44, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Logan's Run

Has anyone read Logan's Run? If so, take a look and what I've done. It's ages since I read it, but I've been bold and put down what I could. Cgs

responses moved to Talk:Logan's Run

Sperm Whale

I recently wrote Sperm Whale and in my not really humble opinion think it's not bad. However it's the first article in the area since Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans began and I'd really like to push the standard up and have it is a standard-bearer for articles in that area. An eye from someone who is good with genetics and evolution would be especially good as I know sperm whales are important example of somethings evolutionarily but haven't got the know-how to express that. Thanks Pete 16:22, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

You are right, it is not bad. I can see a few spots where a copy editor could make some changes, but overall well written and well researched. And very complete. Definitely a standard to meet elsewhere - Marshman 17:26, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Excellent article. I have a few minor gripes (most importantly, I don't think that capitalization of species names is grammatically correct), but I do hope to see you write more articles like this in the future. -Smack 19:45, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Automated wikipediholic test

Since Angela took down her automated version of the Are You a Wikipediholic Test, I thought I'd have a go at making one. Please check it out, especially people who don't use Mozilla. Thanks, Merphant 05:56, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Works in both Mozilla 1.4 and IE6. Good work Merphant. I'm glad I don't I have to bother fixing the Mozilla bug in my old one now.:) Angela 17:41, Sep 15, 2003 (UTC)

404 Not Found?? --Geoffrey 22:36, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Apparently people.ucsc.edu is broken; I can't access anybody's web page from that server anymore either. I'll contact the webmaster and post a note here when it's fixed. -- Merphant 08:34, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Ok, it's back up. -- Merphant 01:02, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

In case it goes down again, I've mirrored it at http://angela.fused.org/wikitest.htm. Angela 21:36, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Kosovo War

This article (Kosovo war) has been bothering me for a long time. It is perhaps the least NPOV article I have come across on the entire wikipedia. The article is written almost entirely from a Serb viewpoint, the tone of the article is entirely condemnatory of Albanians/NATO as is the content. I've been hoping that someone with more knowledge of the subject than I could attempt a serious NPOVing and balancing of this article. As it presently stands it is a dark blot on the wikipedia. What does everyone else think of this article or what should be done about it. G-Man 18:23, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Wondering how you like this format

I've decided to tackle a requested article: List of asteroids in our Solar System. Currently I've only put ten asteroids into the article, to see how it looks. As this is a massive article which will take much time over the next few months (it's a little tedious...can't say I'll be slaving at it hours at a time), I want to make sure people like what I've got up. If someone has a simple suggestion, I'm happy to take it. If you've got a complex suggestion....hey, I'd be happy if someone helped me with this. :) Anyway, look at the article if you have the chance, and please drop a note on its talk page or mine to tell me how it looks. I appreciate it! Jwrosenzweig 23:09, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Nathanael West

I naively left something on the talk page for the Nathanael West entry that this is going to duplicate: I did the best I could from what I could find, but information is contradictory and insufficient. The best that can be said is that people looking for information on this author from Wikipedia are no longer going to have to go away completely empty-handed.

Homicide bombing

It contains a lot of information POV'ed info (when Wik reverts it), ignoring other factual part of the term. It leaves out information which is not particularly difficult to verify. It is being reverted constantly by Wik who is known to write POV'ed on this topic. I have strived to include the comments by him, but to no avail, could someone please peer review the article (and check the history and the talk pages) reddi 01:34, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

A strange reversal of the facts. I describe "homicide bombing" correctly as a POV term for suicide bombing, while Reddi describes it as if it were an objective term (and earlier tried to call "suicide bombing" a "neologism", which already led the suicide bombing article to be protected). His persistent POV editing (also in Current events) amounts to vandalism in my opinion. Any sysop reading this, please protect Homicide bombing. I guess both pages will just have to be protected until Reddi either agrees to change his behaviour or is banned. --Wik 01:44, Sep 26, 2003 (UTC)

From a strictly semantic point of view, I think that suicide bombing is the correct term. Any bombing of the more conventional types - i.e. shelling and airstrikes - can be termed a homicide if the speaker is a sufficiently outspoken pacifist. The word suicide, on the other hand, uniquely identifies it as an act of utter desperation, to which people resort when the steady barrage of ostensibly religious propaganda turns people into driver ants. (Well, maybe it doesn't have quite that much meaning, but I hope you'll excuse my fit of eloquence.) -Smack 05:13, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Infidelity

Someone linked a sexuality-related article to infidelity, but there was nothing there, so I wrote something. Unfortunately, I wrote it in the throes of mild jealousy, so it may be a touch tear-stained. Also, being straight and not poly, I might have given short shrift to those perspectives, especially the latter. --Shana tova, Calieber 14:28, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Request for review of PMs of UK

I believe the page at Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is just wrong. My book disagrees, as does http://www.btinternet.com/~spansoft/data/tl_brpm.txt -- both of my sources agree with one another. In particular, take a look at the dates regarding Pitt the Elder and Lord Bute. (1757) LirQ

Request for review of Car Satellite Radio

Need guidance and feedback if page is appropriate for this encyclopedia site. Unsure of blog style format, assimilated content and copyright rules. There is a need for page on subject in the Radio category. Please comment or give review at Talk:Car_Satellite_Radio Questions of page are posted there. I am a websurfer, not a writer. Thank you for any feedback. ~~Ron

We are trying to write an encylopedia. Content about what car satellite radio is would be appropriate, but not your opinions about it. Rmhermen 19:56, Oct 4, 2003 (UTC)

For everyones information: the article was replaced with a stub, and is currently listed on Votes for Deletion -- Mattworld 01:29, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Suez Crisis

The most recent edit to the Suez Crisis as I write looks very dubious. Diff here. Could a knowledgable person set my mind at rest and revert this if necessary? Pete 09:23, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Taken care of. -- Viajero 10:28, 8 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Korean and Japanese help

List of company name etymologies - I've recently added some entries for Japanese and Korean electronic and automobile companies. Would anyone who is knowledgeable in these languages check out if the literal translations for some of the names are accurate, and suggest if anything else needs to be added. Jay 18:07, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Does anyone know anything about solid-fuel stoves?

I just finished a massive edit on portable stove. In the process, I carved up some pre-existing content about solid-fuel stoves. That content had been added by a single user. My intent was to message that user and get him/her to correct my work, but that user (Kat) has since left the wiki. So consider this a cry for help. The article's coverage of solid-fuel stoves is in very bad shape. It had been interspersed throughout the article until my restructuring effort, and it looked fine in that capacity, but now that I brought it together, it's rather subpar. -Smack 01:57, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)