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JUST IN
5 January
New additions here
Alkaline Ace ok I won't throw them in a fire
A Hacker History - needs wikifying, copyvio?, merge into History of computing?
Polydor doesn't make sense, short
Sabotage (album), Vol. 4 - very POV, no real contents
Finkleman's 45's advert +de-advertised and moved to correct name DJ Clayworth
Rakhigarhi - personal account & wrong title
Scam baiting - Wiktionary?
Socialist Workers Party (Greece)
Committee for a Marxist International - all three created by same user, with useful info but unwikified and often unclear
Rakhigarhi a personal narrative
Socialist Workers Party (Northern Ireland) - now merged into SWP(Ireland)
Rocket launcher - fragmentary, and only related to computer games
Strategic enterprise management - in serious need of copyediting
Mega Man II - Poor Stub. Flockmeal
Closer (Nine Inch Nails) is an album review, and stubby at that. Worthy topic, needs work. Meelar.
Ileana Cosanzeana - nowiki, unclear format
- Cleaned writing, checked to make sure it's not nonsense (it isn't), but could somebody confirm the accuracy of this entry, make sure I didn't butcher it? Meelar
Pop (album) - unwikified, strangeness
multiple coil magnet. - Needs explanation.+ Added a bit, could do with expanding further theresa knott
Sean Matgamna. A real mess.
4 January
Peace movement - very messy (various parts need to be merged)
Iraq crisis of 2003 needs to be merged with Iraq disarmament crisis
List of Iraqi Information Ministers - only contains one item on the list +found another one.
George Francis Robert Henderson - bad OCR, may be unsalvageable.
Cybermedicine sub stub
Pop-Shove It ? - part of Skateboarding trick, move all the little tricks into the main article & redirect them all.
MSW. Too Americanised
Bermuda Triangle. Needs NPOVing. + major re-edit. NPOVed, shortened, factual verification
New Age Ancient Near East Chronology - See talk:New Age Ancient Near East Chronology
Roger Boyle - needs expansion
Moral character - make into an article or delete
3 January
Hiram Abiff - unwikified full of typos. Dubious? - not dubious, valid myth. - Added links, formatting: perhaps should be merged with Hiram I of Tyre.
James Harrison - unwikified orphan
Talk:Electromagnetic field Physics wikipedians: comments?
Out of Control - unwikified
List of historical animals and the similarly titled pages it links: are these, and should these be, for "individual animals of historical significance" or other than fictional individuals and/or species, and once that's clear, "historic" or "historical", & should it exist? See its Talk-Jerzy
Guanosine diphosphate - needs some text
Kayaku-Jutsu - needs re-writing
2 January
Home video YIKES!
William Vander Zalm POV - what's the issue? Explain details on the talk page.
Betty Loh Ti POV +I removed most of the subjective praise.
31 December or older
Claims of Parapsychology - Mess Davodd
List_of_A_Postal_Codes, List_of_B_Postal_Codes, List_of_C_Postal_Codes, List_of_E_Postal_Codes, List_of_K_Postal_Codes, List_of_L_Postal_Codes: naming, formatting, see also delete.
Al Gore has become a paean to Al Gore, especially many recent changes. +the current (3rd Jan) edit skirmish should settle the issue eventually.
Jargon - it's not an article, it's not a disambig page. Make it either one. +better?
No-kernel (and other contributions of that anonymous user) - sounds like nonsense, needs at least wikification. -Not nonsense, but I don't know whether it's true. Onebyone
- It isn't nonsense, nor is it entirely false (though some of it seems to be), but it's skewed. There are many reasons why an operating system should have a kernel, none of which are listed here. Metasquares 14:45, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
50 Cent contains 2 contradicting dates of birth (1976 and 1975), makes me question veracity of whole article (do we really need his supposed arrest record?)
Dr.Wilfredo G. Santa - messy; does the subject even warrent an article?
Dbpoweramp - messy, pov
Dulah Marie Evans - external text dump (but not copyvio; see talk)
Microsoft Lots o' POV
Fresh
Perspective - long, chaotic, difficult to extract knowledge from it.Mikkalai 20:14, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral - messy; maybe wants merging with Cologne Cathedral?
Rainer W. Kühne - previously on vfd, POV issues
Lambda programming language - stub. Needs checking by someone who knows programming. Bmills
F wave - quoting the first sentence: F waves are action potentials that are elicited by the excitation of motor neurons by an antidromically travelling electric impulse applied to the distal part of an extremity. Huh?
Alkaline foods - poor little article
Algebra/set analogy - needs intro
Stain + moved to In vivo staining, made Stain into disambig page. Both still need help!
Aircraft attitude - makes no sense, needs intro/context setting
Offenbach, Hesse, Uslar, Moringen, Dassel, Einbeck, Bad Gandersheim, and Duderstadt - need wikification and language improvement + wikified, giving context, enlarged
Youth rights movement in the United States -- an anon user has introduced POV into this article.
Internet service provider - seriously out of date - including much false information. Davodd
History of Bible translation is problematic.seglea + ok, I've at least put the credit in now seglea Verbose, not high-grade material
System 36 - Has lots of good info, but not written for an encyclopedia. I did some wikifying, but will need more, once rewritten.
Aleksandr Lukashenko - POV problems
Recommended reading: India - completely non-NPOV to suggest we recommend these
Adar 2 - makes no sense - suggest this and Adar 1 are merged into Adar
Wiki communities by topic and Wiki communities by type. - Would these be better in the Wikipedia namespace? - no content.
Who's Next. - Highly POV.
Shirley Q. Liquor - does this even merit an article? Should move to Vfd?
Wiley Brooks - consists more of quotations than wikitext.
Marcel_Reich-Ranicki - formatting, English
Activation framework - needs some context
Academic Free License - just source text. Needs intro
April Glaspie - needs a great deal of NPOVing.
Tamagno. - Needs a first name and destubification.
New chronology - fringe theory, badly translated, no attempt at NPOV. is it a copyvio? - Article rewritten; this is a version of Heribert Illig's lunacies - llywrch
- is as much about Wikipedia policy on lyrics as about lyrics themselves. Needs to be split; expanded.
Corporate nationalism - diatribe, low information content
Tyler Durden - Needs wikification, as well as a discussion of the book which the movie is based on.
Julian Delphiki - unwikified; semi-coherent
EIS
- disambig?
Long boat - what's a long boat? Dysprosia - a real long boat is like a sea-going barge? + Mentioned Viking longboats, and moved to Longboat Adam Bishop + Scratch that, redirected to longship Adam Bishop - Dictionary says long boat is longest boat on a ship.
Peace Pilgrim - expand, decide whether to place under pseudonym or real name + still stubby; see talk re name & title.Jerzy
fish farming and aquaculture - dupes + cross linked. Needs a careful sort out because the two concepts are not quite identical. seglea
New
L600 - stub, needs work. Not sure if it was actually released. Slashdot has several relevant stories. Same goes for Indrema. Tualha
Mahmoud Tawallbe - seems somewhat POV but I have no expertise in this area. Bmills
Danzig Law - what is it? - some leads added on its talk. Jerzy
Mint (coin) - US-centric; rambles a bit.
Evolution to 3g - needs a copyvio check and an appropriate move/cleanup
LESS NEW
Arnold Matthew - needs someone knowledgable to sort out mess, see talk
Andrew Vachss - stub. Tualha
Rojam - stub, listed on VfD, will probably be deleted unless improved. Tualha
Chaordic
- currently a good candidate for VFD. Deserves a good article.
Convection cell + still lacks a proper definition
Center for Creative Imaging - needs a bit of POV mods, plus it needs some parents, as it's an orphan.
Maqam - what is this? There's a very long Japanese article about that, I assume it's some kind of system of districts?—Eloquence The Japanese article is evidently on the music meaning. Charles Matthews - This article only on an Arabic meaning, and not very clear about it
- extremely long and unwikified.
N. Senada - N. Senada, where the N. may or may not stand for Nigel, may or may not exist
Figure painting - LOT of work to make a decent article, but prolly deserves one. Pakaran
Exilarch - beginning stylistically challenged, end copy-paste from old pd encyclopedia
Usage of words for eyepieces - wouldn't be a problem except that's it is linked to in the first sentence of Glasses. It's a short list of limited use mixed with random speculation (no pun intended). BCorr ¤ Брайен - This should not be listed here. There is nothing wrong with it. I protest. If you think it should be deleted then list it on votes for deletion. - I've merged the part about glasses into Glasses. Same should be done with Sunglasses, then I think we should just make it a redirect to Glasses, which is easier and cleaner than deleting it. Tualha
Iranian revolution and History of Iran - Revolution become redir to sec'n in History (which needs sec'n headings anyway IMO)? Shorten revolution portion of History, with link to expanded Revolution article that would get at least the removed material? I incline twd this second refactoring, esp. since next ten years will probably add a lot to the Revolution article. Hmm, or does the next ten years mean we want Revolution to be a redir to a section of Islamic Republic of Iran? Jerzy
Build Up Studio Sigma and Dolphin Factory - two stubs, also orphans. About kigurumi costume makers. Kigurumi is, apparently, a Japanese form of mask-acting (though we currently have not article for that, either).
White Crane, Pak Mei, San Da, Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu - need some rewording/introduction to make them understandable to people knowing not much about Kung Fu
Archbishop of Riga - actually extremely old, but I'm not sure what to do with it...it looks like something about coinage at the moment. Adam Bishop
Charles Peace - huge, barely wikified, needs major trimming. also nearly an orphan, keep an eye out for possible links. Tualha
Uranium 235 - graffiti Salsa Shark + Old content deleted, but available at User:Evercat's talk page, where I pasted it when he undertook to rewrite the article. Now redir to Uranium Pakaran
Lord Strickland - looks like copyvio, see http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/islands/prime_ministers/strickland_gerald.asp seglea - then move the listing to Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements
Linux User Group - expand
Fatick region - laconic stub. Bmills
Mikulas Dzurinda - needs everything, good luck Muriel Victoria
legacy support - needs expanding
NBN - needs major wikification
Barbie - an anon user added some POV paragraphs on controversies (to which I've added a section head). This section needs NPOV mods. Anthropos
University of Georgia - Copied text, unwikified, pretta awful. Zocky
Theodor Hendrik van de Velde - Poorly written, POV, self-referential. Tualha
Genetic engineering - has been on the NPOV dispute since July 28. Few significant changes since. - now NPOV
Isaac Newton's occult studies - needs a new name! Also wikify, perhaps NPOV
The Painted Bird - stub / rant - duplicates some stuff from Jerzy Kosinski, with much more problems of POV (nasty), delete. Charles Matthews 16:16, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
List of device bandwidth speeds - All speeds have to be verified, some are wrong (conversion Bit/s to Byte/s seems strange)
John Preston - a stub of a stub of a stub +now a regular stub
Some More - needs to be merged. See Talk:Some More
Quantum turbulence - sub-stub
William Otter - sub-stub
William Scott - unwikified, POV?
Azie Taylor Morton - unwikified
Jacksonian seizure - unwikified
Peter Wiggin - unwikified - needs merging with Enders Game DJ Clayworth
Resolution 2758 - primary text?
Richard Routley - unwikified
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 - unencyclopedic as written
Russian Marines - sub-stub
St.George Cross - should there be a space? - Also, mention St George's cross to avoid confusion
Datsun 240Z - style - This car deserves a better write-up llywrch
[[Re Kevin - validity of marriage of transsexual]] - was on vfd. Source text moved to Wikisource. Needs more intro etc
Trivia - new stub. could be so much more
Propaganda model - looks like a copy of someone's syllabus, copyvio? Tualha
NOT SO NEW
Berlin Air Safety Center, (BASC) - NPOV, formatting (looks copyvio but can't find it) Allied Control Authority (ACA) ditto - not too POV but need integrating with Allied Control Council and Four-Power Authorities DJ Clayworth
Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina A single sentence on a writer. Bmills
Remember the Titans - weak stub on a film? Bmills
When In Rome What is it? Andy Mabbett. See imdb
Science of Israel - needs serious copyedit by someone who knows some science. Bmills
Gheorghe Muresan - the only clear thing about this is that it is POV. Bmills
The Bourne Identity - needs more
Bank account -Orphan stub/wiktionary. I don't know if it'll ever be anything more.
List of ologies: All the -ologies not likely to become real articles need to be delinked. The existing -ologies linked to from this page need to be checked as to whether they should exist or be deleted. + Most seem plausible to me. Many can probably be fixed by redirects. (Smerdis of Tlön)
Hybrid electric, Hybrid car, Gas-electric hybrid engine - Title Hybrid electric is an unhyphenated compound adjective. All are about gas-electric hybrid vehicles, except 1st sentence of Hybrid car, which admits theoretically to alternatives but fails to mention any. Probably make 1st sentence of Hybrid car a disamb stub under that name, move rest of Hybrid car and text of other two into one article. I'd choose Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, keeping Hybrid electric and Gas-electric hybrid engine as redirects, but that's just me. Jerzy
Television pilot - either expand to make an article or make into a redirect to Television program with the definition there
Bacharach - POV
List of French violin players substub. Do we really need this? DJ Clayworth - I can't see why. Merge into Violin or something, then VfD? Tualha
Logia Lautaro - needs something, not sure what. Bmills
O.S.I. - odd one. Refers to Orchestra of Strategic Influence, but links are for Office of Strategic Influence. Bmills
Electrolytic capacitor - i fixed many confusions; a pro needs to add info on forming, electrochemistry, hi-freq characteristics (is that what the model inductance is about?), nature of the dielectric. Jerzy
Resona impact - needs proper context setting
List of Araliaceae genera merge with Araliaceae?
Zytec Lotus Elise - stub on electric sports car, w/ garble & ambiguity listed in Talk:Zytec Lotus Elise. Jerzy
Inosanto Kali - stub. maybe merge with Eskrima? Bmills
Brock University - perfectly good little stub. Must be more to say. Bmills
Ozzfest - slightly longer companion stub for Black Label Society. Bmills
Black Label Society - single sentence stub. Bmills
Celestial dynamics -old, short, just says that Newton merged it with terrestrial
Kati Outinen - sub-stub
Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law - unwikified
Andrew W. K. is ultra-stubby. The original article was an album review--I thought we should start fresh. Anyone? Meelar
Parker and Lee - unwikified
Orders of magnitude, Orders_of_magnitude (power) - articles are fine, but dozens of empty and near-empty pages hang off them. Needs (at most) one page per unit Onebyone + power done.
John Sewell - unwikified. Cleaned up a bit. UtherSRG
counter-terrorism A stub, needs rewriting for clarity. It's a good subject for an article, and could be very useful, but needs much more. Meelar
Alice Is Talking Again - tiny stub. Seems to fail the notability test. VfD?
Waad- needs work on english
Plastocyanin - no idea. Secretlondon 12:20, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
Root cause - needs a little magic on it. + no magic, but I have applied a little logic. It's a stub. Bmills
Teller Resolution sub stub
Demonize - dictionary
Finance Capitalism 1 paragraph, completely out of context.
Field Trip & Field trip - Wiktionary
Hit Man sub stub
Cold Fire - back to being an advert, alas.
Politics of the United Arab Emirates - needs wikification
Afium-Kara-hissar orphan. From the 1911 Encyclopedia. Badly needs updating.
Bryan Caplan, Bruno K Öijer, Bruno Fuligni - from the orphans page
Wolf's Head sub stub
Cinema of Japan —right now just a list of names. I don't want to delete, as it could be a valid topic, but it desperately needs an actual article. Anything will help. Meelar 21:50, Dec 6, 2003
Pai Chung-hsi - some very minor Chinglish needs conversion to English
ASHRAE - sub stub orphan
Parnas - Should be merged with David Parnas. Wake 01:24, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
NOT NEW
A slew of un-wikified articles. At best, need to be wikified. At worst, some are probably copyvios. Daniel Quinlan 00:42, Dec 7, 2003 (UTC)
- Spike (comics) +revised and wikified
- Particle system
- Forward kinematic animation
- Anigraphical music
- Kdatlyno
- Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson - wikified, date added - DavidWBrooks 03:39, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Mellin transform
- Hungry ghost
- Kiki Haakonson +wikified
- Royal College of Physicians +e-mailed to confirm not copyvio
- Stalybridge Celtic F.C. +wikified
- Victoria (waterlily)
- Utility cycling
- COP6
- Wu Cheng'en
- Vicente Huidobro +rewrote, wikified
Honoré Mercier + expanded a bit and wikified, Adam Bishop
Athens University of Economics and Business Administration - unclear due to poor English. Tualha
Behavior change 2 quotes
Denar, +moved to Macedonian Denar and made into disambig page
The Battle of Harlaw - Move to sources? Delete?
Pacific-Antarctic Ridge - engrish, contains irrelevancies
3Dlabs - sounds like ad
Conductor current capacity could use more info. +Added info to conductor (material) and redirected to it. Wake 02:35, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Materia Medica - more fact (history, etc.), less rant; needs linking to useful articles.
Anigraphical music - idiosyncratic? For an internet term it gets no google hits
Worcester v. Georgia - needs intro
Self deception unwikified, POV - bad dictionary definition, VfD
Forward kinematic animation and Particle system - layout and info
Rebellion dictionary
Corscombe - short stub on small UK village. Bmills
Cold Fire - advert, cleanup under way The Anome
Scold's Bridle - maybe merge with Witchcraft? Or delete? Bmills +Now a stub Mirv
Balkan League - stub
Dervish - stylistic mess - Wiktionary? Ortonmc
Vernichtungsgedanken could use editing, checking
Lasing medium - merge with laser?
Slavoljub Penkala - May need research in Croatian - see Talk:Slavoljub Penkala
Porsche 550 Spyder and Porsche 904 and Porsche 906. - all Need expanding
Colorado tick fever - unformatted data dump + formatted, but still needs sections on treatment, history, life cyle. Plus needs more detail.
OLDISH
Elamite Empire what, where and when was it? DJ Clayworth Consider merge with Elam User:Charles Matthews - merged llywrch
Lines of Torres Vedras - poor stub
Anti-folk - unwikified + Minor wikifying done. Needs lots more.
Irrationalism and Aestheticism - POV stub, needs background
Joaquim Agostinho - needs some copyedit + done, could still stand attention by someone who knows bicycling, or Portuguese geography
Friedrich Hoffmann unwikified +wikified, still needs expansion
Environment protection some sort of how-to, not encyclopedic
Okamoto Kido needs more info
Daws Butler - unwikified, needs editing (Google search for sample text blocks got no hits, so apparently not copyvil from web)
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim - sub-stub
World Of Noise - needs copyediting Bmills
Bill Ouchi - sub-stub, orphan. Anthropos
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - unwikified text, might be storyline.
Culture of Angola -sub stub
Fgura - POV. needs some actual detail. - removed POV, now sub-stub
Peter Cooper unwikified +wikified but still needs expanding
List of The Twilight Zone episodes anyone know what to do with these episode summaries? should they be combined by season? left as is?
Tom Gola unwikified, POV
Joe Fulks unwikified, POV
Rick Barry unwikified, POV
Nib - dictionary definition
Pro-technology propaganda - not encyclopedic, rewrite, VfD
Lajos Kossuth POV.
Algorithmic learning theory incomplete sentences
Patch Adams links and wikify
Allopathy highly POV
Heroic medicine by same author as above, highly POV, VfD
Ta Kung Pao is in Chinglish
Graphics - makes no sense
Siege of Chaves needs linking
Celestial dynamics - merge with Celestial mechanics
A Short History of the Confederate States of America - stub
Rise of Rome, was this written by EoT since their ban? +ranting, error-riddled. Could be fixed w/ much work. --Mirv
Stratus - could be something great
Sverre Sjölander - is this man of any importance?
Nicola Abbagnano - barely a stub
Michael Jordan trading cards what can be done with this? -suggest leaving it. It's pointless and stubby, but not hurting anyone. DJ Clayworth
Bush doctrine original research
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice - about a book published in 1982, needs filling in or deletion
Articles on individual Pokémon characters (e.g. Walrein, Chimecho) - often no context, badly written + I added tables. Should bring them closer to Bulbasaur. nikai
OLD
IrFM Sub-stub with a link. Needs some substance.
Health and Wellness could be merged.
Coin Die modern- and US- centric
Trust and Trusts and Estates should be merged.
List of Bible passages of other than theological interest - ????
Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo too stubby
Larnax - disambiguation or about the rock band? +It's an orphan.
Allegany State Park - orphan, stubbish, and I can't find a home for it. Anyone want to try? Anthropos+not an orphan, but still stubbish
Paul Shane - genuine actor/comic, but article needs a lot of work. Bmills
Handspring - very short stub. Could be marged with Handspring Visor. Bmills
Page widening - remove actual page widening? Is slashdot so important we need a rundown of its software changes?
Gammon - wikctionary?
Cant - wikctionary?
Buu - pare down?
Anarchism and natural law theory - wikify, fmt. - needs a lot more work than just wikification and formatting
Currency bill tracking - currently mostly external links!
F. Van Wyck Mason - see Talk:F. Van Wyck Mason
Mass media in India- rewrite/ fmt
Freedom Summer - needs lots
OLDER
Belfry - stubby
Fritz Albert Lipmann - sub-stub. Delete if not improved. +stubbed, OK?
ATV New provide - advertisement. maybe could be decent article, but needs lots of help.
deadAIM - NPOV +advert stuff removed, OK?
ANCEP - orphan. could be a good article, but needs work. Virutally all documentation online is in Norwegian.Anthropos
Lead (II) sulfate - needs rewriting into whole sentences -VfD DJ Clayworth +rewritten, OK?
I-6- anyone speak car?
Thomas Bata - npov + Partial cleanup, wikified and NPOVed