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10 January

New additions here

Pseudo-Zellweger syndrome seem completely wrong [1] - Bridget Jones joke, delete.

Dominicana Flight ???. Please rename to something meaningful.

Groningen Horse - contextualize; Royal Decree of what country?; etc.

Crystal growth Thin-film deposition very poor and not on the topics I would expect

Queen Min of Joseon POV problems, and the title of the article isn't clearly related to the subject. -- Ortonmc 04:06, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Janice may refer to a real person, but I doubt it. --Merovingian 01:34, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC) + It's linked from The Muppet Show, where there's a real (muppet) character called Janice. I think she was a guitar player. I don't remember if the bit about Floyd is right.

many links to Dalai Lama are instead intended for Tenzin Gyatso

The purpose of government and The justification of the state: I suggest to merge them, see their Talks. Mikkalai 01:09, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Many articles based on Larrys Text contain "the"s in titles. How about dedefinitearticulazing them? Mikkalai - how about chucking them and starting again? ;-)

9 January

image:Shuttle-enterprise.jpg - It's actually NASA Photo ID S91-36415 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

Techwiki - messy advertisement, fixable

Social cost - Close cousin of Private cost Bmills

Cingulate sulcus - single sentence stub and pic. Bmills

Private cost - very short stub I tidied up. Bmills

Algiers Motel Incident - says what the motel is, but not what the incident was. Don't leave me in suspense!

Odalism - copyedit, NPOVing needed. And if there is a relation to neo-Nazi movements, it should be mentioned.

Henry Clay Frick - I'm sure there is an article to be written about this person, but this isn't it.

Shadowsnake Films, John Coulthart, The Mindscape of Alan Moore were created by an IP with a history of inserting bogus information. Verify that these are accurate and wikify. The whole thing is a publicity stunt unkamunka. 18:43, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

8 January

Weluvducsoha - sophomoric satire

Marth (Fire Emblem) - I have absolutely no idea. + possible copyvio. Bmills

Progress Quest - SubStub

Asian Tigers - stub. I did a quick copyedit and removed ambiguous reference to Tiawan/China. Bmills

List of well known ports (computing) - dump of /etc/services. perhaps something useful can be made of it.

Puerto Rico - mess - trimming - summarized - details being explained in other articles

GamesNET - POV, wikify, general cleaning

Wilfredo G. Santa - unwikified article dump (but not copyvio, see talk)

Christmas television special - currently just a very short list.

Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - somebody's homework

7 January

Anarchism and natural law theory - unencyclopedic rambling +VfD DJ Clayworth

Mass media in India- rewrite and wikify

David B. Frohnmayer - no introductory sentence, no organization (at all!)

W. Thomas Smith, Jr. - autobiography dumped here from elsewhere by Mr. Smith so not a copyvio (see talk); famous enough to wikify, or send to VfD?

Sidney M. Cohen - autobiography dumped here from elsewhere by Mr. Cohen so not a copyvio (see talk); famous enough to wikify, or send to VfD?

Nihil - clearly an album of some sort. Bmills +added band info --MIRV

Ultimates - needs a lot. Bmills

I spiffed it a bit, but you're right, it needs more. - Scooter

Huey Lewis - short stub. I have polished a bit. Bmills

List of countries where language is a political issue - was on VfD. POV issues? See talk page

Religious freedom in Poland not much in english.

Pattani United Liberation Organization POV (terrorist... liberator.. etc)

Stupid God - looks like Junior-High philosophizing... Vfd candidate? + on Vfd + agree on VfD unl. someone wants to rework. it's a viable theory...

The purpose of government - convert from first person to third +changed person, OK now? Meelar

6 January

Aoi Mac Ollamain -- currently redirects to Ai, which is a disambiguation page, which should have a link to Aoi Mac Ollamain. I think the solution is to write a real article (even a stub) for Aoi Mac Ollamain, but I haven't a clue, beyond what it says at Ai.

Afghanistan (1911 Encyclopedia) needs to be merged with Afghanistan. See Talk:Afghanistan

American Revolutionary War (1911 Encyclopedia, part 1) and American Revolutionary War (1911 Encyclopedia, part 2) need to be merged with American Revolutionary War. See Talk:American Revolutionary War

24/7 ? -- Mama never told ... never mind. See Talk:24/7 -Jerzy

Gypsy Rose Lee an anon seems to be disputing the accuracy, removing some stuff

Charles Stanley needs context

Abuse -- signed by author, non-encyclopedic, needs wikification, etc.

Bengali language - Requires Wikifying, NPOV-ing and expansion on the language (rather than its political significance)

Thistledown - List of short definitions and facts, not really a disambig page.

David the Builder - POV, with some info. But did this guy invent sliced bread?

Yuukichan's Papa - do we know this guy? vfd?

Tribe of Judah - two sections need to be merged

Yaohushua should be merged with Jesus Christ (not worth an article) and redirected

5 January

Washington Generals is this factually correct?

I believe so, although I'm not sure they had only one straw-man team to beat. Jmabel 09:36, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Tibetan Buddhism - see talk page Lupo

A Hacker History - needs wikifying, copyvio?, merge into History of computing? - See its Talk page. Mikkalai 00:27, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Sabotage (album), Vol. 4 - very POV, no real contents

Scam baiting - Wiktionary?

The Spark - what's the problem?

Socialist Workers Party (Greece)

Committee for a Marxist International - all three created by same user, with useful info but unwikified and often unclear

Socialist Workers Party (Northern Ireland) - now merged into SWP(Ireland)

Strategic enterprise management - complete mess. Format, and the content is completely confused, too. Complete rewrite or delete. Lupo

Closer (Nine Inch Nails) is an album review, and stubby at that. Worthy topic, needs work. 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

MSW. Too Americanised

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

Lyrics

- 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.

Residential garden +VfD DJ Clayworth

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

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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

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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.

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

Carvaka

- 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

Audio sequencer

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

veld - see Talk:Veld

Mia X - tiny stub. Meelar

Linux User Group - expand

Fatick region - laconic stub. Bmills

Mikulas Dzurinda - needs everything, good luck Muriel Victoria awaiting confirmation that this is not a copyvio DJ Clayworth

legacy support - needs expanding

Theodor Hendrik van de Velde - Poorly written, POV, self-referential. Tualha

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)

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

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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.

CCNet

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

ASHRAE - sub stub orphan

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The following are in need of formatting/wikilinking:

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