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[edit] October 31, 2005

  • Snoop Dogg and many related articles on albums and mixtapes: cleanup, wikification, formatting, NPOV problems. More than one person can handle in cleaning up. --FuriousFreddy 00:06, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  • The Futures Academy - wikification.
A good deal of it comes verbatim from the Futures Academy website. The poster actually works for the place; I've requested confirmation of GFDL release. But it does seem very promotional. Tearlach 23:40, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Needs watching, more like. Looks like an ongoing attempt to spam Wikipedia's futurology topics: see The World Futures Studies Federation Wiki Raid; this press release; and Wikipedia:Village pump (news)#The Great Wiki Raid of '05. Tearlach 13:08, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Dumarsais Simeus - This article needs to be translated into English from French. 208.54.34.247 17:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Cleaned up: small additions needed, like photo. Tearlach 16:53, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] October 30, 2005

  • Ballachulish is confusing as to which of the three villages of this name it's talking about.--JBellis 20:48, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The Oak Ridge Boys has too many quotes, bad spelling and improper wording for an encyclopedia (i.e., "Both SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS ALBUM!!!") ErikNY 04:57, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • RuneScape has some confusing grammar, lacks adequate transitional words, and almost every end of a section is confusing JediMaster16 09:10, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 29, 2005

[edit] October 28, 2005

  • Tyramine - some sort of text dump.
  • Symposium (Plato dialogue) - Riddled with errors, incomplete summary. Needs someone with clasics bone fides to work on. PotatoKnight 02:35, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Podnography — Was tempted to AfD this puppy, but I thought I'd try here first. Seems like a non-notable, somewhat contrived neologism. — RJH 23:04, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Cleaned, but it still might be AfD candidate. --Foofy 07:24, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Bollocks - a lot of the content seems to be a load of... violet/riga (t) 22:08, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I will sort this out, I think there is a lot of good explanatory information here for people who don't know the word, but it's all in the wrong order and looks like the author was just trying to be funny rather than informative. --KJV 15:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Lew Zealand - May have been link spam; I removed the link to ceo4u.com but did not have time to deal with the broken external image link. --DavidConrad 06:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Aisake Ó hAilpín - Needs to be wikified. (The title may also need to be checked.) - Mike Rosoft 17:20, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Wikified, but could be further improved by somebody from Cork and Melbourne. Andreww 08:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  • MOO - Cleanup after mass-merge. 172.188.21.72 19:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Mauler RÖV-20 - "is a very powerful gun indeed" is not what I call an encyclopedia article. - Mike Rosoft 20:30, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
    • It's a made up "anti-aircraft laser cannon", I think I have it up to stub standard but a AfD or Merge should not be ruled out. Andreww 08:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 27, 2005

[edit] October 26, 2005

  • The Harry Potter fandom article needs to be cleaned up. Bad grammar, poor style, flirting with POV, etc.
  • The List of firearms really needs to be cleaned up.There are double names,unright names,missing names and absolutely no order.
  • Puer and Senex have virtually no information, and don't even really make sense. Herzliyya 04:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Renaissance Classicism is confused and anachronistic in the discussion of visual art. The article needs to be broadened to encompass literary and philosophical forms. (Stamboultrain 19:17, 26 October 2005 (UTC))

[edit] October 25, 2005

  • Ardour - apart from the fact that a user looking for Ardour might reasonably expect to find an article about Passion, parts of this read like an advert, with use of personal pronouns.... "Even so, we believe that in time, Ardour's editing capabilities will become the new standard for DAWs. Within the edit window, you can adjust everything about your session and its timeline layout.... Edit automation data in their own tracks. Unlimited undo/redo should encourage you to try out your ideas without fear"....TheMadBaron 23:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Political divisions of Karafuto Prefecture - I've cleaned up some of the translation issues, but formatting needs to be fixed Nik42 03:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Eurostile - Reads like an advert. Alr 00:47, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Unitarian Democratic Coalition I have marked this page for cleanup because of the gap between the "Electoral scores achieved by CDU" header and the actual table marking the election results. My knowledge of wikicode isn't good enough to fix this. Can a lovely individual offer her or his assistence? It could also probably do with a bit of an expansion too, but I don't know enough about the coalition. aliceinlampyland 19:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 24, 2005

  • Virial theorem I came to this from supernova. No doubt it makes sense to mathematicians - but a one-sentence explanation of what it is used for/context placement etc might be useful to the rest of us. The few other mathematical-symbol-heavy entries I have come across would benefit from a similar improvement. (They may be technicalities, but can usually be given a brief clarification suitable for those not involved. "This is used in describing how one liquid flows through another", "... how the various components of a supernova travel as it explodes." etc.) - What they said, but i'm pretty sure neither sample language is headed the right direction. Good task for someone who's already been wanting to read up on thermodynamics.
The whole thing needs integrating with Virial coefficient and Virial expansion, as there'a lot of overlap. Not my cup of tea. Tearlach 03:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Herbert Breslin - looks like it is written by either the person themselves or a friend. Arniep 02:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
    • It's not particularly long, and there are 150,000 google hits on the guy. Actually pretty easy for someone to improve the article (but I'm not volunteering - just passing through here.) John Broughton | Talk 18:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Christina Yu/Temp (edit there while GFDL verification gets done) (Hong-Kong/VietNam purse designer) Needs admiration for her balanced; notability evaluation or AfD; add substance; Dab magazine titles. (Also, has it been settled whether being born and raised in Hong Kong, emigrating, and becoming (say) a (notable) entrepreneur puts you in Category:Hong Kong entrepreneurs? See Talk:Christina Yu.)Jerzy•t
  • Haute couture was panned in the Guardian by Alexandra Shulman, the editor of the British edition of Vogue, who gave it a score of 0/10 [1]. This article is in desperate need of expert attention. Haute couture needs your help! Please help fix its inadequacies, and polish it until it can become a featured article candidate. -- The Anome 23:06, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 23, 2005

  • Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas - Long article which has no subsections, and barely any wikification. --LBMixPro(Speak on it!) 00:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wynona's Big Brown Beaver and Southbound Pachyderm, both Primus singles, very poorly written and short. --Protozoic Waste 8:54 Eastern Standard Time 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Twiztid - Copyedit, grammar, style, possible copyvio (see talk). TheMadBaron 05:09, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Politics of Israel - This one needs a lot of work, and I don't know enough to do it. Key: Copyedit, fact check. --Penta 04:34, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • CoS MuD - It's POV, blatant advertising and probably non notable (although I don't know too much about games). Moriori 21:40, 23 October 2005 (UTC). The cleanup tag was removed from this page by User:63.161.2.130 who created the article. I have replaced it. Moriori 01:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Looks like the original creator wasn't happy with it being listed for cleanup and removed the article - no further need for action here. --ishel99 22:06, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 22, 2005

[edit] October 21, 2005

  • Hillhead High School - It wasn't me who tagged it; but it was apparently tagged since October 13. I checked the cleanup in this page (October 13th) and it wasn't there. So I am posting the cleanup here. General tidy-up. Personally, I think it is ok. The English is a bit simple though. -- Kilo-Lima 11:28, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Karjalanpaisti (Carelian stew) - Needs to be reviewed by a cooking expert and also expanded. --Thorri 12:33, 21 Oct 2005 (UTC)
  • Should this be transwikied to the wikibooks cookbook? Andreww 09:15, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Michigan State Highway 53 - Needs a general clean-up, or possibly nominated for deletion. I suspect that many of the Michigan State Highways are in a similar state. Bluap 11:47, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Youth-uprising suite (their creations are an IP's only edits):
  • Theodore Beza(Calvinist activist): NPoV, starting w/ descrip of his born-again experience.Jerzy•t
  • Hibiscus (entertainer) - The article, while containing some useful information, isn't very encyclopedic and could benefit from additional information about the subject. Crovax 20:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • UK Firefighter dispute 2002/2003 - This article is about a past event, but the tense is a mix of past, present and future. Sometimes even individual sentences aren't sure whether they have happened yet or not. Thryduulf 20:43, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 20, 2005

  • Cement - poorly formatted, article content lacks any structure, too little content Filipvr 11:10, 21 October 2005
  • Phish - not encyclopedic: pov issues, hyperbolic language, links, grammar, too long -- also, the talk page is bordering on incivility; I could use some backup Psora 04:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Adolph Beck case - not written in a terribly encyclopaedic style SP-KP 18:48, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Moses Pendergrass - consists solely of a quote from a Harper's article. Alr 17:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Tidied - but ideas on Categories would be useful. Tearlach 10:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Surely September's cleanup's should be hived off by now (to avoid making this file too fiddly to download).
  • Posterior Hau Lý Nam Đế I cleaned up the grammar somewhat, but the article still needs work. I can't figure out what is up with the title, since it seems to be about someone named Trieu Viet Vuong. --DavidConrad 04:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Context is now organised, but it still needs stylistic tidying. Tearlach 10:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Jardin de Tivoli, Paris - the subject is interesting (history of Paris) ; it needs to be developed by an 'expert' with relevant information. Jpm2112 13:07, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Chinatown patterns in North America - Section on gentrification needs major help, and there's only so much I can do as I don't fully understand the issue. - Sensor 22:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • William Lynch Speech (apparently forged "1712" racially inflammatory doc't): balance; style; & fix copyvio: see talk:William Lynch Speech#Copyvio.Jerzy•t
    • Reverted template, no copyvio since it was written in 1712. V/M
      08:24, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Ray tracing - section 1 and 2 need some major reformating work; currently they are poorly organized. Osmaker 23:38, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge Johannite with Mandaeanism, the article for Johannite contains little information and is essencialy just a copy of the Mandeanism page. --ThrashedParanoid 01:39, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 19, 2005

  • Opium Wars Article needs some work, can be more informative and better structure. Lacks a good intro as well.
    • Done Goodsmonth 11:16, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
  • United Kingdom—tone is a problem in places; Terminology section out of proportion and largely irrelevant; history section inadequate; entire text needs copyediting. Tony 16:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  • List of motorways in France. Bot job to do tedious Svenska-English changing. --Wonderfool 17:14, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Church in Wales - the first 5/6 paragraphs really don't flow very well. anyone care to take a look? 82.32.8.6 00:02, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Steven Curtis Chapman - the first part could use some wikification, but mainly the Discography section needs some serious formating/style work. Osmaker 03:02, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I've cleaned up the formating/styling Osmaker 22:07, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 18, 2005

  • Driving under the influence - more of a list of blood-alcohol content restrictions than an actual article. Alr 21:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Arguments for and against drug prohibition - reads like a debate, some arguments are very weak e.g. The charge of "immorality" is subjective, and can be defined differently according to different perspectives and beliefs, all of which may be valid. Thus, with such conflicting views, a law based on "morality" cannot be fairly applied to any population. Needs to be gone over for NPOV, and probably merged somewhere. Pakaran 04:44, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Julianne Malveaux: liberal economist & commentator; style, wikify, format titles, de-PoV.Jerzy•t
      • OK, I took a crack at this. A more experienced editor should take a second look FRS 01:55, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • ShopKo Timeline - May to be valid information but requires wikifying and a short explanation asto what it is actually about. --Chino 09:12, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 17, 2005

  • Rampagge Records - includes "rumors" without source, written in present tense. Cleduc 03:36, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Citizens Electoral Council - glaring POV problems.--HK 20:57, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Emerging Church - (again). Tagged by Danlovejoy. Flabby jargon-ridden article that needs positive kick-ass editing. Tearlach 18:56, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Savez Izviđača Hrvatske - totally unformatted --jergen 17:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • TK Maxx - I have done a bit of adding to it as part of a UK project. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to clean-up it and I prefer to let others pick up my mistakes, one is less likely to pick up one's own mistakes! Wikification would also be nice. Cheers! --Chazz88 23:11, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Quarantine - Pre-ToC section is too long and a jumble of half-cited assertions, while the rest is typical 1911 EB: out of date, Anglo-centric, and with overlong paragraphs. This article may well become quite important over the next year or two, so current information would be great. -- Mpt 03:28, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Sardar Amir Azam: de-PoV& wikify this dead Pakistani politician.Jerzy•t
  • Suzy Welch. Needs editing and bringing up to date. N/n too? Moriori

[edit] October 16, 2005

  • Marlos Nobre - Impossible to read. Needs wikifying and a major rewrite. Alr 19:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
  • John Tunnard - apart from needing wikifying, extremely subjective account that looks like original research. Tearlach 11:23, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Suwannaphum needs to be NPOV'ed ("highly conjectural", "responsible modern scholarship", "attempts ... flounders on the simple fact that", "if the myth were true") by someone who knows the subject. This article also borders on original research. Aecis 11:09, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Stingless bee - This article reads like a dump of several external sources on meliponine bees - it really could use some organization, wikifying, and general cleanup. Dcfleck 13:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 15, 2005

[edit] October 14, 2005

  • The user that I mentioned on October 10 and October 12 has now done work on WSCR and WMVP. If anyone has an update on his doings, or for further discussion and an overview on what he's done, I have set up a subpage at [2]. ErikNY 16:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Haifa - English could be improved, transportation section is too detailed - maybe deserves its own article, academic institution could be better ... etc. --Amir E. Aharoni 10:57, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 13, 2005

  • Table of historical exchange rates - Various users in the past have attempted to update this table, but the result is currently an unreliable mess. Can someone with a knowledge of currency rates sort this out? -- llywrch 03:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Amedeo Guillet needs cleanup by someone familiar with Italian military history, everything is written as one chapter. bjelleklang 00:47, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Hardpan - Needs some structure, organization, and sources. LQ 01:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Bhuj - needs to be tidied up and copyedited. *drew 10:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
All but first paragraph appears to be plagiarized; see Talk:Bhuj for details. Fogster 22:09, 18 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] October 12, 2005

  • Your stations of the day are: WADO, WWDJ, WWRV, WZRC, WNSW and WKDM. See October 10 below for more information as to the posting habits of this "broadcast bandit." ErikNY 13:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Anthropomorphism - specifically the 'Religion and myth' section, which is repetitious, wordy and overlong. Needs to be reorganised without POV nonsense, but I don't have enough knowledge of the topic to do this myself. Supergolden 09:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • BCTF - Article needs content, lacking on the content --User:Tawker 12 October 2005
  • Moskau (song) - Article needs to be organized, and it's a bit lacking on the info. --mdd4696 03:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The Ambiguously Gay Duo - The whole article needs help, including a table of contents. There's also a weird statement that I don't understand; maybe someone can clarify it: "The letters on their shirts, "G" and "A" for Gary and Ace, spell "GA" or "AG", both of which comprise part of a common gay moniker." There is also a claim concerning a statement made by the series' creator that could use a source. - Sensor 01:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
    I've clarified (my interpretation of) the weird statement. Guanaco 03:05, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Something needs to be done with Vs., Vs. (album), and VS. (Mission of Burma album) -Acjelen 04:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Can someone unbiased please take a look at at Universal Student Unionism. I really think this page should be renamed to 'Compulsory Student Unionism'. Please see the talk page for evidence. Robotic Monkey Head 09:48, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
    • This is not the right place for such a debate, but for info I have merged the final and first paragraphs to make it clear that both terms are used (and there is a redirect from one page to the other so the page name is not very important). Andreww 10:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Rock music 1971 - Just a huge lump of text, probably pasted from a web page. Abelsson 11:28, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Rampur - most of the information is there - it just needs tidying up. Bluap 15:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 10, 2005

  • Speedy g biographical article created by what seems to be a new user. Article contained an email address to reach the person at the end, which I deleted. Wikipedia's being sluggish for me today, not sure if it's my internet connection or the server, so editing is difficult. Rest of article could use some additional cleanup. --Seanorthwest 18:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • There are many radio stations contributed by an anon user that need to be cleaned up. Currently, he is contributing to radio stations in Chicago, and among his works include WSCR, WIND, WLEY, WKSC, WKQX, WCKG and others that I listed in cleanup from October 2005. He has also worked on other existing Chicago radio articles and has also made his presence felt with L.A., Philly, and NYC radio station articles (most of the NYC articles are cleaned up). Please be aware of his style as I assume that he'll probably work on other cities soon. ErikNY 15:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I cleaned up the Al Jarreau page significantly. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.32.228.120 (talk • contribs) 02:20, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • H5N1 - See this one's Cleanup taskforce page for more information. --Quintin3265 18:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 9, 2005

  • Murphy's laws-all: This page is a nightmare cut-and-paste job. I do not like to list pages for deletion and somebody maybe able to salvage something useful here. But not me. Terwilliger 11:30, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Looks as if it might be an import from elsewhere - eg the lists from which the Random Plot Generator (based in part on the Evil Overlord lists) draws upon.
  • Perpetua: An article about an early Christian martyr that mostly just needs some improvements in readability. Deadsalmon 23:58, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer: I know the tag's 6 days old (that fault's mine), but that's not the point of this. This article has been added because it is a short mess, to be succint. I don't know where to start with the cleanup; if anyone knows anything about Geissenhainer, I urge them to attack this for me. JB Adder | Talk 02:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 8, 2005

  • Pallava: Organization is poor. English is muddled. There seems to be some original research mixed in there, although that might just be an artifact of poor composition. Probably needs a solid fact-check. Justin Bacon 15:57, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The good guys: The page mostly talks about a robbery. -- Snkcube 22:04, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 7, 2005

[edit] October 6, 2005

  • We Love Katamari soundtrack - Poorly written and needs to be reorganized. -- Snkcube 03:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The article Win is entirely about the accomplishment in baseball pitching, a rather narrow focus. -Acjelen 04:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Update: I've created Win (baseball), and Chick Bowen has developed Win into a disambiguation page. It remains now to disambiguate these baseball articles that currently point to Win. Tearlach 09:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Suzuki - The history section focuses mainly on the American branch of Suzuki and doesn't say much about Suzuki cars sold elsewhere. --ApolloBoy 04:28, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • removed cleanup tag. Article is incomplete (focuses primarily on American cars) but incomplete is not the same as needing cleanup. Stub tag is for incomplete articles John Broughton 03:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 5, 2005

  • It's still stubbish, but I rewrote it and removed the cleanup tab. John Broughton 04:00, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 4, 2005

  • It Dies Today - Poorly maintained, outdated, and juvenile page about a very legitimate (Headlined 2nd stage with Ozzfest, 40,000 records sold of debut album) rock band. --CastAStone 01:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Added titles, fixed most grammar, researched and added some info John 23:00, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Nightsisters - no context... could be fancruft for all I know. Giving this 30 days to see if anyone will clean it up and add context before I AfD it.--Isotope23 17:36, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] October 3, 2005

  • Manon Lescaut - Serious neutral POV problems with this article. Wording seems to be entirely from the source quoted. will381796 00:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Cwen - The factual accuracy of this article seems dubious (confusing Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, if nothing else), the article uses the name "Cwen" throughout although it links to an existing article called "Kvenland" etc. I'll try to do what I can, but my knowledge on this subject is very limited. Aarnepolkusin 16:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
  • William Wilbanks: probably not an AfD but rather reflection neglect of his notability from hostile PoV; cop-ed.Jerzy•t
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