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[edit] Anthropology

This page is undergoing reorganization. Please see Wikipedia:Cleanup_process/Cleanup_sorting_proposal for details.

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Igbanke - I'm not sure if this is a copyvio as well. This looks like an essay, needs to be done according to the Manual of Style (unless it really is a copyvio). It needs somebody with a specialised knowledge to look through it once, I have no knowledge about the subject. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 14:31, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Coming of age - reads like a collection of trivia about different countries and cultures. Needs someone to write a broad overview, of anthropological thinking on "coming of age", different types of approaches to "coming of age", particular cultures which can serve as exemplars of these different approaches, some comment on major cultures of the world (some are listed, others aren't -- e.g. Australia & New Zealand are mentioned, but the US is not), etc. Unfortunately, I don't know much about this.


[edit] Cultural studies

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  • Culture of Turkey - the entire article was filled with such gems as "Every region has their own set of "Folklore" which basically is a regional dance". The history shows it used to be much worse - yet on topic it ought to be a potential featured article at some stage! It is currently incoherent and doesn't actually say anything substantial about the culture of Turkey - although I have fitted in some links that I hope might help. Please could somebody sort this out, the state of this page is a genuine tragedy! --VivaEmilyDavies 18:48, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] Ethnology

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  • Austrians - freshly created via machine translation from the crosslinked article in German Wikipedia. Needs more formatting, copy editing and content revision. Best Jbetak 08:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Songhai - most of the page is copied out of textbooks without any further formatting, even retaining the textbook headers such as "Unit Two." It is entirely too long and needs to be largely rewritten by an expert on the subject. algormortis 14:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Ethnic fractionalization is a bit of a ramble. The text is mostly the work of one editor, whose style and mark-up are a little off-key. I don't know enough about the content to clean it up, though I suspect some of it should go. mholland 23:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Kru - "The Kru are a tribe of people in inland Liberia." Entire article. Needs, well, everything. -- Dcfleck 13:49, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)
    • It has text now, but no sources, which is especially dangerous b/c the article (1) is not a familiar subject and (2) makes bold claims. --M@rēino 00:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archaeology

[edit] Business

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[edit] Economics

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  • Welfare definition of economics - Needs help from someone who knows the topic. -- Reinyday, 16:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Arthashastra - ancient Indian economics treatise. Needs knowledgeable cleanup and liposuction of parts on statecraft, expansion of other topics. Tearlach 02:06, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Economy of Argentina -- needs serious reorganization. Delief 19:19, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
    • And an update, and dePOVing. Sounds as if the Menem/Cavallo economic policies had been basically right and only external crises (Russia, Mexico) were to blame for the 2001 collapse... --Pablo D. Flores 15:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Economy_of_Morocco -- Formatting changes required. Middle of the page makes no sense with a broken attempt of inserting a headline in between.
  • Economy of Asia - Need a lot more. The page has the potential of becoming a good and large article but too little knowledgable contributors. Needs 2 more vote before dec 17th for collaboration of the week __earth 00:37, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • Gann angles--is this a real concept? Seems vaguely pseudo-sciecey to me, but if this is an actual economic concept, could be explained much better. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:25, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
Googled -- it's technical analysis aka charting => it _is_ Voodoo. J heisenberg 23:03, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Welfare reform. Newly rewritten article, abandoned shortly after birth, could use NPOV love. / Plus, only talks about US welfare reform, whereas welfare reform is a political topic in many countries. David.Monniaux 16:47, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Option (finance) needs some theoretical background and history. Kwertii 15:57, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Uneconomic growth - needs NPOV; should focus on the (new) term and notion in its title, not on the policies of George W. Bush.
  • Large-sized note - I just asked it to be clarified so no one will mess with it. That is, no one makes the mistake of thinking the table is about the present. 66.245.29.166 15:11, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Series (U.S. currency) Please triple check everything in this article to make sure everything in this is correct, as well as thinking of Wikipedia articles besides the dis-ambiguation page Series to have links here. 66.245.89.64 21:50, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Social cost Incorrect concept that private costs can exceed social cost leading to positive externalities —Dudboi 02:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] History

For history by geographic location, see entries under Pages needing attention/Geography
For military history, see Pages needing attention/Military

[edit] Ancient history

See also Pages needing attention/Archaeology

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[edit] Medieval history

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[edit] Modern history

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[edit] History of science

[edit] Miscellaneous

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People in History

  • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus appears rife with questionable information ("October 45"?). The information present appears to be garnered from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and needs refinement. Isopropyl 23:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Hongwu Emperor Enormously important founder of the Chinese Ming dynasty, but the article needs copyediting badly, as it has grammatical and spelling errors, and is incoherent and repetitive in some places.
  • Kublai Khan Needs expanding.
  • Ed Gein -- Contradictions with outside sources are detailed on the talk page. The article has no citations. Cookiecaper 04:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Sir Ernest De Silva -- Wikified, but needs some more content and fact checking from someone familiar with Sri Lankan history.
  • Gospatric of Northumberland -- This seems to be a geneological listing for a historic person, discussed in separate article Gospatric. No sources are stated for verifyability, and I'm not sure this material is even suitable for Wikipedia. Regardless, if kept, it needs to be formatted and linked into the subject appropriately. - Dmeranda 03:59, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
  • John III of Portugal -- The objective is to make it a featured article. It just need some cleanup regarding grammar and syntax. It was translated from Portuguese. Please help.--Gameiro 00:39, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Jebe -- This page is almost certainly full of blatantly wrong information, but I'm not 100 percent sure. Some guy is trying to say that one of Genghis Khan's two top generals was a Korean monk, the only sources I've found make this seem unlikely. http://www.houseofice.com/history/khan_longVersion.shtml Can anyone confirm this? If not, I'm not sure one can trust any information in this article, it may be better off deleted--User:Andy_Christ 2005 Mar 19
  • Günther Blumentritt -- A very rough summary I've just added. Needs organization, expansion, etc. --RevCasy 23:26, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)
  • Related to Deng Xiaoping. Would some people please pay at least some attention to Deng Xiaoping's history-changing, enourmously important Reforms, Opening up to the Outside World, roughly translated from the Chinese household phrase 改革开放, I mean if we have a page on Xiaokang society then maybe its time that we at least started an article on the reforms. Anyone interested in working on this article can contact my talk page. Colipon+(T) 21:44, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Chandragupta Maurya - needs a bit of copyediting. English is somewhat awkward, phrases are repeated, etc. Ornil 04:40, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Martianus Capella looks like a poorly kludged merge; could use some cleanup and genuine re-editing.Notcarlos 21:00, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Molly Maguires - woof, this needs work. It's a stub, POV, and very light on factual information. - Scooter 21:59, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano - a stub on a brother of Pope Pius IV whose «early career connects itself with the romantic rise of his elder brother». How? Looks like they are not part of the Medicis. IMO it's better to expand than merge and redirect--Nabla 04:19, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC) A start made; moved to full name to avoid Medici confusions --Wetman 19:21, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Wu Hu, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Han Zhao, unfinished and needed more inputs. 大将军, 都督中外诸军事 (talk) 07:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Kurt von Schuschnigg -- description of his office -- User:Docu
  • Savarkar This needs a lot or work. It's heavily biased, I suspect there's circular editing going on, and it contains several highly inflammatory POV statements. 5-16-05
  • Rostam_Farokhzad -- This article is poorly written and heavily biased. Much of it appears non-factual or unsubstantiated. I don't know enough about this (apparent) historical figure to tell how much of this article is garbage and how much is actually information. Otherwise it needs to be deleted. Vircum 08:38, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Anselm of Canterbury -- dispute between a Catholic friar supporting "orthodox" views of religious history, and some gay historian, on whether this Christian scholar was homosexual. David.Monniaux 09:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

United States History

Twentieth Century History

  • Cold War: the main article is limited, and the rest of the sequence could be developed somewhat.212.85.6.26 18:35, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Modern_history - reads like it was written by a 10 year old. Either major edit or deletion really.
    • Found another article that I think it should be merged with. *Kat* 08:56, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
    • The two could be differentiated: the latter covering "recent history." Jackiespeel 19:01, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Modern world The list of personalities is extremely POV and shows some odd preferences (Lucas and Spielberg may be popular filmmakers, but they will probably be forgotten one century from now, just as we have forgotten many popular artists of the 19th century). David.Monniaux 06:58, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • User:David.Monniaux's argument is not correct for a number of reasons: The article is NOT just about a "list of personalities", it is about an era or age recognized by historians as commencing from the 1750s onwards. Secondly, what is "POV" by listing the MOST prolific mainstream movie directors and producers whose movies have been watched by billions and whose ideas have been absorbed into the mass popular culture of modern times? What logic is it to talk in terms of what will "be forgotten a century from now"? How does User:David.Monniaux know what will be in the future? Finally we are dealing with history and reality as we know it to be in the present, and the article does an excllent job of describing and explaining the Modern world, and those who shaped it, as we know and recognize it now. I am therefore removing it from this list. IZAK 06:36, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • The list of names does need adding to, and is primarily composed of European and American men. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Mahatma Gandhi, several women... There could be a historical breakdown by period, and surely the Revolution of 1848 would fit in with the others mentioned, along with the Scramble for Africa and decolonisation, and events across the rest of the globe. 212.85.6.26 17:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • We are writing Wikipedia for the present: over the course of the next hundred years anybody (or indeed any thing) whose importance proves to be only temporarary will be voted for deletion. Probably what we should be doing is to encourage a more global contribution to Wikipedia. 212.85.6.26 11:06, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • The 20th Century in Review requires NPOV from someone who knows their history --Graham :) | Talk 01:09, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC). Iv'e made a start by adding some structure. It now needs someone with a good overview. Julianp 02:32, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • 1950s has an overview section since its merging with 1950's - this is a good thing but it is completely U.S.-centric. Any historians care to expand its scope? --Lancevortex 13:46, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Miguel Pro - controversial executed Mexican priest. Pro/anti editors have left the article in a real mess, and I don't know enough to rescue it. --  ajn (talk) 09:54, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Geographical regions

  • Erenkoy - The "history" section of this article needs a serious review and possible corrections by someone who is familiar with the events of the Intercommunal struggle in Cyprus(1963-1964).--Jsone 23:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Svaneti - Contains suspect assertions such as the claim that Svans are ethnic Georgians. The article seems to have been originally written by Levzur, who has a history of POV-pushing in Georgia-related articles. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 14:35, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • History of British Columbia - one of those lengthy articles without a break in sight! I don't know enough about BC to edit it, but I should have thought that at least it could be divided by century headings? Peter Shearan 07:49, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • History of Fiji and/or Politics of Fiji - excellently written, but much has changed in the government over the past two years. These pages need tremendous updates. See: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] --Kingturtle 03:24 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
  • History of Africa - Shockingly Eurocentric! Could use a couple hours of time from someone familiar with basic African history, and much cutting back of duplicate European content. That any article on African history doesn't detail black African states like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, Kano, Ashanti, Oyo, Benin, Ife, Monomontapa, or the Swahili-speaking city-states in East Africa, just to name some of the most notable. --172, May 3, 2003
    • Agreed, and phrases like "Spain had completely thrown off the Muslim yoke" aren't what you'd call exemplary NPOV either. The subject is far too big for the way that ths article tries to treat it. Really, it should be a very general overview of regions and centuries peppered with links to other articles. A bit like History of the United States only several times the area and at least 10 times the timespan --Onebyone 18:44, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Babylonia and Assyria - all the articles linked on that page will desperately need some attention, as they apparently all come from the 1911 EB. I'm pretty sure they'll be extremely out of date by now. Adam Bishop 04:25, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Persia - I have filled in the info that was missing, but the article begs for a picture/timeline. Fishal 01:43, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Upper and Lower Egypt. Useful content, but looks as if two or three articles have been concatenated. Knowledgeable merging required. --Heron 13:11, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Uch - I can't tell if this is the same as one of the other Alexandrias we have articles on or not. Pyrop 03:50, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Stone City - I created this page because it was redlinked on Nanjing, but I am woefully unschooled in Chinese history, and someone who knows about the subject should really look it over. -- Dcfleck 12:35, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)
  • Gando - lots of dubious claims. I've already brought up my concerns in the talk page. Experts on Chinese, Korean, Manchurian history needed. -- ran (talk) 05:11, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Lost Ten Tribes - mix of actual history that is covered better elsewhere, and crackpot theories , written in such broken prose it defies comprehensibility. Read the Talk page, it is a laugh riot! I actually think this page should be deleted and redirected, but I don't actually know because I could not figure out by reading it if there is anything actually here. Brassrat 16:17, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Early Christianity - simple historical accuracy dispute fully described at Talk:Early_Christianity#Accuracy_dispute 209.78.16.243 23:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Kven -- nasty NPOV war, some users send messages to the Foundation's contact addresses. David.Monniaux 09:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • French people -- use of anachronical concepts (post-19th century) on Medieval history, apparently in support of some kind of "ethnicist" politicial stance. David.Monniaux 09:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


Miscellaneous

  • Casket letters - I've done the requested copy editing and Wikified the page. However, the scholarship this page is based on is a century old. It needs updating and restructuring to get the issues across more clearly. JGF Wilks 17:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Arthashastra - ancient Indian economic treatise. Currently article focuses on the kingship angle (where it needs serious cleanup) - needs expanding to cover the wealth of cultural detail described in Arthashastra. Tearlach 02:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Civilian casualties and displacements during the Cyprus conflict needs a lot of work to include the Greek Cypriot casualties and displacements 1963-1975, presented in a style appropriate for an encyclopedia (past problems with anti-Turkish rants). The reason it currently presents only one side is that is was moved from the (inappropriate) article name Turkish Cypriot Genocide (which is offensive to Greek Cypriots and misleading, since the term "genocide" is factually incorrect and used not even by Turkey or the TRNC officially) - Snchduer 10:57, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Corset (before 1500) is a mess, as is the later entry. The main entry for corset seems quite good -- should they be merged? Katefan0 23:00, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
  • Architectural history Would like some help to better integrate this with the architecture page (the only page linking to it?) also would like some help on the page itself, I think I've made it a bit too abstract, or not abstract enough... Chwe 23:39, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Rationibus - really needs to be put into context by someone familiar with ancient Roman government. -- Dcfleck 01:19, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)
  • Reception history -- I created this stub because I think it is an interesting topic, but a lot more needs to be said and clarified. Also, examples would be a good thing. Anyone who has come across this term is invited to contribute. <KF> 21:12, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Heruli. A page where several readers have expressed concerns about original research and accuracy.--Wiglaf 12:18, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Future studies - not sure this is the most appropriate place for this page, but anyway. The page is missing a lot of information, doesn't conform to any structure (just a bunch of random topics) and the level of information presented is very low. Needs a lot of attention. Paranoid 08:20, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Neolithic Revolution looks like it could at least be broken up into sections, possibly more. Jwanders 12:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
  • English Renaissance is a good start but needs expansion, or at the very least an improvement of the "For further reading" section. Battlemonk 15:33, 11 Jan 2006 (US EST)
  • The five items below were found entered underneath a #REDIRECT command on a page that redirects here, and therefore were invisible unless one edited the redirect page; if they are duplicates or have already been addressed, please excuse the duplication. Russ Blau (talk) 21:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Copenhagen_Fire_of_1728 Goal is to turn the article into a good article. Needs to be checked by experts. In the middle of translation from Danish. --OrbitOne 11:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Ken Livingstone is in need of a restructure. Totallycrazyman 22:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Union of Russia and Belarus - some "oh no it isn't" comments have been added that need some attention. --Heron 17:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Forsyth_County,_Georgia_v._The_Nationalist_Movement -- Needs SERIOUS attention. Very biased, and created by the lawyer it focuses on. Yes, it focuses on the lawyer and not the case.
    • Politics of Georgia (U.S. state) is a poorly-written, somewhat biased, totally unsourced article. Most of the current text may need to be discarded. I'll work on it some myself but it would be nice for people who know much more than me to help out on what could be a solid, high-quality article. --SuperNova |T|C| 04:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Law

To be manually checked, then deleted if done or moved to article's talk page:

  • Legal drinking age. There seems to be confusion about the definition of the term; it is not that simple as one might think. More on article's talk page. SGJ 21:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
  • court This page is rather simplistic, it describes the interior of a US courtroom, followed by someone's reply with the interior of English courtrooms. Some history and discussion of the social institution of a law court would be good here, perhaps a discussion of the court systems of various countries.
    • To facilitate this discussion, I've separated out courtroom into its own article. -- 8^D BD2412gab 23:07, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
  • RAVE Act - need major POV fix. The author spent so much time saying why this law would be the greatest injustice since the Leo Frank case (my words, not his), he never actually says what the law is Plantagenet Palliser 20:50, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • USL v. BSDi - needs review/factchecking, especially by anyone with a background in law or with knowledge of the events. Also, a new source has become available (referenced from the page), from which the article could be finished and factchecked. IMHO, this page is only just valuable enough to not be deleted outright, and I wrote a good deal of it. jhf 05:42, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Affirmative action - Please give a hand, this article needs a lot of work, and a lot of help from as many editors as possible. Big POV/personality conflict problems, as well as some vandalism and a lot of reverting. Sam [Spade] 18:25, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • School choice - reads like a pamphlet from the Pioneer Institute. It needs heavy attribution to replace "critics say", "advocates want", etc., with actual, real examples.
  • Worker safety and health - This seems to be a summary of some American legislation with which I am not familiar. I am no more knowledgeable about the subject after reading the article than before! If someone actually knows anything about the subject, maybe they could the article some attention? (I was actually expecting it to be a more general article about workplace health and safety, maybe detailing relevant legislation in different countries. Tjwood 18:39, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I just did a total rewrite, with considerabel expansion, although more non-us contet would be useful. DES 22:34, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • In absentia, an important procedure around the world, it has only the barest of explanation, and gives a tiny blurb on it contradicting the US 6th Amendment. Sherurcij 10:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] Linguistics

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  • Euphemism - a long page that's in a mess: clash of literary styles, duplication, etc.
  • Haimirich - This page seems inaccurate, because I believe that two different names are mixed here. Emeric and equivalents could be from the Germanic firstname Amalric and Henry and equivalents could be from Heimirich. The problem is that many sites on the internet give us different, if not opposing information about these names. Amalric and Haimirich are both two basic roots of which many names derived, but it seems all very doubtful from which of the two some of the names, like for example Amerigo, came.
  • List of grammatical cases - this chart needs better examples and more informative descriptions of each case, preferably in complete sentences. --[[User:Eequor|ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ]] 19:32, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Synthetic language - The explanation is not correct. The author(s) of this page need to consult a good linguistic source. Synthetic does not refer to only inflection. Synthesis refers to morpheme-to-word ratio. The morphemes do not have to be inflectional--they can be derivational. Inflection refers to root/stem modification (usually affixation) that indicates grammatical information (i.e. relational info). All inflectional languages will be synthetic (to varying degrees), but not vice versa. Ish ishwar 08:47, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have corrected the definition previously given, but in my opinion, the definition I have given is somewhat rough and ready - it requires someone more well-versed in linguistics to complete the transformation into a proper encyclopedia entry. --firstfox 12:06, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Synthetic_language"
  • Philadelphia accent This article is woefully inexpert. An article on such a technical subject needs expert authorship not casual observation. Furthermore it contradicts the American English page. Just not up to WikiStandards at all.
  • Greek lexicon - written in first person, article includes comments, table needs alphabetization, additional data needs integration into table with greek translation, etc., etc...
fixed up the number section to be more accessible [Lareti]
  • Orange (word) - etymology is still not 100% due to annoying gaps in my layish knowledge. Needs some expert reviewing. See the talk page for a productive discussion I had and am having with Eequor, but I'd really like more people and more sources to sort this out once and for all. JRM 16:21, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)

Languages

  • Armenian language - The description of the phonology and grammar sound vague and unprofessional and they lapse into praise of the language. Also, the organization needs improvement--phonological descriptions are spilling into the other sections. People with precise knowledge of the phonology and grammar (and of IPA) should look this over. algormortis 15:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Azerbaijani alphabet - needs synch up with the main Azerbaijani language article - particularly the alphabets sub-section. Is a separate article for the alphabet required? If it is, then terminology should be synched up. Its not clear to me how the 2 alphabets in the alphabet article map to the various alphabets discussed in the language article. Or should I just drink my morning coffee before logging on? --Cje 09:08, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • English reform - this seems to be one person's point of view, an attempt to single-handedly reform English spelling and maybe grammar: it is in non-encyclopaedia style, could partly be merged with spelling reform or renamed English language reform and face-lifted, but I don't know how much is worth keeping, especially towards the end Saintswithin 19:48, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I've started changing this but I think it's just nonsense and would prefer a less biased person to take a look! Saintswithin 10:50, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Swedish language#Examples someone who feels to know the area well ought to look over the examples and, maybe particularly, the pronounciation guides. --212.181.86.76 07:29, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Yaqui language is merely an old list of family relationship names. It should be moved, rewritten, or both. Aaronbrick 23:06, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Nuer language - I keep meaning to fix this article, originally put together by the well-meaning adoptive sibling of a Nuer child, but I never seem to get around to it, so if anyone else wants to, there's an extremely informative link at the bottom... - Mustafaa 19:15, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Singlish - suggest split to Phonetics and Vocab sections (too long!)

The problems are very similar with the two pages:

    • They contain word tables, where the English word's meaning is completely different than that of the Hungarian word, and they do not explain, what they are doing. This is confusing for the reader. There is also absolutely no explanation, why they contain unsimilar words with complete different meaning, and why they state, these are cognates, without the slightest proof.
    • They state, there are 200 cognates, but the list of about one dozen words indicates, that even the listed ones are not too similar, and/or have completely different meaning. The 200 seems therefore to be a strong exaggregation, as also the Swadesh list indicates this.
    • In the typology part they state, Hungarian has 24 cases, in reality the Hungarian grammar does not use this term, and the pages fail to mention this essential fact.
    • They also contain in the typology important features, that are clearly features of other languages, like Turkish, Persian, Armenian, Basque, Sumerian and others without mentioning that fact.
    • The typology contains features, like palatalization, that are also present in English or Slavic languages, without mentioning that fact.
    • The typology uses features, that are not common in the group, without clearly grouping common and not common features. It also uses expressions, like "modern" or "innovative" for characterization of languages, which are completely unappropriate in the context.
    • The references on the Finno-Ugric page miss important linguistic works, like the study of Dr. Marácz's study about this group.
    • It is also questionable, if the Wikipedia needs both pages, since the term Finno-Ugric has been replaced 1964 by the term Uralic, and the difference between the two groups is marginal.

Antifinnugor 09:33, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

      • Finno-Ugric vs. Uralic: it is clearly stated here and pretty much everywhere, taught by schoolbooks et cetera that Finno-Ugric is a subset of Uralic where (Finno-Ugric∪Samoyedic)=Uralic.
      • Palatalisation: the way Hungarian palatalised consonants work is very different from how it does in Slavic languages. In fact it’s the first sign of someone being Hungarian if you’re listening to someone speaking Russian or Polish. Furthermore, Slavic languages palatalise consonants as they meet “iotised” vowels (or modern successors of what have been called that in Old Slavic), whereas in Hungarian it happens only on an explicite j (and again, the resulting sound it miles apart). What do you mean by English having a similar feature? Oh, and our palatalised consonants exist on their own, unlike Slavic ть and нь
        • Still palatalization is no feature, that characterizes uralic groups. If yes, the article should write about the reasons in detail.
          • Replied to in my talk page. Those interested could go there and take a look. -- Ralesk 22:02, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • Cases, you should read the article on what’s a case. It’s one thing we don’t call it that because cases are so “Germanic” (POV comment now: might be the reason why Székely still use passive voice through the causative suffix, while “mainland” Hungarians don’t).
        • Hungarian uses no cases.
          • A rose is a rose, no matter what you call it. In your terminology, neither does Finnish or Estonian — so this is a really moot point -- R.
      • That other languages are as well agglutinative, does not mean instant membership to them (comment: it is rumoured that Uralic and Altaic languages might form an even more ancient huge family), and does not mean that we can’t be finno-ugric… that point is really weak.
      • Even in the Uralic categorisation scheme, we are placed lightyears away from the Finno-Sami group. If one considers the history of groups like Hungarians, Chanti/Manysi; Finnish, Estonian; Sami — and you consider that we have been exposed to Turkish and German and western Slavic folks, Ch/M have been to Russians; Finnish to Scandinavians, Estonians to Germans and Russians; Sami to Scandinavians again, there’s a huge reason for the vocabulary differences. Yet still, taking the oldest/simplest words and suffixes, Ch/M and Hungarian seem heavily related, although indeed rather far from F and E, which are close to each other and so-so close to the Sami group. We do share more current vocabulary with Germans and the Slavic who surround us and the Turkish who were here for 150 years, but the timeline is something I don’t think one should forget.
        • Ch/M are very far related to Hungarian. Also Finnish and Estonian. The article fails to mention the other Sumerian agglutinating languages.
          • Not according to the Uralic categorisation scheme. Finn-Permic are farther. Also, if the only thing we have common with Sumerians is the agglutination, then that’s not a very strong point… -- R.
      • I don’t have comments on the word tables. I have personally found the Hungarian phonology page more helpful than the similar parts of the Hungarian language page.
        • The tables are wrong.
          • Some that you give are pretty wrong, yes. What you call “basic words” are often nowhere basic in linguistical and linguo-historical means. -- R.
      • By the way, Hungarian language has a PNA tag on it, yet it did not have its section here on the PNA page, what’s this about? -- Ralesk 08:41, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
        • Thanks, I fixed that.
        • Except of the last point still all problems are unsolved. The pages deliver incorrect informations with important facts missing to the Wikipedia user. Antifinnugor 19:24, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Chinese verbs, linked from Chinese language. It looks like the editor had something planned along the lines of Chinese pronouns, etc, but forgot he had started the article. As it is now, I think it could describe pretty much any language in the world. Does anyone know Chinese? Kyle543 09:12, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
I've added a bit, but it still needs major work. --Danaman5 19:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Elu is a variety of (literary) Sinhala which is inaccurately defined; the author (who also started the article) is not an expert, draws on partially outdated works, refuses to accept criticism and has tried to remove the disputed-tag. Krankman 11:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Krankman is running around trying to sully my name and demonize me. This person provides his opinion and passes it off as fact, and refuses to listen to anyone other than his own voice. He belives himself to be an "expert" when he is clearly not and has made patently false claims about the Sinhala language (Refer to discussion). He refuses to accept criticism and admit that he was wrong, even when it is clearly the case (Refer to "list of" articles). He adds the disputed tag to whatever article that he does not find "fitting." Clozapine 11:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


Terminology

  • Incorporation (linguistics) - Just corrected it (incorporation does not equal polysynthesis) and got some stolen examples, but in-depth discussion would be welcome, as well as a distinction between incorporation and plain compounding. -- Pablo D. Flores 13:21, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Stem (linguistics) - I made a start with the definition and English examples (could add Spanish, some Japanese, but it's rather clear as it is). Someone with a clue should write about IE verb stems, which look like a completely different thing to me (agglutinative inflection rather than derivation). -- Pablo D. Flores 12:19, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Translation - inadequate discussion of "untranslatable" words; disingenuously attempts to erase the differences between translation, semantics, and idiom. --[[User:Eequor|ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ]] 00:45, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Tri- Can anyone focus on the question at Talk:Tri-?? 66.245.115.43 21:54, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
That has been done already. However, here is a new problem. Twice in its history, octagon has been added to the octo- article when it properly belongs on the octa- article. Any comments on this?? 66.245.110.11 18:20, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Information literacy -- Needs to be more like an article and less like an essay, and desperately needs to be wikified. Radagast 01:28, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
Simplified some of the text, changed some of the headings, and fixed some of the format issues but there is a lot left before it will sound like an article instead of an essay. It really needs a new structure... jaredwf 12:34, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
Prefix links to both of these. Now, something we should work on is thinking of a Wikipedia category for these as well as any already-existing categories it can be a sub-category of. 66.245.10.239 15:32, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
At this moment, one of these prefixes, di-, has a Wiktionary message, and so we definitely need to focus more on that particular article. 66.245.100.146 01:37, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Military

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[edit] Organizations

  • To be manually moved to article's talk page or deleted:
  • Selfdetermination Movement - This article is a copy/paste, and needs much work. 66.109.99.18 18:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Westboro Baptist Church - This article is missing references for claims which may or may not be true. Guanaco 00:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Anti-Defamation League - Detractors have filled article with unreferenced or poorly backed-up claims. See talk page for further details. Mwalcoff 21:43, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Zimbabwe Republic Police - I don't know much about Zimbabwe beyond the unfortunate news coverage, but even I can tell this article is appallingly POV. the wub "?/!" 09:55, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • TransLink (Vancouver) - A real mess. Needs some beefing up, organization and context - it's pretty much just a list of TransLink's functions. Gwk 03:15, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Wobblies have their Centennial coming up for the week starting June 23, 2005 at Chicago,Illinois with events starting now around the world. Lets show some spirit for the good fight in these darkening days. Schlüggell 21:17, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Municipal Transportation Agency Completely awful article - pretty much just a list of current board members. Needs serious work but I don't know the fist thing about San Francisco's public transport, or indeed its politics. --VivaEmilyDavies 02:03, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Federation of Expellees The section Recent developments needs a clean up for two reasons. (a) because it was written by someone who's first language is not English. (b) because the informaion is now a couple of years out of date. Philip Baird Shearer 00:21, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Sophia University - I need some help with the Template coding; also, it's a terribly short article. As someone who only studied there for one semester, and whose Japanese skills fail to navigate their website, I could use some help. LordAmeth 14:07, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Dev Sol is a stub but a badly written one. Needs someone familiar to them to check its POV as it is regarded as a terrorist organization with international relations, also serious formatting.--leandros 14:46, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • SNI - Article currently consists of long, linkless passage, copied ad verbatium from another site. (May or may not be copyvio, since source site does not appear to have a copyright notice) Hasn't been touched for a long time. Fangz 13:14, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Hidayatullah - This needs to be copy edited and wikified, and seems to have been written or translated by someone whose first language isn't English. It also is strongly POV, and seems like more of an advertizement for the organization than an article. It contains no links, but is very long and has some organization. I suspect it may need to be deleted, but perhaps it could be salvaged. Turtlefish 00:29, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] People

  • To be manually moved to article's talk page or deleted:
  • Nancy Cruzan - Landmark case that established that the "United States Constitution would grant a competent person a constitutionally protected right to refuse lifesaving hydration and nutrition." The article on Wikipedia is exactly one paragraph long, I kid you not. ~ Neuroscientist June 28, 2005 16:40 (UTC)
  • Martin Heidegger - article is clearly biased against the man, and the talk page seems to make it clear that an interviewwhich dominates the article misrepresents itself, and is in a number of places explicitly wrong. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 10:16, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Roger Montgomery/Temp - This page was apparently created after Roger Montgomery was listed as a possible copyright violation. It's a very longwinded tribute article. It needs to be either deleted, or renamed, trimmed down a lot, and formatted like an encyclopedia entry. Jbinder 21:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Angus G. Wynne - doesn't really say anything much about the man or his life. -- Solipsist 07:23, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Herdsman - How come no one is focusing on the question at Talk:Herdsman?? 66.245.103.69 01:43, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Ramon Valdez--is this the right name, or is it Valdes, and where do the accent marks go? If the name is in doubt, it makes me wonder about the article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:10, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)
  • Jessica Mitford - mostly has info on her early years & social life, only minimal detail on her (fairly popular & influential) writing; needs work from someone familiar with the subject. -FZ 17:30, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Derek Vestey -- confusing relationships need clarifying from someone with knowledge of the Vestey family. 08 May 2004.
  • William Caxton -- not quite sure what should be done with the big slice of source text that dominates the article. Bmills 12:01, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Anne Hutchinson - is a caricature of her biography, I already added link for a source for rewriting. andy 19:41, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Poul Martin Moller - one-author article on this philosopher needs wikifying, expanding, and maybe a little NPOV. All I could do was remove the e-mail address and request for information. Paullusmagnus 01:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Karl Eberhard Schongarth - first paragraph makes little sense. The second paragraph is mainly a series of phrases with unknown acronyms. RedWolf 06:22, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • N. Senada - requires verification. Onebyone 22:50, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Lew Wallace - Just a list of bullet points with the heading "Notes toward an article". --Paul A 06:51, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Richard Clarke - He's been in the news a lot, so it'd be good to get this in better shape. --Wapcaplet 18:49, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • James Caan - fanography. Needs wikification, NPOV'ing, copyedit Ellsworth 16:27, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Florence Ballard - Article is replete with misinformation, wrong information and misspellings. Seems to have been written from hearsay or urban legend or something. (I have checked many websites on Florence Ballard). --User:Oobopshark
  • Ernest Borneman -- Lots still missing from Borneman's biography. In the 1980s and 1990s in Germany and Austria, no one knew that he had had a life before becoming a "sexologist". Some claim he had a strange attitude to paedophilia. His books must also be mentioned. Finally, his suicide came as a surprise to many who had been listening to him on TV talking positively about life. <KF> 08:53, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Historical figures

  • Benjamin Franklin needs some serious wiki magic, particularly the pop culture section. Any help is very much appreciated. MagnoliaSouth | Talk 13:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Kemal Ataturk is blatantly POV, especially the "criticism" section. Words like "evil" are used to describe Armenians. Section ends with "Long live Ataturk!"
  • John III of Portugal -- The objective is to make it a featured article. It just need some cleanup regarding grammar and syntax. It was translated from Portuguese. Please help.--Gameiro 00:40, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Marie Antoinette: It looks to me like this has been recently and completely rewritten, anonymously and without comments or even a single cited reference, and removing the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica reference that was previously given. This cannot be entirely good. On the other hand, it doesn't look like a terrible article. I don't have the interest and the patience to evaluate it myself. I suspect that some material from the old version should have been preserved; certainly references are needed. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:24, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
  • John Ireland(archbishop) - Needs a look by someone with better knowledge and historical resources about the man. Look into his political activity. --69.5.156.155 07:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Borjijite - needs looked at by someone who knows about this. Borjijite needs to be closer to the top and define what it is a lot better. rhyax 00:34, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • De Sayd - Maltese and Mediterranean history checking, links. -- 80.58.3.239 16:29, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Robert Abbot - information about his actual significance is still needed, from cleanup. rhyax 07:12, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Sant Cassia - Edit wars, vfd, copyright issues. you name it. rhyax 08:15, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Philip Freneau - He needs some information on him. His poetry was quite important.
  • Fernando Lopes - Needs to be formatted into Wikipedia coventions. And needs to be edited. Kingturtle 18:11, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Heseri Dead-end-page. needs wikification desperately by a specialist in chinese history. Panta rhei 13:28, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Lou Rawls, actually listed a *few* things. If someone starts the outline and some text I'll flesh it out more. New, not knowing how to write a bio hurts me... see his own bio for startsJoeHenzi 06:58, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It actually needs much more. Someone once wrote a biography of him, which might be worth checking for additional insights and to spot other errors. The previous version, taken from an internet site, had Ruthenberg campaigning for Norman Thomas five years after he died. Italo Svevo 10:49, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Leaders

  • Rafiq Hariri needs structural improvement, especially in the introduction. Needs more information about his political career.
  • Maltese nobility needs some serious formatting by someone who is good at that (ie, not me :-) ). As it looks copypasted, it might also need copyright-checking, but note that the original contributor seems to be the owner of www.maltagenealogy.com. See User talk:Tancarville
  • Deng Xiaoping, article hardly has any information from Deng's revolutionary days. This important part of his life cannot be ignored. [[User:Colipon|Colipon+(T)]] 22:26, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Genghis Khan - the page needs info on Khan uniting the tribes before his conquest, and needs info on Khan's aborted conquest of Europe.

Professions

  • Shock jock - Somewhat POV, not very descriptive. --Spikey 03:06, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) --- I rewrote this to expand, NPOV, and wikify. Should be much better, improvements welcome. KeithTyler 01:02, May 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Waiter -- slightly imbalanced; also needs spicing up. <KF> 02:43, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Arborist - currently a "how to hire" guide, should be a better description of what an arborist does. Also seems to have a POV about particular methods. --Finlay McWalter 03:49, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Other

  • Bloody Benders, family of serial killers. Article needs pictures and more info.
  • Michael Ross, mass murderer, needs a better article, currently listed on VfD for not expressing his notability. Sam Spade 14:05, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Quinquagenarian - Can anyone discuss adding a list of such people on the model of the articles of sexagenarian and septuagenarian?? (Any detailed comments please put on the article's talk page.) Georgia guy 18:47, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Cochrane – Needs an introductory paragraph from someone who knows what they're talking about (not me), and probably other work too. —Brent Dax 07:53, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Indian family name - someone else added the {{attention}} template but it is not listed on these pages. Not really sure if I've got the right section so feel free to move it. There#s a lot of information in the article but not structured coherently and some of the writing could be improved. Note that I've also suggested that the smaller page Indian name is merged into Indian family name. -- Muntfish 08:34, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Fisseha Yimer is the proper name of the permanent Ethiopian representative to the United Nations, but for some reason this information has been repeatedly removed from this page. All other information is POV and unverifiable. User:Seja430 5 March 2006
  • Eric Brill - Appears to be a joke article about a real person. Nurg 10:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Samir Patel -- needs more info.... User:Onyx the hero

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[edit] Philosophy

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[edit] Stubs

[edit] Glossaries which need to be completed

[edit] To be manually checked, deleted or moved to article's talk page:

  • Nazi Mysticism fictional nonsense about UFOs and Nazi bases on the moon. Hgilbert 01:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Platonic epistemology stub-like article, nonsensical grammar. reetep 20:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Queer Theory has been re-opened for dispute. A fresh pair of eyes and opinions might help to convince others that some aspects of this article need more than work -- some need to be re-structured so they aren't incredibly offensive as is.--Lantog 12:45, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Primitivism is a grotesque display of quackery. User:Sam Spade 14:53, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Marxist feminism - very poorly written, unwikified article that needs a proper going over. Ninebelow 11:38, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Philosophical skepticism - Currently a lecture, I have made a start but more reorganisation and specialist knowledge needed. Sextus 13:09, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Core ontology - poorly explained. --[[User:Eequor|η♀υωρ]] 20:41, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Essentialism - Needs someone who knows more about Essentialism than I do to pull the page together. Before I made it a disambiguation page, it was a mixture of the first two topics. jaredwf 11:28, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
I have nominated this article for the Article improvement drive as it still is unbalanced and stubbish. -- Hippalus 12:23, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Forms of state - Oof! I don't know anything about this topic, but I know this needs some reorg. and rewording. --Spikey 02:49, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - final section "Misc" ends in what appears to be a tangential essay with no clear connection to Nietsche's ideas --llywrch
  • Immortality - Bias and poor writing in Concepts. 119 05:10, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Larry's Text is a set of pages input by Larry Sanger in the early days of Wikipedia. It is 350+(!) pages of introduction to philosophy lectures he gave at Ohio State University. Rendering it all encyclopedic has been a daunting task, and many of these articles still need a lot of work.
  • Metaphysical subjectivism - Basically, the first section of the article seems glib and non-encyclopedic, and I would like the information to be backed up by some external sources (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/objective.html). -Seth Mahoney 22:05, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • physicalism: Larry's Text has been removed, but now this article needs to be edited from the ground up. This is a pretty critical position in philosophy of mind, so come help out!
  • Right opinion - could be clearer, more formatted, more explanatory; about Plato's philosophy. from cleanup [[User:Cohesion|cohesion | ☎]] 01:23, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Socratic method - needs more organization and references, currently sounds more like one person's interpretation of it, than an encyclopedia article. --zandperl 15:00, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • sophistry - Moved two POV paragraphs from the article to the talk page. How can we rework these paragraphs to NPOV? Kwertii 02:46, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • subject-object problem -- needs work; contains an extremely far-fetched analogy to quantum mechanics; too verbose. +sj+ 10:41, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
  • Time: Just generally an absolute mess. I read the article and I son't think it told me one thing about time. Fishal 01:16, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • The Enlightenment. Too many cooks spoil the broth it seems, at least when it comes to describing, in general terms, the main characteristics of this revolutionary era. An introduction to enlightened 18th century thought is needed here, with lots of cross references leading off to politics, literature, etc. etc. Also, the split into The Enlightenment and Enlightenment (concept) (plus a disambiguation page Enlightenment) might be reconsidered. <KF> 00:31, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Voltaire - needs re-organizing, updating, editing for style (most of the article is 1911EB); and some judicious trimming probably wouldn't hurt. --Paul A 06:01, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Will (philosophy) - says copyediting in progress, but that way is May last year. andy 23:08, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Abductive Reasoning. Some material, copied and pasted from somewhere else, not very well organised and with incomplete references. I tried to improve it a bit, but more work is needed. 13:36, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Ethical non-naturalism has been gutted. [6] ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 17:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Hexis is unclear, requires more context, and possibly fails to present all sides. Hydriotaphia 14:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Political science

[edit] Government

  • To be manually checked, deleted or moved to article's talk page:
  • Local government in the United States — Appears very poorly researched. For instance, special districts, the most common form of local government in the U.S., are not even mentioned. Also, the section on D.C. is riddled with errors, and the paragraph of Cold-War paranoia should just go. Doctor Whom 23:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  • United States Army and similar pages - No information about what soldiers do, how they are enlisted, the options of a soldier, and how they leave the army, perhaps a page is needed for life in the army, or soldier life.
  • Postal savings systems--I saw a request for this and compiled a short article from the books I have and my personal knowledge, but this could benefit from others. E.g. details of UK privitization, other countries' systems. PedanticallySpeaking 16:36, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Numerus clausus -- An incredibly one-sided article which suggests the concept petered out some time in the 1930s never to be revived again. Should be revised by a (former) student at a German university. --KF 20:47, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Politics of Algeria needs updating. Phrases such as "The next round of legislative elections are scheduled to take place in 2002" and "as of 31 December, 1990" make me cry. Quadell (talk) 16:14, May 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sandro Pertini -- biography of an eminent Italian politician, does not only need wikification; should be checked, preferably by someone from Italy. --KF 01:23, 28 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • sovkhoz is barely a dicdef; it could use a good encyclopedia article from someone versed in Soviet economics. Alcarillo 20:24, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Péter Medgyessy: POV; probably a disputed person on the long run. --195.56.230.102 22:23, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Steven Reed - bio of the mayor of Harrisburg, PA. Looks more hagiography than biography to me, and somewhat wordy, to boot. --Calton 07:14, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Corruption in the EU - Created by an anon with an agenda. Full of POV from start to finish. The subject is certainly worthy of an article but this one needs a lot of work. Also various formating issues. — Trilobite (Talk) 20:06, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Has now been rewritten and POV removed.
  • Brad Dye - Minor Mississippi politician, article currently sub-sub-sub-stub. -- Dcfleck 04:06, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
  • Kanwen - needs lots of cleanup, near-borderline deletable in its present form. -- Dcfleck 02:21, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
  • Currency Act - most of article is text of said Act. Text should probably be moved elsewhere, correct? And more encyclopedic information is needed. --Dcfleck 00:55, 2005 May 3 (UTC)
  • Terrorism - Primarily focuses on foreign terrorism toward the U.S. Needs to be reworked entirely to focus on terrorism in general and focus on the difference between domestic and foreign terror. --Strothra 04:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


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  • Republicanism in the United States - states that in USA "republicanism" has/can have a different meaning than in the rest of the world. What appears as a specific (and rather limited, even questionable) connotation is treated as if it were a separate definition of "republic". Not being a US citizen the whole setup of the article appears to me rather quirky. Further the article lacks references supporting the aforementioned thesis; the article is unstructured; the article gives no equilibrated space to "republicanism" in the sense of Republican Party (United States); the article doesn't mention that the predecessor to the present Democratic Party (United States) was in its early days also qualified as republican. Since the article was derived from text previously on republic/republicanism, some previous remarks on talk:republic (and its archives) were ostensibly also not taken into account. --Francis Schonken 12:57, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
  • List of Democratic Party celebrities - (I'm not sure if this is the best heading under which to list this) this page has all the flaws the List of republican celebrities page did before it was drastically re-written when it appeared on VfD. The main problem is that having "leftist" views does not make one a member of any party, as the title states. Look at List of celebrities with links to the US Republican Party for a page that is substantially better referenced and explained, and more accurate (though not without flaws still). If nothing happens here I'll list this on VfD in a couple weeks; that usually is the most effective way to address these issues. -R. fiend 18:28, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies - has had facts inserted by someone angry at them for an alleged conservative bent. I don't know enough about this to NPOV, and the facts might themselves be valid, but needs another view. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 16:40, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Harry Jaffa - POV of somewhat cranky conservative critic of Jaffa. What is needed instead is a competent summary of Jaffa's work, with attention to his disputes with the leading lights of the American historical profession, and a paragraph (at most) on his disputes with fellow conservatives. The web links are a bad joke.
  • Men Among the Ruins - honestly don't know if this belongs in this section or not - this article about a book says so little about the book content that I'm not sure how to classify it, but I think it belongs here... --Dcfleck 12:31, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
  • Shadia Drury - requires some serious NPOV work. I'm not sure whether the primary author is deliberately peddling a viewpoint or not. I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the article desperately needs a number of other voices familiar with the issues to add some balance.
  • Vlaams Belang - article is strongly biased to reflect the current policies of this far-right Belgian party. The article is closely guarded by one user, who reverts nearly every effort towards NPOVing. -- LucVerhelst 16:17, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Verhelst, you said yourself that you are member of another Belgian political party. So I googled a bit and found that you are chairman for the Green party in Berchem County [7]. BTW, on your blog I read (December 18, 2005) that you insinuate that Vlaams Belang politicians have a low IQ and that they have an insane psychological texture. Ever heard about psychiatry in the former Soviet Union? I also remark on your blog an obscene caricature of Vlaams Belang’s party symbol. But remark, it is YOU who put these things on YOUR web-site. --Jvb – January 2, 2005
I wouldn't call the article excessively biased, but I have expanded on the introduction bit to give readers a better idea of the essence of the party. Miles 6:15, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Actually, the previous content was a copyvio. I NPOVed it completely. Still a stub that needs (non-partisan) work. Alcarillo
Made a few more changes but I feel the long list of party principles is way too wieldy. Virendra
  • Bushists - 9,800 hits on Google, so Wikipedia should not ignore the term. Right now the article is an orphan, and it is not wikified either. Is it NPOV? And should the title be singular (Bushist)? <KF> 08:55, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
  • This has at some point been redirected to neoconservative but I can't tell when. . . Soundguy99 06:54, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Bushists sounds needlessly perjorative, and I say that as a liberal Democrat. Does anybody actually describe themselves as a "Bushist?" How does a Bushist differ from a Bushite, a Bushista or a Bushovik?--Francisx 04:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Third party politics - looks to be a school essay on the history of alternative US political parties, was going to wikify but it needs a rehaul first. Rasa 00:50, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Period of Japanese Rule (Korea) - It doesn't seem to be NPOV, I can't tell what claims made in the article are true and which aren't. Need someone with more specialized knowlege about Korean and Japanese history who can verify the claims in this article and make the content more specific. --210.91.223.73 11:49, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Occupation_of_Palestine: Restarting this page (which was subject to numerous edit-wars) from scratch. Please, we need more unbiased editors to write an NPOV article (see Talk for facts and disputes.) HistoryBuffEr 03:46, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)
  • Democratic Kampuchea -- This article has no mention of US, Thai and UN support to the Khmer Rouge against the Vietnamese-sponsored Cambodian government after the Khmer Rouge had been driven from power - this is both a serious gap in the history of Cambodia and also a serious NPOV problem. Given that the content in the article is taken from the Library of Congress Country Studies an omission of American assistance to the Khmer Rouge is perfectly understandable, nonetheless to mantain NPOV this needs to be radically revised. --Ce garcon 07:41, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) moved to this section by -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Indian independence movement - Started it ages back, but nobody's really brought content to this article. It summaries the first 10-20 years of the movement, and then stops abruptly. I don't know enough about this part of India's history to write stuff. If there are any experts about, please help! Gaurav 02:54, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Politics of Georgia (U.S. state) is a poorly-written, somewhat biased, totally unsourced article. Most of the current text may need to be discarded. I'll work on it some myself but it would be nice for people who know much more than me to help out on what could be a solid, high-quality article. --SuperNova |T|C| 04:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement - POV, badly written, written by the lawyer it focuses on (yes, it focuses more on the lawyer and less on the case). Very biased, very pro-Nationalist. Slanted history. Jwilke 00:02, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Absolute_monarchy_in_France - Needs serious attention and to be wikified.--130.160.86.143 18:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Stonewall Democrats - The entire article is simply the copied text of the "About Us" section of the official Stonewall Democrats website: http://www.stonewalldemocrats.org/about/ Kjl 22:35, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Temperance movement - This is extremely short for an article on such an important topic. There also seem to be some problems with its accuracy, since people have been pointing out on its talk page that it's not correct in its claim the movement was mainly in the U.S. and Wales.--Bcrowell 03:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Arthashastra - ancient Indian economic/political treatise. Needs knowledgeable abridgement and cleanup of some areas, expansion of others. Tearlach 02:03, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
  • authorized use of force. This starts with a messy run-on non-sentence, and differs from Wikipedia conventions in a variety of other ways as well. Michael Hardy 01:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Macedonian Empire seems to be a text on the history of the Macedonian empire only, needs lots of work and more information on the empire itself, also after Alexander the Great, it jumps to the conclusion and ends the empire, it needs serious formatting, is copied/pasted from here (http://members.fortunecity.com/fstav1/macedon.html) although it could be written by the user himself.
    • Although it's kind of encyclopedic, it's a big big long long paragraph with lots of information on the history only, but not on why the empire fell. Someone with knowledge on the subject has to look into it. --leandros 22:12, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Roman Empire - Article does not really explain a lot about the Empire itself but is a simple overview of some emperor's reigns. Colipon 18:57, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) Also, there is no text at all from the Crisis of the Third Century onwards. Arkuat 22:54, 2004 Jul 8 (UTC)
I'd like to see a separate article covering the causes of the decline and fall of the empire. There doesn't seem to be much here in terms of root causes. -- RJH 23:47, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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[edit] Psychology

  • To be manually checked/moved to talk pages:
  • Reparative therapy - This article is becoming highly politicized. We need an expert to define what exactly is permited and what is prohibited.Joshuajohanson 03:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Mortido - I recently rescued this from VfD. It concerns a term used in psychoanalysis to describe the vital drive which is opposed to Libido. I am not a psychologist, but as far as my researches went, there is no consensus about how to name this: some authors oppose libido to mortido, some to Destrudo, which has also its article in Wikipedia. I believe a specialist should take a look at these pages and improve them: maybe a merge between destrudo and mortido might be advisable. VladMV ٭ talk 03:37, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • frustration - Page does not contain information so much as a metaphysical message about the meaning of life. LegCircus 03:53, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Kent Norman - is this mainly a vanity page? i'm hesitant to prod or afd this article, because i can't figure if this guy meets the notability for a professor or not. he, User:Klnorman, is the creator and main editor of the article, which is what irks me about it. Sparsefarce 20:44, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Pro-ana This article is kind of a mess right now. It doesn't have any references and I'm not quite sure where to get any. I'm not a psychologist or dietitian and the article could definitely use some information about the pros and cons of pro-ana and links to articles about the subject, so that it can be established who says that pro-ana is dangerous, rather than just "doctors." Elizabeth 22:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Personality - this looks like student "cram" notes. It is set out in point form and has no flowing text. The contents are good but it needs a rewrite as prose with a bit more commentary to explain it and contrast the differing views. --CloudSurfer 09:09, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Homosexual panic - The article seems to deal only with a very limited part of the topic. Some of it also sounds very dubious to me. A psychologist should have a look at it. — David Remahl 19:42, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • affection - this is a horribly bad article which reads like a medical textbook. Worst description of affection ever. --[[User:Eequor|ηImage:Venus symbol (blue).gifυωρ]] 04:40, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It doesnt appear to make any sense at all -- very odd style. Having read the article, I still have no idea what Psychology of Torture means
  • Lloyd deMause and related articles needs to be updated. Apparently Mr deMause himself responded to some claims on Talk:Lloyd deMause, so his response should be incorporated. Przepla 21:53, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Logorrhoea -- Should have more about the mental illness aspects, and less silly attacks on Postmodernism. Pyrop 18:54, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
The stub has now been expanded, but it still needs some information on treatment of the disorder. Joyous 03:58, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • Psychiatric hospital While there is much to criticise in the treatment of psychiatric patients, this entire article is riddled with criticism. I think the aims of such institutions need to be laid out and then criticisms/controversies discussed later in the article. It needs much NPOV and untangling. I don't feel qualified for that. --bodnotbod 11:31, May 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Bipolar disorder is very chaotically organized and contains a number of contradictory statements. --Seth Ilys 05:44, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) I've only read the beginning, but I am assuming this is a joke, yes? --bodnotbod 15:03, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)
Did some formatting and NPOVing, but still needs lot of work. Stw 13:15, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Feldenkrais method has more links and is more complete since 2003, but still needs references to substatiate claims.
Did NPOV work on Alexander Technique, many references have now been added to that; much improved since 2003 observation.Franis 15:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • MCS --Trying to alert interested parties about the cluster of pages which I have listed under MCS. The pages are a mixture of psychology and information processing.
Never mind. I found a link: [8]. It appears to be real. 169.207.90.93 02:43, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Co-dependency - We should have more than a stub for this. Pyrop 23:00, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
  • History of mental illness -- Ok, needs some major factual rewrites, plus needs another 500 years worth of information. Implies that Islam started around 600 BC(!) rather than 600 AD, and information ends around the middle ages.
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[edit] Semiotics

  • To be manually moved to article's talk page or deleted:
  • Seal of Georgia -- Anything to include?? Any position on the main Georgia article?? 66.245.9.242 15:51, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • I did some updating, provided more information on the obverse of the seal. I included a link to the Georgia Secretary of State's website to show more that what I included. Zscout370 18:00, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Sexuality

See also: Wikipedia:LGBT notice board

  • To be manually moved to article's talk page or deleted:
  • Rind et al. has a completely inappropriate title, the first name of one of the authors of a scientific journal article. It seems to have been singled out because some pedophiles see it in support of their fight for the right to have sex with children. Other scientific material in the area of child sexual abuse and pedophilia is neglected. Get-back-world-respect 07:35, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Then again, that does seem to be how the '98 study is referenced, and one might argue it merits an article for its infamy. +sj+ 14:25, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Whether the name is appropriate or not, there are issues with the article content. This article is to come under the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch shortly. Herostratus 17:13, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Leather virgin -- it's in the list of lifestyles, and I got mad that there was no article, so I took my best guess. That my guess makes sense makes it worse, I suppose, since "a leather virgin is a type of chicken" would be obviously wrong. I put an accuracy warning because I could be completely off-base; surely someone does know, however. --Charles A. L. 23:39, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)
    • I'd just merge that stubby puppy into "List of BDSM terms". It doesn't seem worth an article. — RJH 00:12, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Egale Canada is taken right off of Egales website BUT was done so by someone within the organization. Needs NPOV, Wification, layout management, and fleshing out. Arcuras 17:54, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
  • Making out -- Seems like an awful lot could be said on the subject, yet very little has. --130.184.11.129 18:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Furvert -- This article is currently extremely hateful and POV, and it needs someone who understands the idea of a "furvert" to both fix it and add more information to it. I am also tempted to guess at some inaccuracy here (I thought furverts by definition were furries?). I would make an attempt to fix it myself except I am accused of being "anti-furry" and "spreading misinformation" anytime I touch a furry-related article these days. --Krishva 06:18, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Smoking fetishism - The "external links" section is out of control, and ther rest of the article could use help too. -Will Beback 22:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  • History of lesbianism needs a great deal of work by someone who is familiar with the subject and can exercise good editing skills. Right now, it looks like a combination of original research and unsupported POV. There have been some good contributions but overall the page is a mess. Ande B 02:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Images: There are many articles that need images or need better images. I will compile a list later of some that I notice and others may add as well. Svartulfr1 01:43 26 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Circumcision and many articles related to it, e.g. foreskin fetish, have proven to be a constant battleground, resulting in vast talk pages, many blocks, etc. Subversive 09:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Lesbianism in erotica, while in pretty good shape, is still in need of expansion in several places, as noted on the "To Do" list at the head of Talk:Lesbianism in erotica. Notably, the article really needs material on lesbianism in erotic literature, a topic on which I'm out of my depth. Iamcuriousblue 00:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Mammary intercourse has degraded to the point of no return (maybe). The picture has been swaping back and forth, and it has a higher cursing per sentence rate than South Park. Needs a major edit or deletion. -- Dake L. 04:13, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Sociology

  • To be manually checked, deleted or moved to article's talk page:
  • Juvenile delinquency - This page needs more substantial information by. It has been completely overlooked. Robin klein 12:12, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Slacker - The tone of the article is a bit too light-hearted and unwikipedian. It looks, frankly, like it was edited mostly by slackers. Alfvaen 16:58, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Social theory - I moved this from main sociology page (which could use some attention as well). This seems more like a rant then an encyclopedia article to me, but I am not familiar enough with the topic to do major editing. No references, no external links (there were none related when I moved it) and very few significant internal links - although I linked some names now. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:16, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Commune - Commune is a disambig with a link to Intentional Community. Intentional Community lists various types of communities, including commune, which is a link back to the disambig page. So we have no specific information on what a commune (in this sense) is. Please, would anyone care to elaborate? --Heron 13:00, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Fashion - Should there be a general category tree for all things related to fashion? There is a fair number of articles now and nowhere to categorize them in general. (Ex: Fashion designers, &c.) Not sure where to put the category. Under "Human image" perhaps?
  • Commercialism - inaccurate and simplistic, it starts with a dicdef [9] and moves on to speculate about cave men bartering with each other. I put it in sociology but I'm not sure if this is the right category. Rhobite 15:37, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Counterculture - A number of the statements and arguments here seem highly contestable and POV. AndyL 01:12, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Coming of age, surprisingly, is mainly about Australia and Japan. It would probably be best to start the article from scratch and then incorporate the material that is already there. <KF> 13:48, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Gang is rather minimal. I've put some suggestions on its talk page, but I someone much more expert than I am should work on this one. --Jmabel 06:33, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Yolteotl very small, and hard to find info online about. Karmafist 04:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Street harassment Needs a lot of help, very POV, some OR, decent concept and some sources so its not one of those "dear me, where do I even start?" ones. KillerChihuahua 11:14, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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