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Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Graduand, Hard Drive Courage, Elegant Machinery, Eileen Schaer, Gary Walters, History of Hvar Island, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Teacher in role, Fan Changjiang, The Musical Racket, Imperial Way Faction, German units of measurement, Backlog...
• Stubs: Pedagogy, Kevin J. Anderson, Baseball Writers Association of America, Multinational corporation, Buda, Cargo, More...
• Verify: The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector, Aerosmith's outtakes, Algophobia, AIML, Al Tomaini, A&F Quarterly, Backlog...
• Update: All-Round Athletics, All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland, Christopher Stokes, Blankenburg am Harz, 102P/Shoemaker, More...
• Neutrality: Afro-Asian, Air Defense Identification Zone, Anker Boye, Alex Munter, Ammadam, Alan Goodman, Alorica, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Menstrual cup, Kateřina Jacques, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Jain Irrigation Systems, Galileo's Cannonball, More...
• Merge: Lymphopenia, Dragonlance timeline, Hollyphant, King Philip Math League, Variety (plant), Epigenetic robotics, Backlog...
• Style: Agape College, ADT Security Services, Active 20-30, Action Kid (comic), Agumbe, A.T. Kearney, A13 road, More...
• Expand: Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barry Lee Bush, Engaged and Underage, Silent Hill 3, E-mail, More...
• Requests: IGF type 2 receptor, Fifty-third Texas Legislature, D and I Railroad, Jus inter gentes, Colin Monk, Fiat 1T, More...
• Mediation Cabal: Robert Gray, anarchy battlefield, Almeda University, Antioxidant, Hero, The Freechild Project, More...
• Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

Here are some open WikiProject Critical Theory tasks:

• Add references to:
  • Theodor W. Adorno
• Major overhaul:
  • Critical Theory basic topics
  • Semiotics
• Expansion:
  • A Thousand Plateaus
  • Cyborg theory
  • Queer Pedagogy
  • Critical theory
  • Critical race theory
  • Jacques Derrida bibliography
  • Notable figures in critical theory
  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Queer theory
  • List of works in critical theory
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
• De-Stub:
  • Barbara Herrnstein Smith
  • New Queer Cinema
  • Mary Louise Pratt
• Peer Review
  • Theodor W. Adorno
• Third Generation of Critical Theory
  • Axel Honneth
  • Nancy Fraser
  • Seyla Benhabib, etc.
• Economics Influence to Critical Theory
  • Friedrich Pollock
• Critical Theory of IR and the GPE
  • Improve article on neo-gramscianism and create new category for this field of critical theory

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

• Charles Peirce: This article needs a lot of help. The POV is way too idiosyncratic and the style is offputting for a general audience, to say the least. You will have to be willing to go to the mat, however, with the primary author, who has been banned but has reappeared under different names.
• Desert: At least narrow it down to being in philosophy, ethics, or morality. An actual article at any of these three would be nice, too.
• Cesare Cremonini: created "start-level", would need new eyes and hands.
• Fatalism: Stub-like. Needs to be cleaned up and expanded
• Aristotelianism: Needs to be expanded
• Logical argument: Needs work to be of use
• Sign / Symbol: Introductions contain too much technical jargon
• Catholic Probabilism: Pretty nearly straight from the old Catholic Encyclopedia
• Counterfactuals: Needs fuller and more accurate summary of main theories, as well as indication of philosophical importance in other topics, notably causation and inference.
• Human agency: Expand, correct, and reference. Any support for altering the name?
• Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology Sartre's magnum opus, barely more than a stub
• Übermensch: desperately needs knowledgable attention
• Kant's Groundwork: re-write, expand
• Existentialism: in dire need of a cleanup and reworking of information
• African philosophy: needs a lot of work!

Here are some open WikiProject Reenactment tasks:

• Major work needed:
  • Goals and scope need to be defined
  • Comparison of historical reenactment events needs serious improvement
  • Lists of groups needs serious improvement:
    • List of medieval reenactment groups
    • List of historical reenactment groups
    • Comparison of historical reenactment groups
  • Historical reenactment needs to be abstracted (currently focusses on American Civil War)
  • Authenticity (reenactment) needs to be expanded (currently focusses on less-authentic medieval reenactment)
  • Codex Belli needs an English summary of the basic ruleset
  • Living history needs to be expanded
• Articles to write:
  • Stone Age reenactment (might be just experimental archaeology)
  • Ancient reenactment for Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, etc?
  • Dark Age reenactment (redirect to Medieval reenactment?)
  • Modern reenactment for 18th-20th century reenactment (American Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, World War II)
  • Articles for major reenactment groups? (What defines a "major" reenactment group anyway?)
  • Article about gunnery displays? Might be crossreferenced for details on black powder focused reenactment groups
  • Boer War reenacting is a new (and experimental) trend, primarily with mostly modern reenactors.
  • Category:Middle Ages weapons is looking really bare at the moment.
  • American Civil War firearms category is not generalized; there is only a Category:American Civil War rifles.

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

Here are some open WikiProject Seattle tasks; some of these are not started, and all could use expansion and/or better referencing:

• Suburbs: Shoreline, Everett, Lakewood, Kent, Auburn, Edmonds
• Neighborhoods: Beacon Hill, Magnolia, Rainier Valley, Sand Point, Madison Valley, Central District
• Landmarks: Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Paramount Theater Building, Moore Theater Building, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Waiting for the Interurban, Fremont Troll
• Parks: Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, Parks in Seattle, Colman Park, Genesee Park, Interlaken Park, Jackson Park, McCurdy Park
• People: Stan Boreson, John Miller (politician), Art Chantry, Henry Yesler, Victor Steinbrueck, David Denny, Arthur Denny, Carson Boren, Emmett Watson, Tim Egan
• Transportation: Metro Transit, First Avenue South Bridge
• Government: Seattle City Council, King County Council, King County Executive
• Companies: Discovery Institute, Dendreon, Cutter & Buck, Sur La Table, Briazz
• Night Life: Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, Belltown, Fremont
• Templates: Template:Seattle_Corporations

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

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