Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality/3

After reading the article and footnotes I find this request is not necessary. Amerindianarts 14:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Anyone care to check the sections of this article "Kant's moral philosophy" and "Aesthetic philosophy" and see if this is acceptable according to the project? Amerindianarts 07:59, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

How responsible is it for project members to tag the article and not reply? Efforts to comply are being disrupted by user Spinoza1111 who's additions continually do not comply, despite warnings. Amerindianarts 00:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

Needs more inline citations. Some of the lists need to be converted to prose. Kaldari 23:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

Stalin was born in 1879, not 1878 (edit comment)

• in-line references
• Yasnaya Polyana was not only home to the Tolstoyans, but also a gathering place for all kinds of artists. Many of the Peredvizhniki stayed there for shorter or longer periods, most notably Ilya Yefimovich Repin and Nikolai Ge.

Errabee 03:00, 28 September 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

There is no way this article is a "B" class. It is barely a skeleton of article with a lot of "fluff", it's a C at best and should not be included in a CD-ROM version. The biography section is nearly non-existent, that section should be 5 to 10 times as long. The biography is the main point of the article. Also the "career overview" is largely original research and un-sourced and missing a lot of material. -- Stbalbach 15:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

If true, that still doesn't mean it's not a B, but rather why it's not an A. To be a Start, it just has to have one of the following:

• a particularly useful picture or graphic
• multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
• a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
• multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article

To be a B:

Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or NOR. With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.

--plange 22:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

It's a subjective call, I just don't see this as being a B article. There is basically no Biography section (what is there is poor and should probably be removed). Considering this is a Biography article. -- Stbalbach

Yep, and I would call that a "significant gap" that is defined under B. In fact I'm the one that noted on the to-do list that it needed such info. I'm not saying your doing this, but keep in mind that the scale is just meant to give a ballpark of where the article is so that WP:WPBIO can know where it stands and prioritize when it should focus attention on it, and not to make a WP:POINT. This article has already been identified by our group (WPBIO) as needing help and is our first collaboration under the core biographies sub-project. So, let's dig in and help improve the article :-) --plange 15:33, 5 November 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

• Heavy vandalism has occured in mid to late September 2006. Check on any remaining vandalism.
• Several sections contain only the stub template. These need to be expanded (d'oh).
• in-line references must be added Errabee 02:33, 28 September 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

• A-class While there needs to be some refinement of the article, I think this article could be a featured article with a little work. I disagree with Matthead since I do not see any sigificant gaps in the article's material. --chemica 00:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• Article is comprehensive but only has 3 inline citiations. It would not be suitable for FA, but could possibly clear GA. Setting quality to B-class for now. I would recommend nominating this article for GA and see how it does. Kaldari 07:12, 21 August 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

• Major copyright problems with the images. Many paintings have been tagged as fair use, but the rationale is missing (this is easily solved). I have more problems with the Life magazine cover, as this would certainly not be fair use (as per the counterexample of the Barry Bonds baseball card). And the photograph of Picasso and his friends does not state who the photograoher is, so the claim of PD can not be verified.
• In line references are too few.
• The intro lists several periods. A logical structure of the article would then be according to these periods, but alas. Errabee 10:26, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• Picasso's full name is actually Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso, otherwise known as Pablo Picasso. I think they missed out Santiago and Cipriano. (edit comment)

needs inline citations --plange 20:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

Intro is short. Needs info about controversy between Hobbes and Locke. Only 1 inline citation. Kaldari 21:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

Quotations section is probably too long. Kaldari 07:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Is too long and boring need more pages some color

Need to grow more ideas from Voltaire that affected deism

[edit] Factual contradiction-Voltaire articles

I notice there is a factual contradiction on the English version of the Voltaire article and the version francaise. On the English page, it suggests that Voltaire made much profit from the slave trade, although he disapproved of the abuse of slaves.

The French portal states that (my rough translation) "Many think he profited from the slave trade and cite a letter to a slaver in support of this..." "But he was adamantly opposed to slavery..." and discusses citations to support this view.

Did he accept slavery, but argue against maltreatment of slaves? Or did he disapprove of slavery in general?

It would be nice to see these articles corrected and made consistent with each other.

(I am a senior at university, and this is my first time contributing to Wikipedia discussion forums. I apologize for any mistakes or misunderstandings on my part in advance! Thanks!) Katt Muskuna 17:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

Start class was a bit harsh given the amount of content, i'm upgrading it to B. Tom 10:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

• I assessed this article as Start-class for the following reasons:
  • The article does have some good content, such as:
    • Good citations and links
    • Fair amount of internal wiki links
  • However, the article needs to be expanded
    • Many readers will need to find additional sources of information
    • This article still needs to be completed

Mdhandley 08:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 20 February 2007

Upgrade of article rating to B-class for expanded content since original rating to include a discography, an infobox, division into sections of intro, biography, and influences. Will still need much more content to become GA article. - cgilbert^{(talk|contribs)} 16:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

• Recent comedy career too fragmented
• Earnings-section takes up too much space in relation to its significance Eixo 15:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)