Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/To do
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Without a doubt, all CotW articles have improved drastically, but not all of them have reached featured-standard yet. To help improve past CotW articles so they can be featured, please help fix the items listed on the to-do lists of each article.
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Gestapo
Livestock
Diplomacy
- Expand article and expand details about the diplomatic process and general diplomacy itself.
- Add more information on types of diplomacy and how diplomacy is used.
- Copyedit article; clean up grammar, get rid of repeat wikilinks and wording inconsistencies, make article flow better.
Baghdad
- Reasonable History section, but Sights and monuments, Business, Geography, Culture and Demographics are too short
- both miles and kilometers are used to describe distances in the article, it would make more sense to use just one
Renaissance
Pravda
- Currently good but short: needs some serious off-line research to flesh out
Medieval warfare
- To incorporate in the article:
- Prerequisites
- Cultural influences
- Organizational influences
- Taxation
- Development of Knights Hospitaller, Knights Templar, and Teutonic Knights military orders
- Levying of commoners
Cairo
- Improve this previous CotW article to featured-standard so that it can be nominated and featured.
- Include citations for the pollution section.
Kofi Annan
- Change second photograph from Morgan Freeman to an actual photo of Kofi Annan. The current photo is plainly Mr. Freeman; moreover, the filename is morganfreeman.jpg, suggesting that the individual who posted it knew what he or she was doing.
- Expand lead per WP:LEAD.
- Please remove the words the banana from the info box
- Change the preview picture? I do not know how to report this.
- Need a lot more info about his policies and actions as Secretary-General of the UN.
- Neutrality - Under Annan's UN Secretary General portion, there is info regarding several sexual harassment scandals in the UN. The author of one of these paragraphs refers to Annan as "white-washing" one of the suspects and "covering up the facts." There does not seem to be any linked evidence to support this.
- The info in question is not under the UN Secretary General portion. It's under "UN Controversies during Annan's tenure". The title is shifted to the right so it can be easy to miss.
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Reference overhaul. Agree on one style (Harvard or modern, either is fine but mixing isn't).
- Convert appropriate external links to citations instead.
- Find a source before including piece regarding "the Nobel Prize that Sartre tried to get the money later on but that his wish was denied."
- Improve clarity in 'Sartre's Metaphysics'. As it is, this section is overly complex and its terms are not adequately explained.
Iranian revolution
- Essential: requires a headline picture (protests, Shah leaving, Khomeini returning) (general headshots of Shah and Khomeini added, but something still needed for the headline)
- Other relevant pictures would be a bonus
Soup
5/19 revisions
- The classification of soups in this article comes from the "Larousse Gastronomie" and therefore should be defined as French. (page 998). "Food and Drink in America" confirms this. (page 462).
- The invention of the spoon and the ensuing popularity of soups occurred in Europe in the 17th century. Unsure of my oriiginal source for the popularity of the spoon in Europe. The origin of the spoon is a lot older than that. Morton's "Cupboard of Love" (page 289) states that the spoon became a popular eating utensil in the 14th century; "Food and Drink in America" (page 462), a far more comprehensive history, and says that "exquisite ivory spoons were buried in the tombs of pharaohs" and that the word spoon was used in the Book of Exodus when God commanded Moses to make gold spoons. (page 434-435). I originally added this, but cannot locate my source. It's just inaccurate, and needs to be explained in more detail. I am guessing that spoons became used more widely in the 17th century as a result of the changing fashions of the times...but cannot find the proper citations...
I got rid of the two sentences:
Thin soups became popular in Europe during the 17th century, when the spoon was invented. The spoon was designed to accommodate the new fashion of wearing large, stiff ruffles around the neck.
If you can find a source, put it back in. If not, it doesn't belong here. The spoon was never invented. The long-handled spoon was used around that time so you could use a spoon without damaging your ruffles, but you still can't prove that the spoon's popularity made soups more popular; maybe the desire for some good soup led to better methods of eating it. Besides, why specifically would thin soup be associated with spoon lengths?
24.125.117.4 00:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
- The word restaurant derived from Boulanger's (the "French entrepreneur") shop. The French called these soups "restaurers" and when the shops became more popular, the word changed to "restaurant". Source: Morton's "Cupboard of Love" (page 256). Confirmed in Eugene Ehrlich's book, "You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu," (page 204).
- Information on Jean Baptiste Gilbert Payplat dis Julien is cited in "Food and Drink in America" (page 462).
- First American cookbooks: "Food and Drink in America" (page 461).
- Chicken Nodle Soup is one of the most popular soups in America: Source "The History of Campbell Soup Company" see full reference on Campbell soup Company.
- Deletion of lakschen: Chicken Soup a.k.a. "Jewish Penicillin" can include anything from kreplach, Matzoh Balls, noodles, or lakschen. However: lakschen is a Yiddish word and not a requirement for "Jewish Penicillin." Source: Mama Leah's Jewish Kitchen" (page 64) and no doubt plenty of websites devoted to Chicken Soup and "Jewish Penicillin." Campbell's calls it noodles.
Astrophysics
- Improve this previous CotW article to featured-standard so that it can be nominated and featured.
- Write a summary of Astrodynamics to fill the stub section.
Indian Railways
Talk:Indian Railways/to do
Dinosaur
- Restructure according to guidelines suggested in WikiProject Science, with the following main sections :
- Introduction
- Dinosaurs in practice (for the general public)
Classification of Dinosaurs: in broad categoriesCapabilities and behaviors of Dinosaurs: what made them cover the earth at some pointDinosaurs on Earth: history of dinosaurs on the earth time scale; where fossils can now be found; birdsDinosaurs in everyday life: moviesDinosaurs in science: how they are studied, where, ...
Dinosaurs in theory :Detailed classificationThe bird connectionTheories of extinction
History: first discovery of various dinosaurs, ...
Situs inversus
Strike through when completed
- Expand Infobox
- Inline references
See WP:MEDMOS for suggestions on layout and style
