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Biology Subpage proposal

Biology / medical sciences from the other natural sciences on the Natural Sciences Request Page, and creating a seperate subpage for them. Currently biology represents ~80% of all Natural Sciences requests, and makes it more than a little difficult to find anything else. The biological material also needs to be better sorted, but that is a seperate issue. Dragons flight 22:15, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

For that matter, doing something with all the medicine terms on the Applied Sciences Request Page would be nice too. Dragons flight 23:05, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

We should create workgroups

We should create workgroups of people of who have knowledge in those areas.

I would like to say that I think Wikipedia needs more orangizational teamwork. Many of us specialize in certain topics. I specialize in computers and electronics. I figure that if Wikipedia were to create a section for people who specialize in electronics with the requests put into that page things would get done a lot faster. People who specialize in things should have sections of their owns that way many people can gang up on requests and get them done faster. Example Electronic Request Workers--Cyberman 05:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

descriptions

In the interest of saving space on this metapage, I think descriptions of requested articles should be held to a minimum. I'd like to remove them all together, actually. What are your thoughts? Kingturtle 20:10, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Short descriptions (2-3 words) are fine by me. Longer ones need to go (be shortened or dumped). →Raul654 22:08, Jan 18, 2004 (UTC)

I've had it - some of these descriptions are long enough to be stubs. I am going to automatically stub articles with extra-long descripts and move them to cleanup and/or need pages. Davodd 23:05, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)

Depressing

I don't know if anyone here has seen it, but I keep a list of all the articles I've ever requested (by date) over at User:Raul654/Requests. Since January 12, I've requested 39 articles. Exactly two were written. One was a blatant copyright violation and promptly removed. Does this page really have such slow turnover? →Raul654 19:55, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

Yup, always been that way. Shouldn't be too surprising; writers are more likely to follow their own interests than somebody else's. When it comes to disentangling navy ships, I seem to have all kinds of energy, but Arabic poetry? - not so much, :-) although I'll probably read the article when it exists. Stan 21:57, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Removed Bjarmia from WP:RC to add Moral hierarchy - 戴&#30505sv 17:42, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Could someone explain why this page has every topic listed twice?

Acegikmo1 01:29, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

Fixed. 33° 02:02, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)


Request

Acegikmo1 23:41, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Oh! I need someone to recreate the PictoChat article. HELP ME! <-( --Tornado Kid 20:20, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) (a.k.a. WikiPediaAid)


Pins are nice @ Disney Resorts!

WikiPediaAid is wanting an article on Official Disney Pin Trading now!

I'm not sure under which category to request an article

I would like to request an article about Jasper Holmes but can't decide which heading to put him under on the request page. Just before the WW11 Battle of Midway, the US had no cryptographic way of determining Japan's code name for Midway. They had cracked Japan's JN-25 code and knew the target was AF, but didn't know where AF was located. Holmes, a young US naval officer, very cunningly tricked the Japanese into revealing that AF was Midway. Anyone got a suggestion on what category to use? (When I say category I don't mean category. Moriori 22:09, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

When did World War 11 occur? ;-) func(talk) 16:54, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
History I guess...but you seem to know enough about him to write an article yourself (or at least a stub). Adam Bishop 00:11, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I guess you're right. Stub it is. Cheers. Moriori 00:18, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
This information, including the offcer's name, is already at Battle of Midway#US Intelligence, I suppose you are aware of that. Andrewa 12:19, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Of course. But if any codebreaker deserves his own page, it is Holmes. His lateral thinking did much to win the naval war in the Pacific. I'm looking for material. E-mailed the US Navy yesterday, but no reply yet. Cheers. Moriori 20:27, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)


Fylocode

I'd like to put up a request for fylocode, the proposed alternative for Linnaeus' system of classifying living organisms. I suppose it should be requested under biology or something similar, but I can't find it. Where would be the best place? D.D. 00:13, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

We already have an article on it, except that we call it phylocode in English. --Heron 12:33, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Democracy and liberalism

Why is democracy not liberalism?

Request for article(s)

on British India administration & provincial organisation.

Lucio Mas 06:34, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jews?

Does anyone know what the total estimated number of Jews is????

You'd have been better off asking in Wikipedia:Reference Desk, but Whitaker's 2002 edition gives a figure of "over 12.5 million Jews world-wide; in Great Britain and Ireland there are an estimated 285,000 adherents and about 365 synagogues". This figure appears to be a religious definition (rather than a harder-to-define ethnic one), but doesn't go into detail. Shimgray 14:21, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

AHA-1

Any clues?--Jirate 03:05, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)


pedestal

Something as simple and common as a pedestal has no article? All you pedestal collectors out there better get to work! --brian0918™ 05:22, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Likely it's too simple and common; a dictionary would cover it well for most purposes... Radagast 17:16, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)


Fey language

Does anyone here know what the Fey language is? Apparently its some form of a secret lamguage. If anyone here can explain it, that would be great. Thanks

  • All I can say is that yourdictionary.com explains it as, "Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality". That's all I can seem to find about it. Jaberwocky6669


Template:RAScroller

New template uses Template:Scroller for loading lots of RA articles on RC. Both are protected so you need admin access. -SV|t|add 23:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I can't see any utility in this: we already can scroll the pages; it is much easyer to read a text that is still than one that we must continuously scroll because it only shows two lines of text; also there is already a request list at OpenTasks.--Nabla 14:35, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)