Wikipedia: Cleanup/Leftovers
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These are the leftovers from Cleanup, those articles that remained uncleaned after two months.
Users are encouraged to work on these articles to help make them adequate. Please update the status or remove items that are no longer in need of significant attention.
Below this line articles have been divided into unscientific (but roughly equal) sections to aid in editing this page.
Apparently Un-cleanable articles (i.e. been on Leftovers for a long time)
Sivaji Ganesan - needs major restructuring, wikifying, the works. Mike∞Storm 21:12, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Tried cleaning it, tough job, not sure what's POV and what reality. Srd2005 19:33, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I did some tweaks and deletions. Should ask an Indian to look it over. Maurreen 07:11, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Looks clean to me. Should this still be listed as uncleanable? --L33tminion | (talk) 22:48, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Justice (movie) Ouch. Needs organizing and splitting of run-on sentences, better lead, spolier boilerplate, the works.--Neutrality 20:56, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Spoiler is inserted; otherwise, dead in the water since August. Sigh again. JesseW 23:41, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Done the best I could to fix the sentences to make it more readable Nicholsr 00:45, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Intro: tweaked and red links removed. Maurreen 14:20, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Did a bit more cleanup, looks pretty clean to me. --L33tminion | (talk) 22:44, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Sociedad Unitaria Universalista de España - i just wikified it... cold use more. + now Unitarian-Universalism in Spain
- Asked poster, User:UtherSRG if I could remove it. JesseW 23:41, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Made some tweaks. Maurreen 07:06, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Leftovers
Section A
Schreck ensemble - survived vfd because consensus was not reached. Seriously needs cleaning up though -- Graham
- Not clear to me what needs doing. If no more explanation is given a month, I'll move it to Un-cleanable. JesseW 21:33, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music. JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Bowater Forest Products - unwikified. Bluemask
- I've wikified this some, and looked at it, and it seems like it's better as a short essay on Wikibooks than as a encyclopedia article. However, the topic is encyclopedic, just not the current text. JesseW 06:53, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Gas chromatography-Mass spectrometry - unwikified
- Seems to be at least partially wikified. Not immediately obvious what's wrong. JesseW 21:33, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I don't know much about the subject, and there hasn't been much activity from those saying they are going to edit it. I'll attempt to tidy up the language and make it more friendly and wikified later today GregRobson 13:32, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Have added links to the text, it is based on a personal essay so it needs some work to make it more concise. See the talk page for more information. GregRobson 20:16, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Fluid and crystallized intelligence - needs work.
- I wikified it a bit, but does this concept really need its own article? It is a concept seemingly only put up by one psychologist. I created a page for him. Should it be merged into his page? - Taxman 18:47, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
Section B
History of the Scots language Has many texts that may be better placed in Wikisource. Peter O.
- Requested that it be moved on Wikisource's Scriptoriam(like the Village Pump) JesseW 23:23, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Harbin Institute of Technology POV, needs wikification, maybe copyvio. Reads like a prospectus. Keith Edkins
Sheep farm - author put in cleanup tag but didn't list it. Needs some serious work. Any sheep farmers about? - Ta bu shi da yu
Redbourn - Needs thorough wikification and rewrite. Portions of it are evidently quoted verbatim from a history text. ffirehorse
Suffield Academy - highly POV, reads like an advertising pamphlet. Copyvio?
Ben Bolt a bit of a puff piece: moderately famous classical guitarist, reads like a publicity handout. -- Jmabel
Damon Stoudamire - needs wikifying, NPOV help, and general grammar work. --DMG413
- cleaned up, needs more info. Zen Master 09:38, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Section C
Liuhe Bafa. Looks like a machine translation.
Organisasi Papua Merdeka - Not really NPOV. Aecis
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction - needs formatting, wikis and a major POV-ectomy - Lucky 6.9
Joel Osteen - a case of POV-itis if I ever saw one. Danny
Eversummer Eve - npovify, format, expand. — Gwalla
McKinley Memorial Mausoleum I'm wondering if the copy for this has been possibly in part verbatimed from somewhere else (it reads like a press release). ffirehorse
Section D
The announcement of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature looks weird and needs work. Discussion about use of Persian or farsi for a language. -- Chris 73
Managing Urban America - Reads choppily. Needs general work, too many quotes.
- Copyedited a bit, added a category. Agree it has too many quotes but not sure what else can be done with it without knowledge of what the book actually says. Katefan0 23:24, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
All pages at Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Michael/Dispute. I have watchlisted these to make sure Michael doesn't remove the notice. They will all need fact-checking, and some will need removal of Michaelese. Guanaco
Section E
Atwater-Kent Municipal Museum - unwikied, messy blankfaze Slightly improved - dates should be added by someone who knows more about the place. Jackiespeel 15:09, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Palmarian Catholic Church - a mess, possibly a copyvio Tidied up somewhat: more improvements possible. Jackiespeel 18:21, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Sousveillance and inverse surveillance need merging and dePOVing
Patsy Keever - wikify, NPOV. Thue
ETOM - "that is fast becoming" indicates POV text. wikify. Thue
Section F
Kombato - ad, could be an article I think. Thue
- Now wikified. -Frazzydee.
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music. JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sememe - a sentence. I imagine this could be more than a dictionary definition. Secretlondon
Lithuanian mythology - list of things, mess
Sangeeta Bijlani - substub. Thue
Lithology - definition. Peter O.
Section G
Fatima Zahra - wikify, possible copyvio, general work. First few lines seem okay, the rest I just don't know. --Golbez
Peace of Vereeniging - transwiki the source, first paragraph is a stub needing context. Lupo
Paul Pantone - wikify, context. Lupo
Sim racing - needs work
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and Video Games JesseW 05:47, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
El Dorado (myth) - part of the text from a 1636 account (see [1]), POV ("demon which they worshipped as their god and lord" for instance). The text from the 1636 account should either be marked as such or cleaned up.
Section H
Grandes Éxitos (Shakira), Pies Descalzos (Shakira), The Remixes (Shakira), MTV Unplugged (Shakira), Live & Off The Record (Shakira) - All are just tracklists, needs more, anything more.
- Should be put on VfD. JesseW 01:42, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Training manuals - survived vfd but requires cleanup
Cashflow matching - definition; poorly written. Peter O.
Frisco Soccer and Entertainment Center - needs some prose. And is the current home of the Frisco Soccer and Entertainment Center really the Cotton Bowl? Methinks that is the current home of the TEAM, not the center.
- Same thing with Rapids Soccer Stadium. In fact, see all of the contributions by [[User:12.216.168.133], all of which are nothing but collections of statistics with no sentences.
- The guy has been warned twice and some "contributions" are copyvios. He's been listed on the vandalism page.
Politics of Georgia - muddle of sections straight from the CIA factbook and not-awfully-well-written paragraphs with a bit of a Georgian nationalist POV
People of Columbia University - lists of names need to be alphabetized, some NPOVing needs to be done, titles should be italicized, names which have no explanations need explanations, links to other Wikipedia articles need to be included.
Section I
Postdigital - needs to be more encyclopedic and wikified. It may be a copyvio from [2] but I have a hunch that the author of that page is the original submitter to Wikipedia. Rhobite
Raytheon Beechcraft Baron - more like an essay with technical specs. Unencyclopedic, unwikied. Lots of good information, though.
Arnold Mindell-Published author's self written bio--needs npov & encyclopedic content Niteowlneils - also needs wikification
Hapa - external links need trimming, info on non-Hawaiian usage lacking (lots in history), consolidate with multiracial?
Use of sign-language by chimpanzees - unwikied, unencyclopedic, POV. Good stuff, but reads like an essay.
- Some clarity clean up, needs more info Zen Master 09:59, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Jeff Gerhardt vfd consensus not reached, needs checking for pov -- Graham
Sritharan's contribs are all thus far either substubs or copyvios. Please watch out for them.
The Cast Away Cat Princess' Prelude - failed to reach consensus on vfd, needs cleanup -- Graham
Section J
Moon colonization - more essay than encyclopedia. Needs formatting, wiki, slightly less breezy style.
Roger Delk currently from geaneology, needs twiddling. Dunc_Harris
David Parnas - Highly POV. He "developed professionalism"?
- cleaned up, professionalism in this context meant getting traditional engineering accreditation Zen Master
Amnon Rubinstein - needs clarification, maybe POV check, then copyedit
Better now. Woggly 08:58, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Creativity and Manic Depression -- appears to be a student essay; rather heavy on cut-and-paste quotes from sources, and what appear to be paraphrases from the essay assignment -- needs a thorough review and copyedit, and possibly a bit of copyvio testing?
Paddy Doyle - needs organizing, wikifying, pov review
Section K
Computers in postmodernity - needs a lot of work, if it's worth keeping
- I've had Comp Lit. This is more like a regurgitative essay, not anything useful. It illustrates nothing pertinent about postmodernity. For my part, VfD. --Dhartung 12:27, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Furious Angels - We have a legitimate stub on Rob Dougan, and now a fan has waxed enthusiastic over one of his albums. Salvage track info, etc., but remove the POV and gushy tone. JamesMLane
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music. JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Life in General - "Rating: 5-stars" --rbrwrˆ
Seurat, Neo-Impressionism and the science of color - Nice article but needs moving (presumably to Neo-Impressionism) and conformance to standard style. Also Seurat should link to this page. -- Solipsist I temporarily moved it to Neo-Impressionism. Still probably should be merged. -- Bart133
List of Apple Computer CEOs. Not sure if this should be merged with Apple Computer. Currently unformatted.
- Merge completed after proposing the change on the Apple Computer talk page and receiving no response. Spangineer 20:41, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)
Swedish neutrality during World War II - needs further cleanup and some sections describing the background on other topics needs to be broken out an possibly integrated elsewhere. A general article on Swedish neutrality policy (1809-present) is also lacking and segments here may be broken out and used as a backbone. -- Mic
Finland and Globalization - seems to be a paper or article written for another purpose and then dumped on wikipedia. May be possible to transform into a Wikipedia article or be broken up and integrated into other articles. -- Mic
Béqaa need better English (and expansion). Lupo
Section L
Alexander MacFarlane - looks like a raw entry from a biography database. - TB
- Perhaps we could ask the author of http://ca.geocities.com/macfarlanebio to give us permission to use his biography, then clean it up a bit? - Ta bu shi da yu
Cinema of Colombia just a list of films. Dunc_Harris|☺
Horizons: Empire of Istaria Allegedly looks more like an advert than an encyclopedia, so if you can de-advertise it please do. --Marco
Comilla - wikification, grammar - Mattingly23
- Grammar cleaned up and wikification added, but still needs more info. --rcmurphy
- Thanks, murphy, just when I was cleaning it up ;) Anyway, I added a little info. Aecis
Streetstudio - NPOV, probable self-promotion. Created by anon user who did some spamming, but the "Press" section of their website suggests it's notable so not VfD material. JamesMLane
- cleaned up. Zen Master 10:28, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Section M
Alstonia: content to external links ratio very low
Monetary system Bad. Neutrality
Conrad Gozzo - entirely POV, needs complete rewrite supadawg -
Canadian_Natural_Resources - substub, copyvio from the company's main page --Szyslak
FC St. Pauli - needs more NPOV language and fact checking. sjorford
Section N
Wolf Dog -- Needs rewriting for NPOV, (and copyedit)
Mental image - two line stub, orphan, unwikified, not even a very good dicdef at the moment. Is there a topic here for someone to tease out? --rbrwrˆ
Bishop Kearney Field - a mess, could do with some more information and better phrasing. - Ta bu shi da yu
Mellish crater - idiosyncratic first-person account of how a crater got its name. Also unwikified, etc. --rbrwrˆ
- Cleaned up a bit. Katefan0 19:42, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Section O
Fluble - pretty thoroughly fannish. — Gwalla | Talk
(The) Game - just needs some standard copyediting and wikification. Rhobite
Nodosaurus - all the info's there, but it needs taxoboxification. Diberri | Talk - i've done so, please have a look
Stanczak - wikification - Mattingly23
Arthur H useless substub French thingy, and all contribs of 193.11.231.58 -- Improved to a marginally useful stub. _R_ 19:31, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Dartmouth College Men's Varsity Swim Team marginally significant perhaps, but I'm fed up of these Dartmouth College articles. Dunc_Harris|☺
AIDS-related lymphoma - stubby and the second paragraph seems off topic. -Seth Mahoney
Craniometry - adapted from 1911 encyclopedia - needs more copyediting, and updating of language, stripping away of last shreds of 1911 worldview, fact-checking
Erste Schritte - huge, unwikied text dump. Might be copyvio, but I can't find it on Google. Also, the name doesn't match the content of the article. It seems to be about skater Eva Pawlik (sp?) - The name at the bottom of the page, Roman Seeliger, is that of the author of Die Wiener Eisrevue. Ein verklungener Traum ("The Vienna Ice Revue: A Lost Dream"), 1993. [3]. I suggest the text may be from this book. Erste Schritte ("First steps" uh, skating steps, probably) sounds a bit like a chapter title. Bishonen
- Seems to have got lost by being renamed to Eva Pawlik. Have attached it to Figure skating in the hope of TLC. MeltBanana 16:19, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Now a redirect to the German wikipedia where the article doesn't exist! - Drstuey 11:14, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
John Strange Spencer Churchill Someone dropped this on us from a genealogy site: If cleaners find no notability to him, please list him on VfD. + Wikified and Cleaned: A man of no personal consequence, but as the brother of Winston Churchill, and father-in-law of his successor I suppose he is just notable Giano
- Now clean. Added a bio-stub msg - can't bothered listing on VfD so left here in case anyone bites - Drstuey 11:14, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Daniel Dumile Yo yo yo suckaz; hip hop thingie (AMG knows him). Also, IP who created this has created articles for each of his stage names. These should redirect back to this article, please. Only one article per performer, let's hope.
ASCII Drawing Interchange file format - unformatted, perhaps merge with DWG? Rvollmert
Section P
McDull - cleanup! Many links irrelevant, kind of confused what it's all about. - Ta bu shi da yu
- Still seems to need cleanup. Check the External link list. Isn't there a wikiproject on this topic? JesseW 00:17, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Stark Law unwikified text dump from CRS Report for Congress, needs heavy copyedit + wikifying
- Looks good to me; it's been heavily worked on. Please look it over, and if it also looks fine, rm the banner and this item. JesseW 00:17, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
1730 in gay rights - Covers a single topic spanning years 1730-1811. _R_
Phantom Regiment - Mattingly23
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music. JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Section Q
Francus need to know if this is history or legend. DJ Clayworth
Spousal rape, unwikified, questionable content
woodsmen - Rephrasing. Article is generally weak. --LeeHunter
Anti-Japanese sentiment - major NPOVing needed - olivier
all of this user's contributions for articles needing extensive cleanup - added introductory sentences to the various articles
Silent Partner Management - substub - N</font>orm |
Section R
Triple Fast Action - N</font>orm |
- should be passed to the WikiProject Music... JesseW 05:53, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Ringside Recording Studios - substub - N</font>orm |
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject Music JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Neiva - Mattingly23 --Wikified and NPOVed. -JCarriker
Doug Moench - ungrammatical, rambling, chatty, badly wikified. I've done some work, but it needs more than I can devote. DS -
Gig racing - Mattingly23 -- Rewrote it, needs proofing though. _R_
Rosamund Clifford - Needs merging with itself, wikification and maybe fact-checking. _R_ + did some formatting Srd2005
Wikipedia:Boilerplate text - this page looks uglier each time I see it - Not an article; tell us how you think it works.
Lipidomics - article/external link ratio is very low
Section S
Pink Fairies: Way too casual tone, sometimes being POV
- It's not clear to me why this is still on cleanup. The tone is pretty casual, but it doesn't seem inapproriate for a band article. I asked on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music if they would like articles like this to be passed over to them. I'll see what they say. JesseW 23:49, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC) Update: They are happy to have these, so I'm going through the list copying them over. JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
ACME Communications - POV problems -- Blue Mask|Talk 04:58, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) + did some cleaning. Srd2005 11:38, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Please explain what POV problems you see, 'cause I don't see them. If I don't get a response by Dec 14th, I (or anyone who reads this) will (hopefully) remove the cleanup banner and this item from Leftovers. JesseW 23:49, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Section T
Renaissance (band) - POV problems
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject Music JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Independent Radio - needs work
- Passed to Wikipedia:WikiProject Music JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Philippine National Railways - needs copyediting and wikifying, possible copyvio - seems to have been built up over time, copyvio less likely IMO, just a new user
Charlie Root/Temp - an absolute mess. + did some formatting Srd2005 17:34, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Bernard Arnault (some more cleaned and removed JesseW 06:38, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)) started by someone whose an Arnault fan?? Mattingly23 00:27, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The SCO - Linux Wars - needs NPOV, trimming repeated material. I did a lot of work on it but it needs much more. --LeeHunter 03:09, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Probably needs a rename. It's looking at a broader picture than SCO v. IBM, but there needs to be some linkage between the two. Ambi 07:31, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Azerbaijani literature - Needs wikification, NPOVization, and fact checking. roozbeh
P'ent'ay Christianity in Ethiopia. ? Dunc_Harris|☺
Kingdom (professional wrestling) - needs rewrite and NPOVing.
Section U
Full United States Bomber Scale-chart - is this for real? - Ta bu shi da yu
- Hahaha, that made me laugh for a good three minutes. Nick
- Some part of this is admirable, however. If I was going to hand-draw something like this, it wouldn't be as good. Rhymeless
- "I created this drawing myself, using paper, pen, etc. There are no copyright issues" very well done User:pmht
Control experiment could do with a more sensible example.
Emilio Azcárraga died from lounge cancer; auto translation which makes no sense. Dunc_Harris|☺
An Ideal Husband, isn't this a book or sthg? presently useless stub of plot details and nothing else. Dunc_Harris|☺
Revaluation of fixed assets, survived VfD, but in need of much help
Stone, Staffordshire - unwikified. Reads like a copyvio (complete with author's name!) - Keith Edkins
Prophecy: completely credulous POV
- almost all is unwikified
Peter Lewis - libel, literally: notable figure. Can we make it NPOV by ripping it up?
Section V
- Aecis and myself did some work on it, but it still needs rephrasing. EB1911 stuff. --Joy [shallot] 13:58, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Crystal Eastman Needs npoving and other TLC.--Neutrality + cleaned it a bit, stil pov though, imho Srd2005
Church of Spiritual Humanism: unwikified and needs general cleanup Faucett needs work
Nursing school - an article about nursing schools would be good; this is very, very poor and American.
John Heffron comedian: significance? wikify, Dunc_Harris|☺
Der Zigeunerprimas - quite messy. I tried to fix it, but it still needs help. Node
Section X
Feigned madness - Bizarre biblical commentary, completely lacking in context and relevance. Mashford
- Definitely VfD. Katefan0 00:30, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
- The way to fix it is to delete it. Nyxxxx 02:06, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Namesdays in Finland is mostly a duplicate of Namesdays in Sweden. Since namesdays are also common in other countries (e.g. Germany), these should probably be merged into a new namesday Rvollmert
Exilarch - copied from PD 1906 encyclopedia but is a huge mess, especially for someone unfamiliar with the context JFW | T@lk
- has been heavily worked on, but it's big, and it still needs more work. It might be better to relist this, as it's situation is very different than when it was first listed. JesseW 06:27, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
John Brown Gordon - unwikified lump of what looks like copied text. At least PART of it comes from http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/OfficersAndEnlistedMen/johnbrowngordon.html
The Swedish slave trade - unwikied, non-native English and possible POV.
- Seems to have been improved since the notice was posted. Asked on talk page if it still needs to be listed. JesseW 23:48, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Last meal - needs wikification. Last paragraph seems suspicious - is this tradition still upheld?
- Seems to be wikified. What else does it need? JesseW 23:41, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Some of these may be candidates for Wikipedia:Pages needing attention or even Wikipedia:Votes for deletion -- please update the list as appropriate.
