I am running WP:LOTD and trying to determine if it is proper to encourage the inclusion of {{ WPBiography}} on talk pages of biographical lists. I have added it to List of Harry Potter films cast members, but I was not sure if this was correct. Now, I am considering whether to add it to List of New Jersey Devils players and List of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters. Is this a proper thing to do?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 19:15, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I've tended to write stub biographies, mainly for biologists and naturalists, as I go along. I am preparing an article ( Blackbird) for FA which could do with a link to an biog for Dr John Kinnis, former military surgeon in Ceylon. Although I can track down some publications, I can't track down enough info on the man even to do a credible stub. Any help would be much appreciated. Jimfbleak ( talk) 16:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
In looking at Ian Bone, I noticed that one WikiProject Biography template, actually takes up the space of four templates. It looks totally ridiculous, and crowds up the page terribly. Is there anyway that the "infobox", "needs picture", and "living persons" parameters can't be worked into the template directly so they don't take up SO MUCH space on a talk page? Murderbike ( talk) 00:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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The following article Professor Khalid Mahmood has been tagged as belongling to this WikiProject. it has also been tagged for deletion. Thought that some mention of that should be made here:
If you spot a list of works, or a list of awards, that is in reverse-chronological order, please either correct it to chronological order as per the manual of style at WP:LOW, or tag it with the template {{ MOSLOW}}. This template looks like this:
This article or section contains a list of works that does not follow the
Manual of Style for lists of works (often, but not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order) and may need
cleanup. |
A helpful tool is User:Whilding87/ListReverser.
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I've noticed that many band pages don't include flags like other pages do. Do we have a preference on that because I for one think they enhance the Wiki experience. Leodmacleod 3:11 3 October 2007 (UTC)
on the philipo taglioni bio: i noticed the dates of the original production of "la sylphide" conflict. the intro states that "it is he [taglioni] who was the original choreographer of La Sylphide, in 1836," while the "background" section goes on to say, "the triumphant première of La Sylphide on March 12, 1832..." i think 1832 is the correct date of the premier. someone should fix this.
In preparation for nominating Emily Dickinson for FAC within the next few weeks, I have listed it for a Peer Review. All comments and suggestions from those involved with this Wikiproject would be very much appreciated here. Thanks! María ( habla con migo) 19:48, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
There are a number of articles currently eligible for A-Class status. Unfortunately, any interested parties should feel free to look over the requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review and offer their opinions as to whether the nominees meet the A-Class criteria or not. John Carter ( talk) 14:14, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't the guidelines at WP:MOSBIO be expanded a bit? Presently, all it covers are Lead paragraphs and naming conventions. It seems to me that adding general guidelines on Section headings, use of footers, deprecated use of Infobox flags, etc., would also be useful and help promote greater bio standardization.
For example, many biographical articles currently have a section called "Biography", instead of "Early life" or Personal information": certainly a redundancy to title a section "Biography" within a biographical article — this seems to be especially prevalent in articles about actors and musicians, apparently because of imdb's format. Standardizing on "early life" or "personal information", instead of titling a section "biography" in a biographical article should be specified JGHowes talk - 20:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
My aritcle on Stephen Cohn has been accepted as a Wiki Biography Project, has been given a "Start Class" rating and has received the support of the Wiki Project Contemporary Music. Is it now possible to remove the tag? User:Stephencohn ( talk) 05:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't know where else to post this, as I picked a couple of members of the project and posted the questions below, but got no response. Hopefully by posting here, more attention it will gather. Here is my query:
I just happened upon an article yesterday about Jaron Lanier, and tried to clean it up. I then did some minor research, and wrote to Jaron (from the email address on his website) asking permission to use a different image. He gave me permission to use his image that is on his website. What is the protocol for that, such as copyright, permissions, etc?
Also, I know nothing of the subject or his area of notability, but he wrote back thanking me for taking an interest (no one else has bothered, he said) and asked if I would post his note he had sent to me via email earlier (with a bunch of terms relating to his area that I have no idea what they mean...but said that I could Google them. lol). Part of that note (email) said his experiences with trying to edit Wikipedia entries was very difficult and frustrating, saying that there was information in his article that was unfamiliar to him, IE: not pertaining to him and/or out-of-date, or trivial information. And that his most important achievements/activities/experiences/family, etc., where not even in the article at all.
My other question is -- where do I post his note, how and how much do I post, so someone may find interest to help correct his bio? I really don't have the background nor the interest to re-write the article and was wondering if you can help me... well, help Jaron especially and Wikipedia. Thanks for any help or direction you can give. → GeeAlice ♥ 19:36, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion regarding how much weight to give the subject's religious affiliation at Talk:Mitt Romney#Material regarding subject's religious affiliation. Any input is welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 21:02, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
He is now up for a GA. -- andreasegde ( talk) 02:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Over at Wikipedia talk:Notability on a global scale over time, there's a discussion about splitting the by-day births/deaths lists into their own articles (and making these lists complete) but then should there be some more restrictive criteria for a birth or death to be listed in one of the by-day articles (e.g. January 1). The current minimum criteria is "article exists", but with nearly 500,000 biography articles if these lists were complete the births at least would include roughly 1500 articles (per day). If anyone here has thoughts about this, please join the discussion (there). -- Rick Block ( talk) 15:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Robert Conquest needs cleanup for neutrality and weasel problems. -- Writtenonsand ( talk) 20:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Seriously? The "lives" of a cartoon heavy metal band are now within the scope of the biography project? -- Boradis ( talk) 15:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Biography. Is it the intention that {{ WPBiography}} should be applied to the talk pages of all real-world human biography articles, i.e. if I happen to notice such an article without the template on its talk page, should I add it? Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 01:50, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
There is a new AFD, William Hung. TrUcO9311 TaLk / SiGn 23:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
A suggestion from a reader, emailed to me:
Quite a few of our biographies include the pronunciation, but it's far from universal. Would anyone be interested in a drive to fill out pronunciations? (What groups of Wikipedians are fans of this stuff?) Adding a field in the infoboxes might help too. Anyone inspired by this suggestion? - David Gerard ( talk) 11:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
There were a lot of articles linking to this disambiguation page for specific Annas, and I've gone through and fixed a number that were obvious. There are a couple more to fix up, which I can't determine myself; they may require the creation of a stub article for the first listed Anna.
Additionally, there is the confusing issue that the dab page itself is in Category:House of Habsburg, which presumably can't be right. There are also several generic redirects such as Anna of Austria, Habsburg; Anne Habsburg of Austria; and Anna Habsburg that all point back to this dab.
I hope there's someone with relevant knowledge that could help finish this cleanup. Hv ( talk) 00:45, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
St. Gabriel's religious name recieved in Latin on Profession Day was "A Virgine Perdolente" which means "of the Sorrowful Virgin". This is the more exact translation of the Latin name he bore in Passionist life.
The most recent book written on St. Gabriel is Following the Light of the Cross, 2002, by John Joseph Schweska, a lay Passionist in New Jeresy. The book's cover has new icon of the saint drawn by Brother Michael Moran,C.P. It was presented to the Holy Father, John Paul II in the Vatican City by the author. The book was published by the Passionist Provincial Office in Still River, NJ in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Passionist presence in the USA--remembering some of Gabriel's own classmates who came to America to preach the Crucified Lord. The book is based on over 20 years of reserach and study and contains the most exact historical dates of Gabriel's life and religious events surrounding him. Besides a biography, it is also a study-reflection and prayer book--an overall resource book on St. Gabriel. The book will be re-published as a new Edition in 2008 by St. Benedict Center, Still River, NJ with expanded chapters and stories, under a new title: At the Cross With Mary. The new book's cover will have a traditional painting of St. Gabriel rarely used in previous books--with a crowned Sorrowful Virgin in the background pierced by 7 swords in honor of her traditional seven sorrows. The "cowboy" story of St Gabriel shooting a pistol at a lizard to scare raiding bandits is not historically documented in any of the archives of the saint; however what is historically related is that Gabriel acted with complete faith and surety when the bandits rampaged the monastery itself with the royal soldiers in hot pursuit behind them; Gabriel entrusted the monks' saftey to God, calmed the other monks and frightened superiors, and forgave the bandits, parying for them. The latter story reveals a true heroism of heart and soul in the midst of conflict and crisis. Edited by John Jospeh Schweska,LPC, Lay Passionsit, and Author.
It has been proposed that we might benefit from having additional work groups. Does anyone have any proposals for any? I believe we could reasonably create more based on any or all of the following principals:
Anyone with any specific suggestions is free, even encouraged to list them below. We already do have one work group for religious leaders which has enough interested parties to be viable, so I think a group there is probably a given.
John Carter (
talk)
23:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The talk page at Talk:Heath Ledger recently had a box note attached to explain why the BLP banner is still in place, even though the subject is deceased. I'm a little concerned about the precedent being set here as it might open things up to the fact that the BLP banner might now need to be added to every biographical article that includes references to individuals still alive, even if the main subject is deceased. That said, I can see some practical application for this. For example, the article I work on relating to Bill Haley & His Comets. While Haley is dead, as is numerous members of the Comets, there are still no less than 3 performing Comets groups made up of surviving members of the band. Ergo, the article, which discusses these groups, needs to be under BLP since it contains content pertaining to people still alive. So I have added the BLP banner (although other editors have tried to remove it) and have just added a modified version of the Heath Ledger "Why the banner is here" box). I think it might be a good idea to come up with a template or some sort of guideline regarding the use of BLP in articles on deceased individuals. I can see pluses and minuses here. (And if it's already covered in the police, please point me - and it might be worthwhile noting this at the Ledger talk page. 23skidoo ( talk) 18:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I have found it on non-biographical articles also. If it was meant to be on every page it would be in a Mediawiki: message space. Perhaps it should be. Personally I generally remove these "excessive" tags but let it slide if there's resistance or a clear reason why the tag is needed. As that's the case here it might be worth overlooking this one. There's more to find and remove here if you want to make up for it :) -- kingboyk ( talk) 20:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Is it possible for this project to take over management of Category:BLP articles lacking sources and merge it into the attention subcat? I'm trying to sort the cleanup categories by WikiProject, and the BLP category would be better off managed through the use of the project template. Thanks. — Viriditas | Talk 10:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I came across this page tonight, which is listed as a featured article under this project, as well as others. I'm not very familiar with the criteria for featured articles, or what would go into one, but I did want to express my concern that this article no longer meets the criteria for featured articles. The main problem seems ot lie in the citations, which aren't in a consistent form, and there are large blocks of text uncited, including some quotes. I thought it should be brought to the attention of the project. Thanks. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 09:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Currently at the Anishinaabe sub-project of the Indigeonous peoples of North America project, we are having some problems with article naming for several different chiefs who have the same name. Please take a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America/Anishinaabe#Chief_Buffalo_of_Lake_Superior and could someone from the Biography project provide us with advice on how to go about untangling the chiefs and naming the new article titles that should reflect the untangled biographies. Miigwech. CJLippert ( talk) 19:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, does this Project have the authority to upgrade an article to a good article? I'm only asking because Golda Meir is rated a good article by this project. If it doesn't, someone must have just rated it him/herself and I'll remove it. Just need to know. Cheers! -- Al Ameer son ( talk) 00:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I amended the assessment from Stub to Start-Class now that someone has added a decent amount of bio. Hope that's ok. Secret Squïrrel, approx 11:55, 29 January 2008 (Earth Standard Time)
If there is a place to mention Tyrone Wheatley's FAC, I can not find it. Tyrone Wheatley may be the first modern NFL player bio to achieve FA. Only Jim Thorpe is an FA currently. Please come comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tyrone Wheatley.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 18:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)