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I would be eternally grateful if someone could make sure I have added information to this article correctly. I'm still learning the ropes so obviously don't want to make things difficult. I was unable to find much information about her, though I did add her full filmography. Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samdvd1 ( talk • contribs) 19:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Many articles have WPBiography but have "living" left blank. I recommend the following changes to {{ WPBiography}} if the living parameter is missing:
Good idea? No? Your thoughts? davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 23:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
The Barack Obama Featured Article is one of the more prominent biography articles in Wikipedia, and an important discussion is going on there now (at Talk:Barack Obama#Attempt to build consensus on the details) that could affect other articles on presidential candidates.
Some editors here think that when a U.S. presidential candidate is embarassed by someone associated with that candidate, no information about it should be mentioned in the WP biography article, even if the campaign (and therefore the person who is the subject of the article) was affected. Others think WP should only mention that this person was controversial and leave a link in the article to the WP article on that controversial associate. Still others (including me), think we should briefly explain just why that person was controversial in the candidate's life, which can be done in a phrase or at most a sentence or two. Examples:
Whatever we do, we should have equal treatment, so anyone interested in NPOV-, WP:BLP-compliant articles should look at and participate in the discussion. We've started the discussion by focusing on how much to say about former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers in the Barack Obama article, but, again, this will likely affect many other articles. Noroton ( talk) 15:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Isaac Brock has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
I've been doing quite a lot of work on Andrew Johnson and think it's come a long way since it was assessed as a B-class article back in May 2006. Would appreciate a bit of help finishing it up to GA status or possibly even higher.
Cheers. Jaakobou Chalk Talk 09:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
A request for comment has been posted at Talk:Harvey Milk#REQUEST FOR COMMENT: Milk's involvement with Jim Jones/Peoples Temple. Other editor's input would be appreciated. Banje boi 04:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Just to give you guys a warning, the Jim McKay article has been linked to on the main page of Fark.com. I've already added a high traffic warning to the talk page. JPINFV ( talk) 17:33, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
In case you're not aware, Messedrocker has been kind enough to update his list of unreferenced biographies of living people. There are over 14,000 biographies that are listed as being entirely unreferenced! Let's get to work :) -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 17:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys. I've had a quick look around and couldn't find anything that addressed this directly. Is there any kind of long-term plan to set up country-based taskforces within WPBIO, or is it just going to be handled informally based on the intersection of WPBIO and the various country Wikiprojects? It would just be nice to know because I'm in the middle of a tagging frenzy for WikiProject Italy and I thought I'd check before tagging 12,000-odd articles. Given that the Italy Project only has about 8500 "town" articles and ~2000 "other" articles at present, I can't help worrying that I'm about to turn WP:Italy into WP:Italy-biography by default. So assigning those 12,000 articles to a taskforce of WP:BIO might make more sense, although we can probably survive taking them on directly. There is a precendent for this, we've effectively outsourced our football articles to the Italy taskforce of WP:FOOTY, and I'm a bit worried about negating the whole point of having a WikiProject in the first place, that it allows you to focus on a particular set of articles. I'lll obvious WPBIO-tag any that need it as I go along, from what I've seen they're fairly good in that regard, and there's some fun bits of history in there, lots of medieval nobility and condottieri and the like. I've plenty of non-bio articles to tag first, and I can see that any decision to set up country taskforces would be a big deal for you guys, so I'm happy to let this one stew a while.... FlagSteward ( talk) 22:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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...... Dendodge .. Talk Help 11:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure how legit this article is. I found the text tagged on to end of Jack O'Reilly (footballer) and then created separate article. This guy sounds a bit scary. Don’t really want to edit it as he seems to be still alive. I have linked some of it thou. Any takers Djln-- Djln ( talk) 00:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
A request for comments on issues arising on the Lizzie Borden article has been opened. Please visit Talk:Lizzie Borden#Request for Comments to respond. Thanks! Wildhartlivie ( talk) 10:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure where else to ask, so thought I might try here since some of you might have experience writing about attorneys. Are there any resources that objectively document an attorney's performance in court, something like a win/loss record? Ham Pastrami ( talk) 21:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to request some help with this article. I fully sourced it over the past week, and I would like to help it get to GA or FA status. It would be great if any editors from this project could look it over, possibly do some copyediting, and give some feedback in the peer review. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 23:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
See Talk:Judith Butler and Talk:Influence of Judith Butler's concepts. Thanks! Hyacinth ( talk) 03:29, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
User:Thorsten1 has recently removed the image of Talcott Parsons from his article, with the argument:
I think this is unacceptable.
Could somebody take a look at this, and respond at Talk:Talcott Parsons. Thank you.
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker ( talk) 14:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
The article on Pittsburgh's mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, is currently on hold in its Good Article review, and it needs some copy editing and the lead in weak. Can anyone take a look at it and help out? Thanks!-- TheZachMorrisExperience ( talk) 04:00, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
It's a pitty to see the current status of especially the A-Class section. I wanted to close some of the nominations there, but, because of the lack of interest (there are nowhere at least 2 supports) I should close them as failed! And I do not think this is fair for some of the articles there. I watch the continued interest in the WP:MILHIST respective section and I envie them!
In the Peer-review section the situation is better, but again, when I am not there active, many articles will remain with no comments, because there is no other revewer editing there on a frequent basis. But, especially the current situation on the A-Class section is a shame. I see a long list of members in this project, but where are they? The main purpose of the project isn't it to upgrade the article within its scope? If we are not contributing to that, what are we doing here?-- Yannismarou ( talk) 10:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
How do I get someone to review this page and remove the verification box at the top? I have added a few citations etc. Does this still need the citation/verification box? If so what else do I need to do to have it removed? Can I do this myself? I know I have the power to do it but I want to make sure it is done right. Thanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Fuhrman
-- Healthyelijah ( talk) 21:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
If anyone wants to help, Category:Biography articles needing priority parameter replacement only has 40 articles left in it (down from about 500 at the beginning of the week). Let's finish it off! Kaldari ( talk) 21:58, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I wondered if someone could give a rating to my new article on Margaret Dryburgh. Thankyou.-- seahamlass 10:13, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there a reason why there is no FL-class in the assessment table for this project? e.g. List of Governors of Pennsylvania was promoted to a Featured List but is listed by all of its WikiProjects, including this one, as FA-class. -- Millbrooky ( talk) 18:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
There is a rather large argument and edit war going on at Michael Q. Schmidt ("an American actor and fine arts model") in addition to an ongoing images for deletion debate about the image. I don't have the time nor inclination to join in, but it really needs someone impartial to join in and sort it out. Is there anyone here that would be able to step in and help? Mike Peel ( talk) 10:24, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
A new rating class, C class, has been created. Would the members of this project wish to add this new class, which falls between Start and B class, with provisional details of the new grade's criteria being available to be seen here, to the assessment system of this project? Also, if those changes are to be made to the project's banner, it might be a good time to consider whether there are any other subprojects of Biography which might be added to the banner at the same time. Would any of the members care to see creation of new work groups, and, if yes, what would the scope of these groups be? John Carter ( talk) 16:57, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Wizardman made the change here. Not sure if he was aware of this discussion, so I've pointed him here. It looks like it was done right (did he use the sandbox or not?) but any more changes should wait a while. How long, I'm not sure. The discussion here seems to have died down, unfortunately. Carcharoth ( talk) 03:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I am new to this project, and I have decided I will participate in the assessment group. My question is, is there going to be a Summer Assessment Drive? The Spring has ended, and there's still about 50,000 articles left. Is there somewhere I can propose it? I'm unsure where to go for this, so I'm asking it here. If there will be a Summer Drive, I would be glad to help.-- LAA Fan 18:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Can someone figure out what happened there? Couldn't quite fix that template. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 02:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
In some biographies, they have begun to put images of people mentioned in the text, but without the subject. Sometimes (as for ancient people) there is no joint image. This seems generally undesirable IMO except when image is of spouse and children, some of whom don't have a separate article. This seems to be a boundary issue. Editors who wouldn't dream of inserting text that didn't have anything to do with the subject of the article, will insert images that don't directly relate to the subject.
Try three cases (mostly made up):
My thought in all three cases is no! Student7 ( talk) 21:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
The article Charles K. Hofling is tagged as being in this project's purview. The article isn't really a biography, but the description of a particular experiment. I plan to move the article to reflect that (something like Hofling hospital experiment, probably). Anyway, if anyone has a different idea, please let me know at the talk page. Cretog8 ( talk) 21:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography&diff=221128296&oldid=221119269
Where was this material archived? I can't find it anywhere.