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Aaron Sorkin 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. Dabomb87 ( talk) 15:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
L. Ron Hubbard has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. Cirt ( talk) 09:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
He's in the news this year so I created an article for him. I'd like to get an independent assessment and some recommendations to get the article up to at least B-class if it's not already there yet. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 18:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
I happened across the article for Zora Suleman (a popular UK TV personality) and found that several months ago a newbie editor made his one and only contribution to Wikipedia by completely rewriting the article. Which is fair enough, but the information given, although credited to various publications, did not include any citations or anything and was written like a fanpage article. Some significant information such as her date of birth and birthplace was changed, etc. I do not feel the article was vandalised - the edit was clearly good faith - but the fact no citations were given and some substantial changes were made, plus it lost all wikifying, led me to revert all the changes made back to about June per WP:BLP. The edit in question, of course, is still in the history and I thought I'd toss it out to any project members who would like to give the article a go. (I would but I'm on work deadlines and won't have time). There's nothing BLP-violating in the older version, but it needs to be updated (i.e. a movie she was supposed to be in was never made, etc) and if there are any factual errors they should be corrected. Unfortunately the editor who made the revision never left any "chapter and verse' citations and hasn't made a single edit since redoing the article, so unless there are some Suleman fans out there with an archive, it might be a challenge! 23skidoo ( talk) 19:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please collect information on this author and create a page on him? He is mention in this week's TLS (issue 5505), page 3. Zigzig20s ( talk) 20:15, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
William Nelson Page 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. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Please see comment I made here about obtaining and recording gender (male/female) metadata. Opinions would be welcomed. Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 13:38, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I recently started Wikipedia:Biographical metadata. I have lots to add to that, but wanted to mention it here in case anyone wants to help out. Carcharoth ( talk) 02:15, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka is currently a Featured List Candidate. All editors are invited to participate here. Any comments and suggestions will be welcome. Chamal Talk ± 03:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
A discussion has cropped up at Wikipedia talk:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality#Recording the gender of a person that may be of interest to this project. Cheers! Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:17, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a reason why we do not have a biography of this son of our former president? I understand that he is the President of The Friendship Force. JRSpriggs ( talk) 12:14, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
I've removed some unverified claims from Niki Evans. Would somebody else take a look and see whether what remains is OK, please? Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I'd proposed a bot task at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rootology Bot 2 which would basically be placing {{WPBiography|living=yes|class=|importance=}} onto any talk page of an associated article that is in the Category:Living people and that does not have the appropriate tagging already Since the full assessments for class and importance require a human touch and review, the project (if it goes ahead) would result in a possibly significant sized number of articles going into Category:Unassessed biography articles, which has a current backlog today of about 61,000+ articles. From a small sample I tried my bot task on manually, I think I had a hit rate of about around 8%-10% approximately.
This could result in an addition of approximately 58,000~ additional pages to that queue. Eventually, each and every single one of these pages will be under this WikiProject anyway. This would expedite matters, to get them into the pipeline for evaluation and review, rather than sitting idle and lost until someone happens across them. An added benefit is the BLP tagging--every little bit of extra protection, weak as it may be, helps out our BLP subjects. Please share your thoughts on the idea here or on the bot request at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rootology Bot 2]. Thanks! rootology ( C)( T) 23:18, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Caitlin Hill, a minor YouTube celebrity is up for AfD. You can view the discussion here. TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 04:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
The article List of drag queens, which has existed since 2005, was deleted after three hours at AFD citing WP:BLP concerns. I have opened a DRV and am notifying you as an associated Wikiproject. Otto4711 ( talk) 19:14, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
A deletion discussion of Category:Living people has started: people here might want to put their views. Dsp13 ( talk) 13:48, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Let me take the opportunity to say how much I enjoy your service.
I need to call attention to a problem.
An editor has rewritten my entry, and gotten several things wrong. One LARGE mistake- I was NOT born in Arkansas. I was born on a train traveling to a Naval station in Charleston, South Carolina. I 'arrived' a day early, and we were taken to a hospital in Chattanooga Tenn., which is listed as my place of birth. Where did you get Arkansas?
The work I do, which has kept me in a rather obscure status for an entire lifetime, has been dedicated to the idea that we need to save our small historic collections of buildings in our old downtowns. There are particularly intereseting remnants in the Ohio River Valley. They are being destroyed at an alarming rate, accelerated by the recent big-box fast-food 'post modern' strip mall development.
I try to draw attention to these treasures we are losing by the day. To add to the efforts to re-use them, to repopulate and re-energize our historic downntowns. THis political motivation is earnest, and has certainly not been any kind of a boost to my career promoting myself in our celebrity-driven arts economy.
The original entry was posted by my daughter, Miriam Dafford, artist, Los Angeles, and subsequently added and edited by her with further information from me. ALL information given was true, and not, as you claimed, promarily self promotion.
We would like to comply with your request to add whatever verification you need added to the statements made about my career and work, but I am not sure what form of 'proof' you need from us to do so. The sizes, locations, and contents of all the projects listed were acurate.
The murals on the Cincinnati riverfront are on the Covington side of the river, but they certainly face downtown Cinn. They were funded equally by Cincinati and Covington resources, but few people in America know where Covington is. Few enough know where Cincinnati is. What kind of verification do you need? Qutes from newspapers? Downtown Development Directors? Main Street Directors in each locations? Photographs? Miriam thought that there was already way too much information. The article only lists a highlight of the over 350 mural projects we've worked on.
I am currently working on location in Point Pleasant West Virginia on a 6 year, 1,000 foot long pre-revolutionary war mural project, have two of my main associate artists working on a 160 ft painting of the historic unions of Portsmouth, Ohio, and an 80 ft painting about the scenic byways on the Ohio R. from Steubenville, Oh to PAducah Ky. I dont have much time for this work you require of me, and there certainly isn't money to hire someone to do it for us. I looked over the pages of instruction for the physical process to edit, and it is beyond my ability and certainly time constaints.. It takes all the time I have to produce the works themselves.
PLease let us know what you require. And can you PLEASE return, or post, or whatever, the final original artical as it had all the information we would need to elucidate for you. It would further cost us to reconstruct what had been written before. As I understand it, the editing was done on the page itself, not composed somewhere else. So it no longer exists in any of our hands.
Thank you, and let me say againI enjoy your service.
Robert Dafford 75.108.75.173 ( talk) 15:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
A series of articles was written about the spouses of various Polish noblemen. Based on the very sparse information give there, & the equally sparse information in the Polish Wikipedia, they probably cannot stand on their own. (Personally, I am usually reluctant to invoke NOT#INHERITED, but it does seem to fit for these.) they were prodded. As reviewing I decided to redirect them when possible rather than delete. I did this for Zofia Zamoyska; but others among them were married successively to two different noblemen such as Róża Potocka, Konstancja Potocka & Maria Zofia Sieniawska. There's no way I know of for doing an appropriate redirect in this circumstance, unlike, say, when the same man had several spouses not themselves significant. QA proper database should have such a way, but we don't seem to. I have therefore considered this a situation not provided for, and appropriate for IAR, and left the articles,though I anticipate some trouble defending them. This isn't unique, and has occasionally arisen in other contexts also. How shall we handle this? DGG ( talk) 22:26, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Please read my comment there [2]. I hope someone can sort things out. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:58, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to put this, but there is an external peer review taking place of Frederick III, German Emperor which is within this project. If you'd like to contribute please see the peer review page here. Thanks. -- Banime ( talk) 12:51, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Considering the amount of airspace and printspace this is currently getting, I just wanted to highlight the relatively poor state of this article to the project members here. It's also the subject of repeated vandalism so those interested may want to keep an eye on it. I've already had one user blocked from editing. Parrot of Doom ( talk) 14:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there ever a point at which a free license photograph of a person can be deemed so bad, that it would be preferable to use a fair use image or no image at all? I know this issue has probably come up before, but I can't seem to find the previous discussions. Kaldari ( talk) 16:28, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm currently working on Phil Hartman's article. I thought I may as well ask, as my other attempts have failed, but does anyone have, our knows someone who has, or can find a free-use image of Phil Hartman? It would be really great if one could be found. Thanks. Gran 2 14:45, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Given Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography/Archive/April_2008#Should_A-Class_review_go.3F, is there any chance this process can be reactivated? In particular, the James Morris III review was listed there before the "freeze" and should be closed and resolved one way or the other. Gimmetrow 16:44, 31 October 2008 (UTC)