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Possible:
Rank category description pages based on:
The same as other pages
Whether or not there is any text other than the link to the parent category
foul-language-o-meter
Proposed:
Red flag (-100): no category on page
Listings
These listings were created from the January 25, 2006
database dump.
The neglected articles linked to below have been automatically removed from the above listings. To do this, the update script looks for the text ==Suppressed listings== on this page, and excludes all links below that point. (So please don't change the header for this section without letting
Beland know. Thanks!)
Special case for discussion
The following are apparently part of some project - I nominated five for
MfD, before realizing that there was an entire structure in place to contain them - this requires a meta solution.
801.200501242315
Edmund_Hickeringill - This article is an almost word-for-word copy of the same article in the 1911 Britannica Edition.
WVhybrid 02:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)reply
801.200501262227
Paul_Ferrier - The text of this article was copied word-for-word from the article of the same name in the 1911 Britannica Edition.
WVhybrid 03:22, 29 September 2006 (UTC)reply
801.200501291411
Isaac_Hollister_Hall - This article was copied word-for-word from the article of the same name in the 1911 Britannica Edition.
WVhybrid 00:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC)reply
801.200502191533
Heracleon - This article, aside from very slight rewriting of the first paragraph, is copied word-for-word from the EB1911.
Shorelander 03:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Two albums by a artist whose notability is "unclear"(at least to me). Need someone to check this with the WP:MUSIC guidelines, and possibily delete.
JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Minor artist on a minor label in Canada. Might need to {{
prod}} the whole thing, methinks.--み使い'''Mitsukai 04:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC) reply
Placed for {{
prod}} Does not hold a gainful point, poss made with good intentions but doesnt seem to have been give TLC!--
Phil Green 13:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Tags added, but is going to need a bit of TLC.--
み使いMitsukai 04:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Added references/external links. Still a stub. —
ERcheck (
talk) 18:20, 22 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Missing references for awards received. Also, external link to "Sellers biography, Saddleback College" is defunct.
Nomenphile 00:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
802.200502190404
Fouta and 802.200502190407
Fleuve
stubbed both, but they're going to need some extensive work.--
み使いMitsukai 05:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
added {{
notability}} tag. This one is really going to need some work, since it's regarding a Russian programming group, something I suspect is not quite commonly known here on the En WP.--
み使いMitsukai 06:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
tags added, but it's going to need some massive work to get the article worthy, otherwise recommend it go up for AFD.--
み使いMitsukai 05:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)reply
This article needs serious work. As it stands right now, all it is, is merely a collection of links. If it wasn't for the name, it'd otherwise be deleted.--
み使いMitsukai 04:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Not sure what can be done with this article. It's already once been copyvio'd, and I'm not sure anyone else knows what to do about it.--
み使いMitsukai 20:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
801.200412211611
Ferny_Grove - Odd little dab page between a Brisbane railway line and it's station. Not sure what to do with this one...
JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
802.200412270236
Franco_Ventriglia - Some of the red links need help, but the article's fine otherwise.--
み使いMitsukai 04:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
802.200410041838
Weißenborn - Some of the red links need help, but the article's fine otherwise.--
み使いMitsukai 07:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
I wikified it, but it's an American specific term, or purports to be, so preferably needs an American to give it the all clear.
Hidingtalk 21:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)reply
I'm familiar with the term "Media Guide" from various sports references. Article seems ok. --
Iggle 12:11, 30 March 2006 (UTC)reply